MFVA ANNOUNCES PREMIERE OF THE MAINE SHORT FILM FESTIVAL 2017

December 9, 2016  7pm

The Maine Film & Video Association Friday announced the premiere of the Maine Short Film Festival 2017 that will tour thirteen Maine theaters through May 2017.  This premiere event will take place at The Strand Theatre in Rockland on Friday night, December 9, 2016 at 5:30pm and will feature many of the filmmakers and their cast and crews in a Q&A.  

The 90-minute program celebrates Maine, its land, its people, its creative soul highlighting:  Maine artists, fisherman, boat builders, Maine guides, transgenders, youth, and original screenplays in all genres: documentary, fiction, experimental, animation, comedy and horror.  This third year of the Maine Short Film Festival brought in over 50 submissions from Maine filmmakers.   The winning films are:

Guided  by Bridget Besaw

Outrunning Parkinsons  by Peter Logue

Long Haul  by Chloe White

Bird Carver  by Madeleine Cohen

Bringing Boats to Life  by Steve Stone

Trans Circus  by Meghan Vigeant

Occasionally   by Dawn Nye

Silence  by Corey Norman

To The Salton Sea  by Art Bell

This Time it’s Shopping by Jim Picariello

The First Kiss  by Daniel Kayamba

Oak Street Mural by Alexis Iammarino and Scott Sell

Mud and Run by Daniel Quintanilla

Curiously  by Walter Ungerer

For more information on each of the winning films, go to:  http://www.mainefilm.org

Or contact us at info@mainefilm.org

The winning films were chosen by the jurors:

Louise Rosen, lead juror and consulting director of L/A Arts; Ben Fowlie, founder and director of the Camden International Film Festival; and Daniel Kany, art and film critic of the Portland Press Herald.

Festival director and chair of the Maine Film & Video Association, Richard Kane, said: “Creativity is alive and well in the Maine filmmaking community as evidenced by this exciting group of new films.  Don’t miss it.”

Following the premiere at The Strand Theatre, the program will be touring Maine theaters including:  

Strand Theatre, Rockland, December 9, 5:30pm

Stearns High School, Millinocket, December 10, 6pm

Space Gallery, Portland, TBA

Reel Pizza, Bar Harbor, January 12

Frontier Café, Brunswick, January 27, 7pm

Emery Arts Center, Farmington, February 2, 7pm

Freeport Community Library, Freeport, February 22, 7:30pm

Schoodic Arts for All, Winter Harbor, April 7, 7pm

River City Cinema, Bangor, May 5, 5:30 and 8pm

The Alamo, Bucksport, May 11, 7pm

Stonington Opera House, May 20, 7pm

Olin Concert Hall, Bates College, Lewiston, May 21

Sponsors of the event include:

Maine Arts Commission, Lee Auto Malls, Maine Media Workshops, Maine Film & Video Association, University of Southern Maine, Bar Harbor Bank & Trust, Farnsworth Art Museum, Maine Film Office, WERU Community Radio, Northeast Historic Film, VITEC, Rule Boston Camera, Hunt’s Photo & Video, and High Output.