2006 Festival Events

Saturday, July 29: DAILY RITUAL

Raise the "Jolly Roger" at the Captain Kidd

Saturday through Saturday
Daily at 4 PM

After a long day on the beach or biking around Falmouth, center yourself before the main screenings with an elbow-tipping gathering with the filmmakers, staff, and patrons of the festival down on the lagoon patio deck of The Captain Kidd Waterfront Restaurant and Bar. Whether you prefer a cool lemonade, a refreshing cola, a cold brew, or an afternoon cocktail, join us for lively conversation about last night's films and the ones coming up.
  

Saturday July 29: EVENT

OPENING NIGHT PARTY

The Captain Kidd - 10 pm

Join us to celebrate the opening of the 15th Festival, our largest and most exciting yet, We have 99 films screening during the week and filmmakers coming from all over the world. And what better place to mark the occasion than the Captain Kidd? Our friends Bill Murray and Maggie Crowley are long-time supporters of the Festival and this Cape Cod classic establishment has become a central magnet of the Woods Hole Film Festival experience. From the opening night party to the afternoon gatherings, festival goers will spend a lot of time here during the week. Two years ago, they were the first locale for the hugely successful "Dinner & a Movie" screening series. For the opening night party there will be more than enough good cheer!
 

Sunday July 30: EVENT

Filmmaker's Brunch

A private meet-and-greet brunch limited to the attending filmmakers held at at a waterfront home of a Festival supporter.
     Filmmakers, send your significant other, family, and friends off to the beach or the shops and join in this perfect chance to renew old acquaintances, to make new friends, and share experiences to prepare for the week-long festival.
      Last year a number of filmmakers forgot to bring their bathing suits. The water in Vineyard Sound was wonderfully warm.  By invitation only.
  

Sunday July 30: EVENT

TRIBUTE TO RICKY LEACOCK

Redfield Auditorium 7 PM - hosted by David Kleiler 

Ricky Leacock is a renowned documentary director and cinematographer. Born in London, England in 1921, Richard Leacock grew up on a banana plantation in the Canary Islands till shipped off to school in England. Attended Bedales School in Hampshire, then Dartington Hall School in Devon from 1929 to 1938, afterwards helped to form a student film unit at Dartington. Read Physics at Harvard University from 1939 to 1942, spending a lot of time producing plays.
     Leacocks' first film credit in 1948 was on "Louisianna Story" by the great documentary filmmaker, Robert Flaherty. He was a cinematograher on D.A. Pennebaker's 1968 "Monterey Pop." As a director it was his 1974 "Lulu in Berlin," an intimate conversation with 20s/30s film star Louise Brooks, which brought him to fame. His best know works include projects such as A Musical Adventure in Siberia, Felix et Josephine, and Stravinsky Portrait.
    Leacock's visionary filmmaking seeks to capture the essence of the places and people he comes into contact with and share these with audiences by making visual sequences. Leacock insists that he does not aim merely to record images and create "films" for the widest audience possible. His films demonstrate a gift: the ability to allow the subjects before his camera to reveal themselves, their inner dilemmas and longings, their own truths and their own lies. It is this quality of Leacock's filmmaking that makes his work truly unique and extraordinary. The resulting films involve rather than inform the audience.
     Brother of director Philip Leacock. Father of cinematograher Robert Leacock.

Sunday, July 30: EVENT

Party at the Nimrod - 10 PM

Whether or not you've recovered from the Opening Night party, we do it again at the Nimrod Restaurant and Jazz Lounge. Tonight, talk, dance, and party to the sound of Johnny Hoy and the Bluefish, a traditional favorite who can keep any party lively.

Wednesday, Aug 2: PANEL DISCUSSION

Rise Above The Noise: New Distribution Models

The word 'distribution' can have several connotations to the filmmaker, some good and some...not so much.

Join in the conversation with a diverse panel including Paige Ostrow of the Los Angeles based Ostrow and Company who has arranged financing or negotiated sales for over 125 films; David Kleiler of Local Sightings who has over 30 years of experience in the independent film industry as an exhibitor, professor, collaborator/producer and consultant; David Tamés who is a filmmaker, media technologist, photographer, strategist, and designer who has worked as a producer, director, editor, or cinematographer on numerous film, video, web, and multimedia projects; and Mica Scalin who since moving to New York in 2003 has worked extensively in television and film, development and production and is one of the principals behind DVblog.org.

Wednesday, August 2 at 1 PM in the Old Woods Hole Fire Station - Free
   

Wednesday, Aug 2: EVENT

The Reel Blues Fest
starring Los Lobos

at the Cape Cod Melody Tent

The Reel Blues Fest has become a traditional part of the film festival and is securing a place in the hearts of both filmgoers and music lovers. Show begins at 8:30 PM

FOR MORE INFORMATION FOLLOW LINE HERE
   

Thursday, Aug 3: PANEL DISCUSSION

Documentary Filmmaking
as an agent for Social Change

Filmmakers who make documentaries that affect social change will discuss the ways in which the subject matter informs the content of the film and the special responsibilites they have toward their subject matter. Panelists include: Kate Davis, moderator, Jane Clark, Chris Paine, Joe Morley and Heather Winters, Courtney Hayes, John Antonellis.

