Have you seen a great documentary lately?

On the next Your Call, we'll talk about the power of documentaries. The 9th Annual International Documentary Film Festival and the Arab Film Festival are in the Bay Area this month. We'll talk to filmmakers, film subjects, and festival organizers about the motivation behind their work. How do documentaries affect you? What do you love about them? What can they do that other film genres can't? Join us at 11 or send an email to feedback@yourcallradio.org. How have documentaries changed over the years? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Zeina Daccache, director, 12 Angry Lebanese

Jeff Ross, founder/director of SF IndieFest

Gregg Marks, co-director of May I Be Frank? A Film about Sex, Drugs, and Transformation

Frank Ferrante, subject of May I Be Frank? A Film about Sex, Drugs, and Transformation

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Your Call 020409 What's a biopic got that a documentary doesn't?

What's a biopic got that a documentary doesn't? And vice-versa? On the next Your Call we'll discuss the choices artists make when deciding to retell the past on film. Gus Van Sant decided to tell the story of Harvey Milk as a biopic rather than as a documentary -- other than getting to cast Sean Penn in the leading role, what's the advantage? Can they bend the truth more? Does original footage from a particular time and place have an impact that actors and sets never can? Is there a documentary you wish would be made into a biopic -- or one that never should be? It's Your Call with Sandip Roy and you.

Guests:
Robert Cary in Los Angeles
Director of the feature film Save Me, about the intertwined lives of three people struggling with homosexuality.

Dawn Logsdon in San Francisco
Director of the documentary Faubourg Treme: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans, a celebration of the oldest black neighborhood in America.

Bill Banning in San Francisco
Runs the Roxie movie theater in the Mission since 1984

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Your Call 041108 The Reality-Based Community

On the next Your Call, it's a special edition of our Friday Media Roundtable. This week, a panel of progressive independent filmmakers join us to discuss how documentaries are changing the mainstream media conversation. We'll be joined by Jeffrey Springer, co-director of Plagues & Pleasures on the Salton Sea, David Redmon, director of Mardi Gras: Made in China, and Laurie Walters, head of film acquisitions for Ironweed Films. What was the best documentary you saw this year? How much power do documentaries have to create social change? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar.

Guests

Jeffrey Springer in San Francisco

Co-Director, editor and photographer of Plagues & Pleasures on the Salton Sea, one of the featured films in an Ironweed Film Release. 

Laurie Walters in Los Angeles

Head of film acquisitions for Ironweed Films, a progressive film distribution company that curates a monthly documentary film festival that it puts on DVD and mails out to its members. Ironweed was a project of Act Now in San Francisco, but is now an independent company.

To submit to Ironweed send DVDs to:
PO Box 636
Ojai, CA 92023 

David Redmon in New Jersey

Director of Mardi Gras: Made in China

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