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PIFF ’06 Dates: Thursday July 20 – Sunday July
23, 2006
Less Than a Week Away!
Don’t miss out!
All films are $8/$5 students and seniors with ID
All workshops are $10 in advance/$15 at the door
Passes available $30-$150
Opening Night $75/$125
Comedy Benefit $30
Awards $20
Free screenings at the Waterfront, Radisson Hotel and Plimoth Plantation
A Sense of Being There
With Richard Leacock and Collaborators
Richard Leacock
What am I looking for? I hope to be able to create sequences, that when run
together will present aspects of my perception of what took place in the
presence
of my camera. To capture spontaneity it must exist and everything you do is
liable
to destroy-it... beware! – Richard Leacock
Still from Crisis
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Still from Bullfight in Malaga
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Still from The Chair
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Still from Lulu in Berlin
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Still from Light Coming Through
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Still from Queen of Apollo
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Robert Drew
The work I was doing in Life ... we were able to shoot candidly and get real
pictures and real emotion without directing. It occurred to me that if we could
make those pictures move and speak, it would be powerful. – Robert Drew
Robert Drew
Albert Maysles
Learn the technique but equally important keep your eye open to watch the
significant moment. Remember, as a documentarian you are an observer, an author
but not a director - a discoverer, not a controller. – Albert Maysles
Albert Maysles
David and Albert Maysles
Still from Grey Gardens |
Still from Salesman |
DA Pennebaker
DA Pennebaker
Still from Monterey Pop
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Still from Bob Dylan: Don’t Look Back
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Still from Stravinsky Portrait
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Still from You’re Nobody Until Someone Loves You
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Thursday, July 20 - Sunday, July 23, (throughout the weekend), Plimoth
Plantation
Innovation is the theme of this year’s Festival. We look at the history of
documentary filmmaking through the eyes of the pioneers of cinema verité, Richard
Leacock, Robert Drew, Albert Maysles and DA Pennebaker,
and we examine the future of the medium and of film. Many of Richard's former
students will be screening their film, followed by Q&Al - Robb Moss, Ross
McElwee, Michel Negroponte, MJ Doherty, Glorianna Davenport,
Ann McIntosh, Nell Cox, David Parry and others. This year
we have the honor of working with Glorianna Davenport (founder of the
Media Fabrics Department, formerly Interactive Cinema, at the MIT Media Lab) and
Brian Bradley. As our film partners, Davenport and Bradley have programmed a
remarkable event to pay tribute to film pioneer Richard Leacock and these
very special guests. Special screenings, with Q&A and/or Intro,
Masterclass and rare Panel discussion. An event not to be missed!
For more information visit Films
and Featured
Filmmaker sections of this site.
SPECIAL EVENTS SUMMARY
Tickets available via TicketWeb, Independence Mall Customer Service in
Kingston and at the door day of event.
Future Filmmakers Felix Awards
Thursday, July 20, 4-6pm, Plimoth Plantation, $5 at the door
 Founded
in 1999, the South Shore Video Contest merged with the Plymouth Independent Film
Festival in February 2006 to become the PIFF Future Filmmakers Collaborative.
The goal is to further develop the program by broadening its outreach and
providing teenage students with a venue for self-expression as well as a forum
for connecting with their peers in neighboring communities. Join us for the
Felix Awards to celebrate our aspiring filmmakers. Special guests Glorianna
Davenport and PIFF ’06 Honoree and Maverick Award Winner, Richard
Leacock, will present awards and screen Ricky’s first film, Canary
Bananas (1935), made when he was 14.
Opening Night Reception
Thursday, July 20, 7-11pm, Plimoth Plantation, $75/$125 Supporter
Level
Film, fun, jazz and art combine to make the Plymouth Independent Film
Festival’s Opening Night Reception and Benefit on Thursday, July 20 at the
Plimoth Plantation a night to remember, with performances by Boston jazz greats Stan
Strickland, Rakalam Bob Moses, Wes Wirth, and interactive
architecture artist and composer Christopher Janney, an exhibit by artist
Carole Bolsey, and a Silent Art Auction. H'our dourves and cocktails
(cash bar). Limited capacity.
