32 minutes, 1981 16mm, USA By Jerry Blumenthal & Gordon Quinn

Taylor Chain:   Story in a Union Local depicts the gritty realities of a seven-week strike at a small Indiana chain factory. Volatile, dramatic union meetings and the increasingly tense interactions on the picket line provide an inside view of the full range of conflicts in an authentic grassroots democracy,   just as the recently won union is beginning to feel empowered to confront management with demands for a better contract.

"A tiny stick of dynamite!" - Chicago Tribune

Kartemquin Films
1901 w. Wellington
Chicago, IL 60657
www.kartemquin.com
zak@kartemquin.com

58 minutes, 2005 Beta, USA By Katie Jennings

"The trees were our first teachers." Known to the Skokomish people of the Pacific Northwest as "subiyay", National Heritage Fellow, Gerald Bruce Miller, passed on the silent teachings of the natural world to anyone who came to learn. A passionate student of the culture, Bruce became the bearer of the language, oral traditions, art and spirituality of the Twana people of Hood Canal. This gentle and generous film documents his race against time and ailing health to pass his knowledge on to the next generation. The four-part seasonal structure, gradually unfolding narrative, and currents of deep emotion make Teachings of the Tree People a poignant walk through Indian Country.

IslandWood
4450 Blakely Ave NE
Bainbridge Island, WA   98110
(206) 855-4300
www.islandwood.org
info@islandwood.org

57 minutes, 2006 HDV, United Kingdom By Jeanie Finlay World Premiere Documnetary Feature Competition

Four bedrooms, four teenagers, four portraits of life behind the closed bedroom door. "Teenland" takes us into the sanctuary of four British adolescents on the brink of adulthood and explores their passions, obsessions and hopes for the future.

www.ruby-online.co.uk/teenland

98 minutes, 2002 HDCAM, USA By Nina Gilden Seavey

Seven Russian teenagers come to America to become Country music stars. Debunking the myth of the overnight sensation, The Ballad of Bering Strait follows the journey of the band Bering Strait from their arrival in Nashville in July 1999 to their appearance on the American stage two years later. This cinema-verité story of these two girls and five boys from Obninsk, Russia witnesses the torturous path to fame that is littered with deals gone awry, unexpected personal sacrifice, hard-to-win audiences, and a revisioning of the American dream. This film is one that crosses boundaries and fuses cultures in a tale about what it really means to come of age in America

Josh Green Director
Marketing and Development
Emerging Pictures
245 West 55th Street, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10019
(212) 245-6767
josh@emergingpictures.com
www.emergingpictures.com/bering_strait.htm

67 minutes, 2004 Beta SP, Italy By Francesco Cabras & Alberto Molinari

Shot on the set of The Passion of the Christ, this film explores essential questions of the nature of divinity and belief through interviews with the cast and crew of 'The Passion,' including director Mel Gibson, and actors Monica Belluchi and Jim Caviezel. The Big Question is based on an idea that is very simple yet rather complex: it poses extremely direct questions to a large and varied group of people regarding their own intimate perception of the divine.

Ganga Film
Largo Generale Gonzaga del Vodice, 4
00195 - Roma
+39 06 37.41.11.05
www.gangafilm.com
info@GANGAfilm.com

The Birdpeople
61 minutes, 2005 16mm, USA By Michael Gitlin

A loosely-knit community of birdwatchers in New York's Central Park; ornithologists with their specimen collections at a dozen different natural history museums; bird banders gingerly extracting birds from mist nets and collecting data in upstate New York; six people searching for an extinct bird in a Louisiana bayou: these are the strands that are woven together by The Birdpeople as it documents a passionate fixation. Part cultural history, part self-reflexive anthropology, by turns humorous and elegiac, The Birdpeople examines the pleasures and problems of looking and naming, and investigates the social construction of nature, centered on ornithology and its amateur counterpart, bird watching.

Michael Gitlin
106 1/2 North 8 th Street, Apt. 4L
Brooklyn, NY 11211
www.flatsurfacefilms.com
mgitlin@mindspring.com

57 minutes, 2001 Beta SP, USA By Matthew Testa

A film about the battle over the yearly slaughter of America’s last wild bison outside Yellowstone National Park.

