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We have programmed an incredible array of films dealing with complex subjects: politics, activism, the environment, family dynamics and of course, love. On that subject, we celebrate the most famous family in America in our opening night film, ETHEL, directed by Rory Kennedy, and we are honored to have members of the Kennedy family here for the screening. Throughout the weekend we invite you to take a small risk and see a film you wouldn’t normally see, while enjoying the films that speak to your heart. Every year during the selection process, a theme begins to emerge. This is the year of the artist. We are so proud to present the documentaries about Ai Wei Wei, Marina Abromovic, and Gregory Crewdson, and we are thrilled to be one of the only festivals to have both Marina and Gregory attending their screenings in person. Wow! As I have always said, the BIFF does not happen without a great deal of dedication and support from many people, and I would like to thank everyone who has joined the REEL Friends Film Society, which has allowed us to be a year-round organization hosting monthly events for our film society with prerelease screenings, receptions with filmmakers and special events. In addition, a great many people have spent the entire year helping to bring this celebration to our community. I must thank my incredibly dedicated board of directors, my staff Lauren and Sarah, my kids, the endless, selfless efforts of the advisory board and programming producers, the generous support and loyalty of our sponsors, the energy and spirit of our volunteers, my PIC and the Triplex and Beacon staff, the Mahaiwe staff as well as the towns of Great Barrington and Pittsfield and the support of the merchants, restaurant-owners and selectman from both towns. This year I would also like to thank the Academy of Motion Pictures for Arts and Sciences for their support through the funding of the Filmmaker Summit and the terrifically, diverse industry professionals and filmmakers who were able to attend our inaugural year. BIFF recognizes the hard work and dedication it takes to be a filmmaker, and we celebrate the stories they share with us, So… let’s celebrate another great year at the BIFF! See you at the movies!
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As the BIFF kicks-off the cultural season in this dynamic and engaged community, we are proud to once again bring the world to your doorstep. Every year people come up to me and say “I love reading a New York Times review about some amazing film coming to town, and I can say… I already saw it at the BIFF.” For everyone who works so hard on this festival those are gratifying words. Over the last year, our board and programming committee have pored through hundreds of films from around the world and selected what we think are the best in narrative, documentary and short filmmaking this year.
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It is with great enthusiasm that I welcome everyone to the 2012 Berkshire International Film Festival celebrating our 7th year.
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Kelley Vickery, Founder and Director | Al Togut, Chairman | Ronald Frohne, Vice-Chairman | Fern Portnoy, Treasurer Susan Palmer, Secretary | Karen Allen | Shani Ankori | David Fenkel | Peter Herbst | Daniel Mathieu | Mara Medoff Elissa Myers | Kevin Sprague | Richard Stanley | Michael Zivyak | Gary Hill, Board Emeritus Advisory Committee
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Joan Ackermann | William Caligari | David Carriere | Joe Corcoran | Alejandro de Onis | Michael Haley Carol Haythorne | Bobby Houston | Lillian Lennox, Festival Programmer | Marco Londoner | Zhana Londoner George Mansour | Mary Mott | William Nappo | Seth Nash | Maria Nation | Barbara Newman | Lisa Newmann Ken Regan | Jack Rubin | Annie Selke | Jacqueline Togut | John Valente | Suky Werman | Tom Werman Cynthia Wick | Lauren Ferin, Executive Assistant | Sarah Patrick Morgese, Filmmaker Summit Coordinator
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Official Sponsor for filmmaker accommodations The Red Lion Inn Stonover Farm Berkshire Days Inn Blantyre
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Official Sponsor of finding the next best filmmaker Berkshire Bank
Official Food Sponsors Max Ultimate Food Red Lion Inn Café Haven Allium Kate Baldwin
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Official Sponsor of the Opening Night Event in G.B. Al and Jacqueline Togut
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Official Sponsor of the Tribute Night Event in G.B. Ronald Frohne and GWFF U.S.A.
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Jennet Cook, Volunteer Coordinator Paul Johansen, Program Distribution Coordinator
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Lauren Ferin, Executive Assistant Sarah Patrick Morgese, Filmmaker Summit Coordinator
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Lillian Lennox, Festival Programmer
YOUTH PROGRAMMING COMMITTEE Simon Kneeland Kaitlin Vickery Andrew Vickery Jack Vickery
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John Valente, General Manager and “Grand Fromage” Adam Chait, Manager and Digital Jedi Dave Sondrini, BIFF Projectionist Rene Chapman, Assistant Manager Sharae Gadson & Kaya Severson, Floor Managers **A big thanks to all the Beacon Staff, too many to mention!
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brunch with jury and nominees and announcement of Juried Prize at allium, 42-44 Railroad Street CLOSING NIGHT FILM 7:00 PM The BIFF presents the closing night film, GREGORY CREWDSON: BRIEF ENCOUNTERS at The Mahaiwe. Q&A with Gregory Crewdson, Ben Shapiro and Joe Thompson, director of MassMoCA. CLOSING NIGHT PARTY Join acclaimed photographer and Berkshire resident Gregory Crewdson and the BIFF in celebrating his film and the closing of the festival weekend. Party immediately following film at the Castle Street Cafe located at 10 Castle Street ALL FILMS AND DISCUSSIONS throughout the weekend in both Great Barrington and Pittsfield
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Marina Abramovic: The Artist is Present US | 2012 | 104 min Print courtesy of HBO
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Seductive, fearless, and outrageous, Marina Abramović has been redefining what art is for nearly forty years. Using her own body as a vehicle, pushing herself beyond her physical and mental limits––and at times risking her life in the process––she creates performances that challenge, shock, and move us. Through her and with her, boundaries are crossed, consciousness expanded, and art as we know it is reborn. She is, quite simply, one of the most compelling artists of our time.
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Elevating traditional documentary techniques with an artistic gloss befitting its subject, MARINA ABRAMOVIĆ THE ARTIST IS PRESENT is by no means a typical “art film.” With total access granted by Abramović and The Museum of Modern Art, MARINA ABRAMOVIĆ THE ARTIST IS PRESENT is instead a mesmerizing cinematic journey inside the world of radical performance, and an intimate portrait of an astonishingly magnetic, endlessly intriguing woman who draws no distinction between life and art.
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Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters US | 2012 | 79 min
Director/Producer: Ben Shapiro
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Acclaimed photographer Gregory Crewdson doesn’t just “take” his images, he creates them, through elaborate days and weeks of invention, design, and set-up. The epic production of these movie-like images is both intensely personal and highly public: they begin in Crewdson’s deepest desires and memories, but come to life on streets and soundstages in the hills towns of Western Massachusetts. In his decade-long project “Beneath the Roses” he uses light, color and character to conjure arresting images, managing a crew of 60 amidst seemingly countless logistical and creative obstacles.
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Germany | 2011 | 100 min FEATURE | Pg 38
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Triplex #2 Poll Diaries
Germany | Austria | Estonia 2011 | 123 min FEATURE | Pg 36
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Happy New Year Grandma! (Urte Berri Mon Amona!) Spain | 2011 | 85 min FEATURE | Pg 33
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ESCAPE FIRE: THE FIGHT TO RESCUE AMERICAN HEALTHCARE US | 2012 | 99 min Documentary | Pg 43
US | 2011 | 101 min Documentary | Pg 46
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Germany | 2011 | 93 min FEATURE | Pg 32
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A Fierce Green Fire
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Come As You Are Belgium | 2011 | 115 min FEATURE | Pg 31
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Nobody Walks US | 2012 | 85 min FEATURE | Pg 35
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Terraferma
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Surviving Progress
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Peace, Love and Misunderstanding US | 2011 | 96 min FEATURE | Pg 36
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2 Days in New York
France | 2011 | 91 min FEATURE | Pg 30
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The Invisible War US | 2011 | 93 min Documentary | Pg 45
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Triplex #1 Nobody Else But You
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9:00am
Triplex #2 Chasing Ice
US | 2012 | 74 min Documentary | Pg 43
9:15am
Triplex #3 Gun Hill Road US | 2011 | 90 min FEATURE | Pg 33
9:15am
11 am
1 pm
Short | Pg 49
10:00Am How to Survive a Plague US | 2012 | 120 min Documentary | Pg 45
11:15am
Nuit #1
Hello I Must Be Going
SHORTS #2
Canada | 2011 | 91 min FEATURE | Pg 36
Booksigning to follow 70 min | Short | Pg 54
11:15am
11:15Am
Love Free or Die
California State of Mind
US | 2011 | 82 min Documentary | Pg 47
2 pm 3 pm
Free Special series: New Narratives
1:15pm
Free Special series: New Narratives Short | Pg 49
11:30Am
US | 2011 | 91 min Documentary | Pg 43
1:15pm
US | 2012 | 95 min FEATURE | Pg 34
2:00pm
4 pm 5 pm
We’re Not Broke Your Sister’s Sister US | 2011 | 90 min FEATURE | Pg 38
US | 2012 | 81 min Documentary | Pg 49
3:45pm
Joe Papp in Five Acts
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noon
Triplex #4
GREAT BARRINGTON
9 am
US | 2012 | 82 min Documentary | Pg 46
3:45pm
4:15pm
6 pm In My Lifetime
7 pm
Cafe de Flore
Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry
8 pm
US | China | 2011 | 91 min Documentary | Pg 42
Canada | France | 2011 120 min | FEATURE | Pg 30
6:00Pm
6:15pm
7:00pm The Holding
9 pm BRUNA SURFISTINHA
Brazil | 2011 | 109 min FEATURE | Pg 30
9:00pm
Swerve
Australia | 2011 | 85 min FEATURE | Pg 37
England | 2011 | 80 min FEATURE | Pg 34
8:15pm
8:45pm
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US | 2011 | 90 min Documentary | Pg 45
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Guilty For the Justice No One Was Innocent
My Best Enemy
Follow Me: The Yoni Netanyahu Story
France | Belgium | 2011 102 min | FEATURE | Pg 33
9:00aM
Austria | 2011 | 109 min FEATURE | Pg 35
9:15aM
9:15aM
11 am
US | 2011 | 91 min FEATURE | Pg 37
Germany | 2011 | 103 min FEATURE | Pg 31
SHORTS #3
100 min | Short | Pg 56
11:15aM
11:45aM
Tales of the Night (Les contes de la nuit)
France | 2011 | 84 min | Pg 60
12:00pm First Position
US | 2011 | 90 min Documentary | Pg 44
1:15pM
Bhopali
The Dynamiter US | 2011 | 73 min FEATURE | Pg 32
3 pm
US | India | 2011 | 89 min Documentary | Pg 42
1:30pM
2:15pM Under African Skies
US | 2011 | 108 min Documentary | Pg 48
5 pm
10:00Am
Cracks in the Shell
The Wise Kids
1 pm
4 pm
Genevieve Goes Boating
US | 2011 | 17 min | Pg 60
11:15aM
2 pm
Kid Flix
60 min | Short | Pg 60
3:30pM
SHORTS #1
The Day I Saw YOUR Heart
France | 2011 | 98 min FEATURE | Pg 31
95 min | Short | Pg 52
3:30pM
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noon
US | 2011 | 87 min Documentary | Pg 44
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GREAT BARRINGTON
9 am
The House of Mirth
UK | France | Germany US | 2000 | 140 min FEATURE | Pg 38
3:00PM
4:00pM
6 pm Liberal Arts
7 pm
US | 2011 | 95 min FEATURE | Pg 34
6:00pM
Farewell, My Queen
Jane’s Journey
France | 2012 | 99 min FEATURE | Pg 32
6:15pM
Germany | Tanzania 2011 | 107 min Documentary | Pg 46
6:00pm
Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters US | 2012 | 79 min Documentary | Pg 44
8 pm
7:00pm
9 pm
Short | Pg 49
10:00Am and 11:30Am
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US | 2011 | 95 min | Print courtesy of IFC Writer/Director: Josh Radnor Cast: Josh Radnor | Zac Efron | Elizabeth Olsen Richard Jenkins | Allison Janney
In the film, bookish and newly single Jesse Fisher (Radnor) returns to his alma mater for his favorite professor’s retirement dinner. A chance meeting with Zibby (Olsen) – a precocious classical music-loving sophomore – awakens in him long-dormant feelings of possibility and connection.
