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Welcome to the exciting 2011 annual Berkshire International Film Festival. After our tremendous 5th anniversary year, I am pleased to be building on that success to bring our community and audience a festival that will entertain, challenge, engage, inspire and amaze us. Good filmmaking is synonymous with good storytelling and the stories our filmmakers are sharing with us are wonderful and heroic. We love film because it takes us places physically, visually and emotionally and connects us to the world in our own backyard and places a million mile away. I continue to be amazed at the amount of inspired filmmaking that is being created and I celebrate those filmmakers who share their stories and their talent. So come journey with us to Afghanistan, Cambodia, Australia, Iran, England, France, China, Italy, Rwanda, Chile and South Korea. In addition to the films, BIFF will host some special events throughout the weekend including GWFF USA’s Juried Prize Award for narrative and documentary filmmaking, free family film screenings and a panel discussion called “Small Acts, Big Changes” on Human Rights with awardwinning filmmakers and industry professionals on Sunday, a special event sponsored by Berkshire Media and Film Commission of A LETTER TO ELIA written and directed by Pittsfield native, Kent Jones and Martin Scorcese on Saturday. The BIFF is honored to have our second annual Jury include, actors Peter Riegert, Jayne Atkinson, and Michel Gill, award-winning screenwriters Courtney Hunt and John Orloff, distribution guru Josh Braun, Production Designer Kristi Zea and casting agent Gretchen Rennell. We are also very pleased to present the second annual “Next Great Filmmaker Award” sponsored by Berkshire Bank – you can cast your vote until May 31 at www.biffma.org - vote today and be part of the excitement! BIFF is extremely proud to this year pay tribute to the legendary special effects icon and beloved Berkshire resident...Doug Trumbull! Doug pioneered the visual effects in 2001: A Space Odyssey, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Star Trek: The Motion Picture, and Blade Runner, each of which earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Visual Effects. He then went on to direct the iconic films Silent Running, Brainstorm, and Back to the Future... The Ride which is fondly remembered in the Berkshires since the effects were created in his Sheffield studios. The Berkshires celebrates the iconic, groundbreaking work of Mr. Trumbull and his contributions to all of us in this community. We are proud to call him our own. I want to thank everyone that has joined the REEL Friends Film Society and because of the tremendous response we have held monthly events for our film society with special screenings, receptions with filmmakers and events making the BIFF year-round. As always, 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 and staff, 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 of both towns. So let’s kick-off another wonderful cultural season in the Berkshires and let the cameras roll!

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John Clarke, The Head Honcho Music Man Paul Gniadek* Mike Durst Heidi Berman-Rose Bob Gentile* Mary Beth McDonough Nan Wile Nancy Fernandez Mills

Pre-Festival Crew Judie Grossman Joel Grossman Sue Rudd Mickey Beller* Linda Senk

IN GREAT BARRINGTON Jennet Cook, Volunteer Coordinator

Crowd Wranglers Bob Gentile* Jackie Gentile Jessie Pellerin Jack Machanik Karen Pagoda Richard Ruth Phyllis Ragusa* Dona Burdick*

Box Office

Amelia Sydlosky E. Bonnie Silvers Peggy Reeves Diane Nichols

Merchandise

Sondra Klein* Will Ryan Suzanna Opper Giselle Rose

All about the Ballots Bob Gentile* Mark Biederman Pam Biederman Suzanne Ryan

Sponsorship and Events Specialist Mara Medoff of Mara Medoff, Inc.

Special Events

IN PITTSFIELD Paul Mange Johansen, Volunteer Coordinator

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Anne Mclaughlin, Events Coordinator Meryl Ankori* Sherry Wells Levine* Carolyn Wells* Carol Noble Francine Arienti

Crowd Wranglers Jason Toews Gerry Murray Holley Linscott Lenore Greenstein Judy Douville Regina Burgio Paul Arlein JoAnn Merriman

Saphire Senger-O’Leary Sean Truczinskas Sarita Orobio-Wolff David Zahorian

BEACON CINEMA STAFF Management Team

Stephen Lussier Ann Bloch Barbara Bria Arpante Sylvia Cohen

John Valente, General Manager and “Grand Fromage” Adam Chait, Manager and Digital Jedi Dave Sondrini, Assistant Manager **A big thanks to all the Beacon Staff, too many to mention!

Box Office

MAHAIWE STAFF

Special Events

Anita Busch Hugh Black Marcia Lawrence Jen Coppola

Merchandise Diane Firtell James Baresse Judy Douville * Denotes 6th year volunteers

Bard College at Simon’s Rock Mary Marcy Victor McQuiston Jason Goldman Christopher Sink Jackie Gentile

BIFF BABES HOME OFFICE

Lauren Ferin, Executive Assistant Anne McLaughlin, Everything that must get done Coordinator Jasper Nash, Go to Guy

INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMMING

Lillian Lennox, Festival Programmer

YOUTH PROGRAMMING COMMITTEE Simon Kneeland Kaitlyn Vickery Andrew Vickery Jack Vickery Tucker Roche

TRIPLEX STAFF

Management Team

Lisa Rizzo, Manager Howard Marshall, Assistant Manager Ben Parsons, Assistant Manager Kira Murdock, Supervisor

All Things Triplex Ashley Backhaus Autumn Bragan Chris Condry Matt Hastings Meredith Kern Andrea Labshere Andy Martin

Beryl Jolly, Executive Director Karin Watkins, General Manager Matthew Adelson, Production Manager Bobby Halla, Assistant Production Manager Sam Sorrentino, Projectionist Paul Kakley, 35mm Projectionist Laura Chekow, Box Office Manager Tom Blauvelt, Box Office Assistant JB Brodeur, House Manager The Wonderful Mahaiwe Ushers

STUDIO TWO

(who makes us look so good) Kevin Sprague, Owner Heather Rose, Designer Christine Cooney, Web Designer Amanda Bettis, BIFF’s Design Diva Kaitlyn Squires, Social Media Manager Rus Miller, Web Programmer

GREAT BARRINGTON Board of Selectman

Kevin O’Donnell, Great Barrington Town Manager Southern Berkshire Chamber of Commerce GB Business owners and shop keepers

PITTSFIELD

Mayor James Ruberto Downtown Inc., Yvonne Pearson Laurie Mick, Community Development Specialist Mission, Inc., Catering Opening Night Event

BERKSHIRE LIVING MAGAZINE Michael Zivyak and the Berkshire Living Advertising Team

BEKSHIRE BANK Scott Schiff Sean Gray Mark Tomasi Mark Pedrotti

VIP TRANSPORTATION

Provided by our friends at Abbots Livery Donna M. Abbott, President Paul E. Abbott, Vice President Maryellen Abbott Walsh, Secretary/Vice Treasurer Rebecca Abbott, Dean/Treasurer/Vice Secretary

OFFICIALS

Official Sponsor for filmmaker accommodations The Red Lion Inn Stonover Farm

Official Sponsor of our favorite Moonshine Chris Weld and Berkshire Mt. Distillers

Official Sponsor of delicious beer Stella Artois, Tommy Leveque and the folks at Girardi Distributors

Official Sponsor of BIFF’s Juried Prize Ronald Frohne and GWFF U.S.A.

Official Sponsor of finding the next best filmmaker Berkshire Bank

Official Food Sponsors Max Ultimate Food Red Lion Inn Café Haven allium Castle Street Café Katey Baldwin

Official Sponsor of all things floral Crocus Hale

Official Sponsor of most things printed Kwik Print

Official Sponsor of the Opening Night Event in G.B. Al and Jaqueline Togut

Official Sponsor of Opening Night Event in Pittsfield Berkshire Bank

Official Sponsor of the Tribute Night Event in G.B. Ronald Frohne and GWFF U.S.A.

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june 25 – september 4

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Tanglewood’s favorite singer joins “America’s Orchestra,” the Boston Pops, and John Williams for a remarkable collaboration. The Linde Family Concert

august 20 saturday 8:30pm Film Night at Tanglewood

Boston Pops John Williams, conductor Gil Shaham, violin Morgan Freeman, narrator One of the season’s most enduring and popular traditions, the annual Film Night concert celebrates the music of the movies. This summer, John Williams is joined by frequent collaborator Gil Shaham in a program featuring film music arranged for violin and orchestra. Also on the program will be Mr. Williams’ nostalgic evocation of early 20th-century America, The Reivers, with a special guest narrator, Morgan Freeman. The George and Roberta Berry Supporting Organization Concert

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Individual Movie tickets $10 Opening Night $20 Tribute Event $20

$500 All-Inclusive BIFF Pass includes: THURSDAY, JUNE 2

OPENING NIGHT PARTY 5:30 pm Cocktails and light buffet supper at the BIFF Tent behind Town Hall on Castle Street, Great Barrington catered by Max Ultimate Food

OPENING NIGHT FILM 7:30 pm Priority Seating to the Opening Night Presentation PAGE ONE: Inside THE NEW YORK TIMES and Q&A with the film’s director and producers at the Mahaiwe, Castle Street

FRIDAY, JUNE 3

COCKTAIL PARTY WITH FILMMAKERS - Invitation to private Filmmaker Cocktail Reception hosted by the Red Lion Inn under the Tent behind Town Hall

SATURDAY, JUNE 4

TRIBUTE NIGHT CELEBRATION 5:30 pm Cocktails and light supper at allium Doug Trumbull TRIBUTE 7:30 pm Priority Seating to Tribute Evening and the screening of Back to the Future

