April 6-10 2017

April 6-10, 2017 

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Varsity World Film Week: 

October 6-12, 2017 

17th Annual AIFF: 

April 12-16, 2018 

2017 Festival art by Claire Burbridge 

Graphic design by 

CarterWorks 

CONTENTS 

Box Office & Membership 3 

Venues, Concessions & Merchandise 5 

Sponsors & Grantors 9 

Parties 10 

Festival Guests 

Indie Innovators 13 

Indie Institutions 19 

Festival Events 

Expanded Cinema 20 

Live Performances 21 

Filmmaker TalkBack Panels & 

Community Conversations 23 

FREE Film Programs 24 

Short Film Programs 26 

Family Programs 27 

Awards & Jurors 28 

Films 31 

Documentary Features 32 

Documentary Shorts 54 

Narrative Features 61 

Narrative Shorts 72 

The AIFF Team 84 

Volunteers 86 

Donors & Members 88 

Thanks 90 

Schedule 91 

Film Index 96

BOX OFFICE 

& MEMBERSHIP 

Membership enhances the creative experience: 

AIFF Members receive advance ticket ordering, 

first entry into films, discounts on special 

screenings, and more. Memberships are available 

at ashlandfilm.org/membership. 

BOX OFFICE 

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to you by 

MARCH 20-25 Tickets go on sale to Members 

MARCH 26 Tickets go on sale to the 

General Public 

Purchase tickets online at ashlandfilm.org 

No service fee thanks to Project A 

TICKET PRE-SALE & WILL CALL 

Located at the Information Kiosk on the Plaza 

in downtown Ashland 

Members Pre-sale Dates: 

Online ordering begins at 10am PST; Box Office open 

4-6pm. Box Office & Will Call will be open everyday 

from 4-6 pm, March 20-April 5. 

Producer & above Monday, March 20 

Director Tuesday, March 21 

Fan Wednesday, March 22 

Cine Thursday, March 23 

Indie Friday, March 24 

Friend Saturday, March 25 

General Public Sunday, March 26 

Online ordering begins at 10am PST, Box Office open 

4-6pm. Box Office & Will Call will be open everyday 

from 4-6 pm at the Kiosk March 26-April 5. 

Advance tickets are available online or at the 

Kiosk. A full schedule of festival films and box 

office hours is available at ashlandfilm.org. 

TICKETS DURING FESTIVAL/WILL CALL 

Located at the Varsity Theatre, 166 E. Main St., 

Ashland 

April 6-10, 9am-10pm 

During the festival, tickets may be ordered online up to 

three hours before showtime, after which they can be 

purchased at the Varsity, Armory, or Ashland Street 

Cinema Box Offices. 

TICKET PRICES 

Films 

$13 ($1 discount for additional Member tickets) 

Seniors (62+): $12 

Students (w/valid ID): $6 

Oregon Trail Card Holders: $5 (Box Office only) 

Parties 

Opening Night Bash: $30 

Awards Celebration: $75 

FREE Events 

Ticket required: Locals Only, TalkBack Panels 

No ticket required: Community Conversations, 

Virtual Reality Hands-on Gallery & Docs 

Accessibility Services: Please contact 

us at access@ashlandfilm.org to request 

assistance and accommodations or call 

our office at (541) 488-3823. 

For more details: ashlandfilm.org/access. 

No ticket? 

Join the Rush Line! 

Rush tickets will be sold at the 

door shortly before showtime, 

as soon as all ticket holders 

are seated. Rush tickets are 

available on a first come, first 

served basis for cash or paper 

film voucher only (no credit 

cards accepted). 

THE FINE PRINT: TICKET POLICY & FESTIVAL RULES 

No refunds or exchanges. Membership passes are non-transferable. All pass holders must select tickets in advance to guarantee 

seating, and all ticket holders must be at the theater 15 minutes before the show to guarantee seating. Members are granted 

entrance to theaters about 30-40 minutes before showtime. 

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VENUES 

CONCESSIONS & 

MERCHANDISE 

Information Kiosk 

Downtown Ashland Plaza 

Pre-Sale Box Office 

Varsity Theatre 

166 E. Main St. 

Films & Festival Box Office 

Historic Ashland Armory 

208 Oak St. 

Films & Awards Celebration 

Ashland Street Cinema 

1644 Ashland St. 

Films 

Ashland Springs Hotel 


Opening Night Bash & 

TalkBack Panels 

Elks Lodge 

255 E. Main St. (2nd St. & Lithia Way) 

Community Conversations 

Schneider Museum of Art 

1250 Siskiyou Blvd. 

Gallery Exhibit 

ScienceWorks 

Hands-On Museum 


Virtual Reality Hands-on Gallery 

Liquid Assets Wine Bar 

96 N. Main St. 

AfterLounge 

Thai Pepper Restaurant 


AfterLounge 

Brickroom 


Karaoke AfterLounge 

Black Sheep Pub & Restaurant 


AfterLounge 

Concessions 

Varsity Theatre & 

Ashland Street Cinema 

• Movie Theater Favorites 


• Water Street Café: 

wraps & more 

• Rogue Valley Roasting 

Company: sweet treats 

• Noble Coffee 

Roasting: coffee 

• Rogue Creamery 

popcorn 

Water will be available at 

the Armory courtesy of 

Mt. Shasta Spring Water. 

Please help us decrease our 

environmental impact: bring your 

water bottle to fill at our venues, and 

recycle whenever possible. 

2017 AIFF 

Merchandise 

Sold at Travel Essentials 


March 15–April 15 

Hours: Mon-Sat, 10am-5:30pm 

& Sunday, 11am-5pm 

T-shirt: $20 (Women’s & Men’s) 

Messenger Bag: $25 

Baseball Cap: $20 

Poster: $5 

Stickers: $3 each or 2 for $5 

100% of sales benefit AIFF 

AIFF POP-UP SHOP AT 

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SPONSORS & GRANTORS 

Presenting Sponsors 

WORTH EVERY MINUTE 

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Connecting our Worlds. 

Connecting our Spirits. 

Since 1969 Jefferson Public Radio has provided a 

connection to the people, events and ideas that shape 

Ashland, our region and our world. We’ve covered the 

news with a belief that informed people make better 

citizens. We’ve approached music as a vital connection 

to the human spirit. Like the Ashland Independent 

Film Festival, JPR is proud to be one of the things that 

contribute to the quality of life in Ashland and the 

Rogue Valley. It’s worth every minute you listen … 

and every dollar you give. Learn more at www.ijpr.org. 

Sustaining Sponsors 

In Ashland 

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Supporting Sponsors 

Community Sponsors 

Buttercloud Bakery and Cafe 

Cafe 116 

Caldera Brewing Company 

Dagoba Organic Chocolate 

Davis, Hearn, Anderson & 

Turner, P.C. 

Green Springs Inn & Cabins 

Mt. Shasta Spring Water 

Omar’s Fresh Seafood and Steaks 

Penny and Lulu Studio Florist 

Plancha 

Housing Sponsors 

Rock Island Design 

Rogue Credit Union 

Rogue Valley Roasting 

Company 

RoxyAnn Winery 

Shop ‘n Kart 

The Village Baker of Ashland 

Upper Five Vineyard 

Water Street Cafe 

Wooldridge Creek Vineyard 

& Winery 

Grantors 

Contributing Sponsors 

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CarterWorks 

graphic design 

Abbott’s Cottages 

Ashland Cottages 

Ashland Creek Inn 

Second Spring Properties 

The Peerless Hotel & Restaurant 

Winchester Inn 

A special thank you to the Rogue Valley residents who provided 

housing for filmmakers and festival guests. 

The Earth & Humanity 

Foundation 

Sid and Karen DeBoer 

Foundation 

Gardner Grout 

Foundation 

Raymond Family 

Foundation 

The Equity Foundation 

Thank you to all our 

Sponsors whose support 

was confirmed after our 

publication deadline. 

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FESTIVAL EVENTS 

PARTIES 

Awards 

Celebration 

Sunday, April 9, 7:30–11pm 


Tickets: $75 (includes small plates, dessert & drinks*) 

Put on your party clothes and toast the Juried and Audience 

Award winners while dining on delicious food and drink from 

the Rogue Valley’s finest restaurants, breweries, and wineries. 

AIFF welcomes Courtney Sheehan as our 

host for the Awards Celebration. Courtney is 

Executive Director of the Northwest Film 

Forum in Seattle and was a juror in 2016. 

Opening Night Bash 

Savor the Rogue TM presented by founding sponsor Rogue Creamery 

Thursday, April 6, 7-10pm | Ashland Springs Hotel | Tickets: $30 

Meet and mingle with the filmmakers and festival guests of AIFF2017 and enjoy a selection of 

award-winning cheeses paired with appetizers, artisan chocolate, beer, and wine from around 

the Rogue Valley. 

Tasting Tables – Beverage 

Ledger David Cellars 


Eliana Wines 

South Stage Cellars 

Indio Spirits 

Apple Outlaw Cider 

Weisinger Family Winery 

Cliff Creek Cellars 

Tasting Tables – Food 

Rogue Creamery 

Sunrise Café 

AfterLounge 

Nightly 5pm-1am 

Omar’s Fresh Seafoods 

& Steaks 

Buttercloud Bakery & Café 

Lillie Belle Farms Artisan 

Chocolates 

Branson’s Chocolates 

Vintner’s Kitchen 

Gary West Artisan 

Smoked Meats 

No-Host Bar 

Summit Beverage 



Wooldridge Creek 

Vineyard & Winery 

Platt Anderson Cellars 

Walkabout Brewery 

Quady North Winery 





Thursday, April 6 

Liquid Assets Wine Bar 

Friday, April 7 

Thai Pepper Restaurant 

Saturday, April 8 

Brickroom 

Karaoke starts at 9pm! 

Sunday, April 9 

Black Sheep Pub & Restaurant 

Denny DeBey, Ashland’s 

blacksmith for 40 years, 

designed and handcrafted 

the forged steel film reel 

given to our award-winning 

filmmakers. 

Appetizers 

Rogue Creamery 

AZ Catering & 

Event Planning 

The Village Baker 

of Ashland 

Small Plates 

Granite Taphouse 

Frau Kemmling Schoolhaus 

Brewhaus 

Sunrise Café 

Bella Union 

Standing Stone 

Brewing Company 

Plaza Bistro 

Taqueria Picaro 

Plancha – Modern 

Mexican & Tequila 

Dessert & Coffee 

Noble Coffee Roasting 

Lille Belle Farms 

Artisan Chocolates 

Green Springs Inn 

Jolene’s Sweets 

Taj Indian Restaurant Mix Bakeshop 

The Opening Night Bash & Awards Celebration produced 

by: AZ Catering & Event Planning azparties.com 

Bar 

Apple Outlaw Cider 

Indio Spirits 

Quady North Winery 

Summit Beverages 




Eliana Wines 

Platt Anderson Cellars 




*Your first two drinks are on the 

house! 

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Keep the conversation going at the no-host, 

no-cover AfterLounge. Enjoy some food 

and a fine selection of beverages, and join 

the festival community each night for the 

best after party in town! 

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LIFETIME 

ACHIEVEMENT 

AWARD 

JAMES IVORY 

AIFF2017 welcomes home acclaimed director and Klamath Falls 

native James Ivory, one of the founding partners of Merchant 

Ivory Productions. With the late Ismail Merchant he made 24 feature films 

over their 44‐year partnership—the longest in filmmaking history. Their 

films garnered 25 Academy Award® nominations including three for Best 

Picture and Best Director. Ivory began his filmmaking career in India with 

Merchant and screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala in 1962. They went on 

to make some of the most important and eloquent films of our time, 

including Shakespeare Wallah, A Room With a View, The Remains of the 

Day, Maurice, and Howards End (the latter two screening at AIFF2017). 

Maurice (30th anniversary) 

with a clip of the upcoming Sony Pictures Classics 

release directed by Luca Guadagnino, Call Me 

By Your Name, co-written by James Ivory 

Friday, April 7, 9pm | Historic 

Ashland Armory 

Howards End (25th anniversary) 

Saturday, April 8, 3pm | Varsity 

TalkBack: Cinematic Literature 

with James Ivory, Matías Piñeiro, and OSF Artistic Director Bill Rauch 

Sunday, April 9, 10-11:30am | Ashland Springs Hotel 

FESTIVAL GUESTS 

Indie Innovators 

“We always did exactly as 

we wanted. We chose what 

we wanted to do and that’s 

what we did.” 

Q. Were you ever tempted to make 

a movie in Oregon? 

A. I was. I wanted to make a movie once at 

Lake of the Woods, where my parents had a 

cabin, which I now have. We actually planned 

a film about a kind of Indian spiritual group that 

was at Lake of the Woods. We weren't calling it 

that, but it was Lake of the Woods. We wrote a 

whole screenplay about it, but we couldn't get 

funding for it. 

Source: Jeff Baker, “James Ivory: an interview with the 

Oscar-nominated director from Oregon.” The Oregonian/ 

OregonLive, October 13, 2014 

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We own it. 

We run it. 

We love it! 



ROGUE AWARD 

ALEX COX 

Born outside Liverpool, England, filmmaker Alex Cox now makes 

his home in Southern Oregon. He received widespread acclaim 

in the Hollywood-counterculture movement of the 1980s for his cult 

films Repo Man and Sid & Nancy. Alex continues to create original 

and ambitious independent cinema including his latest crowdfunded 

film Tombstone Rashomon (AIFF2017), an homage to Akira Kurosawa 

steeped in the mythology of the Old West. 

McCabe & Mrs. Miller 

Friday, April 7, 6:40pm | Ashland Street Cinema 

Join Alex and fellow Southern Oregonian Phil 

Thomas, the art director of McCabe & Mrs. 

Miller for a conversation on westerns after the 

screening of the film on Friday night. 

Tombstone Rashomon 

Saturday, April 8, 6:40p | Ashland Street Cinema 

“Crowdfunding really is the 

most effective way right now 

for filmmakers to connect 

with the audience, and find 

funding for the films they want 

to make. Studios and large 

financiers tend to make a 

certain type of film, dependent 

on big stars, superhero 

franchises, or talking animals. 

But there is more to cinema 

than this! Cinema should also 

embrace ambiguity, and irony, 

and unusual approaches which 

go beyond the hero/villain/ 

talking animal model.” 

Graciously supported by AIFF Board Emeritus members: 

Paul Adalian, Elaine Albrich, Anne Ashbey, Jerry 

Kenefick, Joanne Kliejunas, Pamela Leandro Notch, 

Linda Otto, Jeff Blum, darrel pearce, Sandi Risser, 

Karen Smith. Thank you! 

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PRIDE AWARD 

JENNI OLSON 

Pioneering filmmaker Jenni Olson is one of the world’s leading experts on 

LGBT film history. Her cinematic memoir The Royal Road premiered 

at the Sundance Film Festival as did her short doc 575 Castro St., which 

will be shown before The Royal Road on Sunday. Involved in every facet of 

the filmmaking world—archivist, film historian, writer, and more—Jenni is 

also the producer of the AIFF2017 documentary The Freedom to Marry. 

The Freedom to Marry 

Friday, April 7, 12pm | Historic Ashland Armory 

The Royal Road and 575 Castro St. 

Sunday, April, 9, 12:40pm | Varsity 

“When I was a little kid I loved to watch 

classic Hollywood movies on TV — 

Jimmy Cagney, Gary Cooper, Buster 

Keaton, and Fred Astaire were my role 

models. In 1986, I was getting my BA in 

Film Studies when I read Vito Russo’s 

book The Celluloid Closet (about the 

history of homosexuality in the movies) 

and it changed my life. It really enabled 

me to come out and inspired me to 

start an LGBT film series on campus, 

which then merged into the Minneapolis/ 

St. Paul LGBT Film Festival.” 

Pride Award funded by the Equity Foundation 

FAERIE GODMOTHER AWARD 

RACHEL LAMBERT 

AIFF in partnership with POWFest in Portland presents an annual 

award to a rising female director. This year’s recipient is Rachel 

Lambert. Rachel received a BFA from Boston University and studied at 

the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. After graduating, she 

worked in theater and film in Britain. Since moving back to New York City, 

she has written three films: Kin, Mom Jovi, and her directorial debut, 

In the Radiant City. 



In the Radiant City 

Thursday 6pm, Friday 9pm, Sunday 12pm | 

Varsity Theatre 

This cash award is generously supported by the 

Faerie Godmother Fund of the Oregon Community 

Foundation. 

“From film to film I realize 

more and more that 

what counts for me in filmmaking 

is the chance of 

being together with a group 

of people who I love and 

admire, all concentrated 

on one same quest: a film, 

which becomes then, a 

documentation of that 

gathering, no matter how 

much fiction we put into it.” 

SPECIAL GUEST 

MATÍAS PIÑEIRO 

Born in Argentina in 1982, Matías Piñeiro has already directed seven feature films 

that play with characters and concepts from Shakespeare and explore the slippery 

boundaries between text and image, narrative and reality. His latest feature, and first 

English-language film, Hermia & Helena, crosses similar borders as do two shorter films, 

Viola (2012) and Rosalinda (2011), all three of which will be featured in AIFF2017’s 

mini-retrospective of his brilliant career. 

Rosalinda and Viola 

Thursday 9:30pm, Friday 10am, Sunday 6:30pm | 

Varsity 

Hermia & Helena 

Friday 12:40pm, Saturday 9:40pm, Sunday 

3:40pm, Monday 3:40pm | Varsity 

TalkBack: Cinematic Literature 

with James Ivory, Matías Piñeiro, and OSF Artistic 

Director Bill Rauch 

Sunday, April 9, 10-11:30am | Ashland Springs Hotel 

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SKYLIGHT 


Creative Director Pamela Yates and Executive Director Paco 

de Onis will join us to celebrate 30 years of Skylight’s 

commitment to producing artistic, challenging, and socially 

relevant work. Skylight combines the storytelling arts with 

media strategies to strengthen human rights and seek justice 

around the world. 

“The Resistance Saga is a high-profile project designed to 

galvanize audiences to fight back when society is faced 

with authoritarianism and demagogues. The arts play a 

crucial role in creating, strengthening, and communicating 

narratives of nonviolent resistance. Indigenous peoples all 

over the Americas have set the example of long-term courage 

and strategic resistance against daunting odds.” 

Witness Guatemala’s indigenous Mayan population in its 

fight for self-determination over three decades in these three 

powerful documentaries: 

THE RESISTANCE SAGA 

When the Mountains Tremble (1983) 

Thursday 3:30pm, Friday 12:30pm, Sunday 

9:40am | Varsity 

Granito: How to Nail a Dictator (2011) 

Friday 6:30pm, Saturday 12:30pm, Sunday 

12:10pm | Varsity 

500 Years (2017) 

Saturday 3:30pm | Historic Ashland Armory 

TalkBack: Filming Activists 

with Pamela Yates, Peter Bratt, Nanfu Wang, Jennifer MacArthur 

and Moderator Sonya Childress 

Friday 10-11:30am | Ashland Springs Hotel 

ZEITGEIST FILMS 

I 

n 1988, Nancy Gerstman and Emily Russo, who had both worked for major distribution and 

exhibition companies such as Landmark Theatres and First Run Pictures, joined forces to launch 

their own company, Zeitgeist Films. They knew a few indie filmmakers personally, including Todd 

Haynes. Zeitgeist went on to be the first distribution company to release the first films by Haynes, 

Atom Egoyan, Christopher Nolan, Francois Ozon, The Quay Brothers, and Guy Maddin. Zeitgeist’s 

current roster of filmmakers and releases focuses on world cinema and documentaries and includes 

AIFF films Manufactured Landscapes (2007), Last Train Home (2010), and Court (Varsity World 

Film Week 2015). Six Zeitgeist films have been nominated for Academy Awards and one, Nowhere 

in Africa, won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. 

Nancy Gerstman will join us for a screening of Zeitgeist’s latest documentary along with the 

film’s director, Daniel Raim. 

Harold and Lillian: A Hollywood Love Story 

Sunday, April 9, 9:30am | Historic Ashland Armory 

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EXPANDED CINEMA 

LIVE PERFORMANCES 


Convergence: Digital Media 

and Technology 

April 5–May 27 | Schneider Museum of Art 

Co-curated by Richard Herskowitz and Scott 

Malbaurn, this exhibition includes recent media 

art from the collection of the Jordan Schnitzer 

Museum of Art including Nina Katchadourian’s 

Acca Dacca Diptych, part of a larger project created 

during the artist’s travels by plane. Peter Sarkisian’s 

Book 2 is a commentary on the loss of writing as a 

form of communication in contemporary society. 

Ken Matsubara’s Eiffel Tower, Repetition Series is a 

meditation on past and present, absence and 

presence. Vanessa Renwick’s Medusa Smack 

(see next page) is an immersive installation of 

meditative music and images you will want to 

return to again and again. 

Lost Landscapes of Los Angeles 

Saturday, April 8, 3:40pm | Varsity 

During the screening of this silent documentary, 

director Rick Prelinger will lead the audience in 

spontaneous commentary as absorbing archival 

images of Los Angeles history unfold. You are 

the live soundtrack. 

Hope and Prey and the Medusa Smack 

Saturday, April 8, 7pm | Schneider Museum of Art 

Renowned Portland artist and experimental filmmaker 

Vanessa Renwick and musician Tara Jane 

O’Neil will perform the score of Medusa Smack live 

followed by Vanessa’s three-screen projection piece, 

Hope and Prey, which features stunning cinematography 

of wolves in the wild. 

Virtual Reality 

Hands-on Gallery 

and Docs 

Saturday, April 8, 2-5pm | FREE (no ticket required) | 

ScienceWorks Hands-on Museum 

1-2pm & 4-5pm VR Gallery: Experience a sampling of 

innovative animations created expressly for VR. Available 

for viewing on HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, and Samsung Gear 

headsets and suitable for ages 12 and older. 

3-4pm Docs on VR: 

AIFF2017 filmmakers Drea 

Cooper and Zack Canepari 

(Kish) will answer questions 

and discuss the shooting of 

their VR doc, Policing Flint, 

and guide viewers through 

some of their favorite online 

VR doc experiences. 

