In The News

The 85-year-old Waldoboro venue, closed since 2014, has been refurbished and reopened by community members, who are hoping to make it an arts center and economic driver.

Most tourists and out-of-towners know this midcoast town as the home of Moody’s Diner on busy Route 1. Relatively few venture off the state highway and onto the village’s quaint Main Street.

But the volunteers who’ve spent the past five years renovating Waldoboro’s gem of a theater are hoping that could soon change. Built in 1936 by a wholesale lumber dealer who spent summers in town, the Waldo Theatre’s Greek Revival-style exterior blends with the other historic structures on Main Street, while Art Deco touches inside speak to its days as an elegant movie house.

Executive Director, The Maine Jewish Film Festival

The Maine Jewish Film Festival (MJFF), a nonprofit 501c3 organization, is located in Portland, Maine.
MJFF’s mission is to provide films to enrich, educate and entertain a diverse community about the global
Jewish experience. MJFF presents a 10-day annual Film Festival of 15-20 films from around the world
throughout the State of Maine. The Film Festival brings national and international guests, providing our
audiences with a rare opportunity to engage with contemporary filmmakers. In addition, we offer other
collaborative arts, music and film events throughout the year. Our 2021 Festival will be presented
November 6-14, 2021.

For more information, please visit our website at www.mjff.org

Please submit a cover letter and a resume to the MJFF ED Search Committee at mjffedsearch@gmail.com.

Hollywood is facing its biggest union walkout since World War Two as the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) prepares for a strike vote.

Talks have broken down between the IATSE and Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers as the workers who support productions seek improvements to their standards of working conditions.

Hollywood’s Covid return-to-work protocols expire Thursday – the day before IATSE members begin voting to authorize a strike.

The 100-page safe return-to-work agreement between Hollywood’s unions and management’s AMPTP have been extended before, and probably will be extended again this week, but that will require cooperation between the AMPTP and all of the signatory unions, including IATSE, which is currently locked in a bitter contract dispute with producers and is threating to strike film and TV productions across the country.

‘Remember This: The Lesson of Jan Karski’ was co-written by Deering High School graduate Clark Young and stars acclaimed actor David Strathairn.

Karski was a member of the Polish resistance during World War II who volunteered in 1942 to infiltrate the Warsaw Ghetto, where Jews were rounded up and imprisoned by the Germans, as well as a Nazi death camp.

Now Maine native Clark Young is helping Karski’s story and lessons reach a new generation. Young, a 2005 graduate of Deering High School in Portland, co-wrote the one-man play “Remember This: The Lesson of Jan Karski” starring Oscar-nominated actor David Strathairn. The play begins a world tour Oct. 6 in Washington D.C., followed by a run in Chicago in November. It is not scheduled to play in New England.