UT Documentary Showcase

Under the guidance of world-renowned filmmakers and professors like Paul Stekler, Ellen Spiro and Nancy Schieri, UT Austin has served as an incubator for a host of new documentary talent. The show is as follows:

LA VOIE DU NORD -- THE WAY NORTH
Directed by Shara Lange (USA, 2007, 60 min.) -- From Marseilles come the stories of Fatima and the women in her community of North African immigrants making new lives for themselves and their families in tense, complex, contemporary France.

ROAD TO TLACOTEPEC
Directed by Berndt Mader (USA, 2007, 37 min) – After the death of photographer Bob Mader in 2005, his son decided to deal with his grief by finishing his father’s last roll of film in the small Mexican village of Tlacotepec – a town his father had visited and photographed 40 years before. On his journey to this obscure Mexican village, Berndt is diverted to Belize where his sister has run into legal trouble in her adoption of a Mayan baby. After this detour and other misadventures, Berndt finally makes it to Tlacotepec, where he discovers possible connections to the past and answers to the questions of his own memory.

GIRLS OF DON BOSCO
Directed by Kendra Dorty (USA, 2007, 30 min.) –a short documentary highlighting the lives of a group of girls living in an orphanage in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico as they interact with each other, the Madres who oversee their care, and the volunteers that give their time at Casa Hogar and as they express their aspirations to grow far beyond the orphanage walls.