Festival > Media > Press Release 07.20.05
Third Clue Issued in Film Fest Contest
Port Townsend–A third clue in the Port Townsend Film Festival's "guess-the-guest" contest may either offer clarifying information or add to the mystery .
With the second clue released last week, no one had correctly guessed the identity of the 2005 guest who will be featured at the annual Saturday night event called "A Very Special Evening with... "The third clue reads:
Characters' surnames: Townsend: Ludlow..
The second clue, released last week, was: Characters' dilemmas: half tourist, half traveler; dinosaur exploiter. The first clue, issued July 6, was Roles include a superhero sibling and a western army man.
The winning contestant will be selected at random from among those who correctly identify the name of the guest by Monday, July 26. The winner will be introduced and have his or her photograph taken with the guest at a special reception during the festival.
Entries can be made in one of three ways:
- By mail (Port Townsend Film Festival, PO Box 594, Port Townsend, WA 98368),
- By email (contest@ptfilmfest.com, write "Guest" in the subject line),
- By hand-delivery (Port Townsend Film Festival office, Mount Baker Block, 211 Taylor St., Suite 16, second floor, at the corner of Water and Taylor Streets).
In addition to listing the name of the guest, contestants should include their mailing address, email address (if they have one), and a daytime phone number.
The featured guest will be among several filmmakers attending the sixth festival.
"We anticipate as many as last year, perhaps more," according to Peter Simpson, the festival's executive director who has taken on the responsibilities of programming. In 2004, nearly a dozen filmmakers attended the three-day event, the one coming the farthest being from Bhutan. "This year," Simpson reports, "we will have filmmakers from Canada, and perhaps Germany and Spain, as well as the U.S."
Panel discussions with filmmakers are planned for the festival in a new venue. The featured guest will be interviewed on stage Saturday night along with a screening of one of his (or her) films.