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Office of Film, Television & Digital Media
Office of Film, Television
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TABLE OF
CONTENTS
49
GIFF honors
Gretchen Carlson as a
2020 Changemaker
6 Virtual Festival FAQ
10 A Letter From Founders & Executive Director
12 Festival Team
13 Tribute to our Top Donors
14 Sponsors & Partners
40 16 2020 Jury
Spotlight on Director/Producer/
Cinematographer/Editor, 20 Documentary Features
Matthew Heineman
28 Narrative Features
33 Connecticut Short Film Program
39 Film Awards
40 Spotlight on Matt Heineman
49 GIFF Award Winners: Gretchen Carlson
and Will Reeve
6
First-ever GIFF Virtual festival comes
to life! Your questions answered.
Content as of April 8, 2020
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VIRTUAL FESTIVAL EXPERIENCE
Website: Main Office Telephone: Social Media:
www.greenwichfilm.org 203-717-1800 @greenwichfilm #GIFF2020
FAQ
What is the Virtual Greenwich International Film Festival?
The Virtual GIFF is a new way for our audience to enjoy films they can’t see anywhere else from
the comfort and safety of their homes. The 2020 Festival will take place online from May 1 to 3,
and will include 29 Narrative & Documentary Features and Short Films from 8 countries, along
with exclusive video messages from our filmmakers, and other special content.
How do I attend the Virtual Fest?
It’s simple – purchase a Virtual Pass or VIP Pass at www.greenwichfilm.org. Approximately one
week before the Festival takes place, our team will reach out to set you up with a unique user
log-in which will be activated May 1 to 3. No need to conform to a schedule - you can stream
all of our Festival content day or night, at whatever time works best for you,
from May 1st until 10pm on May 3rd.
Will my pass help support GIFF?
Yes, a portion of proceeds from the pass helps to make the arts more accessible in our area.
It allows GIFF, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization to attract top talent to the area, support
filmmakers with cash awards, host free community events, and support charity partners.
How do I view the films?
You can experience the Virtual Festival on your computer, smartphone, or tablet using the
The Ashforth Company
secure log-in website information we’ll send you. If you want to stream the Festival films and
content on your TV, no problem - you’d simply cast from your device to your Smart TV.
If you have an Apple TV device, just enable AirPlay to stream on your TV.
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HOORSENBUHS · ETRO · PAUL MORELLI AND SO MUCH MORE!
GET YOUR SPRING ON
A Letter From GIFF Founders
& Executive Director
W
elcome to our first-ever virtual Greenwich International Film Festival! While we wish we
could be with you in the theater, we feel blessed to be able to deliver an entertaining
and inspiring selection of films and filmmaker interviews to enjoy from the comfort and
safety of your home. Our theme this year is, “Knowledge is Power.” Though we could
not have imagined the situation we are currently facing globally, we hope that it will lead
us to a place where we all do better, because we know better. The same philosophy that
drove us to start GIFF over six years ago holds true today: Film is an incredibly powerful medium that can enlighten
us and create positive social change. We can all use that perspective now more than ever.
GIFF remains committed to year-round programming and was thrilled to partner with Avon Theatre, Bedford
Playhouse, Blue Sky Studios, Saboteur Media, and Bleecker Street to offer five special advance screenings which
supported charity partners such as Honor Bound and Breast Cancer Alliance. Advance screenings included Danger
Close, Spies in Disguise, The Assistant, Ordinary Love, and From the Vine.
GIFF’s Call for Entry launched in early November and ran through January. After reviewing hundreds of submissions,
GIFF’s programming team traveled to Sundance to curate the best selection of films for our audience. We are
proud to share that our Festival line-up includes 29 films from 8 countries. The films cover a variety of important
issues such as PTSD, bullying, self-empowerment, criminal injustice, music therapy, substance abuse, and healing.
The filmmakers we showcase are trailblazers, not just for the broad range of issues their films take on, but also for
being bold and flexible in times of change, and for participating in the first-ever virtual GIFF. GIFF is dedicated
to supporting film talent and is excited to offer three awards with cash prizes this year, including the Best Social
Impact Film Award (presented by the Bill & Ann Bresnan Foundation), the Best Connecticut Short Film Award
(presented by the Connecticut Office of Film, Television & Digital Media), and new-this-year the JP Morgan Chase
Audience Award.
Thank you to our steadfast community of supporters and to our Board members, many of whom have been with us
since the beginning, encouraging us every step of the way. Thank you to Shari Angel, Samantha Ryan, and to the rest
of our team, who have had to adapt and adjust in the face of the public health crisis to keep GIFF going. Thank you
to our sponsors who allow us to be able to offer filmmaker awards, special screenings, and much more. Thank you to Greenwich International Film Festival is Proud to Support
our filmmakers for entrusting us with their work. Thank you for giving us hope even in the darkest of hours.
We can’t wait to eat popcorn next to you and feel the collective response to an epic movie sequence, to hear a
theater full of people laugh and cry at the same time. We are thankful for the hundreds of times this has happened
GREENWICH HOSPITAL
throughout our years at GIFF and know it is just a matter of time before we see you at the theater again.
and their
In the meantime, be safe and enjoy GIFF 2020.
INCREDIBLE MEDICAL STAFF
With gratitude,
Colleen deVeer Wendy Stapleton Ginger Stickel
Director of Programming, Founder Chairwoman, Founder Executive Director, COO
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FESTIVAL TEAM
Executive Team
Wendy Stapleton,
Founders
Carina Crain
Host Committee
Stacy Messina, Chair
TRIBUTE TO OUR 2020
Chairman of the Board, Founder
Colleen deVeer,
Colleen deVeer
Wendy Stapleton
Jill Schecter, Chair
Kim Barnes
TOP DONORS
Director of Programming, Founder
Courtney Belhumeur
Ginger Stickel, Executive Director, COO
Board of Sue Bodson
Virtual Festival Staff Directors Marisa Brown
Ginge Cabrera
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Samantha Ryan, Office Manager Courtenay Carella
Alison Davis Kate Clark ($ 2 5 ,0 0 0 +) ($ 1 0,0 0 0 – $ 24 , 9 9 9)
Shari Angel, Programmer
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Amanda DiCicco, Development Coordinator Clay Pecorin Graci Djuranovic Dale & Laura Kutnick Foundation, Inc.
