A life ripe for a doc!
Eliot Spitzer's Sins Exposed in Documentary Debuting at the TriBeCa Film Festival - DNAinfo.com
Sunday, April 25, 2010
Saturday, April 24, 2010
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
FLORIDA FILM FESTIVAL: 2010
A Million In The Morning
DIRECTED BY JASON GOLDWATCH
USA, 2009
58 MINS
WORLD PREMIERE
Shades of Hands on a Hard Body and They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?! Watch eight competitors attempt to break the Guinness Record for continuous movie watching and win ten thousand dollars and a lifetime membership to Netflix. All they need to do is stay awake for six days—in a glass house—in the middle of Times Square. Watch as the need for sleep becomes too powerful for some to resist. Who will have the physical and mental strength to endure 123 hours of movies? Will it be the competitive eater from New York or the Sri Lankan with numerous endurance titles under his belt? A MILLION IN THE MORNING turns edgy and mind numbingly funny as the host for the competition, Gavin McInnes (star of FFF 2009’s brilliantly hilarious Asshole), goes without sleep for the six days also. The cameras follow a delirious McInnes through the streets of New York City, as he steals the spotlight away from the Netflix sponsored competition and puts it on himself.
Friday, April 16, 2010
FLORIDA FILM FESTIVAL: 2010
Lost Sparrow
DIRECTED BY CHRIS BILLING
USA, 2009
78 MIN
EAST COAST PREMIERE
LOST SPARROW grabs you immediately with its opening shot of two small coffins being removed from an upstate New York cemetery and loaded onto an awaiting U-Haul truck. And so begins the journey of Chris Billing to return the remains of his two adopted Crow Indian brothers to their Montana reservation birthplace. The two Crow brothers, Bobby and Tyler, were adopted along with their two sisters by the wealthy and seemingly perfect Billing family in the early ‘70s. On June 26th, 1978, Bobby and Tyler ran away. The next morning they were killed by a freight train. Why did the boys run away? And why were they on the railroad tracks? Billing masterfully mixes his own memories of his childhood with interviews with his parents and siblings. And by asking tough questions, he uncovers dark secrets that lead him to why his adoptive brothers perished on the train tracks.
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
FLORIDA FILM FESTIVAL: 2010
How To Fold A Flag
DIRECTED BY MICHAEL TUCKER AND PETRA EPPERLEIN
USA, 2009
85 MIN
SOUTHEAST PREMIERE
Beginning with the Ernst Junger quote, “We were asked to believe that the war was over. We laughed, for we were the war,” HOW TO FOLD A FLAG tells the story of how four soldiers, who served together in the Army’s 2/3 Artillery unit, return home from Iraq and make the uneasy transition back into civilian life. Each of the soldiers takes a very different approach in adjusting to life after Iraq: Javorn makes jokes about his dilapidated home while confronting the sad reality of a terminally ill mother; Stuart, a heavy metal rocker, works at a convenience store; Michael is a cage fighter who struggles with the circumstances of his dishonorable discharge; and Jon is a Democratic candidate running for the U.S. Congress. HOW TO FOLD A FLAG, the latest work from the directors of Gunner Palace, is an unflinching look at soldiers who are no longer required to fight, and yet the war is still with them.
Monday, April 12, 2010
FLORIDA FILM FESTIVAL 2010
The Young Composers Challenge
DIRECTED BY LISA MILLS
USA, 2010
93 MIN
WORLD PREMIERE
What do you get when you cross Spellbound (FFF2002) with Amadeus? You get THE YOUNG COMPOSERS CHALLENGE! The Young Composers Challenge is open to musicians (ages 13-18) living in the Southeastern United States. Each year hundreds of future Mozarts gather in Orlando, Florida, for a one-day workshop with world-renowned composers. After the workshop, the musicians have the summer to create their own classical composition. The scores are judged by a panel of experts, and the winners will have their pieces performed by a full orchestra. The film follows four boys and one girl through the demanding process of composing an original score. Each must balance the demands of his or her teen life (anxiety disorders, blindness, shyness, college, etc.) with the fast approaching competition deadline. Watch as the judging process begins, and the suspense and anticipation builds. Who will win? The end will surprise and amaze music lovers as well as anyone who loves the thrill of a challenge.
Thursday, April 8, 2010
Another GREAT doc quote:
"The documentarian's job is to point out the superficial and reveal deeper truths." - Michael Rabiger
Sunday, April 4, 2010
MOXIE FIRECRACKER FILMS
DOC HEROES: MOXIE FIRECRACKER FILMSAward-winning filmmakers Liz Garbus and Rory Kennedy co-founded Moxie Firecracker Films in 1998. Since then, they have pursued their unique filmmaking vision, producing documentaries that illuminate larger social issues by telling the stories of everyday people. Together, they produce and direct films for broadcast and cable networks, including HBO, A&E, MTV, TLC, Lifetime Television, The Oxygen Network, Court TV, Showtime, Discovery Channel, Channel 4 UK, and The Sundance Channel, as well as for educational foundations and grant–makers.
(-from Moxie Firecracker Web page)
Films:
SHOUTING FIRE: Stories from the Edge of Free Speech
Ghosts of Abu Ghraib
The Farm
American Hollow
www.moxiefirecracker.com/index.php
Saturday, April 3, 2010
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