MVFF28 Program 2005 by CAFILM

Deborah Hoke Smith Wealth Management Services Bank of Marin

Welcome to the 28th Mill Valley Film Festival! Last year, when the CinéArts@Sequoia was under repair, and we had to move the Festival at the eleventh hour, I did say that the Mill Valley Film Festival was a state of mind; while this is true in a spiritual sense, we are truly delighted to be physically back in Mill Valley.

We are also very happy to again have the Maybeckdesigned Outdoor Art Club as our meeting place before and after ﬁlms. Please consult the schedule for OAC hours and special music events, several of which are free. This year we also have a more comprehensive program at 142 Throckmorton Theatre, and we continue our Festival presence in San Rafael at the Christopher B. Smith Rafael Film Center, which the California Film Institute owns and operates year round.

This year’s outstanding offering of 200-plus ﬁlms and 116 programs is bookended by opening ﬁlms Mrs. Henderson Presents, by veteran director Stephen Frears, and The Matador, with superstar Pierce Brosnan, and closing night selections, the superbly cast Bee Season and Jeff Daniels’ latest, The Squid and the Whale. And then there’s every spectacular thing in between.

Once again, I would like to thank our audience. The significance of the Bay Area audience for independent and specialty films cannot be underestimated: You make up one of the strongest markets in the US for independent films, both domestic and international. You support many of the most important film festivals in the US, among which we are honored to count this Festival.

In addition to introducing new works and new talent, the Mill Valley Film Festival honors those who have contributed greatly to the art of film. Among this year’s tributes we include a celebration of Michael Powell, in honor of the 100th anniversary of his birth. Mr. Powell’s work with his partner, Emeric Pressburger, had a tremendous influence on today’s directors—those of us who grew up in those grand years of great directors will never forget films like The Red Shoes and Black Narcissus. Thelma Schoonmaker, Mr. Powell’s widow

and an Academy Award®-winning editor and icon in her own right, will present this tribute program. A retrospective of Powell’s work will continue at the Smith Rafael Film Center immediately following the Festival.

We are also pleased to honor Jean-Pierre Jeunet, truly one of the most creative and successful directors working in contemporary cinema. M. Jeunet’s tribute will include some of his rare shorts that are not only amazingly entertaining but show the evolution of a great artist. After the Festival, a retrospective of Jeunet’s work will continue at the Smith Rafael Film Center.

Screen legend Donald Sutherland joins us for a tribute that will be followed by the premiere screening of the spectacular new Pride & Prejudice, in which Sutherland plays Mr. Bennet. Donald Sutherland is clearly one of the greatest actors in the world. Just a cursory glance at his ﬁlmography is mind-boggling—The Dirty Dozen, M*A*S*H, Klute, Don’t Look Now, The Day of the Locusts, 1900, Ordinary People. . . . He has made an indelible mark on the art of cinema.

Showing tremendous versatility and commanding respect from audiences and his peers alike, Jeff Daniels is an actor’s actor, with credits ranging from Ragtime to Terms of Endearment, The Purple Rose of Cairo, Something Wild, 101 Dalmatians to dozens of other great ﬁlms, including Pleasantville. We honor Mr. Daniels with a tribute, after which we will watch his astounding performance in The Squid and the Whale , our prestigious Closing Night co-ﬁlm.

The Festival’s Spotlight honors and acknowledges an artist who has shown the highest degree of artistic integrity in multiple areas over a recent period of time. It is our great pleasure to focus this year’s Spotlight on Felicity Huffman. Huffman has been nominated for an Emmy for her role as Lynette Scavo in the fabulously successful TV show Desperate Housewives , and during her Spotlight event we will present her film, Transamerica. It will be no surprise to those who have seen her inspired performance as a transsexual woman in Transamerica to ﬁnd Huffman’s name mentioned regularly during the upcoming award season.

While the Mill Valley Film Festival is a noncompetitive event, this year, in addition to our BAFTA Award, which honors short narrative films, we have added audience awards in the categories of narrative and documentary. The Festival has a history of strong documentaries; many from Festivals past have gone on to great theatrical success. This year is no exception.

Our 28 th annual Festival program is diverse in many ways. As usual, a fine array of countries are represented, 55 this year, and there are 32 premieres, of which 15 are world premieres. In both documentary and narrative films a theme has emerged this year—a current of spirituality, in its many forms and expressions, runs throughout the program. This topic is certainly vital to us at this time, and its appearance affirms film as an incredibly powerful medium: Whether dealing with contemporary issues or nurturing our youngest audience members through our Children’s FilmFest (in its 11th year), it is our hope that, even if these films cannot provide all the answers to personal or global problems, at least they address and illuminate the questions.

Another of my fond but true annual sayings is that while it is impossible to see everything that is shown during these 11 days, we applaud those who try! I would also like to remind our audience that in producing a festival of this caliber, approximately 50 percent of our income is generated by contributions. I thank all of those who have worked so hard to make this possible: our generous donors, our dedicated and tireless staff, the board of directors and other volunteers, our extraordinary audience and, most of all, the artists who have offered us their unique visions.

Mark Fishkin MVFF Director/Founder

Mayor’s Proclamation

City of Mill Valley, Ofﬁce of the Mayor

WHEREAS, the Mill Valley Film Festival has presented outstanding local and international ﬁlms in this community for 28 years; and

WHEREAS, the Mill Valley Film Festival fulﬁlls the important function of providing ﬁlmmakers an audience for their works; and

WHEREAS, international ﬁlmmakers and the ﬁlm community in Marin County enhance our cultural life by participating in the Mill Valley Film Festival; and

WHEREAS, ﬁlmmakers, volunteers, sponsors and ﬁlmgoers join together to make the Film Festival one of the Bay Area’s social and cultural highlights of the year;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, Dennis P. Fisco, Mayor of the City of Mill Valley, take great pleasure in supporting the 28th Annual Festival by proclaiming October 6–16, 2005, as Mill Valley Film Festival Days in Mill Valley.

Dennis P. Fisco

Mayor of Mill Valley

FILM FESTIVAL VENUES

CinéArts@Sequoia: SEQ

25 Throckmorton Ave., Mill Valley

Christopher B. Smith

Rafael Film Center: RAF 1118 Fourth St., San Rafael

142 Throckmorton Theatre: THR 142 Throckmorton Ave., Mill Valley

PARKING

Century Cinema: CIN

1 Tamal Vista, Corte Madera

Outdoor Art Club: OAC

1 W. Blithedale Ave., Mill Valley

Mill Valley Community Center

180 Camino Alto, Mill Valley

In Mill Valley: Two-hour parking meters in downtown Mill Valley operate 9AM–6PM Monday through Friday, and cars parked over two hours are subject to ticketing. Although meters are free after 6PM and on weekends, the two-hour limit is still enforced. See map for directions and parking areas.

In San Rafael: There are parking garages throughout the downtown San Rafael area. Two-hour parking meters in San Rafael operate 9AM–6 PM , Monday through Saturday, and cars parked for more than two hours are subject to ticketing. Meters are free after 6PM and on Sundays. See map for directions and parking areas.

MEMBERSHIP INFORMATION

Membership information will be available at Festival ticket outlets, the Outdoor Art Club and at the Smith Rafael Film Center. New members may join, and old friends may renew or upgrade their existing memberships.

FESTIVAL SHOPS

Visit our Festival shop for ofﬁcial Festival merchandise—they make great holiday gifts for yourself and other ﬁlm lovers. The Festival shop is located at the San Rafael ticket outlet and the Outdoor Art Club during the Festival.

ETIQUETTE

As a courtesy and in fairness to others, we ask that you only hold one seat per person when attending screenings and events. Please turn off pagers, cell phones and watch alarms. Thank you and enjoy the ﬁlms.

PHOTOGRAPHY, VIDEO AND RECORDING

Photography, video and audio recording are prohibited in all theatrical and other Festival venues.

Lytton Plaza Corner of Miller and Sunnyside, Mill Valley

Masonic Hall

19 Corte Madera Ave., Mill Valley

Frantoio Ristorante

152 Shoreline Hwy., Mill Valley

Sweetwater

153 Throckmorton Ave., Mill Valley

RESERVED SEATING

The Mill Valley Film Festival is made possible in part through the generous support of our sponsors and patrons. The reserved seating section at our screenings and events is provided for ﬁlmmakers and sponsors, to show our appreciation for their contributions and their generous support of the Mill Valley Film Festival.

PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION

Call Golden Gate Transit at 415.923.2000 for information about taking public transportation to and from the Mill Valley Film Festival.

ORDERING TICKETS

We offer many convenient ways to purchase tickets. Tickets go on sale to members on September 14 and to the general public on September 18. You may purchase tickets in the following ways:

• By Web Site at mvff.com.*

• By Phone 925.866.9559*

• In Person (Mill Valley ticket outlet, San Rafael Festival ticket outlet)

• By Mail/Fax*

Ticket outlet hours and information about how to purchase tickets can be found on our web site and on page 50 of the MVFF newsprint schedule.

*Each phone, fax, mail or internet order is charged a nonrefundable processing fee.

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2005 Officers

Richard Idell, President

W. Robert Griswold Jr., Vice President

K.C. Lauck, Vice President

Evelyn Topper, Secretary

Zach Zeisler, Treasurer

Emeritus Board

Ann Brebner

Rita Cahill

Mark Fishkin

Sid Ganis

Gary Meyer

Gordon Radley

Henry Timnick

Executive Director, Founder

Mark Fishkin

Founding Board

Mark Fishkin, President

Lois Kohl Shore, Vice President

Rita Cahill, Secretary/CFO

Honorary Advisory Board

Stewart and Barbara Boxer

Peter Flaxman

Robert Greber

Linda Gruber

Peggy Haas

Nancy Hudson

Andrew McGuire

Mary Poland

Lente and Eric Schwartz

Michael and Susan Schwartz

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

RICHARD BARKER

W. ROBERT GRISWOLD JR. ROGER GROSSMAN

RICHARD IDELL KATHRYN E. JOHNSON BRUCE KATZ

K.C. LAUCK

CHARLES McGLASHAN STEVE SHANE

CHRISTOPHER B. SMITH EVELYN TOPPER ZACH ZEISLER

major sponsors

major media

major events

membership sponsor major foundation support special support from

silver circle

The Bernard Osher Foundation

OUR DEEPEST APPRECIATION to the following individuals and foundations for their annual support of the California Film Institute.

LEADERSHIP SPONSOR

Christopher B. and Jeannie Meg Smith

MAJOR SPONSORS

Jennifer Coslett MacCready

The Bernard Osher Foundation

PLATINUM CIRCLE

Richard Barker

Capital Group Companies

County of Marin

Gruber Family Foundation

Margaret E. Haas

The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation

Katz Family Foundation

Bobbie Meyer

Henry Timnick

Lois and Mel Tukman

Christine Zecca Foundation

SILVER CIRCLE

Allen Family Fund

William Hudson and Nora Gibson

Michael Klein

K.C. and Steve Lauck

Marcia Lucas

Northern Trust Bank

Eric and Lente Louw Schwartz

Michael and Susan Schwartz

FESTIVAL CIRCLE

Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences

Jennifer Barker

David Berry and Kamala Geroux-Berry

Stewart and Barbara Boxer

Jack and Gloria Clumeck

Brian and Marie Collins

Alice Corning / Springcreek Foundation

Nancy Curley

Tom and Diane Durst

Leonard and Robin Eber

Peter and Catherine Flaxman

Karen Fry

Robert and Nanette Griswold

Hollywood Foreign Press Association

Nancy Hudson

Lisa Graeber

Andrée Poirier Jansheski

Don and Donna Kelleher

Annette Nibley

Robert and Terese Payne

Gordon Radley

David Hering and Lynn Robbie

Carlos and Deborah Santana

Scott Family Fund

Joan K. Widdiﬁeld

festival circle

SCREEN ACTORS GUILD

BELLAM SELF STORAGE & BOXES

Coldwell Banker of Southern Marin

Events Produced by

Restaurants and Caterers

Beverage Sponsors

Event Services

hotel sponsors festival event sponsors

Massage Therapy In-Kind Donors

RENICK TURLEY

AARON IRONS

SHOSHANA KORSON

CONSTANZA BLONDET

DALILA CUNHA

F. JOSEPH SMITH MASSAGE THERAPY CENTER

MILL VALLEY MASSAGE

MARY HAMMOND

Opening Night Closing Night

Thursday Oct 6

THE MATADOR

7PM and 7:15PM Sequoia

9:30PM–12AM Gala at Lytton Plaza, downtown Mill Valley

7PM Film and Gala $125 MATA06P

7PM Film Only $20 MATA06S

7:15PM Film and Gala $125 MAT206P

7:15PM Film Only $20 MAT206S Gala-Only tickets are not available.

MRS. HENDERSON PRESENTS

7PM Rafael

9:30PM–12AM Gala at Lytton Plaza, downtown Mill Valley

Film and Gala $125 MRSH06P

Film Only $20 MRSH06R

See page 64 for details.

THE SQUID AND THE WHALE with Tribute to Jeff Daniels

5PM Rafael

7:30–10:30PM Party at the Mill Valley Community Center

Film and Party $65 TRIB16P

Film Only $20 TRIB16R

Party Only $55 PARTY16

BEE SEASON

5PM Sequoia

7:30–10:30PM Party at the Mill Valley Community Center

Film and Party $65 BEE16P

Film Only $20 BEE16S

Party Only $55 PARTY16

See page 65 for details.

Children’s FilmFest Events

Opening Film and Festivities

THE FAKIR

Saturday Oct 8

11:30AM Sequoia

2–4PM Party at Outdoor Art Club, Mill Valley Film and Party $15 adults, $12 children FAKI08P Film Only $10 adults, $8 children FAKI08S

Join us for the Western US Premiere of The Fakir, a dazzling Danish tale of magic and mayhem for all ages. See page 73 for ﬁlm description

Our special opening event gives kids a sneak peek at the new book (to be published in November) A Movie Mouse , the story of Marcello Moustroiani. Marin residents Liz Hock inson and Kathryn Otoshi who wrote and illustrated the book, will read from it and project animated pages for our delight. Refreshments will follow.

Ice Cream and Kazoos

Saturday Oct 15

12–2PM Rafael

FREE with any 2005 Children’s FilmFest ticket stub

After our Short Films for Little People program (see page 85) at the Rafael Saturday morning, join us in a costume parade to Ben & Jerry’s, with every child kazooing along with troubadors Orange Sherbet (Tamsen Fynn and Jill Pierce).

Closing Film

PELICAN MAN

Sunday Oct 16

2:45PM Rafael PELI16R

Join director Liisa Helminen for her international award-winning film. See page 82 for ﬁlm description.

Tribute

Tribute Program and Reception $50 TRIB08P

Tribute Program Only $20 TRIB08R

Reception at the Outdoor Art Club follows the Tribute program. See page 35 for details.

Spotlight

Spotlight Program and Reception $50 SPOT09P

Spotlight Program Only $20 SPOT09R

Reception at the Outdoor Art Club follows the Spotlight program. See page 51 for details.

EVENTS

Tribute

Closing Night Party at the Mill Valley Community Center follows the Tribute program.

See page 65 for details.

Tribute

Daily Happy Hour

Friday Oct 7–Saturday Oct 15

5–7PM Outdoor Art Club, Mill Valley Open to the public

Before the movies, join us for Happy Hour with beer and wine specials from Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. and Gallo of Sonoma. Music provided by Kimballs, opening its new San Rafael venue December 1.

The Outdoor Art Club Café

Friday Oct 7–Saturday Oct 15

Outdoor Art Club, Mill Valley Weekdays 4–8PM · Weekends 12–8PM Open to the public

For a delicious snack or refreshing beverage between ﬁlms, come to the Outdoor Art Club Café. Menu items provided by Chef’s Touch Catering.

Music Events

LIVE AT THE OUTDOOR ART CLUB

Friday Oct 7

9PM $10 MUSC07O

OAC, Mill Valley

The celebrated Sun Kings set the stage for our ’60s-themed Hi De Ho Show (see page 76) with their fab renderings of Beatles tunes. Groove on the dance ﬂoor, or relax with a cocktail out on the patio and watch the fun unfold.

Friday Oct 14

9PM $10 MUSC14O

OAC, Mill Valley

Make your way over to the OAC for the superb sounds of Swing Fever, dedicated to the music of the ’30s and ’40s. Get together with other Festival fans and guests, dance and enjoy the lively, casual atmosphere— a perfect break from days and nights of intense moving watching!

142 Throckmorton Theatre

142 Throckmorton Theatre returns as the premier venue for unique Festival screenings of works produced on video, including exciting new documentaries and the groundbreaking V(ision)Fest. This year’s schedule also includes live entertainment with a hilarious night of stand-up comedy and an evening of incredible music. A long-time friend of the Mill Valley Film Festival, 142 Throckmorton Theatre is a vibrant center for the arts yearround.

In Association with the Mill Valley Film Festival, 142 Throckmorton Theatre Presents

TUESDAY NIGHT COMEDY

Tuesday Oct 11

8PM $15 COME11T

Add more laughter to your life! Join us for Tuesday Night Comedy with a ﬁne line-up of comedians tipping their hats to the world of ﬁlm. Patrons 16 or younger must be accompanied by a parent or adult guardian.

Thursday Oct 13

8:30PM $20 MUSC13T

After attending the world premiere of the exciting new documentary SOUND OF THE SOUL : The Fez Festival of World Sacred Music , make a beeline to 142 Throckmorton Theatre for this live concert of Afghan music featuring acclaimed vocalist Ustad Farida Mahwash, with Khalil Ragheb on harmonium and vocals, Ustad Aziz Herawi on rubab and sitar and Ehsan Ahmad on tabla.

For more information on these artists, please visit www.142ThrockmortonTheatre.com. See page 87 for ﬁlm description.

Calvin Cooke

Robert Randolph and the Family Band

SOUND OF THE SOUL CONCERT Featuring Ustad Farida Mahwash, Khalil Ragheb, Ustad Aziz Herawi and Ehsan Ahmad

Ustad Farida Mahwash

Lights, Camera... Real Estate!

Front: Jim King. Back, left to right: Cloude Porteus, Linda Saint Amant, Harriet Chabrowe, Jimmy Wanninger, Ron Susskind and Chris Glave.

IN MEMORIAM

Robina Marchesi

March 23, 1965–May 22, 2005

Robina Marchesi’s extraordinary grace, open heartedness and affability drove her incredible engagement with all that she loved. And it seemed as though everything she did, she loved. A graduate of the American School in Paris (in comparative literature) and of Golden Gate Law School, she shifted her attention and multiple talents toward ﬁlm, joining the Mill Valley Film Festival as Festival manager for many years, as well as working with the Sundance, San Francisco and Berlin ﬁlm festivals. In 2004, Gumby Dharma, the feature documentary she directed and produced, played to a delighted sold-out crowd at MVFF. Robina’s enthusiasm and kindness and her integrity and courage inspired the same in all those whose lives she touched–her friends and colleagues, her husband, Tim, and her dog, Karmalita.

Ismail Merchant

December 25, 1936–May 25, 2005

Ismail Merchant’s filmmaking legacy is a cinematic oeuvre distinguished by eloquent, literary storytelling; lush, often architectural visuals; incredible casts; and a celebration of the human spirit—films so distinctive that the phrase Merchant-Ivory has become its own genre. Born in Bombay, Merchant met his longtime partner and director James Ivory and writer Ruth Prawer Jhabvala shortly after making his first film. Of this providential meeting a collaboration was formed that continued, in various permutations, for more than four decades and more than 40 films. Merchant received Academy Award® nominations for A Room with a View, Howards End and Remains of the Day; in 2001 he attended MVFF, where he was honored both as director of the opening night film, Mystic Masseur , and as the recipient of a tribute. We remember him for his brilliance, energy, supportiveness and his great charm.

Lesley Cootes

January 2, 1958–September 19, 2004

Bay Area native Lesley Cootes had a passion for film, books, ideas and people that was matched by her astute intellect, insightful humor, honesty, warmth and care. These qualities served her well as a publicist (some would say publicist extraordinaire) whose work for Terry Hines and Associates and Bill Lanese Advertising earned her a reputation as one who would go out on a limb for films she loved. Lesley’s taste for the kind of brilliance that others might deem challenging or eccentric meant that there was indeed a champion for such films. Whether performing a small role in American Graffiti (as a teenager), promoting a film for clients like Miramax, or being a great friend, Lesley always lived life with the courage and confidence of her passions.

Magic, the Movies and Michael Powell

By Richard Peterson

On the centenary of his birth, British director Michael Powell (1905–1990) is finally getting the recognition he deserves. During a recent boom of celebrations and retrospectives, it’s clear that film critics on his native soil have caught up with him; some have even called him Britain’s “greatest-ever” filmmaker. “It’s everything I wanted,” Thelma Schoonmaker said during a recent phone conversation. “I worked very hard on it, and it’s happened.” Then she laughs: “But I wish I weren’t doing a major motion picture at the same time!”

Schoonmaker is Powell’s widow and shared the final decade of his life. She is also one of America’s finest film editors, whose renowned longtime collaboration with director Martin Scorsese has earned her Academy Awards® for Raging Bull (1980) and The Aviator (2004). While working on their current production, The Departed, Schoonmaker spared a few minutes to discuss Michael, Marty and the bonds she shares with both.

Michael Powell once said of Martin Scorsese, “He breakfasts on images,” but he could have said the same of himself. Born near Canterbury, in Kent, Powell fell in love with the movies as a teenager. In the 1920s he leapt into an apprenticeship with émigré Hollywood director Rex Ingram in the south of France. After working for Alfred Hitchcock back in England in the late 1920s, he cut his teeth as a director on low-budget pictures known as “quota quickies.”

His first important film as director was a personal triumph: The Edge of the World (1937), a mystical tale of tragic romance filmed around

the rugged cliffs and shores of the Scottish Shetlands. He co-directed the Arabian Nights classic The Thief of Bagdad (1940) while World War II was breaking out, and during the same period embarked on his historic partnership with Hungarian screenwriter Emeric Pressburger. The two soon cemented their association with their own independent production company, The Archers, and underlined their resolve to make unconventional movies by forging the singular screen credit “Written, Produced and Directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger.”

The Archers’ productions were indeed different; they were romantic and audacious in merging realism and fantasy. Their stories were innately British, while encompassing themes of art and myth and filled with surreal flourishes, eroticism and absurdist humor. As the team’s director, Powell experimented with visual poetry. Between the magical realism of A Canterbury Tale (1944) and I Know Where I’m Going! (1945), and the extravagant color canvases of The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943) and A Matter of Life and Death (1946), The Archers’ unique wartime efforts hit the bulls-eye artistically. For critics steeped in traditional British realism, however, the films sometimes seemed odd and idiosyncratic.

After the war The Archers worked toward what Powell conceived of as “composed” ﬁlms. Collaborating with designers, cinematographers and composers, they achieved poetic heights with color spectacles such as Black Narcissus (1947) and The Red Shoes (1948). In their 15-year partnership, Powell and Pressburger managed to stray from mainstream tastes even as their ambitions grew.

The Red Shoes was a success in the US before it was properly accepted at home, and at least one little boy who saw it in a New York movie-house became obsessed with it. Martin Scorsese later told Thelma Schoonmaker that every frame of the ﬁlm’s dazzling ballet sequence was an inﬂuence on him.

Martin Scorsese looked up Powell during a visit to England in the mid-1970s, and found his hero virtually forgotten and unable to ﬁnd work. In 1959, three years after he and Pressburger dissolved their partnership, Powell had made Peeping Tom, a thriller about voyeurism that shocked the critical establishment, and opportunities had been sporadic for him ever since. Powell was surprised and delighted that Scorsese knew his ﬁlms and admired them for the very qualities that had alienated others.

“After our meeting in London,” Scorsese later wrote, “Michael saw Mean Streets and sent me a letter saying how much he liked it—except that I used too much red. Too much red? It’s all over his ﬁlms, and that’s where I got it from!”

According to Schoonmaker, “The friendship with Michael and the long, wonderful resurgence of the movies began there.”

Scorsese later brought Powell to the Telluride Film Festival and supported a major US release for Peeping Tom, which they introduced to a younger generation of ﬁlmgoers at the New York Film Festival. Around the same time in London, Ian Christie organized the ﬁrst major Powell-Pressburger retrospective for the British Film Institute. In the late 1970s David Thomson invited Powell for a lectureship at Dartmouth College, and in 1980, Francis Ford Coppola hired Powell as senior director in residence at Zoetrope Studios in Los Angeles, where the revitalized artist tried to develop new directing projects and compose his autobiography.

TRIBUTE TO MICHAEL POWELL

be bold!’ The degree of thought that went into all that, the careful planning, and then the beautiful way it’s carried out. You have to have thought it all out. That’s the way that Marty works, too.”

Powell’s health declined during the editing of Goodfellas (1990), while Scorsese was struggling with studio brass about the ﬁlm’s edginess. For Schoonmaker, her husband’s unfailing support of Scorsese at that difﬁcult time brought the men’s relationship full circle.

Raging

in the spare bedroom of the New York apartment he shared with his wife at that time, Isabella Rossellini. Schoonmaker had worked with Scorsese in the ’60s, but had not been able to resume their association until she joined the union on this production.

