THE BLACK POWER MIXTAPE 1967-1975 (World Cinema Documentary Editing Award) directed by Göran Hugo Olsson. The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 / Sweden, U.S.A. (Director: Göran Olsson) - From 1967 to 1975, Swedish journalists chronicled the Black Power movement in America. Combining that 16mm footage, undiscovered until now, with contemporary audio interviews, this film illuminates the people and culture that fueled change and brings the movement to life anew. World Premiere -­‐ Original score by Questlove of The Roots; commentaries from activist musicians including Harry Belafonte, Talib Kweli, and Erykah Badu. The Legend of Beaver Dam / Canada (Director: Jerome Sable; Screenwriters: Jerome Sable and Eli Batalion) - When a ghost story around the campfire awakens an evil monster, it's up to nerdy Danny Zigwitz to be the hero and save his fellow campers from a bloody massacre. -­‐ A rock musical horror film, The Legend of Beaver Dam is the first musical film of Montreal based musical theatre duo Jerome Sable and Eli Batalion. Sable and Batalion is best known for the musical J.O.B. The Hip-Hopera, a retelling of the biblical Book of Job through hip-hop. The Music Never Stopped / U.S.A. (Director: Jim Kohlberg; Screenwriters: Gwyn Lurie and Gary Marks, based on the story "The Last Hippie" by Oliver Sacks) - A father struggles to bond with his estranged son who suffers a brain tumor that prevents him from forming new memories. He learns to embrace his son's choices and to try to connect with him through the power of music. Cast: J.K. Simmons, Julia Ormond, Cara Seymour, Lou Taylor Pucci, Mia Maestro. - The film features music from The Grateful Dead, The Beatles, Buffalo Springfield, Bob Dylan, and Crosby, Stills and Nash. Ticket to Paradise (Boleto al Paraiso) / Cuba (Director: Gerardo Chijona Valdes; Screenwriters: Gerardo Chijona Valdes, Francisco Garcia Gonzalez and Maykel Rodriguez Ponjuan) - A teenage girl running away from her father's sexual harassment meets a young rocker who has escaped to Havana with his misfit group of friends. Set in 1993, during a period of acute shortages in Cuba, the local AIDS hospice begins to look like an unlikely refuge to the hopeless teens. Cast: Miriel Cejas, Héctor Medina, Dunia Matos, Jorge Perugorria, Luis A. Garcia. International Premiere -­‐ Music by renowned Cuban composer Edesio Alejandro.
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TROUBADOURS (US Documentary): Doug Weston and Elton John Impersonator Courtesy of Jackie Guthrie. Troubadours / U.S.A.(Director: Morgan Neville) - A musical journey tracing the lives and careers of James Taylor and Carole King, pillars of the California singer/songwriter scene, which converged in and around LA's Troubadour Club in the late 1960s and early 1970s. - Weaves together archival footage, rare performances, and interviews from a veritable who’s who, including Elton John, Steve Martin, and Bonnie Raitt. We Were Here / U.S.A.(Director: David Weissman) - A deep and reflective look at the arrival and impact of AIDS in San Francisco and how individuals rose to the occasion during the first years of this unimaginable crisis. - Portland, Oregon based composer, singer and performance artist Holcombe Waller (also of Holcombe Waller & the Healers) composed the score for the film. WIN WIN / U.S.A. (Director and screenwriter: Tom McCarthy, based on the story by Tom McCarthy and Joe Tiboni) - When a disheartened attorney moonlighting as a high school wrestling coach stumbles across a star athlete, things seem to be looking up. That is, until the boy's mother shows up fresh from rehab and flat broke, threatening to derail everything. Cast: Paul Giamatti, Amy Ryan, Bobby Cannavale, Jeffrey Tambor. - Indie rock band The National composed the original theme song. !Women Art Revolution / U.S.A. (Director: Lynn Hershman Leeson) - One part of a transmedia project that includes the interactive video installation RAW WAR presented at New Frontier, this seminal documentary depicts the history of women artists who have used art as an activist practice to fight oppression and protest gender and racial exclusion - creating what many historians feel is the most significant art movement of the late-20th century. U.S. Premiere -­‐ Original score composed by Carrie Brownstein, formerly of indie rock band Sleater-Kinney. In 2006, Brownstein appeared on the Rolling Stone reader’s list of the 25 "Most Underrated Guitarists of All-Time" as the highest-rated woman.