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between the worlds of responsibility and creative joy. Master Class: Filmmaker in Residence Saturday, July 26 But, her first brave steps are the catalyst for changing not only her life, but Shane’s too, in complex and unpre- Jay Craven dictable ways. Cast: Maggie Baird, Finneas O’Connell, 3:00 PM, Old Woods Hole Fire Station Music: The Wayworn Travelers Special David Cowgill, Lori Nasso, William Hunt, Patrick O’Connell, Concert before The Winding Stream screening Event Goh Nakamura, Yogi Lonich, Joe Hart, Emma Bell, Xenia, 6:00 PM, Redfield Auditorium Roscoe Brandon, Orson Ossman Druid Peak The Wayworn Travelers, a new aggregation of - Narrative Feature, Marni Zelnick, 2013, 112 min. area roots musicians who share a deep and genuine love 7:00 PM, Redfield Auditorium of The Carter Family, will perform traditional and modern SHORTS 1: Love, Sex and/or Romance Set against the backdrop of the wolf reintroduction pro- renditions of Carter Family songs. Wayworn Travelers’ 9:00 PM, Old Woods Hole Fire Station gram in Yellowstone National Park, Druid Peak is a coming members have performed with Howard ‘Louie Bluie’ Arm- Monkey Rag of age story about a troubled teenage boy who finds strong, Chris Smith, Tarbox Ramblers, Morphine, Michael Animation, Joanna Davidovich, 2013, 4 min. a home tracking wolves in the wild lands of Wyoming. Hurley, Miss Tess, Jethro Burns, Jim Kweskin, Guy Davis The film is about the human soul’s need for wild things and others, at venues as diverse as Lincoln Center, The La Mime and the challenge of holding onto them. Shot on location Narrative Short, Marjorie Cohen, 2013, 6 min. Hall of Fame, The Boston Folk Festival, and in West Virginia, Wyoming, Montana and Utah, the film The Blues Festival, garnering praise from The Romantics stars Andrew Wilson (Rushmore, The Royal Tennen- , Boston Magazine, The Boston Music Narrative Short, Ryan Daniel Dobson, 2013, 15 min. baums, Whip It), Spencer Treat Clark (The Last House on the Left, Mystic River, Gladiator) and Rachel Korine (Spring Awards and more along the way. A Lovely Treat Breakers Septien, Mr. Lonely). Narrative Short, Mitch Yapko, 2012, 11 min. The Winding Stream Surprise Engagement Documentary Feature, Beth Harrington, 2012, 90 min. Narrative Short, Andrew Silver, 2014, 11 min. SHORTS 3: Big Questions 7:00 PM, Redfield Auditorium 7:00 PM, Old Woods Hole Fire Station The Winding Stream is a music history documentary Salmon Deadly Sins Animation, Steven Vander Meer, 2013, 7 min. Eye of the Storm progress that tells the story of the American roots music Documentary Short, 2012, 16 min. dynasty, the Carters and the Cashes. Starting with the Life’s a Bitch Original Carter Family (A.P., Sara, Maybelle), the film traces Narrative Short, Francois Jaros, 2013, 6 min. The Last 40 Miles Animation, Alex Hannaford, 2013, 15 min. the ebb and flow of their influence, the transformation of The Morning After that act into the Carter Sisters, the marital alliance with Narrative Short, Mia Faith Renaud, 20xx, xx min. Protesters legend and the efforts of present-day family Narrative Short, Marty Lang, 2013, 10 min. to keep this legacy alive. Arguably, there would be on Folk A Day in the Life of a Bathroom Mirror Homophonia Revival of the ‘60s without them, no country rock bands Narrative Short, Phil Hawkins, 2014, 9 min. Narrative Short, James Jermanok, 2014, 3 min. of the 70s, and no current alt-country hipsters without The Promise their music. “Will the Circle Be Unbroken”, “Keep on the Narrative Short, Nongkhran Meecharoen, 2013, 15 min. Flesh Eaters Sunny Side”, “Worried Man Blues”, “Are You Lonesome Narrative Short, Matthew Hollis-Lima, 2013, 9 min. Tonight” are just a few of their songs. No one has yet Opening Night Party Machsom pulled together all the elements of this family saga in one Party Narrative Short, Joel Novoa, 2013, 25 min. documentary. The goal of The Winding Stream is to honor 11:00 PM, The Captain Kidd Waterfront this multi-generational family where it stands -- at the Featuring music by The Wayworn Travelers Salvatore headwaters of American roots music. Moderated Q&A fol- Narrative Short, William Shermer, 2013, 6 min. lowing the screening with filmmaker Beth Harrington and Ashore moderator Elijah Wald. Narrative Short, Robert Andersen, 2013, 9 min.

