Mystic Independent Theater is pleased to announce our 2010 Film and Music Festival to feature the best local and regional filmmakers and musicians who have submitted their work to the theater during our first year of operations.


The festival features local residents Mitzi Adams, choreographer and founder of Adams Company Dance, budding filmmaker Amelia Golden, singer and America's Got Talent hopeful Clayton Allen and New England nati

ve filmmaker James Ferguson. We will host our second open-mic music forum, allowing emerging and established musicians to test their creations.
And, we will have an encore screening of the popular "May I Be Frank".

Schedule of Events:

Saturday, December 4

Featured Film: May I Be Frank
7 pm
Tickets $10
May I Be Frank documents the transformation of Frank Ferrante’s life.
Frank is 54 years old, obese, depressed & addicted. He stumbles into Café Gratitude, a raw organic vegan restaurant in San Francisco. “What is one thing you want to do before you die?” asks Ryland. Frank replies “I want to fall in love one more time, but no one will love me looking the way I do.” May I Be Frank documents the essence of the human condition & what it truly means to fall in love again.

 

Friday, December 10
Featured Music Event: Take the Stage Open-Mic Music Forum Sign-up 6:30, Show starts at 7:00 Artists $5, Audience $10 Taking first 12 sign-ups. Under 18 bring a parent!
Our 2nd open-mic music forum! Bring your instrument, sign up & play. No amps please. Length of performance depends on how many sign up. Special guest-host songwriter Alan Semenovich. The forum is about sharing your wor

k with other artists & supportive community members. Connect with other music makers & be heard. Take the stage!

 

Saturday, December 11
Featured Music: Clayton Allen

7 pm

Tickets $10
Stonington’s own Clayton Allen is the best unsigned singer we’ve ever heard. Hopefully, that will change soon and Clayton will receive the break he deserves! Mystic Independent Theater is taking Clayton to the America’s Got Talent 2011 auditions in NYC. See him live while you still can! From Clayton’s CD Bridgetown Gate: “Across the valley echoes a strong baritone voice, with a crisp falsetto over a gently strummed electric g

uitar. Sometimes that voice will roar and the six strings will rumble to a sound uniquely one’s own letting the listener decipher the influences.”

Sunday, December 12
2 Featured Local Filmmakers!
Tickets for both films/filmmaker Q&A $

10 Filmmaker Mitzi Adams Except at Night: The Making of a Dance Followed by Q&A with Producer/Director Mitzi Adams & Documentarian Benjamin Moss 6:30 This short documentary reveals the process of a choreographer who assigns herself the challenging task of choreographing a 10-minute dance in 3 hours. Using 8 dancers, this film highlights the craft & process behind its creation. After the film, Producer Mitzi Adams will share her expertise as choreographer & founder of Mystic's Adams Company Dance.
Short Films by Amelia Golden
Followed by Q&A with Producer/Director Amelia Golden
8 pm
Amelia Golden is an artist of many different mediums, and this work has been her exploration of film thus far from 2007 to the present.

Monday, December 13
Featured Film, New England Filmmaker
Followed by Q&A with Producer/Director James C. Ferguson Happy Holidays
7 pm
Tickets $10
New England native James C. Ferguson’s independent feature film Happy Holidays, a comedy about friendship, family and faith, is set to screen in various venues this winter. Three childhood friends unexpectedly reunite in their New England hometown the week before Chri

stmas. Now in their mid-thirties, it’s the first time Patrick, Alden and Kirby have been in the same zip code since their high school graduation. Each of them is at a different crossroads in his life & facing difficult hurdles. They pick up right where they left off, returning to a simpler time – before obligations, politics and agendas – but has life taken them too far to make that even possible?

Tickets are available online at www.mysticindietheater.com or at the door.
Mystic Independen

t Theater
107 Wilcox Road
Stonington, CT 06378
(860) 536-952