2009 New York Film Academy Documentary Film Festival

It’s time for the Winter screening of the 2009 New York Film Academy Documentary Film Festival - a showcase of thesis work from our graduating Documentary students. And you’re invited!

Visit the other side of Hawaiian paradise. Follow an unsuspecting pit bull into “the system.” Declare war on the American film business. Or, on pretty much everything in Holland. Kick it with refugees using soccer to find their place in the melting pot. And with the 21st Century Pirates who’ve suddenly become the 3rd largest party in Sweden. And wrap it all up with a couple of rounds of good, old-fashioned, intergenerational male bonding: the first involving a father, a son and a tattoo. And in the second, a grandson whose birth occasioned a national celebration and the running of the bulls through the streets of Panama tries to reconnect with his grandfather, a deposed General that America refuses to set free, years after everyone agrees his sentence has been served.

It’s all in a night’s work for the unique, young voices of NYFA’s Documentary Filmmaking School Department, who’ve combined the art of storytelling with the craft of filmmaking to recount a rich variety of remarkable true tales.

Winter Screening
2009 NEW YORK FILM ACADEMY DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL
December 11, 2009
Screening Room at NYFA’s Union Square campus
100 East 17th Street
New York, New York 10003

Screening at 6:00 pm
Reception to Follow

The Winter 2009 New York Film Academy Documentary Film Festival’s World Premiere Program includes:

Dealing with your dog by Yusuke
In Between Paradise by Lei Tokuda
Hedda’s War by Leah Goudsmit
The Revolution Will Be Animated by Marine Lormant
Kick Off by Priscila Vitteli
The Pirate Party: A Party Of Pirates And Pioneers by Max Carlquist
Family Tradition by Ryan Ross
The General Man, Act I by Jean-Manuel Beauchamp