Stanford University: Documentary Program: Sally Rubin


	Sally Rubin is from Boston, MA, where she grew up and attended Tufts University. Double majoring in French and Women's Studies, she made a 30-minute documentary about women in sports at Tufts entitled Throw Like a Girl for her senior thesis film. After graduating in 1999, Sally moved to the French Alps to work as a chef in a 10th century Benedictine monastery for six months. She returned to Boston to work as Associate Producer for independent documentary filmmaker David Sutherland on post-production of The Farmer's Wife and on his current PBS series, Country Boy. After three years at Sutherland's, where she developed an interest in audio, she worked briefly at a mastering studio before coming to Stanford. She is currently working on her thesis project, a film about her family's journey to unravel the mystery behind the psychology and circumstances of her father's death in a hiking accident.
	The Last Mountain digital video 23:00 min. Follows the filmmaker's quest to uncover the mystery behind her father's death in a hiking accident. However on the road to reviving a topic that has long been closed in her family, what she ultimately finds is an entirely unexpected set of answers. FESTIVALS AND SCREENINGS: Wild and Scenic Environmental Film Festival, 2005 Angelus Awards, Finalist, 2004 Mill Valley Film Festival, 2004 Presented at Tufts University, Department of Psychology, 2004 Presented at Harvard University, Department of International Relations, 2004 Will air on NCTV (Nevada County, CA), Spring 2005 Boulder Adventure Film Festival, 2005
	Body Politics 16mm, color film 9:20 min. On April 19th, 2003, over two-hundred couples--lesbian, gay, and straight--converged on San Francisco's Baker Beach to protest the war in Iraq by spelling out "Make Love Not War" with their nude bodies on the sand. What originally began in Marin County, California as a small but powerful anti-war movement has now reached the furthest corners of the world, and has women and men everywhere stripping off their clothes for peace. FESTIVALS AND SCREENINGS: Cinequest Film Festival, 2004 San Francisco Independent Film Festival, 2004 Director's View Film Festival, 2004 Freedom Cinema Festival, 2004 Kansas City Jubilee, 2004 Video Mundi Film Festival, 2004 AVA Awards, 2004 New England Film and Video Festival, 2004 Aired on Chum Television in Toronto, 2004 Screened at the New York Guggenheim Museum, 2004
	Cut Co-Directed by Sally Rubin and Elizabeth Pearson digital video 9:36 min. Picture two sixteen-year-old boys: one is 5'5", thin, with narrow shoulders and not a whisker on his face. The other is 6'1", with a V-shaped torso capped off by broad muscular arms, and rock- hard abs. These two boys could be classmates, neighbors, perhaps friends. But their divergent sizes and shapes affects the way the outside world sees them and, increasingly, the way they see themselves. Now in distribution through Fanlight Productions, Cut examines the complications of teenage boys' body image, and explores the relationship between physical shape and social/self-acceptance. Cut's website: http://www.stanford.edu/~srubin/home.html Stanford Magazine article about the film: http://www.stanfordalumni.org/news/magazine/2003/julaug/features/docfilm.html FESTIVALS AND SCREENINGS: Honorable Mention, Marin County Film Festival, 2003 Oakland Film Festival, 2003 Stanford Alumni Film Festival, 2003 Stanford Film Festival, 2003 Screened at Cantor Arts Center as part of an exhibition on body image, May-August, 2003 Screened at the American Psychological Association's annual conference of 15,000 people in June of 2004. In distribution through Fanlight Productions.
	Ga-Ga Cha 16mm, black and white film 4 min. "Drums are part of the heartbeat, drumming is part of the blood"... What happens when individual drumbeats collide? FESTIVALS AND SCREENINGS: Best Documentary, Marin County Film Festival, 2003 First Look Film Festival, 2003 Humboldt Film Festival, 2003 Pacific Film Archive, 2003