Screening Time: Friday, May 2, 1:30 PM, Charles Theatre 1
Sunday, May 4, 4:00 PM, Charles Theatre 1

Director: Michael Galinsky and Suki Hawley
Cast: J.H. Hatfield, Sander Hicks, Mark Crispin Miller

Country: U.S.
Year: 2002
Running Time: 79 minutes
Format: 35mm

This multi-award-winning documentary tells the story of Fortunate Son, the first sensational, incriminating biography of George W. Bush, released prior to the 2000 presidential election. Despite being #8 on Amazon.com’s best-seller list, St. Martin’s Press recalled the book in 1999, citing distrust of the author, J.H. Hatfield, based on his own secret criminal past. Within weeks, small, underground, “punk” publisher, Soft Skull Press, announced that it would re-publish the book. Horns and Halos follows Hatfield and Soft Skull founder, Sander Hicks, as they endure a year of lawsuits, bad press, and disagreements with their distributor in an effort to get the book back on shelves. The result is a tale of perseverance culminating with Hicks revealing Hatfield’s sources to the press with electrifying consequences.

--Skizz Cyzyk

Presented By: Michael Galinsky & Suki Hawley

Suki Hawley and Michael Galinsky’s debut feature, Half-Cocked (1995), had a successful video and soundtrack release on Matador Records. Their follow-up, Radiation (1999), had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival, and continued on to 30 other festivals in the US, Europe, Asia, and South America. Since 2000, Suki has directed and edited dozens of short pieces for internet clients sonypictures.com, AtomicPop.com, Circuit DVD Magazine, and Insound.com. In 1999, she received a grant from noted photographer/filmmaker Robert Frank to fund young women filmmakers, which she has used to develop and produce two documentary portraits.

Michael has played in the New York bands Sleepyhead and Laptop. In 1997, he co-produced two segments for MSNBC's show Edgewise - one of which was shown opening night at 1998's Rotterdam International Film Festival. As a photographer, his photos have appeared on over 30 album covers and in magazines such as Rolling Stone, Seventeen, Ray Gun, Puncture, and The Sun. His first book of photographs, Scraps (1999), has been praised by the Village Voice, Ray Gun, and The New York Press as uniquely inspired and in 1999 he had 12 major exhibitions in the US and Europe. For the last two years, Suki and Michael have served as jurors at the Williamsburg International Film Festival, and in 2001 they served as jurors for the New York EXPOsition of Short Film and Video. They are currently working with the DVD production company, PlexiFilm, creating content for DVD.