newportFILM | Documentary Film Screening "BOATBUILDERS"

About this event

Tickets are $20 per person

The JPT Film & Event Center 49 Touro St, Newport, RI

PARKING Free street parking is available.

ACCESSIBILITY Screening space wheelchair accessible.

ABOUT THE FILM: At the head of a remote Maine harbor, the 60-some workers of the Brooklin Boat Yard coax wooden planks around a frame, make precise saw cuts, and sand edges for flawless joints, resulting in some of the most stunning and sought-after wooden vessels in the world. Over the course of four vibrant seasons, director Luke Lorentzen tracks the boatbuilders’ meticulous construction of a 56-foot sailboat while embedding us in the lives of these men and their close-knit community. Intertwining the rhythms of the boatyard and the natural world, Boatbuilders is a meditation on the pleasures that reward sustained attention and the potential to create meaning by engaging deeply with what we do and where we are.

6:00 PM:Venue Opens

7:00 PM:Film Start

Post-Film:Conversation with Luke Lorentzen (Director) and Kern Maass (President, IYRS School of Technology & Trades)

Run time:103 min

Directors:Luke Lorentzen