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Full Frame Film Festival Announces 2014 Lineup
The Full Frame Documentary Film Festival today announced its lineup for the festival to be held April 3-6 in Durham. Along with the full list of feature and short documentaries are a Full Frame Tribute to veteran documentarian Steve James and the titles in the Thematic Program, which this year is called “Approaches to Character” and is under the curation of Lucy Walker. In a response to the honor of a retrospective, James said, “I’m excited to have so many of my films play again in front of the appreciative audiences at Full Frame. It will give me a rare opportunity to reflect on where my career has led me, and maybe make connections between the films that have eluded me before. And I’m determined to resist the impulse to go re-edit them all again.”
The James retrospective includes screenings of At the Death House Door (2008), Hoop Dreams (1994), The Interrupters (2011), A Place Called Pluto (2013), Reel Paradise (2005), and Stevie (2002), as well as a panel discussion on “Hoop Dreams at 20” that will feature footage not included in the film. Various subjects of James’s films–Arthur Agee, Jr. from Hoop Dreams, Ameena Matthews from The Interrupters, and the Reverend Carroll Pickett from At the Death House Door–will also attend, as well as many of James’s collaborators from Kartemquin Films in Chicago.
Lucy Walker, whose films include Waste Land and The Crash Reel, has assembled a group of what could essentially be called character study films, though they investigate their subjects’ characters with a variety of techniques and perspectives. “In each of the brilliant titles I’ve selected, the filmmaker has found a different access point to their subjects. Through these diverse techniques we learn something profound about human beings and how they construct their identities,” she said, “often revealing the individual in more powerful and fascinating ways than meeting a person in real life.” Titles also range in age and length, making this an excitingly diverse selection of new and classic films.
The titles in the Thematic Program are:
THE ARBOR
Director Clio Barnard
CREATURE COMFORTS
Director Nick Park
DAVID HOCKNEY IN THE NOW (IN SIX MINUTES)
Director Lucy Walker
DEVIL’S PLAYGROUND
Director Lucy Walker
THE FIVE OBSTRUCTIONS
Director Lars von Trier, Jørgen Leth
HOTEL TERMINUS: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF KLAUS BARBIE
Director Marcel Ophüls
THE KID STAYS IN THE PICTURE
Directors Nanette Burstein, Brett Morgen
LAND OF SILENCE AND DARKNESS
Director Werner Herzog
THE LION’S MOUTH OPENS
Director Lucy Walker
METALLICA: SOME KIND OF MONSTER
Directors Joe Berlinger, Bruce Sinofsky
ON THE BOWERY
Director Lionel Rogosin
PORTRAIT OF JASON
Director Shirley Clarke
The other feature films included in the festival are listed below:
Invited Program
112 WEDDINGS
Director: Doug Block
20,000 DAYS ON EARTH
Directors Iain Forsyth, Jane Pollard
AFTERNOON OF A FAUN: TANAQUIL LE CLEREQ
Director Nancy Buirski
ALIVE INSIDE: A STORY OF MUSIC & MEMORY
Director Michael Rossato-Bennett
THE BATTERED BASTARDS OF BASEBALL
Directors Chapman Way, Maclain Way
THE CASE AGAINST 8
Directors Ben Cotner, Ryan White
E-TEAM
Directors Katy Chevigny, Ross Kauffman
FREEDOM SUMMER
Director Stanley Nelson
THE GREEN PRINCE
Director Naday Schirman
IVORY TOWER
Director Andrew Rossi
LAST DAYS IN VIETNAM
Director Rory Kennedy
THE MISSING PICTURE
Director Rithy Panh
MY PRAIRIE HOME
Director Chelsea McMullan
NO MORE ROAD TRIPS?
Director Rick Prelinger
ONE CUT, ONE LIFE
Directors Lucia Small, Ed Pincus
OUR MAN IN TEHRAN
Directors Drew Taylor, Larry Weinstein
SOFT VENGEANCE: ALBIE SACHS AND THE NEW SOUTH AFRICA
Director Abby Ginzberg
SUPERMENSCH
Director Mike Myers
THROUGH A LENS DARKLY: BLACK PHOTOGRAPHERS AND THE EMERGENCE OF A PEOPLE
Director Thomas Allen Harris
VISITORS
Director Godfrey Reggio
WHITEY: UNITED STATES OF AMERICA V. JAMES J. BULGER
Director Joe Berlinger
New Docs
ANA ANA
Directors Corinne van Egeraat, Petr Lom
APOLLONIAN STORY
Director Ilan Moskovitch, Dan Bronfeld
BORN TO FLY
Director Catherine Gund
BRONX OBAMA
Director Ryan Murdock
BUTTERFLY GIRL
Director Cary Bell
CAPTIVATED: THE TRIALS OF PAMELA SMART
Director Jeremiah Zagar
THE CASE OF THE THREE SIDED DREAM
Director Adam Kahan
THE CIRCLE
Director Bram Conjaerts
DAMNATION
Directors Ben Knight, Travis Rummel
EVOLUTION OF A CRIMINAL
Director Darius Clark Monroe
FLOWERS FROM THE MOUNT OF OLIVES
Director Heilika Pikkov
THE GREAT INVISIBLE
Director Margaret Brown
THE HAND THAT FEEDS
Directors Rachel Lears, Robin Blotnick
HAPPY VALLEY
Director Amir Bar-Lev
THE HIP-HOP FELLOW
Director Kenneth Price
IN COUNTRY
Directors Mike Attie, Meghan O’Hara
THE LAB (HAMAABADA)
Director Yotam Feldman
LIGHT FLY, FLY HIGH
Directors Susann Ostigaard, Beathe Hofseth
MONK WITH A CAMERA
Directors Guido Santi, Tina Mascara
THE NOTORIOUS MR. BOUT
Directors Tony Gerber, Maxim Pozdorovkin
OLGA – TO MY FRIENDS
Director Paul Anders Simma
THE OVERNIGHTERS
Director Jesse Moss
PRIVATE VIOLENCE
Director Cynthia Hill
RETURN TO HOMS (AL AWDA ILA HIMS)
Director Talal Derki
RICH HILL
Directors Tracy Droz Tragos, Andrew Droz Palermo
SEEDS OF TIME
Director Sandy McLeod
SEX(ED) THE MOVIE
Director Brenda Goodman
SUMMER 82 WHEN ZAPPA CAME TO SICILY
Director Salvo Cuccia
THE SUPREME PRICE
Director Joanna Lipper
TOUGH LOVE
Director Stephanie Wang-Breal
UKRAINE IS NOT A BROTHEL (UKRAINA NE BORDEL)
Director Kitty Green
WATCHERS OF THE SKY
Director Edet Belzberg
WHERE IS MY SON?
Director Chai-Min Ahn
