DocuWeek™ New York City
August 8-14, 2008

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Program A

GLASS: a portrait of Philip in twelve parts

Director/Producer: Scott Hicks
Producers: Scott Hicks, Susanne Preissler
Executive Producers: Kerry Heysen, Roger Sexton
Digital 119 min. Australia
Ava Bridge Motion Pictures Pty. Ltd.

Filmmaker Scott Hicks gives us a unique glimpse behind the curtain into the life of a surprising and complex man. GLASS: a portrait of Philip in twelve parts is a remarkable mosaic of one of the greatest—and at times controversial—artists of this or any era. Watch the trailer

Showtimes
8/8 12:00 pm 5:40 pm
8/9 1:35 pm 7:10 pm
8/10 3:10 pm 8:40 pm
8/11 12:00 pm 5:40 pm
8/12 1:40 pm 7:10 pm
8/13 3:10 pm 8:45 pm
8/14 12:00 pm 5:40 pm

Read Q&A with director/producer Scott Hicks

Program B

The Matador

Directors/Producers: Stephen Higgins, Nina Gilden Seavey
Executive Producers: Scott Dunklee, Kristie Nova
Digital 76 min. Peru/Spain/USA
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. 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.

Showtimes
8/8 2:20 pm 8:00 pm
8/9 4:00 pm 9:30 pm
8/10 12:00 pm 5:30 pm
8/11 2:20 pm 8:00 pm
8/12 4:00 pm 9:30 pm
8/13 12:00 pm 5:30 pm
8/14 2:20 pm 8:00 pm

Read Q&A with directors/producers Stephen Higgins and Nina Gilden Seavey

Program C

Of Time and the City

Director: Terence Davies
Producers: Solon Papadopoulos, Roy Boulter
Digital 75 min. United Kingdom
Hanway Films

Of Time and the City is a heartfelt, lyrical and bitingly humorous personal perspective on the process of change and time. The result is a love song and a eulogy to director Terence Davies’ birthplace, Liverpool.

Showtimes
8/8 4:00 pm 9:35 pm
8/9 12:00 pm 5:35 pm
8/10 1:35 pm 7:10 pm
8/11 4:00 pm 9:35 pm
8/12 12:00 pm 5:35 pm
8/13 1:35 pm 7:10 pm
8/14 4:00 pm 9:35 pm

Read Q&A with director Terence Davies

Program D

Project Kashmir

Directors/Producers: Senain Kheshgi, Geeta V. Patel
Executive Producers: Geralyn White Dreyfous, Diana Barrett
Consulting Producer: Ross Kaufmann
Digital 88 min. USA
DISHOOM Pictures

Filmmakers Senain Kheshgi and Geeta V. Patel, two American friends from opposite sides of the divide, investigate the war in Kashmir and find their friendship tested over deeply rooted religious biases. Project Kashmir explores war between countries and war within oneself by delving into the fraught lives of young people caught in the social/political conflict of one of the most beautiful, and most deadly, places on earth.

Showtimes
8/8 12:10 pm 5:30 pm
8/9 2:10 pm 7:30 pm
8/10 3:40 pm 9:10 pm
8/11 12:10 pm 5:30 pm
8/12 2:10 pm 7:30 pm
8/13 3:40 pm 9:10 pm
8/14 12:10 pm 5:30 pm

Program E

Fire Under the Snow

Director/Producer: Makoto Sasa
Executive Producer: Maura Moynihan
Co-Producers: Vladan Nikolic, Jim Browne
Digital 75 min. India/Italy/Nepal/Tibet/USA
Imakoko Media, Inc.

The Venerable Palden Gyatso, a Buddhist monk since childhood, was arrested by the Chinese Communist Army in 1959. He spent 33 years in prison for the “crime” of demonstrating peacefully. He was starved and tortured. His nation and culture were destroyed, his teachers, friends and family displaced, jailed or killed under Chinese occupation. Despite this, he remained unbroken, and kept the flame of his spirit ablaze.

