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Array ( [0] => Array ( [DTSTAMP] => 20131022T033147Z [DESCRIPTION] => Did you know that the 400 wealthiest individuals own ½ of the country’s total assets? You will after seeing this engrossing and engaging documentary that examines the causes and consequences of the widening income gap in America. Former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich with humor and sensible clarity exposes the risks of continuing down the current path we’re on and emphasizes the need to regain the middle class to stabilize our economy. Winner, Special Jury Award, Sundance Film Festival; Winner, Best Documentary, Traverse City Film Festival. In Person: Director Jacob Kornbluth, an MSU graduate. [URL] => http://elff.festivalgenius.com/2013/films/inequalityforall_jacobkombluth_elff2013;jsessionid=E96DF894F76018A31F1CC722D5F5F71D [SUMMARY] => Inequality For All [LOCATION] => Studio C! [DTEND] => 20131106T205900 [DTSTART] => 20131106T193000 [CATEGORIES] => Doc [UID] => 2598606357-elff.festivalgenius.com/2013 ) [1] => Array ( [DTSTAMP] => 20131022T033147Z [DESCRIPTION] => A chilling look into the epidemic that looks to rob us of the insect that keeps 80% of our plant life alive: bees. [URL] => http://elff.festivalgenius.com/2013/films/morethanhoney0_markusimhoof_elff2013;jsessionid=E96DF894F76018A31F1CC722D5F5F71D [SUMMARY] => More Than Honey [LOCATION] => Studio C! [DTEND] => 20131107T173100 [DTSTART] => 20131107T160000 [CATEGORIES] => Doc [UID] => 2598606384-elff.festivalgenius.com/2013 ) [2] => Array ( [DTSTAMP] => 20131022T033147Z [DESCRIPTION] => For centuries Bordeaux has commanded a mythical status in the world of fine wines. Recently, prices for its prestigious ‘first growth’ red wines – including names like Chateau Lafite-Rothschild, Chateau Margaux and Chateau Latour – have been breaking all records. Something unprecedented is happening to the fine wine market and that something is China. For better or worse, Bordeaux is hitching itself to this new, infinitely wealthy client. Beautifully shot, RED OBSESSION sets out to explore this phenomenon and the link between China and Bordeaux. It will blow your mind. [URL] => http://elff.festivalgenius.com/2013/films/redobsession_davidroach_elff2013;jsessionid=E96DF894F76018A31F1CC722D5F5F71D [SUMMARY] => Red Obsession [LOCATION] => Studio C! [DTEND] => 20131107T194500 [DTSTART] => 20131107T183000 [CATEGORIES] => Doc [UID] => 2598606390-elff.festivalgenius.com/2013 ) [3] => Array ( [DTSTAMP] => 20131022T033147Z [DESCRIPTION] => Fourteen years after shaking up the cinematic world with his breakthrough flick Festen ( The Celebration )""a film that helped launch the Dogme movement""Danish director Thomas Vinterberg matches the heights of that classic with his new work. Again examining both the strength and suffocating closeness of community, The Hunt follows a kindergarten assistant (Mads Mikkelsen, in a fiery performance) as he battles an accusation from his own school. Powerful, moving, and relentlessly contemporary, The Hunt is a modern-day masterpiece from a modern-day master. [URL] => http://elff.festivalgenius.com/2013/films/thehunt0_thomasvinterberg_elff2013;jsessionid=E96DF894F76018A31F1CC722D5F5F71D [SUMMARY] => The Hunt [LOCATION] => Studio C! [DTEND] => 20131107T225100 [DTSTART] => 20131107T210000 [CATEGORIES] => Feature [UID] => 2598606439-elff.festivalgenius.com/2013 ) [4] => Array ( [DTSTAMP] => 20131022T033147Z [DESCRIPTION] => 'The Rich Have Their Own Photographers' is a film about the art and activism of Milton Rogovin. Targeted as a Communist and persecuted for his beliefs, Rogovin was called before the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1957 and declared 'The Top Red in Buffalo' by The Buffalo News. In reality, Rogovin was an optometrist who worked in the local unions registering Black voters and promoting workers' rights. The Red Scare changed the lives if Rogovin and his family forever. Refusing to be silenced, Rogovin found a new tool to express his political voice- his camera. Just before the age of 50, he began documenting Buffalo's poorest and working classes. Over the next 40+ years, Rogovin photographed the poor and working class, the marginalized and those who he considers, 'the forgotten ones'. Eventually traveling around the World, Rogovin collaborated with Pable Neruda, WEB DuBois, and others at the forefront of the social justice movement. Through his photography, Rogovin was able to depict the extreme inequalities that exist in the world and convey that message through beautiful works of art. Now celebrated as one of the finest social documentary photographers of the 20th Century, Rogovin's collection of negatives are housed by the Library of Congress and his prints are collected the world over. But Rogovin,now 97, never intended to be an artist. His photographs are his protests, and his only concern is the fight for social justice. Filmed and directed by EMMY award winner Ezra Bookstein. [URL] => http://elff.festivalgenius.com/2013/films/therichhavetheirownphotographers_elff2013;jsessionid=E96DF894F76018A31F1CC722D5F5F71D [SUMMARY] => The Rich Have Their Own Photographers [LOCATION] => Studio C! [DTEND] => 20131108T133000 [DTSTART] => 20131108T123000 [CATEGORIES] => Doc [UID] => 2598606393-elff.festivalgenius.com/2013 ) [5] => Array ( [DTSTAMP] => 20131022T033147Z [DESCRIPTION] => Writer-director Ken Scotts funny and beguiling Starbuck takes a fertile premise and runs with it. Genial screw-up David Wosniak (Patrick Huard) cant do much of anything right. The 42-year-old teenager in vintage sports gear is a constant disappointment to his Montreal family, his pregnant girlfriend Valerie (Julie Le Breton) now wants nothing to do with him, and he owes some very bad men a great deal of money. One day a lawyer shows up with news that theres one thing David did very right indeed: 533 children were conceived using sperm he sold to a dodgy clinic in the 1980s, and now 142 of them want to meet Daddy. Money and fame--well, infamy, at least--are within Davids grasp, if only hell take ownership of the village he had no idea others raised. Davids sincere efforts to be a guardian angel to a few of his offspring suggest theres something salvageable within him, while Scotts logical and precise plotting gives the comedy a bawdy but tender look at how an overgrown adolescent slowly becomes a father of fully grown children. Scott named the film for the legendary bull that sired some 200,000 daughters in the 1980s and 1990s. Selected by the Toronto International Film Festival as one of the Top Ten Canadian films of 2011, Starbuck also won the audience award for narrative feature at the Palm Springs Film Festival. Its protagonist may be flawed, but the film itself is a potent and well-nigh perfect comedy of responsibility and redemption. --Eddie Cockrell [URL] => http://elff.festivalgenius.com/2013/films/starbuck3_kenscott_elff2013;jsessionid=E96DF894F76018A31F1CC722D5F5F71D [SUMMARY] => Starbuck [LOCATION] => Studio C! [DTEND] => 20131108T174900 [DTSTART] => 20131108T160000 [CATEGORIES] => Feature [UID] => 2598606435-elff.festivalgenius.com/2013 ) [6] => Array ( [DTSTAMP] => 20131022T033147Z [DESCRIPTION] => Where does all our trash go? Discover the extent and effects of the global waste problem, as actor Jeremy Irons travels around the world to beautiful destinations tainted by pollution. This meticulous, brave investigative journey takes Irons (and us) from skepticism to sorrow and from horror to hope. You will rethink using a plastic bag for your groceries. [URL] => http://elff.festivalgenius.com/2013/films/trashed_candidabrady_elff2013;jsessionid=E96DF894F76018A31F1CC722D5F5F71D [SUMMARY] => Trashed [LOCATION] => Studio C! [DTEND] => 20131108T173800 [DTSTART] => 20131108T160000 [CATEGORIES] => Doc [UID] => 2598606443-elff.festivalgenius.com/2013 ) [7] => Array ( [DTSTAMP] => 20131022T033147Z [DESCRIPTION] => No twentieth-century figure has had a more profound effect on the worlds of literature, film, politics, historical debate, and the culture wars than Gore Vidal. Anchored by intimate one-on-one interviews with the man himself, Nicholas Wrathall’s documentary is a fascinating and wholly entertaining portrait of the last lion of the age of American liberalism, the clarion of intellectual liberalism. Director Wrathall is Gore’s grandson who had unbelievable access to the man and his archives. [URL] => http://elff.festivalgenius.com/2013/films/gorevidalunitedstatesofamnesia_nicholaswrathall_elff2013;jsessionid=E96DF894F76018A31F1CC722D5F5F71D [SUMMARY] => Gore Vidal: United States of Amnesia [LOCATION] => Wells Hall, Michgian State University C [DTEND] => 20131108T195900 [DTSTART] => 20131108T183000 [CATEGORIES] => Doc [UID] => 2598606352-elff.festivalgenius.com/2013 ) [8] => Array ( [DTSTAMP] => 20131022T033147Z [DESCRIPTION] => A chilling look into the epidemic that looks to rob us of the insect that keeps 80% of our plant life alive: bees. [URL] => http://elff.festivalgenius.com/2013/films/morethanhoney0_markusimhoof_elff2013;jsessionid=E96DF894F76018A31F1CC722D5F5F71D [SUMMARY] => More Than Honey [LOCATION] => Wells Hall, Michgian State University D [DTEND] => 20131108T200100 [DTSTART] => 20131108T183000 [CATEGORIES] => Doc [UID] => 2598606385-elff.festivalgenius.com/2013 ) [9] => Array ( [DTSTAMP] => 20131022T033147Z [DESCRIPTION] => Radio personality Bob Fass revolutionized the New York City airwaves, developing a patchwork of music, politics, ideas and news from the streets, cultivating a glorious free-form experiment. For 50 years, he has been heard at midnight on listener-sponsored WBAI. "Radio Unnameable" documents Fass's eventful career, the evolution of FM radio and the struggle to keep free expression on the dial. [URL] => http://elff.festivalgenius.com/2013/films/radiounnameable_elff2013;jsessionid=E96DF894F76018A31F1CC722D5F5F71D [SUMMARY] => Radio Unnameable [LOCATION] => Wells Hall, Michgian State University A [DTEND] => 20131108T200000 [DTSTART] => 20131108T183000 [CATEGORIES] => Doc [UID] => 2598606386-elff.festivalgenius.com/2013 ) [10] => Array ( [DTSTAMP] => 20131022T033147Z [DESCRIPTION] => Before the Sex Pistols and the Ramones defined punk for a generation, there was Death. Formed by three teenage brothers in a Detroit working class black neighborhood, the pioneering proto-punk band had dreams of making it big, and pressed their own record in order to pitch to the big labels. But in the era when Motown and Disco reigned supreme, Death was doomed to obscurity-until their dusty demo recording was discovered in an attic 30 years later. A captivating and moving tale of family and redemption, this epic rockumentary follows the band’s decades-long journey to being recognized as pioneers of punk by a new generation.  [URL] => http://elff.festivalgenius.com/2013/films/abandcalleddeath_markcovino_elff2013;jsessionid=E96DF894F76018A31F1CC722D5F5F71D [SUMMARY] => A Band Called Death [LOCATION] => Wells Hall, Michgian State University D [DTEND] => 20131108T223800 [DTSTART] => 20131108T210000 [CATEGORIES] => Doc [UID] => 2598606338-elff.festivalgenius.com/2013 ) [11] => Array ( [DTSTAMP] => 20131022T033147Z [DESCRIPTION] => January 2010: In the buckle of the Bible Belt, ten churches burn to the ground in just over one month, igniting the largest criminal investigation in East Texas history. Even Satan himself is considered a suspect in this gripping investigation of a community terrorized from the inside-out. Filmmakers in Attendance. [URL] => http://elff.festivalgenius.com/2013/films/littlehopewasarson_theolove_elff2013;jsessionid=E96DF894F76018A31F1CC722D5F5F71D [SUMMARY] => Little Hope Was Arson [LOCATION] => Wells Hall, Michgian State University A [DTEND] => 20131108T221500 [DTSTART] => 20131108T210000 [CATEGORIES] => Feature [UID] => 2598606379-elff.festivalgenius.com/2013 ) [12] => Array ( [DTSTAMP] => 20131022T033147Z [DESCRIPTION] => For centuries Bordeaux has commanded a mythical status in the world of fine wines. Recently, prices for its prestigious ‘first growth’ red wines – including names like Chateau Lafite-Rothschild, Chateau Margaux and Chateau Latour – have been breaking all records. Something unprecedented is happening to the fine wine market and that something is China. For better or worse, Bordeaux is hitching itself to this new, infinitely wealthy client. Beautifully shot, RED OBSESSION sets out to explore this phenomenon and the link between China and Bordeaux. It will blow your mind. [URL] => http://elff.festivalgenius.com/2013/films/redobsession_davidroach_elff2013;jsessionid=E96DF894F76018A31F1CC722D5F5F71D [SUMMARY] => Red Obsession [LOCATION] => Wells Hall, Michgian State University B [DTEND] => 20131108T221500 [DTSTART] => 20131108T210000 [CATEGORIES] => Doc [UID] => 2598606391-elff.festivalgenius.com/2013 ) [13] => Array ( [DTSTAMP] => 20131022T033147Z [DESCRIPTION] => If Patrick Moote thought being rejected on the Jumbotron was bad, it was nothing compared to his girlfriend informing him it was due to his small penis. [URL] => http://elff.festivalgenius.com/2013/films/unhunghero_brianspitz_elff2013;jsessionid=E96DF894F76018A31F1CC722D5F5F71D [SUMMARY] => Unhung Hero [LOCATION] => Studio C! [DTEND] => 20131108T222400 [DTSTART] => 20131108T210000 [CATEGORIES] => Doc [UID] => 2598606445-elff.festivalgenius.com/2013 ) [14] => Array ( [DTSTAMP] => 20131022T033147Z [DESCRIPTION] => A smartly written script inspired by real events makes this WWII-era drama amazingly human and humorous. When a British and German dogfight results in both aircrafts being shot down over the snow-covered, remote wilderness of Norway, both crews take refuge in an abandoned cabin. Tensions rise as their confinement and continual struggle for power rages on in the cramped quarters. Because the brutally harsh winter shows no sign of ending, the group realizes that they must band together to stay alive. Rupert Grint (Harry Potter) and Florian Lukas star in this beautifully shot Norwegian drama, a stirring tale of survival and unexpected friendship. [URL] => http://elff.festivalgenius.com/2013/films/intothewhite_petternaess_elff2013;jsessionid=E96DF894F76018A31F1CC722D5F5F71D [SUMMARY] => Into the White [LOCATION] => Studio C! [DTEND] => 20131109T141100 [DTSTART] => 20131109T123000 [CATEGORIES] => Feature [UID] => 2598606358-elff.festivalgenius.com/2013 ) [15] => Array ( [DTSTAMP] => 20131022T033147Z [DESCRIPTION] => A Fragile Trust tells the shocking story of Jayson Blair, the most infamous serial plagiarist of our time, and how he unleashed the massive scandal that rocked the New York Times and the entire world of journalism. In a candid and captivating interview, Blair explains his reasoning behind his actions, how he got away with it and what the repercussions were and still are. Fascinating study of why an intelligent, talented person breaks the law and the trust of the Fifth Estate. [URL] => http://elff.festivalgenius.com/2013/films/afragiletrustplagiarismpowerandjaysonblairatthenewyorktimes_samanthagrant_elff2013;jsessionid=E96DF894F76018A31F1CC722D5F5F71D [SUMMARY] => A Fragile Trust: Plagiarism, Power and Jayson Blair at the New York Times [LOCATION] => Studio C! [DTEND] => 20131109T171700 [DTSTART] => 20131109T160000 [CATEGORIES] => Doc [UID] => 2598606340-elff.festivalgenius.com/2013 ) [16] => Array ( [DTSTAMP] => 20131022T033147Z [DESCRIPTION] => When an artist with a mysterious past moves into an abandoned house in Detroit, the lives of a single father, his teenage daughter and young son are changed forever. [URL] => http://elff.festivalgenius.com/2013/films/cass_hughschulze_elff2013;jsessionid=E96DF894F76018A31F1CC722D5F5F71D [SUMMARY] => CASS [LOCATION] => Wells Hall, Michgian State University D [DTEND] => 20131109T174000 [DTSTART] => 20131109T160000 [CATEGORIES] => LMFEA [UID] => 2598606349-elff.festivalgenius.com/2013 ) [17] => Array ( [DTSTAMP] => 20131022T033147Z [DESCRIPTION] => This provocative new film explores the current resurgence of food co-operatives in the United States, and their unique place in America’s economic and political landscape. The US co-op movement story is told through interviews, rare archival footage, and commentary by co-op leaders and historians, and profiles of several current food co-ops that have revived neighborhoods and entire communities—right in the shadow of giant agribusiness and national supermarket chains. The film feeds the decades-long debate over profit-driven corporate capitalism versus locally-controlled businesses. [URL] => http://elff.festivalgenius.com/2013/films/foodforchange_stevealves_elff2013;jsessionid=E96DF894F76018A31F1CC722D5F5F71D [SUMMARY] => Food For Change [LOCATION] => Wells Hall, Michgian State University B [DTEND] => 20131109T180000 [DTSTART] => 20131109T160000 [CATEGORIES] => Doc [UID] => 2598606350-elff.festivalgenius.com/2013 ) [18] => Array ( [DTSTAMP] => 20131022T033147Z [DESCRIPTION] => The story of the greatest Himalayan climb in American mountaineering history. Profiling the bold and visionary efforts of the 1963 American Mount Everest Expedition, the film examines the sheer commitment, step-by-step struggle and lasting impact of the first American ascent of Mt. Everest and the pioneering first ascent of the West Ridge by Tom Hornbein and Willi Unsoeld. Five decades later, High and Hallowed journeys back to Everest to discover if the essence of risk, adventure and the unknown that drew the first Americans to the summit still exists on Everest today. [URL] => http://elff.festivalgenius.com/2013/films/highandhallowedeverest1963_davidmorton_elff2013;jsessionid=E96DF894F76018A31F1CC722D5F5F71D [SUMMARY] => High And Hallowed: Everest 1963 [LOCATION] => Wells Hall, Michgian State University A [DTEND] => 20131109T164800 [DTSTART] => 20131109T160000 [CATEGORIES] => LMDOC [UID] => 2598606355-elff.festivalgenius.com/2013 ) [19] => Array ( [DTSTAMP] => 20131022T033147Z [DESCRIPTION] => Where does all our trash go? Discover the extent and effects of the global waste problem, as actor Jeremy Irons travels around the world to beautiful destinations tainted by pollution. This meticulous, brave investigative journey takes Irons (and us) from skepticism to sorrow and from horror to hope. You will rethink using a plastic bag for your groceries. [URL] => http://elff.festivalgenius.com/2013/films/trashed_candidabrady_elff2013;jsessionid=E96DF894F76018A31F1CC722D5F5F71D [SUMMARY] => Trashed [LOCATION] => Wells Hall, Michgian State University C [DTEND] => 20131109T173800 [DTSTART] => 20131109T160000 [CATEGORIES] => Doc [UID] => 2598606444-elff.festivalgenius.com/2013 ) [20] => Array ( [DTSTAMP] => 20131022T033147Z [DESCRIPTION] => January 2010: In the buckle of the Bible Belt, ten churches burn to the ground in just over one month, igniting the largest criminal investigation in East Texas history. Even Satan himself is considered a suspect in this gripping investigation of a community