SUNDAY, JUNE 6

EXCLUSIVE SUNDAY BRUNCH 11 am Intimate light brunch with jury and nominees and announcement of Juried Prize at allium, Railroad Street FILMS AND DISCUSSIONS throughout the weekend admission to all films and panel discussions in Great Barrington and Pittsfield

$250 Opening Night Pass includes: THURSDAY, JUNE 2

OPENING NIGHT PARTY 5:30 pm Cocktails and light buffet supper at the BIFF Tent behind Town Hall on Castle Street, Great Barrington catered by Max Ultimate Food

OPENING NIGHT FILM 7:30 pm Priority Seating to the Opening Night Presentation PAGE ONE: Inside THE NEW YORK TIMES and Q&A with the film’s director and producers at the Mahaiwe, Castle Street

SATURDAY, JUNE 4

TRIBUTE NIGHT CELEBRATION 7:30 pm Admission to Tribute Evening

and screening of Back to the Future FILMS AND DISCUSSIONS throughout the weekend admission to all films and panel discussions in Great Barrington and Pittsfield

$250 Tribute Pass includes: THURSDAY, JUNE 2

OPENING NIGHT FILM 7:30 pm Admission to the Opening Night Presentation PAGE ONE: Inside THE NEW YORK TIMES and Q&A with the film’s director and producers at the Mahaiwe, Castle Street

SATURDAY, JUNE 4

TRIBUTE NIGHT CELEBRATION 5:30 pm Cocktails and light supper at allium Doug Trumbull TRIBUTE 7:30 pm Priority Seating to Tribute Evening

and the screening of Back to the Future FILMS AND DISCUSSIONS throughout the weekend admission to all films and panel discussions in Great Barrington and Pittsfield

$150 ALL ACCESS Movie Pass includes:

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SATURDAY, JUNE 4

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and the screening of Back to the Future FILMS AND DISCUSSIONS throughout the weekend admission to all films and panel discussions in Great Barrington and Pittsfield

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The Berkshire Film and Media Commission congratulates BIFF on another stellar festival, and celebrates their commitment to quality programming and conversations throughout the year.

and MEDIA COMMISSION BFMC is proud to sponsor the screening of A Letter to Elia winner of the prestigious 2010 Peabody Award. Written and Directed by Martin Scorsese and his longtime collaborator and Berkshire native, Kent Jones.

Saturday, June 4th 1:00 pm The Beacon Cinema, Pittsfield Q&A immediately following with Kent Jones 3:00 pm Wild River Directed by Elia Kazan

The Berkshires: It’s where you want to shoot. • 25% tax credit for film/tv productions • Wide variety of locations: historic, rural, urban, and industrial • Local crews, production resources and facilities • On-line production guide and location resource

For more information contact: diane@berkshirefilm.com • 413 528 4223

www.berkshirefilm.com The Berkshire Film and Media Commission is a fund of the Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation, a 501(c)(3) public charity.

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Peter Riegert | Jason Lehel | Kelley Vickery

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5:30 pm Cocktails with Gala dinner at the BIFF Tent, Castle Street, catered by Max Ultimate Food (All-Inclusive and Opening Night Pass Holders)

7:30 pm Opening night film at the Mahaiwe

(Open to the public. $20 for non-passholders)

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In the tradition of great fly-on-the-wall documentaries, Andrew Rossi’s riveting documentary PAGE ONE: INSIDE THE NEW yORK TIMES deftly gains unprecedented access to the New york Times newsroom and the inner workings of the Media Desk. With the Internet surpassing print as our main news source and newspapers all over the country going bankrupt, PAGE ONE chronicles the transformation of the media industry at its time of greatest turmoil. Writers like Brian Stelter, Tim Arango and the salty but brilliant David Carr track print journalism’s metamorphosis even as their own paper struggles to stay vital and solvent, while their editors and publishers grapple with upto-the-minute issues like controversial new sources and the implications of an online pay-wall. Meanwhile, rigorous journalism is thriving—PAGE ONE gives us an up-close look at the vibrant cross-cubicle debates and collaborations, tenacious jockeying for onrecord quotes, and skillful page-one pitching that brings the most venerable newspaper in America to fruition each and every day.

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BERKSHIRE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL and congratulates on the 6th Anniversary GWFF, is a German not-for-profit Rights Management Company licensed by the German Patent- and Trademark Office. GWFF was formed in 1982 by international film and television producers for the purpose of administering and collecting ancillary revenues resulting from secondary uses in Europe. In the US it is represented by its subsidiary GWFF USA Inc.

If your production is broadcast anywhere in Europe, weÂ´ll be there to ensure you get paid for it. For further information about GWFF please contact: GWFF GmbH Gertraude Mueller-Ernstberger Marstallstr. 8 80539 Munich, Germany phone: +49-89-22 26 68 fax: +49-89-22 95 60 kontakt@gwff.de

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GWFF USA, Inc. Ronald Frohne 885 Third Avenue, Suite 2406 New York, NY 100 22 phone: +1-212-433 1397 fax: +1-212-310 0133 info@gwffmovie.com

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7:30pm

Cocktails and light supper at allium

(All-Inclusive and Tribute Pass Holders)

Tribute to Doug Trumbull at the Mahaiwe (Open to the public)

Tribute film BACK TO THE FUTURE Immediately following the tribute

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TrIBuTE nIgHT

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SATURDAY, JUNE 4

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Honoring

doug TrumBull with the 2011 BIFF achievement in Film award

The evening is generously hosted and underwritten by

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BIFF is privileged to pay tribute to the legendary filmmaker and visual effects pioneer, and Berkshire resident Douglas Trumbull. Mr. Trumbull was one of the Special Photographic Effects Supervisors for 2001: A SPACE ODySSEy (1968). He went on to become the Visual Effects Supervisor for such classics as CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND (1977), STAR TREK: THE MOTION PICTURE (1979), and BLADE RUNNER (1982), each of which earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Visual Effects. Mr. Trumbull directed SILENT RUNNING (1972), BRAINSTORM (1983), BACK TO THE FUTURE... THE RIDE (1991) and numerous other special format films. In the 90s Trumbull moved his studios to Sheffield and employed dozens of Berkshirites, creating a rich and exciting new industry in this community. The Berkshires celebrates the iconic, groundbreaking work of Mr. Trumbull and his contributions to all of us in this community. We are proud to call him our own.

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COPACABANA

Feature | 90 min Page 32

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9 am 10 am

Feature | 107 min Page 29

9:15 Am

ILLEGAL

THE LIFE OF FISH Feature | 84 min Page 33

THE CHILD PRODIGY (L’ENFANT PRODIGE)

Position Among the Stars

9:15 Am

11 am noon

RED LIGHT REVOLUTION

Feature | 91 min Page 35

1 pm

11:30 Am

2 pm 3 pm

Feature | 99 min Page 29

Documentary | 111 min Page 45

11:15 Am

Granito

NORMAN

Feature | 97 min Page 34

Documentary | 103 min Page 43

1:30 pm

SHORTS #4

Shorts | 120 min PAGE 55

1:45 pm

2:00 pm

4 pm 5 pm

DHOBI GHAT (Mumbai Diaries) Feature | 100 min Page 30

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9:00 Am

GREAT BARRINGTON

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Crime after Crime Documentary | 94 min Page 42

4:00 pm

4:30 pm

SHORTS #3

Shorts | 80 min PAGE 55

4:30 pm

6 pm 7 pm

THE TRIP

Feature | 107 min Page 36

8 pm

6:30 pm

KINYARWANDA Feature | 100 min Page 32

6:30 pm

ON THE ICE

Feature | 90 min Page 34

6:45 pm

9 pm Documentary | 98 min Page 44

9:00 pm

PART TIME FABULOUS Feature | 79 min Page 35

9:00 pm

BELLFLOWER

Feature | 105 min Page 29

9:15 pm

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L’Amour Fou

10 am

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The Green Wave

FACE TO FACE

9:30 am

Mahaiwe

HITLER IN HOLLYWOOD

Feature | 85 min Page 32

9:00 am

Documentary | 80 min Page 43

Feature | 90 min Page 30

11 am Rebirth

noon

11:00 am

HABERMANN

Feature | 115 min Page 31

11:30 am

1 pm

The Team

Documentary | 90 min Page 46

11:30 am

White Irish Drinkers/ Q&A with Karen allen and peter Riegert Feature | 90 min

12:00 Pm

2 pm

SHORTS #2

Henry of Navarre Feature | 155 min Page 31

3 pm

1:30 pm

FEATHERED COCAINE Documentary | 80 min Page 43

Shorts | 90 min PAGE 54

1:30 pm

2:00 pm

4 pm 5 pm A NOVEL ROMANCE Feature | 97 min Page 28

6 pm

4:45 pm

My AFTERNOONs WITH MARGueRITtE (La tête en friche)

SHORTS #1

Shorts | 80 min PAGE 54

4:00 pm

Doug Trumbull Special screening TBD

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Documentary | 104 min Page 45

GREAT BARRINGTON

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9 am

Feature | 82 min Page 33

4:30 pm

Four-Faced Liar Feature | 87 min Page 30

7 pm

6:00 pm

Never Stand Still BEGINNERS

8 pm

Feature | 105 min Page 28

Doug Trumbull Tribute

DOCUMENTARY | 78 min PAGE 64

7:00 pm

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MONGA

7:15 pm

Feature | 140 min Page 33

9 pm

8:00 pm

10 pm

IF A TREE FALLS: A STORY OF THE EARTH LIBERATION FRONT

Back to the Future Page 15

Immediately following tribute

Shorts | 120 min PAGE 57

9:00 pm

9:15 pm

Special Events Programming and schedule subject to change | See Triplex and Beacon for up-to-date information

See page 47 for a special 1:00 PM screening of You Don’t Like the Truth: 4 Days Inside Guantanomo/Q&A at Simon’s Rock

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Documentary | 84 min Page 44

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7:30 pm

JACOB’S PILLOW

Romeo and Juliet

“ the

dance center of the nation “ – The New York Times

D A N C E FESTIVAL 2011 June 18 – August 28 Lar Lubovitch Dance Company

Trisha Brown Dance Company

Mark Morris Dance Group Carte Blanche

Photos Erik Berg, Sharen Bradford, Magali Dougados, Yong Hoon Han, Ikegani Naoya, and Todd Rosenberg

LDP/Laboratory Dance Project

Festival 2011 features world premieres, U.S. debuts, emerging dance artists, legendary choreographers, live music, and over 200 free events. Dance companies from Cuba, South Korea, France, and beyond. An exclusive Annie Leibovitz dance photography exhibit. Music from Sergei Prokofiev and Johannes Brahms to Aretha Franklin and Sly and the Family Stone. Fashion, rebellion, love, fantasy, humor, and heart. It’s all at the Pillow this year.

