TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL: Apr 21 - May 2
World Documentary Competition

FREETIME MACHOS by Mika Ronkainen
(New York premiere)

Matti and Mikko play for Finland's worst amateur rugby team. Following the two friends and their teammates on a quest to end the season with just a single win, award-winning writer/director Mika Ronkainen (Screaming Men) crafts a genuine and disarmingly funny love story of modern male friendship.

Materials: stills, press book, website

MoMA Documentary Fortnight: Feb 17 - Mar 3

MISCREANTS OF TALIWOOD by George Gittoes

The final film in Gittoes' NO EXIT Trilogy, all made at the front line of the war on terror. Australian artist Gittoes risks his life and those of others to shoot a film in the local Pashto "telie" style right under the nose of the Taliban's anti-entertainment forces in Pakistan.

Materials: stills, press book, website

BERLIN 2010: Feb 11-21

Panorama Competition
AMPHETAMINE by Scud
(world premiere)

This third feature of the Hong Kong-based director Scud is a powerful drama, a story of addiction to love. Kafka, a heterosexual lonely fitness trainer meets Daniel, a passionate executive. The young men believe that their love can bridge anything, even their difference in sexuality and drug addictions.

With: Thomas Price, Byron Pang, Winnie Leung

Materials: website, world sales Media Luna New Films, press book, stills

Forum
PUTTY HILL by Matt Porterfield
(world premiere)

Baltimore neorealism: a young man's death unites a fractured family as they struggle to find warmth and beauty in their tough, gritty lives. From the director of the critically acclaimed debut feature HAMILTON.

With: Sky Ferreira, Zoe Vance, James Siebor

Materials: website, press book, stills

Generation Kplus
PUDANA LAST OF THE LINE by Markku Lehmuskallio & Anastasia Lapsui
(world premiere)

Based on the Siberian childhood memories of co-director Anastasia
Lapsui, PUDANA is a fiction film about the young girl, Neko, is taken
against her will from her tribal teepee to a boarding school in a
remote Russian village. Marku & Anastasia have spent the last two decades making feature films only about Arctic indigenous tribes.

With: Aleksandra Okotetto, Nadezhda Pyrerko, Anastasia Lapsui

Materials: website, press book, stills