Golden Gate Award - San Francisco International Film Festival

“A fascinating look at the untold story of the current decimation of the last wild herd of buffalo.”
San Francisco Film Society

Bullfrog Films
PO Box 149
Oley, PA 19547
610-779-8226
video@bullfrogfilms.com
www.bullfrogfilms.com

The Cole Nobody Knows
21 minutes, 2005 miniDV, USA/Switzerland/France By Clay Walker

A documentary on Chicago-native Freddy Cole, the lesser known, yet equally talented younger brother of Nat "King" Cole.   At age 74, with his current recording topping the jazz charts, Freddy Cole is finally being recognized for his amazing musical talent. Photographed in Atlanta, New York City, New Jersey, Los Angeles, Switzerland & France, The Cole Nobody Knows features extraordinary, never-before-seen live performance material with Freddy Cole and his quartet. The film also includes interviews with music legends Monty Alexander, Clark Terry, David "Fathead" Newman, John di Martino, H Johnson, Carl Anthony and many others.

"A Rare Treasure" - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Clay Walker
Plan B Productions
www.planbproductions.com
info@planbproductions.com

34 minutes, 2001 miniDV, USA By Alice Elliot

The Collector of Bedford Street follows Larry Selman, a community activist and fundraiser, who happens to be mentally challenged. Larry, a 60-year-old Jewish man, raises thousands of dollars for charity, while he lives at the poverty level in his West Village, Manhattan apartment. This touching film captures the moment Larry’s neighbors rally to protect his future care. Nominated for an Academy Award last year in the short subject documentary category.

Welcome Change Productions
107 Bedford Street, Upper 1
New York, NY 10014
212-924-7151
info@welcomechange.org
www.welcomechange.org

The Color of Love
68 minutes, 2004 miniDV, Iran By Ronnie Cramer

One week each year Iranians stay out all night. Women abandon legal curfews. Men weep. Communities gather to mourn their saint's death, ask that wishes be granted, give thanks for prayers answered. While this week showcases Iran's most restrictive religious elements, it offers openings for this culture's most intimate connections. Is a change in the perception of love inherently political because it affects individuals and their view of the world? THE COLOR OF LOVE shows that freedom is not what we assume it is and love is more than we imagine it to be.   "There are all these young people pushing the boundaries, but we don't see that in the western media. It's not a revolution that's going to happen. It is happening." Keshavarz's parents came to the U.S. from Iran in the 1960s, but Keshavarz would spend every summer in the old country and went back to study at the University of Shiraz four years ago.   She began The Color of Love as a project for her master's degree in the film program at New York University, and her school helped her by providing equipment and technical support.   When asked how a twentysomething student could finance such a project, Keshavarz stresses that this is one very low budget flick.   "You find a way. I was driven to so this film and I used every connection and every discount I could find. It was just getting people to believe in the project."

MaraKesh Films
Maryam Keshavarz
543 Union Street, #2A
Brooklyn, NY   11215
415 710-7518
www.marakeshfilms.com
mk@marakeshfilms.com

The Elevator Operator
8 minutes, 2005 miniDV, USA By Jonathan Skurnik

The Elevator Operator is a meditation on the simultaneous power and futility of hope. Eugene Sheiman runs a manual elevator in a New York City office building, trapped in his six by six foot cage. We discover that Eugene, a Ukrainian immigrant, was a journalist in Kiev and has published a novel in Russian. Now that he's an American citizen, The Elevator Operator reveals his big dream.

Mint Leaf Productions
(917)658-2811
www.mintleafproductions.com
jonathan@mintleafproductions.com

The Fight
89 minutes, 2004 HDCAM, USA By Barak Goodman & John Maggio

The Fight tells the interweaving stories of heavyweight legends Max Schmeling and Joe Louis, who met twice in the ring in two of the most memorable and politicized sporting events in history. Schmeling, the darling of the Nazi government, and Louis, the first African American hero for a nation demoralized by the Depression, became surrogates for two nations on the brink of war. In their up-and-down fortunes, the film traces the stories of two countries' struggles with racism and fascism.

"One of the greatest sports documentaries of all time" - The Guardian
"Riveting"  - Newsweek
"A Knockout" - Variety

Barak Goodman
435 1st St.
Brooklyn, NY 11215
718-369-0880
Bgoodman4@nyc.rr.com
www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/fight/

10 minutes, 2005 miniDV & 16mm, USA By Danny Reyes

This is a ten minute film about a young girl who is paralized and goes to the Burning Man Festival to spin fire as a performer. Her story is told about how she became paralized and what she has learned from her accident. She also gives us a great show of 'Poi' (fire-spinning) at the unique 2004, Burning Man Festival. This is an in depth look at one's determination and spiritual growth.


