Past Films
THE PRUITT-IGOE MYTH: AN URBAN HISTORY (SUMMER 2011)
Q&A with director Chad Freidrichs
It began as a housing marvel. Two decades later, it ended in rubble. But what happened to those caught in between? The Pruitt-Igoe Myth tells the story of the transformation of the American city in the decades after World War II, through the lens ...More info »
BACK TO LIFE (VUELVE A LA VIDA) (SUMMER 2011)
Q&A with director Carlos Hagerman
Back to Life revels in the art of storytelling as we get multiple perspectives on the life of an Acapulco legend, the scuba instructor Hilario Martinez. Known for teaching Hollywood stars and his ways with women, Martinez’s biggest catch was his ...More info »
BRICK CITY (SUMMER 2011)
Q&A with filmmakers Mark Benjamin & Marc Levin
Winner of the Peabody Award, BRICK CITY interweaves stories from Newark, including the charismatic mayor Cory Booker, a controversial police director, a gang member and his dynamic attorney. For STF, the filmmakers will screen episodes 1 and 2 from ...More info »
SENNA (SUMMER 2011)
Q&A Tom O'Keefe, writer for Autosport
Summer Season Opening Night Winner of the 2011 Sundance World Cinema Audience Award Senna’s remarkable story, charting his physical and spiritual achievements on the track and off, his quest for perfection, and the mythical status he has since ...More info »
BOBBY FISCHER AGAINST THE WORLD (SUMMER 2011)
Q&A with director Liz Garbus
Thursday Night Special Description from Sundance 2011 catalogue: Considered by many to be the world’s greatest chess player, Bobby Fischer personified the link between genius and madness. His trajectory propelled him from child prodigy to world ...More info »
BUCK (SPRING 2011)
Q&A with director Cindy Meehl
Winner of the Audience Award at both Sundance and Full Frame, BUCK profiles the real life horse whisperer who overcame an abusive childhood to teach a gentler approach to training horses. “An Irresistible Documentary.” Los Angeles Times “A ...More info »
MEGAMALL (SPRING 2011)
Q&A w/ dirs Vera Aronow, Roger Grange, Sarah Mondale
A story of money, power and politics in the age of sprawl, MEGAMALL explores the controversy behind one of America’s biggest shopping malls, the Palisades Center in West Nyack, New York (18 miles North of Manhattan). In 1996, the biggest mall ...More info »
THE PANAMA DECEPTION (SPRING 2011)
Q&A with director Barbara Trent
A riveting Academy Award-winning critique of the government’s history of militarization, made all the more timely by the current war on terrorism. The Panama Deception documents the untold story of the December 1989 U.S. invasion of Panama; the ...More info »
THREE OF HEARTS: A POSTMODERN FAMILY (SPRING 2011)
Q&A with director Susan Kaplan
[A] thought-provoking story….THREE OF HEARTS does a good job of driving home the universality of their daily lives.”—Anita Gates, New York Times Directed by DocuClub founder Susan Kaplan, THREE OF HEARTS follows the experiment of a New York menage ...More info »
WE STILL LIVE HERE (ÂS NUTAYUNEÂN) (SPRING 2011)
Q&A with director Anne Makepeace
WE STILL LIVE HERE tells a remarkable story of cultural revival by the Wampanoag of Southeastern Massachusetts. Their ancestors ensured the survival of the first English settlers in America, and lived to regret it. Now they are bringing their ...More info »
CUL DE SAC: A SUBURBAN WAR STORY / GARRET SCOTT GRANT (SPRING 2011)
Q&A with Ian Olds
The first documentary by director Garrett Scott who went on to make the Iraq war masterpiece OCCUPATION: DREAMLAND with Ian Olds. CUL DE SAC tells the story of Shawn Nelson, a crystal meth addict who stole a tank from a San Diego military base and ...More info »
THESE AMAZING SHADOWS (SPRING 2011)
Q&A with directors Paul Mariano & Kurt Norton
THURSDAY NIGHT SPECIAL What do the films Casablanca, Blazing Saddles and West Side Story have in common? Besides being popular, they have also been deemed “culturally, historically or aesthetically significant” by the Library of Congress and ...More info »
THE CHICAGO MATERNITY CENTER STORY (SPRING 2011)
Q&A with Kartemquin co-founder Gordon Quinn, filmmaker Suzanne Davenport, and medical journalist Laura Newman
STF is pleased to celebrate the 45th anniversary of Kartemquin Films with a rare screening of THE CHICAGO MATERNITY CENTER STORY (1976), presented by Kartemquin co-founder Gordon Quinn. For more than 75 years, the Chicago Maternity Center ...More info »
WHOLPHIN (SPRING 2011)
Q&A with Wholphin curator Brent Hoff & others
From the publishers of McSweeney’s comes this quarterly anthology of strange and wonderful short films. Wholphin curator Brent Hoff presents doc surprises include some astoundingly funny and disturbing documentaries from the last few issues of ...More info »
STOLEN (SPRING 2011)
Q&A with directors Violeta Ayala, Dan Fallshaw
Australian-based filmmakers Violeta Ayala and Dan Fallshaw originally set out to make a documentary about an under-reported land dispute in Northern Africa. Once they started shooting, however, they gradually stumbled on a story about modern ...More info »
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Upcoming Screenings
Feb 7: UNFINISHED SPACES
by Alysa Nahmias and Benjamin Murray“Cuba will count as having the most beautiful academy of arts in the world.” —Fidel Castro (1961) Cuba’s ambitious National Art Schools project, designed by three young artists in the wake of ...
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Feb 14: ZELIG
by Woody Allen”[Allen’s] new, remarkably self-assured comedy is to his career what… Berlin Alexanderplatz is to Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s and… Fanny and Alexander is to Ingmar Bergman’s ... Zelig is not only ...
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Feb 21: TOOTIE’S LAST SUIT
by Lisa Katzman“Tootie represented a kind of soulfulness in the community, and a certain type of style, and everybody loved him.” – Wynton Marsalis TOOTIE’S LAST SUIT explores the complex relationships, rituals, ...
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Feb 28: THE PROMISE: THE MAKING OF DARKNESS ON THE EDGE OF TOWN
by Thom ZimnyDescription from TIFF 2010 catalog by Thom Powers: The Promise: The Making of Darkness on the Edge of Town takes us into the studio with Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band for the recording of ...
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Mar 6: SMASH HIS CAMERA
by Leon Gast“Famously and successfully sued by Jackie Onassis, and slugged just as famously and successfully by Marlon Brando, denounced from the pulpits of punditry for decades, Galella has been a man easy to ...
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Mar 13: THE MAN NOBODY KNEW: IN SEARCH OF MY FATHER, CIA SPYMASTER WILLIAM COLBY
by Carl ColbyA son’s riveting look at a father whose life seemed straight out of a spy thriller, THE MAN NOBODY KNEW: IN SEARCH OF MY FATHER, CIA SPYMASTER WILLIAM COLBY uncovers the secret world of a legendary ...
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Mar 20: GIRL MODEL
by Ashley Sabin and David Redmon Description from TIFF 2011 catalog by Thom Powers: Girl Model shows a rarely seen side of the fashion industry. The film brings a novelist’s eye for emotional and psychological complexity to its ...
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