Innovative filmmakers are mixing together documentary and animation, stretching our ideas of what can be done with each. Featured are 15 animated documentaries produced in Columbia at a fall workshop as well as some of the best new works from around the world including the Oscar-nominated Ryan (14 min.), the story of an acclaimed artist who now panhandles in Montreal. International: Birdlings Two (6 min.) — a daughter's discovery that her buttoned-down father has a past as a more uninhibited animator. Obsessively Compulsive (6 min.) — one man's struggle to not think about Saddam Hussein. Backseat Bingo (5 min.) — the romantic lives of senior citizens. Leona Alone (3 min.) — a black girl born with Sickle Cell Disease. Local: Hablas Espanglish? (Sarah Paulsen); What We Have is a Failure to Communicate (Alex Yalen); God and Country (Mike Marcum); Play (Isaac Sleadd); Pilot (Danielle Eldred); Lawn Warriors (Kim Sherman); In and Out (Giavanna Accurso); Misery (Michael Sleadd); No Child Left Behind (Xi Cheng & Stephanie Toliver); Exclusion (Cody Finley & Danny Giles); Bicycle Diaries (Simone Hughley); The Sidewalk & the Street (Zola Sturtz); Old People are a Menace (Paige Hinshaw & Erin Kullman); Who Should Be President (Javier Kelty & Grant Portel).

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