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 Body MemoriesDirected by: Taggart Siegel & Sky Yeager Produced by: Taggart Siegel & Sky Yeager Body Memories is a wild and often comic ride, one man's journey inward to find meaning in his life. He becomes an archeologist of the soul, digging through the layers of his past. Evocative images blend with a riveting performance that uncovers family secrets and buried traumas. One part Spalding Gray, one part Pan's Labyrinth, Body Memories is more than a poignant and enchanting story, it is mythic revelation of hope and possibility.
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Bolinao 52Directed by: Duc Nguyen One boat with 110 passengers escaped from Vietnam. After 37 days of drifting only 52 survived.
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 Breaking Ties Directed by: Tod Lending Breaking Ties focuses on three kids who are breaking their families' ties to poverty in the US. The film takes us inside the lives of these three kids, telling the story from their unique point of view while showing how poverty has molded their sense of the world and their future in it.
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Children of HaitiDirected by: Alexandria Hammond Following the day-to-day lives of three teenage street boys in the northern city of Cap-Haitien, Children of Haiti provides an intimate view of the country-wide orphan epidemic. Known as the Sanguine ('soulless') and forgotten by their own people, they have struggled for survival since long before the devastating 2010 earthquake. Three years in the making, this documentary captures the spirit of human survival, Haiti's beautiful landscape and rich history.
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Cultures of ResistanceDirected by: Iara Lee Does each gesture really make a difference? Can music and dance be weapons of peace? In 2003, on the eve of the Iraq war, director Iara Lee embarked on a journey to better understand a world increasingly embroiled in conflict and, as she saw it, heading for self-destruction. After several years, travelling over five continents, Iara encountered growing numbers of people who committed their lives to promoting change. This is their story. From IRAN, where graffiti and rap became tools in fighting government repression, to BURMA, where monks acting in the tradition of Gandhi take on a dictatorship, moving on to BRAZIL, where musicians reach out to slum kids and transform guns into guitars, and ending in PALESTINIAN refugee camps in LEBANON, where photography, music, and film have given a voice to those rarely heard, CULTURES OF RESISTANCE explores how art and creativity can be ammunition in the battle for peace and justice.
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Dreams in Another LanguageDirected by: Lucia Rikaki Dreams in Another Language is the story of the Faneromeni school in Cyprus where students from a mosaic of different nationalities are taught about acceptance, coexisting and the wealth of sharing cultures. The particular geographical and political set up of the school, situated only 500 meters from the Green line separating the country, provides interesting ground for reflection on recent Cyprus history and the recent history of the new migrating nations..
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Finding FaceDirected by: Skye Fitzgerald When she was sixteen, Tat Marina was brutally attacked by a jealous woman and her bodyguards who poured highly toxic nitric acid over her head in front of hundreds of witnesses. Finding Face investigates the fracturing of Marina’s family across transnational boundaries and documents the family’s disparate responses to the knowledge that none of Marina’s attackers have been arrested despite widespread knowledge of their identities.
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Girls on the WallDirected by: Heather Ross The teenage girls of Warrenville Prison are getting a shot at redemption in a most unlikely form: a musical based on their lives. As three fascinating inmates write and stage their play, they're compelled to re-live their crimes, reclaim their humanity and take a first step toward breaking free of the prison system. Given unprecedented access to this juvenile correctional facility by the State of Illinois, the powerful characters of GIRLS ON THE WALL will surprise you with their candor, intimacy, and unexpected sense of humor.
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Gridlockers’s Paradox: Buehler Shifts Gears Directed by: Scott Ray Becker Self-taught artist Stuart Buehler has a bad case of artistic gridlock. After his close friend and gallery owner William Jamison (Jamison/Thomas Gallery- Portland,Oregon & New York City) dies in 1995, huge loads of Stuart's unique work is returned to him, burying him under his own obsessive talents...until he starts the purging process. Relief comes in the form of the chaotic clean-up, including art jettisoned into the Willamette River and dolls floated down historic Tanner Creek, readings from Buehler's own "Gridlocker's Manifesto" and his final wild west get-away.
