Newburyport Doc Film Festival - YES Showcase
2022-09-16 15:00 (America/New_York) | The Screening Room, 82 State Street, Newburyport, MA, 01950, United States
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The second annual YES Award is a free event featuring the works of 6 current and recent graduate filmmakers and media arts majors from some of this country’s most esteemed higher education institutions

Jack Has A Plan/The Art of Healing
2022-09-16 19:30 | Firehouse Center for the Arts, Market Square, Newburyport, MA, 01950, United States
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Kickoff Reception beginning at 6:30pm at the Firehouse
Jack Has a Plan
Jack has lived with a terminal brain tumor for 25 years. When he decides to end his life, Jack’s best friend documents his three-year quest to die a happy man.
The Art of Healing
Engaging with art and artmaking can profoundly impact our mental, emotional and physical health.
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Elemental: Reimagining Our Relationship with Wildfire
2022-09-17 09:45 | The Screening Room, 82 State Street, Newburyport, MA, 01950, United States
HELD AT THE SCREENING ROOM
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As fire seasons grow longer, more destructive and more deadly, it is clear that our approach to reducing wildfire risk is failing.

And Outside Life Goes On
2022-09-17 09:45 | Firehouse Center for the Arts, Market Square, Newburyport, MA, 01950, United States
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With the Covid crisis we have realized that working in a hospital means to be confronted to life and death in a very direct way.

Fashion Reimagined
2022-09-17 11:30 | Firehouse Center for the Arts, Market Square, Newburyport, MA, 01950, United States
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Fashion designer Amy Powney decides to use award money to create a sustainable collection, aiming toward a much bigger, societal change.

Off The Beaten Path Shorts Block
2022-09-17 11:30 | The Screening Room, 82 State Street, Newburyport, MA, 01950, United States
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More often than not, life leads us off the narrow paths we thought we’d set for ourselves. These short films take us (and their subjects) to places we can scarcely imagine.
The Beautiful Worlds of David Riley A self-taught artist unlocks a hidden talent in his 40s. As a child, David was exposed to high levels of lead, affecting his physical and mental health. But does his disability also fuel his creativity?
The Traditional Brazilian Family KATU A photographic essay produced in the year 2007 portrayed the indigenous roots of 12 adolescents from remote Brazil. Twelve years later the photographer returns to Katu in search of his subjects.
What Travelers Are Saying About Jornada del Muerto Visitors to the Tularosa Basin of New Mexico, site of the first detonation of an atomic bomb, contribute to the production of public memory by making “the journey of the dead.”
Where Land Ends On a one-by-two-mile island off the coast of Massachusetts, the last student at the last one room school house in Cuttyhunk is graduating. With no more students, the school will close.

The Wake Up Call
2022-09-17 13:40 | Firehouse Center for the Arts, Market Square, Newburyport, MA, 01950, United States
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Dave Evans was a renowned prosthetist, humanitarian and peace activist. A double amputee himself, he dedicated his post-military career to transforming lives shattered by our world of never-ending wars.

2022-09-17 15:30 | The Screening Room, 82 State Street, Newburyport, MA, 01950, United States
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Guanglin is a blind boy who displays great skill at the ancient Chinese board game Go. Raised by a single father with limited means, they face deep societal prejudice against the blind.

Free Renty: Lanier v. Harvard
2022-09-17 15:30 | Firehouse Center for the Arts, Market Square, Newburyport, MA, 01950, United States
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Tamara Lanier, an African American woman, wants Harvard University to cede possession of its daguerreotypes of her great-great-great grandfather, an enslaved man named Renty.

Deconstructing Karen
2022-09-17 19:30 | Firehouse Center for the Arts, Market Square, Newburyport, MA, 01950, United States
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RECEPTION AT THE FIREHOUSE BEGINNING AT 6:30PM
A group of nice white ladies gather for provocative dinner conversation about the unwitting ways they’re upholding everyday white supremacy.

I Am Not
2022-09-18 10:00 | Firehouse Center for the Arts, Market Square, Newburyport, MA, 01950, United States
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Oren has Asperger syndrome. As an adopted child, it’s very difficult for him to adapt. Suddenly, his life changes with the help of the camera, which becomes an extraordinary therapy tool.

Paper City
2022-09-18 12:15 | The Screening Room, 82 State Street, Newburyport, MA, 01950, United States
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AT THE SCREENING ROOM
In March 1945, the US launched a massive air raid on Tokyo, unleashing an intense firestorm. Decades later, three elderly survivors race against the clock to preserve some memory of this forgotten tragedy.