Screens with: Sunday, July 27 Lomax Filmmaker In Residence Screening Narrative Short, Jesse Kreitzer, 2013, 12 min. Kids’ Day and Workshop with Jay Craven featuring The Boxcar Children 8:00 PM, Woods Hole Community Hall Brave New Wild Animation, Daniel Chuba, Mark Dippe, 2014, 82 min. Filmmaker in Residence Screening – Jay Craven’s 2006 2:00 PM, Redfield Auditorium feature film Disappearances adapted from a book by Documentary Feature, Oakley Anderson-Moore, 2014, 76 min. 7:00 PM, Old Woods Hole Fire Station Based on one of the best selling children’s books of all Howard Frank Mosher. Quebec Bill Bohomme is a hardy time.A touching tale of family togetherness target to schemer and dreamer, who, desperate to raise money Stumbling upon her father’s hi8 tapes, a daughter dis- kids ages four to twelve. The film explores themes of to preserve his endangered herd through the rapidly covers a world of delinquent oddballs and wino nomad- personal integrity, generosity and kindness.Meet Henry, approaching winter, resorts to whiskey-smuggling, a poets who dedicated their life to an absurdist art form: Jessie, Violet and Benny, four orphaned brothers and traditional family occupation. Quebec Bill takes his son, rock climbing. Through a kaleidoscopic mishmash of sisters who mysteriously appear in a small town on a Wild Bill, on the journey. Also Henry Coville, an inscrutable campfire stories with the most eccentric climbing warm summer night. No one knows who these young whiskey smuggler, and Rat Kinneson, Quebec Bill’s per- pioneers, colorful archival footage, hand-animated car- wanderers are or where they have come from. The petually disconsolate ex-con hired man. Together, they toons, and the director’s family home videos, Brave New children make a home for themselves in an abandoned cross the border into vast reaches of Canadian wilder- Wild explores an answer to the question of why climb boxcar they discover in the woods. The children make a ness for an unforgettable four days “full of terror, full when there’s nothing to gain -- and everything to lose. happy life for themselves, discovering the struggles and of wonder.” Kris Kristofferson, Genevieve Bujold, Charlie rewards of independence until one day they must reveal McDermott, Gary Farmer, Bill Sanderson, Lothaire Bluteau. Screens with: their secret and risk discovery by the one person they Following the screening Jay will discuss his process of The Devil Goes Down fear the most. adapting books to film. Documentary Short, Nicholas Julius, 2013, 11 min. SHORTS 2: The Things We Do The Newburgh Sting Life Inside Out 5:00 PM, Redfield Auditorium Documentary Feature, Kate Davis, David Heilbroner Narrative Feature, Jill D’Agnenica, 2013, 103 min. 9:00 PM, Redfield Auditorium 9:00 PM, Redfield Auditorium 2580 Narrative Short, Bryce Richardson, 2013, 8 min. FBI undercover footage tells the story of the Newburgh Life Inside Out tells the story of Laura, the mother of Four and the U.S. government’s practice of entrapping three teenage boys, and her youngest son Shane, the Joe Muslims and selling their arrests to the public as anti- family misfit and a disappointment to his father. Laura Documentary Short, Erica Hill, Nick Noyes, 2014, 5 min. terror victories. Told with a shocking, thriller style, four is going through the motions, half-heartedly hosting a The Models of Bekonscot poor African-Americans are lured by an FBI informant scrap booking party for her sister Lydia’s new multi-level Documentary Short, Sophie Le Neveu, 2013, 5 min. into a wild plot to bomb a synagogue. Their arrests were marketing business when she stumbles upon her long publicized as a great success, the men now serve 25 forgotten guitar, a gift from her mother and the former Maritime Capsules years in prison. Yet the entire scheme was manufac- passion of her youthful life. She soon rediscovers her Documentary Short, Sal Zerilli, Keith Palazzola, 2014, 22 min. tured by the government, a reality which casts our love for songwriting. Shane, sullen, ear buds perpetually INSIDE MOTHERWELL’S DUMPSTER domestic war on terror in a deeply unsettling, new light. in his ears, has cut himself off from the activities that Documentary Short, Marnie Crawford Samuelson, his father and brothers enjoy. When Laura impulsively Marnie Crawford Samuelson, 2014, 10 min. decides to sing at her first open-mic night, she takes Jon Imber’s Left Hand Documentary Feature, Richard Kane, 2014, 57 min. Shane along for the ride—an act of both pity and moth- Cubical Life Narrative Short, Joshua Waterstone, 2013, 6 min. 9:00 PM, Old Woods Hole Fire Station erly instinct. Her first performance is a near disaster but with Shane’s encouragement, she eventually tries again. Japipur Mahouti A documentary of artist Jon Imber’s courageous and She starts to blossom, and Shane eventually picks up Documentary Short, Deborah Harse, 2013, 8 min. sometimes darkly humorous response to a diagnosis Laura’s guitar and begins to discover musical gifts of of ALS. The film traces his life, career, and adaptations, The Watershed his own. As family pressure increases, Laura is caught switching from painting from his right hand to his left, and Documentary Short, Elise Hugus, Daniel Cojanu, 2014, 15 min. then to both hands held at his waist as the degenera- Eternally Yours tive condition progresses. Adversity made him more Animation, Jack Ofield, 2013, 11 min. determined to paint, and paint he did: more than 100 A Bringing Science to the Screen screening. portraits in a four month span. We first encounter Imber in his studio painting with his left hand for the first time she? Why did she fight? And what made her so danger- starts to tell her something different. At eighteen, she while he and his partner, painter Jill Hoy, analyze Jon’s self- ous she was erased from history? Based on Loreta’s finally confronts her mother and learns the truth: her portrait and talk about the anxiety to come. The painting 600-page memoir, actors and historians bring her biological father was not the man who raised her, but a becomes an unsettling metaphor of his psychological story to life in a hybrid documentary weaving drama, black man named Rodney with whom her mother had an journey living into his dying through his art. animation, historical and recreated archival material affair. Afraid of losing her relationship with her parents, to unravel the mystery of Loreta Velazquez. Rebel is a Lacey doesn’t openly acknowledge her newly discovered black identity with her white family until her biological Screens with: detective