Archives > 2006 > Documentaries
BETWEEN IRAQ AND A HARD PLACE
narrated by Martin Sheen
with director Rex J. Pratt and members of the 1st Battalion, 2nd Marines,
Alpha Co., 3rd Platoon
- Friday 9:20 pm - Wind's Eye Design Broughton Theatre
- Sunday 12:25 pm - Wind's Eye Design Broughton Theatre
On March 20, 2003, this nation's second conflict with Iraq began
as one response to the War on Terrorism that began in the aftermath
of the destruction of the World Trade Center and damage to the Pentagon
on 9/11. Among those engaged in the war were the members of the 3rd
platoon of Alpha Company (1st Battalion, 2nd Marines) who moved into
Nasiriyah, Iraq on that first day. This is their story. It is not a
political tract; the film takes no position on the war. The men have
a job to do and the film shows us how they do it. As one trauma specialist
says: if we support this war, then we owe these men a debt; if we did
not work hard enough to prevent the war, we still owe them a debt.
Audio and video footage taken by members of the platoon illustrate
the story as do interviews with the men and the counselors who work
with combatants upon their return from the distress of war. USA,
2006, 64 min.
Director: Rex J. Pratt; Producer: James Pratt; Screenwriter: Rex
J. Pratt; Cinematographer: Rex. J. Pratt; Print Source: Pratt
Bros. Entertainment, rpratt@cox.net
SPONSOR: Olympic Art & Office
THE CAMDEN 28
- Friday 6:00 pm - Peninsula Lifestyle Magazine Pope Marine Theatre
In the early morning hours of Sunday, August 22, 1971, FBI Director
J. Edgar Hoover and Attorney General John Mitchell announced that FBI
agents had arrested 20 anti-war activists in and near a draft board
office in Camden, New Jersey. Five days later, Mitchell publicly announced
their indictment and included eight others linked to the break-in.
The major charges were conspiracy to remove and destroy files from
the draft board. If convicted, some faced up to 47 years in federal
prison. Among the group were four Catholic priests, 22 Catholic laypeople,
and one Lutheran minister. The men and women arrested that summer called
themselves "America's conscience." The government called them
the Camden 28. This is their story. USA, 2005, 90 min.
Director: Anthony Giacchino; Producers: Anthony Giacchino,
David Dougherty; Cinematographer: David Dougherty; Editors: Brandon
Park, Anthony Giacchino; Print Source: ECC Media, LLC, camden28@gmail.com, www.candem28.org
SPONSOR: SeaHome Services, Inc.
THE CATS OF MIRIKITANI
- Saturday 6:00 pm - Peninsula Lifestyle Magazine Pope Marine Theatre
- Sunday 3:05 pm - Alpha Cine Forde Rosebud Cinema
How do dreams survive on the streets of New York City when you both
work and live on them? When you are an octogenarian outsider artist
whose only roof is a tarp? This is the story of Jimmy Mirikitani, a
Japanese-American born in the U.S. in 1920, whose family returned to
Hiroshima before World War II. Hoping to avoid the Japanese draft,
Jimmy returned to the U.S. where he was interned with other American
citizens of Japanese ancestry for the duration of the war. Life in
the camps became the decisive season of his life and desolate images
of that experience appeared frequently in his work that also had a
brilliant side with his colorful portraits of dreamy kittens and fierce
tigers. Living in Washington Square Park on 9/11, he was rescued from
the toxic dust from the collapse of the World Trade Center towers by
an admirer of his work. She took him into her own apartment, worked
with him to find his own quarters and then returned with him to the
California internment camp for a redemptive reunion. USA, 2006,
74 min.
Director: Linda Hattendorf; Producers: Linda Hattendorf,
Masa Yoshikawa; Cast: Jimmy Mirikitani, Tsutomu Mirikitani; Print
Source: movius4@ix.netcom.com
SPONSORS: Max Grover Gallery & Homer Smith Insurance
DANCING LESSONS
- Saturday 12:05 pm - Alpha Cine Forde Rosebud Cinema
- Sunday 12 Noon - Peninsula Lifestyle Magazine Pope Marine Theatre
Director: Mark Waren; Producer: Mark Waren; Cinematographer: Kevin Keating; Print Source: Amy Strobel, Dramatic Risks, inc., dramrisk@aol.com
SPONSORS: Earthenworks Gallery & Wilson Insurance, Inc.
FISHER POETS
with Director Jennifer Winston and several fisher poets
- Saturday 9:05 pm - Alpha Cine Forde Rosebud Cinema
Fisher Poets is the story of a unique breed of commercial
fishermen who spin tall tales and weave true stories of life at sea
through vivid and powerful poetry. Strong of character and steeped
in tradition, these men and women from America's last great frontier
share their passions in tight rhymes and prose verse. The documentary
joins them at "The Fisher Poets Gathering" where amateurs and professionals
alike prove that what they take from the sea is more than the catch
of the day, it's food for thought. "This is where I draft my love
letters to the industry," says fisherman Dave Densmore. He is just
one of the salty characters who tell the world how the food on their
plate represents a community upon extinction. A fisher poetry reading
follows the screening. USA, 2006, 42 min.
