DOCUMENTARIES:
ARISE
OCT 13, 3-5:30 PM
VENUE 2: DAVIDSON/VALENTINI
DIRECTOR-LORI JOYCE, CANDICE ORLANDO
PRODUCER-LORI JOYCE
RT: 78 MIN
CAST: Daryl Hannah (narration)
SYNOPSIS: Arise captures the portraits and stories of extraordinary women around the world who are coming together to heal the injustices against the earth.
BEAUTY BENEATH THE DIRT
OCT 13, 12-2PM
VENUE 2: DAVIDSON/VALENTINI
DIRECTOR/ PRODUCER-KATHERINE IMP
PRODUCER-JASON FURRER
RT: 69 MIN
CAST: Brandon Imp, Emily Ginger, Katherine Imp, Matt Gill
SYNOPSIS: This takes a profound look at how three young people are affected by one of the most challenging outdoor adventures in existence today.
CARBON FOR WATER
OCT 13, 10-12 NOON
VENUE 2: DAVIDSON/VALENTINI
DIRECTOR-EVAN ABRAMSON
PRODUCER-CARMEN ELSA LOPEZ ABRAMSON
CAST: N/A
RT: 20 MIN
SYNOPSIS: This film introduces audiences to the inspiring people who face hardships and an innovative solution for improving the health of millions of Kenyans.
CENSORIOUS!
OCT 14, 10-12 NOON
VENUE 2: DAVIDSON/VALENTINI
DIRECTOR/PRODUCER-CAROL JACOBSEN
RT: 34 MIN
CAST: Holly Hughes, Carolee Schneeman, Martha Wilson, Renee Cox, Barbara DeGenevieve
SYNOPSIS: Examine the Culture Wars of the 1970’s with provocative artists who fought censors in major battles over their politically charged works.
DIAMONDS ARE A GIRL’S BEST FRIEND
OCT 13, 10-12 NOON
VENUE 2: DAVIDSON/VALENTINI
DIRECTOR-SARAH KNIGHT
PRODUCER-SARAH KNIGHT, BARBARA GHAMMASHI
RT: 25 MIN
CAST: Nicole Sherry
SYNOPSIS: A portrait of Nicole Sherry, head groundskeeper for the Baltimore Orioles at Camden Yards – one of only two women in that position in Major League Baseball.
DREI BRUDER A LA CARTE (THREE BROTHERS IN THEIR CUISINE)
OCT 13, 5:30-7PM
VENUE 2: DAVIDSON/VALENTINI
DIRECTOR/PRODUCER-SILVIA HASEBLBARTH
RT: 74 MIN
CAST: Andy Wicki, Markus Wicki, Thomas Wicki
SYNOPSIS: In a country inn, with a 400-year tradition, guests enjoy a remarkable cuisine who’s chef works with his two brothers, both born with Down syndrome.
FACE 2 FACE
OCT 14, 4-6 PM
VENUE 2: DAVIDSON/VALENTINI
DIRECTOR/PRODUCER-KATHERINE BROOKS
PRODUCER-KATHERINE BROOKS, CYNTHI STEFENONI
RT: 107 MIN
CAST: Katherine Brooks, Sophie B. Hawkins, Traci Dinwiddie, Mary Lynne Licata
SYNOPSIS: Katherine set out on a journey that would change her life and the lives of those around her visiting 50 friends face to face.
GLAMOROUS LIE, THE
OCT 14, 12-2PM
VENUE 2: DAVIDSON/VALENTINI
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER-YAVAUGHNIE WILKINS
DIRECTOR/PRODUCER-MARK ALAMARES
RT: 94 MIN
CAST: N/A
SYNOPSIS: This delves into a news story surrounding a billboard campaign exposing a relationship between Charles E. Phillips, Jr. and YaVaughnie R. Wilkins.
HOW I BECAME AN ELEPHANT
OCT 12, 2-4 PM
VENUE 2: DAVIDSON/VALENTINI
DIRECTOR-SYNTHIAN SHARP, TIM GORSKI
PRODUCER-DEBBIE PAGELL , TIME GORSKI
RT: 82 MIN
CAST: Juliette West, Sangduen (Lek) Chailert
SYNOPSIS: This film follows an innocent fourteen year-old girl from suburban California on her quest to save the world’s largest land mammals taking her halfway across the globe.
