113 minutes, 2003 USA By John Dullaghan

Bukowski: Born Into This is the first comprehensive documentary of Charles Bukowski (1920-1994). The film traces his extraordinary life, from an abusive childhood through decades of poverty and alcoholism; numerous menial jobs and turbulent relationships; through 14 years as a postal employee; and his eventual international celebrity as a poet, novelist and underground cult icon. In his lifetime, Bukowski became most widely known as the screenwriter and real-life model for Barfly, the feature film based on his early life. The result is a film that peels off the hardened mask of the mythic Bukowski to reveal the insecure, loving and extremely human man-and the artist -underneath.

"A shocking, surprisingly tender and sometimes frightening portrait."
 - The Oregonian

"Compelling enough to enthrall even those who've never read a poem in their lives."  - Wilamette Week

"It reveals Bukowski to be a far grander artist than his bum's armor would suggest." - Entertainment Weekly

"Engrossing, skillfully woven. It makes a strong case for Bukowski as a major American poet."  - New York Times

Magnolia Pictures
115 West 27th Street, 8th Floor, New York, NY 10001
(212) 924-6701
info@magpictures.com
http://www.magpictures.com/distribution/bukowski/index.htm

29 minutes, 1991 3/4" Video, USA By Jacob Young

Despite terrible problems, Jesco White struggles to live up to his father's legacy as the finest dancer in the Appalachian Mountains.

“Jacob Young's bizarre documentary brilliantly captures American Hillbilly life before it disappears." - London Daily Mail

“ It's John Waters meets Tennessee Williams” - London Independent

Mid- Western Regional Emmy Award Winner

MOVIEFISH Video Production & Distribution
Bill Motley
1875 S. Bascom Ave.
Ste.116, #183
Campbell, CA 95008
800.788.4087
moviefish@pobox.com
www.DancingOutlaw.com

52 minutes, 2003 Beta SP, USA By Mara Wallis

Many of the entertainers who toured the Vietnam war were well known...but not all. Filmmaker Mara Wallis belonged to this group of freelance performers for over 2 years and returns to the intensity of the times to tell their compelling stories in Entertaining Vietnam. The entertainers we meet in this award winning documentary returned repeatedly to Vietnam, hitching rides from base to base to perform on landing zones at remote outposts...there were casualties amongst their ranks. Interweaving rare archival footage and interviews with veteran performers from Australia and the U.S., Entertaining Vietnam offers new insight into a tumultuous time by taking us to a place only a few really experienced.

Best Documentary, Savannah Film Festival

Mara Wallis
1750 Vallejo St. #106
San Francisco, CA 94123
415.885.4052 fax 415.929.1675
mxyz@earthlink.net
www.entertainingvietnam.com

Highway Amazon	Northwest Premier
12 minutes, 2003 miniDV, USA By Ronnie Cramer

Highway Amazon documents the strange saga of Christine Fetzer, a female bodybuilder who travels the country wrestling men on beds in hotel rooms. Between “sessions” she discusses her unique method of earning a living and talks about her former career as an exotic dancer. After pulling down a couple of beers, she even spills the beans about bodybuilders and drugs.

"Outrageously weird and funny!" - Westword

Miami Short Film Festival, Best Documentary

Ronnie Cramer
Scorched Earth Productions
P.O. ox 101083
Denver, CO 80250
303-778-6264
ronnie@cramer.org
www.cultfilms.net
sepnet.com/rcramer/highway.htm

The Legacy of Rosina Lhevine Northwest Premier
65 minutes, 2002 Beta SP, USA By Salome Ramras Arkatov

The Legacy of Rosina Lhevine explores the nature of art, creativity and the human potential through the extraordinary life and accomplishments of the legendary pianist and master teacher Mme. Lhevinne. Her incomparable teaching career flourished after age 65 and her pupils included such world famous artists as Van Cliburn, Misha Dichter, John Browning, Hiroko Nakamura, Kun Woo Paik, Daniel Pollack, Jeffrey Siegel, James Levine and John Williams. Mme. Lhevinne's remarkable solo career began at age 75 and climaxed at age 82 when she made her spectacular debut with the New York Philharmonic under the direction of Leonard Bernstein. Intimate conversations with and stunning performances by her renowned students, along with Mme. Lhevinne's own exceptionally beautiful performances, reveal the inspiring story of her productive life. The Legacy of Rosina Lhevine stands as a testament to the resiliency of the human spirit and its ability to endure, transform, nurture and flourish.

Seventh Art Releasing
7551 Sunset Blvd., Suite 104
Los Angeles, CA 90046
323-845-1455
liz@7thart.com
www.7thart.com

Let's Get Frank	Montana Premier
75 minutes, 2003 miniDV, USA By Bart Everly

“Filmmaker Bart Everly trailed Massachusetts congressman Barney Frank for two years, including President Clinton’s impeachment hearings, and the result was Let’s Get Frank, an entertaining behind-the-scenes tour of the sausage factory that is Congress. Frank survived his own sex scandal in 1989, and that helped him defend Clinton fearlessly during the hearings. In this film, Frank turns his nimble wit on the prosecutor Ken Starr, committee chairman Henry Hyde, and other Republicans, at one point jokingly comparing the impeachment process to professional wrestling: ‘We’re going to grunt and groan, but it’s fixed.'

