Spotlight Premieres
- For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism - Director: Gerald Peary - Dramatizes the history of American film criticism. (World Premiere)
- The Last Beekeeper - Director: Jeremy Simmons - This documentary follows the lives of three commercial beekeepers over one year as they struggle with Colony Collapse Disorder, and must ask "If the bees die, what do you have to live for?" (World Premiere)
- Monsters from the ID - Director: David Gargani - Monsters From The Id weaves the themes of thirty 1950’s Sci-Fi films to examine the role of the Modern Scientist in inspiring America. It continues to explore the psychological and cultural impact of 50’s cinema and asks, “where is science inspiration found today?” (World Premiere)
- New World Order - Directors: Andrew Neel and Luke Meyer - Conspiracy theorists travel the globe trying to expose the group that they claim rules the world. (World Premiere)
- Objectified - Director: Gary Hustwit - Examines our relationship to manufactured objects and, by extension, the people who design them. (World Premiere)
- Winnebago Man - Director: Ben Steinbauer - Jack Rebney's funny outtakes from a Winnebago sales video became an underground phenomenon and made him an internet superstar. Ben Steinbauer sets out to find him. (World Premiere)
Special Screenings
- American Prince - Director: Tommy Pallotta - After 30 years, Tommy Pallotta revisits Scorcese's lost documentary American Boy and its raconteur subject, Steven Prince. (World Premiere)
- Blood Trail - Director: Richard Parry - War photographer Robert King let a camera crew follow him for over 15 years--from his first assignment in Bosnia to his work in Chechnya, on to his coverage in Iraq. (U.S. Premiere)
- Burma VJ - Director: Anders Ostergaard - Armed with small handy cams, undercover Video Journalists in Burma risk their lives to document events in September 2007, as thousands of monks protest in Rangoon against the country’s military rulers.
- The Dungeon Masters - Director: Keven McAlester - Against the backdrop of crumbling middle-class America, two men and one woman devote their lives to Dungeons and Dragons, the role-playing game, and its various descendants. As their baroque fantasies clash with mundane real lives, the characters find it increasingly difficult to allay their fear, loneliness, and disappointment with the game’s imaginary triumphs. (U.S. Premiere)
- For All Mankind - Director: Al Reinart - A trip to another world disguised as a documentary.
- It Came From Kuchar - Director: Jennifer M. Kroot - The hilarious and touching story of the legendary, underground filmmaking twins, George and Mike Kuchar, and how their outrageous, no-budget movies inspired generations of filmmakers (World Premiere)
- Know Your Mushrooms - Director: Ron Mann - A fun look at fungus. (U.S. Premiere)
- Letters to the President - Director: Petr Lom - Exclusive access to Iran's President Ahmadinejad, and life under his regime, as derived from letters that ten million Iranians have written to their President. (North American Premiere)
- My Generation - Director: Barbara Kopple - A documentary about the Woodstock legacy and the search for community and ritual by boomers and Gen X'ers at three Woodstock Festivals.
- Neil Young Trunk Show - Director: Jonathan Demme - Trunk Show: a traveling display of goods, packed and unpacked along the way. In Neil Young's case it's a display of soul in the musical and spiritual sense. Jonathan Demme presents Young in the middle of a stage full of personal icons, at times alone in the center of a circle of his beloved acoustic guitars, at others in the midst of a handful of much-beloved musicians. (World Premiere)
- Saint Misbehavin': The Wavy Gravy Movie - Director: Michelle Erick - The story of Wavy Gravy – who proves you can change the world and have fun doing it. (World Premiere)
- Strongman - Director: Zachary Levy - Stainless Steel bills himself as the world's strongest man despite his advancing age.
- Sweethearts of the Prison Rodeo - Director: Bradley Beasley - Amidst stories of murder, hardship, heartache and redemption, the film follows convict cowgirls of the Eddie Warriors Correctional Center in their preparation for the rodeo where female prisoners compete against male prison teams. (World Premiere)
- We Live in Public - Director: Ondi Timoner - The story of the Internet’s impact on human interaction as told through the eyes of Internet pioneer and visionary, Josh Harris.
Lone Star States
- Along Came Kinky...Texas Jewboy for Governor - Director: David Hartstein - This documentary chronicles singing Jewish cowboy Kinky Friedman’s 2006 independent gubernatorial campaign in Texas. (World Premiere)
- Drunken Angel: The Legend of Blaze Foley - Director: Kevin Triplett - A documentary on the everyday man behind the legend, Blaze Foley. Born in a tree house, killed in a friend's living room and 86'ed from his own funeral, is now a bona fide country music legend whose songs are covered by Merle Haggard, John Prine, Willie Nelson and Lyle Lovett. (World Premiere)
- The Eyes of Me - Director: Keith Maitland - An extraordinary look at four blind teenagers. Shot at the Texas School for the Blind in Austin, Texas, the parallel stories of two freshmen and two seniors unfold over the course of one dynamic year. (World Premiere)
- The Least of These - Directors: Clark Lyda & Jesse Lyda - Detention of immigrant children in a former medium-security prison leads to controversy when three activist attorneys discover troubling conditions at the facility. (World Premiere)
- Over the Hills and Far Away - Director: Michel Orion Scott - This documentary follows the Isaacson family traveling through Mongolia seeking a mysterious shaman they believe can heal their autistic son.
- Sunshine - Director: Karen Skloss - In 1975 rural Texas, the local mayor’s daughter grapples with an unplanned pregnancy finally deciding to have her baby in secret before giving her away in a hidden adoption. Twenty-three years later, the adopted child also has an unplanned baby out of wedlock. The film tells the intimate story of these two single mothers, while exploring the times and circumstances that afforded them very different options. (World Premiere)