“We had this insane schedule, and we were working all night,” she recalls, “and Marty was gradually educating me on Powell and Pressburger. At one point I came to work and he said, ‘Listen, I want you to go into the other room and watch this tape. I’ve just seen another Powell-Pressburger masterpiece.’ He had been afraid to look at it for a long time because he had thought he might not like it. So I took the tape of I Know Where I’m Going!, went in and watched it. For him to stop me working on Raging Bull was quite something!”

Powell would call from Dartmouth late at night, and Schoonmaker often talked with him when Scorsese was busy. They met in person when Powell was invited to dinner one evening. “I just fell in love with him immediately.”

Although Powell was 74 and Schoonmaker was 40, they were soon inseparable, living in New York when she was working and at other times in a cottage she had in San Quentin. “It was an idyllic little place, with a great view of the bay and the point. Michael loved it, and he enjoyed writing his book on the porch. He struck up a relationship with a mutt dog named Rocky who lived across the way.”

Along with his autobiography, which exists today in two massive volumes, A Life in Movies and Million Dollar Movie, Powell worked on an unﬁnished story called The Dogs of San Quentin. Schoonmaker adds, “One of the things that’s becoming clearer with the centenary, I hope, is that Michael was a great writer himself.”

Scorsese tried to help Powell mount new ﬁlm projects, and there were some tantalizing possibilities that never came to fruition. Nevertheless Powell remained an inspiration. “He was a great support to Marty,” says Schoonmaker, “and was very important to have around. For instance, he gave us the ending to After Hours (1985), and he’s the reason Raging Bull was in black and white.”

What about the influence of Powell’s films on Scorsese? “Marty and I agree that the influence is so massive, so overwhelming, that it’s sometimes very hard to illustrate. In The Red Shoes ballet, it’s the daring camerawork and the absolutely wild, emotional style. And Marty says, ‘I live these films, they’re with me every day.’ It’s like great painters going to see another painter in the Louvre. It inspires them, but it doesn’t mean they mimic them.

“. . . The amazing control that Michael had over these movies, that he could be a magician. He would say, ‘Make them believe—be bold,

Both artists knew that pushing the boundaries could invite controversy. “On The Last Temptation of Christ (1988), when we were almost ﬁnished, we were under severe attack. Marty had bodyguards—it was horrible—and Michael was such a support. Marty was afraid to show him the rough cut because he thought he wouldn’t like it. Michael stood up at the end of the cruciﬁxion, and he turned around and tears were just streaming down his face, and I knew that was the greatest gift he could have given to Marty.”

“It was wonderful seeing the two of them together,” Thelma remembers.

Richard Peterson is director of programming for the Christopher B. Smith Rafael Film Center. He will interview Thelma Schoonmaker onstage for the Mill Valley Film Festival tribute.

Following the Festival, an extensive retrospective of Michael Powell’s ﬁlms continues at the Smith Rafael Film Center. It will include the following ﬁlms:

Age of Consent (1969)

Peeping Tom (1960)

Gone to Earth (1950)

The Small Back Room (1949)

The Red Shoes (1948)

Black Narcissus (1947)

A Matter of Life and Death (1946)

I Know Where I’m Going! (1945)

A Canterbury Tale (1944)

The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)

49th Parallel (1941)

The Thief of Bagdad (1940)

The Spy in Black (1939)

The Edge of the World (1937)

Martin Scorsese, Michael Powell and Thelma Schoonmaker

Michael Powell and Thelma Schoonmaker

Age of Consent (1969)

Peeping Tom (1960)

Gone to Earth (1950)

The Small Black Room (1949)

The Red Shoes (1948)

Black Narcissus(1947)

A Matter of Life and Death(1946)

I Know Where I’m Going! (1945)

A Canterbury Tale (1944)

The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)

49th Parallel (1941)

The Thief of Bagdad (1940)

The Spy in Black (1939)

The Edge of the World (1937)

TRIBUTE TO MICHAEL POWELL

Tribute Event

Presented by Thelma Schoonmaker

Saturday Oct 8

6:30PM Rafael

Tribute Program and Reception $50 TRIB08P

Tribute Program Only $20 TRIB08R

Reception at the Outdoor Art Club follows the Tribute program.

Michael Powell, the sterling British director we celebrate on this 100th anniversary of his birth, teamed with screenwriter Emeric Pressburger to create stylistically radical romances such as The Red Shoes and Black Narcissus. After a period of neglect, Powell was rediscovered by a younger generation of innovative ﬁlmmakers, including Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola. In an onstage interview with extensive ﬁlm clips, Powell’s artistic legacy will be discussed and illustrated by Oscar ®-winning editor Thelma Schoonmaker, Powell’s widow, who met Powell through Martin Scorsese.

As part of our tribute to Michael Powell, we will also be screening two of his classic ﬁlms during the Festival:

I Know Where I’m Going!

Sunday Oct 9

12:15PM Rafael IKNO09R

UK 88 MINS 1945

Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger conjured this enchanting masterpiece starring Wendy Hiller as a materialistic young woman who travels to the Scottish Hebrides to marry a rich industrialist. A storm tosses her in the path of a penniless laird (Roger Livesey), and her values and desires are transformed under the spell of the isles. This beautiful and romantic tale is suffused with moody landscapes, Celtic magic and eccentric humor. —R. Peterson

Le Fabuleux destin of Jean-Pierre Je unet

By Kelly Clement

With only five feature films in 10 years to his credit, Jean-Pierre Jeunet has carved a place in the cinematic lexicon that few filmmakers even dream of achieving. In the process he has managed to create an entirely new genre that defies formulation and has garnered him an international fan base.

Born in Roanne, France, Jeunet had an early passion for comics and cartoons. He acquired his first movie camera as a boy and eagerly began to craft his own vision. His first forays into filmmaking were directing TV commercials and music videos; the world saw his first animated short films, L’Evasion (The Escape) in 1978 and Le Manège (The Merry-Go-Round) in 1980, the latter winning a César for best short film of the year. A fortuitous meeting with artist and comic-book creator Marc Caro, who recognized in Jeunet a kindred spirit with a love of the fantastic, began a successful 15-year collaboration. Their first short film, Le bunker de la dernière raffale (The Bunker of the Last Gunshots ) in 1981, won prizes at festivals throughout France. It was followed in 1984 by Pas de repos pour Billy Brakko and in 1989 by Foutaises (Things I Like, Things I Don’t Like), which earned the pair another César.

Emboldened by their success with short ﬁlms, Jeunet and Caro co-wrote and co-directed their first feature, Delicatessen (1991), which quickly became an international art-house sen-

sation. It was with this film that the team developed their unique directing style, with Caro coordinating the artistic elements and Jeunet guiding the actors. Set in a surreal, post-apocalyptic world, Delicatessen focuses on the denizens of a boarding house and their carnivorous appetites, and it featured an ensemble cast that would appear in future Jeunet and Caro films. Delicatessen won César awards for best first film, original screenplay, editing and production design, and it picked up numerous awards on the international festival circuit.

Jeunet and Caro next embarked on an ambitious project that had been simmering in their minds for nearly 10 years. It took four more years of preparation, but the resulting fantasy epic continued the creative team’s successful run. The City of Lost Children (1995) is an operatic adult fairy tale that follows an evil scientist who is out to steal the dreams of children. Filled with lush visuals, elaborate sets and an international cast, the ﬁlm opened the Cannes Film Festival and received international acclaim.

It was only a matter of time before Hollywood beckoned, on the weight of such commercial success, and while Caro chose to stay in France, Jeunet took the plunge and agreed to direct the fourth installment of the successful Alien series, Alien: Resurrection (1997). Teaming up Jeunet and the Alien franchise seemed like a good match. For Jeunet it was a challenging relationship, but it allowed him to continue to develop his vision.

His appetite for Hollywood satisﬁed, Jeunet returned to France to create a more personal project that would become his big-

gest hit yet. Amélie (2001) features the wonderfully talented Audrey Tautou as a lovelorn young woman who discovers the key to happiness by touching the lives of others, often in magical ways. Full of bits and pieces of stories Jeunet had been accumulating for years, Amélie further demonstrated his distinctive visual style and marked a shift from the dark, futuristic surrealism of his earlier work to a brighter contemporary world filled with optimism. A critical and commercial success, Amélie received César awards for best film and director, best original music and best production design, as well as five Oscar® nominations.

In his most recent work—and the third most expensive ﬁlm in French history—Jeunet once again employed innovative camerawork, complex and fantastical storytelling, and lush landscapes. A Very Long Engagement (2004) is the epic tale of a young woman (Tautou) who refuses to believe her fiancé has died on a World War I battleﬁeld and undertakes an extraordi-

nary journey to discover the truth. Arguably Jeunet’s most mature work to date, the ﬁlm is a tender romantic portrait of hope and passion in a world gone mad.

The world eagerly awaits the next ﬁlm from Jeunet, who is at the top of his game and who, in the years to come, will without doubt be considered one of the great storytellers of modern ﬁlmmaking.

Following the Festival, retrospective screenings of Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s ﬁlms will continue at the Christopher B. Smith Rafael Film Center. It will include the following ﬁlms: Alien: Resurrection

The City of Lost Children Delicatessen

A Very Long Engagement

On new ﬁlm technology:

“I think we are entering a new period of filmmaking that’s analogous to switching from black-and-white to color, or from silent to sound. The medium is completely flexible now, and it’s not bound by anything. If you imagine something, you can do it.”

On contrasting Amélie with surrealistic, nightmarish elements in his earlier works:

“The City of Lost Children, yes, is a dark film, and probably darker that most people imagine. It has taken me a long time to realize just how dark it is. After Alien , I realized I had never made a truly positive film. This was of interest to me; to build, rather than destroy, presented me with a new, interesting challenge. I wanted to make a sweet film at this point in my career and my life, to see if I could make people dream and give them pleasure. This is my personal film, one I dreamed of for a long time.”

Filmmaker Magazine interview, fall 2001.

—A.V. Club interview, The Onion, October 2001.

On whether he was satisﬁed with The City of Lost Children:

“You step back a little and accept that your film will be full of flaws, and that these flaws become part of the film. There is no perfect movie, ever—it doesn’t exist. If a film is successful, it’s due to a mixture of qualities and flaws. . . . At the same time, it’s a great source of frustration that there’s never perfection.”

Sony Pictures Classics™ interview, 1995.

Jeunet in His Own Words

Filmography

A Very Long Engagement (2004)

Amélie (2001)

Alien: Resurrection (1997)

The City of Lost Children (1995)

Delicatessen (1991)

Tribute Event

Thursday Oct 13

7PM Rafael

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Donald Sutherlan d’s Passionate Pursuit

An interview by Sura Wood

He’s not your average leading man. Unlike many movie stars, who only play themselves, Donald Sutherland is phenomenally versatile. In both major and minor parts, he consistently achieves a seamlessness between character and actor, a quality that has no doubt contributed to his steady work in ﬁlm for more than 40 years.

And then there’s that extraordinary voice.

Sutherland began acting in 1963, but it was his breakthrough role as Hawkeye in Robert Altman’s cultural touchstone M*A*S*H (1970) that transformed the lanky Canadian’s career. He has worked with renowned directors from Federico Fellini (Casanova) and Bernardo Bertolucci (1900) to Fred Schepisi (Six Degrees of Separation), Philip Kaufman (Invasion of the Body Snatchers), Oliver Stone (JFK), Robert Aldrich (The Dirty Dozen) and Alan J. Pakula (Klute).

SW: You were training to become an engineer. What happened?

DS: I went to the University of Toronto because I hoped to be able to act—even though I’d never acted before, nor seen a theater before, neither inside nor outside—in their Hart House Theatre, which had a Canadian reputation. My father asked me to study engineering—I had evidenced certain skills in mathematics—as a fallback when I failed in the theater. We were a pragmatic family.

SW: You are the very deﬁnition of the working actor. You’ve appeared in more than a hundred ﬁlms playing a wide variety of characters during a career that spans four decades and you’re still going strong. What do you think accounts for your longevity?

DS: Passion and an excellent wife.

SW: After reaching a certain point in their careers, some actors refuse to take small parts, but you’ve been willing to take both supporting and leading roles. Could you talk about that?

DS: In the theater that I was brought up in there was an old saw: “There are no small parts, only small actors.” I think probably that was passed around to assuage the regrets of the actors not playing the lead but, whatever, there’s a lot of relief to be found in performing when you’re not bearing a major part of the responsibility for the ﬁlm’s success, and if you can ﬁnd the delicious heart of the character and let him live inside you, it doesn’t make a lot of difference, creatively, how much time he spends on screen. The fellows in Backdraft, JFK, Johnny Got His Gun, Animal House, Little Murders, The Italian Job [and] Cold Mountain are all dear to my heart.

SW: What set of criteria do you use in selecting a script?

DS: It’s all changed over the years and it’s now down to whether or not it sings inside me. Whether or not I hear the character talking to me a couple of days after I’ve read the script. My natural inclination, though, is to turn it down, and I end up with either Josh Lieberman [his agent] or my son Roeg telling me to do it: Citizen X, Uprising, Path to War, Cold Mountain, Pride & Prejudice come immediately to mind.

SW: Hollywood is notoriously obsessed with youth. Now that you’re over 35, are there fewer opportunities than there once were?

[ I a lways thought my job was to disc over the truth of the character and rev eal it to the audience ... ]

At 70, Sutherland shows no signs of slowing down. He has completed four ﬁlms that are soon to be released and he can be seen right now in Pride & Prejudice, Lord of War and a new fall TV series, Commander-in-Chief, in which he plays the speaker of the House. Stay tuned.

DS: Twice 35, and ah, the joys of sexual congress. These youngsters all have parents don’t they, and grandparents, and mentors and uncles galore. If you took the pains to avoid the pains of plastic surgery you can have a face that will go pretty much till you die. Look at the joyous Jessica Tandy.

SW: Your looks are quite distinctive and unconventional by Hollywood standards. Also, your voice has a very special quality in its timbre and diction. Did you work on your voice?

DS: I am who I am who I have been for years and years and years. I always thought my job was to discover the truth of the character

correctly, you played William H. Macy’s father and Barbara Bain played your wife. As a couple, you seemed closer to the Macbeths than the Cleavers. What went into your performance?

DS: That’s a question for the director. My work is subjective, and the fellow I was playing was doing a job, and he slept just fine. Do you think the reality of George Bush or Donald Rumsfeld is that much different? By degrees of course—but the reality of their crimes is infinitely greater than his, and I bet they sleep just fine, cosseted in the comfort of their lies.

SW: You may be most readily associated with the character of Hawkeye in Robert Altman’s M*A*S*H. Altman is known as an actor’s director. What was your experience working with him?

DS: He wanted to ﬁre me before I’d even met him. I’d been hired to play Hawkeye by Ingo Preminger [M*A*S*H’s producer] before Robert Altman was brought on the picture because of the role I played in Bob Aldrich’s Dirty Dozen, and Altman’s request that I be replaced by one of his acolytes was overruled by Ingo. Altman then wanted to give Elliott Gould ﬁrst billing, and that, too, was overruled. What can I say, he left me in the picture, and I’m very grateful; it made my working life very interesting for me.

SW: Are there any particular roles that have been especially important to you? The fascist Attila in Bertolucci’s 1900 was a departure, was it not?

DS: No. Once again, the job’s about pursuing the truth. There are no departures. You either ﬁnd the truth or you don’t.

SW: You were politically active in the ’60s. Are you still? Looking at Jane Fonda, who starred with you in Klute, one can see that there can be a price to pay for speaking out. What do you think of actors who use their fame as a platform for their political beliefs?

DS: I admire them, their passion, their commitment to the people who live in this world who have no voice. The Swift Boaters of this world, the Karl Roves and the Grover Norquists wait for them with salivating jaws to make mincemeat of their truths and then throw it in a big mélange with a sauce of lies into the feeding troughs of America. They are there with the reputations of John McCain and Cindy Sheehan and John Kerry, all mixed up with the discovered WMDs and the terrorist link between Saddam and Osama [bin Laden].

SW: Your son, Kiefer, is a successful actor in ﬁlms and on Fox’s hit series, 24. Did you want him to become an actor, and has he taken any tips from the old man?

DS: Everything is and was his own decision. I just wanted him to have as good a life as he could make of it. I have no tips to give, and I think he has an agent.

SW: Speaking of TV, you’re playing the speaker of the House in Commander-in-Chief, a new TV series this fall. Why did you decide to take the role? How do you feel about working in television?

DS: It’s like being a fellow inside a novel. It’s extraordinary. Rod Lurie and Marc Frydman are very gifted men. For someone who thinks his job is looking for the truth, this is the mother lode.

SW: You’ve played everyone from well-heeled professionals to hippies and hit men. In an industry that tends to pigeonhole actors and keep them in a slot, you have deﬁed classiﬁcation. How did you pull that off?

DS: It’s the same question and the answer’s the same. You look for the truth in the life of the character, and you try to give it—give the information about it to the ﬁlmmaker. That’s the job. It’s a passionate pursuit. Endlessly exciting. 

M*A*S*H

Steelyard Blues

extraordinary chameleonlike talent that makes the characters he plays larger than life— Casanova for Fellini, Attila in Bertolucci’s 1900, and the unforgettable Hawkeye Pierce in Altman’s M * A * S * H . Our tribute will feature ﬁlm clips and an onstage interview with Mr. Sutherland, followed by a screening of a new version of Pride & Prejudice, in which he plays the beleaguered but droll Mr. Bennet. Afterward, we adjourn to Mill Valley’s Outdoor Art Club, where we raise our glasses to one of cinema’s coolest actors.

P ride & Prejudice

UK 127 MINS 2005

Sponsored by Christopher B. and Jeannie Meg Smith

Director Joe Wright Producers Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Paul Webster Screenwriter Deborah Moggach Cinematographer Roman Osin Editor Paul Tothill Cast Keira Knightley, Matthew MacFadyen, Brenda Blethyn, Donald Sutherland, Tom Hollander, Rosamund Pike, Jena Malone, Judi Dench Print Source Focus Features

Any straight-up, period-true adaptation of Jane Austen’s oft-retold Pride & Prejudice must contend with the long shadow of the wondrous 1995 BBC miniseries. In this perfectly cast and gorgeously ﬁlmed version, Keira Knightley expertly channels Elizabeth, by far the 20-year-old actress’ best role; and as her sparring, would-be lover Darcy, Matthew MacFadyen makes a dazzling match. The supporting cast are themselves worth the price of admission: Dame Judi Dench invents new levels of pique as the haughty Lady Catherine De Bourgh, and the peerless Donald Sutherland and Brenda Blethyn are a mismatch made in heaven as Mr. and Mrs. Bennet. The cinematography is Merchant-Ivory beautiful, even as the ﬁlm reminds us that 19th-century England wasn’t exactly the cleanest era for romance. –J. Campbell TRIBUTE

selected

Filmography

Panic (2000)

Space Cowboys (2000)

Without Limits (1998)

A Time To Kill (1996)

Six Degrees of Separation (1993)

Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992)

JFK (1991)

Backdraft (1991)

Bethune: The Making of a Hero (1990)

A Dry White Season (1989)

Lost Angels (1989)

Crackers (1984)

Eye of the Needle (1981)

Ordinary People (1980)

The First Great Train Robbery (1979)

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)

Animal House (1978)

The Kentucky Fried Movie (1977)

The Eagle Has Landed (1976)

Il Casanova Di Federico Fellini (1976)

1900 (1976)

The Day of the Locust (1975)

Don’t Look Now (1973)

Johnny Got His Gun (1971)

Klute (1971)

Kelly’s Heroes (1970)

Start the Revolution Without Me (1970)

M*A*S*H (1970)

The Dirty Dozen (1967)

Il Castello Dei Morti Vivi (1964)

Pride & Prejudice

SPOTLIGHT on Felicity Huffman

By Kristine Kolton

Is it so wrong to be a little desperate? Perhaps a bit of reckless urgency provides the key element to understanding life “in the moment.” In her honest approach to scene and character Felicity Huffman makes both the familiar and the absurd moments not just hers, but ours.

An alumna of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London, Huffman worked with David Mamet on stage in Speed the Plow and later won an Obie Award for her work in Mamet’s Cryptogram. She is a founding member of the Atlantic Theatre Company along with Mamet and her husband, actor William H. Macy.

In the brilliant and all-too-short-lived ABC series Sports Night (1998), Huffman played Dana Whitaker, the feisty, no-nonsense producer of an ESPN-like sports show. The show, created by The West Wing’s Aaron Sorkin, showcased Huffman’s talent with a rich combination of fast-paced dialogue, smart storylines and memorable characters.

Huffman has appeared in a supporting role in many ﬁlms, including Reversal of Fortune (1990), Mamet’s The Spanish Prisoner (1997) and Magnolia (1999). On the small screen, she played Lady Bird Johnson in John Frankenheimer’s HBO miniseries Path to War (2002) and starred in the critically acclaimed Showtime series Out of Order (2003) with Eric Stoltz.

Then she found a home on the soon-to-be famous Wisteria Lane. Huffman won the 2005 Emmy® Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series for her work on Desperate Housewives. What attracted her to the role of Lynette Scavo was its raw and honest portrayal of motherhood. Huffman isn’t afraid to convey the notion that a mother can be completely normal and at the same time be driven to near insanity by her children. We watch as through their maddening trials, Lynette and her four kids grow in a way that rarely makes it to any screen, large or small.

Lynette’s neighbors would never recognize her in Transamerica, in which Huffman plays Bree, a role that won her Best Actress at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival. When asked why a man did not play the film’s transsexual main character, Huffman admitted she had initially had the same thought herself. In her first meeting with director Duncan Tucker, she had actually tried to convince him that this might be a more logical option. Lucky for us, Tucker stood by his choice, stressing that the film is not about what’s under Bree’s skirt, but about Bree’s journey in becoming who she truly is.

The brilliance in Huffman’s performance of this role lies in her own journey to become more masculine as Bree learns to become more feminine. Ultimately, Huffman achieves full circle, taking Bree to a heightened, studied form of femininity that previously had been foreign to the actress herself.

Whether she’s playing an intensely self-conscious transgendered woman, a sexy but neurotic television producer or a harried mother at the end of her rope on Wisteria Lane, Felicity Huffman is always honestly in the moment, and we can’t take our eyes off her. 

Raising Helen

Sunday Oct 9

3PM Rafael

Spotlight Program and Reception $50 SPOT09P

Spotlight Program Only $20 SPOT09R

Reception at the Outdoor Art Club follows the Spotlight Program.

This year’s Spotlight focuses on the dynamic Felicity Huffman. Achieving the status of household name with her role as Lynette Scavo in the hit series Desperate Housewives, this classically trained, award-winning stage actress ﬁrst gained attention for her television appearances on Frasier and Sports Night. Huffman’s latest, a courageous, Oscar®-caliber performance in Transamerica, is sure to garner her even more attention.

Our Spotlight begins with an onstage inter view with Ms. Huffman, followed by a screening of Transamerica After the screening, we head to the enchanting Outdoor Art Club, at the foot of Mt. Tamalpais in Mill Valley, for a reception with a delicious array of food and drink.

Transamerica

US 103 MINS 2005

Director/Screenwriter Duncan Tucker Producers Rene Bastian, Sebastian Dungan, Linda Moran Cinema tographers Stephen Kazmierski, Tom Camarda Editor Pam Wise Cast Felicity Huffman, Kevin Zegers, Fionnula Flanagan, Graham Greene, Elizabeth Peña Print Source The Wein stein Company

In her moving portrayal of an emotionally frozen, closeted transsexual, Felicity Huffman sheds her Desperate Housewives image as ferociously as her character, Bree Osborne, wants to shed her masculinity. Bree is “living stealth,” estranged from her family and weeks away from the last surgical operation of her gender transformation, when the 17-year-old son she didn’t know she had calls from a Manhattan jail. Thus begins a series of events that leads to father and son journeying across the US from New York to Los Angeles. A humorous, mishap-laden road trip full of misperceptions, lies, smeared lipstick and fateful encounters (à la Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, but in prim pastel skirt-suits), the ﬁlm explores the difﬁculties of reconciling the past with the future, and desire with social mores. Transamerica’s hopeful message is that accepting and being seen for all that we are is the ultimate, true transformation. —J. Campbell

Filmography

Transamerica (2005)

Christmas with The Kranks (2004)

Reversible Errors (2004)

Raising Helen (2004)

House Hunting (2003)

Magnolia (1999)

The Spanish Prisoner (1997)

Hackers (1995)

Reversal of Fortune (1990)

Things Change (1988)

Notable Television Appearances

Desperate Housewives (2004–2005)

The D.A. (2004)

Frasier (2003)

Sports Night (1998–2000)

Chicago Hope (1997)

The X Files (1993)

Law & Order (1992, 1997)

Transamerica

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Jeff Daniels: The Triumph of Decency

By Michael Fox

From the moment he appears on screen, Jeff Daniels exudes likeabil ity and trustworthiness. He’s the quintessential guy next door, with a what-you-see-is-what-you-get quality that’s as refreshing as it is reassuring. We tend to dismiss such naturalness in actors—and people—and underestimate their depth. Take Daniels’ note-perfect performance as the clean-cut, square Mr. Johnson who runs the cor ner soda shop in Pleasantville (1998). When the town awakens from its ’50s fog and begins to morph from black-and-white to color, Mr. Johnson blossoms into an enthusiastic painter. Such passion and talent behind that smooth veneer—who knew?

