October brings pumpkins, fall colors and trick-or-treaters. But it also brings Pickford Film Center’s month long festival of documentary films DOCTOBER. This year Pickford serves up a veritable feast of entertainment, offering something like 16 documentary films featuring filmmakers and other special guest appearances. See the upcoming goodies below, but stay tuned for more offerings later in the month.

Brave New West Starts Sunday
80 minutes • 2008 • Unrated
DOCTOBER08: “They began to arrive in the early 1970s, wide-eyed idealists from the East, inspired and angry. The small cult of Ed Abbey followers descended on the American Southwest, most with a worn copy of Desert Solitaire in their backpack, many with dreams of preserving it’s natural beauty via any means, a la The Monkey Wrench Gang. Jim Stiles was one of them.”
Sunday, Oct 12 - Tuesday, Oct 14 @ 4:00 PM Click here to see the Brave New West trailer.

The Corporal’s Diary Starts Wednesday
92 minutes • 2008 • USA • In English • Unrated
DOCTOBER 08: Twenty-two year old Corporal Jonathan Santos had documented his 37 days of military service in Iraq in a personal dairy before a roadside bomb took his life and the lives of several of his friends and servicemen on October 15, 2004. Jonathan’s mother, Doris, wasn’t aware that her son had kept a diary until his Tuff BoxT - a soldier’s chest filled with their most valuable items - was sent to her after his death. Upon opening the box, she discovered his “little green book” and a stack of videocassettes on which he had recorded daily life in Iraq.
Wednesday, Oct 15 - Thursday, Oct 16 @ 7:00 PM

A Man Named Pearl Starts Friday Oct. 17
78 minutes • 2008 • USA • In English • Rated G
Assembled without frills or fuss, “A Man Named Pearl” is as much a portrait of a small Southern town as of an unassuming black folk artist. Aided by Fred Story’s jazzy score, the directors, Scott Galloway and Brent Pierson, keep things moving with appreciative comments from the financial and spiritual beneficiaries of Mr. Fryar’s talents (and from the female admirers who find his lithe, 68-year-old body every bit as interesting as his foliage). Those white families who, decades ago, rejected him as a neighbor because “black people don’t keep up their yards” must be weeping into their seed catalogs.
Friday, Oct 17 - Thursday, Oct 23

American Carver Saturday, Oct 18 Only!
60 minutes • 2008 • USA • In English • Unrated
As compelling as any fictional drama, this film follows Jewell Praying Wolf James and 17 others from Washington State to the Pentagon, wrestling with inner and outer demons in an attempt to carve and transport a 10-ton totem pole as a memorial to 9/11.

For a full list and schedule of Pickford’s DOCTOBER ‘08 offerings, visit www.pickfordcinema.com