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ON BROADWAY
World Premiere

DIRECTOR: Dave McLaughlin
PRODUCERS: Mark Hankey, Kris Meyer, Lance Greene, Charlie Harrington
SCREENWRITER: Dave McLaughlin
CINEMATOGRAPHER: Terrence Hayes
EDITOR: Julie Garces
CAST: Joe McIntyre, Jill Flint, Eliza Dushku, Mike O'Malley, Sean Lawlor, Vincent Dowling, Robert Wahlberg, Will Arnett, Amy Poehler, Lance Greene
98 Minutes, 2006, United States
www.onbroadwaythemovie.com

ON BROADWAY is about how laughter helps us deal with loss. It's about the ties of family and the warmth of Boston's neighborhoods. It's about a young man with vision, and the guts to go for it. It's about a father and son, and breaking down the wall that divides them. During the wake of Jack's godfather he hears the dead man's voice telling him to write a play. When nobody else will produce the play, Jack quits his job to produce it himself. With no money and just his gut to guide him, Jack mounts the play on the only stage he can afford: in the back room of a local pub...on a neighborhood street called Broadway. In this humble setting, Jack brings to life the play he sees in his heart - and brings together his family and friends.

THURSDAY JULY 19th – 7PM
Cartlidge & Browne Barrel Room Theater
Admission $9

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ARCTIC TALE

DIRECTORS: Adam Ravetch, Sarah Robertson
PRODUCER: Adam Leipzig
SCREENWRITERS: Linda Woolverton, Mose Richards
CINEMATOGRAPHER: Adam Ravetch
EDITOR: Frank McGrath
MUSIC: Joby Talbot
96 minutes 2007 United States
www.paramountvantage.com/arctic

Arctic Tale is an epic adventure that explores the beautiful icebound world of the Great North.

Narrated by Queen Latifah the film is from the producers that brought you “March of the Penguins,” Arctic Tale is the perfect film to open the Napa Sonoma Wine Country Film Festival which has a passion for all things related to Jack London, who spent some serious time in the frozen North.

Arctic Tale tells the story of the walrus “Seela” and the polar bear “Nanu,” as they journey from birth to adolescence to maturity and parenthood in the frozen Arctic wilderness. As the planet warms, the Arctic is changing, disrupting the ancient rhythms of life that the walrus and polar bears rely on to survive.

Once a perpetual winter wonderland of snow and ice, the walrus and the polar bear are losing their beautiful icebound world as it melts from underneath them.

THURSDAY JULY 19th – 8:45PM
Cartlidge & Browne Winery outdoors
Admission: $12.50

Preceeded by the short film DORME
Northern California Premiere

DIRECTOR/PRODUCER/SCREENWRITER: Sylvia Binsfeld
CINEMATOGRAPHER: Svetlana Cvetko
EDITOR: Sharon Franklin
MUSIC: Amardo Antunes
CAST: Zachary Nascar, Ingrid Wedmann, Desireé Bernesque, Dominique Long
7 Minutes, 2006, United States
sylvia@dreamweaverfilms.com

This beautiful fantasy film, sweeps the audience away on a magical journey into the world of dreams. Dorme is a celebration of the subconscious mind, and artist feast for the eyes and an escape for the soul. The story is told without the use of words, as a boy is lolled to sleep and his adventure begins.

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MEXICAN SUNRISE
Northern California Premiere

DIRECTOR/PRODUCER/SCREENWRITER: Rowdy Stovall
CAST: Jordan Belfi, William Gregory Lee, Reed Frerichs, Tom Tartamella, Drew Powell
80 Minutes, 2006, United States
rowdy@redjfilms.com

This multi winning film is a fast paced, well written blend of drama, thrills and action. A "Very Bad Things" south of the border, it is a reminder of the cost of redemption and the price of friendship.

The story immediately grabs you from the very beginning with the intense scene of someone being buried alive. You don't know who it is or how they got there, but you are definitely intrigued from the start. With the use of flashbacks the director does a great job developing characters and relationships between the five friends. The flash forwards throughout the movie keeps the intense feeling that something bad is coming.

With cast and crew

Friday JULY 20th – 7PM
Cartlidge & Browne Winery Barrel Room Theater
Admission: $9.00

Preceeded by the short film Real Men by Sean Hanish

Best friends push the boundaries of their relationship to discover what a 'real man' is.






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THIS IS ENGLAND
JURY PRIZE - ROME INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2006
BRITISH INDEPENDENT FILM AWARDS
          – BEST FILM & BEST NEWCOMER 2006

DIRECTOR: Shane Meadows
PRODUCER: Mark Herbert
SCREENWRITER:Shane Meadows
CINEMATOGRAPHER:Danny Cohen
EDITOR:Chris Wyatt
MUSIC:Ludovico Einaudi
CAST: Thomas Turgoose,Stephen Graham, Jo Hartley, Andrew Shim, Vicky McClure
98 minutes, 2006, Great Britain
www.ifcfirsttake.com/thisisengland

Another in the semi-autobiographical films by UK indie director Shane Meadows, THIS IS ENGLAND stands at the pinnacle of his acclaimed “midlands” working class films – TWENTYFOUR SEVEN, A ROOM FOR ROMEO BRASS, DEAD MAN’S SHOES and ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE MIDLANDS.

