10-2020 HSDFF Guide

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2020 HSDFF DRIVE-IN MOVIES ALEX GIBNEY RETROSPECTIVE OCT 8-19

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Produced in partnership with Visit Hot Springs, The Hot MEET 2020 HSDFF CAREER ACHIEVEMENT AWARD WINNER
Springs Mall, Low Key Arts, and KUHS, the HSDFF pop- ALEX GIBNEY On Demand | Available Oct 9-17
up drive-in movies will take place at the Hot Springs
Mall and will be a fun-filled evening for our festival MEET 2020 HSDFF CAREER ACHIEVEMENT AWARD WINNER
family to enjoy. With the help of Hot Springs’ solar DAWN PORTER On Demand | Available Oct 9-17
powered community radio station, KUHS, the sound
from the movie will be made available over the radio for MEET 2020 HSDFF IMPACT AWARD RECIPIENT
attendees to play in their vehicles. CDC guidelines for DIANE QUON On Demand | Available Oct 9-17
social distancing will be enforced.
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OPENING NIGHT DRIVE-IN MOVIE IYABO BOYD On Demand | Available Oct 9-17
JIMMY CARTER ROCK & ROLL PRESIDENT
FRI | OCT 9 DOCUMENTARY WRITING
5:30pm | Gates with Mark Monroe | Saturday | Oct 10 | 10:30AM-12:00PM
6:15pm | Live Music by Brae Leni
7:00pm | Film starts DOCUMENTARY CINEMATOGRAPHY
with Kirsten Johnson | Saturday | Oct 17| 10:30AM-12:00PM

CENTERPIECE DRIVE-IN MOVIE WELLNESS CLASS “COPING WITH UNKNOWNS”
OTTOLENGHI AND THE CAKES OF VERSAILLE BETH PICKENS
TUES | OCT 13
5:30pm | Gates Sun | Oct 11 | 1pm-2:30PM CST
6:15pm | Live Music by Jamie Lou & the Hullabaloo Sat | Oct 17 | 1pm-2:30PM CST
7:00pm | Film starts Beth Pickens is a Los Angeles-based consultant for artists and
arts organizations. She is the author of Your Art Will Save Your Life
CLOSING NIGHT DRIVE-IN MOVIE (Feminist Press, 2018). Her pamphlets—Making Art During Fascism
9 TO 5: A STORY OF A MOVEMENT and On Artists and Hopelessness—were designed and distributed by
FRI | OCT 16 the Women’s Center for Creative Work in Los Angeles. Chronicle
5:30pm | Gates Books will publish her forthcoming book, Make Your Art No Matter
6:15pm | Live Music by Dazz & Bre What, in April 2021.
7:00pm | Film starts
STORYTELLING
WELLNESS SERIES
LIVE & IN-PERSON Virtual Class 1: Mon | Oct 5 | 6:00-8:00PM

INSPIRATION HIKE Virtual Class 2. Thur | Oct 8 | 6:00-8:00PM

SAT | OCT 10 | 10:30AM - 11:30AM Virtual Class 3: Mon | Oct 12 | 6:00-8:00PM
Sponsored by The Parlour
Virtual SHOWCASE: Wed | Oct 14 | 4:00-5:30PM

YOGA ON THE ARLINGTON LAWN

SUN | OCT 11 | 11:00AM - NOON

SLOW ROLL BIKE RIDE

SAT | OCT 17 | 5:00-6:30PM

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LIVE VIRTUAL BIOS:

Workshops Gordon Quinn:
Artistic Director and founder of Kartemquin
Documentary Writing with Mark Films, Gordon’s documentaries include
Monroe Home for Life, Taylor Chain, The Last Pullman
Car, Golub, Hoop Dreams, Vietnam, Long
LIVE & FREE | Registration Required Time Coming, Stevie and The New Americans.
Recently he directed Prisoner of Her Past, A
Sat | Oct 10 | 10:30AM-12:00PM CST Good Man and ‘63 Boycott, shortlisted for
the Oscar. He was EP on The Interrupters,
WGA winning writer and producer of two Academy Award-winning The Trials of Muhammad Ali, The Homestretch,
Documentaries for Best Documentary, The Cove and Icarus, Mark Monroe’s Life Itself, and America To Me, and Oscar
writing and producing credits span two decades and include BAFTA and nominated Edith and Eddie, Abacus, and
GRAMMY winning films as well as The Dissident that premiered at Sundance Minding The Gap. Gordon helped create the
2019. Founding member of Diamond Docs, film titles include: Leonardo Documentary Filmmakers Statement of Best
DiCaprio’s Before the Flood, Steven Spielberg’s Finding Oscar; Grammy Practices in Fair Use and speaks on Public
winner, The Beatles: Eight Days A Week; The Game Changers, The Biggest media, Fair Use, and documentary ethics.
Little Farm, Racing Extinction, Dave Grohl’s Sound City, Fed Up, Ron Howard’s
Luciano Pavarotti, Frank Marshall’s upcoming Bee Gees documentary for Shuling Yong is a Singapore-born,
HBO, How Can You Mend a Broken Heart, and Amy Poehler’s directorial Chicago-based documentary film
debut documentary in the works about Lucille Ball. maker, DP and Location Sound
Recordist with over a decade of
Documentary Cinematography with experience. She has worked on films
Kirsten Johnson like Becoming (Netflix, 2020, dir.
Nadia Hallgren), The Feeling of Being
LIVE & FREE | Registration Required Watched (Tribeca, 2018, dir. Assia
Boundaoui), And She Could Be Next
Sat | Oct 17 | 10:30AM-12:00PM CST (Tribeca, 2020, dir. Grace Lee and
Marjan Safinia) and America To Me
Kirsten Johnson’s DICK JOHNSON IS DEAD premiered at this year’s 2020 (Sundance, 2018, dir. Steve James). Her feature-length debut, Unteachable,
Sundance and won the Jury Prize for Innovation in Nonfiction Storytelling. a documentary following a young woman on a mission to bring empathy and
Her previous film, CAMERAPERSON, named New York Times ‘Top Ten Films the joy of learning back into classrooms, was the first local film to win the
of 2016’ was shortlisted for the Academy Award. Her short, THE ABOVE Audience Choice Award at the 30th Singapore International Film Festival.
was nominated for the IDA’s ‘Best Short Award’ for 2016. Her camerawork Shuling’s debut short film, Growing Roots, premiered on the Discovery Channel
appears in Academy Award winner CITIZEN FOUR, Academy nominated in 2015. Shuling is a Kartemquin Films Diverse Voices in Docs Fellow, a
THE INVISIBLE WAR, and Cannes Winner FAHRENHEIT 9/11. She’s been participant in the Doc Society Queer Impact Producers Lab, and was selected
invited to join the American Society of Cinematographers and is one of the as an honoree for DOC NYC’s “40 Under 40” List 2019.
4% of women in their membership
Nausheen Dadabhoy, is a Pakistani-American director and cinematographer
Production During a Pandemic from California. As a cinematographer, Nausheen has lensed a number of
narrative and documentary films: The Remix: Hip Hop X Fashion (2019), which
LIVE Panel premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and is currently streaming on Netflix;
Tue | Oct 9 | Time TBD La Femme et Le TGV (2016), a live-action short Oscar nominee; the Emmy
Award winning Armed with Faith (2018, additional cinematographer); Girl
Join us for an in-depth discussion on production during Covid-19. Featuring Unbound: War to Be Her (2016), which premiered at TIFF and aired on POV;
four intrepid individuals who are actively in production, the conversation Conscience Point (2019), which aired on Independent Lens; and J’adore Nawal
will explore creative solutions in a constantly shifting landscape. With no a short for HBO Documentaries (2018), which premiered at Sundance. Her
aggregate for guidelines, fluctuating case numbers, and stories that urgently directorial debut The Ground Beneath Their Feet (2014) premiered at IDFA.
need to be told, this group will explore the ethical responsibility of filming in She is currently directing her second feature film, An Act of Worship, which has
these challenging times. received support from the Ford Foundation, IFP, Field of Vision, Hot Docs,
Sundance, among others.
MODERATOR: Jessie Fairbanks, Director of Programming, HSDFF
Gordon Quinn - Artistic Director, Kartemquin Films, Producer, (HSDFF Avantika Nimbalker is a production sound
Alumni) mixer and sound designer with nine years of
Shuling Yong - Director of Cinematography and Sound Recordist experience in documentary, narrative and
Avantika Nimbalker - Editor television. Her on-location mixing experience
Nausheen Dadabhoy - Director and Cinematographer includes a true-crime documentary by A+E
Originals, The Kelly Clarkson Show for NBC
Universal, live shows for Food Network
Live, podcast Chasing Cosby (Winner-Webby
Award) and narrative A Period Piece (SXSW).
Her post-production work ranges from sound
designing for documentaries Coral Woman
(Winner-Tulum, Woodpecker and IMFF); The
First Move and Fearless to ADR supervision for
narratives Ankhon Dekhi (Winner- Filmfare,
Screen) and Zubaan. Avantika received her
MFA in film sound from India’s premier film school, The Film and Television
Institute of India in 2011. She is currently mixing a web series slated for
release in December 2020.

