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Greetings from the Governor September 21 – 23, 2012 I am pleased to extend warm greetings to all of those attending the 13th Annual Port Townsend Film Festival (PTFF). This exciting celebration of cinema has become a highlight of the Olympic Peninsula’s autumn calendar. The Port Townsend Film Institute is a true asset to the local community and our state as a whole, and I applaud all of the participating filmmakers and festival organizers and volunteers for making this special event possible. Cinema is more than entertainment; it is also a wonderful medium for exploring the human condition and the world around us. Film festivals like this enrich our experience, and I am confident that this year’s event will be an exciting adventure for all who partake in it. Thank you for coming, and please accept my best wishes for a memorable festival and many years of continued success. Sincerely,

Christine O. Gregoire Governor

Welcome to the 13th annual Port Townsend Film Festival!!! When I arrived here on a Friday in June, little did I know that within three days Janette and I would have the film lineup completed. Because of a broken-down car and an unexpected delay getting to Port Townsend, we started right to work on the program while sitting in her car waiting for AAA service! By Sunday night, we proudly looked over the completed schedule grid and danced around the festival office. “We have a film festival!” I am so excited and proud of the 70-plus films we’ve selected for you this year that come from more than 20 countries and include many award winners. The films cover everything from dramatic, shocking, inspiring, heart-warming, amazing and hilarious to thought-provoking, musical, adventurous and on and on. If you don’t know what to pick, just choose a timeslot and take a guess. Try something you wouldn’t normally go to and take a risk. So come on out, let us inspire you, make you laugh, touch your hearts, connect you with your friends, neighbors, filmmakers and community. Thank you so much for this opportunity to seek out these cinematic gems. It’s a job I absolutely love in a town I adore – Port Townsend, my second home!

Jane Julian, Program Director

It is a personal pleasure to write the official welcome letter to the 13th annual Port Townsend Film Festival. It is a little-known fact that the first festivals operated under the aegis of the Port Townsend Film Society, a nonprofit corporation that Alice and I created in 1979, before VCRs, DVDs or the Rose Theatre. We showed vintage 16mm films at Fort Worden, changing the reels by hand-swapping the audio plug between two borrowed projectors. The unbroken tradition from those cobbled-together winter gatherings and this year’s 13th festival is our community’s delight in sharing the experience of watching films together. The Port Townsend Film Institute has elevated this experience to an international standard of variety and quality and this year will be another immersive exposure to films and their creators. I am sure this will be a memorable weekend for you. The PTFF volunteers work hard to put on an exceptional, Port Townsend-style event. We are proud of our maritime heritage, of our arts and music, our walkable community, and of our stewardship of our history and our natural setting. I hope you will spend some time getting to know our city. Walk around. Shop. Eat. Talk film and enjoy the little moments as well as the spectacular events. Welcome and thank you for coming.

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This year’s festival programming is held together with story threads of risk taking and dignity, and a great dose of comedy! You will find these themes in documentaries of people who are standing strong with dignity in the face of impossible odds or quietly creating with materials no one can see the magic in. You will be welcomed into stories of the risk of love and hilarious consequence, procreation and the obvious and not-so-obvious consequence, physical risk, political and social risk and the ultimate risk, “E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial.” Creating a fabric of films for three days, five theatres and six venues allows for fantastic diversity and many perspectives. Welcoming filmmakers into local homes and hospitality puts a special ﬂavor of Port Townsend into the festival experience of these generous, creative artists. We hope you will have a moment, whether at a Q&A session, sitting on a straw bale on Taylor Street, relaxing with a cocktail in Area 51 or with a filmmaker, expressing to them how they open your eyes, inspire you or just simply make you laugh out loud. They are here to meet you. And we are all together, sitting in the dark or under the stars, because of them. It is a lovely relationship, eh? And just a little bit of a risk… Filled with gratitude to share all of this with you,

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5 what’s new i n 2012 OPENING CEREMONIES Back by popular demand: Salmon dinner! At 4 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 21, meet us at Haller Plaza! A parade of classic Rakers Car Club cars will deliver dozens of filmmakers and our honored guests, Chely Wright and the legendary Bruce Dern! Our Master of Ceremonies, Joey Pipia, will have a few tricks up his sleeve and… well, let’s just say you will not want to miss what happens next. After celebrating opening night by officially “cutting the ribbon” – film, of course – by our special guests, salmon dinner on Taylor Street is served! The Northwest Maritime Center, 431 Water Street, hosts our newest theatre venue, thanks to sponsors First Federal and Mt. Townsend Creamery. Located on the second ﬂoor of the building facing Hudson Point and Port Townsend Bay, this theatre seats 140 patrons. We are delighted to be increasing our seating capacity and improving the experience of our audiences. Elevator service and ample space for all! Speaking of Mt. Townsend Creamery, they wanted to add a bit more ﬂavor to our filmmaker awards by establishing a special prize: The Big Cheese! One film that inspires and delights our cheesemakers will go home with not only a fantastic trophy, but CHEESE, that award-winning & sumptuous treasure that is making a name for Mt. Townsend Creamery across the nation. Yes, we will ship it to you! Thanks to Mt. Townsend and their crew for helping us honor the remarkable work you will see all weekend. The value of your film festival pass just went up! Come and see PT in Hollywood! What do Herman Munster, Caribbean pirates, Ethan Hawke, Rudolph Valentino, Oscar for Best Supporting Actor, dead rubber horses, and the Sandworms of Arrakis have to do with Port Townsend? You can find the answers in the exhibit “Port Townsend Goes Hollywood” at the Jefferson Museum of Art and History, 540 Water Street. Explore

the many connections between Hollywood and Jefferson County and select scenes to watch from locally-filmed movies including “An Officer and a Gentleman” and “Snow Falling on Cedars.” Visitors with a Port Townsend Film Festival pass receive half-price admission.

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Film Movement is a full-service North American distributor of critically acclaimed award-winning independent and foreign films. Film Movement has released films from more than 50 countries and six continents, including top prize winners from Sundance, Cannes, Venice, Toronto, Berlin, Tribeca and many other prestigious film festivals. Film Movement subscribers receive one award-winning film each month, before it is available to the general public, and the DVD is yours to keep! PTFF is delighted to welcome Film Movement as our newest partner. To celebrate their support, watch for drawings for three-month subscriptions to their Film Club at Film Movement screenings. All pass holders at our festival will receive special discounted subscription rates for their DVD of the Month Club! For more information, please visit www.filmmove ment.com/subscription.

AWARDS BASH On Sept. 22 at 9 p.m., we are back at the Peter Simpson Free Cinema, 209 Monroe Street. Ditch the tuxedo and get ready to celebrate great films and awards without having to dress up. Share a bite, toast the Jury Award Winners and the winner of the Spirit of the PT Film Fest, and see who wins the Big Cheese! Open to all passholders at the $185 level and above. Cash bar.

FILMMAKER INTERVIEWS Undertown Coffee and Wine Bar 211 Taylor Street Want to sit in on a longer conversation about film and filmmaking? Stop by the Undertown noon until 4 p.m.

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Saturday and Sunday to meet some of our filmmakers as we capture on camera interviews with them. Can’t make it? Thanks to KPTZ 91.9 FM, these conversations will be recorded, broadcast on the air and available on the PTFI website after the festival.

PTFF ON YOUR IPHONE! Download our program app from iTunes. The application is called “PTFilmFest.” It’s free, it’s fun, and we thank Steve Schauer for this great step forward. You can design your personal festival schedule, watch trailers and learn more about our films. But remember to check “The Daily Reel,” the PTFF newsletter, and our website for up-to-the-minute changes. Radio KPTZ 91.9 will be broadcasting LIVE from the Port Townsend Film Festival. Tune in for interviews with our special guests, on-the-street commentary and up-to-the-minute happenings at our vibrant celebration of the art of cinema. Thanks to the devoted technical wizards of the air, you can listen online by going to kptz.org and selecting “Listen now!” Isn’t community radio astounding? Maybe you should become a volunteer..

Contents Welcome What’s New How to Fest

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Special Events 8-10 Outdoor Movies 12 Narrative Features 14-17 Documentary Features 18-19, 22-25 Film Schedule 20, 21 Short Narratives 26 Short Documentaries 28-29 Short Program: How We Play 30 Short Program: Regional Tapestry Short Program: Reviewers’ Choice

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PTFF Cast & Crew Film Index with Genre Festival Map

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FIRST THINGS FIRST

HOW TO SEE THE FILM OF YOUR CHOICE

Check in at the Hospitality Center, Cotton Building, 607 Water Street.

Sixty minutes before show time go to the venue and pick up a numbered ticket. A ticket in your hand guarantees you a seat. Venues distribute numbered tickets on a first-come, first-served basis. Once you have picked up your ticket, you may leave the line until 30 minutes before show time, at which time you line up with other moviegoers according to your ticket number. Thirty minutes before show time come back to the venue and find your numbered place in line before the line starts to move into the theatre. If you have a numbered ticket and the line has started to move when you return to the venue, you’re still guaranteed a seat. If you can’t find your numbered place, you simply join the back of the line. Directors and Moguls should look for the theatre manager, who will direct you to your preferred entry. Latecomers: If you show up after the 30-minute mark with any kind of pass and you don’t have a ticket, or you are a Director or Mogul pass holder who has not checked in with the concierge, go immediately to the theatre manager for available tickets. If the house is sold out, there will be time to get to a different venue and still get a seat for another great film.

