CHICAGO – Former Maine regional magazine publisher Joshua Shea has written a memoir chronicling his battle with pornography addiction. “The Addiction Nobody Will Talk About” is now available in pre-sales through Amazon.com, BarnesandNoble.com, and will be released Jan. 10. “When Josh first presented his manuscript to me, he provided me with links to his arrest […]
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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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Emerge Film Festival receives $10,000 state grant
LEWISTON — The Emerge Film Festival has been given a $10,000 boost by the Maine Office of Tourism. The festival, which is scheduled for April 9 to 12, was one of eight recipients from the new Tourism Enterprise Marketing Program. The money will be used to help draw audiences to the second annual event. “It […]
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Film festival fate uncertain following arrest of its director
AUBURN — Minutes after filmmaker Michael Miclon heard Thursday about the child pornography arrest of Joshua Shea, the director of the Lewiston Auburn Film Festival, emails began arriving. They all seemed to ask Miclon the same thing: “Is the Lewiston Auburn Film Festival happening?” He didn’t know what to say. Neither did Dan Marois, the […]
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Lights, camera, rebellion! Upstart cinema class expects to play major role as student film competition nears.
AUBURN — Midway through an Edward Little High School class on documentary filmmaking, the students politely mutinied. The 13-member class had spent weeks making movies about grandparents, neighbors and classmates. They liked the work. But they had other stories to tell. And they told their teacher, Shawn Rice, so. “Most of the kids said, ‘With […]
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Lewiston Auburn Film Fest unveils details about this year’s movies, stars and tickets
LEWISTON — A movie shot secretly inside two Disney theme parks, a documentary about a sidewalk poet and a pair of Maine-made movies — one spooky and one funny — will be among the 50 to 60 titles featured April 3 to 6 at the Lewiston Auburn Film Festival. Festival Director Joshua Shea said he […]
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Lewiston Auburn Film Festival chosen among the ‘coolest in world’
AUBURN — A southern California magazine, MovieMaker, has named the Lewiston Auburn Film Festival one of the top 25 coolest film festivals in the world. “It tells filmmakers out there that we do produce a level of quality,” said Joshua Shea, the festival’s director. “It also tells people that we have the kind of organization […]