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Wolf Mountain
Wrong Time Wrong Place
Tonya Littlewolf literally runs with the wolves. Twenty-six years ago she founded Wolf Mountain Sanctuary, a refugee camp for wolves born in captivity that are unsuited to living as pets and unable to survive in the wild. This poetic short explores Littlewolf’s abiding love for her spirit brothers against the backdrop of the Mojave Desert’s Lucerne Valley, capturing the rhythm of daily life and culminating in an extraordinary demonstration of canine communion. MP
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Filmmaker Q &A following screening 2012 / US / 7 minutes Directors : Dan Duran, Brendan Nahmias, Sam Price-Waldman Producers : Dan Duran, Brendan Nahmias, Sam Price-Waldman Editors : Dan Duran, Sam Price-Waldman Cinematographers : Dan Duran, Sam Price-Waldman Sa m P ri c e- Wa l d m an wolfmountainfilm@gmail.com
Saturday, April 6 — 10:00 am Cinem a 3
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On July 22, 2011, Anders Breivik bombed the city center of Oslo and went on a shooting spree on the Norwegian island of Utøya, taking the lives of seventy-seven people within the span of a few hours. Director John Appel delicately captures the accounts of five victims of that day’s events. Through their individual testaments, Appel teases out the circumstances that led each survivor to be where he or she was that day. As a result, this poignant document is far more than a chronicle of events. A young man thought hard about not attending the camp on Utøya, and a business man nearly didn’t go to his Oslo office. A young woman pleaded for her friend to join her on the island, even though her friend’s parents had a bad feeling all along. Tenderly tracing ideas about chance occurrences in our lives and the significant role “almost” can play in events, this film is an inspirational, interconnected, and intensely human tribute to lives lost, and those saved, by mere seconds and the seemingly smallest of choices. ST 2012 / Netherlands / 80 minutes Director : John Appel Producer : Carmen Cobos
You Can’t Always Get What You Want “Posting the Daily Diary [online] is part of the LBJ Library’s ongoing mission to provide an intimate, unvarnished look at the inner workings of the Johnson White House.” At some point, the most private of public lives can become very public. President Johnson’s secretaries started keeping typed and handwritten daily diaries in 1959 when he was Senate majority leader and continued doing so through his presidency. Meetings, social events, and telephone calls were noted, as were descriptions of the president’s reactions to people and events, including his mood and, occasionally, events he directed be “off the record.” The library has made 630 hours of phone conversations available, though as of 2012, 10 hours are still classified for national security or personal reasons. You Can’t Always Get What You Want is a bright romp through episodes of international diplomacy, homeland arm-twisting, and personal gastronomy, as lifted from the pages of the diaries and recorded phone conversations and animated by archival photographs. CRE
Filmmaker Q &A following screening 2013 / US / 21 minutes Director : Phoebe Brush Producer : Phoebe Brush Editor : Phoebe Brush
Filmmaker Q &A following screening 2013 / US, UK / 9 minutes Director : Scott Calonico
Cinematographer : Erik Van Emple
Producer : Jeff Radice Editor : Scott Calonico
John Nadai
252 Gouin Blvd. East Montréal, Québec, Canada H3L 1A8
Sc o t t C a l o ni c o
514.844.3358 johnnadai@filmstransit.com
2117 Macalpine Circle Morrisville, NC 27560 832.477.2355 monkeydeep@gmail.com
Friday, April 5 — 7:10 pm Cinem a 3
In the early 1980s, the U.S. government began building a nuclear waste burial vault within Yucca Mountain in the Nevada desert. This twenty-minute meditative portrait stretches to embrace laboratory reports, archival recordings, and notions of deep time, end days, and rapture as viewed against the backdrop of this expansive landscape. Johnnie Bobb, chief of the Western Shoshone National Council, recounts how his people were pushed out of the land they once called home. Fred McMillen, a master mechanic at Yucca Mountain, talks about the toxic machinery used in the colossal attempts to entomb radioactivity deep in the land. The poisons are not only hidden within the mountain, they exist in those touched by the land and its past. ST
Cinematographers : Renato Velarde, Phoebe Brush
Editor : Mario Steenbergen
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Yucca Mtn Tally
Friday, April 5 — 4:10 pm Cinem a 3
P h o eb e B rush 108 E. Murray Avenue Durham, NC 27704 919.452.2050 phoebe.brush@gmail.com
Friday, April 5 — 10:30 am Cinem a 1
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