EASTON, Md. – The Chesapeake Film Festival (“CFF”) announced highlights of its 2025 line up of local and international films, including the Maryland premieres of stand-out feature length and short films. The new highlights follow the Festival’s recent announcement of its Opening Film, Loving Vincent, the world’s first animated fully painted feature film. The Oscar-nominated selection was created by a team of 125 artists from around the world.
Maryland Premiers will include the delightful new feature romantic comedy The Other You, directed by Shoshana Rosenbaum, an award-winning Washington, DC – based filmmaker and screenwriter. Her first feature length production follows a writer, wife, and mother who discovers a tiny door in her closet that leads to another version of her life.
Other Maryland Short Film Premiers include Now What?, a hilarious comedy directed by Maria Burton about a tightly wound 15-year-old daughter of diplomats who is shipped stateside to attend school and live with her larger-than-life, bohemian grandmother. The director has been Named by Variety as “talent to watch,” and has directed several successful independent feature films.
The Chesapeake Film Festival Line Up Highlights also include:
- Invasion ’53, from director Danielle Weinberg, A man-eating alien crashes a suburban cocktail party (USA).
- Just Be Awesome, an amusing new comedy about a trendy creative agency and a freelance writer desperate for work (United Kingdom);
- Now What?, A tightly-wound 15-year old daughter of diplomats is shipped stateside to attend a proper school, but living with her larger-than-life bohemian grandmother might be her biggest challenge!
- Spirit of Place, an exciting and whimsical short film directed by Jack Cooper Stimpson, a celebrated writer, director and environmental campaigner from South London. (United Kingdom);
- The Pearl Comb, an award-winning film directed by Ali Cook (United Kingdom), about a mermaid with unearthly powers (United Kingdom);
- The Reach, from Italian director Luca Caserta, a poignant journey through memory, love, and life’s final transition as told through the eyes of an elderly woman (Italy).
Check out the full Chesapeake Film Festival program online at www.chesapeakefilmfestival.com. Tickets for all films go on sale this month.
Save your seat and save money by purchasing early-bird tickets to the Chesapeake Film Festival, October 10-12 in historic downtown Easton. Enjoy 17% off the standard $150 ticket price and guarantee yourself a seat at the Festival’s top screenings at the beautifully renovated Ebenezer Theater, the Academy Art Museum, and the Talbot County Free Library. Tickets sold out online for the 2024 festival almost a month prior to opening night, so don’t hesitate to reserve your spot today. Click here for online registration www.chesapeakefilmfestival.com.
Free Monthly Film Series Continues at the Talbot County Free Library and Oxford Community Center
The Chesapeake Film Festival (CFF) and the Talbot County Free Library launched their collaborative monthly film series in March, celebrating the Library’s 100th Anniversary and CFF’s 18th Season. Part of the Our Bay, Our World, Our Festival series, these screenings are perfect midweek and weekend cultural escapes, with selections for all ages.
Coming up next:
A special free screening of Hidden Figures will take place at the Oxford Community Center on Wednesday, August 6 at 6 PM. This powerful film honors the contributions of African American women mathematicians at NASA during the space race. The evening of this screening, Jaelon T. Moaney, Vice Chair of the Maryland Commission on African American History and Culture, will attend the event and provide opening remarks that anchor the film. With ancestry in Talbot County that spans nearly three centuries, Moaney was appointed by Gov. Wes Moore in 2023 as the youngest to serve on the first statewide ethnic commission in America. A short Q&A with the audience will follow the screening.
The series wraps with a free, back-by-popular-demand screening of the American Masters documentary WYETH on Saturday, September 13 at 2 PM, celebrating the life and work of American realist painter Andrew Wyeth.
Upcoming Highlights & Key Dates
- August 6: Hidden Figures – 6PM — The Oxford Community Center with Jaelon T. Moaney
- September 13: WYETH – 2PM — Talbot County Free Library
- October 10 – 12 Noon – Opening Film – Loving Vincent, Ebenezer Theater
- October 10 to 12 – Chesapeake Film Festival – Ebenezer Theater, Academy Art Museum and Talbot County Free Library – For Tickets and information visit www.chesapeakefilmfestival.com
All August and September screenings are free and open to the public. No reservations required.
Cid Collins Walker, Executive and Artistic Director of Chesapeake Film Festival, also announced that extraordinarily generous contributions from local benefactors and businesses this year is an endorsement of the growing legacy of the Festival on the Eastern Shore. “We couldn’t be more thankful and proud of the growing local support we’ve been receiving this year, which has surpassed all previous seasons. It is a testament to the Festival’s continued recognition as a mainstay of the region’s cultural calendar.”
CFF programming is brought to you by our generous sponsors the Shared Earth Foundation, The Nature Conservancy, Maryland State Arts Council, Talbot Arts, Maryland Humanities Council, The Artistic Insights Fund, Maxine Millar, Richard and Beverly Tilghman, Talbot County Free Library, The William Lucks Professional Group powered by Keller Williams Realty, Laser Letters and by generous patrons like you.
Tickets for all films nowavailable online at www.chesapeakefilmfestival.com.