While at BIFF, don’t miss the June 4 preview screening of Never Stand Still, the new documentary filmed on location at Jacob’s Pillow Visit online for artist videos. Tickets start at $22!

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Mahaiwe

9 am 10 am

LA PRIMA COSA BELLA (THE FIRST BEAUTIFUL THING) Feature | 117 min Page 35

11 am

Youth Producing Change Documentary | 80 min Page 48

9:15 Am

NORMAN

Feature | 97 min Page 34

9:00 Am

KIDS SHORTS

9:15 Am

Shorts | 65 min PAGE 59

10:00 Am

noon

Miss Representation

1 pm

Documentary | 103 min Page 43

11:15 am

Documentary | 89 min Page 44

Panel Discussion

11:45 Am

Immediately following

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SHORTS #4

Shorts | 120 min PAGE 55

11:30 Am

A BAREFOOT DREAM Feature | 119 min Page 28

12:00 pm

2 pm HAPPY, HAPPY Feature | 85 min Page 31

3 pm

2:00 pm

SCHEMER (DUSK)

SHORTS #5

Feature | 90 min Page 36

Shorts | 120 min PAGE 57

2:30 pm

2:15 pm

4 pm WE WERE HERE

Documentary | 90 min Page 46

5 pm

4:00 pm

!Woman Art Revolution

Documentary | 83 min Page 47

4:30 pm

6 pm

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Granito/

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Troubadours

THE CHILD PRODIGY (L’ENFANT PRODIGE)

Documentary | 91 min Page 46

4:00 pm

Feature | 99 min Page 29

4:45 pm

7 pm

Closing Night Film

CHASING MADOFF Documentary | 97 min Page 42

6:30 pm

8 pm

THE MYTH of the American Sleepover Feature | 93 min Page 34

6:30 pm

COPACABANA Feature | 107 min Page 29

7:00 pm

Closing Night Film

Buck

Documentary | 88 min Page 42

7:00 pm

9 pm

Special Events Programming and schedule subject to change | See Triplex and Beacon for up-to-date information

See page 47 for a special 1:00 PM screening of Windfall/Q&A at Simon’s Rock See page 66 for 2011 BIFF JURY PRIZE

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THE HORSE WHISPERER may be the stuff of Hollywood legend, but the charismatic horseman who inspired the novel and the film is very real. For Buck Brannaman - a true cowboy who is also part guru and part philosopher - horses are a mirror of the human soul. BUCK, a richly textured and visually stunning films, follows Brannaman from his abusive childhood to his unusual approach to horse-training. Eschewing the violence of his past, he teaches people to communicate with horses through instinct, not punishment. He possesses near magical abilities as he dramatically transforms horses - and people - with his understanding, compassion and respect. In the film, the animal-human relationship becomes a perfect metaphor for meeting the challenges of daily life. A truly American story about an unsung hero: an ordinary man who has made an extraordinary life despite tremendous odds.

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9 am Windfall

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PAGE ONE: INSIDE THE NEW YORK TIMES Documentary | 88 min Page 45

11:15 am

1 pm 2 pm

SHORTS #5

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3 pm

Documentary | 89 min Page 44

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Miss Representation

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Crime after Crime Documentary | 94 min Page 42

11:30 am

KINYARWANDA

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Feature | 100 min Page 32

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Wild RIver

Feature | 120 min Page 64

Youth Producing Change

3:30 pm

Documentary | 80 min Page 48

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Documentary | 60 min Page 64

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Troubadours

Documentary | 91 min Page 46

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PART TImE FABULOUS FEaTurE | 79 min PagE 35

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Sunday, 12:00 pm - Mahaiwe

FRee Film for kids Won-kang, a former soccer prospect whose life didn’t turn out quite promising, is at the end of rope when he goes to East Timor. There seems to be not much hope until he comes across the street kids playing a ball with bare feet. At first, he thinks there would be plenty of opportunities and opens a sports equipment store. But he soon realizes none of the kids can afford such goods and decides to teach the kids how to play ball and form a youth soccer team.

Saturday,4:45 pm - Triplex #1

Film in Juried Competition Nate and Jenny are friends, both going through awful times in their lives. They think by living together for a few months it will help them just get by and nothing will change between them or their friendship... turns out they were wrong and everything changes.

From writer/director Mike Mills comes a comedy/drama about how deeply funny and transformative life can be, even at its most serious moments. Beginners imaginatively explores the hilarity, confusion, and surprises of love through the evolving consciousness of Oliver (Golden Globe Award nominee Ewan McGregor). Oliver meets the irreverent and unpredictable Anna (Mélanie Laurent of Inglourious Basterds) only months after his father Hal (Academy Award nominee Christopher Plummer) has passed away. This new love floods Oliver with memories of his father who— following 44 years of marriage—came out of the closet at age 75 to live a full, energized, and wonderfully tumultuous gay life. The upheavals of Hal’s new honesty by turns funny and moving, brought father and son closer than they’d ever been able to be. Now Oliver endeavors to l ove Anna with all the bravery, humor, and hope that his father taught him.

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Saturday, 7:15 pm - Triplex #1

Friday, 9:15 PM - Triplex #3 SUNday, 5:45 pm - Beacon

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BELLFLOWER

Best friends Woodrow and Aiden spend all of their free time building MAD MAX-inspired flamethrowers and muscle cars in preparation for a global apocalypse. But when Woodrow meets a charismatic young woman and falls hard in love, he and Aiden quickly integrate into a new group of friends, setting off on a journey of love and hate, betrayal, infidelity, and extreme violence more devastating and fiery than any of their apocalyptic fantasies.

Friday, 11:15 am - Triplex #2 Sunday, 4:45 PM - Triplex #3 On the keyboard, the young hands fly rapidly and the melody rises. For the child, nothing is easier; he hears the sounds in his head. These hands belong to 6 years old André Mathieu. He won his audiences and fired up concerts halls in London, New York, Paris and around the world. Adulated, hailed, praised, the child prodigy seemed to have everything to succeed. From the top of his vertiginous successes, to depths of torment, the life of the “Little Canadian Mozart” blends into his music. A romantic and passionate composer wishing for happiness, his story is nevertheless played on tragic notes.

COPACABANA Writer/Director: Marc Fitoussi Cast: Isabelle Huppert | Aure Atika | Lolita Chammah France | 2011 | 107 min English subtitles

Friday, 9:15 am - Triplex #1 Sunday, 7:00 PM - Triplex #3

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Babou seems to be able to shrug off anything. Real jobs, husbands, responsibilities, who needs them? But when she finds out that her own daughter is too ashamed of her to invite her to her wedding, she decides to make some changes. She takes a job selling time-shares at the Belgian seaside during the off-season, and even to her own surprise, becomes the model employee. Eventually Babou once again gets in the way of her success, and she must find a way to get a wedding gift worthy of her daughter yet true to her one-of-a-kind self.

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Friday, 4:30 pm - Triplex #1

Shai (Monica Dogra), an affluent investment banker on sabbatical, strikes up an unusual friendship with Munna (Prateik), a young and handsome laundry boy (dhobi) with ambitions of being a Bollywood actor, and has a brief dalliance with Arun (Aamir Khan), a gifted painter. As Shai's relationship with Munna deepens, Arun discovers in his new house a secret about Yasmin (Kriti Malhotra), the previous tenant, that brings meaning to his solitary life. As they slip away from familiar moorings and drift closer together, the city finds its way into the crevices of their inner worlds.

Saturday, 9:30 AM - Triplex #3

Film in Juried Competition There are two sides to every story, but in this case, there are ten. Tempers flare and emotions run high when a diverse group of Australians sit down to decide the fate of a violent young man. Based on a play by Australian playwright, David Williamson and adapted for the screen by Michael Rymer, Face to Face is a compelling human drama that features a stellar Australian cast including Vince Colosimo, Sigrid Thornton, Luke Ford and Matthew Newton.

