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DOCFEST07 Tickets
All events sold separately or in a pass
On sale to Members: Monday, September 10 at noon
To General Public: Sunday, September 16 at noon
Concourse Theater Events: $20, $15 Paley Center Members: $10 Students with discount code: STUDENT
Goodson Theater Screenings: $10 for a one-day pass
Buy More and Save (Concourse Theater Events only)
4-Event Pass: $70, $50 Paley Center Members (10% savings)
Half-Festival Pass (6 Events): $90, $65 Paley Center Members (25% savings)
Full Festival Pass (12 Events): $145, $110 Paley Center Members (40% savings)
RSVP required for each event with purchase of pass. Please call 212.621.6699 for reservations.
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Event Location
All events listed take place at The Paley Center for Media in New York, 25 West 52 Street, New York, NY, between Fifth and Sixth Avenues.
Ticket Policies
Events and participants are subject to change without notice. No refunds or exchanges. Four-ticket limit per person, per event. All seating is general admission; no reserved seating. Premium seating for Producers Circle Members at Producers Circle events only.
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To Order Tickets (Members, please have your ID number ready.)
· Online: At paleycenter.org beginning Sept. 10 at noon for Members. See below for all ticket dates. Service charges will apply.
· By Phone: Call 212.621.6600, Dial "0" for operator; Mon to Fri, 12:00 to 5:00 pm. Service charges will apply.
· In Person: Tickets for all events are available at the front desk, Tues to Sun, 12:00 to 6:00 pm; Thurs to 8:00 pm.
Online ticketing closes two hours before a scheduled event. Tickets may still be purchased in person up until the time of the event. |
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Concourse Theater Events
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Opening Night—New York Premiere
To Die in Jerusalem
Wednesday, October 24; 7:00 pm
After her daughter is killed by a suicide bomber, an Israeli mother seeks out the mother of the killer, a schoolgirl from a Palestinian refugee camp who looked remarkably like her victim. In this HBO documentary, filmmaker Hilla Medalia captures one of the most emotionally charged scenes in recent memory—the meeting of the two girls' mothers—in this intimate exploration of the losses and cultural differences of two families struggling for meaning in the Middle East conflict. (2007; 75 min.)
Q&A Filmmaker Hilla Medalia; Ambassador Dennis Ross, Distinguished Fellow at Washington Institute for Near East Policy; President Clinton's former envoy to Middle East
PHOTO CREDIT: Courtesy HBO
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New York Premiere
Sputnik Mania
Thursday, October 25; 7:00 pm
David Hoffman's engrossing documentary explores the contradictory reactions engendered by the Soviet Union's launching of Sputnik fifty years ago, which marked the beginnings of the space and arms races. Employing superb unseen archival footage, this documentary demonstrates how Americans were initially elated and then terrified by this first excursion into space, with some politicians exploiting the fear to escalate the Cold War. Sputnik was a hit at Michael Moore's Traverse City Film Festival, where it was called "gripping, often unsettling." (Formerly titled The Fever of '57.) (2007; 88 min.)
Q&A Filmmaker David Hoffman; Susan Eisenhower, President of the Eisenhower Group and Chairman Emeritus of the Eisenhower Institute
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New York Premiere
Larry Flynt: The Right to be Left Alone
Friday, October 26; 7:00 pm
Larry Flynt has always been something of an enigma—is he a peddler of porn, a protector of the First Amendment, or a posturing provocateur? In this brisk, unvarnished profile from director Joan Brooker-Marks, we learn how Flynt parlayed a chain of go-go clubs into a multimedia empire while surviving setbacks (including an assassination attempt), court dates, and the wrath of Jerry Falwell to emerge as one of the unlikeliest, fiercest defenders of American civil liberties. (2007; 81 min.)
Q&A Filmmaker Joan Brooker-Marks; Larry Flynt, Publisher, Hustler Magazine; Paul Cambria, First Amendment Attorney; Walter Marks, Producer
Click here to watch the trailer
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A Workshop Cosponsored by the International Documentary Association (IDA)
The Art of the Documentary Pitch
Saturday, October 27; 2:00 pm
How do you sell a documentary? See five emerging documentary filmmakers pitch their ideas to a panel of distinguished producers—and to you—in this workshop/competition. The producers will give them feedback on their concept as well as their presentation skills—great lessons for all aspiring filmmakers. The winner will receive a $5,000 grant, sponsored by American Documentary Inc., the producers of the award-winning P.O.V. series for PBS, to be used toward the completion of the pitched film. Panelists will also take questions from the audience about how a documentary idea grows from seed to fruition.
