[Classifieds] : Woods Hole Film Festival

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From: Judy Laster, woho3 at aol.com 

WOODS HOLE, MA—The 22 nd Annual Woods Hole Film Festival will kick off on Saturday, July 27, running for eight days through Saturday, August 3. This year’s festival features 2 filmmakers-in-residence, special guest filmmakers, a record 33 narrative and documentary feature-length films, and nearly 70 narrative, documentary, and animated short films. A festival flyer is attached. 


Screenings and events are held at a variety of venues within walking distance of one another in compact Woods Hole. Getting around on foot is easy and designated festival parking is available. Admission to screenings, panels and parties are $12 (ticket packages and full festival passes also available). Tickets are for sale online through the festival’s web site at www.woodsholefilmfestival.org or at the box office (Old Woods Hole Firehouse, 72 Water Street, Woods Hole) starting July 15 . For more information, contact (508) 495-3456 or info at woodsholefilmfestival.org. 

In addition to film screenings and discussions with the filmmakers, Woods Hole Film Festival features workshops and master classes with the filmmakers-in-residence, panel discussions, parties and concerts. A benefit concert featuring the John Jorgenson Bluegrass Band will take place on Friday, July 26, at the Woods Hole Oceangraphic Institution’s Redfield Auditorium. Recently cast as Django Reinhardt in the film HEAD IN THE CLOUDS, Jorgenson is the guitarist for Elton John’s and also plays with such artists such as Barbra Streisand, Bonnie Raitt and Earl Scruggs. 

Fans of George Romero won’t want to miss BIRTH OF THE LIVING DEAD (Saturday, July 27, and Friday, August 2), a documentary feature that demonstrates how Romero gathered an unlikely team of amateur actors from Pittsburgh to create his revolutionary, guerilla-style film NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD, a world-renowned horror film that also provided profound insight into how society really works. Romero also has a cameo at the end of Matt Birman and Sam Roberts’ film A FISH STORY (Saturday, July 27), a narrative feature starring Eddie McClintock (NBC’s WAREHOUSE 13) as a fugitive whose body is inhabited by the soul of a devoted father who was killed in a car accident 

As the oldest film festival on Cape Cod, WHFF continues its tradition of showcasing and promoting the work of independent, emerging filmmakers, particularly those with connections to the region. 

“We’ve stayed true to the vision of supporting emerging independent filmmakers over the years,” says Judy Laster, the festival’s founder and executive director. “I think because we stayed true to this vision, the festival is a very attractive place for independent filmmakers with many filmmakers returning to the festival with subsequent films or as filmmakers-in-residence. After 21 years we have accrued a large and loyal alumni network.” 

WHFF Alums 

Among the 2013 alumni is Vermont filmmaker Jay Craven (WHERE THE RIVERS FLOW NORTH), who returns with his latest feature, NORTHERN BORDERS (August 2), based on the novel by Howard Frank Mosher. The film stars Bruce Dern and Genevieve Bujold as a quarreling couple whose 10 year-old grandson comes to live with them in the Northeast Kingdom, with humorous and sometimes startling results. 



Boston-based Allan Piper (STARVING ARTISTS) returns with his award-wining documentary MARRIED AND COUNTING (July 30) about a gay couple that celebrates their 25 th year together by getting married in every state where gay marriage is recognized. Festival favorite Bill Plympton is sure to please with his latest animation, DRUNKER THAN A SKUNK, an adaptation of Walt Curtis's poem about a cowboy town that torments the local drunk (July 30). And Boston filmmaker Andrew Mudge returns triumphant to Woods Hole after a 10-year hiatus with his first narrative feature, THE FORGOTTEN KINGDOM (August 1), which has the added distinction of being the first film ever shot in the Kingdom of Lesotho. 

Several filmmakers-in-residence also return to the festival after either presenting their films or attending as filmmakers-in-residence in previous years. Director James Mottern, who brought TRUCKER, his first film starring Michele Monahan, to Woods Hole in 2010, returns to Woods Hole this year to conduct a directing workshop on Thursday, August 1. He recently finished a Boston shoot of GOD ONLY KNOWS, his second feature film starring Ben Barnes, Leighton Meester, and Harvey Keitel, and is currently prepping another thriller set in New England. 



2011 filmmaker-in-residence Heidi Ewing and her co-director/producer Rachel Grady will conduct a workshop on DIY (do-it-yourself) film distribution on Tuesday, July 30, using their documentary DETROPIA as a case study. They will also be part of a panel discussion on the state of documentary filmmaking on Sunday, July 28, with Maria Agui Carter (REBEL) and moderators Sandy Moore (VP of Marketing and Operations for House Lights Media) and filmmaker Chico Colvard (FAMILY AFFAIRS). 



Chicken and Egg Pictures and Working Films founder Judith Helfand, whose documentary BLUE VINYL won the best cinematography award at Sundance in 2002, will give several master classes during the Festival, including a master class on Friday, August 2 based on her new documentary-in-progress, COOKED. On Saturday, August 3, she will follow up with a workshop on community engagement and documentary filmmaking. 



Oscar-winning director, actor and playwright Ernest Thompson (ON GOLDEN POND), will give a hands-on storytelling workshop on how to translate life’s little incidences into cinema on Friday, August 2. 



Where local filmmakers get their start 



In addition to showcasing the works of New England’s top filmmakers, the Woods Hole Film Festival also puts the spotlight on rising local filmmakers. 



Films made on the Cape or by Cape Cod filmmakers include the Lower Cape brother-sister team of Emma and Isaak James’s BY WAY OF HOME, a narrative feature shot in Brewster, Chatham and Provincetown about a woman who returns home to work in her family’s restaurant (July 29); Eastham-based Joseph Laraja’s THE GOLDEN SCALLOP, a narrative feature about three finalists in a seafood shanty contest on Cape Cod (July 27); Woods Hole-based Kristin Alexander’s short, MY NAME IS AL, the true story of a retired dentist in Bourne who started the Committee on Drug and Alcohol Dependency, a recovery program for medical professionals (July 28); Sky Sabin’s ART IS A VERB, a documentary short in which the filmmaker asks for advice from three of the most inspirational people he knows; Natasha Kermani’s short documentary ATLANTIS/EARTH, an artist’s interpretation of a Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute research cruise (July 29); and MASS DOLPHIN STRANDING, a short about 180 dolphins that were stranded on the Cape in the winter of 2012 (July 29); Barnstable native Kiley Kraskouskas’ moving documentary, THE LAST SONG BEFORE THE WAR, about the last Festival in the Desert concert in Mali before a civil war broke out last year (July 29); Marnie Crawford Samuelson’s look at a celebrated Martha’s Vineyard/Provincetown artist in the short SELINA TRIEFF WILL NOT STOP (July 29); long-time summer resident Lisa Robinson’s short film, HOLLOW (July 30); and Falmouth native Kitten Calfee is credited as marketing and distribution producer on BIG JOY: THE ADVENTURES OF JAMES BROUGHTON. 

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