The same might be said of Jeff Daniels, but only by someone who hasn’t been paying attention. From his start in the 1970s with Circle Repertory Company in Manhattan, Daniels displayed a ﬁerce commit ment to the stage. Later, after achieving some success in the mov ies, he founded the Purple Rose Theatre in his hometown of Chel sea, Michigan. Daniels has written a number of plays for the company, which provides a training ground for young talent. (His latest, Guest Artist , premieres this winter.) He also brought indie ﬁlmmaking to Michigan’s Upper Peninsula for Escanaba in Da Moonlight, a family comedy Daniels wrote, directed and starred in.

It is his big-screen contribution, however, that has brought Daniels wide acclaim. His first memorable appearance was in Terms of Endearment (1983), as Debra Winger’s fallible husband. Woody Allen then cast him as the improbably decent archaeologist who walks through the screen into waitress Mia Farrow’s life in The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985). With his square jaw and can-do stride, Daniels evoked the earnestness of vintage matinee idols but without the self-seriousness. This marvelous sensibility has lent itself to both comedy and family drama, and Daniels rang every change as the uptight yuppie held captive by Melanie Griffith in Jonathan Demme’s Something Wild (1986).

With a dignity and gravity that hearken back to an earlier era, Daniels shone as Col. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain in Gettysburg (1993), and again a decade later in Gods and Generals. In an opposing vein, he then embraced indignity, as Jim Carrey’s brother in Dumb and Dumber (1994), the movie that introduced the world to the Farrelly Brothers.

Daniels has portrayed myriad characters with unusual nuance and subtlety, from his father roles in Fly Away Home (1996) and Because of Winn-Dixie (2002) to Clint Eastwood’s sidekick in the detective story Blood Work (2002) and Meryl Streep’s romantic rival in The Hours (2002). In his most recent ﬁlm Daniels gives richly layered performance as a Brooklyn professor whose marriage is ending, in Noah Baumbach’s The Squid and the Whale

Daniels is a pretty fair guitar player and a practiced singer-songwriter. Perhaps he’ll swing by the Sweetwater while he’s in town and treat the crowd to tunes like “If William Shatner Can, I Can Too” or his antiwar song, “Michigan My Michigan”—songs that commemorate key moments and that he keeps in an overstuffed notebook. “If you really wanted to get to know me, you’d find me in there,” he has said. We do know Jeff Daniels—trustworthy, self-effacing and a heck of a good sport—from his ﬁlms. As talented an actor as he is, he can’t disguise his nature. 

The Purple Rose of Cairo

TRIBUTE TO JEFF DANIELS

Tribute Event

Sunday Oct 16

5PM Rafael

Tribute Program and Closing Night Party $65 TRIB16P

Tribute Program Only $20 TRIB16R

Closing Night Party at the Mill Valley Community Center follows the Tribute program.

Tribute to Jeff Daniels

Jeff Daniels’ affable everyman appeal makes him one of the most accessible actors on screen. He’s the perfect straight man, whether it’s to a ﬂock of geese or a maniacal Jim Carrey. In a departure from his usual good-guy roles, Daniels is wrenchingly brilliant as a passive-aggressive husband in The Squid and the Whale. Our tribute begins with an onstage interview and is followed by a screening of the ﬁlm.

See page 65 for Closing Night Tribute information.

selected

Filmography

The Squid and the Whale (2005)

Imaginary Heroes (2004)

The Goodbye Girl (2004)

Gods and Generals (2003)

The Hours (2002)

Blood Work (2002)

Super Sucker (2002)

Escanaba In Da Moonlight (2001)

Chasing Sleep (2000)

My Favorite Martian (1999)

Pleasantville (1998)

101 Dalmatians (1996)

2 Days In the Valley (1996)

Fly Away Home (1996)

Redwood Curtain (1995)

Dumb and Dumber (1994)

Speed (1994)

Gettysburg (1993)

There Goes the Neighborhood (1992)

Rain Without Thunder (1992)

The Butcher’s Wife (1991)

Love Hurts (1991)

Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael (1990)

Arachnophobia (1990)

Checking Out (1989)

Sweet Hearts Dance (1988)

The House on Carroll Street (1988)

Radio Days (1987)

Something Wild (1986)

Heartburn (1986)

The Squid and the Whale

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Films

Bluebird In Dutch with English subtitles

The Fakir In Danish with English subtitles

Hoppity Goes to Town

Immediate Boarding In French with English subtitles

The Incomparable Miss C. In French with English subtitles

Lepel In Dutch with English subtitles

Let the Children Lead (Shorts Program)

Max and Josef: Double Trouble In Swedish with English subtitles

Pelican Man In Finnish with English subtitles

Short Films for Little People (Shorts Program)

Spirit Bear: The Simon Jackson Story

Winter Song In Farsi with English subtitles

Wolf Summer In Norwegian with English subtitles

THE MILL VALLEY FILM FESTIVAL IS PROUD TO PRESENT THE 11TH ANNUAL CHILDREN’S FILMFEST

The Festival isn’t only for adults! Welcome to the 11th anniversary of the Children’s FilmFest. The wide, wide world is out there in superb children’s films—they just rarely make it into theaters. Let the Children’s FilmFest be your remedy! Among this year’s Festival selections: Harry Potter has competition in The Fakir, and imagination overruns its limits with a pelican who achieves his goal to be human in Pelican Man. Dutch films treat serious subjects like bullying and body image in XL and Bluebird and then take off like a hot air balloon with the fantasy Lepel . The great news for parents is that you will enjoy these films as much as your kids. And our hands-on filmmaking workshop for young people rounds out another fun family experience.

Opening Film and Festivities

THE FAKIR

Saturday Oct 8

11:30AM Sequoia

2–4PM Party at Outdoor Art Club, Mill Valley Film and Party $15 adults, $12 children FAKI08P Film Only $10 adults, $8 children FAKI08S

Join us for the Western US Premiere of The Fakir, a dazzling Danish tale of magic and mayhem for all ages. See page 73 for ﬁlm description

Our special opening event gives kids a sneak peek at the new book (to be published in November) A Movie Mouse, the story of Marcello Moustroiani. Marin residents Liz Hockinson and Kathryn Otoshi, who wrote and illustrated the book, will read from it and project animated pages for our delight. Refreshments will follow.

Ice Cream and Kazoos

Saturday Oct 15

12–2PM Rafael

FREE with any 2005 Children’s FilmFest ticket stub

Closing Film

PELICAN MAN

Sunday Oct 16

2:45PM Rafael PELI16R

Join director Liisa Helminen for her international award-winning film. See page 82 for ﬁlm description.

About Subtitles

To enhance our younger audiences’ appreciation of foreign films appearing in the Children’s FilmFest, we provide simultaneous subtitle reading by professional vocal artists for many of the ﬁlms that are not in English. We are unique among North American children’s film festivals in that subtitled children’s programs at the Christopher B. Smith Rafael Film Center can be heard through individual earphones, allowing those who wish to read the subtitles or listen closely to the original language to do so undisturbed. To avoid confusion and disappointment, please refer to the ﬁlm listings below for subtitle information on individual programs.

Age Recommendations

Please bear in mind that the age ranges assigned to children’s ﬁlms (following each program description) are merely suggested recommendations based on careful assessment of tone, subject matter, language and other content that may be of concern to parents. Although we are very experienced in assigning these age designations, we also recognize that every child is different and every parent has different standards. Please use these recommendations as a guide to help you make your own decision.

SCRIPT TO SCREEN WORKSHOP: YOUNG FILMMAKERS PLAY CINEMASPORTS!

Saturday and Sunday

Oct 8 workshop 10AM–1PM

Outdoor Art Club, Mill Valley

Oct 9 workshop 9AM–4PM

Oct 9 ﬁlm screening 8PM

Masonic Hall, Mill Valley

$200 WORK08

Limited Enrollment. Ages 8 to 18. Attendance required for both days. Includes individual ticket to screening.

We’ve given our traditional workshop format a new twist. As always, it provides kids with the opportunity to be both cast and crew and participate in nearly every stage of the filmmaking process of their own fiction film. But this year, MVFF has partnered with an organization called Cinemasports to add a new feature: a creative race against the clock to make a film in a day. Cinemasports has kindly invited three local youth teams to participate, and we need young team members to help us achieve this incredible cinematic feat!

Saturday we will learn basic ﬁlmmaking instruction and techniques and organize our teams and resources. Sunday we will join dozens of adult ﬁlmmaking teams in a race to make our movies!

Here’s how it works: Sunday morning, each team will receive a short list of predeter mined mandatory “ingredients” for their films, and they must return with a completed short (3 1 ⁄ 2 minutes or less) film by that same evening. The big payoff comes at 8PM with a public screening of the submitted entries. Everyone will get to see how each team used the same elements to create entirely different stories.

So come be a ﬁlmmaker for a day, and invite your friends and families to witness the results at the screening Sunday night. (Separate admission tickets for nonteam members cost $10 and are available for purchase at the MVFF box ofﬁce.)

Sweet and Sick

Saturday Oct 15 11AM Rafael

In addition to our youth-produced reel, Sweet and Sick , and the Children’s FilmFest, many ﬁlms in the festival involve youth and children:

5@5: All I Really Want To Do

5@5: It’s All Over Now Baby Blue Boats out of Watermelon Rind

Brick

Bride of Silence

Delwende

The Devil’s Miner

Fateless

Hidden Flaws

Innocent Voices

The Squid and the Whale Toon for the Misbegotten

Troop 1500: Girl Scouts Beyond Bars

While Michael Powell’s The Red Shoes (see page 35) has no youth in it, the film has inspired young dancers throughout its history.

YOUNG CRITICS JURY AND THE YOUTH REEL

Now in its fourth year, the Young Critics Jury is developing a rich history. It’s a three-day crash course in everything (and we mean everything) about ﬁlm that we can cram in, through lectures, demonstrations, roundtable talks, ﬁlm screenings and some hands-on work. Meeting in July, the young critics emerge from the course better prepared to understand the world of media around them.

A special treat this year was a screening of Raiders of the Lost Ark: The Adaptation , a shot-by-shot remake of the Spielberg ﬁlm done by three Mississippi teens, who appeared for a Q&A after the ﬁlm and hung out with the students for a private hour.

The second tier of the Young Critics Jury program is the jury itself. Six students chosen from the larger three-day group go on to judge entries from youth all over the country, winnowing the selection down to a 90minute program. This year’s Youth Reel, Sweet and Sick, was juried by six patient peers: Russell Aguilar, Caitlin Carter, Justin Newcomer, Jeremy Rice, Andrew Rose and Arianna Taboada.

Youth Focus

California Film Institute Outreach

CFI Outreach and Education: Building the Next Generation of Audiences and Filmmakers

Film engages and inspires like no other medium. For nearly two decades, the Mill Valley Film Festival and the California Film Institute have pioneered ﬁlm programs for Bay Area students of all ages, bringing ﬁlm into the classroom as a personalized educational tool that expands and deepens our view of the world.

Crossing disciplines as well as borders, CFI Outreach in-school programming provides language, history, science and social studies teachers alike with dynamic material and activities. Film screenings, guest speakers and study guides expose students to new ideas and different cultures and create a forum for students to speak with ﬁlmmakers and well-known cultural ﬁgures.

Past programs have included ﬁlmmaker Sam Green, whose Academy Award®nominated The Weather Underground chronicles the turbulent political climate

of the 1960s, who appeared with Bill Ayers, a Weathermen co-founder; and David Hickson, director of Beat the Drum, a dramatic ﬁlm that looks at the AIDS epidemic in Africa through a young boy’s eyes.

During the Mill Valley Film Festival, CFI Outreach goes behind the screen, offering workshops and seminars designed for young filmmakers to gain a better understanding of the medium, develop critical thinking skills and harness the power of film to find their own voices by creating their own stories. Please see page 59 for this year’s MVFF children and youth activities.

CFI Outreach annually serves more than 3,000 Bay Area students and teachers. Most programs are free of charge, thanks to generous underwriting from our community partners. For additional information or to help support this vital education program, please visit us online at caﬁlm.org, or call

415.383.5256 x113 to speak with John Morrison, CFI Outreach manager.

New Movies Lab

15 RULES ON SPIN

Saturday Oct 8

11AM—12:30PM Rafael $15 LAB08R

An essential for ﬁlmmakers, this workshop gives the fundamental tools of media communications. Learn how to prepare, to be empowered and to instantly win over your audience. Lynda Hansen will cover the different approaches needed for TV, radio and print interviews. Your passion, your experience, your story and how you tell it will win the attention of reps, festival programmers and future funders. Once you know the 15 rules, you can do anything.

Workshop Leader: Lynda Hansen

CEO of Lynda A. Hansen & Associates, Ltd. Her credits include: The New York Foundation for the Arts; Hamptons Film Festival; Berlin Film Festival; American Independents and Features Abroad. Presented in association with Film Arts Foundation.

FRAME BY FRAME: FILM, PHILANTHROPY AND CREATIVE ENGAGEMENT

Saturday Oct 8

1:30—3:30PM Rafael $15 SEM08R

Social-issue films so often inspire the question, what can I do? This panel addresses some of the ways filmmakers answer that question, creating work that engages with disenfranchised communities and with issues of social, racial, political and environmental justice. The panelists are all working on projects creatively involved in changing the world through film. This promises to be an inspiring discussion for filmmakers and film lovers alike.

Invited guests:

Facilitator: Shakti Butler PhD, executive director, World Trust Educational Services; producerdirector, The Way Home, Light in the Shadows

John Karr director, New Media, the Asia Foundation

Nancy Kelly producer-director, Smitten , Downside Up , Thousand Pieces of Gold

Silvije Petranovic director, The Society of Jesus (The Jesuits)

Elizabeth Silkes executive director, FilmAid International

CINEMASPORTS

Sunday Oct 9

Intro Meeting 9–9:30AM FREE Masonic Hall, Mill Valley

Sunday Oct 9 Film Screening

8PM Masonic Hall, Mill Valley $10 CSP09M

An energetic fusion of imagination, collaboration and tournament, Cinemasports is a race against the clock to make a film in a day! The requirements: Crews of any shape and size arrive at 9AM self-equipped and ready to shoot and edit their own films by the same-day deadline. They receive a short list of predetermined mandatory “ingredients” for the films and must return with a completed short film (31⁄2 minutes or less) by 6:30PM that evening. The payoff comes at 8PM at a public screening of the submitted entries, where we will witness the various ways in which the same elements have been used to make entirely different movies. The Mill Valley Film Festival and Cinemasports are pleased to co-present this exciting opportunity for filmmakers and film enthusiasts alike. Come be a filmmaker for a day, or just join us to behold the results!

DIGITAL INDEPENDENCE:

NEXT-GENERATION INNOVATIONS

Sunday Oct 9

10:30AM–12:30PM Rafael $15 LAB09R

Indie media makers are rapidly learning to surf the new waves of ofﬂine, online and on-demand production, postproduction and delivery systems. Come learn the latest tricks and treats of the trade from this stellar line-up of specialists operating in the high and low-tech domains.

Invited guests:

Jin Woo Joo founder, Cinemasports

Doug McMillan creative director and R&D development director, elementFX

Sandy Pearlman producer, music critic and former president, 415 Records

Brant J. Smith Vice President, Lasoo On-Demand Television, and producer, Quality of Life

Bart Weiss founder, Video Association of Dallas

Aerlyn Weissman director, Web Cam Girls

Facilitator: Karen Schwartzman, Creative Axis International

THE FUTURE OF FAMILY FILMS

Sunday Oct 16

11AM–12:30PM 142 Throckmorton $15 SEM16T

Family Films: What are they, who makes them (and how do they make them), who watches them, how do you find them and how do you know you can take your children to them? Our panelists will shed light on this elusive genre.

Invited guests:

Jim Steyer author, The Other Parent ; founder, Common Sense Media

Liisa Helminen writer-director, Pelican Man , Urpo and Turpo

Mary Jane Burke Marin superintendent of schools

Bob Peterson writer, Finding Nemo

Mark Rendall actor, Spirit Bear: The Simon Jackson Story

GOING OUT TO THE MOVIES: IS THE ROMANCE OVER?

Sunday Oct 16

1:30–3PM 142 Throckmorton $15 LAB16T

While newspapers, Entertainment Weekly and CNN predict the doom of the theatrical movie industry, audiences are ﬂocking to ﬁlms like March of the Penguins. Are on-demand and plasma TV and DVDs destroying America’s greatest pastime? Is the industry simply not paying attention or is it turning fear into reality? Join industry veterans, directors and others on the frontlines—sales agents and distributors—in a discussion about the future of cinema.

Panelists to be announced.

Please note: The lineup of panelists may change. We cannot guarantee that those listed will be the ﬁnal guests. Updates will be listed at the festival box ofﬁces, or check our web site, mvff.com

To assist you in selecting your films, our Festival categories, described below, are identified next to each film’s description. Look out as well for two special Focus categories: Fespaco/PRAI (the Paul Robeson Awards Initiative), celebrating award-winning films from Africa and the African diaspora; and Women Make Movies , honoring the New York-based distributor that has helped women’s voices be heard throughout the world.

[ Ofﬁcial Premiere Selection ]

The Official Premiere Selection introduces new domestic and international films to the US. The popularity of independent international films in the San Francisco Bay Area makes MVFF an important launching pad into the American market.

[ World Cinema ]

Whether their objective is to move, provoke, entertain, amuse or thrill, the ﬁlms in the World Cinema section tell stories that reveal elements of the universal, while changing our ways of seeing and understanding our global neighbors.

[ US Cinema ]

A showcase for new American ﬁlms, US Cinema celebrates the work of well-known masters and emerging ﬁlmmakers who share a common talent for independent, insightful storytelling.

[ Valley of the Docs ]

Reality spins some of the most fascinating yarns of all. The Valley of the Docs presents the latest in documentary ﬁlmmaking, in which ﬁlmmakers from around the world explore the consequences of truth.

[ V(ision)Fest ]

Tomorrow’s technology is today’s medium for the imagination. V(ision)Fest mediamakers come from the school of all possibilities. They are the innovators and experimenters who are ready to shake, rattle and reboot the state of cinema.

[ 5@5 ]

This popular daily screening series is a testament to the fine art of the short film. Eclectic in both content and filmmaking style, the series each year is an assortment of filmic gems by emerging and established makers and masters.

[ Children’s Filmfest ]

A cinematic globetrot for kids of all ages, the Children’s FilmFest gives young people a taste of cultures and adventures they won’t get anywhere else, as well as hands-on ﬁlmmaking workshops.

[ Ofﬁcial Premiere Selection ]

Accidents

Ramón Alòs Sánchez, Miloje Popovic, Toni Trupia Italy

Amongst White Clouds

Edward A. Burger Canada/China

The Art of Breaking Up

Michel Deville France

Bed Stories

Kirill Serebrennikov Russia

Been Rich All My Life

Heather Lyn MacDonald US

Berkeley

Bobby Roth US

Brotherly Jazz: The Music and Stories of Percy, Jimmy and Albert “Tootie” Heath Jesse Block US

Bye-Bye Blackbird

Robinson Savary France/Luxembourg/Germany/UK/Austria

The Californians

Jonathan Parker US

Carpatia

Andrzej Klamt, Ulrich Rydzewski Germany/Austria

Dallas Among Us

Robert Adrian Pejo Hungary/Germany/Austria

Delwende

S. Pierre Yaméogo Burkina Faso/France

Frozen Land

Aku Louhimies Finland

The Girl from Auschwitz

Stefan Jarl Sweden

Girlfriend, Someone Please Stop the World

Ryuichi Hiroki Japan

Guernsey

Nanouk Leopold Netherlands

Hidden Flaws

Paula van der Oest Netherlands

Moon and Cherry

Yuki Tanada Japan

My Nikifor

Krzysztof Krauze Poland

Need

Rob Nilsson US

Niji No Shita Ni / Under the Rainbow

J.R. Heffelﬁnger Japan/US

North Country

Niki Caro US

The Queen of Sheba’s Pearls

Colin Nutley Sweden/UK

Round Trip

Alessandro Paci, Giancarlo Torri Italy

Saratan

Ernest Abdyshaparov Kyrgzstan/Germany

Scared New World

Chris Brown US

Sophie Scholl: The Last Days

Marc Rothemud Germany

SOUND OF THE SOUL: The Fez Festival of World Sacred Music Stephen Olsson US

Springtime

Ryu Jang-ha Korea

The Undeserved

Brad Coley US

Video Out

Paul Vlachos, Meredith Finkelstein US

7PM and 7:15PM Sequoia

7PM Film Only $20 MATA06S

Film and Gala $125 MATA06P

7:15PM Film Only $20 MAT206S

Film and Gala $125 MAT206P

US 2004 97 MINS

Director/Screenwriter Richard Shepard Producers Pierce Brosnan, Bryan Furst, Sean Furst Cinematographer David Tattersall Editor Carole Kravetz Cast Pierce Brosnan, Greg Kinnear, Hope Davis, Philip Baker Hall, Adam Scott, Dylan Baker Print Source The Weinstein Company

In this stylish, hilarious confection about a hit man and the damage done, Pierce Brosnan drags his impeccable James Bond persona through the wringer and down several ﬂights of stairs to create Julian Noble, a gone-to-seed assassin whose killer’s vanity is only matched by his love of liquor and sex. His own vanity forgotten, Brosnan makes Noble—a “facilitator of fatalities”—outrageously inappropriate, a profane wreck. Happenstance throws Noble together with chirpy suburban husband Danny Wright (Greg Kinnear); as this unlikely pair runs out of luck in Mexico City, each desperately wants what the other has. With gorgeous visuals (courtesy of Star Wars’ Tattersall) and a great soundtrack, the ﬁlm crackles along as each man confronts his own Faustian bargain to a strangely sweet end. Still, it’s Brosnan and his magnetic cauldron of preening, pleading, irrepressible charm that really kills. —J. Campbell

The Sleeping Child

Saturday Oct 15 4:45

Director/Screenwriter Yasmine Kassari Producer Jean-Jacques Andrien Cinematographer Yorgos Arvanitis Editor Susana Roosberg Cast Mounia Osfour, Rachida Brakni Print Source Les Films de la Drève

Exquisitely shot in the desert landscapes of Morocco, Yasmine Kassari’s insightful feature debut takes place in the extreme simplicity and poverty of a rural village. Newly married, Zeinab soon ﬁnds herself pregnant, but her husband, along with the other menfolk, has left to join the clandestine labor force in Europe. So she uses a charm to have her unborn infant sleep until a more auspicious time for its birth. Meanwhile, Zeinab’s friend Halima pursues an encounter with a young man from a neighboring village, to the ire of her elders. With no telephone, the women go to enormous lengths to communicate with the men, via videos and photographs made in a town nearby—it’s as though everyone, like the unborn baby, is stuck in time. Kassari’s poetic visuals reveal lives supported and sustained by so little tangible stuff, yet driven by a passion and intelligence that even illiteracy will not stop. —Z. Elton

So Close, So Far

Thursday Oct 13 6 PM

Saturday Oct 15 12 PM

Director/Producer Seyyed Reza Mir-Karimi Screenwriter Seyyed Reza Mir-Karimi, Mohammad Reza Gohari Cinematographer Hamid Khozouie-Abyane Editor Bahram Ardalan Cast Masoud Raygan, Alshin Hashemi, Elham Hamidi Print Source Reza Mir-Karimi/Soureh Cinema

Director Seyyed Reza Mir-Karimi (Under the Moonlight) is known for his subtle integration of a timeless spirituality into his contemporary Iranian dramas, and in his newest feature he focuses on a lost soul forced to confront his core values in the face of personal tragedy. Mahmoud Alem, a highly successful but self-absorbed neurologist, is shocked to discover that the 18-year-old son he has long neglected is terminally ill. Setting off to locate and reconcile with his child, who has left on an astronomy project in the desert, Alem’s travels soon become a journey of self-discovery as he encounters along the way a number of seemingly ordinary people who challenge his very limited view of the world. A rare gem of a ﬁlm, So Close, So Far is a compelling new vision of Iranian society, with exquisite cinematography that reveals the desert’s sweeping grandeur as you have never seen it before. —K. Clement

The Society of Jesus (The Jesuits)

Director/Producer/Screenwriter Silvije Petranovic Cinematographer Miso Orepic Editor Andrija Zafranovic Cast Leona Paraminski, Milan Plestina, Ivica Vidovic Print Source Maydi Film

A missionary assigned to be the confessor for a rich young widow is urged by his superiors to sway her into “donating” her land and wealth to the church. The elegant, lonely countess, meanwhile, has her own, slightly more carnal ulterior motive for keeping the handsome priest around. While the battle for the priest’s soul rages, he struggles against both his own temptations of the flesh and the machinations of a post-medieval Faith, Inc. Epic panoramic visuals contrast with the characters’ aims and efforts, reminding us of life’s awesome natural beauty. Masterfully performed by an all-star Croatian cast, director Silvije Petranovic’s tale of repression and religion may take place in 17th-century Eastern Europe, but don’t let the historical setting fool you: Substitute the film’s power-hungry Jesuits with the corrupt factions that have run roughshod over the Balkans during the last fifty years, and the message would remain the same. —D. Fear

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Sophie Scholl: The Last Days GERMANY 2005 117 MINS Friday Oct 7 6:30 PM SOPH07S Sequoia

Director Marc Rothemud Producers Christoph Müller, Sven Burgemeister Screenwriter Fred Breinersdorfer Cinematographer Martin Langer Editor Hans Funck Cast Julia Jentsch, Alexander Held, Fabian Hinrichs, Johanna Gastdorf Print Source Zeitgeist Films

In what began with idealistic, if naïve, determination, disillusioned university students decide to resist the government by distributing leaflets advocating passive resistance; the action results in their arrest, interrogation and trial. In 1942, Sophie and Hans Scholl were students at the University of Munich, when their group of friends, sharing a love of the arts and a passion for philosophy and theology, formed the underground anti-Nazi group the White Rose. The film focuses on a psychological war of will and determination in which Sophie, played unerringly by Julia Jentsch (The Edukators), spars, unapologetic and defiant, first with her Gestapo interrogator and later with the show trial’s judge. Drawing from recently released transcripts of these sessions and with artful and assured direction, Sophie Scholl: The Finals Days is an impassioned, unforgettable experience. Jentsch’s performance of a lifetime won her Best Actress at the 2005 Berlin Film Festival. —R. McNair

Presented in association with the Goethe Institute Sponsored by Hartmann Studios

Soul of Justice: Thelton Henderson’s

Oct 10

Director/Producer Abby Ginzberg Screenwriter/Editor Rick Goldsmith Cinematographers Vicente Franco, Eli Adler Print Source California Newsreel

From the inhumane treatment of inmates at California’s Pelican Bay prison to the annihilation of dolphins by tuna harvesters, Judge Thelton Henderson has heard countless abuses of power and has consistently ruled on the side of justice. A quietly eloquent man of unsurpassed character, Henderson was the first black attorney recruited for the Civil Rights Division of Robert F. Kennedy’s Department of Justice, and was appointed to the federal bench in 1980. Never one to seek the spotlight, Henderson drew strong public criticism from conservatives after ruling Prop. 209 (which ended affirmative action) to be unconstitutional. Local filmmaker Abby Ginzberg delivers a rousing profile in courage. —M. Fox Preceded by Lion Director Adam Pilkington

US/ZAMBIA 2005 15 MINS One of the innumerable orphans AIDS has created in Zambia, 15-year-old Anthony “jumps up” from street life to attend high school.

