(Live Interview from Opening Night, September 23, 2016) Cris Wilson interviews Emily Linden, founder of the Unslut Project, talks about her film Unslut. The harm caused by that common and offensive term is explored by a number of women who have been affected by that insult. This film was found very important for the festival by Port Townsend’s young festival advisors and jurors.
(Live Interview from Opening Night, September 23, 2016) Marcia Perlstein interviews Dar Dowling, the producer/director of Hey Mom, What’s Sex? She talks about the origin of the film, and the process of getting people to tell very personal stories about “that talk” with our parents. Ricardo Madden, editor-producer, is also interviewed.
(Live Interview from Opening Night, September 23, 2016) Marcia Perlstein interviews Coffin Nachtmahr, the focus of the film Throw, about Coffin’s skills as a Yo-Yo master. It is also about that talent’s interface with his personal struggles with a speech impediment and social communication.
(Live Interview from Opening Night, September 23, 2016) Cris Wilson interviews Charlie Soap, Producer and Director of the film The Cherokee Word for Water. He and his late wife, Wilma Mankiller were the subjects of the film, about their struggle to get water to an impoverished reservation community. Charlie is interviewed, along with actress Kimberly Guererro, and producer Christina Kiehl.
(Live Interview from Opening Night, September 23, 2016) Larry Stein interviews Bill Borden, a veteran Producer of many films, acted as a juror in the Feature Narrative category for this year’s festival. Back in the 1980s he got to know Port Townsend as the location manager for An Officer and A Gentleman, shot at Ft. Worden.
Here is the full live KPTZ live broadcast from the 40th Annual Port Townsend Wooden Boat Festival, featuring anthropologist Margaret Willson talking about her recently-published book Women Who Have Worked in Fishing in Iceland from the Times of the Vikings to the Present, as well as interviews with festival and Wooden Boat Magazine founder Tim Snider, Tightwads on the Loose author Wendy Hinman, former festival director Kaci Cronkhite talking about her newly released book Finding Pax, the Port Townsend Sailing Club, and more.
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interview notables Konnected to the Krazy Kontraptions and Kontests.
(First airdate: September 27, 2016) THE KINETIC SCULPTURE RACE: WHERE MEDIOCRITY WINS. Our Town Host Maryanne McNellis interviews Janet Emery, President for Life of the annual Kinetic Sculpture Race. The queen (“kween”) will be crowned (“krowned”) Saturday night, Oct. 1, at the Koronation Kostume Ball at the Legion Hall. But don’t forget the competition in the quicksand, the dismal bog and even the obstacle course. Lunacy prevails when engineers live out their artistic fantasies.
Could it be that many of the world’s most dreaded diseases, from Alzheimer’s to cancer and heart disease, can be prevented or even cured by a simple change in diet? This week, in a reprise of a program from last March, we talk to a doctor who tells us it could.
(First aired September 24, 2016). Host Mary Robson speaks via phone with native plant specialist Laurel Moulton and discusses raising plants for the replanting of the Elwha. Closing music is “Deep River Blues,” performed by Doc Watson.
