Oscar Buzz

Thursday, February 14th, 7:30pm

Oscar Buzz

(Oscar winning documentaries, nominees and shortlisted films.)

How To Survive a Plague

**Nominated for the 2013 Best Documentary Oscar**

David France, 2012, 120 min.

In the dark days of 1987, the country was six years into the AIDS epidemic, a crisis that was still largely being ignored both by government officials and health organizations -until the sudden emergence of the activist group ACT UP in Greenwich Village, largely made up of HIV-positive participants who refused to die without a fight. Emboldened by the power of rebellion, they took on the challenges that public officials had ignored, raising awareness of the disease through a series of dramatic protests. More remarkably, they became recognized experts in virology, biology, and pharmaceutical chemistry. Their efforts would see them seize the reins of federal policy from the FDA and NIH, force the AIDS conversation into the 1992 presidential election, and guide the way to the discovery of effective AIDS drugs that stopped an HIV diagnosis from being an automatic death sentence - and allowed them to live long lives.

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Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l055xJpfJC8

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Oscar Buzz

Tuesday, February 12th-Wednesday, Feburary 13th, 7:30pm

Oscar Buzz

(Oscar winning documentaries, nominees and shortlisted films.)

The House I Live In

**Officially shortlisted for the 2013 Best Documentary Oscar**

Dir. Eugene Jarecki, 2012, 108 min.

As America remains embroiled in conflict overseas, a less visible war is taking place at home, costing countless lives, destroying families, and inflicting untold damage on future generations of Americans. Over forty years, the War on Drugs has accounted for more than 45 million arrests, made America the world's largest jailer, and damaged poor communities at home and abroad. Yet for all that, drugs are cheaper, purer, and more available today than ever before. With Michelle Alexander (Author,"The New Jim Crow"), Shanequa Benitez, Mark Bennett, Charles Bowden, Mike Carpenter and David Simon (Creator, The Wire). Directed by Eugene Jarecki (The Trials of Henry Kissinger, Why We Fight, Freakonomics and Reagan).

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The House I Live In Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5W9idE5hqk

Oscar Buzz

Sunday, February 10th-Monday, February 11th, 7:30pm

Oscar Buzz

(Oscar winning documentaries, nominees and shortlisted films.)

Chasing Ice

**Nominated for Best Original Song (“Before My Time” by J. Ralph featuring Scarlett Johansson & Joshua Bell) and officially shortlisted for the 2013 Best Documentary Oscar**

Jeff Orlowski, 2012, 76 min.

In the spring of 2005, acclaimed environmental photographer James Balog headed to the Arctic on a tricky assignment for National Geographic: to capture images to help tell the story of the Earth’s changing climate. Even with a scientific upbringing, Balog had been a skeptic about climate change. But that first trip north opened his eyes to the biggest story in human history and sparked a challenge within him that would put his career and his very well-being at risk.

Chasing Ice is the story of one man’s mission to change the tide of history by gathering undeniable evidence of our changing planet. Within months of that first trip to Iceland, the photographer conceived the boldest expedition of his life: The Extreme Ice Survey. With a band of young adventurers in tow, Balog began deploying revolutionary time-lapse cameras across the brutal Arctic to capture a multi-year record of the world’s changing glaciers.

As the debate polarizes America and the intensity of natural disasters ramps up globally, Balog finds himself at the end of his tether. Battling untested technology in subzero conditions, he comes face to face with his own mortality. It takes years for Balog to see the fruits of his labor. His hauntingly beautiful videos compress years into seconds and capture ancient mountains of ice in motion as they disappear at a breathtaking rate. Chasing Ice depicts a photographer trying to deliver evidence and hope to our carbon-powered planet.

