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table of contents ABOUT/STAFF/BOARD.....................................................................................................................................................................10 TICKET INFORMATION.....................................................................................................................................................................27 VENUE INFORMATION......................................................................................................................................................................29 ECO-INITIATIVE/MERCHANDIS.........................................................................................................................................................31 SPARK AWARDS..............................................................................................................................................................................33 PARTIES/PANELS............................................................................................................................................................................35 FAMILY GUIDELINES........................................................................................................................................................................37 COMMUNITY SCREENINGS..............................................................................................................................................................39 FILMS WITH CLASS.........................................................................................................................................................................41 SPECIAL SCREENINGS....................................................................................................................................................................49 MASTER OF CINEMA.......................................................................................................................................................................54 EMERGING MASTER........................................................................................................................................................................59 NARRATIVE COMPETITION...............................................................................................................................................................65 DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION........................................................................................................................................................81 SPOTLIGHT ON INGMAR BERGMAN..................................................................................................................................................97 ALTERED STATES: NEW DIRECTIONS IN AMERICAN CINEMA...........................................................................................................101 FOCUS..........................................................................................................................................................................................107 FROM THE ARCHIVES....................................................................................................................................................................117 LATE NIGHT...................................................................................................................................................................................119 SHORTS........................................................................................................................................................................................123 SCHEDULES..................................................................................................................................................................................139 PRINT SOURCE INFORMATION.......................................................................................................................................................160 SPECIAL THANKS..........................................................................................................................................................................167 FESTIVAL MAP...............................................................................................................................................................................169 INDEXES.......................................................................................................................................................................................174 RIVERRUN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL / APRIL 12-21, 2013

About the Festival The RiverRun International Film Festival is a 501c(3) non-profit cultural organization dedicated to the role of cinema as a conduit of powerful ideas and diverse viewpoints. Our mission is to foster a greater appreciation of cinema and a deeper understanding of the many people, cultures and perspectives of our world through regular interaction with great films and filmmakers. Founded in 1998, RiverRun is a competitive event that annually presents a rich blend of new films by established and emerging filmmakers, showcasing a diverse collection of cinematic voices from around the world. Each spring, RiverRun screens new narrative, documentary, short, student and animated films, offering both audience and jury prizes in competition categories. The Festival also presents a broad range of special events, including high-profile regional premieres of significant films, celebrity tributes, family-friendly programs and classic retrospectives, as well as a full mixture of panel discussions and parties.

Our Sponsor community enriches the Festival experience and helps sustain year-round programs. RiverRun is proud to acknowledge the Official Sponsors of the 2013 Festival. Sponsor support reflects a commitment to increasing the vitality of independent film and filmmakers while enhancing the Triadâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s cultural landscape and the lives of its citizens via cinematic programming.

TITLE SPONSORS

RiverRun Staff Executive Director...........................................................................................................................................Andrew Rodgers Program MANAGER.............................................................................................................................................. Mary dossinger COMMUNITY DIRECTOR...................................................................................................................................................jane mckim DEVELOPMENT MANAGER..................................................................................................................................................JENNY HWA PROGRAM coordinator...............................................................................................................................CHRISTOPHER HOLMES OPERATIONS MANAGER....................................................................................................................................................TARA ORRIS PUBLICITY COORDINATOR............................................................................................................................... Mariedith Appanaitis PUBLICITY ASSISTANT..................................................................................................................................................KRISTI MARION box office manager..............................................................................................................................................Marisa A. Avila DEVELOPMENT assistantS.................................................................................................................Sydnee Alms & Emily SeibeL TRAVEL COORDINATOR................................................................................................................................................LOIS ROEWADE EVENTS MANAGER............................................................................................................................................Vania Abdul-Salaam ASSISTANT EVENTS MANAGER................................................................................................................................. KAREN COLEMAN EVENTS COORDINATORs................................................................................................................... Mickey Flynn & Lyndon Bray ASSISTANT VOLUNTEER COODINATOR.....................................................................................................................SUSAN CAMPBELL PANEL AND PITCHFEST COODINATOR............................................................................................................................... ANNA FADEL TECHNICAL DIRECTOR.....................................................................................................................................................MATT JONES EXHIBITION COORDINATOR................................................................................................................................................. ERIC SELF PRINT TRAFFIC COORDINATOR........................................................................................................................................RAY Godzisz ARCHIVAL PRINT CONSULTANT....................................................................................................................................DAVID SPENCER ACCOUNTANT........................................................................................................................................MARTHA CLAYTON LOGEMANN FESTIVAL CONCIERGE.................................................................................................................Deb Williams & Debbie Sheppard TRANSPORTATION COORDINATOR.................................................................................................................................JERRY LAWSON TRANSPORTATION assistant............................................................................................................................................. Pat Bryan parking and shuttle COORDINATOR.........................................................................................................................Amanda Hoey Theatre operations MANAGER..................................................................................................................................PAT EISENACH VENUE MANAGERS..................................................................................Swede Opperman, Tamara Michaels, Elizabeth Stepp, Ashley Morgan, Eileen Schneider, Ethan Saikin, Lani Seltzer & Karen McHugh

PRESENTING SPONSORS

MARQUEE SPONSORS

RiverRun Board of Directors Cheryl Lindsay, Chair David Park, Vice Chair Katie Pepper, Secretary Karen Coleman, Assistant Secretary Sharon Hamilton, Treasurer Steve Berlin George Burnette Matthew Dyson *DENOTES FORMER CHAIRMAN

John D. Gates Ed Hanes, Jr. Curtis Leonard Barry Maine Jean Jacques Martinod Derwin Montgomery William Reingold Dale Pollock*

Billy Rich Devora Rogers Andrew Rodgers Susan Ruskin Lisa Ann Simpson Myles Thompson

PATRICK CREADON AVA DUVERNAY DAVID GORDON GREEN ANGUS MACLACHLAN

BILL PULLMAN TAMARA PULLMAN PAUL SCHNEIDER

ADVISORY Board RAMIN BAHRANI VERNA BLOOM LUCY CABARGA JAY COCKS 10

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OFFICIAL PROVIDERS

Our donors share a passion for great films that inspire and challenge us to see the world from a new perspective. RiverRun is proud to acknowledge the donors of the 2013 Festival.

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ensemble Circle – $2,500 Peggy Joines Adrienne Livengood David & Lynne Park Margaret Scales & Graydon Pleasants

CONTRIBUTORS PARTNER High Point Bank McRitchie Winery NC Film Office North Carolina Arts Council Sally Gupton Photography Thruway Center TOPO Distillery Walter Robbs Callahan & Pierce Architects, PA WFDD Winston-Salem Dash WS Arts Magazine BENEFACTOR Airtype Studio Big Daddy Love Camel City Goods Camino Bakery Commerce Plaza Community Arts Cafe Dancing Lemur Photography Diamondback Grill Edible Piedmont Fairway Outdoor Advertising First Tennessee High Point University Jeffrey Adams Mozelle’s Fresh Southern Bistro Piedmont Distillers SocialDirect Spring House Steve Davis PhotoVideo The Old Fourth Street Filling Station TV5 Monde Wake Forest Innovation Quarter Wexford Science & Technology ASSOCIATE 6th and Vine Alicia Madan Photography Big Bang Boom Butler and Burke Casanova’s Confections Commercial Framing Dewey’s Bakery East Coast Capital Express Graphics Five Points Foothills Brewing Freaker

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DONORS Benefactor – $500

Rollie & Diane Barrett William G. Benton Steve Berlin Louis & Claire Davis Mary & Joe Dudley Jim & Pat Eisenach Lynn & Barry Eisenberg John D. Gates F. Borden Hanes, Jr. Adele & Frank James Martha & Ernest Logemann John & Melinda McConnell Lynn Miller David & Shannon Rainey Devora Rogers Myles & Liana Thompson Neil & Pamela Wolfman Leigh Foster & Betsey Zook

Supporter – $250

Mary Craven Adams Barry Maine & Sandra Alley Sheila Brame George & Susan Browder Barbara & Bob Campbell Matthew O. Dyson David & Daughn Eagan Dennis & Barbara Egnatz Ed Hanes Clark Harper Robbie & Dave Irvin Robert Jolly William King Mr. & Mrs. Alan T. Kirby Ruth & Keith Kooken Suzy & Arthur Kurtz Leon & Jennifer Lenchik Cheryl Lindsay Joseph P. Logan Amy Mainer John & Betty Mauceri Dan & Bonnie Murphy Chris & Karen Nard Allison Norton-Rimron

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FRIEND – $100

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GOVERNOR, STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA Dear Friends, The State of North Carolina is proud to welcome you to the 15th Annual RiverRun International Film Festival in the beautiful City of Winston-Salem. As a premier regional film festival, this exciting event attracts emerging and established talent from across the globe. The RiverRun International Film Festival is an opportunity to experience films about cultures and ideas from filmmakers worldwide on our UNC School of the Arts campus. North Carolina is stronger when citizens and visitors can take part in cultural events that offer exposure and understanding. Please enjoy this year’s films and the southern hospitality for which North Carolinians are known. Kindest regards,

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mayor, city of winston-salem On behalf of the City Council and the citizens of Winston-Salem, it is my distinct pleasure to welcome you to the 2013 RiverRun International Film Festival. Winston-Salem is home to the very first arts council and we have a long history of nurturing artists and artistic endeavors. That is just one of the reasons we are so pleased to be the headquarters for one of the country’s premier regional film festivals. Every year, RiverRun brings in critically lauded films as well as industry representatives and audiences from around the world. We are so excited to have an event like RiverRun in our city and we gratefully support all of the festival staff and volunteers who make this a fantastic occasion for all of our guests. If you are a visitor to our city, I encourage you to discover why Winston-Salem is named The City of the Arts. In your spare time there are plenty of galleries, shops and artwork to see in our arts district. Or, you could stop by one of our many museums or historic centers. Perhaps you could take a stroll around Reynolda Gardens after a screening to continue the conversation about that movie you just can’t stop thinking about. Again, welcome to Winston-Salem. We hope you will enjoy the warmth and history of our city! Best regards,

Allen Joines

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director, north carolina film office On behalf of the North Carolina Film Office, it is my pleasure as the NC Film Commissioner to welcome you to Winston-Salem and the 2013 RiverRun International Film Festival. I congratulate RiverRun on its continued growth as one of the most respected and well attended film festivals in the country. Congratulations to the filmmakers who have been chosen to screen at RiverRun. This honor is truly a testament of the hard work you put into your craft. North Carolina supports and embraces filmmakers and the film industry on every level. This past year North Carolina experienced a record breaking year in the film industry, with more than $375 million spent directly into our local economy creating thousands of jobs. In 2012 we were excited to be a part of many great projects, like Mathew Weiner’s feature directorial debut You Are Here, Homeland, Revolution and the highly anticipated film Iron Man 3. North Carolina’s aggressive film incentive coupled with our deep infrastructure makes North Carolina one of the most film friendly and competitive states in the country. I extend my appreciation to RiverRun for celebrating filmmakers who were educated in North Carolina by selecting several University of North Carolina School of the Arts alums, including; Jeff Nichols, Chad Hartigan, David Gordon Green and Zach Clark to screen at RiverRun. Additionally we are very excited to see that 13 North Carolina made films will screen this year at RiverRun, including 12 shorts and the feature film Susie’s Hope which was shot in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Whether you’re a filmmaker or a film enthusiast, I welcome you to the Great State of North Carolina and invite you to take advantage of all that it offers. Again, congratulations to the 2013 RiverRun International Film Festival for another successful year and all the participating artists.

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Welcome to Winston-Salem and the 2013 RiverRun International Film Festival! I hope that you are able to enjoy as much of the festival as possible over the week. The RiverRun staff and volunteers have selected another amazing line-up of wonderful stories by talented filmmakers from all over the world. We’re especially excited to welcome back to the region this year’s Emerging Artist, UNCSA graduate Jeff Nichols. It’s a great privilege to have RiverRun, one of North Carolina’s fastest growing film festivals, in Winston-Salem, a community that truly values the art and the business of filmmaking. The Piedmont Triad Film Commission is celebrating its 20th year of recruiting film business to Winston-Salem and the Triad region to drive economic growth. In the last year alone, our office recruited Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner to shoot his first feature film, You Are Here, in the area, helping him locate crew, locations and support services. We also recruited the Hallmark TV movie The Confession and the independent feature, The Ultimate Life, two projects directed by Michael Landon Jr., as well as Goodbye to All That, a feature directed by screenwriter and Winston-Salem local, Angus MacLachlan. Another friend we welcome back is award-winning director Ramin Bahrani, a Winston-Salem native who is attending RiverRun with his latest film, At Any Price. To Ramin and all visiting filmmakers, congratulations! If you’re new to the area, take some time to check out our diverse locations and meet some of the fabulous crew members who call this area home. Visit us at piedmontfilm.com and let us know how we can help you consider Winston-Salem and the Piedmont Triad for your next film.

Sincerely,

Rebecca Clark

RIVERRUN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL / APRIL 12-21, 2013

CHAIR, BOARD OF DIRECTORS Riverrun international film festival Welcome to the 15th Anniversary of the RiverRun International film Festival. Join us over the next 10 days as you will be treated to a wide variety of films from around the world. This year we’re excited to show 143 films from 35 countries, including four films by legendary filmmaker Ingmar Bergman in our annual Spotlight as well as free family-friendly community screenings of The Muppet Movie and Babe. As in the past, there will be something for everyone to enjoy! Your 2013 board of directors is comprised of a dynamic group of men and women that represent a diverse section of our community and businesses. Each member of the board of directors and the staff is committed to uphold our mission statement… “to foster a greater appreciation of cinema and a deeper understanding of the many people, cultures and perspectives of our world through regular interaction with great films and filmmakers.” While upholding the excellent artistry that we are known for, we are reaching farther into our own community to increase dialogue and engagement as we are truly dedicated to the role of cinema as a conduit of powerful ideas and diverse viewpoints. This year, some of the special events we are hosting that are intended to reach further into our communities include our 2nd annual PitchFest documentary competition for North Carolina college students as well as our Southern Locavore Bazaar, featuring foods and drinks from local growers and chefs. We rely on the generosity of our donors and sponsors to bring the festival to you each year. Ticket sales actually only covers a small portion of our annual expenses. With this being said, we would like to extend a big thanks to our 2013 Title Sponsors: Reynolds American, the Arts Council of Winston-Salem and Forsyth County and the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. Without them, RiverRun just wouldn’t be possible. We would also like to express our gratitude to Mayor Allen Joines and the City of Winston-Salem and the Millennium fund for their never-wavering support of RiverRun. We are only possible because of the strong community support, volunteerism, sponsorships and donations that we receive from generous individuals, businesses, academic institutions and corporations. For all that you’ve done and are doing, we thank you! Whether you’ve been a part of RiverRun for years or one of our first-time visitors, we welcome you! We encourage you to come out and support us in the many activities and events that will take place throughout this festival. On behalf of the RiverRun Board of Directors please sit back, relax and enjoy your time with us!

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EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Riverrun international film festival On behalf of the many tireless volunteers and staff who dedicate their time and energy to bring the best new cinema to Winston-Salem each year, I’d like to welcome you to the 15th RiverRun International Film Festival! I’d actually like to start this year’s letter by taking you back in time. Precisely when is largely irrelevant. To make the metaphor that much more meaningful, let’s just say we’re going back to the time of your childhood. Do you remember the very first movie you saw in the theater? I do. It was the summer of 1979 in Decatur, Illinois, and I was about to turn four-years-old. What I thought was a mid-afternoon trip to the grocery store in our green station wagon turned out to be a visit to an unfamiliar building on the outskirts of town. Shortly after arriving, we sat down in a big room filled with row after row of seats facing a giant white wall. There may have been other people in the theater with us, but for all I could tell, we were alone in the world. Pretty soon the lights dimmed and one of the most vivid memories of my childhood began to unfold – my first movie. (And just what was that film? Why, The Muppet Movie, of course, which is showing in our free Community Screenings section at this year’s Festival.) But what about your first movie? Maybe you remember it as clearly as I do. Or maybe the movies of your childhood have blended together to form a sort of patchwork experience. Either way, you no doubt remember the excitement and thrills that came with visiting the movie theater as a child. No matter when you saw your first film, however, there’s a similarity between our experiences that I’d like to point out today. The movies that both of us saw were projected off 35mm film. This is a commonality that has bound us all together for nearly 120 years. For generations, whenever we went to the movies, we watched a film projected off a piece of celluloid. That, unfortunately, is no longer the case more often than not today, as new digital projection technologies have become the standard. Things have slowly swung that way at RiverRun too, and this year, fewer films than just about ever before are showing on 35mm. What this means to us at RiverRun is very complicated… and requires far more explanation than the small space I have available here. Suffice to say, we believe very strongly in the importance of using new technologies to foster innovation in storytelling. But we are also passionate about the preservation of our cinematic heritage. In the coming years, you will see much more from us on this topic. For now, however, I’d like to draw your attention to some of the films that ARE showing on 35mm at this year’s Festival in the hopes that you’ll take advantage of this disappearing medium before it’s gone forever. Films shown off 35mm this year include one of our Opening Night Films (Blancanieves) as well as our Closing Night Film (At Any Price), the latest from our 2013 Emerging Master Jeff Nichols (Mud), all four of the films in our Spotlight on Ingmar Bergman (Cries & Whispers, The Hour of the Wolf, Persona and The Seventh Seal) as well as the film noir classic Touch of Evil, directed by Orson Welles, in our new From the Archives section. Sadly, this may be your once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see any of these films projected the way the filmmakers intended. Please don’t miss your chance! Of course, with 143 films from 35 countries, we’ve got a lot of cinema for you to consider. We’ve spent the past year watching films from around the world to curate this year’s program. I encourage you to take some risks, see a film or two on a whim and talk to the people in line around you to see what they liked – after all, the best part of a film festival is discovering your next favorite film!

Enjoy your time in the dark with us,

Andrew Rodgers

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TICKET INFORMATION How much are tickets? Tickets for nearly all 2013 Festival screenings are $10. We also offer a special matinee price of $5 per ticket for screenings that start before 5:00pm Monday through Friday. Students may obtain $2 off the regular price if they purchase tickets in person and present a valid student ID. (Note: student discounts are not available for matinee screenings.)

What if I want to see a large number of films? Are there any discounts? Once again this year we are offering our Ticket Sampler, which offers a built-in discount on film tickets. The card is available for purchase from any main RiverRun box office (Stevens Center or UNCSA) for $100 but allows the purchaser to obtain $110 in tickets to the 2013 Festival. The Ticket Sampler – which has a mixture of $10 and $5 slots that can be “punched” or redeemed for tickets – allows patrons to easily pick and choose what events they want to attend. Each slot on the card can be used toward the purchase of tickets to individual film screenings or parties throughout the Festival. You’re free to use the card all at once, share it with friends… or use it one-at-a-time as you discover new films to watch. Just remember that you need to get an actual ticket to attend all 2013 Festival films, with the exception of free screenings (which are seated on a first-come, first-served basis.) Simply having a Ticket Sampler doesn’t grant admission to any films. Ticket Samplers can be exchanged for tickets at any RiverRun venue:

The Stevens Center....................................................405 W. Fourth St. / 336-721-1945 Open 11am-6pm Monday-Friday & 9am-6pm April 13, 14 and 20 & 9am-4pm April 21 ACE Cinematheque Complex – UNCSA..................................................1533 S. Main St. Open one hour before first screening of the day. Closes after last screening begins. Festival Headquarters (for a/perture cinema screenings)....................305 W. Fourth St. Open one hour before first screening of the day, after The Stevens Center box office closes and will close after last screening begins. Hanesbrands Theatre.......................................................................... 209 N. Spruce St. Open one hour before first screening of the day. Closes after last screening begins. SECCA .............................................................................................. 750 Marguerite Dr. Open one hour before first screening of the day. Closes after last screening begins.

When and where should I buy my tickets? Between April 12-21, tickets for all films and events may be purchased at the main Festival box offices (Stevens Center and UNCSA). We recommend you buy tickets as early as possible, as advance tickets often sell out for many of our shows. However, you may still purchase “Rush” tickets on the day of the show, if any are available.

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If there is more than one hour before the start time of a screening you can purchase your tickets at either of the main Festival box offices (Stevens Center or UNCSA). Beginning one hour before the start time of a screening, however, you must purchase tickets directly at the venue where the screening is taking place. (Please note that for a/perture cinema screenings you purchase tickets at 305 West Fourth Street, not in the a/perture lobby).

Can I still get into a screening if it’s sold out? We don’t know if a screening is truly “sold out” until moments before the projector starts rolling. We sell a majority of the tickets available for every show to the general public on a first-come, first-served basis. These advance tickets often sell very quickly and are all gone by the time/day a show is scheduled to start. But we hold a limited number of seats for each screening and those seats don’t always get filled. So we encourage our patrons to purchase their tickets as early as possible to avoid missing out on the films you want to see. But if all the advance tickets for a particular show are sold, then we encourage you to arrive at the venue box office one hour before the show starts to put your name on the Wait List to try and obtain a “Rush” ticket. Approximately 15 minutes prior to the start of the films, if any empty seats remain, the venue staff will begin selling tickets to the people on the Wait List on a first-come, first-served basis. You must be present to purchase a “Rush” ticket.

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venue INFORMATION Festival Headquarters The Festival Headquarters is located in downtown Winston-Salem at 305 West Fourth Street. Including our Stella Artois lounge, Festival merchandise boutique and Festival information stations, the Festival HQ is a great place for all of our attendees to relax and take a breather between films.

Theatre Venues ACE Cinematheque Complex – UNC School of the Arts Main, Babcock & Gold Theatres 1533 S. Main St., Winston-Salem, NC 27127 The ACE Cinematheque Complex is a group of state-of-the-art theatres located in Studio Village at UNCSA. Babcock and Gold Theatres hold 91 seats and the Main Theatre has a capacity of 296. The theatres are designed to exhibit all formats of film and video – 16mm, 35mm and 70mm in Academy, wide-screen and Cinemascope formats with mono, stereo or digital surround-sound and all video formats. Adjacent to the theatres is the BB&T lobby and lounge area. Venue sponsored by Frontier Airlines

a/perture cinema 311 W. Fourth St., Winston-Salem, NC 27101 336-722-8148 First opened in January 2010, a/perture cinema screens a mix of independent, art, foreign, documentary, local and festival films in two 80-seat theatres. a/perture offers evening screenings seven days a week, with additional matinees on the weekends. Concessions include beer and wine as well as traditional movie fare. a/perture strives to bring back the intimate movie-going experience and serve as an alternative destination to the traditional Cineplex. Hanesbrands Theatre 209 N. Spruce St., Winston-Salem, NC 27101 336-747-1414 The Hanesbrands Theatre opened in September 2010. Three years in the making this new theatre was transformed from an automotive parts store and garage. Hanesbrands is styled as a black-box theatre that can accommodate not only film screenings but also theatre, dance and music productions. The dramatic lobby features a mirrored cymatic paint exploration by noted international painter Jimmy O’Neal from Asheville, NC. SECCA 750 Marguerite Dr., Winston-Salem, NC 27106 336-725-1904 The Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art opened in 1956 as a non-profit visual arts organization in response to a community and regional need for exhibition space devoted to work by area artists. SECCA is a dynamic center for exploring the best in contemporary art and a preferred place for the community to engage with art, and one another, in a lifelong learning experience with the arts. Venue sponsored by Frontier Airlines

The Stevens Center 405 W. Fourth St., Winston-Salem, NC 27101 336-721-1945 Originally a 1929 silent movie theatre, the Stevens Center is a magnificently restored neoclassical theatre. Re-opened in April 1983, the Stevens Center is the primary performance space for the University of North Carolina School of the Arts.

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COMPLIMENTARY HYDRATION STATIONS

RiverRun provides free Primo water stations at all screening venues of the Festival and the YWCA shuttle stop. We encourage patrons to bring their own re-useable bottles to take advantage of the complimentary water offered.

RECYCLING PROGRAM

Recycling is encouraged throughout RiverRun and each venue is equipped with recycling receptacles for PET bottles, glass and paper waste.

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At party venues, glassware is utilized when possible. We also employ disposable cups made from 50% post-consumer recycled PET bottles that can be recycled and other compostable materials.

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Recycled paper and non-toxic, soy-based inks are used exclusively for the 20,000 RiverRun Program Books and Brochures.

SUSTAINABLE MERCHANDISE

RiverRun creates a variety of Festival-branded eco-merchandise, such as apparel made with recycled fibers in partnership with Hanes and reusable tote bags.

COMMUNITY CINEMA INITIATIVE The 2013 Festival will mark the third year of our Community Cinema Initiative (CCI) to further our community outreach efforts and ensure the Festival is accessible to audiences from all backgrounds. This initiative furthers our mission of fostering a deeper understanding of the many people, cultures and perspectives of our world through great films and filmmakers. These films are free and open to the public! Please visit page 39 for all the details about the three free community screenings taking place this year.

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2013 SPARK AWARDs Last year’s festival, among a long list of other significant firsts, marked the introduction of a new laudatory distinction within the RiverRun pantheon–the Spark Award. Conceived as a natural extension of the Festival’s Altered States: New Directions in American Cinema program, which debuted in 2011, the Spark Award is intended to recognize exciting new filmmakers and breakthrough performers who are just on the cusp of gaining wider recognition for their remarkable talents. Once again we are fortunate enough to host three promising artists whose careers are electrifying audiences in all spheres of the motion picture world as RiverRun’s 2013 Spark Award honorees. This year’s trio of artists are unfettered dynamos of creative energy, and are all making outstanding films that serve as catalysts for impassioned audience and critical conversation throughout the world-class festivals where they appear. When thinking about films and performances that truly embody the daring ethos of independent filmmaking right now, these talents have been trailblazers of late and will continue to be at the epicenter of the discussion for many years to come. The three will be honored at an exclusive VIP-only event on the evening of Friday, April 19th, during the second weekend of RiverRun.

Anna Margaret Hollyman Anna Margaret Hollyman was born in New York City and grew up in Connecticut, with a little bit of Austin, Texas thrown in for good measure. She attended Sarah Lawrence College and graduated with a concentration in Theater Arts and Art History, and studied the Two Year Meisner program at the William Esper Studio with Suzanne Esper. Film-wise, she’s starred in the features Social Butterfly by Lauren Wolkstein, 2012 RiverRun Altered States Audience Award winner Small, Beautifully Moving Parts by Annie Howell and Lisa Robinson, and Zach Clark’s White Reindeer, which is an official RiverRun selection in the Altered States section of this year’s festival. Other film credits include appearances in Jonathan Lisecki’s Gayby, Alex Ross Perry’s The Color Wheel, Bob Byington’s Somebody Up There Likes Me, and Alexis Boling’s Movement and Location. Anna Margaret also studied improv at Upright Citizens Brigade in Los Angeles and the People’s Improv Theater (P.I.T.) in New York.

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Terence Nance Terence Nance is an artist born and raised in Dallas, Texas. He studied visual art and his practice includes installation, performance, music, and moving images. Terence makes music under the name Terence Etc., and his songs draw on influences like Stevie Wonder, Kronos Quartet, Dilla, Leadbelly, and Thelonius Monk. His first feature film, An Oversimplification of Her Beauty, premiered at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival and went on to play many prestigious festivals, including Rotterdam, New Directors/New Films, The San Francisco International Film Festival and Off Plus Camera. The album of the same title will be released with the film in 2013. The film has garnered Terence recognition from Filmmaker magazine, where he was selected as one of the 25 new faces of independent film. Oversimplification... also won the 2012 Gotham Award for “Best Film Not Playing at a Theater Near You.” Terence currently resides in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn along with the rest of The Swarm, and is currently developing his sophomore feature, The Lobbyist.