Don’t forget to bring your IOS or Android smartphones and 

earbuds/headphones so we can provide you with VR headsets 

and help you set up VR apps. 

Slanty Eyed Mama LIVE 

Saturday, April 8, 9:30pm | Historic Ashland Armory 

Don’t miss a LIVE performance after the documentary Happy Lucky 

Golden Tofu Good Time Fun Fun Show with the group featured in the film. 

Slanty Eyed Mama is a music and spoken word duo featuring electric 

violin, samples, and beats by virtuoso slash rocker Lyris Hung and the 

comedic, political, lyrical words of actor-comedian Kate Rigg. 

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FILMMAKER 

TALKBACK PANELS 

Ashland Springs Hotel | FREE (ticket required) 

Filming Activists 

Friday, April 7, 10:00-11:30am 

AIFF2017 filmmakers Peter Bratt (Dolores), Pamela Yates (Skylight’s Resistance Saga), 

Jennifer MacArthur (Whose Streets?), and Nanfu Wang (I Am Another You) will discuss 

the responsibility of documentary filmmakers to the political activists they portray. 

How do filmmakers work collaboratively with their subjects while retaining artistic 

independence and how do they work together to achieve maximum impact and 

engagement once the film goes out into the world? 

Moderator: Sonya Childress is the Community Engagement Specialist at Firelight Media. 

For more than a decade, she has helped organizers, educators, service providers, policy 

makers, and filmmakers use film to further social justice. 

Indie Documentary Journalism in 

the Age of Fake News 

Saturday, April 8, 10:00-11:30am 

Investigative cinematic journalism is capable of telling the most pressing stories of 

our time. But with the media under fire, how can indie filmmakers hold the powerful 

accountable and speak to audiences across the political spectrum? We will hear from 

documentarians who’ve been doing just that. AIFF2017 directors Cullen Hoback 

(What Lies Upstream) and Brian Knappenberger (Nobody Speak: Trials of the Free 

Press) are joined by AIFF alum Kirby Dick (The Hunting Ground–AIFF2015, The 

Invisible War–AIFF2012) and Sonya Childress. 

Moderator: AIFF alum filmmaker Carrie Lozano is the director of the International 

Documentary Association’s Enterprise Documentary Fund. She was senior producer of 

Al Jazeera America’s Peabody Award ® -winning investigative series Fault Line and 

produced the Academy Award-nominated The Weather Underground. 

Cinematic Literature 

Sunday, April 9, 10:00-11:30am 

Two great film directors will talk about cinematic adaptations and literary masterworks. 

James Ivory (AIFF2017 Lifetime Achievement Award) has been acclaimed for his brilliant 

works based on novels by E.M. Forster (including Maurice and Howards End in this 

year’s festival), Henry James, Kazuo Ishiguro, and others. Matías Piñeiro has stormed 

the film festival world in recent years with his playful takes on Shakespeare’s plays and 

female characters and will present Rosalinda, Viola, and Hermia & Helena at AIFF2017. 

Moderator: Bill Rauch is the artistic director of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. In a 

total of 14 seasons here, he has directed six world premieres and 16 other plays. 

funded by 

The Earth and Humanity 

Foundation 

COMMUNITY 

CONVERSATIONS 

with Marla Estes & Kay Sandberg 

5:15-6:45pm | Elks Club, 255 E. 

Main St. (2nd St. & Lithia Way) | 

FREE (no ticket required) 

Friday, April 7: City of Joy 

Saturday, April 8: I Am Another You 

Sunday, April 9: Sacred 

Join expert discussion facilitators Marla 

Estes and Kay Sandberg and special 

guests for in-depth conversations about 

how three provocative films affected 

you and other attendees. Your personal 

responses to the films’ revelations and 

possible social action points will be the 

springboard for discussion. See screenings 

of the powerful documentaries 

City of Joy, I Am Another You, and 

Sacred at AIFF2017, then come to the 

Elks Club and dive in deeper. 

Marla Estes, M.A. is the founder of the 

School of the Examined Life. She gives 

workshops using film watching as a lens 

for personal growth, and understanding 

oneself and others. 

Kay Sandberg, M.A., is passionate 

about film as a way to elevate our experience 

of being human. She has spent 

her career facilitating conversations that 

matter including the popular, “OLLI Goes 

to the AIFF.” 

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FILM PROGRAMS 

FREE SHORTS PROGRAMS 

All at Ashland Street Cinema. Admission is FREE, but a ticket is required. 

Locals Only 1: Family Friendly (8 & older) 

53 minutes | Friday, April 7, 3:40pm & Saturday, April 8, 10:10am | Films listed in order of play 

Filmmakers from around the Siskiyou region bring you wonderful short films everyone can enjoy. Featuring films from the high 

school and college LAUNCH Regional Student Competition and the winner of AIFF’s PridePrize. 

Squeaky Guy Painting 

Caleb Williams | Short | 3 min | Medford 

Launch Grades 9-12 Honorable Mention 

Three clay people (Squeaky Guy, Fog Dog, and 

the Box) jump into a painting. 

Roller Derby Revival 

Megan Deck | Short Doc | 5 min | Eugene 

Finalist 

This film covers the brief history of a local roller 

derby league and breaks the negative stereotypes 

about the sport. 

Heart. 

Melissa Turner | Short | 2 min | Medford 

PridePrize Winner 

Why do we surround love with such hate? 

I Move 

Amirah David | Short | 4 min | USA 

Life moves. Let’s move with it. 

Without a Trace 

Madeline Schwartz | Short | 4 min | 

Los Angeles 

Launch College Winner 

When an exhausted Pixar intern discovers she 

has misplaced five pages of her storyboards, 

she panics. Fortunately, her project lends her a 

hand. 

The LAUNCH Regional Student Film Competition 

The LAUNCH is a free 

contest for kindergarten 

through undergraduate 

students that encourages 

storytelling through the 

art of filmmaking. For 

more information, visit 

ashlandfilm.org/launch. 

The Saturday, April 8, 10:10am screening is followed by an Awards Ceremony for LAUNCH Regional Student Film Competition 

winners. Prizes made possible by the Rotary Club of Ashland Lithia Springs 

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Jim Teece, Jeff Rhoades & Mike Rogan 

Locksmith 

Brian Davis | Short | 1 min | Ashland 

Finalist 

A warning from a master of unlocking. 

Ruggers 

Alison Hoffman, Michael Bryant | Short 

Doc | 7 min | USA 

The story of how one rugby player sparked a 

movement at SOU and how the sport changed 

each Rugger’s life. 

Beyond This Moment 

Jayden Becker | Short | 2 min | Medford 

Finalist 

Beyond this moment, we can only imagine that we 

have yet another moment. Dedicated 2my Dad. 

I’m so grateful for the moments I had with you. 

100% Human 

Grayson Munoz | Short | 3 min | Medford 

PridePrize Honorable Mention 

Are you Human? 

A Day in the Life 

Liam Pettee | Short | 5 min | Ashland 

Finalist 

A film about parkour and freerunning. 

PridePrize funded by the Equity Foundation 

8-Bit Trip 

Colin Davis | Short | 1 min | Ashland 

Finalist 

An animation that uses an 8-bit style of design 

with influences from the book Uprooted. 

The Children’s Festival: 

Celebrating 50 Years 

Owen Patridge | Short Doc | 5 min | Medford 

Finalist 

This film is a documentary about the volunteer 

Children’s Festival, an annual community event 

for kids and families. 

Pumpkinapped! 

Billy King | Short | 3 min | Eugene 

Launch College Honorable Mention 

What would you do to save your love (if you 

were a pumpkin)? 

Outside the Box 

Jesse Widener | Short Doc | 4 min | USA 

Two girls dance ballet and pursue an uncommon 

encore. 

Eagle Feather 

Pace Encell | Short | 4 min | Ashland 

Launch Grades 9-12 Winner 

A sweet, gentle look at contemporary American 

Indian life. 

THE JURORS 

Jeff Rhoades has taught media arts at Phoenix High School for the past five 

years including filmmaking and broadcast and digital journalism. He also teaches 

filmmaking classes for SOU’s student outreach program. 

Mike Rogan is a teacher at Crater School of Business, Innovation, and Science 

and was awarded Southern Oregon’s Bestof the Best 2016 Teacher of the Year. 

Jim Teece has been a supporter of AIFF since its inception. He has been a 

sponsor, volunteer, board member (past president) and has finally climbed the 

ranks all the way to LAUNCH Juror. 

Locals Only 2: Local Matters 

61 minutes | Friday, April 7, 9:40pm & Sunday, April 9, 12:40pm 

Documentary and narrative short films from local filmmakers that highlight the passionate involvement of Rogue Valley folk. 

The Walls We Create 

Nisha Burton | Short Doc | 12 min | USA 

Does art have the power to transform walls into 

symbols of unity rather than forces of division? 

Paintbrush Harvest 

Katherine Roselli | Short Doc | 10 min | USA 

Featuring renowned Ashland artist Betty LaDuke’s 

colorful paintings, this short documentary celebrates 

the behind-the-scenes Oregon farm and 

field workers who plant, tend and harvest the 

food and flowers that grace our tables. 

The Green Bag Solution 

Laney D’Aquino | Short Doc | 24 min | USA 

This documentary chronicles the origins of the 

Ashland Food Project, building community as 

neighbors help neighbors in a simple solution 

to address hunger. 

Oregon’s War On Tui Chubs 

Jes Burns | Short Doc | 3 min | USA 

Part history, part whimsy, part ecology lesson, 

this animated short answers the question: How 

far is one state willing to go to eradicate an 

invasive fish? 

The Deer Whisperer 

Howard Schreiber | Short | 12 min | USA 

In this mockumentary, the deer whisperer 

comes to town to solve a problem. 

Locals Only 3: Potpourri 

80 minutes | Thursday, April 6, 3:40pm & Saturday, April 8, 9:20pm 

Shades of Red 

Austin Fitzpatrick | Short | 4 min | USA 

How far will he go? 

Concrete Canvas 

Gary Lundgren | Short | 19 min | USA 

A homeless ex-boxer tries to get his old life back. 

Electric Beethoven 

Josh Clark | Short | 5 min | USA 

Set to a musical reimagining of his Symphony 

No. 3, a young Beethoven struggles with fame 

and depression in the digital age. 

The Locals Only & LAUNCH 

programs are sponsored in part 

by the Oregon Cultural Trust, 

The Carpenter Foundation, and 

the US Bank Foundation 

Unless specifically noted as family fare, the 

short films in these programs may have 

strong language and/or adult themes. 

Viewer discretion advised. 

Serious and sardonic, wistful and laugh-out-loud funny, these short films by local filmmakers have something for everyone. 

The Fruit of Jonesy 

Violet Crabtree, Philip Kumsar, Jameson 

Collins, Lauren Dahl | Short | 13 min | USA 

A young man’s quiet walk in the woods turns 

into a supernatural journey with unexpected 

consequences. 

The Treasure of Bentley Paramour 

Alan Mash | Short Doc | 20 min | USA 

The search and discovery of the treasure of 

Bentley Paramour. 

Papa Joe 

Ross Williams | Short Doc | 4 min | USA 

A short documentary about the life of Joe 

Hurlimann, now 82, who has been ranching in 

Scott Valley, California his whole life. 

Refuge 

Mohammed Alsultan | Short | 15 min | USA 

As refugees are captured by the border patrol, 

one woman escapes to find herself surviving on 

her own in a foreign land. 

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FILM PROGRAMS 

SHORT FILM PROGRAMS 

Unless specifically noted as family fare, the short films in these programs may have strong language and/or adult themes. Viewer discretion advised. 

Full descriptions of the documentary and narrative shorts included 

in these programs start on page 54. Films listed in order of play. 

FAMILY 

PROGRAMS 

FILM PROGRAMS 

Animators of LAIKA: Shorts 

with Mark Shapiro 

62 min. | Fri 3:40pm & Sat 6:40pm | Varsity 3 

In this block of animated shorts from the immensely talented 

employees of LAIKA, you will get a feel for the storytelling, 

wit, and profound creativity brewing behind the scenes at 

the Portland-based stop-motion animation studio. LAIKA’s 

Mark Shapiro, a longtime supporter and presenter at AIFF, 

will be on hand to introduce the program and tell a story or 

two about the people at the studio where he has served as 

head of marketing for nearly ten years. 

Taking the Plunge (Student Oscar ® winner) | Director: Marie Raoult 

Alive | Director: Katy Strutz | 3 min 

Heavy as a Hill | Director: Emily Neilson | 5 min 

The Mouse that Soared | Director: Kyle Bell | 6 min 

Aria For a Cow | Director: Connie Thompson | 7 min 

IQ | Director: Ian Whitlock | 2 min 

To Have and to Hold | Director: Jessica Polaniecki | 4 min 

The Horror in the Clay | Director: Hals Reynolds | 4 min 

Funkeyframe | Director: Danie West 

NLFU: Films by Vanessa Renwick 

80 min. | Sun 6:40pm | Varsity 3 

Vanessa Renwick has been self-producing films and videos since 

the early 1980s. Her DIY aesthetic presents a challenge to an 

indie film scene that sometimes seems to care more about slickness 

and commercial success than originality of spirit. NLFU is 

an eclectic sampling of her very best work, spanning more than 

20 years. It will be fast and aggressive, slow and contemplative, 

hard to pin down—and harder to forget. 

See more of Vanessa’s art and film on display at the Schneider 

Museum of Art from April 5–May 27 (p. 20 ) and in performance 

there with Tara Jane O’Neill on Saturday, April 8 (p. 21 ). 

Land of the Free | 2016 | 2 min 

Britton, South Dakota | 2003 | 9 min 

The Yodeling Lesson | 1998 | 3 min 

Richart | 2001 | 23 min 

Crowdog | 1984/1998 | 7 min 

Layover | 2014 | 6 min 

Portrait #3: House of Sound | 2009 | 11 min 

Portrait #2: Trojan | 2006 | 5 min 

Next Level Fucked Up | 2016 | 14 min 

After Hours Shorts 

89 min. | Fri 9:30pm, Sat 9:30pm, Sun 9:30pm, 

Mon 9:30pm | Varsity 5 

Our late-night mix of edgy and boundary-expanding short 

films is always an audience favorite. Subtitles 

Election Night 

Hijo por Hijo 

The Last Leatherman 

of the Vale of Cashmere 

Univitellin 

Plea 

White Face 

Finding Refuge 

55 min. | Sun 6:40pm, Ashland Street Cinema & 

Mon 10:10am, Varsity 3 

Three short films that show us what it means to be in search of 

a country, a safe place, a home. Subtitles 

Speechless 

High Chaparral 

A Thousand Mothers 

Short Docs 

Sponsored by Ashland Home Net/Project A (Jim Teece & Dena Matthews) 

88 min. | Thurs 12:20pm, Sat 9:50am, Sun 9:20pm, 

Mon 6:20pm | Varsity 2 

Inspiring, challenging, eye-opening nonfiction short films. 

The Function of Music 

Balloonfest 

The Boatman 

Kish 

The Tables 

Pickle 

The Man is the Music 

Live-action shorts from around the world, which explore the 

full range of human experience and emotion. Subtitles 

Short Stories 1 

80 min. | Thurs 9:40pm, Fri 10:10am, Sun 10:10am | Varsity 3 

Roadside Attraction No.1 

Death in a Day 

Love 

Já Passou 

4 Pounds of Flowers 

Black Canaries 


90 min. | Fri 3:20pm, Sat 6:20pm, Sun. 12:20pm | Varsity 2 

Summer Camp Island 

Swim 

Fox and the Whale 

Fox 

Pool 

CineSpace 

Introduced by Daniel Jacobs, Manager of NASA 

International Partners Space Station Program 

81 min. | Sat 10:00am | Armory 

A special selection of shorts curated from the second annual 

CineSpace competition. These films all incorporate real NASA 

footage collected over 50 years of spaceflight and exploration. 

Exploration | Director: Ryan J Thompson | 

United Kingdom | 3 min 

The Traveler | Director: Duncan Elms | USA | 3 min 

Izel | Director: Wil Prada | USA |6 min 

Voyager | Directors: Loïc Magar, Roman Veiga | 

France | 10 min 

The Divine Countdown | Director: Daniel Cantagallo | USA | 4 min 

My Room at the Centre of the Universe | Director: Guy Spiller | 

South Africa |10 min 

Atmos | Director: Matthew Nefdt | South Africa |3 min 

Living on an Island | Director: Kuesti Fraun | Germany | 3 min 

Music of the Spheres | Directors: Jon Bougher, Kohl Threlkeld | 

USA | 6 min 

Life on Mars: Leila Zucker | Director: Melissa Balan | USA |11 min 

Lani’s Space | Directors: Harriett Maire, Ferris Bradley | 

New Zealand | 10 min 

Robot Koch – Eclipse | Director: Mickael Le Goff | Germany | 4 min 

1950DA | Director: Sébastien Tulard |France | 8 min 

Family programming 

generously supported 

by TC Chevy 

Family Shorts: Kid Flix 

67 min. | Thu 10:10am & 12:40pm, Fri 10:10am, 

Sat 12:40pm, Sun 10:10am | Ashland Street Cinema 

Delightful animated and live action shorts sure to please kids 

three and up. Curated from the New York International Children’s 

Film Festival. The program includes Elementary and Middle 

School LAUNCH winners. 

Life Cycle of a Raindrop (Grades 6-8) | Director: Ilaena 

Hepord | 2 min | Ashland 

Slick’s Adventure (Grades K-5) | Director: Tashi Gooden | 

5 min | Ashland 

Best of the Fest: Kid Flix 1 

One, Two, Tree | Director: Yulia Aronova | France | 7 min 

Octopus | Director: Julia Ocker | Germany | 4 min 

Me...Jane | Director: Paul & Sandra Fierlinger | USA | 9 min 

Tiny Tunes–Food | Director: Andy Martin | United Kingdom | 1 min 

Looks | Director: Susann Hoffmann | Germany | 3 min 

Memories of the Sea | Director: Thais Drassinower | Brazil, 

USA | 9 min 

Zoo Story | Director: Veronika Zacharova | Czech Republic | 4 min 

That Is Not a Good Idea | Director: Pete List | USA | 8 min 

Perfect Houseguest | Directors: Ru Kuwahata & Max Porter | 

USA | 2 min 

An Object at Rest | Director: Seth Boyden | USA |6 min 

The Visitors | Director: Philip Watts | Australia | 1 min 

The Girl Who Spoke Cat | Director: Dotty Kultys | Poland, 

United Kingdom | 6 min 

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AWARDS & JURORS 

JURIED AWARDS 

The Les Blank Award: Best 

Documentary & Best Editing: 

Documentary Feature 

Kirby Dick is a two time Emmy-Award 

winning and two time Academy Awardnominated 

documentary film director. 

Previous films include The Hunting 

Ground (AIFF2015), The Invisible War 

(AIFF2012), Outrage, This Film Is 

Not Yet Rated, and Derrida. He is the 

recipient of The Nestor Almendros Prize for Courage 

in Filmmaking, the Upton Sinclair Award, and the 

Ridenhour Documentary Film Prize. 

Marian Luntz held positions at Kino 

International and the American Film 

Institute before moving to Houston. 

Since 1990 she has worked at The 

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston where 

she is Curator, Film and Video. She has 

served on juries and panels including 

Sundance Film Festival, SXSW, National Endowment for 

the Arts, and the Rockefeller Foundation. 

Brian Lindstrom is the director of 

Mothering Inside, which won AIFF2016’s 

Best Short Documentary and focuses on 

inmate moms working to develop loving 

relationships with their children. He is 

currently making a documentary on the 

late singer/songwriter Judee Sill, and 

collaborating with his wife Cheryl Strayed on a pilot for HBO. 

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• The Les Blank Award: 

Best Documentary Feature 

• Best Editing: Documentary Feature 

• Best Documentary Short 

• Best Narrative Feature 

• Gerald Hirschfeld Cinematography Award: 

Narrative Feature 

• Best Narrative Short 

THE JURORS 

AUDIENCE AWARDS 

• Rogue Creamery Audience Award: 

Best Documentary Feature 

• Audience Award: Best Documentary Short 

• Varsity Audience Award: Best Narrative Feature 

• Jim Teece Audience Award: Best Narrative Short 

AIFF Audience Awards are decided by festival-goers who submit 

their ballots after the film screenings. These awards are highly 

valued by our filmmakers. Don’t forget to vote! 

Gerald Hirschfeld A.S.C. was the Director of Photography on 45+ feature films including Fail Safe 

and Young Frankenstein. He was the author of Image Control, and a member of the Academy of 

Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. He received the A.S.C.’s President’s Award and the AIFF2004 

Lifetime Achievement Award. The winner of his namesake award, The Gerald Hirschfeld A.S.C. Award 

for Best Cinematography, was personally selected by Gerry from 2003-2015. This year we bestow 

the award in his memory. Gerald Hirschfeld passed away in February. He will be deeply missed. 

Best Narrative Feature & Gerald 

Hirschfeld Cinematography Award: 

Narrative Feature 

Godfrey Cheshire is an award-winning 

film critic and filmmaker based in New 

York City. His writings have appeared 

in publications including the New York 

Times, Variety, Newsweek, The Village 

Voice, Film Comment, Cineaste and 

currently RogerEbert.com. His critically 

acclaimed documentary Moving Midway appeared in 2008. 

Sean Porter has been featured in 

Variety’s “BTL Impact Report,” 

Filmmaker Magazine’s “25 New Faces 

of Independent Cinema,” and Indiewire’s 

“10 Cinematographers to Watch.” 

He received a Spotlight Award 

nomination for Best Cinematography 

for his work on It Felt Like Love. 

Most recently he collaborated with Mike Mills on the 

Oscar-nominated 20th Century Women. 

Ron Yerxa formed Bona Fide 

Productions with Albert Berger in 1993. 