story about a woman, a myth, and the politics of national memory. father dies shortly before Lacey’s thirtieth birthday. Maritime Capsules Following the funeral, Lacey begins a quest to reconcile Documentary Short, Sal Zerilli, Keith Palazzola, 2014, 22 min. the hidden pieces of her life and heal her relationship Fall to Rise with her father. What defines our identity, our family Also Screens with: Narrative Feature, Jayce Bartok, 2013, 90 min. of origin or the family that raises us? How do we come Inside Motherwell’s Dumpster 9:00 PM, Redfield Auditorium to terms with the sins and mistakes of our parents? Lacey discovers that answering those questions means Doc. Short, Marnie Crawford Samuelson, 2014, 10 min. Who Will Catch You When You Fall? Lauren Drake (Katherine Crockett) a famous principal dancer injures her knee and at- understanding her parents’ stories as well as her own. tempts to settle into motherhood only to realize she has no She pieces together her family history and the story of Sunday Night Party her dual identity using home videos, archival footage, Party identity without dance. Upon running into a troubled former 10:30 PM, Quicks Hole Tavern company dancer, Sheila Jules (Daphne Rubin-Vega) who left interviews, and episodes from her own life. Little White in a cloud of scandal many years earlier, Lauren believes that Lie is a personal documentary about the legacy of family Sheila can help her get back into the world of dance. Sheila secrets, denial, and redemption. also has unresolved issues with the former director of Lau- Monday, July 28 ren’s dance company and sees an opportunity to confront Screens with: him and her past by helping Lauren on her journey. Together Liz these two opposites go on an emotional journey to discover Documentary Short, Sharyn Paul Brusie, 2014, 28 min. Quick Stop the true meaning of their lives. Fall To Rise features an 3:00 PM, Quicks Hole Taqueria ensemble of Martha Graham Company dancers as the fictional HDC Company as well as supporting performances Raising Matty Christian by Tamara Tunie as Annika, the business savvy executive Documentary Feature, Christian de Rezendes, 2014, 85 min. Wicker Kittens director of HDC who supports the decision to bring Lauren 7:00 PM, Lillie Auditorium Documentary Feature, Amy Elliott, 2014, 52 min. back; and Kohl Sudduth as Ryan, Lauren’s cause-minded law- 5:00 PM, Redfield Auditorium This inspirational documentary profiles the life of Mat- yer husband who wants Lauren to embrace motherhood thew G. Christian (1983-2009), known as ‘Matty’ from the and start a new phase of her life. Cast: Katherine Crockett, Open the box. Dump out all the pieces. And scramble for town of Canton, , who was born without Daphne Rubin-Vega, Desmond Richardson, Tamara Tunie, your lives. Because this is competitive jigsaw puzzling. a full set of arms and legs and without a tongue. As Kohl Sudduth, Jon Rua, Emily Fleischer And it turns even the mildest of mannered Midwestern- told through interviews with his parents Allie and Jerry, ers into stone-cold competitors. Every January, the top brother Michael and several close friends and authority Screens with: teams in the game gather at the St. Paul Winter Carnival figures throughout his life, ‘Raising Matty Christian’ paints in frigid Minnesota to determine the fastest puzzlers in Monotony a portrait of an inspiring young man who never took no the country. Wicker Kittens invites you to choose your Narrative Short, Joanne Postlewaite, 2013, 3 min. for an answer and set out to live life to the fullest. favorite contestants„the returning champs, the upstart challengers, the sunny family or the dark horse team Screens with: with nothing to lose„and watch them try to put the SHORTS 4: Is the War Ever Over? 9:00 PM, Old Woods Hole Fire Station pieces back together. Blue Tarzan Animation, Katelyn Bianchini, Rena Cheng, Asia Lancaster, 2013, 9 min. Screens with: Animation, Signe Baumane, 2014, 3 min. Fetch Not Anymore: A Story of Revolution Documentary Short, Ben Pender-Cudlip, 2013, 2 min. Documentary Short, Matthew VanDyke, 2013, 15 min. SHORTS 5: Believe It...Or Not 7:00 PM, Old Woods Hole Fire Station Kingdom Coming Also Screens with: Narrative Short, Alex Fofonoff, 2014, 24 min. Gli Zii For the Love of Dogs Narrative Short, Gerard Monaco, 2013, 22 min. Documentary Short, Tim O’Donnell, 2014, 26 min. Out of the Ash Narrative Short, Sandy Garfunkel, 2013, 14 min. The Silly Bastard Next to the Bed Documentary Short, Scott Calonico, 2013, 11 min. One Cut, One Life The War Photographers Documentary Short, Steven Kochones, 2013, 28 min. Ship of Fools Documentary Feature, Lucia Small, Ed Pincus, 2014, 105 min. Narrative Short, Mike McGuirk, 2014, 17 min. 7:00 PM, Redfield Auditorium When seminal documentarian Ed Pincus is diagnosed with The Confession of Father KO Narrative Short, D.J. Higgins, 2014, 60 min. a terminal illness, he and collaborator Lucia Small team up to make one last film, much to the chagrin of Jane, Ed’s Tuesday, July 29 Last Shot wife of 50 years. Told from two points of view with vulner- Narrative Short, Greg Popp, 2013, 11 min. ability, intimacy and humor, ONE CUT, ONE LIFE challenges Workshop - From Script to Screen Miles Away the form of first person documentary while offering a 2:00 PM, Old Woods Hole Fire Station Narrative Short, Caroline Kepnes, 2013, 15 min. complex story of love, loss, legacy, and the delicacy of With Jean-Paul Ouellette. Veteran screenwriter, film di- capturing the preciousness of life while time is fleeting. rector and producer Jean-Paul Ouellette will break down To Hear The Music the process of turning a screenplay into a film. Documentary Feature, Dennis Lanson, 2013, 62 min. The Frontier 7:00 PM, Redfield Auditorium Narrative Feature, Matt Rabinowitz, 2013, 90min. 7:00 PM, Old Woods Hole Fire Station Cotton Road Charles Brenton Fisk worked with Robert Oppenheimer Documentary Feature, Laura Kissel, 2014, 73 min. as an 18-yr-old whiz kid on the Manhattan Project, build- Sean, a retired literature professor and civic activist, 5:00 PM, Lillie Auditorium ing a detonator for the A-bomb, before turning from writes a letter to his estranged son, Tennessee, a ranch the physics of destruction to music, his first love, and hand who hasn’t been home for years. At first, Ten- What does a rural town in South Carolina have to do with China? Americans consume nearly twenty billion building tracker action pipe organs out of Gloucester nessee is uncertain how to respond, but fearing what Massachusetts. He died in 1983, but his uniquely