On Saturday afternoon, Herring Run ArtsFest transforms the lower level
of the library into an independent film theater where short new works
by upcoming writers, directors, and producers are aired. ArtsFest 2005
featured animated films and ArtsFest2004 featured short and
feature-length documentaries (see film archives). ArtsFest 2006
continues to enthusiastically support independent films.
The Best of Boston from the 2006 48-Hour Film Festival coordinated
by Boston project organizer Ben Guaraldi will be the main film offering
at this year's Herring Run ArtsFest (Saturday, September 9th from
12:00 noon to 3:00PM). This national and international film
competition
sends teams of filmmakers out on a wild weekend in which a seven or
eight minute film must be written, cast, shot and edited in just 48
hours from start to finish. All the entries must include a prop,
this year a bicycle pump, a particular line, “That’s why I don’t trust
her anymore,” a genre such as sci-fi or horror, a named character, and
a theme, this year’s being competitive eating.
Students from the Burt Wood School for the Performing Arts of
Middleboro under the direction of filmmaker Andrew Osborne participated
in the shooting of an entry this year, entitled SHOE, which was a
science-fiction parody of the popular television drama, LOST.
All the films were shown at the Kendall Cinema in Cambridge and three
Boston movie critics chose The Best of Boston 2006, short films to then
be entered in national and international competition. The films
in this year’s festival run the gamut from scrappy projects made by
teenagers, in it for the fun, to serious efforts by professional
filmmakers with titles such as “Eat to Defeat,” “The Tell-Tale Stomach”
and “The Guts and the Glory”.
The Boston area is fast becoming the home of a major independent film
movement and a Boston-based group known as Midnight Chimes Productions
will also be featured at this year’s ArtsFest. This loosely
assembled group of filmmakers and actors under the leadership of Kevin
Anderton has been featured at over twenty-five film festivals including
events in Los Angeles and New York and throughout New England.
Their collective short-comedy films, The Boston Comedy Shorts
Collection, target everything from OJ Simpson and bad television to
ninja movies and current politics. All these short films and more
will be shown at this year’s Herring Run ArtsFest. A Q&A will
follow the screenings and the audience can interact with filmmakers,
writers and actors at the Artist’s Reception following the film segment
from 3 to 3:30 PM.
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