July 12-29, 2001
Co-presented by the NEBRASKA FILM OFFICE


Documentary Feature
The following entries are presented for this category.

Accordion Dreams
Hector Galan
Run Time: 56 minutes, 46 seconds

Accordion Dreams features yesterday's and today's squeezebox trailblazers who defined Texas Mexican Music. Narrated by singer/songwriter Tish Hinojosa, Accordion Dreams is a musical journey into the heart and soul of conjunto, an American music genre native to Texas.

Grasslands
Ray Burley
Run Time: 45 minutes

Grasslands examines the complex and resilient ecosystem that was the grasslands of North America.

Green
Laura Dunn
Run Time: 48 minutes

Green documents the toxic development in areas populated by minorities and low income groups. One after another, residents share their stories: a 13-year old girl with cancer, a photographer who has documented local pollution for 20 years, government officials who deny any problem exists, and a father struggling to find hope for his critically ill son.

Hybrid
Monteith McCollum
Run Time: 93 minutes

Hybrid tells the story of one man's love and obsession for hybrid corn. Through dry Midwestern wit, the film describes the sexuality of corn and delves deep into one family's complex relationships with an eccentric, alienated man who finds solace in the whispers of rustling cornfields.

Los Trabajadores/The Workers
Heather Courtney
Run Time: 48 minutes, 16 seconds

This film tells the story of immigrant day laborers, placing their struggles and contributions in the context of the economic development of Austin, Texas.

Okie Noodling
Bradley Beesley
Run Time: 56 minutes, 40 seconds

There's nothing like catching a 60-pound catfish with your bare hands, and there's nothing quite like Okie Noodling, a one-hour documentary which catches the excitement of hand fishing or "noodling" and the sense of community that has hooked three Oklahoma families on handfishing.

Split Decision
Marcy Garriott
Run Time: 75 minutes

Split Decision is the story of a father who brought his family to Chicago to keep his sons out of the Mexican mines. It is the story of a teenager whose reality was not relief in avoiding the life his father left behind. And it is the story of a talented young man seeking redemption for a serious mistake.

Varmints
Doug Hawes-Davis
Run Time: 57 minutes

This film chronicles the decline of the prairie dog and details the conflicting perspectives of cowboy mythology, animal rights, property rights, varmint hunting, ecology and politics.