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A NEW YEAR”S TALE
documentary, 20 minutes. Bratsch, a group of excellent French musicians, travel with their
families to Crete to celebrate the New Millenium with local musicians, inhabitants and friends.
A VISION OF HERE
documentary, 10 minutes. Local artist Sarah Coleman creates a mural on the entire interior
of the historic Nevada Theatre in Nevada City, California.
AEGEAN DREAMS
music video, 4 minutes. Guitarist Daniel Maya and Tocar play a pulsing, live version of his
original tune from the CD “Entrances.
AFGHAN WAYS
experimental documentary, 10 minutes. Visual impressions and traditional music of pre-war
Afghanistan in 1971. Blue Ribbon Award, American Film Festival. Broadcast in France on France 2
BANJO TALES with Mike Seeger
documentary, 57 minutes. A survey of contemporary old-time southern banjo players in Appalachia.
110-minute version, Just Around the Bend, is available @ Smithsonian/Folkways.
BERNAL BLUES
documentary, 29 minutes. Adventures of a young film and music making couple in the colorful
San Francisco neighborhood of Bernal Heights, featuring their musical friends and original tunes.
British Film Institute Production Board
BRATSCH AT WORK
documentary, 55 minutes. The well-loved Parisian group Bratsch, who play music from Eastern
Europe and beyond, create, rehearse and perform a new show for their album Rendezvous avec Bratsch.
CAJUN VISITS
documentary, 29 minutes. Portraits of legendary Cajun musicians at home in Southwest Louisiana,
including Dennis McGee, Cheese Read, Canray Fontenot, Leopold François and Robert Jardell.
Grand Prize, Nuit de Film Louisiannais Saulieu Award, Bilan de Film Ethnographique,
Paris European broadcasts on ARTE-TV
DEEP IN THE HEART OF FRANCE
documentary, 24 minutes. The filmmakers garden, cook, make music and put on a music festival
in the hills of Auvergne, France.
FOOLPROOF
21 minutes. Carrie shows three French friends how to make fast flaky pastry with whole grain flours.
In French with English subtitles.
FULL CIRCLE
documentary, 28 minutes. Carrie, filmmaker and daughter, cares for her dying mother in her home.
European broadcasts on ARTE-TV. Official Selection, Cinéma du Réel, Paris Golden Apple Award,
National Educational Media Competition. Owl Award, Silver Images Festival
HOMEMADE AMERICAN MUSIC
documentary, 42 minutes. A history of rural, southeastern American traditional music with Mike Seeger,
Alice Gerrard, Tommy Jarrell, Roscoe Holcomb, Elizabeth Cotten, Lily May Ledford and others.
Golden Eagle, Ciné International Film Festival Blue Ribbon Award, American Film Festival
LES BLUES DE BALFA
documentary, 27 minutes.Fiddler Dewey Balfa tells the story of the Balfa Brothers, the most famous
family band of Louisianan Cajun musicians *Grand Prize, Nuit de Film Louisianais,
Saulieu National Endowment for the Arts, Folk Arts Grant European broadcasts on ARTE-TV
MY SOVIET SUMMER
documentary, 13 minutes. The filmmaker travels to many regions of the Soviet Union taking portraits
of the diverse inhabitants, young and old, accompanied by traditional music
PARATAXIS
documentary, 20 minutes. Portrait of a San Francisco poet/photographer Steve Mindel living
in the Haight-Ashbury, San Francisco, 1966.
PUTTING UP THE PICKLES
documentary, 28:30 minutes. The San Francisco based Pickle Family Circus, rehearses and performs
a new show, traveling the West Coast. Official Selection,
Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences Documentary Showcase. European broadcasts on ARTE-TV,
British 4th Channel, Swedish TV, Danish TV
QUALITY IMPROVEMENT IN HEALTHCARE
documentary, 4 minutes. Describes the work of Healthqual, an organization improving AIDS treatment
and care in Namibia and elsewhere.
SHICHISEIKAI IN AUVERGNE
documentary, 20 minutes. Four singing Buddhist monks discover rural France and participate
in two music festivals.
SONNY TERRY SHOUTIN’ THE BLUES
documentary, 6 minutes. Blues harmonica great, Sonny Terry, tells a story and plays and sings a
tune solo in 1969. Blue Ribbon Award, American Film Festival
THAT’S OUR BABY
ocumentary, 22 minutes. The filmmakers prepare for and experience natural childbirth. Official
selection of the Lamaze Association.
THE GIFT
documentary, 30 minutes. Conversations with an engaging street person, John Peterson, as he faces
his death from drugs and AIDS. Golden Apple Award, National Educational Media Competition
WINE FROM THE HEART
documentary, 55 minutes. A year in the lives of a wine-making couple who tend their vines, make
their wine and live their lives from harvest to harvest in French Catalonia.
Official Selection, Bilan de Film Ethnographique, Paris, 2002 Grand Prize, Audience Prize, Jury Prize,
Oenovideo Festival, Perpignan, 2003 *Broadcast nationally in France on France 3
Régions Eco-Ciné Prize, WIne Country Film Festival, Sonoma, 2005
WINE FROM THE RHONE
documentary, 54 minutes.Portraits of three different French family wineries and their terroirs along
the famous, fertile Rhône Valley in France. Domaines Jasmin, Clape and Gramenon are featured.
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