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Bates Film Festival @ PPL
10:30am - 4:30pm
Location: Rines Auditorium
Audience: Adults, Teens, Seniors
PPL is thrilled to partner with Bates College for the 2024 Bates Film Festival! This festival harnesses a shared love of film to promote equity and justice, facilitate productive discussions of a wide range of topical issues, and foster an appreciation for the artistry of screen media.
Please join us for the following events in association with the Bates Film Festival:
10:30am | Public Reading and Film Screening with Marianne Leone
Actress and author Marianne Leone will join us for a screening of the short film Nuts, which she wrote and acted in alongside her husband, actor Chris Cooper, who also directed the film. The couple shot the film together in their home during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic as part of the 2-volume anthology With/In.
Marianne will also read from her numerous printed works. Her books include Ma Speaks Up: And a First-Generation Daughter Talks Back, Jesse: A Mother’s Story, and the forthcoming Five-Dog Epiphany: How a Quintet of Badass Bichons Retrieved Our Joy. The reading will be followed by a book signing.
12:30pm | Film screening with Sharon Washington & Chuck Schultz
Actor Sharon Washington and her director/producer husband Chuck Schultz will join us for a screening of their film When My Sleeping Dragon Woke. This film tells Sharon’s story of growing up in a library, which forced her to confront some of the sleeping dragons she thought she had silenced. The film screening will be followed by a Q&A with Sharon and Chuck.
2:45pm | Panel Discussion with Missing Movies
Missing Movies is an ad hoc group of film lovers and professionals who have come together to empower filmmakers, distributors, archivists, and others to locate lost materials, clear rights, and advocate for policies and laws to make the full range of cinema history available to all. Board members Nancy Savoca, Richard Guay, and Maggie Renzi will lead this discussion that is important for both filmmakers and film fans because it gets to the heart of which movies we have access to, which ones we don’t, and why.