newportFILM To Present Last Two Outdoor Screenings of the Summer
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newportFILM To Present Last Two Outdoor Screenings of the Summer
Emptying the Skies
On August 28, newportFILM will screen Emptying the Skies at the Norman Bird Sanctuary, 583 3rd Beach Road, Middletown. There will be a post-film Q&A with producer & co-director Roger Kass. This event is a joint fundraiser to benefit newportFILM & Norman Bird Sanctuary.
Two options are available for the evening:
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Live music by Honey Hollow + Appetizers courtesy of Glorious Affairs + Libations by Spiked Seltzer + Sunset film screening
$30/person (purchase online or at the door)
- OR -
Starting at 7:45PM
Sunset film screening only
$5/person suggested donation (donate at the door)
- Tallulah on Thames taco cart, Le Petit Gourmet & Boru Noodle Bar will be on-site selling food
- Picnics welcome
- NO smoking or pets
Rain Venue: Casino Theater, 9 Freebody Street, Newport
RSVP & watch trailer here.
Mission Blue
Next week, on September 4, newportFILM will present Mission Blue at King Park, Wellington Avenue, Newport. Director Robert Nixon will be on hand for a Q&A following the screening.
Film begins at sunset (approx. 7:15PM)
- Pre-film music by Lainey Dionne, featuring Izzy Marcil
- Free bike valet courtesy of Bike Newport (tune ups for a small charge)
- Tallulah on Thames taco cart, Le Petit Gourmet & Boru Noodle Bar will be on-site selling food
- Picnics welcome
Rain Venue: Casino Theater, 9 Freebody Street, Newport
RSVP & watch trailer here.
newportFILM's Summer Lineup
Heartworn Highways Revisited
July 25 8:15pm
This year marks the 38th anniversary of the seminal music documentary, HEARTWORN HIGHWAYS, a film that explored and captured the nascent roots of the Outlaw Country movement in the mid-70′s. HEARTWORN HIGHWAYS REVISTED will celebrate the authenticity and express the feelings of the legendary original, via a community of contemporary “outlaws” living and creating music in Nashville, Tennessee.
92 minutes
Director: Wayne Price
Producers: Graham Leader & Brian Devine
The Ballad of Shovels And Rope
July 26 8:15pm
From working for tips to becoming the emerging artist of the year, a two-man family band uses hard work and ingenuity to create something out of nothing.
72 minutes
Director: Jace Freeman
Producers: Paul Bannister, Sean Clark
Keep On Keepin' On
July 31 8:15pm
First-time director/drummer from Australia, Alan Hicks, convinced his surfing mate and cinematographer, Adam Hart, to travel to the U.S. to follow and film 89-year-old jazz legend, Clark Terry (Quincy Jones's first teacher) over four years - to document an unlikely mentorship between Terry and a driven, blind piano prodigy, Justin Kauflin, 23.
86 minutes
Director: Alan Hicks
The Battered Bastards of Baseball
August 14 7:45pm
Chapman and Maclain Way’s energetic telling of one of baseball’s great, unheralded stories is as much about independent spirit as it is about the game.
73 minutes
Directors: Chapman Way, Maclain Way
Producers: Juliana Lembi, Nancy Schafer
Dior And I
August 21 7:45pm
In Dior and I, one enters the storied world that is the House of Christian Dior with a privileged, behind-the-scenes look at the creation of Raf Simons’ highly anticipated first Haute Couture collection as the iconic brand’s new Artistic Director.
90 minutes
Director: Frédéric Tcheng
Producer: Guillaume de Roquemaurel
Emptying The Skies
August 28 7:45pm
Based on Jonathan Franzen’s "New Yorker" essay, the powerful new documentary about the secret struggle to save the songbirds.
78 minutes
Director: Douglas Kass
Producer: Roger Kass
Mission Blue
September 04 | 7:15pm
Funded as a gift to the ocean and four years in the making, the Netflix original documentary MISSION BLUE is legendary oceanographer Dr. Sylvia Earle’s wake-up call to save the world’s seas. Directed by Fisher Stevens (“The Cove”) and Robert Nixon (“Gorillas in the Mist”), the film follows Dr. Earle on her global quest to protect the ocean from the powerful forces of pollution, overfishing and climate change.
95 minutes
Directors: Robert Nixon, Fisher Stevens
Cast: Sylvia Earle, James Cameron, Michael deGruy
