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Outdoor Movies
National Velvet 
Director: Clarence Brown
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Friday, 7:30 p.m.,
Taylor Street Outdoor Cinema
A 1944 Technicolor film beloved by generations of movie buffs, this story is less about a horse than about the hope, grit and determination of a young girl, her friendship with an embittered jockey (Mickey Rooney) and her special bond with her mother. You will see why film critics predicted stardom for the violet-eyed, spunky, 11-year-old Elizabeth Taylor, dressing as a male jockey to ride her horse to victory in the Grand National Sweepstakes. Taylor, riding since the age of 3, performed all her own stunts, including the big race.
Britain/1944/123 min.
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Back to the Future
Director: Robert Zemeckis
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Saturday, 7:30 p.m., Taylor Street Outdoor Cinema
Wildly popular, critically acclaimed, and nominated for both an Academy Award and Golden Globe, Robert Zemeckis' Back to the Future messes with time and destiny. A teenager, played by Michael Fox, accidentally slips from 1985 to 1955 and discovers, to his horror, that his mom's in love with a man not his father. He scrambles to insure that he will be born to the right parents, and then he has to find a way to get back to the future.
USA/1985/116
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Moonstruck 
Director: Norman Jewison
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Sunday, 7:30 p.m., Taylor Street Outdoor Cinema
A Brooklyn widow (Cher), dresses down and works as a bookkeeper to avoid grief, then resigns herself to marry a man she doesn't love. While her fiancé is out of town, she meets his estranged younger brother Ronny (Nicolas Cage), moody and passionate, who confuses and reawakens her via opera and ravishment. Meanwhile her parents have their own meltdowns with complications worthy of comic opera.
USA/1987/102 min.
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Festival Special Events
The Very Special Evening with Buck Henry
Taking Off 
Director: Milos Forman
Saturday, 6 p.m., Uptown Theatre
When we asked Buck Henry to suggest a film to share with our PTFF audience he recommended the 1971 film "Taking Off," a comedy directed by Milos Forman, the acclaimed Czech director of "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" and "Amadeus."
Henry plays Larry Tyne, whose daughter Jeannie runs away from home because her parents are intolerable. As Larry and his wife Lyne search for her, they meet other people whose children have also run away.
In the only scene from "Taking Off" posted on YouTube, the camera scans and lingers on bewildered but game middle-aged couples in a hotel ballroom as they are introduced to marijuana in a professorial tone by a long-haired stoner, a very young Vincent Schiavelli.
"Taking Off" offers a memorable soundtrack, including the screen debut of Carly Simon, Kathy Bates and Tina Turner.
USA/1971/93 min.
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Buck Henry
Buck Henry is outspoken, funny and not a little peevish. After all, he's been down in the show-biz trenches for 50 years, working as an acclaimed film writer, TV writer, movie actor, and TV comic — a quadruple-threat guy. He calls 'em exactly as he sees them these days. And after a stellar career like he's had, why not?
Henry, who has an eye-popping and variegated show-business resume, admits, "I don't like doing the same thing twice." A youthful 80, Henry admits he's not a household name or face, even though one could argue that he should be. "I'm not often recognized. Just by people in my business."
Many people probably remember Henry best as the foil in the classic Samurai Delicatessen sketch with John Belushi on NBC's "Saturday Night Live." Many will also know him as the baseball-cap-wearing deadpan host of SNL, which he's hosted 13 times, more than anyone except Steve Martin. He's also co-starred on NBC's "30 Rock" as Liz Lemon's dad and has shown up as a guest on "The Daily Show With Jon Stewart." He co-created and wrote the classic TV sitcom "Get Smart" with Mel Brooks in the 60s.
Although Buck's bio mostly lists his stellar TV career, multimedia man Henry also wrote the Oscar-nominated script for "The Graduate," and he adapted "Catch-22" for the screen. He's appeared in a number of films, including PTFF's featured film "Taking Off," which gets a rare U.S. screening here this week.
"I've always loved that movie. It was a huge hit in Europe, if not here," says Henry of the film directed by Milos Forman, about a runaway teen's impact on the parents she left behind during the transitional 70s. "The only movie that grossed more in Europe that year was 'Jaws.' I was a movie star in France when it came out," he laughs.
An Afternoon With a Scribe: Buck Henry reflects on a remarkable writing career
Sunday, 3 p.m., Rose Theatre
Theatre Screenwriting is the art and craft of writing scripts for film, television, music videos, gaming — the field continues to evolve. Buck Henry's career spans more than 40 years of a breathtaking list of projects using his razor sharp wit.
"The Graduate," "To Die For," "Catch 22," "Heaven Can Wait,": Buck has a stellar list of feature films, television features and sketch comedy to his credit.
And, don't forget SINA — The Society for Indecency to Naked Animals — pointing out where moral decay in the 1960s was coming from.
Join Buck on Sunday afternoon at The Rose Theatre for an afternoon of conversation about his remarkable writing career.
Opening Ceremonies
Friday, 3:45 p.m., Haller Fountain
At 3:45 p.m. on Friday, we gather at Haller Fountain on Washington and Taylor streets. Thanks to the Port Townsend Rakers Car Club, all of our visiting filmmakers and industry guests are presented with great fanfare as they arrive in classic cars, introduced by Master of Ceremonies Joey Pipia and wildly applauded for their contribution to our festival.
Following the cutting of the filmstrip by Special Guest Buck Henry and Jane Champion, president of the PTFI Board of Directors, dinner on Taylor Street is served!
Dinner on Taylor Street
Friday, 4:30 p.m., Taylor Street
Following the opening ceremonies on Friday at 3:45 p.m. and thanks to the Silverwater Café, we invite all full festival pass-holders to join us for dinner on Taylor Street. Dinner starts at 4:30 p.m.
Awards Gala
Saturday, 9:30 p.m., NW Maritime Center
Full pass-holders (Filmmaker, Festival, Director, Mogul) are invited to the Awards Gala hosted by Robert Horton, KUOW film critic and man-about-cinema. Join us to celebrate films that have been nominated for jury consideration as Best Narrative Feature, Best Documentary Feature, Best Short Narrative and Best Short Documentary. Watch clips from each category and hear the awards presented, plus special jury mentions for excellence in one aspect of film. The highlight of the evening, aside from the sparkling wit of Special Guest Buck Henry, will be the presentation of the Spirit of Port Townsend Film Festival Award. Last year's winner, Linda Yakush, will present the award to this year's recipient. Light hors d'oeuvres will be served with a no-host bar.
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The Thin Man
Moira Macdonald's Formative Film: The Thin Man
Director: W.S. Van Dyke
Stars: William Powell, Myrna Loy & Maureen O'Sullivan
Friday, 6:15 p.m., Rose Theatre
PTFF invited Seattle Times film critic Moira Macdonald to present her "Formative Film," the cinematic inspiration that just might have been the first step in her career as a film journalist, and the one that made her fall in love with movies. Without hesitation, she chose "The Thin Man." Screening in the original 35mm film, this is the gem that introduced us to Nick and Nora Charles and stands as an icon of comedic timing.