IN HIS FOOTSTEPS
OCT 12, 10-12 NOON
VENUE 2: DAVIDSON/VALENTINI
DIRECTOR/PRODUCER-SHELLEY TAYLOR
RT: 55 MIN
CAST: Shelley Taylor
SYNOPSIS: In His Footsteps follows a successful entrepreneur and his mother who loses her only child of 32 years and subsequently her company where they both worked.
IT’S A GIRL THING: AKA, TWEEN QUEENS AND THE COMMODIFICATION OF GIRLHOOD
OCT 13, 2-4PM
VENUE 2: DAVIDSON/VALENTINI
DIRECTOR-SHANNON SILVA
PRODUCERS-SHANNON SILVA, ANDRE SILVA
RT: 59 MIN
CAST: N/A
SYNOPSIS: Light is shed on tween brand marketers, girls, moms, and educators to explore the seemingly benign cultural universe of pastel-colored, hyper-commercialized girl culture.
LAS MUJERES DEL PASAJERO (THE WOMAN AND THE PASSENGER)
OCT 11, 10-12 NOON
VENUE 2: DAVIDSON/VALENTINI
DIRECTOR-VALENTINA MAC-PHERSON
PRODUCER-PATRICIA CORREA
RT: 45 MIN
CAST: N/A
SYNOPSIS: Documentary that reflects on love through the experiences of 4 women, maids of an emblematic Santiago motel, which will let us peek into a radiography of Marin 014 passengers.
LES BRANLEUSES (THE WANKERS)
OCT 11, 12-2PM
VENUE 2: DAVIDSON/VALENTINI
DIRECTOR-FREDERIQUE BARRAJA
PRODUCER-MAGALI POTIER
RT: 60 MIN
CAST: Florence Caillat-Mousse, Rebecca Pinette-Dorin, Paola Bjaringer, Betony Vernon, Catherine Vallois
SYNOPSIS: The documentary film is an exploration of the most intimate feminine practice, the practice of masturbation
LOST COUNTRY
OCT 12, 10-12 NOON
VENUE 2: DAVIDSON/VALENTINI
DIRECTOR/PRODUCER-HEATHER BURKY
RT: 33 MIN
CAST: Eduardo Zayas-Bazan, Julio Portuondo, Maximino Casal
SYNOPSIS: Over fifty years later, three Cuban ex-patriots tell their stories of how they fought Fidel Castro and his revolution only to have the country lost to communism.
LOT LIKE YOU, A
OCT 14, 2-4PM
VENUE 2: DAVIDSON/VALENTINI
DIRECTOR-ELIAICHI KIMARO
PRODUCER-ELIAICHI KIMARO , ERIC FRITH, PETE DROGE
RT: 82 MIN
CAST: N/A
SYNOPSIS: Eliaichi Kimaro traces her father’s footsteps back to Mt. Kilimanjaro discovering both the beauty and the brutality of this world he left behind 40 years earlier.
MAESTRA (TEACHER)
OCT 13, 12-2 PM
VENUE 2: DAVIDSON/VALENTINI
DIRECTOR-CATHERINE MURPHY
ASSOCITE PRODUCER-RUBEN CARRENO
RT: 33 MIN
CAST: Daysi Veitia, Norma Guillard
SYNOPSIS: This film explores the experience of nine women who, as young girls, taught on the Cuban Literacy Campaign of 1961.
MY WAY
OCT 12, 8-10PM
VENUE 2: DAVIDSON/VALENTINI
DIRECTOR-VINNY SISSON , DOMINIQUE MOLLEE
PRODUCER-REBEKAH SNYDER-STARR
RT: 90 MIN
CAST: Ron Jeremy, The Rebekah Starr Band , Annika Alliksoo, Chips Z’nuff
SYNOPSIS: Rebekah frustrated by the career roadblocks has decided to ditch everything and take off for Hollywood to film a music video with her band.
NOTHING LIKE CHOCOLATE
OCT 14, 10-12 NOON
VENUE 2: DAVIDSON/VALENTINI
DIRECTOR/PRODUCER-KUM-KUM BHAVNANI
RT: 67 MIN
CAST: Michael Pollan, Mott Green, Nelice Stewart, Susan Sarandon, Vandana Shiva
SYNOPSIS: This is the compelling and intimate story of anarchist chocolate-maker and independent cocoa farmer, Nelice Stewart living in West Africa.
QUEM SE IMPORTA (WHO CARES?)