SOUND OF THE SOUL: The Fez Festival of World Sacred Music US 2005 70 MINS

Sunday Oct 9 5:45 PM SOUN09R Rafael

Thursday Oct 13 7 PM SOUN13S Sequoia

Director/Producer/Screenwriter Stephen Olsson Cinematographers Andy Black, Stephen Olsson Editors Rhonda Collins, Marianne Yusavage Print Source Cultural and Educational Media

The human spirit’s communion with others, with God and through music shines in Stephen Olsson’s glorious homage to the Fez Festival of World Sacred Music in Morocco. He begins with Fez itself: its ancient heritage of tolerance, as a city of Muslim, Jewish and Christian inhabitants; its Suﬁ foundations; its evocative medieval sites. It’s the ideal location for a festival that brings together an incredible array of musicians, including an early music ensemble from France, a group of north African Berber women, a Portuguese Fado singer, players from Afghanistan, Russia, Ireland, England and, of course, Moroccan Suﬁs. All are bound by the expression of love and longing through their artistry, and by the communication of the divine they impart to their audiences. Olsson captures a glimpse of this ecstasy for us and reveals the heartbeat behind brilliant Afghan singer Farida Mahwash’s observation, “Music is the sound of the soul.” —Z. Elton

Ustad Farida Mahwash performs live at 142 Throckmorton, Thursday Oct 13. See page 24. Sponsored by Katz Family Foundation

Spirit Bear: The Simon Jackson Story

Director Stefan Scaini Producers Heather Haldane, Mary Young Leckie Screenwriter Kent Staines Cinematographer Michael Storey Editor Michael Lee Cast Mark Rendall, Graham Greene, Ed Begley Jr. Print Source Marvista

In English British Columbian teen Simon Jackson stopped a lumber conglomerate in its tracks in the late 1990s when it became evident that its business threatened the habitat of a rare white bear called “Spirit Bear” by native Indians. Jackson was no superhero; he wasn’t even a perfect kid, just a boy with a strong love of nature whose personal commitment bloomed into a large grassroots organization—before he had even graduated from high school. Mark Rendall gives a standout performance as Jackson, who jockeys for public attention with his archenemy, timber magnate Frank Perdue, played with some sympathy by Ed Begley Jr. Graham Greene plays a wonderful character who ﬁnds his own redemption in Simon’s campaign. Told with honesty and immediacy, Spirit Bear speaks to youth who want to make a difference in the world. Ages 9+ —J. Morrison

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Springtime KOREA 2004 128 MINS

Saturday Oct 8 2:15 PM SPRI08S Sequoia

Sunday Oct 9 2:45 PM SPRI09R Rafael

Director Ryu Jang-ha Producer Choi Yong-bae Cinematographer Lee Mo-gae Editor Kim Hyun Cast Choi Min-sik, Jang Sin-young, Kim Kang-woo Print Source TUBE Entertainment

Lee Hyeon-woo is dangerously close to hitting rock bottom. A former professional trumpeter and composer, Lee has been reduced to giving music lessons for petty cash. His bitterness has alienated his friends, his ex-wife and his mother, who’s ready for her cantankerous son to quit moping around her house. In desperation, Lee leaves Seoul and begrudgingly accepts a job teaching band classes in a small-town middle school. It is only once he gets to know his tone-deaf students that Lee ﬁnds the courage to slowly rebuild his life from the ground up. A popular hit at home, this South Korean drama about second chances never stoops to conquer with easy sentimentality or sappy moral codas. Grounded by a beautifully understated performance from Choi Min-sik (Oldboy), Springtime is the rare inspirational movie that doesn’t require an insulin shot and ﬁnds true grace in its seasonal tale of rebirth and blooming anew. —D. Fear

Presented in association with NAATA

State of Fear

Monday Oct 10 9:30 PM STAT10R Rafael

Saturday Oct 15 2:15 PM STAT15S Sequoia

Director Pamela Yates Producer Paco de Onís Screenwriters Pamela Yates, Peter Kinoy, Paco de Onís Cinematographer Juan Durán

Editor Peter Kinoy Print Source Skylight Pictures

Insurgents attack the military and murder their fellow countrymen without remorse. Government ofﬁcials go beyond the law to curb the terrorist threat they begin to see in every face. Sound familiar? No, not Iraq, but Peru, whose blood-soaked 20-year “war on terror” (1980–2000) erupted out of a volatile atmosphere of desperation, corruption and ideology gone wrong. Oscar®-winning ﬁlmmaker Pamela Yates (Poverty Outlaw, MVFF 1997) traces the war’s origins and lays bare its devastations, giving equal weight to the fanatic Marxist-Maoist Shining Path movement and the power-hungry government of President Alberto Fujimori for creating a state of fear and escalating violence that left 70,000 civilians dead. Interviews with both perpetrators and victims, paired with archival footage and a sharply focused historical overview, make this masterful documentary essential viewing for anyone still unclear about how the commodities of democracy and terrorism can be traded against the people for personal and political gain. —D. Quinones

Sweet and Sick

Saturday Oct 15 11 AM

2005 - TOTAL PROGRAM 74 MINS

SWEE15R Rafael

Out of the drizzle and fog of Seattle, Washington, and the deserts of Santa Fe, New Mexico; along the Delaware River in New Jersey, and from Idyllwild, San Francisco and the sweet smell of redwoods in Marin County in California come those indefatigable youths holding cameras and boom mikes—the filmmakers of tomorrow. Borrowing two favorite teen words as its title, this reel of short films was peer juried, as it is every July, by the Young Critics’ Jury, and it’s full of surprises. It’s been a banner year for all genres, with films that range from the mature and thoughtful to the immature and rude, from documentary to personal cinema and from political to apolitical. No apologies for age here, either; anyone of any age would be proud of these films. Many of the 15-year-old and older filmmakers will be at the screening to answer questions afterward. —J. Morrison

In the world of sexuality one thing is true: We are all unique. This delightful collection of gay and lesbian shorts bares extraordinary passions. Gay families are described through the eyes of their children in Jacqui Frost’s What Is Gay? (25 mins). In Kathy Huang and Leigh Iacobucci’s Jaywalking (9 mins), local drag king performance artists Jay Walker (Jeanne Sevelius), Elvis Herselvis (Leigh Crow) and Arty Fishal (Leslie Einhorn) push the gender limit. Chaste love is transformative, in San Francisco-based ﬁlmmaker Eric Smith’s Irene Williams: Queen of Lincoln Road (23 mins) and Michael Wallin’s To Hold a Heart (13 mins). Colorado ﬁlmmakers Wade Gardner and Josh Weinberg’s Beers, Steers and Queers (7 mins) liberates rodeo from stereotypes. In Antonia Kao’s Pup (23 mins), devout Bay Area gay Christian men expose what they like to do for fun. —J. Plotkin

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A Toon for the Misbegotten 2005 - TOTAL PROGRAM 98 MINS

Saturday Oct 15 4:15 PM TOON15R Rafael

In these animated shorts, you may want to be careful around John Cernak’s Dear, Sweet Emma (US 6 mins), as she may just kill you with kindness, while Derek Flood’s Emelia (US 9 mins) shows Goth may not be as dark as you think. Tim Burton’s protégé director Henry Selick brings you Moongirl (US 9 mins), taking you on an enlightened journey to the moon, and Burton has recently picked up Shane Acker’s Student Academy Award®-winning ﬁlm 9 (US 11 mins) to produce as a feature. Frédéric Tremblay’s Remote Paradise (Canada 7 mins) takes you away from your TV adventures, and Dwight Hwang’s Goo’d War (US 15 mins) shows you the oxymoron of the title. Aaron Sorenson’s Bastard Wants to Hit Me (US 3 mins) is the newest music video from They Might Be Giants; Alex George’s Santa Claus Happy Tyme Show (US 30 mins) takes you behind Toy Town. Mike Blum’s The Zit (US 5 mins) brings you youth’s common foe, while Robert Taylor and Michael McCormick’s Arrest Assured (US 3 mins) has a burglar’s bungles. —S. Reder

A Touch of Spice

TURKEY/GREECE 2003 108 MINS

Friday Oct 7 6:30 PM TOUC07R Rafael

Monday Oct 10 6:30 PM TOUC10S Sequoia

Director/Screenwriter Tassos Boulmetis Producers Harry Antonopoulos, Lily Papadopoulos Cinematographer Takis Zervoulakos Editor Yorgos Mavropsaridis Cast Georges Corraface, Ieroklis Michaelidis, Renia Louizidou Print Source Menemsha Films

In this all-time biggest box office hit in Greece, a boy is taught by his grandfather that both food and life need a little salt to give them flavor. A delectable foodie movie told in three bittersweet courses, the story is based on writerdirector Tassos Boulmetis’s own experience. Set against a backdrop of political tension between Turkey and Greece, it is filmed in sensuous detail, beginning in the dusty splendor of Constantinople in 1959, shifting to Athens, and then back to the modern-day city now known as Istanbul. Once the boy, Fanis, is separated from his grandfather, he loses his connection to the culinary life lessons that once guided him, and it takes him 35 years to realize the effect. After decades of feeling torn between his Greek ethnicity and his home in Turkey, Fanis’s journey of reconciliation is handled with warmth, humor and just the right amount of metaphorical flavoring. —D. Quinones

Sponsored by Maroevich, O’Shea & Coghlan

Troop 1500: Girl Scouts Beyond Bars US 2004 68 MINS - TOTAL PROGRAM 76 MINS Saturday Oct 15 7:15 PM TROO15R Rafael

Directors Ellen Spiro, Karen Bernstein Producer Karen Bernstein Cinematographers Ellen Spiro, Deborah Eve Lewis Editors Lilian Benson, Ellen Spiro, Jenn Garison Print Source Women Make Movies

Focus: Women Make Movies This heart-wrenching, provocative doc from ﬁrebrand ﬁlmmakers Ellen Spiro and Karen Bernstein explores a truly innovative Girl Scout program by spotlighting seven resilient scouts and their moms, who are serving time for crimes ranging from drug dealing to murder. Filmed in part by the girls themselves during specially arranged visits at Hilltop prison in Gatesville, Texas, the “girlcams” capture emotionally charged interviews with their mothers as they confront each other’s fears, reveal their hopes and repair broken trust. Balancing the inherent drama with playfully intercut vintage Girl Scout newsreels, Troop 1500 offers an empathetic but clear-eyed perspective on each subject’s personal tug-of-war with the responsibilities of family, society and self-determination. —D. Quinones

Preceded by

The Mother in Me Director Leigh Iacobucci

US 2005 8 MINS A young woman deconstructs generations of mother-messages and discovers they also lie within.

Tropic of Cancer

Director/Screenwriter/Cinematographer/Editor Eugenio Polgovsky Print Source Cinema School/CCC

Alternately seductive and jarring, Eugenio Polgovsky’s riveting ﬁlm is a prime example of the new wave of contemporary observational cinema. With stunning imagery that at times rivals the best nature photography and human portraiture, this unforgettable ﬁlm presents the people and desert habitat of one of the poorest areas of the world, Mexico’s San Luis Potosi region, and depicts the daily existence of a community whose subsistence depends on hunting and gathering snakes, birds and cacti to eat and sell at the tourist-frequented roadside. There is nearly no dialogue; instead, a quiet intensity marks the clash between a respectful realization of the Spartan existence of its human subjects and the stark pictorial beauty of their environment. —S. Uyehara

Preceded by Ripples of Light Director Lesley McClintock

US 2005 18 MINS This experimental elegy to a great river honors California’s Tuolumne.

world cinema

valley of the docs

Trudell US 2005 80 MINS

Monday Oct 10 6:45 PM TRUD10S Sequoia

Sunday Oct 16 7:30 PM TRUD16S Sequoia

Director Heather Rae Producers Heather Rae, Elyse Katz Screenwriter B. Russell Friedenberg Cinematographer Gilbert Salas Editor Gregory Bayne Print Source Appaloosa Pictures

Branded by the FBI as “extremely eloquent, therefore extremely dangerous,” John Trudell, Native American activist, organizer, poet, performer and visionary, is one of those extraordinary individuals who remain clearsighted and strong in the face of tragedy, both personal and cultural. Supported by moving testimony from his many supporters and friends, including Sam Shepard, Robert Redford, Val Kilmer, Bonnie Raitt and Kris Kristofferson, the ﬁlm interweaves Trudell’s earth-centered poetry and music with compelling accounts of his rise to activism in the 1960s with the American Indian Movement. Director Heather Rae transcends a divisive “us versus them” argument and masterfully reveals the universality of Trudell’s inclusive, uplifting message. The result is a rare ﬁlm that, like its subject, reminds us of our own power and place in the universe and inspires us to participate. —D. Wolens

Director/Screenwriter Brad Coley Producer Csaba Bereczky Cinematographer Lasse Toft, Dave Daniel Editor Seth E. Anderson Cast Frank Wood, Sean Gullette, Paul Sado, James Martinez, Autumn Dornfeld, Alexandra Geis Print Source Carmichael Films

A mysterious murder sets the stage for this highly improvised, character-driven film. On the surface, the small town of Athens, Vermont, might seem like any rural New England hamlet that’s home to salt-of-the-earth locals and a progressive school for gifted students. Look beneath the placid exterior, however, and you’re apt to find any number of less-than-saintly activities. First-time feature filmmaker Brad Coley plunges viewers into a world where everyone—a young college-bound genius, his perpetually screwed-up best friend, a lecherous teacher, the pretty blond girl who suddenly leaves town—harbors dark secrets. Like a New England version of Twin Peaks this indie drama slowly turns a quaint portrait of northeastern living into an American Gothic nightmare where the mysteries keep unraveling layer upon layer until the dramatic conclusion. —D. Fear

Contributing Writers

Rod Armstrong

Anna Balkrishna

Tod Booth

Jeff Campbell

A. Carleton-Glen

Kelly Clement

Amy Corbin

KD Davis

Zoë Elton

David Fear

Michael Fox

contributing writers

Pam Grady

Sandy Handsher

Sidney Hollister

Nora Isaacs

Deborah Kaufman

Erin King

Kristine Kolton

Trina Lopez

Carrie Lozano

Roberta McNair

Anita Monga

Peter Moore

John Morrison

Joanne Parsont

Brendan Peterson

Richard Peterson

Janis Plotkin

Deanna Quinones

Steven Reder

Joel Shepard

Molli Amara Simon

Michael Talbott

Sean Uyehara

Doug Wolens

Our tribute to Jean-Pierre Jeunet continues after the Festival at the Christopher B. Smith Rafael Film Center, with a series of retrospective screenings of his ﬁlms:

ALIEN: RESURRECTION

THE CITY OF LOST CHILDREN

DELICATESSEN

A VERY LONG ENGAGEMENT

Dates and showtimes to be announced. Check the fall Rafael calendar or look for updates on our website at caﬁlm.org.

Following the Festival, the Michael Powell centenary celebration will continue at the Christopher B. Smith Rafael Film Center, running through December 4 with retrospective screenings of these additional ﬁlms:

THE AGE OF CONSENT

BLACK NARCISSUS

A CANTERBURY TALE

THE EDGE OF THE WORLD

49TH PARALLEL

GONE TO EARTH

THE LIFE AND DEATH OF COLONEL BLIMP A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH

PEEPING TOM THE SPY IN BLACK

THE THIEF OF BAGDAD

Dates and showtimes to be announced. Check the fall Rafael calendar or look for updates on our website at caﬁlm.org.

Jean-Pierre Jeunet retrospective

Michael Powell retrospective

The Girl from Auschwitz 3PM GIRL08R 106 MINS

Saratan 4PM SARA08R 85 MINS

The Lady from Sockholm 4:15PM LADY08R 84 MINS

Springtime 2:15PM SPRI08S 128 MINS

The Californians 2PM CALI08S 91 MINS

Tender Gender Benders 2:45PM TEND08T 101 MINS

Carpatia 12PM CARP09R 127 MINS

Hoppity Goes to Town 11:30AM HOPP09S 78 MINS

Springtime 2:45PM SPRI09R 128 MINS

39 Pounds of Love 1:30PM POUN09R 79 MINS

of Justice 2:45PM SOUL09S 77 MINS

Hidden Flaws 1:30PM HIDD09S 92 MINS

Spirit Bear: The Simon Jackson Story 1:30PM SPIR09T 92 MINS

Tribute: Michael Powell 6:30PM TRIB08R 120 MINS

In Memory of My Father 6PM INME08R 96 MINS

Tropic of Cancer 6:45PM TROP08R 70 MINS

Sir! No Sir! 5:15PM SIR08S 83 MINS

Dallas Among Us 4:30PM DALL08S 93 MINS

Delicatessen 9:15PM DELI08R 99 MINS

The Undeserved 8:30PM UNDE08R 106 MINS

Web Cam Girls 9PM WEB08R 81 MINS

Wellstone! 7:30PM WELL08S 88 MINS

Berkeley 6:45PM BERK08S 87 MINS

iThemba | Hope 5:15PM ITHE08T 84 MINS SOUND OF THE SOUL 5:45PM SOUN09R 70 MINS

Fateless 5:45PM FATE09R 130 MINS

In Memory of My Father 4:15PM INME09R 96 MINS

Music is My Life, Politics My Mistress 5PM MUSI09S 110 MINS

Al-Ghazali 7:15PM ALGH08T 80 MINS

Jazz 9:30PM BROT08T 73 MINS

The Devil’s Miner 3:30PM DEVI09T 82 MINS

Different Drummers 5:30PM DIFF09T 82 MINS

Stories 6:45PM BED09R

Delwende 7:45PM DELW09R 90 MINS

Scared New World 7:45PM SCAR09S 82 MINS

The Undeserved 7:45PM UNDE09T 106 MINS The Hi De Ho Show 10PM HIDE08S North Country 9PM NORT08S 130 MINS

A Toon for the Misbegotten 4:15PM TOON15R 98 MINS

Land 2:45PM FROL15R

Tribute: Donald Sutherland 7PM TRIB15R 150 MINS

Ellektra 5:30PM ELLE15R 103 MINS 5@5: Simple Twist of Fate 5PM 5AT515R 85 MINS

Press On 4:30PM PRES15S 83 MINS

Race Is the Place 6:45PM RACE15S 91 MINS

Paradise Now 7PM PARA15S 94 MINS

Web Cam Girls 6:30PM WEB15T 81 MINS

Squid and the Whale Tribute: Jeff Daniels 5PM TRIB16R 130 MINS Pelican Man 2:45PM PELI16R 89 MINS

of Silence 4PM BRID16R 114 MINS Romantico 2:45PM ROMA16S 84 MINS

91 MINS

Dalecarlians 12PM DALE16S 98 MINS

Going Out to the Movies Seminar 1:30PM LAB16T 90 MINS

2:15PM DRUM16S 94 MINS Frisbee 4PM FRIS16T 95 MINS

Beah: A Black Woman Speaks 5:15PM BEAH16S 90 MINS Bee Season 5PM BEE16S 104 MINS Ushpizin 8:30PM USHP15R 90 MINS Troop 1500 7:15PM TROO15R 76 MINS

9:30PM ONEL15S 96 MINS

Out 8:45PM VIDE15T 89 MINS

7:45PM BRIC16R 119 MINS Ushpizin 5:15PM USHP16R 90 MINS

Paradise Now 6:45PM PARA16R 94 MINS

Trudell 7:30PM TRUD16S 80 MINS The Milk Can 9:30PM MILK15R 95 MINS The Art of Breaking Up 9:15PM ART15S 80 MINS TBA 7:30PM Bee Season 7:45PM BEE216S 104 MINS

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Pat Asimakis

Anita Berman

Melissa Bialla

Athena Christodoultos

Avril Couris

JJ Davis

Rachelle Dorris

Jaime Dupont

Jasper Esterhuizen

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Becky Gould

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Gerry Hardiman

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Serita Hutton

David Ogden

Sandra Park Suzanne Parsell

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Mark Rushford

Kat Ryan Paul Seif

Jason Sisilli

Carol Spence

Theresa Spindler

Kevin Tirpack

Fay Torson Holly Turner

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CREATIVE CREDITS

PROGRAM

2005 TRAILER

Agency Scheyer/SF

Creative Director Dennis Scheyer

Director George Hickenlooper

Producer Katie Burke

Production Company Right Brain Media

Executive Producer Stuart Wilson

Producer Lisa Sechser

Editorial Right Brain Media

Editor Jennifer Tiexiera

Cast

Maintenance Man: Xander Berkeley

Silver-Haired Buyer: Michael Des Barres

Gallery Owner: Meredith Ostrom

Young Pretty Woman: Marian Faddis

Music Ubiquity Recordings

Music Composer Quantic Soul Orchestra “The Conspirator” (W. Holland) Full Thought Publishing courtesy of Ubiquity courtesy of Ubiquity Recordings, Inc., www.ubiquityrecords.com and Tru

Thoughts / Full Thought Publishing UK www.tru-thoughts.co.uk

Music Executive Producer Andrew Jervis

Director of Photography Igor Meglic

Assistant Director Mike Risoli

2nd Assistant Director Kimberly Daniels

Assistant Camera Paul Janossy

Steadicam George Billinger

Art Director Arnd Stockhausen

Set Director Ralph Herscu

Sculpture Nick Van Woert

Gaffer Tim Morton

Best Boy Electric Brian Gowan

Electrician Mark Goodwin

Grip/Electric E & M Lighting

Key Grip Peter Chrimes

Best Boy Grip Hiro Kakuhair

Grips Bobby Ukeda, Ron Edmondson

Sound Taylor Tosh

VTR Kai Morrison

Wardrobe Miriam Burke

Makeup Bridgett O’Neal

Production Assistants Zakk Moore, Karen Pelloni, Rob Del Valle

Client Services Todd Basil

Catering RTS Food Service

Talent Payment American Residuals & Talent Inc.