Hours: Thursday, 11 a.m.–6 p.m., Friday, 8 a.m.–6 p.m., Saturday, 8 a.m.–6 p.m., Sunday, 8 a.m.–4 p.m. At Hospitality, you can: Get passes Upgrade your pass Have a cocktail at Area 51 Cocktail Lounge Buy merchandise from the PTFF Store Get info and daily newsletters for awards and updates Buy DVDs and swag from filmmakers Meet your friends between films Check-in with LOST & FOUND

FESTIVAL PASSES One-up $35 includes one film Four-up $85 includes four films; pass can be shared with a friend Festival $185 unlimited films Director $650 ($450 tax deductible) unlimited films Mogul $1,250 ($1,000 tax deductible) unlimited films All passes come with one-year PTFI membership. Members get invitations to year-round events, library privileges, and discounts at the Rose Theatre and Pane d’ Amore. Visit our website at www. ptfilmfest.com/Festival/Passes details. Rush tickets are sold at theatres when pass-holder attendance has not reached capacity for $10 per seat, per film. Rush tickets for “Wish Me Away” and “Smile” are $20.

CONCIERGE SERVICE Our incredible concierge service is a benefit for all Director and Mogul pass holders. Meet your concierge when you pick up your pass at Hospitality. You can set up your whole schedule immediately or call throughout the weekend for personal service. See the back of your pass for a phone number to connect you to our desk, headed by Amanda Steurer. Just let the concierge know what film you want to see and the number of tickets you require. If there is no answer, leave a message with ticket request details and the concierge will call you back to confirm. Your concierge takes care of all of the reservation details. All you have to do is go to the theatre 20 minutes prior to show time, look for a manager wearing a black baseball hat and collect your ticket(s) from him or her. The manager will guide you to the preferred seating entrance. If you’re unable to call the concierge ahead of time, feel free to go to the film venue up to an hour before show time and pick up tickets from the theatre manager wearing a black baseball hat. Once you have your tickets, you are free to wander off; but please be back 20 minutes before show time.

RUSH TICKETS $10, $20 When a theatre doesn’t fill up with pass holders, we sell tickets for that film. Rush-ticket buyers gather in the rushticket line. Once the pass holder line starts moving, the theatre managers know exactly how many seats are available. Rush tickets for the special screenings of “Wish Me Away” with Chely Wright and “Smile” with Bruce Dern are $20; all other film rush tickets cost $10. Rush tickets are sold 15 minutes before the movie begins until the lights go down.

QUESTIONS? Every venue line has one or two CROWD LIAISONS who can answer your festival questions. Those wearing a yellow volunteer hat or a venue manager wearing a black baseball hat can assist you. You can find information booth locations on the festival map.

7 MOVIE VENUES (see map on back cover for locations) All downtown venues are wheelchair accessible. The Uptown Theatre provides limited wheelchair access. All seating begins 30 minutes before show time. Uptown Theatre • 340 seats, limited access. Concessions available. Wheelchair accessible portable toilets are located on Polk Street. Maritime Center Theatre • 140 seats. Concessions available. Peter Simpson Free Cinema at the American Legion Hall • 100 seats. Our free indoor movie venue has been named in honor of Peter Simpson, a founder and past executive director of the PTFF. He was also a founder of the Port Townsend Arts Commission. Concessions are available. Taylor Street Outdoor Cinema • Free to the public, our wonderful outdoor theatre is located under the stars Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights. Festivities start at 6:45 p.m. Some straw bales are available, but it’s best to bring seating and blankets. Rose Theatre and Rosebud Cinema • 157 seats and 87 seats. Concessions are available inside the theatre.

MOVIE VENUE PROTOCOLS Turn off all cell phones, pagers, beepers and noisemakers during all programs. Food other than what is sold at the theatre is not allowed in venues. Recording devices of any kind are prohibited. Saving seats is strongly discouraged. Children younger than 6 are permitted only at the Taylor Street Outdoor Cinema. Check program timing! Runtimes do not include Q & A sessions or introductions. We have staggered the film start times to help you see as many films as possible. Parental discretion is advised. Most of the films are not rated. We will try to alert you if there is graphic violence, strong language, nudity, etc.

2012 PTFF Out of kindness to the people who sit on the straw bales, NO DOGS on Taylor Street, please.

LIBATIONS The Magic Lantern Beer & Wine Garden on Taylor Street features beverages from PT Brewing, Dry Soda and the Wine Seller. Area 51 Cocktail Lounge is located in the Hospitality Center in the Cotton Building at 607 Water Street. Sit and sip a cocktail made with organically distilled spirits or a nonalcoholic beverage with others who share your love of indie films. Thanks to our sponsor Bainbridge Organic Distillers, all proceeds support our mission to inform and inspire with film! Northwest Maritime Center has food available and beautiful views of Port Townsend Bay. You may also want to purchase a beer or a glass of wine in the theatre while you watch a fabulous film!

LATE-BREAKING NEWS Programs are subject to change. Get the latest announcements in “The Daily Reel,” our festival newsletter. Available 4 p.m. daily at all venues, Hospitality, information booths and at the Magic Lantern Wine and Beer Garden on Taylor Street. On Sunday, the newsletter is available at noon.

FILMMAKER INTERVIEWS & EVENTS Step into our underground interview studio at Undertown Coffee and Wine Bar, 211 Taylor Street, and watch our filmmakers tell the back story of their work, 10 a.m.– 4 p.m., Saturday & Sunday. Join us at the Upstage Theatre and Restaurant on Saturday morning at 10 a.m. for “West Coast Live” radio broadcast from NPR with Sedge Thompson.

FOUL WEATHER

The outdoor theatre will not operate in high winds, but light rain showers will not stop the show.

GETTING AROUND Our free festival bus shuttles you to all of our venues. Parking downtown is limited. Park at the Jefferson Transit Parkand-Ride off of Sims Way at the Visitors Information Center. Take Jefferson Transit downtown and continue your festival travels on our free PTFF bus. (See map on back cover for the festival bus route.)

PTFF MERCHANDISE Our store at the Hospitality Center, Cotton Building, 607 Water Street, carries PTFF logo clothing, mugs, posters and filmmakers’ DVDs. The 2012 festival poster and signed prints of the Max Grover festival poster artwork are for sale.

RESTROOMS All venues have restrooms. Portable restrooms are also on the corner of Taylor and Washington streets and outside the Uptown Theatre on Polk Street. (See the map on back cover.)

RECYCLING Clearly marked bins are on Taylor Street, at the Peter Simpson Free Cinema, Hospitality Center and Uptown Theatre.

PTFF LIBRARY After November 1, many films screened this weekend will be in our library for members to check out. See our website for titles or come into the office.

CONTACT US Port Townsend Film Festival 211 Taylor Street, Suite 32A P.O. Box 594 Port Townsend, WA 98368 Business: 360-379-1333 info@ptfilmfest.com www.ptfilmfest.com

FESTIVAL FEEDBACK Your insight into the festival is one of the most valuable gifts you can give us. After the festival, we’ll email you a link to our survey. As a thank-you, you will automatically be entered into a drawing for a 2013 festival pass. Please complete by October 15, 2012.

8 special events Openi ng Night Event: Single screening of Yasujiro Ozu’s silent film “Woman of Tokyo,” accompanied by a live performance of the original score by composer Wayne Horvitz

Tokyo No Onna (Woman of Tokyo) Japanese with English subtitles Director: Yasujiro Ozu http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0024676/ Japan/1933/47 min.

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“Reverberations” and installation “55: Music and Dance in Concrete” Presented by Centrum, Fort Worden State Park Saturday and Sunday – Free Admission Live dance performances daily: 11 a.m., 1:30 p.m. and 4 p.m. Self-guided tour of the installation 11 a.m.–6 p.m.

Friday, 6:15 p.m., Rose Theatre This classic film will be accompanied live with an original jazz score played on piano by composer Wayne Horvitz and accompanied by Geoff Harper, bass; Eric Eagle, drums; Jacques Willis, vibraphone; and Greg Sinabaldi, tenor sax and bass clarinet. Ozu’s sizzling melodrama is the story of Chikako, the dutiful woman of the title, who does everything she can, both at home and at work, to support the university education of her younger brother Ryoichi. It emerges that Chikako, a typist by day, is not in fact spending her evenings assisting a professor with translation, but instead is earning money on the side as an entertainer and prostitute. Ryoichi fails to comprehend his sister’s self-sacrificing motives with harrowing consequences. Completed in just nine days, the film is a treasure among Yasujiro Ozu’s lifetime study of the rhythms and tensions of a country trying to reconcile modern and traditional values. Watch for his signature style: Static shots from the vantage point of someone sitting low on a tatami mat, patiently pacing the isolated beauty of everyday objects. Originally commissioned by the NW Film Forum, the “Woman of Tokyo” jazz project has been performed in Seattle, Syracuse and at the Winter Garden Theater in New York City. This performance is generously underwritten by Centrum, in collaboration with The Reverberations Festival (see sidebar).

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Centrum, Washington’s Home for Creative Arts and Education, in partnership with the Port Townsend Film Festival, inaugurates “Reverberations” with the world premiere of a self-guided multi-media installation titled “55: Music and Dance in Concrete.” These works were created by Centrum Artists in Residence, including Seattle-based composer Wayne Horvitz, Portland-based audio engineer Tucker Martine, Japanese dancer/choreographer Yukio Suzuki, and Japanese video artist Yohei Saito. A portion of the music, which features 55 short improvised and 55 composed works, was recorded in the Dan Harpole Cistern at Fort Worden State Park, world-renowned for its 45-second reverberation time. Thirty minute dance performances by Yukio Suzuki and his dance troupe from Japan take place on top of the gun emplacement platforms on Saturday and Sunday. A Discover Pass is not required for entry into the Park. Walking attire is recommended. Limited shuttle service is available for mobility-impaired patrons. For directions and more information, log onto centrum. org/reverberations or call (360) 385-3102, ext. 110. “55: Music and Dance in Concrete” received initial funding from the MAP Fund and the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, as well as support from the Arizona State University Art Museum where it presents following its premiere in Port Townsend. The project also receives support from the Japan Foundation through the PerformingArtsJAPAN program. The Centrum artist residency program is made possible by support from the Washington State Arts Commission and the Washington State Parks and Recreation Commission.

