New Fest Titles
The Invisible War • Trans
A Fierce Green Fire • Codependent Lesbian Space Alien Seeks Same
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Dear Programmers and Friends:
As we head into the Berlinale, there's a lot of exciting new films to announce. This is the most exciting, diverse slate we've had in a while. Be sure to scroll all the way through, because there is something here for everyone!
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2011 | USA | 95 min.
Writer & Director Kirby Dick
Executive Producers Regina Kulik Scully, Jennifer Siebel Newsom, Geralyn White Dreyfous, Abigail Disney, Maria Cuomo Cole, Sarah Johnson Redlich, Teddy Leifer, Sally Jo Fifer, Nicole Boxer-Keegan
Producers Amy Ziering, Tanner King Barklow
Co-Producer Kimball Stroud
Editors Doug Blush, Derek Boonstra
Cinematographers Thaddeus Wadleigh, Kirsten Johnson
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ABOUT THE FILM: Casualties of war rage beyond the battlefield. As ranks of women in the American military swell, so do incidents of rape. An estimated 30 percent of servicewomen and at least 1 percent of servicemen are sexually assaulted during their enlistment. And not by the enemy, but at the hands of fellow soldiers. With stark clarity and escalating revelations, The Invisible War exposes a rape epidemic in the armed forces, investigating the institutions that perpetuate it as well as its profound personal and social consequences.
We meet characters who embraced their service with pride and professionalism, only to have their idealism crushed. Their chilling stories of violent sexual assault become even more rattling as they seek justice in a Kafkaesque military legal system. As a courageous few defy victimhood, they face their most challenging fight yet: penetrating a closed circuit where officers collude, cases are routinely swept under the rug, and few perpetrators are tried or convicted.FESTIVALS
Sundance 2012 (Audience Award winner for best documentary) FESTIVAL TERRITORIES
The World SALES TERRITORIES
North America EXHIBITION FORMATS
HDCAM, Digibeta, Blu-Ray, DVD Click here for more information about this film. WEBSITE: invisiblewarmovie.com For screeners, please email us.
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2012 | USA | 92 min.
Director Chris Arnold
Producer Mark Schoen
Editor Chris Arnold
Cinematographers Jon Dunham, Ed Stevens, Jerry Feldman
Sound Paul Kalbach, David Silberberg, Darcel Walker
Music Wayne Gratz
 
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ABOUT THE FILM:
TRANS is an extraordinary documentary feature about men and women, and all the variations in between. It is about the Transgender Community, perhaps the most misunderstood and mistreated minority in America and around the world. Inspired by the incredible story of Dr. Christine McGinn and her work as a transgender surgeon, TRANS provides an up-close and very personal vision into the lives, loves, and challenges of a remarkable cast of characters of all ages and from all walks of life. Stories of confusion and courage, excitement and emotion that have never been told, until now. To anyone who has ever looked in a mirror and wondered, “who they really are?” TRANS ask another question, “are you brave enough to find out?”
FESTIVALS
Thessaloniki Documentary Festival (World Premiere)
FESTIVAL TERRITORIES
The World SALES TERRITORIES
The World EXHIBITION FORMATS
HDCAM, Digibeta, DVD Click here for more information about this film. WEBSITE: transthemovie.com For screeners, please email us.
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2012 | USA | 114 min. Writer & Director Mark Kitchell
Executive Producer Marc Weiss
Producer Mark Kitchell
Editors Ken Schneider, Veronica Selver, Jon Beckhardt
Cinematographer Vicente Franco
Music George Michalski, Sonya Kitchell, Garth Stevenson, Randall Wallace
| | ABOUT THE FILM: A FIERCE GREEN FIRE: The Battle For a Living Planet is the first big-picture exploration of the environmental movement—grassroots and global activism spanning fifty years from conservation to climate change. From halting dams in the Grand Canyon to battling 20,000 tons of toxic waste at Love Canal; from Greenpeace saving the whales to Chico Mendes and the rubbertappers saving the Amazon; from climate change to the promise of transforming our civilization, the film tells vivid stories about people fighting —and succeeding—against enormous odds.