Moira Macdonald writes:
People ask me all the time, "What's your favorite movie?" It's an occupational hazard of my line of work. I often say that I hope it's a movie I haven't seen yet, but when pressed, I'll name the movie that I think I've watched more than any other: "The Thin Man." There's just something utterly magical about the way that William Powell and Myrna Loy create a chemistry lighter than a champagne bubble (has there ever been another couple in the movies so made for each other?); the way director W.S. Van Dyke effortlessly blends comedy with mystery and suspense; the way that, when the movie's over, you just feel ridiculously happy. All great movies transport us to another place; I have trouble thinking of another that does it with as much joy as "The Thin Man."
I was an undergraduate when I first saw the film, and I'm thrilled that I first saw Nick and Nora gaze into each other's eyes on a big screen (it was the Neptune, I think, in Seattle's University District). I'm so looking forward to seeing it again — for, I must admit, probably the 20th time — at the Rose, one of my favorite theaters, and I'm hoping that a few audience members will be discovering the film for the first time.
Moira Macdonald has been the movie critic for The Seattle Times for 10 years and has reviewed hundreds of movies in that capacity. She writes the Times blog "Popcorn and Prejudice" about her experiences at the movies, and also enjoys reviewing ballet and books. Prior to coming to the Times, she worked as an editor and writer at Film.com and Seattle Weekly. She has attended PTFF every year since 2001 and looks forward to sitting on a straw bale again.
The Thin Man Detective story writer Dashiell Hammett's long-time love affair with playwright Lillian Hellman made them one of the famous literary couples of the 1930s. "The Thin Man," which Hammett first wrote as a novel, is famous as a film less for its plot than the chemistry, one-liners and double entendres thrown out by Dick Powell and Myrna Loy as Nick and Nora Charles. Nick has quit his job as a private detective after marrying Nora, a wealthy socialite. Both are drinkers, as were Hammett and Lillian Hellman. Human remains are found and Nick is drawn into investigating the murder. The murderer's identity is revealed at a dinner party, an old-favorite Hollywood plot device to wrap things up.
USA/1934/91 min.
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How to Die in Oregon 
Friday, 9:30 p.m., Uptown Theatre
Saturday, noon, Rosebud Theatre
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With special permission from HBO, PTFF is proud to present this remarkable documentary, following a number of subjects in their most profound moment of choice. Mother Jones magazine wrote that the main protagonist of "How to Die in Oregon" is a graceful woman named Cody Curtis. The 54-year-old wife and mother of two is suffering from liver cancer, and when she is given only a few months to live, she exercises her right to attain life-ending drugs in case she decides she needs them — but hers is not the only voice in the film.
We also meet the feisty, geriatric Roger Sagner. He opens the film preparing to die in front of an array of family and friends. He thanks the voters of Oregon for their wisdom in passing the law, drinks a cloudy glass of lethal medication mixed with water, and then he just drifts off.
We meet cancer patient Randy Stroup, who is denied a second round of chemotherapy by his health insurance and is horrified to receive a letter from the company that mentions physician-assisted death as an option. "Dignity means to me that you can hold your head up high," Stroup says. "And I don't see how anyone can take their own life and hold their head up high while doing it."
The director introduces us to intimate moments with grace and sensitivity, allowing each of his subjects to present their own moments of truth.
We welcome director Peter Richardson for a conversation following the film, which will also include some family members that we encounter on the screen.
USA/2010/107 min.
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These Amazing Shadows
Directors: Paul Mariano, Kurt Norton
Friday, 9:15 p.m., Rose Theatre
Saturday, 12:30 p.m., Uptown Theatre
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Films are about the stuff of dreams, but they also capture what was going on with humankind at a certain point in time: what we looked like, what we thought, what we felt, what we imagined, how we treated each other. Films become our national family album.
The National Film Registry was created by an act of Congress in 1988 to protect films of note from colorization and from environmental degradation and neglect. Members review films annually for their cultural, historic or aesthetic significance and add 25 per year to the list: from "Casablanca" to "Rocky Horror Picture Show," from "To Kill a Mockingbird" to "This is Spinal Tap." Director Paul Mariano illuminates that list with interviews of significant filmmakers and registry members and by including clips of memorable films. It is both instructive and mesmerizing.
We are delighted to host a conversation following the film with long-time friend of PTFF, film historian and bon vivant Robert Horton. A familiar radio film critic and scholar, Robert will attend both screenings. He will be joined by director Paul Mariano on Saturday.
USA/2011/88 min.
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Patriot Guard Riders 
Director: Ellen Frick
Friday, 6 p.m., PS Free Cinema
Sunday, 6:15 p.m., Rose Theatre
Our newest local filmmaker, Ellen Frick is a veteran documentary filmmaker who recently relocated to Port Townsend. On Friday evening, PTFF and The American Legion Post 26 present "Patriot Guard Riders."
The film takes us on a solemn journey astride thundering motorcycles to the sometimes silent, sometimes turbulent funerals of young soldiers killed in action. We follow the men and women of the Patriot Guard Riders, a group of motorcyclists originally formed to protect grieving families from members of the Westboro Baptist Church, who gather at military funerals to confront families and the public.
We welcome Ellen Frick and some of the motorcycle riders that we meet in the film for the conversation following, which will give us a chance to understand more about the PGR mission and thank them for their heartfelt work.
USA/2011/73 min.
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Koran by Heart
Director: Greg Barker
Friday, 6:30 p.m., Uptown Theatre
Saturday, 12:15 p.m., Rose Theatre
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One of Islam's most revered traditions, Koran recitation reaches its pinnacle at the world competition in Cairo, Egypt, where Muslim children from across the globe, many of whom are not Arabic speakers, perform in front of a panel of judges. Contestants as young as seven compete with teenagers for their comprehensive memorization of the 600-page text and their improvised melodies. With no translator for the children, many challenges present themselves to these remarkable young scholars.A diverse spectrum of Muslims competes for the top prize, including children from Senegal, rural Tajikistan and a small island in the Maldives.
PTFF is proud to welcome Mohammad Fani to discuss "Koran by Heart" after the screening. He is a native of Iran who immigrated to the U.S. in 1978. He is the director of Interfaith Understanding and Dialogue at the Cascadia Center at Camp Brotherhood, director of Interfaith at OneWorld2011 and a member of the Scriptural Reasoning Committee at Seattle University. He believes that the purpose of interfaith/inter-religious dialogue is not to resolve theological differences or to minimize them, but rather to raise awareness about the dignity of difference. He holds a masters of science degree and is the business manager for the FMF40, LLC.
USA /2011/80 min.