 Our
featured musician, Stan Strickland, performed with jazz notables Herbie
Mann, Shirley Scott and Marlena Shaw and has appeared at Jordan and Symphony
Halls in Boston, at the Carnegie Recital Hall and Town Hall in New York, and in
Washington, D.C. at the Kennedy Center. Strickland teaches at the Berklee
College of Music, Tufts University, and the Longy School of Music. In the spirit
of this year’s Festival theme, “innovation,” Stickland will open the
evening with a special solo piece, HeartBeats, accompanied by sounds
generated by his body through a device that captures the electrical impulses to
the heart and surrounding muscles via wireless telemetry. Created by Chris
Janney, the work was premiered by Sara Rudner of the Twyla Tharp Dance Company
at Boston's ICA in 1983 and later used by Mikhail Baryshnikov for his “White
Oak Dance Project.”
Photo of Stan Strickland, Stan with Tenor. All rights reserved. Credit Hank Gans.
 Christopher
Janney studied architecture at Princeton University and music at the
Dalcroze School of Music and Environmental Art at MIT, blending his talents to
create installations that make architecture spontaneous while bringing music to
life visually. Perhaps his best-known local installation is the Acoustic
Staircase installed in Boston’s Museum of Science.
Following the performance of HeartBeats, Wirth and Moses
will join Stan for two jazz sets. Moses blends Monk, funk, tap, hip hop,
bebop, big band blues, Bahia, Tanzania and the avant garde, while paying homage
to the spirits of Charles Mingus, Jaco Pastorius and others. He has worked
and/or recorded with Charles Mingus, Keith Jarrett, Pat Metheny, Lyle Mays,
Herbie Hancock, Jack DeJohnette, Jaco Pastorius, Bobby McFerrin, Dave Sanborn,
Bill Frisell, Chucho Valdes, and Vernon Reid, among others.
This year’s featured artist, Carole Bolsey, works on a large scale in
paint on canvas, installations, sculpture, and architectural design. Her artwork
centers on nature in highly simplified landscapes interpreted through abstracted
qualities of light, space, gesture and scale. Bolsey’s work appears in public
and private collections throughout the United States, Europe, and Japan. She
taught painting, drawing, and visual studies at Harvard University’s Carpenter
Center for Visual and Environmental Studies and Graduate School of Design from
1983-1996.
Derek Lamb Tribute
Plimoth Plantation, Friday, July 21, 7:30pm
Derek Lamb, one of the first teachers of film animation at Harvard and a
prolific and admired animator in his own right, died November 5, 2005 in Seattle
after a long struggle with cancer. He was 69.
 Lamb
won two Academy Awards for best animated short films -- in 1978 for Special
Delivery and in 1979 for Every Child. His other film credits include I
Know An Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly, Psychic Parrot, The Hottest Show on Earth,
Why Me? and Afterlife. He also directed and produced Karate Kids,
a short, animated film designed to provide AIDS-prevention information for
street children. Most recently, Lamb served as executive producer on the
Emmy-winning PBS series, "Peep and the Big Wide World."
The Derek Lamb Tribute will feature his films, television interviews with him,
and discussion about his approach to both animation and teaching.
PIFF ‘06 Comedy Benefit
Friday, July 21, 8-10pm, Radisson Hotel, $30
Join Patty Ross and her special guests Tony V and Bob Hagearty for an evening of
comedy in the Radisson Ballroom. Emceed by Lance Norris. Proceeds go to the
Jesse Cooper Foundation.
