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NATIONAL CONSTITUTION CENTER – FRIDAY
11:00-12:50pm - The Contradictions of Fair Hope (Documentary)
July 1865. Over 4 million slaves have been
freed. Forced to roam the antebellum countryside, and ill prepared to cope with
the realities of their new found freedom, the freed slaves formed 'benevolent
societies' throughout the South to respond to the abject hunger, illness and
the fear of a pauper's grave.
Set in rural Alabama, the film traces the development, struggles and gradual loss of tradition of one of the last remaining benevolent societies in America, known as 'The Fair Hope Benevolent Society,' and provides an unprecedented look at its complex and morally ambiguous world.
1:00-2:35pm - A.L.F. (Drama, Documentary)
What happened, that 24th of December ? This is what officer Chartier wants to find out. To understand, he
will have to go back 48 hours earlier: Franck's Christmas eve. The characters of A.L.F. are bound by a limitless empathy towards
mistreated animals, and will have to show courage to complete a mission they
have been preparing for months. One will betray them.
2:50-3:45pm – The Songs They Sang. Documentary
The
Songs They Sang is the remarkable tale of music and theatre performed by Jewish
musicians held in ghettos and concentration camps across Europe during the
Holocaust. It explores the stoicism of the Jewish people who created art and
recorded important historical perspectives in the face of the most horrific persecution and tyranny. The film centres on the work of lyricists Avrom Sutzkever and
Shmerke Kaczerginski, who wrote startling and poetic eyewitness accounts of
Vilna., and risked his life in order to protect and preserve Jewish writings
and music before his brutal untimely death. The documentary also considers his legacy
of song and the various people preserving such music today.
National Constitution Center – Saturday
11:30am - Bailout 85min (Documentary)
(Dir. Sean
Fahey)
Fed up with corrupt bailout banks trying to
foreclose on them, five Chicagoans drive to Vegas with stacks of cash to give
themselves a long overdue bailout of their own.
A feature documentary that explores the causes
and effects of America's financial crisis. We discover how politically powerful
banks are systemically eliminating America's middle class through fraudulent
home foreclosures. An enigma wrapped in Doc hybrid form, Bailout is a social
documentary that explores American anger with the Wall Street elites who
survive and thrive on government bailouts, fraud, & political corruption.
Organized Criminal (18min)(Thriller)(Local)
When an ambitious up and coming criminal
(Bobby) decides to get even with a vicious drug dealer from his past
(Dominick), he realizes that in order to do so, he has to level the playing
field first.
Bobbys task is to persuade Vincent that surrendering to his own greed without fear and without regard for his morals will lead them both to creating one of the most intelligent, most modern and most powerful criminal organizations the world has seen yet."
Bobbys task is to persuade Vincent that surrendering to his own greed without fear and without regard for his morals will lead them both to creating one of the most intelligent, most modern and most powerful criminal organizations the world has seen yet."
1:30-2:15pm - Colored Confederates (42min) (Documentary)
A documentary shedding light on an obscure corner of American
history: Did blacks actively 'fight' for the Confederacy during the Civil War
and if so why?
Welcome Home (18min) (Drama) (Local) (Short)
Short
film about a local hero coming home from the War in Iraq.
2:30-4:45pm - The Revolutionary. The story of Sidney
Rittenebrg. (87min) (Documentary) Dir. Lucy Ostrander
During China's Cultural Revolution, Sidney
Rittenberg, an American citizen, became the most important foreigner in China
since Marco Polo. Arriving as a GI interpreter at the end of World War II, he
was an active participant in the Chinese communist revolution. An intimate of
the Party's leadership, including Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai, he gained
prominence at the Broadcast Administration, one of the most important agencies
of government. But in the convulsions of a giant country constantly reinventing
itself, he twice ran afoul of the leadership, and served a total of 16 years in
solitary confinement. This is the story of the biggest revolution of the 20th
century, unknown to most Americans, told by an American who was there.
