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FRIDAY SEPT 25
FIREHOUSE
OPENING NIGHT FILM WITH FILMMAKER AND RECEPTION |
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Shooting Beauty
Director: George Kachadorian
8:00PM |
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Shooting Beauty tells the inspirational story of an aspiring fashion photographer whose career takes an unexpected turn when she discovers a hidden world of beauty at a center for people living with significant disabilities. Shot over the span of a decade, this film puts you in Courtney's shoes as she overcomes her own unspoken prejudices and begins inventing cameras accessible to her new friends.
Q&A with filmmaker following the screening. |
| (63 min) |
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SATURDAY SEPT 26
SCREENING ROOM |
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Sweet Crude
Director: Sandy Cioffi
11:30AM |
The story of Nigeria’s Niger Delta–the human and environmental consequences of 50 years of oil extraction, the history of non-violent protest and the members of a new insurgency, who in the three years since the filmmakers met them as college students, became the young men of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND).
Q&A with filmmaker following the screening. |
| (93 min) |
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Free Swim
Director: Jennifer Galvin
1:30PM |
A film about the paradox of coastal people not knowing how to swim. Taking place on the island of Eleutherea in the Bahamas, follow a group of kids as they overcome their fears, gain confidence and reconnect with their environment by learning to swim in open waters.
Q&A with filmmaker following the screening. |
| (50 min) |
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SATURDAY SEPT 26
FIREHOUSE |
| 12 Noon SHORTS BLOCK #1 + Q&A WITH FILMMAKERS |
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Mouse Race!
Director: Lucie Schwartz |
Australians will bet on anything—but mice? Fascinating & funny journey into the seedy underworld of mice racing. |
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Arresting Ana
Director: George Kachadorian |
Exploring the potential criminalization of the pro-anorexia movement in France, we follow Sarah an 18 yr old with a “pro-Ana” blog and Valerie, a passionate legislator. |
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Crayons and Paper
Director: Bruce Janu |
Dr. Jerry Ehrlich, a pediatrician with Doctors Without Borders, brought back home hundreds of drawings which show the horrors of war through the eyes of children. |
| (30 min) |
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Dumping Billy: The Story of the Crow Lane Landfill
Director: Mary Godfrey |
This film stinks! |
| (20 min) |
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Heart of Stone
Director: Beth Toni Kruvant
1:30PM |
Heart of Stone is about a predominantly African American High School and the trials and tribulations of its principal Ronald Stone, Jewish alumni and even gang members to restore the school’s safety and past glory.
Q&A with filmmaker following the screening. |
| (84 min) |
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| SATURDAY NIGHT FILM WITH FILMMAKER AND RECEPTION |
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The Way We Get By
Director: Aron Gaudet
7:30PM |
A seemingly idiosyncratic story about a group of senior citizens who gather daily at a small airport to thank American soldiers departing and returning from Iraq, it quickly turns into a moving, unsettling and compassionate story about aging, loneliness, war and mortality. Q&A with co-director following the screening.
Q&A with filmmaker following the screening. |
| (84 min) |
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SUNDAY SEPT 27
SCREENING ROOM |
| 11:30AM SHORTS BLOCK #2 + Q&A WITH FILMMAKERS |
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Princess Royal
Director: Rob Napier |
This film interprets the meticulous rebirth of the “Princess Royal,” an elegant naval ship model whose structure had become unstable. Seventeen months were required to disassemble, document, and reinstall more than 2,000 wooden pieces, all documented in less time than it takes a drop of glue to dry. |
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Team Hannah
Directed by NH Teams and Media Power Youth |
Team Hannah tells the story of a developmentally disabled adult and her caregivers, and their wish to give back to the community and promote inclusiveness by offering help with a volunteer driver/rider program. |
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Body Job
Director: Joanne Nerenberg |
Meditation on inspired physicality in the workplace; three people transform their jobs with active bodies. |
| (10 min) |
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New American Soldier
Director: Emma Cott |
Three immigrant soldiers go through training and deployment as they take steps toward achieving US citizenship. |
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(un)veiled
Director: Ines Hofmann Kanna |
(un)veiled highlights ten Muslim women from various backgrounds who now live in Dubai, UAE, as they discuss why they wear, or don’t wear, the hijab, the head scarf. |
| (30 min) |
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Trust Us This Is All Made Up
Director: Alex Karpovsky
3:15PM |
Exploring the legendary long-form improvisation of TJ Jagodowski and David Pasquesi.
Q&A with filmmaker following the screening. |
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SUNDAY SEPT 27
FIREHOUSE |
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The Rivals
Director: Kirk Wolfinger
12:00PM |
The Rivals is the story of two towns in Maine, a struggling mill town in the North and an affluent suburb along the southern coast... a story about the pride of place, the passion of tradition and the careful balance... between success and respect.
Q&A with filmmaker following the screening. |
| (91 min) |
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The Philosopher Kings
Director: Patrick Shen
2:00PM |
Documentary film about the wisdom found among the custodial staff of some of America’s finest universities.
NEW ENGLAND PREMIER!
Q&A with filmmaker following the screening. |
| (70 min) |
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Motherland
Director: Jennifer Steinman
4:00PM |
A 17 day journey to South Africa transforms the lives of six grieving women from disparate parts of the US. Unexpectedly and 8000 miles from home, each finds comfort and healing in a landscape that appears at first to offer little more than melancholy.
Q&A with filmmaker following the screening. |
| (80 min) |
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| SUNDAY NIGHT CLOSING FILM |
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Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison
Director: Bestor Cram
7:30PM |
At the end of 1968, in a gray prison cafeteria in Northern California, hard men doing hard time witnessed the making of a legendary album that would catapult a country singer onto the path of becoming a legend. Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison remains one of the greatest live albums ever made, and the man himself one of America's greatest troubadours and advocate for prison reform.
Q&A with filmmaker following the screening. |
| (90 min) |
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