Monterey Independent Film-Makers Festival records [archives/manuscript].

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Monterey Independent Film-Makers Festival records [archives/manuscript].

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Collection consists of announcements, entry rules, posters and a "Certificate of Acceptance" designed and drawn by Eldon Dedini, programs, awards lists, judges' comments by Eldon Dedini, filmmaker John Schofill, editor and Academy Award winner Thomas Stanford, screenwriter and director Ben Maddow, poet and filmmaker James Broughton, and instructor/film distributor Prescott Wright; annual reports, newspaper and magazine pieces, financial statements, correspondence with filmmakers and judges, film entry logs, one committee voting log, budgets, contracts, cancelled checks to filmmakers and judges, and miscellaneous notes for the five years of the Festival (1968-1972), and for two Summer Film Institutes (1972-73) associated with the Festival. Series I consists of a file folder for each festival containing corespondence, budgets, financial statements, agreements, and a program and report (except for 1968), and the logs of films submitted for the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Festivals. Series II consists of a chronological arrangement of forms, programs, judges' comments, annual reports, newspaper and magazine notices/reviews/articles, and miscellaneous financial accounts. Series III consists of one folder on the Summer Film Institutes and a "Film Forum" (1973), including announcements, brochures, poster by Eldon Dedini, and correspondence to and from the filmmakers/screenwriters: Ben Maddow, Alan Marcus, James Broughton, Standish Lawder, and Sam Peckinpah.

5 posters in map files.

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The Monterey Independent Film-makers Festival originated in 1968, the brainchild of Peninsula painters Gerald Wasserman, Eugene Newmann, and James Gore. They and a few friends had made 8mm and 16mm films out of self-motivated curiosity with the medium or as college film students. Through the assistance of Monterey Public Librarian Ethel Solliday, Wasserman arranged for the use of the library's Community Room to present a small festival of local films and, by invitation, of films fro...

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