Thursday, August 3 at 3 PM in the Old Woods Hole Fire Station - Free
   

Thursday, August 3rd: SCREENING

SPECIAL OUTDOOR SCREENING OF

NEIL YOUNG: HEART OF GOLD

a Jonathan Demme film.  

Based on performances from Neil Young's recent Prairie Wind tour over two days at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, former home of the Grand Ole Opry.  A visually stunning and powerful music film.  Great for anyone who likes music!

For more about the film click HERE 

Thursday, August 3 at 8:30(ish)/Dark at Pie in the Sky

Thursday, Aug 3: WORKSHOP

The Jon Jost Workshop

SPECIAL 3 DAY WORKSHOP with
Filmmaker Jon Jost

The Art and Craft of Digital Filmmaking
Thursday, August 3rd through Saturday, August 5th

For More Information click HERE

Thursday, Aug 3: WORKSHOP

The Sheldon Mirowitz

Workshop

SPECIAL 1 DAY MASTERCLASS with
Composer Sheldon Mirowitz

Thursday, August 3
Old Woods Hole Fire Station
The Art and Craft of Digital Filmmaking

For More Information click HERE

Thursday, August 3: PANEL/WORKSHOP

Vbloggin' Yer Noggin'
Learn all you need to know about Video Blogging

Thursday, August 3 at 3 PM on the porch @ Coffee Obsession

Thursday, Aug 3: THEATER EVENT

Shakespeare

on the Cape

This year we are going to expand our festival a little to present a live theater performance of Shakespeare's play AS YOU LIKE IT performed by the new troupe Shakespeare on the Cape.

Thursday, August 3, 7:30 PM at the Woods Hole Community Center - Tickets $12.00
 

Friday, August 4: SCREENING

Project Green Screen

Project Green Screen is outdoor screenings powered by renewable energy from solar and wind.  The Project Green Screen film is WHO KILLED THE ELECTRIC CAR.

Friday, August 4 at 8:30(ish)/Dark at Pie in the Sky

Thursday, Aug 3: EVENT

TRIBUTE TO JON JOST

Redfield Auditorium - 7 PM

Born in Chicago in 1943, to a military family, Jon Jost grew up in Georgia, Kansas, Virginia, Japan, Italy, and Germany. Expelled from college in 1963, he began making 16mm films. Completely self-taught, he has made some 20 shorts and 13 feature-length films, all of which he has conceived, written, photographed, directed, and edited. In 1965. Jost was imprisoned by US Federal authorities for 2 years and 3 months for refusal to cooperate with the Selective Service System. On release, he quickly became engaged in political activities, helping start the Chicago branch of what became Newsreel, the New Left film production and distribution group, as well as working for draft resistance and the Chicago Mobilization.
   Jost made his first feature-length film in 1974 and has since devoted himself to the making of a wide-ranging series of films, largely focused on specifically American topics. In form they have ranged from essays (Speaking Directly, Stagefright, and Uncommon Senses), to essay-fictions (Angel City), to avant-garde and new narrative forms. Since 1975, his work has been shown widely in museums, film archives, and festivals.
     In 1991, The Museum of Modern Art in New York assembled and presented Jon Jost: American Independent, a complete retrospective of Jost's work encompassing eleven features and five programs of shorts. The show subsequently traveled to: the AFI Theater at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington DC, the Harvard Film Archive in Cambridge, the UCLA Film and Television Archive in Los Angeles, the AMC Kabuki Theater by the Film Arts Foundation in Association with the San Francisco Film Society, the Chicago Filmmakers, and the Wiennale in Vienna, Austria.
     Jon Jost is the first recipient of the John Cassavetes Award for lifetime achievement granted by the Independent Features Project.

Jon Jost's films include:
Speaking Directly (1973)
Angel City (1976)
The Last Chants for a Slow Dance (1977)
Bell Diamond (1985)
Plain Talk & Common Sense (1988)
All the Vermeers in New York (1991)
Frame Up (1993)
The Bed You Sleep In (1993)
London Brief (1997)
Muri Romani (2000)

Mr. Jost will also be conducting a 3 day workshop. For more information click HERE

   

Friday, Aug 4: EVENT

Party at the Nimrod - 10 PM

To set the weekend off right, join us at the Nimrod Restaurant and Jazz Lounge for rocking music from Popgun Seven.
   

Saturday, August 5: PANEL

Marketing and Development:
Strategies for Emerging Filmmakers

The panel includes PR expert Susan Maguire and filmmakers Alan Triel and JP Ouellette.

Saturday, August 5 at 11 AM at TBD - Free

Saturday, Aug 5: EVENT/SCREENING/EXHIBIT

Nollywood:
Africa’s Rising Entertainment Capital

CDIA/BU's Howard Phillips introduces filmmakers Franco Sacchi and Robert Caputo and photographer Aimee Corrigan who will present an exhibition, screening, and talk on their upcoming documentary film, This Is Nollywood, and the phenomenon of Nigeria's burgeoning film industry. Unknown to the rest of the world, Nollywood, producing over 500 movies a year, is now the world's third largest production entity, after Hollywood and India's Bollywood.

Saturday, Aug 5, 9 PM at Pie in the Sky on Water Street

Saturday, Aug 5: EVENT

Closing Night Awards Party - 10 PM

The Landfall Restaurant with music by Boston Blues Band Stone Crazy with Danny Klein from the J. Geils Band.