Press Release - March 17th, 2010
Full Frame Announces Center Frame and Free Community Screenings
Six NEW DOCS and Five Invited Film Additions to Overall Slate
Durham, N.C., - March 17, 2010 - The Full Frame Documentary Film Festival has announced 2010 Center Frame and Free Screenings, along with six additions to the NEW DOCS Program and five additional titles for the Invited line up. Center Frame programming includes extended post-screening conversations or events, and this year will feature Robert Patton-Spruill’s “Do It Again” and Steven Soderbergh’s “And Everything is Going Fine."
New this year, Full Frame will feature a free program each day of the festival, kicking off with its traditional Youth Program on Thursday morning, and closing Sunday evening with the Free Community Screening. Added to the Free Screening lineup this year are outdoor programs on Friday and Saturday night at Durham Central Park. Each presented twice, the festival's Free Screenings for 2010 are Marshall Curry’s “Racing Dreams” and “Pelada”, directed by Luke Boughen, Rebekah Fergusson, Gwendolyn Oxenham, and Ryan White.
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.
CENTER FRAME: Do It Again (Director: Robert Patton-Spruill)
Facing a mid-life crisis, an intrepid reporter sets out to reunite the notoriously rancorous band the Kinks, collecting spontaneous performances of British Invasion classics by some of rock’s royalty along the way.
CENTER FRAME: And Everything is Going Fine (Director: Steven Soderbergh)
Spalding Gray made a living from revealing himself. Collaborator Steven Soderbergh honors the monologist’s literally storied career with a fitting tribute comprised of performance excerpts and interviews that further reveal the varied shades of Gray.
Youth Program and Free Outdoor Screening Friday
Youth Program Sponsored by the Mary Duke Biddle Foundation.
Racing Dreams (Director: Marshall Curry)
Meet Annabeth, Brandon, and Josh, pre-teens from different regions and circumstances sharing a common goal: to win a World Karting Championship. Street Fight director Marshall Curry follows the exceptional young drivers and their families during a season of challenges and surprises.
Free Outdoor Screening Saturday and Free Community Screening Sunday
Pelada (Directors: Luke Boughen, Rebekah Fergusson, Gwendolyn Oxenham, Ryan White)
Two former college athletes, one male and one female, travel the world looking for pickup soccer games, meeting an extraordinary range of people who play for the love of the game.
NEW DOCS Additions:
Divine Pig (Director: Hans Dortmans)
In this ode to a seemingly bygone era of local butchers and home-raised pork, Gerard Zwetsloot must decide whether to slaughter his product-turned-pet Dorus, a dilemma that shows how complicated and personal our relationship to our food can be.
World Premiere
Louis Sullivan: The Struggle for American Architecture (Director: Mark Richard Smith)
A sumptuously filmed chronicle of the rise and fall of architect Louis Sullivan, known variously as “the father of the skyscraper” and “the prophet of modern architecture.” World Premiere
Promised Land (Director: Yoruba Richen)
This film presents the struggles of black and white South Africans involved in two land claims cases, documenting the efforts of the descendants of those who were dispossessed under apartheid to reclaim their inheritance from current landowners. North American Premiere
Stonewall Uprising (Directors: Kate Davis, David Heilbroner)
This essential history of gay rights in America centers on the night the patrons of a Greenwich Village bar stood up and refused be arrested just for being themselves. North American Premiere
Sun Come Up (Director: Jennifer Redfearn)
When climate change causes the ocean to slowly consume their idyllic South Pacific island life, residents of the Carteret Atoll must make a painful choice whether to evacuate or cling to the land they love - and time is running out. World Premiere
Waste Land (Director: Lucy Walker)
Brazilian artist Vik Muniz embarks on a new project, collaborating with recyclers who work in the world’s largest landfill as he constructs their portraits entirely out of garbage.
Invited Program Additions:
Disco and Atomic War (Director: Jaak Kilmi)
Western TV infiltrates Estonia during the Cold War and sparks a quiet revolution—the threat of hegemonic capitalist imperialism has never looked so fun!
A Film Unfinished (Director: Yael Hersonski)
An unfinished Nazi propaganda film depicting the Warsaw Ghetto is now known to have been far more disingenuous than it first appeared.
Freedom Riders (Director: Stanley Nelson)
A stirring account of eight extraordinary months in 1961 when 400 black and white men and women risked their lives by flouting Jim Crow laws to travel together on interstate buses and trains traveling across the South.
Roads to Memphis (Director: Stephen Ives)
The story of April 4, 1968, the day that James Earl Ray shot and killed Martin Luther King Jr., and the volatile forces—social, political, and psychological—that led to it. North American Premiere
The Thorn in the Heart (Director: Michel Gondry)
Acclaimed and endlessly inventive director Michel Gondry trains the camera on his own family—in particular, his aunt Suzette—in this personal and unconventional charm bracelet of a film, crowded with tokens of curious affection and bittersweet reminiscence.
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.
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.
