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RAIN IN A DRY LAND is a verité feature documentary chronicling
two years in the lives of two Somali Bantu families as they
journey from Africa to America. It is a story of time travel,
culture shock, a leap from the nineteenth to the twenty-first
century as these subsistence farmers find themselves in a mysterious
and confusing land. More importantly, it is an intimate, human
story about two extraordinary families who somehow managed to
keep their spirits intact through years of mayhem and deprivation,
and whose astonishing, open-hearted resilience enables them
to make a new life. |
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The award-winning documentary, Coming to Light, tells the dramatic
story of the life of Edward S. Curtis, his creation of his monumental
work, and his changing views of the people he set out to document.
More importantly, the film gives Indian people a voice in the
discussion of Curtis images. Hopi, Navajo, Cupig, Blackfeet,
Piegan, Suquamish and Kwakiutl people, many of them descended
from Curtis’s photographic subjects, tell stories about
the people in the photographs, and discuss the meaning of the
images from their own perspectives. |
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In Baby, It's You, filmmaker Anne Makepeace takes us on an intimate
journey through the Kafkaesque world of fertility clinics, into
the home of lesbian parents, to Christmas among Utah polygamists
and New England Puritans, to her brother’s Appalachian
goat farm, and on a time trip back to the dark age of illegal
abortion. Linking these stories is the bond of family. The characters
are the filmmaker, her husband, and their brothers and sisters,
all baby-boomers in their forties. The documentary looks at
the unconventional ways they are all belatedly creating families
of their own. Woven throughout the program is the story of Makepeace
and her husband's attempts to conceive a child through intensive
fertility procedures, and the emotional roller coaster of anticipation,
disappointment, and hope that carries them along. |
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| ROBERT CAPA IN
LOVE AND WAR |
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For years, filmmakers have beaten a steady path to the door
of Cornell Capa, hoping to secure the rights to his brother’s
closely guarded photo archives: 70,000 images captured by Robert
Capa, the most famous war photographer of our time. Thousands
of the photos had never been seen before – until veteran
documentary filmmaker Anne Makepeace began work on Robert Capa
In Love and War. The first film devoted entirely to Robert Capa’s
mythic life, it is a beautifully told with a stunning array
of archival photographs and footage, and interviews with people
from Isabella Rossellini to the last interview with Capa’s
great friend and colleague, Henri Cartier Bresson |
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Chris Carlson, a former member of the Moonie cult, plays himself
in this riveting drama about his experiences in Sun Myung Moon’s
insidious organization. The film begins when he accepts an invitation
to dinner from an attractive young woman on Fisherman’s
Wharf in San Francisco, then finds himself a hundred miles away
in a remote camp in Northern California. An unsettling story
of the exploitation of idealism and the perversion of spiritual
values, Moonchild is a cautionary tale that reveals the fluidity
of identity and the vulnerability of the human heart.
Winner of the National Educational Film Festival’s
Paramount Award for Best Feature Film, as well as a Gold Hugo
from the Chicago International Film Festival, a CINE Golden
Eagle, a Gold Award in the Cindy Competition, and a Red Ribbon
in the American Film Festival. Please contact info@makepeaceproductions.com
for more information or to purchase a copy. |
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Set high in the Andes mountains and based on a Bolivian myth,
Whistle in the Wind is a short film that tells the story of
Gonzalo, an Aymara Indian boy, and his favorite llama, Maya.
Available in both Spanish and English from www.makepeaceproductions.com.
Winner of a CINE Golden Eagle Award. Available in
both Spanish and English. Please contact info@makepeaceproductions.com
for more information or to purchase a copy.
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ELEANOR ROOSEVELT:
CLOSE TO HOME |
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A short film that encapsulates the life of an extraordinary
American. Eleanor Roosevelt fought for civil rights all her
life, was a constant humanitarian adviser to her husband during
his four terms in the White House, drafted the first Universal
Bill of Human Rights, and devoted her life to the causes of
peace, civil rights, and human rights throughout the world.
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A love triangle set in the Country and Western music world,
Wildest Dreams is a dramatic short starring William Peterson
(CSI, Manhunter), Rebecca Jenkins (Bye Bye Blues), and Victoria
Catlin (Twin Peaks). |
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NIGHT DRIVING is a half-hour 35mm drama starring William Sadler
and Elsie Sniffen as a drifting Vietnam veteran and an Amerasian
girl he has taken under his wing. They travel around the country,
stopping at night to gaze through picture windows of suburban
homes as if watching foreign television. Tam dreams the American
Dream of living inside one of these homes as part of a real
family. When fundamentalist Christians take her into their home,
she thinks her dream has come true, but the dream turns into
a dark and eerie nightmare
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Night Driving won a CINE Golden Eagle and a Gold Award from
the Houston International Film Festival, and was broadcast on
Showtime. |
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| A THOUSAND PIECES
OF GOLD |
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The story of Lalu (Rosalind Chao, The Joy Luck Club, The Last
Emperor, Star Trek), a young Chinese woman sold by her father
and brought to America as a slave during the late Gold Rush.
In a remote Idaho mining town’s thriving saloon, Lalu
rebels against her owner and pays a terrible price for her fight
against racism and sexism. Wagered as apiece of property, Lalu
is finally handed over to her new owner Charile (Chris Cooper
Adaptation, American Beauty), who opens the door to a whole
new life for Lalu – and himself.
Written by Anne Makepeace, Director of Photography Bobby
Bukowski, Art Director Dan Bishop, Composer Gary Remal Malkin,
Associate Producer Rachel Lyons, Line Producer Sarah Green,
Adapted from the novel by Ruthanne Lum McCunn, Executive Producers
Lindsay Law, Sidney Kantor , John Sham, Produced and Edited
by Kenji Yamamoto, Produced and Directed by Nancy Kelly |
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This widely acclaimed film recounts one of the most extraordinary
and important stories in American history and explains its contemporary
relevance with power and eloquence. The sudden appearance in
northern California in 1911 of Ishi, "the last wild Indian
in North America," stunned the nation. At anthropologist
Alfred Kroeber's invitation, Ishi lived out the remaining four
years of his life at the Museum of Anthropology in San Francisco.
Written by Anne Makepeace, Produced by Jed Riffe and Pam
Roberts, and Narrated by Linda Hunt. Winner, Best of Festival,
National Educational Film Festival; Gold Hugo Award, Chicago
Intl. Film Festival, Margaret Mead Film Festival honoree, Society
for Visual Anthropology honoree, CINE Golden Eagle. |
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