terrorized from the inside-out. Filmmakers in Attendance. [URL] => http://elff.festivalgenius.com/2013/films/littlehopewasarson_theolove_elff2013;jsessionid=E96DF894F76018A31F1CC722D5F5F71D [SUMMARY] => Little Hope Was Arson [LOCATION] => Wells Hall, Michgian State University A [DTEND] => 20131109T194500 [DTSTART] => 20131109T183000 [CATEGORIES] => Feature [UID] => 2598606380-elff.festivalgenius.com/2013 ) [21] => Array ( [DTSTAMP] => 20131022T033147Z [DESCRIPTION] => Short films screening in this program include: Lucy In The Sky With Diamond, Godka Cirka, Mine is Mine, Stop It!, Illness, Global Tides, We Belong Here, Le Train Bleu [URL] => http://elff.festivalgenius.com/2013/films/shortsprogram2_elff2013_elff2013;jsessionid=E96DF894F76018A31F1CC722D5F5F71D [SUMMARY] => Shorts Program 2 [LOCATION] => Wells Hall, Michgian State University D [DTEND] => 20131109T201400 [DTSTART] => 20131109T183000 [CATEGORIES] => Short [UID] => 2598606415-elff.festivalgenius.com/2013 ) [22] => Array ( [DTSTAMP] => 20131022T033147Z [DESCRIPTION] => Writer-director Ken Scotts funny and beguiling Starbuck takes a fertile premise and runs with it. Genial screw-up David Wosniak (Patrick Huard) cant do much of anything right. The 42-year-old teenager in vintage sports gear is a constant disappointment to his Montreal family, his pregnant girlfriend Valerie (Julie Le Breton) now wants nothing to do with him, and he owes some very bad men a great deal of money. One day a lawyer shows up with news that theres one thing David did very right indeed: 533 children were conceived using sperm he sold to a dodgy clinic in the 1980s, and now 142 of them want to meet Daddy. Money and fame--well, infamy, at least--are within Davids grasp, if only hell take ownership of the village he had no idea others raised. Davids sincere efforts to be a guardian angel to a few of his offspring suggest theres something salvageable within him, while Scotts logical and precise plotting gives the comedy a bawdy but tender look at how an overgrown adolescent slowly becomes a father of fully grown children. Scott named the film for the legendary bull that sired some 200,000 daughters in the 1980s and 1990s. Selected by the Toronto International Film Festival as one of the Top Ten Canadian films of 2011, Starbuck also won the audience award for narrative feature at the Palm Springs Film Festival. Its protagonist may be flawed, but the film itself is a potent and well-nigh perfect comedy of responsibility and redemption. --Eddie Cockrell [URL] => http://elff.festivalgenius.com/2013/films/starbuck3_kenscott_elff2013;jsessionid=E96DF894F76018A31F1CC722D5F5F71D [SUMMARY] => Starbuck [LOCATION] => Wells Hall, Michgian State University B [DTEND] => 20131109T201900 [DTSTART] => 20131109T183000 [CATEGORIES] => Feature [UID] => 2598606436-elff.festivalgenius.com/2013 ) [23] => Array ( [DTSTAMP] => 20131022T033147Z [DESCRIPTION] => Fourteen years after shaking up the cinematic world with his breakthrough flick Festen ( The Celebration )""a film that helped launch the Dogme movement""Danish director Thomas Vinterberg matches the heights of that classic with his new work. Again examining both the strength and suffocating closeness of community, The Hunt follows a kindergarten assistant (Mads Mikkelsen, in a fiery performance) as he battles an accusation from his own school. Powerful, moving, and relentlessly contemporary, The Hunt is a modern-day masterpiece from a modern-day master. [URL] => http://elff.festivalgenius.com/2013/films/thehunt0_thomasvinterberg_elff2013;jsessionid=E96DF894F76018A31F1CC722D5F5F71D [SUMMARY] => The Hunt [LOCATION] => Wells Hall, Michgian State University C [DTEND] => 20131109T202100 [DTSTART] => 20131109T183000 [CATEGORIES] => Feature [UID] => 2598606440-elff.festivalgenius.com/2013 ) [24] => Array ( [DTSTAMP] => 20131022T033147Z [DESCRIPTION] => A Fragile Trust tells the shocking story of Jayson Blair, the most infamous serial plagiarist of our time, and how he unleashed the massive scandal that rocked the New York Times and the entire world of journalism. In a candid and captivating interview, Blair explains his reasoning behind his actions, how he got away with it and what the repercussions were and still are. Fascinating study of why an intelligent, talented person breaks the law and the trust of the Fifth Estate. [URL] => http://elff.festivalgenius.com/2013/films/afragiletrustplagiarismpowerandjaysonblairatthenewyorktimes_samanthagrant_elff2013;jsessionid=E96DF894F76018A31F1CC722D5F5F71D [SUMMARY] => A Fragile Trust: Plagiarism, Power and Jayson Blair at the New York Times [LOCATION] => Wells Hall, Michgian State University C [DTEND] => 20131109T221700 [DTSTART] => 20131109T210000 [CATEGORIES] => Doc [UID] => 2598606341-elff.festivalgenius.com/2013 ) [25] => Array ( [DTSTAMP] => 20131022T033147Z [DESCRIPTION] => A smartly written script inspired by real events makes this WWII-era drama amazingly human and humorous. When a British and German dogfight results in both aircrafts being shot down over the snow-covered, remote wilderness of Norway, both crews take refuge in an abandoned cabin. Tensions rise as their confinement and continual struggle for power rages on in the cramped quarters. Because the brutally harsh winter shows no sign of ending, the group realizes that they must band together to stay alive. Rupert Grint (Harry Potter) and Florian Lukas star in this beautifully shot Norwegian drama, a stirring tale of survival and unexpected friendship. [URL] => http://elff.festivalgenius.com/2013/films/intothewhite_petternaess_elff2013;jsessionid=E96DF894F76018A31F1CC722D5F5F71D [SUMMARY] => Into the White [LOCATION] => Wells Hall, Michgian State University B [DTEND] => 20131109T224100 [DTSTART] => 20131109T210000 [CATEGORIES] => Feature [UID] => 2598606359-elff.festivalgenius.com/2013 ) [26] => Array ( [DTSTAMP] => 20131022T033147Z [DESCRIPTION] => [URL] => http://elff.festivalgenius.com/2013/films/southernbaptistsissies_delshores_elff2013;jsessionid=E96DF894F76018A31F1CC722D5F5F71D [SUMMARY] => Southern Baptist Sissies [LOCATION] => Wells Hall, Michgian State University A [DTEND] => 20131109T230000 [DTSTART] => 20131109T210000 [CATEGORIES] => Doc [UID] => 2598606433-elff.festivalgenius.com/2013 ) [27] => Array ( [DTSTAMP] => 20131022T033147Z [DESCRIPTION] => If Patrick Moote thought being rejected on the Jumbotron was bad, it was nothing compared to his girlfriend informing him it was due to his small penis. [URL] => http://elff.festivalgenius.com/2013/films/unhunghero_brianspitz_elff2013;jsessionid=E96DF894F76018A31F1CC722D5F5F71D [SUMMARY] => Unhung Hero [LOCATION] => Wells Hall, Michgian State University D [DTEND] => 20131109T222400 [DTSTART] => 20131109T210000 [CATEGORIES] => Doc [UID] => 2598606446-elff.festivalgenius.com/2013 ) [28] => Array ( [DTSTAMP] => 20131022T033147Z [DESCRIPTION] => Before the Sex Pistols and the Ramones defined punk for a generation, there was Death. Formed by three teenage brothers in a Detroit working class black neighborhood, the pioneering proto-punk band had dreams of making it big, and pressed their own record in order to pitch to the big labels. But in the era when Motown and Disco reigned supreme, Death was doomed to obscurity-until their dusty demo recording was discovered in an attic 30 years later. A captivating and moving tale of family and redemption, this epic rockumentary follows the band’s decades-long journey to being recognized as pioneers of punk by a new generation.  [URL] => http://elff.festivalgenius.com/2013/films/abandcalleddeath_markcovino_elff2013;jsessionid=E96DF894F76018A31F1CC722D5F5F71D [SUMMARY] => A Band Called Death [LOCATION] => Studio C! [DTEND] => 20131109T225300 [DTSTART] => 20131109T211500 [CATEGORIES] => Doc [UID] => 2598606339-elff.festivalgenius.com/2013 ) [29] => Array ( [DTSTAMP] => 20131022T033147Z [DESCRIPTION] => This provocative new film explores the current resurgence of food co-operatives in the United States, and their unique place in America’s economic and political landscape. The US co-op movement story is told through interviews, rare archival footage, and commentary by co-op leaders and historians, and profiles of several current food co-ops that have revived neighborhoods and entire communities—right in the shadow of giant agribusiness and national supermarket chains. The film feeds the decades-long debate over profit-driven corporate capitalism versus locally-controlled businesses. [URL] => http://elff.festivalgenius.com/2013/films/foodforchange_stevealves_elff2013;jsessionid=E96DF894F76018A31F1CC722D5F5F71D [SUMMARY] => Food For Change [LOCATION] => Studio C! [DTEND] => 20131110T143000 [DTSTART] => 20131110T123000 [CATEGORIES] => Doc [UID] => 2598606351-elff.festivalgenius.com/2013 ) [30] => Array ( [DTSTAMP] => 20131022T033147Z [DESCRIPTION] => Short films screening in this program include: An Unexpected Win: Title IX and the Pinckney Pirates, Driven To Ride [URL] => http://elff.festivalgenius.com/2013/films/anunexpectedwin_elff2013_elff2013;jsessionid=E96DF894F76018A31F1CC722D5F5F71D [SUMMARY] => An Unexpected Win: Title IX and the Pinckney Pirates [LOCATION] => Wells Hall, Michgian State University D [DTEND] => 20131110T152900 [DTSTART] => 20131110T140000 [CATEGORIES] => LMDOC [UID] => 2598606346-elff.festivalgenius.com/2013 ) [31] => Array ( [DTSTAMP] => 20131022T033147Z [DESCRIPTION] => Short films screening in this program include: A Dream At The Edge Of Land, The Making of a Short, Cut