collab- could happen if he does not make an effort to see his new items of clothing each year, and at least one billion of them are made in China. Cotton Road uncovers the orative shop continues to build ‘The King of Instrumentsî’ aging father, he decides to make the journey home. He in much the same way it was built in the time of Bach. To arrives just as Nina, Sean’s personal trainer, fresh off transnational movement of cotton and tells the stories of workers lives in a conventional cotton supply chain. Hear The Music, a independent hour-long documentary, a bad breakup, accepts Sean’s offer to move into his follows the development of a single pipe organ, CB FiskÍs guest room and help him write his memoirs. The tension From rural farms in South Carolina to factory cities in China, we span the globe to encounter the industrial Opus 139, from initial design meetings (with Harvard’s between Sean and Tennessee is ever-present. Living late beloved Rev. Peter J. Gomes), through every aspect under the same roof again is clearly difficult for the both processes behind our rapacious consumption of cheap clothing and textile products. Are we connected to one of building and testing, to a celebratory Easter inaugural of them. As Sean and Nina work on Sean’s memoirs, Ten- in Memorial Church, Harvard University, Fisk’s Alma nessee avoids his overbearing father by keeping himself another through the things we consume? Cotton Road explores a contemporary landscape of globalized labor mater. But the documentary also speaks about much busy with fix-up projects around the house. One evening, more than mere process. It also addresses the creation after Nina has left for a date, Sean and Tennessee find through human stories and provides an opportunity to reflect on the ways our consumption impacts others of a product built to last in todayÍs world of disposabil- themselves alone in the house for the first time. No lon- ity. It tells the story of a model workplace, where every and drives a global economy. ger able to avoid each other, the two men must open up. craftsman’s voice is heard. It explores the Organ Wars Cast: Max Gail, Coleman Kelly, Anastassia Sendyk, Oliver of the early 20th century, that pitted electro-pneumatic Seitz, Katherine Cortez Screens with: advocates against the pure mechanical tracker con- Jaipur Mahouti nection between the fingerÍs touch and the speech of Workshop: The Making of an Documentary Short, Deborah Harse, 2013, 8 min. the pipe. It examines the perfect marriage of craft and art that the man Fisk valued above all else. And then, Historical Documentary, Case Study not least of all, there is the music itself, which provides 8:00 PM, Woods Hole Community Hall Little White Lie glorious accompaniment as we observe a sum of parts Doc. Feature, Lacey Schwartz, James Adolphus, 2013, 65 min. coming to life in To Hear The Music. 2013 WHFF Filmmaker Maria Agui Carter returns to the 5:00 PM, Redfield Auditorium Festival to present a workshop on the making the mak- ing of an historical documentary using her film REBEL as Little White Lie tells Lacey Schwartz’s story of growing Screens with: a case study. She will screen the film and discuss the 12 up in a typical upper-middle-class Jewish household in Woodstock, NY, with loving parents and a strong sense The Silkies of Madagascar year process of getting it made. About the film: Loreta of her Jewish identity „ despite the questions from Documentary Short, David Evans, 2013, 26 min. Velazquez, the Latina soldier and spy of the American those around her about how a white girl could have such Civil War, was a 19th Century woman ahead of our time. dark skin. She believes her family’s explanation that Also Screens with: For over a century, critics dismissed Velazquez as a her looks were inherited from her dark-skinned Sicilian hoax. But there is plenty of evidence about her. Who was Models of Bekonscot grandfather. But when her parents abruptly split, her gut Documentary Short, Sophie Le Neveu, 2013, 5 min. Saturday Sunday monday tuesday - July 26 - - July 27 - - July 28 - - July 29 -

6:00PM 2:00PM 3:00PM 5:00PM Redfield Auditorium Redfield Auditorium Quick’s Hole Redfield Auditorium The Wayworn Travelers KIDS’ DAY: The Boxcar Quick Stop Little White Lie Special Event Music Children Party Documentary Feature Animation Screens with: 7:00PM 5:00PM Liz Redfield Auditorium 3:00PM Redfield Auditorium Documentary short The Winding Stream Old Woods Hole Fire Station Wicker Kittens Documentary Feature Jay Craven Master Class Documentary Feature 5:00PM Screens with: master class Screens with: Lillie Auditorium LOMAX Fetch Narrative short Cotton Road 5:00PM Documentary short Documentary Feature Redfield Auditorium Also screens with: 7:00PM Screens with: For the Love of Dogs Old Woods Hole Fire Station SHORTS 2: Jaipur Mahouti Documentary short Brave New Wild The Things We Do Documentary short shorts program Documentary Feature 7:00PM 7:00PM Screens with: 7:00PM Redfield Auditorium Redfield Auditorium Devil Goes Down One Cut, One Life Documentary short Redfield Auditorium To Hear The Music Druid Peak Documentary Feature Documentary Feature 9:00PM Narrative Feature Screens with: 7:00PM Redfield Auditorium Silkies of Madagascar Old Woods Hole Fire Station Life Inside Out 7:00PM Documentary short The Frontier Narrative Feature Old Woods Hole Fire Station Also screens with: SHORTS 3: Narrative Feature Models of Bekonscot 9:00PM Big Questions Documentary short 8:00PM Old Woods Hole Fire Station shorts program Community Hall SHORTS 1: 7:00PM The Making of an Historical Love, Sex and/or Romance 8:00PM Old Woods Hole Fire Station Documentary, Case Study shorts program Community Hall SHORTS 5 Filmmaker In Residence workshop Believe It...Or Not 11:00PM Screening and Workshop shorts program 9:00PM The Captain Kidd with Jay Craven Redfield Auditorium Opening Night Party Narrative Feature 7:00PM Fall to Rise Lillie Auditorium party 9:00PM Narrative Feature Raising Matty Christian Redfield Auditorium Screens with: Documentary Feature The Newburgh Sting Monotony Screens with: Documentary Feature Narrative short Blue animation 9:00PM 9:00PM Old Woods Hole Fire Station Old Woods Hole Fire Station 9:00PM Jon Imber’s Left Hand SHORTS 4: Redfield Auditorium Documentary feature Is the War Ever Over? Movement and Location Screens with: shorts program Narrative Feature Maritime Capsules Documentary short 9:00PM Also screens with: Old Woods Hole Fire Station Inside Motherwell’s Dumpster One Small Hitch Documentary short Narrative Feature

