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Biografilm Festival 2011 had the pleasure to award the following most valuable and breathtaking biographies and life tales:

  • American: The Bill Hicks Story - by Paul Thomas and Matt Harlock

    This biographical documentary about stand-up comic Bill Hicks uses a photo-animation technique to tell the story of his rise to fame. Through archival material, footage of his routines and interviews with the people who knew him -- including film...
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  • 12th & Delaware - by Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady

    The seemingly sleepy intersection of Delaware Ave. and 12th St. in Fort Pierce, Fla. is ground zero for the ferocious abortion rights battle raging in America. On one corner stands the abortion clinic A Woman’s World; across the street is the Pregn...
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  • The Parking Lot Movie - by Meghan Eckman

    The Parking Lot Movie is a documentary about a singular parking lot in Charlottesville, Virginia. The film follows a select group of parking lot attendants and their strange rite of passage. The eccentric brotherhood of attendants consist of grad studen...
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  • Marwencol - by Jeff Malmberg

    "Marwencol" is a documentary about the fantasy world of Mark Hogancamp. After being beaten into a brain-damaging coma by five men outside a bar, Mark builds a 1/6th scale World War II-era town in his backyard. Mark populates the town he dubs "Marwencol"...
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  • Ingrid Betancourt 6 years in the jungle - by Angus Macqueen

    For over six years Ingrid Betancourt was one of the most famous hostages in the world. Kidnapped in Colombia by Marxist guerrillas of the FARC, she was released in 2008 in an audacious rescue operation, together with 15 other hostages. In an exclusive d...
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  • Silken Synergy - by Soniya Kirpalani

    Refuting the servitude of sweatshop economies, Bibi Russell, Asian Supermodel & UN Ambassador for Fashion, gave up her career, to return to flood ravaged Bangladesh, to singlehandedly save lives of 100000 weavers by reviving grassroots crafts. Quest...
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  • Sono stato Dio in Bosnia - by Erion Kadilli

    Roberto delle Fave was a journalist and a thug in Bordighera, when he was hired as a mercenary by the Croatian army in the 1992 War of Yugoslavia. “Red Devil” became his nom de guerre and both his eyes and camera saw things that perhaps woul...
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