Filmmaker Rob Little, right, and editor/illustrator Matt Bernier handle the stars of the film “Detect Earth: When Life Gets Stinky” at Little’s home-based office in Auburn. The 19-minute film is about how Clover the ferret, left, and her stunt double, Winston, right, team up with Walter the Great Dane to find out why the garbage […]
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Maine films to be prominently featured at Emerge Film Festival
Ever since its founding in 2014, the Emerge Film Festival has shined a light on Maine-made films. Last year was the highly anticipated documentary on the Lewiston High School boys’ soccer team and its march to the state championship with a roster filled by students from several different countries. A few years ago, it was […]
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Tess Gerritsen brings old-time horror to Maine film
A still from the movie “Island Zero.” Laila Robins, left, stars in the movie “Island Zero.” Even best-selling Maine author Tess Gerritsen needed someone to tone back on some of her grandiose plans during preproduction and filming on her low-budget horror film “Island Zero.” Being forced to make quick edits and come up with new […]
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Elan documentary added to Emerge Film Festival
LEWISTON — Emerge Film Festival has added a last-minute screening of “The Last Stop,” a new documentary about the controversial former Elan School in Poland, to its roster next week. Festival President Ramsey Tripp announced Friday that it would be showing Friday, April 28, at 12:30 p.m. at the Franco Center. New York filmmaker Todd […]
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Emerge festival lineup includes Student Academy Award winner among its 53 films
LEWISTON — A record 53 films, including one on the creation of Spruce Mountain ski area in Jay, will be featured next month at the fourth-annual Emerge Film Festival. Short films will have a more prominent role, with 44 selected for the festival, scheduled for April 27-29. One of them won a 2016 Student Academy […]
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Emerge Film Festival to showcase Maine film that won top honors in Germany
LEWISTON — A Maine film that recently won first place at the AARF International Film Fest in Berlin, Germany, will be the featured attraction at this year’s Emerge Film Festival. “Peace, Love & Zoo” was named best feature documentary in January in its first festival. The film will be shown at 7 p.m. Saturday, April 29, […]
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Emerge Film Festival: ‘One Team’ shoots and scores
LEWISTON — Soccer is a game of teamwork. It’s a harmony of skills and strategy. It builds trust and respect among its ranks. It blends personalities and individuals to achieve a common goal. It is a game, but it is also a community in motion. “One Team: The Story of the Lewiston High School Blue […]
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Emerge Film Festival: ‘One Team’ makes debut to sellout crowd
LEWISTON — It began as a simple story idea about a beloved coach and his soccer team. It didn’t take long for Ian Clough to realize that telling the tale of Lewiston’s Mike McGraw and his Blue Devils team went far beyond the sidelines of the soccer field. Clough’s idea for a small, simple film […]
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Pulling back the curtain
How film festivals decide what’s in, what’s out, what’s just too hot Shooting a movie in July based on a Stephen King story that takes place in a blizzard was out. Finding the money for special effects in a low-budget movie for a King character covered in eyeballs — that was out, too. Determined to make […]
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Face Time: Jane Ackermann, star of the new Maine movie ‘Neptune’
Jane Ackermann was cast as the lead in “Neptune” by Maine director Derek Kimball when she was 13 and filmed the movie for the next three years. About a girl raised by a priest on Maine island whose world is rocked by a classmate’s sudden disappearance, “Neptune” is now on the festival circuit. It scored great […]