2010 Films
Thirty-four documentaries comprise the 2010 Salem Film Fest, presented at CinemaSalem in Salem, Massachusetts, making it the largest documentary festival in New England. Half of the filmmakers will be attending and dialoging before and after their films, making for a truly unique and powerful cinematic experience. Browse through the film descriptions below to find films to match your passions or open up new windows on the world.
There are two venues for most screenings, the MAIN THEATER (capacity 160), and the SCREENING ROOM (capacity 20). There is also a special showing of Building 173 at the nearby Peabody Essex Museum (P.E.M.) in the Morse Auditorium.
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79 min - India
Directed by Faiza Ahmad Khan
Malegaon, a small town in India, is fraught with communal tension and under economic depression.
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78 min - USA, Germany
Produced by Peter Esmonde
TRIMPIN: THE SOUND OF INVENTION is an amusing journey through the sonic world of a wildly eccentric creative genius.
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58 min - Mexico, USA
Directed/Produced by Jeremy Levine, Landon Van Soest
SCREENING ROOM
WALKING THE LINE shows the chaos, absurdity, and senseless deaths along the U.S-Mexico border, as seen through private citizens who take the law into their own hands.
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87 min - USA
Directed by Ben Steinbauer
Jack Rebney, a.k.a. "the angriest man in the world," has delighted and fascinated millions of viewers with the hilariously foul-mouthed and ill-tempered outtakes from a recreational vehicle sales video he made in 1989 - passed hand-to-hand on VHS tapes, before the internet turned him into a full-blown phenomenon.
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