Friday, Clearview Cinemas -
Times and Locations subject to change


1:00 pm - 2:45 pm

The Trouble With Dee Dee


The story of an eccentric socialite (Lisa Ann Walter) with a knack for pulling off hopelessly wild adventures who struggles when she finds herself disowned by her millionaire father (Kurtwood Smith) and abandoned by her teenage son.

1 hr. 21 Mins. USA - Directed by Michael Meiners




3:00 pm - 4:45 pm

Between Iraq and A Hard Place


Hear and see from the soldiers view, war in Iraq. Learn what makes a Marine tick. What they miss. What they love. Stories of heartbreak and courage. Feel like you are there. Footage shot in Iraq and upon return. You will love these Marines and have a new respect for the price of war.

Narrated by Martin Sheen

1 hr. 4 mins. USA - Directed by Rex Pratt




5:00 pm - 6:45 pm

Apple Spits Out Its Seeds: Where the tour bus doesn't go


Not your usual ride through the city.
A sometimes humorous, sometimes gritty, but always challenging view of an urban life filled with potholes; from deviant heart breakers to dangerous friends in seedy hotels.

-SEGMENT INFORMATION-





*Segment also screens Sunday @ 6:00 pm*



7:00 pm - 8:45 pm

The Education of Shelby Knox

A coming of age story about a teenage girl who joins a campaign for comprehensive sex education in the high schools of Lubbock, Texas. As Shelby is swept into the fight, she begins to question her deeply conservative Southern Baptist upbringing; when the campaign broadens to include a fight for a gay-straight alliance, Shelby confronts her family and her pastor, in the end declaring herself a feminist and a liberal Christian.

75 mins. USA -
Directed by Marion Lipschutz & Rose Rosenblatt




9:00 pm - 10:45 pm

THE RBIFF OPENING NIGHT FEATURE - Berkeley<

Guide Dog
'Guide Dog' is a sequel to the Oscar nominated short 'Guard Dog'. This time our hero dog helps blind people with typical disastrous results.

5 mins 30 secs USA - Directed by Bill Plympton


*also screens on Saturday with Sisters In Law*.




Berkeley
THE RBIFF OPENING NIGHT FEATURE

Berkeley is the story of Ben Sweet (Nick Roth), an eighteen year old middleclass boy who comes to UC Berkeley in 1968 to study accounting and avoid the draft. There begins an odyssey through sex, drugs, rock and roll, and political activism which turns his conservative world upside down, and leaves him on a path of exploration and self-discovery, far from the life of his father, Sy (Henry Winkler).

1 hr. 30 mins. USA - Directed by Bobby Roth



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