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International Human Rights
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Ton van Zan tvoort
52 minutes
World Premiere
THESSALONIKI DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL
Official Selection
NEWPORT INT'L FILM FESTIVAL
Official Selection
EDINBURGH INT'L FILM FESTIVAL
Official Selection
PLANET IN FOCUS,
ENVIRONMENTAL FILM FESTIVAL
Healthy Workplace Film Award
DOK LEIPZIG!
The roses we enjoy may come with more thorns that we realize. Delving deep into the heart of the global flower industry, A BLOOMING BUSINESS shows us the difficult reality behind the pretty flowers. In Kenya, giant flower factories use massive amounts of pesticides and chemicals to keep their flowers alive and then pollute the local water supply, harming the very same people they employ. A revealing investigation into the horrific working conditions and sexual abuse that the workers must endure in order have a job, A BLOOMING BUSINESS explores the human and environmental repercussions of the floral industry.
A rose may no longer smell so sweet.
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Eye for Film Review - 4 out of 5 Stars!
“It’s time to wake up and smell the imported roses.” -Edinburgh Int’l Film Festival
“Part poetry, part explosive exposé.” -Newport Int'l Film Festival
“A quietly formidable film.” -Vancouver Film Festival
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American Culture & Politics
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Bi ll and Turner Ross
90 minutes
GRAND JURY AWARDSXSW
HONORABLE MENTION
HBO NEW FILMMAKERS AWARDFull Frame Film Festival
SPECIAL DOCUMENTARY FEATURE JURY PRIZE Newport International Film Festival
SPECIAL MENTION
NEW VOICES IN DOCUMENTARY Calgary International Film Festival
SPECIAL JURY AWARD FOR ARTISTIC VISION Sidewalk Moving Picture Festival
45365 (pronounced: four, five, three, six, five) captures small town American life in striking cinema verité style that peels away the layers of Sidney, Ohio -- population 20,000 -- to reveal a deeper shared experience. Middle America turns out to be much more complicated than a Norman Rockwell painting would have us believe. Filmmakers Turner and Bill Ross deliver slices of life in gorgeous HD photography building the unique faces, places, and events into a powerful mosaic of humanity.
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Audio Interview with Bill and Turner Ross
Check out the filmmakers' new short!
The Other Paper - Top Docs of 2009
Columbus Dispatch - Best of 2009
New Orleans Times-Picayune Review
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Music
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Directed by Jennifer Tay lor
56/83 minutes
BORN FROM ABOVE AWARD
& SPECIAL MENTION
Religion Today International Film Festival
Puerto Rican American rapper Hamza Pérez ended his life as a drug dealer 12 years ago, and started down a new path as a young Muslim.
Now he’s moved to Pittsburgh’s tough North Side to start a new religious community, rebuild his shattered family, and take his message of faith to other young people through his uncompromising music as part of the hip-hop duo M-Team.
Raising his two kids as a single dad and longing for companionship, Hamza finds love on a Muslim networking website and seizes the chance for happiness in a second marriage.
But when the FBI raids his mosque, Hamza must confront the realities of the post-9/11 world, and challenge himself. He starts reaching for a deeper understanding of his faith, discovering new connections with people from Christian and Jewish communities.
NEW MUSLIM COOL takes viewers on Hamza’s ride through the streets, projects and jail cells of urban America, following his spiritual journey to some surprising places — where we can all see ourselves reflected in a world that never stops changing.
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Jewish History and Culture
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Bar bara Bird,
Judy Maltz
and Richie Sherman
90 minutes
CINE GOLDEN EAGLE AWARD
GRAND PRIZE FOR BEST DOCUMENTARY
Rhode Island International Film Festival
If your neighbors were being hunted down and came to your door begging for help, would you risk your life to save theirs?
This film tells the remarkable, yet little-known, story of Francisca Halamajowa, a Polish-Catholic woman who rescued 16 of her Jewish neighbors during the Holocaust, while cleverly passing herself off as a Nazi sympathizer.
On the eve of World War II, more than 6,000 Jews lived in Sokal, a small town in Eastern Poland, now part of Ukraine. By the end of the war, only about 30 had survived, half of them rescued by Halamajowa. For close to two years, she hid her Jewish neighbors in her tiny home and cooked and cared for them, right under the noses of German troops camped on her property as well as hostile neighbors. Two families were hidden in the hayloft of her pigsty, and one family in a hole dug under her kitchen floor. In the final months of the war, she also provided shelter to a German.
Even among the small minority of Poles who risked their lives to save Jews during the Holocaust, Halamajowa's is by all accounts an unusual story, considering the number of people she rescued and the amount of time she fed and cared for them.
The film draws on excerpts from a diary kept by one of the survivors, Moshe Maltz, whose granddaughter is one of the filmmakers. It also incorporates testimonies from other Jews saved by Halamajowa, her descendants and formers neighbors, as they reconnect on a trip back to Sokal. Powerful location shots add another rich dimension to the story, providing the backdrop as the drama unfolds.
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American Culture & Politics
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Doug Pr ay
89 minutes
***OFFICIAL SELECTION - Sundance
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***OFFICIAL SELECTION - Hot Docs
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***WINNER - Best Director - Documentary, Atlanta Film Festival***
“An embracing glimpse into big industry, pop culture and the creative process”
- The Hollywood Reporter
“An addictive tour of 50 years of adspeak!”
- Seattle Times
“A richly entertaining glimpse at the American ad world’s dream factory”
- The Stranger
I Want My MTV. Think Small. Just Do It. Got Milk? Where do these phrases come from?
ART & COPY introduces the cultural visionaries who revolutionized advertising during the industry’s golden age by creating slogans to live by and ads we all remember. You may have never heard of them, but pop pioneers Lee Clow, Hal Riney, George Lois, Mary Wells, Jeff Goodby, Rich Silverstein, Phyllis K. Robinson, Dan Wieden and David Kennedy have changed the way we eat, work, shop, and communicate—often in ways we don’t even realize. From the introduction of Volkswagen in America to the triumph of Apple Computers. ART & COPY explores the most successful and influential advertising campaigns of the 20th century, and the creative minds that launched them.
Directed by Doug Pray (SURFWISE, HYPE!, SCRATCH), ART & COPY captures the energy and passion of the individuals who have defined and redefined American popular culture for more than four decades. Featuring rare interviews with industry legends, the film reveals the stories and personal odysseys that have shaped some of the most profound and influential advertising messages of our time. ART & COPY opens a window to the creative process, and identifies the critical elements that can transform a singular idea into a global phenomenon.
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