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- City:
- Gloucester
- Filmmaker? Genres you work in:
- documentary, narrative, educational
- Website:
- http://www.ferriniproductions.com
- additional web site
- http://www.polisisthis.com
- About my films:
- Polis Is This: Charles Olson and the Persistence of Place
This documentary explores the "colossus of poetry" Charles Olson through never before seen footage and interviews. Actor John Malkovich leads an all-star unit in a search-and-explore mission of this influential poet.
"The best film about an American poet ever made." - Bill Corbett, The Boston Phoenix
"Much more than a merely brilliant bio-documentary... an invaluable contribution to our literature." - Russell Banks, author-The Sweet Hereafter
"This is a sublime film... It is simply stunning." - Jim Harrison, author-Legends of the Fall
Official Selections 2007/2008: Berkeley Film Festival, Sebastopol Film Festival, Detroit International Film Festival, Big Sky Film Festival, Mendocino Film Festival
Lowell Blues: The Words of Jack Kerouac
This film remembers the place Jack Kerouac could not forget. By fusing visual history, language and jazz into a 30-minute film poem, Lowell Blues illuminates Kerouac's childhood holy land.
"An impassioned celluoid poem to Kerouac's Lowell." - David Perry, Lowell Sun
"Filmmaker Henry Ferrini captures the vividness and musicality of Kerouac's writing... a stunning visual tour." - Marissa Guthrie, Boston Herald
"Unwilling to compromise...incantatory, hallucinatory..." - John Kock, Boston Globe
"Elegant in its simplicity." - Mike Milliard, Boston Phoenix
"The absolute standard for all films on Jack Kerouac." - David Amram, Composer
Poem in Action: A Portrait of Vincent Ferrini
Poem in Action portrays the forces which forged him as a poet: his life as an immigrant's son and factory worker, the Great Depression, the Communist Party and the poetics of place. Ferrini's magnetic presence and unyielding creativity make for an energizing example of the artist as a citizen. This is not a portrait of the poet as reclusive or diffident but as a spokesperson, social activist, teacher and historian.
"Bravo!...a captivating look at a poet and poetry, engaging without the usual hush of stuffy reverence." - 1993 San Francisco Film Festival
Witch City
Against the backdrop of money and metaphor, Witch City tells a cautionary tale of what happens when history is distorted by both merchants and would-be prophets.
"Very funny, and very smart. Should play in Salem every day and every night forever." - Bo Smith, Film Curator: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
"...personal and provoking" - Anne Driscoll, Boston Globe
"A brutally honest look at what 'Salem Town' has become, 300+ years after the Witch Trials..." - Peg Aloi, Witches Voice
Radio Fishtown: Simon Geller in America
Earning 58 cents an hour, this craggy broadcaster becomes a Manhattan millionaire! Alive with Classical music, Radio Fishtown creates a shifting, non-linear portrait of this enigmatic man while debunking the myth that working people don't listen to Classical music.
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Upcoming Screenings of Polis Is This
Cullowhee, North Carolina
April 17th Black Mountain College Museum & Arts Center
Asheville, NC
April 24th-26th Talking Gourds Festival
Telluride, CO
April 29th SPACE
(will screen both Polis Is This and Lowell Blues)
Portland, ME
May 1st University of Connecticut
Storrs, CT 7:30pm
May 14th Massachusetts Cultural Council
Boston, MA
June 1st Mendocino Film Festival
Mendocino, CA
June 13th-15… Continue
Posted on April 14, 2008 at 2:31pm — 2 Comments
Brattle Theatre Fundraiser
Polis Is This
Benefit screening & Poetry Reading
for the Brattle Theatre
Harvard Square
Thursday, 8:00 pm
April 10, 2008
Tickets $15 Students $10
Introduction and Q&A with Filmmaker
Readers include:
William Corbett
Gerrit Lansing
Maureen McLane
Michael Pinto-France
Joseph Torra
Willie Alexander
& special guests
“an invaluable contribution to our literature.” Russell Banks
"inspired belief and intensity." Michael McClure
"Absolutely terri… Continue
Posted on March 20, 2008 at 9:03am —
"Best film on an American poet ever made." Boston Phoenix
Posted on September 18, 2007 at 7:00am —
Nantucket Athenaeum & MFA
Posted on June 5, 2007 at 8:23pm —
Polis Is This: Premiere
Charles Olson and the Persistence of Place
film by Henry Ferrini and Ken Riaf
Saturday, May 26th Two screenings- 11:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m.
Cape Ann Historical Museum, Pleasant Street, Gloucester, MA
The event is free and open to the public, but reservations are required. Call the Museum at (978) 283-0455 for reservations.
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Posted on May 10, 2007 at 10:09am —
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pitches for a web series about people and their cars. You submit a
detailed written synopsis of a film 3 to 5 minutes in length, with 4
or 5 more episode ideas intended to total around 30 minutes of
original webisodic content. Finalists receive $5000 each. General
Motors is sponsoring the contest and if they decide to produce final
pitches, they will fund the production. Filmaka.com will start
accepting submissions in the middle of next week and the contest
closes March 11. Details at: http://www.filmaka.com/gm/
so far the player only takes mp3 audio files....I undrstand that it will change at some point soon....do you have this file as an mp3?