Lauren Stannard, VIP Concierge Wendy Stapleton Joni Steele Kimberlin
Ilona Eken Craig & Debbie Stapleton
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Matt Stellwagen, Website Developer Kevin Sneddon Kristina Gabelli Wendy Stapleton Charles & Deborah Royce
Elaine Ubina, Photographer and Mark Teixeira Kim Habul Mark & Leigh Teixeira
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Editor in Chief, Fairfield County Look Claire Haft
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Marketing Interns Kimberly Clarke
Gabriela Dias
Romona Norton Alison D. Davis Clay & Eva Pecorin
Nancy Ozizmir
Elizabeth Buckley David Duchovny Robert & Elissa Friedman - Bungalow Media + Entertainment Mary Jo Riddle
Hadley Palmer
Alyssa Sirani Doug Ellin Bina Park Darrell & Robin Harvey Michael & Krystal Sachs
Christina Vittas Susan Smith Ellis Marjorie Pastel Andrew & Pam Karpen Matt & Jill Schecter
Julie Fareri Zielinski Serena Perlman Cricket & Jim Lockhart Jane & Paul Shang
Programming Interns Bobby Friedman Sarah Pribyl
Sue Mandel Riann Smith
Craig Gering Jordan Rhodes
Sarah Foster Kathie Lee Gifford Mary Jo Riddle Andrew & Stacy Messina Kevin & DeAnne Sneddon
Julia Reeder Jared Ian Goldman Abby Ritman Linda Zwack Munger Dr. Tom Wilson & Elisa Gabelli Wilson
Kim Habul Jennifer Roach
Pre-Screeners Beth Hall
Colin Hanks
Danielle Robinson
Kim Salib
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Supporters through April 8, 2020
Thank you to our 2020 Sponsors whose support has been invaluable in a year of tremendous change!
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2020 FILM JURY
SOCIAL I M PAC T B E ST C T S H O RTS
Philanthropist Ann Bresnan Young has worked in finance, real estate, Gorman Bechard has directed 18 feature films including rock
and at Christie’s auction house. She has invested in both films and art. documentaries on The Replacements, Grant Hart, Archers of Loaf,
Ann and a good friend produced Thank You Films – a series of 30-second Lydia Loveless, Sarah Shook & the Disarmers, and soon Wilco’s Jay
public service announcements aired nationwide for several years on Bennett, plus the animal-rights films A Dog Named Gucci and Seniors
cable networks aimed at thanking individual charities for the many good A Dogumentary, the horror-comedy Psychos in Love, and most recently
works they do and drawing a wider awareness to their causes. Currently, Pizza, A Love Story, a film on the 3 most famous pizza restaurants in
she is the President of the Bill and Ann Bresnan Foundation and believes the world. He has also written 5 novels including the religious satire,
strongly in the positive role films can play in changing lives. The Second Greatest Story Ever Told. He is the Executive Director/
Programmer of NHdocs: the New Haven Documentary Film Festival.
He lives in New Haven, CT with his wife Kristine and their two dogs,
Ann Bresnan Young Susan Bevan is a philanthropist and non-profit volunteer. A former Gorman Bechard
Philanthropist Filmmaker, Writer Springsteen and Dylan.
corporate attorney, she has served on many boards, both locally near
her home in Connecticut, as well as internationally. As a board member
of the Boys & Girls Club of Greenwich, Susan served as Vice President
and also co-chair of its capital campaign that rebuilt the pool and Valerie Jensen is an award-winning filmmaker, author and advocate
clubhouse and added a hockey rink. Susan is a member of the boards of for adults with disabilities. Valerie is the visionary and founder of The
the Equal Rights Amendment Coalition and Fund for Women’s Equality Prospector Theater – a 501(c)(3) non-profit dedicated to creating
working to pass an amendment to the United States Constitution that meaningful employment to adults with disabilities through the operation
will guarantee equal rights regardless of sex. As a member of the board of a premium, first-run movie theater in Ridgefield, CT. In 2012, Val
of Alpha Phi International Fraternity, based in Evanston, IL, she also and her team began redesigning the historic Ridgefield Playhouse,
serves as liaison to and board member on the Fraternity and Sorority transforming it into the Prospector Theater. The beautiful four-screen
Political Action Committee and the Fraternity and Sorority Action Fund Prospector Theater is designed from the ground up with Prospector’s
in Washington, D.C. She is the recent past-national Co-Chair of the mission of meaningful employment in mind, from the artwork to the
Republican Majority for Choice having served on its board for 17 years. accessibility features. Since opening its doors in November of 2014,
Susan Bevan
Philanthropist Susan has been published in the Huffington Post and the New York over 600,000 ticket buyers have witnessed the power of meaningful
Times and has appeared on NPR’s All Things Considered and MSNBC’s Valerie Jensen employment first-hand. More than 252 Prospects have worked at the
Up with Steve Kornacki discussing issues regarding reproductive choice Founder, The Prospector Theater Theater, clocking over 600,000 hours of meaningful employment. Val has
and the Republican Party. Susan has co-produced two independent films spread the mission of the Prospector across the country, speaking at the
with strong female protagonists, Equity and An Acceptable Loss. Susan Connecticut State Capitol and the White House.
believes that the visual arts are the most powerful medium to consider
and evaluate the challenging issues of our time.
