Best of Enemies is a dazzling intellectual feast that was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance and directed by Robert Gordon and Oscar winner Morgan Neville (20 Feet from Stardom). William F. Buckley, the leader of the new conservative movement, and Gore Vidal, leftist novelist and polemicist, battle for the soul of America in a series of debates hosted by ABC during the 1968 Presidential Conventions. Live and unscripted, they kept viewers riveted. Ratings for ABC News skyrocketed. And a new era in public discourse was born.
87min/CA
Director: Morgan Neville, Robert Gordon
Executive Producer: Julie Goldman, Clif Phillips
Producer: Morgan Neville, Robert Gordon, Caryn Capotosto (Co-Producer)
Cinematographer: David Leonard
Editor: Aaron Wickenden & Eileen Meyer
Sound Designer: Pete Horner / Skywalker Sound
Music: Jonathan Kirkscey
Additional Credits: Assistant Editor: Lee Rosch
Principal Cast: Gore Vidal, Eric Alterman, Ginia Bellafante, Linda Bridges, Reid Buckley, Dick Cavett, Christopher Hitchens, Brooke Gladstone, Sam Tanenhaus, Matt Tyranauer
Director: Mitch Dickman
Executive Producer: Dave Berlin, Joni Eddy
Producer: Britta Erickson, Daniel Junge, Karl Kister
Cinematographer: Zachary Armstrong
Editor: Zachary Armstrong, Davis Coombe, Tim Kaminski
Sound Designer: Jason McDaniel
Additional Credits: Producer: Alison Greenberg-Millice, Producer: Katie Shapiro, Executive Producer: Chad Troutwine, Executive Producer: Walker Diebel
GrappleHabit: Oklahoma City's Addiction to B.L.O.W.
This is the story of blood, sweat, and over mid20‘s tears. How 7 ladies became hometown legends in one night. This is B.L.O.W.: Balthazar’s Ladies of Wrestling. Grapple Habit is a creative comedic insight of OKC's first female professional wrestling league. The ridiculous trials and tribulations of a group of girls with the same dream: to wrestle.
16 min, OK
Director: Leslie Hensley
Producer: Leslie Hensley
Writer: Leslie Hensley
Cast: Chase Vegas, Amy Halasa, Shavonne McRee, Leslie Hensley, Jennifer Hutchings, Eboni Adams, Candise Anderson, Sherry Dowlen, Zachary Cox, Jacob Becannen, Dawn Rice, Johnny Cafarella
The Real Enemy
On September 21st, 2014, a group of self-proclaimed devil worshipers held a public 'Black Mass' in Oklahoma City. It makes international news when the local Archbishop threatens to sue to get back an allegedly stolen, blessed communion wafer to be used in the event. The controversy is only heightened as the city-owned event center refuses to cancel the event. 'The Real Enemy' follows along as the devil worshipers, opposing Satanists, Christian exorcists, protesters, city officials and the media prepare for the unholy event, providing an inside look into contemporary and alternative spiritualities of the Bible Belt.
53min/OK
Director: Tate James & Daniel Giles Helm
Writer: Tate James & Daniel Giles Helm
Producer: Tate James & Daniel Giles Helm
Principal Cast: Adam Daniels, James Hale, Everett Cox
Jason Schwartzman portrays Larry, an inebriated sad sack who rides a tide of booze onto the shores of an undiscriminating Quick-Lube. All seems awash, except for the fact he finds himself smitten with the boss, Lupe (Eleanore Pienta).
Will Larry keep it together long enough to win the girl, provide for his French bulldog (Schwartzman's real-life dog Arrow), laze about with his friend Major (T.V. on the Radio's Tunde Adebimpe), and do his cantankerous grandmother (Olympia Dukakis) proud?
7 CHINESE BROTHERS - written & directed by Bob Byington (SOMEBODY UP THERE LIKES ME) - is empathetic in tone, dry in humor. Schwartzman is in every scene and offers one of his most finely nuanced performances.
75 min/TXDirector: Bob Byington
Executive Producer: Christos V. Konstantakopoulos, Kevin Corrigan
Producer: Seana Flanagan, Molly Christie Benson, Nancy Schafer
Screenwriter: Bob Byington
Cast: Jason Schwartzman, Tunde Adebimpe, Eleanore Pienta, Stephen Root, Olympia Dukakis
A bold and compelling tale of ambition, betrayal and redemption, Gloria chronicles the life of international pop star Gloria Trevi, the “Mexican Madonna.” Carefully groomed by an abusive manager and propelled by her politically charged lyrics and unashamed sexuality, Gloria shoots to unparalleled stardom—until a sex scandal that mesmerized the world brings her crashing down.
