Director: Swann DUBUS / TRAN Phuong Thao.
Thi and Chung live in the gorgeous, rice-terraced mountains of Vietnam’s far northwest. Like many young men in this region on the main heroin route from Laos to China, they’re addicts, and they have HIV. Thi wants to kick his habit. Chung just wants to die. “With or Without Me ” is an intimate, tragicomic portrayal of two guys strung out at the edge of the map in a Communist country struggling with drug use, and of the wives, family, doctors and friends trying to pull them back from the brink.
With a mission to educate, inspire, and advance a greater appreciation of independent film, the Estes Park Film Festival is proud to present the EPFF Free Film Series at the Estes Park Public Library. Each month, films from previous Estes Park Film Festivals will be presented for free in the library's Hondius Room followed by a brief discussion. The next film series screening will take place Monday, January 21st at 6:00 PM, and will showcase the award winning documentary "Plagues & Plea...
This Wednesday night at 10PM (EST), MOVIE GEEKS UNITED! will feature new interviews with the makers of "The Shark Is Still Working" and "Your Mommy Kills Animals". We will also replay an earlier interview with Anthony Giacchino, director of the upcoming New York City release "The Camden 28" and John Swinglish, an original member of the protest group. Below is a director's statement with Mr. Giacchino discussing the film and the cause. Director's Statem...
Saturday, May 5------Paul D. Miller (better known in hip-hop circles as DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid) re-works, re-makes, and re-interprets one of America's most controversial films, the D.W. Griffith-directed silent epic BIRTH OF A NATION. The film, which charts the rise of the Ku Klux Klan after the Civil War, has been controversial since its release in 1916.....for showing the Klan as defenders of the white race and Anglo-Saxon civilization and portraying the newly freed black slave...
In August of 1971, discontent with the raging war in Vietnam was bleeding over into the streets of cities and towns across America. Out of this chaos came the Camden 28, an anti-war protest group largely made up of conscientious objectors from the Catholic left. They set out to break into a New Jersey draft board office and destroy as many records as they could. This was their attempt to strike a fierce, practical blow to the system that set young men off to a foreign land to die. Little...