Their producing credits include Election, 

Cold Mountain, and Little Miss Sunshine. 

His executive producer credits include the 

documentaries I Am Trying to Break Your 

Heart and Ain’t In It For My Health. Bona 

Fide recently completed production on The Only Living 

Boy in New York starring Jeff Bridges. 

Best Documentary Short 

Jim Browne has been active as a film 

programmer, distributor, and producer 

in New York for over 25 years. He is the 

founder of Argot Pictures, an independent 

film distribution company that specializes 

in hybrid distribution strategies for 

documentary films. He was a programmer 

for the Tribeca Film Festival from 2006-2010 and the Abu 

Dhabi Film Festival from 2010-14. 

Jessica Green has overseen the 

programming at Maysles Cinema since 

2008. The Maysles Cinema, at the Maysles 

Documentary Center, founded by the 

late great documentarian Albert Maysles 

(AIFF2008 Lifetime Achievement Award) 

is also the first independent cinema focused on documentary 

film in the world. She is also developing a narrative project 

about Louis Armstrong’s State Department Tour. 

Laura Henneman has worked in 

the film festival world since 2004, on 

festival teams from Ashland, Oregon to 

Abu Dhabi, UAE. She is a programmer 

for the Oscar-qualifying Palm Springs 

International ShortFest and also 

spearheads MVFF Music, the Mill Valley Film Festival’s 

special section of screenings and performances. 

Best Narrative Short 

Warren Etheredge is the founder of The 

Warren Report and one of the founding 

faculty of TheFilmSchool and The Red 

Badge Project, which helps combat veterans 

work through PTSD by teaching them 

the art of storytelling. He has conducted over 

3,000 interviews, many of them on his Emmy-nominated TV 

series The High Bar. 

Martin C. Jones is the CEO at 

MetroEast Community Media. He 

specializes in producing and acquiring 

content for theatrical release, broadcast, 

and streaming. Jones has produced 

feature films (Asunder, For Real, 

Nothin’ 2 Lose), specials, sitcoms, and national TV spots 

for global brands Jeep, Chrysler, Chevrolet, Turner/ 

TimeWarner, and Grolsch Beer. 

Stacey Steers is known for her processdriven, 

labor-intensive films composed of 

thousands of handmade works on paper. 

Her recent work employs images appropriated 

from early cinematic sources, from 

which she constructs original, lyrical narratives. 

Steers’ animated short films have 

screened at Sundance, Telluride, New Directors New Films, 

IFFR Rotterdam, MoMA and the National Gallery of Art. 

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2017 FILMS 

ACTIVISM 

& FILM 

In 2017, many independent filmmakers are reflecting 

on how their films can inspire people to take action 

and resist a radically conservative administration that 

reflects and stokes a cultural backlash against diversity and 

environmentalism. Independent films often take us inside 

the lives and perspectives of “outsiders” who have been 

stereotyped and demonized in the media, thereby building 

empathy across social divides. Their stories investigate and 

expose truths about injustice and corruption that entertainment 

news services fail to tackle. In two TalkBacks and 

many screenings, AIFF2017 will foreground the voices of 

activist filmmakers who, through the example of their own 

commitment and that of their activist subjects, show how 

power that seems entrenched and overwhelming can be 

resisted and retaken. 

— Richard Herskowitz, Director of Programming 

Filming Activists (see p. 23) 

Talkback: April 7, 10am | Ashland Springs Hotel 

With Peter Bratt, Pamela Yates, Jennifer MacArthur, and Nanfu 

Wang. Moderated by Sonya Childress. 

Related Films 

Dolores 

Tribute to Skylight: 

The Resistance Saga 

When the Mountain Trembles 

Granito: How to Nail a Dictator 

500 Years 

Whose Streets? 

Unrest 

City of Joy 


Acts and Intermissions 

Indie Documentary Journalism in the 

Age of Fake News (see p. 23) 

Talkback: April 8, 10am | Ashland Springs Hotel 

With Kirby Dick, Cullen Hoback, Sonya Childress, and Brian 

Knappenberger. Moderated by Carrie Lozano. 

Related films 

What Lies Upstream 

Nobody Speak: Trials of the Free Press 

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DOCUMENTARY FEATURES 

500 Years Oregon Premiere | 88 minutes | 2017 | USA 

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TIMES 

Saturday 3:30pm 

This is the final 

film in Pamela 

Yates and 

Skylight’s 

Resistance 

Saga, which also 

includes When 

the Mountains 

Tremble and 

Granito: How to 

Nail a Dictator 

Director: Pamela Yates 

Executive Producer: Paco de Onís 

Co-Producers: Raul Estuardo 

Socon Canel, Beatriz Gallardo Shaul 

Cinematographers: Melle van 

Essen, Rene Soza 

Editor: Peter Kinoy 

Music: Roger C. Miller 

Abacus: Small Enough to Jail 

TIMES 

Thursday 9:00pm 

Friday 6:00pm 

Sunday 3:00pm 

Director: Steve James 

Producers: Julie Goldman, 

Mark Mitten 

Executive Producers: Raney 

Aronson-Rath, Christopher Clements, 

Sally Jo Fifer, Justine Nagan, 

Gordon Quinn, Betsy Steinberg 

Co-Producers: Fenell Doremus, 

Nick Verbitsky 

Cinematographer: Tom Bergmann 

Editors: John Farbrother, 

David E. Simpson 

Music: Joshua Abrams 

500 Years tells the courageous story of Guatemala’s indigenous majority 

population as they rise from the ashes of 30 years of injustice and oppression 

to convict a genocidal general and topple a corrupt president. Focusing on 

universal themes of justice, racism, power, and corruption, the Mayan people 

recount their three-year struggle to rise up, empowered by the growing outcry 

of public sentiment. As witness to this heroic moment in Guatemalan history, 

500 Years documents the beginning of the end of an unaccountable rule of law 

and a society where change finally seems possible. Subtitles 

Director’s Statement: Pamela Yates 

I needed to continue to tell the story that began 35 years 

ago in Guatemala with When the Mountains Tremble 

and subsequently Granito: How to Nail a Dictator. 

But how could I tell a new and different story with 

a fresh perspective? I’ve stayed committed to Guatemala, 

a country of beauty and pathos, of courage and fear, 

where a majority of the indigenous Mayan population 

survived the Spanish conquest and resisted assimilation 

for 500 years. Resistance became the through line of this new film, taking us 

into a genocide trial and a national uprising where we see how the extraordinary 

experience of the Mayans guides us. 

Selected Filmography: Granito: How to Nail a Dictator (2017), The Reckoning, 

When the Mountains Tremble (2017) 

Oregon Premiere | 88 minutes | 2016 | USA | In Competition 

Acclaimed director Steve James (Hoop Dreams, Life Itself) chronicles the 

incredible story of Thomas Sung and his family-owned bank, Abacus 

Federal Savings. In the 1980s, when Sung had trouble securing a mortgage, 

he opened a small community bank in the heart of Chinatown, catering 

directly to the needs of the Chinese immigrant community and helping many 

residents buy homes and start businesses. “Banks at that time wanted Chinese 

depositors,” says Sung, “but not borrowers.” In the wake of the 2008 financial 

crisis, institutions like JP Morgan Chase, Citibank, and Goldman Sachs were 

deemed “too-big-to-fail” and despite committing massive mortgage fraud were 

never indicted. Only one bank was ever criminally indicted: Abacus. Over the 

course of a mind-boggling five-year legal battle, the Sungs fight to restore their 

family’s reputation and their bank’s legacy. Subtitles 

Director’s Statement: Steve James 

The story of the prosecution of Abacus was brought 

to my attention by producer Mark Mitten, who served 

as an executive producer and co-producer on my last 

film, Life Itself. Mark has known the Sung family for ten 

years and had firsthand knowledge of the legal ordeal 

they were going through. Good thing too, because the 

case generated virtually no press attention outside of 

New York’s Chinese language press. Indeed, we came to 

believe that this obscure fraud trial, involving just thirty mortgages, has much 

to say about the financial crisis and larger issues of justice in America. 

Selected Filmography: Hoop Dreams, The Interrupters, Life Itself, Prefontaine, Stevie 

Acts and Intermissions 

TIMES 

Friday 9:40am 

Saturday 3:10pm 

Sunday 3:20pm 

Monday 3:10pm 

Director, Producer, Screenwriter, 

Cinematographer, Editor: 

Abigail Child 

Music: Andrea Parkins 

P L A Y S W I 

T H : 

You Have the 

Right to an 


Oregon Premiere | 56 minutes | 2017 | USA | In Competition 

Abigail Child’s documentary explores the resurgence of protest in the 21st 

Century through a refracted observation of the life and works of anarchist 

revolutionary Emma Goldman. The work is hybrid and prismatic, utilizing 

contemporary and archival footage and re-enactment to expose the continuing 

conflicts between labor and property, revolutionary purity and personal 

freedom. Once considered the “most dangerous woman alive,” Emma was also 

passionate and sexual; beauty, art, and humor were integral to the freedoms 

for which she fought. The film performs a time travel, weaving industrial-era 

factory labor and contemporary computer data centers with excerpts of Emma’s 

prescient speeches and intimate diary entries to explore human vulnerabilities, 

compromises, and choices. 

Director’s Statement: Abigail Child 

The film is the second in my Trilogy of Women 

and Ideology. Each part asks: how do ideologies 

fail women? What do we give up in our struggle 

to be more than “merely female?” The first in the 

trilogy, Unbound, retells the story of Mary Shelley, 

examining 19th century Romanticism through 

“imaginary home movies” shot in Rome. This 

second film explores Emma Goldman and Anarchism, shot in New York City, 

in a series of non-hierarchical fragmented “memory” chapters. The third part 

of the Trilogy will explore science in the 21st century, focusing on virtual 

women and androids. 

Selected Filmography: A Shape of Error, Unbound 

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Buzz One Four 


60 minutes | 2017 | USA | In Competition 

Did you know that at the height of the Cold War, a B-52 bomber loaded 

with two thermonuclear bombs crashed 90 miles from Washington DC? 

Details about the crash are still classified, but evidence suggests that it could 

have been prevented had Air Force officials followed their own safety protocols. 

Buzz One Four investigates this crash and other cold-war nuclear-weapons 

accidents and leaves us wondering if the United States was actually in greater 

danger of nuking itself or being attacked by the Russians. But more than a 

chronicle of this ill-fated flight, this is a family story about filmmaker Matt 

McCormick’s grandfather—the pilot of the plane—and features his beautifullyshot 

home movies. 

TIMES 

Thursday 12:10pm 

Friday 6:40pm 

Friday 9:10pm 


Sunday 6:10pm 

Monday 9:40am 



Matt McCormick 

Executive Producer: 

Jed Rosenzweig 

Co-Producers: Peter Glavin, 

Karl Lind 

Music: Matthew Cooper 

Animator: Kurtis Hough 

Director’s Statement: Matt McCormick 

The crash of Buzz One Four is a story that I grew up 

with, but didn’t truly comprehend the severity of until 

I randomly googled it decades later as an adult. I had 

known the harrowing story of my grandfather’s crash, 

but I had no idea about the larger implications of the 

incident. Nor did I understand just how aggressive, 

and at times irresponsible, our country’s efforts were 

during those times. The film is half historical documentation 

and half family portrait—perhaps the most difficult aspect of 

the film was finding the balance between the personal and the informative 

aspects of the project. 

Selected Filmography: The Great Northwest, Some Days Are Better Than Others, The 

Subconscious Art of Graffiti Removal 

City of Joy 

| Oregon Premiere | 74 minutes | 2016 | Democratic Republic of Congo, USA | In Competition 

Film editor Madeleine Gavin directs her first film, an ultimately uplifting 

documentary about a center in the Democratic Republic of Congo where 

women who have suffered horrific rape and abuse form a revolutionary 

community of leaders despite an endless war driven by greed, economics, 

and colonialism. The film shares the unlikely friendship that develops 

when a devout Congolese doctor, Dr. Denis Mukwege, (2016 nominee for 

the Nobel Peace Prize), radical playwright and activist, Eve Ensler, (Tony 

Award®-winning playwright of The Vagina Monologues) and a charismatic 

Congolese human rights activist, Christine Schuler-Deschryver, join forces 

to create a safe haven in the middle of violence-torn eastern Congo; a place 

they call The City of Joy. Subtitles 

TIMES 


Friday 12:00pm 

Saturday 9:30am 

Screeners’ Choice: 

Selected by AIFF’s 

amazing volunteer 

screeners 

Director, Screenwriter, Editor: 

Madeleine Gavin 

Producer: Allyson Luchak 

Executive Producers: Dan Cogan, 

Geralyn Dreyfous, Amy Rao, Wendy 

Schmidt, Regina Scully 

Co-Producer: Jenny Raskin 

Cinematographers: Taylor Krauss, 

Lisa Rinzler 

Music: Lokua Kanza, tomandandy 

Director’s Statement: Madeleine Gavin 

I understood that I could make a film that was 

explicit about some of DRC’s history, but I wasn’t 

really interested in making a film that was too 

straight ahead because I had seen films where I 

felt like I got a lot of information but didn’t really 

experience anything. I wanted to make a film that 

allowed audiences to feel what I felt when I first 

went to Congo—the tremendous strength, vitality, 

and commitment that these individuals had to 

each other and to imagining a future for themselves and their country. It was 

important to me that the audience not go numb in the watching of this film or 

to be so torn up that they shut down and stopped listening. 

Selected Filmography: Directorial Debut 

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Cocksucker Blues 

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TIMES 


Dolores 

TIMES 


Opening Night Film 

with Director (and 

Ashland Resident) 

Peter Bratt in 

attendance 

Directors: Robert Frank, 

Danny Seymour 

Screenwriter, Cinematographer: 

Robert Frank 

Editors: Paul Justman, 

Susan Steinberg 

Sound: Danny Seymour 

Director: Peter Bratt 

Producers: Brian Benson, 

Peter Bratt 

Executive Producers: Carlos 

Santana, Regina K. Scully, Janet 

MacGillivray Wallace 

Screenwriters: Peter Bratt, 

Jessica Congdon 

Cinematographer: Jesse Dana 

Editor: Jessica Congdon 

Music: Mark Kilian 

In what might just be the most controversial music documentary of all time, 

legendary photographer Robert Frank follows the Rolling Stones during their 

1972 American tour to promote Exile on Main Street. Frank records it all up 

close and personal—the drugs, the sex, the violent rows, even giving members 

of the band cameras to get closer to the backstage drama. The result is unsettling 

and unnerving footage of wild parties and escalating conflicts. But what really 

gives the film its impact is its depiction of the loneliness and emptiness of the 

rock-star lifestyle. The documentary was so controversial that Mick Jagger didn’t 

want it screened at all and now it may only be shown four times a year—one of 

those at AIFF2017. 

Curator’s Statement 

From Marian Luntz, curator of the Robert Frank 

film archive at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 

who will present AIFF2017’s screening. 

93 minutes | 1972 | USA 

Cocksucker Blues, Robert Frank and Danny 

Seymour’s documentary about the Rolling 

Stones’ 1972 US tour, was filmed three years 

after the band’s fateful concert at Altamont 

Speedway. They had unrestricted access to the 

band and entourage behind the scenes when 

they were hanging out between shows, rehearsing, 

and participating in leisure-time activities Director Robert Frank 

that they later decided the public didn’t need to see. Mick Jagger reportedly 

said “Robert, the film is fucking great, but they won’t let us back in the US if 

they see it.” Hence the strong restrictions on the film’s release. 

Selected Filmography: Robert Frank: Pull My Daisy, Me and My Brother, Candy Mountain 

| | Opening Night Film | Oregon Premiere | 95 minutes | 2017 | USA 

Everyone knows that Cesar Chavez formed the first US farm workers’ union, 

but have you ever heard of the union’s co-founder, Dolores Huerta? One of 

the 20th Century’s most defiant feminists, she fought tirelessly alongside Chavez 

for racial and labor justice. Like so many powerful women of her era, Dolores 

and her advocacy have been sidelined and diminished. False accusations (mostly 

about her personal life) pushed Dolores out of the very union she helped create. 

Through beautifully woven archival footage and interviews from contemporaries 

and from Dolores herself, this provocative and energizing documentary sets the 

record straight on one of the most effective and undervalued civil and labor 

rights leaders in American history. Subtitles 

Director’s Statement: Peter Bratt 

After interviewing farm workers, scholars, politicians, 

feminists, labor historians, and 10 of her 11 biological 

children, one thing became crystal clear: Dolores Huerta’s 

erasure from the historical record was deliberate. And 

if Dolores had been excised then only she could tell her 

story. Her voice. Her life. Her words. As we worked on 

the film, Dolores’ voice revealed a woman both heroic 

and flawed. My hope is that people might now see 

Dolores’ story as part of their own, one that perhaps allows them to more fully, 

more honestly understand the last 50 years in America’s history and how it 

connects to and informs where we find ourselves today. 

Selected Filmography: Follow Me Home, La Mission 

Earth Seasoned...#GapYear 

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Sunday 9:00pm 

Director, Producer: 

Molly Kreuzman 

Co-Producer: Anne Lundgren 

Cinematographer: Michelle 

Alvarado 

Editor: Gary Lundgren 

Music: John Morgan Askew 

Animator: Patrick Neary 

Following Seas 

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Sunday 6:20pm 

Directors: Araby Kelley, 

Tyler J. Kelley 

Producer, Screenwriter: 


Cinematographers: 

Nancy Griffith, Araby Kelley 

Editor: Araby Kelley 

Music: All Them Witches, 

Christopher Lancaster, Teho Teardo, 

Luke Tromiczak, Woodsplitter 

World Premiere | 75 minutes | 2017 | USA 

Tori Davis, whose learning disabilities affected her ability to fit in at school, 

finds her greatest teacher in nature, spending a “gap year” living semiprimitively 

with four other young women in the Oregon Cascade Mountains. 

The first film by Rogue Valley director Molly Kreuzman reveals how separately 

and together the girls learn ancient skills of craftsmanship and teamwork while 

forging deep powers of resilience and self-reliance. A poignant meditation on 

humanity’s lost communion with the natural world and how restoring it can 

revive our sense of wholeness and purpose, it is also an implicit condemnation 

of how our dominant social systems—especially education—can generate deep 

problems of personal identity and belonging for which our children too often 

blame themselves 

Director’s Statement: Molly Kreuzman 

I have always been passionate about time spent 

in nature and believe that nature belongs to all 

of us regardless of gender, race, or income. I 

believe that kids need nature now more than ever: 

the solitude, the uncomplicated beauty, and the 

inspiration found in the natural world are critical 

to our well-being. Having practiced and taught 

primitive living skills for most of my life, I was 

excited to show what these young women would 

do on the mountain for a year and how it would change them. It is my great 

joy to bring you Earth Seasoned...#GapYear. 


« 


How to be free—free from bosses, rent, and red tape: In 1960, Bob and 

Nancy Griffith set out on their 53-foot sailboat to chase that freedom, 

literally to the ends of the earth. They spent decades navigating the relentless 

pull of family and adventure and traveled to some of the most remote places 

on earth without the aid of GPS, support vessels, or communication with the 

outside world. Combining recent interviews with exquisite archival 16-millimeter 

film shot by Nancy on location from Antarctica to Polynesia, Following Seas 

is not only a story of world records and sailing feats, but of a family driven by 

self-determination and a dream. 

Director’s Statement: 


Nancy Griffith always knew her family was doing 

something cinema-worthy. From behind her clock-wind 

Bolex camera, she filmed their lives from the early 1960s 

to the late 1970s while she and her husband Bob sailed 

around the world three times, living aboard their 

53-foot sailboat, raising three children at sea. In the 

winter of 2010, I met the Griffiths’ son Robert at a bar 

in Brooklyn. He said that he had ten DVDs’ worth of 

footage transferred from 16-millimeter film that his 

mother had shot while voyaging. I went to his house 

to watch it and was immediately struck by the beauty 

and intimacy of the footage. That night I called Araby 

and said, “We need to make a movie.” 



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86 minutes | 2016 | USA | In Competition 

An inspirational look at the culminating court battle that took same-sex 

marriage from a “preposterous notion” just a few decades ago to the law 

of the land today. “The Freedom to Marry” movement is now considered one 

of the most successful civil rights campaigns in modern history, but change 

did not arrive by happenstance. This victory was carefully planned and orchestrated 

over decades. The film tells the untold story of marriage equality’s brilliant 

mastermind, Evan Wolfson, and its passionate litigator, Mary Bonauto from 

the earliest days of their journey to their final, thrilling triumph at the US 

Supreme Court. Produced by AIFF2017 Pride Award recipient Jenni Olson. 

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Director: Eddie Rosenstein 

Producers: Jenni Olson, 

Amie Segal 

Executive Producer: Randi Blanco 


Claudia Raschke, Bob Richman 

Editor: Pilar Rico 

Sound Designer: Tom Paul 

Director’s Statement: Eddie Rosenstein 

This film began with a question. My son had 

grown tired of my wife and me telling him to stand 

up for what he believes in. “Dad,” he said, “Regular 

people don’t have any power in this world. How do 

you really expect me to make a difference?” Thus, 

I made this film about the marriage movement 

because Evan Wolfson and his colleagues are indeed living proof that regular 

people really can change the world. Of course, what began as an inspirational 

story for my son is also an important message for us all. I hope you enjoy it. 

Selected Filmography: Boatlift, Sandhogs, School Play 

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Granito: How to Nail a Dictator 

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Friday 6:30pm 



This is the 

second film in 

Skylight’s 

Resistance 

Saga, which 

also includes 

When the 

Mountains 

Tremble and 

500 Years 

Director: Pamela Yates 

Producer: Paco de Onis 

Cinematographer: Melle van Essen 


Music: Roger C. Miller 

Animator: Takaaki Okada 


Thirty years ago, Guatemala was engulfed in an armed conflict during 

which a genocidal “scorched earth” campaign by the military killed nearly 

200,000 Maya people, 45,000 of them “disappeared.” Granito: How to Nail a 

Dictator is a story of destinies joined by Guatemala’s past and how a documentary 

film intertwined with a nation’s turbulent history emerges as an active 

player in the present. Characters sift for clues buried in archives of mind and 

place, seeking to unlock the past and settle matters of life and death in the 

present. They piece together a narrative of wrongs done and justice sought, 

each adding a granito, a tiny grain of sand, to the tale. Subtitles 


For me Granito: How to Nail a Dictator is a second 

chance to help right a terrible wrong. I’d always 

asked myself, did I do enough to stop the violence 

in Guatemala? Was making When the Mountains 

Tremble sufficient? By 2011, we knew that hidden 

in the war was a genocide the Guatemalan military 

dictators committed against the Mayan people. 

