This is the report from Slamdance Film Festival 2007

Blizek, William L.

Desmarais, Michele M.

Ritter, Beth R.

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The University of Nebraska, Omaha

Journal of Religion & FilmVolume 11Issue 1 April 2007 Article 99-29-2016Report from Slamdance 2007William L. BlizekUniversity of Nebraska at Omaha, wblizek@unomaha.eduMichele M. DesmaraisUniversity of Nebraska at Omaha, mdesmarais@unomaha.eduBeth R. RitterUniversity of Nebraska at Omaha, britter@unomaha.eduThis Slamdance Film Festival Review is brought to you for free and openaccess by DigitalCommons@UNO. It has been accepted for inclusion inJournal of Religion & Film by an authorized editor ofDigitalCommons@UNO. For more information, please contactunodigitalcommons@unomaha.edu.Recommended CitationBlizek, William L.; Desmarais, Michele M.; and Ritter, Beth R. (2016) "Report from Slamdance 2007," Journal of Religion & Film: Vol.11 : Iss. 1 , Article 9.Available at: https://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/jrf/vol11/iss1/9Report from Slamdance 2007AbstractThis is the report from Slamdance Film Festival 2007.This slamdance film festival review is available in Journal of Religion & Film: https://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/jrf/vol11/iss1/9Children of God: Lost and Found (Documentary Competition Features) World Premiere Director Noah Thomson was born into a religious cult known as the Children of God. It later became known as The Family. At the age of 21, Thomson and two of his younger brothers escape the cult. After years of trying to deal with life in the real world, Thomson embarks on a journey that returns him to the commune in which he was raised. On this journey Thomson interviews many of the children who have grown up and left the cult. He discovers that, like himself, others have had a remarkably difficult time living in the world apart from the cult and that much of this difficulty is the result of how children were raised and treated by cult members, including his mother who remains a member of the cult. For Noah Thomson this film documents a spiritual journey during which he tries to determine who he is apart from the cult and how much of his life has been programmed by the cult. — WLB   1Blizek et al.: Report from Slamdance 2007Published by DigitalCommons@UNO, 2007Unsettled (Documentary Competition Features) World Premiere Grand Jury Prize Best Documentary Feature Unsettled is the story of a group of young Israelis, some of whom are residents of Gaza and some of whom are the soldiers that are to remove settlers from Gaza as part of the Israeli withdrawal in 2005. The story is told from the point of view of these young people and it adds another layer of meaning to the withdrawal experience. The Israeli withdrawal from Gaza raises a number of religious issues: What is the relationship between Judaism and the land of Israel? What does it mean to be a Jew? How are Jews supposed to treat other Jews? The film does not answer these questions, but rather shows how these questions affect the lives of the young people upon which the film focuses.  For another film about the Israeli withdrawal from Gaza, see 5 Days from the 2006 Sundance Film Festival World Documentary Competition. 2Journal of Religion & Film, Vol. 11 [2007], Iss. 1, Art. 9https://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/jrf/vol11/iss1/9

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