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Wish Me Away Chely Wright appears with this film on Friday night only! Directors: Bobbie Birleffi, Beverly Kopf http://www.firstrunfeatures.com USA/2011/96 min. Friday, 6:30 p.m., Uptown Theatre Saturday, 12:15 p.m., Maritime Center Theatre

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“Wish Me Away” has left audiences cheering! We share the journey of a young girl from Kansas who makes the decision that a life of integrity is worth risking her career. This documentary is a personal and intimate look at Chely Wright, who, after a lifetime of hiding, becomes the first commercially successful country music singer to come out as a lesbian. With unprecedented access over three years that includes private video diaries, this film chronicles Chely’s rise to fame and beyond the moment she steps into the media glare and shatters the cultural and religious stereotypes of Nashville. “Wish Me Away” shows both the devastation caused by Chely’s internalized homophobia and the transformational power of living an authentic life. Port Townsend Film Festival welcomes Chely Wright to the Uptown Theatre on Friday, September 21 at 6:30 p.m. for the screening of the film, followed by a conversation with film critic and author Rebecca Redshaw. Sponsored by

What Does a Producer Do, Anyway? Saturday, 3:30 p.m., Uptown Theatre Welcome producer Jeffery Kusama Hinte as he shares behind the scenes tales about introducing the concepts of this remarkable film “The Kids Are All Right” to an industry that had never before presented non-traditional family issues in the context of a major motion picture. Writes Kusama Hinte: “‘The Kids Are All Right’ serves as a good example of the good, the bad, the ugly … and the really terribleawful-horrible. It started off wonderfully well. And then…” Join the producer for an interview and the rest of the conversation following the screening of this ground breaking film. Featuring:

The Kids Are All Right Director: Lisa Cholodenko USA/2011/106 min. Starring: Julianne Moore, Annette Bening and Mark Ruffalo.

The set-up: The son of a same-sex couple enlists his sister in seeking out their sperm donor dad. The complication: Thrilled to meet his long lost children whom he never expected to see, sperm donor reaches out, challenging the couple’s mothering. Further complications: Sparks ﬂy between sperm donor and mom who had the pregnancies, and who might be persuaded to switch sides. And the kids love him at first sight. Sponsored by

Saturday, 10 a.m., Upstage Theatre & Restaurant With host Sedge Thomson This lively, entertaining and informative National Public Radio program is returning to Port Townsend once again! WCL is a live two hour radio variety show that has been a Saturday morning Bay Area staple and is often (when not touring) broadcast from the Ferry Building in San Francisco or the Freight & Salvage in Berkeley. What makes this radio program so special is the likeable and ever-curious personality of Sedge Thomson. He and his droll, literate troupers seek the cultural variety that is widely available in Port Townsend. The show broadcasts from 10 a.m. – noon at The Upstage Restaurant. Check http://www.WCL.org for the latest details on guests. Come join the theater audience! This popular show sells out, so if you want a ticket, buy in advance for $15 at http://www.brownpapertickets. com/event/264650. Doors open at 9:30 a.m. Tickets are $20 at the door, if there are any left. You can find affiliate radio stations to tune in at (http://wcl.org/ where-to-hear-us) or listen online (and for a week after) via KALW at http://kalw.org/ local-music-player.

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ruce Dern, this year’s Special Guest, knows a lot about getting shot and/or killed. In the movies, that is. He’s played plenty of villains, like the psychopath pilot who tries to blow up the Super Bowl in 1977s “Black Sunday.” He’s also known as ‘The Man who shot John Wayne’ a dubious, though distinctive, claim to movie fame. He shot The Duke in the back, as a matter of fact, in the 1972 western, “The Cowboys.” Dern confirms a well-known story that Wayne leaned over and whispered, “America’s gonna hate you for this” before the shoot. And that he replied to The Duke, “Yea, but they’ll love me in Berkeley.” Dern, who recently turned 76, was nominated for Best Supporting Actor for 1978’s “Coming Home.” He’s often played oddball – if not always villainous – characters throughout his movie career, which started in the early 1960s and includes such classics as 1972’s dark sci-fi film “Silent Running” in which he played the caretaker of earth’s last forests. (He may feel right at home here on the woodsy Olympic Peninsula.) He also co-starred with Jack Nicholson in “The King of Marvin Gardens.” Last year, he won an Emmy for his scary polygamist role on HBO’s acclaimed Utah-based series “Big Love.” Asked about a rare comedy in which he starred, “Smile,” this year’s Festival selection, Dern reacts warmly, calling it “one of my five favorite films. Michael Ritchie was a terrific director and he had a great script to work with,” he says of “Smile,” arguably one of the funniest (and most cynical) films ever – an underrated and overlooked comedy gem.

Before Dern broke into film, he paid his bills by doing lots of episodic TV, including “Sea Hunt,” “Route 66,” and “Gunsmoke,” usually playing villains. “I learned that you could do one ‘Gunsmoke’ a year if you got killed,” he chuckles. The blunt-spoken Dern, a graduate of the prestigious Actors’ Studio, repeatedly says he was lucky to work with “people who were truly larger than life” like John Wayne and Bette Davis. The Chicago-born actor says one day early in his career, he showed up on the set of “Gunsmoke” at CBS and was surprised to see Davis “chain-smoking four or five packs a day as usual. I asked Miss Davis respectfully why she was doing TV, and she snapped back, ‘How else am I gonna pay for these f---ing Chesterfields?’” Dern chuckles. The rail-thin Dern stays in shape the way he always has, by running. He says he once ran 72 miles in a single day. “I’ve run countless marathons,” he says, “and I figure I’ve run the equivalent of four times around the world.” Dern, the father of actress Laura Dern (from his first marriage to actress Diane Ladd), still runs 10-15 miles a week. When I ask if he’ll be running when he’s here at the Film Festival, Dern replies, “I sure as hell don’t see why not.”

The beauty pageant’s about to get ugly. The Santa Rosa Jaycees are organizing a Californian version of the American Junior Miss pageant. With 30 young women raised on hamburgers and soda pop striving to be everyman’s girl-nextdoor and a host of self-centered behindthe-scenes ﬂawed characters, we have plot, setting, screwball comedy and a cult following ensured. Starring Bruce Dern and Barbara Feldon, “contestants” include future stars: Coleen Camp, Denise Nickerson, Annette O’Toole and Melanie Griffith. Bringing together dozens of vignettes, the one-liners are great, especially the disingenuous “Santa Rosa is so beautiful. I mean, I thought the shopping mall in Anaheim was great until I saw yours. It’s… a credit to the vision of your business community.” Vincent Canby, reviewing for the New York Times, called “Smile” “a rollicking satire that misses few of the obvious targets, but without dehumanizing the victims… about a society in which optimism and positive thinking virtually amount to a political system, a guide to making choices, the principal goal of which is to have fun.” Join us for a conversation with Dern as he spins yarns of his remarkable career following the screening of “Smile.”

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E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

The Empire Strikes Back

Friday, 7:30 p.m., Taylor Street Outdoor Cinema

Saturday, 7:30 p.m., Taylor Street Outdoor Cinema

Director: Steven Spielberg

When “E.T.” was released in 1982, Steven Spielberg already had an impressive track record for directing some of the top grossing movies of the era: “Jaws,” “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” and “Raiders of the Lost Ark.” With “E.T.” though, something sparked a nerve with moviegoers. It is the story of a young boy who befriends a gentle alien accidentally left behind on Earth. The spirit and magic of the story moved audiences, swept the Academy Awards, and has endured for 30 years. The theme of yearning for love and connection was drawn from Spielberg’s own childhood and his first-hand sense of being an outsider, being bullied on the playground, and finding comfort from an imaginary friend. In Elliott, we see a lonely boy who discovers and befriends E.T., protects him from the strange world in which he is stranded, and helps him find his way back home.

Director: Irvin Kershner

It was America’s fascination with space and its race with the Soviet Union that ultimately led to the cultural phenomenon known as Star Wars. The epic space opera film series created by George Lucas began in 1977, 20 years after the Soviets’ Sputnik was launched. In “The Empire Strikes Back,” the second entry of Lucas’ Star Wars Trilogy, Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) has grown from a naïve boy to a seasoned warrior. Skywalker and his Rebel Alliance friends, Han Solo (Harrison Ford) and Princess Leia Organa (Carrie Fisher), battle the terrifying authority of the Galactic Empire. Darth Vader is the brooding, robotic villain who pursues our hero with his technologically advanced space warriors. Skywalker, studies the Force under Jedi Master Yoda, and adheres to his sage advice: “Fear is the path to the dark side.” Hope for clear skies, stars and planets, as we sit outside on hay bales, bundled up for this most popular of the Star Wars trilogy! USA/1980/124 min.

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Tootsie

Director: Sydney Pollack Sunday, 7:30 p.m., Taylor Street Outdoor Cinema

After playing major roles in films such as “Death of a Salesman,” “Marathon Man,” “Rain Man,” and “Little Big Man,” Dustin Hoffman shows us that he is “more than just a woman” when he dons the wigs, clothing and eyeglasses of the 1980s and gives us his “Miss Dorothy Michaels.” We watch the transformation of Hoffman, portraying Michael Dorsey, unemployed actor who covertly dresses up as a woman to land a role in a soap opera. He falls in love with his co-star, Jessica Lange (Julie), but can’t step out of his role as Dorothy and risk losing his job. Geena Davis makes her screen debut as a daytime drama queen, and supporting actors Bill Murray, Teri Garr, George Gaynes and Dabney Coleman play their comic roles perfectly off of Hoffman’s high camp, highly conﬂicted prance.