None of these war criminals had ever been 

brought to justice. The anger I felt towards those 

Generals was almost unbearable. 25 years later, 

When the Mountains Tremble and all the outtakes were being used as forensic 

evidence in an international genocide case against General Ríos Montt who 

appeared in my original film and my latest, 500 Years. 

Selected Filmography: 500 Years (AIFF2017), The Reckoning, State of Fear, When the 

Mountains Tremble (AIFF2017) 

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The Groove is Not Trivial 


Oregon Premiere | 62 minutes | 2016 | Canada, Scotland, Spain, USA | In Competition 

From Scotland to Northern California, master fiddler Alasdair Fraser 

is on a journey of self-expression that takes him deep into his Scottish 

musical roots. There he finds a universal pulse—a groove—which acts as a 

through line from the past to a future sparked by hopeful possibilities. Fraser 

shares his art through performance and through directing wild, wonderful, 

multi-generational music camps, where participants learn to trust their 

inherent sense of the groove. The irrepressible Fraser proves that the groove 

in traditional music transcends toe-tapping fun and can be a source of 

personal and political liberation. 

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Friday 9:50am 

Monday 9:40pm 


Tommie Dell Smith 


Michael Anderson, Bob Elfstrom, 

Michael Lutman 

Editor: Elizabeth Finlayson 

Music: Alasdair Fraser 

Director’s Statement: Tommie Dell Smith 

When my 10-year-old daughter was embraced by 

the Scottish fiddling community and saw her world 

changed, I knew this magic should be shared with a 

broader audience. My goal for this film is to inspire 

people to live more fully by connecting and embracing 

joy as a part of our lives. As Alasdair says, “we feel a 

little better about ourselves and we become better neighbors.” 

Selected Filmography: Breaking Silence: The Story of the Sisters at DeSales Heights, Child of 

Our Time, Image of the Tiger 

Happy Lucky Golden Tofu Panda 

Dragon Good Time Fun Fun Show 

Oregon Premiere | 80 minutes | 2016 | USA 

East meets West in this live stand-up comedy, sketch, and rock ‘n’ roll/ 

spoken word concert film focused on Asian American themes including 

bowl cuts, math nerds—and Hello Kitty everything! The film is anchored 

in a live show by Slanty Eyed Mama: two good Asian girls gone bad-assed. 

Virtuoso violinist Lyris Hung and comedian/actor Kate Rigg take on some of 

the biggest issues and cultural tropes of the Asian immigrant experience with 

humor and musical “medit-asians” on contemporary culture. Directed by 

Emmy Award-winning actor Carrie Preston (True Blood and The Good Wife). 

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Slanty Eyed Mama 

will perform LIVE 

after the film 

Director: Carrie Preston 

Executive Producers: 

Carrie Preston, Kate Rigg 

Screenwriter: Kate Rigg 

Cinematographers: Rick Kaplan, 

William Klayer 

Editor: Christopher Gerson 

Music: Lyris Hung 

Director’s Statement: Carrie Preston 

The entire creative team for this movie is 

comprised of hyphenate women. I am an 

actor as well as a director and producer. Kate 

Rigg is an actor comedian who fronts a band 

and is also a creative executive producer. 

Lyris Hung currently tours with the Indigo 

Girls, is an executive at D’Addario strings, 

and has a death metal band named after her. 

We think the new America is made up of hyphenates whether that is in the 

personal, professional, or political realms. We always think long and hard 

about writing with and about racial language because it is a powerful trigger 

for both Asian and non-Asian audiences. The whole movie springboards 

from this idea of deepening our understanding of the humanity behind 

diversity. Also there are jokes. Lots of jokes. 

Selected Filmography: 29th and Gay, That’s What She Said 

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Harold and Lillian: A Hollywood Love Story 

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Sunday 9:30am 

Director, Screenwriter: 

Daniel Raim 

Producers: Daniel Raim, 

Jennifer Raim 

Executive Producer: Danny DeVito 


Battiste Fenwick, Daniel Raim 

Editors: Daniel Raim, 

Jennifer Raim 

Music: Dave Lebolt 

Animator: Patrick Mate 

I Am Another You 

Oregon Premiere | 94 minutes | 2015 | USA 

An absorbing and moving account of the romantic and creative partnership 

of storyboard artist Harold Michelson and film researcher Lillian Michelson, 

whose jobs might just cease to exist in our digital age. Although the couple was 

responsible for some of Hollywood’s most iconic examples of visual storytelling 

from The Birds, The Graduate, and Rosemary’s Baby to Fiddler On The Roof and 

Scarface, their contributions remain largely uncredited. Through an engaging 

mix of animated love letters, film clips, and candid conversations with the couple 

and their friends Danny DeVito, Mel Brooks, Francis Ford Coppola, and others, 

this deeply engaging documentary from Academy Award-nominated director 

Daniel Raim chronicles their remarkable marriage and extraordinary careers 

through six decades of movie-making history. 

Director’s Statement: Daniel Raim 

Harold and Lillian’s story humanizes Hollywood, 

an industry sustained by numerous hard-working 

cinema artisans and master craftsmen and craftswomen 

who give their lives, their genius, and 

their hearts to the movies. Beyond Harold and 

Lillian’s contribution to cinema, their story can’t 

be told without weaving in their 60-year marriage: 

a creative, challenging, and profoundly loving 

partnership. Harold and Lillian: A Hollywood Love Story spans the Golden Age 

of Hollywood through New Hollywood and beyond. It’s a portrait of a time, 

and an intimate chronicle of their epic journey of life, love, family, and making 

great movies. You’ve never met anyone like Harold and Lillian. 

Selected Filmography: The Man on Lincoln’s Nose, Something’s Gonna Live 

| OregoOregon Premiere | 82 minutes | 2017 | USA | In Competition 

When filmmaker Nanfu Wang (Hooligan Sparrow, AIFF2016 Best 

Documentary) first came from China to America, she had no plans to 

scrounge for food in garbage cans, wash her clothes in coffee shop bathrooms, 

or be jolted awake by sprinklers under a bush in a moonlit park. But then 

she meets Dylan, a charismatic young drifter who abandoned his comfortable 

home and loving family for a life on the streets. Fascinated by his decision 

to be homeless-by-choice and his rejection of mainstream society’s rules, she 

and her camera follow him on a journey across America that raises profound 

questions about the meaning of freedom and its limits. 

Lost Landscapes of Los Angeles 

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Filmmaker 

Rick Prelinger 

will create the 

live soundtrack 

to this silent 

film, narrating, 

and eliciting 

comments from 

the audience 

Director, Producer, 

Executive Producer, Editor: 



Oregon Premiere | 83 minutes | 2017 | USA 

Atruly experimental documentary that visually traces the changing city of 

Los Angeles from the 1920s through the 1960s, showing how its landscape 

expresses an almost infinite collection of mythologies. Made from home 

movies and studio-produced “process plates”—background images of the city 

shot by studio cinematographers for rear projection in feature films—the film 

depicts places, people, work, and daily life during a period of rapid urban 

development. Audience members are encouraged to share observations and 

memories during the screening of this silent film and contemplate the life and 

growth of America’s preeminent Western metropolis as the sum of countless 

individual acts. 

Director’s Statement: Rick Prelinger 

I work with films that few people have ever 

seen to daylight histories that few remember. 

Since 2004, I have made 21 films, 15 of which are 

distinctly different iterations resulting from longterm 

engagements with the communities and 

histories of San Francisco and Detroit. While 

several of my films are intended to be viewed 

in silence and darkness, most are what I call “urban media interventions,” 

produced to be shown before active audiences who talk their way through 

the film and transform screenings into unscripted, unique events specific to 

their place, time, and positionality. 

Selected Filmography: Lost Landscapes of San Francisco, No More Road Trips?, 

Panorama Ephemera 

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Friday 3:00pm 


Nanfu Wang 

Producers: Lori Cheatle, Michael 

Shade, Nanfu Wang 

Cinematographers: Michael 

Shade, Nanfu Wang 

Music: Nathan Halpern 

Directors’ Statement: Nanfu Wang 

It was in a hostel in the Everglades that I first met 

Dylan. He was 22 years old, young and fearless, 

and there was something about him that instantly 

captivated me. He was a traveler like me, but he 

made travel his life. I had never known someone 

who seemed so purely free. So when he offered 

to show me a glimpse of his life on the streets, I 

decided that I had to experience his lifestyle for 

myself. Little did I know, that spontaneous trip would mark the beginning of 

a four-year journey that took me all over America and reshaped my understanding 

of freedom, how the mind works, and the place of people who don’t 

fit—or refuse to fit—into society. 

Selected Filmography: Hooligan Sparrow (AIFF2016) 

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Nobody Speak: Trials of the Free Press 



Aheadline-grabbing trial about a Hulk Hogan sex tape and the website 

Gawker’s posting of it online pitted privacy rights against the First 

Amendment. It also put Gawker out of business, bankrupting its founder, 

Nick Denton. But the sensational case revealed something even scarier— 

how billionaire Peter Thiel financed the plaintiff, effectively silencing speech 

with which he disagreed. From Donald Trump’s attacks on the press to the 

secretive purchase of the Las Vegas Review-Journal by casino magnate and 

large-scale Republican donor Sheldon Adelson, Brian Knappenberger’s 

latest film examines threats to our free press and the limits sought on the 

public’s access to the news. 

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Quest 

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Sunday 10:00am 

Monday 12:30pm 

Director, Executive Producer, 

Screenwriter: 

Brian Knappenberger 

Producers: Korelan Matteson, 

Femke Wolting 

Co-Producer: Nora Chute 

Cinematographers: Jason 

Blalock, Scott Sinkler 

Editors: Jason Decker, 

Tom Maroney, Andrew McAllister, 

Kaylyn Thornal 

Music: Garron Chang 

Director, Cinematographer: 

Jonathan Olshefski 

Producer: 

Sabrina Schmidt Gordon 

Consulting Producer: 

David Felix Sutcliffe 

Editor: Lindsay Utz 

Music: Everquest Recordings, 

Christopher Rainey, T. Griffin 

Director’s Statement: Brian Knappenberger 

The legal battle between Terry Bollea—better known 

as Hulk Hogan—and Gawker Media was alternately 

salacious and highly principled, though you could 

never quite tell when it would be either. It was already 

set to define critical First Amendment and privacy 

concepts for the digital age even before the staggering 

$140 million verdict that bankrupted Gawker or the 

revelation that Silicon Valley venture capitalist Peter 

Thiel was bankrolling Hogan’s case. Soon, it was 

impossible to separate courtroom events from the 

contentious political debate of 2016. The rise of Donald Trump, fueled by his 

relentless attacks on the press, made the film about much more—the role of a 

free press in an age of inequality. 

Selected Filmography: The Internet’s Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz (AIFF2014), Life 

After War, We Are Legion: The Story of the Hacktivists (AIFF2012) 

105 minutes | 2017 | USA | In Competition 

In this intimate, vérité portrait, shot over nearly a decade, Christopher 

“Quest” Rainey and his wife Christine’a, “Ma Quest,” allow us into the 

creative sanctuary that is their home and neighborhood recording studio in 

North Philadelphia. Over the years, the family evolves as everyday life brings 

a mixture of joy and unexpected crisis. Set against the backdrop of a country 

in turmoil, the film depicts a family whose journey is a profound testament 

to love, healing, and hope. 

Director’s Statement: Jonathan Olshefski 

This film started off as a chance encounter while 

I was teaching a photography class a few blocks 

away from the Raineys’ studio. It is a reflection of a 

relationship and mirrors the friendship that I have 

developed with them over the last ten years. That 

friendship is the most precious thing to me—the 

film and all that comes from it is a bonus. I learned 

about Quest’s balancing of the studio and the paper 

delivery route and related to the juggle of the passion 

project and the day job. We began a photo essay that 

would convey that dynamic. I quickly realized that the essential story was not 

the studio and the paper route, but the family and their community. I also 

began to realize the limits of still photography and wanted to find another 

medium that would better reflect the complexity and points of view of my 

subjects. This led to my first documentary film. 


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The Royal Road 



Acinematic essay in defense of remembering, The Royal Road offers up 

a primer on the Mexican American War and the Spanish colonization 

of California alongside intimate reflections on nostalgia, butch identity, and 

Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo—all set against a contemplative backdrop of 16mm 

urban California landscapes. Deceptively simple longshots of San Francisco 

serve as the framework for the film’s voiceover that combines historical 

research with a stream-of-consciousness personal monologue and relates 

these seemingly disparate stories from an intimate and colloquial perspective. 

A film about desire, memory, history, and the stories we tell ourselves. 

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Sunday 12:40pm 

PLAYS WITH 

575 Castro St. 

Presented by 

AIFF2017 Pride 

Award recipient 

Jenni Olson and 

preceded by her 

short documentary 


Director: Jenni Olson 

Producer: Julie Dorf 


Paul Marcarelli 

Cinematographer: 

Sophie Constantinou 

Editor: Dawn Logsdon 

Sound: Jim Lively 

Voiceover: Tony Kushner, 

Jenni Olson 

Director’s Statement: Jenni Olson 

Perceptually and spiritually, my work challenges 

viewers to slow down and pay attention to the 

moment and to the world around them, drawing 

attention to the beauty of what might—at first 

glance—appear mundane, but is in fact a rich 

tapestry of architecture, light and shadow, and 

ephemeral history. For me, the joy of my films 

is found in the poetry of the static image—in 

the experience of time passing on film, undistracted by plot, actors, dialogue 

and other narrative conventions. An internal drama is evoked in the sensitivities 

of each viewer who is open to the subtleties of these shots that are almost 

bereft of movement and sound. 

Selected Filmography: 575 Castro St., Blue Diary, The Joy of Life 

Sacred 

86 minutes | 2016 | USA | In Competition 

Directed by Academy Award-winner Thomas Lennon and shot around the 

world by 40 filmmaking teams, Sacred immerses the viewer in an exploration 

of spirituality across cultures and religions. At a time when religious 

hatreds dominate the headlines, this film explores faith as primary human 

experience and shows how people turn to ritual and prayer to navigate the 

milestones and crises of life. Lennon commissioned or sourced footage from 

top independent filmmakers from more than 25 countries and a wide range of 

religious traditions, each team contributing a single scene. The film, sweeping 

in its global reach and yet intensely intimate, unifies these scenes into a single 

work, told without narration, without experts and, for long stretches, without 

words at all. 

Life is full of transitions. 

We’re here to help. 

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Friday 9:30am 


Sunday 9:00pm 


Thomas Lennon 


Julie Anderson, Stephen Segaller 

Co-Producer: Jessica Wolfson 

Editors: Nick August-Perna, 

Maeve O’Boyle 

Director’s Statement: Thomas Lennon 

Today, not many people would dispute the 

importance of religion. But we in media usually 

look at it socially and politically. Here the goal 

is to plunge the viewer into a series of private 

experiences of faith and hopefully the intensity 

of that encounter shakes up our reactions, 

triggers something fresh. One of the things 

that drew me to the project was the idea, “Is it 

possible to make a sweeping, global film and 

never get up out of your chair in New York?” Whether it’s successful—that’s 

for you to judge, but I never did get out of my chair. 

mistletoestorage.com 

Selected Filmography: The Blood of Yingzhou District (AIFF2007), The Warriors of 

Qiugang (AIFF2011) 

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Rolling up our sleeves 

& getting down to business … 

Score: A Film Music Documentary 



What makes a film score unforgettable? How did composers develop 

some of the most iconic scores in movie history? This documentary 

offers an inside look at the work of Hollywood’s most accomplished composers, 

including John Williams, Quincy Jones, Bill Conti, and Trent Reznor, 

and how they design and assemble the music that elicits powerful emotions 

from movie audiences. With a mix of archival material, film clips, and fascinating 

interviews with more than three dozen composers, studio musicians, 

agents and music executives, scientists and historians, Score explores the 

evolution of sound and the power and influence of the music behind the 

movies in ways you’ve never imagined. 

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We Help Our Clients Succeed. 

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Friday 9:30am 

Followed by 

a post-film 

discussion 

with Ashland 

composer Joby 

Talbot (Sing) 


Matt Schrader 

Producers: Nate Gold, Kenny 

Holmes, Robert Kraft, Trevor 

Thompson, Jonathan Willbanks 

Executive Producers: Matt 

Schrader, Jonathan Willbanks 


Nate Gold, Kenny Holmes 

Editors: Kenny Holmes, 

Matt Schrader 

Music: Ryan Taubert 

Director’s Statement: Matt Schrader 

Goosebumps. In more ways than one, this film 

was born from them. Like many a cinephile, 

I remember the stirring rhythms of The Good 

The Bad and The Ugly and the spine-tingling 

orchestral finale of E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial. 

These are moments where, almost inexplicably, 

we as viewers transcend the story we’re being 

told. The music speaks to us in ways we can’t 

intellectually grasp—but in ways our heart still 

can. These moments prove that the right picture paired with the right sound 

can create a physical change in our heartbeats, our tear ducts, even our arms 

and legs. They create chills. Cold shivers. Goosebumps. 


Seasons 

95 minutes | 2016 | France 

From the directors of Winged Migration and Oceans comes the awe-inspiring 

and thought-provoking tale of the shared history that inextricably binds 

humankind with the natural world. The film explores the lush green forests 

and megafauna that emerged across Europe following the last Ice Age. Winter 

had gone on for 80,000 years when the ice retreated, the cycle of seasons was 

established, and the animals occupied their new kingdom. It was only later 

that man arrived to share this habitat, first as migratory hunter/gatherers, 

then as settled agriculturalists, and later more dramatically via industry and 

warfare. With breathtaking footage of animals in the wild, we follow the cycle 

of seasons as they evolve over millennia. 

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Sunday 3:40pm 

Sponsored 

by Rogue 

Creamery 

Directors: Jacques Cluzaud, 

Jacques Perrin 

Screenwriters: Jacques Cluzaud, 

Stephane Durand, Jacques Perrin 

Cinematographers: Stephane 

Aupetit, Michel Benjamin, Jerome 

Bouvier, Laurent Charbonnier, 

Philippe Garguil, Eric Guichard, 

Laurent Fleutot, Sylvain Maillard, 

Christophe Pottier, Jan Walencik 

Editor: Vincent Schmitt 

Music: Bruno Coulais 

Sound: Philippe Barbeau, Martine 

Todisco, Jerome Wiciak, Armelle 

Mahe, Gerard Lamps 


Jacques Cluzaud, Jacques Perrin 

Jacques Cluzaud: Can we get close enough 

to wildlife to feel the yoke the human race 

has placed around its neck? To us, getting 

close to an animal is about capturing an 

attitude, a gaze that will inspire a creative 

emotion within us, not just involving compassion, but empathy with these 

wild creatures. 

Jacques Perrin: Without forests, we’d have no soil, no freshwater, and no life. 

Humankind grew up with the forests over a period of 10,000 years. They fed us, 

heated us, and protected us. Better still, they fed into our dreams, our fairytales, 

and our legends. Human beings need trees. But today, the trees need us humans. 

Selected Filmography: Oceans, Winged Migration 

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Spettacolo 

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Friday 3:00pm 


Sunday 6:00pm 

Directors: Jeff Malmberg, 

Chris Shellen 

Producers: Jeff Malmberg, 

Matt Radecki, Chris Shellen 

Screenwriter: Chris Shellen 


Jeff Malmberg 

Music: Lele Marchitelli 

This Is Everything: Gigi Gorgeous 

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Director: Barbara Kopple 

Producers: David Cassidy, 

Barbara Kopple 

Executive Producers: Scott Fisher, 

Adam Wescott 

Cinematographer: Gary Griffin 

Editors: Michael Culyba, Anne 

Fratto, Hemal Trivedi 

Oregon Premiere | 88 minutes | 2017 | Italy, USA | In Competition 

Once upon a time, villagers in a tiny hill town in Tuscany, Italy found a 

remarkable way to confront their issues, personal and political. They 

turned their lives into a play. Every summer for the past 50 years, their piazza 

becomes a stage, but like so many important artistic traditions, Teatro Povero 

is struggling to survive. Funding for the arts has disappeared, younger generations 

are losing interest, and playwright and director Andrea Cresti, now 75, 

who’s devoted his life to helping his village tell its story, may not return for the 

“Poor Theatre’s” 51st year. Subtitles 

Directors’ Statement: 

Jeff Malmberg, Chris Shellen 

It was an honor to be the first filmmakers to record 

Teatro Povero di Monticchiello’s process from 

beginning to end. Fifty years of self-examination 

have given the villagers an unusual perspective 

on their world and, fortunately for us, enough 

curiosity and humor to open their lives up to two 

Americans with film equipment. The experience 

was utterly unique. We started the process as the 

ultimate outsiders—two people from Los Angeles who barely spoke a word of 

Italian when we arrived. But gradually, we began to realize how connected our 

stories are and how many of Monticchiello’s fears and experiences we all share. 

Five years later, this film has become a collaboration with a group of people we 

both admire and love. 

Selected Filmography: Marwencol (AIFF2010) 

92 minutes | 2017 | USA 

Are there limits to your love for your family? One family’s acceptance is 

tested when a champion diver, destined for the Olympics, announces 

he’s transitioning into a woman—and invites his YouTube followers along for 

every moment. A story about unconditional love and finding the courage to 

be yourself from Academy Award-winner Barbara Kopple (AIFF2014 Lifetime 

Achievement Award). 