Four-Faced Liar Writer: Marja-Lewis Ryan Director: Jacob Chase Cast: Marja Lewis Ryan | Emily Peck | Todd Kubrak USA | 2010 | 87 min

Saturday, 6:00 PM - Triplex #3 Sunday, 11:30 PM - Beacon

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A girl and a guy walk into a bar. They meet a girl and a guy. The guys talk about the girls. The girl falls for the girl. The guys donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know...until they do. THE FOUR-FACED LIAR is a coming of age story about four friends and the chances they take on love.

Saturday, 11:30 am - Triplex #2 Sunday, 9:15 am - Beacon

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HABERMANN

Based on true events HABERMANN is the first major motion picture to dramatize the expulsion of 3 million Germans from Czechoslovakia. It was an action that also resulted in the deaths of thousands of German civilians, and is still a controversial subject today. The story begins in 1937 and follows the life of August Habermann, a German sawmill owner who lives in a small village near the northern border of Czechoslovakia. Well respected and rich, he marries Jana, a young and beautiful Czech woman. Their once comfortable lives undergo increased tension, however, when the region is annexed by Nazi Germany in 1938.

HAPPY, HAPPY Writer: Ragnhild Tronvoll Director: Anne Sewitsky Cast: Oskar Hernæs Brandsø | Ram Shihab Ebedy | Agnes Kittelsen Norway | 2010 | 85 min Print Courtesy of Magnolia English subtitles

Sunday, 2:00 PM - Triplex #1

Family is the most important thing in the world to Kaja. She is an eternal optimist in spite of living with a man who would rather go hunting with the boys, and who refuses to have sex with her because she “isn’t particularly attractive” anymore. Whatever. That’s life. But when “the perfect couple” moves in next door, Kaja struggles to keep her emotions in check. Not only do these successful, beautiful, exciting people sing in a choir; they have also adopted a child – from Ethiopia! These new neighbors open a new world to Kaja, with consequences for everyone involved. And when Christmas comes around, it becomes evident that nothing will ever be like before – even if Kaja tries her very best.

Saturday, 1:30 PM - Triplex #1

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Based on the internationally successful novel “Henry Quatre” by Heinrich Mann, it is the story about one of the first true humanists of Europe. Henry of Navarre, leader of the Huegnots, battles against the Catholics and Catherine de Medici, the queen of France, after an attempt at peace by way of Henry’s marriage to de Medici’s daughter, Margot. The resulting St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre leaves Henry imprisoned in the Louvre as de Medici’s erratic sons interchange positions on the throne. Henry eventually escapes and rousts his army in a successful attempt to take the throne and become monarch of France, and he establishes laws granting his people freedom of religion and opinion.

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Saturday, 9:00 AM - Triplex #1

Actress Maria de Medeiros directs a documentary to pay homage to another actress that she admires, Micheline Presle, whose career started in the early thirties. Evoking the renowned filmmakers with whom she worked, Micheline Presle mentions Luis Aramcheck, a director she worked with in 1939. Maria tries to track the mysterious director without ever imagining that this could in any way endanger her life. The scraps of one of the films of Aramcheck, who has disappeared since the Second World War, launches the Pulp Fiction actress on the trail a forbidden work that could have changed the history of international filmmaking forever, Hitler in Hollywood. Hitler in Hollywood is a thriller that, using the form of a treasure hunt, blends archives and recomposed images, true or false interviews and action scenes. The film score is composed by Vladimir Cosma.

Friday, 9:00 AM - Triplex #2

Tania is a former teacher from Russia, living illegally in Belgium with her 14-year-old son, Ivan. One day, they are stopped on the street for a routine check by the police; Tania is arrested and placed in an immigration detention center for women, while Ivan manages to escape. Threatened with imminent deportation and fearful for Ivan's fate, Tania embarks on a harrowing journey, determined to preserve her dignity and find her son.

KINYARWANDA Writer/Director: Alrick Brown Cast: Edouard Bamporiki | Cassandra Freeman | Marc Gwamaka USA/Rwanda | 2011 | 100 min Filmmakers in attendance

FRIDay, 6:30 PM - Triplex #2 Saturday, 1:45 PM - Beacon

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Film in Juried Competition During the 1994 Rwandan genocide, the Mufti of Rwanda, the most respected Muslim leader in the country, issued a fatwa forbidding Muslims from participating in the killing of the Tutsi. As the country became a slaughterhouse, mosques became places of refuge where Muslims and Christians, Hutus and Tutsis came together to protect each other. Kinyarwanda is based on true accounts from survivors who took refuge at the Grand Mosque of Kigali and the Imams who opened their doors to give refuge to the Tutsi and to those Hutu who refused to participate in the killing. The story interweaves six different tales that together form one grand narrative.

Friday, 9:15 am - Triplex #3

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THE LIFE OF FISH

Andres has been living in Germany for 10 years and is a journalist for a travel magazine.He is constantly traveling and visiting amazing places. However, he leads a lonely life and with no ties to any particular place. Andres returns to his native Chile to solve pending affairs from his past before starting a new life in Berlin. During his stay, he attends a friend’s birthday party and rediscovers the past he has chosen to forget. We see him interact with his childhood friends and with the love of his life, Beatriz, with whom he has unfinished affairs with. The film reflects on relationships, fear of commitment, double standards, and how relationships can often be transitional, this a metaphor of how we relate in today’s transitory world.

MONGA Writer: WriterLi-ting Tseng (screenplay) Director: Doze Niu Cast: Ethan Ruan | Mark Chao | Rhydian Vaughan Taiwan | 2010 | 140 min English subtitles

Saturday, 8:00 PM - Triplex #3

Mosquito and his fellows learned, in the streets of Monga, there is only one way to survive: be stronger than your enemies. Mosquito, Monk, Dragon, White Monkey and A-Lan, five teenagers joined “Prince Gang”, simple because Mosquito’s lunch was snatched on his first day transferred to the high school in Monga, and they are all tired of being bullied. While thy enjoyed their young gangster lifestyle and ready to take over the streets, the powerful others have casted greedy eyes on the prosperous Monga. The kids just knew nothing about it.

My AFTERNOONs WITH MARGueRITtE (La tête en friche) Writer/Director: Jean Becker Cast: Gérard Depardieu | Gisèle Casadesus | Maurane France | 2011 | 82 min English subtitles

Saturday, 4:30 PM - Triplex #2

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In a small French town, Germain, a nearly illiterate man in his 50s, considered to be the village idiot by his friends at the local bistro, one day at the park he happens to sit beside Margueritte, a little old lady who is reading excerpts from her novel aloud. She’s articulate, highly intelligent and frail. Between Germain and Margueritte, there are 40 years and 200 pounds difference. He is lured by Margueritte’s passion for life and the magic of literature from which he has always felt excluded. As Margueritte broadens his mind via reading excerpts from her novel, he realizes that he is more of an intellectual than he ever allowed himself to be. Afternoons spent reading aloud on their favorite bench transform their lives and start them both on a new journey to literacy and respect for Germain, and to the deepest friendship for Margueritte.

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THE MYTH of the American Sleepover Writer/Director: David Robert Mitchell Cast: Jade Ramsey | Amy Seimetz | Nikita Ramsey USA | 2010 | 93 min Print Courtesy of IFC

Sunday, 6:30 PM - Triplex #2

From David Robert Mitchell, comes a poignant and tender coming-of-age drama. The film follows 4 young people on the last night of summer - their final night of freedom before school starts. The teenagers cross paths as they explore the suburban wonderland they inhabit in search of love and adventure; chasing first kisses, elusive crushes, popularity and parties. While looking for the iconic teenage experience, they discover the quiet moments that they will later look back on with nostalgia. Inspired by Mitchell’s experiences, the film is a beautifully rendered portrait of summertime adolescence and the search for human connections. The kids may be lost, a little confused and full of angst, but ultimately the kids are alright in this life-affirming, truthful and fresh take on the teen genre.

Friday, 2:00 PM - Triplex #1 Sunday, 9:00 Am - Triplex #3 Film in Juried Competition Norman Long is a high school loner, a self-aware and darkly funny teen who’s just trying to handle his daily existence. In the wake of his mother’s sudden death, Norman must now also deal with the reality that his father is starting to lose his battle with stomach cancer. Norman, depressed and angry, unintentionally gets caught in a lie that he, in fact, has stomach cancer. Soon his complete distortion of the facts spirals out of control. Part coping mechanism, partially as a way to feel closer to his father, and to a certain degree to prepare others for his possible suicide, Norman begins to imitate his father’s debilitating physical symptoms, dramatically affecting his life and the world around him.

ON THE ICE Writer/Director: Andrew Okpeaha MacLean Cast: Frank Qutuq Irelan | Adamina Kerr | John Miller USA | 2011 | 90 min Filmmakers in attendance

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Friday, 6:45 PM - Triplex #3 Sunday, 1:30 PM - Beacon

In this engrossing and suspenseful feature film debut by filmmaker Andrew Okpeaha MacLean, two teenage boys who have grown up like brothers go about their lives in the comfortable claustrophobia of an isolated Alaskan town. Early one morning, on a seal hunt with another teenager, an argument between the three boys quickly escalates into a tragic accident. Bonded by their dark secret, the two best friends are forced to create one fabrication after another in order to survive. The shocked boys stumble through guilt‐fueled days, avoiding the suspicions of their community as they weave a web of deceit. With their future in the balance, the two boys are forced to explore the limits of friendship and honor.