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14 naRRative featURes

Dreamworld

Foreign Letters

Director: Ryan Darst www.imdb.com/title/tt1853548

Director: Ela Thier www.foreignlettersthemovie.com

Friday, 12:30 p.m., Uptown Theatre

Friday, 9 a.m., Rosebud Cinema

Saturday, 3 p.m., Rosebud Cinema

Saturday, 9 p.m., Rosebud Cinema

2012 PTFF

Les Hommes Libres (Free Men) Director: Ismael Ferroukhi www.imdb.com/title/tt1699185

Friday, noon, Rosebud Cinema Sunday, 9 a.m., Rosebud Cinema

Two dreamers of epic proportions meet in this quirky but quiet road film which explores the nature of a relationship based on vulnerability, and we want them to succeed in spite of what they do to each other and themselves. Oliver Hayes, an aspiring animator whose confidence is at a low point, meets the captivating and impulsive Lily, who encourages him to drop everything and go with her to Northern California in the hopes of fulfilling his fantasy of working for Pixar Studios. Along the way our hero learns disturbing things about his companion and has to decide whether to face reality or stay in ‘dreamworld.’ A riff on Jonathan Demme’s 1986 farce “Something Wild,” this “roguemantic” comedy employs French New Wave cinema verité. Rated QCWG, for quirky characters wearing glasses. USA/2012/93 min.

Harking back into ancient history, we now have films set in the pre-e-mail era of the 1980s. Schoolgirl Ellie, newly arrived to Connecticut from Israel, is homesick, lonely, alienated and waits anxiously for letters from her best friend back home—a lifeline to who she was before she became so lost in America. She meets Thuy, a Vietnamese refugee her age who becomes her new best friend. The girls share commonality of war-torn childhoods and adjustment to new territory but neither is prepared for the treachery of junior high school. They share being different, bullying, shame, friendship and the love of family, in markedly different cultural styles. The film score is a mélange of international music, including songs by iconic Israeli folk artist Chava Alberstein.

Friendship has a way of taking a person down unexpected paths, in this case, an apolitical Algerian immigrant who joins the resistance during World War II because of a new friendship with a Jewish man. This is a fact-based thriller set in Paris’ Muslim community and in the city’s principal mosque where Jews and members of the resistance were kept safe in the basement while Nazi occupiers paused in their hunt for Jews to admire the Islamic art upstairs. In French with English subtitles. France/2011/99 min.

USA/2012/100 min.

Best Director: Abu Dhabi Film Festival, Official Selection: Cannes Film Festival & Toronto Film Festival

Special Jury Prize: Nashville Film Festival

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Kinyarwanda

Director: Alrick Brown www.kinyarwandamovie.com

Not That Funny

Friday, 9:30 p.m., Uptown Theatre

Friday, 9:15 p.m., Rose Theatre

Sunday, 3:15 p.m., Maritime Center Theatre

Saturday, 12:30 p.m., Uptown Theatre

Friday, 6:30 p.m., Peter Simpson Free Cinema

Jenn and Matt are best friends who met in college before Matt realized he was gay. She teaches hot yoga; he is a blocked comic-book writer and grieving his ex-boyfriend. Sure she’ll never find a worthy man in all of New York, she asks Matt to father her child – the old-fashioned way. A deft and irreverent comedy with zingy one-liners about friendship, loneliness, growing older, sex and the family you choose. USA/2012/88 min. Narrative Feature, Best Acting Ensemble Jury Prize: Ashland Audience Award, Narrative Feature Special Jury Prize: IFFBoston, Best Feature Audience Award, Best Director Award: Connecticut Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, Audience Award for Best Feature: Kansas City Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, Best Film: Fort Worth Gay & Lesbian International Film Festival Shown with Clean, see page 34

Director: Lauralee Farrer www.notthatfunnymovie.com

Sunday, 9:15 a.m., Rose Theatre

“I thought I knew something about Rwanda, but I didn’t really know very much. I was moved by “Hotel Rwanda,” but not really shaken this deeply,” says film reviewer Roger Ebert. Like the film “Crash,” “Kinyarwanda” tells six survival stories of apparently unrelated characters whose lives eventually intertwine, centering around documented acts of cruelty and courage during the 100 days of 1994 Rwandan genocide. Unlike “Hotel Rwanda,” this film is produced by Rwandans and addresses the way some crossed the lines of hatred to protect each other, including an Islamic imam and Christian priest. These stories are true accounts from survivors who took refuge at the Grand Mosque of Kigali and the madrassa of Nyanza. Rwandan filmmaker Ishmael Ntihabose received a grant from the European Commission on Human Rights to produce the film in collaboration with writer/director Alrick Brown, who joins us as an honored guest of PTFF. USA/2011/100 min. With English subtitles Audience Award World Cinema: Sundance Film Festival, Audience Award: AFI Film Festival, Best Narrative Feature Audience Award: Denver Film Festival

This is a simple story of just how far a serious man will go for love. By his own admission, Stefan is alone but not lonely. But this changes when Hayley, weary from a high-pressure job with a selfabsorbed boss/boyfriend, returns to her hometown to visit her aging grandmother. When Stefan overhears Hayley tell her grandmother that all she wants is a guy who makes her laugh, Stefan sets out to become funny and win her heart. Unfortunately, Stefan is not that funny, but his attempt leads to important transformations for both of them. Tony Hale (Buster on Arrested Development) portrays the affable, 40-ish Stefan with insight and charm, both as the clueless wannabe suitor to Hayley, and the compassionate caretaker for her grandmother. This sweet, humble film is both humorous and smart, and touches on the importance of family, friendship and truth. USA/2011/105 min. Audience Award & Best U.S. Feature: Newport Beach Film Fest, Audience Award Winner: Rainier Independent Film Festival Shown with Luminaris, see page 26

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El Dedo (The Finger)

Friday, 3:30 p.m., Peter Simpson Free Cinema

Friday, 12:30 p.m., Peter Simpson Free Cinema

Sunday, noon, Rosebud Cinema

Saturday, 9 a.m., Rosebud Cinema

Director: Matthew Gordon www.imdb.com/title/tt1738366

Director: Sergio Teubal www.imdb.com/title/tt1849759

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Ah, small town life. In a remote village in 1980s Argentina, newly incorporated as a town, two men compete for the new post of mayor. Boldomero, a finger-tapping, naturalborn leader opposes the ingratiating slick Hidalgo, and soon turns up dead. His shopkeeper brother vows revenge, keeping Boldomero’s severed finger in a jar, first as remembrance, and then waved about as an icon of leadership and democracy, rousing the villagers to action. The town’s residents, who have already spent seven years under a dictator before their liberation, are spurred on by ‘the finger’ to defy Hidalgo, stop crooked elections and block interloping powers. The film is styled in dusky browns, beiges and shades of white; even the freckling on a departing pony coordinate like a pillow on a couch with its chestnut companion. In Spanish with English subtitles. Argentina/2011/93 min.

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18 DocUMentaRY featURes

Beauty Is Embarrassing Director: Neil Berkeley www.brkly.tv Saturday, 9:15 p.m., Rose Theatre Sunday, 12:15 p.m., Maritime Center Theatre

“It’s beautiful out here; it’s so beautiful it hurts my feelings,” says Wayne White, who, along with other artistic pursuits, was the set designer of “Pee-wee’s Playhouse.” “I learned art could be a 24/7 lifestyle,” says White, also a banjo player. “Do what you love – it’s going to lead to where you want to go.” Surreal, provocative and subversive, White may be best known for his grotesque sculptures of famous people’s heads – whose eyes blink and jaws open and shut. After a decade-long stall in his career, White’s paintings caught the attention of the Los Angeles art world. Director Neil Berkeley chronicles White’s roller coaster career from his youth as a Tennessee farm boy, a truncated run in television and his emergence as a fine artist. The film is spliced with White narrating his own slide show. USA/2012/88 min. Best Doc: Cleveland Int’l Film: DeadCENTER Film Fest & Crossroads Int’l Film Fest, Audience Award: Nashville Film Fest, Best Doc Screenplay (Nonimated): WGA East Shown with Mr. Smith’s Peach Seeds, see page 28 Sponsored by

Big Boys Gone Bananas!* Director: Fredrik Gertten www.wgfilm.com

Saturday, noon, Rosebud Cinema

2012 PTFF

Big in Bollywood Director: Kenny Meehan www.kennymeehan.com

Friday, 9:30 p.m., Peter Simpson Free Cinema Sunday, 6:30 p.m., Uptown Theatre

Sunday, 6:15 p.m., Maritime Center Theatre

If the multi-national corporation Dole Food Co. thought they could get away with lawsuits, manipulation and squelching free speech when they sued a documentary filmmaker, they misunderstood the genre. The documentary, “Bananas!*,” follows million-dollar personal injury attorney Juan ‘Accidentes’ Dominguez on his biggest case ever. Suing Dole Food and Dow Chemical in a groundbreaking legal battle, Dominguez goes after the multinationals for their use of a banned pesticide that exposed 10,000 field workers to known sterility and death. With the release of the documentary, Dole turns its wrath on Swedish filmmaker Fredrik Gertten. “Big Boys Gone Bananas!*” tells the story of how Gertten’s “Bananas” is in effect censored: Initially selected for competition by the Los Angeles Film Festival, the director gets a message that it’s been pulled from the competition and instead is the subject of a scathing article in the LA Business Journal. He also receives a letter from corporate attorneys threatening him with legal action. Eventually the Los Angeles Superior Court and the Swedish Parliament get involved.

