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Oscar Nominated Documentary Short Films

Presented by The Colonial Theatre at The Colonial Theatre

February 13, 2011

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KILLING IN THE NAME

USA/39 MIN
Director: Jed Rothstein. Producer: Jed Rothstein, Liz Garbus, Rory Kennedy
In 2005, a suicide bomber walked into Ashraf’s wedding, killing 27 people. Now he is on a quest to confront terrorism around the globe.

POSTER GIRL

USA/38 MIN
Director: Sara Nesson. Producer: Mitchell Block, Sara Nesson
Apple pie cheerleader turned tough-as-nails machine gunner in the Iraq war, Sgt. Robynn Murray comes home to face a new kind of battle she never anticipated.

STRANGERS NO MORE

USA/40 MIN
Directors/Producers: Karen Goodman, Kirk Simon
In the heart of Tel Aviv, there is an exceptional school where children from 48 different countries and diverse backgrounds come together to learn. Many of the students arrive at Bialik-Rogozin in the wake of poverty, political adversity and even genocide. Here, no child is a stranger.

SUN COME UP

USA, Papua New Guinea/38 MIN
Director/Producer: Jennifer RedfearnSun Come Up tells the story of some of the world’s first environmental refugees, the Carteret Islanders. The film follows relocation leader Ursula Rakova and a group of young families as they search for new homes in war torn Bougainville, an autonomous region of Papua New Guinea.

THE WARRIORS OF QIUGANG

USA/39 MIN
Director: Ruby Yang. Writer: Thomas Lennon
Villagers in a remote district of central China take on a chemical company that is poisoning their water and air. For five years they fight to transform their environment and as they do, they find themselves transformed as well.