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
Wednesday, May 18 - Thursday, May 26, 2011Four Chicago high school poetry teams gear up to compete in the world’s largest youth slam. Hopeful and heartbreaking, LOUDER THAN A BOMB reflects their tempestuous lives, exploring the ways writing... 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 2012 Shorts Program 1
Friday, August 3 - Thursday, August 9, 2012CUTTING LOOSE Directors/Producers: Finlay Pretsell, Adrian McDowall, SDI Productions, 29 min. Scotland Hairdressers poised, scissors at the ready, clients in place. Cutting begins.... 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
Wednesday, March 23 - Thursday, May 19, 2011This is the story of five ordinary Russians living in extraordinary times -- from sheltered Soviet childhood, to the collapse of the USSR in their teenage years, to the constantly shifting political...
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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...