10:30PM 10:30PM Quicks Hole Tavern Phusion Grille Sunday Night Party Tuesday Night Party party party wednesday thursday friday saturday - July 30 - - July 31 - - August 1 - - August 2 -

5:00PM 2:00PM 5:00PM 2:00PM Redfield Auditorium Old Woods Hole Fire Station Redfield Auditorium Redfield Auditorium The Off Season Editing Case Study: The Blackbird By and By : New Orleans Narrative Feature Edward Gorey Documentary Narrative Feature Gospel at a Crossroad workshop Documentary feature 5:00PM 6:00PM Lillie Auditorium 5:00PM Community Hall 5:00PM The Longest Game Redfield Auditorium Panel Discussion Redfield Auditorium Documentary Feature SHORTS 7: panel Antarctica : Beyond the Ice Screens with: Documentary feature Reality Bites and Tastes Good Too The Promise shorts program 7:00PM Narrative short Redfield Auditorium 7:00PM Old Woods Hole Fire Station 7:00PM Desert Runner 7:00PM Redfield Auditorium Documentary feature Druid Peak Redfield Auditorium Narrative Feature The God Question Grace Narrative Feature 7:00PM Narrative Feature Old Woods Hole Fire Station 7:30PM Screens with: Redfield Auditorium Salvatore The David Dance 7:00PM Narrative Feature Narrative short Shotzapalooza Old Woods Hole Fire Station Screens with: shorts program Marmato Homophonia 7:00PM Documentary feature Narrative short 9:00PM Old Woods Hole Fire Station Screens with: Old Woods Hole Fire Station SHORTS 8: Payada Pa’Satan 8:00PM Life Inside Out animation Self Discovery Community Hall Narrative Feature shorts program Art and Craft 7:00PM Documentary Feature 9:30PM 7:00PM Lillie Auditorium Redfield Auditorium Lillie Auditorium Big Significant Things 9:00PM Awards Presentation The Boxcar Children Narrative Feature Redfield Auditorium awards animation Screens with: Loveless Zoritsa Silly Bastard Next to the Bed Narrative Feature 11:00PM 9:00PM Documentary short Screens with: Landfall Restaurant Redfield Auditorium Salmon Deadly Sins Closing Night Party 9:00PM Lies I Told My Little Sister animation party Redfield Auditorium Narrative Feature The Perfect 46 9:00PM 9:00PM Narrative Feature Old Woods Hole Fire Station Old Woods Hole Fire Station SHORTS 9: Copenhagen 9:00PM Family Matters Narrative Feature Old Woods Hole Fire Station shorts program SHORTS 6: 9:00PM Close Relations 10:00PM Lillie Auditorium shorts program Community Hall Sins of Our Youth Fight Church Narrative Feature 9:00PM Documentary feature Screens with: The Captain Kidd Tarzan Music: The Itai Esenberg Trio 11:00PM animation Muisc The Captain Kidd 10:30PM Friday Night Party party Phusion Grille Thursday Night Party party One Small Hitch gold is both a blessing and a curse. MARMATO is the story THE INTERNET’S OWN BOY, HOLY ROLLERS). Seufert, based in of how the townspeople cope with a disturbing prophesy Chatham, MA film shot the Edward Gorey from 1996 until Narrative Feature, John Burgess, 2013, 105 min. 9:00 PM, Old Woods Hole Fire Station of change and takeover delivered by the company’s his death in April 2000. mining prospector: ‘You can believe in God all you want, On a flight home to Chicago for a family wedding, child- but I don’t think he’s got too much to say about this hood friends Josh & Molly innocently agree to fake a wed- mountain getting leveled.’Filmed over the course of 5 1/2 SHORTS 7: Reality Bites and Tastes Good Too 5:00 PM, Redfield Auditorium ding engagement to make Josh’s dying father happy. years, MARMATO is a canvas of magic realism and the Things quickly get out of hand with their two boisterous confrontation with globalized mining. Devil Goes Down families, and a series of events causes them to pretend Documentary Short, Nicholas Julius, 2013, 10 min. to be a couple and start planning a phony wedding. When Screens with: the play acting begins to foster real feelings, the two Tobacco Burn must make some serious decisions: split up and return Payada Pa’Satan Narrative Short, Justin Liberman, 2013, 17 min. Animation, Antonio Balseiro, Carlos Balseiro, 2013, 8 min. to their lives in , or make a life as a couple Lomax back in Chicago...? Narrative Short, Jesse Kreitzer, 2013, 12 min. Big Significant Things JFK: Let them Come to Berlin Narrative Feature, Bryan Reisberg, 2013, 85 min. Movement and Location Documentary Short, Ted Ryan, 2014, 3 min. 7:00 PM, Lillie Auditorium Narrative Feature, Alexis Boling, 2013, 94 min. 9:00 PM, Redfield Auditorium At 26 years old, Craig (Harry Lloyd) seems to be doing The Cell Narrative Short, Ben Hyland, 2014, 11 min. Kim Getty is an immigrant from 400 years in the future, pretty well for himself. He has job stability, a supportive sent back to modern day Brooklyn to live out an easier family, and is about to start a wonderful new chapter The Last Night life. She’s built a new identity in this time that nearly sat- with his girlfriend. With big life changes on the horizon, Narrative Short, Jason Silva, 2014, 11 min. isfies: she has a full time job, shares an apartment with what better time to lie to your girlfriend so you can go on a road trip by yourself to the south? Cast: Harry Devil’s Damned to Try a roommate, and is falling in love. But when she finds two Narrative Short, Marshall Burnette, 2014, 23 min. other people from the future--a 15-year-old girl and Kim’s Lloyd, Krista Kosonen own long-lost husband--Kim must fight to keep the life The Gunfighter she once had from destroying the life she built here. Screens with: Narrative Short, Eric Kissack, 2014, 9 min. Silly Bastard Next to the Bed Tuesday Night Party Documentary Short, Scott Calonico, 2013, 11 min. SHORTS 8: Self Discovery 10:30 PM, Phusion Grille Party 7:00 PM, Old Woods Hole Fire Station SHORTS 6: Close Relations When Pigs Fly 9:00 PM, Old Woods Hole Fire Station Animation, Sandra Boynton, 2013, 5 min. Catch Theme Song Rebel Narrative Short, David Henrie, 2013, 10 min. Wednesday, July 30 Narrative Short, Luke Patton, 2013, 20 min. Happy Hour Conclave Narrative Short, Gretl Claggett, 2013, 14 min. The Off Season Narrative Short, Justin Foster, 2013, 19 min. Fetch Butterfly Fluttering Narrative Feature, John Stimpson, 2014, 89 min. Documentary Short, Ben Pender-Cudlip, 2013, 2 min. 5:00 PM, Redfield Auditorium Narrative Short, Roman Kayumov, 2014, 25 min. Unbound Julie (Amanda Schull) and Trent (Charlie Hofheimer), Liz Documentary Short, Sharyn Paul Brusie, 2012, 9 min. escape to Cape Cod in the winter for a “babymoon”. It’s Documentary Short, Sharyn Paul Brusie, 2014, 28 min. quiet and cold, but very cozy and private in the resort His New Hands community of Woods Hole in the off season. Julie is six Narrative