 Hi, I'm Leslie McVane and I'm welcome to another CTN member highlight tonight. We're at space gallery for the local love muscle Film Festival. It's the third annual Valentine's Day film festival and it's a little different this year Usually the theme is love. They've opened it up and have had many submissions Get it people are streaming in here getting ready to to watch the festival I think there are eight films tonight and we're going to be talking with some of the people who are here some of the people who Organized it. Well, I'm with Jake oxen heard. Hi, Jake. Hello. How are you a new member of the CTN board actually? Three weeks ago a month ago. Yep. Well, you're one of the organizers of this film festival And have you been here all three years organized? Yeah, I've done all three years Jake Holtz who's one of the owners was Had the original idea for it, but I've pretty much taken the lead of it from the start and put it all together all three years And how has it grown? Well, we've got a lot more people every year the first year. We were at Geno's We had a couple bands play after only about maybe 60 people showed up which we were happy with I mean that was a great crowd for what it was for the first year last year we did it at the the upstairs of the Empire Dine and Dance and Completely sold out the place and I remember the owner coming up to me afterwards just like ecstatic at how many because it was a Sunday night They usually don't even open up on Sunday nights And they were just you know blown away by how many people came and everything like that and then this year It's you know, we're still 45 minutes from showtime and it's a lot of people so it's looking good Well, I've grabbed one of the filmmakers. Hi Dan Gorham. What is the theme of your your piece tonight now? Don't give it away. Don't tell us the whole story. Butler did it. No Oh shucks. Yeah, it's made it's about a young stand-up comic who's Deathly afraid of speaking in public, but he's naturally very funny and just his struggle to sort of get up there And then what happens when he does and do you have a a group of filmmakers you work with you get together with we talk about You know issues and getting your work out there, right? Yeah We sort of had like a core a core like three or four people and then there's my the screenwriting friends too And we all talk about you know different different sex of groups basically, but yeah, it's a lot of fun Well, I have another filmmaker with me David Rickers. Hi David. Hey, how you doing? I'm doing great now You're originally from Union Maine Union man. I went to high school there And then I went down to Portland in South Portland here at Southern Maine Community College to get my film degree And it worked out really well So you've got a film in in the in the program tonight. What's the name of your film? Yes, my film is called power of music and it takes place in small town Portland almost about the main character Trevor and he gets Some substantial emotional trauma happens to him and he can't find his passion anymore and through a vision or like Almost like maybe like not a spirit animal, but like a spirit vision. He finds his passion again And he realizes something about the entire universe. I've got another filmmaker with me Sean Martin. Hi, Sean Hi, how's it going? You're originally from South Portland. Yep from South Portland, Maine Yep, and when did you start doing film in high school? Honestly, I mean through most of my life I've been working on films either acting in them But it was really when I was 13 when I really started making my own films editing them and started doing school projects And I have not stopped since so you have a real passion. Yeah. Oh, yeah, I couldn't live without this medium It's it's it's amazing. What's the name of your film that we're gonna see tonight? Mine's called a handful of romance. It's it's a sock puppet It's a sock puppet film basically Well, thanks, I know it's getting busy and you probably have hands to shake. Yeah. Yeah, thank you for taking the time Thank you. Yeah, well, I found two filmmakers and our first woman Anna Anna Gravel Reynon reynon brown and in brown and you co-wrote co-produce co-everything this film tell us a little bit about it Um, oh gosh Well, I produced the and came up with an idea when I was on tour this summer So it's about the talk that sometimes happens in a relationship that nobody wants to talk about and Then reynon helped to flesh out the text and he also directed it sort of building up the courage to tell your spouse a Secret or something, you know to bring that relationship to the next level Here we are with another filmmaker David Wallace. Hi David. Hi from Brunswick. Yes Now tell me how long you've been doing film. I've been doing it about 11 years So now you make your own yes. Yes. We just have a lot of fun getting our friends together and Putting together a team. Do you write your your shows? Yes Well, we wrote the last one last year's but this year's it was mostly improv. What's the name of your film? It's called forms be investigates. Oh, it sounds exciting. Well, I think I hope you'll find it exciting We actually we have two sponsors this year that help us out putting things together one is CTN channel five Which is The other sponsor was Peloton labs As for CTN they have joined us as a media sponsor Meaning that everything shown here tonight is also going to be online and be shown on channel five Which I think is for all you filmmakers is a really really great opportunity You know a lot of people don't know a tremendous about about CTN I think it's definitely worth checking out you've obviously got a forum to show your work There's memberships are 20 bucks a year you can rent equipment. You've got a big studio inside If you've never been in there go in and look at it. There's a green screen It offers a lot of a lot of resources for filmmakers and I think it's worth checking out. Well This is getting really noisy and exciting here more and more people are coming in all the time And it's getting so full I'm going to go in and try to get a seat so I can watch it too and we hope to bring you Their films after the film festival on community television network