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Charlotte
Director: Jeffrey Hinte-Kusama
Saturday, 9 p.m., PS Free Cinema
Sunday, noon, in The Rosebud Cinema
The Port Townsend Film Institute, in cooperation with The Wooden Boat Festival and the NW Maritime Center hosts 3 screenings for the west coast theatrical premier of the nautical documentary, CHARLOTTE. Produced and directed by Jeffrey Hinte-Kusama (THE KIDS ARE ALRIGHT), the film introduces the audience to the Gannon & Benjamin Marine Railway, a boatyard mecca for traditionally built wooden boats, located in Vineyard Haven harbor on Martha's Vineyard--and to the fascinating evolution and creation of its leading lady, a 50-foot gaff rigged wooden schooner named CHARLOTTE. .
Through close observation of the everyday activities of the boatyard, CHARLOTTE, the boat and the film, emerges as a meditation on tradition, craftsmanship, family, community, as well as our relationship to Nature and love of the sea.
"If you are a boat builder, love a boat builder, or ever dreamed of being a boat builder, the beautifully filmed and absolutely authentic documentary Charlotte takes you inside the boat shop, into the bay, through the seasons, travails and bliss of traditional boat building. Artistically filmed on Martha's Vineyard through snow storms, gales and idyllic summer days, Academy award-winning cinematographers and editors, capture ... not only significant milestones and sometimes funny moments in Charlotte's life, but also glimpses the skills, the infinite resourcefulness, the sometimes lonely, chaotic and physically taxing lifestyle of full-time boat builders."--Kaci Cronkhite, Wooden Boat Festival Director.
USA 100 min.
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East Fifth Bliss
Director: Michael Knowles 
Saturday, 3:30 p.m., Uptown Theatre
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"East Fifth Bliss" is a comedy/drama about 35-year-old Morris Bliss, who is clamped in the jaws of New York City inertia: he wants to travel but has no money; he needs a job but has no prospects; he still shares an apartment with his widowed father; and perhaps worst of all, the premature death of his mother still haunts him and has left him emotionally walled up. When he finds himself wrapped up in an awkward relationship with the sexually precocious 18-year-old daughter of a former classmate, Morris quickly discovers his static life unraveling and opening up in ways that are long overdue. A 7A Productions film starring Michael C. Hall as Morris Bliss, and featuring Peter Fonda & Lucy Liu; written by Douglas Light and Michael Knowles (PTFF alum), adapted from the novel "East Fifth Bliss" by Douglas Light. PTFF is pleased to present this one-time Sneak Preview, prior to theatrical release.
USA/ 2011/97 min.
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FESTIVAL VOICES
Interviews on Taylor
Meet your favorite filmmakers up close and personal, out of the theatre and into the street. We have live interviews in our Interviews on Taylor Tent each afternoon from noon until 4 p.m. Join Mara Lathrop and other talented hosts as we explore the journey that brought our filmmakers from behind the camera to our fair city. Check the daily newsletter, available in all venues and Hospitality, for a complete updated schedule, then drop by!
Panel for Filmmakers, By Filmmakers
Join us for an informed conversation about the nuts and bolts of filmmaking at the Upstage Restaurant, 923 Washington:
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Friday, 11:30 a.m. — Making the Real REEL: Documentary Filmmakers
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Saturday, 2 p.m. — The Craft of Screenwriting
- Sunday, 11:30 a.m. — Film Finance
Filmmaker panels are free to pass-holders, $5 for the general public and free to students with school ID.
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Narrative Features
Becoming Eduardo 
Director: Rod McCall
Friday, 3 p.m., Pope Marine Theatre
Saturday, 6 p.m., Rosebud Cinema
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Eddie Corazón, a 16-year-old juvenile delinquent and secret reader, attends an alternative high school in Rosablanca, N.M. A former straight-A student, Eddie now treads the thin line between tragedy and glory as he searches for his place in the world. Desperate to impress the new girl in his life, Eddie tries his hand at poetry. Pulled in opposite directions by friends, love and other treacherous and creative forces, Eddie is, indeed, becoming Eduardo. Breathtaking scenery, art and music of the Southwest bring this film to life.
USA/2009/87 min.
Audience Choice Award, 2010 White Sands Film Festival
Best New Mexico Film, 2010 Albuquerque Film Festival
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Boy 
Director: Taika Waititi
Friday, 9 p.m., Pope Marine Theatre
Saturday, 3:15 p.m., Rose Theatre
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It's 1984 and Michael Jackson's "Thriller" is at the top of the charts, even in Waihau Bay, New Zealand, where Boy lives on a farm with his Maori grandmother, his younger brother, several cousins and a goat. Gran goes to a funeral; Boy's father, who has spent most of his life in jail, returns home, and the kid's heroic image of him takes a new direction. The Maori-inspired "Thriller" dance number at the end is priceless.
USA/2011/9 min.
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Dog in the Manger (El Perro del Hortelano) 
Directors: Renzo Zanelli, Oleg Kheyfets
Friday, 9 p.m., PS Free Cinema
Saturday, noon, Pope Marine Theatre
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"Dog in the Manger" is a shining example of a completely new way of producing socially conscious films. In the far reaches of the Peruvian Amazon, a group of 15 international volunteers joined forced with local indigenous youth to make a film about the most pressing social and environmental conflicts in the region. No shoes, no shirt, no script, no problem! Living and working together every day for three months, the team produced "El Perro del Hortelano," a feature narrative about the threats of foreign development in the Amazon, the dangers of oil drilling interests and the power of art and culture to lead a community. Music by world-famous Chicha Libre.
Spanish with English subtitles
Peru/2010/30 min.
Best Screenplay, Festival di Cinema Latinoamericano, Rome, Italy
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Electric Man 
Director: David Barras
Saturday, 3 p.m., PS Free Cinema
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Rent for a comic-book store is long overdue and owners Wolf and Jazz are praying for a miracle. As you might expect, the miracle appears: A prized comic book lands in their laps. Electric Man, Issue I, valued at 100,000 pounds sterling (UK), saves the day. A host of characters try to steal it, including a seductress, a murderer, Wolf's angry ex-girlfriend, and an obsessed collector with a secret weapon. Ka-pow! Wolf and Jazz have to outsmart, outrun and outwit them all. That's when they learn that heroes don't always wear lycra. Local treasure Jennifer Ewing makes her screen debut in this film.
UK/2010/98 min.
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Hello Lonesome 
Director: Adam Reid
Friday, 6 p.m., Pope Marine Theatre
Sunday, 9:15 a.m., Rose Theatre
Sparkling with wit and humanity, "Hello Lonesome" portrays six endearing people crossing paths as they explore the age-old human desire to love and be loved. Two meet online and are put to the ultimate test. A suburban widow gets more than she is looking for when she loses her driver's license and leans on her neighbor. A voice-over artist tries to make amends for being a lousy dad.
USA/2010/93 min.