Sunday’s screening will be followed by a Q&A with Director Jeff Orlowski

Chasing Ice Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIZTMVNBjc4

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Film Voyagers

Sunday, February 10th, 2:00pm

Film Voyagers

A monthly program of films for younger children age 3 to 7 and their caregivers: films from around the world --most animation -- geared toward a young audience. Suggested Donation:$8

Kirikou and the Wild Beast

Michel Ocelot and Benedicte Galup, 2005, 95 min. Senegal

Tiny Senegalese hero Kirikou is back in this sumptuous follow-up to the universally beloved Kirikou and the Sorceress. Using his wits and speed, brave Kirikou once again sets out to thwart the evil Sorceress Karaba and save his village from supernatural and environmental perils. Comprised of 4 short segments and based on traditional West African folk tales, Kirikou and the Wild Beast shows how the smallest and most valiant of heroes can overcome the fiercest of beasts. Directed by world-acclaimed animation masters Michel Ocelot and Bénédicte Galup, this multi-million dollar feature was produced by Didier Brunier (The Triplets of Belleville). Kirikou and the Wild Beast evokes the beauty of traditional West African village life through its inspired palette of ambers, ochers, and brightly colored patterns. In addition, the film features a lush soundtrack that brings together the internationally renowned African musicians Youssou N Dour, from Senegal, Rokia Traore, from Mali, and Manu Dibango, from Cameroon.  Note: Women Are Shown in Traditional Attire (Sarongs Only), and Children Wear No Clothing.

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Docularious Presents: (A bi-monthly series on comedy presented by Filmwax and Adam Schartoff)

Saturday, February 9th, 7:30 pm

Docularious Presents:

(A bi-monthly series on comedy presented by Filmwax and Adam Schartoff)

A Black History Month Special

Why We Laugh: Black Comedians on Black Comedy

Dir. Robert Townsend, 2009, 95 min.

Robert Townsend's Sundance Film Festival hit, Why We Laugh, with off-screen narration, four dozen talking heads, and clips of performances tell a chronological story about Black comedy: who has made us laugh since 1901, what is the nature of their humor, and what social and political contexts inform it. We look at minstrels, Stepin Fetchit, "Amos 'n Andy," "Beulah," Redd Foxx, Dick Gregory, Flip Wilson, Bill Cosby, Richard Pryor, Eddie Murphy, "The Cosby Show," Chris Rock, Whoopi, "Hollywood Shuffle," entrepreneurship and Black comedy clubs, Robert Harris, urban street culture and "In Living Color," the rise of the Fox network, Def Comedy Jam, and the Original Kings of Comedy. The film asserts Black comedy helps America change.

Stand Up and Q&A with comedian Mark Theobald who has appeared on "Chapelle Show," "Showtime at the Apollo," BET and "Last Comic Standing."

Watch a bit  from Mark Theobald: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJ6F39O6iWc

Why We Laugh Trailer : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vo1fIhPMZ08

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Black History Month Special: Under the Influence of Lava 1&2 (StraightMan)

Friday, February 8th, 7:30pm

A Black History Month Special

Under the Influence of Lava 1&2 (StraightMan)

StraightMan, 2012, 60 min.

A documentary about a true Legend of Graff and Hip Hop.

The screening will be followed by a reception and Pop Up Show (The Train Map).

Featuring Lava 1&2, Flint 707, Bama, Clyde, Turk 62, Nic 707, Panic, Rebel and Slave and many others!

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Doc Watchers Inc. & the African Center for Community Empowerment Present: A Special Fundraiser Screening of Pray the Devil Back To Hell

Monday, February 4th, 6:30pm

Doc Watchers Inc. & the African Center for Community Empowerment

Present A Special Fundraiser Screening of Pray the Devil Back To Hell

6:30pm: Reception (For reception and screening Doc Watchers Inc. is requesting that you make a $25 tax-deductible donation)

One hundred and twenty miles from Monrovia, Liberia’s capital city, there is a small village called Goyazu, which is in the midst of repairing itself after more than a decade of war, which nearly destroyed this community. Since the reestablishment of peace in Liberia, formerly displaced villagers have returned and have been working together to rebuild their community from the ground up. Currently, the residents of Goyazu are completing the village’s first school, and starting to build a clinic. As you can imagine, this has been no small undertaking. Goyazu is not as far away as it may seem. This community was founded by the grandfather of a Harlem resident and good friend of Doc Watchers Inc., Kolu Zigbi. And in a few months Kolu and her family will be traveling to Goyazu to assist in the rebuilding efforts.

