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A selection of documentaries from across the globe. A selection of five will contest the documentary award.
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The End - Confessions Of A Cockney Gangster and Gunnin' For That #1 Spot
After-Crass
(Country: US; Director: Marian Wallace; Stars: Gee Vaucher, Penny Rimbaud, V Vale)
Documentary about Crass members Gee Vaucher and Penny Rimbaud’s 2008 trip to California
Agile, Mobile, Hostile: A Year With Andre Williams
(Country: US; Year: 2008; Director: Tricia Todd; Stars: Andre Williams), Official Site
Documentary about the RnB musician.
All Together Now
(Country: UK; Year: 2005; Director: Adrian Wills; Stars: Sir Paul McCartney, Geroge Martin, Ringo Starr )
Documentary charting the creation of The Beatles/Cirque du Soleil collaboration LOVE.
Arctic Monkeys Live At The Apollo
(Country: UK; Year: 2008; Director: Richard Ayoade; Stars: Alex Turner, Jamie Cook, Matt Helders, Nick O'Malley )
Concert recording of the Sheffield band.
Art And Apathy
(Country: Canada, Palestine; Director: Jessica Habie)
A look at the relationship between conflict and creativity in Israel and Palestine.
Heavy Load and Patti Smith: Dream Of Life
Chris & Don. A Love Story
(Country: US; Year: 2007; Director: Tina Mascara, Guido Santi; Stars: Don Bachardy, John Boorman, Leslie Caron, Christopher Isherwood, Jack Larson, Liza Minnelli, Gloria Stuart, Michael York)
Exploration of the love story between Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy.
Crawford
(Country: US; Year: 2008; Director: David Modigliani)
Documentary charting the effect George W Bush had when he bought a ranch in a small Texas town.
The End - Confessions Of A Cockney Gangster
(Country: UK; Year: 2008; Director: Nicola Collins)
Members of the East End underworld talk about their life and times.
Fujica Single-Date
(Country: Japan; Year: 2007; Director: Kenji Murakami; Writer: Kenji Murakami)
Video diary mourning the loss of Fuji Super 8mm film.
Gunnin' For That #1 Spot
(Country: US; Year: 2007; Director: Adam Yauch; Stars: Jerryd Bayless, Michael Beasley, Tyreke Evans, Donte Green, Brandon Jennings, Kevin Love, Kyle Singler, Lance Stephenson), Official Site, Trailer
Examination of pre-college American basketball.
Wetlands Preserved: The Story Of An Activist Nightclub and A Life In The Death Of Joe Meek
Heavy Load
(Country: UK; Year: 2008; Director: Jerry Rothwell; Writer: Jerry Rothwell), Official Site, Trailer
On the rocky road with punk band Heavy Load.
Hip Hop Colony
(Country: Kenya; Year: 2008; Director: Michael Wanguhu; Stars: Bamboo, Harry Kimani, Tedd Josiah), Official Site
Michael Wanguhu’s lively documentary celebrates the recent emergence of hip hop youth culture in Kenya, a nation still emerging from the hangover of British colonial rule.
Indestructible
(Country: US; Year: 2007; Director: Ben Byer; Stars: Dr. Stanley Appel, Barbara Byer, Ben Byer, John Byer, Josh Byer, Steve Byer, Daniel Gordis, Dr. Hungyun Huang, Dr. Robert Miller, Anastasia Papoulias, Annie Papoulias)
Documentary of the director as he battles fatal neuro-degenerative disease, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis.
Is Faust Schon?
(Country: France; Director: Julien Perrin; Stars: Jean-Hervé Péron, Zappi Diermaier )
It's Only Rock N'Roll (But I Like Keith)
(Country: Italy; Director: Piergiorgio Gay; Writer: Piergiorgio Gay; Stars: Max Stone, Marcross and Vanni), Official Site
A documentary that talks about adults behaving like teenagers.Two years of shooting for a film dedicated to passion/obsession for the Rolling Stones.
