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features
In addition to juried awards, audience members vote to
select the John C. Schweiger Audience Award: Dramatic
Feature.
Winning films in all categories are announced at the
Awards Celebration Sunday, April 11 (p9). Juried
and Audience award-winning feature films will have
additional screenings on Monday, April 12. Tickets are
on sale now!
Bomber
Jurors – Best Feature
84 minutes ■ 2009 ■ USA/United Kingdom ■ In Competition
KATTIE EVANS is a Vice President for National
Geographic Films, where she was instrumental
Thursday 6:30p
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Friday 12:30p
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Saturday 9:30p
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Sunday 3:30p
in acquiring and releasing the award-winning
Monday 12:30p
hit March of the Penguins, the Oscar-nominated
The Story of the Weeping Camel and last year’s
Plays with: The Herd (p26)
Sundance Film Festival favorite Amreeka.
tures
Director / Screenwriter: Paul Cotter ■ Producers: Paul Cotter, Maureen Ryan ■
Cinematographer: Rick Siegel ■ Editor: Matt Maddox ■ Music/Composer: Stephen Coates ■
Principal Cast: Eileen Nicholas, Shane Taylor, Benjamin Whitrow ■
bomberthemovie.com
ELVIS MITCHELL is the host of Turner Classic
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Movie’s Under the Influence, and KCRW’s The
Treatment. Former film critic for The New York
In 1943 Alastair Pennington was an 18-year-old bomber pilot on
Times, and currently on NPR’s Weekend Edition.
his first mission. He lost his way, and, harassed by enemy
He was the 2009 AIFF Rogue Award recipient
fighters, elected to jettison his bombs over what turned out to
and screened Black List: Volume One and
be a small village. Plagued by guilt for 65 years, he embarks on
Volume Two.
a long-planned journey of atonement, driving to Germany in the
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company of his wife Valerie and their “lovelorn and useless”
son, Ross.
LAWRENCE SHER is the cinematographer for
When Ross reluctantly agrees to drive them, a nightmare family
many successful films, including I Love You,
road trip ensues in this bittersweet comedy about love, family
Man; Dan In Real Life; and the Golden Globe-
and dropping bombs. Although this begins as Alastair’s journey,
winner, The Hangover. He also shot indie hits
Kissing Jessica Stein, and the Independent Spirit
both Valerie and Ross end up on quests of their own as every-
award-winning Garden State. His latest picture
one’s role in the family is re-evaluated and re-appreciated.
is Due Date with Robert Downey Jr.
[language]
Paul Cotter
Additional Juror – Best Acting Ensemble: Feature
Director’s Statement
CHRISTOPHER LIAM MOORE is a founding
My father was a Bomber pilot. In 2001, I
member of Cornerstone Theater Company, and
spent three weeks in a car with him on a
has acted or directed at many regional theaters,
road trip through Europe. I shouldn’t say
including Oregon Shakespeare Festival (OSF).
“stuck,” because it was actually a holiday
He was a series regular on the TBS comedy
with my mum, dad and sister. We started in
series, Ten Items Or Less. He is directing Cat On
Belgium and with rather reckless abandon ended up in
A Hot Tin Roof at OSF in 2010.
Budapest. It wasn’t planned. We just ended up driving across
Europe.
Two big memories stuck with me. First, how strange it was to be
Juror – Best Cinematography/The Gerald Hirschfeld
an adult stuck in a car with your parents for three weeks. The
A.S.C. Award: Feature
roles are reversed from the holidays you had as a child. You end
up doing most of the driving and your parents sit in the back and
GERALD HIRSCHFELD A.S.C, is the D.P. of
ask “are we there yet?“ But all the while you are still their child,
45+ films including Fail-Safe and Young
and what’s worse... you tend to act like one. The second memory
Frankenstein. He is the author of Image Control
came from travelling with a man who was seeing Germany, hav-
and is a member of the Academy of Motion
ing bombed it 60 years before. The film is fiction, but that trip
Picture Arts and Sciences. He received the
A.S.C.’s Presidents Award and the AIFF’s
with my parents is where the idea germinated from. It’s always
Lifetime Achievement Award (2004).
important for me to start with something I know.
Filmography: The Berlin Wall, Estes Avenue, Jeff Farnsworth, Last Hand Standing,
Odd Shoe
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