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Light Films)
Artists: Wade Barry and Dan Miller
Mike’s Movie follows 13-year-old Mike Bartz
for 6 months as he copes with the treatment and recovery
of his battle with Leukemia. Insightful, educational,
informative, and revealing: Mike’s Movie
will bring a new perspective to understanding Leukemia.
This disease that can draw people together, bring families
closer, and transform the days we take for granted into
the gift of new beginnings.
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Title: A Hero Denied (Dr. Todd
Productions)
Artist: Todd Berntson
Patrick Stewart was an American soldier who died in Afghanistan
while fighting for his country. He was also a Wiccan.
A Hero Denied follows his widow, Roberta Stewart,
as she fights for the right to bury her husband with the
religious symbol of Wiccans - a five-pointed star known
as a pentacle. This feature-length documentary explores
the dangers of religious intolerance in a post-9/11 world.
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Title: Boat Punks
Artist: David Eberhardt
Boat Punks is a documentary film about young
folks who build homemade boats and navigate and live on
the rivers of North America.
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Title: Korsang
Artist: David Eberhardt
Korsang will document the lives of a group of
Cambodian-American deportees forced into a scene of urban
despair and will expound upon their efforts, assisted
by a tough ex-addict woman from Boston, to run a newly
formed NGO (non-governmental organization) dedicated to
reducing the harmful impacts of drug addiction. Through
this involvement in the NGO, the deportees are learning
to cope with a terrible situation and, for the first time,
are redirecting their lives in more meaningful and positive
ways.
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Title: Northern Lights: Shining the
Light on the Meth-edemic (Taproot, Inc.)
Artist: Linda Flanders
Northern Lights: Shining the Light on the Meth-edemic is a documentary about how an innovative riverfront town
is making a stand against one of today’s most horrific
issues: methamphetamine. The film’s goal is pro-active
education about methamphetamine by connecting a community’s
local agencies and harnessing the talent of a diverse
assorment of community members, young to old.
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Title: Chamane Indigena (Vance
Gellert Photography)
Artist: Vance Gellert
Chamane Indigena is a photographic study of shamanic
practice and medicinal plant efficacy. The study will
combine Vance's photographic artistic skills with his
pharmacology knowledge in a complementary blending of
art and information that will take place in Bolivia, Peru,
Ecuador, and Columbia.
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Title: Urban Explorers: Into the
Darkness (Frozen Feet Films)
Artist: Melody Gilbert
Urban Explorers are a growing subculture of adventure
seekers from around the world who explore places where
most people would never dream of going. Urban Explorers:
Into the Darkness follows them on their "missions"
to abandoned mental hospitals, the former "house
of the future" and even the catacombs in Paris.
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Title: Ms. Banks (Black &
White Films LLC)
Artist: Eric Goldstein
Ms. Banks is a classic film noir: a twisting
murder mystery, a complex embezzlement scheme, a classic,
yet unusual “femme fatale” - all wrapped around
a curious love affair. This feature-length narrative’s
depth comes from its passionate investigation of Jack
Forbes’ and Delia Banks’ character flaws -
and the changes wrought by their relationship amidst the
chaos of robbery and murder.
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Title: Generational Curse (Blacksmith
Productions)
Artist: Marcy Grams
Generational Curse tells the true dramatic story
of how the choices of generation affect the two generations
that follow. It’s a story about love and hate, truth
and lies. It’s a story in which everyone can relate
to in some way or another as everyone has a generation
behind them, and everyone will pass a legacy on to the
generation after them, be they family, friend or countrymen.
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Title: Sparkle, Serena! (Legacy
Pictures, Inc.)
Artist: Christopher Harmon
A zealous quest to save a friend's life catapults a young girl into a magical world of old theatres, dance lessons and crystal shoes. Until a painful discovery pulls her back to the real world of limitations and disappointment. and a secret that shows her there are more choices than failure.
