08 October 2013

VideoFest26 films about or by WOMEN



Below is a list of videos, you ladies may have interest in.  These one time screenings will be held during the 26th Annual Dallas VideoFest held Oct. 9-13.  For more info visit - www.videofest.org

CAMERA/WOMAN (Morocco) Director: Karima Zoubir.  Working as a videographer at weddings in Casablanca, Khadija Harrad is part of a new generation of young, divorced Moroccan women seeking to realize their desires for independence while honoring their families' wishes. Mother of an 11-year-old son and primary breadwinner for her parents and siblings, she navigates daily between the elaborate fantasy world of the parties she films and the demands from her traditionally conservative family. Sponsored by Women Make Movies. Documentary Feature. Saturday, Oct. 12, 6:15 pm,, Alamo Drafthouse


FREE THE BUTTERFLY/UWOLNIC MOTYLA (Poland) Director: Joanna Frydrych. Catherine Rosicka-Jaczyńska used to have money, beauty, and fame, until she got sick. While ALS kills in average after four years, she lives more than a dozen. This disease takes the possibility of any movement, and Catherine is exceptionally active in the modeling industry. She is not able to speak a single word, but wrote a book that became a bestseller. Catherine achieves everything she wants, except one of the most important things.  Documentary Feature. Sun., Oct. 13, 4:00 pm, Alamo Drafthouse.

GIRLS LOVE HORSES (USA) Director: Jennifer Reeder.  A professional woman, traveling alone, recalls and reenacts an incident from her adolescence after injuring herself off-camera. This experimental narrative unravels patiently and points to melodrama as a potential form of plot structure. An adult female and the girl ghost from her past emerge and retreat within real-time exchanges and previously recorded footage. The linearity is disrupted by magical b-roll and a constant shift between the actual and imagined. This is a fractured little story about a business trip, a bloodstain and being okay.  Experimental Short.  Experimental Program 3: TIME AND OTHER DIMENSIONS – Saturday, Oct 12, 2:15 pm, Alamo Drafthouse.

Lie Back and Enjoy It:  A Film about Joann Elam (USA) Director: Jessica Bardsley.  JoAnn Elam was an experimental filmmaker, postal worker, and social activist. This film remixes JoAnn's footage as a way of introducing viewers to her life and work.  Screens with FREE RADICALS.  Sun., Oct. 13, 7:30 pm.

TOWING (USA) Director: Wenhwa Ts'ao.  A film about a female veteran's struggle to make the adjustment to civilian life, one fateful night her experiences in the war come back to challenge her as she's yet again forced to face meaningless death. TOWING explores themes of gender, race and class with a feminine perspective on the emotional effects of war. Narrative Short.  GETTING IN TROUBLE shorts block – Sunday, Oct. 13, 6:15 pm.

WHOOPI GOLDBERG PRESENTS MOMS MABLEY (USA) - Breaking racial and sexual boundaries as a pioneering comic talent, the African-American stand-up comedienne Jackie “Moms” Mabley has long been an icon in the comedy world. First-time director Whoopi Goldberg explores Mabley’s legacy through recently unearthed photography, rediscovered performance footage, and the words of numerous celebrated comedians, entertainers, and historians, including Eddie Murphy, Joan Rivers, Sidney Poitier, Kathy Griffin, Harry Belafonte, Bill Cosby, Quincy Jones, Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara. Mabley tackled topics such as gender, sex, and racism, making her one of the first triple X-rated comedians on the comedy circuit. Once billed as “The Funniest Woman in the World,” she performed on stage and in television and film up until her death in 1975.  Comedy pioneer Moms Mabley comes to life again, complete with rolling laughter and measured eloquence, in this astute first documentary feature which showcases Mabley’s talent and pays homage to a woman whose relevance still resonates today. Documentary Feature.  Thursday, Oct. 10, 10:00 pm.