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Madeleine Martin is best known for her role as Becca Moody, Hank Moody’s (David Duchovny’s) precocious daughter on Showtime’s Californication. She recently appeared in Olivier Award winning playwright Simon Stephens’ acclaimed new London play Harper Regan at The Atlantic Theater Company, and took on the role of Millie in Roundabout’s revival of William Inge’s Picnic. In 2009 Madeleine was the recipient of the Marian Seldes’ Most Promising Young Performer Award, and The National Youth Theater award in 2008 for her performance as Jean Fordham in the original Broadway Production of the Tony Award Winning August: Osage County. She also stars in a breakout performance alongside Griffin Dunne in Justin Schwarz’s debut feature film The Discoverers, an official selection of RiverRun 2013. Madeleine’s additional television credits include guest starring roles on Criminal Minds, Law & Order, Law & Order SVU, and Hope and Faith. She charmed young fans for years as the beloved JoJo on Disney’s animated T.V. series JoJo’s Circus.

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A CONVERSATION WITH Jeff NICHOLS Saturday, April 20, 5:00pm UNCSA–Babcock

UNCSA School of Filmmaking alum and 2013 RiverRun Emerging Master honoree Jeff Nichols will answer questions about his remarkable and distinguished career, which includes the hits Shotgun Stories, Take Shelter and this year’s RiverRun film Mud.

2ND ANNUAL PITCH FEST Friday, April 19, 10:00am Hanesbrands Theatre

In an effort to further promote the development of new filmmaking talent, RiverRun is again joining forces with a consortium of universities around the state to present the 2nd Annual Pitch Fest. Student filmmakers, who were pre-selected by each school, will pitch their ideas for new documentaries to a panel of expert judges in the hopes of being awarded a cash prize and recognition within the industry.

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FILM CONTENT AND PARENTAL GUIDELINES RiverRun is committed to presenting outstanding independent films not available in wide release. That said, most of the films we screen are not yet rated by the Motion Picture Association of America. So, in an effort to help you choose great films for yourself and your family, each of our film listings include a short content guide denoting any potentially troubling content, as well as one of these general content symbols. Mature – Significant mature content. Teen+ – May have some mature content. Family Friendly – Suitable for children as young as 8-12.

Family-Friendly Program Highlights RiverRun is pleased to present a number of programs specifically selected for our younger film fans and their parents. You’ll find them in our catalog marked with this “Family Friendly” or “Teen” symbol. FOR OUR TEEN AUDIENCES, THERE ARE A NUMBER OF INTERESTING FILMS THAT MIGHT JUST TEACH THEM A THING OR TWO AS WELL. Twenty Feet From Stardom (page 92) Backup singers live in a world just beyond the spotlight, and their voices bring harmony to the biggest bands in popular music, but we’ve had no idea who they are until now. Following a number of famous backup singers, the film shines an intimate light on the artists whose voices shaped a generation. God’s Fiddler (page 110) The first modern violin virtuoso, Heifetz set the standard in violin playing for nearly a century. This film portrays an artist for whom only perfection would do, so well known in popular culture that his name became shorthand for excellence for everyone from Jack Benny to The Muppets to Woody Allen. Scabbard Samurai (page 112) An aging, broken samurai wanders the countryside with his daughter in this offbeat comedy. When he’s jailed for desertion, the sentence is “The 30-Day Feat,” a fool’s errand to make a sad, humorless prince smile. If he fails he must commit ritual suicide—giving new meaning to the phrase “Funny or Die.” Susie’s Hope (page 114) Based on true events, Susie’s Hope follows Donna Lawrence who, after surviving a horrific pit bull attack, adopts a pit bull-mix puppy that has been beaten, set on fire and left for dead. Together, they learn to heal and forgive as they lead an historic effort to seek justice and protection for all animals.

Jake Shimabukuro (page 41) An intimate documentary about the life of the young, virtuosic ukulele player Jake Shimabukuro, the film documents his rise from a modest upbringing with a single mother to his unexpected international stardom. The Naked Brand (page 41) That corporations have a tremendous influence on the world certainly isn’t debatable, but how they use their advertising and marketing muscle sure can be. The Naked Brand is a film that documents corporations that are using their influence for good . . . and helping save the planet one small step at a time. World Circus (page 41) World Circus takes viewers into the exciting world of the Monte Carlo Circus Festival, where performers from all over the world compete to win the Golden Clown and prove that they are one of the best.

AND, FOR OUR YOUNGEST AUDIENCE MEMBERS . . .

The Muppet Movie (page 39) In this classic, Kermit the Frog is convinced he should leave the swamp to try and be a star in Hollywood. So he packs up and travels across the country, meeting new friends along the way—including Fozzie, Animal, Gonzo and, of course, Miss Piggy—to help him on his path to stardom. Sponsored by Hanesbrands Inc. Babe (page 39) Join us on Fourth Street with your family and dogs for Babe, the story of a pig raised by sheepdogs who learns to herd sheep with a little help from Farmer Hoggett. Pre-film fun includes a DJ, trivia, Forsyth Humane Society’s mobile van, Project Pearl’s booth, vendors and our signature Fido Photo Booth to make a memory of the event! Sponsored by Ruff Housing We hope our content guides will be useful, but as always, please use your best judgment when choosing films for the younger movie lovers in your life. Enjoy the Festival!

Saturday Morning Cartoons (pages 134-135) The thrill of watching colorful, funny and sweet cartoons is something every child loves, and sometimes so do adults! Once again our programming staff has searched through our animation submissions to find the perfect kidfriendly stories, from a song about Beethoven (Beethoven’s Wig) to a beehive stealing bear (Honey Plot) and even a little boy acting like a private eye (The Case Of the Broken Lamp). Sponsored by Salem Smiles Orthodontics

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community cinema initiative The 2013 Festival marks the 3rd annual Community Cinema Initiative - these films are free and open to the public!

FIDO FROLIC & FILM Bring your canine companion down to Fourth Street for the evening to watch the film that popularized the phrase “that’ll do pig, that’ll do.” This event, sponsored by Ruff Housing, is also designed to promote and encourage animal welfare through a partnership with Project Pearl. Pre-film fun includes a DJ, trivia, Forsyth Humane Society’s mobile van, Project Pearl’s booth, vendors and our signature Fido Photo Booth to make a memory of the event! (Humans and dogs only, please!)

BABe Director Chris Noonan Australia/USA / 1995 / Rating: G / 89 min. When Farmer Hoggett wins a runt piglet at a local fair the young pig, named Babe, quickly becomes special friends with one of the sheepdogs, Fly. With Fly’s help, and Farmer Hoggett’s intuition, Babe embarks on a surprising career in sheepherding with some spectacular and comic results. SPONSORED BY

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THE MUPPET MOVIE Director James Frawley UK/USA / 1979 / Rating: G / 95 min. In this classic, Kermit the Frog is convinced he should leave the swamp to try and be a star in Hollywood. So he packs up and travels across the country, meeting new friends along the way—including Fozzie, Animal, Gonzo and, of course, Miss Piggy—to help him on his path to stardom. SPONSORED BY

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PRIDE & JOY Director Joe York USA / 2012 / Rating: TN / 57 min. Pride & Joy is a love letter to Southern cooking and the farmers that produce the foods. This documentary grants us a candid and intimate behind-the-scenes glimpse at family traditions, cultural legacies and culinary curiosities. SPONSORED BY

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Films With Class (FWC) is RiverRun’s most active year-round community outreach program. Its mission is to present films to area students as a vehicle through which to learn. With RiverRun’s strong and consistent reputation, FWC has access to a great variety of films and filmmakers and can offer exceptional film-related experiences. Moreover, as film is the medium through which 21st century students learn, these opportunities provide students with extraordinary resources in a meaningful and interesting way. FWC operates in two ways. During the Festival, Winston-Salem Forsyth County Schools are invited to complimentary, private festival screenings with the Directors or special guests in attendance. Throughout the rest of the school year, RiverRun brings films to area schools and works with instructors to offer classroom screenings. All of the films selected for FWC are done so with an eye toward enriching and enhancing school curriculum. The three following films were selected for student screening during this year’s festival and will also be screened once for the public.

Jake Shimabukuro: Life on Four Strings

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Director Tadashi Nakamura USA/Japan / 2012 / 54 min. INTENDED FOR AGES TEEN +

Jake Shimabukuro: Life on Four Strings is a compelling portrait of an inspiring and inventive musician whose virtuoso skills on the ukulele have transformed all previous notions of the instrument’s potential. Through intimate conversations with Shimabukuro (she-ma-BOO-koo-row), the film reveals the cultural and personal influences that have shaped the man and the musician. On the road from Los Angeles to New York to Japan, the film captures the solitary life on tour, the exhilaration of performance, the wonder of newfound fame, the magic of his music and the loneliness of separation from home and family.

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The Naked Brand

SCREENING hanesbrands / 3:00 pm / WEDNESDAY, April 17

Director Jeff Rosenblum USA / 2012 / 59 min. INTENDED FOR AGES TEEN +

The Naked Brand, by Questus Founding Partner turned filmmaker Jeff Rosenblum, highlights the fact that few industries in history have changed as dramatically as advertising over the past decade. While brands still preach from the hilltop, consumers increasingly ignore advertisements while turning to recommendation engines, social media and mobile devices for purchase decisions. A positive and enlightening film, The Naked Brand tells the story of how corporations can help save the planet one small step at a time. These entities have incredible influence on the world we live in, but advances in technology are rapidly making them accountable not just to shareholders, but to everyone.

World Circus

SCREENING hanesbrands / 1:00 pm / SATURDAY, April 20

Director Angela Snow USA / 2012 / 60 min. INTENDED FOR AGES TEEN +

The circus is a beloved institution that has been around for centuries. It has survived depressions and advances in technology, but the general consensus today seemingly is that it’s a dying form. As the documentary World Circus shows, however, this is not the case. Following five circus acts from different countries as they rehearse and compete at the “Academy Awards” of circus competitions, the Monte Carlo Circus Festival, this exquisite documentary combines circus performances, the performers’ personal stories and archival footage to offer audiences insight into the thriving culture, art, and business, as well as the skill and emotional strength of circus performers.

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SPECIAL SCREENINGS Big names. Big talents. Big films. RiverRunâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Special Screenings offer audiences a chance to catch an early glimpse of films destined for the multiplex.

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SCREENING AT RIVERRUN: UNCSA student films: • MOLLY UNDER THE MOON • FELICIA • FURIOUSLY HOLD ME

UNCSA faculty films: • AT ANY PRICE, written and directed by former staff member Ramin Bahrani

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• SUSIE’S HOPE, produced by screenwriting faculty member Laura Hart McKinny (with a crew comprising 30 alumni, 2 faculty and 10 student interns)

Blancanieves

A re-telling of the classic Brothers Grimm fairy tale “Snow White,” Blancanieves is a breathtakingly beautiful film and a uniquely spirited homage to the black-and-white Golden Age of Europe’s silent cinema. Set in a romanticized 1920s Seville, Pablo Berger’s Snow White is Carmen, the daughter of a famous bullfighter, who lives under the tyrannical rule of her monstrous evil stepmother, Encarna. She escapes and joins a troupe of bullfighting dwarves, where her beauty and natural talent in the ring attract notices from the press. But soon the news reaches Encarna, who at last knows where to find Carmen, and she prepares for the final showdown.

• THE DISCOVERERS, executive produced by faculty member Bob Gosse

DIRECTOR Pablo Berger

Over the last couple years, there have been quite a few (largely uninteresting) attempts to retell the “Snow White” fable. Lest you think that this is just one more such entry to that list, let us disabuse you of that notion right away. Blancanieves is a masterfully-told story, uniquely filled with compelling visuals, fascinating characters and sumptuous music. After premiering to acclaim at the 2012 Toronto Film Festival, this remarkable film has won the hearts of audiences around the world. Recently it took top honors at the prestigious Goya Awards, Spain’s equivalent to the Oscars, where it also received a recordbreaking 18 nominations.

SPAIN / 2012 / Spanish with English subtitles / 104 minutes MPAA RATING: RATED PG-13 FOR SOME VIOLENT CONTENT AND SEXUALITY

Rare is the film that grabs your attention right from the start and enthralls you all the way through the end credits. Rarer still is the film that manages to accomplish that without any dialogue or natural sound. This film is, quite literally, note-perfect and serves as a stunning tribute to silent films. Rather than using the lack of sound as a gimmick, though, Berger has captured the essence of the silent era and created a film that feels as if it stepped straight out of the early 20th century.

UNCSA alumni films: • MUD, written and directed by Jeff Nichols (2001), who will also receive the 2013 Emerging Master Award

Pablo Berger earned an MFA in film from New York University and has taught courses at Cambridge, Princeton, Yale, La Sorbonne and La Fémis. He previously directed the shorts Mama and Truth and Beauty. His debut feature, Torremolinos 73, was a box office sensation in Spain and received four Goya nominations.

• PRINCE AVALANCE, written, directed and co-produced by David Gordon Green (1998) • THIS IS MARTIN BONNER, written and directed by Chad Hartigan (2004) • WHITE REINDEER written, directed, edited and produced by Zach Clark (2005)

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Ever wonder how the stars you see in your favorite films ended up portraying those characters? More often than not, a casting director has played a major role in getting them there. Most of the best directors rely heavily on their casting director’s input in choosing the ideal individuals to make their vision come to life on the big screen. They are collaborators, visionaries and partners in the process of getting films from page to screen.

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DIRECTOR Tom Donahue

Donahue made his feature directing debut with the documentary Guest of Cindy Sherman (5 stars - Time Out NY and RiverRun ‘09 hit), which premiered at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival. He made his directorial debut in 2005 with the narrative short Thanksgiving, starring James Urbaniak and Seymour Cassel and written by Sean Gullette. USA / 2012 / English / 89 minutes INTENDED FOR MATURE AUDIENCES

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From the early days of the Hollywood studio system when casting directors were basically secretaries for the studios and actors were under contract by the studios to the more modern system, the film tells a remarkable story of one of the most underappreciated players in the film industry, the casting director. In telling the story of casting directors though, one name appeared most often on the lips of every actor and director around. In an industry dominated by men, it was Marion Dougherty who became one of the most important casting directors. The film follows her tremendous career from her early days in television casting for Kraft in the late 40s through her more than 70 films including such tremendous hits as Midnight Cowboy, Slaughterhouse-Five, Lethal Weapon and Immortal Beloved. Still often not even credited, casting directors are rarely given as much recognition as they deserve but this film hopes to right that wrong by demonstrating just how much influence Dougherty and other famous casting directors have had on the history of film. With a who’s who of famous actors and directors (Jeff Bridges, Robert DeNiro, Robert Duvall, Clint Eastwood, Al Pacino, Robert Redford and the list goes on and on) telling their personal stories and providing exceptional insight into the world of Hollywood casting, director Tom Donahue has created a film that will fascinate and enlighten even the most ardent film fans. – Mary Dossinger

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Winston-Salem native Ramin Bahrani has built a career on crafting uniquely personal tales about people on the margins of society facing seemingly insurmountable obstacles. A defining trait of Bahrani’s films is that the worlds in which his characters inhabit are often unfamiliar – sometimes even uncomfortably so – to audiences. By stripping away convention and familiarity, however, he eliminates the superficial things we cling to and forces us to engage with his stories on a much deeper level.

PAMELA KOFFLER

The indie powerhouse Killer Films was founded by American movie producers Christine Vachon and Pamela Koffler in 1995. The company has produced a number of the most acclaimed American independent films over the past two decades including Far From Heaven (nominated for four Academy Awards), Boy’s Don’t Cry (Academy Award winner), One Hour Photo, The Grey Zone, Party Monster, Camp, The Company, A Dirty Shame, Savage Grace and I’m Not There (Academy Award nominated).

Quaid and Zac Efron, Sebastian Silva’s Magic Magic starring Michael Cera, Juno Temple and Emily Browning and John Krokidas’s debut feature Kill Your Darlings starring Daniel Radcliffe, Ben Foster, Jack Huston and Elizabeth Olsen. Killer is also in postproduction on Hilary Brougher’s Innocence starring Sophie Curtis, Kelly Reilly and Graham Phillips, and Wash Westmoreland and Richard Glatzer’s Last of Robin Hood starring Dakota Fanning, Susan Sarandon and Kevin Kline.

Killer Films also executive produced Mildred Pierce, the Emmy Award®-winning HBO mini-series starring Kate Winslet. Most recently, Killer produced Ramin Bahrani’s new film (and 2013 RiverRun Closing Night presentation) At Any Price starring Dennis

Christine Vachon and Pamela Koffler will be presented with RiverRun’s Master of Cinema Award and participate in a moderated conversation about their careers at 4:30pm on Sunday, April 21 in UNCSA-Babcock.

In the competitive world of modern agriculture, ambitious Henry Whipple (Dennis Quaid) wants his rebellious son (Zac Efron) to help expand his family’s farming empire. However, Dean has his sights set on becoming a professional race car driver. When a high-stakes investigation into their business is exposed, father and son are pushed into an unexpected crisis that threatens the family’s entire livelihood.

DIRECTOR Ramin Bahrani

Ramin Bahrani is a Winston-Salem native and a 2009 recipient of RiverRun’s Emerging Master Award. His debut feature, Man Push Cart, premiered at the Venice Film Festival and received three Independent Spirit Award nominations. His other features, Chop Shop and Goodbye Solo (which was filmed entirely in North Carolina) both previously screened at RiverRun.

USA / 2012 / English / 105 minutes MPAA RATING: RATED R FOR SEXUAL CONTENT INCLUDING A STRONG GRAPHIC IMAGE, AND FOR LANGUAGE PRINT SOURCE Sony Pictures Classics / 550 Madison Ave, 8th Fl. / New York, NY 10022 / 212-833-8833 / www.sonyclassics.com executive Producers Ron Curtis, Mohammed Al Turki, Eric Nyari, & Brian Young CO-producer Declan Baldwin ASSOCIATE producerS Summer Shelton & Ben Stillman producerS Teddy Schwarzman, Pamela Koffler, Kevin Turen, Justin Nappi, Christine Vachon, & Ramin Bahrani Cinematographer Michael Simmonds Writers Ramin Bahrani and Hallie Elizabeth Newton editor Affonso Gonçalves MUSIC COMPOSER Dickon Hinchliffe Cast Dennis Quaid, Zac Efron, Kim Dickens, Heather Graham, Clancy Brown, Chelcie Ross, Maika Monroe, Red West, Ben Marten, Dan Waller

With his latest film, Bahrani has chosen to portray an ambitious everyman perhaps more familiar at first glance than many of his previous characters. But while farmers and aspiring race car drivers might seem like unconventional choices for Bahrani, it’s actually a safe bet that to a vast majority, the lifestyle and attendant challenges of life in prime Iowa corn country will seem as foreign as growing up in the shadow of a chop shop in Queens or working as a street vendor on the streets of Manhattan. At Any Price offers audiences the opportunity to see Bahrani’s evolution as a filmmaker and master story teller. Where he takes us next is anyone’s guess… and that’s precisely what we love about his work. – Andrew Rodgers

SCREENING uNCSA – main / 7:00 pm / SUNDAY, April 21

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The Brass Teapot

John and Alice are a young married couple living in small town America. Although happy with one another and the simple life they’ve built, they haven’t quite figured out how to make ends meet. As a result, everything feels a lot harder than it should be – they’re broke and struggling to find a way to pay the bills. Alice (played by Juno Temple) was voted “most likely to succeed” back in high school but now can’t even make it past the first job interview. John (Michael Angarano), on the other hand, works hard at his telemarketing job to provide for his wife, but he’s filled with angst and wracked by phobias.

The Iceman

Inspired by actual events, The Iceman stars Academy Award nominee (and 2011 RiverRun Emerging Master honoree) Michael Shannon as the real-life notorious contract killer Richard Kuklinski, who in 1986 was convicted of murdering 100 men for various crime organizations around the New York area. The compelling twist to Kuklinski’s story was that he was also a devoted husband and father whose family was unaware of his real profession until his arrest. The film shows how Kuklinski grew into the man he became and how he compartmentalized the strange facts of his life to keep his family and friends from ever finding out his dark secret. We follow Kuklinski through the 1960s, when he met his wife and was also first tapped by the local mob boss (Ray Liotta) to become a hitman, through the 70s as his career took off, so to speak, and into the early 1980s, when he was finally undone. (The reason Kuklinski was known as the “Iceman,” incidentally, was because he froze the bodies of the people he killed before cutting them up and dumping them, in order to confuse the police.)

When the couple has a car accident, it leads them to a roadside antique shop seeking help. While there, Alice is drawn to a mysterious brass teapot and improbably decides to steal it. Before long, the couple realizes that this is no ordinary teapot – it has very special magical powers. Whenever they hurt themselves, the teapot gives them money. The more they hurt themselves, the more money they get… at first.

DIRECTOR Ramaa Mosley

Ramaa Mosley made her first film at 16 years-old, the documentary We Can Make a Difference, about global pollution’s effect on children, which was screened around the world and went on to win a United Nations’ Global 500 Award. After graduating from Bennington College, she began directing commercials and music videos. She has also directed the shorts Grace and In Dreams I Run Wild. The Brass Teapot is her feature directorial debut.

Perhaps facing the answer to all their financial woes, the couple must decide how far they’re willing to go to fulfill their dreams of wealth. As more and more money enters the picture, they run the risk of losing the bonds that brought them together in the first place. They’re also not the only ones who covet this magic vessel, and must soon deal with all manner of oddball inquiries. Based on a comic of the same name, The Brass Teapot is a fantastically original story filled with dark humor. In the end, however, the film reminds us to be careful what we wish for. – Andrew Rodgers

USA / 2012 / English / 100 minutes

USA / 2012 / English / 103 minutes

Taught and suspenseful, The Iceman unfolds like a first-rate thriller. We’re witness to many of Kuklinski’s brutalities, but also see the love and tenderness he has for his family. The dichotomy is truly eery. With additional supporting characters by Chris Evans and David Schwimmer, as well as cameo appearances by Stephen Dorff and James Franco, the film offers an impressive roster of talents to bring the disturbing and conflicted life of a remorseless killer to the big screen. – Andrew Rodgers

PRINT SOURCE Millennium Entertainment / 5900 Wilshire Blvd., 18th Floor / Los Angeles, CA 90036 / 310-893-6289, ext. 194 p veguia@millenniumentertainment.me

PRINT SOURCE Magnolia Pictures / 49 West 27th St., 7th Floor / New York, NY 10001 / 212-924-6701 p

Ariel Vromen is originally from Israel and studied film at New York University and the Los Angeles Film School. He also has a law degree from Kent University in the U.K. He previously directed the short film Jewel of the Sahara, as well as the features Rx (which screened at RiverRun in 2005), Danika and Skeptical.

MPAA RATING: RATED R FOR STRONG VIOLENCE, PERVASIVE LANGUAGE AND SOME SEXUAL CONTENT

MPAA RATING: RATED R FOR VIOLENCE, SOME SEXUAL CONTENT, LANGUAGE AND DRUG USE

producers Darren Goldberg, James Graves, Ramaa Mosley, Kirk Roos, & Natalie Simpkins Cinematographer Peter Simonite writer Tim Macy Editor Ryan Folsey Music Andrew Hewitt Cast Juno Temple, Alexis Bledel, Alia Shawkat, & Michael Angarano

DIRECTOR Ariel Vromen

SCREENING uNCSA – MAIN / 7:00 pm / sunday, April 14

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producers Ehud Bleiberg & Ariel Vromen writerS Morgan Land and Ariel Vromen (screenplay), Anthony Bruno (book), & Jim Thebaut (documentary) Cinematographer Bobby Bukowski Editor Danny Rafic MUSIC Haim Mazar cast Michael Shannon, James Franco, Robert Davi, Chris Evans, Winona Ryder, Ray Liotta, David Schwimmer, Stephen Dorff, & Ryan O’Nan

SCREENING uNCSA – MAIN / 7:00 pm / saturday, April 20

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2013 EMERGING master

JEFF NICHOLS

Jeff Nichols wants to write films about what it’s like to get your heart broken. That was the inspiration for Mud and factors into his other two feature films, Shotgun Stories and Take Shelter, embodiments all of his desire to provide the viewer pathways to genuinely feel the emotions his characters experience and find a personal anchor within the story. A native of Little Rock, Arkansas, and a graduate of the School of Filmmaking at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, Nichols is one of the most acclaimed young writer-directors working in independent cinema. His films have been celebrated at the Cannes Film Festival (where he worked as a waiter on student

The Kings of Summer

The Kings of Summer is a unique coming-of-age comedy about three teenagers (Nick Robinson, Gabriel Basso and Moises Arias) who, in the ultimate act of independence, decide to spend their summer building a house in the woods. Free from their parents’ rules, their idyllic summer quickly becomes a test of friendship as each boy learns to appreciate the fact that family is something from which you can’t run. The story largely centers on the friendship between best friends Joe (Robinson) and Patrick (Basso). As the summer kicks off, the two are facing three long and frustrating months with their respective parents before classes start back up. Longing for something different, for freedom, adventure – and perhaps a shot at the cute girl from school – they make a bold plan to take control of their own lives. Joined by oddball Biaggio (Arias), who is the comedic heart of the film and practically steals the show as a kid who just can’t help from being awkward, the three boys let loose in the woods during a summer filled with unexpected discoveries.

DIRECTOR Jordan Vogt-Roberts

The Kings of Summer is Jordan Vogt-Roberts’ feature directorial debut. The film premiered at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival. He is the co-creator and director of the Comedy Central show Mash Up and previously directed the short film Successful Alcoholics. USA / 2013 / English / 93 minutes

The film, which premiered at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, also features particularly funny turns by Nick Offerman (Parks and Recreation) and Megan Mullally (Will & Grace) as out-of-touch parents forced to deal with the difficulty of raising spirited and rambunctious teenage boys. Almost humming with the spirit of Huck Finn, The Kings of Summer is a delightful comedy filled with touching moments about the contrasting desires for independence and closeness that many families struggle to keep in balance.

INTENDED FOR MATURE AUDIENCES

– Andrew Rodgers

Contains adult language and situations

PRINT SOURCE Allied-THA / 3565 Piedmont Road NE / Bldg 2, Suite 700 / Atlanta, GA 30305 / 404-975-4297 p / llanier@alliedim.com executive producer Richard Rothfeld producers Tyler Davidson, John Hodges & Peter Saraf Screenwriter Chris Galletta Editor Terel Gibson cinematographer Ross Riege music Ryan Miller CAST Alison Brie, Nick Offerman, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Moises Arias & Megan Mullally

internship), Sundance, and other top festivals. He now lives in Austin, Texas, with his wife and child. Nichols’ work is distinguished by its humanism, the ability to capture modern times purely and honestly. His films deal with family, love, childhood, parenting, working men and women and their struggles in a complex and fractured world. This is not the stuff of mainstream commercial Hollywood cinema, but that’s not the world that interests Nichols. His influences range from John Ford and Alfred Hitchcock to Terrence Malick. “There’s a tradition of storytelling in the South that I would be very proud to be connected to, from Mark Twain, William Faulkner and Flannery O’Connor up to Larry Brown and Harry Crews,” Nichols told an interviewer last year. “When I write, I don’t often think about this film or that film necessarily, I’m thinking about these short stories and this literature. Southerners tell a good story and it’s my desire to be a part of that.” If the gritty blood-feud saga Shotgun Stories put Nichols on the map in 2007 as one of independent cinema’s most promising talents, his sophomore effort, Take Shelter, confirmed it when critics hailed its premiere at Sundance 2011. Starring Michael Shannon and Jessica Chastain, the apocalyptic family drama established Nichols’ reputation as a storyteller unafraid to push the boundaries of narrative structure. Nichols returned to Sundance this year with his latest project, Mud. Set in rural Arkansas along the banks of the Mississippi River, the film follows Mud (Matthew McConaughey), a lovelorn fugitive who enlists two adventure-seeking fourteen-year-olds, Ellis (Tye Sheridan) and Neckbone (Jacob Lofland), to help reunite him with his childhood love, Juniper (Reese Witherspoon). With its classic Huckleberry Finn tropes and earnest sentimentality, Mud unfolds as a classic American tale and a poignant coming-of-age drama that speaks to Nichols’s growing range behind the camera. – Dale Pollock

SCREENING hanesbrands / 7:00 pm / THURSDAY, april 18

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Jeff Nichols will be presented with RiverRun’s Emerging Master Award and participate in a moderated discussion about his career at 5:00pm on Saturday, April 20 in UNCSA-Babcock. He will also participate in a post-film Q&A following the screening of Mud, which starts at 7:00pm on Friday, April 19 at the Stevens Center.

