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FESTIVAL SCHEDULE Friday November 10 11:30 am Academy of Music Joey Carey ˇ 47 min. A 1981 Mercedes-Benz
travels cross-country powered by used cooking oil collected at restaurants
along the way. This politically charged documentary includes interviews with
Morgan Freeman, who plans to build a bio-diesel plant in Mississippi, and Noam
Chomsky, who analyzes American foreign policy and theories of peak oil.
Ernesto Livon-Grosman ˇ 61 min. Thousands of unemployed
workers go daily into Buenos Aires to sort and sell to recyclers the trash that
people leave out every evening. The cartoneros tell their stories. The film also offers a
reflection on the relation between garbage and art. livongro@bc.edu
2:00 pm Academy of Music Kramer O'Neill / Mary
Speaker ˇ 4 min. A cautionary tale of
paranoia and self-destruction in an age of heightened security. An innocent
piece of lost luggage becomes the target of an excitable airport-security
bureaucracy. In an attempt to destroy the threat, one security guard
unwittingly makes a big mistake. kramer.oneill@gmail.com
Daniel Lohaus ˇ 70 min. Today in America, over
300,000 veterans are homeless. Personal stories, including that of Herold Noel,
an Iraq War veteran suffering from PTSD and living in his car in Brooklyn,
reveal a failing system under which veterans struggle to survive after
returning home. Some of the veterans
and military family members depicted in the film have been invited to
participate in a post-screening discussion.
4:30 pm Academy of Music Be Real: 
Bobbie Birleffi and
Beverly Kopf ˇ 52 min. Six GLBT Americans seek
ways to live authentically and inspire extraordinary change in their
communities.
6:00 pm Graham Hall In the early 90s, Barton
Byg, professor of film and German studies at UMass Amherst, founded the DEFA
Film Library to make East German cinema more accessible in the U.S. DEFA (Deutsche
Film Aktien-gesellschaft)--the
state-run East German film studios--operated from 1946 to 1990. In 1997, a
groundbreaking agreement brought the largest collection of 16- and 35mm DEFA
prints outside of Germany to the UMass Amherst campus.
Der Fall Gleiwitz (The
Gleiwitz Case) 
Gerhard Klein ˇ 1969 ˇ 69 min. B/W A surprise attack in 1939
by the Nazis at Gleiwitz, blamed on Polish forces, served as Hitler's reason
for marching into Poland, starting the Second World War. Cool and impartial,
the film reflects on the possibilities and techniques of provocation. It shows
how facts and opinions can be manipulated and how people are made to accept
lies, murder and war. Gleiwitz
narrowly escaped censorship, but
quickly disappeared after only a few weeks in theaters. Today, the film is
considered one of the most modern and experimental films in DEFA's history.
Konsequenz
(Consequence) Klaus Georgi ˇ 1989 ˇ
Animation ˇ 2 min. The cars stop, smoking
with exhaust. A driver coughs and then the driver behind him also coughs. The
animal in the forest coughs. The earth coughs . . . end of film.
Das Monument (The
Monument) Klaus Georgi & Lutz
Stützner ˇ 1990 ˇ Animation ˇ 4 min. A statue, outstretched arm
pointing "forward," is unveiled to thunderous applause. Then one day it turns
around to point the other way. Thunderous applause.
Die Lösung (The
Solution) Sieglinde Hamacher ˇ
1988 ˇ Animation ˇ 3 min. A flock of birds sit
facing the same direction on a telephone wire, except one little bird refuses
to conform. It remains an individualist . . . until the other birds copy it. ˇ Q & A following
the screening ˇ 6:30 pm Stoddard Hall So Glad I Made It: The
Saga of Roger Salloom, America's Best Unknown Songwriter 
Chris Sautter ˇ 98 min. So Glad I Made It is the story of Northampton singer-songwriter
Roger Salloom, 60s psychedelic rocker and 70s Nashville songwriter, who tries
to revive his career after giving up on the music business for twenty years.
ˇ Artist will perform after the
screening.
6:30 pm Seelye Hall Up the Ridge: A U.S. Prison Story Amelia Kirby and Nick
Szuberia ˇ 57 min. What is the social impact
of moving hundreds of thousands of inner-city minority offenders to remote
rural prisons? Political agendas and expediencies result in human rights
violations and bring communities into racial and cultural conflict, with tragic
consequences.
Cruel and Unusual 
Dan Hunt, Janet Baus,
Reid Williams ˇ 67 min. An unflinching look at the
lives of transgender women in men's prisons. Linda, Anna, Ashley, Yolanda and
Ophelia overcome humiliation, denial of treatment, solitary confinement, and
rape, but never lose sight of their goal of fully becoming women.
7:00 pm Academy of Music Follow My Voice: With the Music of Hedwig 
Katherine Linton ˇ 100
min. The stories of four
students at the first accredited high school in the country for GLBTQ teens are interwoven with music
inspired by Hedwig and the
Angry Inch.
8:30 pm Graham Hall Shorts #3: Experimental Animation Farber's Nerve Morgan Miller ˇ 3 min. Stuart Farber, a retiring
dentist on the upper East Side of Manhattan, reflects on his career and his
great challenges in performing dentistry. filmmiller@aol.com
Mandrake Andrew Cahill ˇ 5 min. An anthropomorphic
mandrake root lives underground and collects rocks. andy.cahill@gmail.com
Never Live above a
Psychic Steve Gentile ˇ 8 min. A man battles his
disruptive downstairs neighbors: a family of telekinetic psychics.
