WMPG has won awards for Tom Bell’s documentary – An Extraordinary Place.
Have you seen our film, An Extraordinary Place? If not, now’s the time. The film, which explores our wonderful station’s history and present day community, has been, and will be playing at multiple film festivals across the country and even internationally! You can find our film nominated and playing at these festivals:
- June 20th, New York True Venture Film Festival in New York for Official Selection
Screening June 20th 12.00 – 12.35pm Producers Club Theatre 358 W 44th St, NYC - June 21st, Panorama International Indie Festival in Prague for Official Selection
- July 4th, Jersey Shore Film Festival in New Jersey for Winner – Best Documentary – Human Interest
- July 20th, Maine International Film Festival, Official Selection – 1pm @ Waterville Opera House.Get tickets: miff.org/program
- July 21st, Maine International Film Festival, Official Selection – 3.00pm @ Maine Film Center 1. Get tickets: miff.org/program
- June 15th, International Motion Picture Awards in Toronto for Official Selection
- July 25th, Maine Outdoor Film Festival in Portland for Official Selection. Get tickets
Screening at Maine Studio Works at 7.30pm - July 27th (Sat) 5.00pm – Chain NYC FILM Festival, 4th Floor, Chain Theatre, 312 W 36th St, NY
- August 4th, Brooklyn International Short Festival, Semi Finalist
- Sept 15th, Camden International Film Festival
Camden Opera House – Auditorium 4pm - September 26th 2.15pm Worcester Film Festival, UK – Official Selection
- Saturday, November 2nd 2-6pm – this is a fundraiser for Friends of Casco Bay
- November 2024, Nov 8 AFIN International Film Festival, Brisbane, Australia, Nominated Best Documentary Short Subject
- November 16, 2024
1:00 pm – Leon & Mary Strauss Documentary Spotlight, Oscar® Qualifying Shorts Competition at St Louis International Film Festival - Dec 12th at 6.30pm – Maine Historical Society, Portland, Maine
Awards
- Worcester Film Festival, UK, September – Best Documentary Film
- Maine Outdoor Film Festival, July 25th – Best Maine Film
- Maine International Film Festival, July 21st 2024 – Best Short
- Toronto Indie Shorts (July 11th) – Best Documentary
- Jersey Shore Film Festival, July 5th – Best Documentary – Human Interest
- Courtyard Independent Film Festival (May 31st) in Italy won Best Editing
We are so grateful to be nominated for so many awards at these festivals. If you have to chance, make sure to catch the film at a festival near you, or you can visit anextrodinaryplace.org for more information.
We are also seeking sponsors to help us attain music rights in the film, if you’d like to sponsor WMPG’s An Extraordinary Place you can email development@wmpg.org for more information.
We love collecting laurels from the festivals that have selected An Extraordinary Place.
Thank you to our current sponsors:
Norimoto Bakery
Don Foshay’s Discount Tire And Alignment
Create Kindness
Little Chair Printing
Rose Foods
Tandem Coffee Roasters
OceanView at Falmouth & Cumberland Crossing by OceanView
Ursula Linton
Michael Cutting
Frantz/Lieberman Family
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