Food, IncA nuts and bolts primer on the agro-industrial complex, this film relies heavily on narration from Michael Pollan and Eric Schlosser to show how Monsanto screws independent farmers; government-subsidized corn fills everything from replica A Lange & Sohne watch your french fries to your soda bottles; and large-scale cattle farming leads to E. coli outbreaks. This material may not be news, but the film is smartly presented and riles up viewers. Expect a new class of local food converts when Food, Inc releases nationwide this July.Director: Robert Kenner3. The CoveRenegade activists led by dolphin advocate and former Flipper trainer Ric O’Barry infiltrate a secret Japanese cove where thousands of cetaceans are killed each year.
Using military grade thermal cameras and a 30-foot surveillance blimp painted like a dolphin, the activists film the slaughter. Meanwhile, a group of surfers including actress Hayden Panettiere runs disturbance with the local cops. Think Mission: replica Chopard watch Impossible, only with surfboards, Flipper, and real stakes. The film releases July 31.Director: Louie Psihoyos2. Big River ManA fat Slovenian swimmer who covers 60 miles of water and consumes two bottles of wine a day; a volunteer river navigator from Wisconsin who can’t read a GPS; a beater mothership unfit for Lake Powell; and 1,000 miles of Amazon, full of piranhas, crocodiles, and felled trees.
This film, about unlikely endurance athlete Martin Strel’s swim across the Amazon, had the audience doubled over with laughter for the first half-hour and later cringing as Strel descends into a Kurtz-like madness, suffering from a brain infection but refusing to stop swimming. Or drinking whiskey. Director: John Maringouin1. Sergio This replica Concord watch documentary about the life and death of Sergio Vieira de Mello, the late United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, ran away with the festival’s coveted Audience Award. Based on Samantha Power’s book Chasing the Flame, the film follows Vieira de Mello through his last day, August 19, 2003, when a car bomb demolished the United Nations’ Baghdad headquarters.
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