The
Documentary Feature Films - 2003
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 Sunday,
July 27, 7 PM
Location: The Old
Woods Hole Fire Station
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in competition)
AFRICAN
DANCE: SAND, DRUMS, AND SHOSTAKOVICH
Description: A
documentary that explores contemporary dance in Africa, the film introduces
eight modern dance companies from Africa, Europe and Canada that participated
in the Festival de Nouvelle Dance in Montreal, Canada in 1999. Through
insightful interviews and outstanding performances, the film depicts a
fascinating diversity of themes in contemporary African dance-interactions
between tradition and modernism, consequences of colonization and
urbanization, women's self-expression, masculinity, and family relationships.
The film is unique source of inspiration for audiences of all ages and
specifically dancers, choreographers, dance historians, critics and all
those interested in African culture.
Premiere:
New England Premiere, Year: 2002, Length: 70
Min., Shot on: DVCPro/color, Screening on: BetaSP,
State
and Country of Origin: Massachusetts, U.S.A.
Director/Writer:
Ken Glazebrook,
Producer: Ken Glazebrook, Alla Kovgan, DP:
Ken
Glazebrook, Editor: Alla Kovgan
Print
Source:
URL:
www.kinodance.com
Phone:
508-4301321
Email:
kg gis.net
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 Monday,
July 28, 5 PM
Location: Redfield
Auditorium
(*
in competition)
AMERICAN
MASTERS:
ROBERT
CAPA: IN LOVE AND WAR
Description: Robert
Capa, the world's preeminent documentarian of 20th century war, photographed
five epic conflicts on three different continents. A handsome, dashing
figure, Capa was a life-long pacifist who wore military uniforms, rode
in tanks, jumped out of planes, dodged bullets and marched in the front
lines. His images have affected the lives of those who may not even
know his name. The only photographer who touched land with
soldiers at Omaha Beach on D-Day, his shocking pictures inspired Steven
Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan, more than 50 years later. As John
Steinbeck once said, "he could photograph thought... and capture worlds."
With the full participation of his brother, access to IPC and Magnum, this
is the first film devoted entirely to his mythic life. It is told
with the help of his vast legacy of photographs and writings, at once a
testament to great art and to historical horror.
Premiere:New
England Premiere, Year: 2002, Length: 90 Min.,
Shot
on: DigiBeta, Screening on: BetaSP, State
and Country of Origin: California, U.S.A.
Director:
Anne
Makepeace
Print
Source:
Thirteen/WNET
Address:
450
W. 33rd St. 6th Floor
New
York, NY 10001
Phone:
212-560-6975
Email:
lacythirteen.org
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 Friday,
July 25, 7:30 PM
Location: Regal Nickelodeon Cinema
Sunday, July 27, 9 PM
Location: Redfield
Auditorium
THE
BLUESTM
Description: A
100 minutes compilation reel of The BluesTM,
executive produced by Martin Scorses and premiering Sunday, September
28 at 9 p.m. on PBS, anchors a mult-media project to help raise awareness
of the blues and its contribution to American culture and music worldwide.
Volkswagen is the exclusive sponsor of The Blues project. The
BluesTM is a presentation of Vulcan
Productions and Road Movies in association with Cappa Productions and Jigsaw
Productions; WGBH Boston presents the series on PBS; public television
funding is provided by PBS and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
Along with Scorsese, Paul G. Allen and Jody Patton of Vulcan Productions
and Ulrich Felsberg of Road Movies are executive producing the series;
Alex Gibney is the series producer; Margaret Bodde is the producer, and
Richard Hutton is the co-producer.
Year:
2003, Length: 100 min.
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 Friday,
August 1. 7 PM
Location: The Old
Woolds Hole Fire Station
CONFESSIONS
OF A BURNING MAN
Description: Four
"virgins" go to the Burning Man for the first time and over the course
of the week, become Burners.
Premiere:
New England Premiere , Year: 2003, Length: 86
min.,
Shot on: DV &16mm/color, Screening on:
BetaSP,
State and Country of Origin: California,.U.S.A.