Omi Vaidya, an American-born Indian who grew up in Palm Springs, is forever changed after landing a part in Bollywood’s “3 Idiots.” Long before Omi and his filmmaker friends realized “3 Idiots” would be an unanticipated hit in India, they packed up and went to India to document Omi’s premiere. They could never have anticipated the hilarious events that transpired. “Big in Bollywood” was filmed on five cameras by five filmmakers in five different video formats. Even the filmmakers themselves are in front of the camera, a transparency that allows the audience intimacy with this group of best friends. USA/2011/69 min. Best Foreign Film: Las Vegas Film Festival 2012, Best of Fest at International: Film Festival Manhattan Best Comedy Doc: Docufest Atlanta 2011 Shown with The Love Competition, see page 29

Sweden/2012/88 min. For multiple award listings, go to wgfilm. com Shown with Among Giants, see page 28 Sponsored by

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Bitter Seeds

Brooklyn Castle Director: Katie Dellamaggiore www.brooklyncastle.com

Director: Jeff Orlowski www.extremeicesurvey.org

Friday, 12:15 p.m., Rose Theatre

Saturday, 3:15 p.m., Maritime Center Theatre

Saturday, 9:30 a.m., Uptown Theatre

Director: Micha X. Peled www.teddybearfilms.com

Saturday, 6:15 p.m., Maritime Center Theatre

Follow the journey of a young Indian student, intent on becoming a journalist in a country where girls are rarely allowed an independent voice. Her story? Indian farmers, driven to despair by inescapable debt, are committing suicide. Determined to document why this is happening in her village, she also exposes how international industrial agriculture (such as Monsanto Co.) is determining the fate of farming in India. A number of stories are told here, but especially the collapse of one cotton farmer’s life and farm as all his hard work comes to nothing. “Bitter Seeds” is the final film of Micha X. Peled’s Globalization Trilogy that includes “Store Wars: When Wal-Mart Comes to Town” and “China Blue.” USA/India/2011/88 min. Official Selection: Telluride Film Festival, Oxfam Global Justice Award & IDFA Green Screen Competition Award: IDFA (Int’l Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam) Shown with Water, see page 29

Over the last decade, students in a New York inner-city school have learned to play chess, one of the world’s oldest and most complicated games. Their achievements include winning over 26 national chess titles and producing the first female, African-American Grand Chess Master. Now threatened with a million-dollar budget cut, the after-school program is at risk. Say the teachers defending the program: The kids “play chess in a theatre of hard work and determination, where they negotiate larger conﬂicts by maneuvering their armies of rooks, knights, pawns and bishops—and where they can become queens and kings, far beyond the tabletop battlefield.” USA/2012/101 min. Shown with TXT, see page 29

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Sunday, 3:15 p.m., Rose Theatre

“I’m fascinated with the beauty of it, the mutability of it, the malleability and the fabulous shapes in which it can carve itself,” says filmmaker James Balog in a 2009 TedTalk about Greenland’s shrinking glaciers and ice fields. “But,” he says, “Ice is the canary in the global coal mine.” Twenty-seven cameras deployed at 18 glaciers in Greenland, Iceland, the Nepalese Himalaya, Alaska and the Rocky Mountains, record changes every half hour, year round during daylight hours. Over 8,000 frames, taken by each camera over a year’s time, have been edited into spectacular time- lapse sequences that reveal exactly how fast vast regions of the planet are transforming. We share Balog’s struggle to capture astonishing change in impossible conditions. USA/2012/74 min. People’s Choice Award: Hot Docs, Norman Vaughan Indomitable Spirit Award: Mountainfilm, Audience Award Winner: South By Southwest, Excellence in Cinematography: Sundance, Best Adventure Film: Boulder International Film Festival, Best Feature Film: Big Sky Shown with Song of the Spindle, see page 26

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Mulberry Child

Director: JJ Kelley and Josh Thomas www.dudesonmedia.com

Director: Michael Brown www.highgroundmovie.com

Director: Susan Morgan Cooper www.mulberrychildmovie.com

Saturday, 6:00 p.m., Rosebud Cinema

Friday, 9:15 p.m., Maritime Center Theatre

Saturday, 3:15 p.m., Rose Theatre

Sunday, 12:30 p.m., Peter Simpson Free Cinema

Two seasoned Alaska wilderness adventurers attempt to travel 1,500 miles down India’s River Ganges, by whatever means possible, encountering both the unspeakable and the divine. Josh Thomas and JJ Kelley, (PTFF alums 2009) the comic pair of “Dudes on Media,” and makers of the Emmy Awardwinning “Paddle to Seattle,” ask the question of “How could a river regarded as a god, be so polluted?” The Ganges begins under the ice as a trickle from melting Himalayan glaciers and snakes across India’s subcontinent of 400 million people to the Bay of Bengal and the Indian Ocean. USA/2012/83 min.

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Sunday, 3:30 p.m., uptown Theatre

With minds and bodies ravaged by war, 11 soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan join an expedition to climb the 20,075-foot Himalayan giant Mount Lobuche, eight miles from Everest. Led by blind adventurer Erik Weihenmayer and a team of Everest climbers as their guides, they set out on an emotional and gripping climb to reach the top. The mountain itself is a metaphor for one of the basic concepts of military action – the highest ground is the safest, most defensible place with the greatest perspective. Something to listen for: The film was scored by composer Chris Bacon, beginning with conventional American guitars and instrumentation, and as the journey progresses, to more spiritual and exotic music as the wounded climbers overcome emotional and physical challenges to reach their goal. Vertigo-inducing cinematography through the villages of Nepal, over raging rivers and up terrifyingly steep terrain by three-time Emmywinning director Michael Brown. USA/2012/92 min. People’s Choice & Best Call to Action Film: BIFF, Audience Choice: Vail, Audience Award Best Documentary: Newport Beach Shown with The Freedom Chair, see page 29 Sponsored by

Sunday, 9:30 a.m., uptown Theatre Jian Ping’s family is subjected to shame and brutality during China’s Cultural Revolution. Her parents undergo humiliation and imprisonment at the hands of the Red Guard, and the older children are sent to brutal “re-education camps.” Born premature and sickly in 1960, Jian is emotionally abandoned by her mother. She and her grandmother are banished to a remote mud hut to endure sub-zero temperatures and primitive conditions. Her earliest memories are of villagers throwing rocks at her as she tries to visit her father in prison. After Mao Zedong’s death, China moves forward. Jian earns a bachelor’s degree in English and immigrates to the United States, where she must assimilate into a capitalist world. Following her move to America as a young adult, Jian’s privileged Americanborn daughter doesn’t understand her mother’s emotional distance. They attempt to reconcile with a trip to the 2008 Olympics. Travel can open many doors, even the doors of the heart. USA/2011/85 min. Best of Fest: Palm Springs International Film Fest, Best Editing: Madrid Film Festival, Best Writer: Nashville Film Festival

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Saturday, 9:30 a.m., Peter Simpson Free Cinema

Friday, 3:30 p.m., uptown Theatre

Saturday, 6:15 p.m., Rose Theatre

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Sunday, 12:30 p.m., uptown Theatre

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The saga of an orphaned pup rescued by a sea kayaker could very well be one of our own sea otters living in the bull kelp beds on the Strait of Juan de Fuca. This 3-day-old baby otter was found on one of the beaches of Northern California, nursed on a baby bottle, taught how to survive at the Monterey Bay Aquarium with a surrogate mom and released back into the wild. The score alone will have you in tears. Instead of the usual dry documentary, filmmakers introduced another character, a young biologist, into the story hoping traditional storytelling would better engage younger viewers’ empathy for the plight of otters and other marine life. USA/2011/85 min. Best Theatrical Award: International Wildlife Film Festival, Official Opening Film at the BLUE Ocean Film Festival Shown with The Majestic Plastic Bag, see page 29

Cory Mann is a harried native businessman caught up in mass-producing, importing, exporting and wholesaling traditional art to tourists in Juneau, Alaska. Like many Tlingit people, his mother left Juneau, where discrimination against Alaska Natives was as common as it was against African Americans in the south. She raised him in San Diego until two aunts decided to bring him back into the family and back into Tlingit culture. Terrified of Alaska and not comfortable with his heritage, Cory works hard to become a successful capitalist. Cory succumbs to his hunger for smoked salmon, a favorite food from childhood, and decides to spend the summer catching and smoking fish at his family’s fish camp. Raised by seven women, including his great-grandmother, who attempts to negotiate the clash of cultures themselves, Cory tries to keep the IRS off his back and his business afloat while dipping into traditional waters.

Director: Windy Borman www.eyesofthailand.com

The true story of Soraida Salwala, a passionate Thai woman who has dedicated 10 years of her life to saving victims of land mines. Her patients are endangered Asian elephants, survivors whose grievous wounds she nurses. She is determined to build elephant-sized prostheses so they can walk again. Elephants Mosha and Matala are unforgettable recipients of Salwala’s love and compassion in the world’s first elephant hospital, meeting the challenges caretakers face in caring for a patient weighing 9,000-12,000 lbs.

Canada/2011/81 min.

USA/2012/63 min.

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The Girls in the Band Director: Judy Chaikin www.thegirlsintheband.com

Friday, 9 p.m., Rosebud Cinema Saturday, 3:30 p.m., Peter Simpson Free Cinema

The Revolutionary

Producer/Directors: Irv Drasnin, Lucy Ostrander & Don Sellers www.revolutionarymovie.com Friday, 6:15 p.m., Maritime Center Theatre

Trash Dance

Director: Andrew Garrison www.trashdancemovie.com Friday, 9:15 a.m., Rose Theatre Sunday, 6:15 p.m., Rose Theatre

Saturday, 12:15 p.m., Rose Theatre Mao Zedong’s Cultural Revolution was embraced by thousands of Chinese and one American.

How did playing an instrument, particularly drums and horns, become so gender specific that exceptional musicians are routinely ignored and forgotten because they’re women? Forgotten by most, except by fans and musicians, such as ebullient sax player Roz Cron whose memories sparked director Judy Chaikin to make the film. “Girls in the Band” contains footage from three generations of all-women big bands, such as the Ada Leonard Orchestra, the International Sweethearts of Rhythm, the Melodears and the Ingenues, as well as interviews with players about their experiences and frustrations of exclusion. Have you ever heard of saxophonist Vi Redd or trombonist Melba Liston? Variety magazine suggested this film might prompt a “rewrite of jazz history.”