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GALA DRIVE-IN

SCREENINGS

HSDFF will screen its three “gala” selections at a pop-up Friday, October 9 will feature the Opening Night presentation
drive-in located at Hot Springs Mall (4501 Central Ave, Hot of Wharton’s JIMMY CARTER, ROCK & ROLL PRESIDENT. The
Springs, AR). Produced in partnership with Visit Hot Springs, film focuses on the surprisingly significant role that music played
The Hot Springs Mall, Low Key Arts, and KUHS, the drive-in film throughout Carter’s life and in his work, including the vital
presentations will follow a successful drive-in screening that support he and his campaign received from popular artists to give
HSDFF offered last May. him a crucial boost during the Democratic primaries. HSDFF’s
Centerpiece presentation of Gabbert’s OTTOLENGHI AND THE
“Despite all the curveballs the pandemic threw at us this CAKES OF VERSAILLES will take place on Tuesday, October 13.
year, we are proud to continue our long-standing tradition of The visually stunning masterpiece documents the collaboration
creating a festive environment to showcase incredible films,” between world renowned chef Yotan Ottolenghi (Jerusalem
says Artistic Director, Jen Gerber. “Our drive-in gala events will Plenty) and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, as five
provide a safe place for our community to unite around the visionary pastry makers endeavor to construct an extravagant
shared belief that film has the power to connect people and food gala. The Closing Night screening will take place on Friday,
transform our world. While the festival looks a little different October 16, with the presentation of Reichart and Bognar’s 9-TO-
this year, our legacy remains firmly intact as a cultural institution 5: THE STORY OF A MOVEMENT. The film looks at the group of
within this region,” says Gerber. fearless women who employed outrageous humor to attract the
press and shame their bosses into change. The movement, taking
Each screening will be accompanied by live music and the name “9 to 5”, inspired Dolly Parton’s iconic song and hit film.
concessions provided by local food trucks and vendors – with
social distancing, and all safety measures strictly enforced.

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JIMMY CARTER, ROCK & ROLL PRESIDENT

Director: Mary Wharton | 96 min.
FRI | OCT 9 | 7:00PM

This fascinating documentary charts the mostly forgotten
story of how Carter, a lover of all types of music, forged a tight
bond with musicians Willie Nelson, the Allman Brothers, Bob
Dylan and others. Low on campaign funds and lacking in name
recognition, Carter relied on support from these artists to give
him a crucial boost in the Democratic primaries. Once Carter
was elected, the musicians became frequent guests in the
White House. 

Centerpiece Film

OTTOLENGHI AND THE CAKES OF VERSAILLES

Director: Laura Gabbert | 76 min
TUES | OCT 13 | 7:00PM

Laura Gabbert’svisuallystunning masterpiece documents the
collaboration between world renowned chef Yotam Ottolenghi
(Jerusalem Plenty) and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New
York, as five visionary chefs create edible art emblematic of the
decadence of Versailles. Exploring the intersection between
food, culture, and history, this sumptuous film is an eye-popping
explosion of 3-D printed cakes, chocolate swans, and Jell-O
sculptures. Exquisitely crafted, this drool-inducing documentary
invites you to savor the finer things in life.

C L O S IN G NI G H T F ILM

9-TO-5: THE STORY OF A MOVEMENT

Directors: Julia Reichert, Steve Bognar | 76 min
FRI | OCT 16 | 7:00PM

Academy Award-winners, Julia Reichert and Steven Bognar,
are back with another profound film on the American working
class. This time their camera tracks a group of secretaries in
the 1970s who band together to form a national movement.
Harnessing their outrageous office experiences, these women
use humor and unexpected strategies to fight for better pay,
professional opportunities, and an end to sexual harassment.
Their work energized the nation and inspired the iconic song
and award-winning film.

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FEATURES INDIANS, OUTLAWS, MARSHALS MLK/FBI  
ALEX GIBNEY RETROSPECTIVE AND THE HANGIN’ JUDGE Dir: Sam Pollard
Dir: Larry Foley US | 104 min
Based on newly declassified files,
US | 90 min Pollard’s resonant film explores the
Exploring the history of the 19th

century, the stories documented in U.S. government’s surveillance and

CLIENT 9: THE RISE AND FALL OF GOING CLEAR: SCIENTOLOGY & this film resonate today: gun violence, harassment of Martin Luther King, Jr.
ELIOT SPITZER (2010) THE PRISON OF BELIEF (2015) racial strife, police brutality and
Dir: Alex Gibney Dir: Alex Gibney American Indian rights. This is a true PROPER PRONOUNS
Dir: Megan Daniels
US | 117 min US | 119 min tale of a charismatic federal judge
An in-depth look at the rise and US | 65 min
fall of New York Governor Eliot Profiling eight former members who sentenced scores of criminals in Four ordained ministers navigate their
Spitzer, including interviews with the of the Church of Scientology, this rural Arkansas. public roles as transgender clergy,
scandalized, former politician. reading the gospel, leading masses,
investigative documentary explores JOHN LEWIS: GOOD and advocating against transphobia in
ENRON: THE SMARTEST GUYS IN TROUBLE North Carolina.
THE ROOM (2005) the inner-workings of one of the most Dir: Dawn Porter
Dir: Alex Gibney contentious institutions in modern RAP SQUAD
World Premiere
US | 110 min history. US | 96 min Dir: Nathan Willis
Profiling the sordid Enron corporation,
this film offers an insider look at their NO STONE UNTURNED (2017) Congressman John Lewis was a US | 60 min
dramatic demise and serves as a Arkansas students at Helena-West
chilling reminder of who really suffers Dir: Alex Gibney national treasure. This lovingly Helena’s Central High School turn to
hip-hop and spoken word as an outlet
US | 111 min constructed and nuanced portrait,
probes Lewis’s humanity, his
An in-depth investigation into an unwavering faith in America, and his

unsolved 1994 massacre, where
six Irishmen were murdered while infectious humor.

when corrupt companies fail. watching the World Cup at the local MISSING IN BROOKS COUNTY for their civic frustration and a means
pub in Loughinisland, Northern World Premiere to heal their community.
FINDING FELA (2014) Ireland. Dir: Lisa Molomot, Jeff Bemiss
Dir: Alex Gibney US KIDS
US | 119 min TAXI TO THE DARK SIDE US | 81 min Dir: Kim A. Snyder
A high octane, sonically explosive (2007) This documentary profiles two
profile of Nigerian singer Fela Kuti, the Dir: Alex Gibney families as they try to find their loved US | 95 min
iconic performer and historic figure ones in Brooks County, Texas, a place Two years after a tragic mass shooting,
who created a musical movement that US | 96 min Award- infamous for missing migrants. the kids of Marjory Stoneman Douglas
still resonates today. Alex Gibney’s Academy High School reflect on their national
campaigning for gun control.
winning expose details the USA’s

torture and interrogation practices US DOCUMENTARIES
during the War in Afghanistan.