Short, Sudhanshu Saria, 2013, 15 min. The God Question months pregnant, and the happy couple are very much Ave Maria Narrative Feature, Douglas Gordon, 2013, 90 min. in love. Trent shows her the nautical restaurant that he Narrative Short, Skip Shea, 2013, 7 min. 7:00 PM, Redfield Auditorium wants to buy as a way to start their life together as a family. The problem is, Julie is still technically married to Your’re Dead to Me Two scientists dare to ask an experimental super- another man, even though their divorce is pending. When Narrative Short, Wu Tsang, 2013, 13 min. intelligent computer the ultimate question: Is there evi- her husband Jonathan (Hal Ozsan) mysteriously shows dence for God, for a spiritual framework to life? To their Monotony astonishment, it arrives at an answer. Stephen Kendrick up and Trent disappears, Julie must solve the mystery Narrative Short, Joanne Postlewaite, 2013, 3 min. of Trent’s kidnapping, confess her affair to her husband runs a government supercomputer at University of and save Trent’s life before time runs out. Meanwhile, Return Massachusetts in Amherst and had taught previously only Julie holds the secret truth of which man in her life is Narrative Short, Joshua Paige, 2013, 5 min. taught at MIT and was one of the key code writers for the father of her baby. the project. Hearing this, a Yale philosopher, Jane Hurst, Blue suggests the following to him: Feed the computer Animation, Katelyn Bianchini, Rena Cheng, Asia Lancaster, every book, news article, research paper, and Internet 2013, 9 min. The Longest Game posting – essentially all human knowledge – then ask it Documentary Feature, Camille Thoman, 2013, 70 min. the ultimate question. Is there evidence for God, for a 5:00 PM, Lillie Auditorium The Perfect 46 spiritual framework to life? “This computer is smarter Meet Hal, 87; Charlie, 87 and Maurie, 87. Three of a group of Narrative Feature, Brett Bonowicz, 2013, 97 min. than any of us, than all of us put together. Maybe it can friends who gather every day at one p.m. in the village of 9:00 PM, Redfield Auditorium make a novel interpretation of the human experience, Dorset, Vermont to play a game called ‘paddle tennis’. They Geneticist Jesse Darden creates a website that pairs something no one has ever thought of, to say whether have been playing together for years. Poignant and funny, individuals with their ideal genetic partner for children. the idea of a god makes sense,” she says. To their THE LONGEST GAME takes on the ‘game’ of life, the stories The Perfect 46 explores three interwoven stories about astonishment, the computer arrives at an answer, but we tell and the underlying forces that connect us all. Jesse Darden, the CEO of The Perfect 46: the height of shuts itself down rather than telling the scientists what his company, his failing marriage, and the aftermath it knows. The scientists attempt to restart the comput- Screens with: of both. The Perfect 46 strives to be as scientifically er in an effort to find out the answer and are now locked The Promise accurate as possible. With the collaboration of scientific in battle with a computer that has free will. Narrative Short, Nongkhran Meecharoen, 2013, 14 min. consultants, our script has been crafted to demon- strate a respect for science. Many science fiction films Screens with: (and specifically films about genetics) fail to fully explore Salvatore Grace the genre. Some begin with an interesting idea that Narrative Short, William Shermer, 2013, 6 min. Narrative Feature, Heath Jones, 2014, 93 min. devolves into an excuse for mindless action sequences. 7:00 PM, Redfield Auditorium Some feature evil clones. Fake computer UI’s. These films Grace is used to waking up hung over, but this time she rarely pose interesting questions about science; they The Boxcar Children Animation, Daniel Chuba, Mark Dippe, 2014, 82 min. is 1100 miles from home and can’t remember how she reduce science to a colorful backdrop for conventional 7:00 PM, Lillie Auditorium got there. When she’s arrested for public drunkenness plot formulas. The Perfect 46 hopes to inspire debates and attacking a police officer, Gracie is given a choice: six about science and our world, specifically the “what ifs?” THE BOXCAR CHILDREN is based on one of the best selling months in jail or 90 meetings of Alcoholics Anonymous of personal genetic testing, set in the very near future. children’s books of all time. A touching tale of family to- in 90 days, and she has to do it in the small town she’s Cast: Whit Hertford, Keston John, Don McManus, David getherness target to kids ages four to twelve. The film landed in. She’s not used to strangers caring about Neher, Robyn Cohen, Kevin Sheridan explores themes of personal integrity, generosity and her, but perhaps the power of community can help her kindness. Meet Henry, Jessie, Violet and Benny, four or- sidestep the landmines lining her path to sobriety – phaned brothers and sisters who mysteriously appear especially the ones she’s laid herself. Rooted in powerful Music: The Itai Isenberg Trio in a small town on a warm summer night. No one knows performances by Annika Marks (“The Sessions”) and 9:00 PM, The Captain Kidd who these young wanderers are or where they have Music Sharon Lawrence (“NYPD Blue”), “GRACE.” compassion- come from. The children make a home for themselves ately looks at the disease of addiction through a young in an abandoned boxcar they discover in the woods. The woman inching towards redemption. children make a happy life for themselves, discovering the struggles and rewards of independence until one day Thursday, July 31 they must reveal their secret and risk discovery by the Marmato one person they fear the most. Documentary Feature, Mark Grieco, 2014, 87 min. 7:00 PM, Old Woods Hole Fire Station Workshop: Editing Case Study Colombia is at the center of the new global gold rush and 2:00 PM, Old Woods Hole Fire Station Lies I Told My Little Sister Marmato, a mining town with over 500 years of history, The Edward Gorey Documentary, with filmmaker in resi- Narrative Feature, William J. Stribling, 2014, 99 min. is the new frontier. In its mountain there are over $20 dence Bryan Storkel. Filmmaker Chris Seufert’s documen- 9:00 PM, Redfield Auditorium Billion in gold, but its 8,000 inhabitants are at risk of be- tary work in progress about the late reclusive illustrator A family trip, packing all the childhood baggage. After the ing displaced by an open-pit mining project planned by Edward Gorey will be the subject of a workshop on editing death of