Kaitlin Whitman
2010 Films
Directed by: Various
Dates: 3/16/10 1:30 pm, 3/17/10 1:30 pm, 3/18/10 1:30 pm, 3/22/10 10:30 am, 3/23 10:30 am
Venues: Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, Palisades Neighborhood Library, Lamond-Riggs Neighborhood Library, Anacostia Interim Library, Parklands-Turner Neighborhood Library
Food Fantasies (A Selection of Children's Films)
Shown as part of the multi-day, multi-venue Food & Agriculture Film Series.
Program includes THE GOAT THAT ATE TIME, WISHFUL THINKING, CRAVINGS, SMART MACHINE, & CHICKEN OF THE SEA
Directed by: Tristan Bayer & Daniel Hinerfeld
Date: 3/22/10 6:00 pm
Venue: AAAS
Co-presented by: NRDC
Directed by: Damien Gillis
Date: 3/22/10 6:00 pm
Venue: AAAS
Co-presented by: NRDC
FARMED SALMON EXPOSED
Shown as part of the multi-day, multi-venue Food & Agriculture Film Series.
Salmon aquaculture in Norway, Chili or Scotland greatly affects the environment...
Shown with ACID TEST
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***D.C. PREMIERE***
Directed by: Beth Gage & George Gage
Date: 3/22/10 6:30 pm
Venue: Johns Hopkins SAIS
AMERICAN OUTRAGE
Feisty Western Shoshone sisters who have endured five terrifying livestock roundups by armed federal marshals in which more than a thousand of their horses and cattle were confiscated...
Shown with AZERBAIJAN: THE LAST KANKAN OF NAKHCHIVAN and BATTLE FOR THE XINGU as part of Selections from the 2009 United Nations Association Traveling Film Festival
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***D.C. PREMIERE***
Directed by: Chaim Litewski
Date: 3/22/10 6:30 pm
Venue: Johns Hopkins SAIS
AZERBAIJAN: THE LAST KANKAN OF NAKHCHIVAN
In less than twenty years, nearly two billion people could face water shortages...
Shown with BATTLE FOR THE XINGU and AMERICAN OUTRAGE as part of Selections from the 2009 United Nations Association Traveling Film Festival
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***D.C. PREMIERE***
Directed by: Iara Lee
Date: 3/22/10 6:30 pm
Venue: Johns Hopkins SAIS
BATTLE FOR THE XINGU
The Xingu, a tributary of the Amazon, is home to over 10,000 indigenous people who rely on the river for survival...
Shown with AZERBAIJAN: THE LAST KANKAN OF NAKHCHIVAN and AMERICAN OUTRAGE as part of Selections from the 2009 United Nations Association Traveling Film Festival
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***D.C. PREMIERE***
Directed by: by Tom Murray
Date: 3/22/10 6:30 pm
Venue: Embassy of Australia
IN MY FATHER'S COUNTRY
In one of the most remote corners of indigenous Australia, a boy will soon become a man...
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***WORLD PREMIERE***
Directed by: Evan Mather
Date: 3/22/10 6:30 pm
Venue: National Building Museum
NECESSARY RUIN, A: THE STORY OF BUCKMINSTER FULLER AND THE UNION TRACK CAR DOME
Upon its completion in October 1958, the Union Tank Car Dome, located north of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, was the largest clear-span structure in the world...
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***D.C. PREMIERE***
Directed by: Avis Richards
Date: 3/22/10 7:00 pm
Venue: American University
Co-presented by: Earth Day Network & Center for Environmental Filmmaking
Directed by: Scott Galloway & Brent Pierson
Date: 3/22/10 7:00 pm
Venue: U.S. National Arboretum
MAN NAMED PEARL, A
The inspiring story of self-taught topiary artist Pearl Fryar begins when he was house-hunting in an all-white neighborhood...
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***WORLD PREMIERE***
Directed by: Larry Engel
Date: 3/22/10 7:00 pm
Venue: American University
Co-presented by: Earth Day Network & Center for Environmental Filmmaking
POTATO HEADS
Shown as part of the multi-day, multi-venue Food & Agriculture Film Series.
Join filmmaker Larry Engel as he explores the origins and future of the ubiquitous potato in a lively and timely short film...
Shown with LUNCH
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Directed by: Debra Anderson
Date: 3/22/10 7:00 pm
Venue: National Museum of Women in the Arts
SPLIT ESTATE
Imagine discovering that you don’t own the mineral rights under your land, and that an energy company plans to drill for natural gas two hundred feet from your front door...
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Directed by: Jacques Tati
Dates: 3/21/10 7:30 pm, 3/22/10 7:00 pm
Venue: AFI Silver Theatre
TRAFFIC (TRAFIC)
Selection from Jacques Tati Retrospective
People get nowhere fast in Tati’s unjustly neglected but hilarious Traffic...
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