Mud

Mud is a superbly crafted adventure about two boys, Ellis (Tye Sheridan) and his friend Neckbone (Jacob Lofland), who make a startling discovery while exploring a small island in the Mississippi River. Journeying there from their small nearby town to lay claim to a boat that’s stuck in a tree, the boys encounter Mud (played by Matthew McConaughey in perhaps the best role of his career). Mud is a man on the run from the law, waiting for just the right time to reunite with Juniper, the love of his life (Reese Witherspoon). Hearing his fantastic tales – of killing a man in Texas and vengeful bounty hunters scouring the country looking for him – makes the boys wonder just how dangerous, or truthful, Mud might be. It isn’t long until the strange man’s visions come true, however, and the small town is besieged by a beautiful girl with a line of bounty hunters in tow.

DIRECTOR Jeff Nichols

One of the things that stands out in Mud is the incredible quality of the entire cast. From top to bottom, including not only McConaughey and Witherspoon, but the two boys as well as supporting characters played by Sam Shepard, Ray McKinnon, Michael Shannon (also seen in this year’s The Iceman) and Sarah Paulson, Nichols has gotten phenomenal performances from his collaborators.

USA / 2013 / English / 130 minutes

With an excitingly original narrative that seems partly inspired by Great Expectations, Huckleberry Finn, Fitzcarraldo (please look it up if you don’t know the reference!) and The A-Team, Mud is an exceptional film with a powerfully told story. With this effort, Nichols – who is receiving RiverRun’s 2013 Emerging Master Award – has cemented his place as a dynamic and important voice in contemporary cinema.

Jeff Nichols is a graduate of the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. His previous films include Shotgun Stories and Take Shelter, which received five Independent Spirit Award nominations and won the FIPRESCI Prize and the Critics Weeks Grand Prize at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival. MPAA RATING: Rated PG-13 for some violence, sexual references, language, thematic elements and smoking

– Andrew Rodgers

PRINT SOURCE Roadside Attractions / 7920 Sunset Blvd, Suite 402 / Los Angeles, CA 90046 / DavidP@RoadsideAttractions.com executive producers Tom Heller, Gareth Smith, Glen Basner & Michael Flynn producers Sarah Green, Aaron Ryder & Lisa Maria Falcone screenwriter Jeff Nichols Cinematographer Adam Stone Editor Julie Monroe Music David Wingo cast Matthew McConaughey, Tye Sheridan, Jacob Lofland, Reese Witherspoon, Sarah Paulson, Ray McKinnon, Sam Shepard & Michael Shannon

SCREENING stevens center / 7:00 pm / friday, April 19

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A MILLION HERE, A MILLION THERE,

Pretty Soon You’re Making Real Progress How much diﬀerence can $30 million of targeted investments make in Winston-Salem and Forsyth County? Just look around. The non-proﬁt Millennium Fund has invested private sector funds to provide a catalyst for new jobs, new construction, downtown revitalization and a growing arts and innovation community. In the last two years, The Millennium Fund has invested in: Support for the Downtown Winston-Salem Partnership

Piedmont Craftsmen’s new shop in the art’s district

Piedmont Triad Research Park

National Black Theatre Festival

Land acquistion and site improvements to help attract Dell’s new manufacturing plant

Summer Music Series

and Financial assistance to recruit Catepillar Manufacturing

Summer on Trade Rock The Block Hispanic Festival

Nissen Building residential redevelopment in Downtown Winston-Salem

RiverRun International Film Festival

Goler/Depot Street community neighborhood revitalization

Winston-Salem and Forsyth County’s 250th Anniversary

Southeast Gateway

Arts Ignite

Land control and investment in the downtown baseball stadium

Support for entrepreneurial development

West End Village residential development The Alliance Science and Technology Park Plans for the Downtown Civic Plaza Support for the retention of Pepsi’s National Service Center

Prince Avalanche

In the latest film from UNCSA alum (and 2009 RiverRun Emerging Master) David Gordon Green, he decided to step away from the world of big budget studio films and go back to his more independent film roots. This fairly secretive project was made on a more modest indie-sized budget and is a remake of the little known 2011 Icelandic film Either Way (Á annan veg) by Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurdsson. Featuring only two main characters, deftly played by Paul Rudd and Emile Hirsch, this soulful film is a veritable character study piece about two very singular individuals isolated in Texas hill country.

Children’s Museum of Winston-Salem Support for Winston-Salem Business Milton Rhodes Center Support creation of Bio-Tech Accelerator The Stevens Center renovation

So as you drive around Winston-Salem and Forsyth County, take a look. You will see how The Millennium Fund is helping to make our community a better place to live and work.

DIRECTOR David Gordon Green

Since George Washington debuted in 2000, David Gordon Green has cemented his reputation as one of the most talented and distinctive American independent filmmakers to emerge in the past decade and was called “the most artful of film masters” by IndieWire. His other work includes All the Real Girls, Undertow, Snow Angels, Pineapple Express, Your Highness and The Sitter. USA / 2013 / English / 94 minutes

Set in 1988, the film follows Alvin (Rudd) and Lance (Hirsch) as they set about their job as road workers, painting lines on the newly paved roads built after a devastating forest fire which happened the year before. The job leaves the men secluded for long stretches of time, walking the roads by day and sleeping in the woods at night, only encountering the stray truck driver that happens to cross their path (played by the wonderful Lance LeGault). To pass the time, the two men begrudgingly try and get along but since the two could not be more different – Alvin wants to make money to start a family life with his girlfriend and Lance just wants to make money to go into town and get laid on the weekends – it is often a futile exercise. Along the way, though, the two men learn they have more in common than they realized and eventually learn to work together. With incredibly nuanced performances from Rudd and Hirsch and some of the most inspired directing seen from Green in years (he won the Silver Bear for Best Director at the Berlin Independent Film Festival), this is truly a film not to be missed. – Mary Dossinger

INTENDED FOR MATURE AUDIENCES Contains adult language

Millennium Fund Oversight Executive Committee Sidney Falken, Sara Lee; Dr. Donald Reaves, Winston-Salem State University; Don Flow, Flow Motors; David Neill, The Neill Group; F. Borden Hanes, Bowens, Hanes & Company, Inc.; Jeﬀrey L. Smith, Smitty’s Notes; Redge Hanes, The Encore Group; Steve Snelgrove, Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center; J. Allen Joines, Winston-Salem Alliance; Ralph Womble, Trade Street Partners; Scott Wierman (Ex-oﬃcio), Winston-Salem Foundation

PRINT SOURCE Magnolia Pictures / 49 West 27th St., 7th Floor / New York, NY 10001 / 212-924-6701 p producers James Belfer, David Gordon Green, Lisa Muskat, Derrick Tseng & Craig Zobel CINEMATOGRAPHER Tim Orr writer David Gordon Green adapted from an original story by Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurösson EDITOR Colin Patton MUSIC Explosions In The Sky & David Wingo cast Paul Rudd & Emile Hirsch

SCREENING hanesbrands / 7:00 pm / saturday, April 13

RIVERRUN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL / APRIL 12-21, 2013

NARRATIVE COMPETITION Emerging talents mixed with established masters. Representing some of the very best films of the year from around the world, the ten films in the Narrative Competition are eligible for the Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP Audience Award – so don’t forget to vote after each screening.

Still Mine

Consummate actor James Cromwell has made a career of the flawless, deeply resonant supporting performance. Sterling showings in tremendous films like L.A. Confidential and The Green Mile, as well as an Oscar-nominated turn as the unflappable Farmer Hoggett in 1995 Best Picture nominee Babe (also showing at RiverRun as this year’s Fido Frolic title) are merely exhibits A through C in building the case for Cromwell’s greatness, so it’s surprising to learn that Still Mine marks his first bona fide starring role, at the distinguished age of 73 no less. Cromwell gives a tour de force performance as Craig Morrison, an aging New Brunswick homesteader whose wife is gradually succumbing to the effects of Alzheimer’s, in this deeply affecting love story about a couple in their twilight years. A subsistent farmer and a master builder trained by his shipbuilding father, Craig has always reveled in providing for himself and his family, so when the memory of wife and best friend Irene, whom he’s shared the last 61 years of his life with, begins to fail, he naturally takes it upon himself to see to her care.

DIRECTOR Michael McGowan

The logical first step, as he sees it, is to build a new house for he and Irene that is more in step with the convalescent stage of their lives they are about to enter than the rustic digs where they currently reside. Being the old-school kind of man he is, Craig of course conceives the freehand plans and begins framing the house on his own, but is quickly delayed by red tape and a no-nonsense building inspector who threatens to stop construction with legal action if necessary. All the while Irene, marvelously played by Oscar-nominee Geneviève Bujold (Anne of the Thousand Days), struggles to come to grips with her new limitations and often puts her physical health in jeopardy by dismissing the mental deterioration. Speaking of old school ways, Still Mine is decidedly that in approach and construction. A throwback to the days of stripped-down visual schematics, heartfelt storytelling and stalwart character performances, the film is a pleasure to engage with and an ever-rarer feat of simple, singular sincerity.

Michael McGowan was born in Toronto, Canada. His feature Saint Ralph was named one of Canada’s Top Ten films of 2004 by the Toronto International Film Festival, received a Directors Guild of Canada Award for Direction and a Writers Guild of Canada Award for Best Feature Film. His other features include My Dog Vincent, One Week and Score: A Hockey Musical. Canada / 2012 / English / 102 minutes MPAA RATING: RATED PG-13 FOR SOME THEMATIC ELEMENTS AND BRIEF SENSUALITY/PARTIAL NUDITY PRINT SOURCE IDP/Samuel Goldwyn Films/ATO Pictures / 1133 Broadway, Suite 1120 / New York, NY 10010 / 212-367-9435 p / 212-367-0853 f / www.samuelgoldwynfilms.com EXECUTIVE pRoducer Richard Hanet producers Jody Colero, Tamara Deverell, Avi Federgreen & Michael McGowan screenwriter Michael McGowan CINEMATOGRAPHER Brendan Steacy EDITor Roderick Deogrades music Hugh Marsh, Don Rooke & Michelle Willis cast James Cromwell, Geneviève Bujold, Campbell Scott, Julie Stewart, Rick Roberts, George Robertson, Barbara Gordon & Jonathan Potts 64

– Christopher Holmes

SCREENING HANESBRANDS / 7:00 Pm / wednesday, april 17

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narrative feature competition jury These jurors will evaluate each of the films in the Narrative Feature Competition and independently determine which films should be singled out for recognition of merit. Jury awards presented in this category will include Best Narrative Feature, Best Cinematography, Best Screenplay, Best Actor, Best Actress and the Peter Brunette Award for Best Director.

Timothy Appelo Tim Appelo, Film Reporter for The Hollywood Reporter, was a film critic for The Nation, The Oregonian, Seattle Times, Seattle Weekly, and KCTS TV, Amazon.com’s founding entertainment and digital video editor, and a contributor to The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Film.com, Indiewire, Premiere, Rolling Stone, TV Guide, and New York. At Entertainment Weekly, he lost a snowball fight to Benicio del Toro, Michael Madsen and John Cusack, who flying-tackled him in a 100-year storm; revealed Brandon Lee’s cause of death, Diane Keaton’s opinion of Annie Hall (“She’s stupid”), and Dr. Evil’s secret identity (he’s a Lorne Michaels impression).

Megan Griffiths Megan Griffiths has been a director, writer and producer in the independent film community for more than a decade. Her most recent feature film, Eden, premiered at the 2012 South by Southwest Film Festival, where it won the Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature and the Emergent Narrative Female Director award. Megan’s previous feature, The Off Hours, premiered at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival and was an official selection of RiverRun that same year. Megan has also worked as a producer, with credits including 2011 Sundance horror/comedy The Catechism Cataclysm and Lynn Shelton’s recent film Your Sister’s Sister. In early 2013, she directed Lucky Them, starring Toni Collette, Thomas Haden Church and Oliver Platt.

Jonathan Jackson Jonathan Jackson is the Executive and Artistic Director of Milwaukee Film, which presents the annual 15 day Milwaukee Film Festival and year-round education programs. He previously served as the Artistic Director for the Milwaukee International Film Festival, from its inception in 2003 until 2007 and as programmer and manager of the single screen cinema the U.W.-Milwaukee Union Theatre from 2000 - 2003. He has also been a teacher for the U.W.-Milwaukee Film Department, a freelance writer and film program curator for the Milwaukee Art Museum.

The Color of the Chameleon

When Batko becomes a secret informant in an authoritarian police state, he performs his duties with unending zeal. And yet, when his enthusiasm for his work exceeds the tolerance of his handlers, he is summarily dismissed. His ego is badly hurt, and yet he also realizes that the system is inherently flawed. Secrecy is both the greatest power and weakness of those wishing to rule – the system coerces people to spy on one another and gather information through fear of recriminations. Realizing an opportunity, Batko decides to carry on his clandestine work alone and creates a phantom secret police department. Before long, he manages to become the master of his own web of informants by recruiting a group of intellectuals to spy on one another. Over time, he builds a treasure trove of sensitive information and when the communist government ultimately falls, he uses the knowledge collected in his archive to wreak havoc.

DIRECTOR Emil Hristow

Emil Hristow was born in Sofia, Bulgaria. He studied cinematography at the National Academy for Theater and Film Arts in Bulgaria, and worked as a director of photography on music videos, documentaries and feature films. The Color of the Chameleon is his feature directorial debut. Bulgaria / 2012 / Bulgarian with English subtitles / 111 minutes INTENDED FOR MATURE AUDIENCES

Emil Hristow has created a dark and über-stylish political comedy that wonderfully reimagines how a creative and ridiculous loner could have capitalized on the inherent weaknesses and structural fears that accompany an oppressive communist government. The movie offers a paradoxical twist in the standard representation of totalitarianism as a society of victims and victimizers. This is a story without innocents. It exposes the maniacal desire to collaborate and the pleasure of spying on others, the temptation to conform and at the same time hack the system using its own devices. Secret policing reveals its dark nature not only in its nauseating cruelties, but most suggestively in its deviant pleasures. – Andrew Rodgers

Contains some violence, language and adult situations

Noah Smith Noah attended UNCSA for high school with a focus in Visual Arts before a short stint at the Ringling School of Art and Design for Illustration. After taking some time off touring the country with the Chapel Hill based band The Never he is now finishing his final year back at UNCSA within the discipline of screenwriting. In addition to school-related projects, he has produced several short films and recently worked as a project manager for the animated series The Random Adventures Brandon Generator.

RIVERRUN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL / APRIL 12-21, 2013

PRINT SOURCE Peripeteia Film Production Company / Samokov Str. 80, Bl. 306, Apt. 57 / Sofia 1113, Bulgaria / 609-919-9165 p / office@peripeteiafilms.com producers Vladislav Todorov & Bouriana Zakharieva screenwriter Vladislav Todorov cinematographer Krum Rodriguez EDITOR Alexander Etimov music Nikolay Madzharov Cast Samuel Finzi, Mihail Bilalov, Irena Miliankova & Ruscen Vidinliev

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SCREENINGS uNCSA – MAIN / 7:00 pm / Saturday, April 13 a/perture 2 / 1:00 pm / sunday, April 14 a/perture 2 / 11:30 Am / monday, april 15

RIVERRUN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL / APRIL 12-21, 2013

The Deflowering Of Eva Van End (De Ontmaagding Van Eva Van End)

DIRECTOR Michiel ten Horn

Michiel ten Horn graduated from Utrecht School of the Arts in 2007, specializing in animation. His previous films include the shorts Basta, Arie and Alex in Amsterdam. The Deflowering of Eva van End is his feature directorial debut. He is currently at work on a children’s film and an animation series for adults. Netherlands / 2012 / Dutch, German with English subtitles / 98 minutes INTENDED FOR MATURE AUDIENCES

In this whimsical blend of satire and sincerity, a dysfunctional family gets turned on its head when Veit, the “perfect” exchange student moves in. Every member of the van End family is preoccupied with his or her own peculiar fixation—be it father Evert’s constantly ignored suggestions and memos, or mother Etty’s relentless tirades against her dope-dealing youngest son or praises for her eldest son about to marry. Trapped in the middle is the youngest—15 year-old Eva—struggling for any attention or affection at all. When Veit, the Adonis German exchange student Eva invited, moves in, the family is shocked and each of them must confront his or her own doubts, insecurities, fears and desires. During Veit’s two-week stay, all five family members begin to reinvent themselves, led by former wallflower Eva, who embarks on the most dramatic transformation of all. With a visual style reminiscent of a Wes Anderson film and a dark and clumsy sexuality found in Todd Solondz’s films, this fantastic Dutch film slides comfortably from the hysterically funny to the painfully awkward. Filled with sexual tension, family secrets and teenage angst, The Deflowering of Eva van End offers a wonderful assortment of oddball characters stitched together into a well-crafted narrative. As Eva and her family find the routines of their day-to-day existence thrown into turmoil due to the arrival of Veit, we see that the carefully constructed shells that each has constructed begin to crumble. In the end, each member of the family must actually make a giant leap in order to overcome their personal demons. The only question is whether Veit will help them get there or actually stand in the way of their evolution. – Andrew Rodgers

Contains some violence, language and adult situations

PRINT SOURCE Film Movement / 109 W. 27th Street, Suite 9B / New York, NY 10001 / 212-941-7744 ext. 213 p / 212-941-7812 f / rebeca@filmmovement.com / www.filmmovement.com producers Pieter Kuijpers, Iris Otten & Sander van Meurs writerS Anne Barnhoom & Michiel ten Horn (idea) cinematographer Jasper Wolf Editor Sander Vos MUSIC Djurre de Haan cast Vivian Dierickx, Jacqueline Blom, Ton Kas, Tomer Pawlicki, Abe Dijkman & Rafael Gareisen

Houston

Clemens Trunschka is a corporate headhunter in Germany who’s eminently comfortable operating in the margins of vacuous shareholder meetings and generic hotel bars—some might say comfortably numb, even, judging by his typical blood-alcohol level. What was once high-functioning habit has gradually become career-threatening, self-destructive blackout drunkenness. His alcohol abuse increasingly strains his marriage and loosens his grip on reality, and a particularly ambitious shellacking costs him a shot at a highly valued executive who’s a rainmaker for Houston Petrol, a petroleum conglomerate in the States.

DIRECTOR Bastian Günther

Born in 1974 in Hachenburg, Germany, Bastian Günther studied directing at the German Film and Television Academy in Berlin. His debut feature Autopilots, which he wrote and directed in 2007, premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival and went on to screen at festivals worldwide, winning the MFG-Star award for young directors at the MFG Festival in Baden-Baden. He divides his time between Berlin and Austin, Texas. Germany/USA / 2013 / English and German with English subtitles / 107 minutes INTENDED FOR MATURE AUDIENCES

Contains adult language, situations and brief nudity

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When Clemens’ demanding boss gives him a second chance and puts him on a flight to Houston in pursuit, he meets a curious and eccentric American friend who tries to help him right the ship. Supreme character actor Garret Dillahunt, perhaps best known for his work on TV shows Raising Hope and Deadwood and in the Coens’ No Country for Old Men, completely changes the energy of the film upon arrival of his character, curiously named Robert Wagner, in a Houston hotel lounge. A self-described “hotel detective” responsible for identifying and eliminating unwanted problems for major hospitality chains, his lonely, fly-bynight lifestyle echoes that of Clemens’—or Clem as he affectionately rebrands him—and he latches on to the German almost immediately. Indeed the constant reappearances become slightly suspicious and almost unsettling in their regularity, though at surface level he appears well-intentioned. Even after Wagner offers up his services in helping to track down Clem’s target—CEO Steve Ringer—the headhunter is in danger of losing his head as paranoia and substance abuse complicate the job. Director Bastian Günther’s impeccable eye for depicting Clem’s disorienting, nondescript corporate world (rendered in extreme anamorphic forced perspective) and darkly playful narrative sensibility announce a promising new talent that truly means business in Houston. –Christopher Holmes SPONSORED BY

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In The House

RiverRun diehards will no doubt be elated to see the name François Ozon notably featured in our film lineup once again. His previous film Potiche rang out the 2011 festival on a joyous closing night note, and his playful musical 8 Women played to a packed house as part of our Spotlight on Contemporary French Masters that same year. His latest offering, In the House, is a less chromatic and formally daring piece to be certain, yet still bears the obvious markings of an Ozon affair in its mischievous subversion of plot—namely his shrewd sleight of hand with the film’s point of view and the reliability of its narration. Starring Oscar-nominated actress Kristin Scott Thomas (The English Patient) and Fabrice Luchini, the film explores the delicate line between a schoolteacher’s genuine concern for a student’s literary development and the perverse voyeuristic pleasure he also achieves in reading the pupil’s audacious work.

(Dans la Maison)

DIRECTOR François Ozon

Born in Paris in 1967, François Ozon attended the French film academy La Femis and for a decade was an amazingly prolific short-film director. His short A Summer Dress won him the Léopard de Demain award at Locarno in 1996, and he made his feature debut with the ferocious satire Sitcom in 1998. A truly eclectic and fascinating filmography has followed, including the internationally acclaimed feature works 8 Women, Swimming Pool and Potiche.

France / 2012 / French with English subtitles / 105 minutes MPAA Rating: Rated R for sexual content and language

– Christopher Holmes

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Young talent Ernst Umhauer impresses as gifted but socially challenged high school student Claude Garcia, whose writing sample piques the interest of Professor Germain, a failed author generally appalled at the banality of his students’ efforts. He takes Claude under his tutelage and pushes him to cultivate his daring literary voice. The only problem is that Claude has insinuated himself into the house of a fellow student and ruthlessly rails at the hypocrisy he sees within, betraying the confidence his classmate (who considers him a friend) has placed in him and putting Germain in a difficult ethical dilemma by continuing to abide and encourage the project. Claude’s writing reawakens Germain’s long dormant creative spirit, but questions of authenticity begin to creep in that cast doubt on his student’s true intentions and cause his entire notion of what is fact or fiction to come unbound. Somewhere between Wonder Boys and Stranger than Fiction lies In the House, a worthy entry in the Ozon catalog that asks important questions about the distinction between write and wrong, but finds it perhaps more meaningful when the two coexist on the same page.

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Laurence Anyways

In the 1990s, Laurence tells his girlfriend Fred that he wants to become a woman. In spite of the odds, in spite of each other, they confront the prejudices of their friends, ignore the council of their families and brave the phobias of the society they offend. For nearly a decade, they try to live through this transition, and embark on an epic journey which, unbeknownst to them, may cost Fred and Laurence their love. Emerging auteur Xavier Dolan (whose debut feature I Killed My Mother screened at RiverRun in 2010) has once again created something indelible and substantive. With a phenomenal cast, riveting score, compelling visuals and pitch-perfect story, Laurence Anyways offers audiences a powerful (albeit nontraditional) love story mixed with incredible self-awareness.

DIRECTOR Xavier Dolan

Xavier Dolan is 24 years-old and was born in Canada. He wrote, directed, produced and did the costumes for his debut feature, I Killed My Mother, which premiered at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival. Both of his followup films, Heartbeats and Laurence Anyways, also premiered at Cannes. Canada/France / 2012 / English and French with English subtitles / 168 minutes INTENDED FOR MATURE AUDIENCES

Contains brief nudity, sexual situations and adult language

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As Laurence begins his transition, we watch the enormous tolls that he and Fred must pay. His job, their friends, his family and, of course, their relationship – all are dramatically impacted. But far short of agonizing, the experience is a revelation to us, the viewers. Watching two people struggle to find their way amidst an unexpected turn-of-events, in the hands of Dolan, at least, ends up offering a phenomenal amount of humor as well as pathos. Throughout the decade we witness, Laurence’s dramatic evolution is set amidst the backdrop of an alternatively delightful and grotesque gallery of supporting characters and scenery. The overall look, while occasionally surreal is typically grounded, and gives audiences a sense of the fantastic. And the film’s score, filled to the brim with period music that mirrors the intensity of the moments in Laurence and Fred’s lives, almost emerges as a character unto itself. In the end, Laurence Anyways is that rare find: an assured masterpiece that’s both charming and provocative. – Andrew Rodgers

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Picture Day

DIRECTOR Kate Miles Melville

Forced to repeat her senior year of high school, Claire’s reputation is sliding from bad-ass to bad joke. Armed with an acid tongue and shielded by everpresent headphones, Claire locks onto the only student clueless to her sordid rep: Henry, a nerdy freshman she used to babysit. At night, Claire escapes to raucous concerts where she catches the eye of 33-year–old Jim (Steven McCarthy, frontman of the music group The ElastoCitizens), a would–be rock star who feeds on young fans’ adoration. Jim leads her into an intoxicating world of hard-partying musicians, while at school Claire takes Henry under her wing. She reinvents her dorky friend as the mysterious rebel, throwing Henry’s life into hilarious turmoil. As Claire dances across the surface of these relationships, she eventually learns hard lessons about the difference between sex, intimacy and friendship.

Kate Melville is an award-winning playwright and screenwriter making her directorial debut with Picture Day. Her television writing credits include Degrassi, Endgame, Being Erica, Northern Town, Regenesis and Elizabeth Rex. Canada / 2012 / English / 93 minutes

The characters from Kate Melville’s Picture Day evolved from a play she initially wrote when she was 17 years-old, entitled I Hate You on Mondays. At the emotional center of her clever film is the rebellious Claire (played brilliantly by Tatiana Maslany), a character that audiences can’t help but root for, despite her many flaws. We can see the growing up that Claire, who envisions herself as world-wise, still needs to do – and it rings true. (What teenager on the cusp of adulthood doesn’t overcompensate for a lack of experience?) But as we see her relationship with Henry grow closer, we gain a sense of comfort that despite her initial attempts to find meaning in the world of adults she may actually find what she needs in the land of awkward adolescents. – Andrew Rodgers

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Deriving its title from a passage in the Latin translation of the Old Testament’s Book of Job (which loosely translates to “after darkness, light”), Carlos Reygadas’ fragmented moral tone poem revolves around a middle-class Mexican family who relocate to a remote village in the mountains seemingly in search of a truer, cathartic existence more in alignment with the natural world. The film begins with an ecstatically evocative, nearly 8-minute long sequence of Reygadas’ cherubic daughter Rut frolicking obliviously among the puddles of a waterlogged vale, long-legged dogs and horses lumbering serenely as a growing thunderstorm gradually displaces the dusklight. It’s breathtaking, baroque imagery of the finest order, at once dazzling and ominously haunting, and in a preverbal, tonal sense perfectly portends the inner darkening its human vessels will bear out. The curious, mirrorlike parallax that vignettes the edges of the frame throughout casts a ghostlike doubling on the imagery and grounds the work in a sort of omniscient, moral detachment that informs everything passing in front of the lens. This is the thrilling, freeform artifact of a freakishly inventive master at work, the kind that heartens those who truly believe in the limitlessness of cinematic expression and sends smoke billowing from the ears of the rigid plot and narrative fetishists. And I’ve yet to even mention the psychedelic, Technicolor red devil and his toolbox that pays a nocturnal housecall in the sequence immediately following.

