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HBO SETS DOCUMENTARY LINEUP FOR THE FIRST HALF OF 2005
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Presentations Include
Shari Cookson's CRUISIN' WITH ROSIE O'DONNELL,
Joe And Harry Gantz's TAXICAB CONFESSIONS: NEW YORK, NEW YORK,
Steven Okazaki's REHAB And Kirby Dick's
TWIST OF FAITH, A 2005 Sundance Selection
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LOS ANGELES, Jan. 13, 2005 -- From the back of a New York City cab, to
the hectic halls of a new talk-radio network, to the decks of the
first-ever gay and lesbian family cruise, HBO's America Undercover
documentaries and documentary specials will take viewers to intriguing
worlds in the first half of 2005. Among the upcoming presentations
are CRUISIN' WITH ROSIE O'DONNELL, from Shari Cookson (HBO's
Emmy(r)-nominated "Living Dolls: The Making of a Child Beauty
Queen"), TAXICAB CONFESSIONS: NEW YORK, NEW YORK, from Joe and Harry
Gantz (directors of the Emmy(r)-winning series), REHAB, from Steven
Okazaki (the Oscar(r) winner "Days of Waiting"), and Kirby Dick's
TWIST OF FAITH, a 2005 official Sundance Film Festival Selection.
America Undercover documentaries include:
TAXICAB CONFESSIONS: NEW YORK, NEW YORK (Feb. 5) marks the hit
Emmy(r)-winning series' return to the streets of New York City after
an eight-year hiatus in Las Vegas. In the safety of a taxicab, under
the cover of a New York City night, people are capable of saying and
doing anything in this provocative, all-new special. Directed by Joe
and Harry Gantz.
DOPE SICK LOVE (March 10) catapults viewers deep inside the extreme
existence of two drug-addicted couples who try to maintain their
relationships while living on the streets of New York City. Following
them from apartment buildings, where they shoot up in the corridors
and elevators, to public toilets, where they smoke crack, and onto the
streets, where they brawl, hustle and engage in prostitution, the film
is an unflinching, bare-bones examination of drug addiction. Directed
by Felice Conte, Brent Renaud and Craig Renaud.
LEFT OF THE DIAL (March 31) captures the turmoil behind the rise and
fall and rise of Air America, the first liberal talk-radio network.
Almost nobody involved in the network had worked in radio before, and
as a result, tempers were constantly flaring off (and occasionally on)
the air. Fast-paced, humorous and dramatic, the film charts the
intersection of individual hopes and beliefs with the harsh realities
of launching a network. Featuring on-air personalities Al Franken,
Janeane Garofalo, Chuck D, Randi Rhodes and Marc Maron, the
documentary will premiere on the first anniversary of Air America's
launch. Directed by Kate O'Callaghan and Patrick Farrelly.
TWIST OF FAITH (April), a 2005 official Sundance Film Festival
Selection, is the powerful story of a man who confronts the trauma of
past sexual abuse as a boy by a Catholic priest, only to find his
decision shatters his relationships with his family, community and
faith. Directed by Kirby Dick (CINEMAX's "The End").
REHAB (May) visits Camp Recovery in Santa Cruz, Cal., to tell the
tales of real people - daughters and sons, mothers and fathers,
brothers and sisters -- whose drug and alcohol addictions are slowly
killing them, and destroying their families as well. Directed by
Steven Okazaki.
AUTOPSY 10: ASK DR. BADEN (May) brings a new twist to the hit series,
which allows viewers to witness how forensic pathologists, known as
"doctors of death," crack their most difficult cases. This season,
Dr. Michael Baden, former Chief Medical Examiner of New York City,
chooses his subjects from more than 1,000 viewer e-mails, serving as a
"court of last resort" in especially challenging cases. Directed by
Arthur Ginsberg.
HBO documentary specials include:
CRUISIN' WITH ROSIE O'DONNELL (June) joins Emmy(r)-winner Rosie
O'Donnell for the first ever gay and lesbian family vacation. The
Norwegian Dawn, chartered by Rosie and Kelli O'Donnell's R Family
Vacations, went on a weeklong adventure with 500 families to Key West
and Nassau, and HBO came along for the ride. Directed by Shari
Cookson.
UNKNOWN SOLDIER: SEARCHING FOR A FATHER (June) follows John Hulme's
quest to find out what happened to his father, Lt. Jack Hulme, who was
killed in Vietnam on June 30, 1969, having never met his newborn son.
Thirty years later, John Hulme tracks down family members, childhood
friends and the soldiers who fought beside his father. What he
discovers is a life that mirrored a generation's struggles and wounds
that remain painfully fresh, especially for his mother. Together,
John and his mother travel to Vietnam, to the place where Jack spent
the last few moments of his life, in order to finally come to terms
with his death. Directed by John Hulme.