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10 am
Beacon #5
Beacon #6
Joe Papp in Five Acts
Love Free or Die
US | 2012 | 82 min Documentary | Pg 46
California State of Mind
US | 2011 | 91 min Documentary | Pg 43
9:15aM
9:15aM
9:15aM
US | 2011 | 82 min Documentary | Pg 47
11 am noon
A Fierce Green Fire
US | 2011 | 120 min Documentary | Pg 42
1 pm
11:30aM
We’re Not Broke US | 2012 | 81 min Documentary | Pg 49
11:45aM
Lemon
US | 2011 | 87 min Documentary | Pg 47
11:30aM
2 pm Jane’s Journey
3 pm
SHORTS #3
Germany | Tanzania 2011 | 107 min Documentary | Pg 46
2:15PM
2:00PM
100 min | Short | Pg 56
4 pm 5 pm
1:45PM
BRUNA SURFISTINHA
The Wise Kids US | 2011 | 91 min FEATURE | Pg 37
6 pm
SHORTS #1
95 min | Short | Pg 52
schedule SATURday 6|2|12
Beacon #4
PITTSFIELD
9 am
4:30PM
The Day I Saw YOUR Heart
France | 2011 | 98 min FEATURE | Pg 31
Brazil | 2011 | 109 min FEATURE | Pg 30
3:45PM
4:30PM
7 pm 8 pm 9 pm
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10 am
Under African Skies 9:15aM
Beacon #6
Come As You Are
US | 2012 | 74 min Documentary | Pg 43
Chasing Ice
Belgium | 2011 | 115 min FEATURE | Pg 31
9:15aM
9:15aM
11 am KIDS FLIX
noon How to Survive a Plague
1 pm
US | 2012 | 120 min Documentary | Pg 45
60 min | Short | Pg 60
SHORTS #2
70 min | Short | Pg 54
11:45aM
11:45aM Wunderkinder
2 pm The Invisible War
3 pm 4 pm 5 pm
Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry
US | China | 2011 | 91 min Documentary | Pg 42
US | 2011 | 93 min Documentary | Pg 45
Germany | 2011 | 100 min FEATURE | Pg 38
1:15pM
1:45pM
2:30pM
Peace, Love and Misunderstanding US | 2011 | 96 min FEATURE | Pg 36
6 pm
11:15aM
schedule Sunday 6|3|12
US | 2011 | 108 min Documentary | Pg 48
Beacon #5
PITTSFIELD
9 am
Hello I Must Be Going
Nobody Else But You
US | 2012 | 95 min FEATURE | Pg 34
France | 2011 | 102 min FEATURE | Pg 35
4:00pM
4:00pM
4:30pM
7 pm 8 pm 9 pm
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2 Days in New York France | 2011 | 91 min
Friday, 8:30PM - Triplex #1 Writer/Director: Julie Delpy Cast: Julie Delpy | Chris Rock | Albert Delpy | Alexia Landeau | Alex Nahon
A witty comedy about relationships, art, and clashing cultures, 2 DAYS IN NEW YORK picks up again with Marion (Delpy), now living in New York City with her attentive boyfriend Mingus (Rock), each with a child from a previous relationship. When Marion’s jolly father (played by Delpy’s real-life dad, Albert Delpy), her oversexed sister, and her sister’s outrageous boyfriend unceremoniously descend upon them for an overseas visit, it initiates two unforgettable days of family mayhem. Alexia Landeau IN ATTENDANCE
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BRUNA SURFISTINHA Brazil | 2011 | 109 min
Saturday, 9:00PM - Triplex #1 Saturday, 3:45PM - Beacon #6 WriterS: José de Carvalho | Homero Olivetto | Antônia Pellegrino Director: Marcus Baldini Cast: Deborah Secco | Cássio Gabus Mendes | Drica Moraes
Raquel is 17, she feels ostracized in school, where she is ridiculed by her colleagues, and from home, where she’s always in conflict with her family. One day, this middle class girl makes a surprising decision: she’ll become a prostitute. She runs away from home and starts to live in a brothel, where several other girls live and go on dates. Raquel adopts the name Bruna, and one by one starts to befriend the other girls, such as the explosive Janine and the friendly Gabi. There she also meets Huldson, a client who wants to get to know her better. Soon Bruna leaves the brothel, and starts to work on her own with help from her new friends. The national fame arrives when, with the name Bruna Surfistinha (Bruna Surfer Girl), she starts to write a blog about her sexual and affective adventures as a call girl. The blog becomes a source of great publicity and clients, but overwhelmed with her sudden fame, Bruna starts a downward spiral spending all her moneu on huge parties drug spree. Will she be able to recover before it’s too late? English subtitles
Cafe de Flore Canada | France | 2011 | 120 min
Saturday, 6:15PM - Triplex #2 Writer/Director: Jean Marc Vallée Cast: Vanessa Paradis | Kevin Parent | Hélène Florent
In this passionate melodrama, music, namely the eponymous song, ties together two stories: one set in Paris in 1969, and the other in contemporary Montreal. At the heart of each narrative is love—a mother’s love for a child with Down’s Syndrome, and a once-divorced man’s love for his new wife—and the stories intertwine in unexpected and exhilarating ways.
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Friday, 1:45PM - Triplex #3 Sunday, 9:15AM - Beacon #5 Writer: Pierre De Clercq | Asta Philpot | Mariano Vanhoof Director: Geoffrey Enthoven Cast: Tom Audenaert | Isabelle de Hertogh | Gilles De Schrijver
Three guys in their twenties love wine and women but they are still virgins. Under the guise of a wine tour they embark on a journey to spain hoping to have their first sexual experience. Nothing will stop them. Not even their handicaps: one is blind, one is confined to a wheelchair and one is completely paralyzed.
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Come As You Are Belgium | 2011 | 115 min
English subtitles
Print courtesy of Films Boutique
Cracks inGermany the| 2011 Shell | 103 min
Print courtesy of Bavaria Film
Sunday, 11:15PM - Triplex #3 Writer: Heide Schwochow | Christian Schwochow Director: Christian Schwochow Cast: Stine Fischer Christensen | Ulrich Noethen | Dagmar Manzel
You’re invisible!” Can there be a worse judgment for an actress? Young Fine definitely lacks self-confidence but when renowned director Kaspar Friedmann appears at the acting school and casts Fine for her first main role, nobody understands his motivation, least of all Fine herself. The character to play is “Camille”, quite different to herself but Fine wants to come as close as possible. As Camille, she awakens to her femininity, but loses her own strengths in dealing with her everyday life because Camille is not only self-conscious and sexually hyperactive but at the same time fragile and self-destructive. Fine puts herself into the hands of a director, who sends her on an emotional roller coaster ride. A dangerous game is set off, bound to turn Fine into her own worst enemy ... English subtitles
The Day I Saw YOUR Heart France | 2011 | 98 min
Print courtesy of Film Movement
Sunday, 4:00PM - Triplex #2 Saturday, 4:30PM - Beacon #5 Writer: Jennifer Devoldère | Romain Lévy | Cécile Sellam Director: Jennifer Bevoldere Cast: Mélanie Laurent | Michel Blanc | Florence Loiret Caille
Families are complicated… Especially when Eli, the father, who’s about to be 60, is expecting a baby with his new wife. Upon hearing this news, his two grown daughters, Dom, who is trying to adopt, and Justine, who flits from one boyfriend to the next, are shocked. To get closer to Justine, whom he has never gotten along with, Eli has the bright idea of making friends with all of her exes...without her knowledge. But when Justine falls in love again and Eli is about to ruin everything, this family is on the verge of falling apart. Will they all be able to make peace before it’s too late? English subtitles
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Der Brand Germany | 2011 | 93 min
Friday, 11:30AM - Triplex #2 Writer: Johanna Stuttmann Director: Brigitte Marie Bertele Cast: Florian David Fitz | Wotan Wilke Möhring | Ursina Lardi
After an evening out, the 35-year-old, self-confident Judith is raped on her way home. She fights with all possible means to prevent her life being changed. Her lawyer advises her to press charges. But the destructive consequences force their way into her life. When the perpetrator’s false statement causes her hopes of legal redress to collapse, Judith looks for another way to get justice and it almost looks like she is out for revenge. But Judith is pursuing an unusual, radical path to prove the criminal’s guilt. English subtitles
The Dynamiter US | 2011 | 73 min
SUNday, 2:15PM - Triplex #2 Writer: Matthew Gordon | Brad Ingelsby Director: Matthew Gordon Cast: Arthur Arrington | Joice Baldwin | Casey Brown
All fourteen-year-old Robbie Hendrick ever wanted was a family. Yet as another Mississippi summer begins, his wayward mother has run off again fearing a breakdown and he’s left to burn the days caring for his half brother, Fess. As the deep days and nights pass without her return and with older brother Lucas dangerously in their lives again, Robbie must face the fact that his dream of a family may only be a dream and he might just lose the only family he’s ever had: Fess.
