Paraíso 10 minutes n
2012 n
Thursday 9:30p n Sunday 12:30p n
USA n
In Competition
Friday 3:30p n Monday 3:30p
Plays with The Waiting Room (p41) Director: Nadav Kurtz n
Saturday 10:00a
Pipe Dreams 39 minutes n
2011 n Thursday 6:20p n
USA n
In Competition Friday 9:20p n Saturday 3:20p n Producers: Stephanie Hain, Jose Rivas n
Kurtz, Chris Markos, Andrew Wehde n Editors: Tony Gannon, Nadav Kurtz n Cruz Guzman, Jaime Polanco, Sergio Polanco n
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Cinematographers: Nadav Principal Cast:
Three Mexican immigrants risk their lives every day rappelling down the skyscrapers of Chicago washing windows. We are privileged to observe the intimacy and connection of their conversations, revealing thoughts about working, mortality and of the people they observe inside the high-rises they clean in this lyrical film. [subtitles]
Nadav Kurtz Director’s Statement
One day, working as a film editor in a high- rise downtown, I saw a window washer drop down inches away from me, clean a window and disappear. It seemed a perfect metaphor for the parallel lives people of different cultures can inhabit in one city, sometimes separated only by a dividing line as thin as the glass between us.
As I began shooting this short documentary, I became more interested in the window washers’ point of view. What did they think of the people inside the buildings they cleaned? How did they deal with the danger of dangling sixty stories in the air every working day? Often, the discussions went deeper, as they probed each other further, ultimately leading into questions of faith and spirituality.
Selected Filmography: Directorial Debut
Plays in Short Docs (p18) Director/Cinematographer/Editor: Leslie Iwerks n Luebbe, Teri Taylor, Ken Winston n
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Narrator: Darryl Hannah n Sunday 3:20p Producers: Leslie Iwerks, Jane Kosek n Principal Cast: Lillian Anderson, Senator Tony Fulton, Susan
Across the heartland of America, farmers and landowners are fighting to protect their land, their water, and their livelihood in what has become the most controversial environmental battle in the U.S. today: the Keystone XL Pipeline. Routed from Hardisty, Alberta to the Texas Gulf Coast, this tar sands pipeline is set to cross the country’s largest freshwater resource, the Ogallala Aquifer, and the fragile Sandhills of Nebraska, posing devastating consequences to human health, livestock, and agriculture.
Farmers whose families have worked the land for generations realize the potential personal and environmental disaster they face from the pipeline. They devote their lives, individually and collectively to stopping the project from proceeding. Kitchens become planning rooms for an effort to bring their story to their Nebraska neighbors and the world.
Leslie Iwerks Director’s Statement
The Keystone XL Pipeline is the symbol and lightning rod for our environmental future… We are all affected by this decision that big oil lobbyists are making FOR us without our choice: the continued reliance on the dirtiest fossil fuels that will affect our planet and our kids for generations to come. It’s about greed and money for the 1% at the expense of our own environment and American citizens.
Tar Sands extraction produces 3 times more greenhouse gas than conventional oil, uses 3 barrels of fresh water per one barrel of oil, and is destroying pristine boreal forest the size of Florida in Alberta. It is important to create as much awareness about the negative impacts of this as much as possible. Have your friends write letters to the President, your congressman. Blog, tweet, Facebook all that you can about this issue. Take action, any action, every bit helps!
Selected Filmography: Dirty Oil, Downstream, The Pixar Story, Recycled Life (2007 AIFF)
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