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META DATA

DOCUMENTARIES:

ARISE

OCT 13, 3-5:30 PM

VENUE 2: DAVIDSON/VALENTINI

DIRECTOR-LORI JOYCE, CANDICE ORLANDO

PRODUCER-LORI JOYCE

RT: 78 MIN

CAST: Daryl Hannah (narration)

SYNOPSIS: Arise captures the portraits and stories of extraordinary women around the world who are coming together to heal the injustices against the earth.

BEAUTY BENEATH THE DIRT

OCT 13, 12-2PM

VENUE 2: DAVIDSON/VALENTINI

DIRECTOR/ PRODUCER-KATHERINE IMP

PRODUCER-JASON FURRER

RT: 69 MIN

CAST: Brandon Imp, Emily Ginger, Katherine Imp, Matt Gill

SYNOPSIS: This takes a profound look at how three young people are affected by one of the most challenging outdoor adventures in existence today.

 

CARBON FOR WATER

OCT 13, 10-12 NOON

VENUE 2: DAVIDSON/VALENTINI

DIRECTOR-EVAN ABRAMSON

PRODUCER-CARMEN ELSA LOPEZ ABRAMSON

CAST: N/A

RT: 20 MIN

SYNOPSIS: This film introduces audiences to the inspiring people who face hardships and an innovative solution for improving the health of millions of Kenyans.

 

CENSORIOUS!

OCT 14, 10-12 NOON

VENUE 2: DAVIDSON/VALENTINI

DIRECTOR/PRODUCER-CAROL JACOBSEN

RT: 34 MIN

CAST: Holly Hughes, Carolee Schneeman, Martha Wilson, Renee Cox, Barbara DeGenevieve

SYNOPSIS: Examine the Culture Wars of the 1970’s with provocative artists who fought censors in major battles over their politically charged works.

 

DIAMONDS ARE A GIRL’S BEST FRIEND

OCT 13, 10-12 NOON

VENUE 2: DAVIDSON/VALENTINI

DIRECTOR-SARAH KNIGHT

PRODUCER-SARAH KNIGHT, BARBARA GHAMMASHI

 RT: 25 MIN                                                                                                   

CAST: Nicole Sherry

SYNOPSIS: A portrait of Nicole Sherry, head groundskeeper for the Baltimore Orioles at Camden Yards – one of only two women in that position in Major League Baseball.

 

DREI BRUDER A LA CARTE (THREE BROTHERS IN THEIR CUISINE)

OCT 13, 5:30-7PM

VENUE 2: DAVIDSON/VALENTINI

DIRECTOR/PRODUCER-SILVIA HASEBLBARTH

RT: 74 MIN

CAST: Andy Wicki, Markus Wicki, Thomas Wicki

SYNOPSIS: In a country inn, with a 400-year tradition, guests enjoy a remarkable cuisine who’s chef works with his two brothers, both born with Down syndrome.

FACE 2 FACE

OCT 14, 4-6 PM

VENUE 2: DAVIDSON/VALENTINI

DIRECTOR/PRODUCER-KATHERINE BROOKS

PRODUCER-KATHERINE BROOKS, CYNTHI STEFENONI

RT: 107 MIN

CAST: Katherine Brooks, Sophie B. Hawkins, Traci Dinwiddie, Mary Lynne Licata

SYNOPSIS: Katherine set out on a journey that would change her life and the lives of those around her visiting 50 friends face to face. 

GLAMOROUS LIE, THE

OCT 14, 12-2PM

VENUE 2: DAVIDSON/VALENTINI

EXECUTIVE PRODUCER-YAVAUGHNIE WILKINS

DIRECTOR/PRODUCER-MARK ALAMARES

RT: 94 MIN

CAST: N/A

SYNOPSIS:  This delves into a news story surrounding a billboard campaign exposing a relationship between Charles E. Phillips, Jr. and YaVaughnie R. Wilkins.

 

HOW I BECAME AN ELEPHANT

OCT 12, 2-4 PM

VENUE 2: DAVIDSON/VALENTINI

DIRECTOR-SYNTHIAN SHARP, TIM GORSKI

PRODUCER-DEBBIE PAGELL , TIME GORSKI

RT: 82 MIN

CAST: Juliette West, Sangduen (Lek) Chailert

SYNOPSIS: This film follows an innocent fourteen year-old girl from suburban California on her quest to save the world’s largest land mammals taking her halfway across the globe.

