Growth Industry: This year's DCIFF spotlights films that are big on fixing, healing, and coming of age.
By Matthew Borlik and Mark Athitakis
Posted: March 5, 2008

C RED BLUE J - Friday, March 7, 7 p.m.
Christopher Sollars wants to figure out why his family is so politically divided—he’s an arty San Francisco liberal and his mom’s a lesbian, while his dad’s a born-again Christian and his sister is a Dubya cheerleader working for the Department of Energy. Using home movies, photos, interviews with his family, old political ads, and footage from the 2004 election, Sollars assembles a collage film that attempts to locate connections between American political scandals and his family’s dysfunction. (His parents’ divorce, for instance, is discussed amid footage of Iran-Contra.) This is a clever conceit for a 20-minute film; the 80-plus-minute film Sollars wound up making is overstuffed and a chore to watch. Mondale ads didn’t accomplish anything in 1984; what makes Sollars think they’ll work any better now? —MA

DC Independent Film Festival - 7:00 PM March 7, 2008
Jack Morton Auditorium - Media & Public Affairs Building
Address: 805 21st Street, NW
Washington, DC 20052

The 30th Annual Big Muddy Film Festival - 6:20 PM February 29, 2008
Southern Illinois University Carbondale
1100 Lincoln Drive Carbondale, IL 62901-6610
info@bigmuddyfilm.com
tel 618.453.8301