FREQUENCY Film Festival “Narrative & Documentary Feature Films From Around the World” May 23-25, 27, 30-31 / June 1, 4-8, 2013
OPENING NIGHT FILMS
CENTERPIECE FILM
The Resurrection of a Bastard Directed by: Guido van Driel / Netherlands / Dutch, English Subtitles / 2013 Crime, Drama / 90 minutes
Annelie Directed by: Antej Farac / Switzerland, Germany / German, English Subtitles / 2012 / Drama, Black Comedy 111 minutes
OPENING NIGHT FILM / USA PREMIERE May 23, 2013 - 7:30pm Second screening: June 1, 2013 – 9:45pm
Vegetarian Cannibal (Ljudožder Vegeterijanac) Directed by: Branko Schmidt / Croatia / Croatian, English Subtitles / 2012 / Crime, Drama / 85 minutes OPENING NIGHT FILM / SAN DIEGO PREMIERE May 23, 2013 - 9:45pm Second screening – June 7, 2013 – 7:30pm
CENTERPIECE FILM / USA PREMIERE May 31, 2013 - 9:15pm
CLOSING NIGHT FILM Underexposed: A Women's Skateboarding Documentary Directed by: Amelia Brodka / USA / English / 2013 Documentary, Sport / 90 minutes May 25, 2013 - 1:05pm – WEST COAST PREMIERE June 8, 2013 - 9:00pm - CLOSING NIGHT FILM
Cover film photos from left to right: Mondomanila, or: How I Fixed My Hair After a Rather Long Journey, The Resurrection of a Bastard, Annelie, Desert Rider, Chasing Beauty, Louder Than Love: The Grande Ballroom Story
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Annelie Directed by: Antej Farac / Switzerland, Germany / German, English Subtitles / 2012 / Drama, Black Comedy 111 minutes / USA Premiere
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NARRATIVE FEATURE FILMS Allez, Eddy! Directed by: Gert Embrechts / Belgium / English Subtitles, Dutch / 2012 / Family Drama, Coming of Age, Comedy / 100 minutes / San Diego Premiere
Seen as hopeless cases, an eclectic group of misfits live in a run-down boarding house by the name of Annelie, which will soon be closed down. The members of the unlikely Annelie family; drunks, junkies, small-time crooks, strange characters, and poachers must pull together one last time for one last party. A true story about a real place, where in 2012 the unthinkable happens…the reality comes to an end. The characters were mostly played by non-actors, apart from the main role, which was played by the latest rising star in the German speaking countries, Berlinale winner Georg Friedrich. Official Selection: Busan International Film Festival 2012 Watch Trailer, Website, Facebook
Allez, Eddy! is a heart-warming coming of age comedy about 11-year-old cycling talent Freddy, the son of a village butcher. When the village’s first supermarket opens its doors in 1975, Freddy’s isolated life is turned upside down. To celebrate its opening, the supermarket organizes a bicycle race, the winner of which will get to meet bicycle champion Eddy Merckx. Freddy’s father, a fervent opponent of the supermarket, wants nothing to do with the race. Freddy enters secretly. Participation in the race opens up a new world, not only for Freddy, but also for all those around him. Official Selection: 2013 Palm Springs International FF Watch Trailer (no subtitles, original music score), Watch Trailer (English subtitles, not original music score), Website, Facebook Screenings at The Ocean Beach Playhouse: May 27, 2013 – 1:15pm. Buy: TICKETS June 5, 2013 – 6:20pm. Buy: TICKETS Film Source: Evi Verswyvel, evi@cridecoeur.be
Screenings at The Ocean Beach Playhouse: May 31, 2013 – 9:15pm. TICKET-CENTERPIECE FILM Film Source: Magda Kaspar, office@elpatrol.com ______________________________________________ Be Good Directed by: Todd Looby / USA / English / 2012 / Drama, Comedy / 71 minutes / San Diego Premiere
When Mary (Amy Seimetz) returns to work after her maternity leave, Paul (Thomas J. Madden) is in charge of their "spirited" baby, Pearl, as he struggles to write a screenplay. Mary misses Pearl terribly, but her benefits are the only security the family has. As Paul's disinterest in his work grows, money becomes tighter and his attachment to Pearl intensifies while Mary is left out in the cold. It all comes to a head one day when Paul's good nature gets the best of him and he quickly becomes the jerk he thought he'd never be. Official Selection: San Francisco IndieFest 2013 Watch Trailer, Website, Facebook Screenings at The Ocean Beach Playhouse: May 30, 2013 – 9:15pm. Buy: TICKETS June 8, 2013 – 5:05pm. Buy: TICKETS Film Source: Todd Looby, Obrigado Productions, LLC, todd@obrigadoproductions.com, ______________________________________________