La osada y cautivante historia de ambición, traición y redención que cuenta Gloria es una crónica de la vida de la estrella de pop internacional Gloria Trevi, la “Madonna mexicana”. Bajo la tutela de un manager abusivo, catapultada a la fama por sus canciones de contenido político y una sexualidad sin tapujos, el ascenso de Gloria al estrellato no tenía parangón... Hasta que un escándalo sexual que mantuvo al mundo en vilo la derrumbó.
Director: Christian Keller
Screenwriter: Sabina Berman
Producers: Matthias Ehrenberg, Ricardo Kleinbaum, Alan B. Curtiss
Executive Producers: Anthony Picciuto, Charlotte Larsen, Max Appedole, Glenn Himes, Pedro Solis Camara, Angel Losada, Barrie M. Osborne, Christian Keller
Cinematogrpaher: Martin Boege (AMC)
Editing: Adriana Martinez, Patricia Rommel
Production Design: Julieta Alvarez
Costume Design: Gilda Navarro
Casting: Alejandro Reza
Score: Lorne Balfe
Additional Credits: Producer: Barrie M. Osborne, Christian Keller, Executive Producer: Max Appedole, Glen Himes, Pedro Solís Cámara, Ángel Losada
Cast: Sofía Espinosa, Marco Pérez, Tatiana Del Real, Ximena Romo
Change was coming to America and the fault lines could no longer be ignored—cities were burning, Vietnam was exploding, and disputes raged over equality and civil rights. A new revolutionary culture was emerging and it sought to drastically transform the system. The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense would, for a short time, put itself at the vanguard of that change.
THE BLACK PANTHERS: VANGUARD OF THE REVOLUTION is the first feature length documentary to explore the Black Panther Party, its significance to the broader American culture, its cultural and political awakening for black people, and the painful lessons wrought when a movement derails. Master documentarian Stanley Nelson goes straight to the source, weaving a treasure trove of rare archival footage with the voices of the people who were there: police, FBI informants, journalists, white supporters and detractors, and Black Panthers who remained loyal to the party and those who left it. Featuring Kathleen Cleaver, Elaine Brown, Emory Douglas, Jamal Joseph, and many others, THE BLACK PANTHERS: VANGUARD OF THE REVOLUTION is an essential history and a vibrant chronicle of this pivotal movement that birthed a new revolutionary culture in America.
116 min/USA
Director: Stanley Nelson
Producer: Laurens Grant, Stanley Nelson
Writer: Stanley Nelson
Associate Producer: Nicole London
Lionsgate presents a Studiocanal and Aardman Animations production.
Directed by: Mark Burton, Richard Starzak
Screenplay by: Mark Burton, Richard Starzak
Produced by: Julie Lockhart and Paul Kewley
A first kiss, a first dance. For kids from all walks of life, these first steps toward intimacy are at once exciting and terrifying. For some teenagers and young adults on the autism spectrum, the transition can be nothing less than paralyzing. How to Dance in Ohio is a beautiful, enlightening film that follows a group of teenagers with an array of developmental challenges as they prepare for an iconic event – a spring formal dance. Entertaining, funny and heartbreaking, How to Dance in Ohio challenges us to question and celebrate the path to human connection and to rethink the definition of normal.
88min/OH
The Chickasaw Nation recently finished production on the half hour documentary film, First Encounter. The film is set in 1540 and tells the story of how the Chickasaws originally partnered with and ultimately ran off Hernando de Soto and his Spanish conquistadors. First Encounter is the first in a series of documentary films being created by the Chickasaw Nation Multimedia Group to preserve their own history on film.
deadCENTER has partnered with the Chickasaw Nation for many years. Their first narrative feature, Pearl, opened the film festival in 2009. So, when we saw First Encounter and learned of their goal to use the medium of film to capture their unique history, we decided to create a broader program to look at how Native American’s have been passing down and preserving their stories through the generations.
Native Storytelling is the first of three Special Event Screenings that deadCENTER will host at the Museum of Art during this year’s festival. On Saturday, June 13, at 2:30pm, deadCENTER will present a Chickasaw Nation band, a traditional oral storyteller, Choctaw visual artist D.G. Smalling, a short narrative film from Kiowa filmmaker Jeffrey Palmer called Isabelle’s Garden, and the Chickasaw Nation’s First Encounter. Following the performances and film screenings, there will be a hosted discussion about the history and future of Native storytelling.
The Chickasaw Nation will host a reception immediately following at their Oklahoma City headquarters and gallery in Bricktown, Exhibit C, at 1 East Sheridan.
