Festival > Media > Press Release 09.18.05
Port Townsend Film Festival: for the day or for the weekend
Day passes and child care makes the Port Townsend Film Festival a great family trip.
Port Townsend, WA, September 18, 2005: Day passes and on-site child care make the Port Townsend Film Festival an entertaining option for families looking to get out and about this weekend.
The film festival has partnered with Firefly Academy Preschool, 842 Washington St., to provide an educational film camp for children 2-12 years old.
Couple the Film Camp with a day pass and parents can enjoy the film festival care-free without worrying about child care.
Kids will participate in arts and crafts, crazy science experiences, theme-based projects and more. Older children may have an opportunity to chat with filmmakers attending the festival.
The drop-in cost for Film Camp is $7 per hour, nutritious meals and snacks will be provided.
Firefly will be open for Film Camp on 4-11 p.m. Friday, 9:30 a.m.-11:30 p.m. Saturday and 10:30 a.m.-7 p.m. Sunday.
For parents, day passes are $90 each for all of Saturday or Sunday's features.
Film buffs that can't spend the entire weekend at the festival can come for the day and still enjoy some of the more than two dozen films and silver screen events occurring each day.
Day passes are not available for the event kickoff Friday afternoon, but plenty of weekend-long passes are still available and individual movie tickets will be sold at the theaters.
Passes for the festival are available online at www.ptfilmfest.com or by calling the festival office at 360-379-1333. Passes will also be sold at the festival hospitality suite in the downtown Eisenbeis Building, 830 Water St., starting Thursday.
All festival passes include access to film screenings, question and answer sessions and panel discussions on a first-come, first-seated basis.
The Port Townsend Film Festival is an annual event envisioned as "a film lover's block party celebrating great films and filmmakers." The event was spearheaded by a group of volunteers in 1999 and modeled after the popular film festival in Telluride, Co. Now in its sixth year, the Port Townsend Film Festival is constantly revising and re-visioning its programming in response to the availability of films throughout the world and cinematic responses to the topical issues of the day.