BRUNSWICK — How should Hollywood get more women into the industry? Hire them. At least that’s what the team behind the new film “Band Aid” did: Maine native and producer Natalia Anderson, and director and actress Zoe Lister-Jones hired an entirely female production crew. The film, which screened at the Sundance Film Festival in January […]
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Emerge Film Festival staff, filmmakers celebrate success
LEWISTON — An air of equal parts excitement and exhaustion filled the Emerge Film Festival Wrap Party Sunday night at DaVinci’s Eatery. “We’re tired but really happy,” said Laura Rinck, president of Emerge Film Festival board of directors. “It was a huge success this year.” This is the festival’s third year, and the staff finally […]
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Film fest in L-A ‘relevant for every audience’
AUBURN — The 10th-anniversary screening of a film based on a poem by renowned Lewiston painter Marsden Hartley will kick off the second annual Emerge Film Festival. The festival will be held over four days on April 9-12 at various venues in Lewiston and Auburn. Less than 20 percent of the more than 200 submissions […]
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‘We Love Lewiston’ documentary to be screened at Guthries on Wednesday
LEWISTON — The Lewiston Youth Advisory Council will debut its 30-minute documentary entitled “We Love Lewiston, Maine” at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 4, at Guthries Independent Theatre, 115 Middle St. Admission is free and doors will open at 6 p.m. for “first-come” seating. Guthries food will be available for purchase. The documentary is part of […]
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‘Citizenfour’ to be shown at Guthries Theater in Lewiston on multiple dates
Guthries Independent Theater will screen “Citizenfour” Jan. 24, 29-31. In January 2013, filmmaker Laura Poitras was in the process of constructing a film about abuses of national security in post-9/11 America when she started receiving encrypted e-mails from someone identifying himself as “citizen four,” who was ready to blow the whistle on the massive covert […]
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Art Institute sponsors silent film at UMF on Jan. 31
FARMINGTON — The Arts Institute of Western Maine will sponsor Silent Film Night at The Emery at 7 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 31, featuring Doug Protsik playing live piano to Buster Keaton’s 1928 masterpiece “Steamboat Bill, Jr.” Protsik plays the “old-time piano” for dances, melodramas, honky tonk saloons, and silent movies. He learned his style from […]
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2015 Maine Short Film Festival at Guthries theater Jan. 15
LEWISTON — The 2015 Maine Short Film Festival is coming to Guthries Independent Theater at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 15. Doors open at 7 p.m. It is presented by Craig Saddlemire and Colin Kelley of Maine Microcinema and sponsored by the Maine Film & Video Association. The event is free to the public and attendees […]
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‘Babadook’ to be screened at Guthries Theater in Lewiston Jan. 9, 16
LEWISTON — Guthries Independent Theater will show “The Babadook” on Friday, Jan. 9 and 16 as well as Saturday, Jan. 10 and 17. Six years after the violent death of her husband, Amelia (Essie Davis) is at a loss. She struggles to discipline her “out of control” 6 year-old, Samuel (Noah Wiseman), a son she […]
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Mahoosuc Arts Council to screen multimedia presentation at Gould Academy Jan. 13
BETHEL — The Mahoosuc Arts Council will screen the film “The Maine Frontier: Through the Lens of Isaac Simpson” at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 13, Executive Director Aranka Matolcsy said Monday morning. Matolcsy said that the Mahoosuc Arts Council was presenting the film, directed by Wiscasset composer and filmmaker Sumner McKane, as part of the […]