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SHOWBUSINESS: A SEASON TO REMEMBER
USA, 2005, 104 MIN
DIRECTED BY DORI BERINSTEIN
SOUTHEAST PREMIERE
Broadway veteran Berinstein unflinchingly chronicles the aspirations, heartbreak, ecstasy, and risks that went into creating Broadway’s ’03-’04 season, with emphasis on four of its biggest musicals: Wicked, Avenue Q, Taboo, and Caroline, or Change. Lensing a veritable “who’s who” of theatre makers, including Alan Cumming, Rosie O’Donnell, Boy George, Idena Menzel, Tony Kushner, and George C. Wolfe among countless others, this lively film illuminates the joys of creativity and collaboration while giving equal time to the cold reality of economics and the chilling impact of the critics. Berinstein’s insider status gained her access to the deepest corners of the theatre community, culminating in a glorious study of the passion and pathos that lies at the heart of this artistic mecca, the Great White Way. With inspired editing by Richard Hankin (Capturing the Friedmans) and Adam Zucker, SHOWBUSINESS is a remarkably coherent portrait of an American dreamscape operating on the tight-wire of modern reality.

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81-YEAR-OLD SWEETHEARTS
USA, 2005, 6 MIN
DIRECTED BY DANIELLE LURIE
NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE
Entirely by accident, Lurie captures the romantic reunion of high school sweethearts who had not seen one another for 62 years, providing a sweet capsule of love’s enduring power.