Of Wind and Waves: The Life of Woody Brown
63 minutes, 2006 miniDV, USA By David L. Brown Northwest Premiere Big Sky Award Competition

Of Wind and Waves: The Life of Woody Brown is an hour-long documentary on 95-year-old Woody Brown, a legend in the worlds of surfing, sailing and soaring. Brown has not only lived an extraordinary life of adventure that includes inventing the modern catamaran, setting world gliding records, and surfing Hawai'i's 25-foot surf in the early 1940s but also he has also done so with a kind of inspirational selflessness and generosity that have made him a role model for generations of Hawaiian surfers and sailors.

www.ofwindandwaves.com

Oil and Water
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

Old Man and Hemingway
8 minutes, 2004 miniDV, Cuba/USA By Hugo Perez

The first thing one notices about Gregorio Fuentes is his eyes. "Everything about him was old except his eyes," was the way Hemingway described Santiago in The Old Man and the Sea. Out of a 102 year-old face that is as worn as the side of a mountain, Gregorio's eyes shine brightly. Gregorio was Hemingway's boat-captain from 1938 until Hemingway's death in 1961, and provided the template for several Hemingway characters including the old fisherman Santiago. The Old Man and Hemingway is a documentary short that chronicles the long friendship between Ernest Hemingway and Gregorio, his boat captain, and the way that at the age of 102, Gregorio remembers his friend.

Best Short Documentary , 2004 Lake Placid Film Festival

Hugo Perez
305 7th Street, #3R
Brooklyn,NY 11215
917-279-4846
hugo@aya.yale.edu

Old Shadows, Old Mountains
6 minutes, 2006 DVCAM, China By Jonna Vasquez Arong Northwest Premiere Asia Docs Series MiniDocs Competition

While more youth are increasingly moving to Beijing to pursue their dreams, what do the older folks dream about in a small village tucked away in the mountains 60 miles away? In a village where the average age is in the mid-50s, the folks who fought to survive in the revolution are now struggling to maintain dying customs, including their own version of traditional opera. Made in just five days as part of the International Documentary Challenge.

www.documentarychallenge.org
www.joannarong.com

9 minutes, 2003 16mm, Germany By Gülseli-Bille Baur

When the shooting began we were going to make a portrait of the universe. We were looking for a metaphor for soul. We started with a feather then later, the ability to fly. We started to follow the feather, from the goose´s body to the people`s pillow.

Hochschule Fur Film und Fernsehen
Marlene-Dietrich-Allee11
14482 Potsdam
Germany
49 331 6202 140
m.liebnitz@hff-potsdam.de

72 minutes, 20040 DVCAM, USA By Liz Mermin & Jenny Raskin

On Hostile Ground enters the lives of three abortion providers to reveal the obstacles (practical, legal, and emotional) that they face everyday, and shows them struggle with the decision to perform this procedure. They reveal what their professional decision has done to their personal and family lives. While they each have their own stories, they are all driven more by personal experiences and spiritual beliefs than by political conviction. They each express anger, confusion, and resentment in their own way. By weaving together three very different character portraits, this documentary takes an unusual approach to a volatile social conflict, portraying abortion through the personal stories of those who are in mortal danger because they provide it.

Aubin Pictures
136 Grand Street     
New York, NY
(212)274-0551
www.onhostileground.com
info@aubinpictures.com

60 minutes, 2004 Beta SP, Israel By Nurit Kedar

This is the first time snipers of Israel Defense Forces were ever interviewed for a film. After 5 weeks of training an Israeli soldier can become a sniper if he chooses to. Snipers are part of every combat unit. The war scenes in the film were taken by combat soldiers on duty.

Since the last Intifada, Israeli snipers are used for targeted killing.

The image of the gun, the bullet and the man behind them who waits patiently and calmly, in the quiet darkness in order to fulfill the command and shoot one single shot. These make him appear as a heroic fighter and, perhaps to others, a cold-blooded murderer. "ONE SHOT" focuses on snipers who still serve as reserved snipers in the Israeli Army. They do not regret killing, they still believe in one shot - one kill.

