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The 2nd Annual Dollar Baby Film Festival
The 2nd Annual Dollar Baby Film Fest will happen Oct. 1st this year at the University of Maine, Orono
Who is going to this and which Dollar Baby's do you want to see there?
Who is going to this and which Dollar Baby's do you want to see there?
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Correction:
The 2nd Annual Dollar Baby Film Festival takes place 9/30/2005-10/1/2005. On Friday September 30th Stephen King's GOTHAM CAFÉ opens the Festival at it's official Premiere held at Hoyt's Cinema in Bangor. Julie Sands, Steve Wozniak and others will be in attendance. A Q&A follows and then a classic King feature will be screened.
The remaining screenings and panels will be held at The University of Maine, Orono on Saturday 10/1.
It should be a great weekend!
For more information visit http://www.DollarBabyFilmFestival.com
Area-made short to be shown at Montreal fest; plus other movie notes
By George M. Thomas
Beacon Journal movie critic
The disappointment that came with exclusion from last winter's Sundance Film Festival in Utah gave way to a flurry of exhilaration this week for local filmmaker James Renner as he learned that a short he made in the Akron-Kent area had been accepted for exhibition at the Montreal's World Film Festival.
At first he didn't believe it when receiving the news two weeks ago, Renner said during a phone conversation.
``I thought we might hear from them and they'd say, `Look, there was some sort of mistake,' '' he said with a laugh.
The short, All That You Love Will Be Carried Away, was an adaptation of a Stephen King short story, one of his Dollar Babies, stories that he sells to aspiring filmmakers for a buck. The World Film Festival runs Aug. 26 to Sept. 5, and Renner will definitely be in attendance that first weekend.
``The good thing about the Montreal Film Festival is that there's a film market that runs about the same time, so there's just a lot of networking -- a lot of people to meet out there,'' he said. ``I get to show those scripts I've been working on and, hopefully, I'll make a connection to help me make a feature-length movie.''
He's fairly pragmatic about the entire situation, however.
``We could go up there and the whole thing could be in French. I speak pretty good German, but that might be the wrong language to know up there,'' he said.
Renner submitted Carried Away to 10 of the most prestigious festivals on the planet, including Sundance and Cannes, a move some might view as arrogant.
``It's crazy that we would try to do that, but we didn't want to submit it to some place that wouldn't be great for us.''
Since filming the short, he's toiled away as a reporter for a weekly alternative newspaper in Cleveland, but he's also fixed his gaze on organizing the second Dollar Baby Film Festival in Bangor, Maine, a two-day event Sept. 30 to Oct. 1 that features all of the films based on King's stories.