Southern Circuit Filmmakers
Southern Circuit Independent Filmmakers Come to Stuart!
Join us to see each film in this series and be a part of the conversation with the filmmaker in the John F Armstrong Wing @ the Blake Library, 2351 SE Monterey Road. Locally this program is supported by the Friends of the Blake Library, the Arts Council and the Martin County Tourist Development Council.
- Sunday, March 14, 2010
THE RECKONING: Paco de Onis, Director, and Pamela Yates, Producer
Sunday, March 14, 2009, 2 pm
About the filmmakers: Pamela Yates is the recipient of a 2008 Guggenheim Fellowship. She is the Director of the Sundance Award-winning When the Mountains Tremble, the Producer of the Emmy Award-winning Loss of Innocence, and the Executive Producer of the Academy Award-winning Witness to War. Most recently she directed State of Fear (2005), a feature length documentary that tells the epic story of Peru's 20-year "war on terror" based on the findings of the Peruvian Truth and Reconciliation Commission. State of Fear was featured in the 2006-2007 Southern Circuit Tour of Independent Filmmakers. Pamela is a co-founder of Skylight Pictures, Inc. and is a member of the Director's Guild of America (DGA) and The Writers Guild of America (WGA).
Paco de Onis grew up in several Latin American countries and is multi-lingual (Spanish, Portuguese, English, Italian, French). Prior to the ICC project, he produced State of Fear, a Skylight Pictures film about Peru's 20-year "war on terror" based on the findings of the Peruvian Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Paco has produced documentaries for PBS (On Our Own Terms with Bill Moyers), National Geographic (Secrets from the Grave), New York Times Television (Police Force, Paramedics), and MSNBC (Edgewise with John Hockenberry).
About the film: Launched in 2002, the International Criminal Court (ICC) is the first international tribunal of its kind - a permanent criminal court created to prosecute individuals, no matter how powerful, for crimes against humanity, war crimes, and genocide. The Reckoning, a feature-length documentary filmed in High Definition on four continents, follows the dynamic and charismatic Prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo, Deputy Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda and Senior Trial Attorney Christine Chung as they issue arrest warrants for the Lord's Resistance Army leaders in Uganda, put four Congolese warlords on trial at The Hague, challenge the UN Security Council to support the Court's call for an arrest warrant for the President of Sudan on charges of genocide, and shake up the Colombian justice system.
Filmed at ICC headquarters in The Hague for three years with unprecedented access to the inner workings of the Court, the dreamers behind it and the obstacles they need to overcome as they create a new paradigm for global justice. In places where the Court has intervened, we see a dramatic ICC justice effect and hear the voices of people in the conflict situation countries. They are captured taking action and discussing what they can do to end the culture of impunity as a result of notorious criminals facing a reckoning with this new Court and the international law it was created to enforce. The Reckoning puts in high relief the mounting drama of the international justice movement, embodied in this tiny court in The Hague that is struggling to change the world and how we think about justice.
- THE REMAINING FILMS IN THE SOUTHERN CIRCUIT TOUR:
- THE RECKONING: Paco de Onis, Director, and Pamela Yates, Producer
Sunday, March 14, 2009, 2 pm
About the filmmakers: Pamela Yates is the recipient of a 2008 Guggenheim Fellowship. She is the Director of the Sundance Award-winning When the Mountains Tremble, the Producer of the Emmy Award-winning Loss of Innocence, and the Executive Producer of the Academy Award-winning Witness to War. Most recently she directed State of Fear (2005), a feature length documentary that tells the epic story of Peru’s 20-year “war on terror” based on the findings of the Peruvian Truth and Reconciliation Commission. State of Fear was featured in the 2006-2007 Southern Circuit Tour of Independent Filmmakers. Pamela is a co-founder of Skylight Pictures, Inc. and is a member of the Director’s Guild of America (DGA) and The Writers Guild of America (WGA).
