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2008 Films
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Categories
- New Docs
- Special Programming
- Career Award: William Greaves
- Curated Series: Migrations
- Sidebar: Inhabiting Space
- Party
- Panel / Workshop
DaNADIE
Ends: 12:55pm
DeNADIE
This film follows Central American immigrants who take a long and perilous illegal train journey north to the United States in search of a better life, falling prey along the way to immigration police, gangs, and the dangers of the train itself.
Sewing Woman / Complaints of a Dutiful Daughter
Ends: 3:40pm
Complaints of a Dutiful Daughter
The migration portrayed in this stirring film is from independent living to a nursing home, as filmmaker Deborah Hoffman diligently documents the cruel progression of her mother's Alzheimer's disease and her own process of coming to terms with the illness.
Sewing Woman
Based in part on the life story of the filmmaker's mother, Zem Ping Dong, Sewing Woman interweaves rare footage shot in rural villages of China and in factories in San Francisco's Chinatown, treasured home movies, and intimate family photographs to paint a bittersweet portrait of early-twentieth-century migration.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Migrations Panel
Begins: 11:00am
Ends: 12:30pm
In an extension of the 2008 Curated Program, filmmakers from the series discuss their work with curator Lourdes Portillo and moderator Pedro Lasch.
State of the Doc
Begins: 1:30pm
Ends: 3:00pm
Industry leaders come together to talk about the current state of documentary distribution.
The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo
Ends: 5:25pm
The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo
Filmmaker Lisa F. Jackson, a gang rape survivor herself, documents the tragic plight of women and girls in the Democratic Republic of Congo who are raped in the name of war.
Today the Hawk Takes One Chick
Ends: 8:20pm
Today The Hawk Takes One Chick
In Swaziland, a country ravaged by AIDS, elderly women—or "gogos" (grandmothers)—take care of children, many of them orphans. But what will happen when the gogo is gone?
La Tropical
Ends: 11:30pm
La Tropical
Reminiscent of La Buena Vista Social Club, but even more sensuous.The rhythm of Cuba refracted through the sights and sounds of a nightclub, and the world of that club captured in the provocative compositions of a world-class photographer.
Good Ol' Charles Schulz
Ends: 12:35pm
Good Ol' Charles Schulz
For fifty years, Charles Schulz captivated and comforted millions with his comic strip Peanuts, but worldwide success did not quiet his own Charlie Brown-style doubts.
In-the-Works
Begins: 3:45pm
Ends: 5:45pm
Presented by the Southern Documentary Fund, this program will screen a new work-in-progress by a North Carolina filmmaker for critique in a professional and constructive environment.
Award Winner Rescreening 04: City of Cranes / Summerchild
Ends: 8:45pm
City of Cranes
Crane operators offer us an unparalleled view of London as their huge, graceful machines sweep and pluck above the city's skyline.
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.