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Monday's Highlights at SILVERDOCS

MONDAY HIGHLIGHTS AT SILVERDOCS:

FOR ALL MANKIND Screening with Astronaut Ken Mattingly In Attendance

Silver Spring, Maryland, June 22, 2008—SILVERDOCS presents a special Retrospective Screening of FOR ALL MANKIND. Forty years ago, in July 1969, the space race ended when Apollo 11 fulfilled President Kennedy's challenge of "landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to Earth." No one who witnessed the lunar landing will ever forget it. Breathtaking both in the scope of its vision and the exhilaration of the human emotions it captures, FOR ALL MANKIND is the story of the 24 men who traveled to the moon, told in their words, in their voices, using the images of their experiences. Post screening discussion featuring filmmaker Al Reinert and Astronaut Ken Mattingly.

WHAT: FOR ALL MANKIND

WHO: Al Reinert, Filmmaker

Ken Mattingly, Astronaut

WHEN: Monday, June 22, 2008

WHERE: AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center

OTHER MONDAY EVENTS:

10:00 a.m. SILVERDOCS presents VOICES FROM EL-SAYED by Oded Adomi Leshem, BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND, a film that examines the Israeli Bedouin village of El-Sayed which has the world’s largest percentage of deaf people and whose inhabitants have developed a unique sign language over generations.

10:30 p.m. SILVERDOCS presents SUPERMEN OF MALEGAON by Faiza Ahmad Khan, BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND, a terrifically fun feature documenting the making of a low-budget interpretation of Superman, infused with the local culture of Malegaon, India. Disasters beset the cast and crew, and one obstacle after another threatens to derail production.

12:00 p.m. SILVERDOCS presents STERLING-WORLD award winner: MUGABE AND THE WHITE AFRICAN directed by Lucy Bailey and Andrew Thompson, told through the lens of 74-year-old white farmer Michael Campbell and his family, exploring Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe’s deeply controversial land seizure program.

12:30 p.m. SILVERDOCS presents WRITER’S GUILD award winner: OFF AND RUNNING co-written by director Nicole Opper and film subject Avery Klein-Cloud, which tells a story of race, identity, and family focusing on Avery, an accomplished African-American teenager adopted by Jewish lesbians.

1:00 p.m. SILVERDOCS presents CARMEN MEETS BORAT directed by Mercedes Stalenhoef, BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND, capturing 17-year-old Carmen as she makes her way through the trials and tribulations of her teenage years, while her sleepy Romanian town gets an unexpected visit from a man named Borat with an American film crew in tow.

2:30 p.m. SILVERDOCS presents STERLING US FEATURE award winner: OCTOBER COUNTRY directed by Michael Palmieri and Donal Mosher, which documents the multi-generational story of a working-class family coping with poverty, teen pregnancy, foster care and the ineffable horrors of child molestation and war. Shown with STERLING US SHORT award winner: 12 NOTES DOWN directed by Andreas Koefoed.

3:00 p.m. SILVERDOCS presents MUSIC award winner: RISEUP directed by Luciano Blotta, following three Jamaican musicians fighting for a place in the overcrowded Reggae field.

3:30 p.m. SILVERDOCS presents CINEMATIC VISION award winner: OLD PARTNER directed by Lee Chung-ryoui, capturing the story of Mr. Lee, an old farmer living in a remote South Korean village, who has the most unlikely soul mate—his 40-year-old ox.

5:00 p.m. SILVERDOCS presents THE PHILOSOPHER KINGS: BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND directed by Patrick Shen, a film in which the figure of the invisible janitor at last acquires a face, name, and personality through a probing look at the wisdom that comes from lives lived fully.

5:30 p.m. SILVERDOCS presents WITNESS award winner: GOOD FORTUNE directed by Landon Van Soest, a thought-provoking feature examining two multi-million dollar international aid projects in Africa that may actually be undermining the very communities they seek to help.

6:00 p.m. SILVERDOCS presents TRIMPIN: THE SOUND OF INVENTION, directed by Peter Esmonde, BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND, which follows Trimpin—composer, instrument inventor, installation artist and engineering savant— as he guides audiences through his quirky realm of acoustic wizardry, reflecting on a long career of musical innovation as he plans a new performance piece with the esteemed Kronos Quartet.

7:30 p.m. SILVERDOCS presents a special Retrospective Screening of FOR ALL MANKIND. Forty years ago, in July 1969, the space race ended when Apollo 11 fulfilled President Kennedy's challenge of "landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to Earth." FOR ALL MANKIND is the story of the 24 men who traveled to the moon, told in their words, in their voices, using the images of their experiences. Post screening discussion featuring filmmaker Al Reinert and Astronaut Ken Mattingly.

8:00 p.m. SILVERDOCS presents FACING ALI, a film chronicling 10 heavyweight boxers who faced and fought The Greatest—Muhammad Ali. The film reveals the men who stepped into the ring with the three-time heavyweight champion, including Larry Holmes, Joe Frazier and George Foreman. Rare archival film footage and classic photos combine with original intimate interviews that highlight Ali’s colorful combatants.

8:30 p.m. SILVERDOCS presents Feature Audience Award winner THE COVE, directed by Louie Psihoyos, which follows Richard O’Barry, the man who made “Flipper” a household name, as he and his team try to stop Japanese fishermen from slaughtering dolphins for the consumer marker. Shown with KINDA SUTRA directed by Jessica Yu.

10:00 p.m. SILVERDOCS presents THE SEPTEMBER ISSUE directed by R.J. Cutler, BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND, which allows viewers unprecedented access to Vogue editor Anna Wintour and her colleagues as they put together their largest publication of the year, the September issue.

10:00 p.m. SILVERDOCS presents BEST WORST MOVIE directed by Michael Paul Stephenson, BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND, which chronicles the unlikely popularity of Troll 2, a film so bad that it’s brilliant.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT:

Jody Arlington, SILVERDOCS

301.495.6759, jarlington@AFI.com

Tammy Shea, Discovery Communications

240.662.6506, Tammy_Shea@Discovery.com