Free Documentary Film Series
A partnership with the Brantford Film Group
Trouble the Water
Date: Thursday, February 18, 2010
Location: Main Library, 3rd Floor Auditorium
Time: 7:00 p.m.
Run Time: 96 minutes
Rating: 14A
Plot Summary: 2008 Academy Award Nominee for Best Documentary Feature, this astonishingly powerful film is at once horrifying and exhilarating. Trouble the Water takes you inside Hurricane Katrina in a way never before seen on screen. As the hurricane begins to rage and the floodwaters fill their world and the screen, Kim and her husband Scott continue to film their harrowing retreat to higher ground and the dramatic rescues of friends and neighbours.
Buena Vista Social Club
Date: Thursday, March 18, 2010
Location: Main Library, 3rd Floor Auditorium
Time: 7:00 p.m.
Run Time: 105 minutes
Rating: unrated
Plot Summary: In 1996, composer, producer, and guitar legend Ry Cooder entered Egrem Studios in Havana with the forgotten greats of Cuban music, many of them in their 60s and 70s, some of them long retired. The resulting album, Buena Vista Social Club, became a Grammy-winning international bestseller. When Cooder returned to Havana in 1998 to record a solo album by 72-year-old vocalist Ibrahim Ferrer, filmmaker Wim Wenders was on hand to document the occasion.
Spellbound
Date: Thursday, April 15, 2010
Location: Main Library, 3rd Floor Auditorium
Time: 7:00 p.m.
Run Time: 97 minutes
Rating: G
Plot Summary: Spellbound follows eight kids from their early victories in regional spelling bees to the national competition in Washington, D. C. They're from big cities, suburbs, and small towns. We watch them practice, we hear their views on study, competition, victory and defeat.
Anne Frank Remembered
Date: Thursday, May 20, 2010
Location: Main Library, 3rd Floor Auditorium
Time: 7:00 p.m.
Run Time: 122 minutes
Rating: PG
Plot Summary: Using previously unreleased archival material in addition to contemporary interviews, this academy award-winning documentary tells the story of the Frank family and presents the first fully-rounded portrait of their brash and free-spirited daughter Anne, perhaps the world's most famous victim of the Holocaust.