Brilliant and engaging Sidney Rittenberg, now 91-years-old, was a Chinese language expert stationed in China at the end of World War II. He first met Mao Zedong in the caves of Yan’an, birthplace of the revolution. Seeking friendly relations with the United States, Mao recruited Rittenberg to become his bridge to the western world. This story chronicles Rittenberg’s journey as the only American member of the Chinese Communist Party and his hopes for positive change and his subsequent fall from grace and into prison. In 1968, imprisoned in solitary confinement, the Red Guard ran rampant, ransacking cultural and historical sites and terrorizing their own people. Rittenberg was released in 1977, a year after Mao’s death and returned to the US in 1980. Produced by PTFF Alums, Lucy Ostrander and Don Sellers, this film has been met with worldwide interest and acclaim. USA/2011/92 min.

Sometimes inspiration is found in unexpected places. Choreographer Allison Orr finds beauty and grace in garbage trucks – and in the men and women who pick up our trash. She joins city sanitation workers on their daily routes to listen, learn and ultimately try to convince them to collaborate in a unique dance performance. Hard-working people, often carrying a second job, their lives are already full with work, family and dreams of their own. But some step forward, and after months of rehearsals, two dozen trash collectors and their trucks perform an extraordinary spectacle. On an abandoned airport runway, thousands of people show up to see how in the world garbage trucks can ‘dance.’ Filmmaker Andrew Garrison illuminates the reality that all work matters and has dignity. USA/2012/68 min. 2012 Audience Award: Silverdocs & Full Frame, 2012 Special Jury Recognition: SXSW Shown with Driving William, see page 28

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Paul Simon returns to Africa on the 25 anniversary of his “Graceland” album to examine the repercussions of his stealth opening of South African culture to the world. Demonstrating, on the world stage, that whites and blacks can work together, and that whites could respect and embrace African cultures, was a revolutionary act. He was then accused of breaking the United Nations cultural boycott of South Africa designed to end apartheid! Ironically, he simply slipped under the wire and exposed the world to the best South Africa had to offer – its culture and music.

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Oh, those cetaceans, especially the great whales we have come to care so much about! Who would have guessed they share spindle neurons in their brains with us humans. Why on earth – or in the oceans – does that matter? Wouldn’t it be great if we could just sit down with a whale and have an interesting chat about how whales spend their time? Would we want to know what they think of us?

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Despair can drive us to consider very sad choices. In the midst of despair, it can be a drag to be asked to baby-sit your pre-teen niece, especially if it interrupts something very serious and personal! Hope and inspiration can come from the most unexpected places and in the most unexpected forms. Suddenly the whole world may be sharing your song, and life can take a much different turn!

To say that this film sheds new light on fostering innovation in the workplace would divert attention from how brightly it illuminates faces in the audience. It is creative, unusual, and rare to see stop-action animation of live actors handled in such an incandescent way. We’ll just say “Luminaris” is a brilliant fantasy, and a very high-wattage one at that! Argentina/2011/7 min. Shown with eT (see page 12) & not That Funny (see page 15)

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“Nature isn’t cruel, just indifferent.” So, goes the old adage. For one air traffic controller alone in his station in the Azores, contacting the pilot of a small plane lost over the North Atlantic offers a chance to provide critical human support in a time of distress. For the pilot, facing nature in all its cruelty, the controller’s voice may be the last human voice he hears ... or perhaps not! Based on a true story.

Saturday, 3 p.m., Rosebud Cinema Can a filmmaker tell a meaningful in-depth story about a boy/ girl relationship in only one and a half minutes? Some feature films have attempted to tell this kind of story in an hour and a half or more, and done less well in the process. We think you’ll agree, but be sure to let us know! Spain/2010/2 min. Shown with Dreamworld, see page 14

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Did you think being a Viking was only about pillage and plunder? What if a young man’s Viking ancestry isn’t sufficient to ward off his being bullied in school? There are many things that can torture a man’s soul, even as he contemplates his Viking heritage. Can young Anders find empowerment in a family saga shared by his father? Denmark/2011/9 min. Shown with Starbuck, see page 16

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28 Short documentari eS 2012 PTFF Among Giants Driving William Julio Solis: Director: Chris Chresci Director: Joanna Higgs A Moveshake Story www.amonggiants.com www.drivingwilliam.com Saturday, 12 noon, Rosebud Cinema Sunday, 6:15 p.m., Maritime Center Theatre In the midst of California’s coastal redwood region, Green Diamond Resource Company continues to clear-cut redwood forests. Farmer, a direct-action environmental activist in his late 20s, decides to tree-sit in the McKay Tract. “Among Giants” begins three years into the McKay tree-sit. Atop his tiny platform 100 feet up in the ancient redwood canopy, Farmer must battle the elements and avoid isolation as he fights for a sustainable future. USA/2011/14 min. Shown with Big Boys gone Bananas!* see page 18

Friday, 9:15 a.m., Rose Theatre

Director: Alexandria Bombach www.moveshake.org

Sunday, 6:15 p.m., Rose Theatre

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Sascha Archer, a 1993 Port Townsend High School graduate, cites her most notable and life-altering experience as an art therapist was her work with William, a 12-year-old from a grape-farming community in Worcester, outside of Cape Town, South Africa. While searching for bird’s nests with his younger cousin, William climbed an electricity pylon and was electrocuted, becoming a double arm amputee.

Sunday, 12:30 p.m., uptown Theatre

South Africa/2011/26 min. Shown with Trash Dance, see page 24

Ink & Paper Director: Ben Proudfoot

Day in Our Bay

Friday, 6:15 p.m., Maritime Center Theatre

Director: Mary Katzke dayinourbay.org

Saturday, 12:15 p.m., Rose Theatre

Friday, 3:30 p.m., uptown Theatre Sunday, 9:15 a.m., Maritime Center Theatre A resident of Bristol Bay, Alaska, said that by receiving a video camera through the “Day in Our Bay” project, he could allow the local natural resources to speak for themselves. “We’re going to voice them out,” he said. In October 2011, Bristol Bay Native Corporation (BBNC) supplied qualifying BBNC shareholders with video cameras to use as part of a regional, interactive, multimedia initiative. The camera giveaway was a community video event that gave Bristol Bay’s rural populations an innovative way to share “their voices, views and values with the world.” USA/2011/16 min. Shown with Smokin’ Fish, see page 23

In downtown Los Angeles in 1929, there were 42 outlets for paper and 17 printers that specialized in letterpress. Today there are only two: McManus & Morgan Paper and Aardvark Letterpress. The two businesses operate next to each other on the same corner. Times may have changed, but the passion and love for “Ink and Paper” drive the proprietors of these two establishments to hold on against crushing competition from the digital world. USA/2011/9 min. Shown with The Revolutionary, see page 24

Julio Solis grew up near Magdalena Bay in Baja, Mexico, where he hunted and sold the then-plentiful turtles. After being hired by a university researcher to capture, study, and return the turtles to the bay, Solis decided to alter the course of his life and work. Inspired by what he saw and learned, he became a leader – a mover and shaker – in Magdalena Bay’s turtle conservation movement. USA/Mexico/2012/9 min. Shown with The eyes of Thailand, see page 23

Mr. Smith’s Peach Seeds Director: Stewart Copeland www.stewstew.com Saturday, 9:15 p.m., Rose Theatre Sunday, 12:15 p.m., Maritime Center Theatre In 1968 Roger Smith ate a peach during a break from work. When he was finished he took out a pocketknife and began carving the peach pit into a tiny pig. Forty-three years later the retired meter reader and cattle rancher from Culloeka, Tennessee has carved hundreds of peach seeds into hummingbirds, stingrays, gospel choirs, villages and the entire 1992 lineup of the Atlanta Braves. “Given enough time,” says Smith, “I don’t think there is anything you can’t make out of a peach seed.” USA/2012/12 min. Shown with Beauty is embarrassing, see page 18

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The Freedom Chair Director: Mike Douglas www.switchbackentertainment.com Friday, 9:15 p.m., Maritime Center Theatre Sunday, 3:30 p.m., uptown Theatre While training for the Canadian Junior Nationals in 2004, Josh Dueck – a hard-charging skier and coach – tested one of the jumps and overshot the landing. Upon impact, he dislocated his back and severed his spinal cord, cutting the nerve endings. The former B.C. Freestyle Team member became a paraplegic, unable to feel and move below his waist. Dueck was determined to return to the sport that almost killed him with the goal in mind of making the Canadian Para-Alpine Team, and qualifying for the 2010 Vancouver Paralympic Games. Canada/2011/15 min. Shown with High ground, see page 22

The Love Competition Director: Brent Hoff film-english.com/2012/03/03/ the-love-competition Friday, 9:30 p.m., Peter Simpson Free Cinema Sunday, 6:30 p.m., uptown Theatre Is it possible for one person to love more than another? Can it be measured? That’s what the Stanford Center for Cognitive and Neurobiological Imaging and filmmaker Brent Hoff set out to understand when they hosted the First Annual Love Competition. Seven contestants, ranging in age from 10 to 75 years, took part. Each spent five minutes in an MRI machine, thinking deeply about the love of their life and allowing the imaging technology to measure the results. USA/2011/16 min. Shown with Big in Bollywood, see page 18

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TXT Director: Josiah Bultema Saturday, 12:30 p.m., Peter Simpson Free Cinema

Director: Jeremy Konnor Saturday, 9:30 a.m., Peter Simpson Free Cinema Sunday, 3 p.m., Rosebud Cinema Narrated by Academy Award-winning actor Jeremy Irons, the video details the journey of a single-use plastic bag as it survives perilous travails on the way to the sea, where it may join with millions of tons of plastic in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

Saturday, 3:15 p.m., Maritime Center Theatre Sunday, 6 p.m., Rosebud Cinema If you’re a kid, does having a cell phone automatically make you cool? How would kids function without them? Why do they prefer texting to talking? Learn how a group of kids ages 8 to 14 really feel about their cell phones. One girl reports that her entire class flunked a state standardized grammar test. Is it any wonder?

USA/2011/4 min.

