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Winner ? Audience Award, Sydney Film Festival

?The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.? -- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Season:
2009
Director:
Matt Norman
Cinematography:
Martin Smith
Cast:
Peter Norman, Tommie Smith, John Carlos
Editor:
Jane Moran, John Leonard
Producer:
Matt Norman, David Redman
Executive Producer:
Thomas Augsberger, Shana Levine, Dean Murphy
Language:
English
Genre:
Documentary
Music:
David Hirschfelder

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Renaldo Kuhler is a charming, funny and utterly captivating man?who just so
happens to have created his own country.

Season:
2009
Premiere status:
World Premiere
Director:
Brett Ingram
Cinematography:
Brett Ingram
Cast:
Renaldo Kuhler
Editor:
Brett Ingram
Producer:
Brett Ingram
Language:
English
Genre:
Documentary
Music:
Shark Quest (Sara Bell, Laird Dixon, Chris Eubank, Chuck Johnson, Groves Willer)

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Ten-year-old Josh is on the wrestling team but would much rather be a cheerleader.

Josh loves dolls, fashion and desperately wants to cheer. As he continually argues his case with his school?s strict Mother Superior, his mother, Andrea, searches for her own answers on how to convince Josh that aspiring to be on the cheerleading squad, relishing the art of the French braid and calling Maria von Trapp his most influential role model is just not what little boys do!

Season:
2009
Director:
James Vasquez
Cinematography:
Elizabeth Santoro
Cast:
Lurie Poston, Carrie Preston, John G. Preston, Michael Emerson, Kali Rocha, Tara Karsian
Editor:
Piedmont Jones
Producer:
Sebastian Jobin
Executive Producer:
Mark Holmes, Carrie Preston
Language:
English
Genre:
Comedy

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Just because you?re a member of the AARP doesn?t mean you have to stop fighting.

In the tune of nursery rhymes and musicals, veteran director Pam Walton (Liberty: 3 Stories About Life and Death, Call to Witness) presents Raging Grannies, a group who uses quirky street theater to protest causes dear to them. From women?s rights to anti-military recruiting, the antics of these grannies will surely pique your curiosity.

Season:
2009
Premiere status:
World Premiere
Director:
Pam Walton
Cinematography:
Wah Ho Chan
Editor:
Pam Walton
Producer:
Pam Walton
Language:
English
Genre:
Documentary
Music:
Neil Panton

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In China's X'ian province, the earth is hard; the landscape, bare: factories, mountains, rocks, rivers and snow.

Season:
2009
Director:
Diao Yi Nan
Cinematography:
Dong Jinsong
Cast:
Xu Wei, Wu Yuxi, Wang Zhenjja, Meng Haiyan
Editor:
Kong Jinlei
Producer:
Vivian Qu, Steve Chow, Pascal Vaguelsy, Luca Matrundola, Julien Favre
Executive Producer:
Shu Yao, Yinghua Lu, Sean Chen
Language:
Mandarin and Shaanxi Dialect (w/ English subtitles)
Genre:
Drama
Music:
Wen Zi

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A gritty depiction of survival alongside a tumultuously changing city.

After having just moved to Brooklyn from South America, Marta (Blanca Lewin) quickly becomes exploited by both the city and her roommate?s brother, Eddie. Otherwise alone, she waits anxiously for her Chilean boyfriend, Alvaro, to arrive in the city, alleviate her homesickness, and piece her world back together.

Season:
2009
Premiere status:
World Premiere
Director:
Christopher Cannucciari
Cinematography:
Mark Karinja
Cast:
Blanca Lewin, Matt Cavenaugh, Frank Harts, Shelley Thomas, Pablo Cerda
Editor:
Brian Savelson
Producer:
Christopher Cannucciari, Dan Cope, Mary Ladd Cope, Alex Cope, Jennifer Dixon Howard
Executive Producer:
Andrew Lund
Language:
English and Spanish (w/ English subtitles)
Genre:
Drama
Music:
Kyle Bobby Dunn

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All the mysteries of the Universe...explained!?Sort of.

Season:
2009
Premiere status:
World Premiere
Director:
Roger Nygard
Cinematography:
Roger Nygard, Paul Tarantino
Editor:
Roger Nygard, Paul Tarantino
Producer:
Roger Nygard, Paul Tarantino
Language:
English
Genre:
Documentary
Music:
Billy Sullivan

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In the maelstrom that is war torn Liberia and Congo, a small group of dedicated volunteer doctors works to perform miracles.

After 15 years of a devastating civil war, Liberia is basically left with no medical infrastructure, while the Congo has collapsed into its own that has left over 4,000,000 people dead. The riveting Living in Emergency follows four members of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning Doctors Without Borders on their missions to ?pro¬vide emergency medical care to populations in distress.?

Season:
2009
Director:
Mark Hopkins
Cinematography:
Sebastian Ischer
Editor:
Bob Eisenhardt, Sebastian Ischer, Douglas Rossini
Producer:
Naisola Grimwood, Daniel Holton-Roth, Mark Hopkins
Executive Producer:
Erika Bertin, Molly Conners, Geralyn Dreyfous, Mark Harris, Sarah Johnson, Christopher Woodrow
Language:
English, Swahili, French (w/ English subtitles)
Genre:
Documentary
Music:
Bruno Coulais

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All it takes is one idea.

Both raw and triumphant, director Jeffrey Balsmeyer?s (Danny Deckchair, 2003) latest film stars Jeremy Renner (Take, North Country), Ayelet Zurer (Munich, Angels & Demons) and Eddie Jemison (Ocean?s Eleven) in a true story of tenacity and the audacity to believe in your own dream.

Season:
2009
Director:
Jeff Balsmeyer
Cinematography:
Geoffrey Hall
Cast:
Dallas Roberts, Jeremy Renner, Ayelet Zurer, Marguerite Moreau, Amanda Anka, Richard Kind
Editor:
Suresh Ayyar, Marcus Darcy
Producer:
Mike Cram
Executive Producer:
Gregory Goodell
Language:
English
Genre:
Comedy

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Writer-director Rob Margolies' debut feature bristles with smart dialogue, complex characters, and heart wrenching performances.

Season:
2009
Director:
Rob Margolies
Cinematography:
David Sperling
Cast:
Jane Adams, Joe Morton, Josh Pais, Jacob Kogan, Dreama Walker, Robbie Sublett
Editor:
Jason Stewart
Producer:
Rob Margolies
Executive Producer:
Robert Fagenson, Andrew Margolies
Language:
English
Genre:
Drama
Music:
Robert Miller
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