Crested Butte Film Festival

DOCUMENTARY SHORTS 1: GET ACTIVE (AND WE DON'T MEAN OUTSIDE)

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7 films in package
CRESTED BUTTE FILM FESTIVAL WELCOME WITH MICHAEL BRODY
Artistic & Programming Director Michael Brody welcomes you to the 2020 Crested Butte Film Festival
MATAGI MĀLOHI : STRONG WINDS
“We are not drowning, we are fighting,” is the rally cry of The Pacific Climate Warriors, an indigenous and youth-led movement that have been fighting climate change for decades.
Closed captions available
THE MYSTERY OF NOW
Artist and Apache Skateboards founder Douglas Miles is the star of this—in his own words—“soulfully joyous glimpse into hard-edged lives of Native kids becoming artists, musicians, skaters, creatives.”
DAFA METTI
Under Paris’ Eiffel Tower, undocumented Senegalese migrants sell souvenirs of the monument to support their families back home. Each day is a struggle through darkness in the City of Lights.
USA V. SCOTT
When an Arizona man faces 20 years in prison sentence for giving food, water and shelter to migrants, the border town of Ajo grapples with moral questions posed by his arrest.
HUNTSVILLE STATION
Every weekday, inmates are released from Huntsville State Penitentiary, spending their first moments of freedom with phone calls, cigarettes, and quiet reflection at the Greyhound station up the block.
Closed captions available
LOST AND FOUND
In the world’s largest refugee camp, we follow one man’s extraordinary attempt to reunite families torn apart by violence and chaos
This film is eligible for the 2020 Crested Butte Film Festival Audience Choice Award! (You must unlock the film to be eligible to cast your vote)

Documentary Shorts 1: Get Active (And We Don't Mean Outside)

85 minutes


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DAFA METTI


Under Paris' glittering Eiffel Tower, undocumented Senegalese migrants sell miniature souvenirs of the monument, to support their families back home. Far from their loved ones and hounded by the police, each day is a struggle through darkness in the City of Lights.


In French with English subtitles.


Director Bio

Tal Amiran is a multiple award winning director and editor based in London, UK.

His films have screened at numerous festivals including AFI DOCS, Cinequest, Big Sky Documentary Film festival, Savannah Film Festival and Brooklyn Film Festival, winning Best Documentary Short at several festivals including Sarasota Film festival and London Short Film festival.


Amiran’s films have been showcased by Vimeo Staff Pick, Filmmaker Magazine and Nowness as well as being acquired by the BFI National Archive.

Amiran is also a lecturer on the Film and Moving Image BA at Norwich University of the Arts, UK.

  • Year
    2019
  • Runtime
    14 minutes
  • Country
    UK
  • Rating
    The whole family (including children)
  • Director
    Tal Amiran
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