Newburyport Documentary Film Festival

Join Us For The Newburyport Documentary Film Festival 2024!

Schedule of Events:
A Photographic Memory
10:00am
The Screening Room

An Intimate, Genre-Bending Portrait Of A Daughter's Attempt To Piece Together A Portrait Of Her Mother, An Avant-Garde Journalist And A Woman She Never Knew. Uncovering The Vast Archive Sheila Turner-Seed Produced, Including Lost Interviews With Iconic Photographers Henri Cartier-Bresson, Gordon Parks, Cecil Beaton, Lisette Model, And Others, The Film Explores Memory, Legacy, And Stories Left Untold.

Year: 2024
Runtime: 87 Minutes
Language: English
Country: United States
Sponsor:
Director: Rachel Elizabeth Seed
First Time Filmmaker

Driver
10:00am
Firehouse Center For The Arts

A Compelling Examination Of An Unseen World, Driver Follows Long-Haul Truck Driver Desiree Wood And A Dynamic Community Of Women Truckers. Taking On Routine Sexual Violence And An Industry In Which Multibillion-Dollar Megacarriers Conspire To Make Individual Drivers Anonymous And Disposable, Desiree Brings Together An Unlikely Group Of Truckers To Find Strength, Solidarity, And Self-Determination On The Road.

Year: 2024
Runtime: 91 Minutes
Language: English
Country: United States
Premiere: Massachusetts
Sponsor:
Director: Nesa Azimi

Filmmaker QandA

The Outside World Shorts Block
:45am
The Screening Room

Igualuda
11:45am
Firehouse Center For The Arts

Black Colombian Activist Francia Márquez Transforms A Derogatory Term, “Igualada,” Into A Symbol Of Rights Defiance. Her Presidential Campaign Inspires A Nation To Dream Of A More Equitable Future, Challenging Societal Norms.

Year: 2024
Runtime: 78 Minutes
Language: Spanish
Country: United States, Colombia, Mexico
Premiere: New England
Sponsor:
Director: Juan Meija Botero

From God To Man
Filmmaker QandA


Piblokto
Filmmaker QandA

Far Out: Life On and After The Commune
1:30pm
The Screening Room

This Film Traces 50 Years In The Lives Of A Group Of New England Writers, Activists And Artists. It Conveys How The 1960s Counterculture, Embodied In Two Rural Communes, Transformed America. The Story Begins When A Group Of Radical Journalists (Including Ray Mungo, Brother Of The Longtime Screening Room Operator Andrew Mungo ) Leaves New York For A New Life In The Country. Follow Along As They Evolve From The Back-To-The-Land Movement To A New Discovery Of Political Commitment.

Year: 2024
Runtime: 85 Minutes
Language: English
Country: United States
Premiere: Massachusetts
Sponsor:
Director: Charles John Light

Film Is Dead: Long Live Film!
1:30pm
Firehouse Center For The Arts

Come Explore The Vanishing World Of Private Film Collecting — An Obsessive, Secretive, Often Illicit World Of Basement Film Vaults, Inhabited By Passionate Cinephiles Devoted To The Rescue And Preservation Of Photochemical Film. Condemned As Pirates And Hounded By The Fbi, Many Film Collectors Have Long Lurked In The Shadows. Yet Their Efforts Have Resulted In The Survival Of Countless Films That Would Otherwise Have Been Lost To History. As Analog Film Fades From Memory, The Basement-Dwellers And Bootleggers Of Old Are Finally Being Given Their Due.

Year: 2024
Runtime: 103 Minutes
Language: English
Country: United States
Sponsor:
Director: Peter Flynn

Our Turn To Talk
3:30pm
The Screening Room

This Important Film Focuses On The Teenagers Who Say They're The Generation To Put An End To Mental Health Stigma. To Do It, They're Telling Their Own Stories – Raw And Unfiltered. From Skyrocketing Rates Of Anxiety And Depression To The Impacts Of Racial And Intergenerational Trauma, These Teens Share Their Struggles And Triumphs And Carry A Powerful Message: Storytelling Saves Lives.

Year: 2023
Runtime: 70 Minutes
Language: English
Country: United States
Sponsor:
Director: Beth Murphy and Patrice Howard

Legacies Shorts Block
Saturday, September 21, 2024 3:30pm
Firehouse Center For The Arts

The Elephant In The Room

Kismet

Fore and Aft

Filmmakers' Roundtable
Free Event
5:30-6:30pm
Port Vida, A Mexican Cantina
10 Center Street

The Road To Ruane
7:30pm (Reception Begins At 6:30pm)
Firehouse Center For The Arts

A Filmmaker's Journey To Capture The Storied Life Of Billy Ruane, A Troubled, Legendary Figure On Boston's Celebrated Live Music Scene, Becomes An Examination Of The Human Condition.

Year: 2024
Runtime: 102 Minutes
Language: English
Country: United States
Sponsor: Dyno Records
Director: Scott Evans and Michael Gill
Out There: A National Parks Story

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