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Friday, 9 p.m., Rosebud Cinema

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Take a journey to Yosemite National Park with the Amazing Grace 50+ Club, a Los Angeles-based senior church group. “You shouldn’t have to convince people to go to paradise,” says Shelton Johnson, a ranger at Yosemite National Park. African Americans represent only about 1 percent of the visitors to our national parks. Many think that their historical experience in the U.S. has pushed them away from appreciating the natural wonders of the outdoors.

A rural Tibetan woman is responsible for most of her family’s manual labor, including water gathering. The woman observed in this film may be required to retrieve water as many as four times a day, carrying it for the good part of an hour in an 80-pound barrel strapped to her back. The work is heavy and grueling, but perhaps it is made somewhat lighter through her Buddhist meditations.

USA/2011/10 min.

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How We Play (Adventure/Sports Program)

Saturday, 9:15 p.m., Maritime Center Theatre Sunday, 9:30 a.m., Peter Simpson Free Cinema Our physical play may evolve from childhood exploration and simple games to sports, and then for many – extreme sports! How We Play explores the full range of the human physical play experience, with heartwarming stories, thrilling action and amazing photography.

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Directors: Eric Crosland, Dave Mossop www.sherpascinema.com Cross-country skiing is often considered rather tame, but what if it were to include cross-house, cross-car, crossstair, and cross everything else as elements? Follow one avid skier from British Columbia as he traverses his favorite urban course, allowing no obstacle to hinder his delight in the sport.

Director: Anna Ewert Recent scholarly studies have been devoted to examining ‘Nature Deficit Disorder’ a term coined for the trend of children spending less time outdoors. While this may be true for some, it isn’t the case for the kindergarteners in Scotland’s Secret Garden Outdoor Nursery. For these children, a walk in the woods is occasion for an exciting adventure and an opportunity to stimulate their unbridled imaginations. According to one little girl, “The lions like prowling around, so I give them prowlingaround lessons!”

Canada/2011/5 min.

Unicorn Sashimi Directors: Ben Knight, Travis Rummel www.feltsoulmedia.com Even within the wide range of skiing styles out there, filmmakers Ben Knight and Travis Rummel encountered a new dimension with snow surfing in Hokkaido, Japan. Figments of the Hokkaido unicorn could be sensed in the dense mountainside forests where they filmed. Though they caught no unicorns, they did catch extraordinary snowboarders moving at breakneck speed through powder so dry, fine, and deep that the competitors risked sinking below the surface on every straightaway and turn. USA/2012/5 min.

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Obe and Ashima Directors: Nick Rosen, Peter Mortimer www.senderfilms.com

Obe is a former rock-climbing star turned coach. Ashima Shiraishi is his 9-year-old, 4-foot-tall protégé. Together they work to develop Ashima’s skill and competitive nature. She starts with indoor climbing walls and then moves outdoors to attempt the advanced rock-climbing activity

2012 PTFF known as bouldering. To compete in this sport, Ashima learns to defy gravity by starting her climbs upside down at the base of a two-story boulder, finds holds as she moves across the bottom and up the curved side before nearing the top. Under the tutelage of her passionate coach, Ashima seriously raises the bar for competitive climbing. USA/2012/22 min.

Moonwalk Director: Mikey Schaefer www.mikeyschaeferphotography.com Cathedral Peak in Yosemite is the setting for this amazing film of the rising full moon. How this brilliantly photographed event was shot in real time and synchronized with death-defying exploits by celebrated climber Dean Potter reflects the genius of the filmmaker. The results are beautiful and breathtaking! USA/2012/3 min.

Cold Director: Skip Armstrong “This is where everyone dies!” That’s how Cory Richards describes his team’s descent from a 27,000-foot summit in Pakistan’s Himalayan Mountains. Gasherbrum II, also known as K4, is the 13th tallest mountain on Earth. After becoming the only American to ever reach this summit in winter, Richards and his teammates are forced to make their descent within just a day and a half window of forecasted sunshine. Attempting the near-impossible, the team confronted temperatures that dropped to -44F, a freak blizzard, an avalanche, and an encounter with death. USA/Pakistan/2011/19 min.

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For this young man, choosing to live on the street, assessing his relationships with others, and wandering the Northwest lead to finding his ultimate rewards in solitude. One can only imagine the next step – the skill and dedication required to attempt a 1400-mile solitary ski and kayak odyssey – but for this adventurer, such activities have become part of his spiritual life. USA/2012/7 min.

Racing the End Director: Warren Kommers We know and read about the runners who compete in big-city marathons. We know about the development of the urban bicycle culture. The intersection of these two has produced a new competitive sport – Marathon Crash Racing. In “Racing the End,” we follow one such event and one champion, as he and other Los Angeles renegade cyclists assemble at 3 a.m. to run the marathon course on their bikes, completing the course before the runners even arrive for the start, guerilla style.

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Director: Ann Katsikapes Consider what busy critters ants can be! We find them under our feet, at our picnics, and sometimes in our food! Consider how physically fit they are, compared to us! Consider how hard they work! They pull much more than their own weight. Have these dedicated communal residents and diligent laborers found an especially welcoming home in Port Townsend?

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Compassion Connects Director: Tristan Stoch Can traditional Chinese medicine provide healing and comfort and supplement traditional Western medicine in third-world communities where medical care is expensive and unavailable? Near Kathmandu, Nepal, a team of five Portlandarea acupuncturists have volunteered to overcome “…tremendous obstacles of poverty, in regions where the struggle to survive often usurps basic medical needs…Through the practice of healing, a connection between patient and volunteer emerges, transcending the physical and leading both parties into a relationship of human connection and compassion that creates long-lasting effects within their communities.” USA/Nepal/2012/29 min.

In 1890, there were nearly 450 Chinese people living in Port Townsend. By 1910, they were gone! Despite expulsion, the Chinese experience in Port Townsend may have been less tragic than elsewhere. “The Chinese Gardens looks at the lost Chinese community in Port Townsend, Washington, examining anti-Chinese violence – lynchings, beatings, and murders – in the Pacific Northwest in the late 1800s and drawing connections between past and present race relations in the U.S.”

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The Kawamotos of Lake Leland Director: Pamela Roberts The Kawamoto family’s ongoing farming experience in Jefferson County could hardly be more different than the one depicted in Betty MacDonald’s local memoir “The Egg and I,” published in 1945! Instead, this Japanese-American pioneer family was welcomed into the Quilcene community and its schools, only to then suffer the indignity of the World War II government-mandated expulsion. How they escaped the oppressive and stifling environment of the internment camps provides an unusually positive note to contrast with the sad endings of these so-often anguished family stories. USA/2012/29 min.

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Portland’s development ordinances require preservation of the original iron rings imbedded in its sidewalks for securing horse-drawn carriages. Typically the rings go unnoticed and ignored, except by the occasional child who tugs on one, curious to learn what it is for. Scott Wayne Indiana is “an artist who builds community through experimental, collaborative play.” You’ll be delighted in the way he incites “people to notice what was always around; what they had been missing – now they had found.” USA/2011/10 min.

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Director: Toddy Burton Against the unfolding radio news story of the trapped Brazilian miners, a young teenage girl must find a way to balance school, housekeeping, her first attempts at a social life and caring for her acutely depressed father who is fascinated by the miners’ story. The girl is taunted by a threatening male schoolmate who calls her a freak, but as she struggles to hold her life together, she is able to find understanding and self-confidence through a string of most unusual circumstances.

Director: Philip Lepherd What appears to be a simple story of a childhood birthday party with two young brothers gives you pause as you listen closely to the dialog. When two adults appear at the party, these two preschoolers assume much different roles. As you listen to the conversation unfold, you find yourself reexamining how young and older family members relate.

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Little Horses Director: Levi Abrino Post-divorce, the “ex” begins a new life with a guy who’s just moved in. Dad is bitter about the divorce, and tries to compete for the attention of his son by buying the boy a pony for his birthday. The father’s resources are few, but … USA/2012/17 min.

We can relate to the pain felt by a 14-year-old girl whose father tells her that an “A” with a 96 score just isn’t good enough. This well-off East IndianAmerican family struggles with the clash of Indian and American values, and the struggle is heightened when the girl is invited to her first homecoming dance and her father refuses to let her go. In the process of seeking her father’s approval and permission, the girl is forced for the first time to confront adult values and the difficult choices that adults may face. USA/2011/26 min.

Bear Director: Nash Edgerton His ex-girlfriend claims he took things too far. Jack means well and has good intentions, but at times his judgment falters. Poor Jack, it looks like he may be in trouble with his new girlfriend over her birthday, so with all the best intentions he comes up with a really creative way to surprise her! Australia/2011/11 min.

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Clean Director: Jonathan Browning Someone important is coming, and the house is a mess! This needs to be picked up; that needs to be hidden or put away! How could we allow anyone to be exposed to our sloppy habits? There is so much at stake for this couple who scramble to make things presentable. Will they pull it off in time? USA/2012/4 min.

The Photographs of Your Junk (Will be Publicized) Director: Ronnie Butler, Jr. In 2010, the New Statesman listed the poetry/song by Gil Scott-Heron, The Revolution will not be Televised, as one of the “Top 20 Political Songs.” This performance video pays homage to the original with new insights that bring hard-hitting political l commentary up-to-date in the context of today’s social media world. USA/2011/5 min.