Ed Ruggiero administers the Digital Media and Motion Picture Tax
Emily Garnet is an executive producer of Freak Power, written and Credit Programs for the Office of Film, Television, and Digital Media.
directed by Bobby Kennedy III. She also plays the role of Sandy Previously, he worked as a Commercial Producer for Cablevision in
Thompson wife of Hunter S Thompson. The film was scheduled to Norwalk, CT. He has also worked as an editor on the feature films
premier at 2020 SXSW Film Festival. Her first film which she was also Yonkers Joe, starring Chazz Palminteri, Murder on Mott Street, directed
acted as an executive producer was The Iron Orchard, where she also by and starring Burt Young, and the 1997 Sundance selection Mr.
played the role of Esther. The award winning film made it’s world premier Vincent. His short film Changing Room was awarded Best Dramatic
Emily Garnet at the 2018 Austin Film Festival. Emily was also involved as an executive Short at the 9th Annual New Haven Film Festival (2004).
Producer, Actor
producer in the feature film Sister Aimee, which premiered last winter at
the Sundance Film Festival and won the Best Feature Film award at the Ed Ruggiero
Tax Credit Administrator, Connecticut Office
2019 Greenwich International Film Festival. She also played the part of
of Film, Television, & Digital Media
Dot in the film. She attended FIT and works as an Interior Designer.
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A MISSION
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The history of genocide, mass atrocities,
crimes against humanity and their continuing
Graduates of the Ph.D. program hold
leadership positions at the Auschwitz Institute
consequences stand at the core of the Strassler for Peace and Reconciliation, Columbia
OUR PROMISE Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies
at Clark University. The first institute of
University, the Conference for Material Claims
against Germany, the Holocaust Educational
TO THE WORLD
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program training students in Holocaust the U.S. Holocaust Memorial and Museum,
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which all life depends, with your help it genocides perpetrated around the globe. Weiner Library in London, and at the United
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dedicated to Holocaust pedagogy and
Proud Sponsor of the 6th Annual Greenwich International Film Festival the study of antisemitism will grow our
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Nature.org/ctDOCUMENTARY FILMS DOCUMENTARY FILMS
A PELOTON OF ONE BASTARDS’ ROAD BULLIED DRIVEN TO THE EUPHORIA FOR WALTER AND JOSIAH
ABSTRACTION OF BEING
USA / 99 MINS USA / 98 MINS USA / 67 MINS USA / 84 MINS In honor of The Strassler Center for Holocaust USA / 66 MINS
and Genocide Studies Program at Clark
University, and generously underwritten by
A Peloton of One follows a Survivor of Childhood Like many Combat Veterans, transitioning back Bullied tracks the causes and consequences of Driven to Abstraction unravels a mutating tale The Simon and Eve Colin Foundation. Montana has the highest suicide rate in the
Sexual Abuse, Dave Ohlmuller, as he conducts to civilian life was very difficult for Jon Hancock. bullying, along with programs and solutions of self-delusion, greed, and fraud - the $80 U.S., and on Native American reservations that
a solo bicycle ride from Chicago to New York to After years of struggling, Jon decided to take that have had an impact on mitigating bullying million forgery scandal that rocked the art HUNGARY / 83 MINS rate is 22% higher still. The Flathead Indian
raise awareness of this scourge. Along this 700- an epic journey across the country - on foot. in schools. Through interviews with family world and brought down Knoedler, New York Hungarian with English subtitles Reservation was shaken to the core by 22
mile journey, Dave meets other Survivors abused Walking nearly 6,000 miles alone, Jon confronts members, victims of bullying, and an array City’s most venerable gallery. Was the gallery’s Native suicides in a single year - including
by coaches, teachers, family members, and like Éva Fahidi was 20 years old when she returned
the demons that had overtaken his life. Visiting of the most notable experts on bullying in esteemed director the victim of a con artist two beloved members of the local high school
Dave himself, Catholic priests. Through these to Hungary from Auschwitz Birkenau. She was all
his fellow 2/4 Marines - a unit known as the America today, Bullied takes the audience on an who showed up with an endless treasure trove basketball team. ‘For Walter And Josiah’ follows
interactions and common stories, Dave tries to alone, 49 members of her family were murdered,
find a way to connect and heal, mile by mile, as The Magnificent Bastards - and families of their unflinching journey into the lives of those who of previously unseen abstract expressionist the team’s surviving members during their
including her mother, her father and her little
he heads east towards his hometown. Dave also fallen along the way, Jon finds a mission greater suffer bullying, while focusing on how bullying masterpieces? Or did she eventually suspect most recent basketball season, as they attempt
sister. 70 years later, aged 90, Éva is asked to
meets high-profile advocates like Senator Joe than his own redemption. With remarkable can be reduced around the world. they were fakes, yet continue to sell them for to honor their fallen brothers while coping with
participate in a dance-theatre performance about
Vitale of New Jersey, Kathryn Robb of New York, honesty, insight and humor, Jon’s journey gives millions of dollars for fifteen years? Whatever staggering grief and the daunting challenges of
her life. Director Réka Szabo imagines a duet
and Marci Hamilton of Pennsylvania, who each a uniquely positive approach to the post-war the truth, two women from very different everyday life on the reservation. The documentary
between Éva and the internationally acclaimed
scored major victories in 2019 by reforming topic. It’s about changing the ways one relates worlds crossed paths in what would become examines the historical trauma and other factors
dancer, Emese, juxtaposing these two women on
their states’ long-standing Statute of Limitations to traumatic memories. It’s about beginning the the greatest hoax ever of Modern American Art. contributing to the Indigenous suicide epidemic,
stage, young and old, to see how their bodies
laws that favored the abusers. Dave Ohlmuller healing process. while exploring the impact of cultural resurgence
begins this trek as a lone Survivor. Today, he and their stories can intertwine. Éva agrees
as an alternative to escaping the reservation. ‘For
realizes he is part of a movement bigger than immediately. Three women— three months—a
Walter and Josiah’ is a story of heartbreak, pain,
just the sum of its victims. Co-Produced by story of crossing boundaries. Whilst key
redemption, and hope in a community pushed to
Greenwich filmmaker and fellow Survivor, Joe moments of Éva’s life are distilled into theater
extremes - looking for the inspiration to push back.
