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| “One Night Stand,” a documentary that perfectly conveys the creative insanity unleashed in the process. Using split-screens and intercutting between the four different playlets at each stage of development, helmers Elisabeth Sperling and Trish Dalton maintain nervous tension while revealing the quasi-miraculous process of building scripts, songs and characters out of thin air. This attractively lensed, dynamically edited NewFest award winner could fit an urban arthouse niche, and seems tailor-made for PBS or cable. Variety | Bordering On Treason tells the extraordinary and inspiring story of Lorna Tychostup, a single mother and photojournalist from New Paltz, NY, who travels to and continually returns to Iraq to put a human face on the past decade’s most conspicuous and tragic global crisis. Lorna’s story and the stories she shares are those we are not shown on our television sets. They illuminate realities of a war often referred to as merely an “occupation,” and bridges the emotional and political disconnect that Americans have experienced and expressed in relation to Iraq. |
