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February 16, 2007 Newsletter
ContentsAs you know next Sunday, February 25th we are celebrating the Oscars® with
our annual The Envelope, Please party and fundraiser at the Silverwater
Café, 237 Taylor Street. We will have a champagne reception, broadcast
the Oscars® live, serve a six-course gourmet dinner, conduct an auction,
etc. (Really - Its an excuse to dress-up!)
But what you may not have hear is that film connoisseur supreme, top
movie blogger, and frequent host and moderator at our film festivals,
Warren Etheredge of TheWarrenReport.com , will host live worldwide, interactive
coverage of the Academy Awards® for BuddyTV.com from the gala.
At BuddyTV ’s website fans from all over the world gossip, chat,
and connect with other fans around their favorite TV shows. Warren is
one of BuddyTV’s "Television Jockeys" or TVj’s.
He’ll moderate the Oscar® broadcast for fans with live audio,
video, text, and polls. The Envelope, Please will provide an atmospheric
backdrop. Of course, gala guests can even interact with him and online
fans if they so choose.
Most importantly BuddyTV will broadcast the What If… speech over
the Internet for the gala’s grand finale. The speech winner gets
the whole show: an envelope opening announcing that they are the winner,
performance of their acceptance speech, a blinking light warning when
their two-minute time limit is expiring, orchestral music (to escort
a loquacious speaker off stage), a guaranteed standing ovation, and post
speech interview with Warren Etheredge and two preferred seating passes
with VIP reception invitations to the 2007 Port Townsend Film Festival!
This whole package, valued at over $1,600, raises proceeds for the 501©3
nonprofit Port Townsend Film Institute and helps us fulfill our mission
to celebrate films, filmmakers, and film lovers.
Please bid on eBay, www.ebay.com, today to support PTFF! Use item# 160085089923
or keywords search “Port Townsend Film Festival”. The bidding
concludes on Tuesday, February 20.
Couch Potatoes Unite – And
win a PTFF pass valued at $175!
Can’t make the party? You can support the film festival and get
a free bottle of Silverwater Popcorn Spice, exclusive silent and live
auction bidding by proxy privileges, a $22 tax-deductible donation to
PTFF, and entry in the PJ Ticket drawing to win a $175 Film Festival
pass for 2007! Just buy a $25 PJ Ticket (named for those funky pajamas
we can lounge around in at home).
Come by the Food Coop on Wednesday, February 21 from 10 am – 8
pm to buy your PJ Ticket – look for the flannel clad volunteer
table. Or purchase them on line www.ptfilmfest.com.
What can your PJ Ticket buy you at our auction?
- A private screening for twelve at the Rose Theatre
- Opening night tickets for the Seattle International Film Festival
- Argentine tango lessons
- Centrum Jazz and Blues concert pack
- Fresh Pane d’Amore organic bread for a year
- Necklace of freshwater pearls and onyx spears
- Martinis for two at Sirens
- Wine & chat with our Programming Director - Find out the
VIP Guest!
You can even bid on one of our “Best-Picture” Oscar® nominee
theme-packages:
The Departed Package: $400 Gift certificate toward of any cremation,
burial, memorial or funeral service arrangement; Four hour ride-along
with on duty Port Townsend police; $200 Gift certificate toward the making
of any wooden coffin; Goodfellas DVD; Gift certificate toward one-hour
legal services toward will preparation; "Scorsese on Scorsese";
the original motion picture screenplay; and a special mystery item.
The complete list of auction items will be available on www.ptfilmfest.com
around 12:00 pm, Noon on Monday, February 19. Ticket holders will be
emailed their auction catalog.
To find out more about The Envelope, Please, auction, PJ Tickets, What
If… speech, etc. please visit www.ptfilmfest.com, email us at
info@ptfilmfest.com call us at 360-379-1333.
Next Up The Player – March 8, 2007
The Port Townsend Film Institute and the Upstage Theatre and Restaurant
will present the second installment of our 3X Altman series of Robert
Altman’s films as a dinner and a movie package on Thursday, March
8.
A masterful Hollywood riff, The Player, stars Tim Robbins, Greta Scacchi,
Fred Ward, Peter Gallagher, Whoopi Goldberg, Lyle Lovett, and Dean Stockwell.
In this celebrated film, a studio script screener gets on the bad side
of a writer by not accepting his script. The writer is sending him threatening
postcards. The screener tries to identify the writer in order to pay
him off so he'll be left alone, and then in a case of mistaken identity
gone awry, he accidentally gives the writer solid ammunition for blackmail.
The plot is written on a backdrop of sleazy Hollywood deals and several
subplots involving the politics of the industry.
Mike Kaplan will introduce the Altman film. He worked with Altman
on several films in a variety of capacities including as an actor. He
appeared at the Port Townsend Film Festival with a 20th anniversary presentation
of a film he produced in 1986, The Whales of August,
Dinner is served at 6:30 pm with the film beginning promptly at 8 o’clock.
Dinner and movie tickets are $25 each. Call PTFF 360-379-1333 for tickets.
(Movie-only tickets will be sold at the door for $10 on a space available
basis at 7:30 pm.)
It is never to early or too late to volunteer for the Port Townsend Film Festival. Earn hours now toward your volunteer pass. We could use your help with The Envelope, Please gala, data entry, poster distribution, and press releases. If you want to learn more about any of these jobs please complete our online 2007 volunteer registration form or call Nancy at the office.