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2008 Festival Schedule
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Categories
- New Docs
- Special Programming
- Career Award: William Greaves
- Curated Series: Migrations
- Sidebar: Inhabiting Space
- Party
- Panel / Workshop
My Daughter the Terrorist / To See If I'm Smiling
Ends: 12:25pm
My Daughter the Terrorist
This rare, inside portrait of two young female Tamil Tigers provides sobering insight into the psychology and motivations of people who are firmly committed to a life of terrorism.
To See If I'm Smiling
Female Israeli soldiers recall their mandatory military service in the Occupied Territories and reveal the real horror of war: it corrupts and destroys everyone it touches.
Body & Soul: Diana & Kathy / Paradise
Ends: 12:20pm
Body & Soul: Diana & Kathy
Buoyed by their profound friendship, two women with disabilities defy all odds to live independently in their own house.
Paradise
This wry and absorbing Swedish film depicts an older married couple as they embark upon an interior decorating project that uncovers their profound differences yet also suggests how relationships stand the test of time.
The Axe in the Attic
Ends: 12:45pm
The Axe in the Attic
Filmmakers Ed Pincus and Lucia Small embark on a cross-country road trip to interview evacuees displaced by Hurricane Katrina and in the process reveal a great deal about themselves.
Neither Memory Nor Magic
Ends: 12:05pm
Neither Memory Nor Magic
The fascinating and poignant story of Hungarian poet Miklos Radnoti, who perished in the Holocaust but was able to preserve his startlingly original writings.
The New Americans: Part 1
Ends: 12:30pm
The New Americans - Part 1
Shot in the cinéma-vérité style, this epic mini-series depicts the heartbreaking struggles and hard-fought triumphs of five families as they migrate from India, the West Bank, Nigeria, the Dominican Republic, and Mexico to the United States.
Video Op-Eds - A Brainstorming Session with The New York Times
Begins: 11:00am
Ends: 12:30pm
Filmmakers and journalists explore the possibilities for online documentary editorial. Sponsored byThe New York Times.
Stranded: I've come from a plane that crashed on the mountains
Ends: 3:10pm
Stranded: I've come from a plane that crashed on the mountains
The incredible story of the famous 1972 plane crash in the Andes reveals the importance of friendship and solidarity in the face of extreme obstacles.
The New Americans: Part 2
Ends: 3:30pm
The New Americans - Part 2
Shot in the cinéma-vérité style,this epic mini-series depicts the heartbreaking struggles and hard-foughttriumphs of five families as they migrate from India, the West Bank,Nigeria, the Dominican Republic, and Mexico to the United States.
Ralph Bunche: An American Odyssey
Ends: 3:20pm
Ralph Bunche: An American Odyssey
A superb chronicle of the life and times of world-renowned African American Nobel Peace Prize Winner and United Nations statesman Ralph Bunche, who not only pioneered the organization's peacekeeping and conflict resolution strategies, but was also one of the leading advocates of the UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Crisis Fatigue: Outreach and the Iraq War
Begins: 1:30pm
Ends: 3:00pm
This panel will use case studies to explore how outreach campaigns keep vital issues relevant to media-saturated audiences. Sponsored by The Fledgling Fund.
Bomb It
Ends: 3:45pm
Bomb It
The most comprehensive documentary about graffiti and street art to date, BOMB IT features original interviews from around the world and footage of graffiti writers in action.
Beginning Filmmaking / Summerchild
Ends: 3:50pm
Beginning Filmmaking
For her fourth birthday, a filmmaker father surprises his daughter with a video camera and the complications inevitable to both parenting and filmmaking ensue.
Summerchild
Eleven-year-old Svetlana lives in a children's home in Karelia, Russia, but she will spend what promises only at first blush to be an idyllic summer in Finland with host parents.
The New Americans: Part 3
Ends: 6:05pm
The New Americans - Part 3
Shot in the cinéma-vérité style,this epic mini-series depicts the heartbreaking struggles and hard-foughttriumphs of five families as they migrate from India, the West Bank,Nigeria, the Dominican Republic, and Mexico to the United States.