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Inuk 
Director: Mike Magidson
Friday, noon, Pope Theatre
Sunday, 12:30 p.m., Uptown Theatre
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Based on a French social worker's writings about Greenland's Inuit children who believe they are on thin ice, "Inuk" is the story of a neglected teenage boy sent to foster care on a remote island surrounded by sea ice. Deeply damaged by his mother's alcoholism and stepfather's violence, he develops awareness and resilience when he apprentices with the last great subsistence hunter, himself tortured by self-doubt and a haunted past. Stunning cinematography and stellar acting by an all-Greenlander, mostly Inuit cast. Subtitles.
Greenland/2010/84 min.
Winner, Grand Jury Award New Directors, Nashville Film Festival 2011
Winner, Jury Award, Paris Polar Film Festival 2011 Winner, Best Cinematography, Woodstock Film Festival 2011 Runner-up, Audience Award, Woodstock Film Festival 2010
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Old Goats 
Director: Taylor Guterson
Saturday, 3 p.m., Rosebud Cinema
Sunday, 3 p.m., PS Free Cinema
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Wasn't it just yesterday we related most to coming-of-age stories? Now we can empathize with three old goats, filmed in Seattle with local actors playing themselves, who refuse to go quietly into the night of retirement and old age. As a stereotype, "cantankerous and set in their ways," comes to mind, but it's a safe bet that some of that attitude is the disquieting realization that life wanes just as solid authenticity and wisdom begin to kick in. Bob, a ladies man, writes a memoir about his life as a soldier; David does his best to evade the prying eyes of his wife as he manages his retirement funds; Britton lives on his boat and tries to find true love on the Internet. And none of them feels or acts as old as they look.
USA/2011/100 min.
SIFF Favorites, Seattle International Film Festival 2011
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Rideshare 
Director: Donovan Cook
Friday, noon, Rosebud Cinema
Saturday, 9:15 p.m., Rose Theatre
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Three down-and-out strangers answer an Internet ad to drive a car from LA to Washington DC. Shot across nine states in 16 days with a cast and crew of 16 people for $34,000, "Rideshare" follows the classic road-trip formula with one difference: this epic is filmed by the actors themselves, armed only with iPhones. It's jerky, funny and musical, featuring four original songs belted out by Lynda Kay, a country music singer with the requisite twang.
USA/2011/100 min.
Audience Award, Venturafilmfestiva
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Gold Kahuna Winner, Honolulu Film Festival
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Small, Beautifully Moving Parts
Directors: Lisa Robinson, Annie J. Howell
Friday, 6 p.m., Rosebud Cinema
Saturday, 9:30 a.m., Uptown Theatre
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Sarah Sparks is insatiably curious about how things work, unhinging the backs of iMacs and old radios with a "Well, hello there." Discovering she's pregnant and knowing she is far better with machines than relationships, she sets off across the country to beg advice from her dad and try to find her estranged mother. Mom, her sister tells her, has retreated even further — to the desert to live off the grid without computers or cell phones. It all makes for an indie road movie that runs like clockwork.
USA/2011/73 min.
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The Last of Us 
Directors: Sam Force, Jeremiah Morgan
Friday, noon, PS Free Cinema
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Adapted from a play by Wes Cecil and filmed in Port Townsend by Sam Force and Jeremiah Morgan, this is the story of an old man who has returned to Prague to relive memories of his cherished family killed by Nazis in the Holocaust. A young boy at the time, he was the only one to escape, an unfathomable fact that haunts him even more than the memories of his murdered relatives. Images of Port Townsend are fleeting, with most of the film shot indoors. Paul Chasman's original music, performed by a quintet of local musicians and recorded by George Rezendes, adds to the rich atmosphere.
USA/2011/79 min.
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The Last Summer of La Boyita (El último verano de la Boyita)
Director: Julia Solomonoff
Saturday, 9 a.m., Rosebud Cinema
Sunday, 3:30 p.m., Uptown Theatre
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Precocious Jorgelina may be young but is well versed about puberty, thanks to her father, a medical doctor, and her older sister, who is well into push-up bras and other trappings of womanhood. Fed up, Jorgelina opts to spend the summer at her father's ranch, swimming, horseback riding and ultimately shadowing Mario, a withdrawn young ranch hand, educating him in the physical changes of adolescence. With her father's medical texts in hand, Jorgelina and Mario enter into the mystery. Spanish with English subtitles.
Argentina/2009/86 min.
Best Actress, Guadalupe Alonso, Nashville Film Festival 2011
Honorable Mention, NaFF Best World Cinema 2011
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The White Meadows
Director: Mohammad Rasoulof
Sunday, 9 a.m., PS Free Cinema
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The salt islands of Iran's Lake Urmia provides a surreal setting for Mohammad Rasoulof's mesmerizing fable, written in the tradition of Swift or Kafka, of a world woven with both dream and nightmare. "I've come to listen to people's heartaches and take away tears," says an old boatman. As they whisper their sorrows, he collects each person's tears in vials. Cinematographer Ebrahim Ghafouri brings the fantastic script to life in an astonishing and painterly way, creating a world seemingly drained of color.
Iran/2009/92 min.
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This Narrow Place 
Director: Sooney Kadouh
Friday, 9 a.m., Rosebud Cinema
Saturday, 9 p.m., Rosebud Cinema
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Hassan, a Palestinian, successfully smuggles himself into the United States to covertly avenge his brother's death. His plan goes awry when he moves in with his blue-collar family, who are proud of the American dream they have built for themselves. When Hassan brings home a lonely meth addict he's befriended, the focus of his quest changes. The family tries to rehabilitate his friend during the holy month of Ramadan, and Hassan's estranged sister further complicates the story when her secret relationship is revealed.
USA/2011/97 min.
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Vamperifica 
Director: Bruce Ornstein
Saturday, 10 p.m., Uptown Theatre
Sunday, noon, Pope Marine Theatre
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A flamboyant college student wants nothing more than to hang out with his best friend, be in a musical and be a star. Instead he discovers he's the reincarnation of a 200-year-old vampire king named Raven. Now he must choose between his friends, his dreams and his biting destiny. It's the story of all of us who have been told we're somehow broken and the triumph of the spirit when we stand tall and proclaim, "No I'm not." Surprise! There is graphic violence — and it's funny! Dance and song and vampires!
USA/2011/95 min.
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Documentary Features
A Matter of Taste 
Director: Sally Rowe
Friday, 12:15 p.m., Rose Theatre
Sunday, 9:30 a.m., Uptown Theatre
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High concept cuisine took a backseat to comfort food after Sept. 11, 2001, and wunderkind chef Paul Liebrandt found himself reduced to flipping burgers at a neighborhood bistro and demoted to two-stars by notoriously difficult New York Times critic Frank Bruni. At his lowest point, Liebrandt is saved from the grill by tastemaker Drew Nieporent and asked to create the gastronomic menu of his dreams in a posh new Tribeca eatery. Charting Liebrandt's career over a decade, filmmaker Sally Rowe focuses on his perfectionism, kitchen drama and the make-it-or-break-it verdict of the one man Liebrandt craves approval from most: Frank Bruni.
