Charged
Director: Phillip Baribeau | U.S.A. | 85 MIN. | COLOR CHARGED chronicles the life-changing journey of chef and outdoorsman Eduardo Garcia after being shocked by 2400 volts of electricity in a freak accident while hiking in the remote back country of Montana. Eduardo lost his hand, ribs, muscle mass, and nearly his life, but more important than what he lost is what he found. Through sheer resilience, his former partner, Jennifer Jane, nursed Eduardo back to health and he learned to embrace his past, his family, and his future. A survival and love story unlike any other, CHARGED tells Eduardo’s remarkable journey from getting up off the forest floor to becoming the man he is today. Thursday, September 21 @ 7:30pm |
The Other Side of Home
Director: Naré Mkrtchyan | U.S.A. | 40 MIN. | COLOR In 1915, estimated 1.5 million Armenians were killed by the Ottoman Turks, during the Armenian Genocide. In 2015, a Turkish woman named Maya discovers that her great grandmother was survivor of the Armenian genocide. Friday, September 22 @ 2pm |
Mothers in the Middle
Director: Lauren Hollingsworth | U.S.A. | 55 MIN. | COLOR This verité-driven documentary explores the impossible balance of work and motherhood in today's America, as seen through the eyes of a teacher, a real estate agent, a fashion executive and an actress. Saturday, September 23 @ 9am |
Kilimanjaro Warriors
Director : Bevan Bell | U.S.A. | 95 MIN. | COLOR In February 2014 a group of amputee military veterans set forth on a monumental goal for physical and spiritual recovery. They would train and climb the world's tallest free-standing mountain, Mt. Kilimanjaro (19341ft) in Tanzania, Africa. Saturday, September 23 @ 10:15am - California Premiere |
Hard to Believe
Director: Ken Stone | U.S.A. | 55 MIN. | COLOR IT’S HAPPENED BEFORE: Governments killing their own citizens for their political or spiritual beliefs. But it’s never happened like this. Hard To Believe is a powerful documentary from an Emmy Award winning director/producer that examines the issue of forced live organ harvesting from Chinese prisoners of conscience, and the response—or lack of it—around the world. Saturday, September 23 @ 2pm |
Modoc
Director: Kristen Brown & Matthew Harrison Tedford | U.S.A. | 78 MIN. | COLOR A rugged, agrarian landscape on the California-Oregon border bears witness to the region’s violent past. This patient and striking cinematic essay, narrated by Stephanie Foo (from This American Life), meditates on the landscapes that tell, reinvent, and obscure the history of the nineteenth-century Modoc War. Sunday, September 24 @ 2pm |
Earth Seasoned
Director: Molly Kreuzman | U.S.A. | 75 MIN. | COLOR Diagnosed with Attention Deficit Disorder, Dyslexia, and short-term memory problems, Tori finds her greatest teacher in nature, spending a “gap year” living semi-primitively with four other young women in the Oregon Cascade Mountains. Sunday, September 24 @ 4pm |