Camera The Camera House

Dolly Chapman Leonard

Genny Illumination Dynamics

Insurance Marsh Risk & Insurance

Permits Film This

Production Supplies Miller Production Supplies

Location Rec Center Studio

Trucks Budget Car Rental

Film Stock Kodak

Post-production Sound Services Skywalker Sound, a Lucasﬁlm

Ltd. Company, Marin County, California

Re-recording Mixer Juan Peralta

Director of Finance and Production Operations Josh Lowden

Film Processing/Prints CFI/Technicolor

Telecine Technicolor Creative Services Hollywood

DI Technicolor Digital Intermediates

DI Colorist Steve Dalman

DI Producers Chris Prejza, Tim Kennedy

Sound Optical NT Audio

Credits Chris Dudley

Art Donated By Greg Anka, Paul Guillemette, Robert Harsch, Stuart Wilson, Arnd Stockhausen

Special Thanks Dana Ross

POSTER DESIGN/PROGRAM COVER DESIGN

Agency Scheyer/SF

Design Company Public Design

Designer Todd Foreman

Photographer Jonathon Sprague

Film Processing Robyn Color

Digital Artist Chris Dudley

:15 TV SPOT

Agency Scheyer/SF

Creative Director Dennis Scheyer

Producer Katie Burke

Production Company Teak Edit

Executive Producer Greg Martinez

Producers Jan Frei, Melanie Barter

Motion Graphics Designer Josh Miller

WEB SITE

Brand Consultants Groove Eleven

Creative Director/Partner Sean Dunn

Art Director Chris Lanier

Project Manager Kristin Nielsen

Designer Rainey Straus

Developer Marc Centani

Programmers Craig Serachene, Tony Boyd

PUBLICITY

Agency Hamilton Ink

Principal Pam Hamilton

Publicists Stephanie Clarke, Serene Moussa, Clara Franco, Elizabeth DeVito

Agency Larsen Associates

Principal Karen Larsen

Publicists Timothy Buckwalter, Chris Wiggum, Wendy Leung

Founder and Director

Mark Fishkin

Director of Programming

Zoë Elton

CALIFORNIA FILM INSTITUTE

Operations Manager

Steven Reder

Director of Marketing and Public Relations

Cheryl Moody

Outreach Manager

John Morrison

Executive Assistant

JoAnn Hastings

Finance Manager

Connie Chang

Graphic/Web Designer

Michele Johnston

Graphic Designer

Justin Wambolt-Reynolds

IT Consultant

Tom Herrington

Database Designer

Sandy Gow

Interns

James Chenney, Tom Filcich, Gary Flatow, Lisa Katovich, Richard Vance

DEVELOPMENT

Corporate Development Associate

Trinity West

Major Gifts Associate

Kim Bender

Membership and Volunteers Manager

Lori Malm

Development Assistant

Jeanne Sweet

Membership Assistant

Suzi Hynes

Development Consultant

Atissa Manshouri

Interns

Muriel Hammond, Suzie Kidder, Joan Lehua, Stef, Jackie Tabb

SMITH RAFAEL FILM CENTER

Director of Programming

Richard Peterson

Assistant Programmer

Jennifer Schmidt

Manager

Dan Zastrow

Assistant Manager

Ryan Hastie

Shift Managers

Jennifer Johnson

Brandon Wisecarver

Program Consultant

Jan Klingelhofer

Intern

Danny Kasman

FESTIVAL STAFF

Festival Coordinator

David Owen

Events Manager

Dave Tureaud

Events Assistant/Merchandise Manager

Shelley Goodale

Logistics Manager

Paul Hegarty

Logistics Assistant

Craig Walton

Photography Coordinator

Patrik Argast

Volunteer Coordinator

Jacquelyn Chi

Volunteer Assistant

Ilya Tovbis

Theater Operations

Jill Brooke

Box Ofﬁce Management

Trilogy Productions

GUEST SERVICES

Filmmaker Liaison

Joni Cooper

Hospitality

Anne Rogers O’Hearn

Transportation

Molli Amara Simon

PROGRAMMING

Senior Programmer

KD Davis

Programmers

Kelly Clement

Janis Plotkin

Anita Monga

Programmer/Research Associate

Erin King

Children’s FilmFest Programmer

John Morrison

Programming Administrator

Holly Roach

Programming Assistant

Seema Arora

Youth Workshop Coordinator

Joanne Parsont

Print Trafﬁc Coordinator

Jennifer Bauman

Print Trafﬁc Assistant

Gabriel Garza

Interns

Jesse Edwards, Adam Gothelf, Virginia Kelley,

Katelyn King, Jay McBride, Soﬁa Phillips, Beverly Thorman, Blake Thorman

Technical Director

Marcus McWaters

Technical Advisors

Marty Brenneis

Marcus Pun

Projectionists

Jeff Kauffman

Ben Lopata

Nayt Myers

Max Savage

Consultant

David Goodyear

PUBLICATIONS

Managing Editor

Joanne Parsont

Copy Editor

Carrie Pickett

Proofreaders

Linda Moore

Christine Rickerby

Graphic Designers

Michele Johnston

Kenneth Lockerbie

Digital Prepress

Richard Repas

Print Ads

Winifred MacLeod

MARKETING

Publicity

Hamilton Ink

Larsen Associates

Advertising Agency of Record

Scheyer/SF

Poster/Program/Environmental Design

Public

Brand Consultant

Groove Eleven

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Anchor Steam

Avance Restaurant

Beefeaters London Dry Gin

Ben & Jerry’s

Best Beverage Catering

Blake’s at Boundary Oak

Bogie’s Café

Brickley Production Services

Bungalow 44

CaterMarin

CG Roxanne

Chef’s Touch Catering

Cingular Wireless

Clover Stornetta

Coldstone Creamery

Cook Paging

Crystal Geyser

Design Within Reach

Digital Revolution

Ed Delmon

F. Joseph Smith Massage

Therapy Center

Fiske Video Productions

Frantoio Ristorante

From Soup to Nuts Catering

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Gourmet Mushrooms Inc.—

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Hain, Health Valley Terra Chips

Hartmann Studios

The Jazz Institute

Joe Puccini & Sons Seafood

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Adrian Belic

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Micah Brenner

Chris Brown

Jeff Brown

Megan Cassidy

Tiffany Che

Amy Corbin

Molly Debower

Rama Dunayevich

Rico Estrada

Blake Facente

Michael Falter

Gary Flatow

Catherine Flaxman

Michael Fox

Rick Goldsmith

Stacey Goodman

Dianne Grifﬁn

Jennifer Hammett

Caroline Hanni

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Bay Area Video Coalition, San Francisco

Blowﬁsh Sushi, San Francisco

The Cantina, Mill Valley

Fantasy Studios, Berkeley

John & Jill’s Cheesecake

Judy’s Breadsticks

Kimball’s

Maker’s Mark Homemade

Kentucky Bourbon

Maria Manso

Marin Copier

Mecca SF

Mill Valley Flowers

Mill Valley Health Club & Spa

Mill Valley Massage

A Party Center

Peet’s Coffee & Tea

Prime Smoked Meats

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Hossein Khosrowjah

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Christine Metropoulos

Peter Moore

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BZ Petroff

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Piazza D’Angelo Restaurant, Mill Valley

Vail Schaeffer

See’s Candy

Sierra Nevada

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Whole Foods

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French Consulate

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Cara Ballard, Cultural Services

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Melinda Stone

Stacey Wisnia

Doug Wolens

Kenji Yamamoto

Picante, Berkeley

Slow Club, San Francisco

Small Shed Flatbreads, Mill Valley

Venezia, Berkeley

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Alexander’s Decorative Rugs

Nigel Algar

Joan Allen

Gunnar Almer

Anastasia Alvarado

Tamar Argov, Consulate of Israel

Tiffany Bair

Paul Bales

Cara Ballard

Rick Barsotti

Carol Batte

Greg Beal

Melissa Belli

Peter Belsito

Alexander Berkeley

Andrea Bertolini

Tim Bird

J. Alan Blackburn

Gerry Blake

Pamela Blinn

Constanza Blondet

Richard Board

Janis Bosenko

Bruno Bossio

Ann Brebner

Marty Brenneis

Gary Brickley

Anne Broeker

Arianna Brook

Tom Bruchs

Patti Burke

Cindy Bussing

Rita Cahill

California Film Institute Volunteers!

California Newsreel

Jeff Campbell

Coran Capshaw

Caroline Chapman

Micheline Chau

James Chenney

Chicago Film Festival

Cima Media International

Rebeca Conget

Patti Cook

Calvin Cooke

Roberta Cootes

Cassandra Cosby

Peter Coyote

Grover Crisp

Jason Crosby

Jennifer Cuneo

Dalila Cunha

Bridget Cunningham

Danish Film Institute

Nisha Darbar

Jodie Davis

Ninfa Dawson

Ed Delman

Karl Dennecker

Denver Film Festival

Michael Des Barres

Frédéric Desagneaux

Stephen Dobbs

Julie Dolan

Dolby Laboratories

Dot

Mouse Downes

Ruth Downing

Rama & Bernard Dunayevich

Steve Elkins

Moy Eng

Marian Faddis

Andrea Faiss

David Fenkel

Tom Filcich

Film Arts Foundation

Sara Finmann

Nancy Fishman, San Francisco

Jewish Film Festival

Shawn Fitzpatrick

Gary Flatow

Jim Flavell

Raissa Fomina

Ben Fong Torres

Julie Fontaine

Jan Foster, Marin Acura

Michael Fox

Neil Friedman

Cathy Gallagher

Peter Gamez

Mark Garwood

John Goddard

David Goodyear

Mike Govan

Alice Gray

Paul Grippaldi

Gillian Grisman

Ken Grossman

Sierra Grossman

Linda and Jon Gruber

David Guastavino

Mike Guelﬁ

Robin Gurland

Richard Habib

Brian Hackfeld

Lynne Hale

Lin Hall

Mary Hammond

Muriel Hammond

Lynda Hansen

Ellen Harrington

Bob Hawk

Ron Henderson

Mary Herr

Tara Hoddy

Bob Hoffman

Holland Film

Douglas Holmes

Karen Holmes

Melissa Howden

Marcus Hu

Don Hunter

Suzi Hynes

Icelandic Film Centre

Richard Idell

Aaron Irons

Susanne Jacobson

Terri Jaffe

Aliya Jaffe Whitney

Andrée Poirier and John Jansheski

Perry Jeff

Michelle Jonas

Jin Woo Joo

Kim Kaechele

Bruce Katz

Jeff Kauffman

Aviva Kempner

John Kirk

Nancy Klasky

Kristine Kolton

Shoshana Cathy Korson

Edith Kramer

Don Krim

Heidi Kuhn, Roots of Peace

Holly Kulak

Anne-Marie Kurstein

Brent Kush

Thea Langer

Joe Lawrence

Pam Lawrence

Ledger Film & Theatre Services

Yoonhyung Lee

Joan Lehua

Sydney Levine

Lee Lewis

Christine Light

Sheri Lloyd

Ken Lockerbie

Johanna Lopez

William Lowe

Tom Luddy

Michael Lumpkin

Ms. M

Jennifer Coslett MacCready

Becky MacDonald

Scott MacQueen

Miss Madhi “Bless Her”

Van and Lydia Maroevich

Dan Martin

Christine McCafferty

John McGuirk

Erin McKinney

Mary Jane, Paul & Phoebe McKown

Bill McLeod

Mary Ella Medina

Ann Marie Melanephy

Menemsha Entertainment

Lucy Mercer

Gary Meyer

Marcia Michael

Anthony Minitti

Anita Monga

Anne Montgomery

Cornelius Moore

Peter Moore

Dani Moresi

Tamara Moresi

Danyel Morgan

Julie Morgan

Jennifer Morris

Jennifer Moss Clay

Christophe Musitelli

Sue Muzzin

NAATA

Patricia Nagle

Ariana Nash

Roy Nee

Andrea Nelson

Harlow Newton

Nikolaj Nikitin

Norwegian Film Institute

Catherine Olin

Pamela On

Steve Orgain

Marjorie Orth

Bernard and Babro Osher

Meredith Ostrom

Paciﬁc Film Archive

Shiva Pakdel

Diana Peters

Tom Peters

Ira & Pat Potovsky

Dianne Provenzano

Marcus Pun

Billie Purdie

Deanna Quinones

Pat Qwimby

Gordon Radley

Irene Ramos

Marcus Randolph

Robert Randolph

Richard Repas

Peter and Jane Richmond

Rosemary Roach

Peter Rodgers

Jena Rose

Rachel Rosen

Roxie Cinema

Lisa Russell

Josiane Sadoun

Christine Sansom

Patricia Sarris

Dennis Scheyer

Michael Schlesinger

Ray Schmalz

Cynthia Schwartz

Phyllis Secosky

Kathy Severson

Ali Reza Shahroki

Rhody Shaw

Gail Silva, Film Arts Foundation

Christopher B. and Jeannie Meg Smith

Fiske Smith

Joseph Smith

Mandy Smith

Mary Smith

Steve Smith

Kaufman-Snitow Productions

Brian Sparks

Dwayne Sparks

Josh Sperry

Shelley Spicer

Becky Steere

Tom Steere

Melissa Stolper

Judy Stone

Strand Releasing

Jackie Suzuki

Swedish Film Institute

Sweetwater

Reza Takkeshori

Mark Talucci

Melanie Tebb

The Finnish Film Foundation

Andrew Thompson/Public Affairs, Consulate General of Canada

David Thomson

Bev Thorman

Blake Thorman

Kyle Thorpe

Evelyn Topper

Trilogy Productions Staff

Renick Turley

C. Sade Turnipseed

Richard Vance

John Weaver

Joanne Webster

Erin Weir

Anne Wintroub

Doug Wolens

Jean Young

Simon Yung

Christine and Roberto Zecca

Pamela Zeh

Debra Zimmerman

The California Film Institute gratefully acknowledges 2005 Members who have made the no. 28 Mill Valley Film Festival possible:

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Joseph and Anne Abbott, Mimi Abers, Dr. Holly Abrams, Noma Adelman, Michele Affronte and Gabov Bunda, Charles Agler, Gary and Maureen Aguilar, Phil Akers, Bob Akka, Merry Alberigi, J. James Albrecht, Eugene Albright, S. Alfandari, Mary Alger, Dolores E. Ali, John Aliano, Kim Allen, Marlena Allison, Paula Alsterlind, Bunny Alsup, Lorraine P. Altamirano, Bob Alto, Alfonso Alvarez, Rosemary Ames, Annette Amorello, Carol Anderson, Hilary Anderson, Marliyn Anderson, Robert E. Anderson, Trent W. Anderson, David Andes, Shahla Ansari-Jaberi, Laura Arago, Judy Ardzrooni, Robert C. Aregger, Derick Aripol, Jean Arnold, Mary Arnold, Steve Arnold, Mindy Aronoff, Wendy A. Arthurs, Sandra Ash, Nancy Aurley, Chris and Lorraine Avery, Tracy Ayres, Sonia Azar, Pamela Bacci Scott, Laura Bachman, Paula Bailey, Patricia Bailey, Christopher H. Baldwin, Katheryn M. Baldwin, Georgie Ball, Chuck Ballinger, Brian Barbaria, Sara Barbieri, Jeremy D. Barcan, Barbara Barclay, Newcomb Barger, Joan Barnes, Cora Baron, Alice Bartholomew, Mai L. Bartling, Jim Barton, Sara Basque, Rickie Baum, Anne Baxter, Kate Bayart, Elizabeth Baylis, Diane Bazler, Katherine Beacock, Suzanne Bean, Lyda Beardsley, Tony Beccaccio, Scott Ray Becker, John Becker, Aaron Becker, Larry Becker, Kathy Beckerley, K.O. Beckman, Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Beebe, Daniel and Sue Beittel, Elizabeth Benedict, Gary C. Bennett, Robin Bentel and Bruce McAboy, William and Beverlee Bentley, JoAnn Berman, Sally Berman, Ann Bernhardt, Philip M. Bernstein, Jackie Berreman, Caroline Berry, Deborah Bertola, Walter and Rebecca Bess, Deborah Beveridge, Kathyrn Beyers, Gigi L. Bibeault, Mai Billaud, Christina Birch, Beverly and Mark Birnbaum, Steven Birnbaum, Michelle L. Blaisdell, Jim Blakeley, Bruce Blakely, Lynn Blankfort and Steven Martin, La Vonne Blasche, J. David Blatchford, Patricia Blau, Kathy Bliss, Edward Bloomberg, Julia Bloomﬁeld, Andrea Blum, Dafna Blum, Nancy Bohnet, Bonnie Borenstein, Carolyn Botts, James Boyce, Kanda Boykin, Rebecca Brackman, Patricia Bradley, Catherine Brady, Phyllis Bragdon, Alison Brantley, Linda L. Breeden, J.D. Brewer, Suzanne Brice, Fran Brigmann, Bridget Brink, Emily Brockman, Hannah Brodzinsky, Amy Brokering, Mary Lee Bronzo, Karla Brooke and Peter Roodhuyzen, Kerry Brossier, Charles Brousse, Josie and Martin Brown, Chris Brown, Devi Brown, Peter Brown, Becky Brudniak, Jay Brusseau, Susie Buck, Anna Buoncristiani Irvine, Gertrude Burke, Peggy Burke, Shirley Burnett, Sally Burr, Carolyn Burt, Robert and Elza Burton, Jan Burval and Leslie Katz, Marti Bush, Tara Bushore, Libby Byers, Bob Cahn and Jackie Engstrom, Meridith Cahn, Patricia A. Cambron, Sally Mars Carey, Joe and Sue Carlomagno, Matt Carlson, Kathy Carrasco, Jennifer Carrick, Albert Casselhoff, Sue Castagna, Francine Castner, Mario Cattaneo, Barbara Cerutti, Lindsay Chambers, Monika Chan, Stewart Chapman, Shirley S. Chater, Lucia Chaudron, Steven Che, Tiffany Che, Jane Cheshire-Allen, Catherine Chiosso, John Chiosso, Julie H. Chrisman, Sondra Claire, Gillian Clark, Megan Clark, Naomi Z. Clark, Leanne Clayton, Lita Clear Sky, Skip and Lorinda Clemens, Karen Clothier, Janet Clover, Ronald and Clyman, Mary Coccellato, Jeffrey and Bonnie Cohen, Alexander J. Cohen, Joan Cohen, Nina R. Cohen, Suzi Cohen, Denise Cohn, Michael Colacchio, Brian and Barbara Comnes, Patricia A. Connelly, F. Conrad, Sophia Constantinou, Meli Cook, Fred and Mary Coons, Sondra P. Cooper, Amy Corbin, Al and Maggie Cornwell, Teresa Corrigan, Carolyn Sue Couls, Brigitte Coutu and Kevin Klatt, Jack K. Covington, Frances Cowan, Janice Coyne, Marney Craig,

Elaine B. Cramer, Jeannine Creighton, Robert and Jacqueline Crowder, Josh Crummey, Helen Culiner, Dalila Cunha, Virginia Cunningham, Syd Cushman, Jacqueline Dagg, Joy Dahlgren, Deborah H. Damrow, Justine Daniel, Susan Daniel, Bill Daniels, Georgette Darcy, Lynette Daudt, Loris Davanzo, Paul and Ursula Davidson, Stephen and Grania Davis, Maradee Davis, Nancy S. Davis, S. W. Davis, Pam Day, Donald Day, Frank De Luna, Ginger Deehan, Suzanne Degen, Edmond Delmon, Jill M. Denney, Robert Desmond, Heidi and Jack Detjen-Creson, William and Sarah Devlin, Victoria DeWitt, Doug Dibble, Carolyn E. Dingwall, Bill and Barbara Dittmann, Ann Donovan, Cathleen K. Dorinson, Lee and Debbie Dorosin, Paula Doubleday, Michael and Andrea Dougan, Angelo Douvos, Joe and Kendra Downey, Diane Dresser, Cecily A. Drucker, Suzanne Duerden, Ali N.H. Duerr, Charles Dunkel, Karen Dunning, Tyler Dupuis, Cory M. Duval, Andrew Easterlin, Heidi Eberle, Rolanda Ebert, Teresa Eckton, Virginia Egan, Erik Ehrke, Nico Eichlsedar, Judith Einbinder, Evelyn Eisen, Eric Michael Eiserloh, Theresa Elaine, Lou Ellsworth-Yow, Sina Elychova, Patti Embert, Linda Emery, Bob Engel, Susan C. English, Samuel Ennis, Sharon Enright, Helga Epstein, Robert Epstein, Donald L. and Lois Errante, Richard Estrada, Nicole Evatz, Ms. Mary Ewers, Kay Ewing, Melanie Facen, Michael Falter, Nancy Fanady, Paul Farber, Joe Faria, Jim Farley, William Farley, Ellen Felcher and Michael Burns, Vickie Feldstein and Dennis Orwig, Laraine Ferguson, R.E. Fesler, Barbara Fewell, Gabrielle Fishman, Kent W. and Lee B. Fitzgerald, Kathryn M. Fitzgerald, Lisa Fitzpatrick, Robert Fleharty, Virginia Fleming, Yolanda Fletcher, Heidi Flori, Jessica Flynn, Barbara J. Fopp, Robert Ford, Danny Forer, Alex Forman, Howard and Sharyn Foster, Michael Fox, Sandra Francour, Julia Frank, Jean Fraschina, Mark Fredericks, Cherry Frederiksen, Tom and Sally Freed, Dr. and Mrs. Albert Freedman, Edith Freeman, Joan R. Freidman, Denise Freinkel, Robert Freist, Adele French, Debra Friday and David Vaupel, Mike Frideger, Robert Fried and Wendy Cheit, Mark and Carole Friedlander, Judy Friedman, Wendy Friefeld, Gail Fullen, Jack and Diane Fulton, Bill Fulton, Linda Futrell, Holly Gadsby, Kimberly and Anthony Galatolo, Kenneth Gallegos, Jack Gallivan, Kathleen Gallivan, Alessandra Gallo, Barbara Galyen, Donna Gamble, Julia Gans, Robert and Linda Garb, Beth Garbutt, Deborah Garcia, Theresa Gardiner, John Gardner, Barbara L. Gately, Peter and Leslie Gavin, Stephanie Gaw, Jerry Gayle, Gisela Geisler, Debbie Geller, Edna Getz, Viviane Ghammache, Kathleen Giel, Maria Giessler, Leslie Gifford, Jill Gilbert, Eric and Paula Gillett, Joel Gingold, Jeffrey Ginsberg, Libby Ginsberg, Joan Glassheim and Elizabeth Pearce, Bob Goff, Michael Goldbaltt, Joan Goldhamer, Bernice Goldmark, Mark Goldrosen, Dixie Goldsby, Laura Good, Linda C. Goodman, Lion Goodman, Karen Gordon, Rick Gordon, Catherine T. Goshay, Laurel Gothelf, Leslie Gould, Deborah Grant, Kathleen Grant, Jackie Greenberg, L.D. Greenberg, Liz Greenberg, Joanne Greene, Gisela Greene, Paula Greller, Patty Grey, Carol Griffin, Dianne Griffen, Gini Griffin, Michael Gross, Vicki Gross, John and Koren Grubb, Robyn Gue, Roberta Gwin, Lois Hadfield, Beverly Hall, Mary Hall, Margaret Hallett, Arlene Halligan, Maribeth Halloran, Diana Hammer, Louise Hammond, Doug and Liz Hancock, Brian and Betsy Hand, Mark Hansen, Peri Hansen, Nancy Hanson, Charlie Harb, John P. Hardgrave, Kathe N. Hardy, Robert P. Haro, David P. Harp, Katie Harrar, Roger Harris, Tom Harrison and Barbara Harrison, Joan Hartwell, Eric Harty, Tasha and Chris Hatton, Sherry Havill, Alison Hawthorne, Gigi Haycock, Reilly Hayes, Linda Heide, Dennis Heinzig, Elisabeth Heisler, Terri Henderson, Gayle S. Hendry, Anthony Henin, Jeff Hennier, Catherine Henry, Marie Henry, Sharon Herrera, Susan and Robert Hersey, Sheila Hershon, Sharon L. Herzer, Jeff Hickman, Edna Hickok, Velma R. Hileman, Faye

