LEWISTON — A one-day, truncated film festival can’t replace a three-day event that’s brought an estimated $220,000 to restaurants and hotels, but there was optimism Wednesday that the Emerge festival could start to bring the dollars and people back. When organizers announced the official end to the Lewiston Auburn Film Festival on Tuesday after days […]
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New festival to replace Lewiston Auburn Film Festival
LEWISTON — Tainted by scandal surrounding the arrest of co-founder and director Joshua Shea, the four-day Lewiston Auburn Film Festival was officially canceled Tuesday. Leaders announced the cancellation and the refund of all tickets moments before unveiling a new, one-day movie event, the Emerge Film Festival, scheduled for June 14 at the Franco Center. Buckfield […]
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LAFF to be replaced by 1-day film fest in June
LEWISTON — Members of the community and local filmmakers announced Tuesday that the Lewiston Auburn Film Festival is no more, but it will be replaced by a one-day film festival in June.
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Miclon, ‘Survivorman’ drop out of Lewiston Auburn Film Festival
LEWISTON — The Lewiston Auburn Film Festival lost more films Monday in the controversy surrounding festival Director Joshua Shea, charged last week with possession of child pornography. On Monday, local filmmaker Michael Miclon pulled his film, “Richard 3” from the festival despite a sellout of the Franco-American Heritage Center for his premiere screening. “We have […]
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Film fest’s future in doubt as group gives up rescue effort
LEWISTON — Local backers who had been working to save the Lewiston Auburn Film Festival, scheduled to begin in less than two weeks, said Sunday they have given up. “We cannot legally take over someone else’s company,” said Sandy Marquis, a former shareholder of the festival and one of local residents trying to save it. […]
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Movies previewed at LA Film Festival sneak peek
LEWISTON — Father and son zombie-killing, demented Disney characters, ax-swinging madmen. Things got freaky Friday night on Lisbon Street. It’s the Lewiston Auburn Film Festival, of course, with a preview of things to come in April. When an event begins with a man teaching his kid how to exterminate the undead, you know it’s going […]