Meet Some Strong Women - Past and Present
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Greetings!
This year, DOCUTAH moves its main screening venue to a new home
The DOCUTAH Red Cliffs Theaters.
Located behind Dillards in the Red Cliff's Mall, the new location provides a true movie theater experience, plenty of parking and space for some very special events.
It's a great mix of events which will enhance your Festival Experience.
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HELLO GIRLS: THE ARMY'S SECRET WEAPON IN WWI
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They served with distinction, wore Army uniforms, were subject to military law, and swore Army oaths. For 60 years they fought the US government for recognition. In 1977, they won, unfortunately only 30 were still alive. This is the story of American’s First Female Soldiers and General Pershing’s secret battlefield weapon.
Told through 100-year old letters, photos, and archival footage; and interviews with family and historians, the “Hello Girls” reveals the relatively unknown story of 223 American women who served overseas during WWI as telephone operators. Several received military awards and decorations. They also served during the occupation of Germany and the Paris Peace Conference in 1919. The last of the Hello Girls returned home in 1920, only to told they were never soldiers.
Red Cliffs 2, 9/4 11:40 AM PM
Red Cliffs 1, 9/6 3:10 PM
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Tribal Justice is about a little known, underreported but effective criminal justice reform movement in America today: the efforts of tribal courts to create alternative justice systems based on their traditions. In California, the state with the largest number of Indian people and tribes, two formidable Native American women are among those leading the way. Abby Abinanti, Chief Judge of the Yurok Tribe on the northwest coast, and Claudette White, Chief Judge of the Quechan Tribe in the southeastern desert, are creating innovative systems that focus on restoring rather than punishing offenders in order to keep tribal members out of prison, prevent children from being taken from their communities, and stop the school-to-prison pipeline that plagues their young people.
Red Cliffs 2, 9/4, 10:10 AM
Red Cliffs 4, 9/7, 12:00 PM
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QUIET HEROES
The fight against stigma, shame, and ignorance through the height of the hiv/aids crisis in the heartland of america’s west. In Salt Lake City, Utah, the religious monoculture severely complicated the AIDS crisis, where patients received no support from—or were cast into exile by—the political, religious, and medical communities. Further, Mormon culture encouraged gay men to marry women and have a family to cure themselves of their “affliction,” counsel which led to secret affairs and accidental marital transmissions of HIV. In the entire state and intermountain region there was only one doctor to serve all HIV/AIDS patients. This is the story of her fight to save the lives of a maligned population everyone else seemed willing to just let die.
Eccles Main Stage, 9/5, 7:00 PM
Red Cliffs 2, 9/6, 5:30 PM
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JUDGE, THE – WOMEN, JUSTICE, ISLAM
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Religious courts in the Middle East had historically banned women from adjudicting domestic and family matters – in both Shari’s courts of Islam and the Rabbinic courts of Judaism – until Kholoud Al-Faqih date to challenge that history. With the support of a progressive Sheik, Kholoud becomes the first woman judge with her appointment to a Palestinian Shari’s court in the Wet Bank, bringing a subtle new perspective garnered from her early professional life working with battered women as an attorney in both the criminal and Shari’a courts. With unparalleled access and a critical cinematic eye, The Judge follows Kholoud in and outside the courtroom as she asserts her right to equality and redefines how Shari’s law perceives, treats and respects women.
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Red Cliffs 4, 9/5, 12:20 PM
Red Cliffs 2, 9/7, 5:10 PM
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Double Take: The Art of Elizabeth King
This film illuminates the aesthetic and engineering questions sculptor Elizabeth King puzzles over with an acute sensitivity to both life, and the life-like. She has created her own genre at the intersection of the classical and automata. An accomplished artist with an eye for the intimate meaning of gesture, King obsessively manipulates her materials to produce pieces that both approximate and challenge the viewer. Newly retired from 40 years of teaching, King is now more than ever able to focus on her work, and examine her motives and making. In studio visits, conversations with peers and art world figures the viewer is invited to consider what looking and seeing one another means in our increasingly visual world.
Red Cliffs 1, 9/4, 10:00 AM
Electric Theater, 9/6, 3:00 PM
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The Premier includes the Presentation of the Colors by the Marine Corps League, screening of Dreams of the Black Echo, a Q&A with the filmmakers from the US and Vietnam and an appearance by Stephen (Shorty) Menendez, who was a tunnel rat in Vietnam. Tickets are $20.
The reception before the screening at Cappeletti's is sold out.
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9/3/2018 –OPENING NIGHT FILM PREMIER: DREAMS OF THE BLACK ECHO
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It is 50 years since the Battle of Khe Sanh in Vietnam.
Dreams of the Black Echo
is a co-production with Duy Tan University in Vietnam and DSU film students, faculty and staff. It is the story of the war, told through the reminiscences and experience of veterans from both sides of the conflict and the battle of Khe Sanh. It is a true co-production where film students at Duy Tan University produced half the film from the perspective of their veterans and DSU film students produced half the film at Dixie State University using U.S. veterans as the storytellers.
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Electric Theater, 9/3, 7:00 PM
Red Cliffs 1,
9/7, 6:40 PM
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You won't want to miss a minute of the 2018 Festival. Find all Festival information at the links below
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