When Chicago Filmmaker Joanna Rudnick tested positive for the "breast cancer gene" at age 27, she knew the information could save her life. She now faces an impossible decision: remove her healthy breasts and ovaries or risk incredible odds of developing cancer. A co-production of Joanna Rudnick, Kartemquin Films and The Independent Television Service (ITVS).

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Truly Indie
Dir./Prod.: Andrea Kalin
This landmark concert film follows three acclaimed comedians on stage and off as they lift the veil to reveal the humorous truth of what it's really like to be Muslim in America. Mo Amer, Azhar Usman, and Preacher Moss poke fun at themselves, their communities, government, human nature and the tricky predicament of living in post-9/11 America. Featuring music of rising indie scene artists, Allah Made Me Funny: Live in Concert is rollicking good fun and gives people of all cultural backgrounds an opportunity to laugh hard, drop their guard and open their minds.

Fair Trade Pictures
Dir./Prod.: Justin Dillon
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Reveals the world's 27 million dirtiest secrets: there are more slaves today than ever before in human history. Slavery is thriving from the child brothels of Cambodia to the slave brick kilns of rural India. In 2007, slave traders made more money than Google, Nike and Starbucks combined. Luminaries on the issue such as Cornel West, Madeleine Albright, Daryl Hannah, Julia Ormond, Ashley Judd, Nicholas Kristof and many other prominent political and cultural figures offer first hand account of this 21st century trade. Music is part of the movement against human slavery, and performances from Grammy-winning artists including Moby, Natasha Bedingfield, Cold War Kids, Matisyahu, Imogen Heap, Talib Kweli, Five For Fighting, Switchfoot, members of Nickel Creek and Tom Petty's Heartbreakers, Rocco Deluca move this chilling information into inspiration for stopping it. Dr. Cornel West connects the music of the American slave fields to the popular music we listen to today, and offers this connection as a rallying cry for the modern abolitionist movement currently brewing.

Dirs./Prods.: Mike Roth, John Henning
Here/Regent Releasing
Three years in the making, Saving Marriage is on the scene as one state grapples with a simple question: Should gay and lesbian couples have the right to marry? You'll hear the personal stories of people that are shaping history. Career politicians who stand up to their constituents and follow their hearts. Seasoned lobbyists who see the holy grail of the gay rights movement suddenly within reach. And regular people thrust suddenly into the world of politics by an issue that could change their lives.

Maya Releasing
Dir.: Luis Mandoki
http://www.mayareleasing.com/fraude/
Fraude: México 2006 clearly shows how powerful economic and political groups took away the triumph to Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who would be Mexico's president right now if this fraud hadn't taken place in 2006 elections. This film was made mostly thanks to the effort of millions of citizens who donated their video recordings of the election to filmmaker Luis Mandoki. Most of them are supporting López Obrador.

Dir.: Caroline Suh
Prod.: Erika Frankel
Oscilloscope Labs
Frontrunners is a smart and funny political documentary that follows the student council presidential campaign at one of the country's most prestigious public high schools: Stuyvesant High School in New York City. An entertaining and symbolic campaign film, put forth in classic vérité style, Frontrunners follows four charming and idiosyncratic candidates as they navigate an electoral process that is said to be one of the most compelling at the high school level. These teenaged candidates face the same issues as candidates of any age, such as picking the "right" running mate, shaking as many hands as possible, preparing for televised debates, impressing the pundits and journalistic community, addressing sensitive race-related issues and mobilizing an apathetic voter base. A microcosm of US Presidential elections, Frontrunners shows politicking and pluralities through the lens of the adolescent experience.

Dirs.: Peter Galison, Robb Moss
Argot Pictures
In a single recent year the US classified about five times the number of pages added to the Library of Congress. We live in a world where the production of secret knowledge dwarfs the production of open knowledge. Depending on whom you ask, government secrecy is either the key to victory in our struggle against terrorism, or our Achilles heel. But is so much secrecy a bad thing?
Secrecy saves: counter-terrorist intelligence officers recall with fury how a newspaper article describing National Security Agency abilities directly led to the loss of information that could have avoided the terrorist killing of 241 soldiers in Beirut late in October 1983. Secrecy guards against wanton nuclear proliferation, against the spread of biological and chemical weapons. Secrecy is central to our ability to wage an effective war against terrorism.
Secrecy corrupts. From extraordinary rendition to warrant-less wiretaps and Abu Ghraib, we have learned that, under the veil of classification, even our leaders can give in to dangerous impulses. Secrecy increasingly hides national policy, impedes coordination among agencies, bloats budgets and obscures foreign accords; secrecy throws into the dark our system of justice and derails the balance of power between the executive branch and the rest of government.
This film is about the vast, invisible world of government secrecy. By focusing on classified secrets, the government's ability to put information out of sight if it would harm national security, Secrecy explores the tensions between our safety as a nation, and our ability to function as a democracy.

Dirs.: Paul Crowder, Mark Monroe
Walt Disney Company
Fifteen young sailors... six months of intense training... one chance at the brass ring. Morning Light tells the inspiring story of a group of intrepid and determined young men and women, on the cusp of adulthood, as they embark on life's first great adventure. Racing a high-performance 52-foot sloop in the TRANSPAC, the most revered of open-ocean sailing competitions, the crew of "Morning Light" matches wits and skills in a dramatic 2,300-mile showdown against top professionals. From their earliest training sessions in Hawaii conducted by world-class teachers through their test of endurance on the high seas, they form an unbreakable bond in the process of becoming a singular team that is greater than the sum of its parts.

