Waiting to Inhale
77 minutes, 2005 DVCAM, USA By Jed Riffe

Waiting to Inhale takes the viewer from underground pot clubs to the U.S. Supreme Court, from Israeli science labs to government approved marijuana gardens outside London. It features leading experts and researchers from all over the world on both sides of the controversy over the therapeutic potential of marijuana. In the U.S., ten states have passed laws with medical marijuana provisions. Yet use, cultivation and possession - for any reason - remain illegal under federal law. In the film we see the ensuing battles while exploring deeper issues of medical ideologies. Waiting to Inhale is not a propaganda film for either side of this international conflict, instead focusing on passionate individuals enmeshed in a struggle whose stakes are nothing short of life and death.

Jed Riffe
Beyond the Dream, LLC
2600 Tenth Street Suite 437
Berkeley, CA 94710
(510)845-2044
www.beyondthedream.org
ishifilm@aol.com

58 minutes, 2005 miniDV, USA By Jeremy Levine & Landon Van Soest

Walking the Line offers a harrowing view of the chaos, absurdity, and senseless deaths along the U.S.-Mexico border through private citizens who are taking the law into their own hands. The region, celebrated for its history of lawlessness, has become the most highly trafficked areas for immigrants in the world~and one of the most dangerous. A shift in border policy forces migrants to cross the unforgiving desert where thousands die; those who make it face volatile civilian militias. Following rancher vigilantes with semiautomatic weapons, outlaw pastors with four-wheel drives, and impoverished immigrants with dreams of a better life, the film explores the uncertain line between what is patriotic, what is moral, and what is just.

Jeremy Levine
513 S. Aurora St.
Ithaca, NY 14850
www.walkingthelinemovie.com
wtlmovie@yahoo.com

Walking to Werner
92 minutes, 2006 miniDV, USA By Linas Phillips Montana Premiere Documentary Feature Competition

In 1974, director Werner Herzog walked from Munich to Paris to see his dying friend, film critic Lotte Eisner, hoping that making the journey on foot would somehow force her to stay alive. Hoping to meet the man who had inspired him to make movies, actor/filmmaker Linas Phillips walked 1,200 from Seattle to Herzog’s Los Angeles home. Linas' walk fulfills a dream that parallels the filmic dreams accomplished by his hero. But as one marginal roadside character after another shares a story with him they begin to steal focus from Linas’ obsession with Herzog.

www.linasfilms.com

The War Tapes
96 minutes, 2006 miniDV, Iraq/USA By Deborah Scranton, Robert May, Steve James and Adam Singer Montana Premiere Special Presentation

The War Tapes is Operation Iraqi Freedom as filmed by Sergeant Steve Pink, Sergeant Zack Bazzi and Specialist Mike Moriarty. These and other soldiers captured over 800 hours of footage, providing a glimpse of their lives in the midst of war. The result is a raw portrait of three men as they face, and struggle to understand, their duties.

"Riveting! Compelling!... Gives a stronger taste of the Iraq war experience than any film I can remember."
- THE NEW YORK TIMES

www.thewartapes.com

Wasted Orient
90 minutes, 2006 DVCAM, China/USA By Kevin Fritz Northwest Premiere Documentary Feature Competition Asia Docs Series

Forget everything you think you know about China in the twenty-first century. In Wasted Orient, a Beijing rock band embarks on its first nationwide tour as the artists wrestle with life in a transitional society. The film serves viewers a hearty helping of Chinese subculture's social reality, one that is best consumed with a few beers.

"In recent years, the Western press has devoted much time to covering the nouveaux riches springing up in modern China. Wasted Orient debunks the perception that most of the country is looking toward a hopeful and prosperous future."
- The Patriot News

www.wastedorient.com

We Interrupt This Empire
52 minutes, 2003 miniDV, USA By San Francisco Bay Area Video Activist Network

We Interrupt This Empire... is a collaborative work by many of San Francisco’s independent video activists which documents the direct actions that shut down the financial district of San Francisco in the weeks following the United States’ invasion of Iraq. With the audio backdrop including the live broadcasts of SF Indymedia’s Enemy Combatant Radio and the SFPD’s tactical communications that were picked up by police scanners, the documentary takes a look at the diverse show of resistance from the streets of San Francisco as well as providing a critique of the coporate media coverage of the war and exploring such issues as the Military Industrial Complex, attacks on civil liberties, and the Bush Administration’s current imperialist drive.

Video Acitivist Network
P.O. Box 40130
San Francisco, CA 94140
phone (415) 789-8484
empire@videoactivism.org
www.videoactivism.org/empire.html

Weekend Warriors
93 minutes, 2005 miniDV, Germany By Alexa Oona Schulz

American Football is not only played in the US but also in Germany. Four young amateur football players from Berlin are the main focus of the film. For them this all-American sport is more than just a hobby and more than just a game. Football gives them guidance in life and a boost to their masculine ego. Weekend Warriors portraits Herbie - the mama's boy, Tilo - the show-off, Johnny - the young and confused, and Thomas - the thinker, during one football season with the "Berlin Adler". The film explores in a humorous way how personal goals, moral values and rituals from the football fields are applied to real life and vice versa.

Blue Moon Film
Schustehrusstr. 45
10585 Berlin
+49(0)171 17 200 74
www.weekendwarriorsfilm.com
www.blue-moon-film.com

Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe
22 minutes, 1980 16mm, USA By Les Blank

Yes, German film director Werner Herzog really does eat his shoe to fulfill a vow to fellow filmmaker Errol Morris -- boldly exemplifying his belief that people must have the guts to attempt what they dream of.