Director’s Statement: Barbara Kopple 

This is Everything: Gigi Gorgeous is a story about 

becoming who you are meant to be. Gigi’s life may 

seem like an open book, but in this film we see the 

dramatic journey that Gigi and her family have 

been through together. Being a good parent, sibling, 

or friend doesn’t mean you have to understand everything 

someone is going through. It means being 

there and supporting them on their journey and 

doing what you can to help them bloom. That’s the 

heart of Gigi’s beautiful, inspiring story. I hope that 

this film is an inspiration to young people, people who are exploring their 

gender identity, and beyond that everyone who is becoming who they truly 

are and living the life they were meant to live. 

Selected Filmography: American Dream, Harlan County USA (AIFF2014), Hot Type: 150 

Years of The Nation (AIFF2015), Miss Sharon Jones! (Varsity World Film Week 2016), 

Running From Crazy (AIFF2014) 

Una Nueva Tierra 

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Friday 3:30pm 


Sunday 3:30pm 

Monday 10:00am 

Unrest 

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Friday 6:20pm 



Monday 12:20pm 

Directors, Producers, 


Jesse Fisher, Jackie Munro 

Editor: Jesse Fisher 

Director: Jennifer Brea 

Producers: Jennifer Brea, Lindsey 

Dryden, Patricia E. Gillespie 

Executive Producers: Dan Cogan, 

Ian Darling, Lisa Gunn, Ruth Ann 

Harnisch, Deborah Hoffmann, 

Regina K. Scully, Donna Fairman 

Wilson, Lynda Weinman 

Co-Producers: Anne Troldtoft 

Hjorth, Alysa Nahmias 

World Premiere | 86 minutes | 2017 | USA | In Competition 

The Pajarito Mesa is a breathtakingly beautiful but perpetually trash-ridden 

swath of desert overlooking Albuquerque, New Mexico. It is also home 

to over 250 families living without access to basic services. Making something 

out of nothing, residents of Pajarito build their lives from the scraps that 

others have thrown away. They hope that through their hard work, they will 

see change in their lives and their community. Una Nueva Tierra traces the 

struggles of three families as they recycle what others have cast off while they 

themselves are cast to society’s margins, unable to make even the most basic 

progress due to their poverty. Subtitles 


Jesse Fisher, Jackie Munro 

When you watch Una Nueva Tierra, we want you to feel like 

you’re in the car with Carlos, in bed with Vanessa, Mario, 

and Dinaho, and on the mesa beside Bura. We want you 

to trust them as we trusted them; as they trusted us. In the 

radically divisive times in which we live, we believe that it 

has never been more important to build bridges between 

human beings. Una Nueva Tierra is the best bridge that we 

know how to build, and we hope that it will complicate your 

ideas of those living in poverty in America today. 


97 minutes | 2017 | USA 

Jennifer Brea is a 28-year-old Harvard PhD student about to marry the love 

of her life when she’s struck down by ME, commonly known as chronic 

fatigue syndrome and precipitated by a high fever that leaves her in so much 

pain she is barely able to move. When doctors can’t diagnose her and tell her 

that nothing’s wrong or it’s all in her head, she grabs a camera to film her 

darkest moments. Eventually, she connects by Skype and Facebook to others 

in the same situation, all of them striving to make life meaningful in the face 

of life-altering illness. Subtitles 

Director’s Statement: Jennifer Brea 

Unrest is a personal documentary. At first, it was 

just an iPhone video diary. Then I went online and 

met thousands of people, all over the world, living 

the same experience. That is when I decided to make 

a film. I built a global producing team, hired crews 

from everywhere, and directed from my bed. There 

was a point when we had a very strong cut, but I felt 

unsatisfied with just seeing us, these bodies, from 

the outside. And so we started bringing in these 

elements of personal narration, visuals, and sound design to try to give the 

audience glimpses of our dreams, our memories. It was important to me to 

convey that regardless of our profound disabilities, we are all still fully human. 

That even lying in bed, we have these complex, inner lives. 



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The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin 

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Friday 6:00pm 

Director: Jennifer M. Kroot 

Producers: Gerry Kim, 

Mayuran Tiruchelvam 

Cinematographer: Shane King 

Editor: Bill Weber 

Music: Michael Hearst, 

Lora Hirschberg 

Animator: Grant Nellesen 

What Lies Upstream 

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Sunday 9:30am 

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by Ashland 

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Cullen Hoback 

Producers: Cullen Hoback, Nitin 

Khanna, John Ramos 


Jaswinder Grover, Karan Khanna, 

Nitin Khanna, Jay Walia 

Co-Producer: Alina Solodnikova 


Vincent Sweeney 

Music: John Morgan Askew 


This nimble, funny, yet poignant and insightful documentary examines the 

life and work of Armistead Maupin, following his evolution from a conservative 

son of the Old South into a gay rights pioneer whose novels, particularly 

Tales of the City, have inspired millions to claim their own truth. With help from 

his friends including Neil Gaiman, Laura Linney, Olympia Dukakis, and Sir Ian 

McKellen, Maupin offers a disarmingly frank look at the journey that took him 

from the jungles of Vietnam to the bathhouses of 70’s San Francisco to the front 

lines of the American culture war. 

Director’s Statement: Jennifer M. Kroot 

The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin has a tone 

similar to Maupin’s writing style, using wit and 

whimsy to explore deeper political issues. I see 

Armistead’s story as one of finding compassion for 

others through self-acceptance. His journey from 

conservative bigot to celebrated voice for justice 

and equality during tumultuous moments in history 

(Vietnam, the Civil Rights Movement, the AIDS 

crisis) serves as a lesson and example for those of 

us struggling to find compassion during an equally 

divisive moment in time. His contradictory history seems to aptly reflect 

the current zeitgeist, where political divisions seem deeper than ever. As we 

hear Armistead’s story, we begin to understand that healing those divisions 

requires deep empathy and a willingness to understand our differences, rather 

than disparage them. 

Selected Filmography: It Came From Kuchar, To Be Takei 


In this documentary “whodunit,” investigative filmmaker Cullen Hoback travels 

to West Virginia to study the unprecedented loss of clean water for over 

300,000 residents, nearly half the population of the state. In 2014, a mysterious 

chemical leaked into the Elk River, contaminating the drinking water. Hoback 

discovers a shocking failure of regulatory framework from both state and federal 

agencies and a wrecked political system. While he’s in West Virginia, a similar 

water crisis strikes Flint, Michigan supporting the case that the entire system 

to protect drinking water in America is fundamentally broken. Trying to get 

answers about what happened, he descends into a rabbit hole of government 

laziness, chemical corporation collusion, and a nightmare conclusion about 

what might lie upstream. Subtitles 

Director’s Statement: Cullen Hoback 

Without the crisis in Flint, I doubt I ever would have 

come to understand the totality of the problem: to see 

that West Virginia wasn’t some hyperbolic example of 

what happens when deregulation runs its course and 

where political pressure overrides scientific evidence 

and public health. I came to learn that chemicals and 

their safety in the environment, as revealed through the 

regulators, politicians, and lobbyists, are really a legal 

matter, one masked under the pretense of science. I ended up exploring themes 

similar to my previous film, Terms and Conditions May Apply, my fascination with 

the intersection of technology and law becoming a central theme. 

Selected Filmography: Monster Camp, Terms and Conditions May Apply 

When the Mountains Tremble 

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Sunday 9:40am 

This is the first 

film in Skylight’s 

Resistance 

Saga, which also 

includes Granito: 

How to Nail a 

Dictator and 

500 Years 

Whose Streets? 

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Friday 9:40pm 


Directors: Thomas Newton Sigel, 

Pamela Yates 

Producer: Peter Kinoy 


Thomas Newton Sigel 


Directors: Damon Davis, 

Sabaah Folayan 

Producers: Damon Davis, 

Sabaah Folayan, Jennifer 

MacArthur, Flannery Miller 

Co-Producer: Chris Renteria 

Screenwriter: Sabaah Folayan 


Lucas Alvarado-Farrar 

Editor: Christopher McNabb 

Music: Samora Abayomi 

Pinderhuges 

Animator: The Mill 


This updated version of the 1983 classic on war and social revolution in 

Guatemala describes the struggle of the largely Indian peasantry against a 

legacy of state and foreign oppression. Centered on the experiences of Nobel 

Peace Laureate Rigoberta Menchú, a Maya K’iche indigenous leader, the film 

knits a variety of forms, interviews, re-enactment, and on the spot footage shot 

at great hazard into a wide-ranging and cohesive canvas of the Guatemalan 

struggle. Despite the long history of oppression it depicts, the overall effect 

of the film is exhilarating as it conveys the birth of a national and political 

awareness. Subtitles 


I first went to Guatemala in 1982 to make a film 

about a hidden war, a film that would become my 

first feature-length documentary. It was a terrifying 

time and no one wanted to talk to me. But I persevered 

and built relationships, working hard to tell 

the story of the war across the political spectrum. 

I decided to focus around the beauty and dignity 

of the Mayan culture because of the attacks they 

were suffering at the hands of the military. I chose 

a young Mayan woman living in exile to be the storyteller speaking directly 

into the camera—her name was Rigoberta Menchú. The film help put Rigoberta 

on the world stage, and 10 years later she became the first indigenous person 

to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. 

Selected Filmography: Rebel Citizen, The Reckoning, State of Fear 

Oregon PreOregon Premiere | 104 minutes | 2017 | USA | In Competition 

Personal and dynamic, this inspiring documentary is a protest film that 

upends sensationalist headlines and unsubstantiated propaganda. In the 

days that follow the police shooting of Michael Brown, residents of Ferguson, 

Missouri come together to protest and demand justice. Artists, musicians, 

teachers, and parents turn into freedom fighters, standing on the front lines as 

the National Guard descends on them with military-grade weapons. Out of the 

ashes of grief, anger, and long-standing inequality, this group of young community 

members become the torchbearers of a new wave of resistance, fighting not 

just for civil rights, but for the right to believe, to dream, to tell their own story. 


Damon Davis, Sabaah Folayan 

Every day, Americans experience a mediascape 

that humanizes whiteness, delving 

into the emotional lives of privileged 

white protagonists while portraying 

people of color as two-dimensional and 

mostly negative stereotypes. Nowhere 

was this more apparent than in the case of Mike Brown who, despite being 

college-bound and well regarded by his community, was portrayed as a “thug” 

and a “criminal.” This was a modern day lynching. We are intimately aware of 

how Black people are portrayed in the media and how this portrayal encourages 

both conscious and unconscious racial bias. We are uniquely suited to 

make this film because we ourselves are organizers, activists, and are deeply 

connected to the events of August 9th and beyond. 



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DOCUMENTARY SHORTS 

Balloonfest 

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Sunday 9:20pm 

Monday 6:20pm 

Director: Nathan Truesdell 

Producers: Charlotte Cook, 

J. Gonçalves 


Cleveland attempts to overcome its nickname, “The Mistake by the Lake” 

by launching 1.5 million balloons. Original news footage from the 1986 

event captures both the excitement of the event and its serious, unplanned 

consequences. 

Director’s Statement: Nathan Truesdell 

Sometimes, when you start a project, you can’t imagine 

the journey that awaits you. When I started Balloonfest, 

in 1986, I was only 7 years old. Like Cleveland, at the 

end of a long journey, we all got something we had never 

expected. 

Selected Filmography: Caucus (AIFF2013), Convention (AIFF2010), 

Peace in the Valley, We Always Lie to Strangers (AIFF2013) 

Election Night 

TIMES 

Friday 9:30pm 


Sunday 9:30pm 

Monday 9:30pm 

PLAYS IN 

After Hours: Shorts 

(p 26) 

Director, Screenwriter, 


Ryan Scafuro 

Producers: Danny Brown, 

Ryan Scafuro 

Music: Fernando Martinez 

Oregon Premiere | 8 minutes | 2017 | UK, USA | In Competition 

Acrowd of locals, American ex-patriots, and assorted foreigners gather at a 

boozy London pub to watch the 2016 US presidential election. As dawn 

breaks, emotions escalate and the event takes a turn for the worse. 

Director’s Statement: Ryan Scafuro 

A few days before Election Day, it occurred to me that 

the results of the vote wouldn’t be called until 5:00 or 

6:00 o’clock in the morning London time. As a relatively 

new American transplant to the UK, I didn’t really have 

anybody to watch the results come in with. I looked 

online and found a pub that was going to stay open 

until 7:00am for an all-night viewing party. It was going to be another 

historic vote regardless of the outcome; this time I wanted to film it in 

whatever capacity I could. 

Selected Filmography: American Renaissance 


PLAYS IN 

Short Docs (p 26) 

The Boatman 

TIMES 



Sunday 9:20pm 

Monday 6:20pm 

PLAYS IN 

Short Docs(p 26) 

Director, Cinematographer, Editor: 

Zack Godshall 

Producers: Brad Becker-Parton, 

Dan Janvey, Noah Stahl 

Executive Producers: Scott Bakula, 

Patricia Clarkson, Pamela Koffler, 

Christine Vachon 

Co-Producers: Jillian Hall, Elizabeth 

Lodge 

Music: Brad Pope 

A 


s their 71st wedding anniversary approaches, Selina and Joseph Gonzales 

reflect on endurance, love, and fortitude after the years of living in 

Yscloskey, Louisiana a decade after Hurricane Katrina. Joseph, the boatman, 

navigates the onset of blindness, hoping to finish building the boat he started 

decades ago and put it in the water before the next hurricane arrives. 

Director’s Statement: Zack Godshall 

In The Boatman, I combine the themes of several of my 

previous films—life along Louisiana’s disappearing 

coastline, surviving floods and hurricanes, and building 

big things—in this case a house and a 65-foot oyster 

boat. Given my familiarity with the main themes, I 

did my best to step back and allow Joseph and Selina 

Gonzales tell their own story of resilience and triumph. 

Selected Filmography: God’s Architects, Lord Byron, Low and Behold (AIFF2007) 

The Function of Music 

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Sunday 9:20pm 

Monday 6:20pm 

PLAYS IN 




Mac Premo 

Producers: Adrianna Dufay, 

Divya Gadangi 

Music: Owen McLean, Mac Premo 


Jad Abumrad, host of the popular NPR program RadioLab, sits down with 

director Mac Premo to discuss what sound and music are and what function 

music plays in our lives. Abumrad’s surprising and humorous insights 

are punctuated by Premo’s mix of collage, live action film, and stop-motion 

animation. 

Director’s Statement: Mac Premo 

There’s a shitload I don’t know. This is the first in what I 

hope will become a series of films where I speak to people 

who are smarter than me about things that they are 

smarter than me about. And then I turn that conversation 

into a film. 

Selected Filmography: The Bucket Board, Year in Review 

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High Chaparral 

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Sunday 6:40pm 

Monday 10:10am 

PLAYS IN 


(p 26) 

Director, Cinematographer: 

David Freid 

Producers: Mor Albalak, 

Molly Mayo 

Co-Producer: Michelle Taylor 

Editor: Jeremy Carr 

Oregon Premiere | 9 minutes | 2016 | Sweden, USA | In Competition 

Atheme park celebrating America’s mythic Wild West in wintery Sweden 

becomes a welcoming, but temporary home for refugees fleeing the 

Syrian civil war. 

Director’s Statement: David Freid 

As a child of the 80s, with an impressionable head 

for headline news and charity infomercials, I grew 

up learning that the Amazon is in trouble, that 

Ethiopians are starving, that icebergs are melting, 

and that the Middle East conflict is constant and 

absolute. I’m older now, not much seems to have changed, and I’ve got a serious 

case of bad news fatigue. But there is some good too, and for a few hundred 

people looking for safety from war, it only takes a handful of Swedish/Lebanese/ 

Syrian cowboys to do something meaningful. 

Selected Filmography: Battle for Birthday Mountain 

The Man is the Music 

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Sunday P L A Y 9:20pm S I N 

Monday 6:20pm 

Going for Gold: 

Olympic P L A Y S Shorts I N 

Short 

with Lucy 

Docs 

Walker 

(p 26) 

Director: Maris Curran 

Producers: Jon Coplon, 

Maris Curran 

Cinematographer: Jerry Henry 

Editor: Julie Caskey 


Areflection on art as a way of life, The Man is the Music draws us into 

the imaginative and captivating world of artist and musician Lonnie 

Holley. Raised in Jim Crow Alabama, he finds beauty in the discarded 

objects he discovers on roadsides and in accumulations of what other 

people might call trash, creating a unique perspective on what it means to 

be socially discarded. 

Director’s Statement: Maris Curran 

Holley’s work is a means of connection, a way to deal with 

loss, and a means to survive. He compulsively creates— 

often without editing. As an artist and the daughter of 

an artist, I understand that it is in the process where the 

magic happens. 

Selected Filmography: Five Nights in Maine (AIFF2016) 


Kish 

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Sunday 9:20pm 

Monday 6:20pm 

P L A Y S I N 


Directors, Cinematographers: 

Zackary Canepari, Drea Cooper 

Producers: Zackary Canepari, 

Drea Cooper, Courtney Sexton 

Executive Producers: Chris 

Berend, Amy Entelis 

Editor: Drea Cooper 

Music: Matt Joynt, Nathan 

Sandberg 

Post Producer: Gary Kout 

US Premiere | 15 minutes | 2016 | USA | In Competition 

AIFF alumni filmmakers Drea Cooper and Zackary Canepari tell the inspiring 

story of Daniel Kish, a blind man who has earned the moniker 

“the remarkable Batman” by navigating his world of darkness using sound, 

or echolocating, making clicking sounds in a conversation with his environment. 

Having taught himself to “see” with sound, he now teaches others to 

do the same. 


Zackary Canepari, Drea Cooper 

Drea woke up one morning to a random 

email. It was from a person in France who had 

seen our California is a Place series. He read 

an article about Daniel Kish and thought we 

might be interested. We quickly read the story 

and couldn’t believe it. Could someone really teach himself how to echolocate 

like a bat? How is this even possible? We had to find out. 

Selected Filmography: Aquadettes (AIFF2012), The Bionic Man (AIFF2016), The Dog 

(AIFF2016), The Lover, T-Rex (AIFF2015) 

Pickle 

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Sunday 9:20pm 

Monday 6:20pm 

P L A Y S I N 


Director, Producer: Amy Nicholson 

Co-Producer, Screenwriter: 

Cameron Swanagon 

Cinematographer: Jerry Risius 

Editor: John Young 

Animator: Greg McLeod 


et us reflect on the brief existence of Pickle the fish. Born without the 

L ability to swim, he was lovingly cared for by Tom and Debbie Nicholson 

(the filmmaker’s parents) who kept him propped up in a sponge to keep him 

from sinking to the bottom of the aquarium. This whimsical celebration of 

man’s eternal capacity to care for all creatures—an obese chicken, a cat with 

a heart condition, and a paraplegic possum among them—celebrates the 

all-too-brief lives of this offbeat menagerie. They will be dearly missed. 

Director’s Statement: Amy Nicholson 

I try to find a funny side to everything and tragedy is no 

exception. Pickle’s unrelenting march of death is intended 

to entertain, but hopefully between morbid curiosity 

and chuckling at the sheer volume of casualties, the 

audience will find a bit of themselves in this film. 

Selected Filmography: Beauty School, Muskrat Lovely, Zipper: 

Coney Island’s Last Wild Ride 

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The Tables 



Apair of outdoor ping pong tables draws players from disparate groups to 

a park in the heart of New York City. From the homeless to investment 

bankers to gang members—they all come for the love of the game. Playing 

through wind, dust, or rain, powerful and surprising connections are made 

and a heartwarming community is formed. 

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Sunday 9:20pm 

Monday 6:20pm 

PLAYS IN 



Cinematographer: Jon Bunning 

Editor: Karen Kourtessis 

Music: Christopher Keyes 

Director’s Statement: Jon Bunning 

When I discovered the tables, I was immediately 

drawn to the diverse group of characters who played 

there, but I connected with one person in particular, 

an older African American gentlemen who unbeknownst 

to me at the time was in fact homeless. He 

had such a captivating personality and was instrumental 

in helping me make the film. 

Selected Filmography: Stroup Guitars 

A Thousand Mothers 

Oregon Premiere | 39 minutes | 2017 | Myanmar, USA | In Competition 

Set in an ancient nunnery above the majestic Irrawaddy River, A Thousand 

Mothers is an unprecedented look at the lives of Buddhist nuns in Sagaing, 

Myanmar. While the choices available to girls and women there are quite limited, 

this film poetically reveals the unexpected opportunities offered to them 

at the nunnery and the deep grace and dignity of a life dedicated to service. 

Subtitles 

TIMES 

Sunday 6:40pm 


P L A Y S I N 


(p 26) 

Director, Producer: Kim Shelton 

Co-Producers: Chris Brown, 

Joanne Feinberg, Bill McMillan, 

Sam McMillan 

Cinematographer: Kirsten Johnson 

Editor, Music: Chris Brown 

Sound: Judy Karp 

Director’s Statement: Kim Shelton 

On a Buddhist retreat in Myanmar, I met a young 

nun. Each morning we quietly walked the monastery 

gardens, holding hands. I wondered, “who are these 

women with shaved heads and pink robes?” In making 

this film, I was deeply moved to discover “a thousand 

mothers,” a remarkable community of women, living a 

life of service, kindness, and generosity. May they be an 

inspiration to you too. 

Selected Filmography: A Great Wonder (AIFF2004), The Highly Exalted, 

The Welcome (AIFF2011) 

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Cortez 

NARRATIVE FEATURES 

FEATURES 


Atalented but self-involved musician with a failing album and canceled 

tour goes in search of an old girlfriend in the beautifully atmospheric 

town of Cortez, New Mexico. Underestimating the lingering effects of their 

stormy history, Jesse makes an arrogant attempt at reinserting himself into 

Anne’s life, unaware that she has a secret that will change his. 

