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Fighting Auditions
Laura Neri | 11 min (USA, 2007) Comedy
Produced by Laura Neri, Nadege Traor
Gabrielle is a bi-racial actress trying to get parts.
Any parts. But she keeps getting pigeonholed into stereotypical or
downright ridiculous roles, such as 'maid', or 'indigenous woman'.
Sometimes, they won't even let her audition. How is a determined girl to
overcome first-glance judgements based on her skin color?
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For a few marbles more (Voor een paar knikkers meer)
Jelmar Hufen | 11 min (Netherlands, 2006) children's film
Produced by Jelmar Hufen, Christoph Koelemeijer
Four ten year-olds are kicked out of their favorite
playground by two aggressive drunkards. When they realize their parents
are not going to help them, thereÕs only one solution. They have to
find a way to get the toughest boy in the neighborhood to help them.
www.vooreenpaarknikkersmeer.nl
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Gangster's Crib
Jack Bank | 22.5 min (USA, 2008) Comedy
written by Jack Bank
produced by Jacked Productions, Inc.
A comedy displaying the importance of taking one's medication, when someone in total control, totally lose control. The tale of a Crime Boss who doesn’t take his pills and meets his inner child.
Official Selection: Twin Rivers Media Festival (N.C.USA, 05/2008) ,Swansea Bay Film Festival (UK, 06/2008)
http://www.myspace.com/gangsters_crib |
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Gare d'Austerlitz
Lisa Martin |10:30 min (USA, 2008) short experimental documentary
Written by Lisa Martin
Produced by bitchgoddess films
The filmmaker travels back to Paris to visit the train station where she lost a baby 15 years ago.
lisamartin.nyc@gmail.com
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GentriFiction
Naor Elimelech |28 min (Israel, 2008) Documentary
GentriFiction' is interested in how architectural
destruction and reconstruction are aligned with memory, identity and
sense-of-self. It explores the subtle ethnic understatements of the
gentrification process currently taking place throughout the city of Jaffa in
Israel.
Located just moments away from the predominantly Jewish Tel-Aviv, Jaffa
has historically offered an ethnic enclave for Arab citizens of
Israel. Such location has long been targeted by Jewish entrepreneurs and the
local municipalities.
Walking through the streets of the Ajami neighborhood, Abu-George, a
local Jaffan, brings back to life memories stashed deep under the surface
and questions the local 'development' of the once socially deprived
neighborhood.
http://www.vimeo.com/user396816/videos
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Home
Dawn Scibilia | 70 min (US, 2006) Documentary
Written by Alan Cooke
Produced by The Home Film Company
Young Dubliner Alan Cooke reflects on his recent immigration to New York City, contemplating the concept of home and the ever changing cosmopolis. With Liam Neeson, Susan Sarandon, Mike Myers, Alfred Molina, Colin Quinn, Rosie Perez, Pete Hamill, Frank McCourt, Malachy McCourt, Fran Lebowitz, David Amram, Drew Nieporent, Elaine Kaufman, Armand DiMele and Vinny Vella.
Best Documentary | Magners Irish Film Festival (2006) | Boston
http://homethemovie.com
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H U G
Julie Troost | 21:06 min (USA, 2008) performance documentary
Produced and Directed by Julie Troost
H U G is a film about a city-sweeping performance installation created for the Conflux Festival in September, 2007. The performance explored the distillation of one powerful, human gesture. Over a five-hour period the fourteen performers traveled to eleven locations around Manhattan. The sites they visited contained the memories of events of conflict and violence anonymously submitted by the public for the project. The performers, dressed in white, approached one another out of the foot traffic. They embraced in pairs, executing one long, sustained gesture in order to heal the scarred urban spaces. Eleven times that day, they set out to comfort the respective location's author with their public act of compassion. The performance installation has since been presented to inspire compassion for homeless New Yorkers and has appeared in a Lincoln Center lobby to raise awareness for racism in post-9/11 New York.
Groups embracing in scarred urban spaces surprise New Yorkers rushing by. The negative memories of personal and community conflict are healed by one simple, repeated gesture of compassion. The sites visited were the locations of traumatic events on NYC streets anonymously submitted by the public.
The H U G series is currently being developed into a mixed-discipline gallery installation as well as a photography project seeking participants.
www.myspace.com/hugperformance
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Just In Case
Joshua Frankel | 1 minute (USA, 2008)
Written by Joshua Frankel
Produced by Earthworm
JUST IN CASE is a short animated film about the dangers of laziness. The consequences of a sedentary philosophy are depicted in vivid colors. Even if we can't prove that global destruction is around the corner, we might as well do our best to prevent it, just in case.
http://www.joshuafrankel.net
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Kids Talk
Theresa Khalil |18 min (Egypt, 2007)
How kids in the Arabic world think.
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