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Documentaries to Screen 2018 - La Femme Film Festival

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by | Sep 13, 2018 | Past Screening Programs

BARNEY’S WALL: PORTRAIT OF A GAME CHANGER

BARNEY’S WALLOCT. 13th, 4:10 – 6:00 pm, VENUE 2

DIRECTORS: SANDY GOTHAM MEEHAN, WILLIAMS COLE

PRODUCER: SANDY GOTHAM MEEHAN

WRITER: SANDY GOTHAM MEEHAN

RT: 78 MIN

SYNOPSIS: Barney Rosset was a romantic and privileged outlaw, who would change the face of American culture, bringing down the barriers to true freedom of speech through his successful legal battles against government censorship.

CLIFF TOP SESSIONS

CLIFF TOP SESSIONSOCT. 13th, 12:00 – 2:00 pm, VENUE 2

DIRECTOR: MARTHA TILSTON

PRODUCERS: MARTHA TILSTON, GILLIAN BURKE

WRITERS: MARTHA TILSTON, BECCY STRONG

RT: 60

SYNOPSIS: On a wild winters night in a clifftop cottage in Cornwall, nine musicians and a camera crew gather for a rock n’ roll sleepover.

DIRT RICH

DIRT RICHOCT. 12th, 6:05 – 8:10 pm, VENUE 2

DIRECTOR: MARCELINA CRAVAT

PRODUCER: ERIC KATSULERES

WRITER: MARCELINA CRAVAT

RT: 90

CAST: Gregory Norman Cruz, Tom Rhodes

SYNOPSIS: Through a beautiful exploration of geo-therapy strategies that can reverse the effects of runaway global warming, Dirt Rich inspires the viewer to discover the return of carbon to the soil.

GOING FOR THE IMPOSSIBLE – THE CONDUCTOR MIRGA GRAŽINYTĖ-TYLA

OCT. 14th, 12:00 – 2:00 pm, VENUE 2

DIRECTOR: DANIELA SCHMIDT-LANGELS

PRODUCERS: GRETE LIFFERS, JAN BREMME, CLAUDIA KRÜGER, MANTAS VILIMAS

WRITER: DANIELA SCHMIDT-LANGELS

RT: 87

SYNOPSIS: Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla ranks among today’s shooting stars of the classical music scene.

HOLLYWOOD NO SEX PLEASE!

OCT. 11th, 10:00 – 12:00 pm, VENUE 2

DIRECTORS: CLARA KUPERBERG, JULIA KUPERBERG

PRODUCERS: MARTINE MELLOUL, CLARA KUPERBERG, JULIA KUPERBERG

WRITERS: CLARA KUPERBERG, JULIA KUPERBERG

RT: 56

SYNOPSIS: Deep rooted religious beliefs seemingly going back to the Pilgrim Fathers’ puritanism dominate a society which is entertained by violence no end on a daily basis. If it is true that American movies reflect American society the United States have yet another severe problem: a lack of open sexuality and eroticism.

LEFT ON PEARL

LEFT ON PEARLOCT. 13th, 8:10 – 10:30 pm, VENUE 2

DIRECTOR: SUSAN RIVO

PRODUCER: SUSAN RIVO

RT: 55

SYNOPSIS: This fast-paced documentary focuses on a highly significant but little-known event in the history of the women’s liberation movement: the 1971 takeover and occupation of a Harvard University-owned building by hundreds of Boston’s area women.

MADHATTAN

MADHATTANOCT. 12th, 2:10 – 4:10 pm, VENUE 2

DIRECTOR: CAROLYN CONSTANTINE, ACS

PRODUCER: CAROLYN CONSTANTINE, ACS

WRITER: CAROLYN CONSTANTINE, ACS

RT: 55

SYNOPSIS: Australian outback milliner, Flic Brown, is about to reach one of global fashion’s highest peaks: a solo show at New York Fashion week.

MET WHILE INCARCERATED

MET WHILE INCARCERATEDOCT. 14th, 2:00 – 4:00 pm, VENUE 2

DIRECTOR: CATHERINE LEGGE

PRODUCERS: CATHERINE LEGGE, DIANA WARME

WRITER: CATHERINE LEGGE

RT: 79

SYNOPSIS: A feature documentary that confronts our beliefs about crime & punishment, good & evil, forgiveness & redemption by accessing the deeply personal love stories of 3 prison wives seeking grace for the violent offenders they love.