Showtimes
8/8 2:00 pm 7:20 pm
8/9 4:00 pm 9:20 pm
8/10 12:10 pm 5:30 pm
8/11 2:00 pm 7:20 pm
8/12 4:00 pm 9:20 pm
8/13 12:10 pm 5:30 pm
8/14 2:00 pm 7:20 pm

Read Q&A with director/producer Makoto Sasa

Program F

War Child

Director/Producer: Karim Chrobog
Producer: Afshin Molavi
Executive Producers: Dal LaMagna, Jeff Weingarten, Rick Boden, Roshanak Ameli-Tehrani
Digital 92 min. Kenya/Sudan/USA
18th Street Films

War Child chronicles the tragic but ultimately hopeful life of Emmanuel Jal, a former child soldier of Sudan's brutal civil war and emerging international rap star with a message of peace for his country. His story mirrors his homeland: tragedy and terror mingling with hope and restoration. Orphaned, firing a gun that he (at age seven) could barely hold aloft, trekking through deserts in search of shelter, Jal was adopted by an aid worker. His rise from orphan to soldier to refugee to rap star represents one of the 21st century’s most inspiring and hopeful journeys. Watch the trailer

Showtimes
8/8 3:35 pm 9:00 pm
8/9 12:10 pm 5:35 pm
8/10 1:45 pm 7:10 pm
8/11 3:35 pm 9:00 pm
8/12 12:10 pm 5:35 pm
8/13 1:45 pm 7:10 pm
8/14 3:35 pm 9:00 pm

Read Q&A with director/producer C. Karim Chrobog

Program G

The Betrayal (Nerakhoon)

Director/Producer: Ellen Kuras
Co-Director: Thavisouk Phrasavath
Producer: Flora Fernandez-Marengo
16mm/35mm/8mm Super/VHS/Hi8 96 min. Laos/USA
Pandinlao Films

Filmed over the course of 23 years, The Betrayal (Nerakhoon) is the epic story of a Laotian soldier family's journey from war-torn Laos to the mean streets of New York. Thavisouk Phrasavath tells his own deeply personal story as a young man struggling to survive a war and the later hardships of immigrant life, counterpointed by his mother's astonishing tale of perseverance. Renowned cinematographer Ellen Kuras' directorial debut is a remarkable collaboration with Phrasavath-a poetic, cinematically resonant film about the hidden, human face of war's "collateral damage."

Showtimes
8/8 12:20 pm 7:15 pm
8/9 2:00 pm 8:40 pm
8/10 12:20 pm 4:00 pm
8/11 2:00 pm 5:40 pm
8/12 4:10 pm 7:50 pm
8/13 12:20 pm 7:15 pm
8/14 2:00 pm 8:40 pm

Program H

An Unlikely Weapon

Director/Producer: Susan Morgan Cooper
Executive Producer: Cindy Lou Adkins
16mm/Digital 85 min. USA
Morgan Cooper Productions

Eddie Adams photographed 13 wars, six American Presidents and every major film star of the last 50 years. History was changed through his lens. But the photo that made Eddie famous would haunt him his entire life. In 1968, he photographed a Saigon police chief, General Nygoc Loan, shooting a Vietcong guerilla point blank. The photo brought Eddie worldwide recognition and a Pulitzer Prize, but he was haunted by the man he had vilified. He would say, "Two lives were destroyed that day- the victim and the general." Others would say three lives were destroyed. Watch the trailer

Showtimes
8/8 2:20 pm 7:00 pm
8/9 4:00 pm 9:20 pm
8/10 12:30 pm 6:30 pm
8/11 2:20 pm 8:40 pm
8/12 12:20 pm 4:10 pm
8/13 2:20 pm 7:00 pm
8/14 4:00 pm 9:20 pm

Read Q&A with director/producer Susan Morgan Cooper

Program I

FLOW

Director: Irena Salina
Producer: Steven Starr
Digital 80 min. USA
the group entertainment; Oscilloscope Laboratories

Irena Salina's award-winning documentary investigates what experts label the most important political and environmental issue of the 21st Century: the world water crisis. Salina builds a case against the growing privatization of the world's dwindling fresh water supply with an unflinching focus on politics, pollution, human rights and the emergence of a domineering world water cartel. Interviews with scientists and activists intelligently reveal the rapidly building crisis, at both the global and human scale, and the film introduces many of the governmental and corporate culprits behind the water grab, while begging the question, “Can anyone really own water?” Watch the trailer

Showtimes
8/8 4:10 pm 9:15 pm
8/9 12:20 pm 7:00 pm
8/10 2:20 pm 8:15 pm
8/11 12:20 pm 4:00 pm
8/12 2:30 pm 6:10 pm
8/13 4:10 pm 9:15 pm
8/14 12:20 pm 7:00 pm

Read Q&A with director Irena Salina

Program J

The Forgotten Woman

Director: Dilip Mehta
Producers: David Hamilton, Noemi Weis
Digital 90 min. India
Hamilton-Mehta Productions and Filmblanc