Most overlooked political documentary of 2004.” - Boston Globe

Bart Everly
46 Old Fulton St. #3
Brooklyn, NY 11201
barteverly@hotmail.com
www.barteverly.com

Life In a Basket	Montana Premier
33 minutes, 2003 35mm, USA By Paul Haggar & Sheri Sussman

We’ve all seen homeless people pushing shopping carts down the street,
shopping carts packed to the brim with all kinds of "junk." But what’s actually inside those shopping carts anyway? In an almost surreal show-and-tell, this documentary allows homeless people to explain just what they carry in their traveling carts - and why. In this simple and humanizing film, some thirty men and women explain what they have in their carts, and why the items they push around are so important to their physical, psychological, and spiritual survival. You’ll never look at those carts the same way again!

Seri Sussman
4715 Orion Ave. #205
Sherman Oaks, CA 91403
SAYTHINGS@AOL.COM

9 minutes, 2003 16mm, Germany By Gülseli-Bille Baur

When the shooting began we were going to make a portrait of the universe. We were looking for a metaphor for soul. We started with a feather then later, the ability to fly. We started to follow the feather, from the goose´s body to the people`s pillow.

Hochschule Fur Film und Fernsehen
Marlene-Dietrich-Allee11
14482 Potsdam
Germany
49 331 6202 140
m.liebnitz@hff-potsdam.de

75 minutes, 2003 miniDV, USA By Jane Gray

Playing House is a compelling and humorous verité documentary that presents a portrait of five seventh- and eighth-grade girls during their first year at Fay School, the oldest junior boarding school in America. The film takes place primarily in the dormitory the girls share, Webster House, where we watch their everyday lives unfold as they make friends and enemies, have their first dates, and sleep with stuffed animals. Through a series of intimate vignettes, Playing House follows the girls from September, when their parents kiss and hug them good-bye, to June, when their good-byes to each other are surprisingly teary given the rocky year they’ve shared.

People’s Choice Award, Seattle International Documentary Festival

Berkeley Media LLC
Saul Zaentz Film Center
2600 Tenth Street, Suite 626
Berkeley, CA 94710
Phone: (510) 486-9900
Fax: (510) 486-9944
e-mail: info@berkeleymedia.com
http:// www.berkeleymedia.com
www.purple-house.com

112 minutes, 2002 16mm, USA By Rick Derby

This heartfelt documentary traces the inspirational journey of Jerry Richardson and the Lady Chieftains, a high school basketball team, from the small Navajo community of Shiprock, New Mexico. Fresh out of college, Jerry accepts a challenge to turn a group of shy, quiet young women into fighters on the basketball court. What results is a story of winning, losing and the bumps along the way. As the girl's struggle to overcome prejudice and self-doubt, Jerry draws a parallel from his own pain growing up African-American in the forced-integration of the South. A bond of outsiders is forged that allows the man and his team to rise above the odds and emerge as champions. Rick Derby focuses on the Navajo's serene and spiritual philosophy in contrast to the harshness of their isolated environment. A coming-of-age story that everyone can relate to, you can't help but cheer.

“A thought-provoking and emotionally forceful American story; a real-life
narrative in which race, class and gender collide to shatter prejudice.”
 - San Francisco Bay Guardian

Rick Derby
107 West 75th Street, #3B
New York, NY 10023
shiprock@verizon.net

78 minutes, 2003 16mm/DVCAM, USA By Robb Moss

If you could look your future in the eye, would it recognize you? In 1978, on a breath-taking trip in the Grand Canyon, filmmaker Robb Moss and a group of free-spirited friends and lovers took a month-long trip down the Colorado River. Cutting between footage of their youthful, often naked, unscheduled lives and the complex realities of their adulthood today, the film creates a compelling portrait of cultural metamorphosis. From running rapids to running for mayor, The Same River Twice is a story of change, choices, and of finding one's place in the world.

"A piercingly poignant then-and-now portrait...so palpable it puts a lump in your throat."  - New York Times

Best Documentary Film, Nashville Independent Film Festival

Best Documentary Film, Sidewalk Moving Picture Festival

Best Documentary Film, New England Film & Video Festival

Bullfrog Films
P.O. Box 149
Oley, PA 19547
610/779-8226
www.bullfrogfilms.com

10 minutes, 1990 16mm, USA By John Starr & Roger Teich

While the city sleeps, hardcore adrenaline junkies are at play in the "vertical playground" of downtown Los Angeles. They call themselves "BASE jumpers." Theirs is the riskiest of all sports: parachuting from fixed objects such as skyscrapers. Stealing Altitude explores the dreams and adventures of one BASE jumper.

"A stylish and unsettling documentary ... achieves a grainy, black & white visual poetry." - Los Angeles Times

Roger Teich
rteich@juno.com
www.stealingaltitude.com