for more years than she can remember, and knows a mouthful about what it takes to become a woman. Will they both find true love? Official Selection: Cinequest Film Festival 2012, Dances With Films 2012, New York International Latino FF 2012 Watch Trailer, Website Screenings at The Ocean Beach Playhouse: May 25, 2013 – 7:20pm. Buy: TICKETS June 5, 2013 – 8:45pm. Buy: TICKETS Film Source: Joey Mendez, Joedez1@yahoo.com ______________________________________________ Here Without Me (Inja Bedoone Man) Directed by: Bahram Tavakoli / Iran / English Subtitles, Persian / 2011 / Family Drama / 100 minutes San Diego Premiere
Delusions of Grandeur Directed by: Iris Almaraz, Gustavo Ramos / USA / English / 2012 / Drama, Romance, Coming of Age, LGBT 95 minutes / San Diego Premiere
The story is about the world of a small family with familiar dreams and not so remarkable problems. The mother is trying to lead everything to save her family, but small events disarrange all her plans. Based on Tennessee Williams’ The Glass Menagerie. Fatemeh Motamed- rya won the best actress award in the 5th Montreal World Film Festival.
In the mid-’90s a medicated grungy girl named Lucy stopped taking her medication (Prozac), crossed over a rainbow, and became a woman in a crazy wonderful place called San Francisco looking for love. Lucy will do anything to move out of her father’s suburban home; search for the mother that abandoned her a decade earlier, lose her virginity, do drugs, find love, attain spiritual enlightenment, learn to breath with a girdle on and become a woman in the process. Luckily for Lucy she has a new roommate named Illusion, a Transgender who has walked the streets of San Francisco’s red light district
Official Selection: 36th Cleveland International Film Festival 2012, 11th Tiburon Film Festival Watch Trailer (trailer is not subtitled), Facebook Screenings at The Ocean Beach Playhouse: June 1, 2013 – 5:15pm. Buy: TICKETS Film Source: Fahimeh Poorghasem, assistant@visualmediains.com
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La Cicatrice (The Scar) Directed by: Jimmy Larouche / Canada / French / 2012 / Drama / 80 minutes / San Diego Premiere
body and soul is waged. Surreal, dreamy, hallucinogenic, and waaaay far out! Official Selection: Fantasia International Film Festival Watch Trailer, Website, Facebook Screenings at The Ocean Beach Playhouse: DOUBLE FEATURE WITH: Thanatomorphose June 6, 2013 – 7:20pm / 9:15pm. Buy: 2 for 1-TICKETS
How to build a future on a lifetime of failure? The deepest scars are not always the most visible ones. The one Richard carries within, has been open since he was a child, when on a particular evening his life changed forever. Thirty years later, he has returned to that same place with the intent to take his revenge. Between realism and fantasy, the film creates intense psychological suspense, through one man’s confrontation with his past. Sometimes the games children play, are not always innocent.
Film Source: Darcy, lowlifefilm@gmail.com ______________________________________________ Me Too (Ya tozhe khochu) Directed by: Aleksey Balabanov / Russia / Russian, English Subtitles / 2012 / Drama / 83 minutes USA Premiere
Official Selection: Cinequest Film Festival 2013, Festival du nouveau cinéma, Montreal 2012 Watch Trailer, Website, Facebook Screenings at The Ocean Beach Playhouse: May 27, 2013 – 1:15pm. Buy: TICKETS June 8, 2013 – 6:55pm. Buy: TICKETS Film Source: Patricia Diaz, mainmedaic@gmail.com ______________________________________________ Lowlife Directed by: Seth Smith / Canada / English / 2012 / Drama, Fantasy, Mystery / 99 minutes California Premiere
Five passengers – the Bandit, his friend Matvei, Matvei’s old father, the Musician, and a young woman – race along an empty road in a big black jeep, searching for the Bell Tower of Happiness which, according to legend, lies somewhere between St. Petersburg, Russia and the town of Uglich, near a deserted nuclear power station. The Bell Tower transports people, but not everyone. Each of the five passengers believes that he or she will be chosen. Directed by the legendary Aleksey Balabanov, creator of the 1997 classic Russian film Brat (Brother). Official Selection: Venice Film Festival 2012 Watch Trailer Screenings at The Ocean Beach Playhouse: June 1, 2013 – 7:40pm. Buy: TICKETS
A lonely musician's descent into the shadowy world of a living drug leads to a mysterious island where a battle of
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Mondomanila, or: How I Fixed My Hair After a Rather Long Journey Directed by: Khavn / Philippines, Germany / Filipino, Tagalog, English Subtitles / 2012 / Drama, Black Comedy 75 minutes
unexpected and devastating event occurs at a nighttime pool party. You'll want to avert your eyes and ears away at every possible turn, but that sadistic, dark and devious part, way down, deep inside of you, will not allow you to look away.
