2006 films

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Films in 2006 Competition

51 Birch Street

Directed by Doug Block

a/k/a Tommy Chong

Directed by Josh Gilbert

Afloat

Directed by Erin Hudson

Air Guitar Nation

Directed by Alexandra Lipsitz

The Angelmakers

Directed by Astrid Bussink
US Premiere

Arctic Son

Directed by Andrew Walton
World Premiere

Asparagus! A Stalk-umentary

Directed by Anne de Mare, Kirsten Kelly
World Premiere

Beyond Beats and Rhymes: A Hip-Hop Head Weighs in on Manhood in Hip-Hop Culture

Directed by Byron Hurt

Black Sun

Directed by Gary Tarn

The Boy in the Bubble

Directed by Barak Goodman, John Maggio
World Premiere

The Chances of the World Changing

Directed by Eric Daniel Metzgar
World Premiere

China Blue

Directed by Micha X. Peled
US Premiere

Dead People

Directed by Roger Deutsch

Demolition 7

Directed by Richie Sherman

EXIT

Directed by Fernand Melgar
North American Premiere

Filthy Gorgeous, The Trannyshack Story

Directed by Sean Mullens
World Premiere

Freedom Summer

Directed by Marco Williams
World Premiere

Gray Days

Directed by Katherine Leggett

Hammer and Flame

Directed by Vaughan Pilikian

High Plains Winter

Directed by Cindy Stillwell

I for India

Directed by Sandhya Suri

El Inmigrante

Directed by David Eckenrode, John Sheedy, John Eckenrode

In Search of Mozart

Directed by Phil Grabsky

In the Pit

Directed by Juan Carlos Rulfo

The Intimacy of Strangers

Directed by Eva Weber

Iraq In Fragments

Directed by James Longley

John & Jane Toll Free

Directed by Ashim Ahluwalia

Kabul Transit

Directed by David Edwards, Gregory Whitmore
World Premiere

The Kings of Christmas

Directed by David Katz

A Lion in the House

Directed by Steven Bognar, Julia Reichert

Mary's Gone Wild

Directed by Blaire Johnson

Mathew Barney: No Restraint

Directed by Alison Chernick
North American Premiere

Maxed Out

Directed by James Scurlock

Memory for Max, Claire, Ida and Company

Directed by Allan King

Mr. Conservative: Goldwater on Goldwater

Directed by Julie Anderson
World Premiere

My Country, My Country

Directed by Laura Poitras

My Grandmother's House (La casa de mi abuela)

Directed by Adán Aliaga

No Umbrella: Election Day in the City

Directed by Laura Paglin

North Korea: A Day in the Life

Directed by Pieter Fleury

A Note of Triumph: The Golden Age of Norman Corwin

Directed by Eric Simonson

Our Daily Bread

Directed by Nikolaus Geyrhalter
North American Premiere

The Peacekeepers

Directed by Paul Cowan

The Photographer, His Wife, Her Lover

Directed by Paul Yule
North American Premiere

Purvis of Overtown

Directed by David Racugglia, Shaun Conrad

Rain In a Dry Land

Directed by Anne Makepeace

RANK

Directed by John Hyams

The Refugee All Stars

Directed by Zach Niles, E. Banker White

Sacco and Vanzetti

Directed by Peter Miller
World Premiere

SAZ

Directed by Gil Karni
North American Premiere

Send Me Somewhere Special

Directed by Darren Hercher
U.S. Premiere

The Shutka Book Of Records

Directed by Aleksander Manic

Sir! No Sir!

Directed by David Zeiger

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Directed by Olivo Barbieri

Smiling in a War Zone

Directed by Simone Aaberg Kærn, Magnus Bejmar
North American Premiere

So Much So Fast

Directed by Steven Ascher, Jeanne Jordan

Songbirds

Directed by Brian Hill

Stand Like Still Living

Directed by Peter Jordan
North American Premiere

Surveillance 3

Directed by William Noland

Sweet Dreams

Directed by Eric Latek
World Premiere

Sweet Monster

Directed by Marco De Stefanis
North American Premiere

The Wash

Directed by Lee Lynch, Lee Anne Schmitt

Thin

Directed by Lauren Greenfield

This Film is Not Yet Rated

Directed by Kirby Dick

Tina Barney: Social Studies

Directed by Jaci Judelson

The Trials of Darryl Hunt

Directed by Ricki Stern, Annie Sundberg

Turn Out the Light

Directed by Mira Jargil

Twelve Disciples of Nelson Mandela

Directed by Thomas Allen Harris

two headed cow

Directed by Tony Gayton
World Premiere

Vault Keys

Directed by Harvey Wang

What Remains

Directed by Steven Cantor

Wordplay

Directed by Patrick Creadon

Workingman's Death

Directed by Michael Glawogger

Wrestling With Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner

Directed by Freida Lee Mock


Thematic Program: Class in America

For more info, see Schedule and Programs & Parties.

