Port Townsend Film Festival Guide

OFFICIAL PROGRAM

Port Towns e n d Film Festiv al 9th ann ual

Septem 26-28, 2 ber 008

A film lover’s block party celebrating great films and filmmakers

Festival Map

Mayor’s Message I am honored to welcome you all to the ninth annual Port Townsend Film Festival. This three-day event has grown and improved over the years to become one of our community’s favorite festivals. I personally set aside the three days every September so that I can indulge in one of my favorite pastimes: sitting in the darkened theatre space of the Rose or the Uptown theatres with my fellow film-lovers as we communally get transported to another time, another place or another reality.

It is not only an opportunity to see a wide range of films I might not otherwise see, but a chance to do what PT does best: small town socializing with old and new friends alike.

I highly recommend attending any film where the director or the actors are able to attend to do Q&A sessions. These are some of the most exciting times for many who attend the festival as we get to hear a little about the art of birthing a film or the personal recollections of some of our most venerable stars.

This is not just another film festival, which becomes very obvious late Friday and Saturday nights when everyone is invited to take a seat on straw bales set out on Taylor Street to witness the free showing of a film under the stars.

Port Townsend is known as the City of Dreams and we take pride in our incomparable natural setting, our maritime heritage, lively arts and music scene, and historic neighborhoods. I hope you take advantage of getting to know our wonderful city. Walk around. Shop. Eat. Talk film and enjoy the little moments as well as the spectacular events. The PTFF volunteers work hard to bring us a world class, Port Townsendstyle event. I, for one, really appreciate it.

Welcome 3 G reetings from the President

On behalf of the Board of Directors of the Port Townsend Film Festival, I am proud to welcome you to our ninth annual film festival. I continue to be amazed and incredibly grateful to all of you who work so hard to make our festival successful each year. PTFF is truly a community effort. The growth and commitment to the festi val have far exceeded the expectations I had when I started volunteering with the festival in 2000. Without all of you, we would not be looking forward with anticipation to our 10th anniversary next year!

To the filmmakers who have brought us some truly great and creative films, to the voluntee rs who have and will spend countless hours making this a great experience, and to all of you who come to enjoy our festival, I look forward to sharing this wonderful weekend with you. Thank you for joining us as we celebrate indepen dent filmmaking and expand our horizons through inno vative international cinema.

Toby Jordan

President, Board of Directors

Table of Contents Map .......................................................................2 How to Fest ................................................ 4, 34 Special Programs .........................................5-9 First Features ............................................10-11

Michelle Sandoval Mayor, Port Townsend

World Films ...............................................12-14 Documentaries ........................................15-18 Film 2880......................................................... 19 West Coast Live ............................................. 19

Dedication The 2008 Port Townsend Film Festival is dedicated to the memory of the late

George Yakush one of the original organizers in 2000.

Drop-In Theatre .......................................20-21 Schedule-at-a-Glance ...........................22-23 Shorts ..........................................................24-26 Short Course & Panels ................................ 28 People & Businesses ..............................29-40 Index to Films ................................................. 41

Welcome to the ninth annual Port Townsend Film Festival!

How to Fest (part one) Pass & Ticket Options The festival employs several pass and ticketing options. Each pass and some tickets come with specific opportunities. If it appears that someone is “cutting the line,” the “offender” will have a pass that allows it.

Pass and Ticket Purchasing Prior to the festival, passes and advance tickets are available online at www.ptfilmfest.com or by calling the festival box office at 360-379-0198. During the festival, passes and advance tickets will be available at the Hospitality Center tent behind the Bishop Hotel.

Regular (Red) Pass ($195) Provides access to all film screenings and Q&A sessions on a first-come, first-seated basis (see The Q).

Once assigned a Q, Red pass holders should be back at the venue 30 minutes prior to screening.

Many Red passes include a dinner symbol that admits them to the Friday Night Film Feed sponsored by the Silverwater Café.

PreferRed (Blue) Pass ($500) This pass allows the bearer to skip the Q and be admitted directly to the venues beginning 30 minutes before the film begins. Blue pass holders should be at the venue 15 minutes before screening to assure this privilege.

Guaranteed (Green) Pass ($1,250) This pass holder may also skip the Q and be admitted directly to the venues beginning 30 minutes before the film begins. Green pass holders are guaranteed seating until the lights go down.

Filmmakers (Gray) Pass These are issued to all of our filmmakers and special guests.

Sponsor (Sand) Pass New this year are passes designed to identify those companies and individuals who make this festival possible. Sponsors queue in the Red pass holders line.

Volunteer (Yellow) Pass Volunteers who contribute more than 25 hours to putting on the festival receive passes that allow them to attend films after all others are seated.

Advance Tickets $8 PTFF members, $10 general public, $20 for A Very Special Evening) Tickets are available for a limited number of seats at the Rose and Uptown theatres. While your seat is guaranteed, all advance ticket holders queue in the Red pass holders line but will not receive a ‘Q’ slip.

Will Call Advance tickets can be picked up beginning Friday, Sept. 26 at 4 p.m. at the box office in the Bishop Victorian Hotel Hospitality Center Tent.

Rush Tickets ($8) Rush tickets are sold in the yellow queue15 minutes before the movie begins until the lights go down.

Other Tickets Each year the festival features at least a couple of

special programs. A more comprehensive explanation of each event is listed elsewhere in this program. Please pay special attention to these ticketing details.

Sedge Thomson’s West Coast Live! broadcast tickets are available from www.WCL.org or 415664-9500.

Film class with Bruce Hattendorf, “Shaping Reality: An Introduction to the Documentary,” tickets are available at talkmovies@theupstage or at the door for $5. Pass holders are admitted for free.

Free! (although we request a donation): A festival favorite (weather permitting) is the Taylor Street Outdoor Theatre.

The Drop-In Theatre is located at the Port Townsend Community Center Tent uptown at Lawrence and Tyler streets.

T he Q

Although sometimes confusing, the Q insures that our first-come, first-seated policy works. The Q is a line as well as a numbered slip of paper you use to hold your place in line so you can get a bite to eat, visit the wine & beer garden, use the restroom, etc.

At each theatre venue there are two Q lines, one Red, the other Yellow. Check your pass! If you have a Red stripe on your pass, you also queue with the Red Q line. Upon arrival at each theatre: Join the Q for the film you want to see Red Q – Red Passes/Vouchers, Advance Tickets, Beige & Gray Passes Yellow Q – Yellow Passes/Vouchers and Rush Tickets Q tickets are passed out no more than 60 minutes before each film. Once you pick up your numbered Q, you are free to leave or hang out and visit.

No less than 30 minutes before your film return to your respective Q line.

Red Q admits in numerical order. If you are late and your number has already been called you will be asked to go to the end of the Q! At 15 minutes to show time, rush tickets are sold and Yellow Q are admitted in numerical order.

No Q for you!

Holders of Blue and Green passes/vouchers may be seated 30 minutes before the film begins. Green passes/vouchers and advance tickets may enter anytime until the lights go down.

Pope Theatre The Pope Marine Theatre is unique to the Q system.

This theatre is the only venue operated on a firstcome, first-seated event for all ticket-buyers and pass holders. The first 75 people in line get in.

T he Fine Print

Programs are subject to change. Check the daily newsletter (at Hospitality & venues) for updates.

Turn off all cell phones, pagers, & beepers during all programs.

Food, other than what is sold at the theatre is discouraged. Food odors, like cell phones, can be very distracting.

Recording devices of any kind are prohibited.

Seat saving is prohibited.

Children younger than 6 are permitted only at the outdoor movies. (See Child Care/Film Camp) Most of the films are not rated. We will try to alert you if there is graphic violence, strong language, nudity, etc. Parental discretion is advised.

Check program timing! Run times do not include Q&A sessions nor introductions. We have staggered the film start times to help you see as many films as possible.

Out of kindness to the people who sit on the straw bales, no dogs on Taylor Street please.

T heatre Venues

(see map, page 2) Uptown Theatre, Lawrence & Polk: You can take the festival bus or take a walk uptown to our largest venue. (350 seats) Drop-In Theatre, Lawrence & Tyler: This is our free, continuous-run screening room in the community center. Films run from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Saturday and Sunday. No passes or tickets required. (30 seats) Pope Marine Park Theatre, Water & Madison: An equal opportunity venue. First-come, first-seated for ticket buyers and all pass holders. (75 seats) Rose Theatre, 235 Taylor: 150 seats Rosebud Cinema , 235 Taylor: (78 seats) Taylor Street Outdoor Cinema: Sit on straw bales and watch family-friendly movies under the stars.

Bring blankets and extra seating. talkmovies@theupstage, Upstage Theatre and Restaurant, 923 Washington, behind the Rose Theatre: This is the site for the Friday afternoon short course and the “West Coast Live” broadcast Saturday morning. (125 seats) Bishop Victorian Hotel Hospitality Center Tent, Located in the courtyard of Bishop Hotel (see map), the Bishop Victorian Hotel Hospitality Center Tent is the place where you can: Pick up or purchase Red, Blue, and Green passes Pick up and purchase advance tickets Become a PTFF member Pick up festival programs Obtain general festival information Drop off or pick up items from lost and found Attend panels and intimate Q&As More How to Fest on page 34.