Out, Slow Burn, Moonlight, CELLAR DWELLAR [URL] => http://elff.festivalgenius.com/2013/films/lmfcshortflimsa_elff2013_elff2013;jsessionid=E96DF894F76018A31F1CC722D5F5F71D [SUMMARY] => LMFC Short Flims A [LOCATION] => Wells Hall, Michgian State University B [DTEND] => 20131110T152600 [DTSTART] => 20131110T140000 [CATEGORIES] => LMSHO [UID] => 2598606361-elff.festivalgenius.com/2013 ) [32] => Array ( [DTSTAMP] => 20131022T033147Z [DESCRIPTION] => Short films screening in this program include: For The 25, The Slaughter, Valentines Day, TiPi [URL] => http://elff.festivalgenius.com/2013/films/lmfcstudentfilms_elff2013_elff2013;jsessionid=E96DF894F76018A31F1CC722D5F5F71D [SUMMARY] => LMFC Student Films [LOCATION] => Wells Hall, Michgian State University A [DTEND] => 20131110T152400 [DTSTART] => 20131110T140000 [CATEGORIES] => LMDOC [UID] => 2598606374-elff.festivalgenius.com/2013 ) [33] => Array ( [DTSTAMP] => 20131022T033147Z [DESCRIPTION] => Two childhood friends are making a documentary in Wisconsin. Shortly after they begin filming, strange events begin to occur around the house. Convinced that the ghosts of Luke's parents are haunting the house, filmmaker Cordero suggests that a paranormal team investigate the house. Then one night, they discover that is not ghosts scaring them but three strangers prowling around Luke's farm. [URL] => http://elff.festivalgenius.com/2013/films/therohlfarmsenterprise_corderoroman_elff2013;jsessionid=E96DF894F76018A31F1CC722D5F5F71D [SUMMARY] => The Rohl Farms Enterprise [LOCATION] => Wells Hall, Michgian State University C [DTEND] => 20131110T152400 [DTSTART] => 20131110T140000 [CATEGORIES] => LMSTU [UID] => 2598606442-elff.festivalgenius.com/2013 ) [34] => Array ( [DTSTAMP] => 20131022T033147Z [DESCRIPTION] => Radio personality Bob Fass revolutionized the New York City airwaves, developing a patchwork of music, politics, ideas and news from the streets, cultivating a glorious free-form experiment. For 50 years, he has been heard at midnight on listener-sponsored WBAI. "Radio Unnameable" documents Fass's eventful career, the evolution of FM radio and the struggle to keep free expression on the dial. [URL] => http://elff.festivalgenius.com/2013/films/radiounnameable_elff2013;jsessionid=E96DF894F76018A31F1CC722D5F5F71D [SUMMARY] => Radio Unnameable [LOCATION] => Studio C! [DTEND] => 20131110T173000 [DTSTART] => 20131110T160000 [CATEGORIES] => Doc [UID] => 2598606387-elff.festivalgenius.com/2013 ) [35] => Array ( [DTSTAMP] => 20131022T033147Z [DESCRIPTION] => Short films screening in this program include: A Space for Music, A Seat for Everyone: 100 Years of UMS Performances in Hill Auditorium, Tendency To Jam [URL] => http://elff.festivalgenius.com/2013/films/aspaceformusic_elff2013_elff2013;jsessionid=E96DF894F76018A31F1CC722D5F5F71D [SUMMARY] => A Space for Music, A Seat for Everyone: 100 Years of UMS Performances in Hill Auditorium [LOCATION] => Wells Hall, Michgian State University C [DTEND] => 20131110T173100 [DTSTART] => 20131110T163000 [CATEGORIES] => LMDOC [UID] => 2598606343-elff.festivalgenius.com/2013 ) [36] => Array ( [DTSTAMP] => 20131022T033147Z [DESCRIPTION] => Short films screening in this program include: JP is My Friend, Not Anymore: A Story of Revolution, 48169, Transbeing, FORGOTTEN DETROIT [URL] => http://elff.festivalgenius.com/2013/films/lmfcshortflimsb_elff2013_elff2013;jsessionid=E96DF894F76018A31F1CC722D5F5F71D [SUMMARY] => LMFC Short Flims B [LOCATION] => Wells Hall, Michgian State University B [DTEND] => 20131110T180700 [DTSTART] => 20131110T163000 [CATEGORIES] => LMSHO [UID] => 2598606368-elff.festivalgenius.com/2013 ) [37] => Array ( [DTSTAMP] => 20131022T033147Z [DESCRIPTION] => Mordy Horwich, a high school senior and science prodigy with no athletic ability whatsoever, puts his bright academic future at risk to follow his dream. He wants to play college basketball. He sets forth on a mission to catch the eye of athletic recruiters by becoming a national celebrity. [URL] => http://elff.festivalgenius.com/2013/films/mordytothemax_marcmorgan_elff2013;jsessionid=E96DF894F76018A31F1CC722D5F5F71D [SUMMARY] => Mordy To The Max [LOCATION] => Wells Hall, Michgian State University D [DTEND] => 20131110T181000 [DTSTART] => 20131110T163000 [CATEGORIES] => LMFEA [UID] => 2598606383-elff.festivalgenius.com/2013 ) [38] => Array ( [DTSTAMP] => 20131022T033147Z [DESCRIPTION] => After being left at the altar, a jaded psychologist joins a friend who likes to go to bars. When his psychology background helps him succeed in attracting women, he reluctantly forms “Wingmen Incorporated” that teaches desperate men how to pick up women at local hot spots. [URL] => http://elff.festivalgenius.com/2013/films/wingmenincorporated_jasonschaver_elff2013;jsessionid=E96DF894F76018A31F1CC722D5F5F71D [SUMMARY] => Wingmen Incorporated [LOCATION] => Wells Hall, Michgian State University A [DTEND] => 20131110T175000 [DTSTART] => 20131110T163000 [CATEGORIES] => LMFEA [UID] => 2598606448-elff.festivalgenius.com/2013 ) [39] => Array ( [DTSTAMP] => 20131022T033147Z [DESCRIPTION] => No twentieth-century figure has had a more profound effect on the worlds of literature, film, politics, historical debate, and the culture wars than Gore Vidal. Anchored by intimate one-on-one interviews with the man himself, Nicholas Wrathall’s documentary is a fascinating and wholly entertaining portrait of the last lion of the age of American liberalism, the clarion of intellectual liberalism. Director Wrathall is Gore’s grandson who had unbelievable access to the man and his archives. [URL] => http://elff.festivalgenius.com/2013/films/gorevidalunitedstatesofamnesia_nicholaswrathall_elff2013;jsessionid=E96DF894F76018A31F1CC722D5F5F71D [SUMMARY] => Gore Vidal: United States of Amnesia [LOCATION] => Studio C! [DTEND] => 20131110T195900 [DTSTART] => 20131110T183000 [CATEGORIES] => Doc [UID] => 2598606353-elff.festivalgenius.com/2013 ) [40] => Array ( [DTSTAMP] => 20131022T033147Z [DESCRIPTION] => A Fragile Trust tells the shocking story of Jayson Blair, the most infamous serial plagiarist of our time, and how he unleashed the massive scandal that rocked the New York Times and the entire world of journalism. In a candid and captivating interview, Blair explains his reasoning behind his actions, how he got away with it and what the repercussions were and still are. Fascinating study of why an intelligent, talented person breaks the law and the trust of the Fifth Estate. [URL] => http://elff.festivalgenius.com/2013/films/afragiletrustplagiarismpowerandjaysonblairatthenewyorktimes_samanthagrant_elff2013;jsessionid=E96DF894F76018A31F1CC722D5F5F71D [SUMMARY] => A Fragile Trust: Plagiarism, Power and Jayson Blair at the New York Times [LOCATION] => Studio C! [DTEND] => 20131111T171700 [DTSTART] => 20131111T160000 [CATEGORIES] => Doc [UID] => 2598606342-elff.festivalgenius.com/2013 ) [41] => Array ( [DTSTAMP] => 20131022T033147Z [DESCRIPTION] => Writer-director Ken Scotts funny and beguiling Starbuck takes a fertile premise and runs with it. Genial screw-up David Wosniak (Patrick Huard) cant do much of anything right. The 42-year-old teenager in vintage sports gear is a constant disappointment to his Montreal family, his pregnant girlfriend Valerie (Julie Le Breton) now wants nothing to do with him, and he owes some very bad men a great deal of money. One day a lawyer shows up with news that theres one thing David did very right indeed: 533 children were conceived using sperm he sold to a dodgy clinic in the 1980s, and now 142 of them want to meet Daddy. Money and fame--well, infamy, at least--are within Davids grasp, if only hell take ownership of the village he had no idea others raised. Davids sincere efforts to be a guardian angel to a few of his offspring suggest theres something salvageable within him, while Scotts logical and precise plotting gives the comedy a bawdy but tender look at how an overgrown adolescent slowly becomes a father of fully grown children. Scott named the film for the legendary bull that sired some 200,000 daughters in the 1980s and 1990s. Selected by the Toronto International Film Festival as one of the Top Ten Canadian films of 2011, Starbuck also won the audience award for narrative feature at the Palm Springs Film Festival. Its protagonist may be flawed, but the film itself is a potent and well-nigh perfect comedy of responsibility and redemption. --Eddie Cockrell [URL] => http://elff.festivalgenius.com/2013/films/starbuck3_kenscott_elff2013;jsessionid=E96DF894F76018A31F1CC722D5F5F71D [SUMMARY] => Starbuck [LOCATION] => Studio C! [DTEND] => 20131111T201900 [DTSTART] => 20131111T183000 [CATEGORIES] => Feature [UID] => 2598606437-elff.festivalgenius.com/2013 ) [42] => Array ( [DTSTAMP] => 20131022T033147Z [DESCRIPTION] => [URL] => http://elff.festivalgenius.com/2013/films/southernbaptistsissies_delshores_elff2013;jsessionid=E96DF894F76018A31F1CC722D5F5F71D [SUMMARY] => Southern Baptist Sissies [LOCATION] => Studio C! [DTEND] => 20131111T230000 [DTSTART] => 20131111T210000 [CATEGORIES] => Doc [UID] => 2598606434-elff.festivalgenius.com/2013 ) [43] => Array ( [DTSTAMP] => 20131022T033147Z [DESCRIPTION] => Short films screening in this program include: Best of Both Worlds, Hurdy Gurdy, Never Gonna Break, Heart of a Champion, The Things My Father Never Taught Me, The Prisoner, A Good Wife, ZIBIDI (Worthless), Rette Sich Wer Kann (Rescue Yourself) [URL] => http://elff.festivalgenius.com/2013/films/shortsprogram1_elff2013_elff2013;jsessionid=E96DF894F76018A31F1CC722D5F5F71D [SUMMARY] => Shorts Program 1 [LOCATION] => Studio C! [DTEND] => 20131112T180200 [DTSTART] => 20131112T160000 [CATEGORIES] => Short [UID] => 2598606395-elff.festivalgenius.com/2013 ) [44] => Array ( [DTSTAMP] => 20131022T033147Z [DESCRIPTION] => 'The Rich Have Their Own Photographers' is a film about the art and activism of Milton Rogovin. Targeted as a Communist and persecuted for his beliefs, Rogovin was called before the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1957 and declared 'The Top Red in Buffalo' by The Buffalo News. In reality, Rogovin was an optometrist who worked in the local unions registering Black voters and promoting workers' rights. The Red Scare changed the lives if Rogovin and his family forever. Refusing to be silenced, Rogovin found a new tool to express his political voice- his camera. Just before the age of 50, he began documenting Buffalo's poorest and working classes. Over the next 40+ years, Rogovin photographed the poor and working class, the marginalized and those who he considers, 'the forgotten ones'. Eventually traveling around the World, Rogovin collaborated with Pable Neruda, WEB DuBois, and others at the forefront of the social justice movement. Through his photography, Rogovin was able to depict the extreme inequalities that exist in the world and convey that message through beautiful works of art. Now celebrated as one of the finest social documentary photographers of the 20th Century, Rogovin's collection of negatives are housed by the Library of Congress and his prints are collected the world over. But Rogovin,now 97, never intended to be an artist. His photographs are his protests, and his only concern is the fight for social justice. Filmed and directed by EMMY award winner Ezra Bookstein. [URL] => http://elff.festivalgenius.com/2013/films/therichhavetheirownphotographers_elff2013;jsessionid=E96DF894F76018A31F1CC722D5F5F71D [SUMMARY] => The Rich Have Their Own Photographers [LOCATION] => Studio C! [DTEND] => 20131112T193000 [DTSTART] => 20131112T183000 [CATEGORIES] => Doc [UID] => 2598606394-elff.festivalgenius.com/2013 ) [45] => Array ( [DTSTAMP] => 20131022T033147Z [DESCRIPTION] => Short films screening in this program include: Best of Both Worlds, Hurdy Gurdy, Never Gonna Break, Heart of a Champion, The Things My Father Never Taught Me, The Prisoner, A Good Wife, ZIBIDI (Worthless), Rette Sich Wer Kann (Rescue Yourself) [URL] => http://elff.festivalgenius.com/2013/films/shortsprogram1_elff2013_elff2013;jsessionid=E96DF894F76018A31F1CC722D5F5F71D [SUMMARY] => Shorts Program 1 [LOCATION] => Wells Hall, Michgian State University B [DTEND] => 20131112T203200 [DTSTART] => 20131112T183000 [CATEGORIES] => Short [UID] => 2598606405-elff.festivalgenius.com/2013 ) [46] => Array ( [DTSTAMP] => 20131022T033147Z [DESCRIPTION] => No twentieth-century figure has had a more profound effect on the worlds of literature, film, politics, historical debate, and the culture wars than Gore Vidal. Anchored by intimate one-on-one interviews with the man himself, Nicholas Wrathall’s documentary is a fascinating and wholly entertaining portrait of the last lion of the age of American liberalism, the clarion of intellectual liberalism. Director Wrathall is Gore’s grandson who had unbelievable access to the man and his archives. [URL] => http://elff.festivalgenius.com/2013/films/gorevidalunitedstatesofamnesia_nicholaswrathall_elff2013;jsessionid=E96DF894F76018A31F1CC722D5F5F71D [SUMMARY] => Gore Vidal: United States of Amnesia [LOCATION] => Studio C! [DTEND] => 20131112T222900 [DTSTART] => 20131112T210000 [CATEGORIES] => Doc [UID] => 2598606354-elff.festivalgenius.com/2013 ) [47] => Array ( [DTSTAMP] => 20131022T033147Z [DESCRIPTION] => For centuries Bordeaux has commanded a mythical status in the world of fine wines. Recently, prices for its prestigious ‘first growth’ red wines – including names like Chateau Lafite-Rothschild, Chateau Margaux and Chateau Latour – have been breaking all records. Something unprecedented is happening to the fine wine market and that something is China. For better or worse, Bordeaux is hitching itself to this new, infinitely wealthy client. Beautifully shot, RED OBSESSION sets out to explore this phenomenon and the link between China and Bordeaux. It will blow your mind. [URL] => http://elff.festivalgenius.com/2013/films/redobsession_davidroach_elff2013;jsessionid=E96DF894F76018A31F1CC722D5F5F71D [SUMMARY] => Red Obsession [LOCATION] => Studio C! [DTEND] => 20131113T171500 [DTSTART] => 20131113T160000 [CATEGORIES] => Doc [UID] => 2598606392-elff.festivalgenius.com/2013 ) [48] => Array ( [DTSTAMP] => 20131022T033147Z [DESCRIPTION] => Fourteen years after shaking up the cinematic world with his breakthrough flick Festen ( The Celebration )""a film that helped launch the Dogme movement""Danish director Thomas Vinterberg matches the heights of that classic with his new work. Again examining both the strength and suffocating closeness of community, The Hunt follows a kindergarten assistant (Mads Mikkelsen, in a fiery performance) as he battles an accusation from his own school. Powerful, moving, and relentlessly contemporary, The Hunt is a modern-day masterpiece from a modern-day master. [URL] => http://elff.festivalgenius.com/2013/films/thehunt0_thomasvinterberg_elff2013;jsessionid=E96DF894F76018A31F1CC722D5F5F71D [SUMMARY] => The Hunt [LOCATION] => Studio C! [DTEND] => 20131113T202100 [DTSTART] => 20131113T183000 [CATEGORIES] => Feature [UID] => 2598606441-elff.festivalgenius.com/2013 ) [49] => Array ( [DTSTAMP] => 20131022T033147Z [DESCRIPTION] => Writer-director Ken Scotts funny and beguiling Starbuck takes a fertile premise and runs with it. Genial screw-up David Wosniak (Patrick Huard) cant do much of anything right. The 42-year-old teenager in vintage sports gear is a constant disappointment to his Montreal family, his pregnant girlfriend Valerie (Julie Le Breton) now wants nothing to do with him, and he owes some very bad men a great deal of money. One day a lawyer shows up with news that theres one thing David did very right indeed: 533 children were conceived using sperm he sold to a dodgy clinic in the 1980s, and now 142 of them want to meet Daddy. Money and fame--well, infamy, at least--are within Davids grasp, if only hell take ownership of the village he had no idea others raised. Davids sincere efforts to be a guardian angel to a few of his offspring suggest theres something salvageable within him, while Scotts logical and precise plotting gives the comedy a bawdy but tender look at how an overgrown adolescent slowly becomes a father of fully grown children. Scott named the film for the legendary bull that sired some 200,000 daughters in the 1980s and 1990s. Selected by the Toronto International Film Festival as one of the Top Ten Canadian films of 2011, Starbuck also won the audience award for narrative feature at the Palm Springs Film Festival. Its protagonist may be flawed, but the film itself is a potent and well-nigh perfect comedy of responsibility and redemption. --Eddie Cockrell [URL] => http://elff.festivalgenius.com/2013/films/starbuck3_kenscott_elff2013;jsessionid=E96DF894F76018A31F1CC722D5F5F71D [SUMMARY] => Starbuck [LOCATION] => Studio C! [DTEND] => 20131113T224900 [DTSTART] => 20131113T210000 [CATEGORIES] => Feature [UID] => 2598606438-elff.festivalgenius.com/2013 ) [50] => Array ( [DTSTAMP] => 20131022T033147Z [DESCRIPTION] => Short films screening in this program include: Lucy In The Sky With Diamond, Godka Cirka, Mine is Mine, Stop It!, Illness, Global Tides, We Belong Here, Le Train Bleu [URL] => http://elff.festivalgenius.com/2013/films/shortsprogram2_elff2013_elff2013;jsessionid=E96DF894F76018A31F1CC722D5F5F71D [SUMMARY] => Shorts Program 2 [LOCATION] => Studio C! [DTEND] => 20131114T174400 [DTSTART] => 20131114T160000 [CATEGORIES] => Short [UID] => 2598606424-elff.festivalgenius.com/2013 ) [51] => Array ( [DTSTAMP] => 20131022T033147Z [DESCRIPTION] => A smartly written script inspired by real events makes this WWII-era drama amazingly human and humorous. When a British and German dogfight results in both aircrafts being shot down over the snow-covered, remote wilderness of Norway, both crews take refuge in an abandoned cabin. Tensions rise as their confinement and continual struggle for power rages on in the cramped quarters. Because the brutally harsh winter shows no sign of ending, the group realizes that they must band together to stay alive. Rupert Grint (Harry Potter) and Florian Lukas star in this beautifully shot Norwegian drama, a stirring tale of survival and unexpected friendship. [URL] => http://elff.festivalgenius.com/2013/films/intothewhite_petternaess_elff2013;jsessionid=E96DF894F76018A31F1CC722D5F5F71D [SUMMARY] => Into the White [LOCATION] => Studio C! [DTEND] => 20131114T201100 [DTSTART] => 20131114T183000 [CATEGORIES] => Feature [UID] => 2598606360-elff.festivalgenius.com/2013 ) [52] => Array ( [DTSTAMP] => 20131022T033147Z [DESCRIPTION] => If Patrick Moote thought being rejected on the Jumbotron was bad, it was nothing compared to his girlfriend informing him it was due to his small penis. [URL] => http://elff.festivalgenius.com/2013/films/unhunghero_brianspitz_elff2013;jsessionid=E96DF894F76018A31F1CC722D5F5F71D [SUMMARY] => Unhung Hero [LOCATION] => Studio C! [DTEND] => 20131114T222400 [DTSTART] => 20131114T210000 [CATEGORIES] => Doc [UID] => 2598606447-elff.festivalgenius.com/2013 ) )

