Chicken & Egg Pictures is proud to announce three grantees screening at the Mountainfilm Festival -- Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry, Bidder 70, and Fambul Tok. We would also like to recognize Mission to Mermaids, directed by Susan Cohn Rockefeller.Congratulations!
Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry, directed by Alison Klayman
“For the world to change, everyone must shoulder the burden,” says the Chinese artist Ai Weiwei. This may be true, but it seems that he’s shouldering more than his fair share with bold work that ranges from sculptures to documentaries and includes, perhaps his most effective canvas, Twitter. This film, directed by first-time filmmaker Alison Klayman, shows how the artist is constantly watched, monitored and harassed by state security, yet he continues to use his cell phone, video camera and middle finger (literally) to express his discontent with the Chinese government.
Mountain Film Festival Screenings:
Saturday, May 26th, 6:15 PM at The Michael D. Palm Theatre
Sunday, May 27th, 9:30 AM at The Michael D. Palm Theatre
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Bidder 70, by Beth & George Gage
Filmmakers Beth and George Gage have brought unforgettable characters to Mountainfilm audiences — the men of the Tenth Mountain Division with Fire on the Mountain and Carrie Dann with American Outrage — and they do it again with Bidder 70. What makes this film different from their others is that the protagonist — activist Tim DeChristopher, who’s been to Mountainfilm several times — cannot attend the screening in person because he’s serving two years in prison for an act of civil disobedience in which he disrupted an oil and gas land auction. DeChristopher lost his liberty in an attempt to change a system that needs radical redirecting. In his absence, the Gages and other people in the film will attend this world premiere.
Mountain Film Festival Screenings:
Friday, May 25th, 6:45 PM at The Michael D. Palm Theatre
Sunday, May 27th, 4:15 PM at The Nugget Theatre
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Fambul Tok, directed by Sara Terry
“The bad he done was just too much,” says one of the many unforgettable characters in this moving and inspiring documentary about Sierra Leone that manages simultaneously to depict both the absolute worst of human nature and its very best. The film follows a homegrown process of reconciliation, called Fambul Tok (“family talk”), that was needed after the country’s long and brutal civil war. The idea is to bring the perpetrators of atrocities, including the aptly named Captain Mohamed Savage (a.k.a. Mr. Die), together with their victims. The reunion is painful, but it also appears to be effective. Taking place around a campfire, much of the pain seems to melt away in front of the flames.
Mountain Film Festival Screenings:
Saturday, May 26th, 9:30 AM at Masons Hall
Sunday, May 27th, 12:15 AM at Masons Hall
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Mission of Mermaids, directed by Susan Cohn Rockefeller
Susan Cohn Rockefeller’s film Making the Crooked Straight, about Dr. Rick Hodes, won the Moving Mountains Prize in 2009. The director returns with a very different film, a personal yet allegorical tale about the state of our troubled oceans. More traditional films have been made about the science of the subject, so her hope with Mission of Mermaids is that the mythical creature — a symbol of mystery and hope — will inspire our hearts to save the seas.
Mountain Film Festival Screenings:
Saturday, May 26th, 4:00PM at The Nugget Theatre
Sunday, May 27th, 9:30AM at High Camp
Chicken & Egg Pictures will also host "Mountainfilm Coffee Talk"
When: Sunday, May 27th, 8:00am - 9:15am
Where: The Ah Haa School - 300 South Townsend Street
Panelists: Wendy Ettinger, Beth Gage, Alison Klayman,
with Moderator Daryl Hannah
Start your day off with a cup of joe and compelling conversation
about telling complex human rights stories in documentaries.
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