Festival Special Evening 5 PIPeR LAURIe FILMOGRAPHY

A Very Special Evening With Piper Laurie

L Indicates availability at the Port Townsend Library H Indicates availability through Hollywood Video V Indicates availability at Vasu Video

Hounddog (Grammie / 2007 / Lensing/Awaiting Release)......... H Another Harvest Moon (June /2008/ Lensing/Awaiting Release) Happiness Runs (Cast /2008/ Lensing/Awaiting Release) ....LHV Saving Grace (Marta Shrank /2008/ Lensing/Awaiting Release) The Dead Girl (Arden’s Mother / 2006 / Released)...................HV Eulogy (Charlotte “Grandma” Collins / 2004 / Released) ............HV

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Palmer’s Pick-Up (Evangelist / 1999 / Released)...................... H St. Patrick’s Day (Mary Pat / 1999 / Released) ......................... H The Mao Game (1999 / Released) The Faculty (Mrs Olson / 1998 / Released)................................. H The Grass Harp (Dolly Talbo / 1996 / Released / Alliance Releasing) ....................... H

The Crossing Guard (Helen Booth / 1995 / Released / Alliance Releasing)...................HV

Rich in Love (Vera Delmage / 1993 / Released) ......................... H Trauma (Adriana Petrescu / 1993 / Released) ............................. H Wrestling Ernest Hemingway

“Fast” Eddie Felson is a small-time pool hustler with a lot of talent but a self-destructive attitude. His bravado causes him to challenge the legendary “Minnesota Fats” to a high-stakes match, but he loses in a heartbreaking marathon. Now broke and without his long-time manager, Felson faces an uphill battle to regain his confidence and his game. It isn’t until he hits rock bottom that he agrees to join up with ruthless and cutthroat manager Bert Gordon. Gordon agrees to take him on the road to learn the ropes. But Felson soon realizes that making it to the top could cost him his soul, and perhaps his girlfriend. “[‘The Hustler’] is one of the few American movies in which the hero wins by surrendering, by accepting reality instead of his dreams.”

(Georgia / 1993 / Released)........................................................LHV

Storyville (Constance Fowler / 1992 / Released / Ascii Pictures) H Other People’s Money

– Roger Ebert

(Bea Sullivan / 1991 / Released / SF) .............................................. H

Dream A Little Dream (Gena Ettinger / 1989 / Released / Cineplex Odeon)....................... H

USA/1961

Mother, Mother (1989 / Released)

134 min.

Appointment With Death

Director: Robert Rossen

(Emily Boynton / 1988 / Released) ................................................. H

Screenwriter: Robert Rossen, Sydney Carroll, Walter S. Tevis

Tiger Warsaw (Frances Warsaw / 1988 / Released) ................... H

Camera: Eugene Suftan

Distortions (Margot / 1987 / Released) ..................................... H (Mrs Norman / 1986 / Released) ................................................LHV

Cast: Paul Newman, Piper Laurie, Jackie Gleason, George C. Scott, Myron McCormick

Return to Oz (Aunt Em / 1985 / Released)...............................HV

Print source: Criterion Pictures

Children of A Lesser God

Tim (Mary Horton / 1979 / Released) .........................................HV The Boss’ Son (1978 / Released / Boss’ Son Productions) .......... H Ruby (Ruby Claire / 1977 / Released) ........................................... H Carrie (Margaret White / 1976 / Released) ................................HV The Hustler (Sarah Packard / 1961 / Released)......................LHV Until They Sail (Delia Leslie / 1957 / Released) ........................ H Ain’t Misbehavin’ (Sarah Hatfield / 1955 / Released) Smoke Signal (Laura Evans / 1955 / Released / Universal)

See pages 3 -37 for interview with Piper Laurie

Email: cary@criterionpictures.com Awards: Academy Awards Won: Best art direction, best cinematography. Nominated: Best picture, best director, best actor, best actress, best supporting actor (Gleason and Scott), best screenplay BAFTA Won: Best film, best actor. Nominated: Best actress.

The film will be followed by an interview of Piper Laurie by Robert Osborne, primetime host of Turner Classic Movies.

Dangerous Mission (Louise Graham / 1954 / Released / RKO Pictures Distribution) ...... H

Johnny Dark (Liz Fielding / 1954 / Released / Universal) The Golden Blade (Princess Khairuzan / 1953 / Released) Louisa (1950 / Released / Universal) compiled by Christie Johnson

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Opening Film THE EXILES Friday

6:30 pm Uptown Theatre

Presented by Sherman Alexie

PT FF Festival Foods

A number of local restaurants have joined to provide our guests with a wonderful selection of food that can be quickly prepared and many “togo.” You can call them in advance for pick-up or take a few moments for a real sit-down meal.

ALDRICH’S MARKET A variety of soups and salads plus a salad bar 940 Lawrence St • 360-385-1461 THE BELMONT To go orders lunch items from $5.95 to $9.95 925 Water St • 360-385-3007

USA/ 1961/72 min.

Director/ Screenwriter: Kent MacKenzie Camera: Erik Daarstad, Robert Kaufman, John Arthur Morrill

It took nearly 50 years, but an important piece of film is finally getting its first commercial run, according to the New York Post. “The Exiles” was shown first at the 1961 Venice Film Festival and two other festivals where it won praise, but the film languished before an indifferent distribution system and was never picked up, surviving only in a low-quality 16mm print. Now restored by the UCLA Film and Television Archive and promoted by a savvy distributor, the film will play in selected theatres (including the Uptown) throughout the country this fall before being released on DVD.

Cast: Mary Donahue, Homer Nish, Clydean Parker, Tom Reynolds, Rico Rodriguez, “The Exiles” presents one of the most honest Yvonne Williams portrayals of contemporary Native American life ever put to film, following three residents of LA’s Print Source: working-class Bunker Hill neighborhood from FriMilestone Films day evening into Saturday morning. The film, as described by Nel Murray, “accentuates the fuzzy Email: milefilms@ neon of bars and liquor stores, and moves to the gmail.com rumble of the garage-rock band, The Revels. The three men roam from markets to parties, taking turns narrating, describing their boredom with the routine, and how much they miss the open spaces and sedate pace of the reservation. They manhandle their women, get into fights, and seem to go out of their way to avoid paying a check. But (director) Kent MacKenzie poeticizes their lapses, and lets the wandering and carousing culminate in a haunting climactic scene, in which dozens of Native Americans gather on a hill overlooking LA after the bars close, to beat drums and drink until they fall into an ecstatic stupor.”

Poet and novelist Sherman Alexie, who grew up on the reservation and now lives in Seattle, will present the film and discuss its pertinence to the Native American experience.

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8 Outdoor Movies THE MARK THE BLACK OF ZORRO STALLION

HARVEY

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Long before Antonio Banderas, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Anthony Hopkins banded together in 1998 to embellish the legend of the California vigilante known as Zorro, Tyrone Power, Linda Darnell and Basil Rathbone created in 1940 what is now considered the definitive entry of more than a dozen versions (including George Hamilton’s campy satire, “Zorro, the Gay Blade.”) Based on Johnston McCulley’s 1919 novella, “The Curse of Capistrano,” the son of a California nobleman comes home from Spain in 1820 to find his native land under a villainous dictatorship.

Disguising himself as a useless fop, the young nobleman is really the masked avenger Zorro.

While travelling with his father, young Alec becomes fascinated by a mysterious Arabian stallion that is brought on board and stabled in the ship they are sailing on.

When the ship sinks, both Alec and the horse survive only to be stranded on a deserted island. Alec befriends the horse, so when finally rescued both return to his home where they soon meet Henry Dailey, a once successful trainer. Together they begin training The Black to race against the fastest horses in the world.

In DC comic lore, this version of Zorro is the movie that a young Bruce Wayne goes to see the night his parents are mugged and shot.

Out of this trauma Wayne is led to create the avenger Batman.

USA/1940

“The Black Stallion is a perfect gem.”

– Variety USA/1979 118 min.

Director: Carroll Ballard Screenwriter: Jeanne Rosenberg, William D. Wittliff, Melissa Mathison Camera: Caleb Deschanel

94 min.

Director: Rouben Mamoulian Screenwriter: John Taintor Foote, Johnston McCulley, Garrett Fort, Bess Meredyth Camera: Arthur Miller Cast: Tyrone Power, Linda Darnell, Basil Rathbone, Gale Sondergaard, Eugene Pallette Print source: Criterion Pictures Email: cary@criterionpictures.com

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A classic stage hit gets the classic Hollywood treatment in the story of Elwood P. Dowd, who makes friends with a friendly spirit who takes the form of a humansized rabbit named Harvey. Only Elwood (and a few privileged others on occasion) can see him. After Elwood’s sister tries to commit him to a mental institution, a comedy of errors ensues in which Elwood and Harvey become catalysts for a family mending its wounds and for romance blossoming in unexpected places.

Harvey opened at the 48th Street Theater in New York City on Nov. 1, 1944, running for 1,775 performances. Josephine Hull first performed her role in the Broadway version of Harvey. Vaudevillian Frank Fay played the role of Elwood. Universal-International paid $750,000 for the film rights. At the suggestion of James Stewart, the film’s director, Henry Koster, changed many shots to make them wider so that “Harvey” would be in the frame.

“Watching this movie is like warm milk at bedtime. It’s like sipping hot chocolate just as the marshmallows are beginning to melt. It’s sitting in a hot bath with the scent of your favorite bubbles filling the air. It is warm and sweet and, ultimately, extraordinarily satisfying.”

– Natasha Theobald, eFilmCritic.com USA/1950 104 min.

Director: Henry Koster Screenwriter: Mary Chase, Oscar Brodney Camera: William Daniels Cast: James Stewart, Josephine Hull, Peggy Dow, Cecil Kellaway Print source: Universal Pictures Email: paul.ginsburg@nbcuni.com Awards: 1951 Academy Awards and Golden Globes – Josephine Hull, Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role Sponsored by

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Closing Film:

CARRIE

SUNSHINE CLEANING

Friday 11:30 pm Rose Theatre

Carrie White is a shy girl who doesn’t make friends easily.

After her classmates taunt her about her horrified reaction to her unexpected first menstrual period, one of them takes pity on her and gets her boyfriend (and class hunk) to invite Carrie to the senior prom. Meanwhile another girl who has been banned from the prom for her continued aggressive behaviour is not as forgiving and plans a trick to embarrass Carrie in front of the whole school. What she doesn’t realise is that Carrie is ... gifted, and you really don’t want to get her angry. Or her mother.

USA/1976/98 min. Director: Brian DePalma Screenwriter: Lawrence D. Cohen Camera: Mario Tossi Cast: Sissy Spacek, Piper Laurie, Amy Irving, Betty Buckley Print source: United Artists Sponsored by

ATTACK OF THE CRAB MONSTERS

Saturday 11:30 pm Rose Theatre

A group of scientists travel to a remote island to study the effects of nuclear weapons’ tests, only to become stranded when their airplane explodes. The team soon discovers that the island has been taken over by crabs that have mutated into enormous, intelligent monsters.

