Ashland Independent Film Festival: Features Lineup
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- DirectorPamela YatesFrom a historic genocide trial to the overthrow of a President, 500 YEARS tells a sweeping story of mounting resistance played out in Guatemala's recent history through the actions and perspectives of the majority indigenous Mayan population, who now stand poised to reimagine their society.Documentary Features
- DirectorSteve JamesStarsThomas SungHwei Lin SungCyrus Vance Jr.A small financial institution called Abacus becomes the only company criminally indicted in the wake of the United States' 2008 mortgage crisis.Documentary Features
- DirectorMatt McCormickCrashed planes, lost nuclear bombs, and an Air Force cover-up: a filmmaker unpacks the secret history of how his grandfather nearly blew-up the eastern seaboard.Documentary Features
- DirectorMadeleine GavinStarsChristine Schuler-DeschryverDenis Mukwege MukengereEve EnslerThis film follows the first class of students at a remarkable leadership center in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, a region often referred to as "the worst place in the world to be a woman." These women have been through unspeakable violence spurred on by a 20 year war driven by colonialism and greed. In the film, they band together with the three founders of this center: Dr. Denis Mukwege (2016 Nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize), radical playwright and activist Eve Ensler ("The Vagina Monolgoues") and human rights activist, Christine Schuler-Deschryver, to find a way to create meaning in their lives even when all that was meaningful to them has long been stripped away. In this ultimately uplifting film, we witness the tremendous resilience as these women transform their devastation into powerful forms of leadership for their beloved country.Documentary Features
- DirectorRobert FrankStarsTruman CapoteDick CavettMarshall ChessFollow the Rolling Stones on their 1972 North American Tour and their first return to the States since the tragedy at Altamont.Documentary Features
- DirectorPeter BrattStarsDolores HuertaMartin Luther KingLuis ValdezIn the 1950's, a working-class wife and mother of eleven children helps to establish a farmer's union, which later develops into a platform for feminism and gender equality.Documentary Features
- DirectorAbigail ChildStarsRebecca MulbergA new experimental documentary feature utilizing the life of Emma Goldman to explore the resurgence of protest in the 21st century. The work is hybrid and prismatic, including contemporary footage, archive and re-enactment to expose the continuing conflicts between labor and property, revolutionary purity and personal freedom.Documentary Features
- DirectorMolly KreuzmanStarsJeanette AslanianMike DavisTori DavisDiagnosed 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.Documentary Features
- DirectorEddie RosensteinStarsEvan WolfsonMary BonautoApril DeBoerOver the last four decades, the concept of same-sex couples marrying went from a 'preposterous notion' to the national law. The Freedom to Marry movement is now known as one of the most successful civil rights campaigns in the modern history, but change did not arrive by happenstance. This victory was carefully planned and orchestrated over decades. THE FREEDOM TO MARRY, a new documentary film, offers the untold, inside story of this historic movement. This is a riveting ride alongside Evan Wolfson and Mary Bonauto, the architect and the main litigator of the movement, and their key colleagues from earliest days of their journey to their final frenetic dash to the US Supreme Court.Documentary Features
- DirectorTommie Dell SmithStarsAlasdair FraserMaster Scottish musician Alasdair Fraser follows his fiddle into unexpected territory and finds himself helping people around the world engage with their own musical traditions, cultures and, ultimately, themselves.Documentary Features
- DirectorCarrie PrestonStarsLyris HungKate RiggEast Meets West in this live stand-up comedy, sketch, and rock n' roll/spoken word concert film focused on Asian American themes - immigration, bowl cuts, personal identity, math nerds, stereotypes, empowerment, the model minority myth, post-colonial commodification of orientalism. And Hello Kitty hats.Documentary Features
- DirectorDaniel RaimStarsLillian MichelsonHarold MichelsonBill KrohnHarold and Lillian eloped to Hollywood in 1947, where they became the film industry's secret weapons. Nobody talked about them, but everybody wanted them. Theirs is the greatest story never told-until now.Documentary Features
