Final Festival Line-Up Announced!

FINAL FESTIVAL LINE-UP ANNOUNCED

The Newburyport Documentary Film Festival, being held from Friday, September 20th to22nd, 2013, is only 5 weeks away!

The list of the accepted films for the 8th Annual Newburyport Documentary FilmFestival appears below. For more detail as well as a link to the film trailer, pleasevisit our website: newburyportfilmfestival.org. FEATURE FILMSA2-B-C Ian Thomas Ash; Japan 70 minGold Star Children Mitty Griffis Mirrer, USA 60 minGood Ol’ Freda Ryan White, USA 86 minIn Search of Oil and Sand Philippe Dib, Egypt 56 minLife According to Sam Sean Fine and Andrea Nix Fine, USA 90 minMartian Mega Rover Mark Davis, USA 50 min Mommy I’m a Bastard! Max Barbakow; USA 65 minOne Day after Peace Erez Laufer, Tel Aviv 86 minRawFaith Gregory Roscoe, USA 97 minRunning For Jim Robin Hauser Reynolds, USA 78 minSecundaria Mary Jane Doherty, USA 100 minStopping for Death Wendy Roderweiss; USA 96 min Two Who Dared: The Sharps’ War Artemis Joukowsky, USA 76 minUnder the Hood Mark Byrne and Rob Dennis, AL 75 min

SHORTS BLOCK #1The German Who Came to Tea Kerry Kolbe, UK 8 minNot Anymore: A Story of Revolution Matthew VanDyke, USA 15 minNorth Pole Promise S Allan Counter, USA 25 min

SHORTS BLOCK #2Solo, Piano - NYC Anthony Sherin, USA 5 minLearning To Live Katie Wise, USA 18 minSchool’s Out: Lessons from a Forest Kindergarten Lisa Molomot; USA 36 min

SHORTS BLOCK #3Bug Music: David Rothenberg’s Insect Choir Jennifer Berglund, USA 5 minFowl Play Rob Flaherty, USA 16 minCavedigger Jeffrey Karoff, USA 39 min

FEATURE FILMSA2-B-C Ian Thomas Ash; Japan 70 min

Eighteen months after the nuclear meltdown in Fukushima, children whowere not evacuated are found to have thyroid cysts and low white bloodcell counts. What does this mean for their future?

Gold Star Children Mitty Griffis Mirrer, USA 60 min

The film follows the parallel journey of two generations; today's warorphans heal alongside the now adult-children survivors of theVietnam War A story of hope, the film explores the redemptivepower of sharing and the resilience of our nation's Gold Star

Children, who continue to carry the greatest burden of our country's wars. Good Ol’ Freda Ryan White, USA 86 min

Freda Kelly was just a shy Liverpudlian teenager when she was askedto work for a local band hoping to make it big. Though she had noconcept of how far they would go, Freda had faith in The Beatles fromthe beginning, and The Beatles had faith in her. In Good Ol' Freda,Freda tells her stories for the first time in 50 years. One of few films withthe support of the living Beatles and featuring original Beatles music, thefilm offers an insider perspective on the beloved band that changed themusic industry.

In Search of Oil and Sand Philippe Dib, Egypt 56 min

Fiction meets reality when in 1952 members of the Egyptian royalfamily make a film just weeks before a Coup d'Etat throws them frompower. This film not only predicted their destiny, but also -unknowingly-recorded the final days of a dynasty.

Life According to Sam Sean Fine and Andrea Nix Fine, USA 90 min

Life According to Sam is about one family's courageous fight tosave their only son from a rare and fatal disease, progeria. Theaverage age of death from progeria is 13, there is no treatment, andno cure. Dr. Leslie Gordon and Dr. Scott Berns are set on changing

this. When their son Sam, now 16 years old, was diagnosed with progeria at age two,doctors told Leslie and Scott to enjoy Sam while they could. They refused to believe thiswas the answer. In less than a decade, their advances have led to identifying the gene atfault, creating the first drug trials for treatment, and revealing the amazing discovery thatprogeria is linked to the aging process in all of us. Martian Mega Rover Mark Davis, USA 50 min

Martian Mega Rover (National Geographic Channel 2012) is the storybehind the Mars rover, Curiosity, whose harrowing “Seven Minutes ofTerror” landing on the Red Planet captivated the world in August 2012. Emmy winning producer/writer/director Mark Davis, spent yearsembedded at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California,capturing the anxiety, despair, and elation that played out over thedecade-long struggle to get Curiosity built, launched, and deliveredsafely to Mars.

Mommy I’m a Bastard! Max Barbakow; USA 65 min

A young filmmaker considers his adoption and the three distinct clanslinked by his birth. But what begins as a tribute to kinship soon evolvesinto something different with the emergence of a lingering feud betweenhis biological families. Mommy, I'm a Bastard! is a journey of self-exploration, a vibrant mix tape weaving threads of Hollywood, Cherokeechieftains, Reaganomics, Jews, WASPs, and misunderstanding.

