Posts tagged documentary
Bad Press
Bad Press

Directed By Rebecca Landsberry-Baker (Muscogee Creek) and Joe Peeler

5:45 PM, Saturday, 10/7, Zeitgeist Zinema 1

When the Muscogee Nation suddenly begins censoring their free press, a rogue reporter fights to expose her government’s corruption in a historic battle that will have ramifications for all of Indian Country. The battle for the free, unimpeded flow of information to the public is in danger in both the Muscogee Nation and the United States, and in both cases, those who control that flow hold some measure of sway over their elections’ outcomes. Bad Press holds up a timely and important mirror to those in power in both the Muscogee (Creek) Nation and America.

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Documentary FeatureTrey WodeleDuluth, MNFeature Film, documentary
CUE THE STRINGS - A FILM ABOUT LOW
CUE THE STRINGS - A FILM ABOUT LOW

Directed by Philip Harder

7:00 PM, Thursday, 10/5, NorShor Theatre
Encore Presentation: 4:00PM Sunday, 10/8, Zeitgeist Zinema 2
*Minnesota Made
*Director Philip Harder - in attendance
*Producer Patrick Riley - in attendance
*Alan Sparhawk - in attendance

Cue the Strings - a film about Low follows the entire career of the iconic band Low and their relationship with director Philip Harder. Low and Harder made music videos and short films together, filming on ice, in railroad yards, and in rapidly disintegrating rooms.

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Documentary FeatureTrey WodeleDuluth, MNFeature Film, documentary
EN AVANT Collection
EN AVANT Collection

5:30 PM, Saturday, 10/7, Zeitgeist Zinema 2
*Multiple filmmakers in attendance

GIRO PREPARES FOR DEATH
Directed by Peter Coccoma
*Actors Martin Curry and Julie Stryker in attendance
*Wisconsin Made
After receiving a terminal diagnosis, a man returns to his remote homestead on a small northern island to process what he will do next. 17:58, WI USA

REALLY GOOD FRIENDS
Directed by Adam Sekuler (in attendance)
In a hotel room, a woman in her 60s shares a surprising and provocative story of longing and unlikely connection. 10:00, MI, USA

EN AVANT [about a year in MPLS]
Directed by Dan Schneidkraut (in attendance)
*Minnesota Made
A meditative ride through the city during a period of tumult and transition: coming together and falling apart. 36:58, MN USA

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CollectionTrey WodeleDuluth, MNNarrative, Featurette, Short Film, documentary
Greybeard: The Man, The Myth, The Mississippi
Greybeard: The Man, The Myth, The Mississippi

Directed By Zak Rivers

2:00 PM, Sunday, 10/8, Zeitgeist Zinema 2
*Minnesota Made

Dale “Greybeard” Sanders challenges himself to set another world record, trying to reclaim his title as the oldest person to paddle the full source to sea on the Mississippi River. At 87 years old it takes perseverance and an attitude that says, “One of these days I’ll get old."

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Documentary FeatureTrey WodeleDuluth, MNFeature Film, documentary
Hammersmith Collection
Hammersmith Collection

9:30 PM, Saturday, 10/7, Zeitgeist Zinema 1
*Northern States Made
*Hammersmith Director Kyle Lelend Cullerton in attendance
*Hammersmith Actor Colin Rice in attendance

Everything I Learned When My House Burned Down
Directed by Joe Pickett
Comedian Jacy Catlin was living the simple life in his remote log cabin in rural Wisconsin, eking out a living as a comedy writer and self-producing numerous comedy shorts. One fateful February, on the coldest day of the year, a fire in his wood stove spread out of control, and the house and all of his family’s belongings were destroyed. After the smoke had cleared, he returned to his former home to shoot one last comedy film.

Hammersmith
Directed by Kyle Lelend Cullerton (in attendance)
A narcissistic filmmaker dreams of stardumb during the production of his breakout action movie, while his cast & crew try to stay alive on a film set falling to chaos.

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CollectionTrey WodeleDuluth, MNNarrative, Featurette, Short Film, documentary
The Iron Opera Collection
The Iron Opera Collection

12:00 PM, Sunday, 10/8, Zeitgeist Zinema 2
*Minnesota Made
*Iron Opera Co-Director Mike Scholtz in attendance
*Iron Opera Co-Director Marius Anderson in attendance

That’s the Last Straw
Directed by Melton Barker
From the late 1930s into the early 1970s, Dallas native, Melton Barker and his company, Melton Barker Juvenile Productions, traveled all over the country – from Texas and New Mexico to North Carolina and Indiana – filming local children acting, singing, and dancing in two-reel films that Barker titled The Kidnappers Foil. This production, filmed here in Duluth, Minnesota in 1938, is a rare variation on Barker’s Kidnappers Foil script. The copy held at the Minnesota Historical Society is the only known copy of the film in existence.

The Iron Opera:
Directed By Mike Scholtz and Marius Anderson
It’s not easy to stage an opera in the middle of northern Minnesota, but this is the Iron Range where the people are stubborn and the music of the Old World still runs deep in their veins. Watch as a renowned concert pianist teams up with an Ojibwe language teacher, a skateboarding accordionist, and talent imported from every corner of the Earth to pull off the impossible.

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Documentary FeatureTrey WodeleDuluth, MNFeature Film, documentary
Relentless
Relentless

Directed By Thomas Lindsey Haskin

3:00 PM, Saturday, 10/7, Spirit of the North Theatre
*Director Thomas Lindsey Haskin in attendance
*Subjects Cory Brant and Stuart Sivertson in attendance

J.K. Simmons narrates Relentless, which explores the mystery behind how and why the fish most prized by people nearly disappeared from the largest freshwater ecosystem on Earth: the Great Lakes.

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Documentary FeatureTrey WodeleDuluth, MNFeature Film, documentary