Danny Reyes
836 South 4th West
Missoula, MT 59801
(406)721-1412
sunbearcrystal@hotmail.com

76 minutes, 2003 DV, USA By Jacqueline Soohen and Richard Rowley

Shot on the frontlines of struggles on five continents - where the mainstream media can not go - The Fourth World War is the untold human story of the current global conflict. The film weaves together the images and voices of the war on the ground - in Mexico, Argentina, South Africa, Palestine, Korea, ‘the North’ from Seattle to Genova, and the ‘War on Terror’ in New York and Iraq. It reveals a terrifying system of global violence in which we are all caught, but more importantly, it introduces us to the men and women with whom we share this planet - men and women who will stop this war.

BIG NOISE FILMS
56 Walker Street, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10013
ph - 617 306 0120
fax - 646 349 4200
4ww@bignoisefilms.com

57 minutes, 2003 Beta SP, USA By Emily Hart

The God Squad investigates the controversial Endangered Species Committee proceedings over the Northern Spotted Owl and 44 proposed federal timber sales in southwest Oregon. In May 1992—for the first time in history—the cabinet-level committee selected economic interests over the survival of a species. While the proceeding ostensibly focused on the owl and a limited number of timber sales, the controversy was a microcosm of a much larger debate concerning the fate of the Pacific Northwest’s old growth forests and the Endangered Species Act.

Bullfrog Films
PO Box 149
Oley, PA 19547
610-779-8226
video@bullfrogfilms.com
www.bullfrogfilms.com

The Green Bus  vs. The White House
76 minutes, 2005 miniDV, USA By Sally Hanley

Minnesota, 2002, U.S. Senate race. Incumbent Democrat Paul Wellstone versus the White House handpicked candidate, Norm Coleman. Wellstone, who voted against the Iraq war, is killed in a plane crash. After a period of mourning capped by a controversial Memorial Service, the Democrats put erstwhile Vice President Walter Mondale on the ticket and George Bush makes his fourth visit for Coleman. Minnesota struggles with grief and absentee ballot battles to prove it is not another Florida. Narrated by Peter Coyote.

Hanley Productions
60 Martin Place
Franklin, IN 46131
415-652-2754 Cell
salhanley@aol.com
www.hanleyproductions.com

19 minutes, 2005 DVCAM, United Kingdom By Eva Weber 2006 Best Documentary Short

You used to have to make an effort to overhear other people's conversations, now you have to make an effort not to. The Intimacy of Strangers is a story of life, love, loss and hope - entirely constructed out of real, overheard cell phone conversations of random strangers. Exploring the conflict between the private and public, between being intimate yet distant, the film weaves these seemingly random exchanges into a modern-day love story that is both absurd and tender.

Hemant Sharda
National Film and Televison School
Beaconsfield Studios
Station Road
Beaconsfield
Bucks HP9 1LG
+44 (0) 1494 731 452
festivals@nftsfilm-tv.ac.uk

The Invisible Hand
12 minutes, 2003 video, USA By Lori Hiris 2004 Best Documentary Short

The Invisible Hand is a hand-drawn history of corporate corruption from Enron, to Halliburton to Marthagate. Hiris uses her stunning craft to reveal new connections between some of the worlds’ most powerful conglomerations. A dazzling confluence of stop-motion chalk illustrations, combines with an intricate score and the result is a beautiful, powerful and total take down of today's corporate thieves.

75 minutes, 2001 16mm, USA By Chris Sautter

The King of Steeltown is an offbeat, sometimes humorous inside look at Chicago-style machine politics in a rust-belt city (East Chicago, Indiana) struggling with the decline of the steel industry. The film focuses on the 1999 re-election campaign of Robert A. Pastrick, mayor for three decades a dominant political force since he launched his career in the early 1950s. Described as the last of America’s political bosses, Pastrick is portrayed as an old-style pol who skillfully retains control of this gritty multiracial industrial community with a well-oiled political machine, an elecion year multi-million dollar works program, and a clinical display of old fashion retail politics.