Sex: The Revolution
Ends: 5:55pm
Sex: The Revolution
An excerpt from VH1's epic series on the sexual revolution of the 1960s and '70s, which takes us from the groundbreaking research of Alfred Kinsey through the impeachment of President Clinton and beyond by intercutting rare footage, classic clips, iconic music, and an extraordinary range of provocative interviews.
Bigger, Stronger, Faster*
Ends: 6:25pm
Bigger, Stronger, Faster*
An exhilarating synthesis of interviews, archival footage, and striking personal testimony provide an in-depth look at body image in America and the increasing role of performance enhancing drugs in Americans' quixotic search for perfection.
Trouble the Water
Ends: 6:30pm
Trouble the Water
In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, Ninth Ward resident Kimberly Roberts turns on her video camera and so begins an inspiring story of heroism and resilience.
SNEAK PREVIEW
Ends: 6:30pm
SNEAK PREVIEW
For the past ten years Billy Pappas has been painstakingly working a single portrait. Now that the piece is finally finished, there is just one more step: show the piece to David Hockney.
Holding Fast / Daughters of Wisdom
Ends: 6:45pm
Holding Fast
This lyrical observation of a Tibetan refugee center in Darjeeling, India indelibly blends music and image.
Daughters of Wisdom
For the first time, cameras are invited into the Kala Rongo Monastery, home to a vibrant and resilient community of Tibetan Buddhist nuns.
The Sugar Curtain
Ends: 8:25pm
The Sugar Curtain
Camila Guzmán Urzúa offers a moving portrait of a generation of Cuban exiles who grew up during the golden years of the revolution and were raised on the heady promises of Cuban socialism: “You are the builders of the future!” The film collects the exiles’ shared memories of an idyllic childhood and the subsequent economic crisis and disillusionment brought on by the fall of the Soviet Union.
At the Death House Door
Ends: 9:15pm
At the Death House Door
This film offers an unflinching look at the career of Carroll Pickett, who presided over ninety-five executions during his fifteen-year tenure as death house chaplain to the Walls prison unit in Huntsville, Texas.
CENTER FRAME: The Black List
Ends: 9:30pm
CENTER FRAME: The Black List
In this film directed by famed portrait photographer Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, Elvis Mitchell conducts riveting interviews with twenty prominent African American artists, CEOs, politicians, and activists. Chris Rock, Vernon Jordan, Toni Morrison, the Rev. Al Sharpton, and others reflect, often humorously, on what it means to be on the "blacklist."
Flying on One Engine / Be Like Others
Ends: 10:15pm
Flying On One Engine
The bizarre survival saga of Dr. S. Dicksheet, an eccentric and irreverent humanitarian who has performed more than 140,000 cleft lip surgeries for free in his native India.
Be Like Others
In Iran, gay men and women are encouraged by the state to undergo sex-change operations or risk capital punishment if they remain true to their identity.
Lucio
Ends: 9:40pm
Lucio
Lucio, a seventy-five-year-old Spanish anarchist, recounts his exploits as a "good bandit" who swindled twenty-five million dollars from the First National Bank (now CitiBank) in support of radical social movements.
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take 2 1/2
Ends: 11:30pm
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take 2 1/2
Greaves brings together two actors and one particularly outspoken member of his crew from Take One to make another film about making a film, this time about two reunited, but still bickering, middle-aged actors.
Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
Ends: 12:25am
Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
A richly entertaining and thoughtful look at the "gonzo" journalist and great American iconoclast.
Infinite Justice / Full Battle Rattle
Ends: 12:15am
Infinite Justice
This darkly whimsical short film reconstructs scenes from the Iraq War using action figures and war toys.
Full Battle Rattle
In a fake village secluded deep within the Mojave Desert, the U.S. army enlists thousands of role-players, including over two hundred Iraqi exiles, to help train soldiers soon to be deployed to Iraq.
Observando el cielo / Paradise – Three Journeys in this World
Ends: 12:05am
Observando el cielo (Observing the Sky)
An experimental film about the movement of the night sky.
Paradise - Three Journeys In This World
A lyrical exploration of the fragile hopes and harsh realities of African immigrant journeys to Spain.