Atlanta Film Festival 2009

Atlanta Film Festival 365

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Short Film
A young American pilot fighting in 1944 writes what may be the final letter of his life, bearing his soul to the man who inspired him to enlist - his father, a stoic veteran of World War I.
Short Film
Almost everybody is going to die very soon unless a young man is able to convince them to heed the warning he, and only he, has received.
Documentary Competition/Enviornmental/Human Rights
Paul Watson left Greenpeace in 1977 to found the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, an organization dedicated not to protesting but to intervening against illegal activities on the high seas to which most nations of the world turn a blind eye. In 2007, Sea Shepherd was able to raise and borrow enough money to organize the Antarctic Campaign against whaling in the Ross Sea (only the 3rd time in 30 years they've been able to mount a campaign this challenging). The volunteer crew members from around the world are, to use Capt. Watson's favorite expression, "real people taking real risks for real issues" and they do so in a manner and in a location which are visually dramatic. Here we have a compelling action/adventure story which fortunately happens to be true - and because it's both entertaining and real, it relates to values and goals shared by viewers everywhere: David vs Goliath; ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances; empathy vs greed; and, at the most basic level, good vs evil.
Enviornmental/Short Film/Shorts - Documentary Competition
As the honeybee is often referred to as the new canary in the coal-mine, The Beekeepers looks to the implications for our environment when millions of bees just disappear and explores this most ancient of professions in its current crisis due to the emergence of Colony Collapse Disorder.
American Showcase/Disability/LGBTQ/Relationships
Jeannie, who has been paraplegic since youth and gets around in a wheelchair, and Lauren are twin sisters. Jeannie co-owns a used & vintage clothing store with her semi-estranged friend Amanda, while Lauren is between jobs and between boyfriends, considering going overseas to teach English. When tensions between Jeannie and Amanda escalate to the point of a threatened lawsuit, Jeannie is sent into a mild panic. She calls on an ex-boyfriend, Merrill, who has just graduated from law school and is studying for the bar, and after falling immediately into bed together, Merrill begins distracting himself from his own problems by trying to assist Jeannie. Beeswax is the third feature film directed by Andrew Bujalski (Funny Ha Ha, Mutual Appreciation). Like Bujalski's previous films, the cast is made up of non-professional (but carefully cast) actors and filmed with a light, fast-moving crew. Something like a legal thriller for anyone who finds "legal thriller" to be an oxymoron, Beeswax is also a story about families, real and imagined, people taking care of each other when they want to, when they need to, when they ought to.
World Showcase
Freak and Jajà live in a no-man’s land, outside time and dates. Mankind no longer inhabits the planet, and only a few strange characters, survivors, make rare appearances. The two meet at a bus-stop in the middle of nowhere, waiting for the bus that will take them to Godot, the God who makes his presence felt beyond the mountain. The bus arrives, but it doesn’t stop so the pair start out on foot on a journey that will have them crossing paths with the bizarre characters who live in this land. They find a mariachi storyteller, two actors reciting Adam and Eve in the middle of a salty lake, a child who appears to be the ‘magic’ voice of Godot, an oracle who lives on the extractor well of an abandoned mine, and finally a solitary girl who lives on a beach. Loosely based on Beckett’s masterpiece, Waiting for Godot, Beket received the FIPRESCI award at the Locarno Film Festival.
Georgia Films/Relationships/Short Film/Shorts - Narrative Competition
In an increasingly online world, interpersonal interactions become a less integral part of our cultural make-up. Six characters are followed as their paths intersect and become connected by the objects they carry in this triptych-split-screen film.
Short Film
When a thief shows up with a stolen painted-pink television for his daughter's tenth birthday, she accuses him of not knowing her anymore. Can he redeem himself in her eyes before the cops show up?
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