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

When Fried Eggs Fly
65 minutes, 2006 miniDV, USA By Constantine Limperis Northwest Premiere Documentary Feature Competition

When Fried Eggs Fly is the journey of New York city school teacher, Bruce Mack, as he takes on the challenge of teaching 150 eight year olds how to compose and perform a piece of music before summer vacation. Mack is a dynamic, innovative artist with strong jazz roots and improvisation. He lives by the belief that "music creates an opportunity to understand one another." Can this kind of idealism enable these disinterested children to rise to the challenge of making music with wooden marimbas and congas?

www.whenfriedeggsfly.com

Whitfield
5 minutes, 2006 miniDV, USA By Nate Biehl, Tylor Larson and Steve Abitell World Premiere MiniDoc Competition

Between 2001 and 2004, Seth Whitfield served three combat-filled tours in Afghanistan and one tour in Iraq as a Ranger in the U.S. Army. Seth's brutal first-hand accounts of his experience present an intense and revealing look at the life of a warrior as he discovers the flaw behind the War On Terror. Made in just five days as part of the International Documentary Challenge.

www.documentarychallenge.org

Who Gets to Call it Art?
78 minutes, 2006 Super 16mm, USA By Peter Rosen Northwest Premiere Documentary Feature Competition

Who Gets to Call It Art? is a wild ride through the fascinating world of the 1960's New York art scene. With never-before-seen footage of artists such as Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns and Roy Lichtenstein, and exclusive interviews with Frank Stella, David Hockney, and James Rosenquist, the film explores one of the most fertile periods of American Art as seen through the eyes of MOMA curator Henry Geldzahler. With music from The Velvet Underground, CAN, Eric Dolphy, and the Monks, Who Gets to Call It Art? documents the amazing years when American artists forever changed the world of art.

www.peterrosenproductions.com

Who the %$#! is Jackson Pollock?
74 minutes, 2006 HDCAM, USA By Harry Moses and Don Hewitt Northwest Premiere Special Presentation

When a 73-year-old former long-haul truck driver bought a painting in a thrift shop for five dollars, she didn't know that it would pit her against the highest and mightiest people in the art world and perhaps change forever the way art is authenticated. Working with a forensic scientist, Teri Horton learned that a fingerprint on the back of her canvas matched up with a fingerprint found on a can of paint in the studio of Jackson Pollock. Who the #$&% is Jackson Pollock? is a rollicking adventure story that documents Horton's 15-year war with the art world.

www.picturehouse.com

Winter Soldier
90 minutes, 1971 16mm, USA By Winterfilm Collective

The 1971 Detroit Winter Soldier Investigation became a featurelength documentary. It was directed by a collective of independent filmmakers and won prizes at both the Cannes and Berlin Film Festivals . This documentary had much potential to impact the public. The Veterans themselves were sharing their personal accounts of the atrocities they had witnessed and participated in. However, Winter Soldier was rejected by the mainstream media. The testimonies of the 125 veterans, who all had excellent military records and quite a few medals, bore witness to crimes against humanity that would never be justified or punished. These crimes include torture, the use of napalm, executions, bombing civilians, and cutting off ears from the living and dead in order to exchange them for beer. Winter Soldier is still screened today and is available on video.

Lucy Massie Phenix
Winterfilm Collective
PO Box 437
Oakville, CA 94562
707.944.0706

W.I.S.O.R.
74 minutes, 2000 miniDV, USA By Michael Negroponte Northwest Premiere Special Presentation

For heat and energy, a city of millions depends uneasily on a vast, hundred-year-old steam system that seethes under its streets. In a lab on the Lower East Side, a team of scientists and engineers is creating a robot named W.I.S.O.R., which they hope will save their city by traveling through the buried pipe system and repairing it. Add to this story a robotic voice, archival footage, the ghost of a 19th century engineer and an evocative music score. Is this fact or science fiction? Or a prototype for a newfangled form of story telling in the new millennium?

michelneg@aol.com

With All Deliberate Speed
111 minutes, 2004 HDCAM, USA By Peter Gilbert

With All Deliberate Speed weaves together the inspiring story behind Brown v. Board of Education and celebrates the brave young people from humble backgrounds who sought to uphold the U.S. Constitution by challenging the doctrine, “separate but equal,” simply by asking for school buildings that didn’t leak or buses to transport students nine miles to school. Their courage and fundamental beliefs pointed the country in a dramatically new direction.

"Illuminating"  - Los Angeles Times
"A Legal Thriller"  - National Public Radio

Howard Marcantel
Discovery Networks, US
One Discovery Place
Silver Spring, MD
240.662.2979
howard_marcantel@discovery.com
www.deliberatespeed.com

With Love From Truman
29 minutes, 1966 16mm, USA By David and Albert Maysles & Charlotte Zwerin

With Love From Truman portrays an intimate meeting with renowned author Truman Capote. As a reporter interviews him in his beachfront home, Capote shares his "self-regarding" personality through hip philosophy and calculated jokes. He offers insights in an endearingly raspy voice about his latest book, In Cold Blood, which Capote declares to be part of a new genre, the "non-fiction novel." Just as the Maysles brothers' direct cinema classics turn real stories into narratives, Capote's non-fiction novel makes an effort to turn reality into art. In Cold Blood is based on first-hand accounts of an actual murder. The author affectionately discusses his coverage of the subsequent trial and his intriguing relationship with the two young killers. Capote claims it is the spontaneity of life that compels him to portray reality, but it is his own fresh energy and startling sense of humor that keep us intrigued.

Maysles Films, Inc.
250 W. 54th Street PH
New York, NY 10019
(212) 582-6050
www.mayslesfilms.com