Thanks to the Chickasaw Nation, this screening is free and open to the public.
First come, first serve.
Jason Schwartzman portrays Larry, an inebriated sad sack who rides a tide of booze onto the shores of an undiscriminating Quick-Lube. All seems awash, except for the fact he finds himself smitten with the boss, Lupe (Eleanore Pienta).
Will Larry keep it together long enough to win the girl, provide for his French bulldog (Schwartzman's real-life dog Arrow), laze about with his friend Major (T.V. on the Radio's Tunde Adebimpe), and do his cantankerous grandmother (Olympia Dukakis) proud?
7 CHINESE BROTHERS - written & directed by Bob Byington (SOMEBODY UP THERE LIKES ME) - is empathetic in tone, dry in humor. Schwartzman is in every scene and offers one of his most finely nuanced performances.
75 min/TXDirector: Bob Byington
Executive Producer: Christos V. Konstantakopoulos, Kevin Corrigan
Producer: Seana Flanagan, Molly Christie Benson, Nancy Schafer
Screenwriter: Bob Byington
Cast: Jason Schwartzman, Tunde Adebimpe, Eleanore Pienta, Stephen Root, Olympia Dukakis
GrappleHabit: Oklahoma City's Addiction to B.L.O.W.
This is the story of blood, sweat, and over mid20‘s tears. How 7 ladies became hometown legends in one night. This is B.L.O.W.: Balthazar’s Ladies of Wrestling. GrappleHabit is a creative comedic insight of OKC's first female professional wrestling league. The ridiculous trials and tribulations of a group of girls with the same dream: to wrestle.
16 min, OK
Director: Leslie Hensley
Producer: Leslie Hensley
Writer: Leslie Hensley
Cast: Chase Vegas, Amy Halasa, Shavonne McRee, Leslie Hensley, Jennifer Hutchings, Eboni Adams, Candise Anderson, Sherry Dowlen, Zachary Cox, Jacob Becannen, Dawn Rice, Johnny Cafarella
The Real Enemy
On September 21st, 2014, a group of self-proclaimed devil worshipers held a public 'Black Mass' in Oklahoma City. It makes international news when the local Archbishop threatens to sue to get back an allegedly stolen, blessed communion wafer to be used in the event. The controversy is only heightened as the city-owned event center refuses to cancel the event. 'The Real Enemy' follows along as the devil worshipers, opposing Satanists, Christian exorcists, protesters, city officials and the media prepare for the unholy event, providing an inside look into contemporary and alternative spiritualities of the Bible Belt.
53min/OK
Director: Tate James & Daniel Giles Helm
Writer: Tate James & Daniel Giles Helm
Producer: Tate James & Daniel Giles Helm
Principal Cast: Adam Daniels, James Hale, Everett Cox
CITY OF GOLD chronicles Pulitzer Prize-winning restaurant critic Jonathan Gold’s relationship to his beloved and sprawling metropolis, Los Angeles. Gold has long been adored in his hometown for his cultural writing about LA’s hidden culinary treasures; he was one of the first critics to review small family owned restaurants in far-flung ethnic enclaves with as much passion as the haute cuisine establishments of Beverly Hills.
With a stroke of his pen, he’s changed the lives of countless immigrant chefs, newly discovered by voracious foodies who avidly track his reviews. CITY OF GOLD explores the rigor, knowledge, and curiosity that make Gold’s style of criticism nationally recognized. Mapping Los Angeles through his Odyssey-like quests for new food experiences, Jonathan Gold reveals a complex, paradoxical urban landscape that will surprise newcomers and locals alike.
Featuring celebrity chefs Roy Choi, David Chang, and Ludo Lefebvre, as well as the chefs and owners behind some of Gold’s favorites: Jitlada (Thai), Guelaguetza (Oaxacan), Meals by Genet (Ethiopian), and Chengdu Taste (Sichuan). CITY OF GOLD offers the rare opportunity to discover the true Los Angeles through the eyes of its foremost cultural writer, and most loyal fan.
91min/CA
Director: Laura Gabbert
Executive Producer: Jamie Wolf, Braxton Pope
Producer: Laura Gabbert, Holly Becker
Cinematographer: Jerry Henry, Goro Toshima
Editor: Greg King, Bill Haugse
Additional Credits: Co-Producer: Andrea Lewis
Principal Cast: Jonathan Gold
Capturing Olympic Glory featuring Oklahoma’s favorite adopted Olympian Nadia Comaneci is the second Special Event Screening at deadCENTER. On Saturday, June 13, at 5:30pm, deadCENTER will present Eternal Princess, Katie Holmes’ new documentary short film about Olympic Gold medalist and gymnastic legend Nadia Comaneci. The film was produced for ESPN and debuted at the Tribeca Film Festival last month. For the special event, the filmmakers will join Nadia and Bart Conner to discuss the process of bringing Nadia’s story to life and illuminating her harrowing journey from communist Romania to Norman, Oklahoma.
deadCENTER favorite Nick Offerman brings his fouth feature to town with the metaphysical dramedy Welcome to Happiness. A children's book author is the gatekeeper to a mysterious door in his closet that only allows certain people to enter. When he learns where the door leads, his life is forever changed.
108 min, US
Director: Oliver Thompson
Writer: Oliver Thompson
Producers: Bay Dariz, Kyle Gallner, Molly C. Quinn, Oliver Thompson
Cast: Kyle Gallner, Olivia Thirlby, Nick Offerman, Keegan-Michael Key, Brendan Sexton III, Josh Brener, Molly C. Quinn, Paget Brewster, Frances Conroy
Change was coming to America and the fault lines could no longer be ignored—cities were burning, Vietnam was exploding, and disputes raged over equality and civil rights. A new revolutionary culture was emerging and it sought to drastically transform the system. The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense would, for a short time, put itself at the vanguard of that change.
THE BLACK PANTHERS: VANGUARD OF THE REVOLUTION is the first feature length documentary to explore the Black Panther Party, its significance to the broader American culture, its cultural and political awakening for black people, and the painful lessons wrought when a movement derails. Master documentarian Stanley Nelson goes straight to the source, weaving a treasure trove of rare archival footage with the voices of the people who were there: police, FBI informants, journalists, white supporters and detractors, and Black Panthers who remained loyal to the party and those who left it. Featuring Kathleen Cleaver, Elaine Brown, Emory Douglas, Jamal Joseph, and many others, THE BLACK PANTHERS: VANGUARD OF THE REVOLUTION is an essential history and a vibrant chronicle of this pivotal movement that birthed a new revolutionary culture in America.
116 min/USA
Director: Stanley Nelson
Producer: Laurens Grant, Stanley Nelson
Writer: Stanley Nelson
Associate Producer: Nicole London
A generation of Americans grew up worshipping self-styled hero Evel Knievel - watching him every Saturday on Wide World of Sports and buying his Ideal toys. For producer/subject Johnny Knoxville and so many others, he was the ultimate antidote to the disenchantment of the 70's. But few knew the incredible and often complex aspects of his epic life, which, like his jumps, was sometimes glorious and sometimes disastrous. With an entire genre of sports ascending from his daring inventiveness, now is the time to look at this extreme man and his complicated legacy. Academy Award- winning director Daniel Junge delivers thrills and spills, while also reflecting on what our heroes represent in ourselves.
100min/CA
Director: Daniel Junge
Writer: Daniel Junge, Davis Coombe
Produced by Johnny Knoxville Jeff Tremaine, Mat Hoffman, Brendan Kiernan Justin Moore-Lewy, Daniel Junge
Executive Producer: Molly Thompson, Susan Werbe, Dirk Hoogstra, George Hamilton, Robert Lewis
Director of Photography: Robert Muratore
Edited by Davis Coombe
Animation by Stefan Nadelman
CITY OF GOLD chronicles Pulitzer Prize-winning restaurant critic Jonathan Gold’s relationship to his beloved and sprawling metropolis, Los Angeles. Gold has long been adored in his hometown for his cultural writing about LA’s hidden culinary treasures; he was one of the first critics to review small family owned restaurants in far-flung ethnic enclaves with as much passion as the haute cuisine establishments of Beverly Hills.
With a stroke of his pen, he’s changed the lives of countless immigrant chefs, newly discovered by voracious foodies who avidly track his reviews. CITY OF GOLD explores the rigor, knowledge, and curiosity that make Gold’s style of criticism nationally recognized. Mapping Los Angeles through his Odyssey-like quests for new food experiences, Jonathan Gold reveals a complex, paradoxical urban landscape that will surprise newcomers and locals alike.
Featuring celebrity chefs Roy Choi, David Chang, and Ludo Lefebvre, as well as the chefs and owners behind some of Gold’s favorites: Jitlada (Thai), Guelaguetza (Oaxacan), Meals by Genet (Ethiopian), and Chengdu Taste (Sichuan). CITY OF GOLD offers the rare opportunity to discover the true Los Angeles through the eyes of its foremost cultural writer, and most loyal fan.
