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August 8, 2007
Contents- LET THE GUESS-THE-GUEST CONTEST BEGIN!
- DON'T PASS UP ON YOUR PASS
- VOLUNTEERS A GO-GO
- IN DESPARATE NEED FOR A LAPTOP COMPUTER
- FILMS 2880
- JIMMY MIRIKITANI ON THE GO
LET THE GUESS-THE-GUEST CONTEST BEGIN!
And that is the first of three clues in the festival's annual "Guess-the-Guest" contest.
During the month of August, PTFF will hold its annual contest to see who are the first to correctly identify this special person.
Over the next three Wednesdays we will post an online clue to the star's identity. The names of all those who correctly guess the identity of the special guest will be placed in a box or a popcorn sack from which a winner will be drawn.
The winner will receive:
- Two tickets to the special September 29 screening featuring a major film by the guest
- Invitation for two to the reception for the guest after the screening, and
- An introduction to the honored guest.
All those who correctly identify the guest by the end of the business day (5 pm) Friday, August 24, will receive a copy of the 2007 commemorative Port Townsend Film Festival poster.
To enter the contest, all you have to do is email, snail mail, or hand-deliver your entry.
- To email, send the entry to <contest@ptfilmfest.com>, subject: Guess the Guest
- To snail mail, send it to PTFF Contest, P.O. Box 594, Port Townsend, WA 98368. Write Guess the Guest on the envelope.
- To hand-deliver, take the entry to 211 Taylor St., Suite 33 (3rd floor, Mount Baker Block) in downtown Port Townsend. If no one is in the office, use the video return box on the floor next to the door.
ENTRIES MUST INCLUDE
- Name of the honored guest
- Your name and daytime telephone
- Entries that are not emailed should be written on an 8 1/2" x 11" sheet of paper.
The winner of the contest and the name of the honored guest of the 2007 Port Townsend Film Festival will be announced on Wednesday, August 29, 2007.
Previous festival guests have included:
��DON'T PASS UP ON YOUR PASS2000 Tony Curtis
2001 Eva Marie Saint
2002 Patricia Neal
2003 Shirley Knight
2004 Jane Powell and Dickie Moore
2005 Debra Winger and Arliss Howard
2006 Malcolm McDowell
Festival passes are on sale. All festival passes include access to film screenings, question and answer sessions, and panel discussions on a first-come, first-seated basis. Each pass includes the Friday Night Taylor Street dinner provided by the Silverwater Cafe. Festival passes are $175 for non-PTFF members and $150 for members. Preferred seating passes are $500 and include an invitation to our VIP Reception. Guaranteed seating passes are $1,250 and include invitations to all our special events. Special $90 student passes are available to Jefferson, Clallam, or Kitsap County high school or college students.
Pass may be purchased from the festival's web site at www.ptfilmfest.com or by calling the festival office at 360-379-1333.
Want to see films but have kids? We have you covered. You can buy a Film Camp Pass. For $60 your kids ages 2-12 can participate in a fun film camp provided by the FireFly Academy Preschool. The cost can be split between siblings. For additional information call Erica Delma at 360-379-1129.
What do you like to do? If you want to meet and work with interesting people, both filmmakers and film lovers, then we may just have a job for you. We are need people to work at the theatre venues as Festival inside or outside ushers and ticket takers and sellers; to work at the merchandise booth and our new Hospitality Center, to assist with transportation, to take and process box office ticket sales, to handle data entry, and much, much more.
As a PTFF volunteer if you work 12+ hours you'll earn a volunteer pass. Unlike previous years this pass gives you access to any venue on a space available basis. If you work less than 12 hours you get one screening voucher for each three hours you work. All volunteers also receive a lovely volunteer hat that is your invitation to the Thursday evening exclusive volunteer screening and party.
Of course, if you love being surrounded by dedicated, creative, hard working people, thrive while working under pressure, desire responsibility plus the respect of a job well-done, and don't mind coming to meetings as long as they are productive and fun - then I invite you the core Festival management team! We have several positions still available. And don't worry - we love to laugh.
IN DESPARATE NEED FOR A LAPTOP COMPUTER
With a new data base (watch our information flow!) and a new General Manager (watch for announcement soon), the Port Townsend Film Institute and its annual festival continue to grow, building resources that will translate into programs and events for our movie-loving members. We are in present need for a laptop��preferably an Apple with OS X operating system, or a compatible PC. Equipment donations are tax deductible, and we'll have it thoroughly expurgated so that none of the donor's personal information, correspondence, grocery lists, etc. remain. Please call either Peter or Nancy at 360 379 1333.
What can you do in 2,880 minutes or less?
The Film 2880 fast film contest will begin in one month! On Friday, September 7th, 2007 at exactly 7:00 pm, filmmakers from around the world will receive a theme, one line of dialog and the name of a common household prop via email. They then have exactly 2,880 minutes (or two days) to produce a short film complete with music, titles, and credits.
Several years ago the theme of this fast and furious film contest was 'passion,' the prop was a 'strainer' and the line of dialog was 'That bug's on a suicide mission.' As one can imagine, the films entered had a lot of adrenaline-inspired wacky themes, from a bug catcher horrified by a huge monster bug, to a film on a bug-lover horrified by a pest exterminator. There was a movie on the lost art of a secret lover of Hemingway and one about a paperboy who delivered more than just papers.
The top ten films will be shown at the Port Townsend Film Festival where awards will be given! Prizes in the past have included $500 for first prize and Apple's $1200 movie making software, Final Cut Studio. This year a select number of contestants will be filmed for a TV show documenting the creation of these fast films.
More information on the contest and the class can be found on the web at www.film2880.com http://www.film2880.com, email info@film2880.com or call either Pete or Lou at 360-385-1188.
Letter from Linda Hattendorf, director of THE CATS OF MIRIKATANI, the 2006 PTFF award for best documentary, to Cynthia Sears of Bainbridge Island:
Well, Jimmy and I have arrived in Japan! We're in Tokyo tonight and then leave tomorrow morning for Hiroshima. The Peace Memorial Ceremony is August 6, beginning at 8 am.
Jimmy is jet-lagged but happy. We are staying in Tokyo tonight with Masa's mother in a quiet traditional Japanese home of wood and shoji. Crickets buzzing in the garden outside. Jimmy is excited about riding the "bullet train" which we'll take early tomorrow morning. Wow what a journey this will be!
Will try to send more reports from the road. Will be in Hiroshima a week, then back to Tokyo for 4 days to do press conferences to promote CATS which will open theatrically in Tokyo in early September. Our distributor here has me scheduled for 15 interviews a day, from 10 am to 8 pm, for 3 days in a row. Yipes. So you may not hear from me for a bit while I recover from that...
I wanted to call you in the 3 days I was in the US after Europe and before we left for Japan, but just too much going on in preparation. But wanted to share with you our new awards: Audience Award in Paris Cinema Festival, Best Documentary Feature in Galway, and Honorable Mention in top prize of the Motovun Film Festival in Croatia. Even better, I made some good contacts for the next project on Peace, especially in Ireland and Croatia.
As always, many thanks for all you have done to make all this possible. We all think of you often.
Much love, Linda and Jimmy