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Film Title: Flag Day • 06:40 Min Date film was completed: • 01/01/05 • Updated as necessary Film's country of origin • United States Category/Genre • Short Documentary Synopsis of Film This year, in Rockport, Maine, a man got tired of hiding the death this war is bringing us…he planted flags, one for each dead soldier, in his yard…and now the flags are moving one yard to the next, a visible reminder of the number, rising daily, of the dead. Key Considerations in Making the Film Tom Sadowski, the Flag Memorial originator, wanted to see what the abstract symbol (represented as a number) of current deaths of US soldiers in Iraq actually looked like. I wanted to build on his vision by adding more visuals, text and audio...to present that statistic to as many senses as possible and to as many people as possible. Artist's Statement I share Tom Sadowski's concern that our country needs to keep a public focus on lives lost in this war. We need to ‘say that number out loud’ and we need to acknowledge each sacrifice. "It is difficult to get the news from poems yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there." William Carlos William Cast and Crew Director • Kristy Higby 10828 Buchanan Trail West Mercersburg, PA 17236 717-328-2189 www.calhounstudios.com Producer • Maureen Carrigg • mocat27@yahoo.com Cinematographer • Eric Stevenson • olegsgb@hotmail.com Editor • Kristy Higby 10828 Buchanan Trail West Mercersburg, PA 17236 717-328-2189 Artwork • Kristy Higby 10828 Buchanan Trail West Mercersburg, PA 17236 717-328-2189 Thank you to: Tom Sadowski (Flag Memorial Originator), Mair and Paul Lipman (Readers), Paul Barrows (Flag Memorial host), Paralee Dawson (sister) Additional Notes: Special thanks to Bart Weiss for his laid-back intensity and can-do guidance; and to the International Film and Television Workshops in Rockport, Maine; the Center for Documentary Studies, Duke University, Durham, NC ___________________________ This film was funded by a summer study grant from Mercersburg Academy. W.W. Norton will include a short clip from FLAG DAY on the Norton Sociology DVD created in spring 2007 as a resource for instructors using the textbooks Introduction to Sociology and Essentials of Sociology by Anthony Giddens, Mitchell Duneier and Richard Appelbaum and the upcoming 1st editions of The Real World: An Introduction to Sociology by Kerry Ferris and Jill Stein and You May Ask Yourself: An Introduction to Sociology by Dalton Conley, both due to publish in 2008. The DVD and the Introduction to Sociology text will publish in March 2007. The Norton Sociology DVD will contain approximately 22 short clips on important sociology concepts. ‘The purpose our sociology textbooks is to provide college students with a sociological awareness with which to analyze situations in our modern world. We have selected your film because it addresses an important current issue from an intelligent and sociological point of view.’ Official selection screenings to date: March 2005 Home Grown Documentary Happening Center for Documentary Studies Duke University Juried Selection – no awards given ___________________________ April-May 2005 Amazon Theater/Tribeca Film Festival Short Film Competition Semi-Finalist ___________________________ June 2005 SILVERDOCS AFI/Discovery Channel Documentary Filmfest Silver Spring, MD Juried Selection - two screenings - Honorable Mention ___________________________ September 2005 DOCNZ 2005 International Documentary Film Festival Auckland, New Zealand, Australia Special Invitation to screen – no international awards given ___________________________ September, 2005 11th Annual Palm Springs International Festival of Short Films Palm Springs, California Juried Selection ___________________________ October 2005 Asheville Film Festival Asheville, NC Juried Selection - two screenings ___________________________ October 2005 The Eureka! International Film Festival New York City, New York Juried Selection - two screenings ___________________________ Fall 2005 Peace and Justice Film Series University of Montana Students for Peace and Justice & UM Amnesty International Jeannette Rankin Peace Center Special Invitation - non-competitive ___________________________ Fall 2005 Jonathan Matthews' peace and justice film series at Carroll College The Helena Peace Seekers' film series at St. Paul's Methodist Church. A fall peace and justice film series in Missoula, Helena, Butte, Bozeman, Billings and other Montana Peace Seekers towns. Special Invitation - non-competitive ___________________________ November 2005 Three Rivers Film Festival Sponsored by Pittsburgh Filmmakers Pittsburg, PA Juried Selection ___________________________ January 2006 University of South Carolina Invitational Alumni Exhibition McMasters Gallery Columbia, SC ___________________________ February 2006 Dam Short Film Festival Boulder City, NV Juried Selection - Best Documentary ___________________________ February 2006 Black Maria Film & Video Festival Jersey City, NJ 07305 www.blackmariafilmfestival.org Juried Selection - Jury’s Citation Award ___________________________ March 2006 Tiburon International Film Festival Tiburon, California Juried Selection ___________________________ March 2006 Montclair Women's Film Marathom Makeready Press Gallery Montclair, NJ ___________________________ April 2006 Ashland Independent Film Festival Ashland, Oregon Juried Selection ___________________________ April 2006 Kansas City Filmmaker's Jubilee Film Festival Kansas City, Kansas Juried Selection ___________________________ April 2006 Donnell Media Center Black Maria Film Festival Sponsored New York Public Library New York, NY www.nypl.org/branch/central/dlc/ ___________________________ May 2006 Webster Film Series Webster University Maplewood, Mo Special Invitation www.webster.edu/filmseries/index.htm ___________________________ May 2006 Seattle International Film Festival Seattle, WA Juried Selection www.seattlefilm.com/index.aspx ___________________________ August 2006 Sequences and Events 2-Person Exhibition Burroughs-Chapin Art Museum Myrtle Beach, SC __________________________ August 2006 Dallas Video Festival Dallas, Texas __________________________ September 2006 Northhamptonshire International Film Festival Northhampton, UK __________________________ October 2006 Dallas Women in Film Chick Flicks 5 Dallas, Texas Jury Prize Best Film __________________________ October 2006 Sequences and Events Burroughs Chapin Museum of Art Myrtle Beach, SC ________________________ November 2006 Somewhat North of Boston Concord, New Hampshire _______________________ January 2007 Kun.Kortfilm (Only Shortfilms) FilmPlatform Copenhagen, Denmark ________________________ February 2007 All American Film Festival Durham, NC www.allamericanfilmfestival.com ________________________ March 2007 DC Independent Film Festival Washington DC ________________________ 2007 The Int’l Fest of Cinema and Technology Schedule pending ________________________ March 2007 DC Independent Film Festival Washington, DC ________________________ April 2007 SF Women’s Film Festival San Francisco, Ca ________________________ April 2007 Videobot TV Show URTV Public Television Station Asheville, NC
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