DIRECTOR Carlos Reygadas

Reygadas reveals more about this erudite family, particularly patriarch Juan and his wife Natalia, in scenes that bridge unknowable spans of time and jump forward and backward in chronology—some giving glimpses into their younger days of experimentation in Western Europe, others depicting their near future exploits as bourgeois parents spouting philosophy at a family dinner party. Their relationship with the community of poorer people around them never seems more than superficially congenial, and when a local builder who goes by the handle of Seven becomes more involved in Juan’s affairs, the delicate equilibrium they’ve established in the countryside is endangered and threatens to come crashing down. However relevant these specific narrative fragments may ultimately seem, however, Post Tenebras Lux’s preferred consciousness is likely as a series of waking dreams configured around the idea of original sin and the transference of pain and evil. Indeed, evil seems a finite and manifest energy as sure as the sky, no plant, animal or molecule excepted, in Reygadas’ heady and unprecedented final act.

Carlos Reygadas was born in Mexico City, studied law in Mexico and specialized in armed conflict law in London before becoming a filmmaker. His debut feature Japón received a Special Mention for the Caméra d’Or prize at Cannes in 2002, and he won the Cannes Jury Prize for Silent Light, a RiverRun official selection in 2008. Post Tenebras Lux earned Reygadas the award for Best Director at Cannes 2012. Mexico/France/Netherlands/Germany / 2012 / English, Spanish and French with English subtitles / 115 minutes

Contains adult language, sexual situations and brief nudity

EXECUTIVE producers Daniel Iron producers Lauren Grant, Peter Harvey & Kate Miles Melville screenwriter Kate Miles Melville cinematographer Celiana Cárdenas Editor Dev Singh cast Tatiana Maslany, Spencer Van Wyck, Steven McCarthy, Susan Coyne & Fiona Highet

Post Tenebras Lux

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– Christopher Holmes

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Reality

Luciano is a fishmonger and family man living in a small village near Naples. At the urging of his young children, he auditions for a role as a housemate on the hit reality TV show Big Brother. While waiting for an acceptance call from the producers, Luciano dreams of becoming as beloved as Enzo, a former Big Brother cast member whose presence in Italy is inescapable, and whose fame is intoxicating. But the acceptance call doesn’t arrive, and Luciano begins to slip into increasing fantasy and paranoia.

La Sirga

While this film at its core is a measured, judicious film, it certainly opens with a shock. Seeing a man hanging from a pole and then witnessing a young woman sneaking onto a remote island under a cover of grass is certainly an ominous beginning to this story. Who is this young woman? What exactly is she running from? And what is she running toward? The young woman, Alicia (remarkably played by newcomer Joghis Seudin Arias), was forced to flee from her home in the Andean highlands when her house was torched and her family was brutally murdered by government forces during the ongoing civil war. Although the conflict is only referenced in a cursory manner, it is made clear the degree of emotional (and sometimes physical) impact felt by each and every character in the film, even in this secluded lakeside inn situated on a remote island. The once bustling inn is now a rundown shack that needs fixing almost every day. However, with the amount of visitors dwindling to almost none thanks to the ever encroaching conflict slowly finding its way to their shores, there is no money coming in to help restore the inn to its former glory.

As Luciano slips down the rabbit hole, we find ourselves drawn into his delusions, alternately hoping they come true and wishing he were able to gain some perspective. But that’s the mastery of Reality, which delivers a fascinating premise to audiences that seems both plausible and absurd at the same time. Filled with a roster of distinctive characters that brings the story to life, the film brilliantly balances between magical realism and the brutal truth of day-to-day existence.

DIRECTOR Matteo Garrone

Matteo Garrone was born in Rome and graduated from the Art Lyceum. He previously directed the shorts Silhouette, the documentary Oreste Pipola – Wedding Photographer and the features Terra Di Mezzo, Guests, Roman Summer, The Embalmer, First Love and Gomorrah, which won the Grand Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for Best Foreign Film at both the BAFTA and Cesar Awards. Italy/France / 2012 / English, Italian, Neapolitan, Latin with English subtitles / 116 minutes

For his follow-up to the award-winning crime drama Gomorrah, acclaimed writer-director Matteo Garrone delivers a darkly comic fairy tale that honors the mavericks of Italian cinema’s past while placing a spotlight on the highly contemporary subject of reality television, a form of entertainment that has captured the imagination of a new generation. With the indelible Luciano, Garrone introduces a cinematic everyman whose unforgettable journey from small-town fishmonger to big-city superstar becomes a universal fable about dreaming big that is at once delightful, delirious and deceptive.

William Vega graduated in social communications from the University del Valle in Colombia and mastered in film and TV scripting at TAI College of Arts and Entertainment in Madrid. He has subsequently served as a university teacher, director, screenwriter and assistant director for film, video and TV projects. In 2010, he was an assistant to Oscar Ruiz Navia on Crab Trap (RR ‘11). La Sirga is his first feature.

Colombia/France/Mexico / 2012 / Spanish with English subtitles / 88 minutes INTENDED FOR MATURE AUDIENCES Contains adult language and situations

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DIRECTOR William Vega

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The real highlight of the film is the absolutely breathtaking cinematography by Sofia Oggioni. She captures the isolation, despair and fear of the characters with incredible precision and a tender lens capturing some of the most picturesque and ingenious images while still telling such a vital story. Vega’s subtly powerful film never aims to shock audiences with the gore or violence of war but instead illuminates, in the meticulous behaviors and gestures of his characters, the ripple effect of war on every citizen, especially the humble citizens on the outskirts of society whose livelihood and family life are challenged by the changing economic and social landscape. – Mary Dossinger

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Tey

From the opening frames of this modern-day fairy tale, it is clear that audiences are about to behold a film the likes of which they have probably never seen. The opening credits explain that “This is a place where Death sometimes still warns of its passing. How? No one could answer exactly. It happens the day before, like a certitude that descends upon our bodies and minds…” From that mystifying opening, we are then introduced to the main character, Satché, who is startled awake on the aforementioned day before his death. The film faithfully follows him throughout his entire day which veers between poignant interactions with his family, angry encounters with friends and even bizarre and otherworldly experiences with religious figures. Satché becomes an observer of the world around him, noticing various things about his city, his friends and his family that he never noticed before. Today, on the last day of his life, he decides to at last take the time to truly live.

(Aujourd’hui)

DIRECTOR Alain Gomis

Alain Gomis is a Franco-Senegalese writer and director. Born in Paris in 1972 to a Senegalese father and a French mother, Gomis studied cinematography in Paris at the Sorbonne. He has directed three short films and three feature films including L’france, which won numerous awards around the world. France/Senegal / 2012 / French and Wolof with English subtitles / 86 minutes

Satché is deftly played by American actor, verbal stylist and slam poet Saul Williams. Eschewing his well-known, gritty poetry style, Williams instead plays this role almost silently. Every other character around him is very vocal, screaming and crying about his impending demise, but Satché instead portrays his emotions simply, through his expressions and actions, which is something that drew the actor to the role. The idea of a poet, to whom words are so important, playing a character that must react to something as tragic as death with very few words, is what makes Williams such an interesting and, it turns out, perfect choice for this role. His quiet certitude and powerful performance is truly a tour-de-force and what makes this such a strikingly unique film. – Mary Dossinger

INTENDED FOR MATURE AUDIENCES Contains adult language and situations

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Joe Bini Born in San Mateo, California, Joe Bini is an American film editor best known for his numerous collaborations with director Werner Herzog. Bini has worked as Herzog’s film editor on numerous documentaries and feature films including Grizzly Man, Rescue Dawn, My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done, Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, Into the Abyss and Encounters at the End of the World, which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in 2009. Bini won a Primetime Emmy in 2009 for Outstanding Writing For Non Fiction Programming for his work on the documentary Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired. He also recently edited Lynne Ramsay’s latest feature We Need to Talk About Kevin, which earned him a Special Distinction for technical achievement at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival.

Wendy Mitchell Wendy Mitchell lives in London and is Editor of both Screen International and Screen Daily. Prior to that she was a staff news editor for Entertainment Weekly in New York, having previously spent three years at Screen International – first as UK Reporter, then as Senior Editor. She has also written about the entertainment business for The Wall Street Journal, indieWIRE, The Guardian, Variety, Rolling Stone, the Dow Jones News Service, Time Out New York, Billboard, and the New York Daily News.

Jen Ruppmann As Assistant Director in General Audience Programming at PBS, Jennifer Ruppmann evaluates program submissions for distribution through the National Program Service, with a special focus on arts, culture, lifestyle, diversity and independent film. She also works closely with producers, providing them with editorial feedback at various stages in the production process and oversees projects from the time they are greenlit up until their national broadcasts. Jennifer has hosted speed-pitching sessions at both Silverdocs and the Realscreen Summit and served on the Narrative Competition Jury at 2013 CAAMFest.

Art Of Conflict

DIRECTOR Valeri Vaughn

Valeri Vaughn is a graduate of Arizona State University with a BA in journalism. She attended London International Film School where she made the documentary short film British Graffiti. As a producer at Wild West Productions, Valeri handles projects through the many stages of development and recently developed a screenplay with writer Caroline Thompson called Wicked Lovely. Art of Conflict is her first feature film.

The concept of art and beauty emerging out of tremendous violence and devastation is certainly difficult to grasp but is what lies at the heart of this compelling documentary by first-time director Valeri Vaughn. The film traces the Northern Irish conflict between the Protestant unionist community and the Catholic nationalists over the fate of Northern Ireland’s dependence. This three decades long struggle resulted in thousands of deaths, vast destruction throughout the country and a palpable anger that, despite the 1998 “Good Friday” agreement, still seems to resonate throughout the country. From this deadly, violent conflict came a fascinating historical art movement. The graffiti murals throughout Northern Ireland trace the history of the struggle and tell the stories of both the unionists and the nationalists. Combining fascinating interviews with the muralists themselves and those deeply involved in the conflict, including the former Presidents of Sinn Féin and the Progressive Unionist Party, as well as art historians, this film has become a vital record of both a historical period but also a living document of these murals that were never meant to last. Drawn on the sides of buildings and in alleyways and exposed to the elements, graffiti is certainly an ephemeral and transitory kind of art. At the same time it elicits an emotional response from the viewers and, in this instance, captures a distinct feeling at a particular moment of history. Now, thanks to Vaughn, these incredible murals depicting the blood, sweat and tears of this terrible civil turmoil will be forever etched in history.

Ireland/USA / 2012 / English / 70 minutes

– Mary Dossinger

INTENDED FOR MATURE AUDIENCES Contains some adult language

Sana Haq Sana is a third year MFA student in the Documentary Film Program at Wake Forest University. Born and raised in Pakistan and now a Permanent U.S. Resident, she makes films in both countries and aims to bring people closer together and encourage empathy, compassion and tolerance through her filmmaking. Sana had a short film screen at RiverRun in 2011 entitled I’ll Be Seeing You - The Andrews Sisters Tribute Show. She just released a film titled Wicked Silence about North Carolina’s eugenics-based forced sterilizations program, and is currently in post-production on a film called The Other Army about Pakistan’s counter-terrorism efforts.

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La Camioneta

Every day dozens of decommissioned school buses are auctioned off and leave the US on a trek to Guatemala, considered obsolete here after just 15 years or so in service but handsome workhorses with their best days still ahead of them as far as their eager Latin American buyers are concerned. Director Mark Kendall’s first documentary feature follows one such motor carriage on a vehicular game of telephone as it were, tracing its journey from an unassuming scrapyard in Tennessee, on through the seemingly unending series of shakedowns and payoffs that accompany the trek through Mexico, and finally to its ultimate destination on the bustling streets of Quetzal City in Guatemala. There, in Guatemala, these iconic yellow buses are resurrected as the flamboyant, brightly-colored camionetas that bring people to work each day. With precision craftsmanship and detail work, each chassis transforms into a glorious, mobile work of art as operators compete for riders’ business with more eye-catching and elaborate designs.

DIRECTOR Mark Kendall

After studying Anthropology and Latin American Studies at Vanderbilt University, Mark Kendall graduated from the MFA program in Social Documentary Film at the School of Visual Arts in New York. His first film, The Time Machine, was a National Finalist at the 2011 Student Academy Awards. La Camioneta, his feature directorial debut, premiered at the 2012 South by Southwest Film Festival and marked him as “a name to watch” by Variety. USA/Guatemala / 2012 / English and Spanish with English subtitles / 72 minutes

While the economic and cultural implications of the story alone are exceptionally rich foundations on which to build a documentary, the journey of these buses eventually unearths a deeper systemic problem facing the citizens of Guatemala—rampant extortion and gang violence. This reality makes owning and operating a camioneta not just a means for feeding one’s family, but a life or death proposition for drivers who refuse or are unable to pay off the ruthless criminals who routinely blow up the buses of uncooperative conductors. Kendall’s nuanced account of one camioneta, just as the vehicle itself carries many passengers, is laden with an abundance of fascinating stories to be transported. – Christopher Holmes

INTENDED FOR MATURE AUDIENCES Contains some adult language

From a purely sensorial perspective, there are precious few sequences of raw imagery ever projected on a screen that can rival the wondrous, atavistic beauty of the ritualistic “flying dance” captured in the mesmerizing ethnography of Canícula. The rarely seen performance, fraught with danger and featuring costumed pageantry and aerial theatrics you’d expect to see only under a circus big top (undoubtedly with the luxury of a safety net below), is nothing short of transcendent in effect and simply must be seen to be believed. It takes years and years of disciplined practice to perfect, much of which appears as rigorous as training to become a Shaolin monk, on rickety equipment with archaic engineering that makes Amish machinery look downright modern by comparison. It’s a tradition and a spectacle that seems to defy language to describe it at every turn.

DIRECTOR José Álvarez

José Álvarez was born in Mexico in 1964. His short film Venus (2006) achieved worldwide success, as did his feature documentary Flowers in the Desert, which was awarded Special Mention in the Best Mexican Documentary section at the Morelia International Film Festival in 2009. Canícula also premiered at Morelia and was awarded First Prize for Best Foreign Production at the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival. Mexico / 2011 / Spanish with English subtitles / 65 minutes INTENDED FOR MATURE AUDIENCES

An engrossing study of the rich cultural heritage of the Totonac people of Veracruz, Mexico, who have resided in this region for millennia, the entire film feels as though a portal to another age in history. The scarcity of appropriate language to describe the flying dance likewise carries throughout the entire culture’s daily activities and informs Álvarez’s measured aesthetic. Speech seems at a premium for the Totonac, whether in public spaces such as the market or a festival in the town square, or in the privacy of one’s one home, where the painstaking process of hand-crafting one’s own clay for firing pottery is still commonplace. In Spanish, the term “canícula” refers to the 40 most torrid days of the year, a period known as the “days of the bleeding sun” to the Totonac and marked with important rites and ceremonies. In documenting one such solar cycle, Álvarez’s film is that rare artifact that is at once a compelling modern work of nonfiction and a window into seasons that have long since passed beyond the curve of the earth.

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Canícula

–Christopher Holmes

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Google And The World Brain

DIRECTOR Ben Lewis

Ben Lewis has directed several documentary films and cultural series for television. His controversial documentary The Great Contemporary Art Bubble (2009) dealt with speculation in the art market, and his television series Art Safari was broadcast worldwide and won several international prizes. His film Poor Us: An Animated History of Poverty (2012) will be broadcast on more than 70 television channels. UK/Spain / 2013 / English, Spanish, Catalan, Japanese, German and French with English subtitles / 89 minutes

Director Ben Lewis authors a powerful zeitgeist treatise, dissecting ethical issues of utmost importance in the digital age, with this investigation of the most ambitious project ever conceived on the Internet: Google’s master plan to scan every book in the world. The concept of a grand “world brain” of instantly accessible information on any subject has been a long-standing goal of scientists and historians since sci-fi luminary H.G. Wells popularized the idea in a series of essays in the late 1930s. Not until just recently, however, with developments in computer technology (namely optical character recognition and scanning hardware) has the idea seemed like anything more than speculative fantasy. Google, with its ever-ubiquitous influence in cultural and technology spheres, has unsurprisingly been leading the charge to consolidate entire libraries of texts into a unified database available to all through the Internet. The company says they are building a library for mankind, but some say they also have other intentions. The controversy stems not just from the Orwellian overtones of the entire undertaking—one conglomerate with total control over all information—but from their apparent willingness to indiscriminately make texts available in the public domain that are still under copyright control by the writers who created them. The practice has led to countless international lawsuits on behalf of authors who stand to lose the ability to fully monetize their work, damages from which have the potential to bankrupt Google entirely if the judicial system rules against them. As companies like Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Apple seek to get off the sidelines and enter the digital library market themselves, the ruthless battle for a stake in the world brain presents a cultural headache that isn’t going away any time soon. – Christopher Holmes

INTENDED FOR MATURE AUDIENCES Contains some adult language

While on the surface I Am Breathing certainly doesn’t sound like a fun, light-hearted trip to the cinema, thanks to the astonishing (and at times very funny) spirit of Neil, the main character, and the powerful and beautiful storytelling of the directors, this film instead becomes an uplifting affair and a testimony to the power of the human spirit, even in the face of unbelievable frustration and sadness. Neil Platt is a thirty-four-year-old man who was diagnosed with the terminal Motor Neurone Disease, also called Lou Gehrig’s disease in the U.S. It is a debilitating ailment characterized by muscle atrophy, rapid progressive weakness and difficulty swallowing and breathing. It is an unbelievably painful disease for anyone, let alone a man in the prime of his life with a new wife and baby. In just one year, Neil goes from being a strong, healthy young man to a man paralyzed from the neck down, confined to a breathing machine and a wheelchair, drastically changing his once happy life.

DIRECTORS Emma Davie & Morag McKinnon Emma Davie is a documentary filmmaker and Programme Director of Film & TV at Edinburgh College of Art. Previous work includes What Age Can You Start Being An Artist?, Gigha:Buying Our Island, and Flight. She was on the board of the European Documentary Network (EDN) and writes for DOX magazine. Morag McKinnon is a fiction director whose most recent film Donkeys won a Scottish BAFTA in 2011. Prior to that, she directed the BAFTA-winning series Buried and the short film Home which also won a BAFTA. Her other award-winning short Birthday won the Silver Bear at the Chicago International Film Festival. Morag is a graduate of Edinburgh College of Art.

Told almost completely from Neil’s point-of-view and combining personal stories from Neil and his family, from his blog (which he created to tell other people about the disease) and old home movies and photos, the movie becomes a vehicle to tell Neil’s story, because he can no longer tell it himself. Through the directors Neil is able to create a visual diary illustrating his life story, the rapidity of the onset of his symptoms and the debilitating effects of his illness. As a result of the film Neil is able to pass on his life’s story to his young son and the world as he begins to face his fear of death and decide what legacy he will leave behind for his wife, child and anyone else who takes the time to hear his story. – Mary Dossinger

Denmark/UK / 2012 / English / 72 minutes

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Plimpton! Starring George Plimpton As Himself

DIRECTORS Tom Bean & Luke Poling

Tom Bean has worked in many capacities on documentary and feature films alike. He co-produced and wrote a feature length documentary about the Iranian hostage crisis, featuring Jimmy Carter and Walter Cronkite. Luke Poling has worked on many productions, including The Departed and The Fog of War. He was a writer/director for the omnibus film Twelve, which played to film festivals across the country. He also worked as a staff writer and director on the award-winning podcast Hello Simon.

George Plimpton was an enigmatic figure in the literary world and took the art of what he called “participatory journalism” to new heights. He made his career out of becoming other people, whether for one night, one game or long stints, and then wrote about the experiences so his readers could live vicariously through his often times very embarrassing and challenging escapades. He lived an extraordinary life both in and out of the public eye. While you may have heard of George Plimpton and some of his exploits, this fantastic documentary comprehensively illustrates the distinctiveness of a man whose day-to-day life may be one of the most eccentric things you ever hear about him. Beginning with images of Plimpton flying high over a circus tent and including such tremendous feats as him pitching in a professional All-Star game to Willie Mays, boxing Archie Moore, playing with the New York Philharmonic under Leonard Bernstein or even acting alongside John Wayne and Warren Beatty, Plimpton lived an exceptional and awe-inspiring life. However, what Plimpton truly gave society was his immense talent as a storyteller. He had the tremendous ability to transport readers and truly make them feel as if they were there, wherever there may be at that moment, with him. Filled with incisive interviews with friends and family, authors and celebrities who knew him and those involved in his many outrageous experiences and intercut with a vast amount of personal archival footage and narrated with Plimpton’s own words, filmmakers Poling and Bean have created an incredibly profound film that tells such a brilliant and outrageous story even Plimpton would be proud. – Mary Dossinger

USA / 2012 / English / 89 minutes

The tragedy of the genocide in Rwanda has had an everlasting effect on the people left behind. From the orphans who were abandoned when their parents were murdered to the child soldiers who have had to overcome the ceaseless violence they endured, the process of pain relief can come in many forms. For many, that comfort came in simply returning, as much as they could, to the life they knew before the war.

DIRECTOR T.C. Johnstone T.C. Johnstone began making films in Steamboat Springs more than 10 years ago. After producing his first feature he moved to Santa Monica, California, and began working as a Director of Photography and documentary director on a wide variety of projects ranging from national television (ABC, CBS, NBC, Discovery, CNN) to independent films. USA/Rwanda/UK/South Africa / 2012 / English / 82 minutes INTENDED FOR MATURE AUDIENCES Contains some adult language

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Rising From Ashes

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Rwanda has a rich history of competitive cycling but all of that was destroyed during the civil war. However, a group of young men decided to rise up from the tragedy and reclaim their country’s history of bike racing by borrowing bikes from neighboring countries and fixing them up as best they could. In 2005 mountain bike racer Tom Ritchey heard the story of this ragtag group of cyclists and decided to travel to Rwanda to discover more about their story. Just a year later, Ritchey created the first ever mountain bike race, the Wooden Bike Classic, in Rwanda and somehow convinced his friend, cycling legend Jock Boyer, to move to Rwanda and coach the men. After years out of the sport and even a stint in prison, Boyer relished the idea of a second chance at the world of competitive cycling. The film follows their rocky and tenuous path. Adeptly directed by T.C. Johnstone, narrated by Oscar-winner Forest Whitaker (also Executive Producer of the project) and strikingly filmed, this movie not only conveys the history and renewal of the people of Rwanda but also illustrates a captivating glimpse inside the sport of competitive cycling. The film captures a triumphant story from a country that has experienced nothing but turmoil for years. Team Rwanda, the first national bike team, made history by competing in the 2012 Olympics and represents a new spark of life rising from the ashes of one of the worst genocides in history. – Mary Dossinger

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A River Changes Course

The great Tonle Sap River in Central Cambodia is home to a diversity of fish and wildlife. And the floating village on the river is home for Sari and his family, who depend on fishing for a living. But life on the river has changed rapidly due to large fishing concessions, large fish traps and the rise of illegal fishing. As Sari stands on his boat facing the horizon, he wonders what direction the future will take him.

Sofia’s Last Ambulance

In a city where 13 ambulances struggle to serve 2 million people, Krassi, Mila and Plamen—three relentless, chain-smoking Bulgarian EMT’s—are our unlikely heroes. Every distress call is its own adventure in Ilian Metev’s debut feature documentary, a direct cinema marvel that takes the viewer on a rugged and intensely intimate ride-along with these warriors of Sofia’s emergency response system. With life or death always hanging in the balance, the remarkable composure and compassion the trio display in the face of a neverending deluge of misfortune is an object lesson in what is good and decent about humankind. And as if the medical crises themselves aren’t trying enough, because of the city’s poor resources the crew are often flying blind in finding the locations they’re being dispatched to and seeing their ambulance eviscerated by the devastating potholes of badly maintained streets.

In a small village outside the capital city of Phnom Penh, Khieu and her mother bring in their annual rice harvest. To help make ends meet, she and her family must borrow money to buy land and a water buffalo. And to pay back their mounting debt, Khieu prepares to join the truckloads of young people who have already left the village to find work in garment factories in Phnom Penh.

DIRECTOR Kalyanee Mam

Kalyanee Mam was born in Battambang, Cambodia, during the Khmer Rouge Regime. In 1979, she and her family fled the refugee camps at the Thai-Cambodian border and eventually immigrated to the United States. She studied at Yale and graduated from UCLA Law School. She previously co-directed the documentary short Between Earth & Sky about Iraqi refugees. She also worked as a cinematographer on the Oscar-winning documentary Inside Job. A River Changes Course is her debut feature documentary.

In the remote and mountainous jungles of Northeast Cambodia, Sav Samourn and her family live in a thatched hut perched on a hill surrounded by cashew orchards, golden rice fields and thick, dense forest. All around her, she witnesses the encroachment of large companies and the slashing and clearing of forests. Sav Samourn discovers she is no longer afraid of wild animals and ghosts that once roamed the forests she calls home. Now, she is afraid of people. Kalyanee Mam spent two years following three young Cambodians struggling to overcome the crushing effects of deforestation, overfishing and debt. The result is a breathtaking journey from the remote jungles and floating cities of the countryside to the bustling garment factories of modern Phnom Penh.

– Christopher Holmes

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Ilian Metev was born in Bulgaria in 1981. As a teenager in Germany, he pursued a career as a violinist and has performed on German classical radio. After studying Fine Art at Saint Martins, where he experimented with 16mm film, he completed his training at the UK National Film and Television School in 2008. He has directed, photographed and co-produced the films Goleshovo and Sofia’s Last Ambulance. Bulgaria/Croatia/Germany / 2012 / Bulgarian with English subtitles / 76 minutes

Cambodia / 2013 / Khmer with English subtitles / 83 minutes

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DIRECTOR Ilian Metev

Metev takes a non-traditional approach in representing the labors of its subjects in that we never see the faces of those being treated, likely a device imposed equally out of legal/ethical ramifications as well as the filmmaker’s purposeful desire to experience events purely from the medics’ point of view. We are up close and personal with the team throughout, and rather than fixating on the physical traumas, which are largely random and beside the point, we confront the residual emotional toll that this broken system is taking on its executors. Sofia’s Last Ambulance, which took home the France 4 Visionary Award in its premiere during the 2012 Cannes Film Festival’s Critics Week and won the Grand Prize for Documentary at Karlovy Vary later last year, is a gripping vocational diary that does well to get at the marrow of one of Bulgaria’s most trying professions.

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Twenty Feet From Stardom

DIRECTOR Morgan Neville

Morgan Neville is an award-winning documentary filmmaker. He received Grammy Awards for his films Respect Yourself: The Stax Records Story, Muddy Waters Can’t Be Satisfied and Johnny Cash’s America. Over the past 18 years, Neville has created films about many of the musicians who have helped shape 20th-century music including Pearl Jam Twenty, Troubadours, Beauty Is Embarrassing and Crossfire Hurricane.

