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Erin Donovan

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ACTIVISM
Blue Vinyl (Gold and Helfand, 2002, USA)
The English Surgeon (Smith, 2007, UK) (pictured)
Shut Up and Sing (Kopple, 2006, USA)
When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts (Lee, 2006, USA)

ART
The Beaches of Agnes (Varda, 2008, France)
Los Angeles Plays Itself (Andersen, 2003, USA)
Murch (Ichioka and Ichioka, 2008, USA)
The Pervert’s Guide to Cinema (Fiennes, 2006, UK)
Rivers and Tides (Riedelsheimer, 2001, Germany) (pictured)
Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures (Harlan, 2001, USA)
True Meaning of Pictures: Shelby Lee Adams’ Appalachia (Baichwal, 2002, Canada)


CHARACTER
Forbidden Lie$ (Broinowski, 2007, Australia)
The Gleaners and I (Varda, 2002, France) (pictured)
Girl 27 (Stenn, 2007, USA)
Grizzly Man (Herzog, 2005, USA)
Protagonist (Yu, 2007, USA)
Shadow Billionaire (Spraic, 2009, USA)
Tyson (Toback, 2008, USA)


EXPLORATION//NATURE
Encounters at the End of the World (2007, Herzog, USA) (pictured)
Ice People (Aghion, 2008, France/USA)
Winged Migration (Perrin, Cluzaud and Debats, 2001, France)


FAMILY//PERSONAL
51 Birch Street (Block, 2005, USA) (pictured)
Of Time and the City (Davies, 2008, UK)
Tarnation (Caouette, 2003, USA)
Zombie Girl (Johnson, Marshall and Mauck, 2009, USA)


HISTORICAL
Cooking History (Kerekes, 2009, Slovakia) (pictured)
Orange Revolution (York, 2007, USA)
The Staircase?? (de Lestrade, 2003, USA)


GLOBALIZATION
Dust (Bitomsky, 2007, Germany)
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (Gibney, 2005, USA)
FLOW: For Love of Water (Salina, 2008, USA)
King Corn (Woolf, 2007, USA)
Life and Debt (Black, 2001, USA)
Manda Bala (Send a Bullet) (Kohn, 2007, USA)
Manufactured Landscapes (Baichwal, 2006, Canada)
Merchants of Cool (Goodman, 2001, USA)
Mondovino (Nossiter, 2004, Argentina) (pictured)
Oblivion (Honigmann, 2008, Netherlands)
Our Brand is Crisis (Boynton, 2005, USA)
Rip! A Remix Manifesto (Gaylor, 2009, Canada)
Up the Yangtze (Chang, 2007, Canada)


SPORTS
The Heart of the Game (Serrill, 2005, USA)  (pictured)

WAR
Control Room (Noujaim, 2004, USA)
Fixer: The Taking of Ajmal Naqshbandi (Olds, 2009, USA)
The Fog of War (Morris, 2003, USA)
Iraq in Fragments (Longley, 2006, USA)
Ghosts of Abu Ghraib (Kennedy, 2007, USA) (pictured)
No End in Sight (Ferguson, 2007, USA)
Taxi to the Dark Side (Gibney, 2007, USA)
Waltz with Bashir (Folman, 2008, Israel)

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