- DirectorNanfu WangStarsDylanNanfu WangEating garbage, dodging police, and hitching rides with strangers, award-winning Chinese filmmaker Nanfu Wang shares the streets with a young drifter named Dylan who left a comfortable home and loving family for a life of intentional homelessness. Fascinated by his choice and rejection of society's rules, Nanfu follows Dylan with her camera on a journey that takes her across America and explores the meaning of freedom - and its limits.Documentary Features
- DirectorBrian KnappenbergerStarsA.J. DaulerioHulk HoganCharles HarderThe courtroom and publicity battles between Hulk Hogan and Gawker Media explode in a sensational trial all about the limits of the First Amendment and the new no holds barred nature of celebrity life in an internet dominated society.Documentary Features
- DirectorJonathan OlshefskiStarsChristopher RaineyChristine'a RaineyP.J. RaineyA husband and wife live in an impoverished neighborhood in north Philadelphia while they raise their daughter and run a recording studio in their basement.Documentary Features
- DirectorJenni OlsonStarsJenni OlsonTony KushnerA cinematic essay in defense of remembering, The Royal Road offers up a primer on the Spanish colonization of California and the Mexican American War alongside intimate reflections on nostalgia, butch identity, the pursuit of unavailable women and Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo - all against a contemplative backdrop of 16mm urban California landscapes, and featuring a voiceover cameo by Tony Kushner. Deceptively simple California urban landscapes serve as the framework for the film's lyrically written voiceover which combines rigorous historical research with a stream-of-consciousness personal monologue and relates these seemingly disparate stories from an intimate, colloquial perspective to tell a one-of-a-kind California tale. Shot on 16mm film and contemplatively crafted of long takes, The Royal Road is a film about landscapes and desire, memory and history - and the stories we tell.Documentary Features
- DirectorThomas LennonMøre than 40 filmmakers traveled the globe to witness religious celebrations and interview people from all sorts of backgrounds.Documentary Features
- DirectorJacques PerrinAlexandre PoulichotJacques CluzaudStarsMickaël Jachimiak-DuffnerEyleen SchotsJacques Perrin and Jacques Cluzaud return to the lush green forests, when the ice retreated, and the cycle of seasons was established. SEASONS is the awe-inspiring tale of the long shared history that binds humankind and nature.Documentary Features
- DirectorMatt SchraderStarsMarco BeltramiJon BurlingameLeonard MaltinA look at the cinematic art of the film musical score, and the artists who create them.Documentary Features
- DirectorJeff MalmbergChris ShellenStarsAndrea CrestiChiara Del CiondoloGianna FioreOnce upon a time there was a tiny hill town in Tuscany that found a remarkable way to confront their issues - they turned their lives into a play. "Spettacolo" is a portrait of this 50-year-old tradition, where their piazza becomes their stage and every villager from 6 to 90 plays a part - the role of themselves.Documentary Features
- DirectorBarbara KoppleStarsCory BinneyScott FisherAugust GettyAre there limits to your love for your family? One family's acceptance is tested when a champion diver, destined for the Olympics, announces they're transitioning from male to female and invites their YouTube followers along for every moment. It's a story about unconditional love and finding the courage to be yourself.Documentary Features
- DirectorJennifer BreaStarsJennifer BreaOmar WasowJessica l e TaylorWhen Harvard Ph.D. student Jennifer Brea is struck down by a fever that leaves her bedridden, she sets out on a virtual journey to document her story as she fights a disease that medicine forgot.Documentary Features
- DirectorJennifer M. KrootBill WeberStarsArmistead MaupinLaura LinneyIan McKellenFollowing one of the world's most beloved storyteller's evolution from a conservative son of the Old South into a gay rights pioneer whose novels inspired millions to re-claim their lives.Documentary Features
- DirectorCullen HobackStarsErin Brockovich-EllisMarc EdwardsRahul GuptaIn this scandalous political thriller, an investigation into a chemical spill spirals into an indictment of the entire system meant to protect drinking water, revealing cover-ups at the highest levels of government.Documentary Features
- DirectorNewton Thomas SigelPamela YatesStarsRigoberta MenchúSusan SarandonA documentary on the war between the Guatemalan military and the Mayan population, with firsthand accounts by Nobel Peace Prize winner Rigoberta Menchu.Documentary Features