On Monday, February, February 4th, Doc Watchers Inc. will be hosting a fundraiser screening of Pray the Devil Back To Hell, a film which chronicles the remarkable story of the courageous Liberian women who came together to end a bloody civil war and bring peace to their shattered country. All of the donations will go directly to supporting the village’s rebuilding project. The evening will begin with a cozy reception at 6:30, during which we will enjoy live West African Kora music, yummy food & drinks. We will also have the opportunity to hear Kolu and her family speak about the village and the project.

7:30: Screening  (for screening only $10.00 suggested donation)

Pray the Devil Back to Hell

Gini Reticker and Abigail E. Disney, 2008, 72 mins.

Pray the Devil Back to Hell chronicles the remarkable story of the courageous Liberian women who came together to end a bloody civil war and bring peace to their shattered country. Thousands of women — ordinary mothers, grandmothers, aunts and daughters, both Christian and Muslim — came together to pray for peace and then staged a silent protest outside of the Presidential Palace. Armed only with white T-shirts and the courage of their convictions, they demanded a resolution to the country’s civil war. Their actions were a critical element in bringing about a agreement during the stalled peace talks.

Screening will be followed by a Panel Discussion

Doc Watchers Inc. is requesting that you make a $25 tax-deductible donation and come out and share this experience with us.

I hope that you will join us, but if not, don’t despair, you can still make a tax-deductible donation through PayPal

http:www.acceusa.org or by mailing a check to:

The African Center for Community Empowerment

111-20 Farmers Blvd., Building A, St. Albans, NY 11412.

(Please make checks payable to: African Center for Community Empowerment and write Village Project in the memo line.)

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The Get Down Campaign's No More Stigma Film Series

Thursday, February 7th, 6:30pm

The Get Down Campaign's No More Stigma Film Series

A Black History Month Special

and In Honor of African American HIV Awareness Day

In Partnership with Maysles Cinema, A-Marketing, MEGA Personalities and Global Network of Black Pride

Hosted by Richard E. PelIzer II and Ulysses Williams

6:30pm

Cocktail Reception

7:30pm

The Other City

Susan Koch, 2010,  90 min.

In every city, there’s another city that visitors rarely see. But this other city isn’t just anywhere—it’s in Washington, D.C. The very city that is home to the capital of the most powerful country in the world has an HIV/AIDS rate that is not only the nation’s highest, but rivals some African countries.  “The Other City” introduces us to the people who live in the shadow of the Capitol but remain almost invisible to the lawmakers and lobbyists who live there. It’s about politics and ideology, corruption and bureaucracy, and an epidemic that grew out of control while few people paid any attention or cared.  HIV/AIDS is wrapped in a thicket of American prejudices and discomfort about homosexuality, race, class, and drugs—all of which fuel opposition to life-saving programs like needle exchange. “The Other City” tells the stories of people who haven’t let lack of government assistance stop them, and have taken matters into their own hands.

Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6b6htdGv_U

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Keeling's Carribean Showcase

Sunday, February 3rd, 7:30pm

Keeling’s Caribbean Showcase

Curated by Keeling Beckford

The Story of Lovers Rock

Menelik Shabazz, 2011, 101 min.