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Farewell, My Queen France | 2012 | 99 min
SUNday, 6:15PM - Triplex #2 Closing NIght Presentation Writer: Benoît Jacquot | Gilles Taurand | Chantal Thomas Director: Benoît Jacquot Cast: Diane Kruger | Léa Seydoux | Virginie Ledoyen
Sumptuous and intimate, Benoît Jacquot’s portrayal of court life at Versailles during four crucial days of the French Revolution is a fascinating picture of social breakdown— mounting chaos calmly observed. Diane Kruger is electric as the youth-obsessed Marie Antoinette, and Léa Seydoux enigmatic as the queen’s reader and confidante. English subtitles
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SUNday, 9:00AM - Triplex #1 Writer: Hubert Delarue | Serge Frydman | Vincent Garenq | Alain Marécaux Director: Vincent Garenq Cast: Philippe Torreton | Wladimir Yordanoff | Noémie Lvovsky
This film tells the story of Alain Marécaux, “the bailiff,” and his terrible ordeal in the Outreau affair. He and his wife were arrested in 2001 with 12 other people for horrible acts of paedophilia that they never committed. It’s the story of an innocent man’s descent into hell faced with an incredibly unjust and inhuman judicial system. It’s the story of his life, and the life of his loved ones, heartlessly crushed by one of the most important judicial errors of our time.
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Guilty For the Justice No One Was Innocent France | Belgium | 2011 | 102 min
English subtitles
Gun Hill Road US | 2011 | 90 min
SUNday, 9:15AM - Triplex #3 Writer/Director: Rashaad Ernesto Green Cast: Esai Morales | Judy Reyes | Isiah Whitlock Jr.
After three years in prison, Enrique (Esai Morales) returns home to the Bronx to find the world he knew has changed. His wife, Angela (Judy Reyes), struggles to hide an emotional affair, and his teenage son, Michael (Harmony Santana), explores a sexual transformation well beyond Enrique’s grasp and understanding. Unable to accept his child, Enrique clings to his masculine ideals while Angela attempts to hold the family together by protecting Michael. Still under the watchful eye of his parole officer (Isiah Whitlock, Jr.), Enrique must become the father he needs to be or, once again, risk losing his family and freedom. The film is an intricate portrait of a family divided told with sensitivity, gentle humor, and a deep understanding of the environment that shapes its people. Presented in partnership with the Boston LGBT Film Festival bostonlgbtfilmfest.org
Happy New Year Grandma! (Urte Berri MonSpain Amona!) | 2011 | 85 min
FRIday, 9:00AM - Triplex #3 Writer: Telmo Esnal | Asier Altuna Director: Telmo Esnal Cast: Nagore Aramburu | Joxean Bengoetxea | Montserrat Carulla
Urteberri mon, Amona! is a black comedy that follows the conflicts Mari’s family goes through while trying to look after this peculiar grandmother. Grandma Mari is draining the life out of her daughter Maritxu so her husband Joxemari decides to put her in a nursing home. Joxemari must take her in without his wife getting wind of the situation and to do so enlists the help of his son-in-law Kintxo. This may seem a simple task bit the grandmother’s character causes a duel of unexpected consequences. The director portrays the conflict in a humorous tone but also sheds light on dilemmas such as fear of solitude, loss of moral values, selfishness and family disintegration. English subtitles
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Hello I Must BeUS |Going 2012 | 95 min
Film in Juried Competition Print courtesy of Oscilliscope
TheEngland Holding | 2011 | 80 min
Saturday, 2:00PM - Triplex #1 SUNday, 4:00PM - Beacon #5 Writer: Sarah Koskoff Director: Todd Louiso Cast: Melanie Lynskey | Blythe Danner Christopher Abbott | John Rubinstein
Selected as the opening night film for Sundance 2012, HELLO I MUST BE GOING features acclaimed actress Melanie Lynskey (WIN WIN, UP IN THE AIR, TWO AND A HALF MEN) in her breakout role as Amy, a recent divorcée who seeks refuge in the suburban Connecticut home of her parents (Blythe Danner and John Rubinstein). Demoralized and uncertain of her future, Amy begins an affair with a 19-year-old actor (GIRLS’ Christopher Abbott) that jumpstarts her passion for life and helps her discover an independence and sense of purpose that she has missed for years. Coupling Danner’s subtly riveting performance as a frustrated empty nester with Lynskey’s endearing and nuanced depiction of both the comic and tragic avenues of an existential crossroads, HELLO I MUST BE GOING is a modern, unconventional love story infused with sex, humor, and emotional honesty – everything Amy will need to get on in life.
SUNday, 8:15PM - Triplex #3 Writer: James Dormer Director: Susan Jacobson Cast: Vincent Regan | David Bradley | Kierston Wareing
Cassie Naylor (Kierston Wareing: Bonded By Blood, Fish Tank) killed her husband to protect her daughters from him. Eight months later, when the charming drifter, Aden (Vincent Regan: Bonded By Blood, 300) turns up, her terrible secret comes back to haunt her in the most horrifying and unexpected way. The Holding is a burning thriller about the destructive nature of secrets and the shocking lengths people will go to fight for what they value most in life.
Liberal Arts US | 2011 | 95 min
Friday, 7:00PM - Beacon SUNday, 6:00PM - Triplex #1 Opening night film in Pittsfield Writer/Director: Josh Radnor Cast: Josh Radnor | Zac Efron | Elizabeth Olsen Richard Jenkins | Allison Janney
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In the film, bookish and newly single Jesse Fisher (Radnor) returns to his alma mater for his favorite professor’s retirement dinner. A chance meeting with Zibby (Olsen) – a precocious classical music-loving sophomore – awakens in him long-dormant feelings of possibility and connection.
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Sunday, 9:15PM - Triplex #2 Writer: Paul Hengge (screenplay) | Wolfgang Murnberger Director: Wolfgang Murnberger Cast: Moritz Bleibtreu | Georg Friedrich | Ursula Strauss
MY BEST ENEMY takes its place in the great tradition of the comedies of Ernst Lubitsch and Charles Chaplin, but always remains realistic and deals not with artificial characters, but with genuine people. Murnberger succeeds in relating the story of a long-lasting friendship against the background of the Nazi era – a friendship that never quite totally disappears in spite of everything. When Victor sees that Rudi has also survived the plane crash, he is upset, since he knows that he doesn’t have the heart to kill Rudi. The film also relates a love story that is emotionally gripping without ever being sentimental. Lena feels abandoned by Victor; she would have fled to Switzerland with him, but he rejected this idea. He feels it’s more important that she stay in Austria and watch over the family property in Vienna. When Rudi asks her to marry him, she cannot refuse without risking the loss of the property.
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My Best Enemy Austria | 2011 | 109 min
English subtitles
Nobody ElseFranceBut You | 2011 | 102 min
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Friday, 9:00AM - Triplex #1 Sunday, 4:00PM - Beacon #6 Writer/Director: Gérald Hustache-Mathieu Cast: Jean-Paul Rouve | Sophie Quinton | Guillaume Gouix
Rousseau is a bestselling crime novelist from Paris, troubled by writer’s block. Candice Lecoeur is a local beauty, gracing the famous ”Belle de Jura” cheese packaging, who has gotten it into her head that she might well be the reincarnation of Marilyn Monroe. The two will meet in the coldest village in France, but only after Candice has been found dead. The case was closed before it even opened and the cause of death declared suicide by sleeping pills. Rousseau is the only one who doesn’t buy it. Reality turns out to be stranger than fiction – and a source of inspiration – as Rousseau uncovers the truth about Candice’s past and her untimely death. Boasting strong lead performances and gorgeous wintertime landscapes, this off-beat mystery breathes fresh life into the thriller genre. English subtitles
NobodyUSWalks | 2012 | 85 min
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Writers: Lena Dunham | Ry Russo-Young Director: Ry Russo-Young Cast: John Krasinski | Olivia Thirlby | Rosemarie DeWitt Justin Kirk | India Ennenga | Dylan McDermott
Making the transition from still photography to video, New York artist Martine flies to LA to finish her latest work. Upon the recommendation of a friend, the headstrong young woman takes up residence in a wealthy family’s Silver Lake home to record audio under the guidance of Hollywood sound designer Peter. Although Martine is focused and determined to finish her piece, her arrival creates tension in the family, as Peter’s wife, Julie, becomes aware of her husband’s lingering glances toward their alluring guest and Martine’s presence causes Julie’s teenage daughter Kolt to begin investigating her own influence over the opposite sex. While many films have examined the ways in which the introduction of a stranger changes the dynamics within a family, Ry Russo-Young and cowriter Lena Dunham focus their attention on how this change affects the stranger, the catalyst for the various awakenings in the people around her.
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Nuit #1 Canada | 2011 | 91 min
Film in Juried Competition Print courtesy of Adopt Films
Peace, Love and Misunderstanding US | 2011 | 96 min
Saturday, 11:15AM - Triplex #2 Writer/Director: Anne Émond Cast: Catherine de Léan | Dimitri Storoge | Véronique Rebizov
Clara and Nikolaï meet at a rave. They return to Nikolaï apartment and make love. Afterwards, instead of parting, the two lovers divulge their deepest secrets to one another. Nicolaï is a beautiful loser. At thirty one years old, he leads a simple and frugal life. He applies himself to reading the great classics of literature but never finishes a book he has begun. Unable to submit to any schedule, he finds himself unfit for work. He envisions big projects and has large ideas but, inevitably and despite himself, loses sight of them before they are realized. Clara, like Nikolaï, seems not to be made for this world. She leads a double life. By day, she works as a grade three school teacher; by night, she is a compulsive party-girl. She goes out every night, gets drunk and high and sleeps with men, women or both at once. English subtitles
Friday, 6:30PM - Triplex #1 Sunday, 4:30PM - Beacon #4 Writer: Joseph Muszynski | Christina Mengert Director: Bruce Beresford Cast: Jane Fonda | Catherine Keener | Elizabeth Olsen
An uptight NYC lawyer takes her two teenagers to her hippie mother’s farmhouse upstate for a family vacation. What was meant to be a weekend getaway quickly turns into a summer adventure of romance, music, family secrets and self-discovery.
