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The short film has been accepted into five festivals and has its sights set on more

An avid bowhunter from a family of avid bowhunters, Wright stars in the new short film “The Hunting Trail.” The spare and grueling story of a young hunter’s very bad day in the Maine woods came from an idea Wright had back in 2016, when he’d first started pursuing acting. Teaming with frequent filmmaking partner Henry Riley (who wrote, directed and edited the film), Wright is all alone on screen for the entire 20-minute run time. 

Colby College students Charlie Jodka and Quinn Burke spent four months making a documentary film about the South End neighborhood of Waterville.

“The South End,” a one-hour film, is scheduled to be shown at 7 p.m. Tuesday, May 17, at Railroad Square Cinema, 17 Railroad Square in Waterville, admission is free.

Robbie Moore hopes again to reach audiences on a personal level with ‘3:46 a.m.’

Moore’s latest short film is “3:46 a.m.,” which he said was in its final day of post-production when we spoke on the phone. Born from Moore’s own struggles with depression (as well as that suffered by many creative types after two tough pandemic years), the film centers on a young woman (Emily Eberhart) who finds herself awakened at the exact same early hour every day, only to discover that she can’t move – and that something is lurking in the darkness of her room. The film also features supporting turns from always-compelling Maine acting fixtures Jenny Anastasoff and Daniel Noel. 

On Saturday, Kennedy Park will be crawling with police. And FBI agents. And a couple of bad guys in orange jail suits to complete the scene.

Take a breath, friend, none of it will be real. Those aren’t police officers, as it turns out, they’re actors. The snarling dude in the jumpsuit? Also an actor.

All the hubbub in the park will be the work of Alegria Mangala Kinfumu, a filmmaker from Angola who is working on his latest project, a film called “The Murderer.”

Let the Maine Mayhem begin. 

Always one of the most surprising and entertaining movie events of the year, the 12th annual Maine Mayhem Film Festival is coming to Portland’s Nickelodeon Cinema on Wednesday, May 11. The result of a semester of hard and productive work by students of Southern Maine Community College’s Communications and New Media department, the five short films represent the first big-screen efforts of some of Maine’s most promising aspiring filmmakers.