From DVDs to digital: Idaho Panhandle Film Festival returns
MIRRORS, a short film by Thomas Wesley, won best short film at the 2023 North Idaho Film Festival. The short follows plein air artist Austin Frantz as he uses his art to take a look inward.
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"Silent Sighs," a short film from Morocco follows the story of Younis, who has autism and lives with his father in a working-class neighborhood near the Mediterranean Sea.
"Fire Flower" by local filmmaker, Misty Shipman follows Ruby, a young woman who is forced into a hastily arranged marriage with a religious sect leader.
WALLACE — In the early 2000s, Mary Lou Hanks seized upon the idea of hosting a film festival in the Silver Valley. She enlisted her daughter, Nancy Hanks, to come back from Los Angeles and screen films for locals.
“I had a DVD player at the time,” Hanks recalled.
The management of the festival first rested squarely on Nancy’s shoulders before her mother convinced other locals with an interest in furthering the reach of local films, but the event fizzled out after three years in 2006.
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