Inequality For All

View on Festival GeniusDid you know that the 400 wealthiest individuals own ½ of the country’s total assets? You will after seeing this engrossing and engaging documentary that examines the causes and consequences of the widening income gap in America. Former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich with humor and sensible clarity exposes the risks of continuing down the current path we’re on and emphasizes the need to regain the middle class to stabilize our economy. Winner, Special Jury Award, Sundance Film Festival; Winner, Best Documentary, Traverse City Film Festival. In Person: Director Jacob Kornbluth, an MSU graduate.

More Than Honey

View on Festival GeniusA chilling look into the epidemic that looks to rob us of the insect that keeps 80% of our plant life alive: bees.

Red Obsession

View on Festival GeniusFor centuries Bordeaux has commanded a mythical status in the world of fine wines. Recently, prices for its prestigious ‘first growth’ red wines – including names like Chateau Lafite-Rothschild, Chateau Margaux and Chateau Latour – have been breaking all records. Something unprecedented is happening to the fine wine market and that something is China. For better or worse, Bordeaux is hitching itself to this new, infinitely wealthy client. Beautifully shot, RED OBSESSION sets out to explore this phenomenon and the link between China and Bordeaux. It will blow your mind.

The Hunt

View on Festival GeniusFourteen years after shaking up the cinematic world with his breakthrough flick Festen ( The Celebration )""a film that helped launch the Dogme movement""Danish director Thomas Vinterberg matches the heights of that classic with his new work. Again examining both the strength and suffocating closeness of community, The Hunt follows a kindergarten assistant (Mads Mikkelsen, in a fiery performance) as he battles an accusation from his own school. Powerful, moving, and relentlessly contemporary, The Hunt is a modern-day masterpiece from a modern-day master.

The Rich Have Their Own Photographers

View on Festival Genius'The Rich Have Their Own Photographers' is a film about the art and activism of Milton Rogovin. Targeted as a Communist and persecuted for his beliefs, Rogovin was called before the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1957 and declared 'The Top Red in Buffalo' by The Buffalo News. In reality, Rogovin was an optometrist who worked in the local unions registering Black voters and promoting workers' rights. The Red Scare changed the lives if Rogovin and his family forever. Refusing to be silenced, Rogovin found a new tool to express his political voice- his camera. Just before the age of 50, he began documenting Buffalo's poorest and working classes. Over the next 40+ years, Rogovin photographed the poor and working class, the marginalized and those who he considers, 'the forgotten ones'. Eventually traveling around the World, Rogovin collaborated with Pable Neruda, WEB DuBois, and others at the forefront of the social justice movement. Through his photography, Rogovin was able to depict the extreme inequalities that exist in the world and convey that message through beautiful works of art. Now celebrated as one of the finest social documentary photographers of the 20th Century, Rogovin's collection of negatives are housed by the Library of Congress and his prints are collected the world over. But Rogovin,now 97, never intended to be an artist. His photographs are his protests, and his only concern is the fight for social justice. Filmed and directed by EMMY award winner Ezra Bookstein.

Starbuck

View on Festival GeniusWriter-director Ken Scotts funny and beguiling Starbuck takes a fertile premise and runs with it. Genial screw-up David Wosniak (Patrick Huard) cant do much of anything right. The 42-year-old teenager in vintage sports gear is a constant disappointment to his Montreal family, his pregnant girlfriend Valerie (Julie Le Breton) now wants nothing to do with him, and he owes some very bad men a great deal of money. One day a lawyer shows up with news that theres one thing David did very right indeed: 533 children were conceived using sperm he sold to a dodgy clinic in the 1980s, and now 142 of them want to meet Daddy. Money and fame--well, infamy, at least--are within Davids grasp, if only hell take ownership of the village he had no idea others raised. Davids sincere efforts to be a guardian angel to a few of his offspring suggest theres something salvageable within him, while Scotts logical and precise plotting gives the comedy a bawdy but tender look at how an overgrown adolescent slowly becomes a father of fully grown children. Scott named the film for the legendary bull that sired some 200,000 daughters in the 1980s and 1990s. Selected by the Toronto International Film Festival as one of the Top Ten Canadian films of 2011, Starbuck also won the audience award for narrative feature at the Palm Springs Film Festival. Its protagonist may be flawed, but the film itself is a potent and well-nigh perfect comedy of responsibility and redemption. --Eddie Cockrell

Trashed

View on Festival GeniusWhere does all our trash go? Discover the extent and effects of the global waste problem, as actor Jeremy Irons travels around the world to beautiful destinations tainted by pollution. This meticulous, brave investigative journey takes Irons (and us) from skepticism to sorrow and from horror to hope. You will rethink using a plastic bag for your groceries.

Gore Vidal: United States of Amnesia

View on Festival GeniusNo twentieth-century figure has had a more profound effect on the worlds of literature, film, politics, historical debate, and the culture wars than Gore Vidal. Anchored by intimate one-on-one interviews with the man himself, Nicholas Wrathall’s documentary is a fascinating and wholly entertaining portrait of the last lion of the age of American liberalism, the clarion of intellectual liberalism. Director Wrathall is Gore’s grandson who had unbelievable access to the man and his archives.

More Than Honey

View on Festival GeniusA chilling look into the epidemic that looks to rob us of the insect that keeps 80% of our plant life alive: bees.

Radio Unnameable

View on Festival GeniusRadio personality Bob Fass revolutionized the New York City airwaves, developing a patchwork of music, politics, ideas and news from the streets, cultivating a glorious free-form experiment. For 50 years, he has been heard at midnight on listener-sponsored WBAI. "Radio Unnameable" documents Fass's eventful career, the evolution of FM radio and the struggle to keep free expression on the dial.

