L-A film festival future in doubt
Organizers of the Lewiston Auburn Film Festival are scrambling to keep the April 4-6 event on track after the festival’s founder, Joshua Shea, was arrested last week and charged with downloading child pornography.
The Sun Journal reported Sandy Marquis, a former shareholder of the festival who is trying to keep it afloat, said a group of local residents decided during a weekend meeting at the Androscoggin Chamber of Commerce that they cannot take over the festival’s contracts and debts without knowing what is outstanding and what agreements have been made. Marquis said Shea is the lone officer for the festival and has been silent about its status. The newspaper reported Shea, the president and owner of Lewiston Auburn Magazine who was last year named to the Mainebiz Next list and in 2012 the Maine Today Media’s 40 Under 40 list, was released from the Androscoggin County Jail Thursday on $500 bail. The Maine Department of Public Safety said an initial inspection of Shea’s computer showed hundreds of images of child pornography.
The newspaper reported that some filmmakers have withdrawn their films from the festival, but others are planning to stay the course.
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