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The Mendocino Film Festival Photos Index Page
In 2006 the festival box office was located in the historic Kasten-Heeser House, the oldest building in town, built in 1852.The Mendocino Film Festival has brought its magic to Mendocino every year since its founding in 2006. Taking its inspiration from the people of the Mendocino Coast, the festival offers independent films that blaze new paths and give voice to fresh insights into politics, art, culture and the environment.
The festival offers a wealth of new and uncompromising visions, giving both serious film scholars and casual cinephiles something to experience and enjoy. You can find more information about the festival on the website www.mendocinofilmfestival.org Look them up on Facebook at www.facebook.com/mendocinofilmfestival . (Both links open in a new tab or window.)
The 2011 Albert Maysles Award for Excellence in Documentary Filmmaking, the festival's highest honor, was presented to director/cinematographer Les Blank, best known for a series of poetic, exuberant and closely observed films that led Vincent Canby of The New York Times to declare Blank "is a master of movies about the American idiom...one of our most original filmmakers." Mr. Blank received the award in person and showed some clips of his award winning films, with a Q&A session afterwards.
Nicholas Wilson has been providing photo coverage of the Mendocino Film Festival from the beginning. The links below will take you to a web photo gallery for each season.
NEW 2011 - Take 6 Special guest: Director/Filmmaker Les Blank
NEW 2006-2010 - Selections from the first five seasons
2010 - Take 5 - Special guests: Cinematographer Haskell Wexler, Daniel and Patricia Ellsberg, Wavy Gravy, Roger Ross Williams, Louis Psihoyos
2009 - Take 4 - Special guests: Actor Danny Glover, filmmakers Bob Elfstrom, Alan Dater
2008 - Take 3 - Special guests: Writer/Director Will Geiger and Producer/Director Stephen Simon
2007 - Take 2 - Special guest: Filmmaker Albert Maysles
2006 - Take 1 - Special guests: Director Sydney Pollack and Cinematographer Laszlo Kovacs
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