DOCUMENTARY FEATURES
THE TOPP TWINS: TWENTY FIVE WASTE LAND Untouchable Girls HUNDRED & ONE
Directors: Lucy Walker & Karen Harley wastelandmovie.com
Director: Leanne Pooley topptwins.com
Director: Patricia van Ryker pv@artistsconfederacy.com
Saturday, 9:15pm, Rose Theatre Sunday, 12:30pm, Uptown Theatre
Saturday, 3pm, Pope Marine Sunday, 9am, Simpson Cinema
From busking on the streets of Auckland to headlining on the stages of London’s West End, the Topp Twins appeal is infectious. This film offers a revealing look into the lives of the world’s only comedic, country singing, dancing, and yodeling lesbian twin sisters – Jools and Lynda Topps of New Zealand. Their natural gift for humor has helped them cross from the fringes to the mainstream. Their fans range from hard-core political activists, to sheep farmers and “ladies who lunch.” This film features a series of special interviews with some of the Topp’s infamous comedy alter-egos. According to the Glasgow Herald, the twins are New Zealand’s “finest artistic export since lamb cutlets!” According to Variety, this is a documentary “that has you falling in love with two of the crazier people you’ve never met.” NEW ZEALAND/2009/84 min. Nashville Festival, Audience Award Palm Springs International Film Festival, Best of the Fest
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2,500 families existed when famed artist Alejandro Santiago left his pueblo in Oaxaca, Mexico, 32 years ago. When he returned to his village, Teococuilco was no longer the prosperous self-sufficient home of his childhood. For six difficult years, Alejandro, his family and assistants worked tirelessly to bring “2501 Migrantes” to life. Sculpted from local clay and painted with colors derived from the soil near his birthplace, these “lost souls” speak for those who return only on holidays, for those whose only presence is a Western Union money gram, and for those who will never return. This film is a haunting reminder of the problems and concerns of global migration. USA/2009/47 min. Sacramento International Film Festival, Outstanding Documentary
Saturday, 6pm, Rosebud Theatre Sunday, 9am, Pope Marine
Filmed over nearly three years, “Waste Land” follows renowned artist Vik Muniz as he journeys from his home base in Brooklyn to his native Brazil and the world’s largest garbage dump, Jardim Gramacho, located on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro. There he photographs an eclectic band of “catadores,” self-designated pickers of recyclable materials. Muniz’s initial objective was to “paint” the catadores with garbage. However, his collaboration with these inspiring characters, as they recreate photographic images of themselves out of garbage, reveals both the dignity and despair of the catadores as they begin to re-imagine their lives. BRAZIL & UNITED KINGDOM/2009/98 min. Berlin International Film Festival, Amnesty International Film Prize Sundance Film Festival, Grand Jury Prize
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