Production
Company: Hotbed, Director: Paul Barnett, Unsu Lee,
DP:
Jeffrey Chuy, Unsu Lee, Editor: Robbie Proctor
Print
Source:
Hotbed
Address:
720 York St. Suite 116, San Fran, CA 94110
URL:
burningmanconfessions.com
Phone:
415-648-8110
Email:
lilyhotbed.com
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Sunday, July 27, 9 PM
Location: Redfield
Auditorium
Boston Irish Film
Festival winner - Best Documentary Feature
DARKROOM
Description: Ian
Thuillier’s debut documentary is a moving tribute to his late bother, fine
arts photographer Harry Thuiller. With unusual access to his subject’s
life, Thullier constructs an intimate, deeply moving portrait of an artist
on the edge, from his earliest days as a student in the US (including a
brief stint at Mass College of Art, Boston) to his tragic and controversial
death in Italy from an overdose of heroin. Exquisitely made and sensitively
told, Darkroom probes deep into its troubled subject, providing insight
into the artistic imagination and the disaffection and loneliness that
often accompanies it.
Year:
2002,
Length:
52
min., State and Country of Origin: Ireland
Director:
Ian
Thuillier
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 Wednesday
July 30, 5 PM
CAPE COD SELECTION
Location: The Old
Woods Hole Fire Station
ENSEMBLE
Description: Ensemble
documents the 2002 Winter Percussion season at Barnstable High School.
The video follows a group of 28 students as they master their instruments,
learn their music, and prepare to perform. Taught by a devoted and
dynamic percussion teacher, the class is tightly structured in an almost
military fashion, and the instructor requires that the participants devote
tremendous time and energy to perfecting their performance. Ensemble follows
the students through the highs and lows of their season. All
in the group admit that 'W.P.' is demanding, hard work, yet they relish
the sense of family and unity that they experience. As one of the students
says, "At most schools it's just music; but here it's Life Skills 101,
plus music. Good stuff."
 Year:
2002,
Length:
54 Min., Shot on: video/color,
Screening on: BetaSP, State and Country of Origin: Massachusetts,
U.S.A.
Production
Company: Robbins St. Studios, Director/Writer:
C.L.
Fornari
Print
Source: Robbins St. Studios
Address:
120 Robbins St./PO Box 355, Osterville, MA 02655
Phone:
508-428-5895
Email:
clfornariyahoo.com
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 Thursday,
July 31, 5 PM
Location: The Old
Woods Hole Fire Station
HONEYBOY
Description: A
lively biography of 88 year old Delta Blues singer and 2002 NEA National
Heritage Fellowship recipient David "Honeyboy" Edwards, this film delivers
the Blues, its roots, personal accounts of the Deep South before the civil
rights movement, heartfelt stories of Edwards' missed recording opportunities
and life on the road. Includes apperances by BB King, Sam Carr, Willie
Foster, and more.
Year:
2002, Length: 82 min., Shot on: 35mm &
Super16mm/color, Screening on: BetaSP, State and Country
of Origin: Chicago, IL
Director:
Scott Taradash,
Producer: Jamie Tarandash,
Featuring:
David "Honeyboy" Edwards, BB King, Sam Carr, Willie Foster, Bruce iglauer,
RB Moore, Waymon Meeks, Ace Atkins, Michael Frank.
Print
Source:
URL:
www.honeyboyfilm.com
Phone:
773-878-2769
Email:
tdashrcn.com
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 Monday
July 28 , 7 PM
Location: Redfield
Auditorium
(*
in competition)
HOW'S
YOUR NEWS
 Description:
Five outgoing reporters with mental and physical disabilities hit the road,
traveling cost to coast in a handpainted RV and interviewing everyone they
meet. Follow the team as they explore honky tonk bars in Nashville,
alligator farms in Arkansas, the Grand Canyon and the wild streets of America's
cities and towns.
Year:
2002, Length: 82, Shot on: DV & 16mm/color,
Screening
on: BetaSP, State and Country of Origin: Massachusetts,
U.S.A.