Capozzi, this film aims to inspire others to tell scenes, a powerful relationship forms between
their stories and to educate the masses on the the three women.
personal and legal obstacles victims often face
alone during their long road to recovery.
Director(s): Brian Morrison Director(s): Thomas Keith Director(s): Daria Price Director(s): Réka Szabó Director(s): Jamie Elias
Producer(s): Brian Morrison Producer(s): Thomas Keith Producer(s): Daria Price Producer(s): Sára László, Marcell Gerő, Producer(s): Trent Cooper, Benjamin
Director(s): Steven E. Mallorca, Screenwriter(s): Mark Stafford Editor(s): Thomas Keith Editor(s): Daria Price Réka Szabó Blank, Jamie Elias, Addison Neville,
John Bernardo Editor(s): Brian Morrison Dir. of Photography: Directors of Photography: Editor(s): Sylvie Gadmer, Péter Sass Kurt Anderson
Producer(s): Joe Capozzi, John Bernardo Dir. of Photography: Brian Morrison James Bustamante, Ray Wolf Peter Sova, Daria Price Dir. of Photography: Claudia Kovács Editor(s): Stephanie Yang, Jamie Elias
Editor(s): Steven E. Mallorca Key Subject(s): Jon Hancock, Brian Key Subject(s): Jennifer Pozner, Key Subject(s): Patricia Cohen, Key Subject(s): Éva Fahidi, Dir. of Photography: Addison Neville
Dir. of Photography: Steven E. Mallorca Britton, Dustin Kieschnick, Seth Bai Kirk Smalley, Carol Todd, Ron Avi Astor Michael Shnayerson, Eileen Kinsella, Emese Cuhorka, Réka Szabó
Key Subject(s): Dave Ohlmuller, Roseanna Powers, Dianne Layfield, Laura Gilbert, Luke Nikas, Martha
Joe Capozzi Chris Macintosh, Taylor Wiley Parrish, James Kelly
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THE HOY BOYS MEDICATING NORMAL MUSIC GOT ME HERE VIRAL: ANTISEMITISM WOMEN OF EARTH MEMBERS!
IN FOUR MUTATIONS
USA / 72 MINS USA / 76 MINS USA / 89 MINS USA / 83 MINS USA, BRAZIL / 71 MINS Bradshaw-Mack Foundation (2015)
English with occasional subtitles for clarity English, French, and Hungarian with English subtitles Portuguese with English subtitles
Barry & Barbara Carroll (2015)
Working class twin brothers Tom and Frank Hoy One in five Americans is taking a psychiatric In a snowboarding accident, Forrest, age 18, suffers a Antisemitism in the US and Europe is spreading. It Mayara grew up in Sao Paulo, the largest city in Brazil
Kate & Jim Clark (2018-2020)
hustled up copyboy jobs in 1953 and eventually medication, including antidepressants, ADHD traumatic brain injury that leaves him trapped inside mutates and evolves and is seemingly unstoppable. and Latin America. She was a teenager surrounded
become White House News Photographers for drugs, and/or anti-anxiety medications. While himself, unable to speak or walk for nearly two years. It appears as vandalism, social media abuse, by millions of people, technology, and everything Crain Family Foundation (2015-2019)
two major DC papers. Frank shot pictures for The these drugs can provide effective short-term relief Desperate to connect with her son, Forrest’s mother assault and murder. Director Andrew Goldberg the modern world can offer but she still felt empty. In
Washington Post, and Tom did the same for The for emotional distress, pharmaceutical companies contacts Tom Sweitzer, a music therapist with a troubled examines its rise, traveling through four countries search of someone who could answer her questions, Colleen & Kipp deVeer (2015, 2019)
Evening Star. They were affectionately known as have hidden dangerous side effects and long-term childhood whose own life was “saved” by music. For to follow antisemites and their victims, along with she went back to the roots of Brazil, to indigenous
months, Forrest doesn’t acknowledge Tom. Gradually, The Fareri Family (2015-2019)
“The Hoy Boys.” They were never famous, but their harm from both doctors and patients. Combining experts, politicians and locals. quilombolas and rural communities. On this journey,
story is the story of American journalism when it cinema verité and investigative journalism, Forrest starts responding to the music, starting with she met women who showed her how the wisdom Pamela & David B. Ford (2015, 2019)
mattered most, and ‘The Hoy Boys’ provides a lens Medicating Normal follows the stories of five a little movement of his finger or smile. Tom uses a of the past can heal the future. They are traditional
through which we view the chaos of the current diverse Americans who were harmed by music therapy method to teach Forrest to breathe, then midwives, healers, and community leaders. They are Kenny & Kim Habul (2019-2020)
hum, and find his “pitch.”After many months, the hums
media landscape. Tom and Frank Hoy stumbled prescribed medications they took to feel better. keepers of an ancient knowledge that we can’t afford Elizabeth & Gene Hall (2020)
turn into Forrest’s first words, “Good Morning.” Soon,
into a golden era for photojournalism and ‘The The film exposes a larger story of medicine to lose. She calls them Women of Earth.
he’s singing entire songs and speaking in sentences.