and Louis Hinze, Ruthe Hirsch, Michael Hoeber, Lucelle Hoefnagels, Laurie Hoey, John and Lynne Hoffman, Amy J. Hoffman, Dr. Arlene F. Hoffman, Patricia Holland, Michael and Claire Hollander, Carol Hollenberg, Laura Holliday, Annette Holloway, Robert Holloway, Teri Hollowell, Karen and Douglas Holmes, Darla Holst, John D. Holton, Robert Holtz, Ken Homer and Diane Fischler, Melissa Honig, Bradea Horan, Liz Hotchkin, Dorothy Houston, Kathie and Terry Howard, Lori Howard and Greg Wolff, Mary Hubert, Erik R. Hughes, Audrey Hulburd, Cynthia Hunter, Duffy and Ron Hurwin, Mr. and Mrs Robert Husak, John and Madeline Ingram, Carol Inkellis, Mary Ellen Irwin, Nancy Isles Nation, Sylvia R. Israel, Eugenia A. Ives, Susana Ives, Beth Jackson, Ellen Marie Jackson, Martha Jackson, Kenneth C. Jacobs, Susan Jacobs, Debbie Jacobsen, Judy James, Carl and Joanne James, Cary and Elaine James, Nancy Jancar, Piotr Jankowski, Gail Jarach, Gerry and Martha Jarocki, Joy Jarrell, Uta Jehnich, Sheila Jenkins, Karen Jensen Brown, Phyllis Jeroslow, Richard S. and Rose Jeweler, Denise Jindrich, Abby Johnson, Beverlee Johnson, Jennifer Johnson, Patricia A. Johnson, Jennifer Johnston, Matthew Johnson, Jane M. Jonckheer, Roberta Jones, Sharon Jones, Sylvia Jones, Toby Jones, Joost Torres, Lindsay and Peter Joost, Marj Joost, Mary Evalyn Jordan, Robert Jordan, T.C. Jordan, Diana Jorgensen, Edie Joslin, Wendy and Brian Kahn, Diane Kallet, D. Ward Kallstrom and Rosemary Morgan, Laurie Kalter, Jack Kamesar, Eliot Kaplan, Eliot Kaplan, Lawrence Kaplan, Ron Kappe, Susanne M. Karch, Kay C. Karchevski, Eva Karlen, Dana Karlsons, Suzanne Karp, Stanley Karter, Beth Stefan, Patricia Kelly, Lloyd Kenneth, Beverly Kern, David L. and Barbara Kessell, David Kessner, Monib Khademi, Mary Kahn, Hossein Khosrowjah, Dorothy Kidd, Rita Kiesow, Brian Kim, Erin King, Paul Kingsley, John and Ann Kirby, Joan Kirsner, Karen Kissler Law Ofﬁce, Vivian Kleiman, Pam Klein, Richard F. Klier, Jeanne Kline, Joan Kloehn, Katherine Koelle, Joseph S. Kohn, Janice Koprowski, Marty and Tammy Kornfeld, Joan T. Korngut, Judit Korosmezei, Cathy Korson, Tuomas Kostianen, Kraemer Winslow, Executive Communications, Larry and Sue Kramer, Martin Krasney, Neil Kraus, Betty J. Krause, Kristel Krepelka, Susan Kreuz Flint, Stanley Krippner, Wendy Krueger, Steve Kuever, Holly Kuhlman, Joy Kuhn, Eve Kupferman, Kathy Kurpita, Kiki La Porta, Alice La Rocca, Denise Labuda, Ann Lacey, Jan E. Lachman, Laurel Ladevich, Robert C Lafore, Frances Lana, Richard Landis, Lela Landman, Jenai Lane, Juliet Michele Lanfried, Karen Lang and Rafael Garcia, Wendy Lang and Phillip Weber, Monica Lange, Gina Laudisio, Alison Lavoy, Minjae Laws, Rob Lay, Kathryn Lazzaretti, Marie D. Lazzari, Terry Lazzari, Robert Lea and Melinda Booth, Diane Lebrun, Bernie Lee, Leslianne Lee and Scott Evans, Craig Lee, John S. Lee, Shofen Lee, Marla R. Leech, Jacqui Lehman, Claudine LeMoal, Lynn Lent, Jay and Barbara Leopold, Gloria Leptich, Mark and Jeanne Lerner, Judith Levin, Lawrence Levin, Norman Levin, Jane Levinsohn, Joanie Levinsohn, Sue and Marv Levinson, Bob Levitt, Kevin Lew, Maryline Lewett, Becky Lewis, Darcy Lichter, Linda Lieberman, Chloe Lietzke, Molly Light, Gretchen Likander, Beth Lillard, Ann Linder, Sheri Lloyd, Minhoi Loanic and Frank Wiggers, Linea D. Loberg, Juli Logemann, Kathleen Lopes, Toby C. LoPresti, Pat Lorentzen, Michael Lotter, Catherine Loudis, Thomas Luehrsen and Linda Baron, Dolores Lydon, Cathy Lynch, Cheryl S. Lyons, Lynda Lyshoj, Shawn Lysowski, Diana A. Lyster, Lynn MacDermott, Amy Machado and Richard Horne, Robert Macke and Karen Gallagher, Joe J. Madalena, Don Magdanz, Anna and Patrick Mahony, Barbara Mahoney, Theresa Mahoney, Peter and Melanie Maier, John Major, Renu Malhotra, Stela Mandel, Marianne Mander, Harriot Manley, Michele Manos, Judith and Melvyn Mark, Jim Maroney, Amy Marr, Joe Marrino, Roger Marsden, Helena Marsh, Heather Martin, Mrs. Charles Martin, Susan

Martling, Laura Marx, Deborah Masters, Don Mathews, Brandon Matthews, Dianne Maxon, Gary Maxworthy, Heidi Mayer, Peter and Sarah McAndrew, Matt Mcbride, Cristi McCabe, Maureen McCabe, Michael McCabe, Frances McCain, Ian McCamey, Scott McCargar, Tully McCarroll, Lynn McCarthy and David Malone, Mark and Auriela McCarthy, Charles P. McCarthy, Kieran McCartney, Mark McCaustland, Charmene McClarren, Mary Beth McClure and Paul Marra, Mary Margaret McClure, Nancy McCombs and Ken Lai, Corky McCord, Susan Madeline McCormick, Jane and Ian McDonald, Timothy and Susan McDonald, Nancy K. McDonald, Sue McDowell, Bill McGlashan, Teresa McGlashan, Mickey McGowan, Shirley McGrath, Beverly McIntosh, Mikki Mcintyre, Elizabeth M. McKersie, Wendy McLaughlin, Mike McLennan, Joe McLoughlin, Deborah McMahan, Laura McNabo, Nancy McNary, Jo McPeak, Martin McReynolds, Carolyn Means, Gail M. Meblin, Dennie Mehocich, Nita B. Mehrten, Juan’s Place, Daniel Meltzer, Loretta Merat, Janet Mercer, Jennifer Merkle, Glinda Messina, Marcia Meyers, Doreen Miao, Blossom Michaeloff, Golda Michelson, Caleb and Terri Miller, Marc Miller and Patrice Forte-Miller, Ina Miller, Ronald Miller, Victoria L. Miller, Frances Miller, Kristina Millikan, Abigail Millikan-State, Will Minor, Joan Miura, Curt Miyashiro, Jayme Mogen, Karen Mondoux, Lynn Monica, Carol Monpere, Susan Montrose, Michael Moore, Gail Morﬁn, Tamara Morgan, Marjorie Morgenstern, Patricia Morris, Doris Mortensen, Sharon L. Mortenson, Cindy Morton, Jan Mosgoﬁan, Gerald M. Moskowitz, Philip Moyer, John Muller, Anne Mulvaney, Susan Mulvey, Catherine Munson, Laura Murra, Barbara Myers, Ursula Nachtrieb, Hilda Namm, Nadine N. Narita, Ali Navarro, Lisa Nave, Richard Neill, James Nelson and Mary Armour Nelson, Jean R. Nelson, Robert Neumann, William Newland, Amy Ng, Doug Nichol, Pamela Nichter, Jill Nicols and John Harris, Robin Niemeyer, Jan Nilsen, Joan Nilsen, Rob Nilsson, Dan Nishimura, Susan Nissim, Nancy Ziegler Nodelman, Mark and Kay Noguchi, Inger Norman, Clair Norman, Marion Novasic, Karla Nygaard, Lynne Oberlander, Lily O’Brien, Sean O’Brien, Robert O’Donnell, Karen P. Offereins, Kaori Okada, Carol Oldham, David Oliver, Susan Olsen, Lane and Steven Olson, Jeffrey Olson, Laurie Oman and Brian Gould, Karyn Omohundro, Caroline Oreilly, Lesley Orford, Eileen Ormiston, Judy Osborne, Stephen B. Oshry, George Osterkamp, David Ostiller, Gary Oswald, Dianna and David Overmyer, Burr Overstreet, Joan Owen, Christine Owens, Victoria Palmason, Pat Palmer, Solvig PalmNicholls, Darci Palmquist, Anita Palonsky, Eric Palubinskas, Beverly Parayno and Isso Noir, Dwight and Celeste Parcell, Davida Pardo, John Parker, Denise Parsons, Margaret Partlow, Michael Patten, Lois Patton, Drew Pearce, Cybelle Pelcher, Yveline Pelletier, Dana Pepp, Penny Pera, P.J. Perring, Alicia Perry, James Pesavento, Tamra Peters and Bill Carney, Johanna Petersen, Linda Petri, Sherry Petrini, John Petrovsky, Ronald Pharis, Woody and CC Phillips, David W. Phillips, Mark Phillips, Susan Piallat, Jeanne Pieters, Kathlyn Pihl, William A. Piltzer, Mindy Pines, Selma Pinsker, Jacob Pispecky, Joanna Plocki, Harry Podany, Dave Pogrel and Chalita Photikoe, Michael Polaire, Maggie Polan, Carol and William Pollak, Edward Pollak, Chris Pollock, Susan Porth, Emily Porzia, Robert Powell, Madeleine L. Powers, Francesca Prada, Flora Praszker, Sean and Eileen Prendiville, Paul Preston, Paul Pribuss, Carol Price, Sandra Prickitt, Fred and Ineke Priest, Val Pristera, Charlotte Prozan, Alan Ptashek, Audrey K. Pulis, Jon Paul Puno, Conan Putman, Kenn Rabin, Sue Ellen Raby, Howard and Evi Rachelson, Alissa Ralston, Michael Ralston, Alan S. Ramadan, Lewis Rambo, Ingrid Ramsay, Su Ranft, Nani L. Ranken, Patricia Ravitz, Douglas Reilly, Ulla Reilly, Steven Reinstein, Haydn Reiss, Robert Riboli, Sheri Rice, Lori Rifkin, Mimi Riley, Fred Ritzenberg and Stacey Cooper, Ann Rivo, John

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H. Robbins, Scott Roberts, Annie Roberts, Dennis Roberts, Sean J. Roberts, Jeffrey and Sharon Roe, Harvey and Nancy Rogers, Ron Rogers, Vern Rogers, Mr. and Mrs. Michael Rokeach, BJ Rolph, Alexandra Rome, Darcy Romines, Steven Romines, Jessica Romm, Erin Rooney, Shannon Rose, Jena Rose, Dr. Melvin Rosen, Joan Rosen, Larry and Diane Rosenberger, Stan Rosenfeld and Patti Breitman, Michael and Ayuna Rosenthal, George Rosenthal, Marshall and Francoise Rothstein, Bob Rucker, Grant Rudolph, Fred and Dolores Rudow, Catherine Rufer, Carol Ruley, Conn Rusche, Rich Rusdorf, Jay Ruskin and Denise Garety, Zack Ruskin, Debra Russell, Talah Russell, Shirley Ryland Butt, Joan Saffa, Georgia Sagues, Susan E. Salk, Francie Salle and Brad Widelock, Emily Saltzman and David Robinson, Jennifer Saltzman, San Rafael Chiropractic, John Sanborn, Earnesto Sanchez, Letitia Sanders, Elizabeth Savage-Sullivan, Igor and Natash Sazevich, Lisa Scarsella, Vail Schaeffer, Erica Schafer, Lisa Schallenberger and Paul Larson, Barbara Schechner, Jaya Schillinger, Eric Schmautz, Frederick Schneider, Roseann Schneider, Marge Schnitzer, Carol Schoenfeld, Jeff Schriebman, Joyce Schroder, Peter Schubert, Shiva Schulz, Joan F. Schwartz, Sylvia Schwartz, Herman Schwarz, Patricia Schwarz, Diana Schweickart, George Scoﬁeld, Michael and Laura Scott, Jeanne Scott, Lisa Scott, Lynn Scott, Bonnie Scott-Steuble, Jean Dagmar Scoutten, Donna R. Scriven, Lucy V. Seeburg, Julia Segrove-Jaurigui, Allen Seidner, Roberta Seifert, Elizabeth Selandia, Rand Selig, Susan Severin, Joyce Seymour, Judith Shaffer, Joy Shamah, David Shane, The Cantina, Andrew Shaw, Nancy Shehi, Bradley Shepard, Sally-Jean Shepard, Dianne Sheridan, Carrie Sherriff, Susan H. Shields, Breton Kaiser Shinn, Nick Shryock, Gail Siegel, Helen E. Silvani, Dorien Silverstein, Jan Simonds, Rose S. Singles, Ron Skellenger, Amy Skewes-Cox, Franz Skinner, Katrina Slattery, Chuck Slaughter, Helga Slessarev, Wendy Slick, Christy Sloan, Scott Slonoff and Carol Gimesky, Barbara Smith, Fred Smith, Janellen Smith, Loren Smith, Carola Sohns, Julian Soler, William Solomon, Jennifer Solowmusser, Deborah Solvason, Jane Sondeen, Daniel Sonkin and Mindy Rosenberg, Amy Sonstein, Deborah Sorondo, Naomi and Alan Spiegelman, Raoul and Sharen Spiegel-March, Michele Spitz, Pamela Spitz, B.B. Spolter, Van Spriggins, Sandy Stadtler, Erin Stamos, Timothy K. Stanton, Donna Staples, John Stayman, Jane A. Steinberg, Jonathan L. Steiner, Roger Steiner, Robert Sterling, Walt Stickel, Peggy Stine, Laurie and Eric Stoelting, Luben Stoilov, Elizabeth Stone, Susan Stordahl, D. A. Strange, Kathy Strauss, Lynn Stray, J. Strohl, Dwight Strong, June Strunk, Diane A. Suffridge, Martha Sukoski, Richard and Judith Sullivan, Jane Summers, Michael Sundermeyer, Alicia Suski, Ronald M. Susskind, Richard Swanson, Wendy Swenson and Blake Davis, Alan Swope, Stephen H. Sworth, Toby Symington, Julia Sze, Carol Tabb, Else Tamayo, Simon Tarlen and Jane Middleton, Paula Taubman, Helene Tavakoli, Joyce Tayer, John Taylor, Mark Taylor, Robin Taylor, Sally Taylor, Laurie Telder, Marcy C. Telles, Jerry TenEyck, Lisa Tesone, Judy Thier, Gary Thomas, Kristy Thompson Buckley, Carolyn C. Timmins, Chris Timossi, Ellen Tobe, Karin Tobiason, Laura B. and James R. Toland, Dustin Tolbert and Nikki Dellanoce, Larry and Pam Tolbert, Jo Tomalin, Janice Tomita, Lily Toney, Elaine Tope, Lulu Torbet, Susan Torres, Lazlo Toth, Elizabeth Tracy, Linda Trenholm, Dimitri Tretiakoff, Graziella Tribuzy, Gayle Trimble, Scott and Benita Truman, Lois Tucker, Peggy and Ed Tuescher, Kees and Sandra Tuinzing, Renick Turley, Kim Turner, Marco Ugolini, Trudi Unger, Tom and Amy Valens, Bob Valentino, Rick van Adelsberg, Walt Van Buskirk, Peter Van Dine, Judy Van Evera, Madelon Van Lier, Margot Van Riper, Constance Vandament, Lauren Vanett, Joan and Otto Vanoni, Lourdes Vargas, Eileen Varin, Mary Rita Vasquez, Ken Vermes, Daina Vitols, Anne Vollen, Bonita Wahl, Sandy Waks,

Julie Walker, Pat Wall, Beth Walukas and Ray Louis, Sherry R. Wangenheim, Michael and Diana Wanger, Esther Wanning, Kate Warner, Mary Warner, Eva Waskell, John and Ann Wathen, Dan Watrous, Richard A. Watson, Christine Weaver, Julia Weaver, Bruce Webster, Jon and Arlene Wedereit, Yao Wei, Gerhard and Alice Weihl, Olivia Weinstein, Rona Weintraub, Elizabeth Weisheit, Madeline Weldon, Penny Wells, Kim Welty, Hank Wendt, Deni Wetsel, Jean F. Whelan, Christine A. White, Ellen White, Irene V. White, Lawrence White, Molly Whiteley, Janice K. Wickeri, Philip L. Wickeri, Robert Widinski, Frances B. Williams, Lorraine Williams Norby, Thomas Wilson, Susan Windman, Laurel Withrow, Gretel Wittke, Doug Wolens, Teresa Wolf, Rita Wolle, Kathryn Wong, Jim and Keiko Wright, Christine Wright, Sue Wright, Diana Wrona, Paula and David K. Yam, Chiemi Yamamoto, Adam Yanow, Seth Yanow, Frank Yee, Ray Yen, Patricia Yenawine, Robert York, Tonya T. York, Caroline Youmans, Allan Young, Christina Young, Siamak and Shahrzad Zadeh, Kathleen Zalecki, Audrey Zavell and Michael Bloom, Carolyn Zerboni, Karl Ziegler, Sam L. Ziegler, Jan Zimmerman, Anne Zishka, Frieda Winnick Zolan, Jordan Zorker, Renee Zutter

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Arthur and Deborah Ablin, Shelley A. Anderson, Ann Armour, John R. Arnold, Beth M. Ashley, Lawrence and Barbara E. Babow, Suzanne Baker, Nicole Beckman, Heidi and Nick Bensen, Virginie Berger, Jan Berry-Kadrie, Elvera Berson, Brian Bettini, Paul Bickner and E. Janell Cornforth, David Blaza, Joseph and Nancy Blum, Janet Bodie, Jennifer Boesel, Shirley Bonbright, Ed and Nancy Boyce, Carol J. Breman, David Broad and Suzanne Broad, Judie Bromberger, Francis Brooks and Jack Tenix, Christy Brucoli, Gail Buchbinder, Mario Bunyi, Renee L. Cahoon, Jill Caire, Carol Campbell, Carney and Kay Campion, Dennis Canning, Joan and Robert Capurro, Matt Chang, Leonard Charles and Lynn Milliman, William and Diane Clarke, Jane Clemmons, Drs. Linda and James Clever, David Cohen, Steven Condiotti, Benny & Bebe’s Circus Fantasticus, Anthony Contini, Robyn Contini, Carolyn Cooper, Ginger and Greg Cowan, Irene Curtis, Atila Danku, Danielle and William Dasher, Patricia De Luca, Pamela De Martini, Ed and Rowena De Mayo, Molly Delaney, Renée Des Tombe, Maryann Diluzio and Ron Foote, Harold and Ursula Dinter, Jim Donlan, Diana Dring, Susan Dzieza, Terry Eberle, Mari Edlin, Patti Eisenger, Wendy J. Elkin, Mill Valley Flowers, Ruth B. Falk, David Farey, Daniel Farthing, Laurel and Dr. Elliott M. Feigenbaum, Teresa A. Ferrari, Kat Fitzgerald, Alan Tenney Ford, Cynthia Foster, Jan Foster, Federick and Cathy Fox, Linda Fox, Ben Foxie, Milton and Marcia Frank, Michael and Donna Franzblau, Leslie Freed, Sue and Paul Galassi, Marian Hill Garfalo, Diana Gay-Catania, Lauren Gertz, Elissa Giambastiani, Amiram Givon, Mark Goldberg, Barbara Golden, Ken and Joan Gosliner, James P. Goss, Lizelle B. Green, Michael Gregory, Linda and Pat Groah, Connie Guerry, Sangetta Gulati, Susan A. Haag, David Haase, Suzanne Harle, Shelly Haygood, Karen M. Hemmeter, Heather Herrington, Dena H Higgins, Nancy H. Hilty, Georgyn Hittelman, Jill and Lonner Holden, Patrick C. Hunt and Suzanne Chock-Hunt, Linda Hunt Anton, Steve Johnson, Christopher Johnson, Howard Johnson, Jacqueline Jones, Kate Joy, Roshan Kaderali, Tammy Karpenko, Athena Katsdros, Bonnie Katz, Barbara Kautz, Virginia Kelley, Dianne Kelly, Susan Kerr, Ashok Khanna, Jean Killacky, William and Marion Kleinecke, Steven Kloman, Karen Koster, Travis Krepeika, Ann Langston, Mr. and Mrs. John Larson, Alexandra Lederer, Jerri Linn, Tom and Sandy Lollini, Shirley Long, Ms. Lori Lusted, Barbara Luttig-Haber, Merrill Mack, Mehdi Madani, Kathleen Maich, Gordon and Carol Manashil, Rich Manning, Laura Marks, Suzanne Martinez, Kristin C. Masri, Claire McBride, Nancy McCarthy, Marie McEnnis, Sheila McGrath,

Lynn McLeod, Nancy Meden, Mary-Ann MilfordLutzker, Drow Miller, Nancy Mitchell, Jerry Moore, Nancy Moore, Harriet Moss, Dorothy Mott, McMann Muir, Bill and Joanne Murray, Nancy Murray, Kathy and L. Peter Niggeman, Rachel H. Norman, Margaret O’Hanlon, Stevan Olian, Gregg Olsson, Carol Olwell, Betty Pagett, Shiva Pakdel, Diana Parker, Ellen Pasternack, Larry Paul, Joyce Pavlovsky, Diane Pellegrini, James and Adrienne Phalon, Yvonne Pierce, Edith and George Piness, Harvey Poppel, Art Poretz, Karen and Dan Pritzker, Sheila Proctor, Bob Pulvino, Nancy Ramsay, Annie Roney, David Galin and Ruth Rosen, Kenneth and Joan Rosenthal, Mark Sachs, Susan Saks, Georgia Sales, Gladys D. Sanguinette, Elizabeth A. Schmitt, Stephen Schneider, Joanne Schwartz, Terry Seligman, Kathee Shatter, Slim and Stefﬁ Shekar, Merritt and Pamela Sher, Diana Shore, Lyanne Shuster, Dan Siegel, Ellen Silverman, Kathy Simmons, Molli Amara Simon, Angelo Siracusa and Diana Rixey, Judy Smith, Caroline Smith, Voge Smith, Stuart Snyder, Steve Starkey, Claire Stevens, Rodney Stock, Mike Stone, Cynthia Sullivan, Sanford and Carol Svetcov, Assaf Tarnopolsky, Nikki Tureen, Tom Verkozen, Camille Vincent, Margaret Wallace, Tanis Walters, Marlena Weinstein, Efﬁe Westervelt, Ann D. Williams, Mary Willis, John and Sallyanne W. Wilson, Donald Wong, Deborah Yarish, lois Zander, Claudia Zani, Godfrey Zimerman

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CINEMA BENEFACTOR

Marty Brenneis, Ken and Jackie Broad, William and Jill Burkart, Marx L. Cazenave II, Jennifer Chaiken and Sam Hamilton, Donald Clark, Peter and Stefanie Coyote, James Dines, Carole Dolton, Gordon and Joanne Dunn, Michael V. Dyett and Heidi Richardson, Jeffrey Edman, Paul M. Elliot, Carla Emil and Rich Silverstein, Melissa Fairgrieve, Mark and Lorrie Fishkin, Lang Gerhard, Paul and Marcia Ginsburg, Michelle Grifﬁn and Tom Parker, Robert and Nanette Griswold, Kenneth and Linda Hicken, Richard and Susan Idell, Tina Jennings, Kathryn E. and Peter Johnson, Barry Kushner, Myla Lerner and Larry Kramer, Victoria Love and R. Max Yusim, Ed and Susan Lowe, Hugh Marasa and Liza Marasa, Ms. Deborah Matthies, James Mochizuki, Tim Muller, Harold and Gertrud Parker, Jonathan Parker, Dwight R. Peterson, Mary and Bill Poland, Art Rothstein and Julia Erickson, Bradley and Diane Shore, Francoise Stone, Dr. Kay Thompson, Monte and Ruthellen Toole, Jeffrey Walker, Eastman Kodak, Zachary and Marlies Zeisler

Please see page 17 for acknowledgement of Major Donor members who hold Festival, Rafael and California Film Institute Fast Passes.

The California Film Institute makes every effort to properly acknowledge our members and supporters. If we inadvertently left your name off this list, or you joined and renewed your membership after August 15th, 2005, please accept our sincere apologies.

Thank you.

Mill Valley Film Festival

Ernest Abdyshaparov

Saratan

Hany Abu-Assad

Paradise Now

Shane Acker

Topaz Adizes

Seven Miles Alone

Maciek Albrecht

Duck for President

How Do Dinosaurs Get Well Soon?

Beth Armstrong Passion with a Pedigree

Phil Aupperle

The Big Race

Hank Azaria

Nobody’s Perfect

Sam Ball

Poumy

Noah Baumbach

The Squid and the Whale

Keith Bearden

The Raftman’s Razor

Mark Becker

Romántico

Shaz Bennett

Top of the Circle

Cordelia Beresford

The Eye Inside

Karen Bernstein

Troop 1500: Girl Scouts Beyond Bars

donnie l. betts

Music is My Life, Politics My Mistress

Oded Binnun

Tuesday’s Women

Delaney Bishop

The Death of Salvador Dali

Eric Black Frozen Angels

Blair Academy MSU Chapel

Jesse Block

Brotherly Jazz: The Music and Stories of Percy, Jimmy & Albert “Tootie” Heath

Maria Blom

Dalecarlians

Mike Blum

The Zit

Tassos Boulmetis

A Touch of Spice

Mystelle Brabbeé Highway Courtesans

Mihal Brezis

Tuesday’s Women

David L. Brown

The Bridge So Far: A Suspense Story

Chris Brown

Scared New World

Edward A. Burger

Amongst White Clouds

Peter Mackie Burns

Milk

Peter Byrne Second Sight

Thomas J. Cabela

The Blue Aspic

Heather Cappiello

Ruby’s Tuesday

Manuel Carmons

Ché in Our Lives

Niki Caro

North Country

Marc Caro Delicatessen

Karen Dee Carpenter My Scarlet Letter

Alyssa Cashman ¡Ole!

John Cernak Dear, Sweet Emma

Tania Cervantes Victims of Fashion

J. Lisa Chang The Big Empty

Aloura M. Charles

La Magique Noire

Richard Ciupka The Incomparable Miss C.