To add to their problems, the island is slowly sinking into the ocean.

USA/1957/62 min. Director: Roger Corman Screenwriter: Charles B. Griffith Camera: Floyd Crosby Cast: Richard Garland, Pamela Duncan, Russell Johnson Print source: New Concorde Sponsored by

Sunday 6:30 pm Uptown Theatre

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The makers of the 2006 sleeper hit, “Little Miss Sunshine,” have borrowed a word and the Academy Award®-winning actor Alan Arkin from that film, but that’s about the only similarity between the two. “Sunshine Cleaning” is a much darker comedy,

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Rose Lorkowski, a former high school cheerleader and now a thirty-something maid, is trying to create a better life for herself and her eccentric eight-year-old son Oscar. Her burntout younger sister Norah still lives at home with their father, who’s on the latest of a lifelong string of get-rich-quick schemes. When Rose learns of the big money to be made in the crime scene cleaning and bio-hazard removal business, she and Norah partner to create their own company, Sunshine Cleaning.

The venture proves useful in helping the girls clean up their own lives as well as what’s left of the lives of others.

“A better film than ‘Little Miss Sunshine,’ which it may be inevitably compared because of its name, the same producers … and the appearance of Arkin, ‘Sunshine Cleaning’ … is best when low-key--a conversation in a local supermarket, or Amy Adams crouching down in long shot to comfort another grieving soul.” – Anthony Kaufman, IndieWire The film will be introduced by its producer, Marc Turtletaub, who will discuss the film after the screening.

USA/2008/102 min. Director: Christine Jeffs Screenwriter: Megan Holley Camera: John Toon Cast: Amy Adams, Emily Blunt, Alan Arkin, Jason Spevack, Steve Zahn, Mary-Lynn Rajskub, Clifton Collins, Jr. Print Source: Overture Films Email: info@overturefilms.net Sponsored by

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10 First Features First Features is the Port Townsend Film Festival’s annual salute to independent filmmakers by providing a standard theatrical venue for the screening of their first effort at creating a feature-length film. Filmmakers are given an opportunity to introduce their film, participate in a Q&A after the screening, and speak further about their projects at a special panel scheduled for Sunday (see page 28).

AUGUST EVENING FIX SatUrday 9:35 am roSebUd Cinema SUnday 12:35 pm roSebUd Cinema

“August Evening” follows an undocumented aging worker, Jaime, and his young widowed daughter-in-law, Lupe, as their lives are thrown into upheaval. Lupe is more of a daughter to Jaime than his own children, and the two try to stick together…but change is inevitable.

In person: Jason Wahling, producer Northwest Premiere USA/2008 127 min.

Director/Screenwriter: Chris Eska Camera: Yasu Tanida Cast: Pedro Castaneda, Veronica Loren Print source: Chris Eska Email: chriseska@hotmail.com Awards: 2007 Los Angeles Film Festival – Target Award for Best Film, Best Acting Ensemble Award Sponsored by

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Shot in the first person by the actors themselves, “Fix” is a one-day odyssey through the myriad worlds of Los Angeles. Documentary filmmakers Bella and Milo race to get Milo’s brother, Leo, from jail to rehab before 8 p.m., or Leo will go to prison for three years. Inspired by true events, the film follows the trio as they document their trip from a suburban police station through mansions in Beverly Hills, east LA chop shops, rural wastelands and housing projects in Watts as they attempt to raise the $6,000 deposit required to get Leo into the rehab clinic. In the end, it may take a drug deal to get the necessary cash for rehab. Advisory: simulated drug use.

In person: Tao Ruspoli Variety review: “Brash, cool, and energetic…a wild ride.”

“A bold new style and talent”

– Oliver Stone

Northwest Premiere USA/2008 95 min.

Screenwriter: Tao Ruspoli Camera: Tao Ruspoli Cast: Shawn Andrews, Dedee Pfeiffer, Douglas Spain, Olivia Wilde, Megalyn Echikunwoke Print source: Fix The Movie LLC email: hobdylicious@gmail.com Awards: 2008 Brooklyn International Film Festival – Best Narrative Feature, Best Male Actor 2008 Twin Rivers (Asheville, NC) Media Festival – Best Feature Film 2008 Vail Film Festival – Best Feature Film, Rising Star Award 2008 Santa Barbara Film Festival – Heineken Red Star Award Sponsored by

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Christian Keller has always tried to do the right thing. He got a girl pregnant in high school, so he married her. He joined the Marine Corps for the benefits it would provide his new family.

The only problem is that he graduated high school in June 2001 and signed up for the military soon after. When 9/11 happened three months later, that dedication to “do the right thing” suddenly meant something more. In his final moments at home in June, Christian becomes haunted by the possibility that he may die. His wife feels like he is abandoning her.

His daughter clings to him. As his three best friends try to show him a good time, they realize that adulthood isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.

Then one of his old girlfriends from high school shows up to reminds Christian of the chances he lost when he got his wife pregnant. In the next three days, Christian is put to the test.

In person: Kirk Gostkowski, Kieran Dotti Northwest Premiere USA/2007 124 min.

Director/Screenwriter: Kirk Gostkowski Camera: Kieran Dotti Cast: Kirk Gostkowski, Kirsten Scoles, Melissa Haley Smith, Adam Newman, Dan Rice, Kenny Briggs Print source: Running On Faith Productions Email: kdotti27@yahoo.com Awards: 2008 International Film Festival of England – Nomination: Best First Film Sponsored by

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It’s hard to spoof a spoof, but “Off Off Broadway” takes aim at Christopher Guest’s 1996 hit mocumentary, “Waiting for Guffman,” and hits the bulls…eye. Director/writer Jeff Huston carries his conceit even into the film’s synopsis: “Open letter to audience: I was recently convinced by a childhood friend to shoot a documentary which chronicled the making of his most current theatre production. His play, ‘Specific Conceptualism,’ is not only his contribution to avant garde theatre, but best sums up the tangled cobweb of circuits, gears and tubes that make up his neural network.” With the way-off, off Broadway stage substituting for Guest’s Midwest community theatre, Huston’s film is at least one up on its decadeold progenitor. In Huston’s film, Guffman (or, rather, his counterpart) arrives!

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In person: Jeff Huston Northwest Premiere, USA/2007/81 min. Director/ Screenwriter: Jeff Huston Camera: Chris Scarafile, Lucas Longacre, Sean Stewart, Seth Pilipski, Jeff Huston Cast: Benjamin Ellis Fine, David Craff, Jack Perry, Jeff Huston, Margo Passalaqua, Matt Kerr, Sarah Kozinn Print source: The Disenfranchised Filmworks Email: thedfw@gmail.com Awards: The Indie Gathering (Cleveland) 2008: Honorable Mention Preceded by

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Al’s Beef

Bloodied, barefoot, and branded like cattle, a mysterious woman comes to town with an aim to kill the man that done her wrong.

In person: Dennis Hauck Director/screenwriter: Dennis Hauck Camera: Bill Fernandez Cast: Dean Stockwell, Jordan Ladd, Persephone Apostolou Print Source: Foe Killer Films Email: foekillerfilms@mac.com Sponsored by

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12 World Film AND ALONG COME TOURISTS am EndE kommEn touRistEn SatUrday 3:15 pm SUnday 9:00 am

Email: office@ itworksmedien.de Awards: 2007 New Berlin Film Award – Special Prize for Production

BaRCElona (un maPa)

Friday 6:05 pm roSebUd Cinema SUnday 8:50 am roSebUd Cinema

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Northwest Premiere A train to Auschwitz was not what Sven had in mind when he signed up for work in a youth hosGermany/2007 tel to fulfill his German civil service obligation.

85 min. Once at the former Nazi concentration camp’s hostel, his main job is to care for a cranky 85-yearDirector/ old former camp inmate who never left and now Screenwriter: spends his days as a living witness. The old man Robert Thalheim also repairs camp victims’ suitcases, a job that the camp management tries to take away from Camera: Yoliswa him. Sven develops a relationship with a bilingual Gäertig camp tour guide, and the three interact with difCast: Alexander fering generational intensities. German, English Fehling, Ryszard and Polish with English subtitles Ronczewski, Barbara Wysocka, Piotr Sponsored by Rogucki, Rainer Sellien, Lena Stolze Print source: It Works! Medien GmbH

BARCELONA (A MAP)

“People never really talk unless they’re dying,” observes one character early on in “Barcelona (A Map).” This moody meditation on identity and change is based on Lluisa Cunille’s play “Barcelona, Map of Shadows.” An elderly former doorman at the opera is dying of cancer. One by one he and his wife tell the tenants of their Barcelona apartment they must leave so that the couple might enjoy privacy in his final days. A series of tête-àtêtes with the three tenants reveal secrets, stir painful memories and confront inexorable truths.

Afterward, the couple reunites for one final, transformative “aria.” Spanish with English subtitles

Northwest Premiere Spain/2007 90 min.

Director/ Screenwriter: Ventura Pons Camera: Mario Montero Print source: Latido Films

“Barcelona (A Map)” is like the city itself – classic and Email: oalonzo@ modern, culturally distinct and highly original.” latidofilms.com – Margarita Landazuri Awards: 2007 Barcelona Film Variety review: “ ‘Big issues in small rooms’ could be Award – Nominated: an alternate title for ‘Barcelona: A Map,’ a typically Best Film in Catalan thought-provoking (film)…set in dingy Barcelona Language, Best Score apartments, each dealing with solitude, defeat and ways of escape, the script is brilliantly brought to life 2008 Goya by a gathering of fine thesps…its deftness of touch Awards– Nominated: and sheer humanity make it surprisingly accessible Best Screenplay fare.“ Sponsored by

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World Film 13 FASHION VICTIMS

Friday 9:00 pm Rosebud Cinema Sunday 9:30 pm Uptown Theatre

Friday 6:15 pm Sunday 9:15 am

Ciudad En Celo

Argentina, A group of men in their 40s meet daily at a typical Spain/2006 café of Buenos Aires. It is the beginning of spring: coats give way to bodies, and the group realizes 104 min. that they can’t talk about anything but women.