Hip Hop Colony and Tokyo: Wings Of Defeat
Japanther in 3D Dino Deth Dans
(Country: US; Year: 2007; Director: Nick Chatfield Taylor, Ian Vanek), Official Site
This film captures JPNTHR in (3-D) which was a performance staged in Nobember 2007 as part of the Performa biennial in New York City.
Karosta
(Country: UK; Year: 2008; Director: Peter King), Official Site
A portrait of the demise of the Soviet Union as seen through the eyes of the people who endured it.
Lay Down Your Hearts
(Director: John Simpson)
Music documentary charting the rise to fame of the Zawose family, an East African musical dynasty.
A Life In The Death Of Joe Meek
(Country: US; Year: 2008; Director: Howard S Berger, Susan Stahman; Stars: Jake Arnott, Mike Berry, Charles Blackwell, Huw Bunford, Clem Cattini, Edwyn Collins, Dennis D'Ell, Robbie Duke, Marc Evans, Bobby Graham, Chas Hodges), Official Site
Documentary about the pioneering record producer.
A Message To The World
(Country: UK; Year: 2008; Director: Caroline Catz; Writer: Caroline Catz)
Focusing on a day in the life of Jesse Hector. A rock n roll fan and dedicated record collector.
Agile, Mobile, Hostile: A Year With Andre Williams and All Together Now
Midnight Madness
(Country: UK; Year: 2008; Director: Charles Henri Belleville)
Europe's first ever basketball film, charting a tournament across the UK.
Patti Smith: Dream Of Life
(Country: US; Year: 2008; Director: Steven Sebring; Writer: Steven Sebring; Stars: Patti Smith), Official Site
Intimate portrait of the icon.
A Permanent Part-Timer In Distress (Sonan Furlita)
(Country: Japan; Year: 2007; Director: Hiroki Iwabuchi), Official Site
Iwabuchi’s documentary debut is a fine example of someone using new video technology to reaffirm his own identity and reclaim his place in society.
Running With Mum
(Country: UK; Year: 2008; Director: Martin Greaves; Writer: Martin Greaves; Stars: Aloisia Greaves, Berthold Kopf), Official Site
A mother finally relives being seven years old in a town destroyed by firestorm on a September 11th sixty years ago.
Seven Signs
(Country: US; Year: 2008; Director: JD Wilkes; Stars: JD Wilkes, Slim Cessna, Scott Biram), Official Site
Possessed by a vision similar to that of the tent-show evangelists down in Dixie, Colonel J.D. Wilkes (the charismatic frontman and songwriter for the Legendary Shack*Shakers) sets off with a camera crew to prove that the older, stranger South still exists in all of its eerie, time-worn, & gothic glory...despite the expansion of the "New South's" urban sprawl.
Today, The Same Day Is Different (Hoy El Dia Se Repite Diferente)
(Country: Spain; Year: 2008; Director: Xavier Baig, Oscar Moreno; Stars: Toni, Julio, Pruvi)
Takes us into a man's universe and through the last six months of his life, until the day he dies.
Tokyo: Wings Of Defeat
(Country: Japan; Year: 2007; Director: Risa Morimoto; Stars: Takehiko Ena, Shigeyoshi Hamazono, Kazuo Nakajima)
Documentary about surviving kamikaze pilots.
Wetlands Preserved: The Story Of An Activist Nightclub
(Country: US; Year: 2008; Director: Dean Budnick; Stars: Mabili Kregg Ajamu, Rob Barraco, Chris Barron, Tim Barry, Larry Bloch, Steve Bloom, Rob Bookman, Marty Bostoff, Marc Brownstein, Oteil Burbridge, Edward Cisneros)
Documentary about the formation of a nightclub in Tribeca.
Wild Blue Yonder
(Country: US; Year: 2008; Director: Celia Maysles)
A potrait of documentarian David Maysles, by his daughter.
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