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Steel Homes They Killed Sister Dorothy
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10 minutes a73 2008 a73 United Kingdom 94 minutes a73 2008 a73 USA/Brazil a73 In Competition
Thursday 6:10p
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Friday 9:10p
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Saturday 3:10p Friday 9:50a
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Sunday 9:50a
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Monday 3:20p
Sunday 9:40a
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Monday 3:10p
Plays with: Victoria (p40)
Plays with: Children of Invention (p42)
Director: Daniel Junge a73 Producers: Henry Ansbacher, Nigel Noble a73 Cinematographers:
Director: Eva Weber
Marcela Bourseau, Daniel Junge a73 Editor: Davis Coombe a73 Music/Composers: Pedroa73
Executive Producers: Sonja Henrici, Noe Mendelle a73 Producers: Anna
Higgs, Gavin Humphries
Bromfman a73 Narrator: Martin Sheen a73 Principal Cast: Sister Jane Dwyer, Sister Becky Spires,a73
Cinematographer: Eduard Grau a73 Editor: Carol Salter a73 ies
Music/Composer: Chris White
David Stang, Sister Dorothy Stang a73 theykilledsisterdorothy.coma73
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Storage units are windows into human histories: the silent cells
At the mouth of the Amazon River, in Belem, Brazil, a murder
with their discarded objects and dust-covered furniture are
trial is taking place. The victim, Sister Dorothy Stang, a 73 year
inscribed with past dreams, secret hopes and lives we cannot
old Catholic nun from Ohio, was shot six times at point blank
let go of. Moving from steel cage to steel cage, we encounter
range and left to die on a muddy Amazon road. Her shocking
tales of heartbreak, loneliness and despair, and stories of
murder exposed a sordid battle in the Brazilian rainforest. They
liberation, adventure and leaving the past behind. Steel Homes
Killed Sister Dorothy follows the powerful real-life courtroom
explores the fragmented nature of memories, set in the starkly
drama that unfolds at the trials of her confessed killers.
beautiful aesthetic of our modern industrial world.
Who was Sister Dorothy? A social advocate affectionately
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Eva Weber
known as the “Angel of the Amazon,” who worked tirelessly for
decades to empower peasant settlers and establish the
Director’s Statement Sustainable Development Project? Or a social agitator who
made enemies among the local loggers, ranchers, and others
On a personal level, storage centres
who wanted increased development in the rainforest? Did they
fascinate me as they represent a home away
order her death? Narrated by Martin Sheen, They Killed Sister
from home, personal and remote, familiar
Dorothy is a murder mystery set against the larger battle for the
yet foreign. Having left Germany more than
Amazon rainforest. [subtitles, violence]
a decade ago to live in London, I am more
and more drawn to subject matters that
Daniel Junge
explore feelings of homelessness, dislocation and loneliness.
Director’s Statement
Filmography: City of Cranes, The Intimacy of Strangers, Makings of a Queen, The Solitary
While I want They Killed Sister Dorothy to
Life of Cranes
engage audiences and elicit change, I feel
it’s necessary to avoid a propagandistic
treatment and to ask deeper questions. We
all know that cutting down the rainforest is
bad…but why is saving the rainforest (in this case, a mere 100-
square mile parcel) so difficult? We all know that the murder of
a 73-year old nun is reprehensible...but what conditions and
complications lead to such an act?
It is through our behind-the-scenes revelations and through our
dramatic presentation, rather than through basic information or
through jingoisms, by which I want to address these deeper
questions and to engage a mainstream audience. Hopefully that
will help achieve the changes in the Amazon for which Dorothy
fought and died.
Filmography: Big Blue Bear, Chiefs, Come Back To Sudan, Iron Ladies of Liberia, Reading
Your Rights, Road Movie, We Are Phamaly
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