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Film Festival
Fim Festival in Crocker Park.
These works are intended to show the many ways that film and video can be used as an art form to inform and express. They are not commercial films of the sort that you can find in your standard multiplex. Although some of these works can certainly be enjoyed by children, not all of the films will be understood by them. Parents should review the lineup and decide if these films are all appropriate for their younger children.
2012 Summer Film Festival
Crocker Park, Front Street, Marblehead
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2011 Summer Film Festival
Co-chairpersons: Mike Evers, Laurie Stolarz
Committee: Carol McLaughlin, Phil Osborn, Sandy Rhoads, Bill Smalley, Caryle Anne Wildfield
2011 Program
The 2011 Film Festival, held July 1 in Crocker Park, featured the following short films:
Stalker
Damien Patrik
2:00 minutes
A man is stalked in downtown Denver … by himself. Damien Patrik is an actor, writer, editor and film producer. His film Cheese concluded last year’s Film Festival, and so he begins this year’s Festival.
The Impossible Journey
John Bonner
7:11 minutes
This personal documentary about one Marbleheader’s bike ride from Marblehead to Boston shows how, by persistence, courage and very observant drivers, it can be done!
Nonlocality Part 1: Prologue
Andrew Dempsey
1:52 minutes
The Prologue is the first of a five-part series that we are spreading throughout the Film Festival. In this segment, the Concord filmmaker depicts a bicyclist who finds a map, and a man who halts his run through the woods to stomp on his cell phone. Is that clear?
Houna and Manny
Jared Katsiane
10:00 minutes
Two young women encounter each other outside the JFK Building while waiting for their parents to settle their immigration issues. Katsiane is a prolific maker of short films, one of which won an award as one of the year’s best New England short works.
Nonlocality Part 2: The Encounter
Andrew Dempsey
2:38 minutes
In the second part of this series, a map reader finds a box but encounters a mysterious—and threatening—hooded man.
Just About Famous
Matt Mamula
14:00 minutes
This is a hilarious documentary about a convention of celebrity lookalikes: Oprah, Kenny Rogers, Sarah Palin, Bill Clinton, George Bush—you’ll meet them all!
Nonlocality Part 3: Escape
Andrew Dempsey
1:37 minutes
The mapreader from Part 2 takes off with the mysterious box and brings it to an equally mysterious workshop.
Beneath the Same Sky
Dan Masucci
13:00 minutes
A regular participant in the Film Festival, Masucci returns with an emotional story about the relationship between a father and his son. The boy is troubled by the absence of his mother, a soldier in the Middle East.
Nonlocality Part 4: Origin
Andrew Dempsey
2:47 minutes
This is how it all began. Let’s see…. Someone was hit by a car … and then got up….
If I Go
Erika Street
10:00 minutes
This Boston filmmaker’s story was chosen as one of the year’s best New England shorts. It is about a young woman’s attempt to connect with a store clerk as part of her search for fulfillment in difficult circumstances.
Fernando’s First Snow
Jared Katsiane
4:00 minutes
This film is the Boston filmmaker’s affecting and poetic story in which a man recalls his first snow, when an elderly man helps him retrieve a scarf from a tree.
God and Dog
Wendy Francisco
2:00 minutes
The filmmaker offers a short animated music video about being loved by both the characters in the title. Francisco, a Boson-born musician who lives in Colorado, also animated the film.
Trampoline
Dan Masucci
6 minutes
This is a story of a father-daughter excursion that turns into an interior excursion for the father.
Twist of Fate
Karen Aqua
8:40 minutes
This award-winning Boston area animator and past Film Festival contributor has created an animated film about her bout with a serious illness.
Pie Heist
Steve Baldwin
7:16 minutes
This former Beverly resident is a prolific filmmaker with many awards to his credit. His comedy deals with the lengths one man will go to evade his self-appointed dietician and appropriate his favorite sugary treat.
Nonlocality Part 5: The End
Andrew Dempsey
3:37 minutes
Oh, Mama, can this really be the end? Don’t be so sure.