SOUTHERN DOCUMENTARIES CRAZY, NOT INSANE GENERATION GROWTH
Dir: Alex Gibney Dir: Mu Sun

BOYS STATE US | 117 min US | 97 min
Dir: Amanda McBaine, Jesse Moss this documentary follows the An examination of the research One teacher is on a mission to change
the way schools teach and how kids
US | 109 min legendary sound of the Cate Brothers. by forensic psychiatrist Dorothy eat by growing a vegetable garden in
A thousand 17-year-old boys class.
from Texas join together to build a DEVIL PUT THE COAL IN THE Otnow Lewis who investigated the
representative government from the GROUND psychology of murderers. JACINTA
ground up. Dir: Jessica Earnshaw
Dir: Lucas Sabean, Peter CURED
CATE BROTHERS: ARKANSAS Hutchison Dir: Patrick Sammon, Bennett US | 105 min
ROCK AND SOUL ROYALTY Singer
Dir: Benjamin Meade US | 82 min A profound and deeply moving family
portrait that explores the cyclical
US | 70 min Agripping documentary detailing West US | 82 min nature of addiction and generational
Virginia’s complicated relationship The riveting documentary details the trauma.
Raised in the heart and soul of the with coal and a community’s enduring scientists who recommended and
music scene in Northwest Arkansas, pride in an industry with an uncertain encouraged gay conversion therapy LANDFALL
future. Dir: Cecilia Aldarondo
and the activists taking them down.
US | 93 min
THE DONUT KING
Dir: Alice Gu An urgent and complex portrait
of Puerto Rico today; an island
US | 94 min recovering from Hurricane Maria and
an economic crisis while being fed
The self-proclaimed Donut King is the superficial messages of togetherness.

stunning tale of Cambodian refugee, MEDICINE MAN: THE STAN BROCK
STORY
Ted Ngoy, who reshaped the donut Dir: Paul Michael Angell

industry into the pink boxed, glazed UK | 96 min
Amazonian cowboyStan Brock forgoes
phenomenon of ‘mom & pop’ shops wrestling snakes and wrangling wild
cats to tackle America’s healthcare
that took over the west coast in the crisis, founding a charity that provides
free healthcare to the marginalized.
80s and 90s.

DOWN A DARK STAIRWELL
Dir: Ursula Liang

US | 87 min
A conversation across racial lines
fray after a Chinese-American police
officer kills an unarmed Black man in a
stairwell in Brooklyn, New York.

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PUBLIC TRUST WHITE NOISE
Dir: David Byars Dir: Daniel Lombroso

US | 95 min US | 94 min
A riveting exposé looking at America’s A bold and frightening exposé
breathtaking public lands and the of the alt-right movement that
covert efforts of extractive industries intimately profiles three of its
to pillage these resources for profit infamous personalities – Richard B.
and economic gain. Spencer, Mike Cernovich, and Lauren
Southern.
THE SIT IN: HARRY BELAFONTE
HOSTS THE TONIGHT SHOW WOMEN IN BLUE
Dir: Yoruba Richen Dir: Deirdre Fishel

US | 77 min US | 82 min
In 1968, Harry Belafonte guest Minneapolis Police Department’s
hosted The Tonight Show. Featuring first female chief attempts to reform
interviews with Dr. Martin Luther an institution plagued by allegations
King Jr., Dionne Warwick, and Robert of bias and excessive force, while
F. Kennedy, this rich portrait of the addressing gender discrimination.
legendary performer will make you
laugh and cry. YOU CAN NOT KILL DAVID

THROUGH THE NIGHT ARQUETTE
Dir: Loira Limbal
Dir: David Darg, Price James
US | 72 min
A 24-hour daycare center nestled US | 91 min
in New Rochelle, NY serves as a Did you know actor David Arquette
vital lifeline for working class, single is entertainment wrestling’s most
mothers struggling to stay afloat. hated competitor? What began as
a promotional stunt for a film in
TRANSHOOD the 1990s, outraged a generation
Dir: Sharon Liese of wrestling fans and permanently
altered the trajectory of Arquette’s
US | 96 min life. Twenty years later, he is back
The lives of four transgendered kids — in the ring seeking redemption but
ages 4, 7, 12, and 15—share personal his desire to earn respect leads to
realities of how gender expression is increasingly extreme and violent
reshaping their American families. situations. Featuring the Arquette
siblings, Luke Perry, and ex-wife
UPROOTED - THE JOURNEY OF Courtney Cox, this is the ultimate
JAZZ DANCE comeback story. A raw and intimate
Dir: Khadifa Wong portrait of a man obsessed with
validation.
USA/UK/Canada/France | 94 min
A feature length documentary on the
lineage and future progressions of
jazz dance.

INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARIES

CODED BIAS With their dreams set on signing OVERLAND THE VIEWING BOOTH
Dir: Shalini Kantayya with the major leagues, three Cuban Dir: Revere La Noue, Elisabeth Dir: Ra’anan Alexandrowicz
baseball players leave their families Haviland James
China/South/Africa/UK | 90 min and risk everything to train in Central US/UK/Italy/UAE/Azerbaijan/ Israel/US | 72 min
When an MIT Researcher realizes America. Maia Levy, a young Jewish-American
facial recognition software has not Mongolia/South Africa | 104 min woman, takes a seat in a small viewing
been programmed to identify black MAMAKROM This stunningly beautiful film bridges booth to participate in an exercise
faces and is actively being used by law Dir: Joseph Pelegreen modern day practices with traditional designed to explore the psychology
enforcement around the world, a race falconry, following three colorful of the viewer in the digital era.
begins to secure judicial oversight for US, Ghana, West Africa | 83 min individuals and the birds they work
AI technologies. In the developing country of with to hunt, race, and connect with THE WALRUS AND THE
Ghana, a school revolutionizes the nature. WHISTLEBLOWER
THE LAST ICE educational system with a charitable Dir: Nathalie Bibeau
Dir: Scott Ressler partner focused on sustainability and THE REASON I JUMP
empowerment. Dir: Jerry Rothwell Canada | 89 min
US | 83 min One man takes on his former
Rising temperatures melt the Arctic ONCE UPON A TIME IN UK | 82 min employer, a famous marine park, in
ice linking Greenland and Canada, VENEZUELA Cross cutting between the hopes of saving his beloved walrus,
impacting indigenous communities Dir: Anabel Rodríguez Ríos experiences of five non-speaking Smooshi.
and inspiring environmental autistic individuals from around
exploitation by predatory industrial US | 120 min the globe, this beautifully realized
interests. The villagers of Congo Mirador, a lake sensorial experience offers a portal
community in Venezuela, struggle to into a new world.
THE LAST OUT stay afloat amidst rampant political
Dir: Sami Khan, Michael Gassert corruption and staggering pollution
sinking their homes.
US | 84 min

