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Directed by Elliot Berlin, Joe Fab.
Directed by Joe Fab and Elliot Berlin, this documentary chronicles a rural Tennessee middle school's unique class project: finding a meaningful way to honor Holocaust victims. Brought up in a heavily fundamentalist Christian environment, most of the students had never seen, let alone spoken with, a member of the Jewish faith; nonetheless, the children of Whitwell found a poignant method of honoring the slain. Using individual paper clips to represent each life lost in the Holocaust, the students were inundated with contributions from around the world. Eventually, they managed to procure an authentic German rail car, which would become container to the millions of paper clips collected. ~ Tracie Cooper, All Movie Guide
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"By Tricia Olszewski Clerks director Kevin Smith once wrote, “It feels like every year at this time, someone ‘discovers’ that Harvey Weinstein is a tough businessman with a temper as large and legendary as his passion for cinema. Whoa. Stop the presses.” In 1998, that someone was Troy Duffy. The New England native was 25 when he was tapped by Weinstein as the next Great American Independent Filmmaker; he was 26 when the Miramax co-founder decided to stop returning his calls. But because Duffy, the subject of Tony Montana and Mark Brian Smith’s quick-rise-and-long-fall documentary Overnight, is such an unbelievable prick, it’s arguable whether even the schadenfreude offered by his undoing is enough to make watching the guy’s story satisfying. Mercifully, at least, it’s short. But it won’t be long into Overnight’s 82-minute runtime before you start rooting for Duffy’s failure. In 1997, the aspiring director was tendin ... " [More]
 



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