Chesapeake Film Festival

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CFF Fundraiser @ Out of the Fire
featuring Billy Pappas's 'Waiting for Hockney'.

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The Eastern Shore may be 3000 miles from Hollywood, but it is home to more than a few film fans. Current and former filmmakers dot the coves and inlets of Talbot County. Writers abound and our non-profits are proliferated with intelligent, creative people. Wouldn’t a film festival be the natural next step?

The first festival will be held in the fall of 2008. The inaugural event for the newly formed Chesapeake Film Festival Board was a reception for Academy Award winning filmmaker, Gabriella Cristiani who won for Best Editing for “The Last Emperor.”

Chesapeake Film Festival launched their fundraising efforts September 2007 at a Gala Premiere screening of Sean Fine and Andrea Nix Fine’s Academy Award nominated documentary, WAR/DANCE, which won the Sundance Film Festival Best Documentary Director Award for 2007.

To ring in the New Year, CFF brought Buster Keaton shorts with Curt Heavey playing original scores to First Night Talbot.

An Oscar Night Party was held at General Tanuki’s Restaurant to cheer for WAR/DANCE.

CFF returned to General Tanuki’s May 7 for a screening of director David Garrett’s award-winning short film—Warlord. Shot in Easton, the movie features local residents.

Free screenings of Denzel Washington’s The Great Debaters were shown in partnership with Easton Premier Cinemas.

Easton’s Goldsborough Street was the place to be on June 6 as CFF screened a variety of short films and presented prizes to those wearing especially funny shorts.