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seventy submissions from all over the world for the second UNAFF
were carefully reviewed and we chose these twenty six films which
deal with human rights and other topics related to UN issues. The
documentaries showcase topics from Canada, Israel, Italy, Eritrea,
Colombia, South Africa, Yugoslavia, Thailand, Uganda, China, Russia
and the United States.
- A Father, A Son, A Holy Ghost (Zelimir Gvardiol)
- American Gypsy: A stranger in everybody's land
(Jasmine Dellal)
- Between Worlds (Shawn Hainsworth)
- Borders (Eran Riklis, Nurit Kedar)
- Cancer In Two Voices (Lucy Massie Phenix)
- Cape Divided (Lance Larson)
- Crossroads (Charles Smith, Ginew Benton,
Weyham Smith, Andrew Cuffee)
- From Chechnya To Chernobyl (Slawomir Grunberg)
- Fury For The Sound (Shelley Wine)
- Genghis Blues (Adrian and Roko Belic)
- Ground Zero/Sacred Ground (Karen Aqua)
- Han Chee (Sweet Potato) (Jean Cheng )
- In The Company Of Fear (Velcrow Ripper, Jill Sharpe)
- Missing In Tibet (Dan Griffin, Robin Garthwait)
- One Girl Against The Mafia (Marco Amenta, Florent
Marcie)
- Riding The Tiger (John Haptas, Kristine Samuelson)
- Regret To Inform (Barbara Sonneborn, Janet Cole,
Ken Schneider, Lucy Massie Phenix)
- Round Eyes In The Middle Kingdom (Ronald Levaco)
- The Akha Way (Sharon Hainsfurther)
- The Double Life Of Ernesto GomezGomez (Gary Weimberg,
Catherine Ryan)
- Undesirables (Marianna Yarovskaya)
- Voices Of Cabrini (Ronit Bezalel)
- Welcome To Womanhood (Charlotte Metcalf, Jenny
Richards)
- What Does A Person Deserve (Ken Kimmelman)
- Winter Soldier (Winter Film Collective, Lucy
Massie Phenix)
- White Hotel (Dianne Griffin, Tobi Solvang)
This
year's special program includes a tribute to the well known documentary
editor, director and producer Lucy Massie Phenix who has been working
for 30 years in furthering this creative field. Three films that
she worked on will play during the festival: "Winter Soldier"
(1971), film made about and with the Vietnam Veterans Against the
War, prize winner at the Cannes and Berlin Film Festivals, largely
ignored during the Vietnam War by American press and distributors;
"Cancer in two voices" (1993), a documentary videotape
of the experience of the lesbian couple, one with breast cancer
and her partner, before death; "Regret to Inform" (1999),
portrayal of Vietnamese and American widows of the Vietnam war,
film nominated for this year an Academy Award for Best Feature Documentary,
winner of the Indie Spirit Award and award-winner at the Sundance
Film Festival.
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