Director/ Duke, the café’s owner, based on the wisdom given Screenwriter: by his years, reflects on the sensuality of Buenos AiHernán Gaffet res. Marcos tries new women conquest strategies.

Sergio, the most shy of all, is not going through his Camera: Marcelo best moments. Sebastian, an account executive, Camorino no longer meets with his friends due to his work Cast: Adrián Navarro, duties. Rather distant from the group is Valeria, a Betiana Blum, tango singer, an impressive woman who has been Claudio Rissi, Daniel sentimentally involved with each of the men. A Kuzniecka, Dolores dramatic situation gathers these friends again, Solá, Juan Minujin, wakening them from their inertia. Passionate and Julia Calvo, Núria Gago nostalgic, sometimes a comedy and sometimes a drama, the story is a reflection of ourselves, in the Print source: Latido midst of a city that remains a witness of life’s ups Films and downs – “The Big Chill,” Latin-style. Spanish, with English subtitles.

Email: oalonzo@ latidofilms.com In person: Noel Paul Awards:

The Cat and the Owl

2007 Mar del Preceded by Plata Film Festival Kai is a street performer who lives in an old church.

– Audience Award She is in love with a young man, Jason, who can2007 Toulouse Film not love her back. The film takes place in a single Festival – Audience day, in which Jason reappears in her life in order Award to apologize for not having taken her seriously.

2006 Valladolid Film USA/2008/15 min. Director/screenwriter: Noel Paul Camera: Festival – Best “New Sean Porter, Stefan Moore Email: noelpaul@u.washington.edu Director” Sponsored by

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At 52, traveling salesman Wolfgang Zenker is squarely in old school territory. He peddles the company’s “classic” clothing line to boutiques that cater to women over 35. When Wolfe loses his driver’s license, his son’s vacation plans take a back seat as he is roped into making sales rounds with his father instead of celebrating his high school graduation. Also making the rounds is successful sales rival, Steven, 33. As their paths cross, longhidden secrets are revealed and things come to a heat. German with English subtitles.

In person: Joel Moffett Variety review: “...’Fashion Victims’ is a clever comedy with a leading character so dislikeable he almost kills the laughs…(but)…the pic manages to overcome that – and even redeem the jerk in…credible terms – lend(ing the film)…heart and depth…”

Preceded by

Horsepower

Directed by Joel Moffett USA/2008 17 min.

The story of a middle-aged closeted man who hides from his life as a straight-laced professional automobile critic by indulging in internet pornography. This works until his eccentric gay boss tries to help.

Print Source: Horsepowered Pictures Email: parksmoffett@hotmail.com Sponsored by

Germany/2006 96 min.

Director: Ingo Rasper Screenwriter: Tom Streuber, Ingo Rasper Camera: Marc Achenbach Cast: Edgar Selge, Florian Bartholomäi, Roman Knizka, Franziska Walser, Traute Höss, Horst Krause Print source: Ariztical Entertainment Email: sales@ ariztical.com Awards: 2008 Berlin and Beyond, San Francisco – Best First Feature 2007 Max Ophüls Festival – Won: Audience Award, Screenplay Award, Best Young Actor; Nominated: Max Ophüls Award 2007 Undine Awards, Austria – Won: Audience Award

14 World Film PAULA’S SECRET

USED PARTS

Saturday Sunday

Saturday 9:05 pm Rosebud Cinema Sunday 3:05 pm Rosebud Cinema

Paula’s Geheimnis

9:45 am Rose Theatre 3:30 pm Uptown Theatre

Northwest Premiere Rich girl Paula’s posh bathroom is her place to retreat and have romantic dreams about a beautiGermany/2005/2006 ful, somewhat kitschy prince. Whenever she can 90 min. she escapes to her imaginary world, writing in her diary all her fantasies and inner feelings which she Director/ addresses to him. On the last day of school, Paula Screenwriter: is followed by her classmate Tobi, who is secretly Gernot Krää in love with her. He sees her being robbed by two Camera: Eeva Fleig little pickpockets. Although he doesn’t understand the full drama of losing her diary, he sees a Cast: Thelma chance of spending time with her so offers help.

Heinzelmann, Paul The two complete opposites set up an exciting Vincent de Wall, manhunt and even end up living for a few days Constanze Spranger, at Tobi’s, a somewhat shabby apartment comAlberto Berisa, Jülide pared to Paula’s villa. Tobi retrieves the diary, but Girisken, Jürgen Vogel he and Paula become attached to the thieves, two Romanian children exploited by child traffickers, Print source: whom they decide to rescue. German with English Element e film- subtitles produktion gmbh Email: info@ element-e.net Awards: 29th International Children’s Film Festival LUCAS 2006

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Ivan, a 14-year-old boy, lives with his uncle, a mediocre dealer of used car parts. Both dream of a better life and stash away their money in order to immigrate illegally to Chicago. When the uncle realizes he needs much more money than he expected in order to pay the “coyote” that will help them cross the border, he decides to introduce his nephew into the world of car-part theft. Ivan learns quickly the know-how of his new trade and convinces his best friend to help him. The kids enjoy themselves together and carry out orders skillfully until Ivan realizes that his uncle’s intentions for the trip have changed since they first made their plans. Spanish with English subtitles Variety review: “Firmly grounded in Mexico City street realism yet steeped in the fluid rhythms and visually sensitive traditions of French cinema…the picture’s strong physical and emotional thrust marks another Mexican helmer of true promise…”

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Northwest Premiere Mexico/France/ Spain/2007 95 min.

Director/ Screenwriter: Aarón Fernández Lesur Camera: Patricia De Burgos Cast: Eduardo Granados, Alan Chavez, Carlos Caja, Damayanti Quintanar, Pilar Padilla, Raul Adalid, Jose Antonio Baron Print source: 24 Frames Email: info@24-f.com Awards: 2007 Guadalajara Mexican Film Festival – Mayahuel Award for Best First Work 2007 Havana Film Festival – Grand Coral, Second Prize for First Work 2007 Montréal World Film Festival – Glauba Rocha Award

1000 Journals Saturday Sunday

12:15 pm Rose Theatre 6:15 pm Rose Theatre

Documentaries 15 FAUBOURG TREMÉ: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans Saturday 3:30 pm Uptown Theatre Sunday 9:15 pm Rose Theatre

USA/2007 “1000 Journals” is a film about people (including some in Port Townsend) whose lives are touched 88 min. by 1000 traveling journals. These blank journals Director/ were released into the world in the summer of Screenwriter: 2000 by a San Francisco-based artist who identiAndrea Kreuzhage fied himself as “Someguy.” Some people found a journal, or got it from a friend or stranger. Some Camera: Ralph signed up on the web and received it in the mail.

Kaechele Some wrote in them, others doodled, pasted Print Source: Louise in photographs, or added artworks. Some kept Rosen Ltd. them. Some passed them on. There are no rules, and no one really monitors these journals and Email: their movements. And yet, they are connecting LRosenLtd@aol.com tens of thousands of people worldwide, provoking and inspiring them.

In September 2003, one of the 1000, number 526, returned to Someguy, filled. What happened to the other 999? This film tells their stories. “1000 Journals” shares the experience of their worldwide journeys, and chronicles the self-governed collaboration of thousands of random people who have added to this global “message in a bottle.”

In person: Stuart Balcomb, composer

“Faubourg Tremé” is a tale of hope, heartbreak and resiliency set in New Orleans’ most fascinating neighborhood. Shot largely before Hurricane Katrina and edited afterwards, the film is both celebratory and elegiac in tone. “Faubourg Tremé” is arguably the oldest black neighborhood in America, the birthplace of the civil rights movement in the South and the home of jazz. While the Tremé district was damaged when the levees broke, this is not another Katrina documentary. Every frame is a tribute to what African American communities have contributed even under the most hostile of conditions. It is a film of such effortless intimacy, subtle glances and authentic details that only two native New Orleanians could have made it.

In person: Dawn Logsdon, Lucie Faulknor

Northwest Premiere USA/2008 79 min.

Director: Dawn Logsdon, Lolis Eric Elie Screenwriter: Lolis Eric Elie Camera: Keith Smith, Diego Velasco, Bobby Shepard Print source: Serendipity Films Email: info@tremeoc.com Awards:

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1 Documentaries Long Road North SatUrday 10:00 am Uptown theatre SUnday 12:45 pm roSe theatre

USA/2008 Leaving behind his office with no windows, Canadian Gwendal Castellan dreams up an adventure 93 min. to travel halfway across the planet at a human Director: Gwendal pace to experience the story of the road. Seen Castellan, Ian Hinkle from the handlebars of a bicycle, the world is a lot smaller than he ever thought. Beginning at Camera: Gwendal the southern tip of Argentina, he takes us on a Castellan modern-day journey through 18 countries on the longest road in the world. Joined from location Email: ian@ to location by family, friends and even stranglongroadnorth.com ers, Castellan biked the mountains of Patagonia, through Latin American mega-cities and smalltown America, to the sparse reaches of the Canadian Arctic. Through his journey we get a glimpse of what it would be like to drop everything and hit the open road.

Although he did not make the actual trip, Port Townsend resident Ian Hinkle became a virtual traveler when he joined Castellan to co-direct and edit the resulting film.

In person: Ian Hinkle, Gwendal Castellan, Peter Lack Sponsored by

More Shoes

Friday 9:00 pm pope marine parK theatre SUnday 1:00 pm Uptown theatre

Struggling filmmaker Lee Kazimir read advice from Werner Herzog that filmmakers should skip film school and instead “make a journey alone, on foot, for a distance of 5,000 kilometers, let’s say from Madrid to Kiev.” Kazimir took the advice literally, walking for six months through seven countries from Madrid to Kiev while documenting the journey with a video camera. Along the way he confronted physical struggles and met a varied cast of characters on the road. He learned some essential lessons, realizing ultimately that “before Art, comes Life.” “More Shoes” is a diary picture that serves both as an account of an artistic coming-of-age and as a snail’s-eye portrait of Europe in the early 21st century.

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Northwest Premiere USA/2007 75 min.