A hymn to life in the slum. A merry carnival of outcasts. A shameless plug for sex, drugs and punk rock. "Mondomanila" is not for the fainthearted or those who believe that the misery in the Third World could only be met with well-meaning social dramas. The Filipino musician and filmmaker Khavn de la Cruz (38 years, 33 feature films, more than 100 short films) plunges headlong into the fray of the slums of his native city of Manila and finds little trouble, but more so to survive.
Official Selection: 2012 NY International Film Festival Watch Trailer, Website, Facebook Screenings at The Ocean Beach Playhouse: May 24, 2013 – 9:55pm. Buy: TICKETS June 4, 2013 – 8:45pm. Buy: TICKETS Film Source: Thomas L. Phillips, tstreetfilms@gmail.com
Official Selection: 2012 International FF Rotterdam Watch Trailer, Facebook Screenings at The Ocean Beach Playhouse: May 25, 2013 – 9:45pm. Buy: TICKETS June 4, 2013 – 6:45pm. Buy: TICKETS
The Resurrection of a Bastard Directed by: Guido van Driel / Netherlands / Dutch, English Subtitles / 2013 / Crime, Drama / 90 minutes USA Premiere
Film Source: Tanja, office@rapideyemovies.de ______________________________________________ Quite A Conundrum Directed by: Thomas L. Phillips / English / 2012 / Thriller, Black Comedy, Horror / 82 minutes West Coast Premiere Sex, Drums, Tequila, Social Networking, A Pirate, Morning fter Pills, Jesus nd Gun…It’s One Hot Mess! It's Hilarious, Dark, Sexy, Twisted, and Sadistic. It's Quite A Conundrum. It should have been just a normal day of sex, fun, alcohol, hormones and debauchery for Tabitha and Mimi, two twenty something’s who care about nothing but themselves and what chaos they can cause. But that so-called normalcy gets tossed out the window when an
A violent Amsterdam criminal, who has moments of uncontrollable rage, narrowly survives an unfortunate incident and returns with sharpened senses back to life. A young Angolan asylum seeker cannot talk about the horrors of his past and sees his chances of a legal
residence in the Netherlands evaporate. There is also a bodyguard with depression, a waiter with a sick cat, and a couple with a great sorrow. All will help each other. After all, we are still in the world to help each other, right? Based on “Om mekaar in Dokkum,” the graphic novel by director Guido van Driel.
Official Selection: Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival 2012, A Night Of Horror International FF 2013 Watch Trailer, Website, Facebook Screenings at The Ocean Beach Playhouse: DOUBLE FEATURE WITH: Lowlife June 6, 2013 – 7:20pm / 9:15pm. Buy: 2 for 1-TICKETS Film Source: Éric Falardeau, Producer/Director, thanatofilms@gmail.com ______________________________________________ Vegetarian Cannibal (Ljudožder Vegeterijanac) Directed by: Branko Schmidt / Croatia / English Subtitles, Croatian / 2012 / Drama, Crime / 85 minutes San Diego Premiere
Official Selection: International FF Rotterdam 2013 Watch Trailer (trailer is not subtitled) Website, Facebook Screenings at The Ocean Beach Playhouse: May 23, 2013 – 7:30pm. TICKETS-OPENING NIGHT June 1, 2013 – 9:45pm. Buy: TICKETS Film Source: Lisette van Dalen, lisette@topkapifilms.nl, Topkapi Films, www.topkapifilms.nl, ______________________________________________ Thanatomorphose Directed by: Éric Falardeau / Canada / English / 2012 / Horror / 100 minutes / North America Premiere
Danko is a strict vegetarian but he leaves a trail of human victims in his wake. He solicits bribes from patients, bullies his colleagues, and covers up his medical mistakes. Despite this, he is a serious contender for clinic chief. He also has friends in all the right places: when he makes a fatal error in the operating room, a crooked coroner and corrupt police officer conceal the evidence. Eventually Danko tries to cut his ties with the criminal underworld but his “friends” ask him for one more favor: will he go too far, even for an amoral antihero like Danko? th
Official Selection: 34 Moscow Film Festival Watch Trailer, Website, Facebook Thanatomorphose is a French word meaning the visible signs of an organism’s decomposition caused by death. One day, a girl wakes up and finds her flesh rotting… strange and claustrophobic tale of sexuality, horror, and body fluids…THANATAMORPHOSE.
