LEWISTON — “Baby Baby Baby” walked away with two EFFy awards, including the top prize, Best in Festival, at the Emerge Film Festival awards ceremony Saturday. The romantic comedy deals with the relationship between two mismatched people who try to move past their baggage to make their love work. Brian Klugman, the director and lead […]
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Emerge Film Festival staff, filmmakers celebrate success
LEWISTON — An air of equal parts excitement and exhaustion filled the Emerge Film Festival Wrap Party Sunday night at DaVinci’s Eatery. “We’re tired but really happy,” said Laura Rinck, president of Emerge Film Festival board of directors. “It was a huge success this year.” This is the festival’s third year, and the staff finally […]
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Lewiston soccer team documentary to debut director’s cut at Emerge Film Festival
One Team: The Story of The Lewiston High School Blue Devils from LHSOneTeamFilm on Vimeo. From the moments when everything started to fall into place last fall for Ian Clough and his team, late April was circled in pencil as a goal. Clough, along with producers Brad Bosse and Tom Fournier, and director of photography […]
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Controlled Chaos Curl Creme survives the ‘Shark Tank’
The sharks took the curly bait. Controlled Chaos Curl Creme snagged three funding offers last Friday when Alanna York pitched it on ABC’s “Shark Tank.” The week since for her and business partner Erica Gray, a Winthrop native, has been, well, chaotic. “Absolutely crazy,” Gray said Thursday. “We have orders coming in left and right. […]
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Emerge Film Festival celebrates sequel, looks ahead to Part 3
AUBURN — Australian filmmakers Jim Lounsbury and Sam Eather arrived at the Portland Jetport in a snowstorm April 8, without a jacket, wearing flip flops — and no luggage. But they were in good hands. A representative from the Emerge Film Festival was waiting for them at the airport to attend to their needs. In […]
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Film fest in L-A ‘relevant for every audience’
AUBURN — The 10th-anniversary screening of a film based on a poem by renowned Lewiston painter Marsden Hartley will kick off the second annual Emerge Film Festival. The festival will be held over four days on April 9-12 at various venues in Lewiston and Auburn. Less than 20 percent of the more than 200 submissions […]
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Emerge Film Festival receives $10,000 state grant
LEWISTON — The Emerge Film Festival has been given a $10,000 boost by the Maine Office of Tourism. The festival, which is scheduled for April 9 to 12, was one of eight recipients from the new Tourism Enterprise Marketing Program. The money will be used to help draw audiences to the second annual event. “It […]
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Full moon, dreaded date, beer and horror
LEWISTON — Friday the 13th was a dark and stormy night with a full moon riding across a cloudy sky. Could there be a better time for a festival dedicated to beer and fear? The Emerge Film Festival got underway Friday and in spite of the dreaded date, everything went just swimmingly. Almost eerily so. […]
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