Hoy Boys’ introduces audiences to the once great infiltrated by pharmaceutical companies seeking Darrell & Robin Harvey (2019)
Forrest’s finally getting his voice and life back when he’s
newspaper The Evening Star (1862 - 1981). It was to expand markets. faced with one medical setback after another. A serious
the leading paper in DC in the 1950s and one of Joni Steele Kimberlin (2019)
infection requires surgeons to remove the prosthetic
the top newspapers in the country. The Evening Star implant that is protecting his brain, where a large part Dale & Laura Kutnick Foundation
is brought to life by alumni Carl Bernstein, John of his skull was removed after his accident. Without
Hoge, Rupert Welch, Jack Sherwood, Arnold Taylor any protection for his brain (2019-2020)
and others. Tom and Frank’s iconic photographs from atmospheric pressure, Jim & Jenny Matthews (2015)
graced the pages of Forrest’s ability to survive is
competing Washington uncertain. A groundbreaking Donald & Muffy Miller (2015)
DC newspapers in the surgery is Forrest’s last hope.
1950s and 60s, and as we This is a story about the power Deborah & Chuck Royce (2015-2018)
rediscover their images, we of music to heal and transform
Ras & Kristyna Sipko (2015-2018)
gain a fresh perspective on lives, often in miraculous ways.
the past and new insights Director(s): Susan Koch Wendy Stapleton (2015-2020)
into our collective future. Director(s): Lynn Cunningham, Director(s): Andrew Goldberg Director(s): Mayara Boaretto,
Producer(s): J. Wendy Thompson- The Stapleton Family Foundation
Wendy Ractliffe Producer(s): Diana Robinson, Isadora Carneiro, Katia Lund
Director(s): Dave Simonds Marquez, Gary Mather & Christina
Producer(s): Lynn Cunningham, Andrew Goldberg Producer(s): Kirk Bowman, Jon Wilcox
Producer(s): Betsy Shiverick, Co Mather, Lysa Burke Hutton, Teresa (2015-2020)
Wendy Ractliffe, Muffie Meyer Screenwriter(s): Andrew Goldberg Editor(s): Eduardo Gripa
Paul Shiverick, Andrew Herwitz Wheeler, Zak Kilberg, Irwin Winkler
Editor(s): David Dawkins Editor(s): Diana Robinson Dir. of Photography: Isadora Carneiro Eleanor & John Sullivan (2015)
Editor(s): Bernadine Colish, Screenwriter(s): Susan Koch
Dir. of Photography: Joan Churchill Dir. of Photography: Robert Hanna Key Subject(s): Mayara Boaretto,
Dave Simonds Editor(s): Georgia Koch Mark & Leigh Teixeira (2015-2020)
Key Subject(s): Brianna Cope, Key Subject(s): Bill Clinton, Tony Blair, Zefa da Guia, Mama Zézé, Dona d’Ajuda
Dir. of Photography: Dave Simonds Dir. of Photography: Neil Barrett
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ANOTHER YEAR THE BELLMEN THE BLACK EMPEROR FAMILY MATTERS HIGH TIDE TEAM MARCO
TOGETHER OF BROADWAY (HEMELRIJKEN)
USA / DRAMA, COMEDY / 97 MINS USA / COMEDY / 95 MINS USA / DRAMA / 95 MINS NETHERLANDS / DRAMA / 92 MINS ARGENTINA / DRAMA / 106 MINS USA / FAMILY, COMEDY, DRAMA / 92 MINS
English, Spanish. Occasional subtitles Dutch with English subtitles Spanish with English subtitles English, Italian. Occasional subtitles
Another Year Together chronicles three different When the charming bell captain at a popular Charles S. Gilpin was the most famous Black man When Kelly (Jennifer Welts) comes out of jail, Laura has lost control. After she sleeps with Screen time alert! Marco, 11, is obsessed with
romantic relationships in the same family Arizona resort decides that becoming a manag- in America. In 1920, his portrayal of Brutus Jones she returns to her birthplace Hemelrijken. Weisman, the lead contractor building a his electronics and hardly leaves the house. But
during the Holidays in New York City. Jonathan er is the only way to win the girl of his dreams, in Eugene O’Neill’s play, The Emperor Jones, was Although her sister Samantha (Esmée van barbecue shed in the backyard of her beach when his grandmother dies and his grandfather
and Sophie, 30s, on the fence about getting he must navigate a crazy group of guests, allies, hailed as “revelatory.” He became the first African- Kampen) can barely make ends meet herself, house, the other two workers on the job cross moves in, Marco’s life is turned upside-down
married. Jonathan’s sister, Julie, 40’s, newly and rivals to earn the promotion and affection American dramatic star in a lead role on Broadway, she is ready to help. She takes Kelly home and a boundary, making Laura feel that her space and he’s forced...to go play outside. “Nonno”
single and starting anew with her brother’s best he covets. and was named one of its finest actors. Gilpin arranges a job for her at a package delivery has been encroached upon. As Weisman (Grandpa) introduces him to bocce — the world’s
friend David. Jonathan’s parents, Barbara and immediately became the darling of the theater company. As an old acquaintance (Maarten disappears, sheltered and privileged Laura oldest game — and to the neighborhood crew of
Eddie, 70’s, married for almost 50 years and on world, receiving accolades and recognition no Heijmans) reclaims a large sum of money from must manage the laborers herself. Her old Italian men who play daily at the local court.
the precipice of divorce. Between Thanksgiving other Black actor had ever gotten—even being Kelly, the financial problems pile up and Kelly admonishments fall flat, forcing her to retreat With sport, laughter and love, “Marcolino,” as
and New Year’s Eve, each couple goes through invited to the White House. But by 1930, while sees no other solution than to go and deal for behind the pristine glass windows—keeping his grandfather calls him, finds connection to
their own evolution as they become face to face O’Neill went on to become a legend, Gilpin was him. When Samantha hears that, she doesn’t watch and being watched simultaneously. other people “in real life” and rounds up a team
with the realities of what it means to be in love. lost to history. want to know anything about her. Until things Tensions churn, the workers become more of neighborhood kids to take on his grandfather
really go wrong... But family doesn’t abandon unruly, and Laura ignores calls from her and his pals.
each other, right? husband while downing bottles of red wine,
waiting for Weisman to reappear.