Screenings at The Ocean Beach Playhouse: May 23, 2013 – 9:45pm. TICKETS-OPENING NIGHT June 7, 2013 – 7:30pm. Buy: TICKETS Film Source: Natasa, natasa.telefilm@gmail.com
DOCUMENTARY FEATURE FILMS
The Carbon Rush Directed by: Amy Miller / Canada / English / 2012 / Documentary, Environmental / 90 minutes California Premiere
The Believers Directed by: Clayton Brown, Monica Long Ross / USA / English / 2012 / Documentary, Biography / 83 minutes San Diego Premiere
The Believers begins in March of 1989, when two respected chemists from the University of Utah stand in front of a wall of reporters; flashbulbs pop as the pair - one shy, the other cracking jokes - announce a startling claim: they have solved the world’s energy problems using seawater, batteries, and the mysterious glass contraption they hold proudly in their hands. “Cold Fusion” is born. Within days, Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann are on the cover of Time Magazine. But in three short months, their careers are in tatters, their reputations ruined, and Cold Fusion is synonymous with "bad science." Twenty-two years later, despite mainstream sciences continued disdain, professional and amateur scientists, a high school whiz kid, and a Hollywood-based internet DJ are confident that Cold Fusion can still save the world, and that we are closer than ever to the Holy Grail of civilization. They're the Believers.
Incinerators burning garbage in India. Hundreds of hydroelectric dams in Panama. Biogas extracted from palm oil in Honduras. Eucalyptus forests harvested for charcoal in Brazil. What do these projects have in common? They are all receiving carbon credits for off setting pollution created somewhere else. But what impact are these offsets having? Are they actually reducing emissions? And how are they affecting the people who live in these countries? The Carbon Rush takes us around the world to meet the men and women on the front lines of carbon trading. Narrated by Daryl Hannah, The Carbon Rush travels across four continents and shows the connection between these tragedies and the United Nations’ Clean Development Mechanism. This groundbreaking documentary feature reveals the true cost of carbon trading and who stands to gain and who stands to lose. Official Selection: Vancouver International Film Festival Watch Trailer, Website, Facebook
Official Selection: Cinequest International Film Festival 2013
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Screenings at The Ocean Beach Playhouse: May 25, 2013 – 11:00am. Buy: TICKETS Film Source: Laura Kick, Laura@137films.org, Clayton Brown, clayton@137films.org
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Chasing Beauty Directed by: Brent Huff / USA / English / 2012 / Documentary, Human Interest / 90 minutes California Premiere Chasing Beauty provides a rare glimpse into the dark side of the intriguing and complex world of modeling. The documentary features interviews with supermodels,
photographers, agents, designers, plastic surgeons, make-up artists and psychologists and asks the question......what is beauty and is it worth the cost? Chasing Beauty is a collection of intertwined stories about models pursuits of success in the fashion and beauty business and the collateral damage that sometimes occurs. The modeling world can be both treacherous and rewarding. For many who are willing to pursue this glamorous business there is a significant price to pay.