TIMES 

Thursday, 3:20pm 


Sunday 9:50am 

Monday 9:20pm 

Director: Cheryl Nichols 

Producers: Joshua Bunting, 

Cassidy Freeman, Johnny Long, 

Carl Lucas, Arron Shiver 


Lee Freeman, Buzz Ruttenberg 

Screenwriters: Cheryl Nichols, 

Arron Shiver 

Cinematographer: Kelly Moore 

Editor: F. Rocky Jameson 

Music: Sean Watkins 

Principal Cast: Judith Ivey, 

Cheryl Nichols, Arron Shiver, 

Jackson Shiver 

Director’s Statement: Cheryl Nichols 

When I begin a project, I don’t always know why I am 

drawn to tell that story. I just try to stay out of the way 

and let my imagination do its thing. I have visions. I 

am guided by those images. I wanted Cortez to feel 

untethered. Experiential. Visceral. Fleshy. Like being 

in the room with the characters, like a play with no 

proscenium, close enough to the actors to be caught in 

the blowback. I try to achieve this by cannonball. I set 

about gathering a creative team that would support a 

creatively wild and somewhat unconventional approach to filming. 


For Now 

TIMES 



Saturday 10:00am 



& 3:30pm 

Directors: Hannah Barlow, 

Kane Senes 

Producers: Hannah Barlow, 

Katherine du Bois, Kane Senes 

Screenwriters: Hannah Barlow, 

Katherine du Bois, Kane Senes 

Cinematographer: Anton du Preez 

Editor: Kane Senes 

Principal Cast: Connor Barlow, 

Hannah Barlow, Katherine du Bois, 

Kane Senes 

World Premiere | 78 minutes | 2017 | Australia, USA | In Competition 

Four 20-something friends take a road trip up the coast of California to 

not find themselves. Aspiring actress Hannah arranges an audition at the 

San Francisco Ballet Company for her younger brother Connor, who has 

been dancing professionally in Europe. Born in Australia and still grieving 

the deaths of their parents, they want to be closer to each other geographically—or 

at least Hannah does. Hannah’s boyfriend Kane and her best friend 

Katherine join them on the road as they grapple with the serious and superficial 

interconnections that define their relationships—and their generation. 

Directors’ Statements: 

Hannah Barlow, Kane Senes 

Hannah Barlow: I had spent two years waiting 

to be hired like every struggling actor in Los 

Angeles. When Kane and I took a road trip 

with my visiting family, a lot of uncomfortable 

truths surfaced for me as they do when you’re 

crammed into a minivan with your family. I wrote it down and three months 

later we were shooting. 

Kane Senes: I had made a movie a couple years back and was waiting on a new 

project to get going. I waited and waited, while Hannah and I fantasized about 

how fun it would be to just raise some money online, cast ourselves and make 

a movie with friends with no strings attached and where we didn’t have to wait 

on anybody. 

Selected Filmography: Echoes of War, A Relative Stranger 

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Hermia & Helena 


FEATURES 

86 minutes | 2016 | Argentina, USA 

The latest Shakespeare-inspired film from Matías Piñeiro finds Camila, an 

Argentine theater director, beginning an artistic residency in New York 

City in order to complete her Spanish translation of A Midsummer Night’s 

Dream. Amidst changeable romances, far-flung friendships, and long-lost 

connections, this playful, inventive narrative accompanies her on a wistful 

journey that shifts back and forth in time and geography from Buenos Aries 

to NYC and beyond. Piñero’s first English-language film showcases his favorite 

ensemble of actors from Argentina’s theater world, a score by Scott Joplin, and 

luxurious shots of New York by longtime collaborator and cinematographer 

Fernando Lockett. Subtitles 

TIMES 



Sunday 3:40pm 

Monday 3:40pm 


Matías Piñeiro 

Producers: Andrew Adair, 

Jake Perlin, Melanie Schapiro, 

Graham Swon 

Executive Producers: Melanie 

Schapiro, Graham Swon 

Cinematographer: Fernando Lockett 

Editor: Sebastián Schjaer 

Principal Cast: Mati Diop, Julian 

Larquier, Agustina Muñoz, Keith 

Poulson, Dan Sallitt, María Villar 



I moved to New York with no intention 

of making films there. It took four years 

to build in the context in which it would 

be possible and exciting for me to shoot 

outside Buenos Aires. In the series of films I have been developing since 2010 

around the female roles of Shakespeare’s comedies, changes and continuities 

are a vital part of its structure. The project is a game of variations. I realized 

that the change of territory that I experienced in my life could be an axis for 

one of these films. In order to accentuate it, I thought it was important to also 

shoot in Buenos Aires and produce this dance movement between one place 

and the other. 

Selected Filmography: Rosalinda (AIFF2017), Viola (AIFF2017) 

The Hero 


Sam Elliott gives a tragicomic tour-de-force performance as Lee Hayden, 

a Western star, whose best work is long behind him. While filling his 

days smoking too much weed with his former co-star turned dealer (Nick 

Offerman), Hayden’s life takes a sharp turn when he is diagnosed with cancer. 

He unexpectedly finds himself in a new romance with a younger woman (Laura 

Prepon) and attempts to reconnect with his estranged daughter (Krysten 

Ritter), all while seeking one last great role. 

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Director, Editor: Brett Haley 

Producers: Sam Bisbee, Houston 

King, Erik Rommesmo 

Executive Producers: J Lance 

Acord, Jackie Kelman Bisbee, Frank 

Brenner, David Bunce, Franklin 

Carson, Theodora Dunlap, Danny 

Rifkin, Jeff Schlossman, Bill Wallwork 

Co-Producer: Amy Jarvela 

Screenwriters: Marc Basch, 

Brett Haley 

Cinematographer: Rob C. Givens 

Music: Keegan Dewitt 

Principal Cast: Sam Elliott, Nick 

Offerman, Laura Prepon, Krysten 

Ritter, Katharine Ross 

Director’s Statement: Brett Haley 

Sam Elliott and I became friends—family, even—while 

on tour together for my first film I’ll See You in My 

Dreams. Sam has always been an icon in some way, 

shape, or form—that voice, that mustache. Everywhere 

I went with him people would ask him for his autograph. 

At an AARP convention, it was like doing a Q&A for 

a room full of teenage girls with Justin Bieber. But he 

hasn’t had the same opportunities to be a “leading man” 

as other actors from his generation. He told me “for a while there I could 

only get work if I was on a horse or a motorcycle.” Sam was so much more 

to me than a man on a horse. I was inspired to create a film that centered 

around the Sam that I knew and loved. My goal was simple: 90 minutes of 

Sam Elliott. 

Selected Filmography: I’ll See You in My Dreams, The New Year 

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Howards End 

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AIFF2017 Lifetime 

Achievement 


James Ivory will 

present a new 4K 

restoration of the 

1992 film 

Director: James Ivory 

Producer: Ismail Merchant 

Executive Producer: Paul Bradley 

Screenwriter: Ruth Prawer 

Jhabvala, based upon the novel 

by E.M. Forster 

Cinematographer: Tony 

Pierce-Roberts 

Editor: Andrew Marcus 

Music: Richard Robbins 

Principal Cast: Helena Bonham 

Carter, Anthony Hopkins, Jemma 

Redgrave, Vanessa Redgrave, 

Emma Thompson 


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140 minutes | 1992 | Japan, United Kingdom, USA 

One of Merchant Ivory’s undisputed masterpieces, this adaptation of E.M. 

Forster’s novel is a story of class relations and changing times in Edwardian 

England. Two sisters become involved with a wealthy, conservative industrialist 

and his wife and a working-class man and his mistress. The interwoven fates and 

misfortunes of these three families and the diverging trajectories of their lives are 

connected to the ownership of Howards End, a beloved country home. A compelling, 

brilliantly acted study, the film earned three Academy Awards including Best 

Actress: Emma Thompson, and Best Adapted Screenplay: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. 

Director’s Statement: James Ivory 

We had been successful with the other two Forster 

films we’d done, Maurice (AIFF2017) and A Room 

with a View. We thought people would like this one 

and respond to it. It’s a long film, two hours and 

twenty minutes. A length like that doesn’t always 

bode well. But yes, we had hopes for it. Fortunately, 

because I wasn’t the screenwriter, I didn’t have to face the winnowing out of 

the best storytelling material. Because I knew our writer, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, 

knew what to do. Of course when I saw her script for the first time, I probably 

did the usual yelling: “Where’s this? Where’s that?” But that always happens with 

adaptations. We’d do that, and then we’d have a bit of a re-think. Ruth or 

Ismail would tell me, “That’s a good bit, but there’s just not room,” and I’d accept 

it. That’s how we worked. 

Selected Filmography: Maurice (AIFF2017), A Room with a View, The Remains of the Day, 

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Friday 9:00pm 


Director Rachel 

Lambert will 

receive the 2017 

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Award presented 

by AIFF and 

POWfest in 

Portland 

(see p. 17) 

Director: Rachel Lambert 

Producers: Sonny Mallhi, 

Jeff Nichols 

Executive Producers: Michael 

Abbott Jr., Javier Gonzalez, 

Gill Holland 

Co-Producer: Denis Deck 

Screenwriters: Nathan Gregorski, 

Rachel Lambert 

Cinematographer: Zoe White 

Editor: Julia Bloch 

Music: West Dylan Thordson 

Principal Cast: Michael Abbott, Jr., 

Madisen Beaty, Marin Ireland, 

Deirdre O’Connell, Celia Weston 


ndrew is haunted by the eyewitness memory of his older brother 

A Michael’s unthinkable crime and his own testimony against him. Now 

after 20 years in prison, Michael is up for a new trial that may free him. 

Returning to his Kentucky hometown for Michael’s re-sentencing, Andrew 

is confronted by his distraught mother, his angry sister, who blames him for 

their fractured family, and a teenage niece with troubles of her own. Taut and 

suspenseful, this family’s baggage is tangled and true. 

Director’s Statement: Rachel Lambert 

In February 2012, I read a New York Times article 

entitled “Killers’ Families Confront Fear and Shame,” 

and the very next day I was on the phone with the 

journalist, Serge Kovaleski. I had yet in my life to 

read such a deft turn of journalism that profiled 

voices from this side of a violent narrative, finding 

humanity in something so inhuman. I was particularly 

drawn to one of the families profiled, the 

White family, wherein a sister turned in her brother for a series of murders. 

As a result, this family seemed plagued with an uncommon kind of pain, one 

that frustrated my natural inclination to assign the players with either “good” 

or “bad.” That ambiguity seemed potent and I knew I had to take it further. 


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Maurice 

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Friday 9:00pm 

This 30th anniversary 

screening will 

be accompanied 

by a clip from Call 

Me by Your Name, 

the upcoming 

Sony Classics 

release co-written 

by James Ivory 

Director: James Ivory 

Producer: Ismail Merchant 

Screenwriters: Kit Hesketh- 

Harvey, James Ivory, from the 

novel by E.M. Forster 

Cinematographer: Pierre Lhomme 

Editor: Katherine Wenning 

Music: Richard Robbins 

Principal Cast: Denholm Elliott, 

Hugh Grant, Rupert Graves, 

Judy Parfitt, Billie Whitelaw, 

James Wilby 


140 minutes | 1987 | United Kingdom 

Set against the stifling conformity of pre-World War I English society, 

E.M. Forster’s Maurice is a story of coming to terms with one’s sexuality in 

the face of disapproval and misunderstanding. At a time when homosexuality 

was a crime, two young men at Cambridge must keep their relationship 

completely secret. 

Director’s Statement: James Ivory 

I think the kind of problems that Forster dealt with in 

his fiction nearly a hundred years ago, those problems 

are still current, they don’t go away. And one of the 

basic problems is honesty and living an honest life. 

Living a life that is not corrupted by all sorts of influences 

like social class and all of that. But a life where 

you really follow your emotions, follow your truest 

beliefs, and you try to live an honest life. That’s really 

what A Room with a View and Maurice are about and 

equally so Howards End (AIFF2017). I don’t think 

that ever changes, I think what people get out of these films is a pretty modern 

message, coming from an author who wrote it almost a hundred years ago. These 

are not new problems, they are enduring problems of life today everywhere. 

Selected Filmography: Howards End (AIFF2017), The Remains of the Day, A Room with 

a View, Shakespeare Wallah 

McCabe & Mrs. Miller 


This unorthodox dream western by Robert Altman stars Warren Beatty 

and Julie Christie as two newcomers to the raw Pacific Northwest mining 

town of Presbyterian Church, who join forces to provide the miners with a 

superior kind of whorehouse experience. The appearance of representatives 

of a powerful mining company with interests of its own, however, threatens 

to be their undoing. With its evocative cinematography by the great Vilmos 

Zsigmond, innovative overlapping dialogue, and haunting use of Leonard 

Cohen songs, McCabe & Mrs. Miller brilliantly deconstructs and revitalizes 

the western genre. 

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Friday 6:40pm 

After the screening, 

join us for 

a conversation 

with Art Director 

Phil Thomas and 

AIFF2017 Rogue 


Alex Cox 

Director: Robert Altman 

Producers: Mitchell Brower, 

David Foster 

Screenwriters: Robert Altman, 

Brian McKay 


Vilmos Zsigmond 

Editor: Lou Lombardo 

Music: Leonard Cohen 

Principal Cast: Warren Beatty, 

Keith Carradine, Julie Christie, 

Shelley Duvall 

Director’s Statement: Robert Altman 

From a 1971 interview with Ray Loynd for 

the Los Angeles Times: “This picture is the 

most ordinary common western that’s ever 

been told. I picked the story because it’s the 

conventional thing. A gambler takes over 

a town, a whore opens a whorehouse. A 

neighboring mining company tries to buy 

him out. He refuses to sell; they send in 

three killers to get him. Now that’s everything you’ve heard, every cliché. All 

I’m trying to say is, yeah, these things happened but they didn’t happen that 

way. The guy wasn’t sure of himself. He was in over his head. The woman was a 

real whore. Which means she doesn’t like it and doesn’t like him particularly.” 

Selected Filmography: Gosford Park, MASH, Nashville, The Player, Short Cuts 

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The Missing Sun Oregon Premiere | 79 minutes | 2017 | USA | In Competition Pushing Dead 

W 

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Brennan Vance 

Producers: James Christenson, 

Brennan Vance 


Kevin Byrnes 

Music: Grant Cutler 

Principal Cast: Peter McLarnan, 

Gera Pobuda, Lawrence Sutin, 

Sally Wingert 

After a solar flare powers down her remote community, Alma discovers her 

husband Terry comatose. Suspecting he is having an out-of-body affair 

with an ex-lover, Alma attempts to bring him back to reality with help from 

his estranged, drug-addled son and the leader of a new-age religion that 

specializes in astral travel. 

Director’s Statement: Brennan Vance 

For me, cinema functions at its highest potential when 

it not only excites the mind and senses, but drives 

deeper into that part of ourselves that is undefinable, 

mercurial, soulful. It is there I believe that cinema 

can impact us most meaningfully and change us in 

fundamental ways. Countless times in my life I’ve 

been transfigured, uplifted, crushed, healed, turned 

upside-down and set right again by cinema. The Missing Sun is my attempt to, 

in whatever small way I can, make good on cinema’s promise to transform 

and transcend. 

Selected Filmography: Feature Directorial Debut 

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Saturday 10:10am 

Sunday 9:40pm 

Sponsored by 

Asante Ashland 

Community 

Hospital 


Tom E. Brown 

Producers: Eyde Belasco, Jim 

Bloom, Richard LaGravenese, 

Chris Martin 

Executive Producer: Ian Reinhard 


Frazer Bradshaw 

Editor: Robert Schafer 

Music: Mark Degli Antoni 

Principal Cast: Khandi Alexander, 

Danny Glover, James Roday, 

Robin Weigert 



hen Dan (James Roday, Psyched)—HIV-positive for over 20 years— 

accidentally deposits a $100 birthday check from his mother, he is 

dropped from his health plan for earning too much money. In today’s era of 

“sort-of ” universal healthcare, can he take on a helpless bureaucracy or come 

up with the $3,000 a month he needs to pay for his meds himself? A great cast 

including Danny Glover, Robin Weigert, Khandi Alexander, and the city of 

San Francisco itself adds to this romantic comedy about what it’s really like to 

live with HIV. 

Director’s Statement: Tom E. Brown 

I’ve been HIV-positive for most of my life, 

so many people assume this story is about 

me. Although it’s not autobiographical, I 

do have the inside scoop, and it’s hard to 

resist tossing in some of those personal 

HIV experiences. But Pushing Dead is much 

more than an AIDS flick. It’s a picture about 

how we cope with the bad stuff, our need for support systems, and the hunt for 

a mate. When I was watching those AIDS films with characters dying, what I 

really wanted to see was a movie about real, funny people living and dealing 

with big problems—my wife left me, I have AIDS, I’m in love with a stuffed 

animal—so that’s what I wrote. 

Selected Filmography: Das Clown, Don’t Run Johnny, Tradesman’s Exit 

My First Kiss and the People Involved 

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Friday 9:20pm 


Monday 3:20pm 


Luigi Campi 

Producers: Andy Nguyen, Ko-Rely 

Pi, Mayuran Tiruchelvam 

Executive Producers: Feliciano 

Campi, Luigi Campi, Gerry Kim 

Co-Producers: Rob Cristiano, 

Andrew J.D. Hauser 

Cinematographer: Giacomo Belletti 

Editor: Konstantinos Antonopoulos 

Music: Bonnie McAlvin 

Principal Cast: Robert Beitzel, 

Josh Caras, India Salvor Menuez, 

Liza Thorn 


Sam’s wordless world is in sharp contrast to the fellow residents of her 

group home, who chatter constantly and question everything. Sam finds it 

difficult to communicate and retreats into a world of her own, surrounded by 

nature, and humming with the wind. She avoids contact with others, except for 

her caregiver Lydia, a charismatic young woman, who suddenly goes missing. 

When violent events occur that she can’t fully grasp, she’s forced to step out of 

her insular existence. Not a film about a group home from the outside, this is a 

story told through the distorted prism of Sam’s consciousness and we live the 

journey with her. We only know what she knows, and we feel what she feels as 

this coming-of-age tale unfolds in a heightened and surreal atmosphere. 

Director’s Statement: Luigi Campi 

Sam is a young nonverbal woman with a magical 

understanding of the world around her. Sam explores 

her world, falls in love, rises to bliss, spirals into fear, 

and the most exciting place to be is inside her head. 

As the film came together, every element—casting, 

locations, rehearsals—was asking us to create a magical 

world as experienced by Sam. Shot on MiniDV with 

an illustrated book look, the film’s vibrant colors paint a fairytale-like world in 

which Sam’s quest unravels as a fable of trauma and discovery. 

Selected Filmography: Feature Directorial Debut 

Rosalinda 

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Friday 10:00am 

Sunday 6:30pm 

PLAYS WITH 

Viola (p 71) 



Producer: Iván Granovsky 


Fernando Lockett 

Editor: Alejo Moguillansky 

Principal Cast: Luciana Acuña, 

Julián Larquier, Agustina Muñoz, 

María Villar 

43 minutes | 2011 | Argentina 

One of three AIFF2017 films by Matías Piñero, Rosalinda follows a group of 

young actors rehearsing As You Like It and engaging in a series of games 

and romantic interludes. Set in pastoral environs along the El Tigre delta north 

of Buenos Aires, this brief narrative will screen with Viola, which features the 

same cast and also playfully explores Shakespeare’s women characters. Subtitles 

Director’s Statement: Matías Piñeiro 

I really had a hard time with Rosalinda 

and subtitles because it’s so complex what 

they say. There are so many words. It was 

like a ping pong game of dialogue. That 

she’s a girl dressed like a man pretending 

to be the girl she actually is, is great to watch, to act out, but reading the words 

on screen is not the same thing. It was easier with Viola, which has something 

more like a series of monologues. Still, there are too many words. At one point, 

I thought I should do like Jean-Luc Godard in Film Socialisme, and only put 

nouns in the subtitles or something like that. I have not yet come up with a way 

of totally fixing the situation. There is always some loss by the time the viewer 

is reading the subtitles. 

Selected Filmography: Hermia & Helena (AIFF2017), Viola (AIFF2017) 

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Strange Weather 


Katherine Dieckmann’s latest film is about what to give up and what to keep 

close as you recover from grief. Academy Award-winner Holly Hunter 

stars as a woman traveling with her best friend though the deep South as 

she tries to come to terms with the suicide of her son. Hunter’s powerhouse 

performance as Darcy Baylor, fiercely intelligent and radiant in its complexity, 

anchors this lyrical drama shot through with regional realism. Strange Weather 

takes an unforgettable female protagonist and stitches her character’s fateful 

journey to an iconic landscape like thread to cloth. 

Tombstone Rashomon 


FEATURES 

World Premiere | 82 minutes | 2017 | USA 

The famous “Gunfight at the OK Corral” only happened once, but has been 

tirelessly recreated in films, television, and western towns ever since. No 

one has a monopoly on truth, and in Tombstone Rashomon, the truth is seen 

from six conflicting perspectives. The latest film from groundbreaking indie 

director and AIFF2017 Rogue Award recipient Alex Cox is a prismatic retelling 

of the event that is a fixture of the American imagination. Filmed at the Old 

Tucson Studios—near the actual OK Corral—by a local crew that included 

recent University of Arizona film school graduates. 

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Director: Katherine Dieckmann 

Producers: Rachel Cohen, 

Jana Edelbaum 


Robert Halmi Jr., Caroline Kaplan, 

Allene Quincy, Jim Reeve 

Screenwriter: 

Katherine Dieckmann 

Cinematographer: David Morrison 

Editor: Madeleine Gavin 

Music: Sharon Van Etten 

Principal Cast: Holly Hunter, 

Kim Coates, Carrie Coon, 

Glenne Headly 

Director’s Statement: Katherine Dieckmann 

I set out to write a female character in midlife who 

rarely inhabits the screen: turbulent, inquisitive, 

unconventional. I wanted to explore the dynamics 

of loss and how managing grief offers no one moment 

of closure, no singular solution. That idea 

gave the script its dynamic, eddying shape. A 

journey traveling deep into the south with a best 

friend, hell-bent for justice that may or may not be 

attained, felt like the best narrative way to propel my ideas. Throughout, the 

mandate was to be fully human and avoid sentimentality at all costs. 