OCT 14, 2-4PM
VENUE 1: RENBERG
DIRECTOR-MARA MOURAO
PRODUCER-MARA MOURAO, TATIANA BATTAGLIA
RT: 92 MIN
CAST: Rodrigo Santoro (Voice)
SYNOPSIS: Social entrepreneurs around the world are generating huge social impact and inspiring people to do the same to the hard global issues.
RETURN TO BYZANTIUM: THE ART AND LIFE OF LILIAN BROCA
OCT 13, 10-12 NOON
VENUE 2: DAVIDSON/VALENTINI
DIRECTOR/PRODUCER-ADELINA SUVAGAU
RT: 50 MIN
CAST: Adriana Titieni
SYNOPSIS: After a lifetime dedicated to art, Lilian, returns to the country of her birth, Romania, for the first time in 52 years.
SACRED JOURNEY OF THE HEART
OCT 12, 6-8PM
VENUE 2: DAVIDSON/VALENTINI
DIRECTOR-SKIP THOMAS
PRODUCER-RONNA PRINCE
RT: 86 MIN
CAST: Gregg Braden, Joe Dispenza
SYNOPSIS: This film shows how modern science is proving what the wisdom of the ancient peoples where we are all connected and bringing together the human heart.
THAILAND UNTAPPED: THE GLOBAL REACH OF ENGINEERS WITHOUT BORDERS USA
OCT 11, 12-2 PM
VENUE 2: DAVIDSON/VALENTINI
DIRECTOR-DENA SEIDEL
PRODUCER-CHANTAL EYONG, DENA SEIDEL
RT: 27 MIN
CAST: N/A
SYNOPSIS: Three Rutgers engineering students from, “Engineers Without Borders”, travel to a province in northern Thailand to bring clean, potable water to the rural village, Nong Bua.
TIME STEPS
OCT 12, 4-6PM
VENUE 2: DAVIDSON/VALENTINI
DIRECTOR/PRODUCER-GLYNIS WHITING
RT: 77 MIN
CAST: N/A
SYNOPSIS: Follow a feisty troop of tap dancers who have enough sparkle to ignite fireworks with their star dancer in her Seventies.
TRU$T
OCT 14, 2-4 PM
VENUE 2: DAVIDSON/VALENTINI
DIRECTORS-MEG WEIDNER & BEN MANER
PRODUCER-MEG WEIDNER
RT: 18 MIN
CAST: Meg Weidner, Alex Weidner, Mike Farrell
SYNOPSIS: A bank’s mishandling of a family’s trust leaves them missing 1.8 million dollars and in much distress.
WHERE MY HEART BEATS
OCT 11, 4-5PM
VENUE 2: DAVIDSON/VALENTINI
DIRECTOR/PRODUCDER-KHAZAR FATEMI
RT: 60 MIN
CAST: N/A
SYNOPSIS: In 1989, Swedish journalist, Khazar Fatemi fled the war torn country of Afghanistan with her life. Twenty years later, the former refugee returned to the place that has always remained in her heart.
WHISKEY AND APPLE PIE
OCT 11,2-4PM
VENUE 2: DAVIDSON/VALENTINI
DIRECTOR-JAMIE SPOONER
PRODUCER-JAMIE SPOONER AND CAROLYN MAYES
RT: 66 MIN
CAST: Jamie Spooner (Voice)
SYNOPSIS: Two 40-something individuals take a trip across America to interview men and women over the age of 75 years to capture their wisdom.
WOMEN OF BHAKTI
OCT 12, 10-12 NOON
VENUE 2: DAVIDSON/VALENTINI
DIRECTOR-HILARY TAPPER
PRODUCER-JAHNAVA HAUSNER
RT: 30 MIN
CAST: Jahnava Hausner (Narration) Radhanatha Swami, Shiva Rea, Sarah Ivanhoe, Sharon Gannon
SYNOPSIS: Shot in America an India, world renowned yoginis, sadhus scholars musicians and traditional village women in India share the beauty, wisdom and wealth of this ancient yogic tradition that awakens devotion and love in the heart.
YA’ GOTTA GO HIGHER
OCT 13, 2-4 PM
VENUE 1: RENBERG
DIRECTOR-DANITA JONES
PRODUCER-DANITA JONES, YUL SPENCER
RT: 65 MIN
CAST: Yul Spencer, Larry B. Scott
SYNOPSIS: The versatile actor/comedian, Yul Spencer, transformed trial into triumph revealing his 15-year odyssey to stay recovered, in show business and married.