Film Competition - Documentary Films
| CANDYMAN: THE DAVID KLEIN STORY 2010, 76 min., USA/New Zealand, Documentary Director: Costa Botes Producer: Eddie Schmidt (EP), Doug Blush (EP), Costa Botes, Bert & Jennifer Klein Contact: jencklein@gmail.com It's time to spill the beans: This is the incredible true story of how David Klein created Jelly Belly jelly beans. | ||
 | CHICKENS OF THE SEA 2009, 7 min., USA, Documentary Producer/Writer/Director: Steve Furman Cast: Janice Downes, voice Contact: -email- ..a sea of grass, that is. Most of the native prairie in North America is gone, and prairie chickens are rare, but if you're lucky enough to find them, they're fun to watch! | |
 | A DEVINE HAUNTING 2010, 36 min., USA, Documentary (Big Bear Locals) Producer/Writer/Director: Pamela Lobaugh Contact: -email- A Devine Haunting is one case from High Country Paranormal (ghost researchers) which was filmed at the Captains Anchorage Restaurant in Big Bear, California and was once owned by character actor Andy Devine. | |
 | DIG COMICS 2009, 19 min., USA, Documentary Director/Cast: Miguel Cima Producer: Dirk Van Fleet Contact: -email- When most people think of comic books, they think of lowbrow entertainment for duller minds. Fact is, this art form is the most exciting and vibrant medium happening today. Check out what you’ve been missing! | |
| DO IT AGAIN 2010, 85 min., USA/UK, Documentary Director: Robert Patton-Spruill Producer/Writer: Geoff Edgers C: Sting, Zooey Deschanel, Robyn Hitchcock, Paul Weller, Clive Davis, Peter Buck, Warren Zanes, and Geoff Edgers Contact: -email- or doitagainthemovie.com DO IT AGAIN is about one man’s irrational quest to reunite The Kinks. | ||
 | FOSSE: PRELUDE 2009, 4 min., USA, Documentary Producer/Writer/Director: Chris Olsen Cast: Ann Reinking, Melissa Thodos, Brian Hare, Mollie Mock, Natalie Tursi, Justin Sears, Jessica Miller Tomlinson Contact: -email- In 2009, American dance legend Ann Reinking joined forces with Melissa Thodos and her Dance Company to combine three rarely performed pieces of Bob Fosse choreography into a new unified piece called 'FOSSE TRILOGY'. This short documentary film was created to precede each live performance of the resultant piece, allowing Ms. Reinking and the members of the Thodos Dance Company the opportunity to share their insights on Mr. Fosse's work with audiences across the country, and give context to the live performance of 'FOSSE TRILOGY' that would immediately follow. | |
| FOUL WATER/FIERY SERPENT 2010, 88 min., Ghana, Sudan,USA, Documentary Producer/Director: Gary Strieker Cast: Sigourney Weaver (voice) Contact: -email- Dedicated health workers engaged in a final battle to eradicate Guinea worm disease in Africa. For thousands of years the parasite has caused disabling misery, infecting people who drink water contaminated with the worm's larvae. In 1986, there were 3.5 million cases in 20 countries in Africa and Asia. But after a 23 year eradication campaign, the total number of cases dropped to 3,142 at the end of 2009. For nearly three years the film tracks teams of men and women as they fight to wipe out the last Guinea worms. Following the victory against smallpox, Guinea worm will be the next disease in the history of mankind to be eradicated. | ||
 | GIRLS GO FAST 2010, 24 min., USA, Documentary (Sidebar Showcase) Director: Andrew Gage Cast: Kriten Kiger Contact: -email- 'Girls Go Fast' is the triumphant story of Kristen Kiger, junior drag racer in rural Ohio. The Kiger family bands together to support their daughters', both 16-year-old Kristen and 9-year-old Kelsey, as they pursue their love of drag racing. While the Kigers deal with issues like unemployment and Kristen's health, life at the track proves to be a rewarding retreat bringing them closer together. Their endearing family is a touching backdrop to Kristen's road to racing success. | |
 | HOT RODS ACROSS AMERICA – PART 2 2010, 63 min., USA, Documentary (Sidebar Showcase) Writer: Michael Hawkins Editor: Edited by Michael Hawkins and coedited by Paul Le Mat Producer: Executive Producer / Michael Hawkins and Producer / Paul Le Mat Cast: Paul Le Mat, Rick Figari and Bob Belencia. Contact: Thxmilner@timemaxcinema.com Logline: Join Paul Le Mat with the coupe as well with Rick & Bob's humerous antics as they continue their journey across America, with a brief tour in England. You'll see classic hot rods, girls, beautiful cars, comedy, and hear music by Danny Dean. Trailer: http://www.BigBearLakeFilmFestival.com Trailer: http://www.BigBearLakeFilmFestival.com | |
 | THE JUDGE, THE HUNTER, THE THIEF AND THE BLACK ORCHID 2010, 75 min., USA, Documentary Producer/Director: Rich Walton Cast: Fred Clarke, Andy Phillips, Martin Motes Contact: -email- Gaze into the seductive stare of an orchid at your own risk. Many who do quickly fall under its captive spell. In the orchid world it's known simply as 'orchid fever.' | |
