OPEN YOUR EYES
NYC PREMIERE An elderly couple in the remote mountains of Nepal take a three-day journey to reclaim their long-lost sight. This film is followed by WILHEMINA’S WAR
Health and Wellness
FOR THE LOVE OF DOGS
An inspiring, heart-warming story told through the eyes of Cory: a brilliant and talented 11 year-old boy with Asperger’s Syndrome. Follow Cory’s journey from the National Dog Show to Westminster, and witness how a boy’s passion for dogs has opened up his communication with the world around him. This plays as part of SHORTS PROGRAM: […]
ANDREW & WENDY
NYC PREMIERE Andrew & Wendy is a 30 minute documentary film that tells the story of a New York upper West Side couple at a crisis point. Andrew, who is in a coma, is not responding to anything and his prognosis is frighteningly bleak. Wendy’s inspired idea to play Bach for him actually brings him […]
LAST STOP IN SANTA ROSA
An elderly couple who runs a hospice for dying animals calls into question the ethics of pet euthanasia. At the hospice, old animals that would have been euthanized are given a chance to live out the rest of their lives — but they must also endure the trials of aging. Through the struggles of two […]
LOVE AND TERROR ON THE HOWLING PLAINS OF NOWHERE
NYC PREMIERE Imagine a This American Life episode devoted to a real-world Twin Peaks, and you might approximate the stranger-than-fiction story of small-town Chadron, Nebraska. Guided by the idiosyncrasies of author Poe Ballantine, Dave Jannetta explores the intriguing mystery behind math professor Steven Haataja, a loner who vanished without a trace soon after coming to […]
DAVID (1961)
During the fertile early years of Drew Associates following the breakthrough of Primary, came this seldom-seen portrait of David Allen, a jazz trumpeter struggling in the Santa Monica drug rehabilitation center Synanon House. Pennebaker’s love of music drew him to David and the film prefigures later portraits such as Dont Look Back. He teamed with […]
HEAVEN ADORES YOU
NYC PREMIERE Elliott Smith was unexpectedly thrust into the mainstream spotlight when his song “Miss Misery” was nominated for an Oscar in 1998. He died just five years later, at the age of 34. Structured as both an expansive overview of the singer/songwriter’s life and as an elegiac city symphony focused on the influence of […]
STILL DREAMING
WORLD PREMIERE Located just outside of Manhattan, the Lillian Booth Actors Home provides a most resonant setting for the staging of a classic play in which nothing is what it seems. Seeking ways to engage their residents, administrators bring in young professional Broadway directors to shepherd the charismatic retired performers through A Midsummer Night’s Dream. […]
THE ASTRONAUT’S SECRET
NYC PREMIERE In 1996, during NASA’s Space Shuttle Mission, STS-76, Michael ‘Rich’ Clifford performed the first American spacewalk while docked to the Russian Mir Space Station. It was a flawless performance that paved the way for future spacewalks. Fifteen years later Rich Clifford reveals that he had Parkinson’s disease while performing that spacewalk and with […]
CAPTURING GRACE
NYC PREMIERE Recognizing that music and rhythmic activity can help those suffering from Parkinson’s disease achieve greater control of their mobility, two dancers from New York’s Mark Morris Dance Group lead a workshop teaching dance and movement to a group of Parkinsonians. As the tenacious participants joyously regain a sense of bodily freedom, they rehearse […]