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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