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Poll Diaries Germany | Austria | Estonia | 2011 | 123 min
Friday, 9:00AM - Triplex #2 Writer: Chris Kraus | Oda Schaefer Director: Chris Kraus Cast: Paula Beer | Edgar Selge | Tambet Tuisk
The Poll Diaries hauntingly evokes the end-of-days atmosphere of a doomed society at the crossroads of the German and Russian Empires in the early years of the 20th century. Director Chris Kraus presents the masterly portrait of a segment of civilization and humanity sliding into chaos and anarchy. Shot on the Baltic coast in and around a spectacularly precarious mansion, the film features a gallery of superb actors, led by the radiant young breakout star Paula Beer.
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Saturday, 8:45PM - Triplex #2 Writer/Director: Craig Lahiff Cast: Jason Clarke | Emma Booth | David Lyons
Driving cross-country to a job interview, Colin plays it safe when he has car problems and takes a short cut to a one horse town. But as luck would have it, he comes across a fatal road accident. One of the drivers, Jina, is shaken, the other dead and beside him, a briefcase full of money. When Colin resists temptation and does the right thing, turning it into the local cop, his good deed causes a series of fateful events to unfold.
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Swerve Australia | 2011 | 85 min
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Terraferma Italy | France | 2012 | 88 min
Friday, 4:30PM - Triplex #2 Writer: Emanuele Crialese | Vittorio Moroni Director: Emmanuele Crialese Cast: Filippo Pucillo | Donatella Finocchiaro | Beppe Fiorello
A story which is suspended between myth and reality told with the gentle yet powerful language of fairytales. It is not a film about immigration, it is a film about ordinary people, about all those searching for a Terraferma. English subtitles
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The Wise Kids US | 2011 | 91 min
Saturday, 4:30PM - Beacon #4 Sunday, 11:15AM - Triplex #1 Writer/Director: Stephen Cone Cast: Molly Kunz | Tyler Ross | Allison Torem Sadieh Rifai | Stephen Cone | Matt Decaro
In a Baptist church community in Charleston, South Carolina, three teenage friends contemplate the next stage of life. There’s Brea, an introspective pastor’s daughter experiencing debilitating doubt; the hyperactive Laura, Brea’s best friend and a devout believer; and Tim, the openhearted son of a single father, confronting his homosexuality for the first time. Weaving comedy and drama, THE WISE KIDS is is a character-driven coming-of-age story with an extraordinarily talented young cast. Presented in partnership with the Boston LGBT Film Festival bostonlgbtfilmfest.org
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Wunderkinder Germany | 2011 | 100 min
Friday, 9:00AM - Triplex #1 Sunday, 1:15PM - Beacon #6 Writer: Stephen Glantz* | Kris Karathomas Markus Rosenmüller | Rolf Schübel Director: Markus Rosenmüller Cast: Gedeon Burkhard | Natalia Avelon | Rolf Kanies
Poltawa (Ukraine), Beginning of the forties: Three Children, the German Hanna and two Jewish children, Larissa and Abrascha, have been best friends and share the love towards music, up until the war finally reaches Poltawa and the friendship of the three children is at risk. Being only between the age of twelve and thirteen the children do not understand jet the madness and brutality of the adults and only see one way out of the disaster: to help each other and to win the hearts and kindness of the adults by using their musical ability and by doing so escaping the mass murder. *LENOX/BERKSHIRE SCREENWRITER WILL BE IN ATTENDANCE
Your Sister’sUSSister | 2011 | 90 min
Film in Juried Competition
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Writer/Director: Lynn Shelton Cast: Emily Blunt | Rosemarie DeWitt | Mark Duplass | Mike Birbiglia
From award-winning filmmaker Lynn Shelton (HUMPDAY), this film is a tale of grief, romance and sibling rivalry that continues to showcase Shelton’s extraordinary ability to portray human stories with remarkable humor, sensitivity and warmth. A year after his brother Tom’s death, Jack is an emotionally unstable slacker. When he makes a scene at a memorial party, Tom’s ex-girlfriend Iris offers up her family cabin on an island in the Pacific Northwest so Jack can seek catharsis in solitude. Once there, however, he runs into Iris’ sister Hannah, a lesbian reeling from the abrupt end of a seven-year relationship. Emotional performances from an all-star cast, Shelton once again honestly explores the complexities of interpersonal relationships while gently poking fun at her characters’ predicaments.
Edith Wharton 150th Anniversary In celebration of the 150th Anniversary of Edith Wharton, the BIFF is proud to present in collaboration with The Mount, the free screening of HOUSE OF MIRTH.
The House of Mirth UK | France | Germany | US | 2000 | 140 min
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Writers: Edith Wharton (novel) | Terence Davies Director: Terence Davies Cast: Gillian Anderson | Dan Aykroyd | Eleanor Bron
As part of The Mount’s ongoing celebration of Edith Wharton’s 150th birthday, we are please to present a free screening of Terence Davies’ adaptation of The House of Mirth. Considered by many Wharton’s most important work, The House of Mirth, published in 1905, tells the story of Lily Bart, a beautiful woman of limited means living in a society that she describes as a “hot-house of traditions and conventions.” Tempted by luxury and practicality, Lily plans to marry a rich heir but her morality interferes, and so begins her downfall. The House of Mirth reveals the consequences of Lily’s choices. Davies both wrote and directed the 2000 film which stars Gillian Anderson, Eric Stoltz, and Laura Linney. Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian called the adaptation outstanding and a “… picture with more sinew and power than almost any other period drama of recent times. It gripped me like a thriller throughout...”
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“The arts at BCD are awesome. My 7th grader has fallen in love with filmmaking - and now she’s writing scripts with the encouragement of her theater teacher. These are the kinds of things BCD inspires.” - BCD Parent
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A Fierce Green Fire US | 2011 | 120 min
Film in Juried Competition
Friday, 1:45PM - Triplex #2 Saturday, 11:30AM - Beacon #4 Based on the book by Philip Shabecoff Director: Mark Kitchell ProducerS: Mark Kitchell | Marc N. Weiss
A FIERCE GREEN FIRE: The Battle For a Living Planet is the first big-picture exploration of the environmental movement—grassroots and global activism spanning fifty years from conservation to climate change. From halting dams in the Grand Canyon to battling 20,000 tons of toxic waste at Love Canal; from Greenpeace saving the whales to Chico Mendes and the rubbertappers saving the Amazon; from climate change to the promise of transforming our civilization, the film tells vivid stories about people fighting — and succeeding—against enormous odds. The film focuses on activism. It’s about movements more than issues. It’s a more engaging approach, full of drama and passion. It’s also a more open-ended approach than cant and rant. We emphasize synthesis, bringing together all the pieces of the environmental picture to explore connections, resonance, larger visions and deeper meanings. Never has a film told the full story of environmentalism. Our hope is it will be a defining film that reaches and teaches a huge and hungry audience. FILMMAKER IN ATTENDANCE
Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry US | China | 2011 | 91 min
Print courtesy of IFC
Saturday, 7:00PM - Triplex #1 Sunday, 2:30PM - Beacon #4 Director: Alison Klayman Producers: Andrew Cohen | Julie Goldman Karl Katz | Alison Klayman | Adam Schlesinger
Named by ArtReview as the most powerful artist in the world, Ai Weiwei is China’s most celebrated contemporary artist, and its most outspoken domestic critic. In April 2011, when Ai disappeared into police custody for three months he quickly became China’s most famous missing person, having first risen to international prominence in 2008 after helping design Beijing’s iconic Bird’s Nest Olympic Stadium-and then publicly denouncing the Games as party propaganda. Renowned artist and dissident Ai Weiwei has waged an uncompromising battle against censorship and authoritarian government using imagination, skill and the social media of the day. This up-close, riveting look at the artist and rebel is a persuasive portrait of today’s China and the union of art and politics in a globalized age. English subtitles
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US | India | 2011 | 89 min
Sunday, 1:30PM - Triplex #3 Director: Max Carlson Producer: Max Carlson | Kirk Palayan
In 2008, a baby girl is born in Bhopal, India, the site of the worst industrial disaster in history: the Union Carbide gas leak. What should be a celebration is a tragedy. She has severe birth defects due to the contaminated water, but the American company that’s responsible still refuses to make amends 24 years after the incident. Award-winning director Van Maximilian Carlson paints a chilling portrait of shattered lives such as hers, and the gross negligence and class disparities that keep them from finding justice, safety and peace of mind.
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Saturday, 1:15PM - Triplex #3 Saturday, 9:15AM - Beacon #5 Writer: Laura Nix | Sascha Rice Director: Sascha Rice ProducerS: Hilary Armstrong | Julia Mintz | Erin O’Malley Sascha Rice | Katherine Ripley | Jethro Rothe-Kushel | Zora A. Wolter
In the turbulent 1960’s, an ordinary man rose to face extraordinary challenges. Pat Brown’s granddaughter and award-winning Director, Sascha Rice, gives an inside look into political power and a family dynasty called by some “the West Coast Kennedys.” This premiere account of former Governor Pat Brown’s life takes on startling new significance now that his son, Jerry Brown is Governor of California – again. An exciting tale of the West comes into focus as the filmmaker wrestles with the inherited optimism of her grandfather’s legacy. The documentary gracefully pivots from a tumultuous decade in American history to the contemporary challenges that California faces today. This dynamic American Dream story follows the journey of a man overcoming seemingly insurmountable obstacles to shape the future of modern California.
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California State of Mind US | 2011 | 91 min
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Chasing Ice US | 2012 | 74 min
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ESCAPE FIRE: THE FIGHT TO RESCUE AMERICAN HEALTHCARE US | 2012 | 99 min
Saturday, 9:15AM - Triplex #2 Sunday, 9:15PM - Beacon #6 Writer: Mark Monroe Director: Jeff Orlowski Producers: Jeff Orlowski | Paula DuPre Pesmen | Jerry Aronson
In the spring of 2005, National Geographic™ photographer James Balog headed to the Arctic on a tricky assignment: capture images of glaciers and help tell the story of the Earth’s changing climate. Despite his scientific upbringing, Balog was a climate change skeptic and a cynic about the nature of academic research. That first trip north opened his eyes to one of the biggest stories in human history and sparked a challenge within him that would put his career and his very well-being at risk. The story spawned a much larger and longer-term project that would reach epic proportions for Balog. Part adventure, part environmental activism, and full of gorgeous photography unlike anything seen before, CHASING ICE is a one-of-a-kind documentary that both celebrates the beauty of our world and raises important issues of what is happening to it.