the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Qatar. Thousands of boys, some as young as two years old have been trafficked or sold by their parents from Bangladesh, Pakistan, Mauritania and Sudan to work as camel jockeys. Often sexually and physically abused; these young children lived in horrendous conditions; worked very long hours even when clearly under-age; were deliberately starved to prevent weight gain and are now mentally and physically stunted from all these sufferings. Desert Riders presents the voices of these repatriated children accompanied by heartrending images and stunning photography. The film graphically illustrates the situation these children face from the trauma of abuse, and the emotional scars that persist. Official Selection: IDFA, Vancouver International FF Watch Trailer, Facebook Screenings at The Ocean Beach Playhouse: May 24, 2013 – 10:45am. CLICK FOR FREE TICKETS June 1, 2013 – 11:00am. Buy: TICKETS
Official Selection: Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival Watch Trailer, Website, Facebook Screenings at The Ocean Beach Playhouse: May 24, 2013 – 5:20pm. Buy: TICKETS June 1, 2013 – 1:00pm. Buy: TICKETS
Film Source: Emily Carrigan: emily@javafilms.fr ______________________________________________ Elemental Directed by: Gayatri Roshan, Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee / USA / English / 2012 / Documentary, Environmental / 92 minutes / San Diego Premiere
Film Source: Brent Huff, remisykes@aol.com ______________________________________________ Desert Riders Directed by: Vic Sarin / Canada, United Arab Emirates, UK, Pakistan, Bangladesh / English / 2011 / Documentary, Human Rights, Culture / 80 min. / California Premiere
Camel racing, often called the Sport of the Kings is one of the most popular sports in the Middle East, particularly in
Elemental follows Rajendra Singh, an Indian government official gone rogue. Singh works to shut down factories, halt construction of dams, and rouse the Indian public to treat their sacred “Mother Ganga” with respect. Across the globe in northern Canada, Eriel Deranger mounts her own “David and Goliath” struggle against the world’s largest industrial development, the Tar Sands, an oil deposit larger than the state of Florida. In Australia, inventor and entrepreneur Jay Harman searches for investors willing to risk millions on his conviction that nature’s own systems hold the key to our world’s ecological problems.
Separated by continents yet sharing an unwavering commitment to protecting nature, the characters in this story are complex, flawed, postmodern heroes for whom stemming the tide of environmental destruction fades in and out of view – part mirage, part miracle.
The List Directed by: Beth Murphy / USA / English / 2012 / Documentary, War, Politics, Human Rights / 84 minutes California Premiere
Official Selection: Mill Valley Film Festival 2012 Watch Trailer, Website, Facebook Screenings at The Ocean Beach Playhouse: May 24, 2013 – 7:35pm. Buy: TICKETS Film Source: Go Project Films, Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee, evaughanlee@globalonenessproject.org, 1.415.226.0355 ______________________________________________ The Khmer Rouge and the Man of Non-Violence Directed by: Bernard Mangiante / France, Cambodia / French, English Subtitles / 2011 / Documentary, Law, Crime, Human Rights / 88 minutes / USA Premiere
A brand-new courthouse in the still devastated land of Cambodia. Before the judges, one of the 20th centuries worst criminals: Douch, a Khmer Rouge leader and head of the S 21 torture centre. 16,000 prisoners, 7 survivors. At his side, two court-appointed attorneys faced with the challenge of defending him. "Every sick person has a right to a doctor," says Kar Savuth, the Cambodian who survived Pol Pot's jails. "I always try to seek out the man in the torturer," says François Roux, a disciple of Gandhi and defender of the supporters of civil disobedience and non-violence for the last thirty years. Official Selection: London International Documentary Watch Trailer Screenings at The Ocean Beach Playhouse: May 24, 2013 – 12:45pm. CLICK FOR FREE TICKETS Film Source: Céline Païni, celine.paini@lesfilmsdici.fr
THE LIST tells the story of Kirk Johnson, a modern-day Oskar Schindler who is fighting to save Iraqis whose lives are in danger because they worked for the U.S. government and military to help rebuild Iraq. After leading reconstruction teams in Baghdad and Fallujah for the United States, Kirk discovers that many of his Iraqi friends and colleagues are being targeted as “collaborators with the enemy.” Perceived as traitors, their fates are sealed, and they are systematically hunted—killed, kidnapped, and forced into lives on the run. Frustrated by a stagnating government bureaucracy in the U.S. that fails to protect U.S.-affiliated Iraqis, Kirk begins compiling a list of their names and works with a team of lawyers to get them out of harm’s way. Bound by a sense of moral responsibility and honor, Kirk sets out to redeem a nation that has largely betrayed its Iraqi allies. THE LIST was filmed over four years in Iraq, Syria Jordan, Egypt, and across the United States. Official Selection: Tribeca Film Festival 2012, Hot Docs Film Festival 2012 Watch Trailer, Website, Facebook Screenings at The Ocean Beach Playhouse: May 27, 2013 – 5:45pm. Buy: TICKETS Film Source: Principle Pictures, Nathan Tisdale, NTisdale@principlepictures.com
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Louder Than Love: The Grande Ballroom Story Directed by: Tony D'Annunzio, Karl Rausch / English 2011 / Documentary, History, Music / 75 minutes San Diego Premiere
Mongolian Bling Directed by: Benj Binks / Australia, Mongolia / Mongolian, English, English Subtitles / 2012 / Documentary, Culture, Music / 90 minutes / West Coast Premiere
While the West Coast was grooving to “Summer of Love” in 1967, Detroit was pumping out a hard-driving, gritty, raw sound. At the epicenter of this seminal music scene stood the Grande Ballroom, Detroit’s original rock and roll palace. That sound was LOUDER THAN LOVE.