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AFTERLIFE South Africa | 13 min

SHORT FILMS Dir: Ryan Rundle Deep in the township of Khayelitsha,

US | 12 min South Africa, one man teaches local

Swimmer Mihail Alexandrov kids to tap into their superpowers

PROGRAM #1: UK | 15 min reconciles trepidations over his through a euphoric African electronic
Undocumented Senegalese migrants
SOUTHERN LENS share their stories of struggle pending retirement while training for dance style known as Gqom.
and longing while illegally selling
ALL THE POSSIBILITIES... miniature souvenirs beneath Paris’ his final shot at making the 2020 US
Dir: Marsha Gordon, Louis Cherry shimmering Eiffel Tower.
US | 16 min Olympic Team. NANCY’S WORKSHOP
Unsung artist Vernon Pratt FROM KURILS WITH LOVE
interconnected art and Dir: Taylor Rees Dir: Aïcha Diop
mathematics. After 35 years in a US, Russia | 24 min
crate, his most ambitious project of One researcher’s odd adventure ARKANSAS HIGH COUNTRY Canada | 20 min
256 panels has its first exhibition. traveling to and studying the
changing environment of the active - A CYCLIST’S JOURNEY TO On Sundays, a hairstylist opens her
HISTORY IN PIECES volcanic chain in the Kuril Islands.
World Premiere PERSONAL GROWTH salon to teach young Black girls
Dir: Bronson Crabtree MIZUKO
US | 5 min Dir: Kira Dane, Katelyn Rebelo Dir: Jonathan Childs how to style their hair as a form of
Born and raised in Arkansas, Kent US, Japan | 15 min
Westbrook dedicates his time to With lush animation, a woman US | Running Time: 17 min empowerment and self-love.
collecting arrowheads, axes, stones, contemplates her terminated
and broken pots exclusively made pregnancy and the decisions that Cyclists Ernie and Scotti Lechuga
in the state. shape us. An intimate, poetic
visualization of a private meditation tackle the Arkansas High Country, PATTY, ARE YOU BRINGING
OF CONCRETE AND SKIN: on life and faith.
THE STORY OF THE ELAINE a 1,000-mile bicycle route covering WEED IN FROM JAMAICA?
MASSACRE MEMORIAL TRAIN ROBBERS
Dir: Nolan Dean North American Premiere steep climbs, rough terrain, and Dir: Matthew Salton
US | 12 min Dir: Martin Walther
Details the construction of Norway | 20 min inclement weather across open US | 9 min
the Elaine Massacre Memorial A coming of age story about a group
commemorating African-American of young boys who cause all sorts of Arkansas. Set in the late 60’s, the outrageous,
men, women, and children slain by trouble when they steal beer from a
white mobs and government troops local train depot. psychedelic adventure of a bright-
in 1919 Phillips County, AR.
USA V SCOTT CONNECTION eyed girl in her 20s smuggling 900lbs
THE PAINT WIZZARD Dir: Ora Dekornfeld, Isabel Castro
Dir: Jessie Auritt, Jessica Wolfson US | 16 min Dir: Tracy Nguyen-Chung, Ciara of Jamaican weed into the US.
US | 17 min Geographer Scott Warren awaits a
In Austin, Texas lives the delightful felony trial and potential 20-year Lacy
Millie, a housepainter working out prison sentence for providing food
of her sunshine yellow motorhome and water to migrants attempting US | 8 min THE SHAWL
who, at 58, decided to fully step to cross the US-Mexican border.
into her transgender identity. A young angler and conservationist Director: Sara Kiener
PROGRAM #3:
VOTE NEIL trains for her upcoming fishing US | 7 min
Dir: Honora Talbott SPORTS!
US | 19 min competition in hopes of using sport A fabulously eccentric gay male
Neil Rafferty, a former marine and A PRAYER FOR JOSHUA
newly politicized activist, battles JACKSON to deliver her message. couple reminisce on their early
to become the first openly gay Dir: Ryan Heffernan, Grayson
man elected to the Alabama State Schaffer, Kahlil Hudson days together and highlight one
Legislature. US | 22 min
A tragic speedway accident cuts THE 24 particularly magical evening
PROGRAM #2: Joshua Jackson’s promising racing
career short. Severely injured, Dir: Clay Pruitt watching Stevie Nicks perform at
HSDFF SCREENING doctors advise he will never race
COMMITTEE SELECTS again, but childhood dreams don’t US | 29 min Jones Beach.
die easily.
DAFA METTI Climbing aficionados from all over
Dir: Tal Amiran
the globe ascend onto Horseshoe ZERO ZERO

Canyon Ranch in Jasper, Arkansas Dir: Eva Grace Bor

for the world’s only 24-hour climbing UK/Zimbabwe | 14 min

competition—widely known as Hell. This intimate portrait details

PROGRAM #4: the legacy of racial identities in
Zimbabwe after a family is assigned a

LARGER THAN LIFE new race during British occupation.

MAALBEEK PROGRAM #5:
PURE IMAGINATION
North American Premiere

Dir: Ismaël Joffroy Chandoutis

France | 15 min BROKEN ORCHESTRA

Faint memories, dotted lines, and Dir: Charlie Tyrell

distilled images reimagine one US/Canada | 12 min

woman’s experience during a With hundreds of broken musical

terrorist bombing. instruments in dire need of repair

within the Philadelphia public school

MY FATHER THE MOVER system, a community coalition steps

Dir: Julia Jansch in to take action.