The bright spotlight, the rush of a screaming crowd singing every word of your song and the celebrity of stardom is something many people crave but very few ever accomplish and some, well, they get just about 20 feet short of it. Back-up singers are essential, providing a huge component to the sound of a song or album and sometimes, even that favorite hook from your favorite song. Twenty Feet From Stardom includes interviews with some of the biggest back-up vocalists of the last few decades and the very famous lead singers they harmonize with including Bruce Springsteen, Bette Midler, Mick Jagger and many more. The film transports you into the world of the riffs, refrains and harmonies of some of the most famous songs being sung by some of the least well-known, but hardest working, singers in the industry. Tracing the story of back-up singers throughout the history of modern pop music from the days of the Phil Spector “Wall of Sound,” which used a tremendous amount of backing vocals, to the modern day online musical world, Neville really does shine a much-needed light on these artists and through very personal reflection and intimately beautiful filmmaking shows these artists’ stories, both the good and the bad. Following such great artists as Darlene Love, Merry Clayton, Lisa Fischer and Judith Hill, audiences learn the heartaches and triumphs that accompany a desire for the spotlight. Along the way, we are taken on a fantastic journey through rock and roll history filled with incredible sights and, most importantly, sounds, leaving our toes tapping all the way. – Mary Dossinger

USA / 2013 / English / 85 minutes INTENDED FOR AGES TEEN + Contains some adult language

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INGMAR BERGMAN It is almost needless to introduce Ingmar Bergman. A Renaissance man—stage director, writer and filmmaker—he is universally considered as one of the most substantial masters of cinema. Manipulator of dreams, grand image-maker, superb story-teller and connoisseur of human nature, Bergman is a rare example of a filmmaker as a complete artist. His prolific career spans more than seven decades, offering one of the richest and most impactful bodies of work in the history of film. Both homogenous and eclectic, but always supremely inhabited and inspired, his work knows no borders, literal or metaphoric; timeless, it transcends tides and turns, currents and trends, sometimes presiding over them. From his first films in the 40s, to the masterpieces of the 50s, 60s, and 70s, up to the flamboyant classicism and maturity of his later period, 80s to 00s, his exceptional vision never withered, never gave in to a whim. Choosing four films from Bergman’s high-volume filmography was no small feat. How to best represent this tremendous creativity in a concise way? Selecting a key title from each period or focusing entirely on one period were both strong possibilities. Ultimately, though, we opted for substance over chronology, presenting the most significant films from each of his flagship themes. Cries and Whispers is the most accomplished and uncompromising example of his fascination with both family and female relationships, while Hour of the Wolf tackles the complexity of marriage and the subconscious power of fear. Persona is the ultimate journey of psychological introspection and a modernist manifesto, while The Seventh Seal, a metaphysical fable, is the bold testimony of his complicated relation to faith. The son of a Lutheran priest, Bergman struggled all his life with reconciling religion and uncertainty, or the “silence of God” as he perceived it. This metaphysical tension colored many of his films. He also took a special interest in the dark side of the creative psyche, often choosing artists as protagonists (Johan in Hour of the Wolf and Elizabeth in Persona). Unlike some of his peers, Bergman never shied away from exploring female characters and did so boldly and incisively. In fact, women occupy the utmost place in his work. Three of the films in our program feature Liv Ullmann, his muse, at the peak of their collaboration. Audiences may also want to consider

Liv & Ingmar in our Focus section, which offers a conversation with Liv Ullmann retracing her years together with Bergman, both professionally and personally. We are proud to showcase all four films from this section in their original form—a 35mm print. In the age of the vanishing celluloid, we felt strongly about offering what might be one of very few chances left to experience major works of cinema the way they were intended by their authors. We hope you will too! – Iana Dontcheva

Cries and Whispers

Hour of the Wolf

SWEDEN / 1972 / SWEDISH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES / 91 MINUTES

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MPAA Rating: R

Contains some nudity, adult language and some violence

Agnes (Harriet Andersson) is dying of uterine cancer, her sisters Karin (Ingrid Thulin) and Maria (Liv Ullmann) at her bedside. But her servant Anna (Kari Sylwan) is the only one truly caring for her. Incapable of dealing with Agnes’ imminent passing, the sisters cling to what they know best—sibling rivalry and resentment. Forced into an existential reassessment, the four women each revive a major moment from their lives. Like several other Bergman films, Cries & Whispers is haunted by the notion of death, though even more palpably here: not an ethereal image, a fictional character or a ghost, it reveals itself through Agnes’s body. Her stomach swollen by the cancer, she looks pregnant and sounds in labor, like giving birth to death itself. But far from being the story of a dying person, this is above all a ferocious family portrait and a fascinating portrayal of women, one that leaves no one intact. And far from atoning for it, the gorgeous colors, costumes and composition magnify an already powerful cinematic experience.

– Iana Dontcheva

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That time of night, when sleep is deepest and nightmares the worst, is called the hour of the wolf. Johan Borg (Max von Sydow), a schizophrenic artist, and his wife Alma (Liv Ullmann) have moved to a remote island in an attempt to suppress his condition and come to terms with his all-consuming fears. Alma, terrified, seeks in vain to apprehend Johan’s anxieties with an idealistic sense of empathy, thereby revealing the limits of our ability to fully understand another human being. Made as a fantastical horror film, Hour of The Wolf is no less an intimate love story in reverse, that of a troubled couple unraveling. Johan’s inner demons materialize at night and play tricks on the couple, to separate them. By offering this voyage inside of an artist’s disturbed psyche, Bergman reveals his own innermost terrors—the fear that true intimacy between two beings is but illusion and dread of his talent and inspiration disappearing, perhaps taken away by nocturnal creatures.

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ALTERED STATES: NEW DIRECTIONS IN AMERICAN CINEMA

Persona

The Seventh Seal

SWEDEN / 1966 / SWEDISH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES / 85 MINUTES

SWEDEN / 1957 / SWEDISH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES / 96 MINUTES

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Contains some violent/disturbing images, and a scene of strong sexual dialogue

Contains some adult language and violence

A famous stage actress, Elizabeth Vogler (Liv Ullmann) loses her voice while playing Electra. She remains mute after the incident and is sent to rest and recover in an isolated seaside villa, accompanied by a young nurse named Alma (Bibi Andresson). As mute as Elizabeth is, Alma’s constant chatter fills the screen, countering her silence. A gradual fusion between these two very different women begins and soon Alma is consumed and overwhelmed by Elizabeth’s personality. One of the most remarkable and acclaimed Bergman films, Persona is a cinematic manifesto. Written while Bergman was hospitalized and silenced by severe pneumonia, the film is a pure evocation of feelings and mental images, through the impalpable emotional language only visual narration can so master. Doing away with preexistent influences and storytelling conventions, Bergman offers a unique access to his imagination in the most direct and unequivocal way. The film unfolds like a crystal-clear dream he just awoke from and put on the screen with no delay or alteration.

A plague is ravaging 14th century Sweden. A knight, Antonius Blok (Max von Sydow), returning home from the Crusades, encounters Death (Bengt Ekerot) on a remote beach—a black silhouette, who informs him that his time has come. Blok challenges Death to a chess game, hoping to delay the inevitable and find answers to his existential and metaphysical questions. In the Bible, The Seventh Seal is the last to be opened to access the Book of Revelations, baring all divine secrets. When it is finally open, “the sky becomes silent for half an hour.” It is in that spiritual half hour that the game of chess takes place. Caught between two opposite visions of the world, symbolized by his atheist squire and a pious juggler, the Knight is searching for certainty; for a Truth with human dimensions. His quest will remain unanswered. Mirroring Bergman’s own doubts and interrogations about life and death, and his very personal struggle with faith, The Seventh Seal is a landmark of film history, universally recognized as one of cinema’s utmost masterpieces of the 20th century. – Iana Dontcheva

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With technological breakthroughs and new distribution models rapidly democratizing the landscape of the motion picture industry, RiverRun’s Altered States program features a new wave of exciting, independent American filmmakers who are charting heretofore unexplored geography within the medium. These are films that push the creative boundaries of style, structure and content and feature diverse and authentic young voices, predominantly first or second feature films from directors just on the cusp of wider prominence in the filmmaking community.

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Far MarfA

Persistence of Vision

Pincus

Remote Area Medical

Director Cory Van Dyke

Director Kevin Schreck

Director David Fenster

DirectorS Jeff Reichert & Farihah Zaman

USA / 2012 / English / Narrative / 86 minUTES

USA/Canada/UK / 2012 / English / Documentary / 83 minUTES

USA / 2012 / ENGLISH / Narrative / 78 minUTES

USA / 2013 / English / Documentary / 83 minUTES

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The windswept town of Marfa, an unlikely artists’ haven tucked in the high grasslands of the Chihuahua desert in West Texas, provides the backdrop for a stalled musician’s rarefied and unpredictable quest to reclaim his art, both figuratively and literally, in Cory Van Dyke’s Far Marfa. The film’s mainframe is clearly firing on the frequencies of both Lynch and Lebowski, but Van Dyke’s inventive, free-associative script and surrealistic visual touches lend the work an endearing, light-as-air strangeness all its own and are evidence of a decidedly original new voice. No surprise for a film riffing on the ideas of creative inspiration and artistic integrity at its core. The film is equally indebted to the affable, slacker-with-a-heart-of-gold comedic charm of lead actor Johnny Sneed as struggling musician Carter Frazier, a recent transplant to Marfa. Like no country song ever written, Carter manages to lose his girlfriend, his pride and a priceless piece of abstract art given to him by a soon-to-be-dead stranger all within the span of a day. In his half-baked attempts to sleuth out the thief of a rare painting he unwittingly inherits, he may just find the pathway to true happiness and a reason to start attempting some new masterpieces of his own. – Christopher Holmes

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In 1964, at the height of his UK-based animation studio’s success in both the commercial and critical worlds, master animator Richard Williams—most famous today because of techniques he invented for the film Who Framed Roger Rabbit—began production on what would be his most ambitious project to date: an animated feature film unlike anything the world had ever seen. Breathtaking in scope and unparalleled in its visual artistry, the film was called The Thief and the Cobbler, and more than 25 years later Williams still saw no end in sight to his production despite numerous financial problems and legal obligations closing in on him. Echoing the labyrinthine, M.C. Escher-like imagery in his film, Williams’ project seemed to be getting further from a finished product with every cel of animation his team completed as it broadened in theme and scope. Kevin Schreck’s debut feature documentary makes deft use of ample archival footage of Williams at work in his studio (the animator is surely one of the most well-documented technicians of his kind in history), along with incisive interviews with Williams’ friends and co-workers, in framing up the complexity of the man and his epic ambitions. Richard Williams’ genius is impossible to deny, and Schreck’s portrait of him is required viewing for anyone with even a passing interest in the art of film animation. This is the heartbreaking tale of the greatest animated film never made.

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What started out as a personal documentary project about his own father’s rapidly declining condition due to Parkinson’s eventually evolved into Pincus, a hybrid narrative that casts director David Fenster’s family and friends in a pseudo-fictional exploration of both the physical and metaphysical crises that he and his father encounter in dealing with the new normal the disease imposes. With grace, cunning humor, and a cleverly complex, totemistic visual language Fenster forges a film of rare beauty and power, at once specific and deeply allegorical. David Nordstrom—director and co-star of 2012 RiverRun selection Sawdust City—is likewise remarkable as the film’s protagonist Pincus Fenster (the director’s thinly veiled analog), saddled with carrying the torch of his father’s vaunted construction business while trying to provide adequate domestic care for the man himself. In his varied attempts to find some centering force in his life—including yoga, snorkeling and a healthy habit of self-medication— Pincus only seems to find more questions than answers. When Dietmar, a destitute German immigrant he’s befriended, suddenly goes missing on top of everything else, Pincus’ search to find him puts him in a spiritual hole that he struggles to make sense of. – Christopher Holmes

In April 2012, the traveling relief corps of volunteers known as Remote Area Medical provided free healthcare to nearly 2,000 uninsured Americans on the infield of Bristol, Tennessee’s NASCAR Speedway over the course of a weekend. Coming from all corners of the surrounding counties, some even voyaging from states away in the hopes of receiving much-needed dental, vision, or general health care treatment, this sadly may be the only opportunity many underprivileged Americans get to attend to their often life-threatening health concerns. The majority living a hand-to-mouth existence, they spend the night in their vehicles to reserve a spot in line, many camping out for more than 24 hours and taking precious time off of work before their numbers are finally called. It’s a scene of desperation and sacrifice you wouldn’t expect to be necessary in a nation as comparatively well-off as our own, and filmmaking team Jeff Reichert and Farihah Zaman were there to capture the moving human drama that unfolds in a setting where the rubber truly meets the road of the health care debate being argued in this country. This affecting, straightforward portrait of RAM’s infrastructure, selfless physicians and, most importantly, its patients delivers astonishing geographic and class ethnography by proxy of the human body’s many frailties. – Christopher Holmes

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This is Martin Bonner

White Reindeer

Director Chad Hartigan

Director Zach Clark

USA / 2013 / English / Narrative / 83 minUTES

USA / 2013 / English / Narrative / 84 minUTES

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Fifty-something Martin Bonner, shaken and nearly bankrupt from a painful divorce, is starting over in Reno, helping ex-cons transition to life on the outside. He occupies the lonesome hours with hobbies and forced recreation—selling antiques online, visiting art galleries, even a halfhearted, Hail Mary round of speed dating—but the shadow of self-doubt and emptiness is never far from his mind. He’s isolated from his daughter, a sole galvanizing force in his life, and his only son refuses to take his calls despite Martin’s continual offerings of affection and support. His new career brings him together with the well-meaning Travis, recently paroled from a stint for vehicular manslaughter and trying to stay sober while mending some of the damage he’s inflicted on himself and others (especially his doubtful, college-aged daughter). In their shared search for penitence, the pair forge an unlikely bond. Anchored by the dramatic heavy lifting of Australian-born Paul Eenhorn as Martin and Richmond Arquette as Travis, the film grapples with complex issues of faith, consequences and redemption in a town where temptation and uncertainty are practically hardwired into the culture. Directed by UNCSA alum Chad Hartigan, This is Martin Bonner took home the NEXT Audience Award at Sundance 2013 and is a mature, immersive character study that shows the craft of a cinematic force to be taken seriously. SPONSORED BY

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Buttoned-down real-estate agent Suzanne Barrington is finally on the verge of escaping the middle-class, cookie-cutter sprawl of Virginia and actualizing her dream life. Her doting husband has a swell new TV weatherman gig in the works, she just made an incredible sale, and what’s more, her oh-sobeloved Christmas and a move to Hawaii are right around the corner! When provocative director (and UNCSA grad) Zach Clark is driving the sleigh, however, you can be sure a storybook White Christmas is entirely out of the question. Suzanne’s perfect holiday suddenly goes topsy-turvy after a gruesome tragedy hits close to home, revealing salacious secrets about the model husband she thought she knew. Her ensuing efforts to get to the bottom of the mystery point her toward the true meaning of Christmas—not to mention more strippers, swingers, sweaters and spirits than you can shake a peppermint stick at—during one sad, strange, and wickedly hilarious December in suburbia. Anna Margaret Hollyman, the magnetic star of last year’s Altered States Audience Awardwinner Small, Beautifully Moving Parts and one of this year’s RiverRun Spark Award honorees (see page 33), infuses an outrageous phantasm of a film with uncommon complexity and gravitas in this subversive, campy (and rippingly fun) variation on the holiday classics of yore.

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After Tiller

The Discoverers

Downeast

First Comes Love

DirectorS Martha Shane & Lana Wilson

Director Justin Schwarz

DirectorS David Redmon & Ashley Sabin

Director Nina Davenport

USA / 2013 / English / Documentary / 85 minutes

USA / 2012 / English / Narrative / 104 minutes

USA / 2012 / English / Documentary / 80 minutes

USA / 2012 / English / Documentary / 108 minutes

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In a film that could easily be overshadowed by the political and religious drama surrounding the subject of abortion, the fact that the filmmakers were able to create a film that eschews the drama at every turn is remarkable. Instead, they have made a discerning, straightforward documentary about one of the most volatile subjects of the last several decades. The film follows the remaining four doctors who perform thirdterm abortions in the United States in the aftermath of the murder of their colleague, Dr. George Tiller, in 2009. Assassinated by a pro-life advocate at his church, Tiller’s murder set off yet another firestorm of controversy surrounding the performance of late-term abortions and made the lives of his four remaining colleagues even more tenuous. Despite the constant fear and ethical quandaries about their jobs, these doctors felt even more committed following Tiller’s death. The film honestly portrays the situations these doctors face every day, from the protestors outside of their clinics to the heartbreaking stories they hear from their clients who are in the terrible position of having to see these doctors at all. – Mary Dossinger

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As a washed-up history professor, divorced and slumming it at a Kentucky community college, Lewis Birch (Oscar-nominated Griffin Dunne) has seen better days. With the completion of a new historical book, however, there appears to be a light at the end of the tunnel, and a road trip to an Oregon academic conference promises the potential to land a new teaching gig—if he can manage to get there, that is. Lewis succeeds in convincing his begrudging teenage kids to join him on the cross-country journey, despite their lack of enthusiasm, but a bigger obstacle looms just up the trail. What figures at first to be a brief stopover to visit Lewis’ ill mother reveals another, unexpected twist—his estranged father’s inability to cope with the setback has sent him reeling into a psychosomatic obsession with playing a part in a Lewis and Clark re-enactment troupe, a role from which he refuses to break character. Threatening to derail the trio’s entire trek to Oregon, the travelers are forced to blaze a different trail entirely in finding a way to heal the broken spirit of Lewis’ father. Featuring a breakout performance from 2013 RiverRun Spark Award honoree Madeleine Martin (Californication) as Lewis’ acid-tongued daughter Zoe, as well as a stellar supporting cast that includes Dreama Walker, Scott Adsit, Ann Dowd and John C. McGinley, The Discoverers is a pioneering comedic portrait of a dysfunctional family struggling mightily to get back on the right path.

Contains some adult language and graphic images

Using their familiar and effective observational style, documentary filmmakers David Redmon and Ashley Sabin have once again created a surprisingly compelling portrait. The husband-and-wife filmmaking duo has shown many of their previous films at RiverRun, including Mardi Gras: Made in China and Intimacy (which received Human Rights Awards, in 2005 and 2008 respectively) as well as last year’s Girl Model. This time around, Redmon and Sabin train their cameras on Antonio Bussone and his quest to open a lobster processing plant in rural Maine. Facing seemingly endless obstacles, Antonio struggles to start a complex and labor-intensive new business in a struggling town during a time of economic uncertainty. Paired with a backdrop of declining industrial opportunities in the United States, this film is a fascinating study of the American workforce in an era when countless factories have been sent offshore. Like some their previous films, Downeast leaves a few questions unanswered for audiences, allowing us to speculate exactly what it takes to be successful today in industrial America.

For Nina Davenport, the old playground rhyme didn’t go as planned. Single at age 41, she found her life lacking and decided to have a baby on her own, despite the challenges and the extra hurdle of living in New York City. As a veteran documentary filmmaker (she previously won the Audience Award for Best Documentary Feature at RiverRun in 2005 for Parallel Lines), she chose to film the entire process, giving us an unprecedented look into the creation of a new modern family. We see not only her initial desire to have a child, but also the lengths which she must go to start her family, including trying to convince a good friend to become a sperm donor, undergoing fertility treatments and explaining to her not-entirely-supportive father that this is actually a good decision for her. Along the way, we learn what others think about her decision and how her parents influenced her thinking on what a normal family should look like. In the end, Nina has created a frank and often funny film that offers hope to prospective parents and forces us to rethink what it really means to be a family in this modern era. – Andrew Rodgers

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– Christopher Holmes

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God’s Fiddler: JASCHA HEIFETZ

Liv & Ingmar

Mar Del Plata

Not That Funny

Director Peter Rosen

Director Dheeraj Akolkar

DirectorS Sebastián Dich & Ionathan Klajman

Director Lauralee Farrer

USA/Russia / 2012 / English / Documentary / 87 minutes

Norway/UK/India / 2012 / English / Documentary / 81 minutes

Argentina / 2012 / Spanish with English subtitles / Narrative / 83 minutes

USA / 2012 / English / Narrative / 98 minutes

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Considered by many to be the most influential and important violinist of the 20th century, Jascha Heifetz began playing the violin at the age of three and quickly became a child prodigy, making his public debut at the age of seven. The son of a violin teacher and concertmaster, Heifetz grew up around the violin and enrolled in the Saint Petersburg Conservatory at ten years old to study under the famous teacher Leopold Auer. Heifetz’s career spanned many decades and he continued to play the violin, in one way or another, until his death in 1987. Rosen’s film remarkably captures the life of this extraordinary artist whose legendary, yet mysterious, persona portrayed the dual nature of the life of a virtuosic artist. Filled with home movies, archival footage and incredible stories, this film is an outstanding contribution to the world of classical music and is the only biography on the life of this tremendous violinist. – Mary Dossinger

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While certainly not a typical romance, actress Liv Ullmann and director Ingmar Bergman’s love story is a sweet, and at times heartbreaking, tale. In their lifetimes, they made a total of 12 films together beginning in 1964 and ending in 2003, just years before Bergman’s death in 2007. Their romance and friendship spans more than four decades, yet they only lived together for five years. They have a daughter together, but were never married. Their lives were inextricably linked from the moment they met on set and lasted for the rest of their lives, despite the often tumultuous nature and the fact that they just happened to both be married to other people. The film is entirely shot at Bergman’s famous house in Fårø, Sweden, and comprised of extensive archival footage of Bergman’s films with Liv. It offers a behind-the-scenes look at the couple on film sets and with archival footage, all with very personal and intimate narration from Liv Ullmann herself, telling their entire love story. The film is a remarkable, firsthand look into the life of one of the most influential directors of the twentieth century and his most famous muse.

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Ah, road trips . . . a chance to head out on the open road, do some thinking to put life in perspective and catch up with an old friend. However when you are forced on a trip that you didn’t really want to go on, with the last minute addition of a friend you don’t really want to spend time with, and are trying to escape a bad relationship at home, the trip somehow becomes something totally different. Two friends, Joaquin and David, both dealing with difficult romantic situations in their lives, decide to escape to the seaside town of Mar del Plata to rest, relax and put their lives back in order. However, through it all, they question whether this trip was a good idea, bickering all the way. Then, when Joaquin’s ex-girlfriend shows up with her new husband, all relaxation goes out the window and Joaquin and David try to just make it through the weekend unscathed. – Mary Dossinger

– Mary Dossinger

Mild-mannered and decidedly unfunny accountant Stefan says he is “alone but not lonely,” but disappointment and heartache are never far from his mind despite the good game face he maintains. Having hit a rough patch in his personal life, he rents a room from Toogey, a bighearted but absent-minded widow, who adores him like a son and relies on him for odd jobs to keep the house in working order. Stefan has gotten comfortable in the safe placidity of Toogey’s home, despite his inner solitude—until Toogey’s beautiful granddaughter Hayley returns to town and claims all that she wants is a guy who can make her laugh. Enlisting a crack team of well-intentioned friends as his comedic advisors, Stefan resolves himself to learn the art of being funny at all costs in an effort to win Hayley over. When their jokes don’t seem to be hitting the mark, however, Stefan takes an ill-advised risk of questionable wisdom by seeking the tutelage of irreverent stand-up comic Norm Getz (Nick Thune). Starring gifted comedic actor Tony Hale, best known for his role as Buster Bluth on the groundbreaking sitcom Arrested Development, Not That Funny is a simple, heartwarming story of how far a serious man will go for love. – Christopher Holmes

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Portrait of Wally

Scabbard Samurai

Shenandoah

Smiling Through the Apocalypse: esquire in the sixties

Director Andrew Shea

Director Hitoshi Matsumoto

Director David Turnley

Director Tom Hayes

USA/Austria / 2012 / English / Documentary / 90 minutes

Japan / 2011 / Japanese with English subtitles / Narrative / 103 minutes

USA / 2012 / English / Documentary / 97 minutes

USA / 2013 / English / Documentary / 99 minutes

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The plunder of priceless artworks by the Nazis during World War II is fairly well known and studied. The fate of these artworks, however, is more often frustratingly unknown. Art historians have worked tirelessly to track down the pieces of art, often with very surprising and bizarre findings, and the story of Egon Schiele’s famous picture of his mistress, “Portrait of Wally,” is one of the most bizarre stories of all. Now the pride of the Leopold Museum in Vienna, the painting was locked up for 13 years in New York City as part of a legal battle between an Austrian museum and the Jewish family from whom the painting was seized in 1939. However, the story doesn’t end there: from the theft of the painting from young Austrian Lea Bondi to the painting hanging in one of the most famous museums in the world, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, this court case leaves no stone unturned and made this sweet painting of a young lover one of the iconic images of the worst art thefts in modern times and eventually forced museums throughout Europe and the U.S. to search their own collections for stolen art. – Mary Dossinger

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Don’t let the designation of “samurai” in the title fool you, this is no restrained Kurosawa epic or Southeast Asian battle royale by any means. Kanjuro, this goofball samurai story’s protagonist, is not the heroic, self-possessed warrior we’re used to seeing in such an adventure. Broken down and swordless, with failing eyesight and a deadpan defeatism, Kanjuro sheepishly wanders the countryside with his daughter Tae trying to avoid confrontation and elude the law in this offbeat, playfully stylized comedy. When he’s jailed for desertion, the sentence is “The 30-Day Feat,” a fool’s errand to make a sad, humorless prince smile for the first time since the death of his mother. Each day he has one chance to amuse the despondent prince, setting the stage for a protracted variety act of hysterical sight gags and death-defying stunts. The film is not all light-hearted hilarity, however. Kanjuro’s fits of buffoonery are contrasted against his utter depletion of dignity and purpose, and his daughter’s selfless efforts to help him succeed in the face of an overwhelming challenge lend a surprisingly affirming tenderness to a tale that could easily submit to the conventions of genre and novelty. To complicate matters, if Kanjuro fails he must commit the act of seppuku (ritual suicide) – giving new meaning to the phrase “Funny or Die.”

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The subject of illegal immigration and its effects on communities is incredibly fertile territory for documentary filmmakers. In 2004, for example, Carlos Sandoval and Catherine Tambini received the Human Rights Award at RiverRun for their film Farmingville, which portrayed the conflicts that the residents of a Long Island town had with the population of Mexican day laborers growing within their midst. With Shenandoah, nearly a decade later, Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer David Turnley shows us that prejudices can still run deep while solutions remain elusive in many quarters. Unfolding like a crime thriller, Turnley’s film investigates the story of a Pennsylvania coal mining town struggling to survive and retain its identify and values after four of the town’s star football players were charged in the beating death of an undocumented Mexican immigrant. Complicating matters further is the discovery that the town’s police were complicit in the cover up of the murder. Through a retelling of the facts, coverage of the divisive court case that resulted from the incident and numerous interviews with town residents of all stripes – including one of the accused young men – Turnley’s film is a powerful and haunting tale that chronicles the evolving nature of race relations in small town America.

