ArivacaFilmFestival.com
Afternoon Documentary Program
Saturday March 7, 2015
12:00 PM - Images From the Border
“Usually in Arivaca we have a bad name. If we’re on the news, it’s in a
negative way. Even though our town, in my opinion, is amazing.”
- Sienna Wallen, National Geographic Photo Camp Arizona student
During the summer of 2014 the
Arivaca Action Center assisted
National Geographic and the
Undocumented Migration Project in
teaching teens how to tell their own
stories about living along the border
through photography.
The camp and the resulting media
presentations are intended to give
area teens, a chance to change the
narrative about border communities
often seen in the media.
Main organizer, of the photo
camp, Jason De Leon, is an
assistant professor of
Anthropology at the
University of Michigan and
the Director of the
Undocumented Migration
Project.
Over the past six years, De
Leon has been studying
objects in the Arivaca area
that migrants leave as they
journey through the desert.
Jason DeLeon
12:35 PM - UNDERWATER DREAMS
Underwater Dreams, written and directed by Mary Mazzio, and
narrated by Michael Peña, is an epic story of how the sons of
undocumented Mexican immigrants learned how to build an
underwater robot from Home Depot parts. And defeat engineering
powerhouse MIT in the process.
“Those scraggly Latino kids on the
corner you might think are thugs
could be the next Steve Jobs or Mark
Zuckerberg if given half a chance. To
understand why that’s more than a
platitude, check out Underwater
Dreams, a seemingly modest human
interest film that may be the most
politically significant documentary
since Waiting for Superman... It
should also be seen in every high
school in the country, where it will
inspire thousands of kids, and in
Congress, where it might just jolt a
few politicians out of their stupor and
help them see young people for who
they are, and who they can be. -
Jonathan Alter, The Daily Beast.
Mary Mazzio, an award-winning
documentary film writer/director;
Olympic athlete; and former law
firm partner, is Founder and CEO
of 50 Eggs, Inc., an independent
film production company. Mary
wrote, directed and produced the
highly acclaimed award-winning
films, TEN9EIGHT, Lemonade
Stories, Apple Pie, and A Hero for
Daisy.
A True Story
From Phoenix, AZ
Read the 2005 WIRED
Magazine article that
inspired the film. Click Icon
Link to Facebook Page
2:15 PM - CAVE DIGGER
Ra Paulette digs cathedral-like, 'eighth wonder of the world' art caves into the sandstone
cliffs of Northern New Mexico. Each creation takes him years to complete, and each is a
masterwork. But patrons who have commissioned caves have cut off nearly all of his
projects due to artistic differences. Fed up, Ra has chosen to forego commissions
altogether and create a massive, 10-year project, his Magnum Opus.
“In Hollywood, the highest
compliment you can give a storyteller
or filmmaker is that the piece was so
well done the audience was
enraptured with the STORY, not the
process. Karoff pulled that off in
spades. "Cavedigger" is the kind of
film that makes you want to share it
immediately, and proof that actual
human beings living life may provide
the most engaging narrative of all.
-Elfeld
Link to Facebook Page
Director/Producer Jeffrey Karoff
Director of Photography Anghel Decca
Editor Erin Nordstrom
Composer Pete Min
Sound Mixer Mitch Dorf
Jeffrey Karoff - Filmmaker
3:30 PM - FINDING TATANKA
“As a child of “The Movement” I grew up with a profound sense of idealism, but also of
loss. I wanted to make a film that could answer my own questions about my father’s
identity and also portray the profound questions that many of us ask ourselves every day:
What is the right path to take between idealism and practicality?
Where is the line between dreams and delusions? In my father’s story lives the power of
individuals to make profound change, but also the heartbreak of broken dreams and the
bittersweet tension of expectations between parents and their children.” - Jacob Bricca
Jacob Bricca (Director/
Producer/ DP/Editor)
is a graduate of the
American Film
Institute, Bricca
holds a post as
Assistant Professor
in the School of
Theatre, Film &
Television at the
University of
Arizona, where he
teaches editing and
documentary filmmaking.
Kit Bricca was a leader of the Bay Area protest movements of the 1960s and 70s with a
fierce passion for social justice, but found the transition from activist to breadwinner a
challenging one. In this moving, psychologically complex documentary, filmmaker Jacob
Bricca follows the extraordinary journey of his father Kit, a man whose uncompromising
idealism changed the world but tore his family apart.
Link to Facebook Page
Link to Film Synopsis
and Filmmaker’s Credits
5:00 - 6:30 PM - INTERMISSION
& POT LUCK DINNER
COMMUNITY CENTER
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