Director/ ScreenwriterCamera: Lee Kazimir Print Source: Bend Sinister Pictures Email: leekazimir@ gmail.com

One-Eyed Girl

SatUrday 12:30 pm Uptown theatre SUnday 9:00 pm pope marine parK theatre

Documentaries 17 A Snowmobile for George Friday 9:30 pm Uptown theatre SatUrday 6:00 pm roSe theatre

Northwest Premiere Port Townsend is 2,800 miles and a culture away from Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, but after Hurricane USA/2008 Katrina brought its devastation to the Gulf cities, 55 min. Port Townsend residents were quick to realize that together they could do more than send a check Directors: Joshua to a relief agency. Within a couple of weeks of Butler, Matthew Katrina’s devastation, residents of Port Townsend Crawford loaded blankets, building supplies, food, water and tons of goodwill on a bus borrowed from Camera: Joshua Port Townsend’s Chautauqua organization. The Butler, Ché Rickman, Port Townsend Noon Rotary Club provided the Jason Grundy funds necessary to outfit a preschool’s new health Print source: Crawler department-approved kitchen, including a large Media commercial refrigerator. “One-Eyed Girl,” by Joshua Butler and Matthew Crawford, tells the larger Email: joshuabutler@ story of Bay St. Louis’ devastation and continuing crawlermedia.com recovery.

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A rambunctious road trip that collects the stories of fishermen, cowboys and firemen faced with the consequences of the Bush Administration’s elimination of environmental rules. Told with a wry, dry sense of humor, the filmmaker’s curiosity was sparked by the deregulation of his own twostroke snowmobile. In search of an answer, he hauls his snowmobile cross country only to discover other issues of deregulation graver than his own, namely a fish die-off, a range war between ranchers and oil companies, and the side-step of toxic waste protocols after the collapse of the World Trade Center. In the end, the tragic-comic vehicle of the snowmobile reveals a sophisticated political strategy that has increased the power of the executive branch and left average Americans stranded along the way.

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Mugs

One hundred of your favorite celebrity mug shots morph from one to the next. A minimalist trancelike soundtrack adds to the hypnotic pleasure of identifying these notable culprits.

USA/2007, 5 min. Director: Ronnie Cramer Print Source: Scorched Earth Productions Email: Ronnie@cramer.org Sponsored by

USA/ 2008 94 min.

Director/ Screenwriter: Todd Darling Camera: Randy Wimberg, Scott Semper Print source: Highway De Lux, Inc. Email: tdarling2000@yahoo. com

18 Documentaries A Wink and a Smile Friday 9:15 pm

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USA/2008 The headmistress of Seattle’s Academy of Burlesque, Miss Indigo Blue, guides 10 women 90 min. through six intense weeks as they study the artDirector: Deirdre ful striptease of burlesque. As the women learn Timmons to shed their inhibitions along with their clothes, their journey shifts from the glamour of feathers Print source: Golden and rhinestones and takes a sharp look at how Echo Films they feel about their bodies and their sexuality.

They are aided in this process by such renowned Email: Deirdre@ Northwest burlesque-y divas as The Shanghai goldenechofilms.com Pear, Lily Verlaine, The Swedish Housewife and many others who perform throughout the film to illustrate Miss Indigo’s lectures. A romping collection of bump-and-grind musicians accompany the film in this toe-tapping musical documentary.

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Thomson and his droll, literate, almost budget-less troupers seek wild cultural variety that is widely available in Port Townsend.

Guests in past Port Townsend broadcasts have included festival guests such as actors Elliott Gould, Jane Powell, Malcolm McDowell, and Debra Winger, mountaineer Jim Whittaker, painter Max Grover, Copper Canyon Press executive editor Michael Wiegers, novelist David Guterson.

“Over the years, Sedge has distinguished West Coast Live from any other show on public radio by interviewing … artists …. (While) other talk radio shows emphasize legal and political experts, Sedge engages novelists, filmmakers, comedians, actors, and poets to talk about the cultural forces they are creating, and the source of their inspiration,” says Rick DelVecchio of the San Francisco Chronicle.

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Prizes for the top three will be awarded Saturday night at the Rose Theatre.

Film 2880 exists to challenge the resourcefulness and creativity of filmmakers, film students, and anyone who yearns to make a movie. The annual filmmaking project was founded and is still managed by Port Townsend-based filmmaker Peter Wiant, assisted by graphic designer Lou Faulkner.

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20 Saturday Drop-In T heatre Saturday 9:30 am

Being Innu

An unvarnished look at life in a village in Labrador. Six savvy, gutsy young people talk about addiction, suicide, lack of jobs and hopelessness. “I first thought about suicide when I was 7,” one 16-year-old says. Interviews with elders, grandparents and teachers round out this portrait of a community in crisis.

Canada/2007/77 min.

Director: Catherine Mullins Camera: Alberto Felo Print source: Documentary Educational Resources Email: Brittany@der.org

Saturday 11:00 am

A Totem of the Northwest Coast

The story of carving, carvers and the Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe. The director had one of the 10 entries in the 2005 Film 2880 contest, a highlight of the Port Townsend Film Festival.

In person: Russell Hill USA/2008/25 min.

Director/Camera: Russell Hill Print source: Long Light Productions Email: rhill@longlight.net

Saturday 11:45 am

Killer Whale and Crocodile

A celebration of the coming together of two indigenous cultures – the Coast Salish of British Columbia and the Iatmul of Papua New Guinea, through the shared medium of carving.

Canada/2007/48 min.

Director/Camera: Peter Campbell Print source: Arthur Holbrook Productions Email: aholbrook@shaw.ca In person: Art Holbrook, Peter Campbell

Lunch Break 12:30 to 1 p.m.

Saturday 1:00 pm

Alaska Far Away: The New Deal Pioneers of the Matanuska Colony

In the midst of the Great Depression, Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal gave 202 destitute Midwestern farm families a chance to start over – in Alaska. This is the story of a bold government experiment and the families who found themselves thrust into the national spotlight.

In person: Paul Hill, Jim Fox USA/2008/91 min.

Directors: Joan Juster, Paul Hill Writers: James H. Fox, Joan Juster, Mark Lipman, Paul Hill Camera: Carisa Kaplan Print source: Juster Hill Productions Email: jhppaulhill@yahoo.com

Saturday 4:55 pm

The American Carver

As compelling as any fictional drama, this film follows Jewell Praying Wolf James and 17 others from Washington state to the Pentagon, wrestling with inner and outer demons in an attempt to carve and transport a 10-ton totem pole as a memorial to 9/11.

In person: Hans Erchinger-Davis, Janel Erchinger-Davis USA/2007/60 min.

Director/Camera: Hans Erchinger-Davis Print source: Chariot Wheel Productions Email: janeldavis@yahoo.com Approximate closing time: 5:55 p.m.

Saturday 2:45 pm

Gates of the Arctic: Alaska’s Brooks Range

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One of the wildest places in North America, Alaska’s Brooks Range is explored through the eyes of the native Nunamiut Eskimo culture and the passion of two conservationists who started a national wilderness protection movement as a result of their inspiration.

Narrated by Oscar-nominee Glenn Close.

In person: Rory Banyard USA/2008/57 min.

Director/Writer: Rory Banyard Camera: Daniel Zatz Print source: North Shore Productions Email: Jessica@northshorepro.com

Saturday 3:55 pm

A Hole in A Fence

Chronicling the changing fortunes of a unique abandoned lot in Red Hook, Brooklyn, the film explores the complicated issues of development, class and identity facing the city’s most populous borough.

USA/2007/46 min.

Director/Camera: D.W. Young Print source: Skeptical Productions Email: dwy@skepticalproductions.net

Drop-In Theatre

Located in the Port Townsend Community Center in the Uptown Historical District, the Drop-In Theatre offers films, mostly but not entirely documentaries, on a continuous run basis, with only 10 or 15 minutes between each screening. Times listed are approximate. Admission is on a spaceavailable basis. Donation requested. Filmmakers who accompany their films will be available for questions following each screening.

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Sunday 5:45 pm

Tumbling After

Big Plans

An improvised mockumentary about a burlesque dance troupe that begins to selfdestruct with the addition of a fading neo-burlesque star.

(See also “A Wink and a Smile,” page 18) In person: Bryan Skinner Canada/2008/44 min.

Director/screenwriter: Bryan Skinner Camera: John Flahr Email: byanskinner@shaw.ca

Sunday 10:25 am

Six Seconds of Freedom

The story of the Angola Prison Rodeo in Louisiana told through the eyes of the participants, convicted rapists and murderers. With no chance to practice, when rodeo time arrives they simply put on hats and spurs and become cowboys. They are often referred to as gladiators without the lions.

USA/2008/53 min.

Director: Jeff Smith, John Jackson Screenwriter/camera: Jeff Smith Print source: Oasis Films Ltd. Email: jeff@oasisfilm.com

Sunday 1:15 pm

Queens of Heart

A pioneering documentary that shows the deeper side of drag queens through four years of observing Portland’s famous club Darcelle XV, pseudo-named for a 75-year-old female impersonator who consoles and confronts audiences with astute observations on group psychology, sexuality and gender.

In person: Jan Haaken USA/2007/51 min.

Director: Jan Haaken Camera: Heather Mosher, Eric Edwards, Caleb Heymann Email: haakenj@pdx.edu

Three high school juniors hatch a plan to fix their grades, but when news of their success gets around the school, they quickly get in too deep and must try to change everybody’s grades without letting the faculty know what’s going on. A first narrative feature by a Shoreline filmmaker.

Sunday 2:20 pm

Rapping with Shakespeare

A modern-day hip-hop version of Shakespeare’s tales explores the lives of five South Central Los Angeles teenagers, examining how a popular English teacher uses the students’ popular culture to access the seemingly distant English bard.

In person: Craig Packard, Vincent Cicotte USA/2006/85 min.

Director: Craig Packard Screenwriter: Craig Packard, Ron Berry, Vincent Cicotte Email: craigpackard@gmail.com

In person: Chariss Reneau USA/2007/90 min.