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Title: Bare Honesty (Ten Feet
Tall Productions)
Artist: Elizabeth Hoodecheck
Would you pose nude, bare your soul with honesty about
your feelings toward your body, knowing that you would
be on display for thousands of others to view? Bare
Honesty is a documentary about women of all ages
and sizes who take off their clothes to bare their clothes
to bare their bodies and souls in front of Frank Cordelle’s
camera as a way to heal from past trauma and to share
their stories.
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Title: Ana's Playground
Artist: Eric Howell
Ana’s Playground” reveals a tragic moment when children are brought to the brink of destruction and connection, ideology and humanity. The film opens with a group of children in a non-specific, war-torn country who are listening to a professional match while playing their own soccer game. When their ball goes flying, Ana is unexpectedly forced into a dangerous game of cat and mouse with a sniper. All the characters are listening to a professional game that ebbs and flows as the story progresses. As a result, Ana finds an odd connection with her enemy, and we discover the strengthening and bonding nature of sport and recreation, and specifically the universality of the game of soccer. www.anasplayground.com
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Title: Boxers (Kohler Productions)
Artist: Joanna Kohler
Boxers is a feature-length documentary which
follows 7 amateur female boxers out of a female-owned
boxing gym in Northeast Minneapolis, as they train for
an international tournament. In a time when women are
told not to fight, these women step into the ring ready
to face more than one fight here in front of their gloves,
as friendship, violence, and fear erupt on this historical
journey.
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Title: Dakota 38 (Brighid Films)
Artist: Shari Lamke
Dakota 38 is a feature-length documentary focused on the
38 Dakota men hanged at Mankato after the Uprising of
1862. Through interviews with descendants across several
states and Canada, interviews with historians and scholars
blended with historical and family research, this film
will bring a very personal aspect to this period of history.
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Title: The Completely Remarkable,
Utterly Fabulous Transformation of a Regular Joe (The Red Dilemma)
Artist: Gene Landry
The Completely Remarkable, Utterly Fabulous Transformation
of a Regular Joe is an ultra-low-budget, gay-themed, mid-life
crisis, romantic comedy musical about one man’s
journey to find himself by discovering his inner drag
queen.
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Title: Agua Miel: Secrets of the
Agave (Visionaries Media)
Artist: Jamie Lee
Agua Miel will be about creative collaborations
as practices of resistance to inequity and injustice -
socially, materially, ecologically, culturally. It’s
about the imaginary and the real, and how the two come
together in a space that is created in between two powerful
nations - a “third-space” that remains invisible
to much of the world. It’s about reclaiming the
funds of knowledge that have resided and continue to inform
that space. And it’s about water as a force of life
and division and community.
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Title: Viva Vitaphone! (Historic
Heights Theatre)
Artist: Tom Letness
In 1991 a group of film buffs and record collectors began
seeking out the shellac soundtrack discs that accompanied
early 1926-1930 Vitaphone (and other) talkie shorts and
features. The Vitaphone Project was formed to accomplish
this goal as well as to partner with the studios (particularly
Turner/WB), film archives (UCLA, LOC, BFI), and private
collectors worldwide in order to get these films restored
and seen again.
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Title: Our Wildest Dreams: A True Crime Documentary of Dolls & Murder (Lazy Susan Productions)
Artist: Susan Marks
Our Wildest Dreams is an intimate look at dollhouse crime scenes used to train homicide detectives and the enigmatic woman behind the collection. While debunking some popular crime fighting myths, the film also explores our nationwide fascination with forensics justice television, and the stories we like to tell ourselves about death.
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Title: The Red Tail (Emergence
Pictures)
Artist: Dawn Mikkelson
The Red Tail is a documentary film that looks
beyond the headlines of the historic struggle between
Northwest Airlines and the workers whose loyalty and dedication
built the company. Through a combination of personal stories
of mechanics, flight attendants, pilots, ground workers,
and union organizers, The Red Tail will explore this battle
over money, power, and pride.
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Title: Please Don't Pass Me By (Rugged Beauty)
Artists: Rachel Morgan, Adam Ginsberg, and Stephen Gurewitz
Please Don’t Pass Me By is a bittersweet story of two broken-hearted strangers living in
New York City who bond through a shared loneliness.