- DirectorSabaah FolayanDamon DavisStarsLezley McSpaddenMichael Brown Sr.David WhittAn unflinching look at how the police killing of 18-year-old Mike Brown inspired a community to fight back and sparked a global movement.Documentary Features
- DirectorCheryl NicholsStarsArron ShiverCheryl NicholsDrago SumonjaAfter a canceled tour, flailing musician Jesse Lirette seeks out an old flame in a small town in New Mexico. When an arrogant attempt at inserting himself into her family fails, he must confront the mistakes of his past on his own.Narrative Features
- DirectorHannah BarlowKane SenesStarsHannah BarlowKane SenesKatherine Du BoisFour twenty-somethings take a road trip through California to not find themselves.Narrative Features
- DirectorMatías PiñeiroStarsAgustina MuñozMaría VillarMati DiopHermia & Helena is a film of dead ends and new beginnings, navigating different hemispheres and languages with amorous detours, where the written words of Shakespeare clash with the entanglements of modern, digital life.Narrative Features
- DirectorBrett HaleyStarsSam ElliottLaura PreponKrysten RitterAn ailing movie star comes to terms with his past and mortality.Narrative Features
- DirectorJames IvoryStarsAnthony HopkinsEmma ThompsonVanessa RedgraveSet in the early 20th century, class distinctions and troubled relations affect the relationship between two families and the ownership of a cherished British estate known as Howards End.Narrative Features
- DirectorRachel LambertStarsMichael Abbott Jr.Marin IrelandMadisen BeatyA man who testified against his brother returns to his rural Kentucky hometown twenty years later to face his fractured family.Narrative Features
- DirectorLuigi CampiStarsBobbi Salvör MenuezRobert BeitzelLiza ThornSam's silent world confounds the fellow residents of her group home. When her only friend goes missing Sam sets out to find her, uncovering a tale of violence that shatters her fragile reality.Narrative Features
- DirectorJames IvoryStarsJames WilbyRupert GravesHugh GrantTwo English school chums find themselves falling in love at Cambridge. To regain his place in society, Clive gives up Maurice and marries. While staying with Clive and his wife, Maurice discovers romance in the arms of the gamekeeper Alec.Narrative Features
- DirectorRobert AltmanStarsWarren BeattyJulie ChristieRene AuberjonoisA gambler and a prostitute become business partners in a remote Old West mining town, and their enterprise thrives until a large corporation arrives on the scene.Narrative Features
- DirectorBrennan VanceStarsGera PobudaSally WingertPeter McLarnanAfter a solar flare powers down her remote community, Alma discovers her husband Terry comatose. Suspecting he is having an out-of-body affair with an ex-lover, Alma attempts to bring him back to reality with help from Terry's estranged, drug-addled son and the leader of a new-age religion that specializes in astral travel.Narrative Features
- DirectorTom E. BrownStarsJames Roday RodriguezRobin WeigertDanny GloverWhen a struggling writer, HIV positive for 20+ years, accidentally deposits a $100 birthday check, he is dropped from his health plan for earning too much. In this new era of sort-of universal care, can he take on a helpless bureaucracy or come up with $3000 a month to buy meds on his own?Narrative Features
- DirectorMatías PiñeiroStarsLuciana AcuñaAlberto AjakaAna CambreAfter a breakup, a Shakespearean actress alternates between rehearsing and daydreaming as she starts to slowly embody her character, transforming into the object of desire of other cast members.Narrative Features
- DirectorKatherine DieckmannStarsHolly HunterCarrie CoonKim Coatesin an effort to deal with the grief over the death of her son, a Georgia mother travels the back roads of the deep south to settle a score. A story of grief and forgiveness, of looking inward to find a way to move forward.Narrative Features
- DirectorAlex CoxStarsAdam NewberryJesse Lee PachecoChristine DoidgeThe Tombstone story told in the style of the Japanese classic Rashomon where we see history from several perspectives including that of Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, Kate, Ike Clanton, Colonel Hafford and Johnny BehanNarrative Features
- DirectorMatías PiñeiroStarsMaría VillarAlessio Rigo de RighiAgustina MuñozA group of actresses performing in a production of Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night" get caught up in a web of romantic intrigue and revelation.Narrative Features