Director: Jennifer Winston; Producer: Jennifer Winston; Cinematographer: Jennifer
Winston; Print Source: Jennifer Winston, winnie1492@yahoo.com
SPONSORS: Fleet Marine & Port Townsend Shipwrights
Co-op
INDEPENDENT AMERICA: THE TWO LANE SEARCH
FOR MOM AND POP
with Directors Heather Hughes and Hanson Hosein
- Saturday 9:55 am - Wind's Eye Design Broughton Theatre
- Sunday 3:10 pm - Alpha Cine Forde Rose Theatre
Two former NBC journalists, husband and wife, hit the road, traveling
13,000 miles through 32 states in search of "Independent America."
Sticking to secondary highways and only doing business with Mom and
Pop stores, the filmmakers discover a growing rebellion across the
country, beginning in Port Townsend where they interview opponents
of a new Hollywood Video store. As the couple travels, their reports
feature a Starbucks that is vandalized in Colorado, supporters of an
anti-big-box law in Arizona who are compared to Nazis, and patriotic
residents of America's "Fourth of July" capital in Nebraska who
start to turn on their new super center. It's a somber yet entertaining
snapshot of a country at loggerheads with the free market economy it
so proudly mastered. USA, 2005, 81 min.
Director: Hanson Hosein; Producers: Heather Hughes,
Hanson Hosein, Tom Powers; Screenwriters: Hanson Hosein, Heather
Hughes; Print Source: Independent America Media, production@hrhmedia.com
SPONSORS: The Food Co-op & Mt. Townsend Creamery
WHITE SHADOWS
with Director Mialyn Hanna
- Friday 9:00 pm - Peninsula Lifestyles Magazine Pope Marine Theatre
- Sunday 6:05 pm - Alpha Cine Forde Rosebud Cinema
An unflinching portrayal of survival and transformation, White
Shadows profiles Dalee Henderson, a famed celebrity hairstylist
who is diagnosed with AIDS and must reconcile himself to the changes
the disease affects upon his body and mind. A gay, African American
raised in the rural, segregated South of the 1950s, Dalee escaped
to the West Coast in the late 1970s where he achieved great professional
and personal success, amassing a wealth of friends by virtue of his
gregarious nature. His life changed when he learned of his HIV status,
but his spirit and hope remain despite the deterioration of his body. USA,
2006, 72 min.
Director: Mialyn Hanna; Producer: Mialyn Hanna; Screenwriter: Mialyn
Hanna; Cinematographers: Juerg Walther, Michael Santi, Rudi
Milanovich, Mialyn Hanna; Editor: Octavio Iturbe; Music: Philip
Glass; Print Source: Lemurian Films, mialyn@earthlink.net
SPONSOR: The James House
FINDING THEA
with Directors Lucy Ostrander and Nancy Bourne Haley
- Saturday 6:10 pm - Alpha Cine Forde Rose Theatre
A tale of love, courage and immigrant ingenuity, Finding Thea is
a family saga that is an inspiration to generations. Throughout her
life and work, Norwegian-born Thea Foss became a pioneer archetype
for women in the first half of the 20th century when she established
the Foss Tug Company. The film combines rare archival footage and photos
along with contemporary reflections of her legacy along Washington
state's waterfronts. As historian Michael Sullivan comments, the
film explores the story of a strong woman who built an empire without
being an empire builder. USA, 2006, 25 min.
Directors: Lucy Ostrander, Nancy Bourne Haley; Producers: Lucy
Ostrander, Nancy Bourne Haley; Screenwriter: Nancy Bourne
Haley; Cinematographer: Don Sellers; Editor: Don
Sellers; Music: Hale Bill & the Bopps; Print Source: Luna
Film & Video, lucy@stourwater.com
Followed by
TUGBOAT ANNIE
Marie Dressler and Wallace Beery were hardly realistic prototypes of
Thea and Andrew Foss, but the veteran actors made millions laugh in
the 1930s in films based on Saturday Evening Post stories
by Norman Reilly Raine who used Thea Foss as his inspiration. Tugboat
Annie was the first of three films that later evolved into a 1950s
television sitcom. USA, 1933, 86 min.
Director: Mervyn LeRoy; Producer: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer; Screenwriters: Norman
Reilly Raine, Zelda Sears, Eve Green; Cinematographer: Gregg
Toland; Print Source: The Don McCune Library, 206-726-2650
SPONSOR: Don's Pharmacy