A Band Called Death

View on Festival GeniusBefore the Sex Pistols and the Ramones defined punk for a generation, there was Death. Formed by three teenage brothers in a Detroit working class black neighborhood, the pioneering proto-punk band had dreams of making it big, and pressed their own record in order to pitch to the big labels. But in the era when Motown and Disco reigned supreme, Death was doomed to obscurity-until their dusty demo recording was discovered in an attic 30 years later. A captivating and moving tale of family and redemption, this epic rockumentary follows the band’s decades-long journey to being recognized as pioneers of punk by a new generation. 

Little Hope Was Arson

View on Festival GeniusJanuary 2010: In the buckle of the Bible Belt, ten churches burn to the ground in just over one month, igniting the largest criminal investigation in East Texas history. Even Satan himself is considered a suspect in this gripping investigation of a community terrorized from the inside-out. Filmmakers in Attendance.

Red Obsession

View on Festival GeniusFor centuries Bordeaux has commanded a mythical status in the world of fine wines. Recently, prices for its prestigious ‘first growth’ red wines – including names like Chateau Lafite-Rothschild, Chateau Margaux and Chateau Latour – have been breaking all records. Something unprecedented is happening to the fine wine market and that something is China. For better or worse, Bordeaux is hitching itself to this new, infinitely wealthy client. Beautifully shot, RED OBSESSION sets out to explore this phenomenon and the link between China and Bordeaux. It will blow your mind.

Unhung Hero

View on Festival GeniusIf Patrick Moote thought being rejected on the Jumbotron was bad, it was nothing compared to his girlfriend informing him it was due to his small penis.

Into the White

View on Festival GeniusA smartly written script inspired by real events makes this WWII-era drama amazingly human and humorous. When a British and German dogfight results in both aircrafts being shot down over the snow-covered, remote wilderness of Norway, both crews take refuge in an abandoned cabin. Tensions rise as their confinement and continual struggle for power rages on in the cramped quarters. Because the brutally harsh winter shows no sign of ending, the group realizes that they must band together to stay alive. Rupert Grint (Harry Potter) and Florian Lukas star in this beautifully shot Norwegian drama, a stirring tale of survival and unexpected friendship.

A Fragile Trust: Plagiarism, Power and Jayson Blair at the New York Times

View on Festival GeniusA Fragile Trust tells the shocking story of Jayson Blair, the most infamous serial plagiarist of our time, and how he unleashed the massive scandal that rocked the New York Times and the entire world of journalism. In a candid and captivating interview, Blair explains his reasoning behind his actions, how he got away with it and what the repercussions were and still are. Fascinating study of why an intelligent, talented person breaks the law and the trust of the Fifth Estate.

CASS

View on Festival GeniusWhen an artist with a mysterious past moves into an abandoned house in Detroit, the lives of a single father, his teenage daughter and young son are changed forever.

Food For Change

View on Festival GeniusThis provocative new film explores the current resurgence of food co-operatives in the United States, and their unique place in America’s economic and political landscape. The US co-op movement story is told through interviews, rare archival footage, and commentary by co-op leaders and historians, and profiles of several current food co-ops that have revived neighborhoods and entire communities—right in the shadow of giant agribusiness and national supermarket chains. The film feeds the decades-long debate over profit-driven corporate capitalism versus locally-controlled businesses.

High And Hallowed: Everest 1963

View on Festival GeniusThe story of the greatest Himalayan climb in American mountaineering history. Profiling the bold and visionary efforts of the 1963 American Mount Everest Expedition, the film examines the sheer commitment, step-by-step struggle and lasting impact of the first American ascent of Mt. Everest and the pioneering first ascent of the West Ridge by Tom Hornbein and Willi Unsoeld. Five decades later, High and Hallowed journeys back to Everest to discover if the essence of risk, adventure and the unknown that drew the first Americans to the summit still exists on Everest today.

Trashed

View on Festival GeniusWhere does all our trash go? Discover the extent and effects of the global waste problem, as actor Jeremy Irons travels around the world to beautiful destinations tainted by pollution. This meticulous, brave investigative journey takes Irons (and us) from skepticism to sorrow and from horror to hope. You will rethink using a plastic bag for your groceries.

Little Hope Was Arson

View on Festival GeniusJanuary 2010: In the buckle of the Bible Belt, ten churches burn to the ground in just over one month, igniting the largest criminal investigation in East Texas history. Even Satan himself is considered a suspect in this gripping investigation of a community terrorized from the inside-out. Filmmakers in Attendance.

Shorts Program 2

View on Festival GeniusShort films screening in this program include: Lucy In The Sky With Diamond, Godka Cirka, Mine is Mine, Stop It!, Illness, Global Tides, We Belong Here, Le Train Bleu

Starbuck

View on Festival GeniusWriter-director Ken Scotts funny and beguiling Starbuck takes a fertile premise and runs with it. Genial screw-up David Wosniak (Patrick Huard) cant do much of anything right. The 42-year-old teenager in vintage sports gear is a constant disappointment to his Montreal family, his pregnant girlfriend Valerie (Julie Le Breton) now wants nothing to do with him, and he owes some very bad men a great deal of money. One day a lawyer shows up with news that theres one thing David did very right indeed: 533 children were conceived using sperm he sold to a dodgy clinic in the 1980s, and now 142 of them want to meet Daddy. Money and fame--well, infamy, at least--are within Davids grasp, if only hell take ownership of the village he had no idea others raised. Davids sincere efforts to be a guardian angel to a few of his offspring suggest theres something salvageable within him, while Scotts logical and precise plotting gives the comedy a bawdy but tender look at how an overgrown adolescent slowly becomes a father of fully grown children. Scott named the film for the legendary bull that sired some 200,000 daughters in the 1980s and 1990s. Selected by the Toronto International Film Festival as one of the Top Ten Canadian films of 2011, Starbuck also won the audience award for narrative feature at the Palm Springs Film Festival. Its protagonist may be flawed, but the film itself is a potent and well-nigh perfect comedy of responsibility and redemption. --Eddie Cockrell

The Hunt

View on Festival GeniusFourteen years after shaking up the cinematic world with his breakthrough flick Festen ( The Celebration )""a film that helped launch the Dogme movement""Danish director Thomas Vinterberg matches the heights of that classic with his new work. Again examining both the strength and suffocating closeness of community, The Hunt follows a kindergarten assistant (Mads Mikkelsen, in a fiery performance) as he battles an accusation from his own school. Powerful, moving, and relentlessly contemporary, The Hunt is a modern-day masterpiece from a modern-day master.

A Fragile Trust: Plagiarism, Power and Jayson Blair at the New York Times

View on Festival GeniusA Fragile Trust tells the shocking story of Jayson Blair, the most infamous serial plagiarist of our time, and how he unleashed the massive scandal that rocked the New York Times and the entire world of journalism. In a candid and captivating interview, Blair explains his reasoning behind his actions, how he got away with it and what the repercussions were and still are. Fascinating study of why an intelligent, talented person breaks the law and the trust of the Fifth Estate.

Into the White

View on Festival GeniusA smartly written script inspired by real events makes this WWII-era drama amazingly human and humorous. When a British and German dogfight results in both aircrafts being shot down over the snow-covered, remote wilderness of Norway, both crews take refuge in an abandoned cabin. Tensions rise as their confinement and continual struggle for power rages on in the cramped quarters. Because the brutally harsh winter shows no sign of ending, the group realizes that they must band together to stay alive. Rupert Grint (Harry Potter) and Florian Lukas star in this beautifully shot Norwegian drama, a stirring tale of survival and unexpected friendship.

Southern Baptist Sissies

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Unhung Hero

View on Festival GeniusIf Patrick Moote thought being rejected on the Jumbotron was bad, it was nothing compared to his girlfriend informing him it was due to his small penis.

A Band Called Death

View on Festival GeniusBefore the Sex Pistols and the Ramones defined punk for a generation, there was Death. Formed by three teenage brothers in a Detroit working class black neighborhood, the pioneering proto-punk band had dreams of making it big, and pressed their own record in order to pitch to the big labels. But in the era when Motown and Disco reigned supreme, Death was doomed to obscurity-until their dusty demo recording was discovered in an attic 30 years later. A captivating and moving tale of family and redemption, this epic rockumentary follows the band’s decades-long journey to being recognized as pioneers of punk by a new generation. 

Food For Change

View on Festival GeniusThis provocative new film explores the current resurgence of food co-operatives in the United States, and their unique place in America’s economic and political landscape. The US co-op movement story is told through interviews, rare archival footage, and commentary by co-op leaders and historians, and profiles of several current food co-ops that have revived neighborhoods and entire communities—right in the shadow of giant agribusiness and national supermarket chains. The film feeds the decades-long debate over profit-driven corporate capitalism versus locally-controlled businesses.

An Unexpected Win: Title IX and the Pinckney Pirates

View on Festival GeniusShort films screening in this program include: An Unexpected Win: Title IX and the Pinckney Pirates, Driven To Ride

LMFC Short Flims A

View on Festival GeniusShort films screening in this program include: A Dream At The Edge Of Land, The Making of a Short, Cut Out, Slow Burn, Moonlight, CELLAR DWELLAR

LMFC Student Films

View on Festival GeniusShort films screening in this program include: For The 25, The Slaughter, Valentines Day, TiPi

The Rohl Farms Enterprise

View on Festival GeniusTwo childhood friends are making a documentary in Wisconsin. Shortly after they begin filming, strange events begin to occur around the house. Convinced that the ghosts of Luke's parents are haunting the house, filmmaker Cordero suggests that a paranormal team investigate the house. Then one night, they discover that is not ghosts scaring them but three strangers prowling around Luke's farm.