Academy Award(r) and Oscar(r) are registered trademarks and service
marks of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
CINEMAX SETS DIVERSE LINEUP OF CINEMAX REEL LIFE DOCUMENTARIES FOR THE
FIRST HALF OF 2005
--------
Presentations include Liz Garbus' XIARA'S SONG, Joe Berlinger's GRAY
MATTER, SISTER ROSE'S PASSION And THE CHILDREN OF LENINGRADSKY
--------
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 13, 2005 - Top documentary filmmakers will explore a
wide range of timely issues in CINEMAX Reel Life presentations during
the first half of 2005. From Liz Garbus ("The Farm: Angola") comes
XIARA'S SONG, the story of a young girl's struggle to stay connected
to her imprisoned father; in GRAY MATTER, Joe Berlinger (HBO's
"Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills") searches for
Dr. Heinrich Gross, a former Nazi, and the alleged murderer of over
800 children "euthanized" in a Vienna hospital during World War II.
Among the other documentaries are SISTER ROSE'S PASSION, the story of
a nun's tireless crusade against anti-Semitism, and THE CHILDREN OF
LENINGRADSKY, a look at the thousands of homeless children who live in
Moscow's train stations.
Upcoming CINEMAX Reel Life documentaries include:
LOVING & CHEATING (debuts Feb. 14), which debuts on Valentine's Day,
explores conflicting views on commitment and infidelity, touching on
universal issues that are rarely discussed so frankly. A former male
stripper and his wife discuss the effects of their mutual affairs; a
young engaged couple confront their differing views on cheating; a
Baptist minister and his wife reflect on the success of their 50-year
marriage; and a middle-aged couple who call themselves "poly-amorous"
explain how they opened up their marriage. Directed by Thom Powers.
A DOG'S LIFE: A DOGAMENTARY (March 15), a humorous and poignant
portrait of a dog's life in New York City, exploring the positive
effects of the intense bond between dogs and humans. Told through the
eyes of director Gayle Kirschenbaum's Shih Tzu, Chelsea, who sports a
"doggiecam," the film examines Chelsea's role in her owner's life, and
how it touches others when Chelsea is certified as a therapy dog after
9/11, offering comfort and companionship to humans in distress.
Directed by Gayle Kirschenbaum.
THE POWER OF GOOD (April) tells the story of Englishman Nicholas
Winton, who saved the lives of 669 children, most of them Jewish, from
Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia, bringing them across Hitler's Germany to
his native Britain. For nearly 50 years, he did not tell anyone about
his extraordinary rescue mission -- not even his wife. The story
surfaced in 1988 when the BBC broadcast a show about the first meeting
of approximately 100 of the rescued children with their "secret"
rescuer. Today, there are more than 5,000 descendants of the Winton
children. Directed by Matej Minac.
GRAY MATTER (April) attempts to track down Dr. Heinrich Gross, a
former Nazi who rose to prominence after the war as Vienna's leading
forensic psychiatrist. In April 2002, a funeral was held to bury the
brains of more than 800 children "euthanized" in a Vienna hospital -
allegedly by Dr. Gross -- during World War II. The search for Dr.
Gross, now 86 and living as a free man in Austria, explores the
difficulties of coming to grips with a society's past. Directed by
Joe Berlinger.
SISTER ROSE'S PASSION (May) is a portrait of Rose Thering, who, as a
Catholic girl growing up in America's heartland, read in her religion
books that Jesus was killed by the Jews. When she joined the
sisterhood, Sister Rose began to examine why so few in her religion
had responded to the plight of the Jews during the Holocaust.
Subsequently challenging the doctrine that blamed Jews for the death
of Jesus, she took a leading role in Vatican II, which officially
changed the Catholic Church's position on their relationship with
Jewish people. This documentary follows Sister Rose today, at age 84,
as she continues her crusade against anti-Semitism. Directed by Oren
Jacoby.
THE CHILDREN OF LENINGRADSKY (June) explores the plight of the more
than 30,000 homeless children who live in Moscow's train stations.
Sleeping in stairways, garbage containers and underground tunnels,
they panhandle or prostitute themselves for money, and sniff glue to
curb hunger and to escape the violent world around them. Still, many
of them consider life on the streets preferable to what they
experienced at home. Directed by Hanna Polak & Andrzej Celinski.
XIARA'S SONG (June) documents a young girl's struggle to stay
connected to her father through their mutual love of music, and a
mother's battle to keep her daughter from following in her father's
dangerous footsteps. Seven-year-old Xiara's father Harold has been in
and out of jail throughout her life, and his current sentence will
keep him locked up until she's 17. Combining present-day footage with
home movies to explore a father-daughter relationship under
extraordinary circumstances, this is a moving portrait of one of the
ten million American children with a parent in prison. Produced and
directed by Liz Garbus; produced by Rory Kennedy.
