Salt Lake City Film Festival
November 3-6, 2005Sunday, November 6
Screenings at SLC Library Auditorium
12:00 pm
BULLETS IN THE HOOD: A BED-STUY STORY / LITTLE PEACE OF MIND
2:00 pm
OCCUPATION: DREAMLAND
3:30 pm
PULLED FROM THE RUBBLE
Followed by Little Peace of Mine
Director: Terrance Fisher and Daniel Howard
Short documentary. 2004. United States. 22 min. English.
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Sundance Film Festival – Short Filmmaking Award, special recognition
Tribeca Film Festival Selection 2005
Terrence Fisher is a 19 year-old filmmaker looking to resolve the problem of gun violence in his neighborhood, the Bedford-Stuyvesant housing project in Brooklyn, NY. In this film, Terrence speaks out against gun violence in a very personal way because during production he loses a close friend to an unprovoked police shooting. The officer is cleared of charges while Terrence and his friends try to cope and find acceptable means to combat the injustices they face. By making this film and a subsequent music video, the Bed-Stuy youth demonstrate that they want to end the gun obsession that is plaguing their communities. Witness the story they tell in this highly acclaimed short documentary.
Sunday, November 6th, 12:00 pm (screens with Little Peace of Mine)
Preceded by Bullets in the Hood
Director: Eyal Avneri
Documentary. 2004. Netherlands. 56 min. Arabic, Hebrew and English, subtitled.
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After witnessing a terror attack, Nadav, a twelve year old Israeli boy, decides that adults can no longer be trusted and it's up to him to bring peace to the region. He organizes the development of a new movement, “Peace for the Future,” consisting of Jewish and Palestinian children from East and West Jerusalem, interested in promoting peace and understanding of other cultures. Reality however is harsher than any dream…can the good will of this younger generation prevail? This encounter with these children's political "adventure" offers a new perspective on an all too familiar reality and a glimpse of the emotional world these children are forced to deal with in the shadow of fear.
Sunday, November 6th, 12:00 pm (screens with Bullets in the Hood)
Directors: Garrett Scott and Ian Olds
Documentary. USA. 2005. 78m. English and Arabic with English subtitles.
Occupation: Dreamland offers a rare and intimate window into the daily life of one group of US soldiers stationed in Iraq to “keep peace” less than one year after President Bush announced mission accomplished. The film follows one squad in the US Army’s 82nd Airborne deployed in the doomed Iraqi city of Falluja during the winter of 2004. Featuring a series of remarkably candid interviews with the squad_s soldiers who detail their sometimes shocking daily life and the creep of disillusionment with their mission, Occupation: Dreamland brings a first hand view of the moral and operational complexities inherent in American warfare in the 21st century. As low-intensity conflict proliferates, distrust between the Iraqi civilians in Falluja and the US soldiers stationed there increase leading to greater confusion and skepticism on all sides. The film presents a fascinating look at the last days before a final series of assaults in the spring of 2004 effectively destroyed Falluja.
Sunday, November 6th, 2:00 pm
Director: Margaret Loescher
Documentary. U.K. 2004. 63m. English.
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In August 2003, Gil Loescher went to Baghdad on a humanitarian research trip. He and his colleagues were in a meeting with the head of the United Nations in Iraq, Sergio Vieira de Mello, when a truck full of explosives was driven into the side of the building. Gil was the only survivor from the most devastated section of the building. All of the other people in the meeting died. Through poignantly honest narration, and observational scenes of high emotion, his daughter records the family’s recovery during the months after the bombing. Filming becomes her way of dealing with the suddenness of the family's changed reality, and a way of re-visiting the haunting images of the bombsite: a place of both horror and hope.
A Q+A with Co-Producer Daniel Chalfen follows the screening.
Sunday, November 6th, 3:30 pm