OUT OF MY HEAD

OUT OF MY HEADOCT. 13th, 8:10 – 10:30 pm, VENUE 2

DIRECTOR: SUSANNA STYRON

PRODUCER: JACKI OCHS

WRITER: SUSANNA STYRON

RT: 77

SYNOPSIS: When a filmmaker investigates the devastating migraines which have her daughter in their grip, she discovers migraine is not just the terrible headache she always thought it to be, but a mysterious, deeply stigmatized neurological disease afflicting nearly a billion people worldwide.

PANORAMA: JAMMING TO THE TOP

PANORAMA: JAMMING TO THE TOPOCT. 13th, 2:00 – 4:00 pm, VENUE 2

DIRECTOR: CHRISTINE SHAW

PRODUCER: CHRISTINE SHAW

RT: 60

SYNOPSIS: A feature length documentary about a passionate community of pan players fighting to keep steel pan alive in Brooklyn, NY.

PINK TIFFANY

PINK TIFFANYOCT. 11th, 2:05 – 4:00 pm, VENUE 2

DIRECTOR: SOPHIE DIA PEGRUM

PRODUCER: MIRANDA MORTON YAP

RT: 45

SYNOPSIS: A young Transgender woman, Meghna Lama, has built a successful business and works as an advocate and activist for the LGBTI community in Nepal.

REINVENTING ROSALEE

REINVENTING ROSALEEOCT. 11th, 6:20 – 8:25 pm, VENUE 2

DIRECTOR: LILLIAN GLASS

PRODUCER: LILLIAN GLASS

WRITER: ROSALEE GLASS

RT: 90

CAST: Rosalee Glass

SYNOPSIS: Rosalee Glass, a Holocaust survivor taken prisoner to a Russian gulag in Siberia during WW2, shares her story of survival and transforms her destiny by living her life to the fullest.

SHE IS THE OCEAN

SHE IS THE OCEANOCT. 13th, 6:05 – 8:00 pm, VENUE 2

DIRECTOR: INESSA BLOKHINA

PRODUCERS: INESSA BLOKHINA, MATT GEORGE

WRITER: INESSA BLOKHINA

RT: 102

CAST: Andrea Moller, Coco Ho, Keala Kennelly, Ocean Ramsey, Sylvia Earle

SYNOPSIS: An in-depth exploration into the lives of nine astonishing women from all four corners of the globe.

SPRAYING UNDER THE STARS

SPRAYING UNDER THE STARSOCT. 13th, 4:10 – 6:00 pm, VENUE 2

DIRECTOR: CLAIRE CAI

PRODUCER: CAIRE CAI

RT: 20

SYNOPSIS: Teachr and MegZany are two graffiti activists who are based in LA. When they sensed the injustice around them, they choose to use graffiti to express their anger, hoping to awake the society.

STILL SLAVES: THE WEST AFRICAN SLAVE TRADE THEN AND NOW

STILL SLAVESOCT. 12th, 10:00 – 12:00 pm, VENUE 2

DIRECTOR: ANN MARGRET NIELSEN

PRODUCERS: ANN MARGRET NIELSEN, SHANNON ROSE

WRITER: ANN MARGRET NIELSEN

RT: 52

CAST: Anna Newell

SYNOPSIS: Still Slaves is a feature documentary that explores the brutal history and the modern-day crisis of slavery in West Africa.

STROOP: JOURNEY INTO THE RHINO HORN WAR

STROOPOCT. 13th, 2:00 – 4:00 pm, VENUE 2

DIRECTOR: SUSAN SCOTT

PRODUCER: SUSAN SCOTT, BONNE DE BOD

RT: 60

CAST: Bonne de Bod

SYNOPSIS: Two first-time filmmakers explore the war for rhino horn.

WADI RUM

WADI RUMOCT. 11th,12:00 – 2:00 pm, VENUE 2

DIRECTOR: HENNA TAYLOR

PRODUCER: HENNA TAYLOR

WRITER: HENNA TAYLOR

RT: 33

CAST: Madaleine Sorkin, Mohammad Hussein, Eliav Nissan, Elad Omar

SYNOPSIS: WADI RUM documents the unlikely story of two Israeli climbers, an affable Bedouin Muslim, and a professional American climber as they work together to complete a climbing route up Wadi Rums’ largest rock formation.