USA/2011/68 min.
Artistic Vision Award, Nashville Film Festival
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A Perfect Soldier 
Director: John Severson
Friday, 9 a.m., PS Free Cinema
Saturday, 6 p.m., Pope Marine Theatre
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Aki Ra was handling weapons by age five. By age 10, he was shooting people. Kidnapped as a child and conscripted to serve in Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge army, it was kill-or-be-killed for the young boy. After two decades of wartime soldiering, Aki Ra now lives a very different life. To date he has almost single-handedly removed an estimated 50,000 land mines and ordnance from the Cambodian countryside. No matter what that number rises to, he can never remove the images and memories of his haunted past: the faces of his victims, their last anguished cries for help, his struggle to make sense of the atrocities he both committed and witnessed. This man has earned world-wide attention as an unsung hero for his personal journey toward forgiveness and for the power of redemption.
USA/2010/56 min.
Moving Mountains Prize, Honorable Mention, Telluride Mountainfilm Winner,
Laureate Award, Cinema Verite International Film Festival
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Shown with The Barber of Birmingham: Foot Soldier of the Civil Rights Movement
Beatboxing 
Director: Klaus
Friday, 10:30 a.m., PS Free Cinema
Sunday, noon, PS Free Cinema
Website
In the late 70s, a youth culture evolved in New York that combined several disciplines under the name of Hip Hop. Apart from graffiti, DJing, breakdancing and rapping, their music was enhanced by a fifth element: beatboxing. Without having to buy even the least expensive instruments, musicians' mouths provided a flexible oo-wa sound box for musical rhythms, a human beatbox. Beatboxing is a cool, fantastic sound that is now used in every genre of music.
USA/2011/55 min.
Best Documentary, United States Super 8 Film + Digital Video Festival, New Brunswick, NJ
Shown with 10 Years to Nashville
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Sponsored by Hanazono
Better This World
Directors: Katie Galloway, Duane de la Vega
Friday, 9 a.m., Pope Marine Theatre
Saturday, 3 p.m., Pope Marine Theatre
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Two boyhood friends from Midland, Texas, fall under the sway of a charismatic revolutionary 10 years their senior. At the volatile 2008 Republican Convention, the "Texas Two" cross a line that radically changes their lives. The result: eight homemade bombs, multiple domestic terrorism charges and a high-stakes entrapment defense hinging on the actions of a controversial FBI informant. "Better This World" is a dramatic story of idealism, loyalty, crime and betrayal that goes to the heart of the War on Terror and its impact on civil liberties and political dissent in post-9/11 America. It's a fascinating reminder of what is going on after the headlines fade from memory.
USA/2011/93 min.
Winner, Best Documentary Feature, San Francisco International Film Festival,
2011 Winner, Best Documentary Feature,
2011 Sarasota Film Festival
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Happy 
Director: Roko Belic
Friday, 12:30 p.m., Uptown Theatre
Sunday, 6 p.m., Rosebud Cinema
Website
You may not need to be happy to make a film called Happy, but it must have helped filmmaker Roko Belic (Academy Award nominated documentary "Genghis Blues"), as this fine documentary is infused with wisdom and warmth and abounds with life lessons. Filmed in more than fourteen countries, "Happy" looks for universal truths about happiness, inquiring of scientists and surfers alike. But what happens quite naturally is that you learn something about your own state of mind and how you might best be, yes, happy.
USA/2010/75 min.
Audience Award, Telluride Mountainfilm 2011
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Sponsored by The PT Farmers Market
Holy Wars 
Director: Stephen Marshall
Saturday, 6:15 p.m., Rose Theatre
Sunday, 9 a.m., Rosebud Cinema
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From a barbershop in Pakistan where converted-to-Muslim Anglo-Irish Khalid Kelly is so extreme he scares the locals, to a church in rural Missouri where a young warrior-for-Christ preacher, Aaron D. Taylor, takes the battle between Christians and Muslims to the Muslim world, filmmaker Stephen Marshall tries to balance his film with two equally unbending fanatics.
USA/2010/82 min.
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Journey on the Wild Coast
Director: Greg Chaney
Friday, 3 p.m., PS Free Cinema
Sunday, 9 a.m., Pope Marine Theatre
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A married couple attempt to walk, paddle and ski under their own power from Seattle to the Aleutians along the wild and remote coast of North America. This documentary was filmed with a tiny hand-held video camera by the adventurers as they traveled through northwest Washington, British Columbia and Alaska. Experience this modern journey through their eyes as they encounter breathtaking scenery, harsh weather, amazing wildlife and danger. This modern trek demonstrates that the most significant aspect of a journey is not reaching the final destination but how the journey changes the trajectory of the rest of one's life.
USA/2010/90 min.
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Sponsored by PT Paper
Mother: Caring for 7 Billion
Director: Christophe Fauchere
Saturday, 9 a.m., PS Free Cinema
Sunday, 3 p.m., Rosebud Cinema
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Since the 1960s, the world's population has nearly doubled, burdening a groaning planet with about seven billion people in competition for food, water, land and resources. This film, featuring Beth, an American child-rights activist and youngest sibling from a family of 12, and Ethiopian Zinet, the oldest daughter of a desperately poor family of 12, suggests that the world would be a better place with a paradigm shift from conquest to nurture. The film includes additional commentary by biologist Paul Ehrlich, author of "The Population Bomb"; economist Mathis Wackernagel, creator of Footprint Network; Malcolm Potts, pioneer in reproductive health; and Riane Eisler, author of "The Chalice and the Blade," published in 23 countries.
USA/2011/55 min.
Winner, Best Colorado Film, Boulder International Film Festival 2011
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Sponsored by Mark Saran Photography
Never Stand Still 
Director: Ron Honsa
Friday, 3 p.m., Uptown Theatre
Saturday, 9 a.m., Pope Marine Theatre
Website
This film explores why dance matters, both to those who dance and those who watch. It tells the remarkable story of how an abandoned Massachusetts farm evolved into a National Historic Landmark and nexus for dance throughout the world. Intimate conversations with choreographers and dancers, backstage access, thrilling performances and rare archival footage all allow a close look at internationally renowned dance companies. Filmed on location at America's longest-running dance-off, the Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, "Never Stand Still" immerses the viewer in this most ephemeral of art forms, celebrating its value to our culture and our lives.
USA/2011/74 min.
