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15th Annual Austin Film Festival
Documentary Feature Competition

Presented by Austin Film Festival

October 16-October 23, 2008

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In addition to hosting its annual screenwriters’ conference, the AFF will screen approximately 190 feature and short films including World, U.S. and Regional premieres.Festival Films are listed according to categories. Following are the films in the Documentary Feature Competition. Other categories are Marqee Screenings; AFF Presents…; Narrative FeatureCompetition; Comedy Vanguard; Dark Matters; Target Family Film Series and Austin Screens. The Festival will also host 14 short film programs.  All films are listed with writer, director and cast information as well as a short synopsis. (The Atom Smashers, pictured)

Documentary Feature Competition   (Venues and Times noted beside Film Titles)

“Art 365” (USA, 81 min.) World Premiere • Sat, Oct 18, 5:00PM • Hideout
Directors: Cacky Poarch, Melissa Scaramucci
In March 2007, six Oklahoma artists were chosen from 134 entries to receive $10,000 to create a new body of work in one year.

“The Atom Smashers” (USA, 81 min.) US Premiere • Thu, Oct 16, 8:00PM • Hideout
Director: Clayton Brown
A team of U.S. scientists search for the last undiscovered part of the atom, racing against a new European laboratory and declining government funding.

“Bunnyland” (USA, 86 min.) Regional Premiere • Fri, Oct 17, 7:30PM • Hideout
Director: Brett Hanover
Johnny Tesar claims to have found a lost civilization in Tennessee – by looking at the rock “artifacts” he finds on the ground.

“Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison” (USA, 87 min.) World Premiere • Sat, Oct 18, 7:15PM • Bob Bullock Spirit Theater
Director: Bestor Cram
In January 1968, in a gray prison cafeteria in Northern California, hard men doing hard time witnessed the making of a legendary album.

“Les Ninjas du Japon” (Italy, 80 min.) Regional Premiere • Thu, Oct 16, 10:00PM • Rollins Theater
Director: Giommi Giovanni
A team of Japanese semi-professional cyclists have traveled to Burkina Faso to compete in Africa’s most prestigious bicycle race, the Tour du Faso.

“Paper or Plastic?" (USA, 80 min.) Regional Premiere • Sun, Oct 19, 12:15PM • Alamo Drafthouse Ritz
Director: Justine Jacob and Alex D. da Silva
Somewhere in this country lives the nation’s best grocery sacker. The film follows contestants as they prepare for the National Grocery Bagging Competition in Las Vegas

“School Play” (USA, 72 min.) World Premiere • Fri, Oct 17, 7:30PM • Rollins Theate
Directors: Eddie Rosenstein and Rick Velleu
In this charming film, a group of fifth graders in upstate New York stages a performance of “The Wizard of Oz.”

“Summer Child” (Kesän lapsi) (USA, 60 min.) Regional Premiere • Sat, Oct 18, 7:15 PM • Arbor
Director: Iris Olsson
Only 40 miles separate Svetlana’s orphanage in Russia from the house in Finland where she spends her summers, but the disparity between her two lives couldn’t be greater.

“This Dust of Words” (USA, 60 min.) Regional Premiere • Sat, Oct 18, 7:00 PM • Hideout
Director: Bill Rose
Elizabeth Wiltsee was a promising young student at Stanford in the late ’60s. After graduation she could have had anything, but chose to live on the edge of society.

“Visual Acoustics: The Modernism of Julius Shulman” (USA, 83 min.) Regional Premiere • Thu, Oct 16, 7:00PM • Rollins Theater
Director: Eric Bricker
Julius Shulman, the favorite photographer of L.A.’s mid-century modernist architecture scene, shot buildings by Frank Lloyd Wright and Frank Gehry. Narrated by Dustin Hoffman.
  
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