ANNE BRADEN:  SOUTHERN PATRIOT (USA) Director: Anne Lewis and Mimi Pickering.  Hailed by King as “eloquent and prophetic,” the power of life committed to social transformation by Anne Lewis and Mimi Pickering.  Documentary Feature.  Saturday, Oct 12, 12 pm.

MERCY MERCY: PORTRAIT OF A TRUE ADOPTION (Denmark) Director: Katrine Riis Kjaer.  Easily one of the most important documentaries on inter-country adoption, this documentary offers a rare look at all participants in the adoption process, including the parents who give their children up. Two loving Ethiopians parents, Sinkenesh and Hussen, just diagnosed with HIV are told they have only a year to live. They make the painful decision to give their two youngest children up for adoption, handing them over to a Danish family. In an emotional departure, the Danish family promises to stay in touch and the adoption agency agrees to broker the relationship. What seems like the best decision for the children becomes a series of tragic and painful events for all, unveiling that the wellbeing of children is not always the main priority in the adoption process. Greed, selfishness, unrealistic expectations and skewed cultural perspectives idealizing one way of life over another collide in this powerful story.  Documentary Feature.  Saturday, Oct. 12, 4:15 pm, Alamo Drafthouse.

VESSEL (USA) Director: Diana Whitten.  Captain Rebecca Gomperts and her organization, Women on Waves, work with a global network of locally-based organizations to transport women 12 miles offshore, just outside of domestic jurisdiction, where doctors provide safe, legal medical abortions at sea. Their actions shock the church, infuriate the government, exhilarate the media, and provoke mass debate among the voting population, but break no laws. They hope, instead, to save lives. Documentary Feature (Preview Screening). Director in Attendance. Thursday, Oct. 10, 6:45pm, Alamo Drafthouse

LUCKY (USA) by Director: Laura Checkoway.  Spanning five years on the streets of NYC, this intimate documentary follows Lucky Torres, a young mother and homeless lesbian masked in tattoos who longs to rise from a life of darkness. Documentary Feature.  Sun., Oct. 13, 12 pm, Alamo Drafthouse

DVF26's Opening Night will be on Wed. Oct. 9 with Ruby Revue doing a burlesque show, 60’s costume contest & a premiere film screening of "TRUE TALES" told by one of Jack Ruby's headlining dancers.  This AMS Pictures original production centers on Nancy Myers (aka “Tammi True”) who will do a Q&A after this documentary film which delves into her life as a headlining act dancing at Jack Ruby’s Carousel Club in the early 1960s. Celebrate with the Video Association of Dallas, we invite everyone to come dressed in their best early 1960s “Mad Men” attire. $20 cover for 21+ includes film, performance, cash bar and party featuring music by Dj Mr. Rid (free admission to All-Festival Pass holders). Dallas VideoFest 26’s opening night documentary feature will be screened at the same location as the Opening Night event being held at Gilley's Dallas with doors opening at 7pm. 

TRUE TALES (USA) Director: Katie Dunn.  Just two days after Lee Harvey Oswald’s assassination of President John F. Kennedy, a little-known Dallas strip club operator named Jack Ruby murders Oswald on live television. Why did he do it? Despite decades of theories and speculation, the question has never been satisfactorily answered…until now. Shunning the press for nearly 50 years, Tammi True—a top-billed stripper in Jack Ruby's Carousel Club—is finally ready to reveal the answers. AMS Pictures presents an original docudrama exploring the bizarre world of 1960s Dallas burlesque through the eyes of its preeminent entertainer. Featuring dramatic re-creations shot on actual locations, TRUE TALES immerses you into the events that led to one of the most infamous crimes of the 20th Century. Documentary Feature.  Opening Night Oct 9th at Gilley’s Dallas, doors open at 7 pm.

Dallas VideoFest was voted 2012 Best Annual Festival by D Magazine. Our Expanded Cinema program was voted 2012 Best Visual Art and 2013 Best Light Show by Dallas Observer.  Video Association of Dallas (VAD) brings our community quality video programming such as the independent alternatives of VideoFest 26. 

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