USA,
2005, 17 min
Shown in 2006
CREDITS
- dir
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Karina Epperlein
- source
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Transit 2100, 641 Euclid Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94708. FAX: 510-559-8892. EMAIL: kebb@berkeley.edu.
- gga award
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Golden Gate Award—Bay Area Documentary Short
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COMMENTS
Screened with Favela Rising. Karina Epperlein in attendance.
OTHER
Dancer Homer Avila loses a leg to cancer and discovers the limitations and capacities of his body when Alonzo King choreographs a pas de deux for him.
FACTOID #51
The first silent film screened at the Festival (now an annual tradition) was The Scarlet Letter (1924) by the great Swedish director Victor Sjöström, on October 24, 1968. The film’s star, Lillian Gish, was honored with an in-person tribute two days later.