 

IN HIS FOOTSTEPS

OCT 12, 10-12 NOON

VENUE 2: DAVIDSON/VALENTINI

DIRECTOR/PRODUCER-SHELLEY TAYLOR

RT: 55 MIN

CAST: Shelley Taylor

SYNOPSIS:  In His Footsteps follows a successful entrepreneur and his mother who loses her only child of 32 years and subsequently her company where they both worked.

 

IT’S A GIRL THING: AKA, TWEEN QUEENS AND THE COMMODIFICATION OF GIRLHOOD 

OCT 13, 2-4PM

VENUE 2: DAVIDSON/VALENTINI

DIRECTOR-SHANNON SILVA

PRODUCERS-SHANNON SILVA, ANDRE SILVA

RT: 59 MIN

CAST:  N/A

SYNOPSIS: Light is shed on tween brand marketers, girls, moms, and educators to explore the seemingly benign cultural universe of pastel-colored, hyper-commercialized girl culture.

 

LAS MUJERES DEL PASAJERO (THE WOMAN AND THE PASSENGER)

OCT 11, 10-12 NOON

VENUE 2: DAVIDSON/VALENTINI

DIRECTOR-VALENTINA MAC-PHERSON

PRODUCER-PATRICIA CORREA

RT: 45 MIN

CAST: N/A

SYNOPSIS: Documentary that reflects on love through the experiences of 4 women, maids of an emblematic Santiago motel, which will let us peek into a radiography of Marin 014 passengers.

 

LES BRANLEUSES (THE WANKERS)

OCT 11, 12-2PM

VENUE 2: DAVIDSON/VALENTINI

DIRECTOR-FREDERIQUE BARRAJA

PRODUCER-MAGALI POTIER

RT: 60 MIN

CAST: Florence Caillat-Mousse, Rebecca Pinette-Dorin, Paola Bjaringer, Betony Vernon, Catherine Vallois

SYNOPSIS: The documentary film is an exploration of the most intimate feminine practice, the practice of masturbation

 

LOST COUNTRY

OCT 12, 10-12 NOON

VENUE 2: DAVIDSON/VALENTINI

DIRECTOR/PRODUCER-HEATHER BURKY

RT: 33 MIN

CAST: Eduardo Zayas-Bazan, Julio Portuondo, Maximino Casal

SYNOPSIS:  Over fifty years later, three Cuban ex-patriots tell their stories of how they fought Fidel Castro and his revolution only to have the country lost to communism.

 

LOT LIKE YOU, A

OCT 14, 2-4PM

VENUE 2: DAVIDSON/VALENTINI

DIRECTOR-ELIAICHI KIMARO

PRODUCER-ELIAICHI  KIMARO , ERIC FRITH, PETE DROGE

RT: 82 MIN

CAST: N/A

SYNOPSIS: Eliaichi Kimaro traces her father’s footsteps back to Mt. Kilimanjaro discovering both the beauty and the brutality of this world he left behind 40 years earlier.

 

MAESTRA (TEACHER)

OCT 13, 12-2 PM

VENUE 2: DAVIDSON/VALENTINI

DIRECTOR-CATHERINE MURPHY

ASSOCITE PRODUCER-RUBEN CARRENO

RT: 33 MIN

CAST: Daysi Veitia, Norma Guillard

SYNOPSIS: This film explores the experience of nine women who, as young girls, taught on the Cuban Literacy Campaign of 1961.

 

MY WAY

OCT 12, 8-10PM

VENUE 2: DAVIDSON/VALENTINI

DIRECTOR-VINNY SISSON , DOMINIQUE MOLLEE

PRODUCER-REBEKAH SNYDER-STARR

RT: 90 MIN

CAST: Ron Jeremy, The Rebekah Starr Band , Annika Alliksoo, Chips Z’nuff

SYNOPSIS:  Rebekah frustrated by the career roadblocks has decided to ditch everything and take off for Hollywood to film a music video with her band.

 

NOTHING LIKE CHOCOLATE

OCT 14, 10-12 NOON

VENUE 2: DAVIDSON/VALENTINI

DIRECTOR/PRODUCER-KUM-KUM BHAVNANI

RT: 67 MIN

CAST: Michael Pollan, Mott Green, Nelice Stewart, Susan Sarandon, Vandana Shiva

SYNOPSIS: This is the compelling and intimate story of anarchist chocolate-maker and independent cocoa farmer, Nelice Stewart living in West Africa.

 

QUEM SE IMPORTA (WHO CARES?)

