SPLIT/SCREEN MAY COMING MAY 21-30!  FOUR SUPERB AND MEMORABLE FILMS!  PASSES & TICKETS ON SALE TODAY!

THE DONUT KING

Directed by Alice Gu, this is the fascinating rags to riches story of Ted Ngoy, a refugee who escaped Cambodia, arrived in the United States in 1975 and built an unlikely multi-million dollar empire baking America’s favorite pastry, the donut. It’s a tale of fate, love, survival, hard knocks and redemption. Ted sponsored hundreds of visas for incoming refugees and helped them get on their feet by teaching them the ways of the donut business. By 1979, he was living the American Dream. But, in life, a great rise can come with a great fall. This documentary captures it all in engrossing fashion.

THE PEOPLE VS. AGENT ORANGE

Directed by Alan Adelson and Kate Taverna, the film powerfully depicts how the Agent Orange catastrophe did not end with the Vietnam War. Today, the world over, a primary chemical of the toxic defoliant controls weeds in farming, forestry, parks, playground. It wreaks havoc on the human genome, causing deformed births and deadly cancers.

After decades of struggle and tragic personal losses, two heroic women are leading a worldwide movement to end the plague and hold the manufacturers accountable. In France, Tran To Nga is suing the American chemical industry for poisoning her in Vietnam. In America, Carol Van Strum exposes the continuing use of toxic herbicides. Incriminating documents disappear. Activists are threatened. A helicopter technician secretly films the contamination of reservoirs, while a massive industrial cover-up goes on. An eye opening experience awaits you.

NOTE: In addition to the screening of the documentary, MNFF artistic director Jay Craven will lead a probing conversation with The People vs. Agent Orange filmmakers Kate Taverna and Alan Adelson along with Lindsey Schromen-Wawrin, attorney for Lincoln County Community Rights lawsuit against aerial spraying of herbicides in Oregon, and Susan Hammond, from Bellows Falls, Vermont, who leads the internationally respected War Legacies Project and was recently profiled in a New York Times Magazine feature story for her work on Agent Orange issues in Laos. The interview will be available on the MNFF watch portal as part of the Split/Screen May offering.

STRAY

Directed by Elizabeth Lo, this remarkable film explores what it means to live as a being without status or security, as it follows three stray dogs as they embark on inconspicuous journeys through Turkish society. Zeytin, fiercely independent, embarks on adventures through the city of Istanbul at night; Nazar, nurturing and protective, easily befriends the humans around her; while Kartal, a shy puppy living on the outskirts of a construction site, finds companions in the security guards who care for her. The strays’ disparate lives intersect when they each form intimate bonds with a group of young Syrians with whom they share the streets. This award-winning documentary is a critical observation of human civilization through the unfamiliar gaze of dogs and a sensory voyage into new ways of seeing.

SWAN SONG

Directed by Todd Stephens, this charming drama, based on the true story of its main character, introduces us to retired hairdresser and local iconic bar performer Pat Pitsenbarger, played wonderfully by Udo Kier, who has given up on life from the confines of his small-town Sandusky, Ohio nursing home. But when Pat gets word that a former client’s dying wish was for him to style her final hairdo, he sets out on an epic journey across Sandusky to confront the ghosts of his past – and collect the beauty supplies necessary for the job. Swan Song is a comical and bittersweet journey about rediscovering oneself, and looking gorgeous while doing so.

GET YOUR PASSES AND TICKETS FOR SPLIT/SCREEN MAY! ON SALE TODAY!

Monthly Passes for Split/Screen May are $40, entitling you to watch all four films this month, and individual tickets are $12.50. Both Passes and Tickets are on sale beginning today! Just visit us at https://middfilmfest.org/split-screen for film descriptions and trailers, easy to use Pass and Ticket purchasing opportunities and How To Watch information by clicking on the blue button below! 

• VERY IMPORTANT NOTE FOR MONTHLY PASS BUYERS:  When you purchase a Monthly Pass, you will receive immediate confirmation of that purchase from our ticketing partner Elevent. In that purchase confirmation note, you will now have direct access to the MNFF screening portal [watch.middfilmfest.org], just by clicking on the link that reads "Log In to the Screening Portal." When you arrive, just log in using your Elevent email address and password (the exact same credentials you used to purchase this pass).
  
  In other words, you will no longer receive a separate follow up email asking you to JOIN the portal. That more cumbersome two-step approach has been eliminated.  Elevent has streamlined this into a one-step process: Buy your Pass using your Elevent email address and password and then login to the MNFF watch portal with the same credentials.  
   
• ADDITIONAL NOTE FOR PASS AND TICKET BUYERS: All four Split/Screen films have a 72 hour viewing window. So, once you commence your screening, you must complete it within 72 hours. Plenty of time for sleep, bathroom breaks and making popcorn but just a heads up.
   
• AND FINALLY: The films are available to U.S.-based audiences only, per requests of distributors and filmmakers. But there are no other geographical restrictions. And be aware that the films won't be available on the portal until the morning of May 21 [10am EDT] but the film descriptions and the trailers will be up on the portal well before then.

Split/Screen films will be hosted by the secure premium online platform CineSend, used successfully by hundreds of MNFF6: ONLINE attendees, and will be viewable on a wide array of devices including mobile, tablet, laptop and big screen televisions. Enjoy these outstanding films!

AND SINCERE THANKS TO OUR SPLIT/SCREEN PARTICIPATING SPONSORS!  WE SO APPRECIATE YOUR SUPPORT DURING CHALLENGING TIMES! 

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