Meet the director, filmmaker, photographer and/or actor and hear the inside scoop on how the maritime story was created: the challenges, the mistakes, and the balance between truth and fiction. This is a rare opportunity to see a program related to the sea, and meet the people instrumental in making it all happen.
March 6: The Marine Photography of Benjamin Mendlowitz
Benjamin Mendlowitz has traveled the globe for more than 25 years to photograph wooden boats. He is well-known throughout the boating world for his contributions to nautical publications and for his award-winning annual Calendar of Wooden Boats®. Seven books of his photography have been published to date.
Mendlowitz grew up in New York City, and his passion for wooden boats began during the summers of his youth at the New Jersey shore, where he visited and was influenced by the local traditional boat builders. After graduating from Brandeis University and after a one year of farm work and photography in Florence, Italy, he began his photographic career. In his travels, he met Jon Wilson, founder of WoodenBoat magazine, and his photographs soon began to appear in that publication. In 1983, Mendlowitz formed his company, NOAH Publications, and published his first Calendar of Wooden Boats®.
The focus of Benjamin's work is to capture the beauty, romance and fine craftsmanship of a classic wooden boat. His photography is dedicated to the continued preservation of these craft. A question-and-answer discussion session follows Benjamin's visual presentation.
March 13: American Fisheries
Local filmmaker Bailey Pryor and producer Stephen Jones explore one of the greatest sea stories of all time, the dramatic tale of the 500-year-old North Atlantic cod fishery. Today the fishery is in ruins, and fishing regulations are a quagmire of red tape while small-time fishermen of New England are living on the edge of poverty.
Drawing on the sometimes contradictory perspectives of fishermen, ecologists, fisheries managers and historians, this stirring film reveals an epic story that stretches from the age of sail when people fished with hooks and lines to the 1950's when new technology in the form of sonar, advanced net design and huge factory ships devastated North Atlantic codfish populations.
After the film, Bailey and a team of fishing experts discuss the embattled fishing industry -- one of the most significant environmental disasters in history -- and implications for the future. The film was chosen as one of 30 out of 3,000 entries for the prestigious Boston International Film Festival in 2008.
March 20: Braving the Northwest Passage
In November 2009, filmmaker Sprague Theobald and his crew pulled up to a dock in Seattle, turned off the engines, and announced their official return from the five-month Arctic expedition. They had successfully navigated the Northwest Passage and captured over 250 hours of HD video footage and audio diaries for a new documentary film, Braving the Northwest Passage, due out in 2010.
Sprague will share stories from this incredible journey and a unique sneak preview of footage taken above and below the Arctic waterline where they encountered towering glaciers, polar bears, and all the extreme and desolate conditions that the Arctic has to offer. Midway through the trip, the crew nearly succumbed to ice floes that froze around their ship and tried to run them aground. A blog with interactive maps from his Northwest Passage expedition is available online at www.NorthwestPassageFilm.com.
March 27: Maine Built Boats
Gary Jobson is a world class sailor, ESPN television commentator, author and corporate advisor based in Annapolis, MD. He has won many championships in one-design classes, the America's Cup with Ted Turner in 1977, the infamous Fastnet Race and many of the world's ocean races. He has led ambitious expeditions to the Arctic, Antarctica and Cape Horn and sailed on every continent.
Hear Gary's comments about his new film, Maine Built Boats, and why he's excited about doing a full documentary on Maine's boatbuilding industry. "Everyone cares about their job; there is a high level of talent here, and Maine boats stack up against any in the world," says Gary.
Jane Wellehan, president of Maine Built Boats, and other boat builders from Maine join Gary in a lively post-program discussion.
Members: $35/series, $10 per program
Non-members: $40/series, $12 per program
Call 860.572.5322 for more information.
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