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ICE BALL PROGRAM #6: DOWNSTAGE PROGRAM #8:
North American Premiere Dir: Stephanie Owens
Dir Nathaniel Schmidt | FOR MATURE FAVORITES FROM
Australia, US | 14 min AUDIENCES ONLY US | 12 min OTHER FESTS
Every year, over 50 people gather at 11-year-old Aedan prepares for his
the remote home of Will Steger to BURNT TOAST first competitive dance solo, while ALL CATS ARE GREY IN THE DARK
participate in the age-old tradition Dir: Timothy Racca Morrish reflecting on the social stigma he Dir: Lasse Linder
of seasonal ice cutting. US | 17 min faces as a black, male dancer. Oostenrijk | 19 min
Anyone’s image can appear on toast Interested in growing his cat family,
MEMOIRS OF VEGETATION thanks to Galen P. Divelly III, creator GUN KILLERS Christian breeds his beloved cat
Dir: Jessica Oreck of the novelty “Selfie Toaster,” that Dir: Jason Young Marmalade in this eclectic story of
US | 2 min burns custom-designed images onto Canada | 11 min fatherhood.
Do you know where castor oil comes toast. A hypnotic portrait of a Canadian
from? This stunning stop-motion couple who melt down illegal firearms THE CHURCH FORESTS OF
story of the castor bean is a bite size COBY AND STEPHEN ARE IN confiscated by the police as part of a ETHIOPIA
kernel of botanical history. LOVE communal effort towards greater gun Dir: Jeremy Seifert
Dir: Luka Yuanyuan Yang, Carlo control. US | 9 min
ONCE THE DUST HAS SETTLED Nasisse A stunning portrait of Ethiopia’s
US Premiere US, China | 30 min KACHALKA sacred Church Forests—protected
Dir: Hervé Demers A contemplative and warm love Dir: Gar O’Rourke enclaves of old-growth biodiversity
Canada | 15 min story between a legendary San Ireland, Ukraine | 9 min that have been saved from the nation’s
Asbestos was once home to the Francisco nightclub dancer and her A panoramic portrait of a Soviet-era relentless push toward farming and
largest mine of its kind; today it is artistic partner, 20 years her junior. scrap metal gym in rural Kiev offers agricultural development.
a collapsing pit, surrounded by a a look at one of the world’s most
ghost town that was once a thriving EDDY’S WORLD unusual hardcore gyms. FLESH
hub of industry. Dir: Lyn Goldfarb Dir: Camila Kater
US | 19 min KAPAEMAHU Brazil, Spain | 12 min
TĀ MOKO - BEHIND THE 98-year-old toy inventor Eddy Dir: Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu, Dean Five women share their life
TATTOOED FACE Goldfarb reflects on his love Hamer, Joe Wilson experiences in relationship to their
Dir: Mick Andrews, David of making games and toys for US | 8 min bodies, from childhood to old age,
Atkinson generations. This vivid short film tells the story in this daring and evocative mixed-
New Zealand | 12 min behind four sacred stones on Waikiki media animated short.
Two Maori descendants attempt THE STARR SISTERS Beach moved and mishandled by
to unite their community through Dir: Beth Einhorn, Bridey Elliott foreigners in a modernized city. HUNTSVILLE STATION
rediscovering tā moko, an ancient US | 15 min Directors: Jamie Meltzer, Chris
practice of face tattooing nearly Adult sisters Patte & Randa Starr heal NUXALK RADIO Filippone
erased at the hands of colonization. the pains of their traumatic childhood US Premiere US | 14 min
by crafting a life focused solely on Dir: Banchi Hanuse A raw and intimate portrayal of the
TO CALM THE PIG INSIDE (ANG being happy and expressing joy. Canada | 3 min first moments of freedom for the
PAGPAKALMA SA UNOS) In Bella Coola, one radio station formerly incarcerated.
Dir: Joanna Vasquez Arong PROGRAM #7: operates as a community center and
Philippines | 19 min school in hopes of educating and IN THE WAKE
A meditative look at the emotional PAIRED WITH sustaining the Nuxalkmc language Dir: Natasha Nair
and physical wreckage left behind FEATURES and culture. US | 12 min
a typhoon that devastated a small A portrait of the intricate craft of
coastal town in the Philippines. BEYOND NOH ON FALLING handweaving and the women keeping
Dir: Patrick Smith Dir: Josephine Anderson the skill alive in India.
WELCOME TO A BRIGHT WHITE US, Japan | 4 min Canada | 14 min
LIMBO A rhythmic reel of 3,475 masks from Featuring a cast of all female athletes TEARS TEACHER
Dir: Cara Holmes cultures across the world. who discuss the physical and Dir: Noemie Nakai
Ireland | 11 min emotional challenges of their sport, Japan | 11 min
A soaring look at the creative process BUG FARM extreme off-road cycling. A teacher travels across Japan to
and exquisite artistry of Belfast- Dir: Lydia Cornett encourage adults to cry more as a
based dancer and choreographer US | 14 min TALL TALES WITH TRUE QUEENS form of therapy and self-realization.
Oona Doherty as she explores her In Central Florida, four women from Dir: Kristina Budelis, Leandro
award-winning show “Hope Hunt.” different walks of life come together Badalotti UMBILICAL
to work on an insect farm fostering US | 10 min Dir: Danski Tang
thousands of crickets, superworms, Grab a front-row seat at the Drag US/China | 7 min
and roaches. Queen Story Hour where Storytime is A mother and daughter share past
reimagined with drag performers. traumas while colorful shapes
provide images of their feelings and
TIGER AND OX sensations.
Dir: Seunghee Kim
South Korea | 8 min THE UNDOCUMENTED
Captures a candid discussion LAWYER
between a single mother and her Dir: Chris Temple, Zach Ingrasci
daughter concerning Korean stigmas US | 19 min
of “fatherless” families, leading both Lizbeth Mateo is a Los Angeles-
to understand each other better. based attorney who specializes in
immigration and deportation cases,
VIEWFINDER all while living and practicing law as
Dir: Melody Gilbert an undocumented citizen herself.
US | 5 min
For the past 23 years, Michael has
taken a daily photograph. As he faces
potential memory loss, he ponders
what will become of these treasured
images.

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HSDFF 2020

PANELS, TALKS
AND SPECIAL
EVENTS

LIVE VIRTUAL TALKS DAVID AND CHRISTINA ARQUETTE

HSDFF Speakeasy Series Fri | Oct 9 | 4:00-5:00PM
Free for VIP Passholders
The city of Hot Springs boasts of a colorful past $15/Ticket
that mixes healing waters, spas and a National
Park with some of the most notorious gangsters David Arquette has years of professional acting, directing and producing
of that time. Playing off this prohibition history, experience and has appeared in a multitude of films including the Scream
HSDFF is launching a new virtual SPEAKEASY franchise, Hamlet 2, The Grey Zone, Stealing Sinatra, Never Been Kissed, Eight
series, hosted by David Hill, a Hot Springs native Legged Freaks, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Dream With the Fishes, etc. Arquette
and renowned author of the book The Vapors: was featured as an arc opposite Jerry O’Connell in the series Carter, as
A Southern Family, the New York Mob, and the well as a role on Creep Show for AMC and in David Ayer’s Deputy opposite
Rise and Fall of Hot Springs, America’s Forgotten Stephen Dorf for Fox. Arquette was featured in the Sundance film Mope this
Capital of Vice. year opposite Nathan Stewart-Jarrett and Kelly Sry. He also just wrapped a
Pour your favorite drink and join this series of LIVE feature with Lucas Jade Zumann, as well wrapping back to back lead roles in
moderated virtual talks which will feature special a new Duplass Brothers Produced feature titled Miseducation of Bindu and
guests of the festival, including filmmakers, film Mobtown opposite Jennifer Esposito and PJ Byrne. He was last seen in the
subjects, and honorees. thriller Spree opposite Joe Keery from Stranger Things, which premiered at
Sundance in 2020.

Arquette recently co-founded XTR, a new production studio, which
premiered a number of films at Sundance in 2020 and also produced the
highly anticipated feature documentary on himself called You Cannot Kill
David Arquette set to hit theatres summer 2020.

It was also recently announced that he will be returning to the Scream
franchise as Dewey Riley in the upcoming relaunch. Next up, Arquette
can be seen in Mope directed by Lucas Heyne as well as Spree directed by
Eugene Kotlyarenko.

Christina McLarty Arquette is an Emmy award-winning journalist, with
a decade long career in news. For many years she hosted and reported
for Entertainment Tonight and The Insider, before leaving to have her two
baby boys. Recently she produced You Cannot Kill David Arquette , an official
SXSW selection. The documentary, which is about her husband David
Arquette’s return to professional wrestling, won SXSW’s Adobe Editing
Award. Neon’s Super LTD acquired the film. Arquette also produced her
first feature film 12 Hour Shift, which was set to world premiere at Tribeca
2020, and acquired by Magnolia’s Magnet Releasing, with plans for a fall
release. She just wrapped production on Ghosts of the Ozarks, also shot
in Arkansas, starring Tim Blake Nelson and David Arquette. She is also a
lead investor in XTR, and helped launch the premium nonfiction film and
television studio, founded by Oscar Nominated Bryn Mooser. This year XTR
co-financed five documentaries that premiered at Sundance 2020. In 2018,
Arquette produced the critically acclaimed documentary Survivors Guide to
Prison, currently on Netflix, directed by Oscar Nominated Matthew Cooke
and Executive Produced by Susan Sarandon. She attended NYU Journalism
School where she graduated with the highest honors. Currently she is
getting her Masters in Clinical Counseling at Northwestern, with a focus on
providing clinical counseling services to the prison population.

