KARINA EPPERLEIN – FILMOGRAPHY
Labyrinthian (20 min) 1984
(Producer/Director/Actress)
Video about the interior landscape of longing and obsession set to a poem by Greek poet Nanos Valaoritis
Stockholm Int’l Film Festival - Atlanta Film Festival - Mill Valley Film Festival
i.e.Deutschland (9 min) 1988
(Producer/Director/Actress)
Video invoking the memory of growing up in post-war Germany in the shadow of the Holocaust,
based on the one-woman show with same title
Mill Valley Film Festival
Voices From Inside (60 min) 1996
(Producer/Director)
Documentary about women in prison and their children on the outside
***National Council on Crime and Delinquency's 1996 PASS Award
USA Film Festival (Finalist) - Windy City Int’l Documentary Festival (Honorable Mention) - Arizona Int’l Film Festival - Charlotte Film & Video Festival - Denver Int’l Film Festival - Parnu Int’l Documentary Film Festival (Finland). Aired on PBS stations - Link TV cable network. Distributor: New Day Films
Women’s Rites (37 min) 2000
(Director/Cinematographer)
Video featuring five women studying Expressive Arts Therapy with Anna & Daria Halperin
I Will Not Be Sad In This World (56 min) 2001
(Producer/Director/Cinematographer)
Portrait of a 94-year-old Armenian woman who survived the genocide of her people in 1915
Armenian Film Festival (New York) - ARPA Int’l Film Festival (Los Angeles) - Denver Int’l Film Festival - Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival - Memphis Int’l Film Festival - Pacific Film Archive (Berkeley) - Seattle Int’l Film Festival - World Affairs Council (San Francisco) - Yerevan Film Institute, (Armenia)
We Are Here Together (65 min) 2003
(Co-Producer/Director/Cinematographer)
Documentary about the tempestuous first year of an alternative charter high school in Alameda, California
Denver Int’l Film Festival - Mill Valley Film Festival
Phoenix Dance (16 min & 23 min) 2006
(Producer/Director/Cinematographer/Editor)
Film about a one-legged dancer’s return to the stage (featuring Homer Avila & Alonzo King)
***San Francisco Int’l Film Festival (Golden Gate Award)
***2006 Official Selection - [ida]DocuWeek Theatrical Showcase & DocuWeek Multi City Theatrical Rollout (eight cities)
***2006 One of Eight “Short listed” for Oscar nomination: Best Short Documentary
***2006 Madelyn's Choice Award - Rocky Mountain Women’s Film Festival
***2007 Isadora Duncan Dance Award (The Izzies) Special Achievement
***2007 Jury Award for Best Short Documentary - Newport Beach Film Festival
***2007 Audience Award: Best Short Film - Sydney Film Festival, Australia
***2007 Prize for Originality & Innovative Direction - Emotion Pictures
Documentary & Disability Int’l Festival, Athens, Greece
***2008 Grand Prize, Best of Festival (Documentary) - Black Maria Film and Video Festival
***2008 Merit Award, Superfest, Int’l Disability Film Festival, Berkeley, California
***2008 Best Documentary, Sapporo Short Fest Japan
***2008Audience Award, look&roll Kurzfilmfestival, Switzerland
***2008 Sprit of the Festival, FOCUS Film Festival, California
Dance Films Association Dance On Camera Festival at Lincoln Center (New York) - Nashville Film Festival; Florida Film Festival - Cinedans Int’l Dance Film Festival (Amsterdam) - Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival - Atlantic Film Festival (Nova Scotia) - Heartland Film Festival - Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival - Mill Valley Film Festival - Denver Int’l Film Festival - Palm Springs Int’l Film Festival - Santa Barbara Int’l Film Festival - Ashland Film Festival - Mendocino Film Festival - Constellation Change Screen Dance on Screen Festival (London) - American Dance Festival Dancing for the Camera - Crossroads Film Festival - Flint Institute of Arts - Rialto Cinemas Lakeside, Disabilities Series, Santa Rosa, CA - International Ballet Festival of Miami - Rochester Dance On Camera Festival - Moving Pictures Festival of Dance (Toronto) - Festival of German Dance Archive (Cologne) - Sonoma Valley Film Festival - Washington Center for the Performing Arts - Everett Women’s Film Festival, WA - VSA arts Family Festival (Kennedy Center) - “wie wir leben” Int’l Short Film Festival (Munich) - Int’l Festival of Films on Art (Montreal) - Port Townsend Film Festival, OR - Milano Doc Festival (Italy) - FICAP, Lisbon (Portugal) - Fargo Film Festival, ND - Int’l Festival of Short Films on Culture, Jaipur (India) - Contemporary Documentary Series, Hollywood - Yerevan Film Institute (Armenia) - The Other Film Festival, Melbourne (Australia) - Abilities Arts Festival, Toronto - Int’l Disability Film Festival, Moscow (Russia) - 1001 Documentary Film Festival, Istanbul (Turkey) -
Aired on KQED, TV in Greece, Sweden and Brazil. Distributor: Fanlight Productions
Karinafilms - Tel/Fax (510) 559-8892 - karina@karinafilms.us - www.karinafilms.us
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