Sautter Films
Everett St, NW
Washington, DC 20008
202-244-3111
fax: 202-244-4220
sauttercom@aol.com

The Legacy of Rosina Lhevine
65 minutes, 2002 Beta SP, USA By Salome Ramras Arkatov

The Legacy of Rosina Lhevine explores the nature of art, creativity and the human potential through the extraordinary life and accomplishments of the legendary pianist and master teacher Mme. Lhevinne. Her incomparable teaching career flourished after age 65 and her pupils included such world famous artists as Van Cliburn, Misha Dichter, John Browning, Hiroko Nakamura, Kun Woo Paik, Daniel Pollack, Jeffrey Siegel, James Levine and John Williams. Mme. Lhevinne's remarkable solo career began at age 75 and climaxed at age 82 when she made her spectacular debut with the New York Philharmonic under the direction of Leonard Bernstein. Intimate conversations with and stunning performances by her renowned students, along with Mme. Lhevinne's own exceptionally beautiful performances, reveal the inspiring story of her productive life. The Legacy of Rosina Lhevine stands as a testament to the resiliency of the human spirit and its ability to endure, transform, nurture and flourish.

Seventh Art Releasing
7551 Sunset Blvd., Suite 104
Los Angeles, CA 90046
323-845-1455
liz@7thart.com
www.7thart.com

The Maestro: King of the Cowboy Artists
54 minutes, 1995 16mm, USA By Les Blank

What happens when a dedicated husband and father quits his job, adopts the persona of a Western-Movie Singing Cowboy, takes on the entire art establishment (including Christo and Andy Warhol), and refuses to accept money for his art? Meet Gerry Gaxiola, AKA The Maestro, an ex-wage slave who gave up everything to make art for art's sake. The Maestro's story could inspire a whole new generation of Van Goghs.

Flower Films
10341 San Pablo Avenue
El Cerrito, CA 94530
(510)525-0942
www.lesblank.com
Blankfilm@aol.com

The Mantelpiece
27 minutes, 2004 miniDV, Canada/USA By Samantha Hodder & Geoffrey Siskind

The Mantelpiece is an observational film about the people who make taxidermy their art, the process of creating taxidermy and a peek inside the world where people hunt and collect animals for trophies. While the taxidermists struggle to maintain their personal and creative lives, their job requires them to cater to wealthy American hunters who want to immortalize their kill. Their craftsmanship, combined with their passion for their work begs the question: Is taxidermy art? From the wild to the wall, this film spans the length of North America, beginning in Canada’s Northwest Territories at a hunting camp, then moving to a taxidermy shop in Saskatchewan, and finishing with a road trip to Texas for home delivery of the completed pieces. The Mantelpiece presents a whole new way of looking at migration.

Tightrope Entertainment
192 Spadina Ave # 106
Toronto, Ontario M5T 2C2 Canada
416 369 9889
shodder@tightrope.ca
www.tightrope.ca/mantelpiece

26 minutes, 2004 Digital Beta/35mm, UK By John Lundberg

On the surface 'Armen Victorian' seems like a regular guy. He lives in Nottingham with his wife and two children and his occupations have been variously listed as insurance salesman, shop assistant and cleaner. But dig a little deeper and Armen's life starts to resemble that of a latter-day Walter Mitty. Diplomat, adventurer, UFO investigator, crop circle researcher, intelligence officer - is this the secret life of a Nottingham shop assistant?

Jerwood First Cuts Documentary Award - Sheffield International Documentary Festival, 2004

John Lundberg
+44 (0)771 575 4018
www.offkilter.co.uk
john@offkilter.co.uk

350 minutes, 2003 DVCAM, USA By Kartemquin Films

The New Americans follows four years in the lives of a diverse group of contemporary immigrants and refugees as they journey to start new lives in America. From Nigeria, India, the Dominican Republic, Mexico and the Israeli-occupied West Bank, each family has come with different dreams: to achieve athletic glory or high-tech riches, to escape poverty and persecution, or to better provide for their families in America and back home. The New Americans captures the lives of these newcomers, before they leave their homelands, then follows them through their first tumultuous years in America.