It’s 1983, England: Thatcher, Goths, Punks, Skinheads and MetalHeads roam the scene and Shaun has turned 12. Smaller than some his age, he is easy prey for the bullies at school. He takes refuge in a gang of neighborhood older kids. His dad was killed in the Falklands War and for young Shaun the gang becomes his second family. He joins in on their parties, is introduced to girls and snappy dressing, and finds some role models among the boys of the gang. When an older, overtly racist skinhead returns home from prison, the easy camaraderie of the group is broken, and Shaun is faced with a moral conflict. He digs the music and friendship, but he can’t stand racism. Meadows’ most political film yet, the film draws on the counter-culture of the times to stand as a metaphor for Thatcherism and the invasion of the Falklands.

FRIDAY JULY 20 8:45PM
Cartlidge & Browne Winery outdoors
Admission: $10


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RISING SON: THE LEGEND OF SKATEBOARDER CHRISTIAN HOSOI
Northern California Premiere

DIRECTOR: Cesario Montańo
PRODUCERS: Jared Freedman, Quincy Jones III
SCREENWRITER: Peter Alton
CINEMATOGRAPHER: Jeff Bollman
MUSIC: Alec Puro, Ryan Rehm
CAST: Jay Adams, Tony Alva, Tony Hawk, Dennis Hopper, Christain Hosoi, Robert Rusler
99 minutes Color United States
www.image-entertainment.com

"Rising Son" chronicles the rise, fall and rebirth of skateboard superstar Christian Hosoi. From his beginnings as an athletic renegade to his fall-from-grace stint in Federal prison for drug trafficking, and the miraculous recovery that has inspired millions of young adults - this film is destined to inspire all who see it!

Using never-before-seen home movies of Christian from childhood through his release from prison in 2004, the film features interviews with friends and family, including Tony Alva, Jay Adams, Jason Lee and others. Hosoi was bent on displaying his sheer athleticism, skying at times ten feet above the ramp to perform his signature “Christ Air” maneuver (in which he grabbed his board and extended his arms, Christ-like, before plummeting back to earth), often whooping in mid-air as he did so. This is the true story of a skateboarding pioneer and legend.

Saturday July 21st - 11AM
Cartlidge & Browne Winery Barrel Room Theater
$5 donation


Preceded by the short film
ANGER AND IN-DIG-NATION
by Point Richmond filmmaker Daniel Ryman

An edgy anti-war film, at once classic and avant-garde, integrating news media images and video with rich media format artwork, in the tradition of Jimi Hendrix's 'Machine Gun' song and anti-war video. The original rock song, 'Anger and In-Dig-Nation' was written and performed by Dr Ryman using a 'virtual instrument' inside a 'virtual environment'. 'Lead' and 'Rhythm' guitars are performed on keyboard controller. An intense, raging rock trio, 'Neoclassic' in form, the likes of Cream, or Band of Gypsies with politically and environmentally charged lyrics.

Director, Daniel Ryman, will be in attending.


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RIPE FOR CHANGE
World Premiere

DIRECTOR/PRODUCER/SCREENWRITER: Emiko Omori
CINEMATOGRAPHER: Michael Chin
EDITOR: Wendy Blair Slick
MUSIC: Larry Oatfield
NARRATOR: Linda Hunt
55 Minutes, 2006, United States

Ripe for Change chronicles the intersection of food and politics in California over the last 30 years. California is at a crossroads in agriculture, fending off overdevelopment and the loss of farming traditions while simultaneously embracing innovative visions of sustainability. Always a fascinating marriage of opposing extremes, California is the state from which Cesar Chavez brought the plight of migrant farm workers and the hazards of industrial farming to the attention of the world. Yet it is also the state that embraced the biotechnology industry and spurred the fast-food movement. Alongside this movement are the leaders in redefining school lunch programs, the marketing system known as community supported agriculture (CSA) and calls for more sustainable farming that considers the impact on environment, community and workers. With diminishing resources and a growing population, how will the state cope with this dilemma? How can consumers participate in these life-affecting decisions? Revealing interviews with some of California's prominent farmers, chefs and food thinkers offer an opportunity to consider these complex questions. These stories are about survival, building communities and reclaiming the aesthetics of food, and how food nurtures our souls while sustaining our bodies With award winning Bay Area filmmaker Emiko Omori in person.

Saturday July 21st - 11AM
Gaia Hotel
Admission $8 general
$6 seniors and children under 12
Free to hotel guests

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BOLINAO 52
Northern California Premiere

DIRECTOR/PRODUCER: Duc Nguyen
CINEMATOGRAPHER: Takanobu Kato
EDITOR: Ken Schneider
COMPOSER: Miriam Cutler
60 Minutes, 2006, United States
www.bolinao52.com

Following the end of the Vietnam War, millions of refugees in Southeast Asia left their countries in search of new asylums. One of these groups took to the sea as their chief escape route. They are the Vietnamese Boat People. Bolinao 52 is the story of one boat escape filled with 125 people that went terribly wrong from the beginning. Only 52 people survived. 17 years later, one survivor returns to Bolinao to come to terms with her haunting and painful past.