Director(s): Daniel Hendricks Simon Director(s): Cameron Fife Director/Screenwriter: Arthur Egeli Director(s): Stanley Kolk Director(s): Verónica Chen Director(s): Julio Vincent Gambuto
Producer(s): Robert S. Gregory, Producer(s): Jason Adler Producer(s): Arthur Egeli, Heather Egeli, Producer(s): Floor Onrust Producer(s): Esteban Mentasti, Producer(s): Sam Sandweiss
Daniel Hendricks Simon Screenwriter(s): Cameron Fife and Judith Richland Screenwriter(s): Chris Westendorp Hori Mentasti Screenwriter(s): Julio Vincent
Screenwriter(s): Patrick Davin, Editor(s): Sandy Solowitz Screenwriter(s): Ian Bowater Editor(s): Moek de Groot Screenwriter(s): Verónica Chen Gambuto, B.R. Uzun
Daniel Hendricks Simon Dir. of Photography: Noel Maitland Editor(s): Philip Norden Dir. of Photography: Luuk Zonnenberg Editor(s): Leandro Aste Editor(s): Nick Garnham Wright
Editor(s): Daniel Hendricks Simon Key Cast: Adam Ray, Josh Zuckerman, Dir. of Photography: Jonathan Mariande Key Cast: Esmée van Kampen, Jennifer Dir. of Photography: Fernando Lockett Dir. of Photography: Powell Robinson
Dir. of Photography: Pedro J. Padilla Richard Kind, Willie Garson Key Cast: Shaun Parkes, John Hensley, Welts, Maarten Heijmans, Tim Olivier Key Cast: Gloria Carrá, Jorge Sesán, Key Cast: Owen Vaccaro, Anthony
Key Cast: Alexandra Turshen, Nija Okoro, Liza Weil, Nick Moran, Somer, Ayrton Kirchner, Fred Goessens Cristian Salguero, Mariana Chaud, Patellis, Anastasia Ganias-Gellin
Daniel Hendricks Simon, Marilyn Sokol, Nick Dorr, Eve Annenberg, Alexandra Hector Bordoni
Roger Hendricks Simon, Gregory Lay, Foucard, Heather Egeli, John Clayton,
Kiva Dawson, Richard Masur, Lonnie Farmer, Tim Misuradze,
Robert S. Gregory, Julia Tokarz Sarah MacDonnell, Daniel Washington
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BEST SOCIAL IMPACT FILM
2019 – “Afterward “
2018 – “Crime + Punishment”
2017 – “City of Ghosts”
2016 – “Hooligan Sparrow”
TIME IS PRECIOUS WOMAN OF THE 2015 – “3 ½ Minutes, Ten Bullets” CARO IN 10 MINUTES
PHOTOGRAPHS
SPAIN / DRAMA / 93 MINS JAPAN / ROMANCE, HORROR, COMEDY / 89 MINS
BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE USA / DRAMA, FANTASY / 13 MINS
Spanish with English subtitles Japanese with English subtitles 2019 – “Cold Case Hammarskjöld”
2018 – “The Dawn Wall”
Miguel, an actor suffering a decline in his profession, A gynophobic photographer discovers for the Caro is sick. Well, she thinks she might be, but
faces his last voyage caused by an incurable illness. His first time in his life the joys of loving a woman,
2017 – “Bending the Arc” everyone around her, including her doctor, believes
son Carlos is in a dilemma about whether he should help this one confused about her self-identity and 2016 – “Hooligan Sparrow” that her pain is all in her head. Left unsatisfied by
a father who abandoned him years ago. Sandra, Miguel’s self-esteem, by helping her in her perceptions of 2015 – “The Russian Woodpecker” her traditional outlets of support, Caro meets a
partner and Carlos’s aunt, tries to rebuild the father-son herself with his photographic retouching skills. mysterious woman who not only listens to her, but
relationship and also recuperate her own, almost lost, sees her as well. Shot on Super 16mm film, Caro in
romantic relationship. Agapito, an invisible friend, appears BEST NARRATIVE FEATURE 10 Minutes evokes the restless, meandering energy
and accompanies Miguel through tender and dramatic 2019 – “Sister Aimee” of the New Wave, but it is very much a snapshot of a
scenes till the end of his days. Miguel’s tragicomic life in 2018 – “Find This Dumb Little B*tch woman today: anxious and alienated by conventional
Madrid, filled with his weaknesses, fears and ghosts, takes structures of support, and yet undeterred in her
an important turn when he arrives on the island of Ibiza. It is and Throw Her Into A River” search for the meaning behind her pain.
there that that he rediscovers his childhood memories, old 2017 – “The Strange Ones”
friends, a rekindled love and his very being. Throughout this 2016 – “Little Men”
dynamic voyage we find ourselves caught up in the human
struggle between debility and nobility and sympathize with 2015 – “Zurich”
these characters who have found out that “time is precious.”