Patty Ross |
Tony V |
Bob Hagearty |
Lance Norris |
Comedy
Benefit details, click here (Adobe Acrobat Reader Format 1.28MB)
PIFF 2006 Festival Awards
Saturday, July 22, 8-11pm, The Pinehills, $20
Join PIFF for the 2006 PIFF Awards Ceremony and Reception. This year’s
Maverick Award recipient is Richard Leacock, the renowned filmmaker who
has devoted his life to achieving the goal of giving the film viewer a solid
sense of “being there.” Possible surprise guests!
Liquid Tales with Patrick Smith
Sunday, July 23, Noon, Radisson Hotel
Join special guest and Animation Artist, Patrick Smith, for a screening of
shorts followed by discussion and Q&A. Patrick Smith wanted to be a
professional skateboarder, but hurt himself and became an animator. His films
have been featured on MTV, several “Spike and Mike” collections, and
hundreds of international film festivals.
In 1999, Smith made his
directorial debut in the Emmy-nominated MTV animated series “Down-town.” He
went on to direct several seasons of the popular series “Daria.” In 2001 he
opened his studio, Blend Films, which primarily produces his independent shorts,
but also produces multiple commercial productions. In addition, Smith is a
Professor and Senior Thesis advisor at the Pratt Institute in New York, and is a
curator and jurist for multiple film festivals.
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Tribute to High Plains
Friday, July 21 - Saturday, July 22
$8/$5 students and seniors
Screening 12 films!
In 1992 and 1993, Doug Hawes-Davis and Drury Gunn Carr, neither one with any
previous knowledge of video production, set out independently of each other to
create two unrelated "no budget" documentaries. The two completed
films earned several unexpected awards at film festivals. When the two
filmmakers met at a festival and shared stories of technical difficulties,
trespassing charges, broken equipment, debt, arrests and other minor issues,
they decided to make a career out of it, and High Plains Films was founded. More
than a decade later, High Plains Films has won more than 40 awards, and the
films have been screened around the world and broadcast on nation-wide
television.
Free Waterfront Screenings
Friday, July 21 and Saturday, July 22, at Sundown, Historic Plymouth
Waterfront, Free
Pack a snack, bundle up the kids, and bring your lawn chairs and popcorn to The
Lawn (next to “The Rock”). Friday, July 21: The Festival will screen
one of the short competition films, followed by the classic, perfect date movie,
Casablanca. This not-to-be-missed gift is made possible by a generous
grant from the Main Family Foundation. Saturday, July 22: Celebrate the
25th anniversary of Raiders of the Lost Ark. This escapist film kept
millions on the edge of their seats as Harrison Ford searched for the Sacred Ark
of the Covenant while being chased by bad guys, snakes and an enormous boulder
the size of Rhode Island. As an added treat, the Festival also will show
original short films created during Reel Camp, a fundraising and
film-development project involving local filmmakers led by Glorianna
Davenport, of MIT’s Media Lab, and her colleagues.
Free Screenings, Plimoth Plantation
Don’t Look Back
9:00pm, Theatre I
(1967) 96 mins, 16mm B&W
D.A. Pennebaker
Double Feature: Salesman and Primary
9:00pm, Theatre II
Salesman
Directed by Albert and David Maysles
(1969) 85 mins
Primary
(1960) 53 mins, 16mm B&W
Free Screening, Radisson
Sunday, July 23, 12-2pm
"Vietnam: A Television History"
The late Richard Ellison, who lived most of the last 20 years of his life in
Kingston, Massachusetts, is being honored at PIFF’06 with a FREE screening of
one episode of the landmark PBS series “Vietnam: A Television History,”
followed by a panel discussion led by his wife, Sara Altther, who was his
publicist, and her guests, including Drew Pearson.
