72 minutes, 2005 miniDV , USA By Peter Richardson

In the rural Oregon logging town of Philomath, every high school graduate has their college tuition paid thanks to the generosity of local lumber baron Rex Clemens. But when a new schools Superintendent arrives from Chicago, the administrators of the scholarship become concerned over the increasingly "liberal" direction of the schools. The conflict between the old-time loggers and the "urban immigrants" escalates dramatically, and the scholarship administrators deliver an ultimatum: either the superintendent leaves, or the scholarship is withdrawn, leaving the town's children without money for college.

Official Selection - 2006 Sundance Film Festival

Peter Richardson
Bicoastal Films LLC
963 NW Jackson Avenue #302
Corvallis, OR 97330
310-936-1333
www.clearcutmovie.com
bicoastalfilms@gmail.com

87 minutes, 2005 HD, USA & Mexico By Michêle Ohayon

Cowboy Del Amor is a verité-style documentary comedy about a cowboy-turned-matchmaker who can't manage his own love life.   It follows self-proclaimed "Cowboy Cupid" Ivan Thompson, as he finds Mexican brides for disillusioned American men searching for the perfect wife.   His clients include Rick, an ex-marine long-distance truck driver, and Lee, a hopeful 70-year-old Vietnam Veteran. They willingly pay $3,000 for a 600-mile bus ride into the heart of Mexico in search for true love. For Ivan, love knows no borders. Ivan married a Mexican woman himself - then divorced her when she turned the tables on him. But one matrimonial mishap can't corral this cowboy. He might not look like he knows much about love, but his success rate proves that he just might. His strategies are quirky and entertaining, from posting ads in the Mexican papers to checking his clients' pulse. As Ivan says, anyone can find a wife, as long as they have the "huevos" to do something about it.   Love doesn't just stroll up and say 'Howdy!'

"Richly amusing and sporadically insightful . . . Michèle Ohayon takes an obviously bemused yet scrupulously nonjudgmental approach to Thompson and his clientele." - Variety

South by Southwest Film Festival Audience and Jury Award, 2005

Homeland Film Productions
2337 High Oak Drive

(323) 871-1045

El Inmigrante	Northwest Premier
90 minutes, 2005 miniDV, USA/Mexico By John Sheedy, David Eckenrode & John Eckenrode

A documentary film that examines the Mexican and American border crisis by telling the story of Eusebio de Haro a young Mexican migrant who was shot and killed during one of his journeys north. The film presents a distinct humanitarian focus in which story and character take precedent over policy and empiricism. Towards this end "El Inmigrante" examines the perspectives of a diverse cast of players in this border narrative. A cast which includes the de Haro family, the community of Brackettville, Texas-where Eusebio was shot, members of vigilante border militias in Arizona, the horseback border patrol in El Paso, and migrants en route to an uncertain future in the United States.

David Eckenrode

2412 Delwood Ave.
Durango, CO   81302
970-759-9683
www.elinmigrantemovie.com
david@elinmigrantemovie.com

Hot Afternoons Have Been in Montana
16 minutes, 2005 16mm, USA By Ken Kimmelman

Based on the esteemed 1925 Nation prize-winning poem by Eli Siegel, this dramatic and colorful montage, combining still photography, live-action and special effects, shows how a hot afternoon in Montana is related to the whole world--people, places, things, events-past and present.   It so deeply honors the earth--its land, history and people.

"Ken Kimmelman's reproduction, on film , of Eli Siegel's magisterial poem, is an extraordinary achievement. It matches, in its visual beauty, the elegance of Siegel's words, and adds the dimension of stunning imagery to an already profound work of art." - Howard Zinn, Historian

Imagery Film,Ltd.
91 Bedford Street
New York, NY 10014
212-243-5579
ifl.home.mindspring.com
ifl@mindspring.com

Last Thoughts	World Premier
72 minutes, 2005 Super 16mm, USA By Kevin Henry

In 1926, a sixteen-year-old boy hopped his first train from Oklahoma to California, beginning a ten-year odyssey marked by life-changing experiences. He kept his stories from those Depression years to himself until the eve of his death, when he made a tape recording for posterity. Seventy-five years after that first train ride, his grandson would set out with that tape and a 16mm camera, looking for echoes of those experiences in the modern landscape. Last Thoughts is an impressionistic tour of the American West, past and present, guided by the voice of a dying hobo.

Kevin Henry
PO Box 1199
Carmel, CA 93921
www.last-thoughts.com
k@severian.com

Milepost 314	World Premier
8 minutes, 2005 Super 16mm, USA By Anne Devereux

Where great corridors of migrating wildlife and human commerce intersect, "Milepost 314" profiles Bozeman wildlife biologist April Craighead's efforts to make freeways less destructive to our natural heritage. Filmed along Interstate 90 just east of Bozeman, filmmaker and scientist explore solutions to prevent hundreds of animals from dying in collisions with automobiles each year.

Anne Devereux
The Dept. of Moving Pictures
621 Canary Lane
Bozeman, MT 59715
www.thedmp.com
anne@thedmp.com

58 minutes, 2005 Beta, USA By Katie Jennings

"The trees were our first teachers." Known to the Skokomish people of the Pacific Northwest as "subiyay", National Heritage Fellow, Gerald Bruce Miller, passed on the silent teachings of the natural world to anyone who came to learn. A passionate student of the culture, Bruce became the bearer of the language, oral traditions, art and spirituality of the Twana people of Hood Canal. This gentle and generous film documents his race against time and ailing health to pass his knowledge on to the next generation. The four-part seasonal structure, gradually unfolding narrative, and currents of deep emotion make Teachings of the Tree People a poignant walk through Indian Country.

IslandWood
4450 Blakely Ave NE
Bainbridge Island, WA   98110
(206) 855-4300
www.islandwood.org
info@islandwood.org

10 minutes, 2005 miniDV & 16mm, USA By Danny Reyes

This is a ten minute film about a young girl who is paralized and goes to the Burning Man Festival to spin fire as a performer. Her story is told about how she became paralized and what she has learned from her accident. She also gives us a great show of 'Poi' (fire-spinning) at the unique 2004, Burning Man Festival. This is an in depth look at one's determination and spiritual growth.


Danny Reyes
836 South 4th West
Missoula, MT 59801
(406)721-1412
sunbearcrystal@hotmail.com

58 minutes, 2005 miniDV, USA By Jeremy Levine & Landon Van Soest

Walking the Line offers a harrowing view of the chaos, absurdity, and senseless deaths along the U.S.-Mexico border through private citizens who are taking the law into their own hands. The region, celebrated for its history of lawlessness, has become the most highly trafficked areas for immigrants in the world~and one of the most dangerous. A shift in border policy forces migrants to cross the unforgiving desert where thousands die; those who make it face volatile civilian militias. Following rancher vigilantes with semiautomatic weapons, outlaw pastors with four-wheel drives, and impoverished immigrants with dreams of a better life, the film explores the uncertain line between what is patriotic, what is moral, and what is just.

Jeremy Levine
513 S. Aurora St.
Ithaca, NY 14850
www.walkingthelinemovie.com
wtlmovie@yahoo.com