Vera Klement: Blunt Edge 11 minutes n


2010 n Friday 9:30a


Plays in Oscar Short Docs (p18) Director/Producer/Cinematographer/Editor: Wonjung Bae n


Shostakovich n Principal Cast: Vera Klement


Her 80th birthday approaching, Vera Klement, a Chicago-based painter, adamantly starts a new work, a portrait of Dmitri Shostakovich. As she paints, Vera, a holocaust survivor, reflects on her life and her art. For another film by director Wonjung Bae see Kyle Kinser: Made in Makanda (p32).


Winner of a Student Academy Award: Documentary.


Wonjung Bae Director’s Statement


The story about an artist’s struggle to create art is a familiar trope. My understanding of the subject comes from the close observation of my mother. She was once a promising oil painter, but could not realize her aspirations because of a lack of self- assurance and the demands of being a wife and mother.


As an associate curator at a fine art gallery, I regularly interacted with professional painters around my mother’s age and I could not but question what made the difference between my mother and these other women. What could be the source for the professional artists to persevere and succeed in this perplexing business? As a filmmaker, I am invested in discovering the answer to this question for myself.


Selected Filmography: Kyle Kinser: Made in Makanda (2012 AIFF), Museum of Exile Music/Composer: Dimitri USA


The Waiting Room 79 minutes n


2012 n


Thursday 9:30p n Sunday 12:30p n


USA n


Friday 3:30p n Monday 3:30p


Plays with Paraíso (p35) Director/Cinematographer: Peter Nicks n


Producer: Scott Verges n


In Competition Saturday 10:00a


Producers: Linda Davis, Peter Nicks n Editor: Lawrence Lerew n


Executive Music/Composer: William Ryan Fritch n


Principal Cast: Cynthia Johnson, Dr. Matthew Rehrer, Dr. Amandeep Singh n whatruwaitingfor.com


This urgent, intimate film follows several patients seeking emergency treatment, and the medical staff members charged with their care. Shot in a direct, personal cinema verité style at Highland Hospital in East Oakland, California, the film examines a public institution struggling to provide help and comfort for a persistent and growing stream of largely uninsured patients living on the fringes of America’s health care system.


A poignant blend of humor and drama, the film records its subjects without judgment or comment. The patients’ suffering and concern are powerfully portrayed through unobtrusive camera work and character voice-overs. While the film is a sobering look at a health care landscape marked by economic and political dysfunction, its humor and humanity provide an undercurrent of hope. [language]


Peter Nicks Director’s Statement


This film developed as I listened to stories my wife told about her patients at Highland Hospital in East Oakland, California. These were stories of faith, pain, struggle and determination. I would listen to her tales with one ear, and the contentious health care debates blaring from CNN and Fox with the other.


I realized that the people who were not participating in these debates were the very people we were fighting over: those stuck in waiting rooms at underfunded public hospitals all over the country. So I decided to make this film. I knew it would have no talking heads, no fancy graphics. It would not take sides. It would simply reveal in intimate detail the turnstile of humanity that passes every day through waiting rooms all over our country. For each one is our sister, our grandfather, our neighbor and our friend.


Selected Filmography: Danny and the Scatman, PBS’ Life 360 (producer)


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