With Napa filmmaker Duc Nguyen in person.

Saturday July 21st - 1PM
Cartlidge & Browne Winery Barrel Room Theater
Admission $8


Preceded by the short film MONSOON by Sham Balse

A California doctor is forced to return to India to care for his estranged father and together they embark on a journey into their past. Exquisite cinematography.

info@monsoonfilm.com



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SOUL OF JUSTICE: THELTON HENDERSON'S AMERICAN JOURNEY
A Wine Country Premiere

DIRECTOR/PRODUCER: Abby Ginzberg
SCREENWRITER: Rick Goldsmith
CINEMATOGRAPHERS: Michael Anderson, Marcia Kahm, Edis Jurcys
EDITOR: Rick Goldsmith
MUSIC: Quincy Griffin
American Bar Association 2006 Silver Gavel Award
2006 CINE Golden Eagle Award
Berlin Black International Cinema Honors
62 Minutes, 2006, United States

Few judges provoke the ire of conservatives more than Thelton Henderson, Senior Judge of the Federal District Court of Northern California.

SOUL OF JUSTICE: Thelton Henderson’s American Journey is a timely and unforgettable story about one person’s commitment to integrity and human rights and his profound effect on the lives of millions. From the inhumane conditions at Pelican Bay State Prison to the slaughter of dolphins by tuna-fishing fleets to the elimination of affirmative action, SOUL OF JUSTICE reverberates with the heart-wrenching and dynamic issues that have placed Henderson, one of the first African-American federal judges, on the front lines throughout the last 25 years. At a time of increasing polarization over the actions of judges, award-winning director Abby Ginzberg’s riveting and thought-provoking new film ultimately reveals the true power of one man’s fearless efforts to see that justice retains its soul.

With Bay Area Producer/Director Abby Ginzberg

Saturday July 21st - 1PM
Gaia Hotel
Admission $8 general
$6 seniors and children under 12
Free to hotel guests


Preceded by the short film
THE COUNTER by Lauren Wagner

1962 Alabama. A small town diner's waitress must decide if she will follow the local law of segregation or help the students while members of the town watch her every move.


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STRANGE CULTURE
Official Selection Sundance 2007
Official Selection Berlin Film Festival 2007
Northern California Premiere

DIRECTOR: Lynn Hershman Leeson
PRODUCERS: Steven Beer, Lise Swenson, Lynn Hershman Leeson
SCREENWRITER: Lynn Hershman Leeson
CINEMATOGRAPHER: Hiro Narita
CAST: Tilda Swinton, Peter Coyote, Thomas Jay Ryan, Josh Kornbluth and Steve Kurtz
75 Minutes, 2006, United States
www.strangeculture.net

Exactly how far is the U.S. government allowed to go in order to protect our nation? Some would say as far as humanly possible... but what happens when they react and attempt to punish a nonexistent threat?

These questions are but two of the many that "Strange Culture" stirs in the mind. The documentary concerns the story of Steve Kurtz, an artist and college professor who was preparing an exhibition on genetically modified food for the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art exhibition. Part of the exhibition concerned the usage of bacteria and other innocuous biological specimens, as audiences were allowed to test foods with the biological agents to draw conclusions one way or the other. Then, a few days prior to the exhibition, Steve's wife died of heart failure in her sleep.

While responding to the 911 call, paramedics noticed Steve's labeled bacteria specimens, and a few choice books on biological warfare, and they called the FBI, who sent over agents in HazMat suits to quarantine Steve's apartment while he was brought under investigation for possible bio-terrorism. Within hours of his wife's death, he was being detained.

Currently the government is attempting to try a fraud case with no plaintiffs involved. On top of that, the fraud case is a civil one, but steps are being taken to transfer it into a criminal case instead, where Steve could face, instead of fines, up to 20 years in jail.

Why should this case concern us? Because if the government can find no cause and still move forward, it is a gross abuse of human rights and from an artistic stand-point, what is terrorist intent? If you write a book, film a movie, perform a song that is critical of the government, could you then be liable for possible detainment and criminal punishment for simply expressing freedom of speech?

The actors chosen for the main roles of Steve and his wife are Thomas Jay Ryan and Tilda Swinton, respectively and when in the film the real Steve Kurtz is allowed to speak, we start to relate to him even more.

"Younger filmmakers should be looking to Hershman Leeson for lessons on how to reinvent old forms while at the same time telling an urgently topical story. The director not only breaks the fourth wall, she reduces it to plaster dust." Variety With celebrated American film essayist, director Lynn Hershman Leeson in person

Saturday July 21st - 3PM
Cartlidge & Browne Winery Barrel Room Theater
Admission $8


Preceded by the short film HE LIVES by Tyler James Massey.