If you look up “new journalism” somewhere on the internet, you’ll quickly discern a few things. First, that there is clearly no end to the minutiae available online, making a productive life for a curious person insanely difficult. Second, that the nomenclature for this “new” style of writing was coined by Tom Wolfe in the 1970s based on the work of writers such as Wolfe, Gore Vidal, Gay Talese, William F. Buckley and Nora Ephron that punctuated the 1960s. (For Exhibit A, see Talese’s infamous Esquire article “Frank Sinatra Has a Cold,” for which Sinatra didn’t participate or consent to be interviewed.) Third, and most importantly for our current purposes here, you will learn that at the center of this movement was Esquire Magazine and its late editor Harold Hayes. A North Carolina native and graduate of Wake Forest University, Hayes devoted himself to the transformation of Esquire into a stable of fearless, brash and irreverent journalism. This film, crafted no less passionately by his son Tom, profiles Harold and channels his distinctive voice through an era that changed journalism forever. – Andrew Rodgers

– Andrew Rodgers

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Susie’s Hope

Time Zero: The Last Year of Polaroid

Uprising

Director Jerry Rees

Director Grant Hamilton

Director Fredrik Stanton

USA / 2013 / English / Narrative / 104 minutes

USA/Netherlands/Germany/France/Austria / 2012 / English / Documentary / 93 minutes

Egypt/USA / 2012 / English and Arabic with English subtitles / Documentary / 85 minutes

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Susie’s Hope tells the true story of the creation of Susie’s Law, a law passed in 2010 that gives jail time to anyone convicted of cruelty to animals. The film follows the story of Donna Lawrence, who was brutally attacked by a pit bull mix in her neighborhood and had to undergo a great deal of therapy. During her rehabilitation, however, she discovers another pit bull mix puppy that was beaten, burned and left to die in a neighborhood park. Taking the most difficult path, Donna decided to use her money to save the puppy, named Susie, and fosters her during her long and arduous path towards a healthy and happy life. Throughout the process they both help each other overcome their hardships and together helped to catch the criminal who hurt Susie and enact the most important cruelty legislation ever signed in the state of North Carolina. Susie’s Hope was shot entirely in Winston-Salem employing a tremendous amount of local talent and crew, and RiverRun is pleased to highlight this locally-made film about a truly local story before it premieres in the theatres. – Mary Dossinger

Contains scenes of violence and adult language

Sharing the magic of Polaroid through the perspective of photographers, scientists and former employees, Time Zero waxes nostalgic about the brand that has shaped the way we interact with memories of our past forever. At the time of its introduction, the Polaroid camera and the complex gadgetry that allowed it to create instant mementos was the byproduct of more research and development spending than virtually any product ever conceived, and for decades the company had all but cornered the photography market and captured the hearts of millions. A triumphant integration of design, function and innovative marketing, the branding and distinctive packaging alone was iconic in the cultural landscape of its heyday. Rising production costs and the explosion of digital photography spelled trouble for Polaroid, however, and as the new millennium rang in the traditional photography arm of the company simply could not stay competitive, leading finally to the end of all film stock production just a few years ago. As the factory neared its last days in 2008, a small team of scientists and entrepreneurs raced against the clock to keep instant photography alive. Would they succeed in reverse engineering the impossibly complicated technology needed to produce original film stock for the old cameras, or will Polaroid cameras be relegated to nothing more than museum relics and conversation pieces forevermore?

Two years ago we witnessed the drama unfolding in Tahrir Square almost every day on our televisions, with images of young protestors being shot and killed by the military, mothers crying, people screaming about the revolution and thousands of online posts by young Egyptians depicting in detail the violence erupting in their country. When Hosni Mubarak resigned from office in February 2011, due primarily to the revolution, it became one of the most significant and dramatic events of our generation and was reminiscent of the fall of the Berlin Wall, proving the powers of youth, social media and courage are capable of defeating an oppressive regime. What this film does so well though is to explain how Egypt ended up in that precarious situation, explore the decades-long frustration that built up in the Egyptian people and, through never before seen footage, provide a behind-the-scenes look at the revolution. Produced by an Academy Award-winning team and featuring interviews with many major figures in the story, including four Nobel Peace Prize nominees, several Egyptian presidential candidates, former foreign ministers of Egpyt and Jordan and former U.S. Ambassadors and White House officials, Uprising tells the comprehensive story of the revolution that shocked the world.

– Christopher Holmes

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FROM THE ARCHIVES THE BIRDs Director ALFRED HITCHCOCK

SCREENING uncsa – gold / 10:00 am / saturday, April 20

USA / 1963 / 119 MINutes INTENDED FOR MATURE AUDIENCES

In this Hitchcock classic, Melanie Daniels (Tippi Hedren) finds herself in a terrifying situation when visiting the small seaside town of Bodega Bay. Without warning birds of all kinds suddenly begin to attack people in increasing numbers and with increasing viciousness. Hitchcock made The Birds when he was at the height of both his commercial and critical success. Evan Hunter, in close consultation with Hitchcock, developed the plot and characterization from Daphne du Maurier’s short story into which Hitchcock inserted the bird attacks—ambitious sequences of “pure cinema” that were far more elaborate in their special effects than anything he had hitherto attempted. Searching for the alchemy he saw between director and actress in European cinema, for the female lead, Hitchcock plucked Tippi Hedren from obscurity and molded her, Svengali-like, into a muse for his cinematic obsessions. The result is a work that is uniquely poised between horror flick and art film. – Richard Allen The film will be introduced by Hitchcock scholar Professor Richard Allen of New York University and followed by a short lecture and discussion.

CRUMB Director TERRY ZWIGOFF

SCREENING secca / 7:00 pm / wednesday, April 17

USA / 1994 / 119 MINutes MPAA RATING: R

Pop icon and comics artist Robert Crumb (creator of Fritz the Cat, Zap Comix and Mr. Natural) has been a fascinating figure of the American counterculture since the late 1960s. In 1994, director Terry Zwigoff and producer David Lynch authored this poignant and haunting effort to penetrate the creative mind of the artist, compared by some to a 20th century Brueghel or Goya. Swinging endlessly between gravity and humor, grotesque and masterful at once—much like Crumb’s art itself—the film delves with gusto into social, cultural and gender issues. Investigating Crumb’s relationship with his family, his childhood, fantasy world, sex life, struggles with fame and mostly, relation with women, Zwigoff reveals how deeply life and art impact each other and how creativity can stem from the most unexpected places. Award-winning and critically acclaimed, the film took six years to complete and has since become a documentary classic. – Iana Dontcheva Crumb is screening as part of THE ARTISTS Film Series at SECCA, exploring how cinema depicts the creative process. The series is curated by Iana Dontcheva.

TOUCH OF EVIL Director ORSoN WELLES

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USA / 1958 / 95 MINutes INTENDED FOR MATURE AUDIENCES By 1957, the unique American cinema style known as Film Noir had been whitewashed and transplanted to TV shows like Dragnet. Lying low on the outskirts, wallowing in his own foul fiefdom, was Hank Quinlan, a 300 pound pustule of hubris, arrogance and racism. Orson Welles, who wrote and directed Touch of Evil, also played Quinlan. Playing a man 20 years older than himself, Welles added 60 pounds of body makeup including a padded stomach, fleshy jowls and a W.C. Fields nose to make us believe Quinlan as a former (and soon to be resumed) alcoholic. Orgiastic camerawork and internal corruption are the hallmarks of this film, an ever-compounding mystery set in a hellish border town. Every shot in Touch of Evil is strange and frightening. Welles’ framing is almost Cubist; everyone is presented from myriad angles, making clear that no one possesses a single true self. Everyone, save Janet Leigh’s wife to Charlton Heston, is multilayered and, by definition, corrupt, capable of anything. Welles pulled out all the stops for this film to prove that he was still a viable artist and commercial filmmaker. After years of self-destructive shenanigans and a series of creative stutter steps, it was this lowly B thriller that cleared the genius a path back to the movie business. But Touch of Evil was taken away from Welles, re-edited, shortened and changed. Eventually the film was restored to Welles’ original vision, but he never worked again as a filmmaker in the U.S.

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LATE NIGHT films EVIL DEAD 2 Director SAM RAIMI USA / 1987 / ENGLISH / 84 MINUTES MPAA Rating: R for Strong Comic Horror Violence and Gore, Scary Images, and some Language

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Evil Dead 2 is the kind of cult classic only fate could create. From its legendary origins (Stephen King was said to have been such a fan of the first film he convinced producer Dino De Laurentiis to finance the sequel) to the glorious rise of B-movie icon Bruce Campbell, this is one of the greatest camp classics of all time! While the first installment too often got bogged down with slasher clichés, and the third (Army of Darkness) veered away from horror altogether, the second film offers the perfect mix of scares and gore with broad, physical comedy. And though Campbell’s facility with pratfalls and impeccable comic timing are the benchmark of the film’s success, it’s really director Sam Raimi’s ability to blend the best aspects of different types of low-budget filmmaking into one totally original and completely entertaining whole that has made it a fan favorite. – Matt Jones

IT’S A DISASTER Director TODD BERGER USA / 2012 / ENGLISH / 89 MINUTES INTENDED FOR MATURE AUDIENCES Contains adult language and sexual situations

SCREENINGS a/perture 1 / 9:30 pm / SATURDAY, April 13 UNCSA–GOLD / 8:00 pm / FRIDAY, April 19

When eight friends decide to get together over the weekend for a couples brunch, everything, at first, seems routine. There is the requisite catching up, meeting the new boyfriend, talking sports, complaining about work . . . but when the city is hit by a mysterious attack and the entire populace is warned to stay indoors, the brunch becomes anything but relaxing. With the threat of death looming, appearances are shattered, secrets are revealed and each individual’s true personality begins to be exposed in varying degrees of humor and pathos. Including incredible performances from David Cross (Arrested Development), Julia Stiles (The Bourne Trilogy) and America Ferrera (Ugly Betty), Todd Berger’s film is a fast-paced comedy about, quite possibly, the worst brunch ever: the eggs are cold, tensions are high and the end is near.

VIRTUALLY HEROES Director G.J. ECHTERNKAMP USA / 2013 / ENGLISH / 84 MINUTES INTENDED FOR MATURE AUDIENCES Contains adult language and violence

SCREENINGS HANESBRANDS / 9:30 pm / FRIDAY, April 19 a/perture 1 / 9:30 pm / Saturday, April 20

In a “Call of Duty” style video game, the lead character grows frustrated with his seemingly pointless existence and the screwy logic of his universe. Facing an unending string of minions to shoot, increasingly difficult super villains to overcome and a sexy scientist who keeps inexplicably slipping through his fingers at the end of each level, the sarcastic and self-aware Sgt. Books faces an existential crisis over what it all means. Plus, he can’t get through to his single-minded partner, Lt. Nova, who thinks being in a Vietnam video game is the best thing life has to offer (especially if he can find the secret level rated M for mature). To find his answers, Books abandons his partner and his mission, and seeks help from a straight talking Monk (played by Mark Hamill), who ultimately shows him how to win the game, get the girl and unravel the cheat codes of life.

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Contains disturbing images, violence and adult situations

For those ready to revel in the awkwardly hilarious and disturbing, our late night shorts have much to offer. From the set of the “moon landing” (Shoot For The Moon), to ghastly zombie love (Cadaver and Night of the Loving Dead) and even a phone that allows you to talk to great Almighty (The God Phone), these shorts will satisfy anyone looking for a little laughter and maybe a shock or two . . . or three.

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Director Kang Min Kim USA / 2012 / No dialogue / 3 minutes A man enters an old bathhouse where, induced by the intense heat and steam, he relives a memory of his father, and their past relationship is accessed through a psychedelic birthmark they both share. Student Film – California Institute of Arts

Cadaver

Director Jonah Ansell USA / 2012 / English / 7 minutes A cadaver, voiced by famed comedic actor Christopher Lloyd, wakes up to say a last goodbye to his wife in this rhyming animation drawn entirely with Sharpies. The recently departed corpse discovers a shocking truth in death that he didn’t know in life.

Every Little Thing You Love

Night of the Loving Dead

Director Anna Humphries UK / 2012 / English / 9 minutes Nigel is a lovesick teenager living under the tyranny of his wicked, sexobsessed stepmother Barbara. But he gets more than he bargained for on Valentine’s Eve when he accidentally brings his old girlfriend, Felicity, back from the dead. Student Film – National Film and Television School

Plush

Director Ryan Denmark USA / 2012 / English / 11 minutes Kathy is a mature, professional woman who still sleeps with her cuddly teddy bear Vincent. One night, when a burglar invades, Kathy’s home comes alive with magical surprises. To his horror, the intruder learns that not everything is as it seems and Vincent may not be so cuddly after all.

Director Jean-Paul DiSciscio USA / 2012 / English / 11 minutes A lonely high school girl’s life takes an unexpected turn when a timid alien crash lands on her lawn one night. She has to defend her intergalactic love against a gang of cardigan-clad bullies and a mad scientist determined to destroy them both in this spaced-out music video set to a dreamy tune by The Bynars.

Shoot for the Moon

The God Phone

Space Stallions

Director Dean C. Marcial USA / 2012 / English / 20 minutes A down-and-out infomercial pitchman accidentally discovers the ultimate As-Seen-On-TV device: a telephone that allows him to speak directly to his maker.

The Maker

Director Christopher Kezelos USA/Australia / 2012 / No dialogue / 6 minutes A strange creature races against time to make the most important and beautiful creation of his life in this crafty stop-motion short.

Director Casandra Macias Gago Spain / 2011 / English / 10 minutes On July 21st, 1969, the whole world tuned in with astonishment as Neil Armstrong took his “giant leap for mankind” on the moon. In this hilarious satire, however, the reality is somewhat different and it requires more than one take to get it right in a hangar-turned-movie studio in Area 51. Director Michelle Nardone Denmark / 2012 / English / 4 minutes As darkness is covering the multiverse, far away in the galaxy of the wild stallion a spark of hope is born. Guided by the light of Mother Mustang, the Space Stallions must defeat the Demon of Darkness, Destructo, in this pitch-perfect homage to the great action cartoons of the 80s.

You’ve Been Mimed

Director John Kim USA / 2012 / No dialogue / 2 minutes A thief gets more than he bargained for when he swipes from the wrong crowd: a gang of vengeful, action-hero mimes! Student Film – California Institute of Arts

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SHORTS COMPETITION Small films with big ambitions. Many of the world’s best filmmakers started their career making short films. It’s a medium that requires concise editing, great storytelling and the ability to render an entire story in just a few minutes. RiverRun’s Shorts program features eight collections of shorts from around the world.

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animated Shorts Sharon Lawrence

Brooke Keesling

Sharon Lawrence is an Emmy-nominated and SAG Award-winning actress who has starred in such television hits as NYPD Blue, Desperate Housewives, Grey’s Anatomy, Monk, Ladies Man and Curb Your Enthusiasm. Her film work includes Middle of Nowhere, The Perfect Family, Lies and Alibis, Little Black Book, Gossip and The Only Thrill. An accomplished stage actress, Sharon created the role of Maureen in the premiere of Theresa Rebeck’s Poor Behavior. Sharon earned her BA in Journalism from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Sharon previously chaired the Women In Film Foundation and serves on the Board of Directors for several environmental organizations.

Brooke Keesling is the Manager of Animation Talent Development for Cartoon Network Studios in Burbank. She works closely with the production of current series such as Adventure Time, Regular Show, Clarence, Uncle Grandpa, Steven Universe and Ben 10, and she supports the development of original content. Prior to joining Cartoon Network, Brooke earned her MFA in animation at CalArts where she produced several animated shorts including the stop-motion film Meatclown and the Academy Award winning film, Boobie Girl. For many years, she worked in practical visual effects on feature films such as Inception, Hugo, The Dark Knight and The Aviator. Passionate about outreach and education, Keesling serves on the ASIFA Hollywood Board of Directors and is an instructor in the Character Animation department at CalArts.

Michael Koresky

Michael Koresky is a staff writer and associate editor for the Criterion Collection, and is also the co-founder and co-editor of the online film magazine Reverse Shot. He is a former editor and writer for both Film Comment and Interview, and in addition he has also written for Cinema Scope, Moving Image Source, Senses of Cinema, The Village Voice, Stop Smiling online, and is a regular contributor to indieWIRE. Koresky was a contributing writer and deputy editor for the book Essential Art House: 50 Years of Janus Films, and has co-programmed film series for the Museum of the Moving Image.

Richard O’Connor Richard O’Connor began his career in the plastic arts with renowned illustrator R. O. Blechman at his commercial production company The Ink Tank. Here he developed his skills as producer and director before moving on to Asterisk Animation, where he was responsible for nearly 100 productions including animation for several Hollywood films (The Stepford Wives, White Countess and The Private Lives of Pippa Lee), documentaries (Nursery University, Bad Blood, Two Worlds/One Planet), television productions and commercials. In 2011 he opened Ace & Son Moving Picture Co., LLC and has continued to produce, animate, direct and edit a range of interesting things. He taught at Parsons School of Design for more than a decade and has lectured at the School of Visual Arts, NYU and Pratt and written on animation history, theory and practice for many industry publications.

Martha Stephens

Raised in the hills of Appalachian Kentucky, Martha Stephens longed to create films celebrating and investigating her native land and people. A graduate of the UNCSA School of Filmmaking, Martha’s first feature film, Passenger Pigeons, premiered at the 2010 South By Southwest Film Festival, and won the “We Believe In You” Award. Her second feature Pilgrim Song likewise premiered at South by Southwest in 2012, this time in competition, and won the $10,000 Oxford American Prize for Best Southern Film at the Little Rock Film Festival. Both films were RiverRun official selections in recent years. Martha is currently developing the film Papaw Easy with writing partner Karrie Crouse, and the project has garnered a prestigious $15,000 grant from the Tribeca All Access program.

Diana Reichenbach Diana Reichenbach is a multimedia artist living and working in Los Angeles, CA. She studied Animation at the University of Southern California, receiving her MFA in 2010. Additionally she has a BA in Anthropology and a BS in Telecommunications Production from the University of Florida. She is a recipient of the Annenberg Communications Research Fellowship and focuses her films and research on animation and multimedia communications as a modern language. Her independent films have screened in festivals throughout the world. She has a strong interest in travel and taught animation courses in Los Angeles as well as Florence Italy and Saudi Arabia. She is currently the art director at StandardVision in Los Angeles, a company specializing in LED lighting design and content for large-scale media facades.

Eduardo Urueña Eduardo Urueña grew up in Caracas, Venezuela. He came to the United States to pursue a career in filmmaking and is currently a Fourth year cinematography student at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts School of Filmmaking. After his graduation in May, he hopes to continue developing in the art of filmmaking.

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Xan Aranda

Johanna Solo

Xan Aranda was born and raised in Illinois, lived in California for ten years until moving to China and eventually, Chicago in 2002. She has worked in the film, music video and commercial industries since 1994. She is an award-winning independent filmmaker affiliated with acclaimed documentary powerhouse Kartemquin Films since 2007. Her directorial debut, Andrew Bird: Fever Year (a 2012 RiverRun selection) had its World Premiere at Lincoln Center as part of the prestigious New York Film Festival. With Kartemquin, Xan is currently directing her next project, Mormon Movie, inspired by religious educational films her mother starred in while a student at Brigham Young University during the 1960s.

Johanna Salo is currently a second-year filmmaking student at UNCSA . Also a graduate of UNCSA conservatory’s Visual Arts program, she has a strong graphic arts background rooted in photography, graphic design, drawing, sculpture and painting. Though her formal artistic training did not begin until she came to UNCSA, her ardor for the arts was sparked during early childhood and neither her love for nor involvement in the arts have subsided since. Most recently, she worked with television veteran Charlie Haid to help shoot a pilot episode. Born in Finland but raised in North Carolina, Johanna is also fluent in both Finnish and English. Johanna is also serving as an alternate on the Narrative Feature Jury.

Lisa Landi

Palmer Holton

Lisa Landi’s contributions to public media started with answering phones during KQED’s 1999 fall pledge drive. She later graduated to researching, stocking the green room and running for coffee as an intern, and in 2006, she landed a permanent gig working in station relations (she didn’t know what it meant, either). Lisa is now the series producer of the station’s documentary program Truly CA and a soon-to-be-launched national series that profiles the work of the country’s most talented young filmmakers called Film School Shorts. Lisa also works with producers to complete and distribute the station’s 30+ hours of national programming each year.

Palmer Holton was born in Lexington, NC, and attended the University of North Carolina at Wilmington’s film and creative writing program as an undergrad. He is a third-year MFA student in Wake Forest University’s Documentary Film Program where he recently completed his thesis film, Always On, in the spring of 2012. Recently, he was a semi-finalist in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Nicholl Fellowship in Screenwriting. Palmer is also serving as an alternate on the Documentary Features Jury.

Richie Mehta

Andy Rakich

Richie Mehta’s first feature film, Amal, won more than 30 international awards and was named one of the top ten Canadian films of the decade by Playback Magazine. Amal’s remake rights were optioned by producer Oprah Winfrey and Harpo Films. Mehta has also directed several short films, included All Roads Lead to Here, System of Units, and the short film Amal. Trained as a painter and sculptor, Mehta attended the University of Toronto’s Art History and Cinema Studies program and Sheridan College’s Advanced Television and Film program. He’s been mentored by directors such as Wim Wenders, Shekhar Kapur and Brian DePalma. Mehta is currently in postproduction on two feature films, I’ll Follow You Down and Siddharth, a Hindi-language film.

Andrew Rakich was born on in Boston, Massachusetts in 1991. He is currently in his last year at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, where he studies directing. Recent projects include horror/comedy The Virgins, stylized murder drama Craven, medieval extravaganza We All Fall Down and Sergeant Pickle, an episodic cop show parody that has grown to become an unpopular web series. Andy is also serving as an alternate on the Narrative Shorts Jury.

Damon Card

Darryl Brooks

Damon Card is currently a senior at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro majoring in Media Studies. His passion for film has grown tremendously in the past four years and he has been fortunate enough to be a part of many different projects working in various capacities including screenwriter, director, director of photography, editor, camera operator, sound mixer, sound designer and foley artist. He has written, recorded, produced and performed a full-length album in addition to his film studies.

Darryl Brooks was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. When he became an adult he opted to join the military and then start a family. After twenty years, he is now retired after years of working for local television and the New York Times. He has now decided to go back to school and work towards a degree and is currently a senior studying in the Media Studies department at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Darryl is also serving as an alternate on the Documentary Shorts Jury.

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NARRATIVE SHORTS 1 91 MINUTES

NARRATIVE SHORTS 2 SCREENINGS UNCSA – BABCOCK / 2:00 pm / SATURDAY, April 13 UNCSA – BABCOCK / 11:00 am / saturday, April 20

INTENDED FOR MATURE AUDIENCES Contains adult language

84 MINUTES

SCREENINGS UNCSA – GOLD / 4:30 pm / SUNDAY, April 14 UNCSA – gold / 3:30 pm / saturday, April 20

INTENDED FOR MATURE AUDIENCES Contains some adult language

The need to interact and bond with another person is at the heart of this collection of short films. Whether that connection comes from a familial relation (Trois Secondes et Demie), a mysterious phone sex operator (The Fantasy) or even a talking canine (Talking Dog for Sale, 10 Euros), the characters in these shorts learn a lot about themselves through these seemingly inconsequential interactions.

Deception can be a particularly precarious endeavor. A lie can grow from a little white lie into something so big you can’t seem to escape from its power. In this collection of shorts there are deceptions of every kind, from a woman lying to protect her seemingly innocent illegal maid (Dura Lex), a man deceiving a young girl’s mother so he can take her to meet her long-lost father (A Weekend In Paris) and even the simple deceit of sending your little brother to break-up with your girlfriend because you just can’t bring yourself to go through with it (Lunch Date).

THE FANTASY

Talking Dog For Sale, 10 Euros

A Weekend in Paris

Dura Lex

Director Kate Mitchell USA / 2012 / English / 12 minutes

Director Lewis-Martin Soucy Spain/France / 2012 / Spanish with English subtitles / 8 minutes

Director Benjamin Cohenca France / 2012 / French with English subtitles / 17 minutes

Director Anke Blonde Belgium / 2012 / Dutch with English subtitles / 18 minutes

A lonely convenience store clerk and a jaded phone sex operator share an unexpectedly candid and personal conversation when each of them reveals the true nature of their lives.

When a man sees a curious advertisement for a talking dog for sale at a cheap price, he pursues the offer with natural skepticism.

Giving the excuse of an excursion in Paris, Victor and his young halfsister Léa are heading instead for Le Havre for a surprise reunion with their father.

Kristi, a single mother, has to prove her innocence in a human trafficking case, since it appears that her illegal cleaning lady is not who she claims to be. Kristi is confronted with an impossible choice.

Student Film – University of Southern California

Trois Secondes et Demie

Happiness to All

Director Edouard Beaucamp France / 2012 / French with English subtitles / 24 minutes

Broken Clouds

Director Loic Guyot Canada / 2012 / French with English subtitles / 13 minutes

Pierre and his grandson Thomas spend a day together and discover that they have much more in common than they thought.

Director Dominique Laurence Canada / 2012 / French with English subtitles / 6 minutes

Against the backdrop of the frigid St. Lawrence River, a man recounts his varied memories of a dear friend on his deathbed with poignancy and humor.

Student Film – La Femis

A father and son temporarily forget the turmoil in their lives by pretending a carwash is an aerial adventure through a storm.

Salote, a New Zealand airport cleaner, starts another long night shift. She keeps her head down, does her job and survives on what others leave behind.

Director Bassam Chekhes Syria/Jordan/Netherlands/UAE / 2012 / Arabic with English subtitles / 15 minutes

Lunch Date

Two People He Never Saw

Director Sasha Collington UK / 2011 / English / 11 minutes

DirectorS Kevin Corrigan and Marcel Simoneau USA / 2012 / English / 17 minutes

Two young filmmakers, Mustafa and Ayoub, are about to make their new film. On the night before their meeting with potential funders, they have some strange dreams, including the story of an orange that grew without a tree.

2011 was supposed to be Annabel’s year. So why is she here, sitting in a restaurant, being told by her boyfriend’s kid brother Wilbur that the relationship is over? Wilbur finds that dispensing with Annabel is a bigger challenge than he’d anticipated.

Starring standout character actors Kevin Corrigan and Nick Sandow, Two People is a simple conversation between two men at a bar about profound influences on their lives that they, sadly, never met.

Luisa Is Not Home Director Celia Rico Clavellino Spain / 2012 / Spanish with English subtitles / 19 minutes

When elderly Luisa’s washing machine stops working, it becomes the perfect alibi to slip away from her stifling daily routine. Her husband, however, views her newfound freedom in an altogether different light.

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Night Shift Director Zia Mandviwalla New Zealand / 2012 / English / 15 minutes

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DOCUMENTARY SHORTS 2 SCREENINGS UNCSA–BABCOCK / 11:00 Am / SUNDAY, April 14 a/perture 2 / 1:30 pm / saturday, April 20

INTENDED FOR MATURE AUDIENCES Contains some adult language

We all have to work to make a living but we all have hobbies and pastimes that make life really worth living. In this block of documentary shorts we meet a number of characters who have very particular interests outside of their work life. Whether it be a quest to get the Guinness record for having the most Guinness Records (Record Breaker), covering your house with thousands of lights every Christmas to outdo all of your neighbors (Mr. Christmas) or changing careers from the military to wine making (No Wine Left Behind), these guys are all just trying to do what they love – and don’t we all want that?

78 MINUTES

SCREENINGS UNCSA–GOLD / 4:30 pm / SATURDAY, April 13 a/perture 2 / 4:00 pm / saturday, April 20

INTENDED FOR MATURE AUDIENCES Contains some adult language

From a group of men trying to keep their old way of life alive in Ireland (Home Turf) to a man who gave up a successful career in neurology to live his remaining years rollerblading on the beach (Slomo) and even a young children’s soccer team who have yet to even score a goal (The Little Team), this group of shorts can teach audiences a thing or two about slowing down, lightening up and living life to the fullest.