The Story of Lovers Rock documents a musical movement in Britain that defined a generation in the late 70s and 80s. Lovers Rock is romantic reggae that was uniquely British. It developed from a small UK scene to become a global brand through the likes of UB40 and Maxi Priest. Lovers Rock was particularly influential to a new generation of black British young women and men who identified with this music that reflected their experiences. Female artists like Louisa Marks, Janet Kay, Brown Sugar, Carroll Thompson led a ‘girl power explosion in it’s early phase. The music provided a coping mechanism against a backdrop of racial tension and riots across the UK as well as being a counterpoint to the male dominated ‘roots’ scene. The film combines live performances with some of the Kings and Queens of Lovers Rock with comedy sketches, interviews and archive material. Interviews include Denis Bovell, UB40, Levi Roots Linton Kwesi Johnson, Angie La Ma, Maxi Priest, Mykaell Riley, The comedy sketches are provided by the likes of Eddie Nestor, Robbie G, Wayne Rollins, Glenda Jaxson. Rudi Lickwood, John Simmit., Annette Fagon.

Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=uyJwZwkqg8U

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Jock Docs: Surfsup

Friday, February 1st, 7:30pm, Saturday, February 2nd, 7:30pm, Sunday, February 3rd, 4:00pm

Jock Docs: Surfsup

Curated by Laura Coxson

Sponsored by Vita Coco

Friday, February 1st, 7:30pm

Surfwise

Doug Pray, 2007, 93 mins.

Legendary surfer, Dorican “Doc” Paskowitz, abandoned a successful medical practice to withdraw from the lifestyle of mainstream America. But unlike other American searchers like Thoreau or Kerouac, Paskowitz took his wife and nine children along for the ride, all eleven of them living in a 24-foot camper. The family spent their days living by Doc’s rules on health, fitness, sexuality, and above all surfing. From the director of Hype!, Red Diaper Baby and Art & Copy.

Skype Q&A with dir. Doug Pray to follow screening.

Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLrx_QSd44E

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Saturday,  February 2nd, 7:30pm

SURFshorts

(All Proceeds Go To Waves for Water Sandy Relief Fund)

ODE to California

Patrick Trefz, 2012, 9 mins

Anyone who has ever been in the sea understands that the ocean is a vast wilderness, and the northern California ocean reality is not always what it seems. "Ode to California" evades expectations in its depths of all things spoken and simultaneously unspoken. Timeless and provocative, "Ode" is a glimpse into the heart of the ocean and those that live in accordance with it.

Itxasoa eta Lehorra

Patrick Trefz, 2011, 8 mins

An elegant film of artist Jim Denevan drawing in the sand of Mundaka in northern Spain, September 2011. The powerful soundtrack, "Low Tide" by Basque folk musician Mikel Laboa accompanies the equally mesmerizing coming and going of the drawing as it is enveloped by the tide.

Q&A with photographer/ filmmaker

Patrick Trefz and artist Jim Denevan to follow screening.

NYC-centric SURFshorts

Hurricane Sandy

Etan Blatt, 2012, 4 mins

Take a ride over New York 2 weeks after hurricane Sandy struck the coastline.

Rockaway Opera

Zac Halberd, 2012, 4 mins

Surfing at Rockaway Beach with opera.

Sunwaves and Flowing Free

Joe Albers, 40 mins

Never before screened seminal 70s and early 80’s footage of Montauk and more.

A Train

Andrew Kidman, 2009, 4 mins

The Getaway

Joey Gallagher, 2010, 14 mins

Momenta

Joni Sternbach, 2012, 7 mins

The Surf Magazines Don't Talk About Lapsed Catholics

Toddy Stewart, 2012, 5 mins.

Stacked

Patrick Cummings and E.J. McLeavey-Fisher, 2011, 15 mins

Portrait of local surf star Balaram Stack at the 2011 Quiksilver Pro New York

Panel discussion moderated by Tyler Breuer with filmmakers TBA.

There will be a Benefit After-Party for Waves for Water Sandy Relief with Djs Matchie and John Dubstar.

Exhibition:

Throughout the week there will be an informal exhibition highlighting works of artist Jim Denevan and filmmaker/photographer Patrick Trefz. A selection of photographs, presented in postcard-like format, will span decades of documenting Denevan's days and drawings on the landscape. Edited film stills from Trefz’s Ode to California convey the essence of an ineffable non-narrative. Like his films, they evoke a timeless and provocative glimpse into the heart of the ocean and those that live in accordance with it. With a longstanding friendship, an intimate dialog surfaces in the pairing of their work.

