Full Frame Wrap Up Post

I made my third visit to Full Frame last week, meaning I've attended 20% of their festivals since it was their 15th year.

I dare say it was my favorite in terms of film quality though we know it just means I got lucky with my choices.

"After the jump" as they say, I will post snapshots, movie list and favorites, oh my.

All the movies I saw at Full Frame:

Features:

Eating Alabama
Jesse Owens
Samsara
Beauty is Embarrassing
The Waiting Room
Jason Becker: Not Dead Yet
Intimate Stranger
Herman's House
Radio Unnameable
How to Survive a Plague
First Position
Escape Fire
Trash Dance
Mr. Cao Goes to Washington

Shorts:

Kiss the Paper
Needle Exchange
Translating Edwin Honig: A Poet's Alzheimers
Santa Land
Fanuzzi's Gold

Again, I didn't see anything I disliked, which is virtually unheard of at any film festival.  And there were a few I quite loved.  Highlights were:

Radio Unnameable - a glimpse into the career of local legend radio DJ Bob Fass, and a wonderful NYC story I did not know

Beauty is Embarrassing - a quirky, hard-working, very human, uplifting and FUNNY portrait of artist Wayne White

Jason Becker: Not Dead Yet - one of several docs that made me feel so lucky to be alive but so in awe of the strength of others.

Samsara - Never have I more wanted to get out of my seat and just go traveling. The second the credits started rolling I started cataloging all the beautiful things I have to see still in this life.

How to Survive a Plague - Wow, what a movie.  Don't fuck with NYC gays - they're smarter and tougher than you could even imagine, and this movie shows how their tenacity and mobilization directly contributed to advancements in AIDS treatments