Eagle-Tribune Blogs: Pop

My colleague Roger just sent me this about the recent film festival in Salem, Mass. Sounds fab.

This past week Salem has been hosting what is hoped to be its first annual film fest at the Salem Cinema. To say the least, it has been amazing. My wife and I made to This Is Nollywood and Genghis Blues on a whim on Saturday. We were so impressed with the films and hearing the stories of the film makers, we went ahead and bought all day passes for Sunday and camped out at the theater for 4 documentaries and 2 short films. If this had been in Boston we would have been just as excited about the films, but the fact that a film festival right in our little Salem put together such a high caliber group of movies and brought in the award winning directors too blew us both away.

Tonight (Wednesday, March 5) they will be showing three of the winners; Manufactured Landscapes, 4:30, Buddha’s Lost Children, 6:30, and Beyond The Call at 8:30. It will all come to an end tomorrow with Rejected and Poem in Action. If you’re able to, do yourself the favor and try to make it to as many of these as possible. With any luck the success of this years festival will carry over into next year. Salem could use something to help beat the doldrums of winter when the witches, goblins, and tourist dollars are the furthest away.

Share This