I Am Trying To Break Your Heart
92 minutes, 2002 USA by Sam Jones and Peter Abraham

First-time filmmaker and award-winning photographer Sam Jones documents the recording of Wilco's album, "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot."

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I Promise Africa
3 minutes, 2003 USA by Henry Jerry

During September of 2001 filmmaker Jerry Henry was commissioned by the organization Urgent Africa to complete a documentary on the opening of the NIA Health and Resource Center in the rural village of Majiwa in Kenya, Africa. This clinic was built to facilitate the health care of orphans with HIV/AIDS in the rural community. While in Kenya, he lived with and documented the lives of a tribe of Moran warriors living in Samburu. He witnessed HIV positive adults and children who were dying from a disease they had no control over. Africa continues to lose the fight against AIDS. Jerry Henry made I Promise Africa to remember its beauty and cherish the children forever.

Jerry A. Henry
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If It Fits
58 minutes, 1978 16mm, USA by John Marshall Montana Premiere Special Presentation

Haverhill, Massachusetts sits on the banks of the Merrimack River. Once a thriving industrial area, by the late 1970s Haverhill resembled a ghost town. A masterpiece of direct cinema, If It Fits examines this dying town and its relevant politics. Touching on issues such as municipal spending, heightened taxation, and neighborhood revitalization, the film centers around the pivotal 1976 Mayoral election. Intercutting election scenes with comments from town residents, If It Fits presents an oral history that addresses Haverhill's political issues and socio-economic conditions.

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In The Glow
8 minutes, 2007 miniDV, USA by Stewart Copeland World Premiere MiniDocs Competition

Part personal film, part pseudo-scientific study and part observational essay, In the Glow explores the banal, yet oddly beautiful, world of blank billboards.

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In the Tall Grass
57 minutes, 2006 miniDV, Rwanda/USA by J. Coll Metcalfe Northwest Premiere Special Presentation

In the Tall Grass tells the story of Rwanda's search for redemption as the country sits down to reckon with genocide. The film follows Joanita Mukarusanga, a genocide survivor, through this historic process as she confronts both the neighbor she accuses of killing her family and the community that sanctioned the murders. With unprecedented access, In the Tall Grass not only explores pertinent themes of justice in post-conflict societies but also presents the challenges that these countries face in their attempts to transition from violence to peace.

www.inthetallgrass.com

Inside Outside Station 9
90 minutes, 1970 16mm, USA by John Marshall Montana Premiere Special Presentation

In this powerful early masterpiece of direct cinema, director John Marshall documents the people and events in the lives of several policemen, including a domestic quarrel intervention, a hit-and-run case, a drunk and disorderly charge in Magistrate's Court, and an interrogation of a burglary suspect. Inside Outside Station 9 also portrays police force candidates, interviewed by policemen, discussing their professional goals and personal world views, thereby placing the film in the context of the community from which the police department draws its personnel.

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In the Reign of Twilight
87 minutes, 1994 Canada by Kevin McMahon

Based on McMahon’s own 1988 book, Artic Twilight, REIGN is a film about the effects of 1950s Cold War technology on the landscape and Inuit culture in Canada’s north. When the Distant Early Warning systems of missile detection were installed in the far north, the impact of their arrival is much more than simply technological. Poetic and impressionistic in its style, this film about cultures in collision features interviews with bureaucrats, archival footage, Inuit voices and myth, and a haunting soundtrack.

“Like McMahon’s previous film, THE FALLS, ... IN THE REIGN OF TWILIGHT quietly reveals the mess that man has wrought in the name of ‘progress.’" - Toronto Star

“REIGN is an utterly exceptional and valuable piece of work.” - The Globe and Mail

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89 minutes, 2004 DVCAM, Bulgaria/USA By Konstantin Bojanov 2005 Artistic Vision Award

After the crumbling of the Soviet empire heroin flooded the streets of many cities behind the former Iron Curtain. It offered an alternative lifestyle largely unknown until then. In the late 1990s heroin addiction in Eastern Europe had reached epidemic proportions. Invisible takes place in Sofia, Bulgaria and follows a group of six young people on a three year journey through the highs and lows, dreams and tribulations of life with heroin addiction. The story bypasses the social problems and dynamics associated with addiction and focuses on the existential views of the participants. It is a platform for the ideas and notions of the world which surrounds them. The participants represent a group of “social outcasts” who remain largely invisible in society.

Konstantin Bojanov Projects
37 Greenpoint Ave., Suite 24
Brooklyn, NY 11222
(718) 389 2528 Work
(646) 349 9345 Cell
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I Promise Africa
3 minutes, 2003 USA by Henry Jerry

During September of 2001 filmmaker Jerry Henry was commissioned by the organization Urgent Africa to complete a documentary on the opening of the NIA Health and Resource Center in the rural village of Majiwa in Kenya, Africa. This clinic was built to facilitate the health care of orphans with HIV/AIDS in the rural community. While in Kenya, he lived with and documented the lives of a tribe of Moran warriors living in Samburu. He witnessed HIV positive adults and children who were dying from a disease they had no control over. Africa continues to lose the fight against AIDS. Jerry Henry made I Promise Africa to remember its beauty and cherish the children forever.

Jerry A. Henry
djbisko@hotmail.com
www.mediathatmattersfest.org/

7 minutes, 2003 16mm, Australia By the Southern Ladies Animation Group

An animated documentary based on the recorded voices of three children. They were interviewed by phone while being detained in one of Australia's several Immigration Detention Centers, in accordance with the Australian Migration Act of Mandatory Detention of Asylum Seekers. The children are depicted as caged migratory birds.   They reflect on their environment, the food and what they imagine Australia is like outside the facility.

Southern Ladies Animation Group (SLAG)
P.O.Box 2103
Brighton Nth, 3186
AUSTRALIA
+61(0)438211263
slag_contact@hotmail.com