Marc Hoeferlin Movies
- 2011
Celebrated documentary filmmaker Nick Broomfield (Kurt & Courtney, Aileen: The Life and Death of a Serial Killer) focuses his lens on conservative American politician Sarah Palin, speaking with her family, friends, and former colleagues in a probing attempt to understand her motivations and aspirations. Broomfield travels to Alaska in order to interview her parents, former rivals, and extended family members of Levi Johnston, all the while attempting to score an interview with the original Mama Grizzly. Sarah Palin: You Betcha played at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
- 2009
This documentary profiles a Tanzanian soccer team consisting exclusively of albino players who use their squad to bring attention to the fact that the culture usually treats people in their condition as freaks who are often killed so that their body can be used as part of magic potions. ~ Perry Seibert, Rovi
The fate of two cultures becomes locked on a tragic collision course in director Nick Broomfield's dramatization of the events that led to the massacre of 24 Iraqi men, women, and children by American Marines. A squadron of American soldiers goes speeding across the Iraqi desert in a convoy of armored Humvees, eventually stopping at a local store where the soldiers jump out to stretch and browse the DVD selection. Meanwhile, as the Marines strike up a conversation with the young male clerk behind the counter, two Iraqi men climb into the back of a pick-up truck to get a crash course in IED mechanics. Both the Marines and the Iraqis are simply going about their daily business as usual, just doing their best to survive in a land where war is just another fact of life. For the Marines it's all about patrolling the desert and waiting for the next bomb to go off. When a roadside IED kills one Marine and wounds two others, the vengeance with which the American soldiers strike back at the locals may cause even the most hard-line warhawks to take pause and consider the true cost of a war which has no end in sight. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
- Starring:
- Elliot Ruiz, Falah Abraheem Flayeh, (more)
- 2006
Longtime documentary director Nick Broomfield (Kurt & Courtney, Aileen Wuornos: The Selling of a Serial Killer) eschews the format with which filmgoers generally associate him to tell this affecting tale of Chinese émigrés looking to earn a healthy, albeit illegal, living in the U.K. Ai Qin is a desperate mother from Fujian who is willing to pay the Snakehead gang 25,000 dollars to smuggle her into the U.K. Once there, Ai Qin plans to send the majority of the money back to China order to support her son and family. But life in the U.K. isn't easy, even for the hardest-working Chinese immigrant. Not only does Ai Qin live with 15 other immigrants in a suburban, two-bedroom house, but with three million other migrant workers forming the foundation of the United Kingdom's hospitality, food supply, and construction industries, the search for better-paying jobs that will help them pay back their sizeable debts are never-ending. In keeping with Broomfield's decidedly real-world approach to filmmaking and in order to maintain authenticity, the director cast an actual former migrant worker, Ai Qin Lin, who had once been illegally smuggled into the U.K. (and has since gained legal citizenship) in the lead role. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
- Starring:
- Ai Qin Lin, Zhan Yu, (more)
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