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Documentary Shorts Block featuring Skips Stones For Fudge

FILMMAKERS IN ATTENDANCE

DATE
Saturday, April 9, 2016
TIME
5:00 PM
VENUE
Lansing Public Media Center
TICKETS
$5

Keeping Balance
Kim Madrid
We Would End the Paintings
The Champion
A Passion of Gold and Fire
Skips Stones for Fudge

Keeping Balance

*Denise, a 20-year-old girl, visits nearly every day the Viennese ‘Prater’ amusement park to take some rides with the electronic ‘Tagada’ carousel because it helps her to get over her difficult past.

DIRECTOR
Bernhard Wenger
YEAR
2015
RUNTIME
5 Minutes
LANGUAGE
German
COUNTRY
Austria

Kim Madrid

A slice of life of US Majors Formula Vee racer Kim Madrid as she competes at Buttonwillow Raceway

DIRECTOR
Brian Petillo
YEAR
2015
RUNTIME
8 Minutes
LANGUAGE
English
COUNTRY
USA

The use of music and art belong together. Taking time for both has been pushed to the background in the fast paced times of the world wide web. Alexander Hanke creates screen prints and gigposters under the pseudonym „Zum Heimathafen“ since many years now. His artwork expresses his feelings to the music and the bands. In old fashioned handwork, the pictures emerge in his living room and later in the workshop, he prints a strictly limited edition of his design. In the prints you can relive moments of a song, a certain part of the lyrics or a special feeling you had during the concert of a band.

DIRECTOR
Matthias Fritsche
YEAR
2105
RUNTIME
5 Minutes
LANGUAGE
German
COUNTRY
Germany

The Champion

From 1968 to 1976, Estaifan Shilaita was the boxing champion of Iraq. Despite his success, Estaifan was barred from representing the Iraqi national team. After this defeat, and with the encouragement of his family, he risked everything to leave his home country. He traveled to Greece where he faced constant struggle. Everything seemed hopeless until he met his wife Hannah who brought a joy into his life that has lasted almost 40 years.

DIRECTOR
Brett Garamella, Patrick McGowan
YEAR
2015
RUNTIME
19 Minutes
LANGUAGE
English
COUNTRY
USA

A Passion of Gold and Fire

A beekeeper shares his worries about the future of his apiary school. A passion of gold and fire which definitely helps our environment to keep on living.

DIRECTOR
Sébastien Pins
YEAR
2104
RUNTIME
6 Minutes
LANGUAGE
French
COUNTRY
Belgium

Skips Stones for Fudge

For over a decade, Russ “Rock Bottom” Byars and Kurt “Mountain Man” Steiner have endured a rivalry that lifted competitive stone skipping to unthinkable heights. Tested by physical ailments, emotional hardships and the rise of young talent, these obscure legends fight to cement their place in the record books.