| JULES ENGEL: AN ARTIST FOR ALL SEASONS 2009, 7 min., USA, Documentary Producer/Writer/Director: Janeann Dill Cast: Jules Engel Contact: interdisciplinaryartinstitute.com / -email- Jules Engel: An Artist For All Seasons illustrates the power of artists-mentors-educators to elicit a kind of "presence" from students that subsequently evolves a cultural history. Jules Engel (1909-2003) founded the animation program at CalArts where he greatly influenced the creative leadership of today's animation industry. | ||
| LANDSCAPE & TIME 2010, 19 min., Canada, Documentary Producer/Director: Greg Hewett Cast: David Pirre, James Callis (voice) Contact: -email- Even the casual gaze couldn't really take it seriously as 'old school' landscape painting. | ||
| A LIFE ASCENDING 2010, 57 min., USA/Canada, Documentary Director: Stephen Grynberg Producer: Stephen Grynberg, Sarah Gaboury Contact: -email- A world-class ski mountaineering guide and his young family navigate the aftermath of a massive avalanche in which 7 people died. | ||
| MELTDOWN IN TIBET 2009, 40 min., Canada/Tibet, Documentary Producer/Writer/Director: Michael Buckley Contact: -email- Meltdown in Tibet blows the lid off China's huge and potentially catastrophic dam-building projects in Tibet. The film raises disturbing questions about a looming eco-disaster--involving dwindling water resources of the Tibetan plateau. The major rivers of Tibet are at risk from rapidly receding glaciers--due to climate change--and from large-scale damming and diversion, due to Chinese engineering projects. Tibetan nomads are being shifted off their grassland habitat to make way for these projects. Why is China building so many large dams on the Tibetan plateau? What on earth are China's engineers getting up to? | ||
 | MY KIDNAPPER 2010, 83 min., Colombia, Germany, United Kingdom, Documentary Producer/Director: Mark Henderson, Kate Horne Contact: -email- In 2003 Mark Henderson was kidnapped in the Colombian jungle. One year after his release he received an email from one of his kidnappers. Now he's going back to meet with his kidnapper and finally close this chapter in his life. | |
 | PADDLE TO SEATTLE: JOURNEY THROUGH THE INSIDE PASSAGE Producer/Director: Josh Thomas, J.J. Kelley Writer: Ben Gottfried Contact: -email- A great Alaska adventure, two friends build their own kayaks and paddle alone for 97 days in the wilderness over 1,300 miles from Alaska to Seattle and survive to talk about most things. | |
 | THE PINEWOOD DERBY 2010, 20 min., USA, Documentary (Big Bear Locals & Sidebar Showcase) Producer: Big Bear Lake Antique Car Club, John Renner, Carole Renner Contact: -email- A documentary about the Big Bear Valley Pinewood Derby and Antique Cars. | |
 | SHE WORE SILVER WINGS 2010, 31 min., USA, Documentary Writer/Director: Devin Scott Producer: Jeanne Scott Contact: -email- As a child, Jean Landis had a dream of learning to fly. She would become a WASP, Women Air Force Service Pilot, one of the unsung heroes of WWII. | |
 | SKISHERMAN 2010, 5 min., USA, Documentary Producer/Writer/Director: Chandler Kauffman Cast: Frank Blasko Contact: -email- It's past midnight, forty degrees and raining with a thick fog; Frank Blasko is half a mile off a lonely Montauk NY beach, but he's not in a boat. One of a handful of hardcore fisherman who practice the extreme art of swim fishing called Skishing. | |
 | SOFT POWER HEALTH 2009, 19 min., New Zealand/Uganda, Documentary Director: Polly Green Producer: Jessie Stone Contact: -email- Dr. Jessie Stone gave up traditional medicine to pursue her dream of becoming a world class white water kayaker. While kayaking on the White Nile River in Uganda, Jessie realizes that Malaria is an epidemic in Uganda and decides to do something about it. | |
 | STILL HERE 2009, 21 min, USA, Documentary, Vassar College Producer/Director: Alex Camilleri Cast: Randy Baron Contact: -email- New York City native Randy Baron has been infected with HIV for 30 years, making him an inadvertent witness to the AIDS epidemic. Today, he has given his life new meaning by working to help to prevent the spread of the disease that devastated his life and the lives of his friends. | |
 | UNFORGETTABLE 2010, 88 min., USA, Documentary Writer/Director: Eric Williams Producer: Rona Edwards Cast: Brad Williams, Ken Jennings, Dick Cavett Contact: unforgettabledoc.com The memorable adventures of “The Human Google,” Brad Williams, whose detailed memory of every day of his life leads to unexpected notoriety. | |
 | WALLA WALLA WIFFLE 2010, 7 min., USA, Documentary Producer/Director: Robert Sickels Contact: -email- Walla Walla Wiffle. Where men are boys. |