Paco de Onís grew up in several Latin American countries and is multi-lingual (Spanish, Portuguese, English, Italian, French). Prior to the ICC project, he produced State of Fear, a Skylight Pictures film about Peru’s 20-year “war on terror” based on the findings of the Peruvian Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Paco has produced documentaries for PBS (On Our Own Terms with Bill Moyers), National Geographic (Secrets from the Grave), New York Times Television (Police Force, Paramedics), and MSNBC (Edgewise with John Hockenberry).
About the film: Launched in 2002, the International Criminal Court (ICC) is the first international tribunal of its kind — a permanent criminal court created to prosecute individuals, no matter how powerful, for crimes against humanity, war crimes, and genocide. The Reckoning, a feature-length documentary filmed in High Definition on four continents, follows the dynamic and charismatic Prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo, Deputy Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda and Senior Trial Attorney Christine Chung as they issue arrest warrants for the Lord’s Resistance Army leaders in Uganda, put four Congolese warlords on trial at The Hague, challenge the UN Security Council to support the Court’s call for an arrest warrant for the President of Sudan on charges of genocide, and shake up the Colombian justice system.
Filmed at ICC headquarters in The Hague for three years with unprecedented access to the inner workings of the Court, the dreamers behind it and the obstacles they need to overcome as they create a new paradigm for global justice. In places where the Court has intervened, we see a dramatic ICC justice effect and hear the voices of people in the conflict situation countries. They are captured taking action and discussing what they can do to end the culture of impunity as a result of notorious criminals facing a reckoning with this new Court and the international law it was created to enforce. The Reckoning puts in high relief the mounting drama of the international justice movement, embodied in this tiny court in The Hague that is struggling to change the world and how we think about justice.
- BLEACHER BOYS, Karen Hunter, Producer/Director
Sunday, April 11, 2009, 2 pm
About the filmmaker: Coming Soon!
About the film: This is a story of five men who shared a common dream as boys: the dream of growing up and playing major league baseball. Five men: each of whose dreams were dashed at an early age due to blindness. Five men, whose stories differ in detail, yet share that one common element. Their stories unfold in chapters like the innings of a baseball game with them sitting in the bleachers. Each inning becomes a chapter from their lives as they relate the hardships of overcoming the painful reality of never seeing again, to the struggle to create a new dream. All are masterful storytellers whose tales become easy for us to identify with and whose perseverance we can admire. The line-up includes:
- Ed Lucas, now a reporter for the New York Yankees. Ed lost his sight after being inspired by Bobby Thompson’s famous home run "heard 'round the world" in 1959. He and his friends were so excited that they took to the streets to play a pickup game of baseball and a line drive hit him between the eyes rendering him blind. His dream was shattered, but he never lost his love for the game.
- Pat Cannon, who lost his sight more gradually as he, nonetheless, continued the struggle to keep his dream alive.
- Neal Freeling, who was born without sight but fell in love with baseball announcer Mel Allen's voice as his words brought the game to life. These radio voices became Neil's "friends" since the boys in his neighborhood shunned him. The game of baseball became his true pastime.
- Craig Lynch, who has never seen a baseball field in his life, but who now sits in the bleachers at Wrigley Field reporting on games for the Chicago Cubs he cannot see.
- Paul Parravano, known as the MIT King and honored for his remarkable contributions to this prestigious university. His love of baseball motivated him to achieve greatness.
The Southern Circuit Tour of Independent Filmmakers is a program of the Southern Arts Federation, a not-for-profit regional arts organization making a positive difference in the arts throughout the South since 1975. Southern Arts Federation is supported by funding and programming partnerships with the National Endowment for the Arts and the state arts agencies of Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee. Special support for Southern Circuit is provided by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. For more information on the Southern Arts Federation and its programs visit southarts.org.
The Martin County Library System is dedicated to meeting the educational, recreational, cultural and intellectual needs of its diverse communities. In fulfilling this mission MCLS continues to provide free and equal access to information, lifelong learning resources and services to people of all ages and abilities. For more information visit library.martin.fl.us, or call 772-221-1403.
Funding for bringing this series to Stuart was provided by the Friends of the Blake Library, The Martin County Tourist Development Council, and The Arts Council.