The Chris Awards - The Columbus Film and Video Festival

8:00 PM at Germania (FREE)
543 S. Front Street
Columbus
Ohio, 43215
614-461-8095
ask@germania-oh.org

Portrait Of A Bavarian Beauty - The River Isar
95 mn, Lorenz Knauer / Bavarian Television

From the first water drop at the source in the Austrian Karwendelgebirge up to the delta into the Danube with Deggendorf at the foot of the Bavarian forest the camera carries us forward on a hinreissend intensive and moved journey. It is an alive haven-guesses/advises the present, a snapshot in the life of the Isar: How does this river, in the eyes of humans, who live on its bank, works, sport to drive, recovery or isolation, look? This film is in English. Beer and brats will be available at the bar. Doors open at 7:00 PM.

8:00 PM-9:30 PM

The Velvet Devil
84 mn, WestWind Pictures Ltd., directed by Larry J. Bauman

A visually compelling adaptation of Andrea Menard's play about a young Metis (Native American and European) woman who leaves her mother, her native culture, and her home to find fame as "the Velvet Devil" a 1940's singing sensation. The film shows Velvet's journey from home to stardom and her return, a journey of spirit, memory, and joy.

Thursday, November 9, 2006

The Bomber’s Dream
90 mn, directed by Barry Stevens produced by Barna - Alper Productions Inc

The Bomber's Dream, a 90 minute POV documentary, tells the extraordinary and controversial story of a century of strategic bombing. Of how bombers dreamt of using air power to precisely attack their enemy. But how civilians became the main victims of 20th century war. How we came to have such power. How it has changed with technology. Where it will go in the future. Director Barry Stevens explores how we abandoned the old rules of war but also looks at how people are trying to rebuild those rules.

Saturday, November 11, 2006
Saturday Morning Cartoons From Around The World
For children of all ages

The Girl Who Hated Books
8mn, Directed by Jo Meuris, National Film Board of Canada, Canada

Magic Cellar - Shakutara
12mn, Directed by Firdaus Kharas, Morula Pictures, South Africa

Chez Madame Poule / At Home with Mrs. Hen
8mn, Directed by Tali, National Film Board of Canada, Canada

Mind Me Good Now!
9mn, Directed by Chris Cormier and Derek Cummings, National Film Board of Canada, Canada

Tragic Story with Happy Ending
8mn, Directed by Regina Pessoa, National Film Board of Canada, Canada

The Danish Poet
15mn, Directed by Torill Kove, National Film Board of Canada, Canada, Norway

They Chose China
53 mn, Directed by Shui-Bo Wang
National Film Board Of Canada

It is January 1954. The Korean War is over. Captured UN soldiers held in POW camps are free to return home. Those who refuse repatriation to their homeland are transferred to a neutral zone and given 90 days to reconsider their decision. Among them are 21 American soldiers who decide defiantly to stay in China. Back in the United States, McCarthyism is at its height. Many Americans believe these young men have been brainwashed by Chinese communists through a new form of thought control. But what really happened? Featuring never-before-seen footage from the Chinese camps as well as interviews with former POWs and their families, They Chose China tells the fascinating stories of these forgotten American dissidents. With the Cold War fading into memory, Oscar-nominated filmmaker Shuibo Wang (Sunrise Over Tiananmen Square) aims his camera on this astonishing story. In They Chose China, we meet and begin to understand a group of courageous men who fought for and then cut ties with the USA.

8:00 PM-9:30 PM

Who Shot My Brother?
95 mn, Directed by German Gutierrez
National Film Board Of Canada

Some phone calls can turn your life upside down. That's what happened to filmmaker German GutiÎrrez when he got a call from Colombia informing him there had just been an assassination attempt on his older brother Oscar, a political activist hated by the establishment but adored by the disenfranchised. In this film, German GutiÎrrez, who has been living in Montreal for the past thirty years, recounts his quest to find the hired gunmen who tried to kill Oscar, and also to expose the roots of the violence that has taken hold of his native country. This beautifully filmed political documentary takes a courageous look at what Colombia has become: a lawless, neo-liberal Far West run by a corrupt middle class; an Eldorado where oil is more precious than gold and where Americans are the puppet-masters pulling the strings while drug traffickers, guerrillas, and paramilitaries engage in all-out combat with each other as the war on drugs rages on.