Orange Boy "An Inquiry" Hokwon Kim ˇ 6 min. In an interrogation room,
a fly and a louse attack a man who insists he is innocent. The man, who is tied
and handcuffed, protects himself in an unusual fashion. kingkwon@empal.com
Devil's Canyon Kelly Sears ˇ 6 min. Abandoned images of the
American West tell a tale of tragedy in a fantastic fable that explores the
space between film and photography, past and present, and fiction and history. kelly.sears@gmail.com
Lemmings Ron Fleischer ˇ 8 min. Why do lemmings, those
lovable arctic rodents, (as the myth has it) commit mass suicide? Join Ken and Artie on their final march
to the cliff as they contemplate the meaning of life, death and the pinecone
trick. rontoon@aol.com
Ezra's Epitaph Ian Samuels ˇ 21 min. Ezra struggles with his
animated puppet to escape constructed realities and discover autonomous life.
The story is told through a combination of live action and stop-motion and
digital animation. The filmmaker is a native of Wilbraham, MA. samuels.ian@gmail.com
Counting Water Brian Savelson ˇ 6 min. Juliet is determined to
prove her devotion to her lover by counting every last drop of water in the
ocean. briansavelson@yahoo.com
Evocation Jaeyoon Park ˇ 4 min. Beginning and ending with
a chrysanthemum, the symbol of autumn, to suggest the endless wheel of rebirth,
this animated meditation on losing a loved one uses a fish, a bird and the moon
to represent the transformation of the soul. jaeyoon1@hotmail.com
Saul Goodman Jim Connell ˇ 7 min. Two strangers await the
last train out of Boston: a
retired politico with an endless supply of crude jokes and campaign war
stories, and a bright MIT student with healthy skepticism. They exchange three
incredible tales that intersect in unexpected ways, ultimately leading to a
revelation that will prove both shocking and deadly.
9:00 pm Seelye Hall In the Tradition of My
Family Todd Davis ˇ 15 min. Thirteen-year-old Billy is
preparing for the bizarre coming-of-age ritual practiced by his seemingly
normal middle-class family. But
his father's reluctance to indoctrinate his son into the family tradition threatens
Billy's honor and the relationship between father and son.
Philippe Spurell ˇ 95
min. When James Duke decides to
visit his grandparents--something his mother had always forbidden him to do--he
uncovers a secret hidden for generations by his family and the inhabitants of a
small Quebec town. The Descendant
is a mystery/ghost story connected to a little-known part of Quebec history,
and achieves surprising originality with its shocker ending.
9:15 pm Stoddard Hall Tightrope Vincent Sassone ˇ 6
min. The director of the
award-winning A Tale of Two Pizzas
is back with his newest short film.
Larry Blamire ˇ 90 min. A has-been lounge singer
is hired by a mystery man to open a hot new club, the catch being he's given a
new--and terrible--song to sing each night. Noticing that whenever he sings one,
a crime is committed, Johnny gradually realizes his benefactor is a powerful
mob boss in hiding, and his "greatest hits" are the only way the guy can give
orders to his crew. Winner: Best Comedy, Woods Hole Film Festival
10:00 pm Academy of Music Shorts #4 Controlled Chaos: Selections from the Boston Underground
Film Festival 06 Please note: This program is not intended for
children, though they'd probably love it! ˇ Adults Only ˇ
Christopher Ford Sees a
Film Jake Schreier ˇ 4 min. For anyone who's seen a
film and felt compelled to take action.
Revealing any more would ruin the joke.
Don't Fuck With Love Rachel McIntosh and Jim
Starace ˇ 2 min. Three vignettes of love
thwarted by fate in an animated pop-up book. Beware!
Monkey Walken Jason Woliner and James
Dean Conklin ˇ 5 min. A and E Biography presents an intimate look at an unrecognized
talent.
Kinetoscope Max Goldblatt ˇ 13 min. A projectionist begins his
tedious work, playing a horror film. But is the real horror happening on screen
or in the projection booth?
Slice of Heaven Christopher Kinsella ˇ 6 min. Feeding the baby and
tending to the garden. It's all in a day's work for this domestic.
Pretty Kitty Gregory MacDonald ˇ 4
min. A man gets revenge on his
cat for taunting him with silence.
Milton Is a Shitbag Courtney Davis ˇ 5 min. Courtney was lonely. So
she adopted a cat called Milton.
Too bad he's a shitbag.
She She She She's a
Bombshell Ben Levin ˇ 8 min. You know the type . .
. the tape deck is busted and he
feels the need to fill the silence.
Frozen Food Section Andrew Menan ˇ 6 min. Temptation abounds in the
supermarket and some people just can't take a joke. Adapted from a poem by
Charles Bukowski.
Self Important
Empirical Film #3 with Voice Over Dave Andre ˇ 5 min. For anyone who has ever
been forced to sit through an "experimental" student film.
Cherie Jason Wen ˇ 16 min. A waitress/artist gets sucked into a hallucinatory fever dream where a frog is her muse. Text by Kevin Monahan
and Anna Feder
10:00 pm, Bar 19 at the
Calvin Festival Party Party until closing time
and open to all. Come and relax, talk about the films you've seen and want to
see with filmmakers and filmgoers alike. An open, informal gathering of all
things NIFF including filmmakers, NIFF staff, viewers and any celebrities that
may happen to stop by.
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