Surfsup –A Jockdocs: Surfing Program curated by Laura Coxson.

Special thanks to Patrick Trefz, Jim Denevan, Michael Machemer, Kerri Rosenstein, Tyler Breuer, Rebekah Maysles, Sean Nam, wavesforwater, Sarah Rigano, Julie Gilhart and Jessica Green. Vitacoco Coconut Water.

Vita Coco is proud to support efforts for Hurricane Sandy Relief. Vita Coco is an all-natural, never-from-concentrate Coconut Water stacked with naturally-occurring electrolytes that keep you hydrated in and out of the surf.

To donate directly to Waves For Water's Sandy Fund: http://www.wavesforwater.org

Find Out More About Jim Denevan: http://www.jimdenevan.com/

and Patrick Trefz: www.patricktrefz.com/

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Sunday, February 3rd, 4:00pm  

Morning of the Earth

Dir. Albie Falzon and David Elfick, 1971, 79 min.

Classic, rarely-seen first film from Albie Falzon, creator of renowned Australian surfing magazine TRACKS, and David Elfick come this early fantasy of surfers living in three unspoiled lands and playing in nature’s ocean. The most ambitious surf film of its time—the directors show surfers making their own boards (and homes) as they travel in search of the perfect wave across Australia’s north-east coast, Bali and Hawaii.

Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KT9kjQ3LLH0

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This Is Not A Film

Wednesday, January 30th and Thursday, January 31st, 7:30pm

Oscar Buzz

(Oscar winning documentaries, nominees and shortlisted films.)

This Is Not A Film

Jafar Panahi, 2012, 75 min.

This clandestinely made documentary, shot partially on an iPhone and smuggled into France in a cake for a last-minute submission to Cannes, depicts the day-to-day life of acclaimed director Jafar Panahi (Offsite, The Circle). While appealing his sentence – six years in prison and a 20-year ban from filmmaking – fellow director Mojtaba Mirtahmasb (Lady of the Roses) visits Mr. Panahi at his Tehran apartment and films him talking to his family and lawyer on the phone, reflecting on the art of filmmaking, meeting some of his neighbors and even interacting with an inquisitive iguana.

Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajOgE_BPLVU

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How To Survive a Plague

Thursday, January 24th-Saturday, January 26th, 7:30pm

Oscar Buzz

(Oscar winning documentaries, nominees and shortlisted films.)

How To Survive a Plague

**Nominated for the 2013 Best Documentary Oscar**

David France, 2012, 120 min.

In the dark days of 1987, the country was six years into the AIDS epidemic, a crisis that was still largely being ignored both by government officials and health organizations -until the sudden emergence of the activist group ACT UP in Greenwich Village, largely made up of HIV-positive participants who refused to die without a fight. Emboldened by the power of rebellion, they took on the challenges that public officials had ignored, raising awareness of the disease through a series of dramatic protests. More remarkably, they became recognized experts in virology, biology, and pharmaceutical chemistry. Their efforts would see them seize the reins of federal policy from the FDA and NIH, force the AIDS conversation into the 1992 presidential election, and guide the way to the discovery of effective AIDS drugs that stopped an HIV diagnosis from being an automatic death sentence - and allowed them to live long lives.

There will be a Q&A with director David France following Thursday's screening.

There will be a Q&A with the composers of the film’s score, Stuart Bogie and Luke O’Malley, following Saturday’s screening.

Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l055xJpfJC8

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Al Weiwei: Never Sorry

Monday, January 21st and Tuesday, January 22nd, 7:30pm

Oscar Buzz

(Oscar winning documentaries, nominees and shortlisted films.)

Al Weiwei: Never Sorry

Alison Klayman, 2012, 91 min.

