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Documentary Shorts/Struggles & Dreams
What I See When I Close My Eyes: this short documentary looks at how several of Phnom Penh's 20,000 street kids are being helped by Mith Samlanh/Friends International. The children's stories range from the simple wish of a young girl to have enough soap, to the bold dream of a teenage boy to help drug addicts kick their habit and find work. Much of the film is told through the life-sized self portraits the children draw of themselves-an art project inspired by the film's title (30 min. Directed by Leslie Hope.). Sell Me a Dream captures the nature of military recruitment in post 9/11 America using interviews from Vietnam and Iraq War Veterans, counter-recruitment activists, and military personnel. The film is also driven by footage of the war in Iraq. Sell Me a Dream is about the economic draft and patriotic wave that has swept over America (12 min. Directed by Joleen Ong, Courtney Caroll, Bill Leonardo, Michael Sarpong and Brian McGovern.). Before You Enlist is carried by interviews with combat veterans and family members of military personnel killed, wounded or still on duty. Straight talk from soldiers, veterans and their family members tells what is missing from the glamorous and exciting pictures presented by military recruiters and their marketing efforts. Strong visuals provide a vivid picture of the human costs of war and the realities of enlisted life and beyond. (14 min. 30 sec. Directed by Dan Preston.). At the Wall tells the stories of the freedom fighters who struggled against racial injustice during the integration of Philadelphias Girard College, an important milestone of the American civil rights movement. From May through December of 1965 the crowds at the 10-foot-high college walls ranged from a regular band of 30, who called themselves Cecils Army, to as many as 5,000 demonstrators when Martin Luther King Jr. joined the vigil. There were daily clashes with Frank Rizzos police force that showed up with as many as 1,000 policemen to confront 35 protestors. Rather than focusing on charismatic, well-known individuals, this documentary is a peoples history, a postmodernist look at collective action told through the recollections of those who were at the wall every day (33 min. Directed by Warren Bass.).
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