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Depot Docs showcases some of America’s most moving and thought-provoking documentary films, and each screening includes a Q & A with the director or another key member of the production team. This spirited give-and-take with the filmmakers is followed by wine and cheese reception. Tickets are $20 for the film and the party. Come be inspired by great filmmakers and great films!
Many of the Depot Docs screenings sell out, so purchase your tickets TODAY. Call Julie Heckert at the Depot Theater, 424-3900. Also, be sure to check out the brand new Depot Docs BLOG which features useful information about the documentary industry, highlights interesting film festivals and special screenings, and links you to other films related to the Depot Docs season.
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June 18, 2010, 7:30pm
The Cats of Mirikitani
Eighty-year-old Jimmy Mirikitani survived the trauma of WWII internment camps, Hiroshima, and homelessness by creating art. But when 9/11 threatens his life on the New York City streets and a local filmmaker brings him to her home, the two embark on a journey to confront Jimmy's painful past. An intimate exploration of the lingering wounds of war and the healing powers of friendship and art, this documentary won the Audience Award at its premiere in the 2006 Tribeca Film Festival.
New York Magazine - Bilge Ebiri
A profoundly gripping film, with a cumulative impact that may well wipe you out. ▶ MORE
The New York Times - Jeannette Catsoulis
The title may suggest a wildlife documentary, but ''The Cats of Mirikitani'' is entirely, vibrantly human. ▶ MORE
The Observer - Andrew Sarris
Ms. Hattendorf's is truly and profoundly a "found film," and it is deeply moving enough to be fondly remembered at year's end - and long after. ▶ MORE
Variety - Ronnie Scheib
What begins as a straightforward docu on an elderly homeless artist in New York City winds up as an indictment of US internment of Japanese-Americans during WWII in Linda Hattendorf's startlingly timely "The Cats of Mirikitani." ▶ MORE
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Previous Films from Season IV
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May 28, 2010
Sons of Cuba
SPECIAL GUEST:
Director Andrew Lang
The Havana Boxing Academy is a boarding school for boys who want to become the best boxers in the world. SONS OF CUBA follows the lives of three young hopefuls through eight dramatic months of training and schooling as they prepare for the biggest event of their lives so far: Cuba's National Boxing Championship for Under-12s. But during the season, crisis strikes: Fidel Castro is taken ill, and all of Cuba's Olympic Boxing Champions defect to the USA, leaving Cuba at a crossroads, and the boys contemplating a changing world.
Watch a Trailer for Sons of Cuba
and get more information here.
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November 20, 2009, 7:30pm
Food Inc.
SPECIAL GUEST:
Director Robert Kenner
In Food, Inc., filmmaker Robert Kenner lifts the veil on our nation's food industry, exposing the highly mechanized underbelly that has been hidden from the American consumer with the consent of our government's regulatory agencies, USDA and FDA. Our nation's food supply is now controlled by a handful of corporations that often put profit ahead of consumer health, the livelihood of the American farmer, the safety of workers and our own environment. We have bigger-breasted chickens, the perfect pork chop, herbicide-resistant soybean seeds, even tomatoes that won't go bad, but we also have new strains of E. coli-the harmful bacteria that causes illness for an estimated 73,000 Americans annually. We are riddled with widespread obesity, particularly among children, and an epidemic level of diabetes among adults.
Featuring interviews with such experts as Eric Schlosser (Fast Food Nation), Michael Pollan (The Omnivore's Dilemma, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto) along with forward thinking social entrepreneurs like Stonyfield's Gary Hirshberg and Polyface Farms' Joel Salatin, Food, Inc. reveals surprising-and often shocking truths--about what we eat, how it's produced, who we have become as a nation and where we are going from here.
Watch a Trailer for
Food, Inc.
and get more information here.
Special Note: The reception following the screening of Food Inc. is hosted by The Glynwood Center, with special organic food provided by the Raw Life Food Co-op.
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Jan 22, 2010, 7:30pm
The Way We Get By
SPECIAL GUEST:
Director Aron Gaudet
"The Way We Get By" is a deeply moving film about life and how to live it. Beginning as a seemingly idiosyncratic story about troop greeters - a group of senior citizens who gather daily at a small airport to thank American soldiers departing and returning from Iraq, the film quickly turns into a moving, unsettling and compassionate story about aging, loneliness, war and mortality.
When its three subjects aren't at the airport, they wrestle with their own problems: failing health, depression, mounting debt. Joan, a grandmother of eight, has a deep connection to the soldiers she meets. The sanguine Jerry keeps his spirits up even as his personal problems mount. And the veteran Bill, who clearly has trouble taking care of himself, finds himself contemplating his own death. Seeking out the telling detail rather than offering sweeping generalizations, the film carefully builds stories of heartbreak and redemption, reminding us how our culture casts our elders, and too often our soldiers, aside. More important, regardless of your politics, "The Way We Get By" celebrates three unsung heroes who share their love with strangers who need and deserve it.
Watch a Trailer for
The Way We Get By
and get more information here.
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March 26, 2010, 7:30pm
Bob Dylan
Don't Look Back
SPECIAL GUEST:
Director D.A. Pennebaker
Don't Look Back is about the Sixties and the man who got a lot of us through them. Bob Dylan is more than the folk singer touted by the record industry, more than the song writer whose poetry is the only kind many of us remember, more than the Kerouac-kid who haunts our best writing. He is the force that blew us out of one era and into another. His words are ambiguous, his style constantly changing and his avoidance of publicity obsessive, yet he remains the influential voice of our times. DONT LOOK BACK was filmed during a three week concert tour of England in the Spring of 1965. More than a view of an extraordinary concert tour, Dont Look Back is an intimate portrait of one of the most influential songwriters of our times.
Watch a Trailer for
Bob Dylan Don't Look Back
and get more information here.
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May 28, 2010, 7:30pm
William Kunstler
Disturbing The Universe
SPECIAL GUESTS:
Directors Sarah and Emily Kunstler
One of the most infamous lawyers of the twentieth century, William Kunstler liked to shake things up. Filmmakers Emily and Sarah Kunstler explore their father's life and legacy: from middle-class family man to celebrated radical activist to "the most hated lawyer in America."Kunstler's resume is one for the storybooks. He fought for civil rights with Martin Luther King Jr. and catapulted to the world stage by defending the Chicago Seven. Soon Kunstler became the go-to guy for the radical left. When inmates rioted at Attica prison or Native Americans took on the federal government at Wounded Knee, they chose Kunstler as their lawyer. In the 1970s, when Emily and Sarah were growing up, their father transitioned away from civil-rights cases. Lured to the limelight of high-profile criminal cases, Kunstler represented accused rapists, terrorists, and Mafia bosses. Being on the unpopular side of the infamous Central Park jogger trial was perhaps the linchpin that triggered his fall from grace. Was the real William Kunstler a hero or a villain? A defender of the defenseless or an egomaniac drawn to fame? Eschewing white-hat, black-hat simplicity, Emily and Sarah Kunstler share a provocative and deeply personal journey as they paint a complex portrait of a man whose life mirrors the battles that forever defined our history.
Watch a Trailer for
William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe
and get more information here.
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