Festival Year: 2004


50/50 A Case Study
Ted Bogosian

Filmmakers Barry Levinson, Ted Bogosian, and Tom Fontana screen and discuss an excerpt of their “hybrid” film, 50/50, an experimental film that details one woman’s…

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Alone Across Australia
Jon Muir, Ian Darling

Adventurer Jon Muir films himself as he attempts to walk across the continent of Australia without any support. An amazing filmic and physical accomplishment.  NRF

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Andy Warhol: Screen Tests
Andy Warhol

Warhol’s filmmaking in the mid-60’s experimented with aspects of art that he applied in other mediums throughout his career, here the serial portrait. In 1964-1966…

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Balseros
Carles Bosch, Josep Maria Domènech

In 1994, thousands of Cubans attempted to float to Miami on flimsy homemade boats. In Balseros, seven of them are accompanied by camera crews who…

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Banana Peel
Marcel Ophüls

This rarely seen “engaging comedy” about con-artists who cheat a millionaire out of his money was Marcel Ophüls’s first feature film, and perhaps, in hindsight,…

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Bar at Victoria Station
Leszek Dawid

It’s been a while since Marek or Piotrek have held a steady job. Almost 30 and still living with their families in a small Polish…

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Battle Hospital
Olly Lambert

The Iraq war as viewed by staff at a British Army Hospital. Director Olly Lambert skillfully outlines a quiet and stark documentation of the lives…

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Born Into Brothels
Ross Kauffman, Zana Briski

“The great-grandmother’s a prostitute, the grandmother’s a prostitute, the mother’s a prostitute,” says Zana Briski about one of her photography students. The children of Calcutta’s…

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The Boy Who Plays on the Buddhas of Bamiyan
Phil Grabsky

Behind the relatively recent international headlines about Osama Bin Laden and the Taliban are the many more stories of everyday people who have lived the…

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A Bronx Morning
Jay Leyda

Jay Leyda takes the viewer around The Bronx, his black-and-white cinematography as perky as René Clair’s of Paris, as gently touching as a witty poet’s…

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A Certain Kind of Death
Blue Hadaegh, Grover Babcock

What happens when someone dies with no next of kin? Who takes responsibility for identifying the person, preparing the body, determining funeral and burial arrangements,…

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Chavez Ravine: A Los Angeles Story
Jordan Mechner

In the 1940s, the Los Angeles neighborhood of Chavez Ravine was home to 300 Latino families. As in many American cities in the 1950s, these…

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Chisholm ’72 — Unbought & Unbossed
Shola Lynch

Chisholm ’72 is an important lesson in the history of alternative electoral politics in America. Shirley Chisholm was a nursery school teacher in the 1940s and…

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Citizen King
Orlando Bagwell

The remarkable achievements of Martin Luther King, Jr. have been well documented, but this moving, revealing film brings a fresh focus to King by concentrating…

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Competition
Maciej Adamek

It’s a small world after all. Young girls in Poland apparently harbor the same dreams of beauty, fame, and stardom as young girls here in…

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Control Room
Jehane Noujaim

Filmmaker Jehane Noujaim documents Al Jazeera, the independent news outlet based in Qatar. This cinema verité tour-de-force centers on the first days of the war…

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A Dangerous Business
David Rummel

Iron Workers risk their lives to produce a profit for McWane, Inc. Frontline, CBC, and The New York Times team up for this exposé about…

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Dirty Work
David Sampliner, Tim Nackashi

Follow a bull semen collector, a septic tank pumper, and a preparer of cadavers into their worlds in this account of individuals who lost their…

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