Vegucated is a guerrilla-style documentary that follows three meat- and cheese-loving New Yorkers from different backgrounds who, for six weeks, adopt a vegan diet and a whole new way of thinking about food.
Vegucated is a guerrilla-style documentary that follows three meat- and cheese-loving New Yorkers from different backgrounds who, for six weeks, adopt a vegan diet and a whole new way of thinking about food.
Principal Crew:
Marisa Miller Wolfson – Writer, Director, Co-producer, Co-editor
The world’s leading guitar makers hope to save the life of the acoustic guitar.
If the overlogging of the world’s forests continues, countless species face extinction and our carbon emissions will skyrocket. But there is about to be another casualty of our diminishing forests…the acoustic guitar. If things don’t change, in less than 10 years the guitar as we know it will be no more…
Artist and Street Vendor Tricia Beck examines the reality of living her dream and its unexpected rewards.
Glorified Reality was created as part of the 2010 International Documentary Challenge. Portland Artist and Street Vendor Tricia Beck examines living her dream as an artist along with its harsh realities and unexpected rewards. The genre was experimental and the theme this year was dreams/nightmares.
Principal Crew:
Director/Producer/Editor: Kristiana Weseloh
Music: Chris Robley
I met Tim on 23rd street near sixth avenue. He was sitting on the sidewalk with his back against a shuttered storefront. Before him perched a small hand-lettered cardboard sign that read:
Please Help
My dad passed away on Thursday
I am trying to get home for the
funeral and to be with my family
I only need $49 $39 more for a bus
Im not perfect but I wouldn’t lie about this
I told him I’d give him the money if I could use him for my art project. I told him I’d buy him a suit for his father’s funeral as well.
User follows a homeless prostitute as she walks the streets of Sydney’s red light district and the parallel story of a Health Educator who works with her.
User is a hybrid of documentary and experimental film, using sophisticated re-enactments and filtered, re-framed visuals. Through a constantly shifting perspective User examines the differences between the two women, revealing surprising moments of divergence and intersection.
In the 60 years since Chinese Nationalists moved to Taiwan, the country has grown up in a very different way from mainland China. Matthew Rivera reports from Taiwan on how culture, democracy and economics there offer a look at an alternative China.
Principal Crew:
Reported and Produced by Matthew Rivera for MarketWatch.
Why is it that some young, independent, progressive women in today’s society feel uncomfortable identifying with the F-word? Join filmmaker Therese Shechter as she takes a funny, moving and very personal journey into the heart of feminism.
Armed with a video camera and an irreverent sense of humor, Shechter talks with feminist superstars, rowdy frat boys, liberated Cosmo girls and Radical Cheerleaders, all in her quest to find out whether feminism can still be a source of personal and political power.
Principal Crew
Therese Shechter – Director/Writer/Producer
Barbara Barde – Producer
Carole Larsen – Editor
Anneliese Paull, Ruben O’Malley – Directors of Photography
A look at the making of the debut album of Turkish singer/songwriter Sinem Saniye.
Sinem Saniye works with French Producer Henri Scars Struck crafting her debut, “When I Don’t Sleep.” She takes various world music influences to create her own Turkish American pop style.
Principal Crew
Editor – Deb Szczepkowski
Principal Characters
Artist – Sinem Saniye
French Producer – Henri Scars Struck
Mixing Engineer – Mark Plati
Alex Gaylon, an adopted student at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, looks for his birth-mother and films the process for his documentary film class. He gets advice from his parents, his film crew, a fellow adoptee, and finds his birth-mother’s information on Google.com. Finally, he attempts to contact his birth mother through the telephone, and what he finds on the other end of the phone line is much more than he ever could have expected…
A twisted travelogue chronicling one woman’s obsession with Turkish men.
Filmmaker Therese Shechter heads to Turkey for a much-needed vacation. She also plans to interview young Turkish women for a documentary on feminism. Instead, she becomes fascinated with the men. And they are fascinated with her.
This true story is a twisted travelogue chronicling one woman’s obsession with Turkish men. Her attempts to understand their language, culture and psyche leads to a revealing exploration of cultural cliches, the ‘exotic other’ and the aphrodisiac properties of a US visa.
Principal Crew
Therese Shechter: Writer, Director, Editor, DP and Producer
Andrew Kines: Assoc. Editor
Paul Ruest: Sound Editor
