Café Strega, Wednesday through Sunday.
Mingle with filmmakers at the film festival's official hangout at Main Street Extension. For menu and hours, call the cafe at 508-732-9996.
Future Filmmakers-Felix Awards: 7 to 10 p.m., Thursday, Plimoth Plantation. Awards for filmmakers ages 12-17. $5 admission.
2007 Festival Awards, with Loretta LaRoche and live music, 7 to 11 p.m., Saturday, John Carver Inn. This year's Maverick Award recipient is Jan Schlichtmann, the environmental attorney whose battle with W.R. Grace and Beatrice in Woburn inspired a book, screenplay and award-winning film, "A Civil Action," with John Travolta.
Filmmakers' brunch by the sea, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., Stoneforge at Bert's Cove Restaurant, 140 Warren Ave. $15 admission includes brunch.
Free outdoor films at Plymouth
waterfront: 9:15 p.m. Saturday and 8:45 p.m. Sunday, Plymouth
waterfront on the lawn by Plymouth Rock. Pack a snack, bundle up the kids, and bring your lawn chairs
to see
short competition films, followed by feature films. On Saturday, see the recent epic disaster film about global warming, "The Day after Tomorrow," starring Dennis Quaid and Jake Gyllenhaal. On Sunday, celebrate the 30th anniversary of "Close Encounters of the Third Kind," the classic science fiction film starring Richard Dreyfuss.
Workshops
Saturday
Radisson Hotel, 180 Water St., Plymouth
Special Effects: From Design to Destruction: 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., amphitheater, $10 in advance, $15 at the door. Gary King, who has worked on more than 40 TV shows and 60 films, will share his special effects knowledge. On the Lot: Making it into the Top 100, 10 a.m. to 11:30 p.m, Carver Meeting Room, $10 in advance, $15 at the door. Dan Masucci was among the top 100 of 12,000 applicants on a Fox series competing for a $1 million deal from Steven Spielberg and Mark Burnett. Masucci will take people through the ins and outs of reality TV.
Independent Filmmaking from Soup to Nuts, 2:30 to 4:30 p.m., amphitheater, $10 in advance, $15 at the door. Award-winning producer John Fiore will talk about
how to produce a film on a small budget. Fiore is also an actor who has appeared in numerous television shows and more than 200 TV commercials.
Sunday
Film-in-Progress RX, 10 to 12:30 p.m., amphitheater, $10 in advance, $15 at the door. Glorianna Davenport and David Tames will talk to young filmmakers with film ideas or works in progress. They will offer
advice on story development, as well as how to address technical sticking points. Davenport grew up taking pictures and began making films and video in 1969. In 1990, she received MIT's prestigious Gyorgy Kepes Fellowship Prize for excellence in the arts. Tamés is a producer, editor, director, cinematographer and consultant who has worked on a wide range of independent film and new media projects. He recently launched MIT TechTV, a video sharing site for the MIT community.
Films
All films will be screened at the Plimoth Plantation Museum. Thursday
Theater I, 4 p.m., ''Safe Sex PSA''; ''Behind the Rhyme: A Hip Hop Documentary''; ''All I Know: Conversations with Gloucester Fisherman''; ''Demolition Derby, The Next Hit''; and ''Pump.'' At 7 p.m., Future Filmmakers Awards. At 10:30 p.m., "All About Tesla."
Theater II, 4 p.m., ''God's Good Pleasure''; ''Briefings"; "The Importance of Being Dead''; ''Anno Domini''; ''The Desert Rose.'' At 6 p.m., ''Shuteye Hotel''; ''Sideshow"; "Chapter XV:12''; ''No Match''; ''Turning Things Around''; ''I Just Want to Eat My Sandwich''; ''Letting Go"; and "Wheel of Misfortune.'' At 7:30 p.m., special screening of "Make Levee Not War" and "Children of New Orleans: Still Weathering the Storm," followed by a question and answer session with Ted Maguire. At 9:15 p.m., special screening of ''A Work of Fiction.''
Friday
Theater I, 4 p.m., ''Letter to the Prime Minister.'' At 5:45 p.m., a session remembering John Marshall with four short films by Marshall, followed by a question and answer session. At 8 p.m., ''Shut Eye Hotel" and ''Club Soda, Bourbon;'' followed by a question and answer session. At 9:30 p.m., ''God's Good Pleasure''; ''Briefings"; "The Importance of Being Dead''; ''Anno Domini''; and ''The Desert Rose.''
Theater II, 4 p.m., ''Garage.'' At 6 p.m., ''The Green Square Mile: Story of the Charlestown Irish,'' followed by a question and answer session. At 8 p.m., ''Prison Pups, Life. Research'' and ''A Box of One's Own,'' followed by a question and answer session. At 10 p.m., ''Shuteye Hotel''; ''Sideshow''; ''Chapter XV:12''; ''No Match''; ''Turning Things Around''; ''I Just Want to Eat My Sandwich''; ''Letting Go''; and ''Wheel of Misfortune.''
Saturday
Theater I, 4 p.m., panel to be announced; 6:20 p.m., ''Make Levee Not War" and "Children of New Orleans: Still Weathering the Storm,'' followed by a question and answer session. At 7:45 p.m., ''Arid Lands.'' At 10 p.m., ''An Inconvenient Truth.''
Theater II, 4 p.m., ''A Civil Action'' and a question and answer session with Jan Schlictmann and special effects expert, Gary King. At 6:15 p.m., ''Who Killed the Electric Car?'' At 8 p.m., ''Everything's Cool.'' At 10:45 p.m., ''Cartoneros.'' Sunday
Theater I, 4 p.m., ''Letter to the Prime Minister''; 5:45 p.m., ''Prison Pups''; 7 p.m., ''Shuteye Hotel''; ''Club Soda''; ''Desert Rose''; ''Importance of Being Dead''; 8:25 p.m., ''Arid Lands''; 10:20 p.m., ''The Green Square Mile: Story of the Charlestown Irish.''
Theater II, 4 p.m. ''The Diary of Sacco and Vanzetti.'' Question and answer session.
6:30 p.m., ''Hidden Wounds''; 7:45 p.m. ''Hold Your Breath''; 9 p.m., ''The Garage.''
Los Sugar Kings will perform at the Plymouth Independent Film Festival .
Filmmaker Chris Stone directs "Anno Domini."
"Shuteye Hotel" is a murder-mystery film that takes place in a sleazy hotel.
In "A Box of One's Own," artist Denise Baxter runs The Blue Light Coffin Company, spending her days hand-painting wood coffins.
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