Brad Coley

The Undeserved

Paul Couvela Pingu Digs a Hole

Gidi Dar Ushpizin

Kief Davidson The Devil’s Miner

Nicole de Coteau Train Truck

Mijke de Jong Bluebird

Gaelle Denis City Paradise

Michel Deville The Art of Breaking Up

David Di Sabatino

Frisbee: The Life and Death of a Hippie Preacher

Guy Dimenstein The Messiah

Clara Dudley

Indebted Joyfully

Justin Edgar Special People

Rick Elgood One Love

Holger Ernst Rain Is Falling

Eric Escobar One Weekend a Month

Jules Feiffer I Lost My Bear!

Meredith Finkelstein Video Out

Renate Fleischer Fast Crapper

Dave Fleischer Hoppity Goes to Town

Peter Flinth The Fakir

Derek Flood

Emelia

Péter Forgács

El Perro Negro: Stories from the Spanish Civil War

Stephen Frears

Mrs. Henderson Presents

Thor Freudenthal Motel

Jacqui Frost What Is Gay?

Daniel Garcia Ché in Our Lives

Wade Gardner

Beers, Steers and Queers

Tyler Garner Victims of Fashion

Alex George

The Santa Claus Happy Tyme Show

Abby Ginzberg Soul of Justice: Thelton Henderson’s American Journey

Jon Goldman Kind of a Blur

Gillian Grisman Press On

Roberta Grossman

Homeland: Four Portraits of Native Action

Ciro Guerra

The Wandering Shadows

Lucas Guilkey

The Weight of Justice

Kenzo Hakuta Fall

LisaGay Hamilton

Beah: A Black Woman Speaks

John Harden

La Vie d’un Chien

J.R. Heffelﬁnger

Niji No Shita Ni / Under the Rainbow

Liisa Helminen Pelican Man

Aaron Himelstein

Sugar Mountain

Ryuichi Hiroki

Girlfriend, Someone Please Stop the World

Alex Hoof

Hearts Will Break

Bobby Houston Mighty Times: The Children’s March

Kathy Huang

Jaywalking

Erin Hudson Unhitched

Dwight Hwang The Goo’d War

Simon Hynd

Tumshie McFadgen’s Bid for Ultimate Bliss

Leigh Iacobucci

Jaywalking

The Mother in Me

Dan Ivanick

Arnie the Doughnut

Neil Jack

The Tree Ofﬁcer

Melissa Jacobs

Solemates

Ryu Jang-ha

Springtime

Stefan Jarl

The Girl from Auschwitz

Christopher Jaymes In Memory of My Father

Jean-Pierre Jeunet

Amélie

Delicatessen

Pas de repos pour Billy Brakko

Youna Jin

The Gift

Rian Johnson

Brick

Phil Johnston

Flightless Birds

Antonia Kao Pup

Yasmine Kassari

The Sleeping Child

Nancy Kelly

Smitten

Tamarind King

Solemates

Andrzej Klamt

Carpatia

Sarah Klein Feed the Starter

Christian Svanes Kolding

Depression Served Six Ways

Lajos Koltai

Fateless

Krzysztof Krauze My Nikifor

Matt Kresling

The Milk Can

Gil Kruger

Flutter Kick

Ashvin Kumar

The Little Terrorist

Richard Ladkani

The Devil’s Miner

Shannon Latham

Solemates

Erik Leijonborg

Max and Josef: Double Trouble

Ella Lemhagen

Immediate Boarding

Tod Lending

Rosevelt’s America

Nanouk Leopold

Guernsey

Don Letts

One Love

Evan Lieberman

The Lady from Sockholm

Allie Light

An Iraqi Lullaby

Wilma Ligthart

Theo Lipfert

Taubman Sucks

Lu Lippold Wellstone!

Miguel Littin

The Last Moon

Aku Louhimies

Frozen Land

Sarah Lovrien Examining the Teenage Girl

Dan Luke Wellstone!

Heather Lyn MacDonald

Been Rich All My Life

Luis Mandoki

Innocent Voices

James Mangold Walk the Line

Samantha Marx

Solemates

Zola Maseko

Drum

Jimmy Mathew Fall

Stephanie Maxwell

Second Sight

Lesley McClintock Ripples of Light

Monteith McCollum

Lawn

Michael McCormick

Arrest Assured

Scott McGehee

Bee Season

Tamara Meem

The First Thing I Remember

Farhad Mehranfar

The Winter Song

Dani Menkin

39 Pounds of Love

Rudolf Mestdagh Ellektra

Radu Mihaileanu Live and Become

Coleman Miller Uso Justo

Seyyed Reza Mir-Karimi

So Close, So Far

John Mitchell

Goodnight Bill

Keefe Murren

iThemba | Hope

Doan Thanh Nghia

Bride of Silence

Rob Nilsson

Need

Peder Norlund

Wolf Summer

Kristen Nutile

Police Blotter

Colin Nutley

The Queen of Sheba’s Pearls

Stephen Olsson

SOUND OF THE SOUL: The Fez Festival of World Sacred Music

Maysoon Pachachi

Return to the Land of Wonders

Jonathan Parker

The Californians

Robert Adrian Pejo

Dallas Among Us

Silvije Petranovic

The Society of Jesus (The Jesuits)

Renji Philip

An American Dream

Lucy Phillips my tiny universe

Jarrell Phillips Victims of Fashion

Doan Minh Phuong Bride of Silence

Adam Pilkington Lion

Eugenio Polgovsky

Tropic of Cancer

Marco Ponti Round Trip

Miloje Popovic Accidents

Nick Poppy

Zombie-American

Michael Powell

I Know Where I’m Going! The Red Shoes

Emeric Pressburger

I Know Where I’m Going! The Red Shoes

Heather Rae Trudell

Phil Ramuno

Bringing Up BayBay

Samantha Rebillet

Butterﬂy Man

Jane Reed

My Eyes Were Fresh, The Life and Photographs of John Gutmann

Matt Reiter

Hearts Will Break

Aliaa Remtilla

Dear Reid

Carina Renner

The Virgin Suicides

Jody Rice

The Rubber Duckling

Bobby Roth Berkeley

Marc Rothemud

Sophie Scholl: The Last Days

Ulrich Rydzewski

Carpatia

Ira Sachs

Forty Shades of Blue

Ovidio Salazar

Al-Ghazali: The Alchemist of Happiness

Ramon Alos Sanchez Accidents

Frauke Sandig

Frozen Angels

Irving Saraf

An Iraqi Lullaby

Robinson Savary

Bye-Bye Blackbird

Stefan Scaini

Spirit Bear: The Simon Jackson Story

Glen Scantlebury my tiny universe

Allan Schindler Second Sight

Henry Selick Moongirl

Kirill Serebrennikov Bed Stories

Joe Shapiro Rooted in Rebellion

Richard Shepard The Matador

David Siegel Bee Season

Newton Thomas Sigel

The Big Empty

Daniel Silber-Baker

Hearts Will Break

Shelly Silver What I’m Looking For

Lance Slaton Life Ride

Eric Smith

Irene Williams: Queen of Lincoln Road

Aaron Sorenson

Bastard Wants to Hit Me

Elise Southwick Solemates

Ellen Spiro

Troop 1500: Girl Scouts Beyond Bars

Kim Spurlock Afternoon

Laurie Stern Wellstone!

Students of SF Art and Film Postcards from Paris

Kamal Tabrizi A Piece of Bread

Yuki Tanada Moon and Cherry

Robert Taylor Arrest Assured

Rick Tejada-Flores Race Is the Place

Ray Telles Race Is the Place

Jacques Thelemeaque Transaction

Gabriela Tollman Birth of Industry

Keith Tonini Light in an Elevator

Géza M. Tóth Maestro

Frédérick Tremblay Remote Paradise

Toni Trupia Accidents

Anand Tucker Shopgirl

Duncan Tucker Transamerica

James J. Twyford Little Things

Ahmet Uluçay Boats out of Watermelon Rinds

Willem van de Sande Bakhuyzen Lepel

Paula van der Oest

Hidden Flaws

Paul Vlachos

Video Out

Eddy Von Mueller

The Lady from Sockholm

Taika Waititi

Tama Tü

Nelson Walker iThemba | Hope

Jeremy Kipp Walker Goodnight Bill

Michael Wallin

To Hold a Heart

Ken Wardrop Undressing My Mother

Josh Weinberg Beers, Steers and Queers

Roger Weisberg

Rosevelt’s America

Aerlyn Weissman

Web Cam Girls

Liz Whitaker Pingu and the Band

Leah Wolchok City of Mermaids

Joe Wright

Pride & Prejudice

Ben Wu

Unhitched

S. Pierre Yaméogo Delwende

Pamela Yates State of Fear

Ben Younger Prime

Samantha Yu The Winner

Jay Yu

Victims of Fashion

David Zeiger Sir! No Sir!

Afghanistan

SOUND OF THE SOUL: The Fez Festival of World Sacred Music

Australia

Butterﬂy Man

The Eye Inside

The First Thing I Remember Passion with a Pedigree

Austria Carpatia

Dallas Among Us

Belgium

Amélie

Ellektra

The Sleeping Child

Bolivia

The Devil’s Miner

Burkina Faso

Delwende

Canada

The Incomparable Miss C. Spirit Bear: The Simon Jackson Story

Web Cam Girls

Remote Paradise

Amongst White Clouds

Chile

The Last Moon

China

Amongst White Clouds

Colombia The Wandering Shadows

Croatia

The Society of Jesus (The Jesuits)

Denmark

Depression Served Six Ways The Fakir

Egypt Guernsey

El Salvador

Innocent Voices

Ethiopia Live and Become

Finland

Frozen Land Pelican Man

France

Amélie

The Art of Breaking Up

Bye-Bye Blackbird

Delicatessen

Delwende

Foutaises

Frozen Angels

Live and Become

Paradise Now

Poumy

SOUND OF THE SOUL: The Fez Festival of World Sacred Music

Germany

Bye-Bye Blackbird

Bride of Silence

Carpatia

Dallas Among Us

The Devil’s Miner

Frozen Angels

The Girl from Auschwitz Paradise Now Rain Is Falling

Saratan

Sophie Scholl: The Last Days

Greece

Touch of Spice

Hungary Dallas Among Us

Fateless Maestro

India

Highway Courtesans The Little Terrorist

Iran

Al-Ghazali: The Alchemist of Happiness

A Piece of Bread So Close, So Far The Winter Song

Iraq

An Iraqi Lullaby Return to the Land of Wonders

Ireland

SOUND OF THE SOUL: The Fez Festival of World Sacred Music

Undressing My Mother

Israel

39 Pounds of Love

The Girl from Auschwitz The Last Moon Live and Become The Messiah Paradise Now Tuesday’s Women Ushpizin

Italy

Accidents Round Trip

Jamaica One Love

Japan

Girlfriend, Someone Please Stop the World Moon and Cherry Niji No Shita Ni / Under the Rainbow

Korea

Springtime

Kyrgyzstan Saratan

Liberia Rosevelt’s America

Luxembourg

Bye-Bye Blackbird

Madagascar The Big Race

Mexico

Innocent Voices

The Matador

Romántico Tropic of Cancer

Morocco The Sleeping Child

SOUND OF THE SOUL: The Fez Festival of World Sacred Music

Netherlands

Bluebird

Guernsey

Hidden Flaws

Lepel

Paradise Now

El Perro Negro: Stories from the Spanish Civil War

New Zealand

Tama Tü

Norway

Wolf Summer

Palestine

The Girl from Auschwitz

The Last Moon

Paradise Now

Peru

State of Fear

Poland

Carpatia

My Nikifor

Portugal

SOUND OF THE SOUL: The Fez Festival of World Sacred Music

Puerto Rico

Innocent Voices

Romania

Carpatia

Russia

Bed Stories

Scotland

Hidden Flaws

Milk

The Tree Ofﬁcer

Tumshie McFadgen’s Bid for Ultimate Bliss

South Africa

Drum

iThemba | Hope

Spain

El Perro Negro: Stories from the Spanish Civil War

Sweden

Dalecarlians

The Girl from Auschwitz

Immediate Boarding

Max and Josef: Double Trouble

The Queen of Sheba’s Pearls

Turkey

Boats out of Watermelon Rinds

Touch of Spice

UK Accidents

Al-Ghazali: The Alchemist of

Happiness

Bye-Bye Blackbird

City Paradise

I Know Where I’m Going!

The Little Terrorist

Little Things

Mrs. Henderson Presents

One Love

Pingu and the Band

Pingu Digs a Hole

Pride & Prejudice

The Red Shoes

Return to the Land of Wonders

The Queen of Sheba’s Pearls

Special People

Ukraine

Carpatia

US 9

39 Pounds of Love

Afternoon

An American Dream

Arnie the Doughnut

Arrest Assured

Bastard Wants to Hit Me

Beah: A Black Woman Speaks

Bee Season

Been Rich All My Life

Beers, Steers and Queers

Berkeley

The Big Empty

The Big Race

Birth of Industry

The Blue Aspic

Brick

The Bridge So Far: A Suspense Story

Bringing Up BayBay

Brotherly Jazz: The Music and Stories of Percy, Jimmy and Albert “Tootie” Heath

The Californians

Ché in Our Lives City of Mermaids

Dear Reid

Dear, Sweet Emma

The Death of Salvador Dali

The Devil’s Miner

Drum

Duck for President

Emelia

Examining the Teenage Girl

Fall

Fast Crapper

Feed the Starter Flightless Birds

Flutter Kick

Forty Shades of Blue Frisbee: The Life and Death of a Hippie Preacher

Frozen Angels

The Gift

The Goo’d War

Goodnight Bill

Hearts Will Break

Highway Courtesans

Homeland: Four Portraits of Native Action

Hoppity Goes to Town

How Do Dinosaurs Get Well Soon?

I Lost My Bear!

In Memory of My Father

Indebted Joyfully

Innocent Voices

An Iraqi Lullaby

Irene Williams: Queen of Lincoln Road

iThemba | Hope

Jaywalking

Kind of a Blur

The Lady from Sockholm

Lawn

Life Ride

Light in an Elevator Lion

La Magique Noire

The Matador

Mighty Times: The Children’s March

The Milk Can

Moongirl

Motel

The Mother in Me

MSU Chapel

Music Is My Life, Politics My Mistress

My Eyes Were Fresh, The Life and Photographs of John Gutmann

My Scarlet Letter my tiny universe

Need

Niji No Shita Ni / Under the Rainbow

Nobody’s Perfect North Country ¡Ole!

One Weekend a Month

Police Blotter

Postcards from Paris

Poumy

Press On Prime

Pup

Race Is the Place

Raftman’s Razor

Ripples of Light

Romántico

Rooted in Rebellion

Rosevelt’s America

Rubber Duckling

Ruby’s Tuesday

Santa Claus Happy Tyme Show

Scared New World

Second Sight

Seven Miles Alone

Shopgirl

Sir! No Sir!

Smitten

Solemates

Soul of Justice: Thelton

Henderson’s American Journey

SOUND OF THE SOUL: The Fez Festival of World Sacred Music

The Squid and the Whale State of Fear

Sugar Mountain Taubman Sucks

To Hold a Heart

Top of the Circle

Train

Transaction

Transamerica

Troop 1500: Girl Scouts

Beyond Bars

Truck

Trudell

The Undeserved

Unhitched

Uso Justo

Victims of Fashion

Video Out

La Vie d’un Chien

The Virgin Suicides

The Weight of Justice

Wellstone!

What I’m Looking For What Is Gay?

The Winner

The Zit

Zombie-American

Vietnam

Bride of Silence

Sir! No Sir!

Zambia Lion

9 Shane Acker shaneacker@hotmail.com 310.397.3714 phone www.shaneacker.com

39 Pounds of Love

Priddy Brothers Entertainment lb@jcllc.com 208.955.7602 phone www.39poundsoﬂove.com

Accidents

Bruno Bossio/PromoFest promofest@aol.com 212.353.1127 phone 212.529.6096 fax

Afternoon

Kim Spurlock ks880@nyu.edu 917.573.2828 phone

Al-Ghazali: The Alchemist of Happiness Matmedia Productions ysalazar@matmedia.org

+44 207 608 0842 phone +44 207 409 2082 fax www.matmedia.org

Amélie Tapioca Films

+33 1 42 55 10 00 phone/fax

An American Dream Axis Paciﬁc Filmworks Inc. renjiphilip@axispaciﬁc.com

818.605.1194 phone 818.509.0584 fax www.anamericandreammovie.com

Amongst White Clouds Cosmos Pictures Inc. chad@cosmos-pictures.com 403.247.1828 phone +852 301 446 25 fax www.cosmos-pictures.com

Arnie the Doughnut Weston Woods Studios nfuentes@scholastic.com 800.243.5020 phone 203.845.0498 fax www.scholastic.com/westonwoods

Arrest Assured Pendulum rob@studiopendulum.com

619.725.0750 phone 619.725.0752 fax www.studiopendulum.com/ arrestassured

The Art of Breaking Up Films Distribution info@ﬁlmsdistribution.com

+33 1 53 10 33 99 phone +33 1 53 10 33 98 fax www.ﬁlmsdistribution.com

Bastard Wants to Hit Me Laika House

503.225.1130 phone 503.226.3746 fax www.laika.com

Beah: A Black Woman Speaks Women Make Movies cgeorge@wmm.com 212.925.0606 phone 212.925.2052 fax www.wmm.com

Bed Stories Intercinema XXI Century post@intercin.ru +7 095 255 90 53 phone +7 095 255 90 82 fax www.intercinema.ru

Bee Season Fox Searchlight Pictures healey.young@fox.com 323.913.9622 phone 323.913.9604 fax www.foxsearchlight.com/press

Been Rich All My Life Toots Crackin Productions tootscp@aol.com 212.620.8147 phone/fax www.tootscrackin.com/BRAML.htm

Beers, Steers and Queers Norman Tangler Productions norman@normantangler.com 303.921.9444 phone www.normantangler.com

Berkeley Jungnrestless Films rothbobby@aol.com 213.705.6130 phone www.berkeleytheﬁlm.com

The Big Empty Opposable Thumbs opposablethumbs@charter.net 310.317.9969 phone 310.317.9959 fax

The Big Race Meta-Lingo liz@meta-lingo.com 718.260.9550 phone 347.402.1811 fax www.meta-lingo.com

Birth of Industry BOI Productions gabriela.tollman@sbcglobal.net 323.663.3713 phone

The Blue Aspic Cabelaﬁlms tcabela@yahoo.com 402.730.4009 phone 818.954.2260 fax www.cabelaﬁlms.com

Bluebird Egmond Film and Television info@egmondﬁlm.nl

+31 20 601 50 31 phone +31 20 589 09 01 fax

Boats out of Watermelon Rinds IFR A.S. scakarer@ifr.com.tr +90 212 324 76 24 phone +90 212 324 76 36 fax www.ifr.com.tr

Brick Focus Features

kyle.thorpe@focusfeatures.com 818.777.7309 phone 818.866.4602 fax www.focusfeatures.com/home.php

Bride of Silence

Moonfish Films moonfishfilms@yahoo.com +49 179 556 2555 phone www.brideofsilence.com

The Bridge So Far: A Suspense Story

David L. Brown Productions docmaker1@aol.com 415.468.7469 phone 415.467.5428 fax www.dlbﬁlms.com

Bringing Up BayBay Soleil Films florence@soleilfilms.com www.bubb.soleilfilms.com

Brotherly Jazz: The Music and Stories of Percy, Jimmy and Albert “Tootie” Heath TeleVisual Studios jb@octalouie.com 415.567.2749 phone www.octalouie.com

Butterﬂy Man AFTRS sami@bigpond.net.au +612 9130 1862 phone

Bye-Bye Blackbird Samsa Film lelia@ﬁlmnet.lu +352 45 19 60-1 phone +352 44 24 29 fax www.samsa-ﬁlm.com

The Californians Parker Film Company catherine@parkerﬁlmcompany.com 415.456.4465 phone 415.456.2414 fax www.parkerﬁlmcompany.com

Carpatia Hektor + Rydzewski GmbH post@hektor-rydzewski.de +49 211 933 860 phone +49 211 933 8619 fax www.hektor-rydzewski.de

Ché in Our Lives Espanola Valley High School beakaiper@cybermesa.com

505.753.9762 phone 505.753.6177 fax

City of Mermaids Leah Wolchok leahwolchok@yahoo.com 415.637.7390 phone www.cityofmermaids.com

City Paradise Passion Pictures joanna@passion-pictures.com +44 20 7323 9933 phone +44 20 7323 9030 fax www.passion-pictures.com

Dalecarlians Swedish Film Institute gual@sﬁ.se +46 8 665 1100 phone +46 8 666 3698 fax www.sﬁ.se

Dallas Among Us Magyar Filmunió kati.vajda@ﬁlmunio.hu +36 1 351 7760 phone +36 1 352 6734 fax www.ﬁlmunio.hu

Dear Reid

Aliaa Remtilla remtilla@gmail.com 604.266.9883 phone 604.876.2599 fax

Dear, Sweet Emma Out of Our Minds Animation Studios minds@outofourmindsstudios.com 336.724.1803 phone www.outofourmindsstudios.com

The Death of Salvador Dali

Dali Freud Films delaney@dalimovie.com

323.461.4844 phone 323.461.3795 fax www.dalimovie.com

Delicatessen Tapioca Films +33 1 42 55 10 00 phone/fax

Delwende New Yorker Films rebeca.conget@newyorkerﬁlms.com 212.645.4600 phone 212.645.5445 fax www.newyorkerﬁlms.com

Depression Served Six Ways Farm Fresh Films info@farmfreshﬁlms.com +45 26 36 34 70 phone www.farmfreshﬁlms.com

The Devil’s Miner Emerging Pictures 212.245.6767 phone 212.202.4984 fax www.emergingpictures.com

Drum

Armada Pictures info@armadapictures.com 310.205.9600 phone 310.205.9610 fax www.armadapictures.com

Duck for President Weston Woods Studios nfuentes@scholastic.com 800.243.5020 phone 203.845.0498 fax www.scholastic.com/westonwoods

Ellektra Cosmo Kino info@cosmokino.com +32 2 219 62 83 phone +32 2 219 98 03 fax www.cosmokino.com

Emelia Sharktacos Studios studio@sharktacos.com 415.826.2573 phone www.sharktacos.com/Emelia

Examining the Teenage Girl Reel Grrls lila@reelgrrls.org 206.382.5332 phone 206.382.7894 fax www.reelgrrls.org

The Eye Inside Independent alidredge@bigpond.com +612 9130 7384 phone +612 9518 9455 fax

The Fakir Danish Film Institute lars@ﬁlmlageret.dk +45 3254 3456 phone +45 3296 6441 fax

Fall

Kenzo Hakuta, Jimmy Mathew fallﬁlm@paikstudios.com 646.522.8527 phone www.fall.paikstudios.com

Fast Crapper Midnight Sun rabygatan@msn.com 206.324.2397 phone

Fateless THINKFilm wsmith@thinkﬁlmcompany.com 646.293.9400 phone www.thinkﬁlmcompany.com

Feed the Starter

Sarah Klein thesarahklein@yahoo.com www.sarahklein.com

The First Thing I Remember Tamara Meem tamie_tm@hotmail.com +614 1331 8840 phone

Flightless Birds

Odd Number Productions phil@oddnumberproductions.com 917.538.0274 phone 718.369.4872 fax

Flutter Kick How Far Films gil@howfarﬁlms.com 917.514.1819 phone 212.253.6929 fax www.howfarﬁlms.com

Forty Shades of Blue Capital Ent/First Look Pictures david@vitagraphﬁlms.com 310.314.9567 phone www.capitalent.com www.ﬂp.com

Frisbee: The Life and Death of a Hippie Preacher Jester Media sabbi@cox.net 949.297.4879 phone www.lonniefrisbee.com

Frozen Angels Umbrella Films umbrellaﬁlms@sandig.com +49 304 473 8624 phone/fax

Frozen Land Finnish Film Foundation ses@ses.ﬁ +358 9 622 0300 phone +358 9 622 03060 fax www.ses.ﬁ

The Gift Idyllwild Arts Academy bradleybattersby@yahoo.com 951.659.2171 phone 951.659.8485 fax www.idyllwildarts.org

The Girl from Auschwitz Stefan Jarl AB stefanjarl@hotmail.com +46 501 42072 phone +46 501 42071 fax www.stefanjarl.se

Girlfriend, Someone Please Stop the World Open Sesame Co., Ltd kaho@open-sesame.jp +81 3 5159 0871 phone +81 3 3561 6262 fax

The Goo’d War Dwight Hwang dwighty74@yahoo.com 253.241.8856 phone

Goodnight Bill Maida Vale Films jeremykippwalker@gmail.com 917.545.7676 phone 212.989.3907 fax www.goodnightbill.com

Guernsey Holland Film a.naus@hollandﬁlm.nl +31 20 570 7572 phone

Hearts Will Break Berkeley High School drasiah@berkeley.k12.ca.us 510.601.5164 phone

Hidden Flaws Holland Film a.naus@hollandﬁlm.nl +31 20 570 7572 phone

Mill Valley Film Festival PRINT SOURCES

Highway Courtesans Women Make Movies cgeorge@wmm.com 212.925.0606 phone 212.925.2052 fax www.wmm.com

