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Afternoon Documentary Program
Saturday March 8, 2014
Se Habla Español
is a contemporary film poem. Angelica
(Jessica Montalvo) becomes a powerful
connection between Anglo and Hispanic
cultures, as she moves through a day in
her life. Filmed on location in Tucson,
Arizona and the Mission San Xavier del Bac.
12:000-Noon (19-Minutes)
Director: Howard Allen - Coyote Moon Films
12:40PM (57-Minutes)
Director: Kathryn Ferguson
Llama Walks is a personal documentary
for this filmmaker. The filmtraces four
generations of women that make up her family. Makino’s
journey, undertaken to come to terms with her Swiss
mother’s failing health, results in a loving and graceful
family portrait. In this film, she reveals intimate moments
shared by mothers and daughters playing-out the cycle of
life. In this most personal of documentaries, Makino
strikes into a vein that everyone must eventually must
come to terms: The painful reality of losing one’s mother.
GURU On stage in front of hundreds
of people, he is known as Piston
Pumping Peter Scott; an entertaining
and charismatic motivational speaker,
fire-walking instructor, hypnother-
apist, and former competitive body-
builder. In his isolated domestic life
however, he has long struggled with
cronic sadness, anxiety and obsessive
compulsion. These two very different
sides and the ways they collide form
the subject of this unique character
study of a man, his long battle with
manic depression, and his inventive
ways of coping with it.
Yuri Makino is a Tucson resident and is currently an Associate
Professor at the University of Arizona, where she teaches film
production and screenwriting; and is also the Associate Director
of the Film & TV program. Ms. Makino received her BA at the UC
Santa Barbara; and a MFA at New York University.
3:45 PM (74-Minutes)
Written & Directed by
Jonathan VanBallenberghe
The Ostrich Testimonies is the story of a man with a
dream. "D.C. 'Rooster' Cogburn" saw value in Ostrich
ranching from the animal's tasty lean meat. Cogburn
and his wife operate their Ostrich Ranch near Tucson,
Arizona selling meat, eggs and other Ostrich products.
Cogburn's future looked bright after signing a large
dollar contract to supply the birds to a South American
enterprise. However, in a freak accident, a group of hot
air balloons spooked 1,600 of the birds into a frenzy
that sent them running, trampling, and crashing into
fences. The result was a economic and legal disaster
for the Cogburns. Filmmaker Jonathan VanBallenberghe's
documentary explores this fascinating true story.
3:00 PM (23-Minutes)
Juliana Piccillo’s work has screened at The Tribeca Film Festival and
The Los Angeles International Short FilmFestival, Women in the
Director’s Chair, the Chicago Film Festival, the Arizona International
Film Festival, and colleges, and women’s centers around the world.
She has an MFA in creative writing.
2:00 PM (25-Min)
Directed by Yuri Makino
2:30 PM (22-Minutes)
Directed by Juliana Piccillo
“I Was a Teenage Prostitute - Coming of age in a Massage
Parlor” is the true story of a 17 year old Catholic high school
junior who accidently finds a job in a massage parlor. In
Levittown, Pennsylvania, an idyllic planned community, the
filmmaker describes how working as an underage prostitute,
she finds her voice, identity, and family. Now, a mother of two
children, leading a most conventional life, she champions a
woman’s right to use sex for art, work, love and power.
Written & Directed by
Jonathan VanBallenberghe
VanBallenberghe's documentaries include HEAR ME, SEE ME (2014), LAPSE:
Confessions of a Slot Machine Junkie (2013 Tribeca premiere), GURU (2011
Tribeca premiere and Special Jury Award), IN THE COMPANY OF MOOSE
(2009, InFlight Entertainment and PBS), and THE OSTRICH TESTIMONIES
(2008 SXSW premiere, "Best of Arizona" at the Arizona International Film
Festival).. Recently he completed RIVER OF BEARS, a full-dome planetarium
show about brown bears for the University of Alaska, Anchorage. Jonathan
and his wife Sharon Wahl own and operate Open Lens Productions out of
Tucson, Arizona.