Director: Michael King Camera: Jamaal Fort Email: charisse1@mac.com

Sunday 4:05 pm

WORLD

La Verdad (The Truth)

A traveling New Zealand family is accidentally drawn into the heart of Cuban politics when they meet an eccentric, articulate and outspoken Cuban journalist who had been wooed by the CIA but who ultimately worked undercover for Castro for 40 years, which led to the ultimate arrest of nearly 40 trusting independent Cuban writers in 2003.

New Zealand/2007/90 min.

Director: Helen Smyth Camera: Tim Rose Email: haumoana2000@yahoo.com

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Shaping Reality: An Introduction to the Documentary

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Fashion Victims

90 min.

7 shorts , 99 min.

See page 12

96 min. preceded by Horsepower

with Sherman Alexie

See page 13

72 min.

10 pm 11 pm 12 am 1 am

More Shoes 75 min.

See page 16

9:00 PM

City in Heat A Wink and 9:30 PM A Smile A Snowmobile 104 min. preceded by 90 min. for George The Cat and The Owl See page 18 94 min. preceded by Mugs

See page 13

12 NOON

WWII Hits the Homeland 2 films, 154 min.

First Features:

August Evening 127 min.

Paula’s Secret 90 min.

See page 14

12:05 PM

First Features:

Fix

95 min.

See page 10

1,000 Journals 88 min.

See page 15

3:00 PM

Anatomy Lessons 2 films, 132 min.

3:00 PM

First Features:

Leave Me Behind 124 min.

See page 10

OUTDOOR MOVIE *

POPE

Long North Road

West Coast Live

93 min.

Doors open 9:30 am

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See page 19

2 films, 132 min.

See page 25

ROSEBUD 8:50 AM

Barcelona (A Map)

ROSE

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One-Eyed Girl 55 min.

90 min.

See page 12

85 min.

And Along Come Tourists 85 min.

See page 12

Panel: Acting in Independent Films

Faulbourg Treme:

The Untold Story of Black New Orleans

96 min. preceded by Horsepower

9:30 AM

Panel: First Features See page 28

See page 13

12:30 PM

12:35 PM

9 shorts, 101 min.

August Evening

First Feature:

127 min.

See page 10

3:05 PM

WWII Hits the Homeland

Used Parts

2 films, 154 min.

93 min.

1:00 PM

More Shoes 75 min.

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Fix

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Panel: What’s So Funny About Comedy?

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First Feature:

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First Features:

Off Off Broadway

81 min. preceded by Al’s Beef

94 min. preceded by Mugs

6:00 PM

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6:30 PM

A Very Special Evening with Piper Laurie interviewed by Robert Osborne

9:00 PM

9:05 PM

The Human Condition

Used Parts

7 shorts , 99 min.

(Partes Usadas)

See page 24

95 min.

9:15 PM

Film 2880 120 min.

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and a showing of The Hustler

OUTDOOR MOVIE *

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Almost Midnight Movie:

Attack of the Crab Monsters 62 min.

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1,000 Journals

with One Bad Cat 105 min.

124 min.

88 min.

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Closing Night Film:

Sunshine Cleaning with Marc Turtletaub 102 min.

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Film 134 min.

One-Eyed Girl

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55 min.

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9:05 PM

Off Off Broadway

81 min. preceded by Al’s Beef

The Untold Story of Black New Orleans

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79 min.

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OUTDOOR MOVIE * 7:30 PM

Harvey 104 min.

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Leave Me Behind

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Art Saves Lives - 2

The Black Stallion

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A Snowmobile for George

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Paula’s Secret

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Fashion Victims

Awards Ceremony

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TENT

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And Along Come Tourists See page 12

Reviewers’ Choice 1:30 PM

UPTOWN

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The Mark of Zorro See page 8

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UPSTAGE

Anatomy Lessons

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Carrie

UPTOWN

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94 min.

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Reviewers’ Choice

Opening Night Film

The Exiles

ROSE

Classic Movies

6:30 PM

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Barcelona (A Map)

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Art Saves Lives - 1

Feed

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The Human Condition

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24 Shorts WORLD WAR II HITS THE HOMELAND SATURDAY NOON POPE MARINE PARK THEATRE SUNDAY 3 PM POPE MARINE PARK THEATRE

Red, White, Black and Blue On June 7, 1943, Japan invaded the remote Aleutian island of Attu in preparation for a larger invasion into Canada and the States. Attu was the only U.S. territory held by a foreign nation since the War of 1812, and the American public was not immediately informed, in fear of widespread panic.

Northwest Premiere, USA/2007/87 min. Director: Tom Putnam Camera: Alex Vendler Print source: Three-Headed Monster LLC Email: tom@three-headedmonster.com

On Paper Wings In 1945, a Japanese balloon bomb claimed the lives of the only people killed on the continental U.S. as the result of enemy action during WWII. Forty years later, the decision to fold a thousand paper cranes would heal wounds on both sides of the Pacific.

USA/2008/67 min. Director: Ilana Sol Print source: filmmaker Email: nikitasol@hotmail.com Total running time: 154 min. sponsored by

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Directed by Kalani Queypo, 15 min.

Returning home was the choice she made.

Letting go was the choice she inspired. A young Native American and her mother must both come to terms with her illness. Her pain ignites her mother’s gift for storytelling, ultimately paving a path of magical transformation. Print source: kalaniqueypo@gmail.com

The Aviatrix

Directed by Toddy Burton, 10 min.

A gleaming silhouette rockets through the cosmos. She is The Aviatrix, and she exists in the mind of Anne, a young woman battling cancer. Print source: toddyburton@earthlink.net

The Last Visit

Directed by Bee Sack, 5 min.

A lover is introduced to one’s grandmother by “a queer Jew in the diaspora,” according to the filmmaker. This biographical short is about creating a home and hope, about reconciliation and finding peace. Print source: lchaimherbal@ hotmail.com

The Delivery

Directed by Virginia Bogert, 11 min.

Two irregular pegs that don’t quite fit into this world create one of their own. Can an isolated writer and a shy delivery girl find each other? Can she be the one to bring him out?

Will he let her in? Print source: Virginia@laughingdogpictures.com In person: Virginia Bogert, Elayne Wylie

A Morning on Maple Street

Directed by Adam Boyd, 8 min.

A morning on Maple Street in a quiet suburban neighborhood where nothing exceptional ever happens, residents begin their daily routine only to find things are just slightly amiss. Print source: rboylief@aol.com

Now You See Me; Now You Don’t

Directed by Attila Szász, 30 min.

An ordinary day. Dad is experimenting in the lab.

Mom is at home in the kitchen, while their sixyear-old son, Alex, is playing around her. But this day is different. This day Dad brings something home from the lab. And the next morning, Alex is invisible. Print source: szasz@extremefilm.com

Parthenabe

Directed by Alexandra Fisher, 20 min.

A geriatric caretaker, Parthenabe, looks after Albert who suffers from dementia. While Albert’s daughter pursues a blossoming musical career, Albert and Parthenabe share a unique friendship that is threatened when Parthenabe’s health deteriorates. Print source: fisha@mac.com In person: Alexandra Fisher Total running time: 99 min. sponsored by

Shorts 25 ART SAVES LIVES

ANATOMY LESSONS

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Two films about women and their bodies

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PETALS: Journey into Self Discovery

The reactions of sex educators, health professionals, art critics, female participants in the project as they confront a mystery of womanhood – her vulva. A varied range of exquisitely presented images deeply touches viewers with both profound awe and a newly discovered sense of beauty. The result for the viewer is an enlightened and deeply felt set of personal responses to this culturally forbidden discussion. advisory: graphic sexual imagery In person: Beck Peacock, Arwen Hunter Canada/2008/48 min. Director: Beck Peacock Screenwriter: Arwen Hunter, Beck Peacock Camera: Beck Peacock, David Malysheff Print source: Gamut Productions Email: rbeck@ gmail.com

Absolutely Safe

At a time when more women than ever are getting breast implants, fewer voices seem to be asking “Why?” And fewer still are asking “Are they safe?”

This film explores the ongoing debate of the safety of breast implants and the role of beauty in our culture. At its heart, the film is driven by the experience of the filmmaker’s own mother. After a double mastectomy with silicone-implant reconstruction surgery, she suffered severe complications. Ultimately, the film is the story of everyday women who find themselves and their breasts in the tangled and confusing intersection of health, money, science and beauty. advisory: graphic images In person: Carol Ciancutti-Leyva USA/2007/84 min. Director: Carol Ciancutti-Leyva Camera: David Dawkins, Helen Tschudi Print source: Amaranth Productions Email: ccleyva@aol.com Total running time: 132 min. sponsored by

Sun Peak Collision (screens both Saturday and Sunday) Unmoved by his ancestry, a young native Canadian nevertheless finds his talent, and likely his future, propelled by his culture’s past.

The film is an outgrowth of the Connexions Youth Forum, a special project dedicated to fostering filmmaking skills in youth as well as providing access to the DOXA Film Festival and Vancouver’s documentary filmmaking community sponsored by the Documentary Media Society CANADA/2008/2 min. Director: Jack Johnson Print Source: National Film Board of Canada Email: c.longmuir@nfb.ca

Ed and Ed (screens both Saturday and Sunday) The story about the late Port Townsend-based poet and painter Ed Cain, who was afflicted with bipolar disorder. The film is woven with interviews between Ed (Edward), the artist, and his make believe (alter ego) identical twin, Ed (Edwin), a chicken farmer. Edwin represents an insurmountable wall for Edward’s attempt to express his creative spirit through art.

USA/2008/20 min. Director: Galen Garwood Camera: Alex Boysen Print Source: Galen Garwood Email: galen44@ gmail.com

DON’T KNOW, WE’LL SEE: The Work of Karen Karnes

a body of work over a lifetime. It is an invitation to enter the creative process, to give the eyes and ears a feast and to be astonished by beauty.

In person: Lucy Phenix USA/2008/62 min. Director: Lucy Massie Phenix Print Source: Lucy Massie Phenix Films Email: lmphenix@aol.com

One Bad Cat (Sunday only) A renowned black outsider artist, the Rev. Albert Wagner is outrageous and unforgettable. Miraculously transformed by religion at the age of 50, Albert was called by God to paint and he used this gift to renounce a life of sin and inspire others. Still, controversy surrounds the Reverend’s work, which at times provokes unexpected religious and racial tension in both the black and white communities. Albert—one bad cat—must come to terms with a checkered past, and through his primitive yet powerful art, the audience members must determine for themselves if he ultimately achieves redemption.