BEST CT SHORT
2019 – “120 Years”
2018 – “The Hammamis”
2017 – “Blind Sushi”
BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT
2019 – “Mack Wrestles”
2018 – “Kayayo”
2017 – “The Rabbit Hunt”
Director(s): Miguel Molina Director(s): Takeshi Kushida 2016 – “Another Kind of Girl”
Director(s): Caroline Johnson
Producer(s): Platea Films Producer(s): Shin Nishimura, 2015 – “Santa Cruz del Islote” Producer(s): Caroline Johnson
Screenwriter(s): Miguel Molina, Yousuke Sato
Jose Luis de Damas Screenwriter(s): Takeshi Kushida Screenwriter(s): Caroline Johnson
Editor(s): Pototo Diez Editor(s): Atsushi Gaudi Yamamoto BEST NARRATIVE SHORT Editor(s): Mohab Abou-Elalla
Dir. of Photography: Spencer Slishman
Dir. of Photography: Pototo Diez Dir. of Photography: Yu Ohishi 2019 – “The Animal” Key Cast: Caroline Johnson, Nikita
Key Cast: Miguel Molina, Saturnino Key Cast: Hideki Nagai, Itsuki Otaki,
García, Carlos Pulido, Sandra Blakstad Toshiaki Inomata, Toki Koinuma 2018 – “The Peculiar Abilities of Chaudhry, David Alan Madrick, Alexandra
Mr. Mahler” Hensley, Candace Elder
2017 – “UnderPressure”
32 | Greenwich International Film Festival NARRATIVE DOC. CT SHORTS 2016 – “Before the Bomb” Greenwich International Film Festival | 33
FEAT. FEAT. PROGRAM SOCIAL IMPACT FAMILY FRIENDLY
2015 – “Grounded”BEST CONNECTICUT SHORTS BEST CONNECTICUT SHORTS
CONVICTION ELVIS GRETA MOMMY’S NIGHTMARE MORNING MOURNING THE OLD MAN
USA / DOCUMENTARY / 21 MINS USA / DRAMA, COMEDY / 16 MINS USA / COMEDY / 27 MINS USA / DOCUMENTARY / 10 MINS USA / DARK COMEDY / 15 MINS USA / DRAMA, COMEDY / 16 MINS
At 16 years old Jeffrey Deskovic was convicted While grieving for the loss of his basset hound Armed with self-loathing, hopelessness and While my mother filmed my Kindergarten Morning Mourning follows two outrageously Alan, a 70-something widower, lives a dull and
of the rape and murder of Angela Correa, a named Elvis, Doug gets robbed and looks to his existential dread, 22-year-old Greta tries to find Halloween parade, a monster waited for her odd sisters, Pearl and Zelda, as they mourn their quiet life in his house, which he rarely leaves.
15-year-old high school classmate. His fight for neighbor for help in finding the last memory of one thing about adulthood that doesn’t suck. back at home. mother’s death at Greenwood Cemetery. Rating When his daughter pitches him the idea of
freedom sheds light on the shortcomings of the his late best friend. Through perseverance and Despite the support of her family, the vague the lives of her deceased lady neighbors on the moving into an assisted living community, he
American justice system and is a testament to courage, Doug must rise to action. impression of a job, and a place of her own, level of sexism they experienced in their day, the begins to recognize that he is no longer the
the human spirit. Greta still struggles to get out of bed. Every day. girls distract themselves from the grief of their young man that he thought he was. Just as this
Good thing she lives in New York City, where mother’s passing through morbid humor and happens, a 20-something named Naomi moves
everything seems twice as hard. Greta’s world satirical commentary. in next door, forcing Alan’s reflection on his age
looks pretty bleak…until she meets a woman to become even more apparent.
named April.
Director(s): Jia Wertz Director(s): Matt Valade, Connor Rog Director(s): Sparkman Clark Director(s): Jonathan Napolitano Director(s): Dana Greenfield Director(s): Devin Peluso
Producer(s): New York Film Academy Producer(s): Cathryn Schara Producer(s): Sparkman Clark, Producer(s): Brian Bolster, Kayleigh Producer(s): Gabby Bryan, Producer(s): Joseph Kaiser,
Editor(s): Jia Wertz Screenwriter(s): Matt Valade Edgar Velez, Amy Wadford, Julian West Napolitano David Bryan, Lauren Flack, Devin Peluso
Dir. of Photography: Trishna Mahtani Editor(s): Connor Rog Screenwriter(s): Sparkman Clark Editor(s): Jonathan Napolitano David Elijah Screenwriter(s): Devin Peluso
Key Subject(s): Jeffrey Deskovic, Dir. of Photography: Editor(s): Sparkman Clark Dir. of Photography: Jonathan Screenwriter(s): Gabby Bryan Editor(s): Shannon Rose Kelly,
Dan Horace E. Anderson Jr. Andrea Van Niekerk Dir. of Photography: Edgar Velez Napolitano Editor(s): Chris Plunkett Isaac Kuruvilla Balachandran
Key Cast: Doug Goldring, Key Cast: Sparkman Clark, Key Subject(s): Donna Napolitano, Dir. of Photography: Sam Wolff Dir. of Photography: Jacob Love
Jenn Sapozhnikov, Anthony Misiano, Callan Suozzi-Rearic, Julian West Jonathan Napolitano, Key Cast: Gabby Bryan, Magdalena Key Cast: Steve Coulter, Kate Pittard,
Kam Perez Krystal Napolitano Borlando, Maude Mitchell, Patrick Monaghan, Claudia Troy
Robert Kelly, Saiyam Kumar
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2020
AWARDS
Greenwich International Film Festival is proud to
THE OTHER SIDE THIS BODY HAS NO TEXT WAX PAUL NOW support talented filmmakers with awards and cash
prizes in three categories. We are grateful to our
USA, ETHIOPIA / DRAMA / 17 MINS USA / EXPERIMENTAL, DOCUMENTARY / 4 MINS USA / COMEDY, MOCKUMENTARY / 16 MINS
underwriters who allow us to provide financial
Days before his 18th birthday, Abel (Ethan A study of retroactive catharsis through nature, After a visit to Madame Tussauds Times Square, support through these special awards.