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THE CATE BROTHERS AND

DIRECTOR BENJAMIN MEADE

Sun | Oct 11 | 4:00-5:00PM
Free for VIP Passholders
$15/Ticket

THE CATE BROTHERS

Arkansas-based Earl and Ernie Cate were prolific songwriters and singers AWARD WINNING DIRECTOR, SAM
who blended the blues with elements of rock & roll, country and rockabilly. POLLARD WITH THE FILM MLK/FBI
Pianist/vocalist Ernie and guitarist/vocalist Earl signed to Asylum Records in
1975; their self-titled debut, issued shortly after, included appearances by Sat | Oct 17 | 4:00-5:00PM
Donald “Duck” Dunn, Steve Cropper, former Band drummer Levon Helm, Free for VIP Passholders
and former Eagle and Poco member Timothy B. Schmidt. They followed up $15/Ticket
their debut in 1976 with “In One Eye and Out the Other,” trailed in 1977 by
“The Cate Brothers Band.” Spurred by the success of the single “Union Man,” ABOUT THE FILM:
1979’s “Fire on the Tracks” reached number 24 on the album rock charts in
1976. Despite a dearth of recordings through the 1980s, the band remained a
popular touring act in Tennessee, Arkansas and other strongholds of country
rock and blues around the South. In the early ‘80s, Earl and Ernie joined Helm
and others to form a reconstructed version of the Band, which by that point
had lost guitarist Robbie Robertson; aside from touring with Helm, they also
collaborated with blues singer Maria Muldaur. The Cate Brothers continued
recording into the 1990s; in 1995, they issued “Radioland,” a unique hybrid
of pop-oriented blues-rock, Stax-era soul-blues and country-rock on which
they were joined by former John Mayall blues guitar phenom Coco Montoya.
A new album, “Play by the Rules,” was released in 2004.

BENJAMIN MEADE, DIRECTOR OF CATE BROTHERS: MLK/FBI is the first film to uncover the extent of the FBI’s surveillance
ARKANSAS ROCK & SOUL ROYALTY and harassment of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Based on newly discovered
and declassified files, utilizing a trove of documents obtained through the
Benjamin Meade attended the Music Freedom of Information Act and unsealed by the National Archives, as well
Conservatory in Kansas City studying six as revelatory restored footage, the documentary explores the government’s
years with the piano, guitar, and several history of targeting Black activists, and the contested meaning behind some
woodwind instruments. After graduating of our most cherished ideals. Featuring interviews with key cultural figures
in 1977, he met and worked with Stan including former FBI Director James Comey and directed by Emmy® Award-
Brakhage in Boulder, Colorado for several winner and Oscar®-nominee Sam Pollard, MLK/FBI tells this astonishing and
months learning experimental film tragic story with searing relevance to our current moment.
technique and aesthetic. Stan Brakhage
worked with him in the development of DIRECTOR: SAM POLLARD
many short experimental films. While
teaching in Hungary, he met filmmaker Sam Pollard is an Emmy Award-winning and Oscar-nominated director
Andras Suranyi and made the controversial and producer. His films for HBO, PBS, and the Discovery Channel include
but touching film Vakvagany (2002) in the documentaries Four Little Girls, When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four
2001 (acquired by the Sundance Channel). He completed Das Bus in 2003 Acts, Slavery by Another Name, Sammy Davis, Jr.: I Gotta Be Me, ACORN and the
(acquired by the Sundance Channel), and in 2004 co-produced Confederate Firestorm, Why We Hate, and Atlanta’s Missing and Murdered: The Lost Children.
States of America, directed by Kevin Willmott which played at The Sundance Pollard also directed two episodes of the groundbreaking series Eyes on the
Film Festival and was released by IFC Films. He is the owner of Cosmic Cowboy Prize II.
Studio and Records LLC in Fayetteville, Arkansas, a record label dedicated to
showcasing marginalized musicians and new talent as well as re-issuing out of Since 1994 Pollard has served on the faculty of New York University’s
print material in demand. Tisch School of the Arts. He is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture
Arts and Sciences and lives in New York City.

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Meet the 2020
Awardees!

Join this virtual fireside chat with our
2020 awardees and special guests!

The HSDFF Career Achievement Award celebrates
filmmakers who have had a long career telling
unforgettable stories, uncovering injustices and shining
a light on important people and events of our time.
On demand | Available Oct 9-17

Meet 2020 HSDFF Career Achievement
Award Winner | Alex Gibney
Alex Gibney is an Academy Award-
winning filmmaker whose body of
work spans four decades. He is the
founder of Jigsaw Productions, an
award winning production company
with a prolific slate of projects. Gibney
is an unstoppable force whose films
have helped push documentaries into
the cultural zeitgeist. HSDFF is excited
to present his newest film, Crazy, Not
Insane, as part of our 2020 feature
line-up. On demand | Available Oct 9-17

Meet 2020 HSDFF Career Achievement
Award Winner | Dawn Porter
Dawn Porter is an award-winning
documentarian renowned for her
powerful social justice films. She is
a tireless advocate for collaboration
in documentary production and is
known for her willingness to mentor
filmmakers, while helming several
projects herself. Porter was also formerly an educator at UC
Berkeley and an attorney. She is currently directing and executive
producing an Apple TV multi-part documentary series with Oprah
Winfrey and Prince Harry, which focuses on both mental illness
and mental well-being. On demand | Available Oct 9-17

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The HSDFF Impact Award acknowledges people who have (CAAM) and Southern Documentary Fund for her latest documentary,
made a positive, valuable impact in the documentary world Within, Within, which is currently in development. She is a 2017-
through their extensive contributions, artistic innovation, or 2018 Intercultural Leadership Institute Fellow and one of Junebug
fearless dedication. On demand | Available Oct 9-17 Production’s 2020 John O’Neal Cultural Arts Fellow. She received her
BFA in Theatre Arts from NYU’s Tisch School. Her work can be found
Meet 2020 Impact Award at kiyokomccrae.com
Recipient, Diane Quon
Following her prolific career at Brighid Wheeler has been (willingly) held captive in the film festival
NBC and Paramount Pictures, world for most of her adult life. Having run the gamut from volunteer
Diane Quon is blazing a new trail to THE ‘Queen B’ (nickname earned as Festival Coordinator), she
for documentary producers. With currently serves as the Senior Programmer and Director of Operations
a focus on emerging filmmakers, for the Indie Memphis Film Festival. Outside of the festival, you’ll most
Quon brings her extensive skills likely find her mentoring, guiding and encouraging the filmmakers in
to nascent projects, ensuring Memphis. She often attributes this as her main source of inspiration
unknown stories shine. Her contributions are vital to resource and what continues to drive her work at Indie Memphis. Wheeler
sharing in the documentary community. has served on countless juries and panels at festivals across the
On demand | Available Oct 9-17 country, and considers each experience an honor as it allows her the
opportunity to support our current and next generation of storytellers.