Q&A Diana Holtzberg, Acquisitions & Project Develop. Dir., Films Transit International; Lauren Lazin, Filmmaker/Exec. Prod., MTV Networks; Cynthia Lopez, VP, P.O.V.; Molly Thompson, Programming Dir., A&E IndieFilms; Susan Werbe, VP, Programming, The History Channel
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New York Premiere
The Full Frame Institute Presents Knee Deep
Saturday, October 27; 4:30 pm
In a part of Maine far removed from the pages of the L.L. Bean catalog, Joshua Osborne was born and raised to milk cows. But when his father dies, and his mother sells the family farm to developers, the only way of life that Joshua knows disappears. His response—shoot mom, keep the farm—is the focus of this engrossing true-crime story from filmmakers Michael Chandler and Sheila Canavan, who uncover some startling truths about rural American values amongst the taciturn farming community that believes Joshua did the right thing. (2007; 81 min.)
Q&A Filmmaker Michael Chandler; Nancy Buirski, CEO, Founder, and Artistic Dir., Full Frame Documentary Festival
Click here to watch the trailer.
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New York Premiere
Nimrod Nation
Saturday, October 27; 7:00 pm
Acclaimed filmmaker Brett Morgen's documentary series for the Sundance Channel is an affectionate paean to the quirky life of Watersmeet, a tiny hamlet on the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Enchanted by the characters he met while making a sports commercial, Morgen uncovered a real-life Fargo or Northern Exposure, where a hunter community lives for its high school basketball team, the Nimrods. Morgen will discuss with his production team how they captured this unique culture of small-town America. (2007; three episodes, 25 min. each)
Q&A Filmmaker Brett Morgen; Adam Pincus, Exec. Prod.; Kevin Proudfoot, Exec. Prod.; Lynne Kirby, Exec. Prod., Sundance Channel (Senior VP, Original Programming and Development, Sundance Channel)
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New York Premiere
Resolved
Sunday, October 28; 2:30 pm
Winner of the Audience Award at this year's Los Angeles Film Festival, Greg Whiteley's intellectually exciting documentary immerses us into the fractious world of the high school debate circuit, where for the past several decades a tactic of rote memorization (the "spread") and supersonic regurgitation (the "flow")—in short, velocity over content—has triumphed. But now the pedigreed practitioners of this approach find themselves challenged by an underprivileged team, armed with a copy of Paulo Friere's Pedagogy of the Oppressed, who hope to return a modicum of eloquence, persuasiveness, and personal expression to the art of public discourse. (2007; 90 min.)
Q&A Filmmaker Greg Whiteley
Click here to watch the trailer (click on "Play Trailer").
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American Premiere
Peter Eisenman: Building Germany's Holocaust Memorial
Sunday, October 28; 5:00 pm
Filmmaker Michael Blackwood chronicles the creation of Eisenman's lauded Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin—where the Nazis planned the genocide—from the political debate over the idea for a memorial to visitors from all walks of life experiencing the public work. After the screening, Blackwood and Eisenman will discuss the filmed memorial, which Nicolai Ouroussoff praised for exemplifying "how abstraction can be the most powerful tool for conveying the complexity of human emotion." (2006; 60 min.)
Presented in conjunction with the Architectural League of New York
Q&A Filmmaker Michael Blackwood; Architect Peter Eisenman
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20 Years of P.O.V.:
The Art of Personal Storytelling
Monday, October 29; 7:00 pm
For two decades, P.O.V. has been the beacon for the independent documentary spirit. This event will explore how the series has nurtured personal storytelling with three filmmakers who embody the independent vision, Ralph Arlyck, Alan Berliner, and Anne Makepeace. Each filmmaker will screen clips from their work and will be joined by executives from P.O.V. to discuss how the series and the independent documentary have evolved over twenty years.
Q&A Filmmakers Ralph Arlyck (Following Sean), Alan Berliner (The Sweetest Sound, Intimate Stranger), Tina DiFeliciantonio (Girls Like Us), and Anne Makepeace (Rain in a Dry Land; Baby, It's You); Simon Kilmurry, Exec. Dir., P.O.V.; Marc Weiss, Founder, P.O.V.
Moderator: Steven M. Gorelick, PhD Professor of Media Studies, Hunter College, CUNY, and Interim Director of the M.F.A. Program in Integrated Media Arts
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U.S. Premiere
Amazing Journey: The Story of The Who
Tuesday, October 30; 7:00 pm
From raw, pure rock to elaborate operas of ingenious complexity, the music of The Who was never less than viscerally exciting. This definitive documentary of one of the greatest rock bands in the world charts the group's dynamic rise to performance icons, weaving together rare and unreleased concert footage with exclusive never-before-seen interviews. See Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend (who are scheduled to attend). Hear the filmmakers speak about the making of the documentary; feel the magic of The Who. Airing on VH1 with a Universal DVD release in November. (2007; 120 min.)
Q&A Participants to be announced.