Ruth Diskin Films LTD
13 Diskin St. Suite 47
Jerusalem, 96440, Israel
Tel: 972-2-5610094; 972-2-5669691
Fax: 972-25667018
www.ruthfilms.com
ruthdis@netvision.net.il

One Day In People's Poland
59 minutes, 2005 Digital BetaCam, Poland/France/Germany By Maciej Drygas Montana Premiere Documentary Feature Competition

This innovative historical film contains only archival materials in an effort to reconstruct one day, from dawn to dusk, in People's Poland. Director Maciej Drygas choses Septemeber 27, 1962, an ordinary day when no sizable historical events happen. Using this unassuming strategy, One Day in People's Poland cleverly and amusingly reveals the national political context of daily life in the shadow of the Soviet Union in the early 1960s.

www.international.typ.pl

Operation Homecoming
80 minutes, 2007 HDCAM, USA By Richard E. Robbins Sneak Preview

Operation Homecoming is a unique documentary that explores the firsthand accounts of American soldiers through their own words. The film is built upon a project created by the National Endowment for the Arts to gather the writing of soldiers and their families who have participated in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Through interviews and dramatic readings, the film presents a profound window into the human side of America’s current conflicts.

www.thedocumentarygroup.com

Ordinary Lives
38 minutes, 2005 miniDV, India By Sheetal S. Agarwal Northwest Premiere Documentary Short Competition

Ordinary Lives documents the living conditions in a Mumbai slum, focusing on the daily struggles of a ten member family crammed into a 180-square-foot shack. Representing the bottom of the Indian social hierarchy, this family has different concerns from those of India's government officials whose primary goal is to replace these slums with modern, cosmopolitan development. Through a juxtaposition of voices from both inside and outside the slums, Ordinary Lives re-examines issues of poverty, human rights, and gender equality that have been troubling developing countries like India.

www.der.org

Other Peoples' Pictures
53 minutes, 2004 miniDV, USA By Lorca Shepperd & Cabot Philbrick

Other People’s Pictures is a documentary about collectors who share an unlikely obsession – snapshots that have been abandoned or lost by their original owners and are now for sale. The film is set at New York City’s Chelsea Flea Market where, every weekend, dozens of collectors sift doggedly through piles, boxes and bins of cast-off photos, ready to pay anywhere from a few cents to hundreds of dollars for a single snapshot. While some collectors look at the snapshots as found art, others search for images that reflect events and themes in their own lives. The un-initiated ask: why buy someone else’s family photographs? In Other People’s Pictures, nine collectors try to answer this question as they hunt for the images that feed their fantasies and quiet the voices in their heads.

Winner, Best Documentary, New Orleans Film Festival

Cabot Philbrick
464 42nd Street #2
Brooklyn, NY 11232
(718) 854-0065 home
(917) 648-9059 cell
cabot@availablelightproductions.net
www.other-peoples-pictures.com

Our Land, Our Life
75 minutes, 2007 miniDV, USA By Beth Gage and Geoge Gage World Premiere Big Sky Award Competition

Carrie and Mary Dann are Native American Western Shoshone sisters fighting the United States Government for their land rights and human rights. In 1974 the U.S. sued the Danns for trespass. This dispute raged to the United States Supreme Court and eventually to the United Nations. Contrasting the Danns’ personal lives with their political actions, Our Land, Our Life examines why the United States would spend millions of dollars to prosecute and persecute two elderly women grazing their livestock in a desolate desert.

bggage@rmi.net

Out in the Heartland
19 minutes, 2005 DVCAM, USA By Gretchen Hilderbran

Kentucky parents Bob and Jeff were together almost a decade when they adopted Adam and started their family.   Jeff's parents live nearby and are devoted to their son's family, even while attending a local church that spent $150,000 in support of a state Constitutional amendment banning gay marriage. Through the stories of gay Kentucky parents, Out in the Heartland examines the impact of the 2004 campaign to ban gay marriage on families and communities. As the amendment emerges from churches onto the ballot, these parents fear for the safety of their families.   Some parents walk door to door to raise awareness, but as support for the amendment mounts, others find the risks of speaking up are too much.   By giving a face to those at the center of this issue Out in the Heartland illuminates the consequences anti-gay amendments have for real families and for us all.

Frameline Distribution
145 Ninth St, Suite 300
San Francisco, CA 94103
(415) 703-8650
www.frameline.org/distribution
distribution@frameline.org