Oscar Nominated Documentary Shorts
CRISIS HOTLINE: VETERANS PRESS 1 (40 mins) - The film follows a group of suicide hotline workers, dealing primarily with military veterans.
JOANNA (40 mins) - As she faces a terminal illness, the mother of a young son writes a blog in which she tries to leave a record of what she hopes to teach him.
INTERMISSION (5 mins)
WHITE EARTH (20 mins) - Three children and an immigrant mother face a long and difficult winter in North Dakota, which has attracted many people seeking work during an oil boom.
LA PARKA (THE REAPER) (29 mins) - For the past 25 years, Efrain has worked in a slaughterhouse, where he has developed an intimate relationship with both death and what one must sometimes do to live.
NASZA KLATWA (OUR CURSE) (27 mins) - A mother and father face the difficulties of caring for a baby who has been born with a life-threatening congenital breathing disorder known as Ondine's Curse.
Oscar Nominated Documentary Shorts
Fri & Sat February 20 & 21, 2015, 7:30 only; Sun February 22, 2015, 2:00 only, Muenzinger Auditorium
2015, 160 min, DP • official site
Tickets
10 films for $60 with punch card
$9 general admission.
$7 w/UCB student ID,
$7 for senior citizens
$1 discount to anyone with a bike helmet
Free on your birthday! CU Cinema Studies students get in free.
Parking
Pay lot 360 (now only $1/hour!), across from the buffalo statue and next to the
Duane Physics tower, is closest to Muenzinger. Free parking can be found after 5pm at the meters
along Colorado Ave east of Folsom stadium and along University Ave west of Macky.
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