Revived Lewiston film festival to expand in 2015
The Emerge Film Festival in Lewiston will return in 2015 with an expanded format, after it emerged this year from the collapse of the Lewiston-Auburn Film Festival.
The volunteer organizers of the Emerge Film Festival announced Monday that the festival will expand to four days in 2015, starting April 9.
“We are so thrilled to be continuing to build on the success of our first festival,” Laura Davis, the festival’s board president, said in a prepared statement. “We got such a great response from our local community, sponsors, film enthusiasts and — most importantly — filmmakers with our inaugural event and we are delighted to be growing the festival to four days this year and really celebrate independent film in Maine.”
This year’s inaugural festival, which was held over three days in June, was organized in less than three months by local businesses after the Lewiston-Auburn Film Festival was canceled as a result of its lone organizer, Joshua Shea, being arrested on a child pornography possession charge.
Katie Greenlaw, director of public relations at Lewiston-based Rinck Advertising and a board member of Emerge Film Festival, told Mainebiz in June that the Emerge Film Festival helps drive the local economy and bring another positive light to the Lewiston-Auburn area.
"Everybody wanted to see this community keep film alive," she said at the time.
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