[Classifieds] [classifieds] Films with Woods Hole/environmental/Cape Cod connections at the Woods Hole Film Festival

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From: "Ellen Gitelman" <elleng at americangraphiti.com> 


For immediate release : July 19, 2015 



WOODS HOLE, MA— The Woods Hole Film Festival, the Cape and the islands’ oldest film festival that runs for eight days from July 25 through August 1 this year, showcases and promotes the work of independent, emerging filmmakers. The festival also often highlights films from or with connections to New England, several of which are also connected to the Cape and the islands this year. With five pioneering filmmakers-in-residence, more than 100 films—including 34 narrative and documentary feature-length films in competition (many of which are premieres), and 8 shorts programs—as well as workshops, master classes, panel discussions, and parties with top notch live music. 

The festival is honored to have Martha’s Vineyard native Sally Taylor, daughter of James Taylor and Carly Simon, as one of this year’s filmmakers-in-residence. She’ll present her film CONSENSES (Tuesday, July 28, 5:00 PM), a multi-disciplinary project in which 150 artists from around the world interpret each other’s work in a manner similar to the game of telephone. She’ll also be part of a panel discussion on creativity and innovation in storytelling (Tuesday, July 28, 1:00 PM) alongside London-based, Webby award-winning filmmakers Kasia Kifert and Dawid Marcinkowski, aka the Kissinger Twins. 




The lone narrative feature film with a Cape Cod connection, Lukas Hoffman’s WHEN THE OCEAN MET THE SKY (Friday, July 31, 9:00 PM), features cinematography by Woods Hole resident Daniel Cojanu who is returning to the festival after one of his previous films, SCIENCE IN A TIME OF CRISIS: THE WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTE’S RESPONSE TO THE DEEPWATER HORIZON OIL SPILL was the subject of a panel discussion in 2011. In the film, three estranged brothers must journey to a remote location in order to receive their inheritance due to a stipulation in their parents will. 




Fans of SILENT SPRING author Rachel Carson might be surprised to learn that she first encountered the sea as a graduate student in Woods Hole. She studied and worked for many years at both the Marine Biological Laboratory and what is now the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and Woods Hole remained her intellectual home throughout her life. In THE POWER OF ONE VOICE: A 50-YEAR PERSPECTIVE ON THE LIFE OF RACHEL CARSON (Wednesday, July 29, 5:00 PM) Mark Dixon examines her life and the profound implications of her environmental work through interviews with her son Roger Christie, her biographer, Linda Lear, and other notable writers, scientists and advocates. 



Appropriately, the film is accompanied by the documentary short GOATSCAPING by the husband and wife team of Elizabeth Witham and Ken Wentworth, who are based on Martha’s Vineyard. Part of a series called Sustainable Vineyard Episodes that celebrate visionary islanders and spotlight living within the local ecology, it follows Kristen Fauteux from the conservation organization Sheriff’s Meadow, who teams up with Rebecca Gilbert and Randy Ben David from Native Earth Teaching Farm in order to create a fun and effective way to keep the invasive bittersweet at bay at Cedar Tree Neck. Their advisor was Kate Davis, a Woods Hole Film Festival co-founder, a Martha’s Vineyard summer resident, and an Emmy award-winning documentary filmmaker for HBO. 




MIT professor and oceanographer Sallie W. ("Penny") Chisholm works at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute during the summer. She and several of her Skidmore College classmates—an all-women’s college at the time—are featured in the documentary WOMEN OF ’69 UNBOXED (Monday, July 27, 5:00 PM), by Peter Barton, Wellesley resident Liz Roman Gallese, and Jane Starz, the Emmy-winning producer of the original Magic School Bus series, Charles in Charge , and Spooksville and such feature films as INDIAN IN THE CUPBOARD, TUCK EVERLASTING, and ELLA ENCHANTED. The film gets its name from the class’s unconventional yearbook—called a “Yearbox”—that reflected how women could finally create distinctive identities for their lives. Electrified and pummeled by the turbulent surf of the 60s, the members of the class of ‘69 look back and then ahead as they turn 65, reflecting on their heartaches and triumphs while evaluating the “dowry” they’ll leave for future generations. 

Hildegarde Keller’s documentary WHATEVER COMES NEXT (Monday, July 27, 5:00 PM) revisits the curious and dynamic life of 87-year-old artist Annemarie Mahler, who spends her summers in Woods Hole. Innovative storytelling evokes the wonderland of a childhood in Vienna, animating Mahler’s intimate conversation with the past and the present. 




After winning Audience Awards for the shorts INSIDE MOTHERWELL’S DUMPSTER and SELINA TRIEFF WILL NOT STOP at previous Woods Hole Film Festivals, part-time Wellfleet resident Marnie Crawford Samuelson returns with her latest short film ROCKERS (Friday, July 31, 7:00 PM). In the film plastic rocking horses age together in a farmer’s field. Samuelson uses the children’s toy as a metaphor for graceful acceptance of the beauty and pathos of life’s last chapter. 

Two Cape Cod individuals lead a workshop and a panel discussion, respectively. Author Casey Sherman, who grew up in Barnstable, will lead a workshop called “From Page to Screen” based on his experience with THE FINEST HOURS, his bestselling novel that became a big budget Hollywood movie, as well as with his novel BOSTON STRONG, which is currently in production. He’ll provide helpful tips and takes you behind the scenes of his journey (Thursday, July 30, 3:00 PM; advance registration required). 



On Saturday, August 1, at 3:00 PM Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute biologist Michael Moore, along with Boston Globe writer Sarah Schweitzer and editor Steven Wilmsen, discuss the award-winning multi-media story CHASING BAYLA, as part of a panel discussion on the juxtaposition between journalism and filmmaking . As an uncertain 23-year-old, Moore discovered a deep connection with whales. He vowed to end what he considered their torture: entangling fishing rope that cut through blubber, down to bone, and often killed. The whales most prone to the prolonged and terrible deaths were North Atlantic Right Whales, among the rarest of animals. For decades, Moore watched as science created stronger and stronger rope with greater capacity to kill the whales. For decades, he toiled in his lab trying to find a way to save these whales. Finally, Moore struck upon a technique. On a January day, Moore and a team set out from the coast of Florida to rescue one young right whale named Bayla. The results of that day pushed the boundaries of science, only to reveal its heartbreaking limits—putting Moore and his life’s work to the test. Using the written word with a parallel visual story, the film, published in the Boston Globe in 2014, integrates different ways of telling a story into one form, offering the reader the opportunity to have an in depth experience with the subject. 




The festival takes place at a variety of venues, including Redfield Auditorium, the Woods Hole Community Hall, the Old Woods Hole Fire Station, Lillie Auditorium, Morse Hall at Falmouth Academy and the Falmouth Cinema Pub, with most within walking distance in compact Woods Hole. Special festival parking is available after 5 PM. 

While the Cape and the islands contribute a substantial number of filmmakers and subjects this year, audience members needn’t limit themselves to what’s listed here; they should take a look at the other films, workshops, panels, and parties listed on the festival’s web site. Tickets are available either online at www.woodsholefilmfestival.org or in person during the festival at the Old Woods Hole Fire Station, although many programs sell out, so early purchase is advised. For more info, call 508-495-3456. 

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Ellen Gitelman 
American Graphiti 
617-426-6668 


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