Forget about nomads and monks! It’s hip hop that’s making Mongolia move in the 21st century. Mongolian Bling jumps into the thriving music scene in the capital, Ulaanbaatar, and follows stars as they rap nationwide. But beyond this bling lie a failed democracy, and a dying ancient culture that the elders mourn the loss of. While many artists still aspire to the West, a handful are using hip hop to try and salvage their country’s flailing democracy, and bringing Mongolia’s rich musical history into their modern beats and rhymes.
In the late 1960s, the Grande helped to break some of merica’s most iconic rock bands including MC5, Iggy and the Stooges and Ted Nugent and the Amboy Dukes, who influenced local musicians and inspired bands all over the U.S. and Great Britain. Acts such as Led Zeppelin, Cream, B.B. King, Janis Joplin, Pink Floyd and the Who played the Grande main stage on a regular basis.
In this ancient culture with a rich and turbulent history, the modern beats and rhymes of the street are breaking through and forging a new identity. Told through the passion of young rappers and the wisdom of traditional musicians, Mongolian Bling takes us from the bustling city streets to the snow-capped “hoods” - following the nation’s rap stars as they “keep it real” with just a bit of bling.
Using a Sony 24P HDC M, D’ nnunzio amassed more than 60 hours of interviews with artists and other insiders from The Grande’s heyday including musical icons B.B. King, Alice Cooper, Roger Daltrey, Scott Morgan, Mark Farner, Tom Morello, Wayne Kramer, Lemmy, Ted Nugent, Henry Rollins, Don Was, Slash, Dick Wagner, and James Williamson. “We have incredible 8mm film of The Who performing “Tommy” for the first time, including an audio recording by Pete Townsend explaining “Tommy” to The Grande audience. Both have never been seen or heard in any documentary,” D’ nnunzio notes.
Official Selection: Brisbane International Film Festival 2012 (Australia)
Official Selection: Sebastopol Film Festival 2013
The Reach of Resonance Directed by: Steve Elkins / USA, Slovakia, Palestine, France, Czech Republic, Canada, Australia / English / 2010 / Documentary, Music, Experimental / 118 minutes San Diego Premiere
Watch Trailer, Website Screenings at The Ocean Beach Playhouse: May 25, 2013 – 5:20pm. Buy: TICKETS June 7, 2013 – 9:45pm. Buy: TICKETS Film Source: Tony D'Annunzio, tdannunzio@comcast.net
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Filmed in ten countries, "The Reach Of Resonance" is a meditation on the meaning of music, which juxtaposes the creative paths of four musicians who use music to
cultivate a deeper understanding of the world around them. Among them are Miya Masaoka using music to interact with insects and plants; Jon Rose, utilizing a violin bow to turn fences into musical instruments in conflict zones ranging from the Australian outback to Palestine; John Luther Adams translating the geophysical phenomena of Alaska into music; and Bob Ostertag, who explores global socio-political issues through processes as diverse as transcribing a riot into a string quartet, and creating live cinema with garbage.
and wildlife. This compelling and epic story weaves together themes of conservation, ecology, development, finance, politics and sustainability.