Ai Weiwei is China's most famous international artist, and its most outspoken domestic critic. Against a backdrop of strict censorship and an unresponsive legal system, Ai expresses himself and organizes people through art and social media. In response, Chinese authorities have shut down his blog, beat him up, bulldozed his newly built studio, and held him in secret detention. Al Weiwei: Never Sorry is the inside story of a dissident for the digital age who inspires global audiences and blurs the boundaries of art and politics. First-time director Alison Klayman gained unprecedented access to Ai while working as a journalist in China. Her detailed portrait provides a nuanced exploration of contemporary China and one of its most compelling public figures.

There will be a Q&A with director Alison Klayman following Monday's screening.

Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoVRetUMub0

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Fiction-Non

Thursday, January 10th-Saturday, January 12th, 7:30pm

Fiction-Non

(A documentary series exploring ‘hybrid films’ that cross the boundaries between fiction and non-fiction traditions.)

Curated by Beyza Boyacioglu

Thursday, January 10th, 7:30pm

The Imposter

**Oscar Shortlisted**

Dir. Bart Layton, 2012, 99 min.

A gripping thriller straight out of real life, The Imposter is an original film experience that walks the razor’s edge between true-crime documentary and stylish noir mystery.

The twisting, turning tale begins with an unsettling disappearance – that of Nicholas Barclay, a 13 year-old Texas boy who vanishes without a trace. Three and a half years later, staggering news arrives: the boy has been found, thousands of miles from home in Spain, saying he survived a mind-boggling ordeal of kidnap and torture by shadowy captors. His family is ecstatic to have him back no matter how strange the circumstances – but things become far stranger once he returns to Texas.

Though the family accepts him, suspicion surrounds the person who claims to be Nicholas. How could the Barclay’s blonde, blue-eyed son have returned with darker skin and eyes? How could his personality and even accent have changed so profoundly? Why does the family not seem to notice the glaring differences? And if this person who has arrived in Texas isn’t the Barclay’s missing child . . . who on earth is he? And what really happened to Nicholas?

Trailer - http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=9xPul7stMeg

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Friday, January 11th, 7:30pm

The Arbor

Dir. Clio Barnard, 2010, 94 min.

The Arbor tells the powerful true story of Bradford playwright Andrea Dunbar (“The Arbor,” “Rita, Sue and Bob Too”) and her daughter Lorraine. Andrea Dunbar died tragically at the age of 29 in 1990, leaving ten year old Lorraine with bitter childhood memories. The Arbor catches up with Lorraine in the present day, also aged 29, ostracised from her mother’s family and in prison undergoing rehab. Re-introduced to her mother’s plays and letters, the film follows Lorraine’s personal journey as she reflects on her own life and begins to understand the struggles her mother faced. Through interviews with other members of the Dunbar family, we see a contrasting view of Andrea, in particular from Lorraine’s younger sister Lisa, who idolises Andrea to this day.

Director Clio Barnard recorded audio interviews with Lorraine Dunbar, other members of the Dunbar family and residents from the Buttershaw Estate over a period of two years. These interviews were edited to form an audio ‘screenplay,’ which forms the basis of the film as actors lip-synch to the voices of the interviewees. This footage was intercut with extensive archive clips as well as extracts from Andrea’s first stage play, “The Arbor,” filmed as a live outdoor performance on the Buttershaw Estate, to an audience of its residents.

Trailer - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F23Z9K0oFCA

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Saturday, January 12th, 4:00pm

Dreams of a Life

Dir. Carol Morley, 2011, 95 min.

Nobody noticed when Joyce Vincent died in her bedsit above a shopping mall in North London in 2003. Her body wasn’t discovered for three years, surrounded by Christmas presents she had been wrapping, and with the TV still on. Newspaper reports offered few details of her life– not even a photograph. Interweaving interviews with imagined scenes from Joyce’s life, Dreams of a Life is an imaginative, powerful, multilayered quest, and is not only a portrait of Joyce but a portrait of London in the eighties—the City, music, and race. It is a film about urban lives, contemporary life, and how, like Joyce, we are all different things to different people. It is about how little we may ever know each other, but nevertheless, how much we can love.