Friday, 9:00 PM - Triplex #2 Sunday, 11:15 AM - Beacon

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PART TIME FABULOUS

PART TIME FABULOUS (PTF) is an exposé on what it’s really like living with Clinical Depression. PTF weaves its story of love, pain and healing by revealing real-life stories of depression with a modern love story. The film follows Mel (Jules Bruff), a young woman who suddenly falls in love with a man, Don (Bjørn Johnson), on vacation. So taken with each other, he moves in with her twelve days later. It’s not until then that her deep-rooted and untreated Clinical Depression reveals itself. Mel is forced to finally face her disease. In the quest to heal herself, she sets out to make a documentary that exposes her truth, and the heartfelt truth of others dealing with Clinical Depression.

Sunday, 9:15 AM - Triplex #1

A major box office hit in Italy and their official selection for Best Foreign film, THE FIRST BEAUTIFUL THING aka LA PRIMA COSA BELLA follows a strong and optimistic mother raising her two children against all odds. Throughout grief and pain she teaches her family to remain open and loving and to cherish the little joys in life. Filmed on location in Livorno, acclaimed director Paolo Virzì has crafted a heartwarming tale filled with unforgettable and emotional true-tolife performances that will make you laugh and cry, sometimes both at the same time.

RED LIGHT REVOLUTION Writer/Director: Sam Voutas Cast: Jun Zhao | Vivid Wang | Xiduo Jiang China | 2010 | 91 min English subtitles

Friday, 11:30 AM - Triplex #1

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A humorous look at Chinese tradition colliding with modern sexual values, Shunzi, an ordinary Beijing man who opens an adult shop to make ends meet, sparks a sexual revolution in his conservative neighborhood. Like many men of his generation, he is a hard worker who simply can’t afford to provide the type of life his spouse desires. As money pressures rise, Shunzi’s parents urge him to forget about “face” and take any job that will have him. So, unbeknownst to his family, Shunzi decides to step behind China’s new “red curtain” and secretly open an adult shop. But when the neighborhood watch discovers that Shunzi has been operating without a permit, he faces the threat of losing everything. Shunzi and his neighbours have a choice: accept defeat, or fight for the shop that has unexpectedly united the community.

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SCHEMER (DUSK) Writer: Anjet Daanje Director: Hanro Smitsman Cast: Marja Lewis Ryan | Emily Peck | Todd Kubrak Netherlands | 2010 | 90 min English subtitles

Sunday, 2:30 PM - Triplex #2

During a scorching hot summer the tension in a group of young friends runs so hight, they decide to murder one of the girls in their group. Dusk is a tragic ensemble film about the emergence of a fascist dictatorship within a group, a dynamic that requires the death of a scapegoat.

THE TRIP Director: Michael Winterbottom Cast: Steve Coogan | Margo Stilley | Rob Brydon UK | 2010 | 107 min Print Courtesy of IFC

Friday, 6:30 PM - Triplex #1

Playing loose versions of themselves, Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon reprise their hilariously fictionalized roles from TRISTAM SHANDY: A COCK AND BULL STORY and reunite with acclaimed director Michael Winterbottom for an acerbically witty, largely improvised ride through the English countryside. Tapped by The Observerto review fine restaurants throughout the Lake District and Yorkshire Dales, Steve (Coogan) finds himself without a traveling companion after his girlfriend decides not to go at the last minute. After being turned down by everyone else he knows, Steve extends an invitation to Rob (Brydon), and together the pair attempt to navigate the winding back roads of rural England, impersonating popular celebrities such as Michael Caine, Woody Allen and Liam Neeson and bickering along the way. Over the course of six different meals at six different restaurants, the ultimate odd couple tests the limits of their friendship, questioning what is most important to them and along the way discover the limits of what they are and are not willing to give up for fame.

A New England professor discovers alien horrors beyond his most dire imaginings in this 1930s-style tale by celebrated weird fiction author H.P. Lovecraft.

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Buck Director: Cindy Meehl Producer: Julie Goldman USA | 2010 | 88 min FILMMAKER IN ATTENDANCE Print Courtesy of IFC

Friday, 7:30 PM - Beacon Pittsfield Opening Night FIlM Sunday, 7:00 PM - Mahaiwe Great Barrington Closing Night Film See page 23 for description.

CHASING MADOFF Writer: Harry Markopolos (book) Director: Jeff Prosserman Producers: Randy Manis | Anton Nadler | Jeff Sackman USA | 2011 | 97 min

Sunday, 6:30 PM - Triplex #1 Great Barrington Closing Night Film

At 8:30am on December 11th, 2008 two federal agents entered the New York City penthouse and arrested Bernard Madoff, the admitted mastermind behind the largest act of financial fraud in world history. Ten years prior, Boston-based Securities Analyst Harry Markopolos discovered that Bernard L. Madoff Securities was a Ponzi scheme. Comparable to Eliot Ness and Al Capone, the film is the compelling story of Harry Markopolos and his team of investigator’s ten-year struggle to expose the harrowing truth behind the infamous Madoff scandal. Throughout the decade long investigation, Markopolos pieced together a chain of white-collar predators consisting of financial fraudsters, lieutenants, and henchmen, all linked to the devastating Ponzi scheme. CHASING MADOFF is a documentary that reveals the frightening true story behind the Bernard Madoff scandal from the team that discovered it ten-years before the public.

Crime after Crime Director/Producer: Yoav Potash USA | 2011 | 94 min FILMMAKER IN ATTENDANCE

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In 1983, Deborah Peagler, a woman brutally abused by her boyfriend, was sentenced to 25 years-to-life for her connection to his murder. 20 years later, a California law allowing incarcerated domestic-violence survivors to reopen their cases was passed. Enter a pair of rookie land-use attorneys convinced that with the incontrovertible evidence that existed, they could free Deborah in a matter of months. What they didn’t know was the depth of corruption and politically driven resistance they’d encounter, sending them down a nightmarish, bureaucratic rabbit hole of injustice. The outrageous twists and turns in this consummately crafted saga are enough to keep us on the edge of our seats. Meanwhile, the spirit, fortitude, and love all three characters marshal in the face of this wrenching marathon is nothing short of miraculous.

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Director: Orn Marino Arnarson | Thorkell S. Hardarson Producer: Markell Productions Iceland | 2010 | 80 min FILMMAKER IN ATTENDANCE Print Courtesy of Film Transit

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Film in Juried Competition Alan Howell Parrot, one of the worlds leading falcon trainers with powerful connections in the Middle East, where he trained hunting falcons for the Persian Gulf power elite, including the King of Saudi Arabia, the President of the UAE and the Shah of Iran. After witnessing relentless falcon smuggling in the wake of the USSR’s collapse, he left the Middle East and formed a global nature conservation group to protect the falcons.Through his connections, he learned of the whereabouts of Osama Bin Laden, an obsessed falconer. He relayed this information to various agencies within the Bush administration from 2005-2008 but only met silence or obstruction. Noone tried to speak to the one man that says he has gone falconry hunting with Bin Laden 6 times since 2004.

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Granito Writer: Peter Kinoy | Pamela Yates | Paco de Onis Director: Pamela Yates Producer: Paco de Onis USA | 2011 | 103 min FILMMAKERS IN ATTENDANCE

Presented in partnership with Human Rights Watch Film Festival www.hrw.org

Friday, 1:30 PM - Triplex #2 Sunday, 11:15 AM - Triplex #2*

*Panel discussion to follow on human rights (see page 62 for Info)

Film in Juried Competition Sometimes a film makes history; it doesn’t just document it. So it is with Granito: How to Nail a Dictator, the astonishing new film by Pamela Yates. Part political thriller, part memoir, Yates transports us back in time through a riveting, haunting tale of genocide and returns to the present with a cast of characters joined by destiny and the quest to bring a malevolent dictator to justice. As if a watchful Maya god were weaving back together threads of a story unraveled by the passage of time, forgotten by most, our characters become integral to the overarching narrative of wrongs done and justice sought that they have pieced together, each adding their granito, their tiny grain of sand, to the epic tale.

Presented in partnership with Human Rights Watch Film Festival www.hrw.org

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A memorial for those who believed in freedom and lost their lives in support of Iran’s Green Revolution, the film uses animation, interviews, blogs, tweets and cell phone footage to bring the audience into the streets with the protesters. Green is the color of hope. Green is the color of Islam, and Green was the symbol of recognition among the supporters of Iranian presidential candidate Mir-Hossein Mousavi. This touching documentary-collage illustrates the dramatic events before and after the 2009 presidential elections in Iran, sharing the feelings of the people behind the historic Green revolution.

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IF A TREE FALLS: A STORY OF THE EARTH LIBERATION FRONT Director: Marshall Curry Producer: Marshall Curry | Sam Cullman USA | 2010 | 84 min Print Courtesy of Oscilliscope

Saturday, 9:15 PM - Triplex #1

On December 7th, 2005, federal agents conducted a nationwide sweep of radical environmentalists involved with the ELF, an organization the FBI has called America’s “#1 domestic terrorism threat.” This film is the remarkable story of the group’s rise and fall, told through the transformation and radicalization of one of its members, Daniel McGowan. Part coming-of-age tale, part cops-and-robbers thriller, the film interweaves a chronicle of McGowan facing life in prison, with a dramatic investigation of the events that led to his involvement with the ELF. Using never-before-seen archival footage and intimate interviews with cell members, the prosecutor and detective who were chasing them, the film asks hard questions about environmentalism, activism, and the way we define terrorism.

