14th Annual DocuWeeks™
Friday, July 30 - Thursday, August 19, 2010
Over three weeks, DocuWeeks™ presents weeklong theatrical engagements of the year’s best documentary films in Los Angeles and New York, helping the films to qualify for Academy Award® consideration in the documentary feature and documentary short categories.
DocuWeeks™ premiered in 1997, and over the past 14 years, the showcase has qualified over 160 short and feature-length films, yielding 17 nominations and seven Oscar winners. Previous participants include Academy Award® winners Smile Pinki (2008), Taxi to the Dark Side (2007) and The Blood of Yingzhou District (2006), as well as Oscar® Nominees The Betrayal, War/Dance, Salim Baba, and Sari’s Mother. This year’s edition includes films from the U.S., Canada, Ireland, China, New Zealand, Colombia, Israel, the Palestinian Territories and the United Kingdom.
Louder Than a Bomb
Friday, July 30 - Thursday, August 5, 2010LOUDER THAN A BOMB tells the story of four Chicago high school poetry teams as they prepare for and compete in the world's largest youth slam. By turns hopeful and heartbreaking, the film captures the... more...
Steam of Life
Friday, July 30 - Thursday, August 5, 2010Naked Finnish men in saunas speak straight from the heart and in the warmth of rusty stoves, cleansing themselves both physically and mentally towards the film's deeply emotional and unforgettable finale.... more...
Summer Pasture
Friday, July 30 - Thursday, August 5, 2010Filmed in the high grasslands of eastern Tibet, with unprecedented access to a place seldom visited by outsiders, SUMMER PASTURE is a rare and intimate glimpse into the life of a young couple and their... more...
This Way of Life
Friday, July 30 - Thursday, August 5, 2010Set against the imposing mountains and isolated beaches in a remote part of North Island, New Zealand, THIS WAY OF LIFE is an intimate portrait of a Maori family -- Peter and Colleen Karina and their six... more...
DocuWeeks Shorts Program
Friday, July 30 - Thursday, August 5, 2010KILLING IN THE NAME Directed by Jed Rothstein 39 min. | USA/Indonesia/Jordan | Moxie Firecracker Films Ashraf was celebrating the happiest day of his life when an Al-Qaeda suicide bomber walked... more...
For Once in My Life
Friday, August 6 - Thursday, August 12, 2010FOR ONCE IN MY LIFE is a documentary about a unique band of singers and musicians, and their journey to show the world the greatness -- and killer soundtrack -- within each of them. The band members have... more...
MOST VALUABLE PLAYERS
Friday, August 6 - Thursday, August 12, 2010Across the USA, high school sports are regularly lavished with funding, publicity and scholarships, while theater departments, hoping for some attention of their own, struggle to put on a school musical.... more...
Pushing the Elephant
Friday, August 6 - Thursday, August 12, 2010Rose Mapendo lost her family and home to the ethnic violence that engulfed the Democratic Republic of Congo, yet she emerged from the suffering advocating peace and reconciliation. But after helping numerous... more...
Quest for Honor
Friday, August 6 - Thursday, August 12, 2010The alarming rise in "honor killing," the heinous act of men killing daughters, sisters and wives who threaten "family honor," endangers tens of thousands of women in Iraq, Turkey, Jordan and adjoining... more...
Family Affair
Friday, August 13 - Thursday, August 19, 2010Like a scene torn from The Color Purple or Capturing The Friedmans, this deeply personal and uncompromising documentary examines the complex levels of pedophilia and how it can manipulate... more...
Freedom Riders
Friday, August 13 - Thursday, August 19, 2010FREEDOM RIDERS is the first feature-length film about a courageous band of civil rights activists who called themselves the Freedom Riders. They challenged segregation in interstate transport in the American... more...
Music From the Big House
Friday, August 13 - Thursday, August 19, 2010Rita Chiarelli, an award-winning recording artist, takes a pilgrimage to the birthplace of the blues: Louisiana State Maximum Security Penitentiary, a.k.a Angola Prison. She never imagined that her love... more...
My Perestroika
Friday, August 13 - Thursday, August 19, 2010MY PERESTROIKA follows five ordinary Russians living in extraordinary times -- from their sheltered Soviet childhood, to the collapse of the Soviet Union during their teenage years, to the constantly shifting... more...
Waste Land
Friday, August 13 - Thursday, August 19, 2010WASTE LAND follows renowned artist Vik Muniz as he journeys from his home in Brooklyn to his native Brazil and the world's largest garbage dump, Jardim Gramacho, located on the outskirts of Rio. There,... more...
