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Afternoon Documentary Program
Saturday March 2, 2013
WE WIN OR WE DIE is the story of an ordinary Libyan in
February 2011 who understands that there is but one way to
stop the bloodshed. One way to gain freedom. The sprawling
fortress - the Fist of Gaddafi - the Katiba, must fall.
“Millan’s brief but informative documentary
provides much needed insight into an event that
was skimmed over by the majority of the media.”
- Cody Kirkland, SLUG Magazine
12:00PM (21-Minutes)
Director: Matthew Millan - 180 Films
12:30PM (52-Minutes)
Director: Arne Birkenstock - filmquadrat GmbH
Oil is the biggest industry on earth and every major oil company is
in the tar sands – BP, Shell, Total, Statoil, Exxon, Chevron, and
China’s Sinopec. But making oil from the thick bitumen soaked into
Canada’s sands comes at an outsized cost. Scientists are warning of
cancer-causing toxins entering rivers, record volumes of greenhouse
gases pouring into the atmosphere, and a pristine Boreal ecosystem
now dotted with poisonous wastewater lakes.
In an oil-scarce world, we know there are sacrifices to be made in
the pursuit of energy. What no one expected was that a tiny Native
community living down the river from Canada’s tar sands would
reach out to the world for help,
and be heard.
Truth On The Line is a project that mixes documentary
and narrative, by putting video-journalism in a
fictional wrapper. It tells the stories of a varied
group of fictional characters who produce media
and live their lives in the US/Mexico borderlands,
interacting with real-life events, places, and
situations. The web mini-series version of the
project launched in October 2012.
1:45 PM (90-Minutes)
Written and Directed by
Tom Radford & Niobe Thompson
3:45 PM (30-Minutes)
Directed by Zeus Quijano Jr.
“Point of Entry is the story of the lives of a family split
apart by the economic necessity to emigrate in search of
work. By leaving the politics out completely, this short
film is able to tell a story, not justify or argue a
perspective. The result, for my money, is more effective
than a sententious approach. The film is full of raw
emotions and moments of intimate family interactions. You’ve heard this story before,
and yet the family’s struggles are made their own through simple and often tragic interviews that
would spur empathy from a stone....”
- Jesse Hawlish, Slamdance Film Festival
Steev Hise is an artist, filmmaker, and activist, based in Tucson,
Arizona. He has been been doing a mix of artistic and political
audio/video work since 1992 and media activism since 2000. He
did graduate study in new media and electronic art at California
Institute of the Arts where he studied with Morton Subnotick and
Dick Hebdige.
Steev has made several films on a variety of social justice and
environmental topics. In 2004-2005 he produced and directed On
The Edge, a feature-length documentary about the femicide in
Ciudad Juárez and Chihuahua City, Mexico. Since that project his
work has been primarily focused on the topic of the border and
immigration. Currently he is in post-production on a pilot for a
web/tv series called Truth On The Line.
4:20 PM (23-Minutes)
Written & Directed by
Steev Hise (Tucson)
Production: Pan Left Productions
& Liminal Communications
