Mardi Gras: Made in China
66 minutes, 2004 miniDV, USA/China By David Redmon

Mardi Gras: Made in China explores the production, consumption, and disposal of Mardi Gras beads. Filmed on location in Fuzhou, China and New Orleans, Louisiana, the film follows four teenage women who make beads in a factory which they are not allowed to leave. The film follows the 'bead trail' 5,000 miles from the factory of discipline to the Carnival of pleasure, where the beads are exchanged for nudity and then tossed in the garbage. When each group is shown images of the other, the cycle of misunder-standing goes a long way to explaining how the system is kept in place.

David Redmon
260 Washington Ave, Apt #5C
Brooklyn, NY 11205
203-417-3136
mgmadeinchina@yahoo.com
www.mardigrasmadeinchina.com

11 minutes, 2005 Hi8, USA By Joel Webster

In Montana, the deer are as plentiful as the people. In many places, the deer have moved into town and everyone seems to have an opinion about what to do about it. Filmed in Missoula, Managing the Herd wanders through the life of five people who all share a different understanding of what it means have deer in town. While some enjoy having these animals around, others want the deer removed from city limits by any means necessary.

Joel Webster
2321 Gerald Ave
Missoula, Montana 59801
406-829-3850
websterjoel@hotmail.com

73 minutes, 2004 Digibeta, Israel By Eytan Harris

A mysterious combination between murder and poetry. A brutal murder of an anonymous Palestinian taxi driver drew a lot of attention only to be soon forgotten. Some years later the two main Israeli newspapers published a few poems, written in Hebrew and signed by an unknown Palestinian author. "Mashallah", the first poem, described a terrible experience of pain, misery and death. With grace and a sure sense of plot, the film weaves together the stories of the victim?s family, the murderer, the investigators and mysterious poet, who adds a fascinating element of literary intrigue to this tale of lives forever linked by tragedy.

Eytan Harris Productions
15 Yair Street, Zichron Yaacov
30900 Israel
+972 4 6396224
harris@netvision.net.il

82 minutes, 2003 Beta SP, USA By Lance Bauscher

A hilarious and mind-bending journey into the multi-dimensional life of Robert Anton Wilson, author of the cult classic Illuminatus! Trilogy. Featuring R.A.W. video spanning 25 years and the best of over 100 hours of footage thoroughly tweaked, transmuted and regenerated, Maybe Logic follows a reality labyrinth which leads through the hollows of human perception to the vast star fields of Sirius where we find one man alone, joyfully accepting his status as Damned Old Crank and Cosmic Schmuck.

deepleaf productions
1840 41st Ave #102 - 219
Capitola, CA 95010
831.325.5360
contact@maybelogic.com
www.deepleafproductions.com

10 minutes, 2006 Animation, Canada By Marie-Josée Saint-Pierre Montana Premiere MiniDoc Competition

An intimate look at cinematographic creation, McLaren's Negatives is a
visual essay that shares with us the secrets of legendary animator Norman McLaren.

"This charmingly animated documentary waltzes gracefully through the life and films on animation hero Norman McLaren." New Zealand Film Festival.

www.mjstpfilms.com

McLibel
83 minutes, 2004 DVCAM/Beta SP, UK By Franny Armstrong

McLibel is the story of two ordinary people who humiliated McDonald's in the biggest corporate PR disaster in history. McDonald's loved using the UK libel laws to suppress criticism. Major media organizations like the BBC and The Guardian crumbled and apologized. But then they sued gardener Helen Steel and postman Dave Morris. In the longest trial in English legal history, the "McLibel Two" represented themselves against McDonald's £10 million legal team. Seven years later, in February 2005, the marathon legal battle finally concluded at the European Court of Human Rights. And the result took everyone by surprise - especially the British Government. McLibel is not just about hamburgers. It is about the importance of freedom of speech now that multinational corporations are more powerful than countries. Filmed over ten years by no-budget Director Franny Armstrong, McLibel is the David and Goliath story of two people who refused to say sorry. And in doing so, changed the world.

British Independent Film Awards - Nomination for Best British Documentary

Lizzie Gillett
BCM Spanner Films
London
WC1N 3XX
+44 207 681 0394
www.spannerfilms.net
lizzie@spannerfilms.net

44 minutes, 2005 16mm, Austria/Switzerland By Gerald Salmina Northwest Premiere Documentary Short Competition

What happens when a crazy movie maker meets a crazy boulderer and they decide to make a movie together? You could call it preprogrammed chaos or the beginning of a joint vision. A beautiful film about the sport of bouldering, shot in the spectacular Ticino, Magic Wood and Silvretta Mountains of Europe, Memento documents the philosophy and climbing artistry of Bernd Zangerl.

www.mementoberndzangerl.com

51 minutes, 2003 16mm, Canada By John Walker

Men of the Deeps is a moving portrait of a group of former coal miners gathered together by their love of song. They are all members of the Men of the Deeps chorus, whose performances of traditional and contemporary songs evoke their working lives as miners. The film shows Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, as a land of astounding physical beauty: mountains dropping away dramatically into the ocean; stunning, luminous skies; rivers cutting their way through lush green valleys. Many of the men began working in the mines as teenagers, and this is the land they left behind every day. We see them, coal dust filling the grooves on their faces, working side by side in a black pit where death can come at any time.

Madeleine Belisle
National Film Board of Canada
3155 Cote de Liesse Road
Montreal, QC H4N 2N4
Canada
514-283-9805
m.belisle@nfb.ca
www.nfb.ca

40 minutes, 2004 16mm, USA By Robert Hudson & Bobby Houston

Mighty Times: The Children’s March is the never before told account of the most amazing act of civil disobedience in American history. In 1963, heavy intimidation by Birmingham authorities left Martin Luther King’s Civil Rights Movement floundering without supporters until thousands of children and young students rose up and became the unsung heroes.