One Day after Peace Erez Laufer, Israel 86 min

Can the means used to resolve the conflict in South-Africa beapplied to the Palestinian-Israeli conflicts? As someone whoexperienced both conflicts firsthand, Robi Damelin wonders aboutthis. Born in South-Africa during the apartheid era, she later lost her

son, who was serving with the Israeli Army reserve in the Occupied Territories.. Robi'sthought provoking journey leads from a place of deep personal pain to a belief that abetter future is possible. RawFaith Gregory Roscoe, USA 97 min

In this incredibly rich story of one family's relationship with a boat, amission and each other, we meet the McKay family and RawFaith the88 foot home built galleon they construct on the shores of the PleasantRiver in Down East Maine. What begins as a family focused projectultimately tests the family unity and challenges their individual andcollective notions of commitment and obligation to themselves and eachother.

Running For Jim Robin Hauser Reynolds, USA 78 min

This film chronicles the story of Jim Tracy, the deeply dedicated,brutally honest and tough-love coach of the San FranciscoUniversity High School cross-country team. In June of 2010, Tracywas diagnosed with Lou Gehrig’s disease. Running for Jim

explores how Tracy, once a competitive runner, now faces the greatest challenge of hislife. Secundaria Mary Jane Doherty, USA 100 min

Secundaria quietly follows one high school class on its journeythrough Cuba’s world famous National Ballet School. Our teenagedancers love to dance but many of them must dance as the soleway out of poverty and the constraints - visible, and not so visible -

that is life in Cuba now. Stopping for Death Wendy Roderweiss; USA 96 min

Four nurses at a residential hospice waver between fulfillment anddespair, clashing with management and fighting budget cuts whiletrying to keep life as normal as possible for their dying patients.

Two Who Dared: The Sharps’ War Artemis Joukowsky, USA 76 min

The never before told story of Waitstill and Martha Sharp, an Americanminister and his wife who boldly committed to a life-threatening missionin Europe to help save imperiled Jews and refugees at the onset ofWorld War II.

Under the Hood Mark Byrne and Rob Dennis, USA 75 minIn Belarus, some battle for democracy, social justice and civil rights, while others strugglejust to survive. Under the Hood brings us on a journey through a country where thesecret police is still known as the KGB and gathering in public to do nothing is considered

a crime.

SHORTS BLOCK #1 The German Who Came to Tea Kerry Kolbe, UK 8 min

After a century on earth, which memories really matter? For AnnieDay, who turned 100 in May 2012, it’s the day her young son Brianbrought a German prisoner of war to Christmas dinner almost 70years ago which marked the start of an enduring lesson in love, loss

and acceptance. Not Anymore: A Story of Revolution Matthew VanDyke, USA 15 min

The story of the Syrian revolution as told through the experiences oftwo young Syrians, a male rebel fighter and a female journalist, asthey fight an oppressive regime for the freedom of their people.

North Pole Promise S Allen Counter, USA 25 min

Narrator James Earl Jones delves into the secret legacy left behindwhen American explorers Admiral Robert E. Peary and MatthewHenson discovered the North Pole in 1909. Harvard Professor Dr. S.Allen Counter travels to remote Greenland to uncover the long-

buried mystery. In one the northernmost villages in the world, he meets the explorers' 80-year old Eskimo sons, Kali Peary and Anaukaq Henson, and attempts to fulfill their dreamof visiting the land of their fathers. Along the way, Counter also helps history honorMatthew Henson, who never received credit for the discovery of the North Pole becausehe was African American.

SHORTS BLOCK #2 Solo, Piano - NYC Anthony Sherin, USA 5 min

On a cold winter morning, a lone piano stands outside in New YorkCity. This is a five minute film of the last 24 hours of a once-wantedpiano.

Learning To Live Katie Wise, USA 18 minAn inspiring and motivational documentary, Learning to Live shows how a week long

science camp can affect an inner city 6th grade boy’s life. School’s Out: Lessons from a Forest Kindergarten Lisa Molomot; USA 36 min

No classroom for these kindergarteners. In Switzerland's Langnau amAlbis, a suburb of Zurich, children 4 to 7 years of age, go to kindergartenin the woods every day, no matter what the weatherman says.. This eye-opening film looks into the important question of what it is that childrenneed at that age. There is laughter, beauty and amazement in theprocess of finding out.

SHORTS BLOCK #3 Bug Music: David Rothenberg’s Insect Choir Jennifer Berglund, USA 5 minDavid Rothenberg, a professor of philosophy and music at the NJ Institute of Technology,likes to make music in nature…with nature. Fowl Play Rob Flaherty, USA 16 minIthaca, NY is a city noted for its forward thinking nature. Residents take pride in theirprogressive activism. But one law in the city prevents citizens from keeping chickens intheir backyards. In a form of avian civil disobedience, dozens of Ithacans keep small fowlin their backyard, fully aware that they are practicing under the cover of darkness. Cavedigger Jeffrey Karoff, USA 39 min

Ra Paulette digs cathedral-like, 'eighth wonder of the world' artcaves into the sandstone cliffs of Northern New Mexico. Eachcreation takes him years to complete, and each is a masterwork. Butpatrons who have commissioned caves have cut off nearly all of his

projects due to artistic differences. Fed up, Ra has chosen to forego commissionsaltogether and create a massive, 10-year project, his Magnum Opus.

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