Y’all Come! The Hell Hole Swamp Festival
(East Coast premiere)

Director: Jay Edwards & Dave Drablik
Country: USA
Year: 2001
Running Time: 23 minutes
Format: BetaSP

Synopsis: An unabashed celebration of American culture, this doc visits Jamestown, South Carolina (population 83) for the 30th Annual Hell Hole Swamp Festival. Meet the in-coming and out-going Miss Hell Hole Swamp. See the town mayor model his gams in the Sexiest Legs contest. Watch as folks compete in bull riding, tobacco spitting and arm wrestling while maybe sneaking a taste of the local moonshine. Y’ALL COME! Offers an unflinching, unfiltered gander at a disappearing Southern tradition.

Print Source: Jay Edwards, PO Box 89185, Atlanta, GA 30312, 404-808-4489, jedword@mindspring.com

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Bicentennial Junk

Director: Richard Slade
Country: USA
Year: 1976
Running Time: 4:00
Format: 16mm

Synopsis: A much earlier film from the director of last year’s A HEAD OF TIME, AHEAD OF TIME documentary on Hank Levy. This short film was made for, and was aired as part of Weekend, a satirical TV magazine show on NBC in July of 1976. The film takes a humorous look at souvenirs sold for the United States’ bicentennial celebration. Research did not find any made in this country.

Print Source: Audio Visual Artists’ Productions, 1412 Northeast Drive, Silver Spring, MD 20904, 301-384-9595, fax: 301-384-2525, avaproductions@mindspring.com, www.AudioVisualArtists.com

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The King and Dick

Director: Scott Calonico
Country: USA
Year: 2002
Running Time: 7 minutes
Format: 35mm

Synopsis: A factual retelling of the day Elvis met Nixon.

Print Source: AD&D Productions, PO Box 16650, Austin, TX 78761, monkey@slowkid.com, www.flojo.com

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The Velvet Tigress

Director: Jen Sachs
Country: USA
Year: 2001
Running Time: 11 minutes
Format: 16mm

Synopsis: An award-winning animated documentary of the 1931 Winnie Ruth Judd “Trunk Murders” trial as it was presented by the sensational press of the time. The latest film from Baltimore-native Jen Sachs, featuring narration by Heather Donahue (The Blair Witch Project).

Print Source: jen_sachs@hotmail.com, www.jensachs.com

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Downpour Resurfacing

Director: Frances Nkara
Country: USA
Year: 2002
Running Time: 28 minutes
Format: 16mm

Synopsis: Noted Buddhist teacher, innovative psychiatrist in body-mind therapy, and poet Robert Hall embodies a warmhearted sense of self and sincere strength despite the childhood sexual and physical abuse that he reveals with exceptional clarity. His deep compassion glows as he reveals this assault neither in denial nor stuck in the necessary anger, but set on revealing the path to freedom from its violent hold. Experimental montage and music evoke the dream world where these traumas take hold and then transform.

Print Source: Frances Nkara, PO Box 40204, San Francisco, CA 94140 415-794-3143, francesnkara@yahoo.com

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Film Of Her

Director: Bill Morrison
Country: U.S.
Year: 1996
Running Time: 12 minutes
Format: 35mm

Synopsis: Experimental, lyrical documentary that tells the story of how Howard L Walls, a clerk at the Library of Congress who saved the Library’s paper print collection. (Kemp Niver would later receive an Academy Award for restoring the collection.) The film contains some of the earliest footage in cinema history and lyrically sheds light on the issues of film preservation.

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