True/False Films

Secret Screening Green

In person: director Joshua Z. Weinstein.

Doctor Sharadkumar may seem like a homeless man with a funny voice, but he's also a humanitarian who has performed plastic surgery on tens of thousands of Indians with facial deformities. He divides his time between Brooklyn where he lives a pauper's life and India where he's deified by some; similarly he can seesaw from sweet to acidic: at one point he tears into his longtime competitor for the Nobel Prize, Mother Teresa for "not doing anything." In his first film, Weinstein shows a sure-handed touch, capturing unexpectedly uproarious humor. Plays with I Met the Walrus (dir. Josh Raskin, 2007, 8 min.) — 14-year-old Jerry Levitan snuck into John Lennon's hotel room during the "Give Peace a Chance" era and emerged with an audio interview, which has now been animated; and 200,000 Phantoms (dir. Jean-Gabriel Periot, 2007, 10 min.) — A history of 20th-century Hiroshima as told through 600 photographs of the iconic Gembaku Dome between 1914-2006. (PS)