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Close to Home Convention
documentar
6 minutes ■ 2009 ■ USA ■ In Competition 96 minutes ■ 2009 ■ USA ■ In Competition
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Plays with: 45365 (p17)
Director: AJ Schnack ■ Producers: Jennifer Chikes, Britta Erickson, Shirley Moyers, AJ
Schnack, Nathan Truesdell ■ Executive Producers: Nancy M. Chikes, Peter G. Chikes, Joe
Morley, Richard Turner, Heather Winters ■ Cinematographers: Steven Bognar, Daniel Junge,
Director/Producer/Cinematographer/Editor: Theo Rigby ■ Music/Composer: Dan Wool ■
Laura Poitras, Julia Reichert, Wayne Robbins, AJ Schnack, Paul Taylor, Nathan Truesdell, David
Principal Cast: Luis Marquez, Norma Marquez ■
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Wilson ■ Editors: AJ Schack, Nathan Truesdell ■ Principal Cast: John Hickenlooper, Curtis
Hubbard, Kevin Scott, Allison Sherry, Elbra Wedgeworth
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Brian Marquez was murdered on a San Francisco street corner in
2005. Since that day his father, Luis, has been on a quest to find
Every four years since 1832, delegates from each of the United
the killers who took Brian’s life. During the traditional Mexican
States and the American territories gather to choose their
holiday of the Day of the Dead, the filmmaker intimately cap-
parties’ presidential candidates. A team of celebrated
tures a father who has yet to deal with the death of his son, and
documentary filmmakers, including Daniel Junge (They Killed
a daughter who is looking for the father she once had. [subtitles]
Sister Dorothy, 2009 AIFF), Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert
Theo Rigby
(The Last Truck, 2010 AIFF) are dispatched to intimately
capture the 2008 Democratic National Convention—in behind-
Student: Stanford University the-scenes images, passages, and vignettes. We see the
convention through the eyes of Denver’s organizers, local press,
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Director’s Statement police, city officials and grassroots protesters—all preparing for
the impact of the convention on their city.
As a filmmaker, I can ask for nothing more
than the process of creating and showing the The industry is a peculiar one, pervaded by both a romantic
film to the Marquez family, as being an aid respect for the political icons at its center and the three-ring-
to the process of reconciliation. The film circus atmosphere that surrounds them. What emerges from
seems to have brought an unspoken dia- this striking work is a rare glimpse into what makes an event
logue out in the open, and even though Luis knew what he had political, what makes the political an event and what makes
to do to return to his family—somehow he needed to hear him- film, in the right hands, an art. [language]
self say the words in order to make it a reality.
AJ Schnack
Filmography: My First War, A Sentence Apart, The World is Young
Director’s Statement
The film was many years in coming. I’d
been wanting to make an ensemble
documentary for a while. So, with a
miniscule budget in hand (less than $20K)
the call went out to some of my favorite
filmmakers—people whose work I admired, who had shot their
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binds us together in spite of our differences.” That was the
spirit that our team found in Denver in August 2008.
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Filmography: Gigantic (A Tale of Two Johns), Kurt Cobain About a Son
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