CHARLOTTE WELLS
AFTERSUN
Wednesday April 9th @ 5pm FREE. Followed by a Q&A with Director Charlotte Wells
Academy Award Nomination for Best Actor in a Leading Role
Twenty years after their last holiday at a fading vacation resort, Sophie reflects on the rare time spent with her loving and idealistic father Calum. At 11-years-old, as the world of adolescence creeps into Sophie’s view, Calum struggles under the weight of life outside of fatherhood. Sophie’s recollections become a powerful and heartrending portrait of their relationship, as she tries to reconcile the father she knew with the man she didn’t.
MACKIE MALLISON
Three Short Films by Mackie Mallison
Saturday April 12th @ 11am. FREE. Followed by a Q&A with Director Mackie Mallison
As ecstatically inventive as they are warmly heartfelt, these deeply personal shorts by rising director Mackie Mallison are multilayered explorations of Asian American identity (including his own Japanese American heritage), family, displacement, and memory. Combining the dreamy textures and intimate, home-movie quality of 16 mm with exuberant bursts of colorful animation, kinetic editing, and surreal superimpositions, Mallison’s collage-like films open up a poignant dialogue across cultures and generations in a moving search for the meaning of home.
As part of the 100-year tradition of Provincetown as America’s oldest art colony, the PFS Filmmaker Residency Program allows established filmmakers from around the world who have had films in PIFF the opportunity to work in Provincetown during the off-season alongside other artists and writers who use the solitude of the outer Cape Cod area as inspiration for their work.
The program offers weeklong residencies, including lodging and a small travel stipend, for two LGBTQ+ filmmakers in April and two female identifying filmmakers in October. Residents enjoy uninterrupted time to work on any current project or choose to engage with the vibrant community of Provincetown for the exchange of ideas, skills and experiences.
Residencies are by invitation only. Potential residents are nominated by a panel of film industry professionals.
The LGBTQ+ residency program is produced in partnership with the Provincetown Art Society at the Mary Heaton Vorse House.