Kartemquin Films
1901 West Wellington Ave
Chicago, IL 60657
(773) 472-4366 ph
(773) 472-2238 fax
www.kartemquin.com

By Hope Tucker

An obituary whittles down one's social contribution down to its barest form. The last ninety years of a life (BESSIE COHEN, SURVIVOR OF 1911 SHIRTWAIST FIRE, 3 minutes) can be eclipsed by an escape from a burning building. A porn star with a virtual fan base (LOLO FERRARI, 1.5 minutes) might have no obituary at all, garnering only an AP wire report. And a songwriter's identity (NOEL, 5 minutes) remains as obscure as his motives for penning a popular & didactic American holiday standard.

Hope Tucker
www.theobituaryproject.org
hopetucker@fastmail.fm

90 minutes, 1991 Beta SP, USA By Thompson Smith and Roy BigCrane

The Place of the Falling Waters is a Native American produced documentary history of the Flathead Indian Reservation from the perspective of the Indian people who live there. The story relates the complex and volatile relationship between the people of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes and a major hydroelectric dam situated within the Flathead Indian Reservation. The documentary is presented in three 30 minute parts: 1) a history of tribal society and culture before the dam’s construction; 2) the construction of the Kerr Dam in the 1930’s and it’s impact on the reservation; and 3) the hopes and dilemmas of the Salish and Kootenai people as they prepare to take over the Kerr Dam during the next three decades.

Roy BigCrane
Salish Kootenai College
P.O. Box 70
Pablo, MT 59855
406.275.4879
roy_bigcrane@skc.edu
www.skc.edu

74 minutes, 1995 Super 16mm, USA By George Ratliff

It’s the final decade of the millennium. Nuclear disarmament has begun. 150,000 pounds of weapons grade plutonium are out of a job and looking for a place to stay. Welcome to The Plutonium Circus, where sideshow freaks, public relations contortionists, fireeating politicians, and a sizeable cadre of clowns gather under a Texas big top to celebrate the town’s newest residents: thousands of dismantled warheads, capable of destroying the world hundreds of times over. But check your p.c. hysteria and conspiracy theories at the door—all you’ll need at this circus is a sense of humor and a healthy appreciation of all the mutations of human behavior that are the true fallout of the nuclear age.

George Ratliff
333 West End Avenue
New York, NY 10023
917-304-0898
ratliff@cantinapictures.net

82 minutes, 2000 Beta SP, USA By Herb E. Smith

The Stanley sound is true old-time, mountain style bluegrass music. This documentary film tells Ralph’s story through interviews with Ralph, fellow musicians, and those who know Ralph best. The video explores the tension between holding on to traditions with one hand, and integrating modern techniques and influences with the other.

Appalshop
91 Madison Avenue
Whitesburg, Kentucky 41858
www.appalshop.org

109 minutes, 1997 miniDV, Tibet/Germany By Ulrike Koch

Shot under extreme conditions in one of the world's most remote locations, "The Saltmen of Tibet" is a work of sublime beauty and epic scale. Documenting the ancient traditions and day-to-day rituals of a Tibetan nomadic community, filmmaker Ulrike Koch transports us into a realm untainted by the tides of foreign invasion or encroaching modernity. Observing age-old taboos and steadfast homage to the deities of nature, four men meticulously plan their grueling three-month yak caravan to fetch "the tears of Tara," the precious salt from the holy lakes of northern Tibet. The Saltmen of Tibet is a breathtaking collage of image and sound-a majestic tribute to the purity of a landscape, people and tradition facing extinction.

ZEITGEIST FILMS LTD
(212) 274-1989
www.zeitgeistfilms.com
woodburne@zeitgeistfilms.com

66 minutes, 2005 miniDV, USA By Arthur Crenshaw

The Sandman's Garden examines the life and art of Lonnie Holley, a self-taught African-American artist based in Birmingham, Alabama. The film follows Holley as he builds a sculptural environment out of discarded materials and found objects in the Birmingham Museum of Art's sculpture garden. His art is by turns profound, playful, and deeply moving. As the garden grows piece by piece, Holley is revealed as a man who has overcome a tortured past. Growing up poor and black in the 20th century American South, Holley worked to overcome prejudice and deprivation by using art to explore his life and ideas. The camera captures the artist's process and reflections as he gathers materials, creates pieces, interacts with others, and relives the joys and sorrows that forged his unique and genuine artwork.

Arthur Crenshaw
Furnace Films
4306 Overlook Road
Birmingham, AL 35222
(205)533-3348
arthurcrenshaw@aol.com

66 minutes, 2002 Beta SP, Canada By Masoud Raouf

Exploring the lives of Iranian refugees who cannot escape painful memories, this documentary traces their plight under the brutal regime of Khomeini and their struggle to adjust in Canada.

