Film Festival Browns Point

01/17/2023

I don’t know who needs to hear this right now but,
Oregon Field Guide put out a call for creative ideas before the TED radio hour yesterday. Anyone sitting on a great idea? Here’s your chance!

11/18/2021

Greetings friends of Film Festival Browns Point,
In our own backyard great film 🎥 is being created. Sadly the subject is one we know all too well.
Share! Share! Share! Anita George Steve Lerner

https://youtu.be/OE82XzsKOlw

On episode 2 of our docu-series, “Who is a Runner”, we partner with Camp4 Collective to showcase the importance of empowerment within diverse running communi...

02/09/2021

This is the link

https://fb.watch/3yB6qorZZg/

02/09/2021

Passing the mouth of the Elwa February 2020

History in the making. We were blessed at fest to have “A River Returns” a documentary about taking down the damn.

The link posted above updates the story with the Return of the Salmon.

10/21/2020

A little gem to motivate you to be your best Self.
Today

A young privileged American attempts to make history at Everest by becoming one of the first ever foreign-born Porters to aid a Mt. Everest expedition. But in doing…

08/25/2020

Good-bye for now 2020

Greetings Film Fans:
Film Festival Browns Point is all about community building. From the monthly Friday Night Flicks bad popcorn - more butter solutions, to the actual Festival with a couple hundred attendees, we don’t exist without our gatherings. Due to Covid19 we are unable to gather together and watch films. This past year’s many events centered around our films, gave me great hope for the continued momentum of our experiment: finding films that offer solutions to justice issues. Sadly they were cancelled. It is time for the website to go dark. You are welcome to join the Facebook group, where any future developments will be announced first.

Thank you for being there for the inaugural year!

Francine M Dennis
director/Producer

06/27/2020

Remember “You Can’t Eat Gold”! We are privileged to be in the know. No Pebble Mine!!!

The proposed Pebble Mine threatens the wildlife of the Alaska Peninsula, home to the densest brown bear populations on Earth.

06/19/2020

“and another one down...”

BELLINGHAM, Wash. -- Construction crews have begun work to remove the Middle Fork Nooksack Dam near Bellingham, restoring a crucial river for salmon. The project is decades in the making and is critical as fish species in the Northwest dwindle. ...

06/04/2020

Friday Night Flicks is as close to an objective programming system of any Film Festival as it gets. Even so, the participants are all humans. Great advice from the trenches.

These are the 5 most important lessons a festival programmer can teach you.

05/21/2020

In the spirit of Films on the Road here’s an inspiring film from a colleague for you to enjoy.

Terror and Hope will be screened in a free global event to mark World Refugee Day

04/22/2020

Sierra Club and 350.org prominently featured.
"They" were so present at the Festival, producing films and manning info booths.
Metabolize that trauma!

Michael Moore presents Planet of the Humans, a documentary that dares to say what no one else will this Earth Day — that we are losing the battle to stop cli...

04/18/2020

Join us online at The Earth Day Film Festival.
Like with all good things, it’s free.

https://www.earthdayfilmfest.org/

02/02/2020

Audience favorite award winner “Strangers in Town” did it again! Congratulations Steve et al !!!!!!!

GARDEN CITY — Filmmakers Steve Lerner and Reuben Aaronson didn’t create “Strangers In Town,” a documentary about Garden City,

12/18/2019

Yay!

https://deadline.com/2019/12/pbs-nea-government-funding-bill-1202812041/amp/

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting and the National Endowment for the Arts each got funding boosts in the government funding agreement passed by the House on Tuesday. House and Senate negotiat…

10/03/2019

Beat your drum 😉

Great people never started out that way. Most just wanted to be normal but circumstance propelled them to new heights. How will you affect your world today?

09/15/2019

Peace, art, activism!

The demonstration comes hours before the third Democratic 2020 presidential primary debate Thursday night at Texas Southern University.