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36 ptff cast and crew THANKS! This Film Lovers’ Block Party could never take place without the help and support we get from a whole army of people who step up whenever we ask! We are amazed by our staff and the capable volunteers who plan, proofread, edit, review films, schlep heavy stuff, clean, cook and gather the troops! They do all of this and more with great attitudes and community spirit! We have to begin by thanking Steve Goff, who took on the enormous job of festival operations manager this year. Kendra Golden, our volunteer coordinator, is uber-organized and makes our lives easier. Thanks to Cherel Lopez, whose contributions are too many to list and whose humorous guidance has carried us through the year; Chris Martin, who has taken us into the digital world of film presentation this year; and Raman Stika, for his patient herding of filmmakers and us, too! Nearly 250 volunteers and 100 businesses support this effort and for all of you: We are deeply grateful! PTFF Staff Janette Force, PTFI Executive Director Steve Goff, Festival Operations Manager Barbara Henthorn, Sponsors & Marketing Jane Julian, Festival Programmer Chris Martin, Film Czar Victoria O’Donnell, Administrative Manager Deborah Pedersen, Bookkeeper Raman Stika, Film Wrangler Office Cherel Lopez Donna Bodkin Jean Boyer Lili Glast, Library Nancy Johnson

Barbara Miles JoAnne Zeller Concierge Amanda Steurer Lili Glast Pamela Gould Farmers Market Carrie Rice Terry Wagner Festival Banking Genie Nastrie, Miss Money Penny Aldryth O’Hara, Gooding, O’Hara & Mackey Festival Production Bonnie Christoffersen, Festival Designer Steve Emery, Security Ted Krysinski, Lights & Grip

Festival Newsletter Luke Bogues Film Reviewers Pam Kolacy, Captain Narratives Kris Mayer, Captain Documentaries Jonathan Altemose Stevie Caddell Phyllis Day Dennis Daneau Barbara Ewing Jim Ewing Bob Febos Steve Gillard Sue Gillard Martina Haley Jack Kopaid Bill LeMaster Lynn LeMaster Lyman Leong Asia Martin Brian McLoughlin Coltan Newton Marcia Perlstein Nora Petrich Liz Quayle Matt RoarkCatlett Onyea Sholty Ruth Stewart Alma Taylor Cody Thompson Donn Trethewey Henry Werch Jeff Youde Linda Yakush Grants/ Surveys Matt Rowe Kathy Stafford Graphic Design Brian McLoughlin, Festival Signs Terry Tennesen, Festival Art Design

Guest Services Cherel Lopez Hospitality Sharon Wenzler, Manager Jewel Atwell Kate Franco Linnea Patrick Jennifer Turney Information Kiosks Karen Anderson Interviews at underTown Mara Lathrop Master of Ceremonies Joey Pipia Pass Production Tom Christopher Jim Ewing Patricia Girard Cynthia Koan Sue Raley Victoria O’Donnell Photography Mark Saran, Manager Tom Christopher Print Program Victoria O’Donnell, Editor in Chief Bonnie McLaughlin Henry Werch Jan Halliday Jennifer James-Wilson Sunny Parsons Marian Roh, program layout & design Projectionists Gary Engbrecht, Manager Andrew Burke Amy Carlson Erik Durfey Renata Friedman Chris Martin Miles McRae Everett Moran Dan Sutton

Francesco Tortorici Rick Wiley Publicity Monica Mick Hager, Manager Caroline Littlefield Bill Mann Marshall New Rebecca Redshaw Social Media Tom Christopher Brian McLoughlin Special Events Joanne Bussa Marlies Egberding Laura Tucker Alana Karsch Monica Mick Hager Amy Sousa Tech Team Cynthia Koan Chris Martin Jeff Sabado Victoria O’Donnell Mark Westlund Transportation Cherel Lopez Clyde McDade Venue Managers Terry Tennesen, Theatre Czar Kieran Henthorn & Wayne Cossairt, Taylor Street Outdoor Cinema, Upstage Panels Baila Dworsky & Mike Johnson, Uptown Theatre Robert Force, Magic Lantern & Liquor Czar Steve & Sue Gillard, Rose Theatre Misha & Luna Meng, Maritime Center Theatre Gabe & Robin Ornelas, Area 51 Cocktail Lounge Nora Petrich & Janine Kowack, Rosebud Cinema

Susan Solley & Kathleen Holt, Filmmakers’ Lounge Mark Welch & Chris Pierson, Peter Simpson Free Cinema Videography/ Promotional Jane Champion, Champion Video Productions Michael Delagarza Julie Philips Volunteer Coordination Kendra Golden Web Design Ann Welch Grantors Port Townsend Arts Commission Kitsap Bank Community Grant 2012 JURORS Narrative Features Todd Elgin Adam Reid Cynthia Sears Documentary Features Jim Bigham Linda Hattendorf Adam Sekuler Short Narratives Jon Gann Stephanie Argy Alec Boehm Short Documentaries Jill Orschel Donovan Cook JJ Kelley PTFI Board of Directors Rocky Friedman, President Pam Dionne, Vice President Keven Elliff, Secretary Sarah Hadlock, Treasurer Kathleen Kler Bob Rosen Tina FloresMcCleese Brad Mace Jane Champion

2012 PTFF PTFI Board Emeritus Jim Westall Linda Yakush Toby Jordan Pam Kolacy Karen Gates Hildt Marleis Egberding Linda Maguire Cynthia Sears Jim Grabicki Ian Hinkle Peter Simpson Frank Ross John Considine John Begley Glenda Hultman Geerlofs Brent Shirley Carol McGough Jim Marshall Jim Ewing

Poster Artist Max Grover has been passionate about the Port Townsend Film Festival since its inception. This is the fourth painting Max has created for the festival poster. His love affair with film, and Port Townsend, have inspired this year’s image. Max’s paintings have delighted fans throughout the country and can be seen locally at the Max Grover Gallery, 630 Water Street, Port Townsend.

37 Thanks for everythi ng Evolution can be painful (just ask the fish that had to learn to walk around on the beach). Film festivals around the world are grappling with the complexity of migrating from 35mm film to Digibeta tape to Beta SP and HD and BluRay. We are extremely grateful for the gifted expertise of our Tech Czar, Chris Martin! Chris has served Chimacum School District for years and provides sound for hundreds of events. But his true passion is cinema.

2012 PTFF

Fi lm I ndex GENRE CODES: DF: Documentary Feature NF: Narrative Feature SD: Short Documentary SN: Short Narrative

Mulberry Child: DF..................................... 22 North Atlantic: SN...................................... 26 Not That Funny: NF.................................... 15 Obe & Ashima: SD..................................... 30 Of Souls & Water: The Nomad: SD.......................................... 31 Otter 501: DF.............................................. 23 QWERTY: NF.............................................. 16

Bear: SN..................................................... 34

Racing the End: SD.................................... 31

Beauty is Embarrassing: DF...................... 18

Regional Tapestry Shorts Program.......................................... 32

Big Boys Gone Bananas!*: DF.................. 18 Big in Bollywood: DF.................................. 18 Bitter Seeds: DF......................................... 19 Brooklyn Castle: DF................................... 19 Chasing Ice: DF.......................................... 19

How will this unfold for you? It all comes down to projectionists who, under the guidance of Gary Engrecht, really ARE the folks behind the curtain-turning the technical complexity into magic!

Driving William: SD..................................... 28

Chris Martin, Tech Czar and Supreme Commander Gary Engbrecht, we salute you! Thank you both for guiding us into this new frontier!

for the PTFI Board of Directors and Staff

Mr. Smith’s Peach Seeds: SD.................... 28

Among Giants: SD..................................... 28

Clean: SN.................................................... 34

Janette Force

Moonwalk: SD............................................ 30

All.I.Can., JP Auclair St. Segment: SD...... 30

PTFI has been able to straddle the digital divide thanks to the endless hours and coaching that Chris has provided to our volunteers, filmmakers, projectionists and the staff. His quiet confidence and unflappable good nature is the perfect calming counter-balance to our creative storms. We are 100% digitized and are providing you with the highest quality images in PTFF history.

With gratitude,

Los Gritones (The Screamers): SN............ 26 Luminaris: SN............................................. 26

Cold: SD..................................................... 30 Compassion Connects: SD....................... 32 Consider the Ant: SD................................. 32 Curfew: SN................................................. 26 Day in Our Bay: SD.................................... 28 Den Forste Anders (The First Anders): SN................................ 26 Dik: SN........................................................ 34 Dreamworld: NF......................................... 14 El Dedo (The Finger): NF............................ 17 E.T.: NF........................................................ 12 Foreign Letters: NF.................................... 14 Gayby: NF................................................... 15 Go Ganges!: DF.......................................... 22 High Ground: DF........................................ 22 Homecoming: SN....................................... 34

Reviewers’ Choice Shorts Program.......................................... 34 Smile: NF.................................................... 10 Smokin’ Fish: DF........................................ 23 Song of the Spindle: SN............................ 26 Starbuck: NF.............................................. 16 The Birthday Circle: SN............................. 34 The Chinese Gardens: SD......................... 32 The Dynamiter: NF..................................... 17 The Empire Strikes Back: NF.................... 12 The Eyes of Thailand: DF........................... 23 The Freedom Chair: SD............................. 29 The Girls in the Band: DF........................... 24 The Kawamotos of Lake Leland: SD........ 32 The Kids Are All Right: NF........................... 9 The Love Competition: SD........................ 29 The Majestic Plastic Bag: SD.................... 29 The Miners: SN........................................... 34 The Photographs of Your Junk (Will be Publicized): SN.............................. 34 The Revolutionary: DF............................... 24 The Way Home: SD.................................... 29

How We Play Shorts Program................... 30

Tokyo No Onna (Woman of Tokyo): NF ................................ 8

Ink & Paper: SD.......................................... 28

Tootsie: NF.................................................. 12

Into the Middle of Nowhere: SD................ 30

Trash Dance: DF......................................... 24

Io Sono Li (Shun Li and The Poet): NF........................ 16

TXT: SD....................................................... 29

It’s a Ring Thing: SD................................... 32 Julio Solis: A Moveshake Story: SD............................. 28 Kinyarwanda: NF........................................ 15 Les Hommes Libres (Free Men): NF............................................ 14 Little Horses: SN........................................ 34

Under African Skies: DF............................. 25 Unicorn Sashimi: SD.................................. 30 Wish Me Away: DF....................................... 9 Water: SD.................................................... 29

38 thankS to our SponSorS 2012 PTFF

2012 PTFF

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