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December 2005 Newsletter

Contents
  1. PTFF stocking stuffers
  2. Year-end donations with online convenience
  3. Moving up in the world (or at least in the Mount Baker Block Building)
  4. Mark your calendar for OSCAR® NIGHT
  5. Opportunities for idle hands and compulsive volunteers

1. PTFF Stocking stuffers

Online Merchandise Sale!

December 1 - December 31, 2005
Quantities are limited. Click on STORE or call 360-379-1333.

Prices do not include shipping

2. Year-end donations with online convenience

Each year, the Port Townsend Film Festival conducts an end-of-the-year fund drive to provide resources for special projects. (As long-time supporters will remember, we have used this fund on occasion to simply balance the books. But happily that's not necessary this time.) This year we've identified some technology projects we're undertaking, including a comprehensive data base program that will free up both time and resources for festival programming, working with volunteers, and more.. We also are looking at a computer system that may use but would no longer depend entirely on hand-me-downs. With new office space (see item three below), we hope to create a small media center screening submitted films either on VHS or DVD.

Contributions of any amount are appreciated, and are tax deductible within the constraints of the law.. It is easy to make donations online ; just click on the poster image and you'll be whisked right to the appropriate page. Or you can call 360-379-1333.

3. Moving up in the world
(or at least in the Mount Baker Block Building)

Come the first of January (or there abouts), the Port Townsend Film Festival address will no longer be Suite Sixteen, but rather a decidedly more grown-up Office Thirty-Three, located on the third floor of the Mount Baker Block Building. The new quarters will offer three times the present space. No longer will members, visitors or volunteers have to squeeze by Nancy and Peter to check out films from the library.

Since there's more space, we need more furniture. Of course, we're developing a wish list, that at present includes:

If you have something you would like to donate, please call 379-1333 before bringing anything down. Even though it's new and at present very empty, the office can hold only so much.

We're planning an office warming party once we get the place presentable. Stay tuned.

4. Mark your calendar for OSCAR® PARTY!

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced Sunday, March 5, as the date for the 78th annual Oscar® celebration. And the Port Townsend Film Festival has announced Sunday, March 5, as the date for our 2nd annual PTFF Oscar® Party fund-raising event. The festivities are a week later than usual to avoid a collision with the closing ceremonies of the Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy the Sunday prior.

The party will be held at the Silverwater Café with direct transmission via satellite provided by Digital Port Townsend. More details to come.

We're in need of organizing volunteers, so if you have an interest in helping call us at 379-1333 or email nancy@ptfilmfest.com. The Academy has listed fifteen documentaries as eligible for their documentary prize. four that may be familiar to Port Townsend audiences are:

Curiously, Warner Herzog's Grizzly Man was not among the favored fifteen. None of the documentaries from the 2005 Port Townsend Film Festival were released in time fo be eligible this year.

However, the popular feature film, THE PUFFY CHAIR, was just placed in contention for two prizes in the Independent Spirit Awards which are presented the night before the Oscars. THE PUFFY CHAIR was nominated for the John Cassavetes Award for first feature made for under $500,000 and the film's director Jay Duplass was nominated for the IFC/Acura Someone to Watch award, recognizing a filmmaker "not yet received appropriate recognition."

5. Opportunities for idle hands and compulsive volunteers

Remember what our grandmothers used to say about "idle hands"? Or was it "idle minds are the Devil's playground"? Whatever, or wherever, it was, I always want to go there, but usually I spent the afternoon shelling peas instead.

For those who like to keep busy, we have several opportunities. We noted above the need for help in the move to the new office space and for organizers to help with the Oscar® party. In addition, we could use someone to --

  1. (as noted above) help with the office move and the Oscar® Night party
  2. organize two or three crucial mailings this winter

If you have skills or interests in any of these areas, please give us a call at 379-1333. Many thanks.

This eNewsletter is sponsored by

Port Townsend Brewing Co.

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