Newfilmmakers Weekly Film Series

NEWFILMMAKERS WEEKLY FILM SERIES
NewFilmmakers examines the Bush legacy with three features.

@ Anthology Film Archives

Date: 1/14/09
Time: 5:45 PM
Admission: $5

5:45 PM: INTRO WHILE SEATING
Elizabeth Tesla GITMO FREEDOM (2006, 8 Minutes, Video)

6:00 PM NEWFILMMAKERS FIRST FEATURE PRESENTATION

Michael Galinsky and Suki Hawley, HORNS AND HALOS (2002, 90 Minutes, Video) The movie is about a little guy that wanted to play with the big kids. Unfortunately, he got what he wanted. After writing several small time bios of people like Star Trek's Captain Picard, James Hatfield decides to hit the big time by writing a bio of then Governor George W. Bush. It worked -- for four days. The movie is about how an average, everyday guy reacts when the microscope of fame is turned back on him. Will he rise to the occasion and become a hero or be beaten down like a dog? Better yet, how would you react if all of your secrets were bared for all to see and judge?

7:30 PM: NEWFILMMAKERS SECOND FEATURE PRESENTATION

Nate Jones, BLACK NOVEMBER (2008, 10 Minutes, Video)
NOV. 2008: Jack's racist Grandma could go right back into the coma if she finds out the shocking news that Obama has been elected President. So Jack thought of everything: media, TV, phone---anything that could inform her. What he didn't count on was his Republican cousin Gene.

David Modigliani, CRAWFORD (2008, 90 Minutes, Video)
In 1999, Governor George W. Bush buys a ranch in Crawford, Texas and calls it "home"; an insular community explodes overnight. Bush declares candidacy for President, using Crawford as the perfect set-piece to project a folksy image. Months later, he thrusts the town of 705 into the spotlight as his token symbol the Presidents "Western White House." Crawford is instantly overrun with international press corps and droves of flocking tourists. Shops open; Main St. booms; the locals watch themselves on national TV. Now, the Crawford's boom is busting like the Presidency itself. Tourists have stopped coming; land is overvalued; the bumper sticker and trinket shops are boarded up. But seven years of political stagecraft have made a graver human impact. Two characters are dead and one is leaving town. Bush is soon to abscond. Left to deal with the aftermath are the real people of Crawford. Their lives are changed forever. And their story is our own.

9:15 PM: NEWFILMMAKERS THIRD FEATURE PRESENTATION



Maryanne Galvin, INTERROGATE THIS (2008, 90 Minutes, Video)
INTERROGATE THIS presents a troubling and deeply human story illustrating the complexities encountered when national security, psychology, politics, ethics and morality collide. Until this past September when the American Psychological Association voted on a referendum requiring policy adjustments regarding psychologists' work in national security sites that prohibits their further involvement in interrogations of detainees, the mental health profession’s involvement in the war-on-terror had not been widely publicized. Yet, for years psychologists and other professionals involved in the war on terror have gone head to head debating their continued involvement as consultants to those conducting the interrogations of suspected terrorists in detention centers throughout the globe. The film puts 13 such individuals in the hot seat, including former NCIS Chief Psychologist Dr. Michael Gelles, Navy psychologist Dr. Carrie Kennedy, career military intelligence officer Col. Steven Kleinman, lawyers representing detainees and human rights organizations such as Physicians for Human Rights, as well as activist psychologists promoting a moratorium on continued involvement in centers where detainees lack human rights.For more information about the film visit www.MGProductions.biz. INTERROGATE THIS is Dr. Galvin’s seventh documentary in as many years. Her films have won awards at numerous independent film festivals and have been broadcast and distributed widely.

INTERROGATE THIS features these interviewees who have agreed to participate in Q & A after the screening:

Dr. Michael Gelles Psychologist Washington, D.C. Dr. Gelles served as the Chief Psychologist for the Naval Criminal Investigative Service (1991-2006)

Dr. Steven Reisner, NYC, Co-Founder, Coalition for an Ethical Psychology

Ghislaine Boulanger, Ph.D., Faculty Clinical Psychology Program, Teachers College, Columbia University, Founding Member, WithholdAPAdues.Com

Dr. Neil Altman, New York University, New York, NY, maker of the resolution for a moratorium on psychologists' participation in interrogations of national security detainees

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