Featuring 16 films from US independent filmmakers. Why We Fight won the Grand Jury Prize, with the Audience Award going to Murderball, which also won a Special Jury Prize for Editing. After Innocence also won a Special Jury Prize. The Jury Directing award went to Jeff Feuerzeig for The Devil And Daniel Johnston.
Jessica Sanders examines not just the flood of reversed convictions that DNA evidence but also what happens to those exonerated one they have been set free.
(Country: US; Year: 2005; Director: Jessica Sanders; Writer: Jessica Sanders, Marc H. Simon)
Never could the warning, 'Stay away if you're easily offended,' be more appropriate.
Documentary about a filthy joke, told by a succession of
professional comedians.
(Country: US; Year: 2004; Director: Paul Provenza; Stars: Robin Williams, Billy Connolly, Hank Azaria, Drew Carey, Eddie Izzard, Whoopi Goldberg, Chris Rock, Eric Idle, Gilbert Gottfried, Carrie Fisher.)
Daniel's music is heard throughout, adding immeasurable depth to his story.
Biographical documentary about an underground singer/songwriter extraordinaire.
(Country: US; Year: 2005; Director: Jeff Feuerzeig; Writer: Jeff Feuerzeig; Stars: Daniel Johnston, Jeff Tartakov, Bill Johnston, Louis Black, Mabel Johnston)
Documenting three years in the life of a high schooler who takes on her city's sex eduction policies.
(Country: US; Year: 2005; Director: Marion Lipschutz, Rose Rosenblatt; Stars: Rene Caudillo, Yvonne Caudillo, Shelby Knox, Amanda Noble, Ricky Waite)
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
(Country: USA; Year: 2005; Director: Alex Gibney; Writer: Bethany McLean, Peter Elkind, Alex Gibney; Stars: John Beard, Jim Chanos, Carol Coale, Peter Coyote, Gray Davis, Joseph Dunn, Max Eberts)
The Fall Of Fujimori
An intimate and deeply disturbing portrait of Peruvian ex-president Alberto Fujimori.
(Country: US; Year: 2005; Director: Ellen Perry; Writer: Zack Anderson, Ellen Perry, Kim Roberts; Stars: Alberto Fujimori )
Frozen Angels
Examination of assisted human-reproductive technologies.
(Country: Germany, US; Year: 2005; Director: Eric Black, Frauke Sandig; Writer: Eric Black, Frauke Sandig)
Mardi Gras: Made In China
Exploration of the working conditions of the Chinese people who make Mardi Gras beads.
What raises the movie above the average is former Spin magazine editor Shapiro's journalistic eye, which ensures that all the angles are covered.
The passionate, violent, disabled world of quad rugby is uncovered as Team USA seeks gold in Athens.
(Country: US; Year: 2005; Director: Henry Alex Rubin, Dana Adam Shapiro; Stars: Joe Soares, Mark Zupan, Andy Cohn, Bob Lujano, Keith Cavill, Scott Hogsett, Christopher Igoe)
The meteoric rise, resoundingn fall and resurrectionn of the glam rock punk band.
(Country: US; Year: 2005; Director: Greg Whiteley; Stars: Nina Antonia, Bishop Bragg, Clem Burke, Lee Black Childers, Steve Conte, Bob Geldof, Chrissie Hynde, Frank Infante, David Johansen, Mick Jones, Arthur Kane)
Ring of Fire: The Emile Griffith Story
Examination of Emile Griffith the six-time welterweight champion of the world, who was also a closet homosexual.
(Country: US; Year: 2005; Director: Ron Berger, Dan Klores; Stars: Emile Griffith, Howie Albert, Manuel Alfaro, Carmen Basilio, Jimmy Breslin, Gil Clancy, Joe Cortez, Eckhard Dagge, Angelo Dundee, Don Dunphy, George Foreman)
Romántico
Documentary about two Mexican marachi singers who roam the bars and restaurants of San Francisco.
Documentary about a victim of clergy sex abuse and his efforts to ake on the Church.
(Country: US; Year: 2004; Director: Kirby Dick; Stars: Jeff Anderson, Tony Comes, Wendy Comes, Firass Dirani, Catherine Hoolahan, Dennis O'Loughlin, Matthew Simon, Father Stephen Stanbery)
