Many thanks to Gail McCarthy and the Gloucester Daily Times for again featuring the Boston Film Festival and our Piping Plover premiere in Gail’s T.G.I.F. column. Second time we’ve been listed in Google Alerts for the BFF!
Thank you to everyone who is planning to attend. We are so very much looking forward to seeing you!
To reserve your tickets, please go here: https://rockportmusic.org/boston-film-festival/.
We are sooo delighted with the trailer for the Boston Film Festival for our film’s premiere. Thank you Ava and the Boston Film Festival!
Trailer edited by Ava Boudreau, created for the Boston Film Festival 2024. To contact Ava through Instagram, please go to: @avaboo_writing.
Music: Happy Days by Simon Fowler from Upbeat
To reserve your ticket, got to https://rockportmusic.org/boston-film-festival/.
Many, many, thanks to Gail McCarthy and Editor Andrea Holbrook for the very much appreciated write-up about the Boston Film Festival in today’s Gloucester Daily Times. Extra special shout out and thanks for featuring The Piping Plovers of Moonlight Bay!
See full article HERE: https://www.gloucestertimes.com/news/40th-boston-film-festival-closes-with-premiere-in-rockport/article_9a789c52-6edf-11ef-abc0-47c012851a0d.html
Dear Friends,
I hope you are enjoying these wonderfully warm last days of summer. I can see the critters sure are! Herons, butterflies, frogs, dragonflies, beavers, bees, hawks, Kingfishers, (even a Merlin!); our ponds, meadows, and shores are teeming with wildlife preparing for winter.
I have been super busy fundraising and organizing deliverables for festivals and apologize for not sharing some of the incredible stories taking place right here in our own backyards. As soon as I get further along in all, I’ll share the images and footage. Some of the most fascinating moments have been watching a beaver. I think I posted on my website a video of a beaver rubbing his belly. A few days later, I observed him/her as he exfoliated (for lack of a better word) his face. First he dove down and retrieved a water lily tuber, which is an especially favorite beaver food at this time of year. After eating half, he then used the tuber to scrub the left side of his face. I thought perhaps this was an anomaly. Five minutes later he dove down, retrieved a second tuber, agan eating half. Then he scrubbed the right side of his face with the tuber. It was charming and funny and amazing to see and to film. Coming soon 🙂
Please be sure to reserve your seats at the Shalin Liu for the premiere of our documentary, The Piping Plovers of Moonlight Bay. Here is the link: https://rockportmusic.org/boston-film-festival/ It’s a truly heartwarming story and I think Massachusetts residents especially will be delighted with the film. Also, we are having a Q and A following the screening. Tickets are free but you do need to reserve in advance. That the tickets are free is a wonderfully generous gift to our community from the Boston Film Festival and Rockport Music. The 23rd is a Monday and 5:15pm is early enough in the evening for kids to see on a school night. Please bring your family and friends. We would love to see you there!
Warmest wishes,
xxKim
From teeny hatchlings to the miracle of fledging on crowded urban beaches, come celebrate the beautiful life story of the Piping Plover with us!
Hello PiPl Friends!
I have the best news to share with you. Our documentary, The Piping Plovers of Moonlight Bay, has been accepted to the world-renowned Boston Film Festival. Even more exciting, we are having the live screening premiere locally at the Shalin Liu! The event is presented by the Boston Film Festival and Rockport Music.
The tickets are free, which is a wonderfully generous gift to our community from the BFF and Rockport Music. Please save the date, Monday, September 23rd, at 5:15pm, and make your reservations today! Here is the link to reserve seats: https://tickets.rockportmusic.org/9769/9770
The Boston Film Festival is celebrating 40 years with a record six premieres, including three feature films and three documentaries. Please find the stellar line-up of films and screening schedule here: https://bostonfilmfestival.org/schedule-and-tickets/
Each and every friend receiving this email note has contributed in some way or another to helping launch our documentary, whether a friend to the Plovers on the beach, a beloved Ambassador, an advocate, a well-wisher, or contributed financially with a generous donation. We are continuing fundraising in our efforts to launch the film on public television, part two of the fundraiser, so to speak however, launching our documentary at film festivals is a huge milestone and we are so appreciative of everyone’s generosity. My most heartfelt thanks and deepest appreciation for your caring kindness for the Plovers.
I hope to see you at the premiere!
Warmest wishes,
xxKim
To become an underwriter on public television for The Piping Plovers of Moonlight Bay, please contact the director at kimsmith.designs1@gmail.com or visit our online fundraiser here.
We Plover ambassadors see a great many amazing-funny-heartwarming moments. When the hatchlings are first learning to navigate the beach there are innumerable stumbles, face plants at the fore. It’s only funny because the chicks pick themselves right back up and carry on. In this scene, Dad protectively pulled the little one back in and tucked him under his wing.
Our forthcoming documentary, The Piping Plovers of Moonlight Bay, features the tender story of a blended family of Plovers. Stay tuned for an exciting upcoming announcement!
