The second of three 2009 TFF Best of the Fest special showings!

Otis v. Monster (Best Regional Film)
A hard-luck logger attempts to capture big-foot in this clay-animated short that made its World Premiere at TFF.

Sebastian's Voodoo (Best Short Film)
Winner of over 45 awards, including the Student Academy Award Winner and Festival de Cannes Short Film Corner Award, this student-made 3D-animation short is about a voodoo doll that must stop its friends from being pinned to death no matter what the cost.

Freeing Silvia Baraldini (Best Documentary)
On November 9th in 1982, Silvia Baraldini was jumped by eight members of the FBI terrorist task force and brought into custody during a sweep of the radical left. Silvia was a leader of the May 19th Communist Organization, a key element in an alliance of revolutionaries, Black, White and Puerto Rican, who worked relentlessly to expose repressive policies of the U.S. government. In 1983, using an array of tactics, the government put an end to the alliance. Silvia was convicted of helping to free Black Panther, Assata Shakur from prison and received a 43-year sentence. After seventeen years in U.S. prisons, in 1999, following a ten-year campaign culminating in one million Italian signatures, Silvia won the right to serve out the remainder of her sentence in her homeland, Italy and was transferred to Rebbibia prison in Rome. Silvia's story exemplifies the enduring human spirit within the resistance movements as well as the repressive measures waged against them by the United States government.