The Eventful Life of Al Hawkes was honored with a “Best Documentary” award at the Image Gazer Film Festival which took place earlier this week in Ellsworth, Maine. Many thanks to Image Gazer Productions and Dylan Howard, who founded the festival.
We’ll be attending the Points North Forum at the Camden International Film Festival (Camden, Maine) during the first weekend in October, looking forward to meeting other New England filmmakers at this event!
Two upcoming screenings:
9/8/10 – Frontier Cafe and Cinema, Brunswick ME.
9/30/10 – Maine Historical Society, Portland ME.
In the meantime, we are busy compiling research footage and writing a treatment for our NEXT documentary film. STAY TUNED!
-alyce ornella
MIFF roundup and official selection at NDX.
The folks in Waterville put on a great show for this year’s Maine International Film Festival. We had a great time meeting and connecting with Maine’s wider filmmaking community, meeting people from other parts of the country, and screening ‘The Eventful Life of Al Hawkes’ on two days! Thanks to Shannon and the crew at Railroad Square and Mainely Brews for being amazing.
We received word recently that the film has been selected to screen at ndX – Independent Experience this October in Owensboro, KY! Those of you who have seen the film or know Al will recognize that Al has a big connection to Owensboro, because he is an inductee of the International Bluegrass Music Museum located in that fine city. While we can’t attend the festival due to a family commitment, we are happy to say that Al and Barbara are planning to attend!
Official Selection at Kahbang Music & Arts Festival.
We will be screening at the Kahbang Music & Arts Festival taking place August 6 – 14 2010 in Bangor, Maine. We’re looking forward to what promises to be a great event!
From their website:
The Kahbang Film Festival is a 9-Day event featuring over 50 films and showcasing work by a variety of up and coming filmmakers who represent the future of independent cinema. Kahbang exhibits feature films, documentaries, shorts and more.
We’ll post the exact screening dates for the festival once we have them.
July Screenings in Maine.
We will be screening in Penobscot Bay this weekend and in central and northern Maine next weekend!
- Saturday, July 10. North Haven Island, Maine.
Waterman’s Community Center. 7:30pm. $7 gen admission / $5 student, suggested donations.
- Wednesday, July 14. Waterville, Maine.
Maine International Film Festival. 3:30pm. $9 gen admission (festival passes also available, see website).
- Saturday, July 17. Waterville, Maine.
Maine International Film Festival. 6:15pm. $9 gen admission (festival passes also available, see website).
Al Hawkes will be performing at Mainely Brews Tavern in Waterville following the Saturday night screening.
- Saturday, July 17. Presque Isle, Maine.
Mark and Emily Turner Library. 5:30pm. Free.
Hope to see you there.
We will be screening “The Eventful Life of Al Hawkes” at the American Folklore Society annual meeting in Nashville, Tennessee October 13-16.
All of us here at Rockhouse Mountain Productions are looking forward to showing the film to our folklorists friends and to our first confirmed screening in the South!
About the American Folklore Society:
The American Folklore Society is an association of people who study and communicate knowledge about folklore throughout the world. Our more than 2,200 members and subscribers are scholars, teachers, and libraries at colleges and universities; professionals in arts and cultural organizations; and community members involved in folklore work. Many of our members live and work in the US, but their interests in folklore stretch around the world, and today about one in every eight AFS members is from outside the US.
About the AFS 2010 Meeting:
“Lay and Expert Knowledge” is the theme for the American Folklore Society’s 122nd annual meeting, to be held at The Hilton Nashville Downtown in Nashville, Tennessee, on October 13-16, 2010.
Not everyone is a novelist, but everyone tells stories. Not everyone is an artist or a theologian, but everyone works to give satisfying order to the material world and the cosmos. Not everyone is a politician, but everyone negotiates power relationships in his or her social milieu. And not everyone is a doctor, but everyone looks after body and soul according to conceptions of health shaped in long-term conversation with other people.
The Eventful Life of Al Hawkes has been selected to screen at the 2010 Maine International Film Festival in Waterville, Maine. The festival runs July 9-18 and as soon as the schedule is announced, we will post our screening date. Hope to see you there!
About the Maine International Film Festival:
| Founded in 1998, the Maine International Film Festival (MIFF) is a project of the Maine Film Center.
10 days, 100 films, 50 filmmakers More than just movies |
Photos from 5/14 premiere.
Portland photographer Jon Donnell took these great photos at the premiere of ‘The Eventful Life of Al Hawkes’ at SPACE gallery. Al and friends put on an amazing Bluegrass show after the screening!
We’re beginning the film tour in our home state of Maine, and hope to work our way through the East Coast and into the rest of the country! These dates are confirmed so far, but we are continually setting up more screenings.
Saturday, July 10 7:30pm
Waterman’s Community Center
North Haven Island, Maine
Saturday, July 17 5:30pm
Turner Memorial Library
Presque Isle, Maine
(same weekend as the Maine Potato Blossom Festival in nearby Fort Fairfield!)
Wednesday, August 11 7:30pm
Regent Theatre
Arlington, Massachusetts
(hosted by the New England Folk Music Archives)
Hope to see you there, and let us know if you want us to come to your town.