Director:
Arthur Bradford
Print
Source:
URL:
howsyournews.org
Phone:
917-224-9434
Email:
artbradfordearthlink.net
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 Wednesday,
July 30, 9 PM
Location: The Old
Woods Hole Fire Station
ICE BALLS (THE MOVIE)
(Work-In-Progress)
Description: As
planet Earth spun from one millennium into the next, giant balls of ice
rained down upon the earth. Airplanes, comets, and atmospheric strangeness
are all suspects in the case, yet the real cause of the falling ice remains
a mystery. In this documentary whodunit, knight-errant filmmaker
C. Phred Churchill shows that he's the one man who can handle the job.
Length:
40 min (90 when finished),
Shot on: DVCam,
Screening on: BetaSP, Country of Origin: Massachusetts,
U.S.A.
Director:
C.
Phred Churchill, Scientific Inquisitor: Doug Smith
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 Wednesday,
July 30, 7 PM
Location: The Old
Woods Hole Fire Station
(*
in competition)
LAST CALL: DREAMS, MAIN
STREEET, AND THE SEARCH FOR COMMUNITY
Description: A
cautionary tale about what we lose when local culture gives way to gentrification
and homogenation. The Bosun’s Locker was one such place. The late writer
and columnist George Frazier once called it the last great saloon on the
east coast. The place was only opened between 1962 and 1970, but it had
become the center of downtown in more ways than one. And so when
they gathered outside the place on a spring day in1970 -- men and women,
old and young, hippies and working guys, blacks and whites -- it was as
if they were posing for a photograph at a wake. Changes were already underway
that would turn Nantucket from a sleepy town to an exclusive playground
for the wealthy.
Year:
2002, Length: 60 min., Shot on: BetaSP/color,
Screening on: BetaSP, State and Country of Origin:
Massachusetts, U.S.A.
Production
Company: Shouldered Oar Films, Director/Writer: John
Stanton, DP/Editor: Henry Ferrini
Featuring:
Russell
Baker (narrator)
Print
Source:
Shouldered Oar Films
Address:
20
Sumerset Rd., PO Box 384, Nantucket, MA 02554
Phone:
508-228-3358
Email:
wordstogoattbi.com
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 Monday,
July 28 , 9 PM
Location: The Old
Woods Hole Fire Station
(*
in competition)
LIVE AND LET GO: AN AMERICAN
DEATH
Description:
A proud and fiercely independent man, Sam Niver wanted control in his death
as well as his life. That was his right, he believed - and he wanted
the world to know it. Sam invited his son, Jay, an award-winning
journalist, to tell the story in a personal private way - not to strangers,
but to a close family friend; Jay Spain a filmmaker who had known the Nivers
for 20 years. What followed were hours of interviews, wistful reminiscing,
candid family talks and poignant parting moments.
Premiere:
yes, Year: 2002,
Length:
, Shot on: DV/color, Format (screening): BetaSP,
State
and Country of Origin: North Carolina, U.S.A.
Production
Company:
SpaiNiver Films, Director: Jay Spain, Producer:
Jay Niver, DP: Jay Spain, Editor: David Iverson
Print
Source: SpaiNiver Films
Address:
PO
Box 50157, Raleigh North, Carolina 27650
URL:
www.liveandletgo.com
Phone:
919-833-5454
Email:
jjspainaol.com
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 Monday,
July 28, 9 PM
Location: Redfield
Auditorium
(*
in competition)
THE
MEN WHO WOULD BE VIKING
Description: The
story, told by a crew member, of an improbable band of adventurers that
attempts to retrace Leif Eriksson's voyage of discovery in an authentic
replica Viking ship. Stunning images of Arctic landscapes, icebergs, whales,
and polar bears are interwoven with intimate portraits of the motley characters
who took part.
Year:
2003,
Length:
60 min., Shot on: mini DV & 16mm/color, Screening
on: BetaSP, State and Country of Origin: Massachusetts,
U.S.A.