PHOTO CREDIT: Courtesy PRP/Public Relations Partners
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New York Premiere
Darfur Now
Wednesday, October 31; 7:00 pm
For years now, thousands of Darfurians have suffered displacement and death at the hands of janjaweed militias backed by the Sudanese government. Darfur Now profiles the struggles and achievements of six individuals seeking to end the genocide: a mother driven to join the rebel forces when her family is killed; a beleaguered U.N. aid worker whose food convoys are regularly hijacked; the director of an overwhelmed refugee camp; a tireless prosecutor from the International Criminal Court in The Hague; a grad student lobbying for legislation that will outlaw U.S investment in Sudan; and an actor and activist, Don Cheadle, who uses his fame to raise public awareness of the crisis. This inspiring, revelatory film is a call to action for citizens everywhere. (2007; 99 min.)
Q&A Filmmaker Ted Braun; Adam Sterling, Film Subject
Click here to watch the trailer.
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Closing Night—Special Preview
Chicago 10
Thursday, November 1; 7:00 pm
It's a doc about the 1968 Chicago Democratic Convention like you've never seen. Director Brett Morgen uses animation and archival footage to present the players and ideas of the sixties, especially icons Abbie Hoffman (voiced by Hank Azaria) and Jerry Rubin (Mark Ruffalo), to find the relevancy of the media circus in Chicago for today's media climate. According to sixties historian Todd Gitlin, the film is a "remarkable piece of work. . . You can choke on the tear gas wafting off the screen." (2007; 103 min.)
Q&A Filmmaker Brett Morgen
Click here to watch a clip from the film.
PHOTO CREDIT: Courtesy Roadside Attractions
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Goodson Theater Screenings
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Focus: Africa
New York Premiere
Saturdays Are for the Dead
Saturday, October 27; 1:00 pm
Of the 46 million people who live in South Africa, 6.3 million of them are HIV positive. With yearly AIDS deaths topping 350,000, undertakers are overwhelmed; at Avalon, the oldest and largest of Soweto's cemeteries, 800 burials are held every Saturday. Filmmakers Lies Niezen and Lee-Ann Cotton delve beyond the numbing statistics to take a poignant look at the human face of AIDS in Africa. (2006; 50 min.)
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Focus: Africa
New York Premiere
Welcome to Nollywood
Saturday, October 27; 3:00 pm
Nigeria has the world's third-largest film industry (after America and India). Its movies, mostly fables about love, war, and the supernatural, are made on the cheap, issued straight to video, and peddled at open-air markets where canvas banners bearing garish portraits of movie stars flap above the hubbub. Jamie Meltzer's hugely entertaining documentary goes behind the scenes of this rough-and-tumble enterprise. (2006; 56 min.)
Click here to watch trailer.
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Focus: Africa
New York Premiere
Uganda Rising
Saturday, October 27; 5:00 pm
"When two elephants fight, it's the grass that gets injured." Winner of the Audience Award at HotDocs, Uganda Rising documents the plight of the Acholi tribe, who, for the past two decades, have been caught in a brutal civil war between a rebel group whose primary objective is inhumane terror and a government whose military response only exacerbates the misery and suffering of its people. Directed by Pete McCormack and Jesse James Miller. (2006; 82 min.)
Click here to watch the trailer.
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Afghanistan Unveiled
Sunday, October 28; 12:15 pm
The first-ever team of female video journalists examine the struggle for women's rights in Afghanistan, before and after the oppressive rule of the Taliban. The filmmakers not only discover the power of the media to document the tragedies of their country but learn how they can assist the empowerment of Afghan women. (2003; 52 min.)
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Change in Schedule: Unfortunately Jamila Emami is unable to make the trip from Afghanistan, but we will screen one of her programs, Seeds of Hope, in the slot where she was scheduled to appear.
Seeds of Hope
Sunday, October 28; 1:30 pm
Since 2001 women in Afghanistan have assume a greater role in society. Codirected by Jamila Emami and Brigitte Brault, Seeds of Hope looks at two women who are actively working in government to promote women's rights in a traditional culture. Seeds of Hope was made by a Women's Eyes Media, a production company that was cofounded by Jamila Emami and whose mission is "to promote women's freedom of expression through a unique lens and to improve knowledge, exercise and development of press rights." (2006, 25 minutes)
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Crude Impact
Sunday, October 28; 3:30 pm
When geologist M. King Hubbert predicted, in 1956, that United States petroleum reserves, the largest in the world at that time, would begin to run out by the 1970s, his claims were vilified and largely ignored—until they came true. In this provocative and timely rumination on our insatiable appetite for a rapidly diminishing resource, filmmaker James Wood journeys around the world to expose the dire economic and sociological implications of peak oil. (2006; 97 min.)
Click here to watch the trailer.
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