Following the international success of the Oscar-nominated film Water (directed by Dilip Mehta's sister, Deepa), the filmmakers received thousands of letters from audience members wanting to know more about the state of widows in India today. The Forgotten Woman brings the understanding of the destitution and marginalization of millions of widows who are forced by age-old traditions to live out their remaining years isolated and shunned by society. In the 21st century, many issues still surround women's search for economic independence in order to attain a modicum of self-sufficiency and basic human dignity. Watch the trailer

Showtimes
8/8 12:30 pm 4:15 pm
8/9 2:15 pm 7:30 pm
8/10 4:00 pm 7:45 pm
8/11 12:30 pm 6:00 pm
8/12 2:15 pm 9:20 pm
8/13 12:30 pm 4:15 pm
8/14 2:15 pm 7:30 pm

Read Q&A with director Dilip Mehta

Program K

Yodok Stories

Director: Andrzej Fidyk
Producer: Torstein Grude
Executive Producers: Torstein Grude, Bjarte Mørner Tveit, Miroslaw Grubek, Therese Jebsen, Jan Ramstad
Super16mm/HDCam 82 min. South Korea
Kudos Family Distribution/Norwegian Film Institute/Piraya Film

North Korean Great Leader Kim Il Sung ordered the seed of class enemies destroyed to the third generation. Anyone in a family with a “criminal” is considered guilty by association. That is why entire families are sent to labor camps with life sentences, and without court hearings. Today more than 200,000 are imprisoned, subject to the worst kinds of slave labor and torture. Of the many hundreds of thousands who have lived and died in the camps, only a few have escaped. In Seoul, South Korea, these escapees decided to expose the camps through a controversial musical based on their own experiences.

Showtimes
8/8 2:30 pm 8:45 pm
8/9 12:30 pm 4:10 pm
8/10 2:15 pm 6:00 pm
8/11 4:10 pm 7:50 pm
8/12 12:30 pm 7:30 pm
8/13 2:30 pm 8:45 pm
8/14 12:30 pm 4:10 pm

Read Q&A with director Andrzej Fidyk

Program L

Pray the Devil Back to Hell

Director: Gini Reticker
Producer: Abigail Disney
Digital 72 min. Liberia
Fork Films

Pray the Devil Back to Hell is the gripping account of a group of brave and visionary women who demanded peace for Liberia, a nation torn by a decades-old civil war. The women's historic, yet unsung achievement finds voice in a narrative that intersperses contemporary interviews, archival images and scenes of present-day Liberia. The film recounts the experiences and memories of the women who were instrumental in bringing lasting peace to their country. Watch the trailer

Showtimes
8/8 12:00 pm 5:15 pm
8/9 12:00 pm 5:15 pm
8/10 12:00 pm 5:15 pm
8/11 12:00 pm 5:15 pm
8/12 12:00 pm 5:15 pm
8/13 12:00 pm 5:15 pm
8/14 12:00 pm 5:15 pm

Read Q&A with director Gini Reticker

Program M

Dear Zachary: a letter to a son about his father

Director/Producer: Kurt Kuenne
Digital/16mm/Super 8/S-VHS 93 min. USA
Oscilloscope/MSNBC Films

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. Watch the trailer

Showtimes
8/8 1:25 pm 6:40 pm
8/9 1:25 pm 6:40 pm
8/10 1:25 pm 6:40 pm
8/11 1:25 pm 6:40 pm
8/12 1:25 pm 6:40 pm
8/13 1:25 pm 6:40 pm
8/14 1:25 pm 6:40 pm

Read Q&A with director/producer Kurt Kuenne

Program N

Spirit of the Marathon

Director/Producer: Jon Dunham
Producer: Gwendolen Twist
Executive Producer: Mark Jonathan Harris
Digital 105 min. Greece/Japan/Kenya/USA/United Kingdom
Calico 1880, Land of the Gods LLC

From Academy Award-winning filmmaker Mark Jonathan Harris comes the first-ever nonfiction feature film to capture the drama and essence of the famed 26.2 mile running event. Filmed on four continents, Spirit of the Marathon brings together a diverse cast of amateur athletes and marathon luminaries. As six unique stories unfold, each runner prepares for and ultimately faces the challenge of the Chicago Marathon. More than a sports movie, Spirit of the Marathon is an inspirational journey of perseverance and personal triumph, a spectacle that will be embraced by runners and non-runners alike. Watch the trailer

Showtimes
8/8 3:15 pm 8:30 pm
8/9 3:15 pm 8:30 pm
8/10 3:15 pm 8:30 pm
8/11 3:15 pm 8:30 pm
8/12 3:15 pm 8:30 pm
8/13 3:15 pm 8:30 pm
8/14 3:15 pm 8:30 pm

Read Q&A with filmmakers Jon Dunham and Mark Jonathan Harris

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