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Emerging Visions: Chris Farina, Director of "World Peace and Other 4th Grade Achievements"

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World Peace and Other 4th Grade Achievements, Chris Farina’s documentary about a classroom of school children trying to solve global policy issues while maintaining their friendships with one another, is gripping, funny, and strangely, almost eerily revealing of human nature.

Posted by clay on 03/19/2010 in Reel Talks

Emerging Visions: Sam Wainwright Douglas, Director of "Citizen Architect: Samuel Mockbee and the Spirit of the Rural Studio"

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Sam Wainwright Douglas’ documentary Citizen Architect: Samuel Mockbee and the Spirit of the Rural Studio screens tonight, 7:45pm at the Alamo Ritz 1. It starts out traditionally enough, as a profile of the MacArthur “Genius” Grant-winning architect Samuel “Sambo” Mockbee, who founded the Rural Studio in 1993 in poor Hale County, Alabama.

Posted by clay on 03/17/2010 in Reel Talks

Emerging Visions: Georgia Sugimura Archer, Director of "Barbershop Punk"

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georgia.jpgSXSW world premiere Barbershop Punk (screening today at the G-Tech, 9:30pm)is as timely as documentary gets, placing net neutrality and its attendant issues under close scrutiny.

Posted by jim on 03/15/2010 in Reel Talks, Event Updates

Emerging Visions: Meghan Eckman, Director of "The Parking Lot Movie"

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Meghan Eckman's offbeat documentary The Parking Lot Movie takes a most unlikely subject and spins an enlightening yarn that takes in anthropology, philosophy, ethics, and the politics of dealing with inebriated college students with a penchant for destroying gates.

Posted by jim on 03/13/2010 in Reel Talks

Emerging Visions: Jacob Hatley, Director of "Ain't In It For My Health: A Film About Levon Helm"

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When filmmaker Jacob Hatley went to legendary musician Levon Helm’s home in Woodstock, New York to shoot a music video for one of Helm’s new songs, he knew he wanted to know more about Helm’s life, but not that he and his crew would eventually end up living at Helm’s home.

Posted by clay on 03/12/2010 in Reel Talks

Emerging Visions: Christoph Baaden, Director of "Hood to Coast"

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Not all of the individuals who star in Christoph Baaden’s bittersweet, intimate documentary about the people who run in the world’s longest relay race, the annual Hood to Coast race in Oregon, can be called “runners,” despite the fact that the race covers 197 miles, is a “topographic roller coaster” that begins up on Mt.

Posted by clay on 03/11/2010 in Reel Talks

Emerging Visions: Malcolm Ingram, Director of "Bear Nation"

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Malcolm_Ingram_Headshot.jpgBear Nation is not about grizzlies. It is, however, about “a bunch of guys who are kind of woofy,” as one person in the engaging documentary says.

Posted by clay on 03/10/2010 in Reel Talks, Event Updates

Emerging Visions: Frank V. Ross, Director of "Audrey the Trainwreck"

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“I haven’t woken up in a good mood in years,” someone in Frank V. Ross’ knowing and satirical drama-comedy about the young and (mostly) disaffected confesses.

Posted by clay on 03/09/2010 in Reel Talks

Emerging Visions: Amy Elliott & Elizabeth Donius, Directors of "World's Largest"

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AmyElizHeadshot.jpgWhen Amy Elliott and Elizabeth Donius set out to make World’s Largest, a captivating and very funny documentary about small towns across America that claim to have the world’s largest item (like the world’s largest pecan, for example, in Missouri), they were driven to make the film because of their mutual love for kitschy roadside attractions.

Posted by clay on 03/05/2010 in Reel Talks, Event Updates

Emerging Visions: Monteith McCollum, Director of "A Different Path"

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To say that A Different Path is Monteith McCollum’s elegiac and probing documentary about sidewalks is a bit like saying that Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure is about a bike.

Posted by clay on 03/02/2010 in Reel Talks