This selection of newly-minted Maine-made shorts covers topics that are quintessential, from lobster to maple sugaring, from summer cabins to Katahdin. Like being here, only way more filmic! . .
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Life by Lobster
USA 2009/ Digital Projection/ 60 Min./ In English
Director: Iain McCray Martin
Print Courtesy: Iain McCray Martin, Stonington Opera House Arts
Contrasting the stark beauty of the Downeast Maine seacoast with the stark reality of earning a living there, Life by Lobster, a new hour-long documentary by 22-year-old independent filmmaker Iain McCray Martin, a native of Deer Isle, takes you inside the lives of five young lobster fishermen determined to pursue this proud traditional vocation against steadily mounting obstacles.

Once More to the Cabin
USA 2009 Digital Projection 28 Minutes In English
Directors, Print courtesy: Jim Isler, Tom Isler
A 93-year-old widow returns to the cabin in Boothbay Harbor where she first fell in love in an attempt to say good-bye to her late husband in a film lovingly made by her grandsons.

Road to Katahdin
USA 2009 Digital Projection 9 Minutes In English
Director: Georg Koszulinski
Print Courtesy: Substream Films
A wonderfully personal essay on climbing our most famous peak, from Georg Koszulinski, whose Dead Buffalo is also in this year’s festival, and whose Immokalee U.S.A. was a highlight of last year’s.

The Music of the Sugarbush
USA 2007 Digital Projection/16 Minutes In English
Director, Print Courtesy: Nelson Cole
Filmed at a Skowhegan sugarhouse, The Music of the Sugarbush takes us into the world of maple sugaring as co-owner Iver Lofving shares his thoughts about the continuation of an old tradition.

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