Woods Hole Film Festival Announces Encore Screenings

On Saturday August 3, the 28th Woods Hole Film Festival closes with encore screenings of three popular films that sold out when they screened initially, as well as an awards ceremony at the Captain Kidd Restaurant beginning at 10:30 PM and featuring music by singer-songwriter Sam Woolf, who finished in American Idol’s top five in 2014.

Encore film screenings include:

Runner, Worcester native Bill Gallagher’s remarkable documentary about Guor Mading Maker, who ran away from his refugee camp in war-torn Sudan to seek safety in the US when he was only nine years old, ultimately settling in New Hampshire. There he participated in high school track and field, becoming a running sensation and qualifying for the 2012 Olympics. Ultimately, he decided to run under the Olympic flag, rather than betraying his people and running under the newly independent South Sudan flag It screens at 5:00 PM at Falmouth Academy’s Simon Center located at 7 Highfield Drive in Falmouth.

WBCN and the American Revolution, directed by Bill Lichtenstein, uncovers the previously untold story of the early days of WBCN-FM—founded as a radical, underground radio station—set against the dazzling and profound social, political, and cultural changes that took place in Boston and nationally in the late-1960s and early-70s. It screens at 5:00 PM in Speck Auditorium at the Marine Biological Laboratory, located at 10 MBL Street in Woods Hole.

Safe Spaces, directed by Daniel Schechter (Life of Crime with Jennifer Aniston), stars Justin Long and Fran Drescher in a timely comedy about a New York professor who spends a week reconnecting with his family while defending his reputation over controversial behavior at his college. It screens at 7:30 PM in Speck Auditorium at the Marine Biological Laboratory, located at 10 MBL Street in Woods Hole.

Ticketholders are able to park for free at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution’s lot on School Street after 5 PM and at the NOAA Fisheries lot (next to the aquarium at 166 Water Street). Parking at meters in Woods Hole are free after 8 PM, and parking is free in the lot at Falmouth Academy. Paid parking is also available at several lots. Alternate transportation methods include biking on the Shining Sea Bikeway, which ends in Woods Hole, taking the Steamship Shuttle Bus from the Steamship lot in Falmouth, or by taking the WHOOSH Trolley from the Falmouth Mall (which will run extended late hours).

The festival is supported in part by grants from the Mass Cultural Council, Mass Festivals, Falmouth Fund of the Cape Cod Foundation and the Cape Cod 5 Cents Savings Bank Charitable Foundation in support of Bringing Science to the Screen, Martha’s Vineyard Savings Bank, and Woods Hole Foundation. LANDVEST is the Presenting Sponsor. Additional sponsors include Falmouth Chamber of Commerce, innerglow yoga/Cape Cod Yoga School, Talamas, Tree House Lodge, and O’Malley-Keyes Fine Art Gallery.

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