Under the rule of an oppressive government, Guy finds a way to express himself. He commits the most deadly of crimes--free thought.

Director, Tyler Massey, will be attending.


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TO PLAY AND TO FIGHT (Tocar y Luchar)

DIRECTOR: Alberto Arvelo
PRODUCERS: Igor Lanz, Nestor Lopez-Duran, Pedro Mezquita Arcaya
SCREENWRITER: Carlos Diaz, Alberto Arvelo
CINEMATOGRAPHERS: Cezary Jaworski, John Marquez (II)
EDITOR: Nascuy Linares, Juan Carlos Lopez-Duran
MUSIC: Nascuy Linares
70 Minutes, 2006, Venezuela
www.tocaryluchar.com

"A transcendent journey that showcases the power of music and its ability to promote positive social change" -AFIFEST

Alberto Arvelo leads the new generation of Latin American film directors and has received accolades at the most prestigious international film festivals. He is considered one of the most accomplished film directors and producers in Latin America.

This film is a testament to the transformative power of music and its ability to promote positive social change.

The Venezuelan Youth Orchestra System, an incredible network of hundreds of orchestras formed within most of Venezuela’s towns and villages, is designed to expose rural children to the wonders of music. Incredible as it may seem, the system has become one of the most important and beautiful social phenomena in modern history. The film portrays the inspirational stories of world class musicians trained by the Venezuelan system, including the Berlin Philharmonic’s youngest player Edicson Ruiz and world renowned conductor Gustavo Dudamel.

To Play And To Fight is a model that we in America should strive to adopt. Abbado, Sir Simon Rattle, Guiseppe Sinopoli, and Eduardo Matathe film is an inspirational story of courage, determination, ambition, and love showing us that... only those who dream can achieve the impossible.

Saturday July 21st - 3PM
Gaia Hotel
Admission $8 general
$6 seniors and children under 12
Hotel guests free

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MO
Audience Award, Malibu Film Festival

DIRECTOR: Brian Scott Lederman
PRODUCERS: Brian Scott Lederman, Monica JY Lederman, James Martin
CAST: Erik Per Sullivan, Margo Martindale, Adam Lefevre, Shanya Levine, Asher Grodman, Mark Keller, Ben Levin
100 minutes 2007 USA
www.mofilm.net

Every kid wants to be cool and fit in – life’s a blast even when you’re different. When Mo’s reflection is revealed (Erik per Sullivan of "Malcolm in the Middle"), he sees a body that doesn’t quite resemble any of his peers. Here, he tells the tale of his youth, growing up on the south shore of Long Island, New York- How his parents support him, how his wacky brother keeps him laughing, and how his friends help him to escape. After discovering that the reason behind all of his physical differences is a genetic mutation called Marfan Syndromeť, Mo is forced to come to terms with a more serious reality: he will never be able to do many of the things that the people around him take for granted and he will have to prepare himself for a major heart surgery. As we venture away from our own realities, Mo takes us into his world of hanging out, discovering girls, dealing with school and the doctor’s office, going to parties, trying sports, getting stoned, and contemplating God.

Director, Brian Scott Lederman, will be attending.

Saturday July 21st - 5:00PM
Cartlidge & Browne Winery Barrel Room Theater
Admission: $9.00


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THE DAY THE WATER DIED
CULTURAL IMPACTS OF THE EXXON VALDEZ OIL SPILL

DIRECTOR: Richard Ray Perez
PRODUCER: Richard Ray Perez/ Sierra Club Productions
www.sierraclub.org

Of all the groups negatively impacted by the Exxon Valdez oil spill, in many ways Alaska Natives were the most devastated. The oil spill destroyed more than economic resources, it shook the core cultural foundation of Native life. Not only does the environment have sacred qualities for Alaska Natives, but their survival depends on the well-being of the ecosystem and the maintenance of cultural norms of subsistence. The spill directly threatened the well-being of the environment, disrupted subsistence behavior, and severely disturbed the sociocultural milieu of Alaska Natives.

Saturday July 21st - 5PM
Gaia Hotel
Admission $8 general
$6 seniors and children under 12
Hotel guests free


With ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT

www.bullfrogfilms.com

Ecological Footprint paints a picture of our current global situation: for the first time, humanity is in "ecological overshoot" with annual demand on resources exceeding what Earth can regenerate each year. Most countries are running ecological deficits, with Footprints larger than their own biological capacity. Dr. Mathis Wackernagel explores the implications of these ecological deficits, and provides examples of how governments, communities and businesses are using the Footprint to help improve their ecological performance.