Director:
Doug Cabot,
Producer: David Conover
Print
Source:
Phone:
617-461-0536
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 Wednesday
July 30, 7 PM
Location: The Old
Woods Hole Fire Station
(*
in competition)
THE
NOBSKA
Description:
For close to 50 years, The Nobska traveled out of Woods Hole bringing passengers
to the islands of Marth Vineyard and Nantucket. This film documents the
current restoration of the ship now under way, and relives the storied
history of our country's last coastal steamboat , and one of this regions
most beloved treasures.
Premiere:World
Premiere, Year: 2003, Length: 42 min., Shot
on: Mini-DV/color, Screening on: BetaSP,
State
and Country of Origin: Massachusetts, U.S.A.
Director/Writer:
Jim
Carroll, DP: Eric Scharmer
Print
Source: Fields of Vision
Address:
19
Virgil Road, West Roxbury, Ma, 02132
URL:
www.fieldsofvision.net
Phone:
617/327-1297
Email:
jhcarrollrcn.com
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 Sunday,
July 27, 5 PM
Location: Redfield
Auditorium
Boston Irish Film
Festival winner - Director's Choice Award
PHOTOS TO SEND
Description:
In 1954, Life photographer Dorothea Lange documented rural life in County
Clare, Ireland.
The photos she took there captured a way of life fast vanishing and a people
hardened, but not broken, by terrible poverty and grueling labor. Almost
fifty years later, filmmaker Dierdre Lynch returned to Lange’s subjects
and found that the world in Lange’s photographs had indeed changed, but
that the people, more fragile now and weathered by age, still maintained
their vitality and spirit. Like Lange before her, Lynch offers a loving
and sensitive portrait of humanity, by times tragic and bittersweet, yet
wholly life affirming. L.A. Times: "deeply affecting . . . honors the photographer
as well as the people."
Year:
2001,
Length:
88
min., State and Country of Origin: Ireland
Director:
Dierdre
Lynch
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 Sunday
July 27, 9 PM
Location: Pie in
the Sky - Project Green ScreenTM
(*
in competition)
RIVERSENSE
Description: Riversense
is a documentary about the whitewater kayaking subculture in the US.
It follows the lives of five paddlers, all in transitional stages in their
lives. It features the late William Nealy (a whitewater author, cartoonist
and legend of the community), who offers his impression of the community.
Year:2002,
Length: 82 min., Shot on: DV/color, Screening
on: BetaSP, State and Country of Origin: New York,
U.S.A.
Director:
Kate Geis,
Composer: U2, Mark Westin, Steve Giordano
Print
Source:
URL:
www.riversense.com
Phone:
718.855.2623
Email:
tvgeisaol.com
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Tuesday July 29, 7 PM
Location: The Old
Woods Hole Fire Station
(*
in competition)
SAME
RIVER TWICE
Description: Working
as river guides for much of the 1970s, the director and his friends lived
an unscheduled, communal, (often naked), outdoor life. Cutting between
images of a month-long river trip filmed twenty-five years ago and the
current lives of five people from that trip, the film explores bodies,
times passage and living with ones life choices.
Year:
2003, Length: 78 min., Shot on: DV, Screening
on: Beta SP, State and Country of Origin: Massachusetts,
U.S.A
Production
Company: Next
Life Pictures, Director/Writer: Robb Moss, Editor:
Karen Schmeer
Print
Source: Next Life Pictures
Address:
37
Greenough Ave., Boston, MA 02130
URL:
www.samerivertwice.com
Phone:
617-495-4456
Email:
robbmossfas.harvard.edu
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 Sunday,
July 27, 9 PM
Location: The Old
Woods Hole Fire Station
SOME
KIND OF FUNNY "PORTO RICAN"?
(work-in-progress)
Description: SOME
KIND OF FUNNY "PORTO RICAN"? is a (60+ minute) work-in-progress documentary
that inscribes the history of a community erased before it was written.