Meet 2020 Impact Award Jason Fitzroy Jeffers is a Miami-based filmmaker and journalist
Recipient, Iyabo Boyd from Barbados whose work primarily focuses on giving voice to the
Iyabo Boyd is an industry maven often-marginalized stories of the tropics. As a journalist, his work has
whose organization, Brown appeared on The Intercept and in The Miami Herald. As a filmmaker, he
Girls Doc Mafia, supports has produced award-winning shorts such as Papa Machete, Swimming
4,000 women and non-binary in Your Skin Again and T, which recently won the Golden Bear at
people of color in every phase Berlinale, and have screened at Sundance, BlackStar, TIFF, Sheffield
of filmmaking. A successful and more. He is Co-Founder and Co-Executive Director of the creative
filmmaker herself, Boyd continuously gives back to the collective Third Horizon, which stages the annual Third Horizon Film
filmmaking community, providing connections and platforms Festival, a showcase of cinema from the Caribbean, its diasporas, and
to BGDM members and colleagues. other underrepresented spaces in the Global South.
On demand | Available Oct 9-17
Chloe Cook, Executive Director, Sidewalk Film Center and Cinema,
HSDFF Talk: Sidewalk Film Festival. Cook is a native of Talladega, Alabama, and
received her BA in Communication from Auburn University. She
Southern Film Festivals and Communities has served in the role of Executive Director at Sidewalk since 2009.
Under her leadership ticket sales for the annual Sidewalk Film Festival
Featuring festivals and film organizations from the South, this have quadrupled and the Fest has been recognized multiple times by
panel will explore how regional festivals engage and support international film industry press, most recently being named one of
the needs of their local film community and, more broadly, the “50 Film Festivals Worth the Entry Fee” (MovieMaker magazine
what resources each organization is offering to Southern 2017) and twice named one of the “Top 25 Coolest Film Festivals in
filmmakers in these turbulent times. Together, participants will the World” (MovieMaker magazine, 2015, 2014). In 2018/2019, Chloe
take a deeper look at the opportunities virtual presentation led a $4.9 million dollar capital campaign to fund the Sidewalk Film
offers local filmmakers, as well as collaboration strategies Center + Cinema, an 11,000+ square foot, two screen movie theatre
to enhance the Southern film community. Featuring Jason and film education center that is located in the lower level of the Pizitz
Fitzroy Jeffers, Executive Director of Third Horizon Film Building, in the heart of Birmingham’s Historic Theatre District. The
Festival; Brighid Wheeler, Director of Operations and Senior state of the art facility opened to rave reviews October 1, 2019, and
Programmer at Indie Memphis; Kiyoko McCrae, Filmmaker after only 5 months of operation was forced to temporarily close its
Programs Manager at New Orleans Film Society; and Chloe doors due to the Covid-19 pandemic; the Sidewalk Cinema reopened
Cook, Executive Director of the Sidewalk Film Festival. after a 6 month closure, offering only 12 tickets per screening (in 100
On demand | Available Oct 9-17 seat houses) and lots of health and safety protocols in place. She
lives in the Glen Iris neighborhood of Birmingham with her 12 year
old daughter, Clea, her husband Josh, and a very loud beagle mix, Sox.

BIOS:

Kiyoko McCrae is the Filmmaker Programs Manager at the New
Orleans Film Society where she manages the Emerging Voices
Mentorship Program and the Southern Producers Lab. McCrae
brings decades of work as an independent film and theater director
and producer to her work in fostering professional development
initiatives and mentorship opportunities with industry advisors.
She is also a documentary programmer for the New Orleans Film
Festival. Her films include Artist in Exile, Come Home and Black
Back and numerous award-winning theater productions. McCrae
has received support from the Center for Asian American Media

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Virtual Storytelling
Workshop

$50/ for entire workshop - Space is Limited

ABOUT THE CLASS:

Since prehistoric times we have shared stories to connect
- storytelling is in our DNA. As a filmmaker, Lena Rudnick
discovered personal storytelling as an incredible tool in her own
filmmaking process and she’s excited to unleash your inner-
storyteller! Learn how to craft your experiences into ready to
perform 5 minute personal stories that are heart-breaking,
hilarious, thought-provoking and keep people on the edge of
their seat in this 2-week workshop culminating in a virtual show
at Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival’s The Kernel.

YOU SHOULD TAKE THIS CLASS IF:

You have stories you’re dying to tell!
You are a filmmaker who wants to expand your process!
You are an introvert who wants to learn from another introvert
how to unleash your secret performer! You’re a storyteller that
wants to improve your skills and perform at HSDFF!

Virtual Class 1: Mon | Oct 5 | 6:00-8:00PM
Virtual Class 2. Thur | Oct 8 | 6:00-8:00PM
Virtual Class 3: Mon | Oct 12 | 6:00-8:00PM
Virtual SHOWCASE: Wed | Oct 14 | 4:00-5:30PM

INSTRUCTOR BIO:

Lena Rudnick is a writer/
director/storytellerworking
in the extraordinarily
bright city of Los Angeles.
Her passion is telling
hysterically dysfunctional
relationship stories and
investigating her struggles
with self, society and the
cosmos. She developed
her love of cinema as
a festival programmer
for the Northwest Film
Center before going on to
study filmmaking at FAMU and Columbia University’s M.F.A.
film program. Her gift is remaining humble despite numerous
screenwriting accolades from Oaxaca FF, Vancouver Women’s
FF and LA Femme. Lena’s narrative work has shown at Lincoln
Center, Miami IFF, NY International Latino FF, and St. Tropez IFF
and even on the internet! She’s also had the pleasure of creating
work for notable organizations like Lonely Planet, National
Sawdust, UNWomen & Bono’s ONE Campaign. Lena’s currently
developing various television projects and her first narrative
feature, Daddy’s Girl.

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2020 SURVIVAL GUIDE:
Mental Health and Creative
Healing in the Midst of Crises

No one needs to be reminded that 2020 has been quite a year! Join these interactive workshops and
socially distant activities to learn tips for staying centered, inspired and productive, during a time of world-
wide unrest. If nothing else, 2020 has encouraged us to provide an outlet for those who have felt isolated
during the pandemic or in need of healing for the creative spirit. The Survival Guide Series will focus on
self-care and will provide a mix of virtual workshops and in-person activities designed to provide coping
strategies for whatever 2020 has in store for us!

“Treat Yo’ Self” HSDFF 2020 Self Care Events! (ALL FREE)