Aimless and lovesick, Alin drifts through his daily routine. As the last remnants of his past
love begin to slip away, he employs the services of Charley, an equally broken-hearted call
girl. The two form an unconventional relationship as Charley takes on the role of Alin's lost
love. In re-staging these moments from the past, Alin fulfills his need to reclaim lost memories,
while Charley, just as attached to her past, finds comfort in temporarily becoming a
different person.
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Title: Just Breathe (Smoking
Yogi Films)
Artist: Julie Rappaport
Just Breathe is the demo-pilot of an upcoming series, Abnormally Normal. It depicts just one story of a generation that is dealing with more divorces than ever before as headlines illuminate the trend in women being single--which affects marriageand family. What, now, is the "normal" family? This series is based on the book Relational Shifts, written from each member of one family's perspective, with commentary on the social, historical and spiritual aspects of relationships, as found sprinkled in Just Breathe.
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Title: Man & Machine (Spectacle
Pictures)
Artist: Jesse Roesler
Man & Machine explores an entire world of
bizarrely inspiring musical performances and interactive
street art, all of which are devised by an uber-creative
and eccentric couple, living out their artistic dreams
in Ghent, Belgium. Their projects range from handmade
machine orchestras conducted by nude dancers to traveling
bicycle symphonies.
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Title: The Wall-to-Wall Project
Artists: Orin Rutchick and Chris Welsch
The Wall-to-Wall Project documents the rites and rituals of modern travelers at two very different pilgrimage sites: The Western Wall in Jerusalem and the limestone wall surrounding Graceland in Memphis. In each case, a wall has become a substitute for the object of reverence it once protected or supported. In each case, the wall becomes the mediating line between present and past, between this world and another one. In each case, pilgrims form an instant community, together seeking the intangible in the tangible.
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Title: Don’t Mess With Bill (Three Cat Media)
Artist: Jason Smith
Don’t Mess With Bill: The Story of Dorothy
Fairbairn examines the shifts and changes in the lesbian
community from the 1950’s to today. The film follows
Dorothy Fairbairn from her childhood on Chicago’s
Southside in the 1930’s to life as a lesbian elder
in today’s world.
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Title: Freak of Nature
Artist: Amanda Taylor
Through a combination of gender theory, case studies,
scientific explanations, humorous anecdotes, and musical
interludes, Freak of Nature will examine and
illuminate the existence of homosexuality in the animal
world, knowledge of which is common among biologists,
yet kept from the public.
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Title: What’s The Point? (What’s The Point? Productions LLC)
Artist: Deacon Warner
Measurement and accountability are the commandments of
today’s educational reform. But what should we measure? What’s The Point? visits a cross-section
of American public High Schools to find out.
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Title: After The War (God's Dream, LLC)
Artist: Patrick Wells
AFTER THE WAR is a documentary film about veterans and others who have experienced radical healing from post-traumatic stress disorder, grief, and trauma through IADC therapy—Induced After Death Communication—or interacting with the dead. The film opens up a new way of thinking about death and healing through the true-life stories of the IADC "experiencers,” offering hope, forgiveness, and sometimes, spiritual transformation. AFTER THE WAR will challenge our personal beliefs and ask us to tap into the deepest parts of our humanity–to assist an estimated 200,000-400,000 "walking wounded,” returning from Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Title: Black String Revival (Fretless Films)
Artist: John Whitehead
Before the Blues--and the phonograph-- revolutionized popular music, African-American string bands featuring banjo and fiddle played for “frolics” (square dances), parades, house parties, corn shuckings, funerals, and baby christenings. Largely forgotten, this vital musical tradition survived into the 1950s. Now a new generation of blacks is rediscovering and reinvigorating the string band tradition. Black and white scholars are documenting the African origins of the banjo and how African-Americans adapted it. At the same time, young African-American string bands like The Carolina Chocolate Drops, The Ebony Hillbillies, Sankofa Strings, and Don Vappie and His Creole Jazz Serenaders are reinventing traditional banjo and fiddle music. Black String Revival, an hour-long documentary, will tell the story of the rise and fall and the rise again of the Black string band tradition.
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