OCT 14, 2-4PM

VENUE 1: RENBERG

DIRECTOR-MARA MOURAO

PRODUCER-MARA MOURAO, TATIANA BATTAGLIA

RT: 92 MIN

CAST: Rodrigo Santoro (Voice)

SYNOPSIS:  Social entrepreneurs around the world are generating huge social impact and inspiring people to do the same to the hard global issues.

 

RETURN TO BYZANTIUM: THE ART AND LIFE OF LILIAN BROCA

OCT 13, 10-12 NOON

VENUE 2: DAVIDSON/VALENTINI

DIRECTOR/PRODUCER-ADELINA SUVAGAU

RT: 50 MIN

CAST: Adriana Titieni

SYNOPSIS:  After a lifetime dedicated to art, Lilian, returns to the country of her birth, Romania, for the first time in 52 years.

SACRED JOURNEY OF THE HEART

OCT 12, 6-8PM

VENUE 2: DAVIDSON/VALENTINI

DIRECTOR-SKIP THOMAS

PRODUCER-RONNA PRINCE

RT: 86 MIN

CAST:  Gregg Braden, Joe Dispenza

SYNOPSIS: This film shows how modern science is proving what the wisdom of the ancient peoples where we are all connected and bringing together the human heart.

THAILAND UNTAPPED: THE GLOBAL REACH OF ENGINEERS WITHOUT BORDERS USA

OCT 11, 12-2 PM

VENUE 2: DAVIDSON/VALENTINI

DIRECTOR-DENA SEIDEL

PRODUCER-CHANTAL EYONG, DENA SEIDEL

RT: 27 MIN

CAST: N/A

SYNOPSIS:  Three Rutgers engineering students from, “Engineers Without Borders”, travel to a province in northern Thailand to bring clean, potable water to the rural village, Nong Bua.

TIME STEPS

OCT 12, 4-6PM

VENUE 2: DAVIDSON/VALENTINI

DIRECTOR/PRODUCER-GLYNIS WHITING

RT: 77 MIN

CAST: N/A

SYNOPSIS: Follow a feisty troop of tap dancers who have enough sparkle to ignite fireworks with their star dancer in her Seventies.

TRU$T

OCT 14, 2-4 PM

VENUE 2: DAVIDSON/VALENTINI

DIRECTORS-MEG WEIDNER & BEN MANER

PRODUCER-MEG WEIDNER

RT: 18 MIN

CAST:  Meg Weidner, Alex Weidner, Mike Farrell

SYNOPSIS:  A bank’s mishandling of a family’s trust leaves them missing 1.8 million dollars and in much distress.

WHERE MY HEART BEATS

OCT 11, 4-5PM

VENUE 2: DAVIDSON/VALENTINI

DIRECTOR/PRODUCDER-KHAZAR FATEMI

RT: 60 MIN

CAST: N/A

SYNOPSIS: In 1989, Swedish journalist, Khazar Fatemi fled the war torn country of Afghanistan with her life. Twenty years later, the former refugee returned to the place that has always remained in her heart.

WHISKEY AND APPLE PIE

OCT 11,2-4PM

VENUE 2: DAVIDSON/VALENTINI

DIRECTOR-JAMIE SPOONER

PRODUCER-JAMIE SPOONER AND CAROLYN MAYES

RT: 66 MIN

CAST: Jamie Spooner (Voice)

SYNOPSIS: Two 40-something individuals take a trip across America to interview men and women over the age of 75 years to capture their wisdom.

WOMEN OF BHAKTI

OCT 12, 10-12 NOON

VENUE 2: DAVIDSON/VALENTINI

DIRECTOR-HILARY TAPPER

PRODUCER-JAHNAVA HAUSNER

RT: 30 MIN

CAST: Jahnava Hausner (Narration) Radhanatha Swami, Shiva Rea, Sarah Ivanhoe, Sharon Gannon

SYNOPSIS:  Shot in America an India, world renowned yoginis, sadhus scholars musicians and traditional village women in India share the beauty, wisdom and wealth of this ancient yogic tradition that awakens devotion and love in the heart.

YA’ GOTTA GO HIGHER

OCT 13, 2-4 PM

VENUE 1: RENBERG

DIRECTOR-DANITA JONES

PRODUCER-DANITA JONES, YUL SPENCER

RT: 65 MIN

CAST: Yul Spencer, Larry B. Scott

SYNOPSIS:  The versatile actor/comedian, Yul Spencer, transformed trial into triumph revealing his 15-year odyssey to stay recovered, in show business and married.