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SYMPOSIUM “ARTS, YOUTH & JUSTICE”
MODERATOR – GREG BRIDGES of KPFA

Panelists include:

WEN-I CHANG

Wen-I Chang is Founder & President of Atman Hospitality Group, Inc. He is an entrepreneur and a rebel with a societal mission, Wen I. is passionately committed to transforming the public awareness of ecology into the design and operations of a portfolio of green hotels. Like a seagull, “in fond of storms and dreaming of flying over the sea” Wen I. is launching an innovative hotel system that will revolutionize current industry practices. Even though he has successfully developed hotels under Holiday Inn and Hilton brands, Wen-I wants to make a difference. Following his latest publications of Hotel Investment & Development and Global Brain Awaken, Wen-I knows he can combine the virtues of green with the green of money to promote this noble cause. Wen Chang is pursuing a new book “First Green Hotel – A Journey”. Wen Chang’s Gaia Napa Valley Hotel & Spa is a proud film festival venue and hotel sponsor.

ABBY GINZBERG –DIRECTOR/PRODUCER OF SOUL OF JUSTICE

Abby Ginzberg is an award-winning filmmaker who began her career as a lawyer (Hastings '75. She taught at Boalt Hall from 1975-76, and at New College School of Law from 1981-1985. She has worked full-time for the past 20 years as an independent filmmaker helping the legal profession to overcome discrimination within its own ranks as well as profiling positive alternatives for at-risk youth. She recently completed Soul of Justice: Thelton Henderson's American Journey, profiling federal district judge Thelton Henderson (Boalt,'62). Her film A Tale of Two Cities is about a model high school for hard to reach, hard to teach youth in the juvenile justice system, a subject she has been working on for many years. She recently produced two films for the Judicial Council of California—Obstacle Courts, a film about problems faced by people with disabilities when seeking access to the courthouse has been used widely in judicial training throughout California. Summary Judgments has been used to train judges on race, gender and sexual orientation bias. Her film, Doing Justice: The Life and Trials of Arthur Kinoy won numerous awards, including a Silver Gavel from the ABA for promoting the public’s understanding of issues related to law It will be aired again on KQED in February, 2004. Ms. Ginzberg is the President of the Impact Fund Advisory Board, a recipient of the 2005 Award of Merit from the Bar Association of San Francisco and the 2006 honoree of the Bay Area Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild.

LYNN HERSHMAN LEESON – DIRECTOR/PRODUCER/SCREEN WRITER OF STRANGE CULTURE

Lynn Hershman Leeson has worked extensively in photography, video, film, installation and pioneered interactive computer and net-based media art. Her work has been recognized with much acclaim. Hershman Leeson was the first woman to receive a tribute and retrospective at the San Francisco International Film Festival in 1994. In 1998, she was a Sundance Screenwriter Fellow and was honored with the Flintridge Foundation Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Visual Arts.

The 2003 Alfred P. Sloan Award for writing and directing was awarded to Hershman Leeson for Teknolust, starring Tilda Swinton and Jeremy Davies, which premiered in the American Showcase of the 2002 Sundance Film Festival. Lynn Hershman Leeson‘s first feature film, Conceiving Ada, was shown at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival, The Toronto International Film Festival, The Berlin International Film Festival and 35 other festivals worldwide. It also received the award of "Outstanding Achievement in Drama" from the Festival of Electronic Cinema.

Lynn Hershman Leeson's artwork is held in numerous collections, including the Museum of Modern Art New York; The National Gallery of Canada; LA County Museum of Art; Seattle Museum; DG Bank, Frankfurt; The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; The William Lehmbruch Museum, Duisburg; ZKM Center for Art and Media in Germany, The University Art Museum of Berkeley, and the Hess Collection. Hershman Leeson is a Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Davis and an A.D. White Professor at Large at Cornell University.

DUC NGUYEN – DIRECTOR/PRODUCER OF BOLINAO 52

Duc Nguyen graduated from UC Berkeley as a documentary filmmaker and has more than ten years of experience in the entertainment and television industries. From 1997 to 2000, Nguyen worked as an interactive television program producer for GTE mainstreet. In 2001, he produced Mediated Reality, a documentary about Cuba in the age of Elian Gonzalez. In addition, Nguyen has done video documenting work in Vietnam, Cuba, up on the Andes and down in the Amazon, South America. In 2002, he spent a month in Ecuador documenting a group of archaeologists searching for a Pre-Inca civilization. In 2003, Nguyen served as an assistant editor for The New Americans and My Journey Home, a multi-part series on family and identities.

Nguyen’s new film Bolinao 52 is a compelling documentary about the Vietnamese boat experience in which Nguyen’s family experienced firsthand.

DANIEL RYMAN DIRECTOR/PRODUCER OF ANGER AND IN-DIG-NATION

Dr. Ryman is a producer, studio engineer, musician and technologist. He has performed, mixed and mastered albums and has built several recording studios. Over his career Ryman has collaborated with many prolific artists (both national and local) including: Quincy Jones (The Color Purple), BB King, Ray Lynch (platinum album), Peter Rowan (Jerry Garcia-David Grisman), Mighty Diamonds, and Philippe Wynn (The Spinners), to Maurice White and Earth Wind and Fire. Locally, he has worked with UpSurge! Jazz, Richard Howell, Daughters of Yam (Devorah Major was third Poet Laureate of San Francisco), Vivendo de Păo, and Denise Perrier.