Official Selection: 2012 Mill Valley Film Festival Watch Trailer, Facebook Screenings at The Ocean Beach Playhouse: May 25, 2013 – 3:15pm. Buy: TICKETS By contrasting the creative paths of these artists, and an unexpected connection between them by the world renowned Kronos Quartet, the film explores music not as a form of entertainment, career, or even self-expression, but as a tool to develop more deeply meaningful relationships with people and the complexities of the world they live in. Official Selection: OXDOX International Film Festival UK
Film Source: Nancy Kelly, nancy@kelly-yamamoto.com _____________________________________________ Tea or Electricity Directed by: Jérôme le Maire / Belgium, France, Morocco / Arabic (Moroccan), Berber, English Subtitles / 2012 / Documentary, Human Interest, Culture / 93 minutes San Diego Premiere
Watch Trailer, Website, Facebook Screenings at The Ocean Beach Playhouse: May 30, 2013 – 6:45pm. Buy: TICKETS Film Source: Steve Elkins, stevelkins@gmail.com _____________________________________________ Rebels with a Cause Directed by: Nancy Kelly / USA / English / 2012 / Documentary, Environmental / 74 minutes San Diego Premiere The little- known story of how the open space, farmlands, and unspoiled coastlines of Marin and Sonoma Counties were saved from development. Rebels With A Cause portrays the ordinary citizens who did extraordinary things to save what are now the Point Reyes National Seashore and the Golden Gate National Recreation Area from development, creating an 80 milelong park that supports open space, recreation, agriculture
Tea or electricity tells the epic story of the implementation of electricity in a tiny isolated village enclosed in the middle of the Moroccan High Atlas. Over more than three years and season after season, the director patiently reveals the outlines of the net that will inevitably end up closing on the people of Ifri. Before our eyes is draft the image of the merciless modernity that the small village will
now be connected to. Official Selection: Silverdocs Documentary Festival 2012
Underexposed: A Women's Skateboarding Documentary Directed by: Amelia Brodka / USA / English / 2013 / Documentary, Sport / 90 minutes / West Coast Premiere
Watch Trailer Screenings at The Ocean Beach Playhouse: May 27, 2013 – 11:00am. CLICK FOR FREE TICKETS Film Source: Iota Productions, info@iotaproduction.com ______________________________________________ Trafacka: Temple of Freedom Directed by: Sasa Dlouhý, Roman Vávra / Czech Republic / Czech, English Subtitles / 2011 / Documentary, Art / 75 minutes / West Coast Premiere
t a time when women’s skateboarding seems bigger than ever, there seem to be fewer opportunities for girls to pursue the sport. How can this be changed? At the age of 12, Amelia Brodka went to the X-Games and discovered that girls can skateboard.
What can be done with an abandoned factory space that is destined to be demolished in a year? The story of the last period in the life cycle of a building in Prague´s District of Vysočany, and the creation of a significant centre on the cultural map of the Czech Republic, was captured by Saša Dlouhý. In his documentary, he recorded the gradual development of an alternative centre for art, including the personal metamorphoses of the core actors who, as academic degree holders who recently graduated from artistic schools, took care of an industrial space and in a short period of time succeeded in transforming it into a living organism that became an arena for various cultural currents. Official Selection: One World Human Rights FF 2012 Watch Trailer, Website, Facebook Screenings at The Ocean Beach Playhouse: June 1, 2013 – 3:15pm. Buy: TICKETS Film Source: Magdalena Rajcanova, majda@freesam.org, +420/732673196
melia’s desire to find answers led her on a quest to examine the skateboarding industry’s approach to how it markets, promotes and supports women in its sport, and to find out if there is a place for women in professional skateboarding. Through interviews with other women who skateboard and prominent figures in the skateboarding industry, exciting skateboarding footage and her own experience, Amelia paints a picture of a subculture within a subculture on the verge of breaking out. Official Selection: Thin Line Film Festival 2013 Watch Trailer, Website, Facebook Screenings at The Ocean Beach Playhouse: May 25, 2013 – 1:05pm. Buy: TICKETS June 8, 2013 – 9:00pm. Buy: TICKET CLOSING NIGHT Film Source: Brian Lynch, brian@sorethumbfilms.com ______________________________________________ United In Anger: A History Of ACT UP Directed by: Jim Hubbard / USA / English / 2012 / Documentary, LGBT / 90 minutes / San Diego Premiere UNITED IN ANGER: A HISTORY OF ACT UP is a unique feature-length documentary that combines startling archival footage that puts the audience on the ground with the activists and the remarkably insightful interviews from
the ACT UP Oral History Project to explore ACT UP (the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power) from a grassroots perspective – how a small group of men and women of all races and classes, came together to change the world and save each other’s lives.
