Fairfax Documentary Film Fest

10th Fairfax Documentary Film Festival

April 3, 4 & 5, 2009
Friday and Saturday 7:30 pm, Sunday 2pm, 4pm, 7pm tickets $10

Fairfax Theater, Broadway, Fairfax

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FRIDAY APRIL 3RD 7:30 pm, tickets $10

"ALL THE WAY HOME" by Charlotte Buchen and Julie Caine relates the story of the considerable challenges our soldiers face coming home from our wars, told through the eyes of veterans and their families.

"A DAY LATE IN OAKLAND" by Zachary Stauffer examines the connection between the murder of Oakland Post Editor Chauncey Bailey and its connection to his investigative reporting on the operations of Oakland's Your Black Muslim Bakery.

"CHEESE WARS" by Taylor Pipes informs us about the competition between California and Wisconsin cheese producers, and the race for dominance in the all-important cheese production industry.

"AMERICAN/SANDINISTA" by Jason Blalock reveals the story of a small group of young American engineers who travelled to Nicaragua during the 1980s at the time of civil war between the Sandinistas and Contras, providing their skills and labor to a revolutionary cause - and paying the ultimate price for their idealism.

"FAIRFAX DOC FEST CHALLENGE 2009" a preview of the entries to this year's competition.

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SATURDAY APRIL 4TH 7:30 pm, tickets $10

"ILLUSION TRAVELS BY BOXCAR" by John Dentino (ROUGH CUT - SNEAK PREVIEW). Her voice is soft and plaintive, her words a slurry of apologies."Illusion..." shows what happens when a woman who has been a homeless alcoholic for many years returns to the children she had abandoned. Unable to hide from her past she is forced to contemplate the wounded life and its wake of wreckage. "Illusion..." explores uncharted territories in the margins around us every day, in every city, in a 'direct cinema' documentary where the filmmaker himself is caught in the vortex of other people's nightmares. (7:00pm)

"FAIRFAX DOC FEST CHALLENGE 2009" a preview of the entries to this year's competition.

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SUNDAY APRIL 5TH 2 pm, 7pm, tickets $10

"DANCING WITH GAIA" by Fairfax filmmaker Jo Carson takes us throughout Europe, the Mediterranean and the US, where she filmed sacred sites of ancient earth-centered religions and interviewed fifteen visionaries who explain how to release the constrictions that keep us from experiencing the earth as part of our own body, and give us tools to begin personally feeling the life of the planet. (2:00pm)

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"SCREENING AND RESULTS OF THE FAIRFAX DOC FEST CHALLENGE 2009" Filmmakers of all levels of experience took the challenge to make a 4 minute documentary about Fairfax in 48 hours. After the screening and awards, a panel of professional filmmaker judges will speak about getting started on a film career. (4:00pm)

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The winners of the 2009 Fairfax Short Doc Film Challenge:

AUDIENCE FAVORITE:

FAIRFAX YOU KNOW
directed by Harris Cohen, with John MacLeod My Nguyen, George Rosenfeld, Michael Daly (the rapper)

JURIED PRIZES:

First place THE ART OF FAIRFAX by Terry Romine

Second Place MEET YOUR NEIGHBOR by Gary Scozzofava and Arn Battaglene

Third Place BARBER SHOP by Howard Slater (director), Will Karevoll (camera and editor), and Michael Slater

Fourth Place THE ARTIST IN RESIDENCE directed by Wayland Bell, with Zach Hoylman, Nash Holcomb, Michael Beuttler, Dylan Redford

The Prizes: