2008 Oscar Winner for Best Documentary:
"Taxi to the Dark Side"

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Oscar nominated TAXI TO THE DARK SIDE, the latest documentary from now two-time Oscar-nominee Alex Gibney, confirms his standing as one of the foremost non-fiction filmmakers working today. A stunning inquiry into the suspicious death of an Afghani taxi driver at Bagram air base in 2002, the film is a fastidiously assembled, uncommonly well-researched examination of how an innocent civilian was apprehended, imprisoned, tortured, and ultimately murdered by the greatest democracy on earth. Intermingling documents and records of the incident with candid testimony from eyewitnesses and participants, the film uncovers an inescapable link between the tragic incidents that unfolded in Bagram and the policies made at the very highest level of the United States government in Washington, D.C. Combining the cool detachment of a forensic expert with the heated indignation of a proud American who holds his country to a high standard, Gibney’s film reveals how the Bush administration has systematically betrayed the very ideals it professes to uphold.

Local Focus:
Short Films By
Brennan Scott and Tyler Hickman

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Thursday, April 17 @ 7:30pm
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Brennan Scott and Tyler Hickman (22) are two filmmakers that attend Cape Fear Community College in Wilmington, NC. Both directors share common influences such as Sam Raimi, Tony Scott, Dario Argento, and David Fincher. In 2007, both filmmakers, under the productions Vacant Sky Productions/Republic Films, directed 6 short films ranging from comedy to drama to horror. Each short is also complete with original music composed by the two directors themselves. Of the 6 films made, 5 have succeeded in being selections into many national and worldwide film festivals. With each improved project, the two filmmakers plan to eventually get enough money and support to make their first feature film.
Brennan’s short films started early in 2007 with Phone Calls; a mystery/suspense/thriller that involves a young woman getting harassed by a mysterious caller. In The Studio With: Burrito De Manana is a mockumentary about a Latin influenced rock group trying to make their new record, in the vein of Spinal Tap. House of Echoes is a J-horror influenced horror film where a young man is being stalked by a vengeful ghost. Tyler Hickman’s shorts started with Slipping Away, a drama/thriller where for a young man, life is slipping away. The Big Come Down is an action/drama where a man must fight to find the woman he loves, at all cost. In Complication, the latest short, a man is stuck in an elevator with a psychopath and he finds there is only one way out.

YWCA Racial Justice Film Series presents:

NO! The Rape Documentary
Friday, April 11 @ 7:30pm
Saturday, April 12 @ 7:30pm
Tickets $5, Members free

www.notherapedocumentary.com

One out of three women in the United States will be sexually assaulted in their lifetime.

Produced and Directed over a period of eleven years, seven of which were full time, by Aishah Shahidah Simmons, an incest and rape survivor, this groundbreaking feature length documentary features riveting testimonials from Black women survivors who defy victimization.

Violence prevention advocates, theologians, sociologists, historians, anthropologists, and other leading scholars and human rights activists provide an interdisciplinary context with which to examine sexual violence in African-American communities.

Impacting archival footage, spirited music, transformational dance, and performances from award-winning poets take viewers on a journey from enslavement of African people in the United States through present day.

Winner of an audience choice award and a juried award at the San Diego Women Film Festival, NO! also explores how rape is used as a weapon of homophobia. Since its official release in 2006, NO! has been screened and distributed to racially and ethnically diverse audiences at film festivals, community centers, colleges/universities, high schools, correctional facilities, rape crisis centers, battered women’s shelters, and conferences throughout the United States, in Italy, Spain, France, Rwanda, Kenya, Nepal, South Africa, Hungary, Jordan, Burkina Faso, Peru, Mexico, and Brazil.

The Favor
Director: Eva Aridjis
110 minutes / usa / color

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An unmarried photographer living in New Jersey receives a phone call from a woman who broke his heart 25 years ago. A week later, he has loved her and lost her all over again, and her troubled teenage son is living with him. THE FAVOR is an intimate family drama that explores the fabric of human relationships and what we will do for the ones we love. Variety calls it a "gently wrought tearjerker" with strong performances by Tony Award Winning actor Frank Wood and newcomer Ryan Donowho.