Home Movie Day
Saturday, October 17, 2020 5:30 p.m. – 7 p.m. (rain date: Sunday, October 18)
Dexter Park Training Ground (65 Dexter St., Providence, RI)
FREE Registration is required due to pandemic protocols
Register to Attend:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/home-movie-day-tickets-123494476303
* Family-friendly and Socially Distanced
The Rhode Island Historical Society, in partnership with the Providence Children’s Film Festival and the West Broadway Neighborhood Association is putting out a call for submissions to our annual Home Movie Day Event.
WHAT KIND OF HOME MOVIES DO WE WANT?
Home movies can be depictions of special occasions, everyday life, artistic expressions, or just goofing around. This year we’ll need your home movie to be digital (either “born-digital” or film/videotape that has already been digitized), and we ask that it be no longer than 3 minutes. Home movies often depict special events such as birthdays, performances, and graduations, but they also tend to capture “regular daily life.”
WHAT WILL THE EVENT BE LIKE?
The event will include a screening of submitted home movies from the community as well as the public premiere of The Winning of Nugget Nell, an amateur narrative film shot by a group of friends in Charlestown, RI in 1928! This premiere will also feature an original soundtrack for the film arranged and recorded by New Bedford Symphony Orchestra musicians EmmaLee Holmes-Hicks and Peter Zay. Holmes-Hicks (fiddle and violin) and Zay (cello and guitar) will also perform live at Home Movie Day before the screening begins and during various silent films submitted by the public.
WHY ARE HOME MOVIES IMPORTANT?
Home movies are historical records of people and places. They show us how people really live, at different time periods and in different communities. Most importantly, they do this from the perspective of the people who are depicted. This is in contrast to the majority of moving images we watch on a regular basis that are created by media professionals. Home movies give the power of representation to the people.
WHY SHOULD YOU SPREAD THE WORD?
Home Movie Day will be most successful if we have the widest possible representation of Rhode Island’s communities. It will also serve as an initial meeting point between community members with personal home movies and the Rhode Island Historical Society which plans to expand its collecting of these valuable historical records
WHAT TO BRING:
Warm and cozy clothes, a packed picnic, and maybe a thermos of hot cocoa!
WHAT IS HOME MOVIE DAY?
Home Movie Day is an annual global celebration of homemade movies and the communities that make them. The 2020 Rhode Island “Pandemic Edition” will look a little different than usual as we will be gathering outside for a socially-distanced, pre-edited program, but the spirit will be the same!
As host, the RIHS will share some home movies from our collections, but mostly we are counting on YOU to bring the entertainment!