Mytilini: October 2-7 – Athens: October 8-12
Exile Room, in collaboration with the U.S. Embassy in Athens, welcomes the American Film Showcase, a multifaceted exploration of American documentary and a unique partnership with the University of Southern California’s School of Cinematic Arts. The program features award-winning films from the past two years along with a series of untraditional workshops that shed light on the mysteries of production.
The American Film Showcase will make a stop in Mytilini before heading to Athens, and will feature appearances by two award-winning film experts: director/producer and all-around documentary guru Gordon Quinn (“Hoop Dreams”, “The Interrupters”, “Life Itself”) and ultra-talented producer Carolyn Hepburn (“Art and Craft”, “3 ½ Minutes, Ten Bullets”, “Life, Animated”), whose careers have both culminated in Oscar nominations!
As part of the AegeanDocs International Documentary Film Festival in Mytilini, the visiting film experts will introduce some of their most acclaimed documentaries, “The Interrupters” and “3 ½ Minutes, Ten Bullets.” In Athens, the American Film Showcase screenings will take place at the Greek Film Archive and Exile Room, opening with “Racing Extinction,” an ecological extravaganza with activist sensibilities and extraordinary filming techniques, directed by Louie Psihoyos (“The Cove”).
Carolyn Hepburn and Gordon Quinn will also lead workshops on how to respect your characters’ boundaries (documentary ethics), how to fairly use other people’s work to build your own audiovisual vocabulary (fair use) and how to fight violence with non-violence, as filtered through their own personal experience.
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“Song of Lahore” follows several Pakistani musicians, and asks if there is still room for them in a society roiled by conflict. Featuring the music of the Sachal Jazz Ensemble, and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis.
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Five years after he won the Best Documentary Oscar for “The Cove”, Greek-American filmmaker Louie Psihoyos is back with the extraordinarily ambitious “Racing Extinction”, expanding on man’s detrimental effect on the environment.
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Multi-award-winning producer Carolyn Hepburn with share the necessary tools to build an unshakeable factual film, while she will also speak to the devastating consequences of racist violence, as well as the often futile battle for justice in a chaotic system – two subject-matters that have become focal points for several documentaries in the past few years.
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November 2012. It’s Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, when a group of African American teenagers parks in front of a gas station in Florida, after spending the day hanging out at the local mall. 3½ minutes and ten bullets later, one of the boys is dead.
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Seven miles from war, 85,000 Syrians struggle to restart their lives inside Jordan’s Za’atari refugee camp. For the first time ever, two young filmmakers, Zach Ingrasci and Chris Temple, are allowed by the UN to register and set up a tent inside a refugee camp.
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In February 2013, Anaïs Bordier, a French fashion student living in London, stumbled upon a YouTube video featuring Samantha Futerman, an actress in Los Angeles, and was struck by their uncanny resemblance.
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A fatal turf war between neighborhoods haunts the city of Richmond, California. 22-year-old Donté Clark could easily be part of the problem, if he hadn’t discovered how to filter his rage through poetry.
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