10 minutes, 2004 16mm/Hi8/Super8, USA By Roger Teich

Devil's Teeth is a film about the only sea urchin diver at the Farallon Islands off the coast of California, his dreams and frequent encounters with Great White Sharks, his past shooting downers and getting Hepatitis C. Roger Teich says about the film, “I have tried to make a parable about finding freedom when your insides are fucked up, how to deal with illness and fear, a child's tale about staring into the monster's yellow eyes. I know from my own life that chronic illness and pain aren't choices that we make, but jumping into black water with big white sharks is a choice Ron Elliott makes, and I find great beauty in that."

Roger Teich
rteich@juno.com
www.devilsteeth.com

15 minutes, 2004 16mm, USA By Nancy Stein

Joey is an intimate and vivid portrayal of the lives of children growing up amid gangs and violence in South Los Angeles. Joseph "Joey" Swift lived in a neighborhood where violent gangs bully and murder freely and often without consequence in part because police are overwhelmed and witnesses intimidated. His friends and family struggle to cope with his untimely and unfair demise.

Nancy Montuori Stein
American Girl Productions
2901 Edgewick Drive
Glendale, CA 91206
818 243 0725
nancy@americangirlproductions.com
www.americangirlproductions.com

Los Angeles Plays Itself	Montana Premier
169 minutes, 2003 Beta SP, USA By Thom Andersen

"Los Angeles Plays Itself, Andersen’s sprawling and incisive meditation on the many uses and abuses of the city of L.A. in the movies, may be the unlikeliest great movie of the year." - Newsday

"Andersen's idiosyncratic, three-hour masterpiece is both a dazzling work of film criticism and a fascinating piece of urban anthropology centered on the one city on earth where one could be mistaken for the other."
 - TV Guide’s Movie Guide

"Addressing the interplay of reality and representation in the city's geography, architecture, political history and omnipresent film culture, Andersen's movie is enormous in scope yet thoroughly engaging."
 - Eye Weekly

"Andersen's key accomplishment is to profoundly alter the viewer's assumptions of what is good in movies." - Varitey

"Mr. Andersen takes movies involving his hometown as his subject, his source of evidence, and the target of a thought-provoking indictment."
 - New York Times

Best Documentary of 2004 –Village Voice Critics Poll

David Shultz
Vitagraph Films
4553 Glencoe Avenue
Marina Del Rey, CA 90292
310.314.9567
info@vitagaraphfilms.com

Monumental: David Brower's Fight for Wild America
77 minutes, 2004 DVCAM, USA By Kelly Duane

"Delivers a stirring and visually dense account of the life and times of Brower. Wilderness footage makes Monumental richly cinematic, but it's not merely inserted. A crack team of gifted editors and a wondrous soundtrack of various bands playing dreamy rock give Brower's and friend Martin Litton's lensing a blissful lift." - Variety

"An engrossing study in the power, and the perils, of charismatic single- mindedness...Duane's research is exhaustive and informative, but the film's real pleasures are Brower's own Sierra Club movies of majestic mountains, canyons and forests." - LA Weekly

"Though framed by the incendiary personality of environmental activist Brower, Monumental is as unconventional a portrait film as its subject... Brower's passion infuses every frame and proves the old adage about a picture being worth a thousand words, no matter how fiery."
 - Movie City News

"If anyone's been searching for the soul of the new West, here it is. Monumental, Kelly Duane's inspiring new-feature documentary, seizes on the renegade spirit of Berkeley native David Brower. . ."
 - San Francisco Magazine

Bullfrog Films
P.O. Box 149
Oley, PA 19547
610/779-8226
www.bullfrogfilms.com
www.loteriafilms.org

Nome Road System	North American Premier
26 minutes, 2004 Super 16mm, Germany By Rainer Komers

Nome Road System is a purely observational film shot entirely in Nome County, Alaska. The no-dialogue film stars gold-diggers, dog-sledders, hunters, and wildlife of the arctic tundra. The film is a beautiful composition of images and sounds without narration, interviews, dialogue or text.

“With Nome Road System Rainer Komers observes the life of the North in the arctic tundra, the daily tasks and little pleasures of the people when they harness the dogs to their sleighs. We feel the filmmakers sympathy and curious view and each take of the film shows his confidence in the expressive power of the image which today is lost in so many films.”
  - Rudolf Worschech, Epd-film

Golden German Short Film Prize 2004

Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen
Grillostr. 34
D-46045 Oberhausen
Germany
49-208-825 26 52
info@kurzfimtage.de
www.kurzfilmtage.de

Oil and Water	Montana Premier
26 minutes, 2004 16mm, USA By Corwin Fergus & Dan Hammill

Filmed before and after the Exxon Valdez oil spill, Oil and Water is a portrait of Prince William Sound as seen by a man in a kayak. It is a love song to nature, a mourning cry for the wonded natural world and an attempt to navigate despair. The film explores our relationship to the earth and why human beings are so destructive, as we struggle to evolve.

Daniel Hammill
360 752 0190 Work
Micormedia Production
P.O. Box 202
Bellingham, WA 98227
danielhammill@yahoo.com
www.micromediapro.org

57 minutes, 2005 DVCAM, USA By Bo Boudart & Dale Djerassi

Oil on Ice explores the controversy surrounding proposed oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Drilling threatens biodiversity and indigenous cultures there. Experts show that energy technology solutions exist that can reduce America’s dependence on foreign oil and protect our wilderness areas for future generations.

2004 Pare Lorentz Award - International Documentary Association


Oil on Ice Partners
2600 Bear Gulch Road
Woodside, CA 94062
heather@raneyinc.com
www.oilonice.org

58 minutes, 2004 miniDV, USA By Greg Snider & Dawn Smallman

Through eighty years of riding, ranching and writing, Ridin’ & Rhymin’ profiles the courageous life and living legacy of renowned cowgirl poet Georgie Sicking. Whether she’s on horseback, driving hundreds of cattle through a mountain range or onstage, reciting to hundreds of fans, this documentary captures her remarkable history and the reach of her fame. Returning to the places that shaped her poetry, Georgie rides the vast western range. But when a flash flood destroys her house, she is forced home, to once again rebuild her life. When she receives news of the death of her youngest son, Georgie's strength and insight turns hardship into verse. Georgie’s words preserve western heritage and capture her life as top hand, rancher, farmer, roper, barrel racer, wife, mother, honored writer and storyteller. Ridin’ & Rhymin’ catches an intimate view of this spirited icon who has blazed her own trail.

Far Away Films
(503) 295-6832
velvethammer00@hotmail.com
www.farawayfilm.com