Short Attention Span Cinema: Focus Forward
Friday, November 28, 2014 - Thursday, March 5, 2015
Now playing before our regular first-run features, films from Focus Forward, an award-winning series of 30 three-minute stories about innovators—people who are reshaping the world through act or invention—directed by the world’s most celebrated documentary filmmakers. The films have been viewed in 150 countries and screened to audiences on all seven continents.
Nov 28- Dec 4: FIRE WITH FIRE (dir. Ross Kauffman)
Dec 5-11: NEWTOWN CREEK DIGESTER EGGS: THE ART OF HUMAN WASTE (dir. David W. Leitner)
Dec 12-18: THE SKY IS NOT THE LIMIT (dir. Annie Sundberg & Ricki Stern)
Dec 19-25: THE SECRET OF TREES (dir. Albert Maysles)
Dec 26-Jan 1: THE INVISIBLE BICYCLE HELMET (dir. Fredrik Gertten)
Jan 2-8: OPERATION FREE LUNCH (dir. Lixin Fan)
Jan 9-15: YOU DON’T KNOW JACK (dir. Morgan Spurlock)
Jan 16-22: DISPLAIR (dir. Victor Kossakovsky)
Jan 23-29: THE MUSIC MAN (dir. Steve James)
Jan 30-Feb 5: THE CLEANEST PIG (dir. David White & Paul Wedel)
Feb 6-12: IN YOUR HEAD (dir. Petra Epperlein & Michael Tucker)
Feb 13-19: SPEAKING WITH LIGHT (dir. Alex Gibney)
Feb 20-26: EMERGENCY (dir. Kief Davidson)
Feb 27-Mar 5: PANMELA CASTRO (dir. Heloisa Passos)
Inaugurated with IFC Center’s opening in 2005, the ongoing “Short Attention Span Cinema” series plays short films before the theater’s regular features, every day of the year. Past editions have spotlighted shorts from film festivals like Slamdance and Doxita; work from The New York Times’ Op-Docs, The 78 Project and UNICEF’s Oneminutesjr. initiatives; and retrospective series on filmmakers including Isabella Rossellini, Jay Rosenblatt, DA Pennebaker, Jeff Scher, Emily Hubley, Guy Maddin, James Nares, Jessica Oreck and others.