L’Amour Fou Director: Pierre Thoretton France | 2010 | 98 min Print Courtesy of IFC

Friday, 9:00 PM - Triplex #1

In 1958, the young French-Algerian couturier Yves Saint Laurent met and fell in love with the industrialist and patron Pierre Bergé, forging a relationship that would endure fifty years of extraordinary success, emotional turbulence and lingering devotion. In 2008, following the death of Saint Laurent, Bergé decided to auction off the art collection that was the result of their decades-spanning union, spread across three lavish homes, inside of which both men exercised a mutual passion for beauty — in objects, places, people, and, above all, through their personal and professional union. How does one walk away from so much beauty cultivated over time? Do we shape the things that surround us, or do those things shape us?

Miss Representation Writers: Jennifer Siebel Newsom | Jessica Congdon Director: Jennifer Siebel Newsom USA | 2011 | 89 min

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Miss Representation exposes how mainstream media contributes to the under-representation of women in positions of power and influence in America and challenges the media’s limited and often disparaging portrayals of them, making it difficult for them to achieve leadership positions and for the average woman to feel powerful herself. In a society where media is the most persuasive force shaping cultural norms, the collective message that our young women and men overwhelmingly receive is that a woman’s value and power lie in her youth, beauty, and sexuality--and not in her capacity as a leader.

Thursday, 7:30 PM - Mahaiwe Opening night film in Great Barrington Saturday, 11:15 AM - Beacon See page 13 for description.

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Position Among the Stars Writer: Hetty Naaijkens-Retel Helmrich | Leonard Retel Helmrich Director: Leonard Retel Helmrich Producer: Hetty Naaijkens-Retel Helmrich Netherlands | 2010 | 111 min Print Courtesy of Film Transit English Subtitles

Friday, 11:15 AM - Triplex #3

For 12 years, film maker Leonard Retel Helmrich followed an Indonesian family from the slums of Jakarta and this resulted in the trilogy Eye of the Day, Shape of the Moon, Position among the Stars. In this third part Position among the Stars, the maker continues to show us the underlying patterns of life in Indonesia, both literally and metaphorically with his revolutionary camera work. The Sjamsuddin family is the microcosm of the most important issues of life in Indonesia: corruption, conflict between religions, gambling addiction, the generation gap and the growing difference between poor and rich.

Rebirth Director: Jim Whitaker Producers: Jim Whitaker | David Soloman USA | 2010 | 104 min Print Courtesy of Oscilliscope

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REBIRTH is the result of a filmmaking journey into living history, following the transformation of five people over the course of ten years whose lives were forever altered on September 11, 2001. Weaving these personal stories with unprecedented multi-camera time-lapse photography of Ground Zero, director Jim Whitaker offers hope and healing and reveals a universal truth: human beings will overcome and aspire to renew, even when the very fabric of their lives has changed. Photo by Thomas Lappin. Courtesy of Oscilloscope Laboratories.

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The Team Director: Patrick Reed Canada | 2011 | 90 min English Subtitles

Presented in partnership with Human Rights Watch Film Festival www.hrw.org

Saturday, 11:30 AM - Triplex #3

Kenyans scramble to produce a controversial TV soap opera about a soccer team, confronting their country’s troubled past and uncertain present. The ethnically diverse cast struggle on set and off to resolve conflicts, desperate to captivate an audience and potentially save a nation.

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In the wake of the turbulent ‘60s, a new style of song and songwriter came to the fore – a style marked by vulnerable introspection and raw, naked emotion. Backed by little more than a lone acoustic guitar or simple piano, these exciting voices descended upon Los Angeles, now emerging as the center of the American music scene. Their epicenter for self-expression became an old beatnik folk club and a fitting name: The Troubadour. The film traces Carole King, James Taylor and the singer/songwriter scene during the late ‘60s and early ‘70s. The film also interweaves the intriguing story of the ‘world famous’ Troubadour club that cemented their musical legacy. TROUBADOURS tells the story of when rock n’ roll grew up.

WE WERE HERE Directors: David Weissman | Bill Weber Producer: David Weissman USA | 2011 | 90 min

WE WERE HERE is the first documentary to take a deep and reflective look back at the arrival and impact of AIDS in San Francisco. It explores how the City’s inhabitants were affected by, and how they responded to, that calamitous epidemic. Though a San Francisco-based story, WE WERE HERE extends beyond San Francisco and beyond AIDS itself. It speaks to our capacity as individuals to rise to the occasion, and to the incredible power of a community coming together with love, compassion, and determination.

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Director: Laura Israel USA | 2010 | 83 min FILMMAKERS IN ATTENDANCE

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Wind power… it’s sustainable, it burns no fossil fuel, it produces no air pollution. What’s more, it cuts down dependency on foreign oil. That’s what the people of Meredith, NY first thought when a wind developer looked to supplement the rural farm town’s failing economy with a farm of their own and 40 industrial wind turbines. Israel’s film, documents how this proposal divides Meredith’s residents, as they fight over the future of their community. Attracted at first to the financial incentives that would seemingly boost their dying economy, the townspeople grow increasingly alarmed as they discover the impacts that the 400-foot high windmills slated for Meredith would bring to their community. WINDFALL looks at both sides of wind energy development.

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An entertaining and revelatory “secret history” of Feminist Art, !W.A.R. deftly illuminates this under-explored movement through conversations, observations, archival footage and works of visionary artists, historians, curators and critics. Starting from its roots in 1960s antiwar and civil rights protests, the film details major developments in women’s art through the 1970s and explores how the tenacity and courage of these pioneering artists resulted in what is now widely regarded as the most significant art movement of the late 20th century. With a rousing score by Sleater-Kinney’s Carrie Brownstein.

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Canadian citizen. Born in Toronto on September 19, 1986 he was fifteen years old when he was taken prisoner by U.S. forces in Afghanistan on July 2002. Captured in battle and severely wounded he was taken to Bagram Air Force base where he was interrogated and tortured. On October 2002, he was sent to the U.S. military prison in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. The U.S. government accuses Omar Khadr of having killed an American soldier and intends to try him as a war criminal. Omar is the last citizen of a western power being held in Guantánamo. The Canadian conservative government has refused to request his repatriation.

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Youth Producing Change Director: David Were | Justus Ongera USA | 2011 | 80 min

Presented in partnership with Human Rights Watch Film Festival www.hrw.org

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Teen filmmakers turn the camera on their own struggles for human rights and invite audiences to experience the world as they do â&#x20AC;&#x201C; as a Kenyan teenager living in Africaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s second largest slum, as a 15-year-old girl in India who needs to choose between supporting her family or getting an education, or as a 14-year-old Afghan seeking asylum in the UK after fleeing the war-torn country where his father was killed. Youth Producing Change shares eleven powerful stories made by teens from across the globe as they share their vision of change.

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SHORTS #1 Saturday, 4:00 Pm - Triplex #3 The Work of 1000 Director: Susan Edwards USA | 2011 | 30 min | FILMMAKER IN ATTENDANCE

Marion Stoddart lived next to one of America’s most polluted rivers. The Nashua’s biting stench and eerie colors assault the senses. As the Nashua River reaches this lowest point in its life, Marion dwells upon the direction her own life is taking. With 3 young children, Marion finds herself spiraling into a dangerous depression. Then, by chance, she hears a message of hope on the radio: that with vision and commitment, ‘one person can do the work of 1000.’ The film chronicles Stoddart’s life, achievements, setbacks, and successes, celebrating the power of one person to make a difference.

Born Sweet Director: Cynthia Wade Cambodia | 2010 | 28 min | FILMMAKER IN ATTENDANCE

Arsenic-laced water has poisoned a 15 year old Cambodian boy who dreams of karaoke stardom.

SHORTS #2 Saturday, 1:30 Pm - Triplex #3 Killing In The Name Director: Rory Kennedy USA | 2010 | 40 min

Ashraf Al-Khaled was celebrating the happiest day of his life, when an Al-Qaeda suicide bomber walked into his wedding and killed his father and 26 other family members in front of his eyes. Now, he’s rising from horrific tragedy to break the silence in the Muslim community on this taboo subject by speaking out against terrorism. The film follows Ashraf’s quest to speak with victims and perpetrators and expose the true cost of terrorism.

Strangers No More Director: Karen Goodman | Kirk Simon

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USA | 2010 | 40 min | 2011 Academy Award Winner for Short Film FILMMAKER IN ATTENDANCE

In the heart of Tel Aviv, there is an exceptional school where children from forty-eight different countries and diverse backgrounds come together to learn. Many of the students arrive at Bialik-Rogozin School fleeing poverty, political adversity and even genocide. Here, no child is a stranger. The film follows several students’ struggle to acclimate to life in a new land while slowly opening up to share their stories of hardship and tragedy. With tremendous effort and dedication, the school provides the support these children need to recover from their past. Together, the bond between teacher and student, and amongst the students themselves, enables them to create new lives in this exceptional community.

Wapawekka Director: Danis Goulet Canada | 2010 | 17 min

A final visit to their isolated cabin in northern Canada exposes the intergenerational rift between Josh and his traditional Cree father.

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We still Live Here Director: Anne Makepeace USA | 2011 | 50 min | FILMMAKER IN ATTENDANCE

The film tells the unprecedented story of the return of the Wampanoag language, the first time a language with no speakers has been revived in a Native American community. The Wampanoag’s ancestors ensured the survival of the first English settlers in New England, the “Pilgrims,” and lived to regret it. A century ago, their language virtually disappeared. Spurred on by an indomitable Wampanoag woman named Jessie Little Doe Baird, recent MacArthur “genius” award winner, the Wampanoag are now saying loud and clear, and in their Native tongue, “Âs Nutayuneân,” We Still Live Here. The film interweaves contemporary, unfolding scenes of cultural revival with darkly animated historical events that nearly obliterated Wampanoag culture, and ends on a hopeful note, with an image of Jessie’s youngest daughter, the first Native speaker of Wampanoag in a century.