The Battle of the Jazz Guitarist

Poet of the Sea

Another Corner

Slomo

Director Mark Columbus USA / 2012 / English / 7 minutes

Director Farag Akwedir Libya/UK / 2012 / Arabic with English subtitles / 4 minutes

Director Josh Harrell USA / 2012 / English / 9 minutes

Director Joshua Izenberg USA / 2012 / English / 17 minutes

Director Mark Columbus’ inventive, self-conscious documentary is a tribute to his father, a once famous jazz guitarist from the Fiji Islands who gave up his career to move to America for the betterment of his family.

A Benghazi fisherman has spent a lifetime fishing at sea but once in a while the poetic verses he catches are bigger than his fish. The distance away from the coast gives him time and clarity to reflect upon and denounce what is happening in Libya.

For Mark Walker, cutting hair out of a beat up van in the projects of East Nashville is not just a living, it represents a much larger dream. Mark keeps the faith alive that there will always be another corner with another head of hair to cut.

Frustrated with his life, Dr. John Kitchin abandons his career as a neurologist and moves to Pacific Beach. There, he undergoes a radical transformation into “Slomo,” trading his lab coat for a pair of rollerblades and his IRA for a taste of divinity.

Record Breaker

Home Turf

Unravel

Director Brian McGinn Denmark / 2012 / English / 25 minutes

Director Ross Whitaker Ireland / 2011 / English / 14 minutes

Director Meghna Gupta UK / 2012 / Hindi with English subtitles / 14 minutes

Ashrita Furman is a health food store owner who also just happens to hold the record for the most Guinness World Records by one individual, including distinctions for “Largest Hula Hoop,”and “Most Apples Sliced in Mid-Air with a Samurai Sword,” among dozens of others. This is his story.

Following a band of laborers throughout the summer cutting season as they gather turf to use as winter fuel, Home Turf is a fascinating celebration of the ancient art of cutting turf by hand in Co. Kerry, Ireland, giving insight into a way of life that will soon be forgotten.

Unravel tracks the Western world’s least wanted clothes on a journey across Northern India, from sea to industrial interior. They get sent to the sleepy town of Panipat, the only place in the world that wants them, where they’re recycled back into yarn.

The Secret Room

The Little Team

Director Ibrahim Y. Shebani Libya/UK / 2012 / Arabic with English subtitles / 4 minutes

DirectorS Roger Gomez & Dani Resines Spain / 2011 / English / 9 minutes

Director Sara Mott USA / 2012 / English, Spanish and Swahili with English subtitles / 15 minutes

A caretaker for the national museum of Libya discusses the turbulence during the revolution and his clandestine scheme to protect the precious museum artifacts which are part of national heritage.

A ragtag soccer team of fourteen little kids who have never even scored a goal, let alone won a game, reflect on their quest to improve and end up teaching an unexpected life lesson to grown-ups.

Student Film – University of California at Los Angeles

Mr. Christmas Director Nick Palmer USA / 2011 / English / 15 minutes

Every Christmas, Bruce Mertz covers his house with 50,000 colored lights and creates beautiful scenes that people travel across the country to see. For decades he’s obsessively added to his display, and this documentary explores how a kid who grew up on a farm with no electricity became Mr. Christmas.

Mr. Smith’s Peach Seeds Director Stewart Copeland USA / 2012 / English / 12 minutes

For 43 years Roger Smith, a retired meter reader and cattle rancher, has been perfecting the art of peach seed carving. Having carved hundreds of peach seeds into hummingbirds, gospel choirs, and even a baseball stadium with over 100 figures, this film showcases the wonders of Mr. Smith’s craft.

The Words in the Margins 31 year-old Axel is learning to read for the first time with the help of his friend and tutor, Steve, a Kenyan immigrant. Student Film – Stanford University

No Wine Left Behind Director Kevin Gordon USA / 2012 / English / 14 minutes

An Iraq War hero leads a group of veterans as they try to conquer a different challenge entirely in transitioning to civilian life: the wine industry. Student Film – Stanford University 128

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For the third consecutive year we have received such a significant number of interesting shorts, from both North Carolina students and independents alike, that we again have two full screening blocks of fascinating NC stories. These two programs demonstrate the wealth of exciting talent we have in our own backyard. The twelve short films being screened represent four prestigious schools from around the state.

Autism in Love

The Legend of the Buried Bomb of Faro

Furiously, Hold Me

The One Who Builds

Director Michelle Friedline USA / 2012 / English / 9 minutes

Director Adrienne Ostberg USA / 2012 / English / 8 minutes

Director Lindsay Thompson USA / 2012 / English / 15 minutes

DirectorS Nick Gooler, Hillary Pierce & Peter Carolla USA / 2012 / English / 37 minutes

Autism in Love profiles R.V. Kuser, a clever man of 50 with Autism Spectrum Disorder, who has overcome his deficient social skills and odd behaviors to embrace life. He and his wife Marlene share secrets about their bond and R.V. reveals the true meaning of unconditional love.

On January 24, 1961, a B-52 carrying two nuclear weapons crashed in Faro, NC. One bomb landed safely in a tree, while the other broke apart when it hit the earth. A portion of that bomb is still there today.

A first time mother-to-be finds herself at a crossroads between the life she has dreamed of and her harsh reality.

The One Who Builds is the story of the life and work of Dr. Omer Omer, once a Sudanese refugee, now an American citizen, who is giving back as the director of a refugee resettlement organization in Greensboro, NC.

Student Film – Wake Forest University

Dances With Squirrels

Student Film – University of North Carolina at Greensboro

The Impetus to Desegregate

Molly Under the Moon

Director Chris Zaluski USA / 2012 / English / 10 minutes

A hipster in his 20’s and a good old boy in his 40’s are friends, roommates and co-workers in this short documentary about their relationship and their work providing a tree removal service in Charlotte, NC. Student Film – University of North Carolina at Greensboro

Felicia Director Zachary Coker USA / 2012 / English / 18 minutes

Felicia, a hard-nosed female coach of a boys high school basketball team, is forced to confront old feelings when an abusive ex-lover shows up to practice. Student Film – University of North Carolina School of the Arts

Student Film – Wake Forest University

Taxidermists

On a moonlit night, a sculptor struggles to find a balance between his passion for his work and his love for the mortal muse that inspires his art in this collaboration between the Schools of Filmmaking, Dance, Drama, Design and Production, and Music at UNCSA.

In the 1950s and 1960s, many universities faced court-ordered integration, but Wake Forest, as a private institution, was not under federal mandate. The process of desegregation was prompted primarily by student petitioning and protest. This film explores how Wake Forest became the first major private university in the South to integrate.

Student Film – University of North Carolina School of the Arts

Student Film – Wake Forest University

Dennis Harris and Wendy Christensen have been creating taxidermy since they were children, and have carried their love for the craft over into their careers. They both compete in the World Taxidermy Championships and try to find a balance between art and science in their work.

Wagonmasters

The Legitimate Child

We Will Prevail

DirectorS Sam Smartt & Chris Zaluski USA / 2012 / English / 37 minutes

DirectorS Michele Ferris & Kelly McKenna USA / 2011 / English / 9 minutes

Director Madeline Carlin USA / 2012 / English / 5 minutes

The car that was once the quintessential image of the American Dream is all but dead to most people. For a handful of diehards, however, the station wagon is still the vehicle of choice. This short tells the story of the vehicle as a symbol of a changing America over the last century.

This short documentary tells the unique story of the Safe Bus Company, the only African American-owned and operated city bus company of its time, which was located right here in Winston-Salem. Safe Bus was the legitimate child of an illegitimate system.

Student Film – Wake Forest University

We Will Prevail highlights the relationship between WinstonSalem couple (and longtime RiverRun supporters!) Frank Benedetti and Gary Trowbridge. Filmed both before and after the 2012 passing of Amendment One, it details their relationship as a gay couple in the South over the past 50 years, and their current activism efforts to finally marry in their own state.

DirectorS ZACH STRUM & NICK HOISINGTON USA / 2012 / No dialogue / 15 minutes

DirectoR Wil Davis USA / 2012 / English / 12 minutes

Student Film – University of North Carolina School of the Arts

Director Nicole Triche USA / 2012 / English / 20 minutes

Student Film – Elon University

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Animated shorts are always a favorite for the programming team because they encapsulate a wide variety of styles and represent an amazingly rich world of stories, from true, serious tales to the wildly imaginative and otherworldly. Again this year we have a huge array of styles, from beautiful computer animation (After You) and experimental abstract painting in Paint Showers to live action mixed with animation in Nuru and terrific stop-motion techniques in Fresh Guacamole and Head Over Heels. For animation fans, this is a program not to be missed.

After You

Head Over Heels

Nuru

Paint Showers

Director Damien O’Connor Ireland / 2012 / English / 7 minutes

Director Timothy Reckart UK / 2012 / No dialogue / 10 minutes

Director Michael Palmaers Belgium / 2011 / No dialogue / 14 minutes

Director Miguel Jiron USA / 2012 / No dialogue / 3 minutes

A Dublin doorman loves nothing more than opening and closing his door for the hotel residents. One day, however, the city’s newest arrival threatens to take his livelihood away.

After years of marriage, Walter and Madge have grown apart: he lives on the floor and she lives on the ceiling. When Walter tries to reignite their old romance, their equilibrium comes crashing down in this nominee for Best Animated Short at the 2013 Academy Awards.

The director of an abandoned zoo assigns a doctor to perform strange experiments on a gorilla, one of the few animals left in the zoo. The doctor slowly realizes the dark nature of the experiment, however, in this short loosely inspired by a Rene Magritte painting.

Out of a swirling cosmos of paint comes a storm of color and texture in this vibrant and tactile feat of abstraction.

Student Film – National Film and Television School

The Old Castle

Homes and Homes

Directors Ryan Kravetz & Elizabeth Willy USA / 2012 / No dialogue / 5 minutes

Director Florian Piento Japan/France / 2012 / No dialogue / 4 minutes

Fresh Guacamole Director PES USA / 2012 / No dialogue / 2 minutes

An unseen cook uses a series of unusual ingredients to prepare a bowl of guacamole in this whimsical stop-motion piece nominated for Best Animated Short at the 2013 Academy Awards.

Director Emily Eckstein USA / 2011 / No dialogue / 6 minutes

A house is divided in this luminous short when an argument between a mom and dad forces their children from one house to another in search of the meaning of “home.”

The Game Director Marcin Janiec Poland / 2011 / No dialogue / 5 minutes

Student Film – University of Southern California

Somewhere between life and death a thrilling chess match takes place. The stakes are high and the sole referee of this exciting tournament is a figure no one would wish to meet on their path.

Into Spring Director Udo Prinsen Netherlands / 2012 / No dialogue / 4 minutes

The rhythmic drumming of two courting woodpeckers sets in motion a colorful and bountiful spring in this uniquely drawn ode to the season of rebirth.

Based on a lost painting of an Italian castle by Victor Hartmann, The Old Castle is a whimsical journey into the vital past of a now dormant estate.

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THE People Who Never Stop This poignant piece tells the story of an endless river of pedestrians who slow down for nothing, even in the face of adversity and great tragedy.

Student Film – University of Southern California

Rew Day

The Other Side

Director Svilen Dimitrov Bulgaria / 2012 / No dialogue / 7 minutes

DirectorS Icinori, Martin Chabannes, Pierre Clenet, Solenne Claux, Loïc Degeneve, Martin de Coudenhove, Benoît Dulac, Oriane Mulleras-El Atmani, Nicolas Joly, Julien Jude, Maïckael Pasta, Milian Topsy & Marion Walle France / 2012 / No dialogue / 5 minutes

A day in one man’s life is seen as on a surveillance videotape that is being rewound. When he wakes up in the morning he has no idea what lies ahead.

In this ornate and lushly stylized visual trip, a hunter tracking a doe gets lost in the woods and faces a huge black wall beyond which he will discover a strange swamp.

Director Isaac King Canada / 2011 / No dialogue / 8 minutes

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Student Film – University of Southern California

Second Hand “Reduce, reuse, recycle” gets a whole new spin when neighbors with very different habits begin to influence each other.

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Ballet of Unhatched Chicks

Cosmo

Director Shaun Kim USA / 2012 / No dialogue / 2 minutes

Director Gregory Holgate UK / 2012 / No dialogue / 4 minutes

Moonswept

Director Michelle Lin USA / 2011 / No dialogue / 4 minutes

Royal Pain

A company full of hatching chicks dance a ballet together to celebrate their birth.

When struck by moonlight, a young boy’s kite comes to life and takes him on a magical midnight ride.

A palace guard finds himself hassled by a troublemaking little spirit and his ability to stay at attention and man his post is stretched to the limits.

Beethoven’s Wig

Cosmo, a stage lamp that shines down from the rafters as the stars perform his favorite musicals, dreams of taking to the stage he helps light every night in this charming riff on Golden Era Hollywood musicals.

Student Film – University of Southern California

Student Film – Arts University of Bournemouth

DirectorS Alex Hawley & Denny Silverthorne Canada / 2012 / English / 2 minutes

The Honey Plot

Director Megan Alexandra Maher USA / 2012 / No dialogue / 2 minutes

Student Film – University of Southern California

In this film, the world famous composer is having a seriously bad hair day. In fact, sometimes it seems like his wig has a life of its own, and worse, is intent on global domination!

The Case of the Broken Lamp Director Alberto Beguerie USA / 2012 / English / 2 minutes

Student Film – Ringling College of Art and Design

Student Film – University of Southern California

The Princess Who Never Smiled

The Story of Animation

What would you do to make someone you love smile? That’s the problem the king faces with his humorless daughter, and his mission to make her grin becomes no laughing matter.

This film is a tongue-in-cheek educational film about the process of animation, a must see for anyone who has ever wondered about how cartoons are made.

Student Film – Ringling College of Art and Design

This energetic short introduces us to the wild cast of characters on stage, in the orchestra pit, and especially in the audience that make a ballet performance such an interesting place to be.

Student Film – Ringling College of Art and Design

Director Matt Zell USA / 2012 / No dialogue / 3 minutes

A mischievous bear will stop at nothing to make away with a beekeeper’s stash of delicious honey, even if it means hopping a plane in disguise!

Le Ballet Director Louis Thomas USA / 2012 / No dialogue / 4 minutes

Student Film – California Institute of the Arts

A young fisherman’s meager catch is stolen by a fox, who leads him to the catch of a lifetime.

Seed

Director Al Cox UK / 2012 / No dialogue / 4 minutes

With the help of his rambunctious dog, a young boy looks to solve the mystery of a broken lamp in this homage to the classic film noirs of old.

DirectorS Josh Carroll & Scott McWhinnie USA / 2012 / No dialogue / 4 minutes

Student Film – California Institute of the Arts

Prima Maestra

A ballerina is ready for her recital, but her music conductor is missing! She attempts to play both roles, but not if the orchestra has anything to say about it.

Student Film – Arts University of Bournemouth

The Catch

Director Natalie Weitzig USA / 2012 / No dialogue / 4 minutes

The Monster Director Toby Dixon UK / 2012 / English / 3 minutes

A little girl on the hunt for a fabled monster in the forest finds that he might not be as ferocious as legend would have it. Student Film – Arts University of Bournemouth

Director SUN JAE LEE USA / 2012 / No dialogue / 2 minutes

Student Film – California Institute of the Arts

This gentle film traces the life’s journey of a sunflower, from seed to bloom and back to seed again.

Director David Tart Denmark / 2012 / English / 4 minutes

When I Grow Up

Reviving Redwood

Director Jasmin Lai USA / 2012 / English / 2 minutes

Director Matthew Sullivan USA / 2012 / No dialogue / 2 minutes

Reviving Redwood is the story of an old man’s struggle to bring life back to an abandoned logging town by adding a little color and cheer.

A girl imagines herself in many different careers when her teacher assigns a paper about future dreams as homework, but she just can’t figure out what kind of person she wants to be yet! Student Film – California Institute of the Arts

Student Film – Ringling College of Art and Design

Robbie 3.0

Director Dominic Soo USA / 2012 / No dialogue / 5 minutes

An eager robot named Robbie enters into his new home—but how long does he have until the next upgrade is released? Student Film – University of Southern California

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A RIVER CHANGES COURSE 6:30 PM 83 MIN.

THE BRASS TEAPOT 7:00 PM 100 MIN. WHITE REINDEER 8:00 PM 84 MIN.

MAR DEL PLATA 7:30 PM 83 MIN.

LA CAMIONETA 10:30 AM 72 MIN.

THE COLOR OF THE CHAMELEON 1:00 PM 111 MIN.

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BADGE HOLDER HAPPY HOUR 5:00 PM

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TEY 7:00 PM 86 MIN.

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SCABBARD SAMURAI 1:00 PM 103 MIN.

PERSONA 2:15 PM 85 MIN.

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print source info 38-39°C Kangmin Kim 213-949-7396 30gibson@gmail.com www.seulmin.com

Beethoven’s Wig Jonas Diamond Smiley Guy Studios 444 Bathurst Street, studio 2 Toronto ON M5T 2S6 416-979-8800 x221 jonas@smileyguy.com

After Tiller Oscilloscope Laboratories 511 Canal St, Ste 5E New York, NY 10013 212-219-4029 x38

Birds, The Universal Studios 100 Universal City Plaza Bldg 2347 Universal City, CA 91608 818-777-2471

After You Damien O’Connor damien.leatheregg@gmail.com 353 (0) 86 8558737

Broken Clouds Travelling Distribution Maison de la Culture 1425, Place de l’Hôtel-de-Ville C.P. 368 Trois-Rivières, QC G9A 5H3 info@travellingdistribution.com

Another Corner Josh Harrell Nashville Nonfiction 915B Shelby Ave. Nashville, TN, 37206 615-785-5626 josh@nashvillenonfiction.com

Cadaver Jonah D. Ansell JAMS Productions, LLC 1017 L. Street #430 Sacramento, CA 95814 213-359-3334

Autism in Love Michelle Friedline 715 SE 5th Ave Gainesville FL 32601 michellemedia@gmail.com

Case of the Broken Lamp, The Department of Computer Animation Ringling College of Art and Design 2700 N. Tamiami Trail Sarasota, FL 34234 941-359-7521 CAfestivals@ringling.edu

Babe Swank Motion Pictures, Inc. 10795 Watson Road St. Louis, MO 63127 P: 800-876-5577 F: 314-909-0879 www.swank.com Ballet, Le Louis Thomas louisthomas@alum.calarts.edu Battle of the Jazz Guitarist, The GUNO! Films Mark Columbus markcolumbus10@gmail.com markUCLAfilm@gmail.com 626-485-0716 Ballet of Unhatched Chicks Shaun Kim skimation@gmail.com 213-434-6579

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Catch, The Department of Computer Animation Ringling College of Art and Design 2700 N. Tamiami Trail Sarasota, FL 34234 941-359-7521 CAfestivals@ringling.edu Cosmo Anne Terkelsen Arts University Bournemouth Wallisdown, Poole Dorset, BH12 5HH United Kingdom +44 1202 363731 aterkelsen@aub.ac.uk aub.ac.uk

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Cries & Whispers Janus Films booking@janusfilms.com Crumb Sony Pictures Classics 550 Madison Ave, 8th Floor New York, NY 10022 212-833-8833 www.sonyclassics.com Dances with Squirrels Wil Davis 1004 Highland Ave. Greensboro NC 27403 704-582-9750 wilrdavis@gmail.com wildavisproductions.com Discoverers, The Justin Schwarz 323.605.4527 justinschwarz@me.com www.discoverersmovie.com Downeast Carnivalesque Films www.carnivalesquefilms.com Dura Lex Anke Blondé 0496 25 62 42 anke.blonde@telenet.be Every Little Thing You Love Jean-Paul DiSciscio 781-799-2707 overduefilms@gmail.com Evil Dead 2 Rialto Pictures Distribution Coordinator 287 Spring Street New York, NY 10013 212-620-0986 media@rialtopictures.com Fantasy, The Kate Mitchell katemitchell27@gmail.com Far Marfa Cory Van Dyke corvandy@gmail.com

Felicia University of North Carolina School of the Arts School of Filmmaking Kate Miller 1533 South Main St. Winston-Salem, NC 27127 336-770-1356 millerk@uncsa.edu First Comes Love Nina Davenport 98 Bergen Street, #2 Brooklyn, NY 11201 917-902-0263 Fresh Guacamole Sarah Phelps www.EatPES.com Furiously, Hold Me University of North Carolina School of the Arts School of Filmmaking Kate Miller 1533 South Main St. Winston-Salem, NC 27127 336-770-1356 millerk@uncsa.edu Game, The Dominika Osak Badi Badi f/x studio thegame.animation@gmail.com God’s Fiddler Peter Rosen Productions, Inc. 9 east 78th Street Suite 5A New York, New York 10075 212-535-8927 rosenprod@aol.com God Phone, The Dean Marcial dcmarcial@gmail.com Happiness to All Travelling Distribution Maison de la Culture 1425, Place de l’Hôtel-de-Ville C.P. 368 Trois-Rivières, QC G9A 5H3 info@travellingdistribution.com

Head Over Heels Timothy Reckart 285 Eastern Parkway, #4 Brooklyn, NY 11238 Home Turf Ross Whitaker rosswhitaker@yahoo.com Homes and Homes Emily Eckstein 320 Concord St., Unit C El Segundo CA 90245 219-793-4116 ebeckstein@gmail.com emilyeckstein.com Honey Plot, The Anne Terkelsen Arts University Bournemouth Wallisdown, Poole Dorset, BH12 5HH United Kingdom +44 1202 363731 aterkelsen@aub.ac.uk aub.ac.uk Hour of the Wolf Park Circus LLC Deluxe Media Management 28355 Witherspoon Parkway Valencia, CA 91355 661-702-2136 us@parkcircus.com Impetus to Desegregate, The Chris Zaluski czaluski0@gmail.com 330-620-9063 Into Spring Carambolas Films Schoutenstraat 4bis 3512GB Utrecht The Netherlands www.carambolasfilms.com It’s a Disaster Oscilloscope Laboratories 511 Canal St, Ste 5E New York, NY 10013 212-219-4029

Jake Shimabukuro: Life on Four Strings Center for Asian American Media 145 Ninth Street, Suite 350 San Francisco, CA 94103 415-863-0814 www.caamedia.org Legend of the Buried Bomb of Faro, The Adrienne Ostberg Greensboro, NC 336-456-3467 adrienne.ostberg@gmail.com Legitimate Child, The Michele Ferris & Kelly McKenna Wake Forest University Documentary Film Program P.O. Box 7347 Winston Salem, NC 27109 336-758-3367 documentary@wfu.edu Little Team, The Franc Planas PROMOFEST info@promofest.org www.promofest.org Liv & Ingmar Norwegian Film Institute Filmens Hus Dronningens gt 16, P.O.Box 482 Sentrum N-0105 Oslo ts@nfi.no www.norwegianfilms.no Luisa Is Not Home Marvin&Wayne - Short Film Distribution Sant Joan de Malta, 154 bajos 08018 Barcelona, Spain +34 93 486 33 13 www.marvinwayne.com Lunch Date Sasha Collington 3 Victoria Rd, Blandford Dorset, DT11 7JP, United Kingdom 0044 7522284070 sashacollington@yahoo.co.uk Maker, The Christopher Kezelos Zealous Creative zealouscreative.com

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print source info (continued) Mar del Plata Gándara 2729 Parque Chas Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina. 54 11 3964 3035 contacto@mardelplatafilm.com iklajman@gmail.com www.mardelplatafilm.com Molly Under the Moon University of North Carolina School of the Arts School of Filmmaking Kate Miller 1533 South Main St. Winston-Salem, NC 27127 336-770-1356 millerk@uncsa.edu Monster, The Anne Terkelsen Arts University Bournemouth Wallisdown, Poole Dorset, BH12 5HH United Kingdom +44 1202 363731 aterkelsen@aub.ac.uk aub.ac.uk Moonswept Michelle Lin 375 S Third St, Apt 208 Burbank, CA 91502 mich.t.lin@gmail.com Mr. Christmas Nick Palmer 1251 N. Fuller Ave, Apt 1 West Hollywood, CA 90046 310-804-2113 nickpalmer57@gmail.com www.MrChristmasMovie.com Mr. Smith’s Peach Seeds Stewart Copeland 931-607-7691 copeland@gohomefatboy.com www.stewstew.com Muppet Movie, The Swank Motion Pictures, Inc. 10795 Watson Road St. Louis, MO 63127 P: 800-876-5577 F: 314-909-0879 www.swank.com

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Naked Brand, The QUESTUS 250 Hudson St, 8th Floor New York, NY 10013 www.questus.com www.thenakedbrandfilm.com Night of the Loving Dead Anna Humphries 85 Parkhurst Road London UK N7 0LP 07970009385 anna.humphries@hotmail.com Night Shift New Zealand Film Commission Level 3 119 Ghuznee St Wellington 6011 info@nzfilm.co.nz No Wine Left Behind Kevin Gordon Sub64 Films 2440 Mariposa St. San Francisco, CA 94110 info@sub64films.com Not That Funny Terence Berry terenceberry@hotmail.com http://www.notthatfunnymovie.com

print source info (continued) Other Side, The Marianne Gaudillère Autour de Minuit 21 rue Henry Monnier 75009 Paris, France +33 (0)1 42 81 17 28 www.autourdeminuit.com Paint Showers Miguel Jiron 225-931-2000 mibaji@gmail.com www.mibaji.com People Who Never Stop, The Marianne Gaudillère Autour de Minuit 21 rue Henry Monnier 75009 Paris, France +33 (0)1 42 81 17 28 www.autourdeminuit.com Persistence of Vision Kevin Schreck KevinSchreckProductions@gmail.com Persona Park Circus LLC Deluxe Media Management 28355 Witherspoon Parkway Valencia, CA 91355, USA 661-702-2136 us@parkcircus.com

Nuru Frederic Dirickx Walking The Dog Deschampheleestraat 26 1081 Brussels Belgium frits@walkingthedog.be 003224124110

Pincus David Fenster df.fieldoffice@gmail.com

Old Castle, The Ryan Kravetz 646-351-9424 ryan@kravetzcreative.com www.kravetzcreative.com

Poet of the Sea Scottish Documentary Institute 0131 651 5762 www.scottishdocinstitute.com

One Who Builds, The Hillary Pierce 252-617-0327 theonewhobuilds@gmail.com twitter.com/theonewhobuilds www.facebook.com/ theonewhobuilds

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Plush Ryan Denmark Third Star Films ryan@thirdstarfilms.com

Portrait of Wally 7TH ART RELEASING 6579 Pickwick Street Los Angeles CA 90042 323-259-8259 www.7thart.com

Pride & Joy Joe York Southern Foodways Alliance at the University of Mississippi info@southernfoodways.org 662-915-3368 www.southernfoodways.org prideandjoythemovie.wordpress.com Prima Maestra Department of Computer Animation Ringling College of Art and Design 2700 N. Tamiami Trail Sarasota, FL 34234 941-359-7521 CAfestivals@ringling.edu Princess Who Never Smiled, The Sun Jae Lee kkabiru@gmail.com Record Breaker Brian McGinn brimcgi@me.com 650.796.3223 (cell) www.brian-mcginn.com

Reviving Redwood Department of Computer Animation Ringling College of Art and Design 2700 N. Tamiami Trail Sarasota, FL 34234 P: 941-359-7521 CAfestivals@ringling.edu

Robbie 3.0 Dominic Soo doms.soo@gmail.com Royal Pain Natalie Wetzig 254 Martine Ave. White Plains, NY 10601 719-761-4831 nataliewetzig14@gmail.com