“A beautifully shot, thoughtfully realized work—a compelling and, at times, heartrending meditation on political violence, on survival of the human spirit, and on the sorrows of exile....Highly recommended.”
Video Librarian

“The historical footage of the revolution and the personal testimony of people who have suffered much combine to make this a powerful documentary... Recommended”
Educational Media Reviews Online

Bullfrog Films
PO Box 149
Oley, PA 19547
610-779-8226
video@bullfrogfilms.com
www.bullfrogfilms.com

52 minutes, 2004 Digital Betacam, Finland By THE VIDEO PROJECT

The Venus Theory is about the possibility of a sudden catastrophic climate change and the greenhouse effect spiralling out of control on the Earth. Exploring the possibility of the Earth's temperature one day equaling the temperature on the planet Venus, this film interviews leading scientists from around the world who clearly explain the science behind climate change. The film covers projections of our atmosphere's warming in the coming century, and what consequences this holds for our planet, various species, and mankind.

THE VIDEO PROJECT
Post Office Box 411376
San Francisco, CA 94141-1376
800-4-PLANET
video@videoproject.com

58 minutes, 2004 miniDV, USA By Teresa Konechne

This inspiring documentary chronicles the story of Bayview, Virginia, a community that fights the system, redefines the needs of poor people and challenges all conventional ideas of community development. In this tiny rural African-American village, 85% of the residents live without indoor plumbing or safe heating in below sub-standard housing. In 1994, Virginia's Governor announced the building of a maximum security prison in their front yards. But Bayview said no. Catalyzed by defeating the state's plans, the powerful women leadership have acquired the prison site land and over $10M to build a new community. This extraordinary vision of a new rural village includes affordable housing, a sustainable economic base, community and daycare centers, a laundromat, and a community farm which provides jobs and income for the organization.

Working Hands Productions
2613 Garfield AVE S
Minneapolis, MN 55408
612-871-2576
tkonechne@workinghandsproductions.net
www.workinghandsproductions.net

46 minutes, 2003 DV, USA By Mike Steinberg

Weaving together interviews, artwork, and archival footage, This Means Something is a short experimental documentary that explores the meaning of life - or at least how it relates to four diverse (and occasionally eccentric) characters: a cellist, a taxidermist, a costume shop owner, and a dance crazed music fan.

Mike Steinberg
1725 South McKnight Rd
St. Louis, MO 63124
(314) 993-8318
czedeswa@earthlink.net

60 minutes, 2003 HI 8/16mm, USA By Jawad Metni

Trading with the Enemy follows an American looking to make a fast buck in Cuban’s illegal cigar trade. Fat cats back home clamor for the forbidden tobacco, and Terry knows just how to get it. From Austin, Texas to Havana, Cuba, our guide Terry shows us the ropes of this black market bonanza. But cigars aren’t all that he’s after, many young women of Havana have a lucrative business of their own befriending tourists like Terry. The lines between business and pleasure, and between tragedy and comedy, have never been so tangled.

Pinhole Pictures
131 Boerum St. #2
Brooklyn, NY 11206
718-302-5857
347-992-3861

25 minutes, 2005 miniDV, Russia/Mongolia/China By Claudia Ruiz and Gijs Verkoulen North American Premiere Documentary Short Competition Asia Docs Series

A beautiful no-dialogue documentary from the perspective of a passenger aboard the Trans-Siberian Express railroad, Trans is a visual poem that presents a new view on a classic journey on the longest railway on the planet.

"The colour pallet, the rhythm and the balance between audio and visuals are witness of a great sense of feeling for the possibilities of the medium and a great poetic judgement." - Conservator Saskia Asser, House Marseille; Museum of Photography Amsterdam

www.cruiz.nl

Two Museums
53 minutes, 2005 Super 16mm, Canada By Lea Nakonechny 2006 Artistic Vision Award

Two Museums is a cinematic exploration of memory and place set in the starkly beautiful landscape of the Canadian prairies. First-time filmmaker Lea Nakonechny follows two characters-one at the beginning of life's journey and one at the end-to portray the cyclical beauty of farm life. Two Museums weaves the lives of these people into a universal experience that speaks to the nature of identity in the face of change.