da Vinci Film Festival 2008

Four champion skateboarders, Jay Adams, Christian Hosoi, Dennis Martinez and Bruce Logan tell their stories of life at the top of the skateboarding world, their descent into drugs and crime and their gradual return through their Christian faith. Actual start times may vary.

Formation-flying gnats are put through their paces by scientists at the Gnat Training Research Lab. But to the bafflement of the scientists, the gnats have developed a surprise routine of their own. Shown in 3D. Actual start times may vary.

The Los Angeles jazz scene is chronicled through artistic sketches and music. Actual start times may vary.

Two office workers have to do some quick thinking when their boss catches them playing a video game on company time. Actual start times may vary.

In this homage to Buster Keaton, a man begins to dread his girlfriend’s obsession with microwave popcorn and a romantic comedy she forces him to watch every day. Taking matters into his own hands, he steals the tape and hides it in the bathroom with disastrous results. Actual start times may vary.

A Korean-born woman, adopted in the 1970s by a family in New York, recounts her experiences growing up as a person with multiple roles and identities: outcast, outsider; Korean by birth and Asian American by adoption.

The remarkable world of river ecosystems and the science that explores them is revealed through the life, tragic death and enduring legacy of Japanese ecologist Dr. Shigeru Nakano. Actual start times may vary.

Oregon National Guard soldiers who were deployed to Iraq tell their stories through interviews, in their own words, and with footage shot by the soldiers themselves. Contains language, violence and disturbing images. Actual start times may vary.