91min/CA
Director: Laura Gabbert
Executive Producer: Jamie Wolf, Braxton Pope
Producer: Laura Gabbert, Holly Becker
Cinematographer: Jerry Henry, Goro Toshima
Editor: Greg King, Bill Haugse
Additional Credits: Co-Producer: Andrea Lewis
Principal Cast: Jonathan Gold
A first kiss, a first dance. For kids from all walks of life, these first steps toward intimacy are at once exciting and terrifying. For some teenagers and young adults on the autism spectrum, the transition can be nothing less than paralyzing. How to Dance in Ohio is a beautiful, enlightening film that follows a group of teenagers with an array of developmental challenges as they prepare for an iconic event – a spring formal dance. Entertaining, funny and heartbreaking, How to Dance in Ohio challenges us to question and celebrate the path to human connection and to rethink the definition of normal.
88min/OH
The final Special Event Screening is The Veil - A Work in Progress. deadCENTER Prize winner and Oklahoma native Brent Ryan Green has been igniting the film festival circuit for years with award winning shorts filmed on location across the globe. From his Tokyo based Paper Flowers to his South African filmed drama Half Good Killer, Green has taken on harsh settings and intense topics to explore ideas of faith on film.
Green returned home to Oklahoma to direct his first feature, the sci-fi adventure The Veil. And, while the film is not quite complete, Green has agreed to screen a “Work in Progress” version of the film to celebrate our fifteenth anniversary. The one time screening will take place on Sunday, June 14, at 3:00pm at the Museum of Art. Green will be on hand to present the film, discuss his process of filming in Oklahoma and explore the challenges of bringing such an ambitious science fiction project to the big screen.
The Veil
In a war-torn land where tribal factions are constantly at war and human life bears no value, a fierce warrior struggles to release himself from a violent existence and join the princess of a sacred tribe in creating a new world together. The Veil stars William Levy (“Dancing with the Stars, Addicted), William Moseley (The Chronicles of Narnia, The Royals), and Serinda Swan (Graceland, TRON: Legacy).
Director: Brent Ryan Green
Writer: Jeff Goldberg
Producer: Brent Ryan Green & Jeff Goldberg
Cast: William Levy, William Moseley, Serinda Swan
deadCENTER favorite Nick Offerman brings his fouth feature to town with the metaphysical dramedy Welcome to Happiness. A children's book author is the gatekeeper to a mysterious door in his closet that only allows certain people to enter. When he learns where the door leads, his life is forever changed.
100 min, US
Director: Oliver Thompson
Writer: Oliver Thompson
Producers: Bay Dariz, Kyle Gallner, Molly C. Quinn, Oliver Thompson
Cast: Kyle Gallner, Olivia Thirlby, Nick Offerman, Keegan-Michael Key, Brendan Sexton III, Josh Brener, Molly C. Quinn, Paget Brewster, Frances Conroy
Mekko paints the portrait of a homeless Native American parolee in Tulsa, Oklahoma. As he struggles to find his way in the outside world after two decades behind bars, the titular Mekko discovers a chaotic yet occasionally profound and beautiful community of impoverished natives which now includes Bunnie, one of his old carousing buddies from his wilder youth.
Though Mekko finds some peace in this society that exists on the fringes of our modern world, he also uncovers a darkness that threatens to destroy it from within. After a tragic series of events, Mekko dedicates himself to a quest for revenge which he believes will cleanse the sickness from this collective of marginalized individuals and perhaps atone for the sins that landed him in jail so many years ago.
84 min/OK
Out to Win is a documentary film from award-winning Sundance alumni Malcolm Ingram that serves as an overview and examination of lives and careers of aspiring and professional gay and lesbian athletes from all over the world. Chronicling the present, framed within a historical context of those that came before, this film highlights the experiences of athletes who have fought and struggled, both in and out of the closet, to represent the LGBT community and their true selves. This film is told through the voices of pioneers including Billie Jean King, Martina Navratilova, John Amaechi, Billy Bean, Jason Collins, and Brittney Griner.
99 min/USA, Canada
Director: Malcolm Ingram
Producers: Malcolm Ingram Nhaelan McMillan Matt Thomas
Executive Producers: Harvey Cohen Nhaelan McMillan Michael A. Petryshyn
Associate Producer: Doug Langway
Consulting Producer: Cyd Zeigler
Editor: Sean Stanley
Director of Photography: Andrew MacDonald
Cast: David Kopay, Billie Jean King, Martina Navratilova, John Amaechi, Billy Bean, Wade Davis, Jason Collins, Brittney Griner, Charline Labonté, Conner Mertens, Chandler Whitney