SHORTS #4 Fri, 1:45 Pm - Triplex #3 | Sun, 11:30 Am - Triplex #3 | SUN, 1:30 Pm - Beacon Prayers for Peace Director: Dustin Grella USA | 2010 | 8 min

Prayers for Peace is a narrative stop-motion animation confronting the memory of the artist’s younger brother killed in the current conflict in Iraq. Drawn entirely with pastels on a slate chalkboard, the materials used to create the animation become a metaphor for the impermanence of life. A chic hotel in Amsterdam has a very special guest for 1 night: world-famous writer Charles Bukowski. He is twelve and his real name is Tom.

You Take Yourself Wherever You Go Director: Michael Sinopoli USA-Bershire | 2011 | 16 min FILMMAKER IN ATTENDANCE

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Newly disable people and their families are overwhelmed by and afraid of the changes and obstacles they must face after leaving the care of a rehabilitation facility. This video introduces us to Annie, a courageous and inspiring woman who takes on her new life after becoming paralyze in a bike accident.

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Come grow old with me, the best is yet to be.” A Younger Man is a short film that explores the choices you make when life cheats you out of the best. Rosa, a woman who has been saddled with the all consuming task of caring for her dying husband makes a bold choice that will unite her with a young passionate man and the two embark on a deceptive journey that begins with murder.

AFGHANISTAN PERSPECITVE Director: Dennis Hayden Rollins USA | 2011 | 12 min

Afghanistan. The mention of it evokes passion from all directions. However, most of the people weighing in on the discussion have never been there. Dan White has been there. Not as an observer or advisor, but in a very different capacity. Dan was selected as one of the few Marines chosen to teach Afghans to become soldiers. Dan speaks very candidly about our presence in Afghanistan. Not from the whether we should or shouldn’t be there perspective, but from the perspective that we are there, now what?

ARNICA Director: Des Hamilton Ireland | 2010 | 4 min

Arnica is a son’s love letter to his dead father.

Heal Writer/Director: Mian Adnan Ahmad Cast: Walid Amini | Summar Swift Bitar | Hamid Majid Habibi Afghanistan | 2010 | 24 min

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In a region devastated by war and deprived of normal schooling, a young boy Azeem finds he has an extraordinary gift. While his village’s bare minimum setup for a school provides some relief for the children, when its lone teacher is hit hard by the conflict, it is up to Azeem to do everything he can to help him.

Director: Kevin Breslin USA | 2010 | 40 min | FILMMAKER IN ATTENDANCE

Living for 32 is the inspirational story of Colin Goddard, a survivor of the tragic gun-shooting massacre, which occurred at Virginia Tech on April 16th, 2007. The winning combination of Colin’s passion, charisma and optimism has commanded the attention of the American public and media since the devastating incident, which left 32 dead and 17 injured. In Living for 32, Colin shares an intimate account of the terror that he and his classmates endured and the courageous journey of renewal and hope that he chose to pursue. The film, which was short-listed for an Academy Award, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2011 and has since traveled to colleges, communities and numerous festivals across the country on a national advocacy tour.

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SHORTS #5 Sat, 1:30 Pm - Beacon | Sat, 9:00 Pm - Triplex #2 | Sun, 2:15 Pm - Triplex #3 Mondo’s Search for the Sun Writer/Director: Jana Prchalova UK | 2010 | 11 min

Living in a beautiful house, surrounded by a vibrant garden, Mondo believes he has everything he needs - until one day the sun doesn’t rise. Mondo’s garden is plunged into a perpetual winter and his love for the place dies along with the plants that grew there. In desperation, he builds a flying machine and sets off on a surreal adventure, through the depths of time and space, on a quest to find the sun.

In this poignant and subtly playful story a reclusive, elderly widow, Anna , lives in quiet desperation following her husband’s death until she begins receiving daily phone calls from a silent stranger. An odd and mysterious friendship evolves between the two as Anna shares her life experiences with startling honesty. Empty days are given new hope, but when the calls abruptly end a devastated Anna is compelled to surprising action to fill the unbearable void.

Touch Writer: Colin Pink Director: Jen McGowan Cast: Lily Knight | Rachel Kanouse USA | 2010 | 11 min

An ode to city life, Touch explores themes of isolation and the universal need for community when two strangers make the most important connection of their lives while waiting for a train.

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Evolution Made Us All Writer/Director: Ben Hillman USA-Bershire | 2011 | 3 min FILMMAKER IN ATTENDANCE

A fact-based twist on the beloved hymn “All Things Bright and Beautiful” in which Evolution is celebrated as the process by which all life forms on Earth are created -- including life forms that believe in the Almighty.

All in the Game Writer/Director: Marc Maurino Cast: Stephen Vause | Dana Harrison | David Joseph USA-Bershire | 2011 | 18 min FILMMAKER IN ATTENDANCE

All in the Game is a character-driven crime drama about the complex relationships between homicide detective Moses Goodman and two young men--Cali, a suspect in a murder, and Omar, Goodman’s estranged son, recently returned from Iraq. The film explores issues of responsibility, guilt, and the hard decisions these men make in their flawed attempts to fix, redeem, or save their own lives.

Bukowski Writer/Director: Daan Bakker Cast: Marlon Kicken | Hugo Koolschijn | Miles van der Lely UK | 2011 | 10 min

A chic hotel in Amsterdam has a very special guest for 1 night: world-famous writer Charles Bukowski. He is twelve and his real name is Tom.

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On a rural estate in 1951, a boy named Robby trudges through a meaningless childhood. Training on classical piano is his only chore dictated by unloving parents. But when a Southern farmhand named Emma returns to the farm with a guitar in hand, Robby faces his only opportunity to grow and feel beyond his boyish blues.

Ben holds up a sign on the street for a living, and loves his job more than almost anything. But today is his last day.

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In an eccentric mountain town, a borderline neo-luddite struggles to maintain and share a fragile state of enlightenment.

Kids Shorts - Free! Sunday, 10:00 Am - Mahaiwe Animated, Live Action and Documentary Short Films Recommended for ages 3 to 8 | 65 min Program is in English

The Berkshire International Film Festival in collaboration with the Los Angeles International Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Film Festival presents a wonderful selection of short films from around the world, for ages 3 to 8. The program features works from Croatia, Japan, Australia, Germany, and the US and offers a spectacular array of traditonal, CGI, collage, and stop motion animation styles.

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Croatia Animation School Croatia | 3 min Nye Warburton 2:35, USA | 3 min

Moonwalking Jutta Schuenmann Germany | 5 min

(A Long Day for) Mr. Calpaccio Uruma Delvi Japan | 8 min Kearsey/Kim USA | 4 min

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Small Acts, Big Changes Panelists: Pamela Yates | Susan Meiselas | Yvette Alberdingk Thijm | Luc Cote | Patricio Henriquez

Sunday, 11:15 Am - Triplex #2* *Panel Immediately Follows the screening of Granito (see page 43 for description)

We all want to contribute to positive social change, to live in a peaceful and secure world with human rights for all. Three artists who have made a life-long commitment to change will tell their stories, explain their decisions and describe the ensuing impact on their lives and others. Join Academy Award filmmaker Pamela Yates (“Granito: How toNail a Dictator”), world renowned Magnum photographer Susan Meiselas, and visionary in the use of video for human rights advocacy, the Director of WITNESS, Yvette Alberdingk Thijm and directors Luc Cote and Patricio Henriquez of the film YOU DON’T LIKE THE TRUTH; 3 DAYS IN GUANTANAMO.

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Come Life Director: Ryan Jason Etzel US | 2010 | 14 min FILMMAKER IN ATTENDANCE

The celibate life isn’t for everyone. Sixteen-year-old Shakers Josiah and Miriam are getting ready to fly their spiritual community life in a Shaker village in order to live married in the world. On the road, they encounter a broken family, an older couple with two children, who have lost their faith in the romantic ideals of marriage and are seeking refuge inside the Shaker life. Should the youngsters leave the village, considering this older couple’s hardships? Set in 1850’s new England amidst the natural beauty of real Shaker villages and authentic shaker dancing and song, Come Life is a simple, meditative inquiry into questions of community and partnership.

Shaker Easter (Bro Arnold) Director: Ryan Jason Etzel

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For Martin Scorsese, growing up in Little Italy, seeing On the Waterfront and East of Eden as a young man was a life-changing experience. Scorsese appears on and off camera throughout A Letter to Elia, taking us through Kazan’s life and through his own as well, and through his growing realization that there was an artist behind the camera, someone “who knew me, maybe better than I knew myself.” The film is about being exposed to the right movies at the right moment in your adolescent life, when you’re wide open and ready to connect, to be spurred on by the work up there on the screen, and then, maybe, to chart a course toward making your own movies. Composed of clips, stills, readings from Kazan’s autobiography and his speech on directing (read by Elias Koteas), a videotaped interview done late in Kazan’s life, and Scorsese’s commentary on and offscreen, A Letter to Elia takes a close look at the life of art and its creation – the work, the distractions, the inspirations, the complications, the intersections between art and experience. A Letter to Elia, written and directed by Scorsese and his longtime collaborator Kent Jones, is a deeply personal film, a frank portrait and self-portrait, and an equally frank acknowledgement of the closeness and the distance between artists and their art. The film was awarded the prestigious 2010 Peabody Award.