“‘Vietnam: A Television History,’ was the most
successful documentary produced by public television at the time it aired in
1983. Nearly 9% of all U.S. households tuned in to watch the first episode, and
an average of 9.7 million Americans watched each of the 13 episodes. A second
showing of the documentary in the summer of 1984 garnered roughly a 4% share in
the five largest television markets. Before it was aired in the United States,
over 200 high schools and universities nationwide paid for the license to record
and show the documentary in the classroom as a television course on the Vietnam
War. In conjunction with this educational effort, the Asian Society's
periodical, Focus on Asian Studies, published a special issue entitled
‘Vietnam: A Teacher's Guide,’ to aid teachers in the use of this documentary
in the classroom. ‘Vietnam’ won all of the industry’s major awards,
including six Emmys, a George Foster Peabody Award, the George Polk Award, and a
DuPont-Columbia Award.”
– Museum of Broadcast Communications
Drew Pearson has worked in television news and
documentaries since 1961, first for NBC and then ABC News, particularly in
Vietnam, where he produced documentaries on the war. He has been an independent
since 1976, based in Kittery Point, Maine, working on historical documentaries
for PBS and a number of programs about ecological issues.
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PLYMOUTH, MA – Tickets for the Plymouth Independent
Film Festival can be purchased at the door on the day of an event but to make
sure of seating, get your tickets in advance. Starting June 30th tickets can be
purchased online via TicketWeb. Go to www.plyfilmfest.org
and go into Tickets, buy them at the Independent Mall, Courtesy Counter,
Kingston, MA.
Opening Night, July 20, Plimoth Plantation: Celebrate PIFF ‘06 with special
guests, celebrities and attending filmmakers from across the US, Europe and
Africa. Enjoy food and a very special performance by Boston’s favorite Stan
Strickland, who will first play to the live amplification of his heartbeat,
followed by two sets with Mob Moses and Wes Wirth. Art exhibit by Carole Bolsey.
Art Auction. The summer event not to be missed. Space is very limited.
Only a limited number of tickets will be sold to the public. $75/$125 supporter
level.
Comedy Benefit, July 21, Radisson Ballroom: Last year Steve Sweeney and Dick
Doherty played to a sold out audience. This year join emcee Lance Norris and
comedians Bob Hagearty, Tony V and Patty Ross for an evening of comedy to
benefit the Jesse Cooper Foundation.
Workshops, July 21-23: $10 in advance/$15 at the door. Workshops in comedy,
acting, costume design, screenwriting, special effects, lighting design, and
more. Ricky Leacock Master Class, and a rare documentary panel with Richard
Leacock and Collaborators.
Films, July 21-23: $8/$5 for seniors and students with valid I.D. at the
Radisson Hotel and Plimoth Plantation. Attention all documentary, History
Channel, PBS and ‘60’s-‘70’s rock music fans – most films at the
Plantation are followed by Q&IA with legends Ricky Leacock, Robert Maysles,
Robert Drew and DA Pennebaker, award-winning documentarians and prominent film
professors from Harvard, MIT and NYU including Michel Negroponte, Glorianna
Davenport, Robb Moss and Ross McElwee. Because this is a once-in-a-lifetime
opportunity, purchasing tickets in advance is strongly recommended.
Free screenings: Waterfront – Casablanca (July 21) and the 25th
anniversary of Raiders of the Lost Ark (July 22). Plymouth Plantation - Salesman,
Primary and Bob Dylan: Don’t Look Back. (July 23)
Passes are also available for purchase:
PIFF Day Pass - $30
(screenings and workshops; up to $30 in savings!)
PIFF Plimoth Plantation Day Pass - $45
(Day Pass, plus entry into Plimoth Plantation (up to $40 in savings!)
PIFF Weekend Pass - (Friday, Saturday and Sunday) - $50
(up to $100 in savings!)
PIFF Plimoth Plantation Weekend Pass - $125
Weekend Pass, plus entry into Plimoth Plantation (up to $98 in savings)
PIFF Reel Pass - $200
(Screenings, workshops, events, and all parties, excluding charity events)
For more information about PIFF ’06 visit www.plyfilmfest.org
and watch this newspaper for further updates. Films are not rated. Some films,
including animated shorts, may not be suitable for young audiences. Please read
descriptions carefully.
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