Dir.: Pamela T. Boll
Artistic License Films
Who Does She Think She Is? examines the mothering-versus-working choice faced by American women, and women artists in particular. The film focuses on five particularly bold women artists, each radically different in background, race, religious creed and choice of artistic field. But they all share the common challenge of making careers in various art worlds. Simultaneous to their creative existence, they are pulled in different directions as they try to answer the competing demands of artistic fulfillment, marriage, motherhood and economic survival.

Dir.: Gonzalo Arijón

Zeigeist Films

On October 12, 1972, a Fairchild F 227 airplane from the Uruguayan Air Force took off from Montevideo in the direction of Santiago de Chile carrying a team of amateur rugby players from Carrasco, a suburb of the Uruguayan capital, Montevideo, to play a friendly match in Santiago. The bad weather forced them to make a stopover in Mendoza, Argentina. The next day, shortly after resuming its journey, the plane lost contact with the control tower.
For 10 days the search and rescue teams sent out by Argentina, Chile and Uruguay could find no trace of the plane and its passengers. Particularly heavy snowfalls had all but buried the white-roofed wreck of the plane, making it almost invisible from the air. Nobody believed that there was any hope of finding any of the 45 crash victims.
Ten weeks later, a shepherd herding his flock in a high Andean valley saw the outline of two men in the distance, waving their arms to attract his attention.

After the rescue, at a noisy press conference, the survivors admitted that they had been obliged to eat "the bodies of our friends" in order to survive. The world's media, gathered to hear their story, was stunned.
How did they survive the appalling conditions at 4.000 metres? How did they organize their daily lives during the ordeal? How did two of them manage to get out of there on foot to fetch a rescue party? This is a story that transcends the personal, a philosophical tale about the importance of friendship and solidarity in extreme situations.

Dir.: Christina Clausen
Arthouse Films
The Universe of Keith Haring is an intimate portrait of world-renowned artist Keith Haring whose mantra was that "Art is for everyone!" The film is a thorough and intimate exploration of the background and career of one of the most popular and significant artists of the 20th century. The film features interviews and archival footage of Fab 5 Freddy, Jeffrey Deitch, Kim Hastreiter, Grace Jones, Madonna, Yoko Ono, David LaChapelle, Kenny Scharf, Carlo McCormick, Andy Warhol, Ann Magnuson, Tony Shafrazi and Junior Vasquez, among many others.

Dirs.: Sam Douglas and Paul Lovelace
Carnivalesque Films
From their origins in New York's Greenwich Village folk scene and their involvement in the Easy Rider soundtrack, to the lost years of constant drugging, endless touring and a final shot at redemption, The Holy Modal Rounders... Bound To Lose recounts the unique 44-year history of these true American originals. With startling intimacy, the film also documents the band's arduous, amusing, and sometimes heartbreaking struggle to capitalize on their recent resurgence in popularity, culminating in an unpredictable 40th anniversary concert in Portland, Oregon.

Dir.: Kurt Kuenne
Oscilloscope Pictures
On Nov. 5, 2001, Dr. Andrew Bagby was murdered in Pennsylvania; the prime suspect, his ex-girlfriend Dr. Shirley Turner, fled the US for Newfoundland, where she announced that she was pregnant with Andrew's child. She named the little boy Zachary. Filmmaker Kurt Kuenne, Andrew's childhood friend, originally began this film as a way for Zachary to learn about his father. But when Turner was allowed to walk free on bail in Canada and given custody of Zachary while awaiting extradition to the States, the film's focus shifted to Zachary's grandparents, and their desperate efforts to win custody of the boy.

Dirs.: Stephen Higgines and Nina Gilden Seavey
City Lights Pictures
The Matador is the epic tale of David Fandila's quest to
become the world's top-ranked bullfighter. Heart-wrenching setbacks and
thrilling successes dramatize 'El Fandi's' three-year journey across Spain and Latin America
and into the pages of bullfighting history. More than one man's quest for
greatness, The Matador is a story of love -- of a son for his family, of
audiences for their heroes, of a people for their cultural traditions, and of
the bullfighter's paradoxical love for the majestic beast that he must kill to
create his art. As David struggles to achieve his place in the pantheon of Spain's
greatest bullfighters, he is confronted by those who question the place of this
ancient and brutal ritual in the modern world.

Dirs.: Stephen Higgines and Nina Gilden Seavey
City Lights Pictures
The Matador is the epic tale of David Fandila's quest to become the world's top-ranked bullfighter. Heart-wrenching setbacks and thrilling successes dramatize 'El Fandi's' three-year journey across Spain and Latin America and into the pages of bullfighting history. More than one man's quest for greatness, The Matador is a story of love -- of a son for his family, of audiences for their heroes, of a people for their cultural traditions, and of the bullfighter's paradoxical love for the majestic beast that he must kill to create his art. As David struggles to achieve his place in the pantheon of Spain's greatest bullfighters, he is confronted by those who question the place of this ancient and brutal ritual in the modern world.