May 2019 | Mendocino Film Festival
By Kristin Suratt on Wednesday, May 29th, 2019 in 2019, Crown Hall, Documentary, Mendocino Village, News.
A Tuba to Cuba traces the journey of Ben Jaffe and The Preservation Hall Brass Band as they unearth the spiritual and cultural connection between Afro-Caribbean music and New Orleans jazz. Listen to Jeff Zolitor’s KZYX interview with Directors T.G. Herrington and Danny Clinch Allan and Sandra Jaffe were vacationing in New Orleans when they Read the full article…
By Kristin Suratt on Tuesday, May 28th, 2019 in 2019, Documentary, Matheson PAC, Mendocino Village, News.
Satan and Adam, a film by Scott Balcerek about the unlikely partnership of renowned bluesman Sterling Magee “Mr. Satan” and young Princeton graduate Adam Gussow took twenty-three years to make. The film is a musical and spiritual odyssey between two men who developed a loving and fierce friendship, and went from singing on a street Read the full article…
By Kristin Suratt on Monday, May 27th, 2019 in 2019, Documentary, Matheson PAC, Mendocino Village, News.
Ai Weiwei: Yours Truly is a powerful documentary depicting the Alcatraz exhibit @Large: Ai Weiwei on Alcatraz, organized in 2014 by Cheryl Haines, the film’s director. Haines met Ai WeiWei in 2008, and their friendship developed over the following years. When Ai WeiWei was detained by Chinese authorities in 2011, Haines wanted to do something Read the full article…
By Kristin Suratt on Tuesday, May 21st, 2019 in 2019, Matheson PAC, Mendocino Village, Narrative, News.
In A Bread Factory, Patrick Wang’s award-winning two-part film, the director and his team construct a moving and spirited narrative about two women who move to a small town and buy an abandoned bread factory. In A Bread Factory Part I: For The Sake of Gold, Dorothea and Greta transform the factory into an arts Read the full article…
By Kristin Suratt on Friday, May 17th, 2019 in 2019, Coast Cinemas, Documentary, Fort Bragg, News.
Afghan Cycles uses the bicycle to tell a story of women’s rights–human rights–and the struggles faced by Afghan women on a daily basis, from discrimination to abuse, to oppressive silencing of their voices in all aspects of contemporary society. These women ride despite cultural barriers, despite lack of infrastructure, even despite death threats. Afghan Cycles Read the full article…
By Kristin Suratt on Monday, May 13th, 2019 in 2019, Crown Hall, Documentary, Mendocino Village, News.
The perils of immigration are explored in Richard Levein’s timely film, Collisions. When twelve-year-old Itan, a straight-A student, comes home from school in San Francisco, she is stunned to find their furniture up-ended, and no trace of her mother, Yoana. A Child Protective Services representative takes Itan and her brother Neto to live with their Read the full article…
By Kristin Suratt on Thursday, May 9th, 2019 in Documentary, Festival Tent, Mendocino Village, News.
Gay Chorus Deep South Captures Tribeca Audience Gay Chorus, Deep South captivated film fans at the 18th Annual Tribeca Film Festival, garnering the Audience Choice Award on May 4. Directed by David Charles Rodrigues, the film was conceived as a response to the divisive 2016 presidential election and a wave of discriminatory anti-LGBTQ laws in Read the full article…
By Kristin Suratt on Tuesday, May 7th, 2019 in 2019, Crown Hall, Documentary, News.
Environment and Film: Sea of Shadows Richard Ladkani’s brilliant documentary film Sea of Shadows captures a thrilling Hollywood-style rescue in the Sea of Cortez as a team of brilliant scientists, high-tech conservationists, investigative journalists, and courageous undercover agents dare to put their lives on the line in a desperate last-minute effort to save the Earth’s Read the full article…