Friday, 11:30AM - Triplex #1 Director/ProducerS: Matthew Heinman | Susan Froemke
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ESCAPE FIRE: The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare tackles one of the most pressing issues of our time: what can be done to save our broken medical system? The film examines the powerful forces trying to maintain the status quo in a medical industry designed for quick fixes rather than prevention, for profit-driven care rather than patient-driven care. After decades of resistance, a movement to bring innovative high-touch, low-cost methods of prevention and healing into our high-tech, costly system is finally gaining ground. ESCAPE FIRE follows dramatic human stories as well as leaders fighting to transform healthcare at the highest levels of medicine, industry, government, and even the US military. The film is about a way out. It’s about saving the health of a nation.
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First Position US | 2011 | 90 min
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Follow Me: The Yoni Netanyahu Story US | 2011 | 87 min
Sunday, 1:15PM - Triplex #1 Director: Bess Kargman ProducerS: Rose Caiola | Nick Higgins | Bess Kargman | Jennilyn Merten
Every year, thousands of aspiring dancers enter one of the world’s most prestigious ballet competitions, the Youth America Grand Prix, where lifelong dreams are at stake. In the final round, with hundreds competing for only a handful of elite scholarships and contracts, practice and discipline are paramount, and nothing short of perfection is expected. Bess Kargman’s award-winning documentary, FIRST POSITION, follows six young dancers as they prepare for a chance to enter the world of professional ballet, struggling through bloodied feet, near exhaustion and debilitating injuries, all while navigating the drama of adolescence. A showcase of awe-inspiring talent, tenacity and passion, FIRST POSITION paints a thrilling and moving portrait of the most gifted young ballet stars of tomorrow.
Sunday, 9:15AM - Triplex #3 Writer: Jonathan Gruber | Ari Daniel Pinchot Director: Andrew Herwitz Producers: Jonathan Gruber | Ari Daniel Pinchot | Stuart Avi Savitsky
Yonatan ”Yoni” Netanyahu, the older brother of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and was one of the highest ranked and regarded officers in the Israeli Army who was killed during the infamous 1976 raid on Entebbe Airport in Uganda to free Israeli hostages on an Air France flight.
Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters US | 2012 | 79 min
Sunday, 7:00PM - Mahaiwe Closing night film in Great Barrington Director/Producer: Ben Shapiro
Acclaimed photographer Gregory Crewdson doesn’t just “take” his images, he creates them, through elaborate days and weeks of invention, design, and set-up. The epic production of these movie-like images is both intensely personal and highly public: they begin in Crewdson’s deepest desires and memories, but come to life on streets and soundstages in the hills towns of Western Massachusetts. In his decade-long project “Beneath the Roses” he uses light, color and character to conjure arresting images, managing a crew of 60 amidst seemingly countless logistical and creative obstacles.
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Gregory Crewdson, Ben Shapiro and Joe Thompson, director of MassMoCA IN ATTENDANCE
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Saturday, 11:15AM - Triplex #1 Sunday, 11:45AM - Beacon #4 Writer: David France | T. Woody Richman | Tyler Walk Director: David France ProducerS: Joy Tomchin | Dan Cogan | David France Howard Gertler | Henry van Ameringen | Alan Getz Peggy Farber | Lindy Linder | Ted Snowdon
In the dark days of 1987, the country was 6 years into the AIDS epidemic, a crisis that was still largely being ignored until the sudden emergence of the activist group ACT UP in Greenwich Village, largely made up of HIV-positive participants who refused to die without a fight. Emboldened by the power of rebellion, they took on the challenges that public officials had ignored, raising awareness of the disease through a series of dramatic protests. They became recognized experts in virology, biology, and pharmaceutical chemistry. Their efforts would see them seize the reins of federal policy from the FDA and NIH, force the AIDS conversation into the 1992 presidential election, and guide the way to the discovery of effective AIDS drugs that stopped an HIV diagnosis from being an automatic death sentence and allowed them to live long lives. The film captures both the joy and terror of those days, and the epic day-by-day battles that finally made AIDS survival possible.
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How to Survive aUSPlague | 2012 | 120 min
filmmakers IN ATTENDANCE Presented in partnership with the Boston LGBT Film Festival bostonlgbtfilmfest.org
In My Lifetime US | 2011 | 90 min
Saturday, 6:00PM - Triplex #3 Director: Robert Frye ProducerS: Robert Frye | Andrew Ford
In My Lifetime: a presentation of the Nuclear World Project tells a story of the complex realities of nuclear weapons. The narrative weaves together voices, speaking from many perspectives, with scenes filmed in Japan, Europe and the United States, along with archival films and a music underscore composed by French musician Alain Kremski. The story told is the drama of the now sixty seven year struggle and counting of what to do with nuclear weapons, still unresolved , which continue to be a threat to humankind. filmmakers IN ATTENDANCE
The Invisible War US | 2011 | 93 min
Friday, 6:15PM - Triplex #3 Sunday, 1:45PM - Beacon #5 Writer/Director: Kirby Dick ProducerS: Regina Kulik Scully | Jennifer Siebel Newsom Geralyn Dreyfous | Maria Cuomo Cole | Abigale Disney Nicole Boxer-Keegan | Teddy Leifer | Amy Ziering | Tanner King Barklow
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Casualties of war rage beyond the battlefield. As ranks of women in the American military swell, so do incidents of rape. An estimated 30 percent of servicewomen and at least 1 percent of servicemen are sexually assaulted during their enlistment. And not by the enemy, but at the hands of fellow soldiers. With stark clarity and escalating revelations, The Invisible War exposes a rape epidemic in the armed forces, investigating the institutions that perpetuate it as well as its profound personal and social consequences.
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The Island President US | 2011 | 101 min
Saturday, 11:15AM - Triplex #3 Director: Jon Shenk Cast: Mohamed Nasheed ProducerS: Richard Berge | Bonni Cohen | Jon Else
Jon Shenk’s The Island President is the story of President Mohamed Nasheed of the Maldives, a man confronting a problem greater than any other world leader has ever faced—the literal survival of his country and everyone in it. After bringing democracy to the Maldives after thirty years of despotic rule, Nasheed is now faced with an even greater challenge: as one of the most lowlying countries in the world, a rise of three feet in sea level would submerge the 1200 islands of the Maldives enough to make them uninhabitable. Despite the modest size of his country, Mohamed Nasheed has become one of the leading international voices for urgent action on climate change. Discussion to Follow
Jane’s Journey Germany | Tanzania | 2011 | 107 min
Saturday, 2:00PM - Beacon #5 Sunday, 6:00PM - Triplex #3 Director: Lorenz Knauer ProducerS: Andreas Atzwanger | Wiebke Esser Michael Halberstadt | Philipp Schall | Tilo Seiffert Torben Struck | Matthias Triebel | Philipp Wundt
It would be hard to name anyone who has had more of an impact in the realm of animal research and wildlife conservation than Jane Goodall, whose 45 year study of wild chimpanzees in Africa is legendary. In Jane’s Journey, we travel with her across several continents, from her childhood home in England, to the Gombe National Park in Tanzania where she began her groundbreaking research and where she still returns every year to enjoy the company of the chimpanzees that made her famous. Featuring a wide range of interviews and spectacular footage from her own private collection (including her years in Gombe), Jane’s Journey is an inspiring portrait of the private person behind the world-famous icon.
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Joe Papp in Five Acts US | 2012 | 82 min
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Saturday, 3:45PM - Triplex #3 Saturday, 9:15AM - Beacon #4 WriterS: Tracie Holder | Karen Thorsen Director: Tracie Holder ProducerS: Tracie Holder | Julia Mintz | Karen Thorsen
In Joe Papp’s eyes, art is for everyone, not just a privileged few. Perhaps best known for giving a voice to future Broadway successes like Galt MacDermot (Hair) and Michael Bennett (A Chorus Line), Joe began as a radical. An active communist who concealed his Jewish heritage for most of his life, Joe’s private world was just as theatrical as his public one. In 1956, it was Joe who declared that theater should be a free enterprise, “like the library,” and put on his first Shakespeare production of Taming of the Shrew in Central Park to a packed audience of every ethnic and socioeconomic background in the city. An indomitable, streetwise champion of the arts, Joe reimagined King Lear as African-American and Edmund with a thick Puerto Rican accent, bringing more theater to more people than any other producer in history. Co-produced with American Masters and featuring Meryl Streep, Christopher Walken, Martin Sheen, Kevin Kline, James Earl Jones, and more, Joe Papp in Five Acts reveals Joe’s greatest accomplishments and tumultuous personal history according to the artists he helped create—and sometimes tried to destroy.
Friday, 8:45PM - Triplex #2 Saturday, 11:30AM - Beacon #6 Writer: Charles Olivier Director: Beth Levison | Laura Brownson ProducerS: Laura Brownson | Dan Cogan | Stan Lathan Beth Levison | Russell Simmons
Three-time felon, one-time Tony Award winner, Lemon Andersen is an acclaimed poet who broke out on Broadway in Russell Simmons’ Def Poetry Jam. But Lemon has landed back in the projects, is living with thirteen family members, and is desperate for a way out. He turns to the only things he has left, his pen and his story. A beautifully crafted film, LEMON follows one man’s journey to bring his life story to the stage while battling the demons from his past. Featuring a surprise turn by Spike Lee and music by Hip-hop phenoms Kanye West, Mos Def, Talib Kweli and others, this documentary debut personalizes the anguish of a generation of men clinging to the margins but fighting for something more.