It’s not easy being green. Environmentalists have been revered and reviled, for being killjoys and Cassandras. Every battle begins as a lost cause and even the victories have to be fought for again and again. Still, environmentalism is one of the great causes of the twentieth century, and one of the keys to the twenty-first. It has arisen at a juncture in history when humans have come to rival nature as a power determining the fate of the earth. It’s the battle for a living planet.
A FIERCE GREEN FIRE focuses on activism. It’s about movements more than issues. It’s a more engaging approach, full of drama and passion. It’s also a more open-ended approach than cant and rant. We emphasize synthesis, bringing together all the pieces of the environmental picture to explore connections, resonance, larger visions and deeper meanings. Never has a film told the full story of environmentalism. Our hope is it will be a defining film that reaches and teaches a huge and hungry audience.FESTIVALS
Sundance 2012 FESTIVAL TERRITORIES
The World, except for North America EXHIBITION FORMATS
HDCAM, Digibeta, DVD Click here for more information about this film. WEBSITE: afiercegreenfire.com For screeners, please email us.
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2011 | USA | 76 min. Writer & Director Madeleine Olnek
Producers Laura Terruso, Madeleine Olnek
Co-Producer Cynthia Fredette
Editor Curtis Grout
Cinematographer Nat Bouman
Production Designer Rebecca Conroy
Sound Allan Gus
Music Clay Drinko
Cast Lisa Haas, Jackie Monahan, Susan Ziegler, Alex Karpovsky, Dennis Davis, Cynthia Kaplan, Rae C. Wright
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| ABOUT THE FILM: CODEPENDENT LESBIAN SPACE ALIEN SEEKS SAME tracks the adventures, misadventures and experiences of three aliens from the planet Zots, sent down to Earth on a mission to rid themselves of romantic emotions, which are considered toxic to their planet's atmosphere. They are told to have their hearts broken on Earth, where such heartbreak is considered a given. Two of the aliens, Zylar (promiscuous and sassy) and Barr (codependent and clutchy) fall into an unfortunate romance with each other, but Zoinx, the third, meets Jane, an Earthling of mild manners who lives an uneventful life and works in a stationery store. Unaware that the sudden object of her affection is an alien (despite her bald head and monotone speech), Jane falls hard for Zoinx. The feeling is mutual.
Meanwhile, two undercover government agents are following Jane in order to find the spaceship and cover up the existence of the aliens. The Senior Agent has been working for years, finding himself passed over again and again for promotions, for reasons he is too dense to understand. The Rookie Agent is mysterious and focused, and something is obviously different about him. Their bizarre, comical espionage is another of the film's odd couplings, and reveals itself to be something other than what it seems. By film's end, the espionage car has one less agent, and the spaceship has one more commuter, in this original mash-up of lo- fi New York City romantic comedy and a sci-fi B-movie spoof.
“[A] witty ode to urban love and shoestring sci-fi…enormously likable.” — Jeannette Catsoulis, The New York Times
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Sundance 2011, Seattle International 2011 FESTIVAL TERRITORIES
The World SALES TERRITORIES
The World, except North America EXHIBITION FORMATS
HDCAM, Digibeta, Blu-Ray, DVD Click here for more information about this film. WEBSITE: codependentlesbian
spacealienseekssame.com For screeners, please email us.
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TFC FILMS AT THE 2012 Berlinale
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VitoNew York Film Festival, Berlinale 2012 |
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| Berlinale Screenings |
| Sat Feb 11 |
22:30 |
CineStar 7 |
| Thu Feb 16 |
20:00 |
CineStar 7 |
| Fri Feb 17 |
14:30 |
CineStar 7 |
| Sun Feb 19 |
17:00 |
CineStar 7 |
| Berlinale Screenings |
| Sun Feb 12 |
21:30 |
CinemaxX 7 |
| Mon Feb 13 |
20:15 |
CineStar 3 |
| Tue Feb 14 |
22:30 |
Cubix 7 |
| Tue Feb 14 |
22:30 |
Cubix 8 |
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