Born Rich

Directed by Jamie Johnson

By Invitation Only

Directed by Rebecca Snedeker
World Premiere

Desire

Directed by Julie Gustafson

Finally Got The News

Directed by Stewart Bird, Rene Lichtman and Peter Gessner

Flag Wars

Directed by Linda Goode Bryant and Laura Poitras

The Last Pullman Car

Directed by Gordon Quinn and Jerry Blumenthal

Lay My Burden Down

Directed by Jack Willis

Maid in America

Directed by Anayansi Prado

Now We Live On Clifton

Directed by Peter Kuttner, Gordon Quinn and Richard Schmiechen 

Poverty Outlaw

Directed by Peter Kinoy and Pamela Yates

Recalling Orange County

Directed by Mylène Moreno

Still A Brother: Inside the Black Middle Class

Directed by William Greaves

Stranger with a Camera

Directed by Elizabeth Barret

The Weather Underground

Directed by Sam Green and Bill Siegel


For more info, see Schedule and Programs & Parties.

After Katrina: Rebuilding St. Bernard Parish

Directed by Adam Finberg

An Eye in the Storm

Directed by Neil Alexander

Desert Bayou

Directed by Alex LeMay

New Orleans Furlough

Directed by Amir Bar-Lev

New Orleans Music in Exile

Directed by Robert Mugge

Putting the River in Reverse

Directed by Matthew Buzzell

Still Standing

Directed by Paola Mendoza

Tim's Island

Directed by Laszlo Fulop and Wickes Helmboldt

To Be Continued: The Story of the TBC Brass Band

Directed by Jason DaSilva and Colleen O'Halloran


Special Programming

For more info, see Schedule and Programs & Parties.

Opening Night Film

Sketches of Frank Gehry

(2006. USA. 84min. Directed by Sydney Pollack. Produced by Ultan Guilfoyle)
Q & A with Sydney Pollack following the screening.
Screening sponsored by Capitol Broadcasting Company

2006 Career Award: Richard Leacock

Center Frame:

Al Franken: God Spoke with special guest Al Franken

(2006. USA. 83min. Directed by Chris Hegedus and Nick Doob. Produced by Rebecca Marshall and Frazer Pennebaker. Executive Producer D.A. Pennebaker.)
South East Premiere
Sponsored by VH1

Center Frame: For New Orleans with special guests Branford Marsalis, Ellis Marsalis III, & St. Clair Bourne

New Orleans Brass

(1989. USA. 25 min. Produced by St. Clair Bourne.)

Center Frame:

Mr. Conservative: Goldwater on Goldwater with members of the Goldwater family

(2006. USA. 91min. Directed by Julie Anderson. Produced by CC Goldwater, Tani Cohen.)
World Premiere

Work-in-Progress

The War

(2006. USA. A Film by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick)
Q&A with Ken Burns following the screening.

Time Piece

(2006. Turkey, USA. 110mins. Directed by Nurdan Arca, Özgür Arik, Edet Belzberg, Linda Goode Bryant, Alex Gibney, Nathaniel Kahn, Albert Maysles, Ersan Ocak, Murad Özdemir, Sam Pollard, Sehbal Senyurt, Müstafa Ünlü. Produced by Neda Armian, Margaret Bodde and Nancy Buirski. Associate Producer Sadie Tillery.)
World Premiere
Q&A with directors following the screening.

August Sander

(2002. USA. 44 min. Directed and Produced by Reiner Holzemer.)
US Premiere

The Drug Years

(2005. USA. 164 min. Directed and Produced by Dana Heinz Perry & Hart Perry. A VH1/Sundance Channel Co-Production.)
World Premiere

The Heart of the Game

(2005. USA. 98min. Directed by Ward Serrill. Produced by Liz Manne and Ward Serrill.)
Free Screening for students.

Terry Sanford and the New South

(2006. USA. 55min. Directed and Produced by Thomas Lennon.)
World Premiere
Panel moderated by Judy Woodruff. Free Screening.
Sponsored by Thirteen/WNET New York, UNC-TV, Duke University and The Center for Documentary Studies

Wide Awake

(2005. USA. 90mins. Directed by Alan Berliner. Produced by Lisa Heller and Alan Berliner.)
Q&A with Alan Berliner following screening.


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