Trying to Be Some Kind of Hero
a film by Lester Alfonso

"Best New Moviemaker"
Optic-Nerve Film Festival 2002

"Alfonso leaves Canada for the Philippines, looking to solve the mystery of which American soldier fathered his own mother.  In the process, he crafts a smart, snappy portrait of a woman striking her own deal with a probing camera." – Cameron Bailey, NOW Magazine

OFFICIAL SELECTION

2006 Trent Film Society, Sadleir House Peterborough
2006 Traveling World Community Film Festival
– Artist Talk
2005 Regent Park Film Festival – Artist Talk
2005 National Library and Archives Canada, inclusion
2004 DC APA Film Festival - Washington D.C.
2004 Innoversity Creative Summit, finalist
2003 Reel Asian Int'l Film Festival, Toronto, Ontario
2003 Anti Matter Underground Festival of Film & Video, Victoria, B.C.
2003 Images Festival, Toronto, Ontario
2002 Optic-Nerve Festival, Peterborough, Ontario
2002 Om Festival, Killaloe, Ontario
2001 Optic-Nerve Moving Media Series, Peterborough
2001 Outer Limits Video Series, Art in General, New York City
2001 "Hijack" - Cinecycle, Toronto, Ontario


Press
2005 NOW Magazine
2003 TAKE ONE

How can one man save the world with a video camera?






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