Robert Hudson
4308 Hendrickson Road
Ojai, CA 93023
(805) 646-7655
Emily@tttpictures.com

Milepost 314
8 minutes, 2005 Super 16mm, USA By Anne Devereux

Where great corridors of migrating wildlife and human commerce intersect, "Milepost 314" profiles Bozeman wildlife biologist April Craighead's efforts to make freeways less destructive to our natural heritage. Filmed along Interstate 90 just east of Bozeman, filmmaker and scientist explore solutions to prevent hundreds of animals from dying in collisions with automobiles each year.

Anne Devereux
The Dept. of Moving Pictures
621 Canary Lane
Bozeman, MT 59715
www.thedmp.com
anne@thedmp.com

87 minutes, 2007 miniDV/16mm, USA By Arianna Gerstein and Monteith McCollum World Premiere Documentary Feature Competition

Milk in the Land weaves together a quirky, alternative history of America's most committed culinary choice. Food and culture are bound in mysterious ways and milk is often assumed to be the perfect food, consumed since the beginning of time and delivered to us as a gift from nature. However, according to our sources, there are other stories that need to be told.

www.thirtymilesfromanywhere.com

80 minutes, 2004 miniDV, USA By Brett Ingram & Jim Haverkamp

Monster Road explores the dazzling and fantastic worlds of legendary underground clay animator Bruce Bickford. Tracing the origins of Bickford's wildly unique sensibility, the film journeys back to his childhood in a competitive household during the paranoia of the Cold War and examines his relationship with his father, George, a retired aerospace engineer who is facing the onset of Alzheimer's Disease. Along with a glimpse into the world of a true visionary, the film reveals a story that, like childhood itself, is at once scary and funny, sad and baffling.

"Fascinating, disturbing and often hilarious."  - San Francisco Chronicle

Best Documentary Jury Prize, Slamdance 2004

Brett Ingram
2410 Springwood Dr
Greensboro, NC 27403
hovercraft@earthlink.net
www.brighteyepictures.com

60 minutes, 2007 DVCAM, USA By Eames Yates World Premiere Big Sky Award Competition

Montana Meth explores the physical and psychological damage caused by this particularly vicious drug, whose effects range from brain damage and tooth decay to skin lesions and death. It also shows law enforcement and the justice system’s efforts to grapple with the magnitude of the problem. Montana Meth paints a broad, harrowing picture of the meth problem in Montana, which ranks second in the nation for teenage and adult abuse of the drug. Produced by HBO in collaboration with the Montana Meth Project. This screening is FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.

www.hbo.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

73 minutes, 2006 miniDV, Afghanistan/USA By Sedika Mojadidi Northwest Premiere Special Presentation

An Afghan-American filmmaker follows her father, who specializes in women's medicine, to Afghanistan where one in seven women dies during childbirth. Traveling to Kabul's Laura Bush Maternity Ward and to a rural provincial hospital in Ghazni province, filmmaker Sedika Mojadidi's father, equipped with limited medical supplies, attempts to bring both treatment and hope to deplorable situations.

www.aubinpictures.com

My Father Lives In Venezuela
25 minutes, 2003 16mm, Netherlands By René Roelofs

My father Lives in Venezuela is one episode of a nine part series for children between eight and twelve years old and is meant to deepen and broaden the knowledge of children of their own rights. This episode is based on article 9 of the 1989 “Convention for the Children's Rights,” which states that, “A child cannot be separated from its parents. The state must ensure that both parents can take responsibility a child.” “I didn’t know for how long, but I knew he was in prison. At school I told he was there for business because I was afraid to get a bad reputation. I was afraid they would call me a little criminal.” This is 13-year old Roxana. In René Roelofs film she is talking about her father who has been in prison in Venezuela for two years. She tells us how she kept contact with him and that she missed him very much. She also visits a prison complex in Amsterdam to see what a Dutch prison looks like inside.

Lemming Film
Kromme Mijdrechtstraat 110-3
1079 LD Amsterdam
31 (0) 20 661 04 24
info@lemmingfilm.com
www.lemmingfilm.com

9 minutes, 2007 miniDV, USA By Matthew Testa World Premiere Special Presentation

As a comic and actor, Ahmed Ahmed has been using humor to challenge stereotypes and take on religious and political sacred cows. As an Arab- and Muslim-American, Ahmed is able to comment on post-9/11 tensions in ways that most comics cannot. He has been racially profiled, detained and arrested for no reason besides his appearance, ethnicity and name. In the tradition of great minority comics, Ahmed mixes stinging truths with self-deprecation to win crowds over. "There's a lot of fear and prejudice out there," he says, "But you can't hate someone when they're making you laugh."

mtesta@afifellows.org

My Saarab
22 minutes, 2005 miniDV, USA/Iraq By Sarna Lapine

In Arabic the word saraab means mirage, often used as a metaphor for survival in the midst of war. Political refugee Sabah Al-Dhaher returns home to Iraq: confronted with his past and the loss of hope, Sabah seeks solace through painting and carving in a world torn asunder by war.

Sarna Lapine
Journey Girl Productions
350 W. 110th Street #3E
New York, NY 10025
212 662-2524
www.sarnalapine.com
sarna_lisa@yahoo.com

8 minutes, 2006 miniDV, Israel By Udi Efrat Northwest Premiere MiniDoc Competition

My Small Piece of Land is the story of one man's desire for freedom and the resulting conflicts that put in jeopardy his ability to provide for his family. This film was made in just five days as part of the International Documentary Challenge.

www.documentarychallenge.org