Santa Cruz Film Festival
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Tuesday, May 10
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Riverfront Theater

3:00 PM (Riverfront Theater)

PEACABLE KINGDOM Jenny Stein 70 min
“Peaceable Kingdom is a masterpiece.� —Dr. Jane Goodall
Imagine awakening one day to realize that the work you were trained to do since birth, the life you had always imagined you’d lead, the very values that had been taught in your family for generations, went against the deepest part of your being.
In Peaceable Kingdom, we hear the riveting stories of people struggling with their conscience around some of our society’s most fundamental assumptions. There’s the fourth-generation Montana cattleman whose growing angst about the treatment of farm animals run so much against the grain of his community that he can’t even discuss it with his minister. There’s a Michigan farmer whose life is turned completely upside down by the unexpected affection of a rescued sanctuary cow. And there’s the young couple that stumble upon a massive injustice hidden away by the factory farming industry, and find they cannot turn away, even though they can only help one animal at a time.
An inspiring story of personal redemption, compassion, healing and hope, Peaceable Kingdom is described by many of its viewers as “a life changing experience.�

A Symbol of Disarmament, A Symbol of Change Dean Bernal 12 min.
A Japanese dolphin hunter is moved by the friendship between naturalist Dean Bernal and a wild dolphin named JoJo. Dean returns to Japan and is surprised to receive a gift from the former dolphin hunter, an unprecedented gesture and an honor that surpasses cultural divisions. Heartbreaking scenes of dolphin kills are juxtaposed with footage showing Dean and JoJo's unique bond.

5:00 PM (Riverfront Theater)

SEARCHING FOR ANGELA SHELTON Angela Shelton 94 min.
In “Searching for Angela Shelton,� filmmaker Angela Shelton journeys across the United States to meet other Angela Shelton’s and through them survey American women in the early 21st Century. What she wasn’t prepared for was learning that 24 out of 40 Angela Shelton’s she spoke to had been raped, beaten or molested, she included. The first Angela she meets rents out space to a foster care company and the filmmaker was in a foster home as a child. It gets stranger when there is an Angela Shelton who tracks sexual predators and just happens to live in the same town as the filmmaker’s father who is a child molester and defiled her and her step-siblings for five years. “Searching for Angela Shelton� forced filmmaker Angela Shelton to confront her past and she found herself on her father’s doorstep on Father’s Day for the first time in twelve years.
The Angela’s are angels on the filmmaker’s shoulders who not only share similar pasts but also similar paths to healing. God is a recurring theme in the movie and the last Angela the filmmaker meets is a Muslim. Child abuse and violence against women have no boundaries of race, gender, religion or political party and “Searching for Angela Shelton� shows that there is no boundary to the healing either. The film is dedicated to survivors all over the world. Whether you know it or not, you probably know someone who was sexually abused and this movie is helping to break the silence.

ALL FALL DOWN Rebecca Ormond 4 min. Beta SP
The consequences of a neglectful mother-daughter relationship is examined when a 4 year old girl goes to the extreme to find out “if only she or her brother could live� who would Mom choose?

7:00 PM PEACE THROUGH MUSIC (Riverfront Theater)

LIVICATED Erik E. Crown 87:14
'Livicated' explores revolution through music from the eyes and life of its premiere archivist - Beat magazine founder and NPR DJ - Roger Steffens. He has spent over 30 years Livicated to archiving and interviewing revolutionary and reggae musicians, both as a dj for NPR, and also as an activist/archivist. Located in his house in Los Angeles, Roger Steffens' Reggae Archive is the largest in the world, and recently bought to become the First national Museum of Caribbean Music in Jamaica. 'Livicated' dispels myths and misconceptions about reggae music and the Rastas that create it by peering into this museum of a mindset, we see rare and unreleased interviews from Peter Tosh, Carlos Santana, Ben Harper, Little Richard, Jimmy Cliff, John Ritter, and many others, including the unreleased Bob Marley song 'Good Time', recorded impromptu at his last rehearsal. Through all of this we see music being used as a weapon, and learn from the lives of many artists who were beaten or killed for their words, songs, and poems. A music that demands equal rights, justice, calls for humanity and unity a music whose message has been quieted although it has become an international standard in just a short 30 years. 'Livicated' allows the music and musicians to speak for themselves, and shed a first light on this invisible culture within our own.

WE COME IN PEACE Sivan Gur-Arieh 4min
Devo for the new millennium?

7:00 PM ACCESS NATION
(Second Venue - Community Television 816 Pacific Ave.)

ACCESS NATION Bryan Singer + Team 5 89 min
Community TV
816 Pacific Ave.

Yes! Santa Cruz Public Access is featured in this doc among the folks from 20 other stations in as many states. Access Nation catches up with dozens of people from all over the country who have one thing in common: producing television shows for their local public access stations.
Since the beginning, public access has always been the soapbox of the television age, and many a producer has tested the limits of normal broadcasting-both in concept and taste.
Featuring programs from the Cruz: The Bill & Clay Show, Book TV, QTV, Community TV of SC, Streetlight Records and WLC (Whole Lotta Crap).
Be The Show

Space is limited to 65 seats

9:00 PM PEE STAINS and OTHER DISASTERS
(Riverfront Theater)

PEE STAINS and OTHER DISASTERS Jon Carnoy 100:59
PSOD is a coming-of-age comedy about best friends Ben and Thomas, two teenage skateboarders with two shared interests- skateboarding and girls. Their lives take on not the usual family trials, but how the boys handle these twists and turns make up the parables of life lessons. PSOD is truly designed to give talented unknown actors a chance to showcase their talents. With its youthful story of teenagers and the challenges they face, the story gave the young cast a starting point on which to base their future careers.

DIVING Robert Vukajilo 13 min Sweden
A father, who is a former diving champion, wants his son to be the same. A beautifully told story of expectations from Sweden shot in black and white.

Directors Dinner Sponsored by Red
1003 Cedar
426.9511

After Party at The Blue
Pass holders free
Blue Lagoon 923 Pacific Ave.