Tickets FREE. We’re thrilled to host award-winning cinematographer and director Kirsten Johnson in conversation with Amy Dotson. A truly innovative storyteller, Johnson’s work grapples with the meaning behind making images. Renowned for her irreverent, unorthodox & fun approach to cinematography, Johnson has redefined visual storytelling. Her fabulous style and engaging way of interacting with subjects translate to the stage; it will surely be a conversation that sticks with you. The 60 minute conversation will follow the screening of Dick Johnson Is Dead, a joyful and heartbreaking documentary about Johnson’s father entering dementia.
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Tickets $45. Join us for the much-anticipated Ani DiFranco documentary, 1-800-On-Her-Own! Following the film, Ani DiFranco & director Dana Flor will be in conversation PAM CUT Director Amy Dotson, and take audience questions.
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Tickets $25. In collaboration with XRAY.FM, we’re thrilled to host a screening of The Elephant 6 Recording Co. documentary. The Elephant 6 music screen grew out of small southern towns (Ruston, LA. and Athens, GA) and fostered bands including Neutral Milk Hotel, The Olivia Tremor Control, and The Apples In Stereo.
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Tickets $35. Join us for a conversation with filmmaking legend Penelope Spheeris, moderated by PAM CUT Executive Director Amy Dotson.
After the conversation, we’re thrilled to host a rare screening of her film We Sold Our Souls for Rock ‘n Roll which documents the most successful rock-concert festival tour of the 1990s: Ozzfest.
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Tickets $15. Director Penny Lane’s decision to become a “good Samaritan” by giving one of her kidneys to a stranger turns into a funny and moving personal quest to understand the nature of altruism. Confessions of a Good Samaritan is a provocative inquiry into the science, history, and ethics of organ transplantation, asking an ancient question in a whole new way: Who is your neighbor, and what do you owe them?
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Tickets $15. When the United States withdrew from its twenty-year “forever war” in Afghanistan, the Taliban retook control of the ravaged country and immediately found an American base loaded with weaponry—a portion of the over $7 billion in U.S. armaments still in the country. Unprecedented and audacious, director Ibrahim Nash’at’s Hollywoodgate spends a year inside Afghanistan following the Taliban as they take possession of the cache America left behind—and transform from a fundamentalist militia into a heavily armed military regime.
After the film, there will be a Q&A with Lisa Freeman, who served in the US Aid Office of Transition Initiatives, working on building resilience in local communities in the face of the Taliban threat.
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Tickets $15. The unbelievable true story of Chelly Wilson, who escaped the Holocaust and built a porn cinema empire in New York City in the 1970s. Chelly was a Greek-born, Christmas-celebrating, Jewish grandma, who married men but was openly gay. This documentary charts her unlikely rise to wealth as a shrewd businesswoman on “The Deuce,” aka New York’s infamous 42nd Street. Before the film the Gents of Chaos will play some retro-groove musical morsels.
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Tickets FREE. Join us for a sneak peek of Irene Taylor’s new exciting film I Am: Céline Dion followed by a Q&A with the director! Directed by Academy Award nominee Irene Taylor, I Am: Celine Dion gives us a raw and honest behind-the-scenes look at the iconic superstar’s struggle with a life-altering illness. Serving as a love letter to her fans, this inspirational documentary highlights the music that has guided her life while also showcasing the resilience of the human spirit.
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Tickets $15. RICHLAND offers a prismatic, placemaking portrait of a community staking its identity and future on its nuclear origin story, presenting a timely examination of the habits of thought that normalize the extraordinary violence of the past.
Moving between archival past and observational present, and across encounters with nuclear workers, community members, archeologists, local tribes, and a Japanese granddaughter of atomic bomb survivors, the film blooms into an expansive and lyrical meditation on home, safety, whiteness, land, and deep time.
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Tickets $15. Catching Fire: The Story Of Anita Pallenberg is about a woman who was at many points in her life a newspaper headline: Anita Pallenberg was a “rock n’ roll goddess,” a “voodoo priestess,” and an “evil seductress.” She was accused of trying to break up the Rolling Stones, among other things. But those who loved her considered her an exciting cultural force, and a loving mother – and innocent of the accusations. Never-seen-before home movies and family photographs explore life with the Rolling Stones and tell a bittersweet tale of both triumph and heartbreak. From Barbarella to the Swiss Alps, and the Lower East Side to London, Anita Pallenberg was a creative force ahead of her time.
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