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Shown with Summer Snapshot
Sponsored by Petals
Schooling the World
Director: Carol Black
Saturday, 9 a.m., PS Free Cinema
Sunday, 3 p.m., Rosebud Cinema
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If you wanted to change an ancient culture in a generation, how would you do it? Today, volunteers build schools in traditional societies around the world, convinced that school is the only way to a better life for indigenous children. But is this true? Examining the hidden assumption of cultural superiority behind education-aid projects, called the white man's last burden, this film takes a challenging, sometimes funny, and ultimately deeply disturbing look at the effect of Western education on the world's last sustainable indigenous cultures. Shot on location in the Buddhist culture of Ladakh, the film weaves the voices of the Ladakh people with the voices of an anthropologist, two recipients of the Right Livelihood Award for their work with traditional peoples in India and a former architect of education programs with UNESCO, USAID and the World Bank. English and Ladakhi with English subtitles.
USA/2010/65 min.
Shown with Mother: Caring for 7 Billion
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The City Dark
Director: Ian Cheney
Friday, 9:30 a.m., Uptown Theatre
Sunday, 6 p.m., Pope Marine Theatre
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Why do we need the night? "The City Dark" follows Ian Cheney to the darkest and brightest corners of the earth on a quest to understand the ecological, astronomical and medical consequences of light pollution. In a planet now predominantly urban, with the sky aglow from the lights of cities, astronomers can no longer see the asteroids that threaten to hit Earth, and turtle hatchlings migrate toward city skylines instead of the ocean's moonlit glow. This film is an unprecedented portrait of Earth after dusk and a meditation on our relationship to the stars.
USA/2011/84 min.
Winner, Jury Prize for Best Score/Music,
SXSW Film Festival Winner,
Grand Jury Prize, Environmental Film Fest, Yale University
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Troubadours
Director: Morgan Neville
Friday, 9:15 a.m., Rose Theatre
Saturday, 9 p.m., Pope Marine Theatre
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In the late 60s, a new style of song and songwriter emerged: vulnerable introspection and raw, naked emotion, backed by a single acoustic guitar or piano. The epicenter of the movement was LA's Troubadour Club, a place where songwriters were inspired and where they could strut, compete, carouse and love. The Troub launched some of the best songwriters of their generation: Carole King, James Taylor, Jackson Browne, David Crosby, Joni Mitchell, Kris Kristofferson, Bonnie Raitt, the Eagles and more.
USA/2011/91 min.
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Short Narratives
Bait 
Director: Michael Moore
Saturday, 9 p.m., PS Free Cinema
Sunday, noon, Rosebud Cinema
We visit the inner lives of a group of worms: their aspirations, their dreams, their escape to a brighter tomorrow. Animated.
USA/2010/10 min.
Shown with Charlotte
Bathing and the Single Girl 
Director: Christine Elise McCarthy
Friday, 9:15 a.m., Rose Theatre
Saturday, 9 p.m., Pope Marine Theatre
Website
Single, thirty-something and experiencing an extended romantic drought: this woman decides she needs to broaden her ideas of who might make a suitable boyfriend and chooses to take a trip to "Cougar Town." But just how desperate is she? "Bathing and the Single Girl" is an irreverent and comedic look at some of the pitfalls of dating much younger men.
USA/2010/10 min. Shown with Troubadours
Bring Me Sunshine 
Director: Rachael Hasting
Saturday, 3 p.m., Rosebud Cinema
Sunday, 3 p.m., PS Free Cinemas
Website
This film was one of the last pieces of joy that Joel Levy shared with the Film Festival office. When news of his sudden passing reached us, we contacted the Jive Aces and requested permission to include this wonderful piece as a tribute to the joy and sunshine that Joel gave to all of us. Filled with feel-good music from the Jive Aces and some fine ukulele to boot.
UK/2010/6 min.
Shown with Old Goats
Clarity 
Director: Tristan Stoch
Friday, 3 p.m., Pope Marine Theatre
Saturday, 6 p.m., Rosebud Cinema
A young adult from a small Northwest town sees a poster of a friend lost to methamphetamine addiction and begins a search for him, taking him into the mountains, every corner of his hometown and his own troubled childhood.
USA/ 2011/ 28 min.
Shown with Becoming Eduardo
Disco 
Director: Luke Snellin
Friday, 9 p.m., Pope Marine Theatre
Saturday, 3:15 p.m., Rose Theatre
The height of summer in England in 1997: Oasis reaches number one with "D'you Know What I Mean." Tony Blair has moved his stuff into 10 Downing Street. Against these events, we find Danny trying to tell a girl named Pippa that he likes her. One Friday we follow Danny's odyssey through miscommunication, gossip, whispers and a love triangle between him, Pippa and his best friend Greg.
UK/2010/15 min.
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Last Seen on Dolores Street
Director: Devi Snively
Saturday, 10 p.m., Uptown Theatre
Sunday, noon, Pope Marine Theatre
One dark night in a hard-boiled town, a heartbroken woman says goodbye to an old pet and hello to a new nightmare. The streets can be frightening to a woman walking alone. Danger and surprise lurk around every corner and no one is what they seem.
USA/2010/4 min.
Shown with Vamperifica
On the Rise 
Director: John Tuppe
Friday, 3 p.m., PS Free Cinema
Sunday, 9 a.m., Pope Marine Theatrer
Zeke is an environmentally–sensitive rancher who has a solution for global warming, or at least the contribution made by his own sheep. Bullet is Zeke's loyal sheep dog, who ends up waking him from an afternoon nap and forcing him to confront the consequences of his own uplifting brilliance.
USA/2009/5 min.
Shown with Journey on the Wild Coast
Pioneer 
Director: David Lowery
Friday, 6 p.m., Rosebud Cinema
Saturday, 9:30 a.m., Uptown Theatre
A little boy awakens from a nightmare in his bedroom on a dark and stormy night. His cries awaken his father, who comes to his bedside and proceeds to regale him with a dark and epic bedtime story about an absent mother. The story seems both biographical and make-believe, and it transports both the boy and us to an imaginative place far removed from his bedroom.
USA/2010/15m French/English subtitles
Shown with Small, Beautifully Moving Parts
Summer Snapshot
Director: Ian McCluskey
Friday, 3 p.m., Uptown Theatre
Saturday, 9 a.m., Pope Marine Theatre
When he heard Kodak was discontinuing Kodachrome film, director Ian McCluskey picked up a Super-8 camera and decided to make a short film about memory with the look and feel of nostalgia: sun-kissed and golden. McCluskey and a group of friends piled into a wood-paneled Jeep Wagoneer and set out to make a film about Frisbees, guitars and, yes, skinny-dipping.
USA/2010/11 min.
Shown with Never Stand Still
Tasnim 
Director: Elite Zexer
Friday, 9 a.m., Rosebud Cinema
Saturday, 9 p.m., Rosebud Cinema
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Tasnim, a strong and opinionated 10-year-old, lives with her mother and siblings in a neglected Bedouin village in the Negev. A surprise visit from her father in the village forces her, for the first time in her life, to confront the conservative norms of the family tribe and the fact that she is no longer daddy's-little-girl.