Inspiration Hike* Slow Roll Bike Ride (Free) ABOUT BETH PICKENS

*Sponsored by The Parlour *Sponsored by Hot Springs Bicycle Touring Beth Pickens is a Los Angeles-based consultant for
Sat | Oct 10 | 10:30-11:30AM Company & Emergent Arts artists and arts organizations. She is the author of
Sat | Oct 17 | 5:00-6:30PM Your Art Will Save Your Life (Feminist Press, 2018).
Tired of being cooped up inside staring at screens? Her pamphlets—Making Art During Fascism and
We invite you to join the HSDFF team as we stroll While we can’t host parties this year, we can still On Artists and Hopelessness—were designed and
up to tower mountain, take breaks for guided have fun! And this slow roll will certainly be that! distributed by the Women’s Center for Creative
inspirational readings, meditate at the top of the Help us celebrate the final day of the most unique Work in Los Angeles. Chronicle Books will publish
mountain to calm the stress of our daily lives HSDFF to date with this joyful slow roll through her forthcoming book, Make Your Art No Matter
and end the journey with a toast to the start of historic Hot Springs. Bring your bike (or rent one What, in April 2021.
the 29th Annual Hot Springs Documentary Film at Hot Springs Bicycle Touring Company) and let’s
Festival right! This is a great way to safely mingle “roll” through the red carpet and take a festival Pickens earned her Master’s degree in Counseling
with other film-lovers of Hot Springs and prepare portrait like none other! Costumes and decorated Psychology from the University of Missouri.
your heart and mind for 9-days of film-watching! bikes are encouraged! Open to all ages! Since 2010, she’s provided career consultation,
*Event will start and end at the steps of the *Event will start and end at Hot Springs Bicycle grant writing, fundraising, and financial, project,
Arlington Hotel (239 Central Ave, Hot Springs Touring Company (436 Broadway St, Hot Springs, and strategic planning services for artists and
National Park, AR 71901) AR 71901) arts organizations throughout the U.S. She
team-teaches an entrepreneurship course at the
Yoga at the Arlington Lawn (Free) Art + Apocalypse: California Institute of the Arts School of Theater
and teaches workshops at universities, companies,
*Sponsored by The Yoga Place Navigating Your Practice in Perilous Times and art spaces throughout the U.S.
Sun | Oct 10 | 11:00AM-12:00 Sun | Oct 11 | 1:00-2:30PM CST
Sat | Oct 17 | 1:00-2:30PM CST Previously, she was based in San Francisco where
Grab your mat (or towel) and meet us at the she served as Senior Program Manager at Yerba
Arlington Lawn for a free Yoga class taught by In this two-part workshop, Los Angeles arts Buena Center for the Arts and Managing Director
Karen Reeves of The Yoga Place. Karen began consultant Beth Pickens (Author of Your Art of two queer, multidisciplinary arts non-profit
practicing yoga soon after her doctor gave the Will Save Your Life) will lead you through a series organizations. She specializes in supporting queer
diagnosis of extreme osteoarthritis in both knees of exercises to consider how 2020 intersects and trans artists, women, and artists of color. She
in 2004, and said “no more impact exercise. She with your life and your art practice. Set some lives with her wife in LA.
knew the physical and emotional benefits of being realistic goals and find the willingness to work
physically active and felt lost when she could no toward them, while accepting and living within
longer do the things that made her feel better. Soon the constraints of hard times. Through a holistic
after, she took her first yoga class and developed approach that encounters all parts of your life,
a passion for it. Through regular practice, she we’ll find a concrete path forward through the rest
realized she was becoming healthier, stronger, of 2020 and make an intentional framework for
more flexible. But unlike other exercise routines, 2021.
this practice made her feel calmer, less anxious,
more focused and more spiritually connected to This workshop is cumulative and we welcome
God and other people. Along with her teaching you to attend both parts. Expect contemplative
partner/mat mate, Sharon Stickney, Karen opened embodiment exercises, homework, and connecting
the doors to The Yoga Place on July 1, 2013. to feelings!
With gratitude to her, the current building owner,
Kristine Artymowski, and the countless students
and friends, our doors are still open and they offer
classes seven days a week.
*Event will be hosted in the park across from the
Arlington Hotel (239 Central Ave, Hot Springs
National Park, AR 71901)

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TICKETS & PASSES HSDFF STAFF BOARD OF DIRECTORS 

Passes & Tickets Karina Nagin, Executive Director Joel Rush, Board Chair
Jennifer Gerber, Artistic Director Mary Zunick, Vice Chair
Passes and tickets are now on sale. Visit www.hsdfi.org to see the full Annie Gerber, Managing Director JoAnn Mangione, Treasurer
line-up of films and purchase your tickets today!   Stephanie Alderdice, Secretary
Jessie Fairbanks, Director of Programming Susan Altrui
Film Buff Pass ($150): Robert Torres, Assistant Programmer& Jury Liaison Lisa Cole
Robin Robinson, Assistant Programmer Kathleen Currie
Full access to all films on our virtual platform (50 features & 60 shorts) Samah Ali, Assistant Programmer Neal Gladner
Access to all free virtual programming including: Q&As, Panels, Master   Amy Hale
Classes Sheryl Santacruz, Associate Director  Jean Lacefield
Lena Rudnick, Director of Social Media Scott Lauck
All Access VIP Pass ($300): John Wildman, Publicist  Margaret McLarty
Sonny Kay, Graphic Designer Kate Schaffer
Full access to all films on our virtual platform (50 features & 60 shorts) Bill Solleder
Access to all free virtual programming including: Q&As, Panels, Master Anthony Taylor
Classes Robert Zunick
Priority access to VIP talks & workshops
Free access to all 3 drive-in movies (must claim ticket in advance) SCREENING COMMITTEE
VIP Swag Bag & Festival T-shirt (for pick up in Hot Springs)
Chris Wilks, Screening Donna Casparian Linda Brown
Drive-In Movie Tickets $30/car Committee Chair Emily Abi-Kheirs Linda Scott
Individual Movie Ticket (on virtual platform) $8 Angie Wilson Fran Brown Lisa Ferguson
Ann Lietz-Workman Gina Sweeny Lisa McKellar
HOW TO Anne Marie Larsen Harrison Glasser Marcel Karklins
Brandon Thompson Helen Kliner Marlys Moodie-Dodson
GET VIRTUAL Brenda Alexander- Jessica Hurtado Michele Kelly
Francois Joan Chandler Mike Cumnock
WITH HSDFF Bryant Stringfellow John Vallejo Mike Garner
Carol Esch Judy Johnson Peggy McCoy
Carla Barrraez Judy Lieff Richard Brown
Chris Hanses Joy Norris Samuel Roth
Chris Wilks K Ekey Scott Ramsey
Christine Kay Katherine Alexander Steve Bonner
Corina Fedorowicz Keri Lane Suli Chen
Cynthia Elkins Kimberly Lew Tony Hale
Dan Fedorowicz Kimberly McGeorge Tracey Arnaud
Dianne Rogers Kristine Artymowski

VIRTUAL PLATFORM SPONSOR

This year HSDFF will be offering our full program of films on our new EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS
virtual platform, Eventive, along with access to all our filmmaker Q&As,
panels and workshops. You will be able to access the majority of films Dorothy Morris • Gail Frasier • Lisenne Rockefeller • Arkansas Film Commission
any time during the week of the festival Oct 9-17. We have an amazing
program for you this year with 110 films from around the world, all of FOUNDATION PARTNERS
which will be accessible on our virtual platform from the comfort of your
own home. Arkansas Arts Council • Arkansas Community Foundation • Arvest Foundation
Hot Springs Giving Circle • Munro Foundation • National Endowment for the Arts
To access the virtual platform you will first need to create a
free account on Eventive. Follow these steps. It’s as easy Ross Foundation • Windgate Foundation
as 1, 2, 3!
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR SPONSOR
1. Go to the HSDFF virtual festival home page at
www.hsdff2020.eventive.org/welcome 61 Celsius • Advanced Advertising & Production • Cine Lounge Gourmet Popcorn
The Cupcake Factory • Eugene Shelby • The Grace Foundation
2. Click “Log In” on the top right corner of the screen Enter your
email address (if you’ve already purchased a pass. please use the Kollective Coffee & Tea • Magic Springs & Crystal Falls Water and Theme Park
email associated with your pass.) If this is your first time logging Malvern Bank • Mineral Explorers • Oaklawn Racing & Gaming
on you will be asked to create a password. Prime Capital Investment Advisors • Quapaw Baths and Spa

3. Once you’ve created your account and logged in you’re ready Ritter Communications • Robert & Mary Zunick • The Springs Magazine
to go! State Farm (Cynthia Rougeau & Raymond Wright) • Titos • Whittington Place

On the virtual platform you will be able to see the full film guide, buy RED CARPET CIRCLE
individual tickets (passholders will have free access to all films), manage
your pass(es) and much more! For details on how to connect to your TV Anthony Taylor & Michelle Strause • Courtney Crouch Jr • Cranford Construction
check out our Virtual Tech Guide here: www.hsdfi.org/tech-guide Dexter Doyne • Donna Casparian • Jay Barth & Chuck Cliett • Karen Lauck

NOW LET’S GET VIRTUAL HOT SPRINGS! Margaret McLarty • Martin Eisele • Mikey Drennen • Nicola Pruitt • Scott Lauck
Sharon K Heflin

EVENT SPONSORS

Hot Springs Mall • KUHS • Low Key Arts • Mountain Valley Spring Water
Visit Hot Springs

COMMUNITY PARTNERS

Arkansas Cinema Society • Central Arkansas Pride • Gateway Community
Hot Springs Chamber of Commerce • Rave Grafix • Rolando’s • Wheeler Printing