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2012 Films of Citizen Jane

Short Films

CJ KINETOSCOPE SHORTS

Before we watched movies together on the big screen, early films were viewed in private and Citizen Jane is bringing this viewing habit back. Based on the idea of Thomas Edison's invention in 1913, our artists/builders at the fest have created custom-made kinetoscopes for More>

SHORTS BEFORE FILMS

These collection short films all play before feature films at the festival . . . More>

Shorts Program: ABOUT LOVE . . .

Most Hollywood love stories involve weddings, bachelorette parties, and dances but these seven short films about love manage to have an alternative perspective on these milestones than their Hollywood counterparts. Taken together, this collection of films illuminates what we all More>

Shorts Program: EMERGING VOICES

This collection of short films shows off the early works of emerging filmmakers with serious talent working in a variety of genres: Little Mom (17 min, USA) by Maria Fortiz-Morse, Fraidy Cat (5 min, USA) by Chelsea Turner, Mnemosyne (12 min, Czech Republic) by Dana Turken, More>

Shorts Program: PORTRAITS

Travel around the world with seven short but powerful films that each have characters at a crossroads in life and the sense of place is much more than a plot point. This shorts program starts and ends with rivers, and spans the globe in between: Whakatiki (13 min. New More>

Shorts Program: THE SECRET LIVES OF GIRLS

Young women are often the targets of mass media; these shorts showcase what happens when they turn the cameras around and speak for themselves. This is the fourth year of our collection of short films made by girls (18 and under) from around the world. These impressive young More>

Films

Birth Story

BIRTH STORY: INA MAY GASKIN AND THE FARM MIDWIVES captures a spirited group of women who taught themselves how to deliver babies on a 1970s hippie commune, rescued modern midwifery from extinction, and changed the way a generation thought about childbirth. Today, as nearly 1/3 More>

Don't Stop Believin': Everyman's Journey

Don't Stop Believin': Everyman's Journey follows the real life rock-n-roll fairy tale story of Filipino Arnel Pineda, who was plucked from Youtube to become the front man for iconic American rock band, Journey, thereby becoming the latest performer to go from the Internet to More>

Empire Builder

Jenny's life has changed signiﬁcantly since she had a baby. Her days of food activism and urban anthropology have been replaced by diapers and playtime in the park. When she inherits a cabin in Montana, she leaves the comfort of her Chicago high-rise More>

Existence

Existence is a post-apocalyptic drama in the genre of a "salvagepunk western". It tells the story of Freya, one of the last survivors of a world long ago ravaged by ecological disaster, and her fight to discover what lies beyond the endless Boundary Fence that More>

Film For the Whole Family: The Secret Garden (FREE!!)

Join us for this FREE retrospective screening of the critically acclaimed film The Secret Garden. Based on the classic story about a lonely orphan girl who is sent to live with her uncle in a forbidding British manor house, young Mary finds friendship and happiness when More>

From The Archives: (Re)Discovering our History CJFF EXCLUSIVE

Julia hosts a program unlike any other with the screening and discussion of Union Maids (1976, 48 min) and various clips from films you'll never get a chance to see otherwise. Julia Reichert, three-time Academy Award nominee, "Godmother" of the festival and one More>

Love and Other Anxieties

How do we choose to marry and what happens when, decades into a relationship, that question is still alive? Love and Other Anxieties is a midlife story by film-funder turned filmmaker Lyda Kuth, exploring the meaning of love, marriage, and long-term commitment.Plays More>

Orchids: My Intersex Adventure

Gen X filmmaker Phoebe Hart always knew she was different growing up – but she didn’t know why. This award-winning documentary traces Phoebe’s voyage of self-discovery as an intersex person, a group of conditions formerly termed hermaphroditism. Learning only More>

Sexy Baby

The documentary Sexy Baby introduces us to the world we already live in but don't want to acknowledge: the hyper-sexualized cyber world of today. In Sexy Baby you see how it's changed our childhoods and our path to adulthoods. And if you think you're not a More>

Sita Sings the Blues

This animated film is like no other. Sita is a goddess separated from her beloved Lord and husband Rama. Nina is an animator whose husband moves to India, then dumps her by email. Three hilarious shadow puppets narrate both ancient tragedy and modern comedy in this More>

Sun Don't Shine

Sun Don't Shine follows Crystal (Kate Lyn Sheil) and her boyfriend Leo (Kentucker Audley) on a tense and mysterious road trip through the desolate yet hauntingly beautiful landscape of central Florida. As the couple travels up the Gulf Coast past an More>

The List

Kirk Johnson, a "modern day Oskar Schindler", is a man on a mission to save thousands of Iraqi lives. These people, after agreeing to help the US Government, are marked as traitors and subsequently hunted down and killed, kidnapped, or forced to flee. With the US Government More>

The Playroom

In a 1970's suburb, Maggie Cantwell entertains her siblings with stories in The Playroom, while her hard-boozing parents entertain guests downstairs. Over the course of the evening, Maggie teeters into adulthood, truths are unearthed, and lives are changed. With an all-star More>

The World Before Her

It's fair to say women get mixed messages on who they are supposed to aspire to these days, but perhaps it's nowhere as exreme as in India right now. The documentary film The World Before Her moves between two extremes—the intimate verité drama of the More>

Wonder Women! The Untold Story of American Superheroines

What and who do women face when they decide to be strong? And why has Wonder Woman, America's oldest superherione, been left out of the limelight for so long? Tracing the birth of Wonder Woman, this films sets out to answer those questions. Wonder Women! The Untold Story of More>

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