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August 15, 2007
ContentsThe 2007 Port Townsend Film Festival special guest admired a prostitute in his second stage outing.
And that is the second of three clues in the festival's annual "Guess-the-Guest" contest.
During the month of August, PTFF is holdings 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:
2000 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
For those new to the contest, ��the first clue was: The Port Townsend Film Festival���s 2007 special guest���s first stage appearance was with a classic vaudevillian.
��FILM 2880 GEARING UP for WEEKEND of FAST FILMMAKING
The sixth annual Film 2880 Fast Film contest will begin Friday, September 7th, 2007 at 7pm. Over 50 filmmakers from around the world will receive a theme, line of dialog and the name of a common household prop via email. Exactly two days later (2,880 minutes) ��� each filmmaker (or ���Digital Guerilla���) will have produced a short film (less than 10 minutes long), complete with music, titles, and credits.
Three weeks later, on Saturday, Sept. 29, the top ten films will be shown at the historic Rose Theatre during the 8th-Annual Port Townsend Film Festival.
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 paper-boy who delivered more than just papers.
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.
For more information on the contest or to sign up go to: http://www.film2880.com, or by email��info@film2880.com or call Pete or Lou at 360-385-1188.