documentaries & coctails (doc.tails) Complimentary Refreshments & Cocktails March 6, 2005

doc.tails
(documentaries & cocktails)

Complimentary Refreshments & Cocktails

March, 6TH 7PM
Millennium Film Workshop
66 East Fourth Street
New York, New York 10003
Suggested Donation $15

Featured Screenings:

PRIMARY by Robert Drew

In 1960 Robert Drew planned, produced and managed the editing of
"Primary", the first film in which the sync-sound motion picture
camera was able to move freely with characters throughout a breaking
story (John F. Kennedy in Wisconsin). "Primary" was recognized as a
breakthrough in documentary film making.
-Primary received the Robert Flaherty Award, American Film Festival Blue Ribbon

TAKING ON THE KENNEDYS by Joshua Seftel (currently director of Queer Eye)
This incredible Documentary explores the dynamics of campaign tactics and
tells the story, according to 27-year-old filmmaker Joshua Seftel, of
a man who thought he could change politics, but in the end, politics
changed him. "At first, Kevin Vigilante was somebody who really wanted
to fight the clean fight. He didn't want to go negative. He wanted a
clean, fair race. But in the end, he finally decided to go negative."

Featured Guest Speaker Filmmaker Joshua Seftel on his film TAKING ON THE KENNEDYS

(In 1992, while making his first documentary, "Lost and Found: The
Story of Romania's Forgotten Children," Seftel met Vigilante, then a
board member of the Free Romania Foundation. Vigilante, an idealistic
doctor in his forties, established an inner-city clinic where he cared
for HIV-positive women. Two years later, when Seftel discovered
Vigilante was running in the upcoming Congressional race against
Senator Ted Kennedy's youngest son, 27-year-old Patrick, he decided to
make a film about it. "The Kennedy/Vigilante race struck me as the
meeting of two concepts that Americans love," says Seftel. "On the one
hand, you had an underdog in Vigilante, kind of a Rocky Balboa figure.
And on the other, you had the closest thing to royalty that America
has.")

AFTER SCREENING SOCIAL WITH JOSHUA SEFTEL
10:00 PM AT PHEBE'S
(CORNER OF BOWERY & 4TH ST/NO COVER)