Independent Feature, Independent Documentary

Shut Up and Sing

6-time award winner including Best Documentary from the Boston Society of Film Critics Awards. A documentary on the Dixie Chicks in the wake of singer Natalie Maines' anti-George W. Bush statement at a 2003 concert. Director Barbara Kopple.

Scared Sacred

2006 Best Documentary Genie award winner and 2004 Toronto International Film Festival Best Canadian Feature Film - Special Jury Citation winner. Visiting the 'Ground Zeros' of the planet, award-winning filmmaker Velcrow Ripper asks if it's possible to find hope in the darkest moments of human history. Staring directly into the face of war, tragedy and instability, Ripper travels to the minefields of Cambodia; war-torn Afghanistan; the toxic wasteland of Bhopal; post-9/11 New York; Bosnia; Hiroshima, Israel and Palestine.

Sweetland

2006 Independent Spirit Award Winner. Director Will Weaver. Set in 1920, Inge travels from Germany to rural Minnesota meet the man destined to be her husband. Bureaucracy and social morality cause major complications.

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