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Lemon US | 2011 | 87 min
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Love FreeUS or Die | 2011 | 82 min
Film in Juried Competition
Saturday, 1:15PM - Triplex #2 Saturday, 9:15AM - Beacon #6 Director: Macky Alston Producer: Sandra Itkoff
LOVE FREE OR DIE is about a man whose two defining passions are in direct conflict: his love for God and for his partner Mark. Gene Robinson is the first openly gay person to become a bishop in the historic traditions of Christendom. His consecration in 2003, to which he wore a bullet-proof vest, caused an international stir, and he has lived with death threats every day since. LOVE FREE OR DIE follows Robinson from small-town churches in the New Hampshire North Country to Washington’s Lincoln Memorial to London’s Lambeth Palace, as he calls for all to stand for equality – inspiring bishops, priests and ordinary folk to come out from the shadows and change history. FILMMAKER IN ATTENDANCE Presented in partnership with the Boston LGBT Film Festival bostonlgbtfilmfest.org
Marina Abramovic: The Artist is Present US | 2012 | 104 min
Friday, 7:30PM - Mahaiwe Face to Face with the artist An Intimate Evening with Marina Abramovic in Great Barrington Director: Matthew Akers Exec. Producer: Sheila Nevins | Nancy Abraham Producers: Sheila Nevins | Nancy Abraham Jeff Dupre | Maro Chermayeff
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Seductive, fearless, and outrageous, Marina Abramović has been redefining what art is for nearly forty years. Using her own body as a vehicle, pushing herself beyond her physical and mental limits––and at times risking her life in the process––she creates performances that challenge, shock, and move us. Through her and with her, boundaries are crossed, consciousness expanded, and art as we know it is reborn. She is, quite simply, one of the most compelling artists of our time.
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The Queen of Versailles US | 2012 | 100 min
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Surviving Progress US | 2011 | 87 min
Friday, 6:30PM - Triplex #2 Director: Lauren Greenfield ProducerS: Frank Evers | Dan Cogan | Lauren Greenfield | Danielle Renfrew Behrens | Rebecca Horn Black
The Queen of Versailles is a character-driven documentary about a billionaire family and their financial challenges in the wake of the economic crisis. With epic proportions of Shakespearean tragedy, the film follows two unique characters, whose rags-to-riches success stories reveal the innate virtues and flaws of the American Dream. The film begins with the family triumphantly constructing the biggest house in America, a 90,000 sq. ft. palace. Over the next two years, their sprawling empire, fueled by the real estate bubble and cheap money, falters due to the economic crisis. Major changes in lifestyle and character ensue within the cross-cultural household of family members and domestic staff.
Friday, 4:15PM - Triplex #3 Writer/Director: Harold Crooks | Mathieu Roy ProducerS: Mark Achbar | Silva Basmajian | Betsy Carson Gerry Flahive | François Girard | Daniel Louis | Denise Robert Martin Scorsese | Emma Tillinger Koskoff
Technological advancement, economic development, population increase - are they signs of a thriving society? Or too much of a good thing? Based on the best-selling book A Short History of Progress, this provocative documentary explores the concept of progress in our modern world, guiding us through a sweeping but detailed survey of the major “progress traps” facing our civilization in the arenas of technology, economics, consumption, and the environment. filmmakers IN ATTENDANCE
Under African Skies US | 2011 | 108 min
Sunday, 3:30PM - Triplex #1 Sunday, 9:15PM - Beacon #4 Director: Joe Berlinger ProducerS: Robert Friedman | Eddie Simon | David McKillop Robert DeBitetto | Joe Berlinger | Justin Wilkes | Molly Thompson Jon Kamen | Sara Enright
Featuring powerful arguments from such visionaries as Jane Goodall, Margaret Atwood, Stephen Hawking, Craig Venter, Robert Wright, Michael Hudson, and Ronald Wright, this enlightening and visually spectacular film invites us to contemplate the progress traps that destroyed past civilizations and that lie treacherously embedded in our own.
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Saturday, 3:45PM - Triplex #2 Saturday, 11:30AM - Beacon #5 Director: Karin Hayes | Victoria Bruce ProducerS: Charles G. Davidson | Karin Hayes Victoria Bruce | Paul Rachman
America is in the grip of a societal economic panic. Lawmakers cry ‘We’re Broke!’ as they slash budgets, lay off schoolteachers, police, and firefighters, crumbling our country’s social fabric. Meanwhile, multibillion-dollar corporations like Exxon, Google and Bank of America are concealing colossal profits overseas to avoid paying U.S. income tax. WE’RE NOT BROKE is the story of how U.S. corporations have been able to hide over a trillion dollars from Uncle Sam, and how seven fed-up Americans from across the country, take their frustration to the streets...and vow to make the corporations pay their fair share. filmmakers IN ATTENDANCE
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Presenting a collection of movies by emerging filmmakers operating within a cinematic framework directly influenced by the arts. Undetermined by commercial pressures and often made with very low budgets, these works give glimpse to the culture and critical engagements of a new generation, and their experiments with narrative fiction. Featuring an international selection by award winners Nicolás Pereda, Gabriel Abrantes, Mauricio Arango and many more.
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Tick Tock Time Emporium US | 2012 | 17 min
Writer/Director: Morgan Faust Cast: Rachel Resheff | Jeremy Lawrence | Jessica Green
Max’s mom never has enough time for her. So when Max discovers a magical pawn shop that sells Time, she thinks she has the solution to all her problems. But when the cantankerous shop owner catches her stealing some expensive time, she discovers her problems have only just begun. filmmaker IN ATTENDANCE
Legacy Germany | 2011 | 4 min
Color Blind US | 2012 | 22 min
Writer/Director: Bryn Chainey Cast: Lea & Aline Kolditz
“Legacy” chronicles the loss of a beloved pet mouse, and a young girl’s fascination for death and eclectic funerals. Set against the lush, horn infused melodies of the four minute (and some spare change) track, the video explores cultural ceremonies ranging from a customary Japanese funeral to a space burial.
Writer/Director: Khadija Diakite ProducerS: Conor Fetting-Smith | Katrelle N. Kindred
A recent USA Today study shows that 40% of US adoptions are transracial. While the dialogue on race in the United States is evolving, opposing sides continue to debate the benefits of tranracial adoption. Color Blind looks at the aftermath and follows two families with differing views. Just one year after their adopted son Luc arrives from Haiti, the Garwood family is establishing their own roots in a predominantly African-American neighborhood in South Los Angeles. Parents Allison and Reed, a white couple, immerse themselves in black culture through church and a strong circle of friends, but they can’t escape the opinions of the outside world. The Garwoods are joined by the Howertons, a multi racial family with two adopted boys. Color Blind provides an intimate glimpse into the experience of families who have adopted across cultural and racial lines.
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Writer/Director: Bernard Friedman Cast: Richard Meier | Denise Scott Brown | Thom Mayne | Tracy Kidder Robert Stern | Michelle Kaufmann | Cameron Sinclair | Eric Owen Moss Allison Arieff | Douglas Garofalo Producer: Bernard Friedman
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AmericanUSHomes | 2011 | 12 min
What is an American house? This animated history, presenting 1800 years of residential architecture in North America, unfolds along a simple timeline, while notable figures in the world of design and architecture weigh in on what a house is, and can be. filmmakers IN ATTENDANCE
Leon Smith: A LifeUSof Art | 2012 | 14 min
Writer/Director: Jay Corcoran Cast: Leon Smith | Elaine Smith | Dan Smith | Jessica Smith Maj Kalfus | Karen Proner | John Brunese ProducerS: Jay Corcoran
Bright pink trees, a floating birthday cake in a pond and a shingled Studebaker are just three of the many memorable visions created by sculptor, Leon Smith, 78, of Ancramdale, NY. filmmakers IN ATTENDANCE
A Good Thing US | 2012 | 22 min
Writer/Director: Mark Tobey Cast: Tom Bower | Anne Gee Byrd | Michael Petted Producer: Mark Tobey
An isolated, elderly couple, living on a lonely stretch of highway, fight to hang on, as fear of an elusive killer sweeps their region. Barely managing to make ends meet. Ben, overbearing and protective, struggles to keep his wife, Mae on the right side of faith. Both however have to confront their fear head on when a man fitting the description of the killer suddenly arrives at their doorstep. filmmaker IN ATTENDANCE
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Priceless USThings | 2011 | 9 min
Writer/Director: Sarah-Violet Bliss Cast: Alden Ford | Meryl Hathaway | Whitney Kam Lee ProducerS: Meryl Hathaway | Alden Ford Kiat-Sing Teo | Yan Xi | Whitney Kam Lee
When a precious piece of jewelry is lost (or stolen) in a Chinese nail salon in Brooklyn, NY, hysteria sets in a newly engaged couple who suspect the immigrant employees know more than they admit. The New York couple abandon their progressive social graces and keep the hapless employees hostage as they ransack their salon. filmmakers IN ATTENDANCE
Junk UK | 2011 | 6 min
Writer/Director: Kirk Hendry Cast: Barry Clayton Producer: Kirk Hendry
Junk tells the story of a boy with an obsession for junk food whose insatiable appetite temps him to eat increasingly unhealthier cuisine. In a moment of inspiration, he makes the leap from eating junk food to eating real junk. As his obsession leads him further down the path of no return, his ultimate destination seems inescapably appropriate.
The Trigger UK | 2011 | 12 min
Writer: Jonathan Parkyn | Marcus Shepherd Director: Marcus Sheperd Cast: Ralph Brown ProducerS: Alastair Clark | Rachel Robey
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Ballet Story Germany | 2011 | 9 min
Writer/Director: Anselm Belser Cast: Felix MĂźller | Daniela Blaschke | Paul Ohmert
Every action has a reaction.
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Felix Germany | 2011 | 1 min
Writer/Director: Daria Belova Cast: Luise Engel | Elena Lekovic | Leon Louis
Another day at the ballet school. Classes routine goes as usual, when Sophie notices a boy outdoors, on the street. He was here yesterday already. She finds him mysterious, maybe she likes him, but doesn’t dare to do anything with it. Surrounded by her frivolously chattering classmates, she realizes that another girl is faster making decisions, and Sophie finds herself caught in a vortex of grief and aggression. English subtitles
Wind Is Blowing On My Street US | Iran | 2011 | 15 min
Writer/Director: Saba Riazi Cast: Rahman Houshyar | Sajjad Salehivand Forough Bonakdar | Ashraf Abolfazlian
When a young girl in Tehran is accidentally left on the street without her headscarf, she is forced to interact with a man who keeps her company. The Wind is Blowing on My Street looks at an unexpected connection in an environment where a simple mishap could lead to trouble.