In person: Thomas Miller, Nancy Dickenson USA/2008/81 min. Director: Thomas Miller Screenwriter: M.R. Stiff Camera: Noel Dannemiller Print Source: Tesseract Films Email: onebadcatmovie@aol.com Total running times: Sat: 84 min., Sun: 103 min.

(Saturday only) Exploring the mystery of the creative process, the life and work of master clay artist Karen Karnes, who has worked with unbroken focus for over 60 years. A pioneer of the 20th century craft movement, Karnes worked uninterrupted until a fire destroyed her home and studio, and the kiln, full of luminous unbroken pieces, was the only structure left standing. This film is about not-knowing and discovery, and about the evolution of form in

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26 Shorts REVIEWERS’ CHOICE

SATURDAY 6:00 PM POPE MARINE PARK BUILDING

SUNDAY 12:30 PM POPE MARINE PARK BUILDING

Twelve volunteer PTFF reviewers screened 284 films and selected these as the very best films under 30 minutes not being shown elsewhere during the festival.

Jab

Shikashika

Sexy Thing

Directed by Keith Lawes, 7 min.

Directed by Stephen Hyde, 11 min.

Directed by Denie Pentecost, 14 min.

This rhythmic music-enriched documentary illuminates the process of making the colorful shaved ice of Peru, “shikashika.”

In order to serve it at the community’s street market, a family must journey on foot to the Andes, where they cut enormous blocks of natural ice by hand.

The film is a bold and emotionally powerful statement of adolescent sexual awakening in the shadow of sexual abuse. advisory: adult content

that snatch!”

This animated and surreal interpretation of Lewis Carroll’s “Jabberwocky” will have viewers watching over their shoulders for “the jaws

Print source: keithlawes@aol.com

In person: Stan Dunster Print source: sjhyde@gmail.com

The Spot Directed by Alexandre Philippe, 20 min.

Le Retour

Abstract images and on-the-scene sound clips capture the range of feelings and attitudes about one of the most tragic locations to figure in U.S. history.

Directed by Rachel Earnest, 20 min.

Print source: alexandre@cinemavertige.com

Have you experienced the bittersweet feeling of leaving an exotic place and returning to the more mundane, familiar world of home?

“Le Retour” explores a girl’s difficulty readjusting to her Orange County existence after lifechanging months studying in France.

Forced Perspective: Odessa Directed by Deanna Morse, 6 min.

In person: Rachel Earnest

Images of Sergei Eisenstein’s 1925 epic “Battleship Potemkin” impose themselves on a modern tourist visiting Odessa.

Print source: earne100@yahoo.com

Print source: morsed@gvsu.edu

South 5

Fatherland

Directed by Bryan Johnson, 5 min.

Directed by Robert Warzecha, 15 min.

Who knew that a drive to Tacoma could be so adventurous?

A Nazi soldier returns to his farm home at the close of World War II to convince his father to retreat with him to Berlin. He discovers that his father has a reason to stay that may change their relationship forever.

In person: Bryan Johnson, Chris Martin Print source: south5@mac.com

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Zoologic Directed by Nicole Mitchell, 5 min.

A fussy zookeeper encounters a resident who refuses to be shaped to fit.

Print source: zoologic.film@gmail.com Total running time: 101 min.

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28 Short Course and Panels FIRST FEATURES SHAPING ACTING IN REALITY: An INDEPENDENT Introduction to FILMS the Documentary Bruce Hattendorf, moderator

Jason Wehling, producer, august evening Tao Ruspoli, director/writer, Fix

Kirk Gostkowski, director, leave me Behind

Moderator to be announced

Short Course with Bruce Hattendorf

FRIDAY 1:30 PM UPSTAGE THEATRE & RESTAURANT From the Lumière Brothers’ first projected images of everyday life to contemporary “blockbusters” like “Fahrenheit 9/11” and “Gonzo: The Life and Times of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson,” film documentaries have sought to record, inform, entertain and persuade using a variety of film styles, sometimes with controversial results.

Enjoy this quick tour of the history and art of documentary film, focusing on major styles, seminal films, and a few debates.

Jeff Huston, director, off off Broadway

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One of the more difficult tasks in making an independent film is coming up with a cast that is skilled enough to be believable but sufficiently inexperienced to not require a high salary. This panel will address some of the problems and some of the solutions.

The distance between a short film and a fulllength can be a real stretch for filmmakers, like the reach the short-story writer takes upon tackling a first novel. The forms are related, but definitely not the same. Representatives of the four showcased “First Features” in this year’s festival will discuss the issues they faced.

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SUNDAY 12:45 PM HOSPITALITY CENTER TENT A dozen films, both feature-length and shorts, in this year’s festival could be billed as comedies, and what a range they offer: farce, satire, black comedy, fantasy. The panel will focus on the German comedy of mistaken identity, “Fashion Victims,” and a political documentary with a comedic sub-text, “A Snowmobile For George.” sponsored by

Bruce Hattendorf has taught English, film appreciation, and screenwriting at Peninsula College since 1999. He also founded and helps to coordinate the college’s Magic of Cinema Film Series, which screens classic, independent and foreign films at the college throughout the year. Before coming to the Olympic Peninsula, he lived in New York, where was associate producer on a documentary about Anne and Charles Lindbergh. robert Horton is film critic for KUOW-FM and The (Everett) Herald, and is an annual fixture at the Port Townsend Film Festival, fulfilling many functions. He works with drama students at Port Townsend High School to expand their understanding and appreciation of movies. He interviews Festival guests, talks about film informally with festival-goers, and leads and participates in panel discussions. sponsored by

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Robert Osborne Interview 35 Ask Robert Osborne

Recently, a PTFF member asked us to ask Robert a question, so we opened an “ask Robert” opportunity to readers of our electronic newsletter. Here are the questions, followed by Robert’s answers.

Q: Based on your extensive knowledge, which stars stand out as totally opposite of their screen persona? Shirley, Port Townsend

A: Rita Hayworth: very shy and sweet, totally unlike her femme fatale persona on screen; June Allyson: quite a femme fatale, unlike her innocent girl-next-door image. I’m told Boris Karloff and Edward G. Robinson were both very kind, gracious gentlemen, totally unlike their screen images.

Q: Two RKO black and white films, circa 1950, seem never to have been shown on TCM: THE BLUE VEIL which earned Jane Wyman one of her Oscar® nominations, and PAYMENT ON DEMAND with Bette Davis. Are they unavailable for showing on TCM for some (legal?) reason? Brian, Western Canada A: There is a rights issue with THE BLUE VEIL stemming from the original French film on which it’s based, but neither BLUE VEIL nor PAYMENT ON DEMAND were in the RKO library Ted Turner acquired, as they were independently made and released thru RKO which only had distribution rights to them for seven years, meaning not since the late 1950s.

Q: As a collector of all 80 Oscar®-winning films on DVD, only two appear to be unavailable at the moment: WINGS and CAVALCADE. Would your sources know if the above two will ever come out? Brian, Western Canada

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Q: Who, in your view, are the James Stewart and Spencer Tracy, the Joan Crawford and Katharine Hepburn of today’s crop of Hollywood stars? Or can the “stars of the silver screen” even be matched? John, Port Townsend A: It’s doubtful we’ll ever have that kind of star again -- today’s movies and distribution of them don’t allow it, and the thing that made stars of the 30s, 40s and 50s so god-like to people was the way they were seen -- on a big screen, with the full focus of an audience, fully concentrated, sitting in a theatre. But there are many powerful, very charismatic newer actors out there now -- Meryl Streep, Daniel Day-Lewis, Angelina Jolie, Javier Bardem, Emma Thompson, et. al.

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Q: How did you get the job (on TCM)? Did you apply? Audition?

Right place, right time? Please explain the mechanics of it. Monica, Port Townsend

A: Right place, right time, pure luck. If I hadn’t gone to dinner with Dorothy Lamour at “21” in New York one night in 1993, it never would have happened. If I’d had to audition, it never would have happened. The only thing I had control over was that I was fully prepared with the knowledge the job required.

Q: What advice do you have for someone wanting to act in film? Karen, Port Townsend A: Work in live theatre as much as possible, to learn and gain experience. But don’t start in Los Angeles. You mustn’t let them see you in LA until you’re good and prepared. If they see you being amateurish or untrained, they’ll never think of you any other way, Q: What does all this new digital filmmaking mean for mainstream movies?

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A: Change -- constant change. But it’s always been that way. There has never been a long period of time when the entertainment stayed the same -- as when movies came along and killed vaudeville, when movies went from silents to sound, when color became a factor, television changed movies, when the internet changed television, and on. If one can’t adjust easily, it’s not a business to be in.

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iper Laurie has built a distinguished career in film, on television and the theater, performing in more than a hundred films and television shows. She had already starred in nearly twenty films before breaking her lucrative Hollywood contract and moving to New York to do theater and live TV.

Robert Rosen saw her on stage and cast her in The Hustler, with Paul Newman and Jackie Gleason. Her performance in that classic American film earned her an Oscar nomination for Best Actress in a leading role. She married, moved to upstate New York and took fifteen years out to raise a family. When she returned, two additional Academy Award nominations followed, for the Stephen King classic Carrie, directed

by Brian De Palma, and for Children of a Lesser God directed by Randa Haines.

Laurie made an impact in live television early on in the original Days of Wine and Roses, directed by John Frankenheimer, earning her an Emmy nomination for her wrenching performance as an alcoholic. She has gone on to earn a dozen Emmy nominations for her performances on shows such as Fraiser and David Lynch’s series Twin Peaks, for which she received a Golden Globe. She also won the Emmy for the Hallmark movie Promise with James Woods and James Garner.

Laurie has starred in a spectrum of film genres, from Dario Argento’s Trauma to the elegant adaptation of Truman Capote’s The Grass Harp opposite Walter Matthau. She has worked with directors ranging from Robert Rodriguez and Sean Penn to Norman Jewison and Bruce Beresford, in films as diverse as The Faculty, The Crossing Guard, Wrestling Ernest Hemingway, Storyville, Other People’s Money, Dream A Little Dream, Return to Oz, and Tim, opposite Mel Gibson.

