The BendFilm Festival program features more than 100 streaming titles and 12 drive-in screenings. As you plan your viewing adventures October 8 – 25, keep your eye out for the 3 ways films are presented during the Festival:

  • FULL FESTIVAL RUN: Many films are available to stream from October 8 – 25 at your leisure.  You can browse the program here and select virtual tickets now: https://watch.eventive.org/bendfilm2020
  • DRIVE-IN: Drive-in screenings are scheduled tickets are available for purchase now: https://bendfilm2020.eventive.org/schedule
  • LIMITED RUN: Some films have a limited window and will only play for a few days during the Festival or they have a cap on the number of tickets that can be sold.  Those films are listed below. Check out the titles below and reserve your tickets now before they fill up!

FOR a visual lay out, check the BendFilm Schedule GRID

AHEAD OF THE CURVE
# of Days Available to start watching: 7
Available: 10/9/2020 8:00 AM Thru 10/15/2020 11:45 PM

Synopsis:
AHEAD OF THE CURVE is the story of one of the most influential women in lesbian history you’ve never heard of and the impact her work continues to have today. Growing up, Franco Stevens never saw any representation of queer women—she didn’t even know it was possible for a woman to be gay. When she realized she was a lesbian, it changed the course of her life.

Total # of Views (Tickets) Available: 500

Trailer: https://vimeo.com/427595503

Tickets: https://watch.eventive.org/bendfilm2020/play/5f63676ce8771a008c8ff501

BLACK CONFLUX
# of Days Available to start watching: 7
Available: 10/16/2020 8:00 AM Thru 10/22/2020 11:45 PM

Synopsis:
The seemingly separate lives of an anxious, disillusioned teen girl and a troubled, alienated man converge fatefully in this haunting exploration of womanhood, isolation and toxic masculinity, set in 1980s Newfoundland.

Total # of Views (Tickets) Available: 300

Trailer: https://vimeo.com/381193337/1b210be1db

Tickets: https://watch.eventive.org/bendfilm2020/play/5f59416068d91a003752dfce

CHOLITAS
# of Days Available to start watching: Full Festival
Available: October 8 – 25

Synopsis:
Five Bolivian indigenous women are involved in a unique expedition. As a symbol of liberation and empowerment, they propose to climb the highest mountain in America.

Total # of Views (Tickets) Available: 1000

Trailer: https://vimeo.com/365946448

Tickets: https://watch.eventive.org/bendfilm2020/play/5f597329bd9ade0053a098e9

FILM ABOUT A FATHER WHO
# of Days Available to start watching: 7

Available: 10/9/2020 8:00 AM Thru 10/15/2020 11:45 PM

Synopsis:
Between 1984 and 2019, filmmaker Lynne Sachs shot FILM ABOUT A FATHER WHO,  a documentary portrait of her father, a bohemian businessman who sometimes chose to reveal less than was really there.

Total # of Views (Tickets) Available: 500

Trailer: https://vimeo.com/375901685

Tickets: https://watch.eventive.org/bendfilm2020/play/5f59690690b60d0029620a85

FINDING YINGYING

# of Days Available to start watching: 7

Available: 10/16/2020 8:00 AM Thru 10/22/2020 11:45 PM

 

Synopsis:
A Chinese family travels to the U.S. for the first time to look for their daughter, an international student who vanished from a university campus.

Total # of Views (Tickets) Available: 500

Tickets: https://watch.eventive.org/bendfilm2020/play/5f596a607ea92a00793a3a2d

Freeland

FREELAND
# of Days Available to start watching: 7
Available: 10/9/2020 8:00 AM Thru 10/15/2020 11:45 PM

Synopsis:
An aging pot farmer suddenly finds her world shattered as she races to bring in what could be her final harvest, fighting against the threat of eviction as the impact of the legalization of the cannabis industry rapidly destroys her idyllic way of life.

Total # of Views (Tickets) Available: 500

Trailer: https://vimeo.com/364222921

Tickets: https://watch.eventive.org/bendfilm2020/play/5f5945d1a6e9f3009400639c

Fully Realized Humans

FULLY REALIZED HUMANS
# of Days Available to start watching: 3

Available: 10/16/2020 8:00 AM Thru 10/18/2020 11:45 PM

Synopsis:
A month before the birth of their first child, Jackie and Elliot embark on a madcap mission of self-discovery in an attempt to eradicate the inherited dysfunction of their own upbringings.

Total # of Views (Tickets) Available: 400

Tickets: https://watch.eventive.org/bendfilm2020/play/5f594f2b90b60d002961ec81

Aldo and Ilmar Gavilan play at Jarvis Hall, Napa

LOS HERMANOS/THE BROTHERS
# of Days Available to start watching: 3
Available: 10/9/2020 8:00 AM Thru 10/11/2020 11:45 PM

Synopsis:
Separated by geopolitics, united by music, two Cuban brothers long to collaborate.