In the telling of the story, a vivid portrait emerges of the largely
unknown 20th century Cape Verdean community in the Fox Point section of
Providence, RI. The story branches out from Fox Point through the
network of family and friends to the Cape Verdean communities of New Bedford,
MA and Cape Cod. The majority of the interviewees are in their 70s,
80s and 90s: they are the elders, the collective consciousness and memory
of the Cape Verdean community in the US. SKFPR tells the history
as if we were talking among ourselves around the kitchen table, at the
Cape Verdean Club (where some of the film was shot), family gatherings,
or at Granny's house. Lots of straight talk, jokes, music, tears
and laughter.
Year:
WIP-2003, Length: XX min., Shot on: XX/color,
Screening on: BetaSP,
State and Country of Origin:
Massachusetts, U.S.A.
Production
Company: SPIA Media Productions,
Director/Writer: Claire Andrade-Watkins
Print Source:
SPIA Media Productions, Inc.
Address: PO
Box 230937, Astor Station, Boston, MA 02123
URL: www.spiamedia.com
Phone: 617-277-0278
Fax: 617-277-8278
Email: spiamediaaol.com
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 Friday,
August 1, 5 PM
Location: Redfield Auditorium
(*
in competition)
STATE
OF DENIAL
Description:
State of Denial takes an unprecedented and unflinching look at how the
citizens of South Africa are living with the AIDS epidemic, given the climate
of confusion and neglect perpetuated by President Mbeki's administration.
Producer/Director Elaine Epstein, a native South African who has worked
extensively in AIDS and public health, offers a unique insider's look at
the complex issues affecting the nearly five million South Africans living
with HIV and AIDS. The film offers a moving account of a society struggling
to overcome the harsh realities of illness, global healthcare inequities,
and government paralysis.
Year:
XX,
Length: XX, Shot on: XX/color,
Screening on: BetaSP, State and Country Origin:
XX
Production
Company: Lovett Productions, Inc., Director: Elaine
Epstein, Executive Producer: Joseph Lovett, David Jammy,
Harriet Gavshon. DP: Sven Cheatle, Carl DeHeer, Brian Green,
Eddie Wes, Editor: Penny Elliott Hays, Composer: Thomas
DeRenzo
Print
Source: California Newsreel
Address:
500
3rd Street, Suite 505, San Francisco, CA 94104
URL:
www.stateofdenial.org
Phone:
415-284-7800
Email:
infolovettproductions.com
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Monday July 28 , 7 PM
Location: The Old
Woods Hole Fire Station
TROUBLE IN PARADISE
(Work-In-Progress)
Description: Trouble
in paradise is a real-life drama unfolding in the chaotic landscape of
Florida politics over the course of a two year period spanning from Election
2000 to Election 2002. Set amidst a backdrop of present-day events, the
story follows the lives of several Floridians whose lives have been dramatically
affected by Election 2000.
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Saturday, August 3, 7:30 PM
Location: Redfield Auditorium
(*
in competition)
WHEN
STAND UP STOOD OUT
 Description:
It’s no coincidence that some of the most cutting edge comics of this generation
came out of the same city at the same time. The Boston gold rush
of the late ‘70’s and early ‘80’s was considered by many, the flash point
of the biggest national stand-up explosion ever. A scene boiling
over with comedians possessed with that precarious blend of originality,
pure desire, and good old-fashioned desperation. Steven Wright, Denis
Leary, Janeane Garofalo, Paula Poundstone, Bobcat Goldthwait, Lenny Clarke,
and many others, all emerged from the most provocative, gritty, and unconventional
comedy scene in America. An escalation that began with about 2 dozen
comedy clubs scattered across the country, and at the peak, ballooned to
over 450 full-time rooms operating nationwide, spawning a gigantic new
wave of comedians.
Year:
XX,
Length: , Shot on: XX, Screening on:
XX, State and Country of Origin: California, U.S.A.
Production
Company: Hieroglyphic
Productions, Director: Fran Solomita
Featuring:
Denis Leary, Janeane Garofalo, Paula Poundstone, Steven Wright, Bobcat
Goldthwait, Lenny Clarke, Tony V, Jack Gallagher, Barry Crimmins, Kevin
Meaney, Jimmy Tingle, Ken Rogerson, and many others.
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