The 2017 Earth Port Film Festival will be on Sunday, April 23, 6pm, at the Firehouse theater in beautiful Newburyport.
The festival, now in it’s 6th year, screens short films that tell engaging and inspiring stories of people and communities around the world taking action to address the environmental challenges facing the Earth today.
The committee accepts all film genres — animation, documentary, music videos, comedy, fantasy — from youth and adult film makers. They offer an opportunity for screening films that are less than 20 minutes in length. Short features in Oscar-speak.
Newburyport is a vibrant, thriving, historic New England seaport community of 17,000 people with a strong tradition of support for the arts and a commitment to the environment.
It is a Commonwealth Green Community. The Firehouse Center for the Arts is a waterfront theater and cultural center in the Newburyport Cultural District.
The Earth Port Film Festival is an Earth Day Network partner event.
sample films….
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A Passion of Gold and Fire (Sébastien Pins)
Belgium (6 min)
A beekeeper shares his worries about the future of his apiary school. A passion of gold and fire which definitely helps our environment to keep on living.
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The Call from the Sea (Taylor McNulty)
USA (15 min)
What is the ocean saying if we could hear its voice? This is the question that brought me from Florida to live with the Bajau in Indonesia. As a filmmaker, I wanted to share the life of people who live intimately with the sea.
The Bajau are a sea nomadic group who have lived on the ocean for centuries. I wanted to see the ocean through their eyes and hear the ocean’s voice.
“The Call from the Sea” addresses the future of our oceans and what we are leaving behind. It is a personal and poetic story about life as a Bajau and how our actions affect their world, ten thousand miles away.
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Life & Sand (Simon Mendes)
USA (11 min)
Why would a person make art that intentionally disappears? Life & Sand follows New York City sculptor/designer G. Augustine Lynas as he creates his ephemeral art in a day on the beach. Intercut with sculpting, we get a window into the poetic mind of this creative, playful, and philosophical soul, conscious of every grain of sand he touches.
This film explores the symbolism of ephemeral art, human impermanence, the cycle of life and the importance of protecting the natural world.
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