Space Stallions Festival Distribution The Animation Workshop VIA University College Kasernevej 5 • DK-8800 Viborg OWFestival@animwork.dk www.animwork.dk

Second Hand Isaac King isaacjayking@gmail.com www.isaacking.net

Story of Animation, The Festival Distribution The Animation Workshop VIA University College Kasernevej 5 • DK-8800 Viborg OWFestival@animwork.dk www.animwork.dk

Secret Room Scottish Documentary Institute 0131 651 5762 www.scottishdocinstitute.com Seed Matt Zell matt.zell@gmail.com Seventh Seal, The Janus Films booking@janusfilms.com

Remote Area Medical Jeff Reichert & Farihah Zaman jeffreichert9@gmail.com

Rew Day Alex Momchev Miramar Film 40 Evlogi Georgiev Blvd Fl.1, Ap.1 Sofia 1124 Bulgaria +359 2 946 3514

Scabbard Samurai Arnaud Belangeon-Bouaziz Urban Distribution 14 Rue du 18 Août 93100 Montreuil Paris, France arnaud@urbandistrib.com

Shenandoah Billy Peterson billy@epicmatchmedia.com www.epicmatchmedia.com 202-281-8454 Shoot for the Moon Madrid en corto Attn. Ismael Martín C/ Juan de Orduña nº 3 - Ciudad de la Imagen C.P. 28223 Pozuelo de Alarcón (Madrid) +34.91.512.10.60 mail@madridencorto.es Slomo Sophie Fried 202.431.6409 Smiling Through the Apocalypse Tom Hayes Telemotions LLC 405 East 54th Street, #3N New York, NY 10022 212-486-3010 tomhay972@aol.com

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Susie’s Hope Allison Hunt Susie’s Hope Movie, LLC 1111 W. Friendly Ave., Ste. 200-F Greensboro NC 27401 336-404-5320 Talking Dog for Sale, 10 Euros Lewis-Martin Soucy 3 rue de Turbigo 75001 Paris - France +33 (0) 952 847 137 info@soucy.biz www.soucy.biz Taxidermists Nicole Triche 916 Sedgefield Street Durham, NC 27705 919-818-4381 nicoletriche@gmail.com This is Martin Bonner Chad Hartigan chadhartigan@gmail.com Time Zero: The Last Year of Polaroid Film Sara Hamilton www.timezeromovie.com Touch of Evil Swank Motion Pictures, Inc. 10795 Watson Road St. Louis, MO 63127 P: 800-876-5577 F: 314-909-0879 www.swank.com

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print source info (continued) Trois Secondes et Demie Géraldine Amgar Festivals & Distribution La fémis 6 rue Francoeur 75018 Paris festival@femis.fr 33 (01) 53 41 21 16

Weekend in Paris, A Géraldine Amgar Festivals & Distribution La fémis 6 rue Francoeur 75018 Paris festival@femis.fr 33 (01) 53 41 21 16

Two People He Never Saw Marcel Simoneau fedorasouth@earthlink.net www.fedorasouth.net www.marcelsimoneau.com

When I Grow Up Jasmin Lai jasmin.lai@gmail.com White Reindeer Zach Clark vacation.movie@gmail.com

Unravel Soul Rebel Films 48a Fonthill Road London N43HU 0207 281 5640 info@soulrebelfilms.com

Words in the Margins, The Sara Mott 1411 San Joaquin Street Richmond, CA sara.d.mott@gmail.com 510-846-8384

Uprising Susan Senk PR 212-876-5948 susan@susansenkpr.com

World Circus To The Moon Productions angela@tothemoonproductions.com 314-409-9739

Virtually Heroes G.J. Echternkamp g.j.echternkamp@gmail.com 626-354-1747 Wagonmasters Sam Smartt & Chris Zaluski Honest Eye Productions 1152A West End Blvd. Winston-Salem, NC 27101 423-240-5865 wagonmastersmovie@gmail.com

You’ve Been Mimed John Kim paperpenguinpic@gmail.com

Waiting for P. O. Box Bassam Chekhes Staalstraat 4 - III 1011 JL Amsterdam The Netherlands sammyfilms@gmail.com 00 31 (0) 655 506 446 We Will Prevail Madeline Carlin wewillprevailfilm@gmail.com

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FILMMAKER index

COUNTRY Index

Akolkar, Dheeraj – Liv & Ingmar....................................................................................110 Akwedir, Farag – Poet of the Sea...................................................................................128 Ansell, Jonah – Cadaver..................................................................................................121 Álvarez, José – Canícula...................................................................................................85 Bahrani, Ramin – At Any Price...........................................................................................55 Bean, Tom – Plimpton! Starring George Plimpton as Himself.....................................88 Beaucamp, Edouard – Trois Secondes et Demie...........................................................126 Beguerie, Alberto – The Case of the Broken Lamp.....................................................134 Berger, Pablo – Blancanieves.........................................................................................51 Berger, Todd – It’s a Disaster........................................................................................120 Bergman, Ingmar – Cries & Whispers, Hour of the Wolf, Persona, The Seventh SeaL.98-100 Blonde, Anke – Dura Lex..................................................................................................127 Carlin, Madeline – We Will Prevail................................................................................131 Carroll, Josh – The Catch...............................................................................................134 Carolla, Peter – The One Who Builds............................................................................131 Chekhes, Bassam – Waiting for P. O. Box.......................................................................126 Clark, Zach – White Reindeer.........................................................................................104 Clavellino, Celia Rico – Luisa Is Not Home...................................................................126 Collington, Sasha – Lunch Date.....................................................................................127 Cohenca, Benjamin – A Weekend in Paris.......................................................................127 Coker, Zachary – Felicia.................................................................................................130 Columbus, Mark – The Battle of the Jazz Guitarist....................................................128 Copeland, Stewart – Mr. Smith’s Peach Seeds.............................................................128 Corrigan, Kevin – Two People He Never Saw................................................................127 Cox, Al – The Honey Plot.................................................................................................134 Davenport, Nina – First Comes Love...............................................................................109 Davie, Emma – I Am Breathing............................................................................................87 Davis, Wil – Dances with Squirrels...............................................................................130 Denmark, Ryan – Plush....................................................................................................121 Dietsch, Sebastian – Mar del Plata...............................................................................111 Dimitrov, Svilen – Rew Day..............................................................................................133 DiSciscio, Jean-Paul – Every Little Thing You Love.....................................................121 Dixon, Toby – The Monster..............................................................................................134 Dolan, Xavier – Laurence Anyways..................................................................................71 Donahue, Tom – Casting By...............................................................................................53 Echternkamp, G. J. – Virtually Heroes...........................................................................120 Eckstein, Emily – Homes and Homes...............................................................................132 Farrer, Lauralee – Not That Funny................................................................................111 Fenster, David – Pincus...................................................................................................103 Ferris, Michele – The Legitimate Child.........................................................................131 Frawley, James – The Muppet Movie.................................................................................39 Friedline, Michelle –Autism in Love..............................................................................130 Gago, Casandra Macias – Shoot for the Moon............................................................121 Garrone, Matteo – Reality................................................................................................74 Gomez, Roger – The Little Team.....................................................................................129 Gomis, Alain – Tey...............................................................................................................76 Gooler, Nick – The One Who Builds................................................................................131 Gordon, Kevin – No Wine Left Behind.............................................................................128 Green, David Gordon – Prince Avalanche.......................................................................63 Günther, Bastian – Houston.............................................................................................69 Gupta, Meghna – Unravel................................................................................................129 Guyot, Loic – Happiness to All........................................................................................126 Hamilton, Grant – Time Zero: The Last Year of Polaroid Film...................................114 Harrell, Josh – Another Corner...................................................................................129 Hartigan, Chad – This is Martin Bonner........................................................................104 Hawley, Alex – Beethoven’s Wig.....................................................................................134 Hayes, Thomas – Smiling Through the Apocalypse......................................................113 Hitchcock, Alfred – The Birds.......................................................................................117 Hoisington, Nick – Molly Under The Moon....................................................................130 Holgate, Gregory – Cosmo.............................................................................................134 Hristow, Emil – The Color of the Chameleon................................................................67 Humphries, Anna – Night of the Loving Dead...............................................................121 Izenberg, Joshua – Slomo...............................................................................................129 Janiec, Marcin – The Game...............................................................................................132 Jiron, Miguel – Paint Showers........................................................................................133 Johnstone, T. C. – Rising from Ashes...............................................................................89 Kendall, Mark – La Camioneta..........................................................................................84 Kezelos, Christopher – The Maker................................................................................121 Kim, John – You’ve Been Mimed........................................................................................121 Kim, Kang Min – 38-39°C...................................................................................................121 Kim, Shaun – Ballet of Unhatched Chicks....................................................................134 King, Isaac – Second Hand...............................................................................................133 Klajman, Ionathan – Mar del Plata................................................................................111 Kravetz, Ryan – The Old Castle......................................................................................133 Lai, Jasmin – When I Grow Up...........................................................................................135 Laurence, Dominque – Broken Clouds..........................................................................127 Lee, Sun Jae – The Princess Who Never Smiled............................................................135

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Lewis, Ben – Google and the World Brain.................................................................... 86 Lin, Michelle – Moonswept............................................................................................ 135 Marcial, Dean – The God Phone..................................................................................... 121 Maher, Megan Alexandra – Prima Maestra ................................................................ 135 Mam, Kalyanee – A River Changes Course...................................................................... 90 Mandviwalla, Zia – Night Shift....................................................................................... 127 Matsumoto, Hitoshi – Scabbard Samurai..................................................................... 112 McGinn, Brian – Record Breaker.................................................................................. 128 McGowan, Michael – Still Mine........................................................................................ 64 McKenna, Kelly – The Legitimate Child......................................................................... 131 McKinnon, Morag – I Am Breathing................................................................................. 87 McWhinnie, Scott – The Catch....................................................................................... 134 Melville, Kate – Picture Day............................................................................................ 72 Metev, Ilian – Sofia’s Last Ambulance............................................................................ 91 Mitchell, Kate – The Fantasy.......................................................................................... 126 Mosley, Ramaa – The Brass Teapot.................................................................................. 56 Mott, Sara – The Words in the Margins........................................................................ 129 Nakamura, Tadashi – Jake Shimabukuro: Life on Four Strings................................... 41 Nardone, Michelle – Space Stallions.......................................................................... 121 Neville, Morgan – Twenty Feet from Stardom.............................................................. 92 Nichols, Jeff – Mud..................................................................................................... 59, 61 Noonan, Chris – Babe........................................................................................................ 39 O’Connor, Damien – After You....................................................................................... 132 Ostberg, Adrienne – The Legend of the Buried Bomb of Faro................................. 130 Ozon, Francois – In the House......................................................................................... 70 Palmaers, Michael – Nuru.............................................................................................. 133 Palmer, Nick – Mr. Christmas........................................................................................ 128 PES – Fresh Guacamole.................................................................................................. 132 Piento, Florian – the People Who Never Stop............................................................. 133 Pierce, Hillary – The One Who Builds........................................................................... 131 Poling, Luke – Plimpton! Starring George Plimpton as Himself................................ 88 Prinsen, Udo – Into Spring............................................................................................. 132 Raimi, Sam – Evil Dead 2.................................................................................................. 120 Reckart, Timothy – Head Over Heels............................................................................ 132 Redmon, David – Downeast............................................................................................. 109 Rees, Jerry – Susie’s Hope.............................................................................................. 114 Reichert, Jeff – Remote Area Medical.......................................................................... 103 Resines, Dani – The Little Team...................................................................................... 129 Reygadas, Carlos - Post Tenebras Lux.......................................................................... 73 Rosen, Peter – God’s Fiddler........................................................................................ 110 Rosenblum, Jeff – The Naked Brand............................................................................... 41 Sabin, Ashley – Downeast.............................................................................................. 109 Schreck, Kevin – Persistence of Vision....................................................................... 102 Schwarz, Justin – The Discoverers.............................................................................. 108 Shea, Andrew – Portrait of Wally................................................................................ 112 Shane, Martha – After Tiller......................................................................................... 108 Shebani, Ibrahim – The Secret Room............................................................................ 128 Silverthorne, Denny – Beethoven’s Wig...................................................................... 134 Simoneau, Marcel – Two People He Never Saw............................................................ 127 Smartt, Sam – Wagonmasters........................................................................................ 130 Snow, Angela – World Circus.......................................................................................... 41 Soo, Dominic – Robbie 3.0............................................................................................... 135 Soucy, Lewis-Martin – Talking Dog for Sale, 10 Euros.............................................. 126 Stanton, Fredrik – Uprising........................................................................................... 115 Strum, Zach – Molly Under the Moon.......................................................................... 130 Sullivan, Matthew – Reviving Redwood....................................................................... 135 Tart, David – The Story of Animation............................................................................ 135 Ten Horn, Michiel – The Deflowering of Eva van End.................................................. 68 Thomas, Louis – Le Ballet............................................................................................... 134 Thompson, Lindsay – Furiously, Hold Me...................................................................... 131 Triche, Nicole – Taxidermists........................................................................................ 131 Turnley, David – Shenandoah........................................................................................ 113 Van Dyke, Cory – Far Marfa............................................................................................ 102 Vaughn, Valeri – Art of Conflict.................................................................................... 83 Vega, William – La Sirga.................................................................................................... 75 Vogt-Roberts, Jordan – The Kings of Summer.............................................................. 58 Vromen, Ariel – The Iceman............................................................................................. 57 Welles, Orson – Touch of Evil...................................................................................... 117 Wetzig, Natalie – Royal Pain........................................................................................... 135 Whitaker, Ross – Home Turf........................................................................................... 129 Willy, Elizabeth – The Old Castle.................................................................................. 133 Wilson, Lana – After Tiller............................................................................................ 108 York, Joe – Pride & Joy...................................................................................................... 39 Zaluski, Christopher – the Impetus to Desegregate, Wagonmasters..........130 & 131 Zaman, Farihah – Remote Area Medical........................................................................ 103 Zell, Matt – Seed............................................................................................................. 135 Zwigoff, Terry – Crumb.................................................................................................. 117

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Argentina Mar del Plata................................................................ 111

Jordan Waiting For P.O. Box...................................................... 126

Australia Babe.................................................................................. 39 Maker, The..................................................................... 121

Libya Poet of the Sea............................................................. 128 Secret Room, The.......................................................... 128

Austria Portrait of Wally......................................................... 112 Time Zero: The Last Year of Polaroid Film................ 114

Mexico Canícula........................................................................... 85 Post Tenebras Lux.......................................................... 73 Sirga, La........................................................................... 75

Belgium Dura Lex......................................................................... 127 Nuru............................................................................... 133 Bulgaria Color of the Chameleon, The....................................... 67 Rew Day.......................................................................... 133 Sofia’s Last Ambulance.................................................. 91 Cambodia River Changes Course, A............................................... 90 Canada Beethoven’s Wig............................................................ 134 Broken Clouds.............................................................. 127 Happiness to All........................................................... 126 Laurence Anyways.......................................................... 71 Persistence of Vision.................................................. 102 Picture Day...................................................................... 72 Second Hand.................................................................. 133 Still Mine......................................................................... 64 Columbia Sirga, La........................................................................... 75 Croatia Sofia’s Last Ambulance.................................................. 91 Denmark I Am Breathing................................................................. 87 Record Breaker........................................................... 128 Space Stallions............................................................. 121 Story of Animation, The............................................... 135 Egypt Uprising......................................................................... 115 France In the House.................................................................... 70 Laurence Anyways.......................................................... 71 Other Side, The.............................................................. 133 People Who Never Stop, the........................................ 133 Post Tenebras Lux.......................................................... 73 Reality.............................................................................. 74 Sirga, La........................................................................... 75 Talking Dog for Sale, 10 Euros.................................. 126 Tey..................................................................................... 76 Time Zero: The Last Year of Polaroid Film................ 114 Trois Secondes et Demie............................................. 126 Week-end In Paris, A..................................................... 127 Germany Houston........................................................................... 69 Post Tenebras Lux.......................................................... 73 Sofia’s Last Ambulance.................................................. 91 Time Zero: The Last Year of Polaroid Film................ 114 Guatemala Camioneta, La................................................................... 84 India Liv & Ingmar................................................................... 110 Ireland After You....................................................................... 132 Home Turf...................................................................... 129 Italy Reality.............................................................................. 74 Japan Jake Shimabukuro: Life on Four Strings..................... 41 People Who Never Stop, the........................................ 133 Scabbard Samurai........................................................ 112

Netherlands Deflowering of Eva Van End, The................................. 68 Into Spring.................................................................... 132 Post Tenebras Lux.......................................................... 73 Time Zero: The Last Year of Polaroid Film................ 114 Waiting For P.O. Box...................................................... 126 New Zealand Night Shift..................................................................... 127 Norway Liv & Ingmar................................................................... 110 Poland Game, The....................................................................... 132 Russia God’s Fiddler................................................................ 110 Rwanda Rising From Ashes.......................................................... 89 Senegal Tey..................................................................................... 76 South Africa Rising From Ashes.......................................................... 89 Spain Blancanieves................................................................... 51 Google and the World Brain........................................ 86 Little Team, The............................................................. 129 Luisa Is Not Home.......................................................... 126 Shoot for the Moon..................................................... 121 Talking Dog for Sale, 10 Euros.................................. 126 Sweden Cries & Whispers............................................................ 99 Hour of the Wolf............................................................ 99 Persona.......................................................................... 100 Seventh Seal, the......................................................... 100 Syria Waiting For P.O. Box...................................................... 126 UK Cosmo............................................................................. 134 Google and the World Brain........................................ 86 Head Over Heels........................................................... 132 Honey Plot, The............................................................. 134 I Am Breathing................................................................. 87 Liv & Ingmar................................................................... 110 Lunch Date..................................................................... 127 Monster, The................................................................. 134 Muppet Movie, The........................................................... 39 Night of the Loving Dead............................................. 121 Persistence of Vision.................................................. 102 Poet of the Sea............................................................. 128 Pride & Joy....................................................................... 39 Rising from Ashes.......................................................... 89 Secret Room, The.......................................................... 128 Unravel.......................................................................... 129 United Arab Emirates Waiting for P.O. Box...................................................... 126 USA 38-39°C........................................................................... 121 After Tiller................................................................... 108 Another Corner........................................................... 129 Art of Conflict............................................................... 83 At Any Price..................................................................... 55 Autism in Love............................................................... 130

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Babe.................................................................................. 39 Ballet, Le........................................................................ 134 Ballet of Unhatched Chicks....................................... 134 Battle of the Jazz Guitarist, The................................ 128 Birds, the....................................................................... 117 Brass Teapot, the............................................................ 56 Cadaver.......................................................................... 121 Camioneta, la................................................................... 84 Case Of The Broken Lamp, The..................................... 134 Casting By........................................................................ 53 Catch, The...................................................................... 134 Crumb............................................................................. 117 Dances with Squirrels................................................ 130 Discoverers, the.......................................................... 108 Downeast....................................................................... 109 Every Little Thing You Love........................................ 121 Evil Dead 2..................................................................... 120 Fantasy, The................................................................... 126 Far Marfa....................................................................... 102 Felicia............................................................................. 130 First Comes Love.......................................................... 109 Fresh Guacamole.......................................................... 132 Furiously, Hold Me....................................................... 131 God’s Fiddler................................................................ 110 God Phone, the.............................................................. 121 Homes and Homes......................................................... 132 Houston........................................................................... 69 Iceman, the...................................................................... 57 Impetus to Desegregate, The...................................... 131 It’s A Disaster............................................................... 120 Jake Shimabukuro: Life on Four Strings..................... 41 Kings of Summer, The..................................................... 58 Legend of the Buried Bomb Of Faro, The.................. 130 Legitimate Child, The.................................................... 131 Maker, the..................................................................... 121 Molly Under The Moon................................................. 130 Moonswept.................................................................... 135 Mr. Christmas............................................................... 128 Mr. Smith’s Peach Seeds.............................................. 128 Mud................................................................................... 61 Muppet Movie, The........................................................... 39 Naked Brand, The............................................................ 41 Not That Funny.............................................................. 111 No Wine Left Behind...................................................... 128 Old Castle, The............................................................. 133 One Who Builds, The..................................................... 131 Paint Showers............................................................... 133 Persistence of Vision.................................................. 102 Pincus............................................................................. 103 Plimpton! Starring George Plimpton as Himself...... 88 Plush.............................................................................. 121 Portrait of Wally......................................................... 112 Pride & Joy....................................................................... 39 Prima Maestra............................................................... 135 Prince Avalanche........................................................... 63 Princess Who Never Smiled, The................................ 135 Remote Area Medical................................................... 103 Reviving Redwood......................................................... 135 Rising From Ashes.......................................................... 89 Robbie 3.0 ..................................................................... 135 Royal Pain...................................................................... 135 Seed................................................................................ 135 Shenandoah................................................................... 113 Slomo............................................................................. 129 Smiling Through the Apocalypse............................... 113 Susie’s Hope................................................................... 114 Taxidermists.................................................................. 131 This Is Martin Bonner.................................................. 104 Time Zero: The Last Year of Polaroid Film................ 114 Touch of Evil................................................................. 117 Twenty Feet from Stardom........................................... 92 Two People He Never Saw............................................ 127 Uprising......................................................................... 115 Virtually Heroes.......................................................... 120 Wagonmasters.............................................................. 130 We Will Prevail.............................................................. 131 When I Grow Up............................................................. 135 White Reindeer.............................................................. 104 Words in the Margins, The.......................................... 129 World Circus.................................................................. 41 You’ve Been Mimed........................................................ 121

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Film index 38-39°C.................................................................................................. 121 After Tiller.......................................................................................... 108 After You.............................................................................................. 132 Another Corner.................................................................................. 129 Art of Conflict...................................................................................... 83 At Any Price............................................................................................ 55 Autism in Love...................................................................................... 130 Babe......................................................................................................... 39 Ballet, Le............................................................................................... 134 Battle of the Jazz Guitarist, The....................................................... 128 Ballet of Unhatched Chicks.............................................................. 134 Beethoven’s Wig................................................................................... 134 Birds, The.............................................................................................. 117 Blancanieves.......................................................................................... 51 Brass Teapot, The................................................................................... 56 Broken Clouds..................................................................................... 127 Cadaver................................................................................................. 121 Camioneta, La.......................................................................................... 84 Canícula.................................................................................................. 85 Case of the Broken Lamp, The............................................................ 134 Casting By............................................................................................... 53 Catch, The............................................................................................. 134 Color of the Chameleon, The.............................................................. 67 Cosmo.................................................................................................... 134 Cries & Whispers................................................................................... 99 Crumb.................................................................................................... 117 Dances with Squirrels....................................................................... 130 Deflowering of Eva van End, The........................................................ 68 Discoverers, The................................................................................. 108 Downeast.............................................................................................. 109 Dura Lex................................................................................................ 127 Every Little Thing You Love............................................................... 121 Evil Dead 2............................................................................................ 120 Fantasy, The.......................................................................................... 126 Far Marfa.............................................................................................. 102 Felicia . ................................................................................................. 130 First Comes Love................................................................................. 109 Fresh Guacamole................................................................................. 132 Furiously, Hold Me.............................................................................. 131 Game, The.............................................................................................. 132 God Phone, The..................................................................................... 121 God’s Fiddler....................................................................................... 110 Google and the World Brain............................................................... 86 Happiness to All.................................................................................. 126 Head Over Heels.................................................................................. 132 Home Turf............................................................................................. 129 Homes and Homes................................................................................ 132 Honey Plot, The.................................................................................... 134 Hour of the Wolf.................................................................................. 99 Houston.................................................................................................. 69 I Am Breathing........................................................................................ 87 Iceman, The............................................................................................. 57 Impetus to Desegregate, The............................................................. 131 In the House........................................................................................... 70 Into Spring........................................................................................... 132 It’s a Disaster...................................................................................... 120 Jake Shimabukuro: Life on Four Strings............................................ 41 Kings of Summer, The............................................................................ 58 Laurence Anyways................................................................................. 71 Legend of the Buried Bomb of Faro, The......................................... 130 Legitimate Child, The........................................................................... 131 Little Team, The.................................................................................... 129 Liv & Ingmar.......................................................................................... 110 Luisa Is Not Home................................................................................. 126 Lunch Date............................................................................................ 127 Maker, The............................................................................................ 121 Mar del Plata....................................................................................... 111 Molly Under the Moon........................................................................ 130 Monster, The........................................................................................ 134 Moonswept........................................................................................... 135 Mr. Christmas...................................................................................... 128 Mr. Smith’s Peach Seeds..................................................................... 128 176

Mud.......................................................................................................... 61 Muppet Movie, The.................................................................................. 39 Naked Brand, The................................................................................... 41 Night of the Loving Dead.................................................................... 121 Night Shift............................................................................................ 127 No Wine Left Behind............................................................................. 128 Not That Funny..................................................................................... 111 Nuru...................................................................................................... 133 Old Castle, The.................................................................................... 133 One Who Builds, The............................................................................ 131 Other Side, The..................................................................................... 133 Paint Showers...................................................................................... 133 People Who Never Stop, The.............................................................. 133 Persistence of Vision......................................................................... 102 Persona................................................................................................. 100 Pincus.................................................................................................... 103 Picture Day............................................................................................. 72 Plimpton! Starring George Plimpton as Himself............................. 88 Plush..................................................................................................... 121 Poet of the Sea.................................................................................... 128 Portrait of Wally................................................................................ 112 Post Tenebras Lux................................................................................. 73 Pride & Joy.............................................................................................. 39 Prima Maestra...................................................................................... 135 Prince Avalanche.................................................................................. 63 Princess Who Never Smiled, The....................................................... 135 Reality..................................................................................................... 74 Record Breaker.................................................................................. 128 Remote Area Medical.......................................................................... 103 Reviving Redwood................................................................................ 135 Rew Day................................................................................................. 133 Robbie 3.0............................................................................................. 135 Rising from Ashes................................................................................. 89 River Changes Course, A...................................................................... 90 Royal Pain............................................................................................. 135 Scabbard Samurai............................................................................... 112 Second Hand......................................................................................... 133 Secret Room, The................................................................................. 128 Seed....................................................................................................... 135 Seventh Seal, The................................................................................ 100 Shenandoah.......................................................................................... 113 Shoot for the Moon............................................................................ 121 Sirga, La.................................................................................................. 75 Slomo.................................................................................................... 129 Smiling Through the Apocalypse...................................................... 113 Sofia’s Last Ambulance......................................................................... 91 Space Stallions.................................................................................... 121 Still Mine................................................................................................ 64 Story of Animation, The...................................................................... 135 Susie’s Hope.......................................................................................... 114 Talking Dog for Sale, 10 Euros......................................................... 126 Taxidermists......................................................................................... 131 Tey............................................................................................................ 76 This is Martin Bonner......................................................................... 104 Time Zero: The Last Year of Polaroid Film....................................... 114 Touch of Evil........................................................................................ 117 Trois Secondes et Demie.................................................................... 126 Twenty Feet from Stardom.................................................................. 92 Two People He Never Saw................................................................... 127 Unravel................................................................................................. 129 Uprising................................................................................................ 115 Virtually Heroes................................................................................. 120 Wagonmasters..................................................................................... 130 Waiting For P. O. Box............................................................................ 126 We Will Prevail..................................................................................... 131 Weekend in Paris, A.............................................................................. 127 When I Grow Up.................................................................................... 135 White Reindeer..................................................................................... 104 Words in the Margins, The................................................................. 129 World Circus......................................................................................... 41 You’ve Been Mimed............................................................................... 121

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