Auburn native Breanna Wing wants “Axe Women: The Modern Lumberjill” to chronicle women’s relationship with the timber industry, from wartime lumber-cutting to modern competitive shows.
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USM to host screening of hemp documentary
PORTLAND — Healing Harbors, in partnership with area businesses, is hosting a screening of “The Hemp Road Trip,” a powerful documentary that chronicles Rick Trojan’s multi-year, 48-state campaign to educate and advocate for the end of a federal prohibition of cannabis across the United States. The film screening takes place at 7 p.m. Monday, Nov. […]
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Documentary looks at 40 years of Waterville’s Railroad Square Cinema
WATERVILLE — Railroad Square Cinema, an independent movie theater run under the Maine Film Center, will celebrate its 40th anniversary Friday with the screening of a short documentary about its history. “Railroad Square Cinema: For the Love of Film” is a 30-minute documentary by Portland filmmakers Michael McDade and Laura Ozmet-Schenck that follows the theater’s […]
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Rhode Island filmmaker includes Lewiston in 'Triple Decker—A New England Love Story'
Rhode Island documentary filmmaker Marc Levitt, left, at Bates Mill in Lewiston on Saturday afternoon at Museum LA. At right, videographer Will Lepczyk checks the lighting before they begin filming. (Russ Dillingham/Sun Journal) LEWISTON — Marc Levitt doesn’t so much see the city’s tenements for their flat roofs, their porches, their sometimes-distressed look so much […]
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Documentary film 'The Home Road' at Sawyer Memorial
GREENE — Tonya and Ray Shevenell present their film “The Home Road” at the Araxine Wilkins Sawyer Memorial, 371 Sawyer Road, at 2 and 7 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 24. In 1845, 19-year-old Israel Shevenell left his home in Canada and walked nearly 200 miles to Biddeford. He found work and built a new life in an […]
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Lewiston library to screen 'Making Mill Town'
The Bates Dance Festival and the Lewiston Public Library will hold a screening of the documentary film “Making Mill Town” at 6 p.m. Tuesday, July 17. The program is free, open to the public and will be held in the library’s Callahan Hall. “Making Mill Town” delves into the four-year process of making the immersive dance […]
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Portland artist Zoo Cain loses roughly 100 of his works in fire
Portland artist Zoo Cain lost more than 100 pieces of artwork in a fire that caused extensive damage to his Valley Street studio and gallery, but he was thankful that most of the works he has created weren’t in the building and that no one was hurt in the fire that displaced 10 people. Cain […]
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Hartford filmmaker focuses documentary on shadow people
HARTFORD — Paul Taitt was 18 with a job at Scotland Yard photocopying court cases when he joined colleagues on an after-hours ghost tour. At a stop inside Chislehurst Caves in South East London, they carried lanterns and followed a guide telling spooky stories in the dark. Taitt, at the edge of the group, got a […]
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Maine takes a starring role as film festival rolls to an end
Julia Haltof chats with Anna Gravel and Ranin Brown before the premiere of the movie “Island Zero” at the Emerge Film Festival. Haltof was on the crew of the movie and Gravel was on the cast. Director Josh Gerritsen and Producer Mariah Klapatch discus their movie “Island Zero” with Emerge Film Festival moderator Allen Baldwin […]
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Filmmaker talks Elan School, documentary at Great Falls Forum
Filmmaker Todd Nilssen talks about the film he made about the former Elan School in Poland during Thursday’s Great Falls Forum at the Lewiston Public Library. LEWISTON — Todd Nilssen was 17 when he was taken from his New York home by people he didn’t know and forced into the Elan School in Poland. He […]