MAMA
LAURA'S BOYS
USA, Documentary, 2002, Digital, 30 min. (West
Coast Premiere, DWF 2002)
Dir/Prod: Russell Brown • Writer: Tim Grierson
From her early days on Los Angeles’ famed Central Avenue, where
all the greats played, to her many young proteges who now frequent the
stage, "Mama" Laura Mae Gross has witnessed some of the world’s
best blues music. Her club, Babe’s and Ricky’s Inn, serves
as a refuge for generations of musicians who have often found it difficult
to play anywhere else. Under the watchful eye of Mama, now 80 years old,
these performers learn what it means to play the blues.
MOMZ
HOT ROCKS
USA,
Documentary,
2008, DV, 90 min.
(WORLD Premiere, DWF 2009)
Dir:
Kate Perotti
• Prod: Edendale Pictures
Featuring: Joy Rose, Judy Davids, Black Famingo now REW and Rachel Yellow
Never Mind the Laundry, MOMz HOT ROCKs is an original music documentary on the emergence of mom rock bands. Turning the genre on its belly, this is the €rst rock generation to be louder than their kids. Introducing Joy Rose, mother of 4, founder of Mamapalooza and Housewives on Prozac. Meet the Mydols, Candy Band; Placenta and Frump. MOMz captures the increasing attention before these bands €rst meet. MOMz HOT ROCKs is the best of both documentary and music video; an entertaining look into how women--MOMz, take on the world, manage full lives and make music to rock your socks off.
MOVEMENT
WITH A MEANING
USA,
2011, Digital, 25 min.
(WORLD
Premiere, DWF 2012)
Dir/Prod:
Jim
Crum
Featuring: Lula
Washington, artistic director Lula Washington Dance Theatre, Erwin Washington,
Executive Director LWDT
A unique, behind the scenes look at the Los Angeles' Lula Washington Dance Theatre (LWDT) - the leading African American dance company west of the Mississippi - and their staging of a ballet piece based on the Paul Laurence Dunbar poem "We Wear the Mask," a stinging indictment of the Stepin Fetchit roles African Americans were forced to play in order to "get by." Known worldwide through their international performances, everything Lula Washington and her company stands for comes together in their production of "We Wore the Mask."
NURSES
FOR AFRICA
USA, Documentary, 2010, HD, 26 min.
(WORLD Premiere, DWF 2011)
Dir: Clyde Brothers | Ten
Talents/One Degree Media
Take
a journey with a group of nurses from the mid-west who were sent to provide
free medical treatment to a small village in Zambia, Africa. But once
they arrived, they quickly learned that their expectations were far off;
and that this experience of serving others would make the biggest difference
in their own lives.
MYTHIC
JOURNEYS
USA,
Documentary,
2009, HDV, 97 min.
(WORLD Premiere, DWF 2009 - AUDIENCE AWARD)
Writers/Dirs/Prods:
Steven & Whitney Boe
Featuring: Tim Curry, Mark Hamill, Lance Henriksen, Deepak Chopra, Michael
Bernard Beckwith, Sobonfu Some, Robert Walter, Lynne Kaufman, Michael
Meade, Tom Blue Wolf
A multi-layered masterpiece; a unique fusion of documentary, animation and story. Interviews are interwoven with multicultural artwork and a Hi-Def stop-motion adaptation of an ancient tale where a noble king is charged with the grim task of delivering a corpse to a mysterious sorcerer (Puppets created by Brian & Wendy Froud). Showing how mythology and story can change the world, award-winning filmmakers Steven & Whitney Boe engage the audience with a thought-provoking, unpretentious, and often humorous style that captures the essence of what it is to be human and asks the question: Will you know who you are when you die or will death have to tell you?