Homeland: Four Portraits of Native Action Katahdin Productions rgrossman@katahdinproductions.com 323.337.1177 phone 323.337.1443 fax www.katahdin.org

Hoppity Goes to Town Paramount Repertory 818.380.7801 phone 818.380.7852 fax

How Do Dinosaurs Get Well Soon? Weston Woods Studios nfuentes@scholastic.com 800.243.5020 phone 203.845.0498 fax www.scholastic.com/westonwoods

I Know Where I’m Going! Sony Pictures Repertory repertory@spe.sony.com 310.244.2066 phone www.sonypicturesrepertory.com

I Lost My Bear! Weston Woods Studios nfuentes@scholastic.com 800.243.5020 phone 203.845.0498 fax www.scholastic.com/westonwoods

Immediate Boarding Swedish Film Institute gual@sﬁ.se +46 8 665 1100 phone

+46 8 666 3698 fax www.sﬁ.se

In Memory of My Father TCDM & Associates info@personaﬁlm.com 213.624.7827 phone www.personaﬁlm.com

The Incomparable Miss C. Films Vision 4 info@teleﬁction.com 514.499.0972 phone 514.844.5498 fax www.teleﬁction.com

Indebted Joyfully Clara Dudley dandiesjunkie@aol.com 415.387.2248 phone

Innocent Voices

BB Entertainment Marketing bbentertainment@adelphia.net 818.562.9432 phone 818.562.9472 fax

An Iraqi Lullaby Light-Saraf Films saraﬁlm@comcast.net 415.469.0139 phone/fax lightsarafﬁlms.com

Irene Williams: Queen of Lincoln Road World Love Productions, Inc. irenequeen@sbcglobal.net 415.695.8259 phone 415.695.7479 fax www.worldloveproductions.com

iThemba | Hope Murren-Walker Films keefemurren@yahoo.com 917.207.0467 phone www.ithembaﬁlmproject.org

Jaywalking Kathy Huang khuang@stanford.edu

650.814.1017 phone 650.725.2472 fax www.jaywalkingmovie.com

Kind of a Blur Jon Goldman jgoldman@speakeasy.net 310.804.2894 phone

The Lady from Sockholm Kittyboy Creations, Inc. lynn@kittyboy.com 404.624.9464 phone www.kittyboy.com

The Last Moon Vision International international@visiongroupe.com

+33 1 46 94 88 02 phone +33 1 46 94 01 69 fax

Lawn Monteith McCollum thirtymilesfromanywhere@yahoo.com 607.689.0376 phone/fax

Lepel

Lemming Film info@lemmingﬁlm.com +31 20 661 04 24 phone +31 20 661 09 79 fax www.lemmingﬁlm.com

Life Ride Life Ride Productions liferide@gmail.com 626.644.9817 phone 626.628.3896 fax www.lancelance.com

Light in an Elevator Keith Tonini ktonini@gmail.com 415.377.1796 phone www.setaction.com

Lion Adam Pilkington amp_rabbi@mac.com 310.291.0568 phone

The Little Terrorist Alipur Films rajeev@ritukumar.com +91 11 2685 8597 phone +91 11 2686 2525 fax www.alipur.com

Little Things

James Twyford james.twyford@yahoo.com +44 7810 107 207 phone

Live and Become Menemsha Films neilf@menemshaﬁlms.com 310.452.1775 phone 310.277.6602 fax

Maestro Magyar Filmunió kati.vajda@ﬁlmunio.hu +36 1 351 7760 phone +36 1 352 6734 fax www.ﬁlmunio.hu

La Magique Noire Southshore Entertainment, Inc. festivalﬁnder@comcast.net 772.293.9902 phone

The Matador The Weinstein Company 212.941.3800 phone

Max and Josef: Double Trouble Swedish Film Institute gual@sﬁ.se +46 8 665 1100 phone +46 8 666 3698 fax www.sﬁ.se

The Messiah Tel Aviv University a_miracle17@hotmail.com +972 3 687 939 phone

Mighty Times: The Children’s March Tell The Truth Pictures 805.646.7724 phone/fax www.tttpictures.com

Milk Autonomi Ltd. marie@autonomie.tv

+44 141 357 7288 phone +44 141 357 7299 fax www.autonomi.tv

The Milk Can Matt Kresling mattkresling@yahoo.com 310.902.7182 phone www.themilkcan.com

Moon and Cherry Open Sesame Co., Ltd. kaho@open-sesame.jp +81 3 5159 0871 phone +81 3 3561 6262 fax

Moongirl LAIKA Entertainment helenk@laika.com 503.276.0153 phone 503.226.3746 fax www.laika.com

Motel Hi Point Productions thorf@sbcglobal.net 323.932.9632 phone/fax

The Mother in Me Leigh Iacobucci leigh618@yahoo.com 650.804.4124 phone

Mrs. Henderson Presents The Weinstein Company 212.941.3800 phone

MSU Chapel Blair Academy la2blair@optonline.net 908.979.9971 phone 908.979.9972 fax www.blair.edu

Music Is My Life, Politics My Mistress No Credits Productions, LLC dlbetts@nocredits.com 720.748.1388 phone 720.748.1387 fax www.nocredits.com

My Eyes Were Fresh, The Life and Photographs of John Gutmann Jane Reed jane@janelreed.com 415.641.5513 phone 415.641.5773 fax www.johngutmann.org

My Nikifor Film Polski-Promotion Agency jola@ﬁlmpolski.com.pl +48 22 826 40 51 phone/fax www.nikifor.com.pl

My Scarlet Letter Bird Pictures karendee@temple.edu 215.413.0909 phone www.myscarletletter.com

my tiny universe Pavement Pictures Inc. pavementpictures@att.net 323.469.4235 phone 323.962.4829 fax www.mytinyuniverse.com

Need 9 @ Night Films rnilsson@robnilsson.com 510.527.7217 phone 510.528.4770 fax www.robnilsson.com

Niji No Shita Ni/Under the Rainbow J.R. Heffelﬁnger kanashibari@runbox.com 718.387.2573 phone www.kanashibari.org

Nobody’s Perfect Lunaria Films lunariaﬁlms@mindspring.com 310.351.3884 phone 310.943.6947 fax

North Country Warner Bros. Pictures marilee.womack@warnerbros.com 818.379.1823 phone

¡Ole! Girls Film School agrisso@csf.edu 505.473.6403 phone www.girlsﬁlmschool.cfs.edu

One Love One Love Films Ltd. ydeutschman@blueyonder.co.uk +44 20 74 19 05 11 phone +44 20 74 19 05 71 fax www.onelovethemovie.co.uk

One Weekend a Month Refuge Films ericme@mac.com 510.928.5632 phone

Paradise Now Warner Independent Pictures valerie.delaPena@warnerbros.com 818.954.5765 phone 818.954.6016 fax wip.warnerbros.com

Pas de repos pour Billy Brakko Tapioca Films +33 1 42 55 10 00 phone/fax

Passion with a Pedigree AFTRS meganp@aftrs.edu.au +61 2 9805 6422 phone +61 2 9805 1275 fax www.aftrs.edu.au

Pelican Man Finnish Film Foundation ses@ses.ﬁ +358 9 6220 300 phone +358 9 6220 3060 fax

El Perro Negro: Stories from the Spanish Civil War Lumen Film sales@lumenﬁlm.demon.nl +31 20 623 26 00 phone +31 20 625 48 30 fax

A Piece of Bread Cimi Media Int’l (CMI) cmi@cmi.ir +98 21 2254 8032 phone +98 21 2255 1914 fax www.cmi.ir

Pingu and the Band Hit Entertainment cpoole@hitentertainment.com 972.390.6056 phone www.hitentertainment.com

Pingu Digs a Hole Hit Entertainment cpoole@hitentertainment.com 972.390.6056 phone www.hitentertainment.com

Police Blotter

Soft Spoken Films, LLC knutile@softspokenﬁlms.com www.softspokenﬁlms.com

Postcards from Paris SF Art & Film rchase@chaseartﬁlm.com 415.864.2026 phone www.ﬁlmworkshopsf.org

Poumy Citizen Film 415.206.1880 phone 415.206.1329 fax www.citizenﬁlm.org

Press On 11th Hour Productions asams92080@aol.com 212.989.3009 phone 212.243.8212 fax www.pressonthemovie.com

Pride & Prejudice Focus Features kyle.thorpe@focusfeatures.com 818.777.7309 phone 818.866.4602 fax www.focusfeatures.com/home.php www.prideandprejudicemovie. net/home.html

Prime Universal Pictures www.primemovie.net

Pup

Wise Orchid Productions antonia@wiseorchid.com 650.575.5110 phone 650.595.2778 fax www.wiseorchid.com

The Queen of Sheba’s Pearls Swedish Film Institute gual@sﬁ.se +46 8 665 11 00 phone +46 8 666 36 98 fax www.sﬁ.se

Race Is the Place Paradigm Productions grtf@paradigmproductions.org 510.883.9814 phone www.paradigmpictures.com

The Raftman’s Razor Keith Bearden info@raftmansrazor.com 917.680.4158 phone www.raftmansrazor.com

Rain Is Falling Idealﬁlm holger.ernst@idealﬁlm.de

The Red Shoes Sony Pictures Repertory repertory@spe.sony.com 310.244.2066 phone www.sonypicturesrepertory.com

925.866.9559

Remote Paradise

National Film Board of Canada j.sirabella@nfb.ca 212.629.8890 phone 212.629.8502 fax www.nfb.ca

Return to the Land of Wonders Type Cast Films/AFD ryan@arabﬁlm.com 206.322.0882 phone 206.322.4586 fax www.arabﬁlm.com

Ripples of Light Lyrical Life Productions lesleyhawk@yahoo.com 510.486.9550 phone

Romántico Meteor Films

mark@meteorﬁlms.org 212.675.3924 phone www.meteorﬁlms.org

Rooted in Rebellion

Joe Shapiro cellardoor31@excite.com 415.383.4488 phone www.tamhigh.org/aim

Rosevelt’s America Public Policy Productions jpepper@pppdocs.com 845.398.2119 phone 845.398.2620 fax www.pppdocs.com

Round Trip

Bruno Bossio/PromoFest promofest@aol.com 212.353.1127 phone 212.529.6096 fax

The Rubber Duckling Jody Rice zebra54@aol.com 510.303.1500 phone

Ruby’s Tuesday

Heather Cappiello heathercappiello@verizon.net 323.974.4715 phone www.heathercappiello.com

The Santa Claus Happy Tyme Show

Alex George Visualization ag@santashow.com 847.359.4151 phone 847.359.5049 fax www.santashow.com

Saratan mdc int. GmbH info@mdc-int.de +49 30 264 979 00 phone +49 30 264 979 10 fax www.mdc-int.de

Scared New World

John Balquist Productions withrom@earthlink.net 510.684.5810 phone

Second Sight

Stephanie Maxwell sampph@rit.edu 585.425.1832 phone www.rit.edu/~sampph

Seven Miles Alone

Topaz Adizes topaz@mantrapictures.com 917.658.0845 phone www.mantrapictures.com

Shopgirl Touchstone Pictures www.touchstonepictures.com www.shopgirlmovie.com

Sir! No Sir! Peter Broderick upwards@earthlink.net 310.393.7483 phone www.displacedﬁlms.com

The Sleeping Child Les Films de la Drève dreve@skynet.be +32 87 78 35 95 phone +32 87 30 02 74 fax

Smitten Mother Lode Productions nkmomlode@earthlink.net 415.925.4346 phone 415.925.4348 fax

So Close, So Far Reza Mir-Karimi/Soureh Cinema Farabi Cinema Foundation fcf1@dpi.net.ir

+98 21 274 1252-4 phone +98 21 273 4953 fax www.fcf-ir.com

The Society of Jesus (The Jesuits) Maydi Film maydi@zg.htnet.hr +385 1 66 92 500 phone +385 1 66 73 774 fax www.maydi.com

Solemates Girls Film School agrisso@csf.edu 505.473.6403 phone www.girlsﬁlmschool.cfs.edu

Sophie Scholl: The Last Days Zeitgeist Films woodburne@zeitgeistﬁlms.com 212.274.1989 phone 212.274.1644 fax www.zeitgeistﬁlms.com

Soul of Justice: Thelton Henderson’s American Journey California Newsreel 415.284.7800 phone 415.284.7801 fax www.newsreel.org

SOUND OF THE SOUL: The Fez Festival of World Sacred Music Cultural and Educational Media solsson@linktv.org 415.331.7345 phone 415.331.5363 fax www.cemproductions.org

Special People 104 ﬁlms justinedgar@beeb.net +44 20 86 90 04 24 phone/fax www.104ﬁlms.com

Spirit Bear: The Simon Jackson Story Tapestry Pictures beth@tapestrypictures.com 416.535.7402 phone 416.535.1839 fax

Springtime TUBE Entertainment sooyon@tube-entertainment.co.kr +822 515 8231 phone +822 547 3279 fax www.tube-entertainment.co.kr

The Squid and The Whale IDP Distribution douglas@idpﬁlm.com

212.367.3435 phone 212.367.0853 fax

State of Fear Skylight Pictures paco@skylightpictures.com 917.363.0429 phone 212.643.1208 fax www.skylightpictures.com

Sugar Mountain Sideshow Entertainment kssideshow@sbcglobal.net 317.523.5307 phone 317.684.7007 fax

Tama Tü New Zealand Film Commission hayley@nzﬁlm.co.nz +64 4382 7688 phone +64 4384 9719 fax www.nzﬁlm.co.nz

Taubman Sucks Singing Pictures.com theo@singingpictures.com

406.581.3960 phone 406.994.6214 fax www.singingpictures.com

To Hold a Heart Mercury Productions jahmikey@yahoo.com 415.725.1325 phone 415.863.0168 fax

Top of the Circle eyes, lips & legs prods. shaz@shazbennett.com 310.493.0660 phone www.shazbennett.com

A Touch of Spice Menemsha Films neilf@menemshaﬁlms.com 310.452.1775 phone 310.277.6602 fax

Train Nicole de Coteau njdecoteau@aol.com 415.806.5088 phone 415.753.0355 fax

Transaction Filmmakers Alliance jacques@ﬁlmmakersalliance.com 213.228.1152 phone 213.228.1156 fax www.ﬁlmmakersalliance.com

Transamerica The Weinstein Company 212.941.3800 phone

The Tree Ofﬁcer Ko Lik Films Ltd. info@kolik.co.uk +44 131 553 6555 phone www.kolik.co.uk

Troop 1500: Girl Scouts Beyond Bars Women Make Movies cgeorge@wmm.com 212.925.0606 phone 212.925.2052 fax www.wmm.com

Tropic of Cancer Cinema School/CCC eovsky@yahoo.com.mx +5255 5554 3224 phone

Truck Nicole de Coteau njdecoteau@aol.com 415.806.5088 phone 415.753.0355 fax

Trudell Appaloosa Pictures heather@appaloosapictures.org 208.376.3653 phone/fax www.trudellthemovie.com

Tuesday’s Women Brezis/Binnun mbrezis@hotmail.com +972 544 716 107 phone www.tuesdayswomen.com

Tumshie McFadgen’s Bid for Ultimate Bliss Scottish Screen bryony.mcintyre@scottishscreen.com +44 141 302 1700 phone +44 141 302 1711 fax www.scottishscreen.com

The Undeserved Carmichael Films seth@carmichaelﬁlms.com 212.803.5880 phone 212.684.3875 fax www.undeserved.net

Undressing My Mother Venom Film freedman@venom.ie +353 1 491 1954 phone +353 1 496 0915 fax www.venom.ie

Unhitched Stanford University ehudson@stanford.edu 650.380.8601 phone

Ushpizin

Picture House Films elizabeth.brambilla@picturehouse ﬁlms.com www.ushpizin.com

Uso Justo Coleman Miller splurn@aol.com 612.728.9190 phone www.colemanmiller.com

Victims of Fashion Tyler Garner tylergarner@gmail.com 415.254.0675 phone

Video Out 13BIT Productions LLC paulv@panix.com 212.807.0223 phone www.13bit.com

La Vie d’un Chien John Harden giantspeck@yahoo.com www.johnﬁlms.com

The Virgin Suicides Berkeley High School drasiah@berkeley.k12.ca.us 510.601.5164 phone

The Wandering Shadows Tucán Producciones Cinematográﬁcas Ltda. ciroguerra@yahoo.es +57 1 312 7379 phone +57 1 345 1780 fax www.tucan.com.co

Web Cam Girls Picture Box Distribution Inc. marilyn@picturebox.ca 604.681.3171 phone 604.681.3172 fax www.picturebox.ca

The Weight of Justice AIM at Tamalpais High School lucasgwolf@yahoo.com 415.868.1303 phone www.tamaim.com

Wellstone! Hard Working Pictures dan@hwpics.com 651.641.0792 phone 651.641.8573 fax www.hwpics.com

What I’m Looking For House Productions info@shellysilver.com 212.732.2986 phone www.shellysilver.com

What Is Gay?

Bare Bones Productions jackiefrst@aol.com 310.401.0446 phone

The Winner SF Art & Film rchase@chaseartfilm.com 415.864.2026 Office Main www.filmworkshopsf.org

The Winter Song Farabi Cinema Foundation fcf1@dpi.net.ir +98 21 274 1252-4 phone +98 21 273 4953 fax www.fcf-ir.com

Wolf Summer Norwegian Film Institute ph@nﬁ.no +47 2247 4500 phone +47 2247 4597 fax www.nﬁ.no

XL Lemming Film info@lemmingﬁlm.com +31 20 661 0424 phone +31 20 661 0979 fax www.lemmingﬁlm.com

The Zit Pipsqueak Films info@thezitmovie.com 818.997.0787 phone www.pipsqueakﬁlms.com

Zombie-American Nick Poppy nickpoppy@hotmail.com 917.545.9163 phone www.zombie-american.com

13 Bernard 154

A Party Center 56

Adolph Gasser 149

Alexander’s Rugs 49

Ambatalia Fabrics 141

American Airlines 2

Amici’s East Coast Pizzeria 154

Arab Film Distribution 146

Aroma Cafe 150

Art Works Downtown 149

At Home at Sweet Things 43

At Home In Marin – Jonathan Marks 25

Bank of Marin IFC

Baskin Robbins 149

Bellam Self-Storage & Boxes 114

Best Beverage Catering 98

Blake’s at Boundary Oak 136

Bogie’s Cafe/Soup to Nuts Catering 110

Brickley Productions 96

Budish Insurance Services 150

Carpet Concepts 141

CBS 5 120

Chef’s Touch Catering 100

Cingular Wireless 140

Coldwell Banker 19

Comcast 15

Cook Paging 154

Corporate Media Systems 149

Courtyard Larkspur Landing 116

Crystal Geyser Water Company 29

Design Within Reach 118

DigiQuest Learning Center 132

Dolby Laboratories 32

Dorothy J. Slattery, DDS 148

ElementFX 44

Evo Spa 97

Fabrizio Ristorante 148

Falco Construction 116

Fireman’s Fund 52

Fiske Video Productions 118

The Folk Art Gallery 150

Frank Howard Allen Realtors 107

Frank Howard Allen – Downtown Mill Valley 25

Frank Howard Allen – Strawberry Village 99

Frantoio Ristorante 20 Frogs 141

G2 Mill Valley 57

Giraffex Graphic Design 144

Grace Street Catering 133

Groove Eleven 62

Hartmann Studios 103 Hotel Sausalito 115 Idyllwild Arts 148

Innovative Remodeling & Design 124

Intero Real Estate Services – Larkspur Landing IBC

Jennie Low’s 43

Joie de Vivre Hospitality 36

Maroevich, O’Shea

Lodge at Tiburon 140

Lucasﬁlm Ltd. BC

Marin Acura 111

Marin BMW Motorcycles 38

Marin Community Foundation 30

Marin Hotels 125

Marin Independent Journal 8

Marin Luxury Cars 4

Marin Oriental Rugs 105

Marin Suites Hotel 101

Marich Confectionary 146

39 Pounds of Love 66

5@5: A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall 66

5@5: All I Really Want to Do 66

5@5: It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue 66

5@5: Leopard-Skin Pillbox Hat 67

5@5: Simple Twist of Fate 67

5@5: Tangled Up in Blue 67

9 89

Accidents 67

Afternoon 66

Al-Ghazali: The Alchemist of Happiness 68

Amélie 41

An American Dream 67

Amongst White Clouds 68

Arnie the Doughnut 85

Arrest Assured 89

The Art of Breaking Up 68

Bastard Wants to Hit Me 89

Beah: A Black Woman Speaks 68

Bed Stories 69

Bee Season 65

Been Rich All My Life 69

Beers, Steers and Queers 88

Berkeley 69

The Big Empty 67

The Big Race 83

Birth of Industry 66

The Blue Aspic 78

Bluebird 69

Boats out of Watermelon Rinds 70

Brick 70

Bride of Silence 70

The Bridge So Far: A Suspense Story 70

Bringing Up BayBay 67

Brotherly Jazz: The Music and Stories of Percy, Jimmy and Albert “Tootie” Heath 71

Butterﬂy Man 73

Bye-Bye Blackbird 71

The Californians 71

Carpatia 71

Ché in Our Lives (Sweet and Sick) 88

City of Mermaids 73

City Paradise 66

Dalecarlians 72

Dallas Among Us 72

Irene Williams: Queen of Lincoln Road 88 iThemba|Hope 78

Jaywalking 88

Kind of a Blur 67

The

Sockholm

La Magique Noire 67 The Matador 64

Max and Josef: Double Trouble 79

The Messiah 66

Mighty Times: The Children’s March 79

Milk 67

The Milk Can 80 Moon and Cherry 80

Moongirl 89

Motel 67

The Mother in Me 89

Mrs. Henderson Presents 64

MSU Chapel (Sweet and Sick) 88

Music Is My Life, Politics My Mistress 80

My Eyes Were Fresh, The Life and Photographs of John Gutmann 70

My Nikifor 80

My Scarlet Letter 66 my tiny universe 81

Need 81

Niji No Shita Ni / Under the Rainbow 81

Nobody’s Perfect 67

North Country 81

¡Ole! (Sweet and Sick) 88

One Love 82

One Weekend a Month 66

Paradise Now 82

Pas de repos pour Billy Brakko 67

Passion With a Pedigree 73

Pelican Man 82

El Perro Negro: Stories from the Spanish Civil War 82

A Piece of Bread 83

Pingu Digs a Hole 85

Pingu and the Band 85

Police Blotter 84

Postcards from Paris (Sweet and Sick) 88

Poumy 75

Press On 83

Pride & Prejudice 47

Prime 83

Pup 88

The Queen of Sheba’s Pearls 83

Race Is the Place 84

The Raftman’s Razor 66

Rain Is Falling 66

The Red Shoes 35

Remote Paradise 89

Return to the Land of Wonders 84

Ripples of Light 89

Romántico 84

Rooted in Rebellion (Sweet and Sick) 88

Rosevelt’s America 78

Round Trip 84

The Rubber Duckling 85

Ruby’s Tuesday 81

The Santa Claus Happy Tyme Show 89

Saratan 85

Scared New World 85

Second Sight 90

Seven Miles Alone 66

Shopgirl 85

Short Films for Little People 85

Sir! No Sir! 86

The Sleeping Child 86

Smitten 73

So Close, So Far 86

The Society of Jesus (The Jesuits) 86

Solemates (Sweet and Sick) 88

Sophie Scholl: The Last Days 87

Soul of Justice: Thelton Henderson’s American Journey 87

SOUND OF THE SOUL: The Fez Festival of World Sacred Music 87

Special People 66

Spirit Bear: The Simon Jackson Story 87

Spotlight: Felicity Huffman 50

Springtime 88

The Squid and the Whale 65

State of Fear 88

Sugar Mountain 66

Sweet and Sick 88

Tama Tü 66

Taubman Sucks 73

Tender Gender Benders 88

To Hold a Heart 88

A Toon for the Misbegotten 89

Top of the Circle 66

A Touch of Spice 89

Train 85

Transaction 67

Transamerica 51

The Tree Ofﬁcer 66

Tribute: Donald Sutherland 45

Tribute: Jean-Pierre Jeunet 39

Tribute: Jeff Daniels 54

Tribute: Michael Powell 33

Troop 1500: Girl Scouts

Beyond Bars 89

Tropic of Cancer 89

Truck 85

Trudell 90

Tuesday’s Women 66

Tumshie McFadgen’s Bid for Ultimate Bliss 67

The Undeserved 90

Undressing My Mother 67

Unhitched 73

Ushpizin 90

Uso Justo 67

Victims of Fashion (Sweet and Sick) 88

Video Out 90

La Vie d’un Chien 67

The Virgin Suicides (Sweet and Sick) 88

The Wandering Shadows 91

Web Cam Girls 91

The Weight of Justice (Sweet and Sick) 88

Wellstone! 91

What I’m Looking For 67

What Is Gay? 88

The Winner (Sweet and Sick) 88

The Winter Song 91

Wolf Summer 91

XL 79

The Zit 89

Zombie-American 66