The film takes the viewer through the planning and execution of a half dozen exhilarating major actions including Seize Control of the FDA, Stop the Church, and Day of Desperation, with a timeline of many of the other zaps and actions that forced the U.S. government and mainstream media to deal with the AIDS crisis. UNITED IN NGER reveals the group’s complex culture – meetings, affinity groups, and approaches to civil disobedience mingle with profound grief, sexiness, and the incredible energy of ACT UP.
trees as we face deteriorating civil rights and the huge ecological problems that bring us closer to catastrophic climate change.
Judi Bari emerges as an authentic environmental heroine, whose warnings from the past about the dangers of deforestation and global warming hardly seem extreme. Rather they loom large as a dangerous harbinger of the failure to heed their messages. Official Selection: LA Indie Film Festival 2012 Watch Trailer, Website, Facebook
Official Selection: Hot Docs 2012
Screenings at The Ocean Beach Playhouse: May 24, 2013 – 3:00pm. Buy: TICKETS June 8, 2013 – 12:40pm. Buy: TICKETS
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Film Source: Darryl Cherney, Producer, dc@asis.com
Screenings at The Ocean Beach Playhouse: May 27, 2013 – 8:00pm. Buy: TICKETS June 8, 2013 – 10:30am. Buy: TICKETS Film Source: Daniello Cacace, dan@actuporalhistory.org, Jim Hubbard, jim@actuporalhistory.org ______________________________________________ Who Bombed Judi Bari? Directed by: Mary Liz Thomson / USA / English / 2012 / Documentary, Biography, Crime, Environmental 95 minutes / San Diego Premiere Stricken by cancer and close to death, Judi Bari, a leader of the movement to save California’s old growth redwoods, gives her testimony about the attempt on her life and her lawsuit against the FBI for trying to frame her and Darryl Cherney. It’s a story from the mid 1980’s right up to today. It’s about beating the system and saving the
TICKET PRICES / INFORMATION: ADVANCE TICKETS $6.17 - General Admission: BUY: TICKETS Advance tickets cannot be purchased at the Door/Box Office. TICKETS AT THE DOOR/BOX OFFICE $10.00 - General Admission ALL ACCESS FILM PASS $26.87 – BUY: All Access Film Pass $30.00 - All Access Film Pass: At the Door/Box Office Watch as many films as you like. Limited quantities available. You must be seventeen years old or older to purchase this pass. The All Access Film Pass can only be used by one person. Photo ID required. The pass does not guarantee a seat. ALL theatre seating will be on a first come, first served basis. No refunds. Expires June 8, 2013.
FILM SELECTION GUIDE All films will be shown in their original language with English subtitles unless otherwise noted. English films will be in English with no subtitles unless otherwise noted. Most festival films are unrated and some films may be unsuitable for ages sixteen and under. Parental and viewer discretion is advised for all films. Art Trafacka - Temple of Freedom Comedy Allez, Eddy! (Family Comedy) Annelie (Black Comedy) Be Good (Drama Comedy) Quite a Conundrum (Black Comedy) Crime The Khmer Rouge and the Man of Non-violence The Resurrection of a Bastard Vegetarian Cannibal Who Bombed Judi Bari? Drama Allez, Eddy! Annelie Be Good Delusions of Grandeur Here Without Me La Cicatrice (The Scar) Me Too (Ja Tozhe Hochu) Environmental The Carbon Rush Elemental Rebels with a Cause Who Bombed Judi Bari? Family Allez, Eddy! Here Without Me Horror Thanatomorphose Lowlife Quite a Conundrum Human Interest Chasing Beauty Tea or Electricity
Human Rights Desert Riders The Khmer Rouge and the Man of Non-violence The List Trafacka - Temple of Freedom United In Anger: A History Of ACT UP LGBT Delusions of Grandeur United In Anger: A History Of ACT UP Middle East Desert Riders Here Without Me The List Music Louder Than Love: The Grande Ballroom Story Mongolian Bling The Reach of Resonance Pure Insanity Mondomanila, or: How I Fixed My Hair After a Rather Long Journey Romance Delusions of Grandeur Here Without Me Science or Science Fiction? The Believers Me Too (Ja Tozhe Hochu) Sport Underexposed: A Women's Skateboarding Documentary Thriller Quite a Conundrum
FREQUENCY FILM FESTIVAL May 23-25, 27, 30-31 / June 1, 4-8, 2013 Tickets, Schedule & Information:
frequencyfilmfestival.com The Ocean Beach Playhouse 4944 Newport Ave. SD, CA 92107