Scrap
2022-09-18 12:15 | Firehouse Center for the Arts, Market Square, Newburyport, MA, 01950, United States
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Discover the vast and beautiful places where things go to die, and meet the people who collect, restore, and recycle the world’s scrap. This film scratches beneath surfaces to reveal the pathos in the ugliness we leave behind.

Black Lives Matter Shorts Block
2022-09-18 14:00 | The Screening Room, 82 State Street, Newburyport, MA, 01950, United States
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AT THE SCREENING ROOM
Two films that address the ongoing struggle for justice for all. “The Sun Rises in the East” tells the little-known story of The East, an ambitious pan-African cultural collective established in Brooklyn in 1969. “Digging for Life” follows the incredible true story of a Cameroonian man who set out to seek better prospects, only to find himself enslaved in the modern world.
Digging For Life When a young Cameroonian man attempts to pursue the dream of a better life in post-apartheid South Africa, he finds himself trapped as a slave in Angola.
The Sun Rises in the East This powerful film chronicles the birth, rise and legacy of The East, a pan-African cultural organization founded in 1969 by teens and young adults in Brooklyn.

The Jewish Jail Lady and The Holy Thief/Alfredo's Island
2022-09-18 14:00 | Firehouse Center for the Arts, Market Square, Newburyport, MA, 01950, United States
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The Jewish Lady and The Holy Thief
He was a convict turned rabbi. She was a sex-addicted housewife. Together, they saved thousands of lives in recovery.
Alfredo’s Island
Alfredo describes his life on the island of Lanzarote in the Canary Islands. Shot and produced under the mentorship of Werner Herzog.

Delikado
2022-09-18 16:00 | The Screening Room, 82 State Street, Newburyport, MA, 01950, United States
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AT THE SCREENING ROOM
In an idyllic Philippine tourist destination, forests and wildlife are being destroyed by illegal loggers. A small troop of environmental crusaders risk their lives to catch the culprits in the act.

Wicked New England Shorts Block
2022-09-18 16:00 | Firehouse Center for the Arts, Market Square, Newburyport, MA, 01950, United States
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If you live in our neck of the woods, you know it can get a little kooky here at times. From snowstorms and wild turkeys to the two boys from Needham who spent the summer of 1967 trundling to Montreal to see the World’s Fair – in a cart pulled by their family’s Shetland pony! Only in New England.
Pony Boys Summer, 1967. Two young Massachusetts brothers set off on an improbable journey with their family pet, a Shetland pony named King, to visit the World’s Fair in Montreal.
Snow Money An intimate portrait of an “everday Joe” — a snow plower in Boston who struggles to buy his first home as global warming impacts his business.
Turkey Town After vanishing completely from Massachusetts, the wild turkey was reintroduced fifty years ago. Since then, the population has exploded.

The House We Lived In
2022-09-18 18:00 | Firehouse Center for the Arts, Market Square, Newburyport, MA, 01950, United States
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A young filmmaker chronicles his father’s journey to recover from a traumatic brain injury. As his memories return in the form of dreams, the family struggles to accept this new version of their father.

Storm Surge: 2040 Film
2022-09-28 19:00 | MA
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2040 is a hybrid feature documentary that looks to the future, but is vitally important NOW!
Drawing on the best minds from around the world to focus on climate, economics, technology, civil society, agriculture and sustainability, 2040 maps out a pathway for change that can lead us to a more ecologically sustainable and equitable future.
Motivated by his 4-year-old daughter and concern for the planet she will inherit, Damon Gameau embarks on a global journey to meet the innovators and change makers pioneering the best solutions already available to us today to improve the health of our planet and societies. Inspired by these discoveries and guided by the many children he consults with along the way, Damon interweaves dramatic sequences and high-end visual effects to conjure a positive portrait of what ‘could be’ instead of the current dystopian future we are so often presented.
Aimed at a broad audience that includes children and their parents, serious information is delivered with irreverence and humor. Experts are shrunk into scenes to emphasize a point, animation makes the invisible visible and visual effects show how scaling these solutions by 2040 will positively impact our lives and our planet. This rich visual approach combined with the structure of an intimate letter to a daughter from her father allows for lightness and cheekiness, ensuring the film is both entertaining and educational, with the end goal being to inspire action and change.
Many academics believe that people become inactive or paralyzed on this topic because it all just feels too overwhelming and alarming. 2040 is an aspirational film full of hope about the possibility to make changes that will shift the course for humanity and the planet.
This is the narrative the next generation needs to see, to aspire to, and to believe is possible.
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