AFI-Discovery Channel Silverdocs Documentary Festival 2010

Here and there @ SilverDOCS 2010, Silver Spring, MD, USA.

HIS & HERS (Trailer)

This is wonderful movie, after watching this, I realized that I've never seen a movie quite like it before! Brilliant work!!! I love it so much, its so heartbreaking and uplifting all at the same time...simply beautiful. A must watch.

HIS & HERS
A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest. ~Irish Proverb



Ken Wardrop makes his feature directorial debut with this gentle and moving documentary in which 70 Irish women whose years range sequentially from infancy to old age share their unique stories of life and love with the men closest to them, whether it be fathers, boyfriends, husbands or sons. HIS & HERS offers a delightful and sometimes heartbreaking array of personal ruminations that run the spectrum of emotions and shed light onto the universal nature of love and family.

The Woman With The 5 Elephants (Trailer)

This is one film that stole my heart. I loved the way the filmmaker approached the character ... the cinematography was excellent. I believe a good filmmaker must be able to make the audience to connect emotional with the main character of their film. For me that's a great challenge. Vadim Jendreyko has proved to me that it's not impossible.

The Woman With The 5 Elephants



A film by Vadim Jendreyko | Switzerland, Germany | 93 min

Great writers create text that moves; great translators inhabit that movement. At 85, Swetlana Geier is the leading translator of Dostoyevsky into German. Inexhaustible and independent, she weaves stories that unlock the secrets of her craft.

Budrus (Trailer)

It takes a village to unite the most divided people on earth.



The movie is directed by award-winning filmmaker Julia Bacha, Palestinian journalist Rula Salameh, and filmmaker and human rights advocate Ronit Avni.

Budrus is an award-winning feature documentary film about a Palestinian community organizer, Ayed Morrar, who unites local Fatah and Hamas members along with Israeli supporters in an unarmed movement to save his village of Budrus from destruction by Israel’s Separation Barrier. Success eludes them until his 15-year-old daughter, Iltezam, launches a women’s contingent that quickly moves to the front lines. Struggling side by side, father and daughter unleash an inspiring, yet little-known, movement in the Occupied Palestinian Territories that is still gaining ground today. In an action-filled documentary chronicling this movement from its infancy, Budrus shines a light on people who choose nonviolence to confront a threat.

FOUND (Trailer)

I met Paramita, a very talented and passionate young woman at Silverdoc. She's based in Toronto, Canada. And her debut short film, FOUND was screen at the festival. This is the trailer.

FOUND Official Trailer from Paramita Nath on Vimeo.

A film by Paramita Nath

An impressionistic journey told through old photos, text, animation and home movies, begins when Toronto poet Souvankham Thammavongsa discovers her father's discarded scrapbook that documents the family's escape from Laos in the 1970s.

Thammavongsa’s parents lived in a Lao refugee camp in Thailand, where she was born. During this time her father kept a scrapbook filled with doodles, addresses, postage stamps, maps and measurements.

The pages of the original scrapbook are our only windows into this extraordinary past. To stay true to the pages of this scrapbook and to the poet, the film is an exploration of the world these poems invoke and a meditation on the theme of reconnecting to one's past while trying to decipher its impact on the present.

MONICA & DAVID (Trailer)

Last year during my trip to Washington DC, I was fortunate to participate in Silverdoc Film Festival 2010. There were few films that I really enjoyed and I like to share some of their trailers here. I just hope someday my films will get the opportunity to be screened at the at Silverdoc :) someday...



A film by Alexandra Codina, USA, 2009, 68 minutes

Like many other couples blissfully in love, Monica and David are getting married. Yet unlike most married couples, Monica and David have Down syndrome. Filmmaker Alexandra Codina, Monica's cousin, offers an intimate glimpse into the first year of marriage for this charismatic young couple and reveals the joys and struggles that are much the same as that of any newlywed: a longing for independence, desire for children, questions about future livelihood. An extraordinarily humane and emotionally rich film, MONICA AND DAVID follows the humor, heartbreak and considerable victories in the lives of this loving couple and their extended family.

And here's my fav scene from Monica and David :))