Selected Filmography: Diggers, A Good Baby, Motherhood 

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Sponsored by 

AIFF Board 

Emeritus 

members 

(see page 14) 

Director, Screenwriter: Alex Cox 

Producer: Merritt Crocker 

Executive Producers: Maximilien 

Arvelaiz, Rob Wilson 

Cinematographer: Alana Murphy 

Editor: Merritt Crocker 

Music: Dan Wool 

Animator: Tippet Studios 

Principal Cast: Christine Doidge, 

Jason Graham, Adam Newberry, 

Jesse Pacheco, Eric Schumacher 

Director’s Statement: Alex Cox 

This story has been told several times, usually 

with Wyatt Earp, his brothers, and Doc Holliday, 

the Deadly Dentist, as the heroes. Billy Clanton 

and the two brothers who died in the fight are 

depicted as degenerates and killers. The Rashomon 

frame gives us the opportunity to tell the story 

from multiple perspectives in the same film— 

we see Wyatt’s version and Ike Clanton’s version, 

but they are not the same. I’m particularly interested in the characters of Sheriff 

Johnny Behan and Kate Haroney who are usually marginalized in the films. 

Johnny’s account of implementing novel laws and dealing with a distrustful 

and potentially armed populace seems very contemporary as do Kate’s closing 

words. The Rashomon structure gives them equality with Earp and Holliday. 

Selected Filmography: Repo Man, Sid & Nancy, Straight to Hell, Walker 

Viola 

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Friday 10:00am 

Sunday 6:30pm 

PLAYS WITH 

Rosalinda (p 69) 



Producer: Melanie Schapiro 

Cinematographer: Fernando 

Lockett 

Editor: Alejo Moguillansky 

Music: John Aylward, Julián Tello 

Principal Cast: Agustina Muñoz, 

Alessio Rigo de Righi, María Villar 

65 minutes | 2012 | Argentina, USA 

Viola is Matías Piñero’s mystery of romantic entanglements and intrigues 

among a troupe of young actors performing Twelfth Night in a small 

theater in Buenos Aires. The intersecting stories of three women across a 

single day present different theories of desire through dreams, verses and 

fiction in a world of Shakespearean women where mysteries are seldom solved, 

but love flows passionately. The film is a fascinating riff on Shakespeare’s text 

for the contemporary world. Subtitles 

Director’s Statement: Matías Piñeiro 

Rosalinda and Viola came about because 

of the actresses. First is my approach 

to the text, and then it’s my relationship 

with the actresses. All of the actors 

in my movies are friends, people from 

film school or who work in theater in Buenos Aires. I started reading all of 

Shakespeare’s plays and I got very attached to his comedies. When I finished 

Rosalinda, I realized that Rosalind was not the only character that I liked 

and not the only character that could be used to build a relationship with the 

actresses I knew. When I had to move to New York to live, I thought, “Let’s 

shoot something before I leave this country,” and so we shot Viola in 10 days. 

Selected Filmography: Hermia & Helena (AIFF2017), Rosalinda (AIFF2017) 

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4 Pounds of Flowers Oregon Premiere | 15 minutes | 2016 | USA | In Competition 

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Friday 10:10am 

Sunday 10:10am 

PLAYS IN 

Short Stories 1 (p 26) 

Black Canaries 

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PLAYS IN 


Director, Screenwriter: Rob Richert 

Producer: Daniel Grossman 

Co-Producers: Alrik Bursell, James 

McCusker, L.A. Teodosio 

Cinematographer: Mike Belcher 

Editor: Oliver Harwood 

Music: Eli Kanat 

Principal Cast: Chris Chalk, Laura 

Heisler, Emilie Talbot 


Editor: Jesse Kreitzer 

Cinematographer: Daniel Cojanu 

Music: Jose Parody 

Sound: Filipe Antunes, 

Austin Devries 

Principal Cast: Ananka Kahlmeyer, 

Andrew Stewart, Patrick Towne 

Kayla and Trevor have struggled for years, eking out a living on their 

remote pot farm in Northern California. As they set off to make their 

last sale of the season, they learn something that will force them to confront 

their way of life and idealistic, but dysfunctional status quo. 

Director’s Statement: Rob Richert 

The few years my friend and his partner grew pot, 

they experienced a feature film’s worth of drama. 

It wasn’t until I set foot in their neighbor’s home, 

however, that I knew I needed to depict this world 

on screen. Here in the redwoods and mud, selfisolation 

and economic pressures are the real source 

of trouble, not the flashy shootouts of drug kingpins. 

Selected Filmography: My Name Is Your First Love (AIFF2013), No One but Lydia 


Isolated, desperate, and haunted by his coal-stained birthright, Clarence 

Lockwood continues his daily descent into the accursed Maple Mine, even 

after it has crippled his father and blinded his youngest son. Set in 1907 and 

based on director Jesse Kreitzer’s own coalminer’s ancestry, Black Canaries 

is a powerful meditation on patrimony, loyalty, and love. 

Director’s Statement: Jesse Kreitzer 

In 2013, I moved to Iowa and spent three years 

unearthing the stories and relics of my mother’s 

heritage. I connected with extended family to record 

memories, drudge through county archives, digitize 

family photos, and document oral histories of those 

who grew up in Iowa’s coal camps. Black Canaries is an 

ode to my ancestors; a visual meditation honoring not 

only my own family’s history, but a collective cultural 

heritage formed in the blackened depths of Americana. 

Selected Filmography: Lomax (AIFF2014), The Murder Ballad of James Jones 

Death in a Day 

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PLAYS IN 


Fox 

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Friday 3:20pm 



P L A Y S I N 


(p 26) 

Director, Screenwriter: Lin Wang 

Producer: Lauren Brooks 

Cinematographer: Matthew Tanner 

Editor: Yumeng Chen 

Principal Cast: Jun Nian Cheng, 

Evan Liu, Wei Ren, Allen Theosky 

Rowe 


Jacqueline Lentzou 

Producer: Fenia Cossovitsa 

Cinematographer: Konstantinos 

Koukoulios 

Editor: Smaro Papaevangelou 

Music: The Boy 

Principal Cast: Nota Tserniafski, 

Nikos Zegkinoglou, Katerina Zisoudi 


Seven-year-old Evan would enjoy nothing more than to spend his day at 

home, playing with his toys. But he and his mother, Wei, must visit his 

comatose father in the hospital. There, he watches helplessly as his mother 

tries to cope and he begins to understand how his life will soon be very 

different. Subtitles 

Director’s Statement: Lin Wang 

This story rose from a long and mesmerizing dream 

of my unconscious self. I was pondering in front of a 

lake inside which a group of masked men, standing 

just below the surface of water, looked back at me. 

Just a few months later, my uncle was diagnosed with 

liver cancer and passed away. Memories flooded back: 

how he taught me to swim, how he drowned himself 

in alcohol, how his family was torn apart. This film is dedicated to him and 

his family. 

Selected Filmography: Revenge of the Egg 

US Premiere | 28 minutes | 2016 | Greece 

On a hot, summer day in Athens, Greece, Stephanos has a fight with his 

mother. She leaves him in charge of his two young siblings and their dog, 

Lucy, who is sick. A lively afternoon of pizza, water fights, and a flirty visit 

from Stephanos’ girlfriend is marred only by the continuous ringing of the 

telephone, which he finally answers. Will this turn out to be the last carefree 

day of their lives? Subtitles 

Director’s Statement: Jacqueline Lentzou 

In 2013, I went to the first funeral of my life. I said 

goodbye to the most significant figure of my childhood. 

Witnessing the very fact of death and then attending 

the ceremony were two absolutely new experiences and 

I found myself floating in between in utter uneasiness. 

In a similarly uneasy way, Fox was born to discuss this 

awkward point in time. 

Selected Filmography: Selini66, Hiwa, Luz 


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Fox and the Whale 

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Friday 3:20pm 



P L A Y S I N 


(p 26) 

Hijo por Hijo 

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Friday 9:30pm 


Sunday 9:30pm 

Monday 9:30pm 

P L A Y S I N 


(p 26) 



Robin Joseph 

Music: John Poon 

Animator: Kim Leow 

Director, Screenwriter: Juan Avella 

Producer: Sharon Waich B. 

Executive Producers: Juan Avella, 

Shelby Farrell 

Cinematographer: David D. Rivera Rojas 

Editors: Antonio Martin, Otto Scheuren 

Music: Pablo Crossier 

Animator: Alejandro Ocando 

Principal Cast: Ernesto Campos, 

Maria Alesia Machado, Oliver Morillo 

Oregon Premiere | 12 minutes | 2016 | Canada 

In this beautifully animated tale, a curious fox goes in search of an elusive 

whale—a journey of longing and discovery. 

Director’s Statement: Robin Joseph 

Fox and the Whale was made over the course of 16 

months, from initial storyboarding to final picture 

and sound. It was a self-financed project I made 

with personal savings and required taking time off 

from all commercial work. The team was tiny: My 

partner Kim Leow (who did the character animation, 

character models and rigs), Louis Vottero (who did 

the character rig for “Fox”), and John Poon (who 

composed the original music/theme for the film). I did everything else, from 

storyboarding, design, background paintings, compositing, visual FX like 

water/fire/particles, etc. Making the film end-to-end was one of the most 

challenging and rewarding learning curves I’ve had in a very long time. 


Oregon Premiere | 11 minutes | 2017 | USA, Venezuela | In Competition 

The life of a Venezuelan kidnapper is turned upside down when his own 

son is kidnapped by the father of his latest victim. Subtitles 

Director’s Statement: Juan Avella 

Every day, hundreds of Venezuelan citizens are 

victims of the lucrative crime of kidnapping. I 

wanted to condemn such actions and raise global 

awareness. But I wanted to portray the kidnappers 

as complex human beings, humanize them if you 

like. But what intrigued me the most was giving 

the criminal a taste of his own medicine and forcing 

him to explore the emotional roller coaster he 

inflicts on others. 

Selected Filmography: Either/Or 


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Oregon Premiere | 15 minutes | 2016 | Portugal 

An isolated Portuguese shepherd struggles against the harsh elements 

of his environment. When he finds his young son unconscious and 

extremely ill, he embarks on an unendurable journey to save him. Subtitles 

The Oregon Center for the Arts (OCA) at 

Southern Oregon University serves as a 

creative catalyst for the mixture of students, 

educators, and artists from the state, the 

nation and the world. OCA events feature 

faculty, students, alumni, and visiting artists. 

We offer events and performances for the 

following programs: 

❱ Creative Arts 

❱ Creative Writing 

❱ Emerging Media/ 

Digital Arts 

❱ Music 

❱ Schneider Museum of Art 

❱ Theatre 

WHERE YOU CAN BE YOU 

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PLAYS IN 


(p 26) 

The Last Leatherman of the 

Vale of Cashmere 


OCA.SOU.EDU | M 800-482-7672 en have always met men in the Vale of Cashmere. An aging man takes an 

irreverent trip down memory lane as he visits the cruising destination of 

his youth, tucked away in a corner of Brooklyn’s Prospect Park. Here amidst the 

thickets where secrecy once reigned, he contemplates a new world. 

TIMES 

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Sunday 9:30pm 

Monday 9:30pm 

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Director: Pedro Patrocínio, 

Sebastião Salgado 

Producer: Mário Patrocínio 

Executive Producers: Issa G. Ma’In, 

Mário Patrocínio 

Screenwriter: Sebastião Salgado 

Cinematographer: Pedro Patrocínio 

Editor: Claúdia Silvestre 

Music: Zé Godoy, Pedro Jaguaribe 

Principal Cast: Ricardo Aibéo, 

Sofia Marques, Manuel Sá Nogueira, 

Gustavo Sumpta 

Director, Screenwriter: Greg Loser 

Producers: Greg Loser, Heather Smith 

Executive Producer: Brian T. Brennan 

Cinematographer: Ramsey Fendall 

Editors: Anna Gustavi, Heather Smith 

Principal Cast: Bern Cohen 


Pedro Patrocínio, 

Sebastião Salgado 

“Um Caso Sem Importancia” (“An Insignificant 

Affair”), the short story that inspired 

me to shoot this short film, is one of the 

“Red Tales” written in the mid-1940s by Soeiro Pereira Gomes, who was driven 

underground by the Portuguese dictatorship of Oliveira Salazar. It tells the 

story of a man whose basic needs (to take his son to see a doctor) are affected 

by indifference and the social inequalities that prevailed in Portugal during 

that period. What shocked me the most while reading the story was that 70 

years later the same indifference and social disparities still prevail. 

Selected Filmography: Pedro Patrocínio–Directorial Debut; Sebastião Salgado–Everything’s OK 

Director’s Statement: Greg Loser 

I’m fascinated by old men. Principally because I’ll be 

one before long. 

Selected Filmography: Death of a Pop Star 

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Love 

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Director, Screenwriter: Réka Bucsi 

Producers: Marc Bodin-Joyeux, 

Gábor Osváth 

Animators: Réka Bucsi, Cyrille 

Chauvin, Thibaud Petitpas, Nicole 

Stafford 

Oregon Premiere | 15 minutes | 2016 | France, Hungary 

In saturated colors and dissolving frames, this animated short depicts the 

meaning of love after a dramatic event in a distant solar system. Abstract 

haiku-like situations reveal changes in atmosphere caused by a change of 

gravity and light and a pulsing planet’s effect on its inhabitants as they become 

one with each other in unpredictable ways. 

Director’s Statement: Réka Bucsi 

I wanted to capture the feeling of love without 

focusing on only individuals. I was also inspired 

by how a suncycle works, what states it has to go 

through, and what effect it has on other planets. I 

made myself this orbit as a base, where I set up rules 

that made me feel comfortable about telling a short 

story while not getting too narrative. I wanted the 

film to become something that the viewer would like to touch and be part of. 

Selected Filmography: Symphony no. 42 (AIFF2014) 

Pool 

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PLAYS IN 


(p 26) 

Director: Leandro Goddinho 

Producer, Executive Producer: 

Amina Jorge 

Screenwriter: Leandro Goddinho 

Cinematographer: Bruno Risas 

Editors: Leandro Goddinho, Mirella 

Martinelli 

Music: Marcelo Pellegrini 

Principal Cast: Carolina Bianchi, 

Sandra Dani, Luciana Paes 

29 minutes | 2016 | Brazil 

On a quest to understand her grandmother’s past, Claudia meets Marlene, 

an old woman who has created a shrine to her memories inside an empty 

pool. Subtitles 

Director’s Statement: Leandro Goddinho 

The premise for this film came to me after a 

visit to the Dachau concentration camp in 

Munich in 2012, where there is a wing dedicated 

to the memory of thousands of homosexuals 

murdered by the Nazis. After the war, the plight of 

homosexuals in concentration camps was not 

recognized by many countries, with some Allied 

powers refusing to release or repatriate these 

people. Only in the 1980’s did some governments recognize homosexuals 

as victims of the Holocaust and only in 2002 did the German government 

formally apologize to the gay community. 

Selected Filmography: DARLUZ, Solo Pernambucano 


Plea 

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Director, Co-Producer: Joe Oppenheimer 

Producer: Cade Loven 

Executive Producer: Brock Williams 

Screenwriter: Jarret Rosenblatt 

Cinematographer: Joshua Zucker-Pluda 

Editor: Brian Denny 

Music: Jonathan Goldstein 

Principal Cast: Kate Morgan Chadwick, 

James Echouse, Eduardo Franco, 

Paul McKinney 


Apublic defender has minutes to save her 16-year-old client from a life 

sentence for murder by convincing him to take a plea deal for a crime 

he only technically committed. To save this boy, she will have to break him. 

Director’s Statement: Joe Oppenheimer 

In the majority of cases I handled as a criminal defense 

lawyer, a plea was the worst option. This was especially 

so in juvenile cases concerning opportunistic crimes 

where youth who lacked a capacity for consequential 

thinking often also lacked a defense. These kids faced 

far graver sentences at trial then they could have ever 

anticipated. At some level I feel complicit in the system 

that condemns children like this. I had always wanted to 

make a difference. However, mostly my job was about 

making the inevitable a certainty. 

Selected Filmography: Checkpoint 

Roadside Attraction No. 1 

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PLAYS IN 


(p 26) 


Cinematographer, Editor, 

Animator: Patrick Neary 

Music: Stuart Moore 

World Premiere | 3 minutes | 2016 | USA | In Competition 

forgotten roadside attraction, trapped in a long-abandoned sideshow, 

A experiences a grainy vision of his past, present and future. 

Director’s Statement: Patrick Neary 

Roadside Attraction No. 1 is the first of a series of short 

animations exploring the idea of a long-forgotten 

roadside oddity, abandoned in a crumbling peepshow 

booth. The film makes use of decades-old 8mm home 

movies and a specialized tilt/shift lens to create a sense 

of nostalgia in the grim setting. Animation of the 

six-inch tall character took place over several weeks, 

utilizing sets I had created for an earlier stop-motion music video. 

Selected Filmography: CowBurd (AIFF2014), A Martian Picnic (AIFF2012), Landscape 

with Duck (AIFF2011) 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Speechless 

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(p 26) 

Director, Screenwriter: Robin Polak 

Producers: Jan Fincke, 

Thorne Mutert, Anja Wedell 

Cinematographer: Frank Lamm 

Editor: Katja Fischer 

Music: Hearoes 

Principal Cast: Matilda Florczyk, 

Heike Makatsch, Noah Papadimitriou 

Summer Camp Island 

Oregon Premiere | 7 minutes | 2016 | Germany 

Alone, a little boy walks through a toy store full of people speaking in a 

strange and incomprehensible language. A beautiful woman, shopping 

with her young daughter, finds a way to communicate with him without 

words. He whispers something to her that she is not prepared to hear. 

Director’s Statement: Robin Polak 

When I came from the Czech Republic to 

Germany, my parents and I didn’t own anything 

other than an old suitcase. We applied 

for political asylum and I came to kindergarten 

without knowing a single German word. I 

still haven’t forgotten this special feeling of not 

being understood or being able to communicate with anyone. The refugee topic 

is now more relevant than ever and, of course, it deeply concerns me given 

my own past. However, far from a morality tale the true purpose of my movie 

is to bring this specific feeling to life and a bit closer to our privileged reality. 

Selected Filmography: Alice in No Man’s Land, Oskar Fever, The Split 


Oscar and his best friend Hedgehog got dropped off at Summer Camp. Once 

all the parents leave the island, all of the strangeness lurking beneath the 

surface starts to come out. Aliens exist, and there are monsters under the bed. 

Director’s Statement: Julia Pott 


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Swim 

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(p 26) 

Director, Screenwriter: Julia Pott 

Producers: Nate Funaro, Scott Malchus 

Executive Producers: Curtis Lelash, Brian 

A. Miller, Jennifer Pelphrey, Rob Sorcher 

Editor: Rob Getzschman 

Animators: Robert Alvarez, Randy Myers 

Voiceovers: Ashley Boettcher, 

Justin Felbinger, Judd Hirsch, Anna 

Strupinsky, Kathleen Wilhoite 

Director, Screenwriter, Editor: Mari Walker 

Producers: Katharine Lee McEwan, Kelly 

Thewlis 

Executive Producers: Matt Miller, 

Mari Walker 

Cinematographer: Jordan T. Parrott 

Music: Robert Allaire, Bora Bora 

Principal Cast: Roy Abramsohn, Gavin 

Fink, Susan Papa 

Selected Filmography: 

Belly (AIFF2012), The Event, Howard 


As summer draws to a close, a young trans girl finds freedom in a secret 

midnight swim. 

Director’s Statement: Mari Walker 

Growing up trans is a life of stolen moments where 

many simple pleasures take on heavier significance. I 

loved swimming as a child, but as my body continued 

to alienate itself from my mind, wearing a male 

swimsuit left me feeling exposed and insecure. Then 

one summer, I took my mother’s swimsuit and went 

on a secret midnight swim. Years later, when I found 

myself telling this story, I had the tremendous honor 

of working with some incredibly talented artists. I wanted to celebrate 

something so simple which can signify so much freedom. 

Selected Filmography: Soul of a Tree (AIFF2016) 

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White Face 

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Monday 9:30pm 

P L A Y S I N 

After Hours Shorts 

(p 26) 

Director, Screenwriter: Terence Nance 

Producers: Avi Amar, Yohann Cornu 

Executive Producer: Avi Amar 

Cinematographer: Shawn Peters 

Editor: Théo Lichtenberger 

Music: Dany Levital, Akua Naru 

Principal Cast: Mama Faso, Aminata 

M’Bathie, Badara N’Gom, Naky Sy 

Savané 

Director, Screenwriter: Mtume Gant 

Producers: Conchita Campos, 

Natalie Eakin, Mtume Gant 

Executive Producers: Mychal 

Campos, Cindy Chavez, Alexis 

Iwanisziw, Alano Miller, Justine 

Stock, DeWanda Wise 

Cinematographer: Frank Turiano 

Editor: Dax Brooks 

Music: Scott Thorough 

Principal Cast: Frank Deal, Mtume 

Gant, Kara Young 

Oregon Premiere | 15 minutes | 2016 | France, USA | In Competition 

visually gorgeous narratively compelling reworking of the classic Romeo 

A and Juliet love story. When Aminata and Badara meet on a bus in 

Marseille, France, they fall head-over-heels in love, joining their fates forever. 

Subtitles 

Director’s Statement: Terence Nance 

Univitellin is a strange one, I didn’t know what 

it was as it was happening, but I think it became 

some mix of the insecurity of narcissism creeping 

into love and the insecurity of how culture tells 

stories about relationships creeping into love. 

Selected Filmography: An Oversimplification of Her Beauty 

(AIFF2012), They Charge for the Sun, You and I and You 


Actor Charles Rogers hates his skin and the hardship that comes with it. 

