The 2006 UC Berkeley Jschool documentary class would like to invite you to a screening of our master’s project documentaries next weekend at the Pacific Film Archive Museum theater in Berkeley.

7:00 pm CHILD BOXER by Jordan Robertson and Timothy Wheeler Child Boxer explores the cutthroat world of competitive youth boxing through the journey of a top 12-year-old fighter gunning for his first national championship.

7:30 pm TSUKAMOTO by Ling Liu Tsukamoto is about the unsolved murder of a Berkeley police officer in 1970 — a crime that ended a life but also captured the racial and political complexities of one of America’s most turbulent eras.

8:00 pm SOMEONE ELSE’S WAR by Lee Wang Someone Else’s War follows three Filipinos who are trying to make a living by working on military bases in Iraq.

8:30 – 9:30 pm Filmmaker Q & A

Sunday, September 17, 2006

7:00 pm EQUILIBRIUM CITY by Patrick Farrell and Josef Sawyer Equilibrium City tells the story of Columbia, Maryland, a utopian town designed to bring all races, religions and classes together at the height of the civil rights era.

7:30 pm SIX FEET OVER by Aaron Selverston Six Feet Over is the story of a how global warming and rising sea levels are wiping out the Pacific Island nation of Kiribati, home to 100,00 people.

8:00 pm TALKING TO MY MOM by Marjorie McAfee When the filmmaker’s mother dies, she undertakes a supernatural journey to try to communicate with her mom one last time.

8:30 pm STUFFED by Arwen Curry and Cerissa Tanner Stuffed examines our complex relationships with objects and takes us into the crowded homes of compulsive hoarders, whose natural urges to collect and save have gone awry.

9 – 9:30 pm Filmmaker Q & A