Since its founding, Provincetown has been a place of shelter and nurture for the “other”—a place for those whose artistic and life expression might challenge the norm.
Building on this legacy, PFS founded in 2013 the Gabrielle A. Hanna Provincetown Film Institute (PFI) to provide programs throughout the year including artists residencies, mini-festivals, workshops, and most recently, our Women’s Media Summit, a Spring think-tank for addressing gender inequity in U.S. Media.
Rani Deighe Crowe is a writer, director, actor, filmmaker, teacher, and collaborative interdisciplinary artist. Rani’s short films, Beautiful Eyes, Texting: A Love Story, and Heather Has Four Moms have screened at festivals around the world. Her feature screenplay, The Three Quarters, won Honorable Mention at the Women’s Independent Film Festival. She collaborated on a dance/theater creation in French and English, Les Jeux D’Amour, performed at the Aronoff Center as part of Cincinnati Contemporary Dance Theater’s Choreographers Without Companies show. She collaborated with Johnstone New Music Foundation and members of the Columbus Symphony on a dance/theater/music production of the Stravinsky/ Kurt Vonnegut version of A Soldier’s Tale. Her six volume multi media installation of The Spoon River Anthology was part of Migiwa Orimo’s Telephone Booth Project, a finalist for the International Public Art Award. Her solo performance work includes her Julia Child site specific comic character, and the multimedia The New Woman Gets A Room of Her Own: a Performance Lecture with Hats. Rani holds a BA in Theater/Dance from Antioch College and an MFA in Film, Ohio University. She currently is an Assistant Professor at Ball State University.
Emily Hubley has been making short animated films for decades. Her feature, The Toe Tactic was developed at the Sundance Film Labs and premiered theatrically at the Museum of Modern Art. Her newest short, Brainworm Billy, was made with her son, Max Rosenthal and screened at the Montclair and Provincetown Film Festivals and at BAM. Other recent projects include Dear Trump Voter, an on-line segment for Robert Reich/Inequality Media and animation for documentaries, Love and Stuff and Motian in Motion. She has provided animation for many other films including Blue Vinyl, Danny Says and Hedwig and the Angry Inch. A daughter of pioneer animators Faith and John Hubley, Emily worked on Faith’s films at The Hubley Studio, Inc. from 1977 to 2001. Her work is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art, Department of Film and she has been an AMPAS member since 2012.
Michelle Boyaner is an award-winning Filmmaker whose films include the Documentary features, PACKED IN A TRUNK: THE LOST ART OF EDITH LAKE WILKINSON and A FINISHED LIFE: THE GOODBYE AND NO REGRETS TOUR; Documentary short films HI, YOU’VE REACHED DAVE’S APARTMENT, and TINA PAULINA: LIVING ON HOPE STREET and the narrative shorts, YOU’RE STILL YOUNG and THE BEDWETTER. Prior to her film work, Michelle wrote a popular blog, Live at Lakeridge, and a book of personal essays chronicling her beloved grandmother’s battle with Alzheimer’s, Oh, For God’s Sake Whisper It. Michelle is currently at work on the Documentary feature, It’s NOT A BURDEN: THE HUMOR AND HEARTACHE OF RAISING ELDERLY PARENTS. She’s also at work on a scripted web series about growing up in the 1970’s in a Southern California suburb, as well as several other new media projects.
Writer/director Shelli Ainsworth is a Minneapolis-based artist whose work in experimental theater and film has earned her national recognition. Her first feature film, STAY THEN GO, has been an official selection in film festivals across the country, as well as the official selection for the Southern Circuit, a highly-regarded touring program. For STAY THEN GO, Ms. Ainsworth received the “Pioneering Women in Screenwriting” award from the Los Angeles Diversity Film Festival.
10/11/18 | 7:30PM | Aunt Phyl: A Staged Reading
Waters Edge Cinema, 237 Commercial Street • Free
Written and directed by Shelli Ainsworth, AUNT PHYL shares the story of a smart, independent young woman from a mid-century factory town, where the most common ambition among her class-of-’49 high school peers is an engagement ring upon graduation. Through the support of a few like-minded friends, she defies the social, sexual mores of the time, all while seeking – and finding – her own dazzling and often fraught version of The American Dream. An episodic series visually inspired by early television, AUNT PHYL was conceived during the inaugural Women’s Residency in 2015. The first two episodes will undergo a dramatic reading during this years’ Women’s Week.