Vino Vérité Film Series
A new series high-lighting the best new and innovative work in the vérité genre. The series highlights talented new voices and established masters of vérité filmmaking in person to present their thought-provoking, chance-taking, and visually-arresting films. Co-Creators – Tommy Haines & Andrew Sherburne Location – FilmScene, Iowa City
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- DirectorBing LiuStarsKent AbernathyMengyue BolenNina BowgrenFilmmaker Bing Liu searches for correlations between his skateboarder friends' turbulent upbringings and the complexities of modern masculinity.
- DirectorSara DosaStarsMiranda JulyKatia KrafftMaurice KrafftIntrepid scientists and lovers Katia and Maurice Krafft died in a volcanic explosion doing the very thing that brought them together: unraveling the mysteries of volcanoes by capturing the most explosive imagery ever recorded.
- DirectorJessica KingdonThe absorbingly cinematic Ascension explores the pursuit of the "Chinese Dream." This observational documentary presents a contemporary vision of China that prioritizes productivity and innovation above all.
- DirectorMaite AlberdiStarsSergio ChamyRomulo AitkenMarta OlivaresA private investigator in Chile hires someone to work as a mole at a retirement home where a client of his suspects the caretakers of elder abuse.
- DirectorJonathan OlshefskiStarsChristopher RaineyChristine'a RaineyP.J. RaineyA husband and wife live in an impoverished neighborhood in north Philadelphia while they raise their daughter and run a recording studio in their basement.
- DirectorRaMell RossStarsLatrenda 'Boosie' AshKarmyn BryantKorbyn BryantA kaleidoscopic and humanistic view of the Black community in Hale County, Alabama.
- DirectorMoses BwayoChristopher SharpStarsKagga JaysonBarbie KyagulanyiBobi WineFollows Ugandan opposition leader, activist and musical star Bobi Wine. He used his music to fight the regime led by Yoweri Museveni, the person who led the country for 35 years.
- DirectorDrew XanthopoulosThis film documents three families struggling with extreme sensitivities to everyday elements of our surroundings. Perfumes, pesticides, even cell phones can trigger debilitating symptoms in these sufferers of environmental illnesses.
- DirectorIoanis NuguetStarsCassandra DumitruSpartacus UrsuCamille BrissonSpartacus and Cassandra, the children of two homeless Roma, have been taken in by the young street worker Camille. In her little community she helps homeless and poor children and performs art music and circus acts with them. She takes special care of the Roma siblings and is struggling to become their legal custodian, as their parents try to take them back onto the street.
- DirectorShirley AbrahamAmit MadheshiyaShowmen riding cinema lorries have brought the wonder of the movies to faraway villages in India once every year. Seven decades on, as their cinema projectors crumble and film reels become scarce, their patrons are lured by slick digital technology. A benevolent showman, a shrewd exhibitor and a maverick projector mechanic bear a beautiful burden - to keep the last traveling cinemas of the world running.
- DirectorDavid ByarsFrom inception to deadly conclusion, director David Byars immerses audiences in the 2016 Malheur rebellion with exclusive access into the Oregon compound. No Man's Land is a portrait of the fringe and doesn't flinch when the bullets fly.
- DirectorViktor JakovleskiEcstatic ritual, danger and the absolute beauty of fireworks.
- DirectorJeremy S. LevineLandon Van SoestStarsDaje SheltonA junior high school student sees her chances of a better future jeopardized after she gets in a fight and is expelled.
- DirectorElvira LindStarsLaura DernOhad NaharinOr SchraiberA love story portraying the dilemmas and inevitable consequences of ambition. It is a film about a woman's fight for independence, trying to succeed with her own art in the extremely competitive world of dance.
- DirectorJack C. NewellStarsJacob BickelhauptAlexa Welsh42 Grams is an intimate portrait of how chef Jake Bickelhaupt evolved from running an illegal restaurant out of his home to being a culinary celebrity in less than a year and the toll it takes on his personal life.
- DirectorLuke LorentzenStarsJuan OchoaFer OchoaJosue OchoaIn Mexico City's wealthiest neighborhoods, the Ochoa family runs a private ambulance, competing with other for-profit EMTs for patients in need of urgent help.
- DirectorJanet Van den BrandStarsKoen BrouwerDaan RentmeesterSven BoonmanCERES is a poetic and tangible documentary feature film that follows four children as they experience the natural cycle of life on a farm.
- DirectorBill Ross IVTurner RossStarsPeter ElwellMichael MartinShay WalkerA look at the final moments of a Las Vegas dive bar called 'The Roaring 20s'.
- DirectorEwan McNicolAnna SandilandsUncertain is a visually stunning and disarmingly funny portrait of the literal and figurative troubled waters of Uncertain, Texas, a 94-resident town so tucked away "you've got to be lost to find it".
- DirectorJenny GageTom BettertonStarsDusty Rose RyanDelia CunninghamLena M.Shot over a three-year period with unparalleled intimacy and access, ALL THIS PANIC is a feature length documentary that takes an intimate look at the interior lives of a group of teenage girls as they come of age in Brooklyn. A potent mix of vivid portraiture and vérité, we follow the girls as they navigate the ephemeral and fleeting transition between childhood and adulthood.
- DirectorDiego OngaroStarsBob TarasukPhilip G. DunphyPolly MacIntyreIt is deep winter in rural Massachusetts. Bob, a fifty-something year old logger with a soft spot for golf and gangsta rap struggles to make ends meet in a changed economy. When a beloved cow of his gets wounded and a job goes awry, Bob begins to heed the instincts of his ever darkening self.
- DirectorAlison BagnallStarsOlly AlexanderKentucker AudleyJoslyn JensenA latchkey trust-funder and a hapless anti-childhood-obesity crusader bond as they vie for the heart of a troubled animal activist.
- DirectorAlbert MayslesLynn TrueDavid UsuiJourney into the hearts and minds of passengers aboard the Empire Builder, America's busiest long-distance train route.
- DirectorCraig AtkinsonStarsRichard BerkJames ComeyDave GrossmanAn account of the increasing use of military weapons and tactics by local law enforcement in the United States, counterpointed with civil unrest in Ferguson, Missouri following the shooting of Michael Brown in 2014.
- DirectorRebecca Landsberry-BakerJoe PeelerWhen the Muscogee Nation suddenly begins censoring its free press, a rogue reporter fights to expose her government's corruption in a historic battle that will have ramifications for all of Indian country.