Dr. Ryman is also the creator and founder of WireonFire.com, an artist-driven system designed to give independent working musicians an inventive marketplace for their music.

Born in San Francisco, Dr Ryman is a native son of Napa-Sonoma-Marin, and currently lives in the Bay Area. His vision is to produce music and films of social and political consciousness. “I want my work to catalyze viewers and listeners to reclaim our guaranteed inalienable rights as citizens mandated and protected by our Constitution.” Ryman’s new film Anger and In-Dig-Nation was inspired by his commitment to address government hypocrisy.

KEITH “K-DUB” WILLIAMS – PAINTER, ART-EDUCATOR, YOUTH & COMMUNITY ORGANIZER

Keith Williams, affectionately known as "K-Dub", has made a career of making the communities he has lived his “canvas”. As a muralist and community organizer Williams has facilitated mural and public art projects in urban communities throughout California, primarily in the "inner-cities" of Los Angeles, Long Beach and Oakland. Williams has organized mural projects with gang members in Los Angeles, Compton and Long Beach, has created sustainable community art programs, and is currently facilitating a social commentary mural project with Oakland youth.

Presently, the Oakland resident is Co-Director of Oakland High School's award winning Visual Arts Academy (VAAMP). Williams is also a two-time recipient of the “Art Is” Award where he has been recognized as “Visual Art Teacher of the Year” (2004 & 2007).

In 2002 Williams co-founded the Bay Area Artist Collective “Soul Salon 10", best known for their acclaimed 2005 exhibition, “Trouble Man”, which paid tribute to the late Marvin Gaye and attracted more than a thousand guests.

Williams is also founder of the Hood Games - a community event which celebrates youth culture by incorporating skateboarding, fashion, dance, live music performances and art making. Williams created the Hood Games to provide a vehicle for youth to exhibit and perform in their own communities, to foster unity and to bridge cross-cultural boundaries.

Saturday July 21st - 6PM
Cartlidge & Browne Winery outdoors
A LA CARTE DINNER

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ADRIFT IN MANHATTAN
Northern California Premiere

DIRECTOR: Alfredo De Villa
PRODUCERS: Steven J. Brown, Joshua Blum, Ian Jessel
SCREENWRITER: Nat Moss
CINEMATOGRAPHER: John Foster
EDITOR: John Coniglio
COMPOSER: Michael Levine
CAST: Heather Graham, William Baldwin, Dominic Chianese, Victor Rasuk, Erika Michels, Marlene Forte, Richard Petrocelli, Elizabeth Pena
89 Minutes, 2007, United States
nmoss@pipeline.com

This film is a story that charts the journeys of three very different people with a common spiritual need. A grieving eye doctor (Graham) confronts her guilt over the loss of her young son. An aging painter comes to terms with impending blindness. A young photographer grapples with his inner demons. It juxtaposes the physical motion of people—journeying every day back and forth to their jobs—with their emotional paralysis. It contrasts the idea of a fixed and determined journey (a means to an end) with the search for love and the search for community (belonging). It is a film about intangible connections, reaching out and fulfilling one’s spiritual needs in a world that is mostly uninterested in private suffering. The story calls for us to face our mortality by embracing our shared humanity.

Followed by a Q&A with director Alfredo De Villa

Saturday July 21st - 7:15PM
Cartlidge & Browne Winery Barrel Room Theater
Admission: $9.00


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MAROA (Venezuela/Spain)

DIRECTORS/PRODUCERS/SCREENWRITERS: Jeff and Sue Turner
EDITOR: Andrew Chastney
MUSIC: David Mitcham
FEATURING: Charlies Russell
89 minutes United States

This enriching film is based on the real life stories of many Venezuelan children who have been rescued from the barrios and transformed by the power of classical music. (See also the NSWCFF film “To Play and To Fight”).

Maroa is only eleven, but she has already learned shrewd ways to survive in Caracas’ barrios. She falls in love with the strains of a Mozart concerto which leads her to Joaquin (Tristan Ulloa of “Sex and Lucia”), a music teacher who sees an inate talent and love of music in the girl.

Newcomer Yorlis Dominguez lived in the barrio when she was discovered by director Solveig Hoogestein and selected to play the lead role, Maroa. Yorlis’ life lessons informed her confident, spontaneous portrayal of Maroa with a special authenticity.

Saturday July 21st - outside 8:45PM
Cartlidge & Browne Winery Outdoors
Admission: $15.00

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SUSTAINABLE TABLE
A documentary about your food
What’s on your plate?

Northern California Premiere
DIRECTOR/PRODUCER: Misha Hedges
52 Minutes 2006 United States
www.sustainabletablemovie.com

Over nine months, Mischa Hedges and Digital Sense Productions traveled the west coast to learn more about our food system. During production, he found that the standard methods of producing food do not take environmental or human health costs into consideration. He also explored the many alternatives to the current agricultural system. What’s on your plate? Where does it come from? What effects does it have on the environment and your body? What can you do to help?

