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,
(tickets available at Independence Mall, Kingston - customer service, or online via TicketWeb at www.plyfilmfest.org)

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.”

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.



A Sense of Being There with Richard Leacock and Collaborators

Richard Leacock circa 1982

Screenings $8/$5 Students and seniors/ Masterclass and Panel $15 each
(tickets available at Independence Mall, Kingston - customer service, or online via TicketWeb at www.plyfilmfest.org)
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! Go to

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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. go to

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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.

Tribute to High Plains
Friday, July 21 - Saturday, July 22
$8/$5 students and seniors
Radisson Hotel, various times. Visit the website schedule for complete details
(tickets available at Independence Mall, Kingston - customer service, or online via TicketWeb at

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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 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.

Free Screenings, Plimoth Plantation
Don’t Look Back
9:00pm, Theatre I
(1967) 96 mins, 16mm B&W
D.A. Pennebaker

Pennebaker’s “fly on the wall” documentary follows Bob Dylan on-stage and off during a three-week concert tour of England in 1965. With appearances by Joan Baez, Donovan and many others.

Double Feature: Salesman and Primary
9:00pm, Theatre II
Salesman
Directed by Albert and David Maysles
(1969) 85 mins

Salesman follows the lives of four door-to-door Bible salesmen. Chosen by the US Library of Congress as one of the 25 Top American Films of historical, cultural, and aesthetic significance. (Photo is of Albert Maysles)

Primary
(1960) 53 mins, 16mm B&W

Conceived and produced by Robert Drew, managing editor: photography and editing by Richard Leacock, Albert Maysles , D.A. Pennebaker, and Terrence McCartney Filgate. Senators John F. Kennedy and Hubert H. Humphrey battle to win the Democratic Party’s Wisconsin Primary. This is the first film in which the sync-sound camera moved freely with the characters through a breaking story; and, it predates modern press coverage where a swarm of media always accompanies the candidates.

Workshops - partial listing. For complete listing visit www.plyfilmfest.org
All workshops, panels and Masterclass - $15

Out of the Closet: A History of Costume Design -- Walter Peterson
Friday, July 21, 2:30-4:30pm, Radisson Hotel
Fashion and costume designer Walter Peterson will share his designs and stories. He worked with Bob Mackie and Edith Head and dressed Marlene Dietrich and Cher!

Screenwriting -- Scott Thompson
Part 1, Friday, July 21, 5-7pm; Part 2, Saturday, July 22, 3:30-5:30pm, Radisson Hotel
In a constructive workshop environment, Scott Thompson and participants will work together to identify the narrative story behind an idea. Volunteers will pitch their ideas and will then work on the process of developing character and plot. Two-part workshop!

Special Effects: From Design to Destruction – Gary King
Friday, July 21, 7:30-9:30pm, Radisson Hotel
Gary King will share special effects how-to’s. Credits for more than 40 TV shows and 60 films include Aliens - The Resurrection, Terminator 2, True Lies, and Patriot Games.

Thirty Years Below the Line, or How to Make Your Movies Look Like Storaro Lit Them – Mike Moyer
Saturday, July 22, PACTV, 11 am – 1 pm
First Electrician Mike Moyer will share secrets for lighting a scene, including the value of key and fill lighting, and how to light a scene using supplies from the local hardware store. Mike’s credits include The Producers, As Good As It Gets and In the Line of Fire, among others.

An Experiment in Subliminal Persuasions and the Movies -- Lance Norris
Saturday, July 22, 2-4pm, PACTV
An Experiment in Subliminal Persuasions and the Movies Lance Norris, a former card carrying member of the liberal media elite, will conduct an experiment in subliminal persuasion as it relates to the movies. Fun for the whole family.

A long time veteran of Boston radio (WZLX, WBCN, WAAF, MIKE-FM), Norris has been seen in Academy Award winning pictures like Mystic River and Glory, as well as lighter fare like With Honors and The Mouse. Norris has also written for TV on the Emmy nominated Politically Incorrect and Saturday Night Live.

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