Feeling trapped by his race, Charles believes he has found the solution to 

his problems: change his appearance to embody “whiteness” and erase all that 

he has ever been in order to join the group he believes he should be a part of. 

But is this actually possible? 

Director’s Statement: Mtume Gant 

As America debates the vision for its political and social 

future, there has been massive discourse around 

identity, privilege, discrimination, and what we as a 

country must do to right the wrongs done to those 

most marginalized by society. White Face explores 

this discourse through someone who on the surface 

appears to be an antagonist. But as we search deeper, 

we find that he is the embodiment of our country’s 

internal struggle to define itself and the tragic result 

of our inability to do so without any consensus. 

Selected Filmography: Spit 


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the AIFF team 

AIFF TEAM 

Mission 

The Southern Oregon Film Society 

celebrates the diversity of human 

experience through the art of independent 

film—enriching, educating, and inspiring 

audiences of all ages. 

Board of 

Directors 

Jackie Apodaca 

Anne Ashbey* 

Tim Johns 

Doug Nash 

Pam Leandro Notch* 

Maylee Oddo* 

Shelby Platt 

Wolfgang Platzer 

Chela Sanchez 

Shelby Sanford 

Tika Squires 

Dick Sweet 

Julie Weisinger 

Advisory 

Council 

Susan Cain 

Katharine Cato 

Jack Davis 

Lee Fuchsmann 

Andrew Gay 

Brandon Givens 

Jeff Golden 

Annie Hoy 

Gary Kout 

Jimmy Leavens 

howard schreiber 

John Schweiger 

Joan Thorndike 

George Wilson 

The Ashland Independent Film Festival gratefully 

acknowledges the tireless dedication of the community leaders, 

past and present, whose vision, passion, and dedication make 

our support of independent film possible. 

Board Emeritus 

Paul Adalian 

Elaine Albrich 

Debbie Ameen 

William Baine 

Claudia Ballard 

Jim Batzer 

Zack Bell 

Rick Bleiweiss 

Jeff Blum 

Cathy Carrier 

Brooke DeBoer 

Karen Drescher 

Joanne Feinberg 

Greg Frederick 

Lyle Halprin 

Phyllis Leilani Halstead 

Mark Hatfield 

Elizabeth Hoffmann 

Ron Hulteen* 

Carol Jensen 

Jerry Kenefick 

Calvin Kennedy 

Joanne Kliejunas 

Susan Krant 

Kristos 

Ted Loftus* 

John Love 

Beasy McMillan 

Ed McNulty* 

Sylvia Medeiros* 

Ron Mogel 

Tamara Mohlman 

Michael Moore 

Janeen Olsen 

Linda Otto* 

darrel pearce 

Foy Renfro 

Amy Richard 

Sandi Risser 

Pokii Roberts 

Helen Rosen 

Jane Sage* 

Sarah Sameh 


Karen Smith 

Jim Teece* 

Ken Wells 

DW Wood 

Steve Wood* 

*Past President 

AIFF Staff: (from left to right) Richard Herskowitz, Wendy Conner, Emily McPeck, Judy Plapinger, Sean Sullivan, Bruce Hostetler, 

Anna Soloniuk, and Erica Thompson. 

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Staff 

Richard Herskowitz 

Programming & Interim 

Executive Director 

Wendy Conner 

Director of Operations 

Sean Sullivan 

Systems Manager 

Jana Carole 

Education Coordinator 

(Volunteer) 

Jedediah Davis 

Armory Manager 

Cathy Dombi 

Development Consultant 

Bruce Hostetler 

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Manager 

Peter Linington 

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Emily McPeck 

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Communications 

Coordinator 

Judy Plapinger 

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Anna Soloniuk 

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Robin Williams 

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Greg Babush 

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Brian Morataya 

Aaron Ridenour 

Chris Simpson 

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Simon Weibel 

Nina Winans 

Vanessa Meza-Ruiz 

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team. 

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THANKS 

Anne Ashbey 

Ashland High School 

Inspire Classroom 

Bax 

Bruce Bayard 

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Photography 

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Portraits by Claire 

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Rotary Club of Ashland– 

Lithia Springs 

ScienceWorks Hands-On 

Museum 

Schneider Museum of Art 

Kay Sandberg 

SIL 

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SOU Digital Media Center 

SOU Film Club 

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Dick Sweet 

Elaine Sweet 

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Denise Thompson 

Karen Tolui 

Philip Trautman 

Brooke Turner 

Park Walker 

Walsh Tax Services 

Christi Wruck 

Russell Zook 

9am 

12pm 

VARSITY 1 

176 seats 

12pm | Doc | 

98 min 

What Lies 

Upstream 

VARSITY 2 

97 seats 

12:20pm | 

Docs | 88 min 

Short Docs 

VARSITY 3 

132 seats 

12:40pm | 

Feature | 

111 min 

Pushing Dead 

VARSITY 4 

30 seats 

VARSITY 5 

42 seats 

ARMORY 

450 seats 

SCHEDULE 

THURSDAY 4/6/17 

12:10pm | 

Doc | 60 min 

Buzz One 

Four 

12:30pm | 

Doc | 86 min 

Una Nueva 

Tierra 

ASHLAND 

ST. CINEMA 

172 seats 

10:10am | 

Shorts | 

67 min 

Family 

Shorts: 

Kid Flix 

12:40pm | 

Shorts | 

67 min 

Family 

Shorts: Kid 

Flix 

SPECIAL 

EVENTS 

3pm 

3pm | Doc | 

74 min 

City of Joy 

3:20pm | 

Feature | 

99 min 

Cortez 

3:40pm | 

Doc | 104 min 

Whose 

Streets? 


Feature | 

78 min 

For Now 

3:30pm | 

Doc | 83 min 

When the 

Mountains 

Tremble 

3:40pm | 

Shorts & 

Docs | 80 min 

Locals Only 3: 

Potpourri 

ROLLING 

6pm 

6pm | Feature | 

95 min 

In the Radiant 

City 

6:20pm | 

Feature | 

81 min 

My First Kiss 

and the 

People 

Involved 

6:40pm | Doc | 

62 min 

The Groove Is 

Not Trivial 


Feature | 

79 min 

The Missing 

Sun 

6:30pm | 


Quest 

6pm | Doc | 

95 min 

Dolores 

Opening 

Night Film 

6:40pm | 

Doc | 75 min 

Earth 

Seasoned... 

#GapYear 

7-10pm | Party 

Opening Night 

Bash 

Ashland 

Springs Hotel 

Closeups with professors who know your name and 

have the highest degrees in their fields. Earn your 

degree on location in a spectacular natural setting 

for a superb educational experience. 

Where you can be you. 

9pm 

9pm | Doc | 

88 min 

Abacus: 

Small 

Enough to 

Jail 

9:20pm | 

Doc | 85 min 

Following 

Seas 

9:40pm | 

Shorts | 

80 min 

Short 

Stories 1 


Doc | 92 min 

This Is 

Everything: 

Gigi 

Gorgeous 

9:30pm | 

Features | 

108 min 

Rosalinda 

Viola 

9:15pm | 

Doc | 93 min 

Cocksucker 

Blues 

SOU.EDU | 800-482-7672 

Theater 2 is 

not wheelchair 

accessible 

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SCHEDULE 

FRIDAY 4/7/17 

SCHEDULE 

SATURDAY 4/8/17 

VARSITY 1 

176 seats 

VARSITY 2 

97 seats 

VARSITY 3 

132 seats 

VARSITY 4 

30 seats 

VARSITY 5 

42 seats 

ARMORY 

450 seats 

ASHLAND 

ST. CINEMA 

172 seats 

SPECIAL 

EVENTS 

VARSITY 1 

176 seats 

VARSITY 2 

97 seats 

VARSITY 3 

132 seats 

VARSITY 4 

30 seats 

VARSITY 5 

42 seats 

ARMORY 

450 seats 

ASHLAND 

ST. CINEMA 

172 seats 

SPECIAL 

EVENTS 

9am 

9:30am | 

Doc | 86 min 

Sacred 

9:50am | 

Doc | 62 min 

The Groove 

Is Not Trivial 


Shorts | 80 

min 

Short 

Stories 1 

9:40am | 

Doc | 56 min 

Acts and 

Intermissions 

10am | 

Feature| 


Rosalinda 

Viola 

9:30am | Doc 

| 94 min 

Score: A 

Film Music 

Documentary 

with Joby 

Talbot 


Shorts | 

67 min 

Family 

Shorts: 

Kid Flix 

10am | Panel | 

90 min 

TalkBack: 

Filming 

Activists 

Ashland 

Springs Hotel 

9am 

9:30am | 

Doc | 

74 min 

City of Joy 

9:50am | 

Docs | 

88 min 

Short Docs 


Feature | 

111 min 

Pushing Dead 

9:40am | 

Doc | 92 min 

This Is 

Everything: 

Gigi 

Gorgeous 


Feature | 

78 min 

For Now 


Shorts | 

81 min 

CineSpace 


Shorts & 

Docs | 53 min 


Family-Friendly 

LAUNCH Awards 


Panel | 90 min 

TalkBack: 

Indie 

Documentary 

Journalism 

Ashland 

Springs Hotel 

9pm 

6pm 

3pm 

12pm 

12pm | Doc | 

74 min 

City of Joy 

3pm | Doc | 

88 min 

Spettacolo 

6pm | Doc | 

88 min 

Abacus: 

Small 

Enough to 

Jail 

9pm | Feature | 

95 min 

In the Radiant 

City 

12:20pm | 

Feature | 

99 min 

Cortez 

3:20pm | 

Shorts | 

90 min 

Short 

Stories 2 

6:20pm | Doc | 

97 min 

Unrest 

9:20pm | 

Feature | 

81 min 

My First Kiss 

and the People 

Involved 

Theater 2 is 


accessible 

12:40pm | 

Feature | 

86 min 

Hermia & 

Helena 

3:40pm | 

Shorts | 

62 min 

Animators of 

LAIKA: Shorts 

with Mark 

Shapiro 

6:40pm | 

Doc | 60 min 

Buzz One 

Four 

9:40pm | 


Whose 

Streets? 

12pm | 

Feature | 

92 min 

This Is 

Everything: 

Gigi 

Gorgeous 


Feature | 

79 min 

The Missing 

Sun 


Feature | 

78 min 

For Now 


Doc | 60 min 

Buzz One 

Four 

12:30pm | 

Doc | 

83 min 

When the 

Mountains 

Tremble 

3:30pm | 

Doc | 86 min 

Una Nueva 

Tierra 

6:30pm | 

Doc | 84 min 

Granito: 

How to Nail 

a Dictator 

9:30pm | 

Shorts & 

Docs | 89 min 

After Hours: 

Shorts 

12pm | Doc | 

86 min 

The Freedom 

to Marry 

3pm | Doc | 

82 min 

I Am Another 

You 

6pm | Doc | 

92 min 

The Untold 

Tales 

of Armistead 

Maupin 

9pm | 

Feature | 

140 min 

Maurice 

plus clip from 

Call Me by 

Your Name 

with James 

Ivory 

12:40pm | 


Quest 

3:40pm | 

Shorts & 

Docs | 

53 min 

Locals 

Only 1: 

Family- 

Friendly 

6:40pm | 

Feature | 

120 min 

McCabe & 

Mrs. Miller 

with Alex 

Cox and Phil 

Thomas 

9:40pm | 

Shorts & 

Docs | 61 min 


Local Matters 

5:15pm | 

90 min 

Community 

Conversations: 

City of Joy 

Elks Club 

9pm 

6pm 

3pm 

12pm 

12pm | Doc | 

86 min 

Sacred 

3pm | 

Feature | 

140 min 

Howards End 

6pm | Doc | 

98 min 

What Lies 

Upstream 

9pm | Doc | 

88 min 

Spettacolo 

12:20pm | 

Feature | 

81 min 

My First 

Kiss and the 

People 

Involved 

3:20pm | 

Doc | 

85 min 

Following 

Seas 

6:20pm | 

Shorts | 

90 min 

Short 

Stories 2 

9:20pm | 

Doc | 97 min 

Unrest 

Theater 2 is 


accessible 

12:40pm | 


Whose 

Streets? 

3:40pm | 

Doc | 83 min 

Lost 

Landscapes 

of Los Angeles 

with 


6:40pm | 

Shorts | 

62 min 

Animators of 

LAIKA: Shorts 

with Mark 

Shapiro 

9:40pm | 

Feature | 

86 min 

Hermia & 

Helena 


Doc | 60 min 

Buzz One 

Four 


Doc | 56 min 

Acts and 

Intermissions 


Feature | 

79 min 

The Missing 

Sun 


Doc | 92 min 

This Is 

Everything: 

Gigi 

Gorgeous 

12:30pm | 

Doc | 84 min 

Granito: 

How to Nail 

a Dictator 

3:30pm | 


Quest 

6:30pm | 

Doc | 

86 min 

Una Nueva 

Tierra 

9:30pm | 

Shorts & 

Docs | 

89 min 

After Hours: 

Shorts 

12:30pm | 

Doc | 95 min 

Nobody 

Speak: Trials 

of the Free 

Press 

3:30pm | 

Doc | 88 min 

500 Years 

6:30pm | 

Feature | 

93 min 

The Hero 

9:30pm | 

Doc | 80 min 

Happy Lucky 

Golden 

Tofu Panda 

Dragon Good 

Time Fun Fun 

Show with 

Slanty Eyed 

Mama LIVE 

12:40pm | 

Shorts | 

67 min 

Family 

Shorts: 

Kid Flix 

3:40pm | 

Doc | 95 min 

Seasons 

6:40pm | 

Feature | 

82 min 

Tombstone 

Rashomon 

9:20pm | 

Shorts & 

Docs | 

80 min 

Locals 

Only 3: 

Potpourri 

2-5pm 

Virtual Reality 

Hands-on 

Gallery 

and Docs 

ScienceWorks 

Hands-on 

Museum 

5:15pm | 

90 min 

Community 


I Am Another 

You 

Elks Club 

7pm | 

Performance | 

60 min 

Hope and Prey: 

Vanessa 

Renwick & 

Tara Jane 

O’Neil live 

performance 

Schneider 

Museum of Art 

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SCHEDULE 

SCHEDULE 

SUNDAY 4/9/17 

MONDAY 4/10/17 

9am 

12pm 

3pm 

6pm 

9pm 

VARSITY 1 

176 seats 

9:30am | 

Doc | 

98 min 

What Lies 

Upstream 

12pm | 

Feature | 

95 min 

In the 

Radiant City 

3pm | Doc | 

88 min 

Abacus: 

Small 

Enough to 

Jail 

6pm | Doc | 

88 min 

Spettacolo 

9pm | Doc | 

86 min 

Sacred 

VARSITY 2 

97 seats 

9:50am | 

Feature | 

99 min 

Cortez 

12:20pm | 

Shorts | 

90 min 

Short 

Stories 2 

3:20pm | 

Doc | 56 min 

Acts and 

Intermissions 

6:20pm | 

Doc | 

85 min 

Following 

Seas 

9:20pm | 

Docs | 88 min 

Short Docs 

VARSITY 3 

132 seats 


Shorts | 

80 min 

Short 

Stories 1 

12:40pm | 

Doc | 73 min 

The Royal 

Road with 


3:40pm | 

Feature | 

86 min 

Hermia & 

Helena 

6:40pm | 

Shorts | 

80 min 

NLFU: Films 

by Vanessa 

Renwick 

9:40pm | 

Feature| 

111 min 

Pushing Dead 

VARSITY 4 

30 seats 

9:40am | 

Doc | 

83 min 

When the 

Mountains 

Tremble 


Doc | 84 min 

Granito: How 

to Nail a 

Dictator 


Doc | 97 min 

Unrest 


Doc | 60 min 

Buzz One 

Four 


Feature | 

79 min 

The Missing 

Sun 

VARSITY 5 

42 seats 

10am | Doc | 


Quest 

12:30pm | 

Feature | 

78 min 

For Now 

3:30pm | 

Doc | 86 min 

Una Nueva 

Tierra 

6:30pm | 

Feature| 


Rosalinda 

Viola 

9:30pm | 

Shorts & 

Docs | 89 min 

After Hours: 

Shorts 

ARMORY 

450 seats 

9:30am | 

Doc | 94 min 

Harold and 

Lillian: 

A Hollywood 

Love Story 

12pm | 

Feature | 

91 min 

Strange 

Weather 

ASHLAND 

ST. CINEMA 

172 seats 


Shorts | 67 min 

Family Shorts: 

Kid Flix 

12:40pm | 

Shorts & 

Docs | 61 min 


Local Matters 

3:40pm | 

Doc | 95 min 

Seasons 

6:40pm | 

Shorts & 

Docs | 55 min 

Finding 

Refuge 

9pm | Doc | 

75 min 

Earth 

Seasoned... 

#GapYear 

SPECIAL 

EVENTS 

10am | Panel | 

90 min 

TalkBack: 

Cinematic 

Literature with 

James Ivory, 


and Bill Rauch 

Ashland 

Springs Hotel 

5:15pm | 

90 min 

Community 


Sacred 

Elks Club 

7:30-11pm | 

Party 

Awards 

Celebration 

Historic 

Ashland 

Armory 

9pm 

6pm 

3pm 

12pm 

9am 

VARSITY 1 

176 seats 

9:30am | 

Feature 

Audience 

Award: 

Narrative 

Feature 

12pm | Doc 

Juried Award: 

Documentary 

Feature 

3pm | Shorts 

& Docs 

Jury and 

Audience 

Award: 

Narrative and 

Documentary 

Shorts 

6pm | Feature 

Juried Award: 

Narrative 

Feature 

9pm | Doc 

Audience 

Award: 

Documentary 

Feature 

VARSITY 2 

97 seats 

9:50am 

TBA 1 

12:20pm | 

Doc | 97 min 

Unrest 

3:20pm | 

Feature | 

81 min 

My First Kiss 

and the People 

Involved 

6:20pm | 

Docs | 

88 min 

Short Docs 

9:20pm | 

Feature | 

99 min 

Cortez 

VARSITY 3 

132 seats 


Shorts & 

Docs | 55 min 

Finding 

Refuge 

12:40pm 

TBA 2 

3:40pm | 

Feature | 

86 min 

Hermia & 

Helena 

6:40pm 

TBA 3 

9:40pm | 

Doc | 62 min 

The Groove 

Is Not Trivial 

VARSITY 4 

30 seats 

9:40am | 

Doc | 60 min 

Buzz One 

Four 


Feature | 

78 min 

For Now 


Doc | 

56 min 

Acts and 

Intermissions 


Doc | 92 min 

This Is 

Everything: 

Gigi 

Gorgeous 


Feature | 

79 min 

The Missing 

Sun 

VARSITY 5 

42 seats 

10am | Doc | 

86 min 

Una Nueva 

Tierra 

12:30pm | 

Doc | 


Quest 

3:30pm | 

Feature | 

78 min 

For Now 

6:30pm 

TBA 4 

9:30pm | 

Shorts & 

Docs | 89 min 

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FILM INDEX 

4 Pounds of Flowers............................................................... 72 

500 Years................................................................................. 32 

Abacus: Small Enough To Jail................................................ 32 

Acts and Intermissions............................................................ 33 

Balloonfest.............................................................................. 54 

Black Canaries........................................................................ 72 

The Boatman........................................................................... 54 

Buzz One Four........................................................................ 35 

City of Joy............................................................................... 35 

Cocksucker Blues .................................................................. 36 

Cortez...................................................................................... 61 

Death in a Day......................................................................... 73 

Dolores.................................................................................... 36 

Earth Seasoned...#GapYear................................................... 37 

Election Night.......................................................................... 55 

Following Seas........................................................................ 37 

For Now................................................................................... 61 

Fox........................................................................................... 73 

Fox and the Whale.................................................................. 75 

The Freedom to Marry............................................................ 39 

The Function of Music............................................................ 55 

Granito: How to Nail a Dictator............................................... 39 

The Groove is Not Trivial ........................................................ 41 

Happy Lucky Golden Tofu Panda Dragon 

Good Time Fun Fun Show................................................... 41 

Harold and Lillian: A Hollywood Love Story........................... 42 

Hermia & Helena..................................................................... 63 

The Hero................................................................................. 63 

High Chaparral........................................................................ 56 

Hijo por Hijo............................................................................ 75 

Howards End ......................................................................... 65 

I Am Another You.................................................................... 42 

In the Radiant City................................................................... 65 

Já Passou................................................................................ 77 

Kish......................................................................................... 56 

The Last Leatherman of the Vale of Cashmere...................... 77 

Lost Landscapes of Los Angeles............................................ 43 

Love......................................................................................... 78 

The Man is the Music.............................................................. 57 

Maurice .................................................................................. 67 

McCabe & Mrs. Miller.............................................................. 67 

The Missing Sun..................................................................... 68 

My First Kiss and the People Involved.................................... 68 

Nobody Speak: Trials of the Free Press................................. 45 

Pickle....................................................................................... 57 

Plea......................................................................................... 78 

Pool......................................................................................... 79 

Pushing Dead......................................................................... 69 

Quest ...................................................................................... 45 

Roadside Attraction No.1........................................................ 79 

Rosalinda................................................................................ 69 

The Royal Road ..................................................................... 47 

Sacred..................................................................................... 47 

Score: A Film Music Documentary......................................... 49 

Seasons.................................................................................. 49 

Speechless.............................................................................. 81 

Spettacolo .............................................................................. 50 

Strange Weather..................................................................... 70 

Summer Camp Island............................................................. 81 

Swim........................................................................................ 81 

The Tables............................................................................... 59 

This Is Everything: Gigi Gorgeous ......................................... 50 

A Thousand Mothers............................................................... 59 

Tombstone Rashomon ........................................................... 71 

Una Nueva Tierra ................................................................... 51 

Univitellin................................................................................. 83 

Unrest...................................................................................... 51 

The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin...................................52 

Viola.........................................................................................71 

What Lies Upstream................................................................52 

When the Mountains Tremble.................................................53 

White Face..............................................................................83 

Whose Streets?.......................................................................53 

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