FILM

Aurora Picture Show presents All In A Day's Work: Short Documentaries from Doxita.  Curated by Karen Cirillo. Thursday, August 20, 8pm. Location: Spacetaker, Winter Street Studios, 2101 Winter Street. Donate-What-You-Can.

Doxita is a traveling festival of documentary films that are under 40 minutes in length. The program, comprised of approximately ninety minutes of film, represents a wide variety of documentary – domestic and foreign, super-short and longer format, serious and funny. These filmmakers have crafted beautiful, and sometimes humorous, portraits of their subjects’ daily work through labor including Chinese jade mining, organic bread making in Edinburgh, Northwest US wood logging, shaved ice treats in Peru and a Pakistani tailor in Barcelona.

These are the films in the 2nd annual Doxita:

China’s Wild West (UK, Urszula Pontikos, 10 min.) – An observational and austere look at a group of miners in Western China who chip away at a dry riverbed, hoping to discover jade.

Breadmakers (UK, Yasmin Fedda, 11 min.) - A tender portrait of a unique community of workers with disabilities who work together to produce organic breads for delivery in Edinburgh. Watching the bread-making is mesmerizing and observing the intricate social relationships is touching.

Wood (USA, David Fenster, 21 min.) - Beautifully shot images of a Northwest logging company and stories from its employees form this elegy to a rapidly disappearing type of labor that includes pride in work, generational history and physical labor.

Shika Shika (pictured, USA, Stephen Hyde, 10 min.) - Filmed in the Peruvian Andes, this spirited film follows one family that for three generations has scaled the Peruvian Andes to “harvest” ice for shika shika, a colorful shaved ice treat they sell in the market.

The Tailor (Spain, Oscar Perez, 31 min. ) - In a small shop in Barcelona, Pakistani tailor Mohamed holds court over mounds of plastic bags containing customer’s clothing. His unique customer service and relationship with his Indian assistant make for fascinating, and comical, observation.

Karen Cirillo is a documentary programmer and founder of Doxita. She is the owner of Docuphile Media, LLC, which specializes in programming, consulting and producing non-fiction film and video. Cirillo spent four years as Festival Coordinator and Associate Director - Programming at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival. She is the Shorts Programmer for the True/False Film Festival. She reviews films and festivals for various publications, including DOX Magazine and indieWIRE.

Spacetaker is a professional organization that provides artists and small non-profits access to economic, educational and networking opportunities.