Festival Year: 2000


A.K.A. Don Bonus
Spencer Nakasako

For most American 18-year-olds, senior year in high school is a year filled with hope for the future. But for Sokly “Don Bonus” Ny, it…

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Airtime Rights
Stephen Hutchinson

Meet Monroe Litman and Mark Jonofsky, two guys compelled to air their private opinions in the public arena. Regular callers to NYC community-supported radio stations,…

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The Austin Disaster, 1911: A Chronicle of Human Character
Gale Largey

In 1911 Austin, Pennsylvania, was flooded after the collapse of a dam built to serve the town’s large paper mill, killing 72 people, many of…

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but, the day came
Eugene Richards

This stirring and beautifully photographed short film tells of the last days of Clarence, a Nebraska farmer and patriarch whose family must face putting him…

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Centralia
David Grabias

Underneath the town of Centralia, PA, a fire has been burning for over 35 years. When gas from the decades-old coal mine conflagration seeped into…

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A Chance to Grow
Claire Marie Panke

Set in the clinical austerity of St. Vincent Hospital’s Neo-Natal Intensive Care Unit, A Chance to Grow follows three prematurely born infants and their families…

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Children in War
Alan Raymond, Susan Raymond

Examining the effects of war and terrorism on the children of Bosnia, Israel, Rwanda and Northern Ireland, this story is told by the children. These…

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Clear Pictures
Charles Guggenheim, Center for Documentary Studies

In his own uniquely Southern voice, Reynolds Price tells of his heritage, the people and places that influenced his life and made him who he…

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Coming to Light: Edward S. Curtis and the North American Indians
Anne Makepeace

Seattle society photographer Edward S. Curtis forsook a lucrative studio and finally the security of his family and approval of his peers in his thirty-year…

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Daring to Resist
Martha Lubell, Barbara Attie

A memorable portrait of three women who, as teenagers, resisted the Nazis and helped keep others alive. The film’s straightforward and unsentimental structure, using period…

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Dream Deceivers
David Van Taylor

After James Vance narrowly survived his suicide attempt, he—and his born-again Christian mother—insisted heavy metal music led him astray. Their lawsuit against rock group Judas…

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Elations in Negative
Jennifer Reeves

A bloody adaptation of a William Carlos Williams poem.

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Express Yourself

An MTV documentary about young people standing up for their beliefs.

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Fastpitch
Jeremy Spear

Small-town, backroads middle America is the playing field for the barnstorming teams of the fastpitch softball league. Filmmaker Jeremy Spear signs on as shortstop with…

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Fatmans
Jeff Bens

A small town café is measured by far more than its menu. At Fatmans in Winston-Salem, NC, regulars look forward to the coffee or a…

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Flight
Greta Snider

“Meticulous and fleet, Greta Snider’s Flight is a high contrast memento mori, an impossible dialogue of father and daughter mutual address.” —Mark McElhatten, New York…

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Forget This
Ulla Nilsen

“This brutally honest and first-hand account of the unraveling of an abusive relationship provokes questions about racism, control, loss and recovery.” —from the Expo catalogue

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From Swastika to Jim Crow
Lori Cheatle, Martin D. Toub

An inspiring account of the experiences and activities of Jewish scholars, refuges from Nazism, who came to the U.S. and taught in traditional black colleges…

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