Sunday July 22nd - 10:45AM
Cartlidge & Browne Winery Barrel Room Theater
Admission $ 8

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POWER OF COMMUNITY: HOW CUBA SURVIVED PEAK OIL

DIRECTOR: Faith Morgan
PRODUCERS: Faith Morgan, Pat Murphy, Megan Quinn
53 minutes 2006 United States
www.powerofcommunity.org

Cuba's economy crashed when the USSR collapsed in 1990. With imports of oil cut in half and food imports by 80 percent, people were desperate. In this fascinating and empowering film, Cubans tell their story of hardships, creativity and community, of going from mechanized to organic farming and urban gardens, and from an industrial country to a more sustainable one. The film opens with an explanation of Peak Oil, the time when world oil production will reach its maximum. Cuba, having faced a similar crisis - is a hopeful example.

Awards: People’s Choice, Best International (Aotearoa Environmental FF, New Zealand 9-16-06)
  *   Most Attended (Global Visions FF, Canada 11-2-06)
  *   Jury’s Choice Award (Wild & Scenic Environmental FF, Calif. 1-12-07)
  *   Juror’s Award (New York Int. Ind. Film & Video Festival in LA, 3-1-07)
  *   Grand Jury Award, Best Documentary (Washington DC Ind. FF, 3-1-07)
  *   Audience Award, 1 of top 3 favorites out of 50 films (Our Island, Our World FF, Canada 3-2-07)
  *   Best Documentary Film (Malibu FF, 4-13-07)

Sunday July 22nd - 12 noon
Cartlidge & Browne Winery Barrel Room Theater
Admission $ 9


Preceded by the short film THE SACRED FOOD by Jack Pettibone Riccobono

www.savewildrice.org

about the Anishinaabeg Native Americans of Northern Minnesota and the wild rice (Manoomin) that they consider to be a sacred gift from the Creator


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Symposium SUSTAINABLE PLANET with lunch

with filmmakers Emiko Omori (Ripe for Change), Misha Hedges (Sustainable Table), Wen Chang (Gaia Hotel) among others.

Sunday July 22nd - 1PM
Cartlidge & Browne Winery outside
Admission $5 for the symposium. Lunch is a la carte menu for purchase with produce sourced from local farmers.

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SHORT FILM PROGRAM by UK filmmakers
ORANGE FOX by Jonny Pumfrey (UK/Spain)
THE MAKING OF PARTS
BOOT POLISH
ROMANCE
CARE

Sunday July 22nd - 1:15PM
Cartlidge & Browne Winery Barrel Room Theater
Admission: $8

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MAMA EARTH
Northern California Premiere

DIRECTOR/PRODUCER: Leslie Bloom Van Ee
SCREENWRITER: Brad Overall
CINEMATOGRPHER: David Pickar
EDITOR: Laura Rose Flynn
MUSIC: Joe Haddock, Nick Denke
40 Minutes, 2006, United States
www.mamaearthmovie.com

Another gloom and doom film? No! Quite the contrary, this film revels in innovation, invention, creativity and music. An inspiring road map of successful ways to achieve sustainability through reinventing old methods and finding new paths to healthy communities, protecting natural resources and attaining a more profitable bottom line. Good for all ages.

Sunday July 22nd - 2PM
Gaia Hotel
Admission $8 general
$6 seniors and children under 12
Free to hotel guests

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ˇSALUD!

DIRECTOR: Connie Field
PRODUCERS: Connie Field and Gail Reed
93 Minutes, 2007, United States
www.saludthefilm.net

A timely examination of human values and the health issues that affect us all, ˇSalud! looks at the curious case of Cuba, a cash-strapped country with what the BBC calls ‘one of the world’s best health systems.’ From the shores of Africa to the Americas, !Salud! hits the road with some of the 28,000 Cuban health professionals serving in 68 countries, and explores the hearts and minds of international medical students in Cuba -- now numbering 30,000, including nearly 100 from the USA. Their stories plus testimony from experts around the world bring home the competing agendas that mark the battle for global health—and the complex realities confronting the movement to make healthcare everyone’s birth right.

Sunday July 22nd - 2:45PM
Cartlidge & Browne Winery Barrel Room Theater
Admission $ 9

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THE EDGE OF EDEN – LIVING WITH GRIZZLIES

DIRECTORS/PRODUCERS/SCREENWRITERS: Jeff and Sue Turner
EDITOR: Andrew Chastney
MUSIC: David Mitcham
FEATURING: Charlies Russell
89 minutes United States

The grizzly bear, sometimes called the silvertip bear, is a powerful brownish-yellow bear that lives in the uplands of western North America. Normally a solitary active animal, in coastal areas the grizzly congregates alongside streams and rivers during the salmon spawn. Every other year females (sows) produce one to four young.

This is the true story of Charlie Russell who saves grizzly bear cubs from zoos where they would otherwise die and raises them in the wilderness. He has been quietly proving for the past decade that these magnificent animals are not naturally violent or ferocious toward people.