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Ken Regan Rock Photographer US | 2012 | 8 min
Director: Stephen Menick Directors of Photography: Borden McKinnon | Bobby Lloyd Editor: John Prete Cast: Ken Regan
A look back at the iconic career of Ken Regan and his exclusive photographs of some of the greatest musicians in our lifetime. The piece was produced for “My Generation,” airing on PBS. A special book-signing on Saturday afternoon after the Shorts with Ken Regan and his new book “All Access: The Rock ‘N’ Roll Photography of Ken Regan” at the Triplex
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MONDAYS ATUSRACINE | 2011 | 40 min
Director: Cynthia Wade Cast: Cambria Russell | Linda Hart, Rachel Delmolfetto Cynthia Sansone | Racine Salon de Beaute & Spa ProducerS: Vanessa Bergonzoli | Robin Honan | Cynthia Wade
Every third Monday of the month, brassy Long Island sisters Cynthia and Rachel open up their hair salon, called Racine, to offer free beauty services for women undergoing chemotherapy. Determined to make their customers feel beautiful, the glamour duo knows that Mondays at Racine goes beyond purple painted toes or a frothy facial. The sisters are determined to give local women who are losing their hair, eyebrows and eyelashes a sense of normalcy and dignity in a traumatic and uncertain time. What starts as a quirky film about what hair means to us in our culture evolves into a deeply nuanced, funny and painful film about womanhood and marriage. Academy Award winning director (and full-time Berkshires resident) Cynthia Wade returns to BIFF for a third time with an unexpectedly uplifting story about hair, love and determination. Special guests after the screening will include documentary subjects, director and crew. filmmakers and Cast IN ATTENDANCE
SAVING FACE US | 2012 | 40 min
Director: Daniel Junge | Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy ProducerS: Davis Coombe | Asad Faruqi | Alison L. Greenberg Daniel Junge | Aaron Kopp | Tanya Mirza | Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy Sabiha Sumar | Shahbaz Sumar
Every year hundreds of people-mostly women-are attacked with acid in Pakistan. SAVING FACE follows several of these survivors, their fight for justice, and a London-based reconstructive surgeon who has returned to his homeland of Pakistan to help them restore their faces and their lives.
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Writer/Director: Lucy Gray Cast: Tilda Swinton | Shaari Ergas | Joe Sherer | Kitty Sherer ProducerS: Lucy Gray
Molly can’t think of a way to finish her latest play. Instead she goes for a walk and thinks about her sister when they were children... Genevieve and her Father build a boat just her size. He tells her that learning to sail is a skill that will help her grow-up. But she is afraid to take the boat out in the water. She takes her imaginary friends for imaginary rides. And she does not tell her Father. He would not understand. He is brave. One day he moves away and Genevieve hopes he will come back if she sails the boat. She takes her imaginary friends, Constance Constabulary, who is mean but vivid, along with the nice one whose name Genevieve cannot remember and some cheese and chutney and they set sail. Once on the water she enjoys herself so much that she thinks she might like to stay there forever until she gets caught in a storm...
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A BIFF board member since 2008, Karen is heading up the first BIFF Jury Awards. Karen began her career in experimental theatre with the Washinton Theatre Laboratory and was cast in her first film role as Katy in Animal House in 1977. She has starred in over 40 films including The Wanderers, A Small Circle of Friends, Raiders of the Lost Ark (Saturn Award for Best Actress), Starman, Scrooged, Malcolm X, King of the Hill, Glass Menagerie (Spirit Award nomination), Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull and White Irish Drinkers. She recently completed the pilot of the TNT series. Tin Star, a western which will shoot in Santa Fe, NM this Summer and Fall. On Broadway she portrayed Helen Keller in The Monday After the Miracle (Theatre World Award). Her roles off Broadway include The Country Girl, Extremities, Speaking In Tongues, The Miracle Worker and the Glass Menagerie and she has worked at the Berkshire Theatre Festival as both an actor and director (Moonchildren 2011), at The Williamstown Theatre Festival and at Shakespeare and Company. Karen is a professor in the Theatre Dept of Bard College, at Simon’s Rock and is a member of the Actor’s Studio.
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Hello I Must Be Going pg 34 Nobody Walks pg 35 Nuit #1 pg 36 Your Sister’s Sister pg 38 ESCAPE FIRE: THE FIGHT TO RESCUE AMERICAN HEALTHCARE pg 43 A Fierce Green Fire pg 42 Chasing Ice pg 43 Love Free or Die pg 47 We’re Not Broke pg 49 Dan Braun
is the co-founder and co-president of New York based Submarine Entertainment, a company whose services include film sales, advertising and marketing, TV and film production and broadband content creation. Mr. Braun is a documentary producer who’s work includes the feature documentaries Kill Your Idols and Blank City and is producing the upcoming documentary on free jazz Fire Music. Braun was a producer on two TV specials for the Independent Film Channel; Focus on Bill Murray and Focus on Jim Jarmusch. Mr. Braun has been involved with the sale of many feature films and documentaries including Man on Wire, Woody Allen an Untitled Documentary, Being Elmo, Tiny Furniture, Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work among others. Braun recently formed the custom label Submarine Deluxe and released the films Being Elmo: A Puppeteers Journey and James Westby’s Rid of Me. Mr. Braun is also an editor and writer on the re-launched Creepy and Eerie comic books at Dark Horse Comics and won an Eisner Award in 2009 for his work on the Creepy Archives. Braun was SVP/Creative Director on Absolut Vodka at TBWA Chiat/Day where he led the creative on the famous campaign for years. He developed and co-created award winning websites Absolut Director.com featuring Spike Lee, Mary Harron and Chris Smith, and Absolut DJ.com featuring DJ Spooky and Coldcut. Mr. Braun has won virtually every award in advertising for his work. Early in his career, Dan designed the famous logo for Bed, Bath and Beyond. Recently design work includes one sheet posters for the films Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work, Kill Your Idols, Burma Soldier, Modus Operandi, Page One: Inside the NY Times, Being Elmo and The Last Gladiators.
Josh Braun
runs Submarine, a hybrid sales and production company, consulting and strategizing on the sale, distribution and development of documentaries, feature films and nonfiction entertainment programming and producing feature films, documentaries and television properties. In the last year, Mr. Braun was a producer on the Sundance competition documentary PAGE ONE: INSIDE THE NY TIMES (released by Magnolia and Participant) and was an executive producer on BLANK CITY. In addition, Mr. Braun exec produced the IDA Award winning Discovery limited series BOOMTOWN and sold the remake rights and is a producer on OF ALL THE THINGS at Warner Bros . Previously, Mr. Braun was an executive producer on David Cronenberg’s Oscar and Golden Globe nominated A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE. Braun is a producer on the feature film adapation of John Wagner’s graphic novel BUTTON MAN at Dreamworks. Mr. Braun produced the cult horror hit HOUSE OF THE DEVIL directed by Ti West . Documentaries exec produced by Mr. Braun include SEAMLESS, GRAMERCY PARK HOTEL, CAT DANCERS, BILLIONAIRE, EASY RIDERS RAGING BULLS, KILL YOUR IDOLS and HOLLYWOOD DC. Films sold within the last year by Mr. Braun include QUEEN OF VERSAILLES, SEARCHING OR SUGAR MAN, GIMME THE LOOT, BLACK ROCK, ME AT THE ZOO, THE COMEDY, NOBODY WALKS, HOW TO SURVIVE A PLAGUE, CHASING ICE, THE IMPOSTER, PAGE ONE: INSIDE THE NY TIMES, BUCK, PROJECT NIM, LAST DAYS HERE, BEING ELMO, BULLY, YOUR SISTER’S SISTER, DIANA VREELAND: THE EYE HAS TO TRAVEL, FIRST POSITION, LAST CALL AT THE OASIS, I MELT WITH YOU and FIGHTVILLE. Mr. Braun previously worked with Fremantle Media as Senior Vice President and head of sales from 1991 to 1999. Mr. Braun was responsible for sales, production, co-productions and acquisitions with such programs as Baywatch, Grace Under Fire, All My Children, Third Rock from the Sun, South Park, The Price Is Right and many others. Mr. Braun also produced the final season of John Pierson’s TV show Split Screen (IFC), exec produced and created the comic book series Anti Gravity Room (SCI FI) and IFC specials: Focus on Bill Murray and Focus on Jim Jarmusch.
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Kent Jones
is an internationally recognized writer and filmmaker. He writes regularly for Film Comment and his work has appeared in many magazines, newspapers, anthologies, and catalogues. In 2007, Wesleyan University Press published Physical Evidence, a selection of his writings. In 2009, he was appointed Executive Director of The World Cinema Foundation. He has worked with Martin Scorsese throughout the years on numerous projects and several documentaries including My Voyage to Italy, the 2007 film Val Lewton: The Man in the Shadows which he wrote and directed, and the Emmy-nominated and Peabody Award-winning 2010 film, A Letter to Elia, which he and Scorsese co-wrote and codirected. He is preparing a feature film, It Never Entered My Mind, for the winter of 2012.
John Orloff
is a screenwriter known for creating and adapting complex stories in a wide variety of genres, from gritty reality to animated fantasy, from low budget independent films to big budget studio films. Orloff was nominated for an Emmy Award for his writing on HBO’s Band of Brothers, and an Independent Spirit Award for his screenplay for A Mighty Heart, the Angelina Jolie film based on the kidnapping of reporter Daniel Pearl. Orloff also wrote and executive-produced the controversial film Anonymous, based on the Shakespeare Authorship Question.
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He has written for directors as stylistically disparate as Michael Winterbottom, Roland Emmerich, Gus van Sant, Zack Snyder, Michael Mann, David Frankel, Lu Chuan, Bryan Singer, and Anand Tucker, as well as producers Tom Hanks, Steven Spielberg and Brad Pitt.
He is currently adapting the TV show “Battlestar Galactica” as a feature film for Bryan Singer.
Mary Kay Place
is an Emmy Award winning actress who was first critically acclaimed for her role as country singer Loretta Haggers on the hit comedy series MARY HARTMAN, MARY HARTMAN. Since then she has been in over 50 feature films including Sweet Home Alabama, It’s Complicated, Julie & Julia, Youth in Revolt, Citizen Ruth, Being John Malkovich, The Big Chill, Captain Ron, The Rainmaker, Private Benjamin and New York, New York. Her many television credits include Big Love, Bored to Death, Saving Grace, Pushing Daisies, The West Wing, My So-Called Life, Chicago Hope, host of Saturday Night Live, MASH and All In The Family. She has also written and directed for television and recorded three albums for Columbia Records.