Radio Unnameable

View on Festival GeniusRadio personality Bob Fass revolutionized the New York City airwaves, developing a patchwork of music, politics, ideas and news from the streets, cultivating a glorious free-form experiment. For 50 years, he has been heard at midnight on listener-sponsored WBAI. "Radio Unnameable" documents Fass's eventful career, the evolution of FM radio and the struggle to keep free expression on the dial.

A Space for Music, A Seat for Everyone: 100 Years of UMS Performances in Hill Auditorium

View on Festival GeniusShort films screening in this program include: A Space for Music, A Seat for Everyone: 100 Years of UMS Performances in Hill Auditorium, Tendency To Jam

LMFC Short Flims B

View on Festival GeniusShort films screening in this program include: JP is My Friend, Not Anymore: A Story of Revolution, 48169, Transbeing, FORGOTTEN DETROIT

Mordy To The Max

View on Festival GeniusMordy Horwich, a high school senior and science prodigy with no athletic ability whatsoever, puts his bright academic future at risk to follow his dream. He wants to play college basketball. He sets forth on a mission to catch the eye of athletic recruiters by becoming a national celebrity.

Wingmen Incorporated

View on Festival GeniusAfter being left at the altar, a jaded psychologist joins a friend who likes to go to bars. When his psychology background helps him succeed in attracting women, he reluctantly forms “Wingmen Incorporated” that teaches desperate men how to pick up women at local hot spots.

Gore Vidal: United States of Amnesia

View on Festival GeniusNo twentieth-century figure has had a more profound effect on the worlds of literature, film, politics, historical debate, and the culture wars than Gore Vidal. Anchored by intimate one-on-one interviews with the man himself, Nicholas Wrathall’s documentary is a fascinating and wholly entertaining portrait of the last lion of the age of American liberalism, the clarion of intellectual liberalism. Director Wrathall is Gore’s grandson who had unbelievable access to the man and his archives.

A Fragile Trust: Plagiarism, Power and Jayson Blair at the New York Times

View on Festival GeniusA Fragile Trust tells the shocking story of Jayson Blair, the most infamous serial plagiarist of our time, and how he unleashed the massive scandal that rocked the New York Times and the entire world of journalism. In a candid and captivating interview, Blair explains his reasoning behind his actions, how he got away with it and what the repercussions were and still are. Fascinating study of why an intelligent, talented person breaks the law and the trust of the Fifth Estate.

Starbuck

View on Festival GeniusWriter-director Ken Scotts funny and beguiling Starbuck takes a fertile premise and runs with it. Genial screw-up David Wosniak (Patrick Huard) cant do much of anything right. The 42-year-old teenager in vintage sports gear is a constant disappointment to his Montreal family, his pregnant girlfriend Valerie (Julie Le Breton) now wants nothing to do with him, and he owes some very bad men a great deal of money. One day a lawyer shows up with news that theres one thing David did very right indeed: 533 children were conceived using sperm he sold to a dodgy clinic in the 1980s, and now 142 of them want to meet Daddy. Money and fame--well, infamy, at least--are within Davids grasp, if only hell take ownership of the village he had no idea others raised. Davids sincere efforts to be a guardian angel to a few of his offspring suggest theres something salvageable within him, while Scotts logical and precise plotting gives the comedy a bawdy but tender look at how an overgrown adolescent slowly becomes a father of fully grown children. Scott named the film for the legendary bull that sired some 200,000 daughters in the 1980s and 1990s. Selected by the Toronto International Film Festival as one of the Top Ten Canadian films of 2011, Starbuck also won the audience award for narrative feature at the Palm Springs Film Festival. Its protagonist may be flawed, but the film itself is a potent and well-nigh perfect comedy of responsibility and redemption. --Eddie Cockrell

Southern Baptist Sissies

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Shorts Program 1

View on Festival GeniusShort films screening in this program include: Best of Both Worlds, Hurdy Gurdy, Never Gonna Break, Heart of a Champion, The Things My Father Never Taught Me, The Prisoner, A Good Wife, ZIBIDI (Worthless), Rette Sich Wer Kann (Rescue Yourself)

The Rich Have Their Own Photographers

View on Festival Genius'The Rich Have Their Own Photographers' is a film about the art and activism of Milton Rogovin. Targeted as a Communist and persecuted for his beliefs, Rogovin was called before the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1957 and declared 'The Top Red in Buffalo' by The Buffalo News. In reality, Rogovin was an optometrist who worked in the local unions registering Black voters and promoting workers' rights. The Red Scare changed the lives if Rogovin and his family forever. Refusing to be silenced, Rogovin found a new tool to express his political voice- his camera. Just before the age of 50, he began documenting Buffalo's poorest and working classes. Over the next 40+ years, Rogovin photographed the poor and working class, the marginalized and those who he considers, 'the forgotten ones'. Eventually traveling around the World, Rogovin collaborated with Pable Neruda, WEB DuBois, and others at the forefront of the social justice movement. Through his photography, Rogovin was able to depict the extreme inequalities that exist in the world and convey that message through beautiful works of art. Now celebrated as one of the finest social documentary photographers of the 20th Century, Rogovin's collection of negatives are housed by the Library of Congress and his prints are collected the world over. But Rogovin,now 97, never intended to be an artist. His photographs are his protests, and his only concern is the fight for social justice. Filmed and directed by EMMY award winner Ezra Bookstein.

Shorts Program 1

View on Festival GeniusShort films screening in this program include: Best of Both Worlds, Hurdy Gurdy, Never Gonna Break, Heart of a Champion, The Things My Father Never Taught Me, The Prisoner, A Good Wife, ZIBIDI (Worthless), Rette Sich Wer Kann (Rescue Yourself)

Gore Vidal: United States of Amnesia

View on Festival GeniusNo twentieth-century figure has had a more profound effect on the worlds of literature, film, politics, historical debate, and the culture wars than Gore Vidal. Anchored by intimate one-on-one interviews with the man himself, Nicholas Wrathall’s documentary is a fascinating and wholly entertaining portrait of the last lion of the age of American liberalism, the clarion of intellectual liberalism. Director Wrathall is Gore’s grandson who had unbelievable access to the man and his archives.

Red Obsession

View on Festival GeniusFor centuries Bordeaux has commanded a mythical status in the world of fine wines. Recently, prices for its prestigious ‘first growth’ red wines – including names like Chateau Lafite-Rothschild, Chateau Margaux and Chateau Latour – have been breaking all records. Something unprecedented is happening to the fine wine market and that something is China. For better or worse, Bordeaux is hitching itself to this new, infinitely wealthy client. Beautifully shot, RED OBSESSION sets out to explore this phenomenon and the link between China and Bordeaux. It will blow your mind.

The Hunt

View on Festival GeniusFourteen years after shaking up the cinematic world with his breakthrough flick Festen ( The Celebration )""a film that helped launch the Dogme movement""Danish director Thomas Vinterberg matches the heights of that classic with his new work. Again examining both the strength and suffocating closeness of community, The Hunt follows a kindergarten assistant (Mads Mikkelsen, in a fiery performance) as he battles an accusation from his own school. Powerful, moving, and relentlessly contemporary, The Hunt is a modern-day masterpiece from a modern-day master.

Starbuck

View on Festival GeniusWriter-director Ken Scotts funny and beguiling Starbuck takes a fertile premise and runs with it. Genial screw-up David Wosniak (Patrick Huard) cant do much of anything right. The 42-year-old teenager in vintage sports gear is a constant disappointment to his Montreal family, his pregnant girlfriend Valerie (Julie Le Breton) now wants nothing to do with him, and he owes some very bad men a great deal of money. One day a lawyer shows up with news that theres one thing David did very right indeed: 533 children were conceived using sperm he sold to a dodgy clinic in the 1980s, and now 142 of them want to meet Daddy. Money and fame--well, infamy, at least--are within Davids grasp, if only hell take ownership of the village he had no idea others raised. Davids sincere efforts to be a guardian angel to a few of his offspring suggest theres something salvageable within him, while Scotts logical and precise plotting gives the comedy a bawdy but tender look at how an overgrown adolescent slowly becomes a father of fully grown children. Scott named the film for the legendary bull that sired some 200,000 daughters in the 1980s and 1990s. Selected by the Toronto International Film Festival as one of the Top Ten Canadian films of 2011, Starbuck also won the audience award for narrative feature at the Palm Springs Film Festival. Its protagonist may be flawed, but the film itself is a potent and well-nigh perfect comedy of responsibility and redemption. --Eddie Cockrell

Shorts Program 2

View on Festival GeniusShort films screening in this program include: Lucy In The Sky With Diamond, Godka Cirka, Mine is Mine, Stop It!, Illness, Global Tides, We Belong Here, Le Train Bleu

Into the White

View on Festival GeniusA smartly written script inspired by real events makes this WWII-era drama amazingly human and humorous. When a British and German dogfight results in both aircrafts being shot down over the snow-covered, remote wilderness of Norway, both crews take refuge in an abandoned cabin. Tensions rise as their confinement and continual struggle for power rages on in the cramped quarters. Because the brutally harsh winter shows no sign of ending, the group realizes that they must band together to stay alive. Rupert Grint (Harry Potter) and Florian Lukas star in this beautifully shot Norwegian drama, a stirring tale of survival and unexpected friendship.

Unhung Hero

View on Festival GeniusIf Patrick Moote thought being rejected on the Jumbotron was bad, it was nothing compared to his girlfriend informing him it was due to his small penis.