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 The Heart Broken in HalfDirected by: Taggart Siegel & Dwight Conquergood Produced by: Taggart Siegel & Dwight Conquergood The "HEART BROKEN IN HALF" reminded me of Spike Lee's best work; as a documentary it taught me about street life in today's Chicago—and by analogy about many of America's inner-cities." Gangs are society's ultimate devil figure. They symbolize transgression and embody the deepest fears of middle class citizens. Few filmmakers have dared or been able to get behind the headlines to confront the human reality and complexity of street gangs in urban America. Challenging stereotypes, this documentary gives voice to the street youths and reveals their underground culture. Here is an intricate web of symbols and passions, territory and brotherhood, honor and all to often, death.
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Peace CommandosDirected by: Skye Fitzgerald In what is often referred to as Africa's first 'world war', millions have died in the last decade in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Despite this horrific loss of life, it is currently one of the most under-reported humanitarian crises in the world. The film profiles the work of Search for Common Ground (SFCG), an innovative organization working to transform conflict in Congolese society through interactive street theater. The film observes the work of SFCG exploring the idea that a subtle disarmament must take place in order for lasting peace to emerge in a society fractured by decades of conflict.
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The Power of the PowerlessDirected by: Cory Taylor Czechoslovakia's "Velvet Revolution" is one of the most stirring episodes of people-power in recent history. Inspired by the courageous struggle of a handful of dissidents, and sparked by idealistic students demonstrating in the streets of Prague, Czechs and Slovaks brought an end to forty years of communist tyranny through bloodless revolution in 1989. The documentary features rare and never-before-seen interviews with key figures of the Velvet Revolution including Václav Havel. The Power of the Powerless documents this monumental achievement and asks why Czech youth are not being taught about their own history.
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The Real Dirt on Farmer John
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 RichartDirected & Produced by: Dawn Smallman, and Greg Snider, Far Away Films, LLC and Vanessa Renwick Best Video Documentary - Microcinefest While confined to a psychiatric ward at age 50, Richard “Richart” Tracy made this discovery: “If you want to get out of the hospital – start making art like this. They will get rid of you - fast!" Seventeen years later, he’s turned three residential lots into a massive maze of his artistic, sculptural visions. A true, original thinker, Richart's genius turns your waste into his inspiration. "Out of your garbage, I become you!" This documentary takes a trip through his yard, art, methods and his mind. Wait until you see what he keeps in his basement!
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Saudade Do FuturoDirected by: Marie-Clemence & Cesar Paes Saudade Do Futuro features the city of Sãu Paulo and its street poets. To the rhythm and rhymes of musical improvised poetry, journalist or simple maid, art-gallery director or cab driver, the immigrants from the Northeast tell us the beat of the megalopolis.
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Sons of PerditionDirected by: Tyler Measom and Jennilyn Merten Sons of Perdition follows three teenage boys after they escape from the powerful FLDS polygamist sect and must fend for themselves in mainstream America. For information on having the filmmaker speak about this film, please contact collective eye.
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Space, Land and Time: Underground Adventures with Ant FarmDirected by: Laura Harrison & Elizabeth Federici Space, Land and Time: Underground Adventures with Ant Farm is the first film to consider the work of the renegade 1970s art/architecture collective Ant Farm, best known for its iconic land-art piece Cadillac Ranch. Radical architects, video pioneers, and mordantly funny cultural commentators, the Ant Farmers created a body of deeply subversive multidisciplinary work that questioned the boundaries of architecture and everything else in the process. Incorporating breathtaking archival video, new footage shot over ten years and animation based on zany period sketches, this film is about the joy of creation in a time when there were no limits.
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This Way of LifeDirected by: Thomas Burstyn Peter and Colleen Karena live with their six kids and 50 horses in the almost wild freedom of New Zealand's isolated mountains, until Peter's escalating battle with his own father has profound consequences.
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Vietnam: The Next GenerationDirected by: Sandy Northrop Over three decades after the "American "War optimism runs high in Vietnam. Peace has brought prosperity and a cocky self confidences. The eight young Vietnamese featured in 'Vietnam: The Next Generation', represent the modern face of Vietnam. They come from all walks of life-from all parts of the county—but together they embody the hopes and dreams and frustrations of this new Vietnam.
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Vietnam Passage: Journeys From War to PeaceDirected by: Sandy Northrop April, 1975. The helicopter carrying the last Americans in Vietnam lifts off the embassy rood in Saigon, and a quagmire that cost 50,000 lives is over. We are familiar with the American perspective on the war, but what about the Vietnamese? The "American" war touched the lives of every man, woman and child in the county. Here are six of their stories.
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