--------
Presentations Include
Shari Cookson's CRUISIN' WITH ROSIE O'DONNELL,
Joe And Harry Gantz's TAXICAB CONFESSIONS: NEW YORK, NEW YORK,
Steven Okazaki's REHAB And Kirby Dick's
TWIST OF FAITH, A 2005 Sundance Selection
--------
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 13, 2005 -- From the back of a New York City cab, to
the hectic halls of a new talk-radio network, to the decks of the
first-ever gay and lesbian family cruise, HBO's America Undercover
documentaries and documentary specials will take viewers to intriguing
worlds in the first half of 2005. Among the upcoming presentations
are CRUISIN' WITH ROSIE O'DONNELL, from Shari Cookson (HBO's
Emmy(r)-nominated "Living Dolls: The Making of a Child Beauty
Queen"), TAXICAB CONFESSIONS: NEW YORK, NEW YORK, from Joe and Harry
Gantz (directors of the Emmy(r)-winning series), REHAB, from Steven
Okazaki (the Oscar(r) winner "Days of Waiting"), and Kirby Dick's
TWIST OF FAITH, a 2005 official Sundance Film Festival Selection.
America Undercover documentaries include:
TAXICAB CONFESSIONS: NEW YORK, NEW YORK (Feb. 5) marks the hit
Emmy(r)-winning series' return to the streets of New York City after
an eight-year hiatus in Las Vegas. In the safety of a taxicab, under
the cover of a New York City night, people are capable of saying and
doing anything in this provocative, all-new special. Directed by Joe
and Harry Gantz.
DOPE SICK LOVE (March 10) catapults viewers deep inside the extreme
existence of two drug-addicted couples who try to maintain their
relationships while living on the streets of New York City. Following
them from apartment buildings, where they shoot up in the corridors
and elevators, to public toilets, where they smoke crack, and onto the
streets, where they brawl, hustle and engage in prostitution, the film
is an unflinching, bare-bones examination of drug addiction. Directed
by Felice Conte, Brent Renaud and Craig Renaud.
LEFT OF THE DIAL (March 31) captures the turmoil behind the rise and
fall and rise of Air America, the first liberal talk-radio network.
Almost nobody involved in the network had worked in radio before, and
as a result, tempers were constantly flaring off (and occasionally on)
the air. Fast-paced, humorous and dramatic, the film charts the
intersection of individual hopes and beliefs with the harsh realities
of launching a network. Featuring on-air personalities Al Franken,
Janeane Garofalo, Chuck D, Randi Rhodes and Marc Maron, the
documentary will premiere on the first anniversary of Air America's
launch. Directed by Kate O'Callaghan and Patrick Farrelly.
TWIST OF FAITH (April), a 2005 official Sundance Film Festival
Selection, is the powerful story of a man who confronts the trauma of
past sexual abuse as a boy by a Catholic priest, only to find his
decision shatters his relationships with his family, community and
faith. Directed by Kirby Dick (CINEMAX's "The End").
REHAB (May) visits Camp Recovery in Santa Cruz, Cal., to tell the
tales of real people - daughters and sons, mothers and fathers,
brothers and sisters -- whose drug and alcohol addictions are slowly
killing them, and destroying their families as well. Directed by
Steven Okazaki.
AUTOPSY 10: ASK DR. BADEN (May) brings a new twist to the hit series,
which allows viewers to witness how forensic pathologists, known as
"doctors of death," crack their most difficult cases. This season,
Dr. Michael Baden, former Chief Medical Examiner of New York City,
chooses his subjects from more than 1,000 viewer e-mails, serving as a
"court of last resort" in especially challenging cases. Directed by
Arthur Ginsberg.
HBO documentary specials include:
CRUISIN' WITH ROSIE O'DONNELL (June) joins Emmy(r)-winner Rosie
O'Donnell for the first ever gay and lesbian family vacation. The
Norwegian Dawn, chartered by Rosie and Kelli O'Donnell's R Family
Vacations, went on a weeklong adventure with 500 families to Key West
and Nassau, and HBO came along for the ride. Directed by Shari
Cookson.
UNKNOWN SOLDIER: SEARCHING FOR A FATHER (June) follows John Hulme's
quest to find out what happened to his father, Lt. Jack Hulme, who was
killed in Vietnam on June 30, 1969, having never met his newborn son.
Thirty years later, John Hulme tracks down family members, childhood
friends and the soldiers who fought beside his father. What he
discovers is a life that mirrored a generation's struggles and wounds
that remain painfully fresh, especially for his mother. Together,
John and his mother travel to Vietnam, to the place where Jack spent
the last few moments of his life, in order to finally come to terms
with his death. Directed by John Hulme.