Followed by a Skype Q&A with the director Carol Morley and producer Cairo Cannon.

Trailer - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSfXh8IJEg4

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Fiction-Non is also an online blog that features blurred genre literature.

www.fictionnon.com

Jazz on Film: Wayne's World (Shorter, that is)

Tuesday, January 8th, 7:00pm

The National Jazz Museum in Harlem Presents

Jazz on Film: Wayne's World (Shorter, that is)

The filmic Wayne Shorter will be explored this evening. A look at the great American jazz saxophonist and composer. Jazz critic Ben Ratliff of the New York Times wrote that Shorter is "generally acknowledged to be jazz's greatest living composer." Many of Shorter's compositions have become jazz standards. His output has earned worldwide recognition, critical praise and various commendations, including multiple Grammy Awards. Shorter first came to wide prominence in the late 1950s as a member of, and eventually primary composer for, Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers. In the 1960s, he went on to join Miles Davis's Second Great Quintet, and from there he co-founded the jazz fusion band Weather Report. He has recorded over 20 albums as a bandleader.

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Doc Watchers: Real Stories from a Free South Africa

Monday, January 7th, 7:00pm

Doc Watchers: Real Stories from a Free South Africa

Curated by Hellura Lyle

How have the ten years of freedom from apartheid since Nelson Mandela’s election in May, 1994 effected the lives of ordinary South Africans? In 2003, South African Broadcasting 1, the most widely-watched channel in South Africa, with the support of the National Film and Video Foundation, decided to find out. They commissioned fourteen emerging filmmakers from different classes and racial groups to make video portraits of South African society. Real Stories from a Free South Africa is a fascinating experiment in empowering people to tell their own life stories as they are unfolding. It provides a unique grassroots view of the first decade of one of the most ambitious and radical experiments in social reconstruction in human history.

Belonging

Minky Schlesinger and Khetiwe Ngcobo,  2004, 52 min.

Born into exile as the daughter of political émigrés, Kethiwe Ngcobo and her family returned to their longed-for homeland, South Africa in 1994. Ten years later, Kethiwe, a hip, young woman with a British accent finds herself struggling to find her place in the new South Africa. This is a personal and honest look at one person’s quest for identity.

Hot Wax

Andrea Spitz, 2004, 49 min.

Ivy is a black woman who managed to run her own beauty salon surreptitiously during the dark days of apartheid. She lives in Alexandra, a restless and poor township, while her white, mostly elderly, clients live in the tree-lined suburbs of Johannesburg. In her salon she is part beautician, long-time friend, lay counselor and honest commentator to her customers. While she masks her clients’ imperfections, she also peels away layers of difference separating the races.

Reception to follow screening

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The House I Live In

Thursday, January 3rd, Friday, January 4th, and Saturday, January 5th, 7:30pm

(with 4:00pm Matinee on Saturday, January 5th)

The House I Live In

**Oscar Shortlisted**

Dir. Eugene Jarecki, 2012, 108 min.

As America remains embroiled in conflict overseas, a less visible war is taking place at home, costing countless lives, destroying families, and inflicting untold damage on future generations of Americans. Over forty years, the War on Drugs has accounted for more than 45 million arrests, made America the world's largest jailer, and damaged poor communities at home and abroad. Yet for all that, drugs are cheaper, purer, and more available today than ever before. With Michelle Alexander (Author,"The New Jim Crow"), Shanequa Benitez, Mark Bennett, Charles Bowden, Mike Carpenter and David Simon (Creator, The Wire). Directed by Eugene Jarecki (The Trials of Henry Kissinger, Why We Fight, Freakonomics and Reagan).

Following Thursday’s screening there will be a Q&A with subject Shanequa Benitez.

Following Friday’s screening there will also be a Q&A with subject Shanequa Benitez.

Following Saturday’s 7:30 screening there with be a Q&A with producer Christopher St. John.

The House I Live In Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5W9idE5hqk

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