Gretchen Rennell
started her career in the theatre business answering phones for Harold Prince, the Broadway director and producer. It was an exciting time in NYC as he had four shows up and running on Broadway. From there she moved into the world of feature film casting and trained under the sharp eye of Marion Dougherty. She was vice-president of casting at Paramount Pictures before she moved on to Head of Casting at Walt Disney Pictures in Burbank. Some of the movies cast have been, Flashdance, Cotton Club, Children of A Lesser God, The Color of Money, Agnes of God, Matinee, Nothing To Lose, Leap of Faith, The Horse Whisperer and some she would just as soon not mention. Now living in Sheffield, Massachusetts with her husband John Court and happy to have landed here.
KRISTI ZEA
Production designer, costume designer, director, and producer Kristi Zea most recently completed the production design of Brett Ratner’s Tower Heist starring Ben Stiller and Eddie Murphy. Before that her work was seen in Oliver Stone’s Wall Street 2. Prior production design credits include the critically acclaimed Sam Mendes film, Revolutionary Road starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet for which she was nominated for an Oscar. Zea has also designed P.J. Hogan’s Confessions of a Shopaholic, produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, Neil Jordan’s The Brave One, Martin Scorsese’s The Departed (nominated for an Art Director’s Guild award), Jonathan Demme’s Manchurian Candidate, as well as other projects including Red Dragon, Changing Lanes and Sleepers. She also production designed a number of major films of the ‘80s and ‘90s that include Jonathan Demme’s Beloved (1998), Oscar winners Philadelphia (1993) and Silence of the Lambs (1991) as well as Martin Scorsese’s Goodfellas (1990) and New York Stories (1989). Following an education at Middlebury College and receiving an English degree from Columbia University School of General Studies, Zea became a costume designer for, among many other directors, Alan Parker on Fame (1980) and Shoot the Moon (1982) and James L. Brooks’ Terms of Endearment (1983). Zea was also associate producer on James L. Brooks’ Broadcast News (1987) and produced Brooks’ Oscar nominated & Golden Globe winner As Good As It Gets (1997). Zea directed Ace-nominated Domestic Dilemma for the HBO Series “Women and Men 2” (1990) starring Ray Liotta and Andie MacDowell, as well as the DVD of Annie Lennox’s 2003 Concert Tour. In 2008, Zea produced and production designed the independent feature entitled The Joneses starring Demi Moore and David Duchovny. It was presented at the 2009 Toronto Film Festival and entered the theaters in April 2009. Zea joined NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts as an Adjunct Professor from 2005-2008.
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To guarantee admission, you MUST be present at the venue 15 minutes prior to the scheduled start time. This is standard for all film festivals. Late seating is only permitted if easily accessible seats are available.
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In its 7th year, The Berkshire International Film Festival in association with the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences is proud to present its inaugural Filmmakers Summit, a two-day talent academy offered to the 2012 film selection filmmakers. Offering a diverse, multi-dimensional program of panel discussions, lectures, special events, and breakout sessions lead by known industry professionals, the BIFF Filmmakers Summit is designed to celebrate and support the advancement of filmmakers and recognize film as a relevant and important medium. Special thanks to our presenting partners Berkshire Film and Media Commission, Shakespeare & Company, Katy Baldwin Catering and Berkshire Natural Resources Council BIFF would also like to recognize Panelists Harry Chotiner, Greg Rhem, Josh Braun, Paco de Onis, Cynthia Wade, Sue Sternberg, Glenn Kenny, Amy Rapp, Debra Fisher and Lauren Schwartz Moderators Zhana and Marco Londoner
Film Index
2 Days in New York France | 91 min................................................... Feature..... 30 A Fierce Green Fire US | 120 min............................................. Documentary..... 42 A Good Thing US | 22 min.......................................................................Short..... 53 Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry US | China | 91 min............................. Documentary..... 42 American Homes US | 12 min.................................................................Short..... 53 Ballet Story Germany | 9 min...............................................................Short..... 55 Bhopali US | India | 89 min........................................................ Documentary..... 42 BRUNA SURFISTINHA Brazil | 109 min................................................... Feature..... 30 Cafe de Flore Canada | France | 120 min........................................... Feature..... 30 California State of Mind US | 91 min..................................... Documentary..... 43 Chasing Ice US | 74 min............................................................. Documentary..... 43 Color Blind US | 22 min.........................................................................Short..... 52 Come As You Are Belgium | 115 min.................................................. Feature..... 31 Cracks in the Shell Germany | 103 min........................................... Feature..... 31 The Day I Saw YOUR Heart France | 98 min........................................ Feature..... 31 Der Brand Germany | 93 min.............................................................. Feature..... 32 The Dynamiter US | 73 min................................................................ Feature..... 32 ESCAPE FIRE: THE FIGHT TO RESCUE AMERICAN HEALTHCARE US | 99 min......................................... Documentary..... 43 ETHEL US | 97 min....................................................................... Documentary..... 13 Farewell, My Queen France | 99 min................................................. Feature..... 32 Felix Germany | 1 min.............................................................................Short..... 55 First Position US | 90 min........................................................ Documentary..... 44 Follow Me: The Yoni Netanyahu Story US | 87 min.............. Documentary..... 44 Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters US | 79 min............. Documentary..... 44 Guilty For the Justice No One Was Innocent France | Belgium | 102 min........................................ Feature..... 33 Gun Hill Road US | 90 min................................................................. Feature..... 33 Happy New Year Grandma! (Urte Berri Mon Amona!) Spain | 85 min........................................ Feature..... 33 Hello I Must Be Going US | 95 min.................................................... Feature..... 34 The Holding England | 80 min............................................................. Feature..... 34
Ad Index Abbott’s............................................... 71 Abel Cine............................................. 41 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences............................... 2 Alarms of Berkshire County................ 40 Ambient Film Production.................... 65 Annie Selke....................................... IBC Arcadian Shop..................................... 51 Barnbrook, BPL................................... 71 Baba Louie’s.......................................IFC Berkshire Botanical Garden................. 63 Berkshire Country Day School............ 41 Mermaid Design.................................. 41 Berkshire Bank.................................... 24
BMC.................................................... 65 Berkshire Coop................................... 59 Berkshire Cosmetic and Reconstructive Surgery.................... 63 Berkshire Film and Media Commission........................... 28 BIFF Summit....................................... 69 Berkshire Mountain Distillers.............. 18 Berkshire Museum.............................. 59 Berkshire Property Agents.................. 39 Berkshire South.................................. 66 Body and Soul Spa.............................. 41 Blue Q................................................. 67 Carr Hardware..................................... 51 Castle Street Cafe................................ 67 CATA................................................... 58 Chocolate Springs............................... 57 Close Encounters................................ 59
The House of Mirth UK | France | Germany | US | 140 min............... Feature..... 38 How to Survive a Plague US | 120 min................................... Documentary..... 45 In My Lifetime US | 90 min........................................................ Documentary..... 45 The Invisible War US | 93 min.................................................. Documentary..... 45 The Island President US | 101 min......................................... Documentary..... 46 Jane’s Journey Germany | Tanzania | 107 min.......................... Documentary..... 46 Joe Papp in Five Acts US | 82 min............................................ Documentary..... 46 Junk UK | 6 min.......................................................................................Short..... 54 Ken Regan Film US | 8 min.....................................................................Short..... 56 Legacy Germany | 4 min..........................................................................Short..... 52 Lemon US | 87 min...................................................................... Documentary..... 47 Leon Smith: A Life of Art US | 14 min..................................................Short..... 53 Liberal Arts US | 95 min................................................................... Feature..... 34 Love Free or Die US | 82 min.................................................... Documentary..... 47 Marina Abramovic: The Artist is Present US | 104 min...... Documentary..... 47 MONDAYS AT RACINE US | 40 min............................................................Short..... 56 My Best Enemy Austria | 109 min....................................................... Feature..... 35 Nobody Else But You France | 102 min.............................................. Feature..... 35 Nobody Walks US | 85 min................................................................ Feature..... 35 Nuit #1 Canada | 91 min....................................................................... Feature..... 36 Peace, Love and Misunderstanding US | 96 min............................ Feature..... 36 Poll Diaries Germany | Austria | Estonia | 123 min............................ Feature..... 36 Priceless Things US | 9 min..................................................................Short..... 54 The Queen of Versailles US | 100 min.................................... Documentary..... 48 SAVING FACE US | 40 min.........................................................................Short..... 56 Surviving Progress US | 87 min.............................................. Documentary..... 48 Swerve Australia | 85 min................................................................... Feature..... 37 Terraferma Italy | France | 88 min..................................................... Feature..... 37 Tick Tock Time Emporium US | 17 min..................................................Short..... 52 The Trigger UK | 12 min.........................................................................Short..... 54 Under African Skies US | 108 min........................................... Documentary..... 48 We’re Not Broke US | 2012 | 81 min......................................... Documentary..... 49 Wind Is Blowing On My Street US | Iran | 15 min................................Short..... 55 The Wise Kids US | 91 min.................................................................. Feature..... 37 Wunderkinder Germany | 100 min.................................................... Feature..... 38 Your Sister’s Sister US | 90 min...................................................... Feature..... 38 Cranwell.............................................. 58 Cyril and Dayne................................... 10 Days Inn.............................................. 39 Domaney’s.......................................... 58 Drapery Room.................................... 57 Frelinghuysen Morris House and Studio......................................... 67 Greylock FCU...................................... 65 Guido’s................................................ 63 GWFF.................................................. 14 Haven.................................................. 61 Jane Iredale......................................... 51 Karen Allen.......................................... 39 Limelight............................................. 66 Louisa Ellis.......................................... 49 Mad Macs........................................... 61 MAX.................................................... 22 MCLA.................................................. 68
Nancy Kalodner, Benchmark Real Estate...40 Porches............................................... 50 RBC Wealth Management - Tobin....... 50 Red Lion............................................... 5 Robins................................................ 63 Seven Salon........................................ 71 Shakespeare & Company.................... 26 Stella Artois......................................... 12 Stonover Farm.................................... 40 Stone House....................................... 61 Studio Two/Berkshiretheaters.com..... 16 Tanglewood........................................... 7 The Short List....................................... 9 TD Bank..............................................BC Toole................................................... 57 Trattoria Rustica.................................. 63 Triplex/Beacon.................................... 20 Williamstown Film Festival.................. 66
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