2009 CMJ Music Marathon & Film Festival

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Dir. Susan Froemke
This film looks at the intense pressures young opera singers face as they struggle to succeed in one of the most diffiicult professions in the performing arts. A suspenseful competition narrative and revealing backstage look at what it takes to make it as an opera singer. Q&A following screening

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Dir. Fred Zara
Combining 1980s home-video footage with present-day interviews, Fred digs deep into the punk rock ethos that inspired the youth of 1980's small town America. Q&A following screeningRSVP here:

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Dir. Dianna Dilworth
Everything you ever wanted to know about the ingenious musical contraption known as the Mellotron, which changed the production and texture of popular music, from Strawberry Fields to Radiohead and Kanye West. Q&A following screening

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Dir. Gil Reyes
After his suicide in 2003, Smith's peers understandably avoided the media. Granting very few print interviews and no on-camera interviews. Until now. Q&A following screening

Dir. Oren Moverman
The Messenger stars Ben Foster as Will Montgomery, a U.S. Army officer who has just returned home from a tour in Iraq and is assigned to the Army's Casualty Notification service. Partnered with fellow officer Tony Stone (Woody Harrelson) to bear the bad news to the loved ones of fallen soldiers, Will faces the challenge of completing his mission while seeking to find comfort and healing back on the home front. When he finds himself drawn to Olivia (Samantha Morton), to whom he has just delivered the news of her husband's death, Will's emotional detachment begins to dissolve and the film reveals itself as a surprising, humorous, moving and very human portrait of grief, friendship and survival. Q&A with star Woody Harrelson and director Oren Moverman and other participants.RSVP is required to attend: www.going.com/cmj09themessenger

Dir. Olatunde Osunsanmi
A fact-based thriller starring Milla Jovovich and Will Patton involving an ongoing unsolved mystery in Alaska, where one town has seen an extraordinary number of unexplained disappearances during the past 40 years and there are accusations of a federal cover up.