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Cinematographer Style
Director/Writer: Jon Fauer

Through interviews of 110 leading cinematographers from around the world, director/cinematographer Jon Fauer celebrates the art of motion picture photography and examines how and why movies look the way they do.
An Inconvenient Truth
Director/Writer: Davis Guggenheim
This surprisingly engaging documentary presents the urgent multi-media lectures former Vice-President Al Gore has been delivering to push the issue of global warming to the forefront of public awareness.
Maquilápolis [city of factories]
Directors: Vicky Funari, Sergio De La Torre
This innovative documentary throws a damning light on how global corporations—including Sony, Sanyo and Panasonic—exploit Mexican workers and trash the environment just a stone’s throw from the US border. More importantly, the film shows how a group of Mexican woman are fighting back.
SP!T
Director/Writer: Rotimi Rainwater
Realism balances artistic inspiration as several posses of poets scribble, practice, and get manicures in preparation for Nationals, proving that though it’s now scored like figure skating, slam poetry remains raw and immediate.
Waist Deep
Director: Vondie Curtis Hall
Writers: Vondie Curtis Hall, Darin Scott
When his son Junior is taken in a carjacking and held hostage by Meat, a vicious criminal leader, ex-con O2 is plunged back into the lawless world he thought he’d left behind in this action-packed thriller.
West Side Story
Directors: Jerome Robbins, Robert Wise

Writer: Ernest Lehman
The Jets battle the Sharks over love and turf to Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim’s classic score and Jerome Robbins’ dazzling choreography in this musical landmark.
Who Needs Sleep?
Directors: Haskell Wexler, Lisa Leeman
Writer: Haskell Wexler
Legendary filmmaker Haskell Wexler has created a probing documentary investigating dangerously long hours in the film industry. Wexler candidly interviews everyone; from the biggest movie stars to the anonymous crew members to the policy makers and union leaders in charge.
 
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