Press Release - March 10th, 2010
Full Frame Announces Career Award Programming Honoring Liz Garbus and Rory Kennedy
Durham, N.C., - March 10, 2010 - The Full Frame Documentary Film Festival has announced its lineup of films around the 2010 Career Award honoring Liz Garbus and Rory Kennedy. Seven titles have been selected for the tribute, including earlier and more recent work from Moxie Firecracker Films.
“We are honored to highlight the careers of Rory Kennedy and Liz Garbus, and to have their family, friends and colleagues join us,” said director of programming, Sadie Tillery. “We are excited to showcase seven of their films at the festival this year that represent the strength and breadth of their incredible body of work.”
The Career Award Ceremony will take place Saturday, April 10. The program will include an extended conversation with Kennedy and Garbus moderated by Nancy Abraham of HBO Documentary Films and will feature excerpts of their work through the years. The Career Award Ceremony and film screenings are sponsored by HBO Documentary Films.
The 2010 Full Frame Documentary Festival will be held April 8 through 11 in Durham, NC, with Duke University as the presenting sponsor. Festival passes are currently on sale at www.fullframefest.org. Full Frame’s film schedule will be announced March 18, and advance tickets go on sale April 1.American Hollow (Director: Rory Kennedy)
It’s a hardscrabble existence that many would flee, but the Bowling clan of Mudlick Hollow in Eastern Kentucky feels the gravitational pull of family, and especially of its tenacious matriarch, Iree Bowling.
A Boy’s Life (Director: Rory Kennedy)
This film chronicles two years in the turbulent life of Robert Oliver, a little boy whose deeply disturbed, even violent, behavior at home in the questionable care of his grandmother contrasts sharply with his conduct at school, where he makes the honor roll.
The Execution of Wanda Jean (Director: Liz Garbus)
This gripping account of the battle to save the life of a woman on death row challenges the morality of the death penalty in general, but particularly when race, mental health, and sexuality come into play.
The Farm: Angola, USA (Director: Liz Garbus)
Life at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, the largest maximum security prison in the United States, as seen through the eyes of both its prisoners—most of whom will die there—and its wardens, bears a disturbing resemblance to plantation life.
The Fence (La Barda) (Director: Rory Kennedy)
A $3.1-billion, 700-mile fence built along our Mexico border to keep out illegal immigrants, drugs, and terrorists proves absurdly ineffective.
Ghosts of Abu Ghraib (Director: Rory Kennedy)
Through a series of in-depth interviews with American guards who engaged in torture, higher-ranking officers, and detainees, Ghosts of Abu Ghraib reveals that far from the dissenting action of a few, the abuses perpetrated there were inextricably linked to U.S. government policies enacted after 9/11.
Shouting Fire: Stories from the Edge of Free Speech (Director: Liz Garbus)
A compelling story about the First Amendment, illustrated with several gripping case studies about the limits of free speech in today's America. The filmmaker’s father, famous First Amendment lawyer Martin Garbus, provides elucidating—and engaging—commentary throughout.
Contact Information:
Peggy Albertson, Jennings, 919-929-0225, palbertson@jenningsco.com
Full Frame, 919-687-4100, info@fullframefest.org
About Full Frame
The Full Frame Documentary Film Festival is an annual international event dedicated to the theatrical exhibition of non-fiction cinema. Each spring Full Frame welcomes filmmakers and film lovers from around the world to historic downtown Durham, N.C., for a four-day, morning to midnight array of over 100 films as well as discussions, panels, and southern hospitality. Set within a single city block, the intimate festival landscape fosters community and conversation between filmmakers, film professionals and the general public.
The festival is produced by Doc Arts, Inc., a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, and receives support from corporate sponsors, private foundations and individual donors whose generosity provides the foundation that makes the event possible. To learn more on the mission of Full Frame or for information on membership or sponsorship opportunities, scheduled films or festival passes visit www.fullframefest.org.