Academy Award(r) and Oscar(r) are registered trademarks and service
marks of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
CINEMAX SETS DIVERSE LINEUP OF CINEMAX REEL LIFE DOCUMENTARIES FOR THE
FIRST HALF OF 2005
--------
Presentations include Liz Garbus' XIARA'S SONG, Joe Berlinger's GRAY
MATTER, SISTER ROSE'S PASSION And THE CHILDREN OF LENINGRADSKY
--------
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 13, 2005 - Top documentary filmmakers will explore a
wide range of timely issues in CINEMAX Reel Life presentations during
the first half of 2005. From Liz Garbus ("The Farm: Angola") comes
XIARA'S SONG, the story of a young girl's struggle to stay connected
to her imprisoned father; in GRAY MATTER, Joe Berlinger (HBO's
"Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills") searches for
Dr. Heinrich Gross, a former Nazi, and the alleged murderer of over
800 children "euthanized" in a Vienna hospital during World War II.
Among the other documentaries are SISTER ROSE'S PASSION, the story of
a nun's tireless crusade against anti-Semitism, and THE CHILDREN OF
LENINGRADSKY, a look at the thousands of homeless children who live in
Moscow's train stations.
Upcoming CINEMAX Reel Life documentaries include:
LOVING & CHEATING (debuts Feb. 14), which debuts on Valentine's Day,
explores conflicting views on commitment and infidelity, touching on
universal issues that are rarely discussed so frankly. A former male
stripper and his wife discuss the effects of their mutual affairs; a
young engaged couple confront their differing views on cheating; a
Baptist minister and his wife reflect on the success of their 50-year
marriage; and a middle-aged couple who call themselves "poly-amorous"
explain how they opened up their marriage. Directed by Thom Powers.
A DOG'S LIFE: A DOGAMENTARY (March 15), a humorous and poignant
portrait of a dog's life in New York City, exploring the positive
effects of the intense bond between dogs and humans. Told through the
eyes of director Gayle Kirschenbaum's Shih Tzu, Chelsea, who sports a
"doggiecam," the film examines Chelsea's role in her owner's life, and
how it touches others when Chelsea is certified as a therapy dog after
9/11, offering comfort and companionship to humans in distress.
Directed by Gayle Kirschenbaum.
THE POWER OF GOOD (April) tells the story of Englishman Nicholas
Winton, who saved the lives of 669 children, most of them Jewish, from
Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia, bringing them across Hitler's Germany to
his native Britain. For nearly 50 years, he did not tell anyone about
his extraordinary rescue mission -- not even his wife. The story
surfaced in 1988 when the BBC broadcast a show about the first meeting
of approximately 100 of the rescued children with their "secret"
rescuer. Today, there are more than 5,000 descendants of the Winton
children. Directed by Matej Minac.
GRAY MATTER (April) attempts to track down Dr. Heinrich Gross, a
former Nazi who rose to prominence after the war as Vienna's leading
forensic psychiatrist. In April 2002, a funeral was held to bury the
brains of more than 800 children "euthanized" in a Vienna hospital -
allegedly by Dr. Gross -- during World War II. The search for Dr.
Gross, now 86 and living as a free man in Austria, explores the
difficulties of coming to grips with a society's past. Directed by
Joe Berlinger.
SISTER ROSE'S PASSION (May) is a portrait of Rose Thering, who, as a
Catholic girl growing up in America's heartland, read in her religion
books that Jesus was killed by the Jews. When she joined the
sisterhood, Sister Rose began to examine why so few in her religion
had responded to the plight of the Jews during the Holocaust.
Subsequently challenging the doctrine that blamed Jews for the death
of Jesus, she took a leading role in Vatican II, which officially
changed the Catholic Church's position on their relationship with
Jewish people. This documentary follows Sister Rose today, at age 84,
as she continues her crusade against anti-Semitism. Directed by Oren
Jacoby.
THE CHILDREN OF LENINGRADSKY (June) explores the plight of the more
than 30,000 homeless children who live in Moscow's train stations.
Sleeping in stairways, garbage containers and underground tunnels,
they panhandle or prostitute themselves for money, and sniff glue to
curb hunger and to escape the violent world around them. Still, many
of them consider life on the streets preferable to what they
experienced at home. Directed by Hanna Polak & Andrzej Celinski.
XIARA'S SONG (June) documents a young girl's struggle to stay
connected to her father through their mutual love of music, and a
mother's battle to keep her daughter from following in her father's
dangerous footsteps. Seven-year-old Xiara's father Harold has been in
and out of jail throughout her life, and his current sentence will
keep him locked up until she's 17. Combining present-day footage with
home movies to explore a father-daughter relationship under
extraordinary circumstances, this is a moving portrait of one of the
ten million American children with a parent in prison. Produced and
directed by Liz Garbus; produced by Rory Kennedy.
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