09/12/2019

Good morning, FFBP. Thank you for selecting and supporting my film this past year. Hoan Alone is now available to share with everyone.
https://youtu.be/xrA495uA6-Y

National Su***de Prevention Lifeline 1-800-273-8255 Watch on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/357696140 Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/xrA495uA6-Y Film Title: Ho...

09/09/2019

Return of a River!

In a boon for salmon, beavers are doing what they do, plugging up an Elwha River side channel, making perfect pools for juvenile salmon – evidence that the ecosystem-scale restoration of the Elwha, with the world's largest-ever dam removal project, is...

09/08/2019

The Washington Supreme Court upholds Ken Ward's appeal win!

Ken Ward: "WA State Supreme Court panel unanimously denies Skagit County request for review of Appellate Court decision overturning my conviction for burglary, on grounds that I was not allowed to present a necessity defense. This means that Skagit County must either retry me a third time for my part in the Shut It Down/Valve Turners Action, but this time with climate science and political experts testifying for the defense, or let me go. Big victory for the climate necessity defense, and the general argument that climate direct action is a reasonable response to the mess we’re in."

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/09/06/washington-supreme-court-establishes-very-important-precedent-climate-necessity

The court's decision, explained one attorney, "creates a strong legal basis for climate protesters to justify their actions in a court of law."

09/07/2019

It’s Friday Night......
Rethink. Reimagine.

08/10/2019

Behind the screens
Deep realities.

As Sundance searches to replace outgoing director John Cooper, it must confront the uncertain future facing independent film as a whole.

08/04/2019

As this weekend draws to a close, there is still good news.

Thank you for a wonderful festival everyone!

08/04/2019

Congratulations Strangers in Town!

08/04/2019

Congratulations Return of the River!

08/03/2019

Congratulations Equal Footage!

08/03/2019

Congratulations In the House of Paper Flowers!!

08/03/2019

Good morning! Good news!
Festival TODAY 10am Animation
Festival continues with Good Films 5pm, 7pm, 9pm
Drum circle 6:30pm extra drums available so you can join in
Chinese Lion at 8:30pm.
FREE!

The Amazon Rainforest is well known across the world for being the largest and most dense area of woodland in the world. Spanning across nine countries, the Amazon is home to millions of different animal and plant species, as well as harboring some for the worlds last remaining indigenous groups…

08/02/2019

Great write up about In The House of Paper Flowers today.
See this award winning animation Saturday morning at 10am. Free!

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Meet Anita George, writer and director of the animated short IN THE HOUSE OF PAPER FLOWERS. Once upon a time, in a house covered with papery flowers, there lived a woman with white hair, two cats and a tiny wolf songstress.

"I think directing is one of the most exhilaratingly collaborative endeavors I've been fortunate enough to find myself in. If I had a directorial mantra, I suppose it would be, "Surround yourself with very talented people and try to stay out of their way." IN THE HOUSE OF PAPER FLOWERS is our first traditionally-animated project, and a very personal one," writer and director Anita George.

IN THE HOUSE OF PAPER FLOWERS has been in several festivals and won awards including McMinnville Short Film Festival (winner, Will Vinton Animation Award), Cedar Rapids Independent Film Festival (winner, Gold Eddy Pro-Am Short Film), IMPA (winner, Award of Excellence-Original Score, Award of Achievement-Voice Over Narration, winner-Animation-Long Form), Pet Film Festival Tepoztlan (winner-Best Short Film), screening soon at the Long Island International Film Expo, Woods Hole Film Festival, Compassion Film Festival, La Guarimba Il Grotto dei Piccoli, in collaboration with UNICEF Italia and others. AND the 5th Annual Black Cat Picture Show in less than a month!

You can learn more about Anita George and her production company at their website - www.wikwanwofilms.com

Black Cat Picture Show tickets are currently on sale at lcnaugusta.com. Join the party and get yours today!

08/02/2019

07/28/2019

So excited for next Friday and Saturday Aug 2 & 3. Check out the screen!