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Check out clips from Forward Films at http://youtube.com/forwardfilms, where you can see excerpts, or in some cases, complete works. Deep Down
56:40, HD, documentary by Jen Gilomen & Sally Rubin. Deep in the Appalachian mountains of eastern Kentucky, where coal is king, Beverly May and Terry Ratliff find themselves at the center of a contentious community battle over a proposed mountaintop removal coal mine. Deep Down and the associated Virtual Mine game were produced in partnership with ITVS, were nominated for an Emmy, and were broadcast on the award-winning PBS series Independent Lens. Deep Down is distributed through New Day Films. http://deepdownfilm.org |  Residents of the Hueysville area look at the mine behind their homes | Mixed Use
10min, Super8, 2008, by Jen Gilomen & Sabrina Alonso
Mixed Use follows the life of one building at 575 Castro Street in San Francisco and its use as Castro Camera store and political organizing headquarters for Harvey Milk. The film mixes haunting Super8 footage with documentary photography and anecdotes from Dan Nicoletta, who worked as a teenager at Castro Camera with Milk before the assassinations of Milk and Moscone in November, 1978. While Milk fought for tenants' rights, his landlord quadrupled his rent, forcing Castro Camera to close one week before Milk's death. The film is a tribute to Milk, the neighborhood in which he lived and workd, and the documentary photographers who captured the movement he inspired. Mixed Use premiered at Mix Brasil in November, 2008 and will be released in the U.S. in 2009. |  photo by Dan Nicoletta | Godspeed
17min, HD, 2007, Directed by Lynn Breedlove and Jen Gilomen
Godspeed tells the story of a speed freak bike messenger who passes as a boy as he fights the world and his own lust for thrills to win the love of a stripper. Godspeed stars Lynn Breedlove, Jillian Lauren, Leslie Mah, and Adam Horovitz (AdRock of the Beastie Boys). Music by Bikini Kill, Le Tigre, Katastrophe, The Gossip, Tribe 8 and more. more: http://godspeedfilm.com
distributed by: Altcinema |  Lynn Breedlove as Jim in Godspeed | To Be a Dancer
6min, Super8, 2005
This short film by Jennifer Gilomen was made on Super8 with all in-camera edits as an exercise with friends. It is about the desire to dance. This is the second of two Super8 wheels, transfered by projecting the image onto a white wall and videotaping it with a digital video camera. | To Be a Dancer (excerpt) | Just Say It: A Revolution in the Making
35min doc, 2004
"Just Say It: A Revolution in the Making" is a story about becoming an artist and using your voice to change the world around you. In this excerpt, we meet Favianna Rodriguez, an Oakland-based muralist, artist, and educator who grew up in the drastically changed and contested neighborhood of Fruitvale. "Just Say It" is a 30-minute documentary co-directed by Jennifer Gilomen and Jessica Dorfman, released in 2004. | | In My Shoes: Stories of Youth with LGBT Parents
31min doc, 2005
This excerpt of "In My Shoes" profiles Alex and his family. Alex has two moms and two dads, all of whom are gay, and one of whom passed away. In My Shoes was directed, shot, and edited by Jen Gilomen and produced by COLAGE (Children of Lesbians & Gays Everywhere). It won the Audience Award for Best Short at the Frameline Film Festival in 2005 and is now distributed by Frameline Distribution. more: colage.org/inmyshoes
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Sigmund Freud: Professional Psychoanalyst
6min, Super8, 2005
"Sigmund Freud: Professional Psychoanalyst," by Kami Chisholm and Jennifer Gilomen, tells the story of a day in the life of Freud, except in this fantastical take, Freud is a hand puppet who diagnoses popular figures. more: http://altcinema.com/freud.html | | Piece de Resistance
5min narrative, 2001
"Piece de Resistance," by Jennifer Gilomen, is a true DIY (do it yourself) five minute narrative film created in five days with less than fifty dollars as part of the Film Fatale Five Filmmaker's Fund contest in Spring 2002. The short is about a girl named Benny who is visited by an erotic dark angel that forces her to confront her sexuality.
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30min doc, 2001 "America Crossing" is a 30-minute documentary which documents the fears of Americans in post-September 11 America. Filmed on a train criss-crossing the American landscape during the winter holiday season of 2001, the documentary by Jennifer Gilomen is a cross section of public opinion in this turbulent time. | | | | |
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