PORT ANGELES — Peninsula College’s fourth annual Moving Pictures Film Festival will be offered at 7 p.m. Wednesday in the Maier Performance Hall.
This event is free and open to the public, though donations will be encouraged at the film festival, 1502 E. Lauridsen Blvd.
Several of the festival films showcase nonprofits, community and educational adventures such as the Northwest Veterans Resource Center, Serenity House, Habitat for Humanity, Volunteers of Olympic Medical Center, Peninsula College’s Green Building Department, a digital storytelling certificate “The Hero’s Journey” Project, a Multimedia Shared Experience field trip and a humorous expedition of campus.
This year’s films were created by Maria Terry Binando, Elaine Cochran, Jack Cote, Ellie Dewhurst, Christopher Enges, Donna Geer, Rebecca Groves, Cindy Guoan, Darryl Hayes, Patrick McCready, Kathleen Perry, Sierra Pick, Anthony Richards, Lois Spicer and Seth Wonderly.
Many filmmakers have earned or are earning their short-term certificates in digital video at Peninsula College.
Multimedia communications program coordinator and instructor Renne Emiko Brock will host a question-and-answer session with the filmmakers to discuss the digital video courses offered at the college and filmmakers’ successes after school.
Exploring documentary styles, filmmaking, directing and production management, the certificate program provides students with beginning and advanced digital video skills while learning to plan, film, edit, stream and market short digital videos on the internet.
They produce documentary shorts, original stories and “edutainment” videos that demonstrate the persuasive power of visual storytelling and present their work as part of the Peninsula College Spring Arts Festival and Magic of Cinema.
The same evening, Peninsula College will host a Student Pop-Up Art Gallery in the Pirate Union Building.
Brock encourages visitors to migrate to Maier Hall afterward where they can mix and mingle with filmmakers before the showing.
For more information, contact Brock at rbrock@pencol.edu.