Herisse, “When They See Us”) finds himself spoken word, and skin. three New Yorkers answer the museum’s call Thank you to all of the filmmakers who entered
about to age out of his orphanage and leave for ideas on which celebrity to en-waxify next.
his younger brother, Kiya, behind. But when a The girls propose Paul Giamatti and start an GIFF’s film competition and participated in our
prospective adopting couple threatens to break
their relationship apart, the brothers wrestle
online movement to get the actor a statue of
his own. The “Wax Paul Now” movement goes
first-ever virtual Festival!
with the reality of never being adopted. Inspired viral, featured by Vulture, Forbes, The New York
by a true story. Times, and The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
The girls plot to create their own statue and to
sneak it inside the museum. But after they are
forcibly removed, the girls decide to work out- Best Social Impact Film Award
side Madame Tussauds once and for all. They
rent out the souvenir shop directly across the
Presented by
street and open a pop-up wax museum for one Bill & Ann Bresnan Foundation
night, celebrating an unveiling truly worthy of
Paul Giamatti.
Best Connecticut Short Film Award
Presented by
The Connecticut Office of Film,
Television & Digital Media
Director(s): Josh Leong Director, Producer, Director(s): Val Bodurtha, The JP Morgan Chase
Producer(s): Sofia Bara, Bemnet Screenwriter, Editor and Director Sophie Mann, Rebecca Shaw Audience Award
of Photography: Sophie Bardos Producer(s): Val Bodurtha,
Presented by JP Morgan Chase
Yemesgen, Augustine Hong,
Jonathan Ferguson, Khalil-El Ghoul, Key Cast: Sophie Bardos Sophie Mann, Rebecca Shaw
Sounil & Gracie Yu, Daniel & Carolina Screenwriter(s): Val Bodurtha, *New this year, giving our
Bara, Jin & May Leong Sophie Mann, Rebecca Shaw
Screenwriter(s): Josh Leong Editor(s): Debbie McMurtrey
audience the chance to vote
Editor(s): Josh Leong Dir. of Photography: Wolfgang Held for their favorite film!
Dir. of Photography: Tom Ingwersen Key Cast: Val Bodurtha, Sophie Mann,
Key Cast: Ethan Herisse, Wayna, Rebecca Shaw, Paul Giamatti,
Adonai Kelelom Trevor van Uden, Richard Brevard
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Heineman directed and executive produced a five-part
television docu-series entitled THE TRADE that premiered at
the 2018 Sundance Film Festival and was recently honored
by the International Documentary Association as the Best
Episodic Series of 2018. The critically acclaimed Showtime
series chronicles the opioid crisis through the eyes of those
most affected--growers, cartel members, users and law
enforcement. It was described by The Hollywood Reporter as
“a thriller...like TRAFFIC only current and real”, while the New
York Times said, “Heineman has shown an uncanny ability to
gain access to hard-to-reach people and places.”
His last documentary film CITY OF GHOSTS, which follows
a group of citizen-journalists exposing the horrors of ISIS,
premiered at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival and was
distributed worldwide by Amazon Studios before having
its broadcast premiere on A&E. Heineman won his second
Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Documentary Award
from the DGA for the film--one of only three directors to
win the prestigious honor twice. CITY OF GHOSTS also
won the Courage Under Fire Award from the International
Documentary Association “in recognition of conspicuous
bravery in the pursuit of truth” and was listed on over 20 critics
and year-end lists for Best Documentary of 2017. The film was
also nominated for a BAFTA Award, PGA Award, IDA Award
for Best Documentary Feature, and Primetime Emmy for
Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking.
Matthew Heineman is an Academy Award-nominated
CARTEL LAND, which explores vigilantes taking on the
and Emmy Award-winning filmmaker. The Sundance Film
Mexican drug cartels, was nominated for an Academy Award
Festival called Heineman “one of the most talented and
for Best Documentary Feature and won three Primetime
exciting documentary filmmakers working today”, while
Emmy Awards, including Exceptional Merit in Documentary
Anne Thompson of Indiewire wrote that Heineman is a
Filmmaking and Best Cinematography. The film premiered
“respected and gifted filmmaker who combines gonzo
in the U.S. Documentary Competition at the 2015 Sundance
fearlessness with empathetic sensitivity.” He recently
Film Festival, where Heineman won the Best Director Award
received a nomination for Outstanding Directorial
and Special Jury Prize for Cinematography. CARTEL LAND
Achievement of a First Time Feature Film Director from
was also awarded the Courage Under Fire Award, the DGA
the Directors Guild of America for his narrative debut A
Award for Outstanding Achievement in Documentary, and
PRIVATE WAR--making Heineman and Martin Scorsese
the George Polk Award in Journalism. The film was released
the only filmmakers ever nominated for both narrative and
theatrically nationwide by The Orchard and had its broadcast
documentary DGA Awards.
premiere on A&E.
A PRIVATE WAR stars Jamie Dornan, Tom Hollander,
He previously co-directed and produced the feature-length,
Stanley Tucci, and Oscar-nominee Rosamund Pike as
Emmy-nominated documentary ESCAPE FIRE: The Fight
legendary war reporter Marie Colvin. The film premiered
to Rescue American Healthcare; collaborated for two years
at the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival before
on the Emmy- nominated HBO series, THE ALZHEIMER’S
being released nationwide by Aviron Pictures. It was
PROJECT; and also directed and produced OUR TIME – his
a New York Times Critics’ Pick and Variety hailed the
first documentary about what it’s like to be young in America.
film as “Heineman’s astonishing narrative debut,” and
“an incredibly sophisticated, psychologically immersive
Heineman, a 2005 graduate of Dartmouth College, is based in
film.” A PRIVATE WAR also earned two Golden Globe
New York City.
nominations for Best Actress and Best Original Song.
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