her oldest sister, a 30-year-old globe-trotting na- a Canadian mining company. Living on this mountain of by filmmaker in residence Bryan Storkel (FIGHT CHURCH, ture photographer is guilted onto a family trip to Cape Cod - along with the younger sister she used to torment. Amid ger Dave’, the host of the local radio show, “Gay Talk” in Fight Church recriminations, revelations, a very strange shopkeeper Buffalo, New York, he’s poised, witty, and every listenerÍs Doc. Feature, Bryan Storkel, Daniel Junge, 2013, 84 min. and an old romance, they square off against the patterns best friend. His sister, Kate, is a thrice divorced banker 10:00 PM, Woods Hole Community Hall of childhood. Cast: Lucy Walters,Ellen Foley, Donovan Pat- with a yen for classical music and cats. Though success- ton, Michelle Petterson, John Behlmann, AliciaMinshew, ful, the siblings suffer from a secret, yet vast, sense FIGHT CHURCH is a feature-length documentary about the Eddie Ritchard, Hayden Signoretti, Tyler Hollinger of inadequacy. Kate asks David to be a father figure for confluence of Christianity and mixed martial arts, includ- her soon to be adopted Brazilian child; David gawkily ing ministries that train fighters. The film follows several romances his coworker. Past and present intertwine pastors and popular fighters in their quest to reconcile Copenhagen to tell this bittersweet winter’s tale of a man learning their faith with a sport that many consider violent and Narrative Feature, Mark Raso, 2014, 93 min. to love and accept himself. Cast: Don Scime, Guy Adkins, barbaric. Faith is tried and questions are raised. FIGHT 9:00 PM, Old Woods Hole Fire Station Antoinette LaVecchia, Jordan Baker, Tonye Patano, Juju CHURCH looks at the compatibility of Christianity and After weeks of traveling through Europe the immature Stulbach, Lauren Lopes mixed martial arts and, moreover, the confluence of William finds himself at crossroads in Copenhagen. Copen- religion and violence in our culture. Through sympathetic hagen is not just another European city for William; it is Screens with: subjects on both sides of this debate, the film asks also the city of his father’s birth. When fourteen-year-old provocative questions about sports, masculinity, free Effy, working in William’s hotel as part of the internship Homophonia will and morality. Narrative Short, James Jermanok, 2014, 3 min. program, befriends the thirty-year-old William they set off on an adventure to uncover his family’s sordid past. Friday Night Party Party Effy’s mix of youthful exuberance and wisdom challenges Desert Runners 10:30 PM, Captain Kidd William unlike any woman ever has. As the attraction Documentary Feature, Jennifer Steinman, builds and William truly connects with someone for the 2013, 92 min. Featuring Music by The Spampinato Brothers first time in his life, he must deal with the startling news 7:00 PM, Redfield Auditorium that the love of his life and the only person who under- A diverse group of non-professional runners attempt stands him is, unfortunately for everyone, half his age. In to complete the four most difficult ultra marathons on order for William to accept his past, the mature beyond Earth. The four races bring them to the world’s most her years Effy must learn to be a kid again, and William, picturesque and brutal deserts-- in Chile, China, Egypt Saturday, August 2 a man whose growth was stunted with his father’s and Antarctica-- where they will push their bodies, minds abandonment as a child, must learn to finally grow up. and spirits to their limits. DESERT RUNNERS chronicles the By and By: New Orleans Gospel at a Cast: Gethin Anthony, Frederikke Dahl Hansen, Sebastian intense, year-long journey during which these dedicated Crossroad Armesto, Tamzin Merchant, Baard Owe, Mille Dinesen, Ol- runners face many obstacles-- both expected and unex- Documentary Feature, Matthew T. Bowden, Joe ivia Grant, Sune Kofoed, Preben Ravn, Martin Hestb, Gordon pected, external and internal-- and ultimately provides Compton, 2013, 96 min. Kennedy, Helene Kuhn an intimate view into the complex ways human beings 2:00 PM, Redfield Auditorium deal with heartbreak and triumph. ‘By and By’ tells the story of a fading tradition, a torn Sins of Our Youth community, and a family bound to keep them both alive. Narrative Feature, Gary Entin, 2013, 110 min. Art and Craft At the center of the film is a powerful New Orleans gos- 9:00 PM, Lillie Auditorium Doc. Feature, Sam Cullman, Jennifer Grausman, 2014, 89 min. pel quartet, the Electrifying Crown Seekers, a group USA Tyler and David are brothers. Scott and Carlo are their 8:00 PM, Woods Hole Community Hall Today calls ‘the essence of Jazz Fest ... more explosive best friends. In an intoxicated moment of inspiration, Shorter Synopsis ART AND CRAFT starts out as a cat-and- than any rock headliner.’ Set against a backdrop of post- they decide to break into Tyler and David’s father’s mouse art caper, rooted in questions of authorship and Katrina New Orleans, ‘By and By’ is a classic family story closet, borrow from his gun collection, and unload the authenticity—but what emerges is an intimate story of change vs. tradition, young vs. old, focused on a son’s assault weapons on electric reindeer Christmas decora- of obsession and the universal need for community, unavoidable conflict: to continue the 46 year musical tions. A nearby boy, only twelve years old, happens upon appreciation, and purpose. Mark Landis has been called legacy of his father, or to strike out on his own. Powered the scene at the wrong time and is shot and killed. In a one of the most prolific art forgers in US history. Posing by raw gospel music and a cast of unforgettable charac- moment of desperation, paranoia, and fear that they’re as a philanthropic donor, a grieving executor of a family ters, the story of ‘By and By’ is truly timeless lives are over due to their certainty that they will receive member’s will, and as a Jesuit priest, Landis has given the death penalty, the four teenagers construct a “solu- away hundreds of works over the years to a stagger- Video Games Event with Andrew Mutty tion” that they are convinced will prove their innocence. ing list of institutions across the United States. But 3:00 PM, Old Woods Hole Fire Station While the plan never comes to fruition, it is the catalyst Matthew Leininger, a tenacious registrar, ultimately Video Games Event is an interactive digital event that for deep confusion that leads to a troubling conclusion. discovers the decades-long ruse and sets out to