Reel Docs: Great documentary films and filmmakers!  - March 3, 2020

We are happy to announce our 2020 season of great documentary films and filmmakers!

Next year’s screenings will be held on Tuesdays and Wednesdays at 2:00pm at the Biblioteca’s Teatro Santa Ana (Calle Reloj 50A). As always, the filmmakers will be on hand for Q&As and proceeds will benefit children’s programming at the library.  To date, REEL DOCS has donated over $600,000 pesos to the Biblioteca Pública!

Tickets ($150 pesos, including margarita/limonada receptions) will go on sale in early February. We will send an email to give you a heads-up once the theater box office is live.

Please note: we anticipate that these films will sell out and that there may be waiting lists for admission, so even if you buy tickets in advance, please plan to arrive at least 15 minutes before showtime; unclaimed seats will be released at showtime and may be used to seat other patrons.

Below is the schedule; for more information about the filmmakers and to watch the movie trailers, please see: http://www.reeldocs.org/upcoming-films/.

We look forward to seeing you at the movies!

Cheers,
Team REEL DOCS

Tuesday and Wednesday, February 18 and 19 at 2PM

RAISE HELL: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF MOLLY IVINS

Meet Producer Carlisle Vandervoort

RAISE HELL: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF MOLLY IVINS tells the story of media firebrand Molly Ivins, six feet of Texas trouble who took on the Good Old Boy corruption wherever she found it. Her razor sharp wit left both sides of the aisle laughing, and craving ink in her columns. She knew the Bill of Rights was in peril and said, “Polarizing people is a good way to win an election and a good way to wreck a country.” Molly’s words have proved prescient. Now it’s up to us to raise hell! (93 minutes)

Tuesday and Wednesday, February 25 and 26 at 2PM

MOVING STORIES

Meet Co-Filmmaker/ Producer Cornelia Ravenal and Editor/Producer Mikael Södersten

MOVING STORIES is about six dancers from the acclaimed Battery Dance Company who travel the world, working with youth who’ve experienced war, poverty, prejudice, sexual exploitation, and severe trauma as refugees. The film follows them to India, where they work with girls rescued from sex trafficking and gender violence; to Romania, with Roma (gypsy) kids from one of Europe’s worst slums; to South Korea, with young North Koreans who risked their lives to escape; and to Iraq, where they work with a gifted young Muslim dancer, fighting to survive. (84 minutes)

Tuesday and Wednesday, March 3 and 4 at 2PM

RENEGADE DREAMERS  

Meet Filmmaker Karen Kramer

Seven years in the making, RENEGADE DREAMERS celebrates Beat poetry and folk music history, exploring what it means to be a renegade and what it means to be a dreamer for the newest generation of political artists. For award-winning director Karen Kramer, it is now, more than ever that we should question authority and challenge the social norm. With appearances by Bob Dylan, Allen Ginsberg, Wavy Gravy, Joan Baez, Woody Guthrie, Maria Muldaur, Tom Paxton, the Weavers — and some of the best young artists you haven’t yet heard of — this timely film is loaded with protest, history, music, and poetry to create a documentary that champions what it means to be a renegade and dreamer in the United States. (72 minutes)

Tuesday and Wednesday, March 10 and 11 at 2PM

INCARCERATED RHYTHM

Meet Producer Derek Burrows

INCARCERATED RHYTHM follows six men who have been in prison for many years, who join a dance rehabilitation program led by Susan Slotnick that has never been tested before in the prison system. Upon their release, they discover that the “rhythm of freedom” is harder to find than the “rhythm of incarceration.”  The film follows six men – Andre, Ali, Ray, David, Felix, and Casper — during their first few years free after each spent over a decade learning modern dance in a federal prison in New York, the only program of its kind in the US. Now free, they have to navigate old relationships, secure a job, and decide whether to continue dancing or move on. (80 minutes)