Preview Screening Never Stand Still Director: Ron Honsa Narrated by: Bill T. Jones USA | 2011 | 78 min filmmaker in attendance

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Never Stand Still is a stirring new documentary about dance and dancers, filmed on location at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, a National Historic Landmark and America’s longest running dance festival. Narrated by Tony Awardwinner Bill T. Jones, the film immerses audiences in the world of dance through the stories, performances, and personalities of the world’s most exciting dance artists. Never Stand Still features backstage access, intimate conversations with choreographers and dancers, thrilling HD performances, and rare archival footage. Onstage and backstage footage includes Suzanne Farrell Ballet, Paul Taylor Dance Company, Chunky Move, Stockholm 59° North, Shantala Shivalingappa, the Royal Danish Ballet, Mimulus Dance Company of Brazil and Zaccho Dance Theatre.

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JAYNE ATKINSON B’WAY: The first revival of All My Sons, Ivanov (Lincoln Center w/ Kevin Kline) The Rainmaker w/ Woody Harrelson, Our Town w/ Paul Newman, Enchanted April w/ Molly Ringwald, Blithe Spirit w/ the inimitable Angela Lanesbury. OFF-B’WAY: The Skriker (Public Theatre), Henry VIII (NY Shakes Fest.) How I Learned to Drive (Vinyard) Vagina Monologues (Westside Theatre), The Art of Success (MTC). REGIONAL: The Long Wharf, Berkshire Theatre Festival, The Old Globe, Williamstown. Film: Free Willy I & II (made her very popular with 4th graders), The Village, Syriana, Psychoanalysis Changed My Life,12 and Holding and Handsome Harry w/ Jamie Sheridan. TV: “White Collar,” “The Education of Max Bickford” with Richard Dreyfuss, “Law & Order,” Karen Hayes on the acclaimed series “24” and recurring roles on “Criminal Minds” and “Gossip Girl.” JOSH BRAUN runs Submarine

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MICHAEL GILL B’WAY: A Man For All Seasons (Roundabout w/ Frank Langella) Off-B’WAY: World Premiere - The Milliner (Director’s Co. at CSC) Speaking in Tongues (Roundabout) A Winter’sTale (CSC w/ David Strathairn) Naked (CSC) Othello (N.Y. Shakespeare Fest. w/ Christopher Walken and Raul Julia) Lincoln Portrait (Joyce Theatre) Da Caravvaggio (MCC) Coyote Ugly (New York Theatre Workshop) REGIONAL: Yale Rep., Long Wharf, Berkshire Theatre Festival, Folger, Old Globe, Huntington, Portland Stage, Alley, Great Lakes, Pittsburgh Public. FILM/ TV: PATIENT 001 – (release 2012) Ideal, To Forget Palermo, Protocol, “Law and Order:CI,” “L.A. Law,” “Guiding Light,” “All My Children.” COURTNEY HUNT’s first feature

film, FROZEN RIVER, won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival and was released by Sony Pictures Classics in August of 2008. The film received critical acclaim and won the 2008 Gotham Award for Best Film, the Bronze Horse at the Stockholm Film Festival, among others. The film was nominated for 7 Independent Spirit Awards including best feature, best director, and best first screenplay. She was awarded Best First Film by the New York Film Critics Circle, and Best Debut Director by the National Board of Review. The film also appeared in the top ten lists of AFI, Richard Roper and Kenneth Turan. In 2009, the film was nominated for two Academy Awards, including Best Original Screenplay for Hunt and Best Actress for Melissa Leo. Recently, Hunt was hired by Focus Features to write and direct the American remake of the French film, HUMAN RESOURCES, (1990), which she will also write. In addition she will produce and direct her second original screenplay entitled ELFIE NEARY which takes place in 1904. She has also directed for HBO’s series, IN TREATMENT, starring Gabriel Byrne . She lives in Columbia County with her husband, producer Don Harwood.

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His directorial film debut was the Academy nominated short BY COURIER, which was followed by his first feature, KING OF THE CORNER, with Isabella Rossellini, Eli Wallach, Rita Moreno, Beverly D’Angelo, Eric Bogosian and Dominic Chianese. WHITE IRISH DRINKERS, with Karen Allen and Steven Lang is opening around the country and he has completed work as Professor Kellerman in ONE TREE HILL.

His film Anonymous is a 16th Century Elizabethan drama currently in post-production. It was directed by Roland Emmerich, and stars Vanessa Redgrave, Sir Derek Jacobi, David Thewlis and Rhys Ifans, and will be released September 30, 2011.

He is currently preparing to shoot his next feature based on the novel A FIELD OF DARKNESS, by Cornelia Read.

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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.

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On Broadway he was in THE OLD NEIGHBORHOOD, AN AMERICAN DAUGHTER, THE NERD and DANCE WITH ME. Off B’Way includes: SEXUAL PERVERSITY IN CHICAGO, THE BIRTHDAY PARTY, MOUTAIN LANGUAGE, ISN’T IT ROMANTIC and A ROSEN BY ANY OTHER NAME.

In 2010, Orloff switched genres and wrote the animated film Legend of the Guardians, directed by Zack Snyder, with the voices of Helen Mirren and Geoffrey Rush.

He is currently adapting the Terry Pratchett novel Truckers for Dreamworks Animation and director Anand Tucker (Hillary and Jackie) which is schduled to be released November, 2014.

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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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Magnetism........................................... Kids Short............................ 59 Miss Representation....................... Documentary....................... 44 Mondo’s Search for the Sun...... Short.................................... 57 MONGA................................................... Feature................................ 33 Moonwalking..................................... Kids Short............................ 59 My AFTERNOONS WITH MARGUERITTE (La tête en friche)........................... Feature................................ 33 My Greatest Day Ever.................... Kids Short............................ 59 THE MYTH of the American Sleepover....................... Feature................................ 34 Never Stand Still............................. Documentary....................... 64 NORMAN................................................. Feature................................ 34 ON THE ICE............................................ Feature................................ 34 PAGE ONE: INSIDE THE NEW YORK TIMES.................................. Documentary................. 13, 45 PART TIME FABULOUS.......................... Feature................................ 35 Position Among the Stars............ Documentary....................... 45 Prayers for Peace.......................... Short.................................... 55 LA PRIMA COSA BELLA (THE FIRST BEAUTIFUL THING)........... Feature................................ 35 Rebirth................................................. Documentary....................... 45 RED LIGHT REVOLUTION..................... Feature................................ 35 Ride of the Mergansers............... Kids Short............................ 59 Robbit................................................... Kids Short............................ 59 Runaway Bathtub.............................. Kids Short............................ 59 SCHEMER (DUSK)................................. Feature................................ 36 The Secret Friend........................... Short.................................... 57 Shaker Easter (Bro Arnold)....... Documentary....................... 62 Shudder House................................. Short.................................... 58 Sign Language................................... Short.................................... 59 Strangers No More........................ Short.................................... 54 The Team.............................................. Documentary....................... 46 Touch.................................................... Short.................................... 57 THE TRIP................................................ Feature................................ 36 Troubadours..................................... Documentary....................... 46 Wapawekka.......................................... Short.................................... 55 WE WERE HERE.................................... Documentary....................... 46 We still Live Here............................ Short.................................... 55 Windfall............................................... Documentary....................... 47 !Woman Art Revolution................. Documentary....................... 47 The Work of 1000.............................. Short.................................... 54 You Don’t Like the Truth: 4 Days Inside Guantanomo............. Documentary....................... 47 You Take Yourself Wherever You Go............................. Short.................................... 55 Youth Producing Change............. Documentary....................... 48

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September 28, 2001 (buy) “Equity valuations are better than they have been in years.” The stock market rose 10.4% until our next sell signal.

January 1, 2002 (sell) “I’ve had my three months of bullishness, but now I must adhere, once again, to a more bearish sentiment.” The stock market fell 30% until our next buy signal.

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November 15, 2007 (sell) “The obvious answer is a temporary position in cash.” The stock market fell 48.9% after that sell signal.

March 6, 2009 (buy) “Expect a bottom for the S&P 500 at 660 points.” The stock market rose 63.2% from that buy signal to the end of 2009.

April 4, 2010 (sell) “…The bottom line is a correction is coming, but it’s not a crash.... Signs of a longer-than-typical correction.”

July 14, 2010 (buy) “…the correction is over…being in cash is a risky proposition.”

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The S&P 500 Index (S&P) has been used as a comparative benchmark because the goal of the above strategy was to provide equity-like returns. The S&P is one of the world’s most recognized indexes by investors and the investment industry for the equity market. The S&P, however, is not a managed portfolio and is not subject to advisory fees or trading costs. Investors cannot invest directly in the S&P 500 Index. The S&P returns also reflect the reinvestment of dividends. Berkshire Money Management is aware of the benchmark comparison guidelines set forward in the SEC Clover No-Action Letter (1986) and compares clients’ performance results to a benchmark or a combination of benchmarks most closely resembling clients’ actual portfolio holdings. However, investors should be aware that the referenced benchmark funds may have a different composition, volatility, risk, investment philosophy, holding times, and/or other investment-related factors that may affect the benchmark funds’ ultimate performance results. Therefore, an investor’s individual results may vary significantly from the benchmark’s performance. All indicated stock market calls and associated commentary are that of Allen Harris & Berkshire Money Management and have no relationship to NDR/MDR.