When:
Saturday, Jul 25, 2015 5:00p -
Saturday, Aug 01, 2015 11:00p

Where:
Old Woods Hole Fire Station
72 Water Street
Woods Hole, MA 02453

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Admission:
$14; Full festival passes are $300 and ticket packages of 10, 6 and 2 are also available

Categories:
Festivals & Fairs, Film, Kid Friendly, Lectures & Conferences, Party, Social Good

Event website:
http://www.woodsholefilmfestival.org

The Woods Hole Film Festival, the oldest on Cape Cod and the islands, celebrates its 24th year in the renowned “postage stamp village” of Woods Hole. With five pioneering filmmakers-in-residence, more than 100 films—including 34 narrative and documentary feature-length films in competition (many of which are Massachusetts premieres), and 8 shorts programs—workshops, master classes, panel discussions, and parties featuring top notch live music, the festival offers a stimulating blend of activities for filmmakers and film lovers alike in a casual seaside setting.


In keeping with its mission the festival showcases and promotes the work of independent, emerging filmmakers and highlights films from or with connections to New England. As the festival has grown in scope and reputation, it has expanded to include work from across the country and around the world. This year several films are from such far-flung locales as Alaska, Minnesota, Turkey, and Brazil.


The festival’s Filmmaker-in-Residence Program, supported by a grant from the Arts Foundation of Cape Cod and the Woods Hole Foundation, invites more established filmmakers to participate in screenings, master classes and extended Q&A sessions. Filmmakers-in-residence include Cambridge-bred screenwriter and director Maya Forbes, documentary filmmaker and Producer of Creative Partnerships at the Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program’s Richard Ray Perez, singer-songwriter Sally Taylor (daughter of Carly Simon and James Taylor), and The Kissinger Twins (Kasia Kifert and Dawid Marcinkowski), Webby award-winning filmmakers based in London.


Opening night features Maya Forbes’s Sundance hit and directorial debut, INFINITELY POLAR BEAR, starring Mark Ruffalo and Zoe Saldana and courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics. A former writer and producer for The Larry Sanders Show, Forbes has also written screenplays for such films as MONSTERS VS. ALIENS, and DIARY OF A WIMPY KID 3.


Additional opening night films include Frank Hall Green’s WILDLIKE, about a teenage girl who is sent to live with her uncle in Juneau that was shot entirely in Alaska. As a first time director Green was a virtual unknown, but in true indie fashion, he persuaded Christine Vachon (STILL ALICE, BOYS DON’T CRY) to be the film’s executive producer. Fans of the novel HARRY AND SNOWMAN, the true story of about immigrant Harry deLeyer, who journeyed to the US after World War II and developed a life-altering relationship with an ailing Amish plow horse rescued off a slaughter truck, will also appreciate Ron Davis’s documentary of the same name.


Filmmakers with New England roots or connections have been one of the festival’s longstanding hallmarks. Narrative include: BEREAVE by Rhode Island natives Evangelos & George Giovanis and starring Malcolm MacDowell, Jane Seymour, and Keith Carradine; BOB AND THE TREES, about a 50 year-old logger struggling to make ends meet in rural Massachusetts during the 2014 polar vortex by Berkshires-based Diego Ongaro; and Boston University graduate Lindsay Copeland’s GIRLS NIGHT, about five college friends who reunite for a concert in Boston (shot entirely in Boston). THE FINEST HOURS author Casey Sherman also leads a workshop called FROM PAGE TO SCREEN about turning his book into a major studio film shot in Massachusetts.


It is also traditional for filmmakers to return to the festival with their subsequent films, and this year several returnees are not only well-regarded documentary filmmakers, but also happen to be from Massachusetts. Harvard professors Robb Moss (SECRECY) and Peter Galison return with CONTAINMENT, about the growing problem of nuclear waste generated by nuclear weapons and nuclear power plants. Brandeis University professor Laurie Kahn (TUPPERWARE) returns with LOVE BETWEEN THE COVERS about the little-known, surprisingly powerful community of women who read and write romance novels. Suffolk University professor Gerry Peary (FOR THE LOVE OF MOVIES: THE STORY OF AMERICAN FILM CRITICISM) returns with ARCHIE’S BETTY, about his 25-year search to find out once and for all who are the real people behind the iconic characters of the Archie comic book series. Finally, Cambridge-based Susan Gray (KILLER POET) returns with CIRCUS WITHOUT BORDERS, about two circus troupes—one from the Canadian Arctic and the other from Kalabante in West Africa—who use circus arts as a means of self-expression and cultural exchange.


For a complete schedule visit www.woodsholefilmfestival.org

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