expose allows the participants to enjoy the freedom of riding Cast: Lucas Till, Joel Courtney, Mitchel Musso, Bridger his philanthropic escapades to the art world. Landis (surfers, skiers and BMX) with the creativity of filmmaking Zadina, Ally Sheedy, Dani Knights must confront his own legacy and a chorus of museum and editing. Andrew Mutty, a WHFF alum will talk about professionals clamoring for him to stop. this event and show films made by past participants. Screens with: Tarzan Loveless Zoritsa Animation, Signe Baumane, 2014, 3 min. Narrative Feature. John Burgess, 2012, 80 min. Antarctica: Beyond the Ice (Not In Competition) 9:00 PM, Redfield Auditorium Doc. Feature, Dena Seidel, 2014, 90 min. (work-in-progress) Thursday Night Party Zoritsa is cursed! Every man who falls in love with her 5:00 PM, Redfield Auditorium dies in a bizarre way. Hunted by the shotgun carrying 10:30 PM, Phusion Grille Party Scientists have just a month to study the vast, inhospi- villagers, whose sons she sent to the underworld, she table and rapidly changing West Antarctic ecosystem. can only rely on a stubborn rookie police officer. However As part of the National Science Foundation’s Long Term he doesn’t believe in “mumbo jumbo” and is tempted to Ecological Research study, expert oceanographers must test her “kiss of death.” Loveless Zoritsa is a mixture collect thousands of samples in an area the size of Okla- of “Burtonesque” gothic style and Kusturica’s “Balkan Friday, August 1 homa working from a research vessel that travels at the feverish rhythm”. Set in a Serbian village where supersti- speed of a bicycle. The region’s 85% decline in its Adelie tion still rules life, this unusual fairytale comedy takes penguin population is the greatest indication of climate Blackbird you on a comedic journey of cursed love. Cast: Aubrey Narrative Feature, Jamie Chambers, 2013, 90 min. change. Funded in part by a grant from the National Sci- Dollar, Shane McRae, Daniel J Travanti, Robert Belushi, 5:00 PM, Redfield Auditorium ence Foundation Ron Dean, Rebecca Spence, Janet Ulrich Brooks, Mary Jo Young ballad singer, Ruadhan, despairs as the fabric Faraci, Heidi Johanningmeier of his Scottish hometown erodes. There are no fish in Shortzapalooza the sea, no jobs and a steady exodus to the city. Life Screens with: 7:30 PM, Redfield Auditorium as he loves it is slipping away and Ruadhan’s idol, town Shorts Shorts and more Shorts. In a Festival tradition, bard Alec, has little stomach to fight the change. Long Salmon Deadly Sins Animation, Steven Vander Meer, 2013, 7 min. we assemble as many short shorts as we can fit into a time best pal, Calum, and returning childhood friend, two hour block for a great mashup to end the Festival. Amy, spark Ruadhan’s struggle to keep the past alive. When Alec takes off to a retirement home in mysteri- SHORTS 9: Family Matters ous circumstances, Ruadhan must act quickly to save 9:00 PM, Old Woods Hole Fire Station Druid Peak Narrative Feature, Marni Zelnick, 2013, 112 min. him and protect the town he loves. As his battle spirals In the Blind out of control, it becomes Ruadhan who needs saving. 7:00 PM, Old Woods Hole Fire Station Narrative Short, Davis Hall, 2013, 18 min. Featuring legendary performers Norman Maclean and Also screens on Sunday, July 27th at 7:00PM. Sheila Stewart, Blackbird brings Scotland’s most loved Payada Pa’ Satan folk heroes to the big screen. Cast: Andrew Rothney, Animation, Antonio Balseiro, Carlos Balseiro, 2013, 8 min. Life Inside Out Scarlett Mack, Norman Maclean, Patrick Wallace, Sheila A Life with Aspergers Stewart, Margaret Bennett, Gayle McCutcheon, Robert Narrative Feature, Jill D’Agnenica, 2013, 103 min. Documentary Short, Jaime Ekkens, 2013, 4 min. 9:00 PM, Old Woods Hole Fire Station Turner, Allan Thornton, Deborah Whyte, Isabella Baronello, Sarah Sunderland, Christopher Hammond, Sara Pearce, Jesse Also screens on Saturday, July 26th at 9:00PM. Carolyn Galloway Narrative Short, Adam Goldhammer, 2013, 14 min. Hope in the Fog Awards Ceremony Panel Discussion Narrative Short, Patrick Cavanaugh, Ryan Daniel Dobson, 9:30 PM, Redfield Auditorium 2013, 15 min. 6:00 PM, Woods Hole Community Hall The closing award’s ceremony presents the juried and Anacos audience awards to filmmakers and screenwriters. Narrative Short, Xacio BaÐo, 2012, 7 min. The David Dance Narrative Feature, Aprill Winney, 2013, 108 min. Reaching Home Closing Night Party 7:00 PM, Old Woods Hole Fire Station Narrative Short, Kenneth Murphy, 2013, 17 min. 11:00 PM, The Landfall Restaurant Away from the microphone, David is soft spoken, shy Featuring the 6East Band Party and unsure of himself. However, as his on-air alias ‘Dan- A Bringing Science to the Screen screening. MUSIC AT THE FESTIVAL Bringing Science to the Screen Saturday, July 26th: The Wayworn Travelers Bringing Science to the Screen is a new program of the Woods Hole Film Festival supported in part Sunday, July 27th: TBD by grants from the Arts Foundation of the Cape Wednesday, July 30th: The Itai Isenberg Trio and The Falmouth Fund of The Cape Cod Founda- tion. Bringing Science to the Screen presents films Thursday, July 30th: Pat Ryan that incorporate science into the story, whether a Friday, August 1st: The Spampinato Brothers documentary or narrative film. Saturday, August 2nd: The 6East Band

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TICKETS: Passes and Packages: Tickets and passes are available for purchase online $300: Full festival pass (good for all screenings, or by telephone in advance through Ovation Tix or at panels, parties) www.woodsholefilmfestival.org. $100: 10 Ticket package (good for all screenings, Tickets will also be available for purchase in person, if panels, parties) available, during the Festival at the Box Office at $60: 6 Ticket package (good for all screenings, the Old Woods Hole Fire Station from 10 AM - 9:00 PM, panels, parties). Credit Card, Check, Cash. Screenings sell out, so advance purchase is highly recommended. All pass and package holders must select individual events prior to Festival. Availability on a space Prices: available basis. $12: Screenings, panels, parties; $10 per ticket for Festival donors, WBUR members and WMVY donors. PARKING: Special Ticketholder Parking available after 5 p.m. $20: Workshops Check website for information. $25: Special Event – Opening Night concert by the Way- worn Travelers followed by the screening of The Winding Stream and Q&A with Beth Harrington and Elijah Wald.

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