Total # of Views (Tickets) Available: 300

Trailer: https://vimeo.com/285056105

Tickets: https://watch.eventive.org/bendfilm2020/play/5f596c1a90b60d0029620e40

MATERNA
# of Days Available to start watching: 3

Available: 10/9/2020 8:00 AM Thru 10/11/2020 11:45 PM 

Synopsis:
A closely observed psychological portrait of four women, whose lives are bound together by an incident on the New York City subway.

Total # of Views (Tickets) Available: 500

Tickets: https://watch.eventive.org/bendfilm2020/play/5f5a3794db2eac00928d78ce

THE TONIGHT SHOW STARRING JOHNNY CARSON — Pictured: (l-r) Bandleader Doc Severinsen, host Johnny Carson — (Photo by: NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images)

NEVER TOO LATE: THE DOC SEVERINSEN STORY
# of Days Available to start watching: Full Festival

Available: Oct 8 – 25

Synopsis:
Master trumpeter Doc Severinsen defies nature after 30 years on television as he tours and performs into his nineties.

Total # of Views (Tickets) Available: 1000

Trailer: https://vimeo.com/399995725

Tickets: https://watch.eventive.org/bendfilm2020/play/5f603cf32e56f400758a486f

OUR OWN
# of Days Available to start watching: 3
Available: 10/9/2020 8:00 AM Thru 10/11/2020 11:45 PM

Synopsis:
A teenage girl in a small town in Quebec sets off a local scandal when she gets pregnant.

Total # of Views (Tickets) Available: 1000

Tickets: https://watch.eventive.org/bendfilm2020/play/5f594b5ba6e9f3009400697b

PERSONHOOD
# of Days Available to start watching: 3

Available: 10/16/2020 8:00 AM Thru 10/18/2020 11:45 PM

 

Synopsis:
PERSONHOOD explores the criminalization of pregnant women as seen through the eyes of a young mother swept up in dangerous new laws.

Total # of Views (Tickets) Available: 500

Trailer: https://vimeo.com/435226603

Tickets: https://watch.eventive.org/bendfilm2020/play/5f596d9a7ea92a00793a3d7f

ROTTEN EARS
# of Days Available to start watching: 3

Available: 10/16/2020 8:00 AM Thru 10/18/2020 11:45 PM

Synopsis:
A young couple face their deepest fears under the supervision of an unconventional therapist whose healing plan gets out of control.

Total # of Views (Tickets) Available: 1000

Trailer: https://vimeo.com/410331662

Tickets: https://watch.eventive.org/bendfilm2020/play/5f594cb63aed39006f3775a9

SAPELO
# of Days Available to start watching: 2
Available: 10/9/2020 8:00 AM Thru 10/11/2020 12:45 PM

Synopsis:
Sapelo is a documentary that journeys within a unique American island to tell the story of its matriarchal griot, Cornelia Walker Bailey, and her adopted sons coming of age in the last remaining enclave of the Saltwater Geechee people.

Total # of Views (Tickets) Available: 1000

Trailer: https://vimeo.com/393117370

Tickets: https://watch.eventive.org/bendfilm2020/play/5f59704fdb2eac00928cfc31

THE FALCONER
# of Days Available to start watching: 3
Available: 10/16/2020 8:00 AM Thru 10/18/2020 11:45 PM

Synopsis:
Rodney Stotts is on a mission to build a sanctuary for injured birds of prey. A falconer guided by the healing power of nature, Rodney becomes the unlikely hero of a new environmental movement in his stressed Washington DC community.

Total # of Views (Tickets) Available: 250

Trailer: https://vimeo.com/300842760

Tickets: https://watch.eventive.org/bendfilm2020/play/5f46cb8164c25100457601b2

WARRIOR WOMEN
# of Days Available to start watching: 3
Available: 10/16/2020 8:00 AM Thru 10/18/2020 11:45 PM

Synopsis:
The story of mothers and daughters fighting for indigenous rights in the American Indian Movement of the 1970s.

Total # of Views (Tickets) Available: 1000

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLIZIsSvM74

Tickets: https://watch.eventive.org/bendfilm2020/play/5f59728b24bebb003ece0f2f

WOMAN OF THE PHOTOGRAPHS
# of Days Available to start watching: 7
Available: 10/9/2020 8:00 AM Thru 10/15/2020 11:45 PM 

Synopsis:
A misogynist photographer discovers the joy of loving a woman by using his photographic retouching skills to help her with her self-identity and self-esteem.

Total # of Views (Tickets) Available: 1000

Trailer: https://youtu.be/RuTPlvBXCmM

Tickets: https://watch.eventive.org/bendfilm2020/play/5f594defccfa1f0045b7218f