On stage Laurie has done almost thirty plays including The Glass Menagerie, Rosemary and The Alligators, Twelfth Night, Marco Polo Sings a Solo, Macbeth, The Innocents, and The Cherry Orchard, and toured in her one-person show The Last Flapper

by William Luce, based on the writings of Zelda Fitzgerald. She played in Larry Kramer’s most recent The Destiny of Me at the Lucille Lortel and last season’s Tony-nominated hit revival of Mornings as Seven directed by Daniel Sullivan. She was Harvard’s “Woman of the Year,” and in 1996 Tucson University awarded her an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree.

In 2000 she flew to Korea to receive “The Spirit of Hope Award” for her service during the Korean War. She is a sculptor working in marble and clay and exhibits her work.

Piper Laurie starred opposite Dakota Fanning and Robin Wright Penn in Hounddog, first screened at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival and scheduled for limited theatrical release in September 2008. She played Toni Collette’s mother in The Dead Girl, released in 2006, and she has completed filming Another Harvest Moon with Ernest Borgnine, Anne Meara, and Doris Roberts.

Recently, she directed the first part of a trilogy based on the short stories of James Lasdun.

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Piper Laurie 37 Piper Laurie answers the Proust Questionnaire...

who are your favorite writers?

Most recently James Lasdun, an English writer. And I’ve been reading a lot of memoirs lately because I’ve been writing my own.

what is your current state of mind?

Very excited.

what do you value most in your friends?

Intelligence, humor and loyalty.

what is your greatest extravagance?

Hats.

what is your fondest hope?

To have a dog when I move back into my house.

what is your greatest fear?

Lightning. what is the trait you most deplore in others?

Dishonesty. what is the trait you most deplore in yourself?

Occasionally I regress to being shy like when I was a child. what is the most overrated virtue?

Appearance. what one thing would you change about yourself?

I would like to eat anything I wanted. what quality do you most admire in men?

A really good sense of humor. what quality do you most admire in women?

A really good sense of humor. which words or phrases do you most overuse?

No idea. what is your principle defect?

I talk too slowly. what or who is the greatest love of your life?

I’ve written about him in my book and you’ll have to wait. where would you like to live?

Anyplace where I can see the sky and trees and things growing. what is your favorite occupation?

Carving stone. what is your most treasured possession?

My sculpture and a little gold medallion that someone special gave to me.

who are your heroes?

One of my heroes is Chuck Morgan Jr., a great civil rights lawyer.

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Rembrandt and Brancusi. what is your motto?

Be prepared. what’s something not many people know about the Hustler?

The front office at Fox pressured Rossen to change my line “You Bastard.”

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Four Generations in the Movie Business

at first movie, and by 1963 they were not only married but they were operating the two facilities, as Ernie and Geneve had decided to retire to Oak Harbor, where they opened a restaurant. Ah, yes, retirement. The young couple bought the Uptown and Wheel-In in 1973, and the family operation moved down one generation, with Sharon and Dick’s three children helping out in various capacities.

Independent movie exhibition has almost gone the way of vaudeville, silent films, and three-strip Technicolor®. The few remaining are mostly corporate art houses in urban areas which, despite more adventuresome programming, can’t seen to avoid the slickness of big city multiplexes.

In rural areas, they’re mostly “mom and pop” operations that take on the idiosyncrasies of their owners.

With its imaginative programming, extensive condiment bar for those who need to flavor-up their popcorn, and hand-crafted introductions for each movie, the Rose Theatre is a local treasure that has become well known to movie buffs from all over.

Leonard Maltin “wishes it was (my) neighborhood theatre.” The Rose outdoes any independent theatre in Seattle. As one wag said recently, “If managers introduced movies in Seattle, they’d be laughed out of the theatre.” Even introductions at Seattle International Film Festival screenings are perfunctory.

space instead, leaving the Uptown Theatre the only movie house in town for 34 years until Rocky Friedman resurrected the Rose in 1992.

The Thompsons’ daughter, Sharon, worked the concession stand, sold and took tickets at both the Uptown and the Wheel-In. It was at the drive-in that she met her future husband, Dick Wiley. It was love

It was good training because in January 2007 they were called upon again to help run the theatres when Dick died unexpectedly. And now, the family continues, modernizing and sprucing up, adding some independent films to their roster. For the second year, they will be the biggest theatre of the five indoor venues at the annual Port Townsend Film Festival.

We can be thankful for family operations. If the Uptown had been owned by a large corporation, it would likely have been closed by now, or sliced and diced into a multi-plex. Long live the Uptown.

Article based in part on a story written by Pam McCollum Clise

What’s been operating under the radar in recent years has been Port Townsend’s Uptown Theatre, a family operation that, without too much fudging, can be said to have involved four generations for more than 61 years.

On April 5, 1947, Ernest “Ernie” and Geneve Thompson turned the former dance hall, owned by the International Order of Oddfellows, into the most modern theatre in town after extensive remodelling that involved building a raked floor, and creating a projection booth that was accessed through the dining room of an upstairs apartment they occupied. There was even a “crying room,” two rows of seats separated from the rest of the auditorium by a glass wall for moms and dads and their babies. The Thompsons opened with “Abilene Town” starring Randolph Scott, and the fare of successful commercial films has been a mainstay ever since.

Although not involved directly in the theatre, Ernie’s parents opened the Uptown Fountain and Grill, staying open to serve patrons after the movies.

Ernie was a civic-minded fellow, serving in various posts and earning the Man of the Year Award in 1950. He was also a very busy businessman.

Undaunted by television, the family bought the Townsend Theatre (where the Palace Hotel now serves) which was run by Ernie’s brother and his wife. The next purchase was the Rose Theatre. They finally stopped with the construction of the WheelIn Motor Movie outside town.

In 1958, an ill-advised entertainment admissions tax was levied by the Port Townsend City Council. Ernie felt that it was an unfair burden not only on him but also on his customers, so he shut the Uptown and the Rose. The Rose did not reopen, becoming retail

PTFF Core//Corps Some members, but by no means all, of the core group of Port Townsend Film Festival volunteers gathered for an ice cream social and a chance to talk about things other than movies. Those present included: 1. Monica Mick’Hager, festival director; 2.

Darlene Quayle, festival assistant; 3. Carrie Rice, pre-festival booth coordinator; 4. Mark Saran, assistant festival director; 5.

Pat Simpson; 6. Peter Simpson, artistic director; 7. Don Berg, theatre manager; 8. Ruth Merryman, food coordinator; 9. Kathy Stafford, volunteer shift coordinator; 10. Karen Gates Hildt, member of board of directors; 11. Linda Maguire, member of board of directors; 12. Tom Christopher, advanced ticket sales; 13. Denys Christopher; 14. Cherel Lopez, guest services; 15. Jim Lopez; 16. Linnea Patrick, researcher and film reviewer; 17. Patricia Girardi, membership/passes coordinator; 18. Darlene Keefe, festival designer; 19. Henry Werch, film reviewer; 20. Pam Kolacy, member of board of directors, film review coordinator; 21. Terry Tenneson, operations director; 22. Rex Rice; 23. Brian McLoughlin, sign coordinator

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Index to Films 41 On Paper Wings........................................................24 One Bad Cat...............................................................25 One-Eyed Girl............................................................17 Parthenabe................................................................24 Paula’s Secret.............................................................14 Petals............................................................................25 Queens of Heart.......................................................21 Rapping with Shakespeare..................................21 Red, White, Black and Blue...................................24 Reviewers’ Choice (9 films)...................................26 Sexy Thing..................................................................26 Shaping Reality (short course)...........................28 Shikashika...................................................................26 Six Seconds of Freedom.......................................21 A Snowmobile for George...................................17 1000 Journals............................................................15

Fashion Victims.........................................................13

South 5.........................................................................26

Absolutely Safe.........................................................25

Fatherland..................................................................26

The Spot......................................................................26

Acting in Independent Films (panel)...............28

Faubourg Treme.......................................................15

Sun Peak Collision...................................................25

Alaska Far Away: The New Deal Pioneers......20

Film 2880.....................................................................19

Sunshine Cleaning................................................... 9

Al’s Beef........................................................................11

First Features............................................... 10-11, 28

A Totem of the Northwest Coast......................20

The American Carver ............................................20

Fix...................................................................................10

Tumbling After.........................................................21

Anatomy Lessons (2 films)...................................25

Forced Perspective: Odessa.................................26

Used Parts . ................................................................14

Ancestor Eyes............................................................24

Gates of the Arctic: Alaska’s Brooks Range....20

La Verdad (The Truth).............................................21

And Along Come Tourists....................................12

Harvey (1950)............................................................. 8

West Coast Live........................................................19

Art Saves Lives (4 films).........................................25

A Hole in a Fence ....................................................20

What’s So Funny About Comedy? (panel).....28

Attack of the Crab Monsters (1957)................. 9

Horsepower...............................................................13

A Wink and a Smile.................................................18

August Evening........................................................10

Human Condition (7 films)..................................24

World War II Hits the Homeland (2 films).......24

The Aviatrix ...............................................................24

The Hustler....................................................................5

Zoologic......................................................................26

Barcelona - A Map...................................................12

Jab.................................................................................26

Being Innu..................................................................20

Killer Whale and Crocodile...................................20

Big Plans......................................................................21

The Last Visit .............................................................24

The Black Stallion (1979)........................................ 8

Le Retour.....................................................................26

Carrie............................................................................. 9

Leave Me Behind.....................................................10

The Cat and the Owl .............................................13

Long Road North.....................................................16

City in Heat.................................................................13

The Mark of Zorro (1940)....................................... 8

The Delivery .............................................................24

More Shoes................................................................16

Don’t Know, We’ll See: The Work of Karen Karns......................................25

A Morning on Maple Street ...........................24

Ed and Ed....................................................................25 The Exiles.......................................................................6

Mugs.............................................................................17 Now You See Me; Now You Don’t......................24 Off Off Broadway.....................................................11

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