Sunday July 22nd - 3PM
Gaia Hotel
Admission $8 general
$6 seniors and children under 12
Free to hotel guests

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INVISIBLES

PRODUCER: Javier Bardem
DIRECTORS: Mariano Barroso, Isabel Coixet, Javier Corcuera, Fernando León de Aranoa, Wim Wenders
EDITOR: Mathilde Bonnefoye
MUSIC: Andrew Amondoso
107 minutes
www.sogecine-sogepaq.com/invisibles

Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) is pleased to present "Invisibles", a film produced by renowned Spanish actor Javier Bardem.

Inspired by the international humanitarian work of MSF, Javier Bardem worked with the organization to produce a film which highlights five neglected humanitarian crises taken from MSF's yearly "Top Ten" list of underreported humanitarian stories. Each topic is addressed in a separate short film, shot by different directors, creating the five-part film "Invisibles."

Mariano Barroso directs "Bianca's Dream," which looks at the dual role of eflornithine, a drug used as a beauty product in wealthy nations, but which is needed to treat Sleeping Sickness in the Central African Republic.

In "Letters to Nora," director Isabel Coixet examines how the parasitic disease Chagas afflicting her family in Bolivia affects a young woman working in Madrid.

Director Javier Corcuera travels to Colombia in "Voices of the Stones," where he documents a group of people by the ongoing violence in that country as they try to return to their rural homes.

"Good Night, Ouma," directed by Fernando Leon de Aranoa, examines the ongoing crises of the "night commuters" and child soldiers in northern Uganda.

Acclaimed director Wim Wenders looks into the wide-spread problem of sexual violence and how it is affecting victims in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

This dynamic film gives audiences the chance to encounter situations MSF's medical teams face every day, and helps shed some light on these forgotten humanitarian crises.

Sunday July 22nd - 4:30PM
Cartlidge & Browne Winery Barrel Room Theater
Admission $9

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SHARKS: STEWARDS OF THE REEFS

DIRECTOR: Holiday Johnson
PRODUCER/SCREENWRITER: David McGuire
27 minutes 2006 United States
www.sharkstewards.com

Sharks: Stewards of the Reef, takes you on a voyage of underwater discovery, to explore tropical reefs and dive with sharks. We explore the relationship between these top predators and the oceans and coral reef ecosystems. The film examines escalating threats to shark population including habitat destruction of reef ecosystems and over fishing that are causing Pacific reef shark populations to plummet. This film examines the most brutal assault threatening shark abundance: that of finning sharks for shark fin soup. Compelling interviews with leading marine biologists and conservationists reveal these driving forces behind the drastic reduction of many shark populations.0pm on July 22nd so he can participate in the panel on sustainable planet

Sunday July 22nd - 4:30PM
Gaia Hotel
Admission $8 general
$6 seniors and children under 12
Free to hotel guests

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CHINA BLUE
Wine Country Premiere

DIRECTOR: Micha X. Peled
PRODUCERS: Teddy Bear Films and the Independent Television Service in association with the Center for Asian American Media
EDITOR: Manuel A. Tsingaris
MUSIC: Miriam Cutler
88 Minutes, 2006, United States
www.bullfrogfilms.com

Like no other film before, China Blue is a powerful and poignant journey into the harsh world of sweatshop workers. Shot clandestinely, this is a deep-access account of what both China and the international retailers don't want us to see: how the clothes we buy are actually made.

Following a pair of denim jeans from birth to sale, China Blue links the power of the U.S. consumer market to the daily lives of a Chinese factory owner and two teenaged female factory workers. Filmed both in the factory and in the workers' faraway village, this documentary provides a rare, human glimpse at China's rapid transformation into a free market society.

Sunday July 22nd - 5PM
Gaia Hotel
Admission $8 general
$6 seniors and children under 12

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SYMPOSIUM “GLOBAL HEALTH”

With members of Doctors without Borders, filmmaker Connie Field (ˇSalud!) and other invited guests.
Sunday July 22nd - 6PM
Cartlidge & Browne Winery - Outdoors
Admission $5 for symposium
A la carte dinner

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LOVE + DANCE ( Sipur Hatzi-Russi)

DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: Eitan Anner
PRODUCERS: July August productions, Bleiberg Entertainment
CAST: Jenya Dodina, Avi Kushnir
95 Minutes, 2006, Israel
Bleiberg Entertainment

Crossing the bridge between cultures begins with a step. Chen, a young kid, is battling a cultural conflict between his Russian born mother and Israeli father. She is cultured and used to the finer things in life, including theater and fine dining. He is gruff on the outside but sweet on the inside - a Sabra; and looking to make his young son a man rather than the wimp his mother is raising. One day, Chen stumbles upon a ballroom dance class for young people and sees Natalie, a stunning Russian young girl he falls in love with immediately. His interest in Natalie leads him to taking ballroom dancing and to ultimately bridging the cultural divide of his own family - through the Cha Cha and the Tango.

Sunday July 22nd - 8:45PM
Cartlidge & Browne Winery - Outdoors
Admission $ 10

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