2009

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Part of Shorts Program 3: Animated World.

Three perfectly true stories about lying.

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Part of Shorts Program 3: Animated World.

Separated by a vast distance, a couple is forced to face their fears of spiders and loneliness.

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Part of Shorts Program 3: Animated World.

Based loosely on a classic childrens' book, one girl journeys through the uniquely chaotic world inside of a demented kaleidoscope.

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Part of Shorts Program 3: Animated World.

Irreconcilable enemies, a tree and a lumberjack, are stuck in a waiting room together. Inevitably, conflict ensues. Will they end up burying the hatchet, or will they end up burying the hatchet?

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Part of Shorts Program 2: Document: The World.

Francisco and Roberto Jiménez immigrated to California from Mexico in 1947 when both were young boys. Their parents led them across the border in search of a better life and out of poverty. They arrived dreaming of ?streets lined with gold? only to find a cruel and brutal life in the migrant labor camps of California. In this short film both men remember a Christmas some 60 years ago that defined their family and the experience of so many other migrant worker families in California.

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Part of Shorts Program 2: Document: The World.

Each summer, residents of Lake County, California get together for The Fiberglass 500, a race in which people pull old, beat up boats around a race track with their demolition derby cars, trying to rip each others boats to shreds! Last man (or woman) standing wins.

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Part of Shorts Program 2: Document: The World.

In 1930, Venetia Burney gave the planet Pluto its name. At the time she was an 11-year old schoolgirl living with her mother and grandparents in Oxford, England.

This film looks back at the extraordinary chain of events in astronomical history and witnesses Venetia's first viewing of Pluto on the eve of her 89th birthday, 77 years after its discovery.

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Part of Shorts Program 2: Document: The World.

Down at The Barbershop in the small town of Drexel, North Carolina, the atmosphere is laid back and the music is a cut above the rest. For over 40 years, Lawrence Anthony and David Shirley have been cutting hair and providing a gathering place for all who yearn for the good ol? days. Pickin' & Trimmin' captures a piece of small town America where if it wasn't broke, they didn't fix it.

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Part of Shorts Program 2: Document: The World.

Interviews with survivors, experts, and advocates mixed with footage from wartime newsreels and propaganda films tell the story of the Korean Comfort Women: survivors of sexual slavery during World War II who continue to fight for an official apology from the Japanese government.

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Part of Shorts Program 2: Document: The World.

After a long battle with depression, Queensland rare chicken breeder Mark Tully is now on a mission to protect the endangered chickens to which he owes his life.