Israel/2010/12 min. Israeli/English Subtitles
Shown with This Narrow Place
The Return of Old Man Kabura 
Director Patrick Ngendakumana
Friday, 9 p.m., PS Free Cinema
Saturday, noon, Pope Marine Theatre
A biographic short from African filmmaker Patrick Ngendakumana, "The Return of Old Man Kabura" deals with an 82-year-old refugee who returns home to Burundi, Africa, after 38 years in exile.
Burundi/2010/7 min.
Shown with Dog in the Manger
The TV 
Director: SuperFly 2010, Longhouse Media
Friday, noon, Pope Marine Theatre
Sunday, 12:30 p.m., Uptown Theatre
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The TV is based on an original script by Peter Bratt called "Good Boy," which was created for Longhouse Media's SuperFly 2010 youth filmmaking challenge. In the story a young Native American boy who travels across the city by skateboard, eventually making his way to the Lummi Reservation so he can spend some time with his grandmother.
Lummi Nation, USA/2010/4 min.
Shown with Inuk
Thr33
Director: Zach Paul
Saturday, 6:15 p.m., Rose Theatre 
Sunday, 9 a.m., Rosebud Cinema
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Two men meet in a coffee shop in preparation to carry out an act for which they have been very well paid. As young men will, they find themselves commenting on the relative attractiveness of women walking by and into the shop. What they are planning — and the ending — will certainly haunt you.
USA/2008/5 min. Shown with Holy Wars
Walter 
Director: Jonathan Browning
Friday, 6 p.m., Pope Marine Theatre
Sunday, 9:15 a.m., Rose Theatre
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Since his wife's passing, Walter finds himself alone. He reaches out to find friends in an unlikely place.
USA/2011/4 min.
Shown with Hello Lonesome
Short Documentaries
10 Years to Nashville 
Director: Katarzyna Trzaska
Friday, 10:30 a.m., PS Free Cinema
Sunday, noon, PS Free Cinema
Talented Iza, who dreamed of becoming a professional musician, has labored instead for seven years as a janitor in a Polish railway station; her friend Mariusz owns a railway toilet. Comically naive, they find a way to go to Nashville together to see "Country Music USA," and, in spite of poor English and lousy geographical skills, they find insight. Poland/2009/38 min.
Polish with English subtitles
Shown with Beatboxing: The Fifth Element of Hip Hop
A Guitar Maker's Path
Director: Les Stansell
Friday, 12:15 p.m., Rose Theatre
Sunday, 9:30 a.m., Uptown Theatre
Southern Oregon may not be the first location that comes to mind as a place where exquisite flamenco guitars are crafted. The film combines spectacular music and photography as you watch an instrument being built. The work of the guitar maker, the musicians and the videographer coalesce & culminate in "Tangos de Estrella," a flamenco dance which is the guitar maker's raison d'être.
USA/2011/19 min.
Shown with A Matter of Taste
Bye Bye Now
Directors: Aideen O'Sullivan, Ross Whitaker 
Friday, noon, Rosebud Cinema
Saturday, 9:15 p.m., Rose Theatre
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A couple of filmmakers with a special insight into the personalities of the residents of rural Ireland have built a story about the removal of phone boxes from their community and how it affects their daily lives. As we live our cell-phone-directed lives, this warm, comic documentary may inspire us to recall a time of more primitive technology.
Ireland/2009/15 min.
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Dennis Jakob Unplugged
Director: Errol Morris
Friday, 9:15 p.m., Rose Theatre
Saturday, 12:30 p.m., Uptown Theatre 
You might remember seeing this short when it opened the 2002 Academy Awards broadcast. Few knew that it was made by world renowned documentarian Errol Morris. Enjoy watching for familiar faces in the film, including Al Sharpton, former presidential candidate and now Governor Jerry Brown, Wavy Gravy and more, as they speak emotionally about the incredible impact of film on all of us.
USA/2009/9 min.
Shown with These Amazing Shadows
In Times of War: Ray Parker's Story 
Directors: Mark & Christine Bonn
Friday, 6 p.m., PS Free Cinema
Sunday, 6:15 p.m., Rose Theatre
Website
Ray Parker tells stories about his WWII experiences in Europe as a flight navigator shot down and captured behind German lines. His story, so dramatic and compelling, transcends the telling of a typical war reminiscence and becomes an insight into how one can find humanity and courage in any side of a war.
USA/2007/29 min.
Shown with Patriot Guard Riders
Pickin' & Trimmin'
Director: Matt Morris
Friday, 12:30 p.m., Uptown Theatre
Sunday, 6 p.m., Rosebud Cinema
Most of the businesses have left Drexel, N.C., but one remains to make it a very lively musical venue. In the town's midst, The Barber Shop goes by its generic name with the same barber who's been at the chair for 60 years. Magic is created when musicians come from miles around for lively bluegrass jams in the equally generically named Back Room.
USA/2008/22 min.
Shown with Happy
Skateistan 
Director: Orlando von Einsiedel
Friday, 6:30 p.m., Uptown Theatre
Saturday, 12:15 p.m., Rose Theatre
Website
"People keep looking at our shoes and boards in a weird way," says 17-year-old Afghani Murza, a teenager from Kabul, who has found his oasis in a place called Skateistan. Directed by a former professional snowboarder, the film documents how skateboarding can help dissolve barriers between boys and girls and empower children to believe in their ability to create positive change, even in a bomb-scarred country.
UK/2010/10 min.
Shown with Koran by Heart
The Barber of Birmingham: Foot Soldier of the Civil Rights Movement
Directors: Judith Helfand, Robin Fryday 
Friday, 9 a.m., PS Free Cinema
Saturday, 6 p.m., Pope Marine Theatre
Website
The filmmakers give a voice to African Americans who lived through the tumultuous civil rights era in the South as they approached the days leading up to Barack Obama's election. Fortuitously, they were guided to the Birmingham, Ala., barbershop of James Armstrong.
USA/1010/19 min.
Shown with A Perfect Soldier
Reviewer's Choice
Friday, 9 p.m., Rosebud Cinema
Saturday, noon, PS Free Cinema
Sponsor: Solution Building
The Action Hero's Guide to Saving Lives 
Director: Justin Lutsky
Oh, those macho, action-adventure-movie heart throbs! They can read the villain's mind; they always save the girl! How do they manage to get it right every single time in every movie? Well, maybe not the first time.
USA/2009/15 min.
Kings
Director: Barbara Mones
This animated fantasy of card-playing-as-battle finds combative and determined gamblers using the cards to settle their scores. We come to know the gamblers and we find that the individual cards played may have their own personalities. Are the cards stacked against them?
USA/2010/7 min.
Buon Giorno Sayonara 
Director: Karen Hope
Website
The issues facing these two couples touring England could easily have been lifted this week off Water Street in Port Townsend. If you have ever traveled with someone close, you know that setting the daily itinerary is not always easy. Sometimes you're forced to go it alone, and unexpected delights can follow.
UK/2010/8 min.
