Come checkout the great movies at the AFI Film Festival starts on October 30th. They have an incredible list of great documentaries you might never get to see anywhere else. Go to www.Afi.com for more information.

Here is a sampling of the movies this year
PINDORAMA - THE TRUE STORY OF THE SEVEN DWARVES
PINDORAMA - A VERDADEIRA HISTÓRIA DOS SETE ANÕES
Documentary Competition
(Brazil, 2008, 84 mins)
In Portuguese with English subtitles
Directed By: Roberto Berliner,
Lula Queiroga,
Leo Crivellare
Executive Producers: Rodrigo Letier, Danielle Hoover

Director of Photography: Jacques Cheuiche, Beto
Martins, Ricardo Castro Lima

Editors: Leonardo Domingues, Daniela Ramalho
Music: Lula Queiroga
Coordinating Producer: Lorena Bondarovsky

Assistant Director: Chris Alcazar
Sound: Nicolas Hallet and Simone Dourado Barbosa
Charles, Claudio, Cleidy, Cleidiomar, Zuleide, Gilberto and Rogerio Gomes de Oliveira are siblings, colleagues, friends, competitors and entertainers. Together these seven remarkable people, with their respective families, make up the Pindorama Circus. A full-fledged, old-school circus that tours northern Brazil, the Pindorama’s greatest claim to fame is that its owners and core performers, the seven siblings, are dwarves, the progeny of Pindoba, one of the most famous and beloved clowns in Brazilian history. These true “Seven Dwarves” carry on their family tradition, now spanning three generations, with humor, razor-sharp business savvy and humanity despite the rivalries and general frustrations that go hand in hand with living and working 24-hour days with family. Filmmakers Roberto Berliner, Lula Queiroga and Leo Crivellare expertly weave together deeply insightful, candid interviews with the family, footage of the Pindorama’s everyday life and hilarious, color-soaked, inside-the-tent action, assembling the film with outstanding attention to detail and drawing out unexpected beauty in every shot. Just as the Pindorama fills its audiences with wonder, excitement, merriment and joy, so too does this charming and spirited documentary. If you’ve ever had even an ounce of desire to run away with the circus, you may just find yourself in Pindorama heaven.