MINNESOTA-Made Documentary

Filmmakers Attending

Feature Documentary. Beliefs about manhood that allow men to exploit and use violence against women are ingrained in our culture. With Impunity engages the thinking of leading historians, sociologists and practitioners to examine our past, cultural realities and options for ending gender-based violence.

Feature Documentary. An ominous adventure down the most mischievous River in America, this travel documentary presents guerilla theatre-troupe Unseen Ghost Brigade as they build a raft and journey downstream, through the backwaters of the American Heartland.

Filmmakers Attending

Documentary short. Body Dialectic surveys the life and work of Kris/Kristen Grey/Justin Credible, a performance artist who mobilizes trans* issues by means of personal experience and reflection.

Screening with Too Cold Outside Without You

Feature Documentary. When the Rev. Christopher Fike was ordained in the Episcopal Church he was a straight, married mother of two. Five years later he had completed his transition and now identifies as a man. A post-transition story that looks beyond the act of transitioning, this film instead focuses on the transformations that take place in Chris’s relationships and the church as a result of his transition.

Filmmakers Attending
Earth Day screening
Feature Documentary. The Price of Sand is a documentary film about the frac sand mining boom in Wisconsin, Iowa and Minnesota.

MINNESOTA-Made Director Kevin Schreck Attending
Feature Documentary. Striving to make the greatest animated film of all time, acclaimed and visionary animator Richard Williams (Who Framed Roger Rabbit?) toiled on his epic masterpiece, The Thief and the Cobbler, for nearly three decades – only to have it torn from his hands.

Filmmakers Attending
Feature Documentary. Even in the darkest places on earth, there is always the need for light, for laughter. Making Light in Terezin explores the little-known role that theater, cabaret and comedy played in improving and even saving the lives of some of the Jews who lived in the Terezin ghetto in WWII.

Filmmakers Attending
Earth Day screening

Shot on location on their beautiful farm in Southwest Minnesota, this short documentary follows a Minnesota family who grow organic Camelina seed, to be pressed into oil.

Screens with Living with the Land

Filmmakers Attending
Earth Day screening

Living With the Land is a documentary about people who use what is naturally in their environment in their everyday lives. Subjects include an environmental artist, a forager, woodworkers, an archaeologist/trapper, and a systems engineer. Learn about wild food and medicine, making tools from bone, creating art from found natural objects, having fun building furniture, and designing a modern off-the grid home.

Filmmakers Attending
Feature Documentary. A woman faces tragedy and hardship as a young girl in Depression-era Kansas, but grows up to fight the battle for equal justice and for women’s equality during the 1970’s, opening the doors of opportunity for generations of women who will come after her.