Arthur 
Director: John Jacobsen
Website
A very young man has a fantasy of slaying a dragon and saving the damsel. The Seattle filmmaker tells the story from an unusual vantage point, and when all is disclosed, we are immersed in a strange, dark and shocking story.
USA/2010/9 min.
Touch
Director: Jen McGowan
Website
Two women, one subway station, one vital connection.
USA/2009/11 min. French/English subtitles
My Big Red Purse
Director: Giancarlo Iannotta
Website
Director Giancarlo Iannotta sits down with his mother Pam to reminisce about a particular childhood memory from the 1960s. In a charming use of interview and re-enactment, Pam recalls her prized possession (the red purse), her best friend, and a moment of truth.
USA/2010/4 min.
Dead in the Room 
Director: Adam Pertofsky
Website
At a screenwriters' pitch event, a writer turns the tables on an arrogant studio executive. As the clock ticks down, the exec gets a lesson in truthfulness and storytelling.
USA/2010/9 min.
Night at the Dance (Noc Na Tanečku) 
Director: Annie Silverstein
In the late 1800s, tens of thousands of Czech immigrants settled on farmland in Central Texas and built 1000 dance halls. Sefcik Hall in Seaton is one of the last, and the film profiles the elderly folks who come there each Sunday to dance the polka and escape, perhaps, the consequences of aging and the joy of this living dance treasure.
USA/2011/13 min.
Haircuts and More 
Director: Lee Wolochuk
Claymation is a tedious process for creating stop-action animation, but the filmmaker has taken it to a higher level by paying precise attention to the set in which his characters perform. The film tells a bittersweet story of the dreams of a barber and his prospective client, and a dog, punctuated by a compelling soundtrack of barbershop quartet melodies.
USA/2011/10 min.
Shuffle
Director: Garrett Bennett
A hit man with a change of heart must play one more hand of poker with his boss, the man who raised him. Contains violence.
USA/2010/17 min. Contains violent elements and profanity.
Sponsor: Solution Building
Seeds of Change
Saturday, 6 p.m., PS Free Cinema
Sunday, 12:15 p.m., Rose Theatre
Sponsored by: Highway Specialties
Mr. Happy Man 
Director: Matt Morris
Website
Johnny Barnes is one of the happiest people in the world and his main goal in life is to share that happiness. This humble and lovable Bermudan wakes up at 3 a.m. every day and heads to one particularly busy intersection to stand, wave, blow kisses and shout, "I love you!" to passers-by. Crazy or not, Johnny has a lot to say about what it takes to be optimistic and happy.
USA/2010/11min.
Truck Farm
Directors: Ian Cheney, Curt Ellis
Website
When Fayette Plumb gave his grandson the keys to the old pickup, he wasn't expecting the half-ton truck to be driven back home as a farm! Using green-roof technology, lightweight soil and heirloom seeds, the filmmakers transformed granddad's '86 Dodge into a traveling garden. They planted between the wheel wells with arugula and tomatoes, parked the truck on a Brooklyn street, and waited for sun and rain to work their charms.
USA/2010/48 min.
With My Own Two Wheels 
Directors: Jacob Seigel-Boettner, Isaac Seigel-Boettner
Website
For most Americans a bicycle is a choice. For Fred, a health worker in Zambia, it's a means of reaching patients. For Bharati, a teenager in India, it provides access to education. For Mirriam, A disabled Ghanaian, repairing bicycles helps her escape the stigma of being disabled. For Carlos, a Guatemalan farmer, pedal power is a way to help his neighbors' reduce their impact on the environment. For Sharkey, a young man in California, the bicycle is an escape from gangs that consume so many of his peers. The film is about the bicycle as a vehicle for change around the world.
USA/2010/44 min.
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Saturday, 9:15 a.m., Rose Theatre
Sunday, 3 p.m., Pope Marine Theatre
Living the Dream 
Director: Renan Ozturk
Renan Ozturk presents his perspective on the dirtbag climbing lifestyle. For most of the last six years he has been a traveling vagabond following his passion, sleeping outside in wild places, hitching rides, having very few possessions, having a drained bank account and doing gourmet dumpster diving. Each day he finds time to escape to nearby rock spires to bag a summit. In making this creative short, he realized that he still lives his dream every day.
USA/2010/4 min.
On Assignment: Jimmy Chin 
Director: Renan Ozturk
Climber and filmmaker Renan Ozturk trains his lens on a man who usually stands behind a lens of his own: climber, skier and mountaineer Jimmy Chin. The film follows Chin to Yosemite Valley and films him as he shoots a National Geographic story on the climbing culture in Yosemite. It's a short portrait of a passionate athlete who has melded his loves of climbing and photography. "I think the most honest photos happen when both the subject and the photographer are just in the moment," he says in the film, and "the rest of the world has just fallen away."
USA/2010/6 min.
Second Nature 
Director: Colin Blackshear
In an exploration of the abstract and the extreme, "Second Nature" is an examination of the natural boundaries of the human body. Noah Sakamoto, Patrick Rizzo and J.M. Duran star as the test subjects as they wield skateboards in blue suits to race down the roads of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in California.
USA/2009/14 min.
The Swiss Machine
Directors: Peter Mortimer, Nick Rosen
Website
Ueli Steck is a Swiss speed-climber and alpinist who scales giant rock and ice faces at an amazingly fast rate, while being precise and controlled. "I am like a Swiss watch, you know. Very efficient!" he says. Steck balances on a knife edge between safety and danger and speed-climbs such routes as the Nose of El Capitan in Yosemite. After setting the speed record on the north face of the Eiger, he decides to tackle it once more. It is truly astonishing.
USA/2010/25m
Kadoma 
Director: Ben Stookesberry
Hendri Coetzee was a legendary South African kayaker who had explored some of Africa's wildest rivers. In December 2010, American pro kayakers Chris Korbulic and Ben Stookesbury followed Coetzee into the Democratic Republic of Congo for a first descent of the dangerous Lukuga River. Seven weeks into the expedition, Coetzee was paddling between the other two men when a fifteen-foot crocodile surfaced silently and swiftly pulled him underwater. He was never seen again. When his funeral pyre was lit, tribes from one side of the river called out a name that meant "man who improved lives everywhere he went," while tribes on the other side of the river called out a name that meant "man who showed so much bravery in life." Both called out "Kadoma."
USA/2010/30 min.
Towers of the Ennedi 
Director: Renan Ozturk
The Ennedi Desert in northeastern Chad is a hot, sand-scoured and unfriendly place, but from its vast belly rise clusters of spires, towers and rock formations that are breathtakingly beautiful. Prospective climbers endure a long, bumpy drive across the sand flats of an astonishing desert landscape to reach an incredible destination: gardens of towers filled with graceful fingers of rock, bottle-shaped formations and lithe arches. Sometimes you have just as many adventures trying to reach your destination as you have once you get there. Features Alex Honnold, who audiences may remember from PTFF 2010 in the Best Short Doc "Alone on the Wall."
USA/2011/15 min.
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