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EVENT NEWS / February 4, 2007

Nell Shipman Film Festival Features Classic Silent Movies, Newly Composed Music at the Egyptian Theatre

Note: This schedule has updated information about the afternoon screenings.

Fans of silent movies and Idaho will get a special treat during the “Maid In Idaho: Nell Shipman Film Festival” at 7 p.m. Feb. 8 at the Egyptian Theatre in Boise, presented by Boise State University. Admission is $10 general and $5 seniors and students, available at the Egyptian.

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In addition, there will be free screenings beginning at 12:15 p.m. on Feb. 8, including the movies “Trail of the North Wind” at 12:15 p.m., with organ accompaniment; “The Light on the Lookout” at 1 p.m.; “White Water” at 1:30 p.m. and the premiere of the documentary “At Lionhead: Nell Shipman in Idaho” at 2 p.m.

Shipman was a pioneering filmmaker during the silent era who filmed many of her works in northern Idaho and eastern Washington. The newly restored prints shown at the screening — “The Grub-Stake” and “White Water” — showcase the visually stunning and pristine wilderness of Idaho.

“The Grub-Stake” was filmed on location in Idaho and now features a new score written by composer Ben Model, who is a silent film accompanist at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Model will perform the new score on the Egyptian’s antique organ.

Shipman was born in Victoria, British Columbia, and grew up in Seattle. She embarked on a vaudeville career as a young girl. After finding success with the melodrama “Back to God’s Country,” Shipman brought a film crew and a menagerie of wild and domestic animals to the remote shores of Priest Lake in northern Idaho. At Lionhead Lodge, her wilderness film studio, Shipman battled weather and financial disasters to create films starring kind animals and strong women. Her attempts to create films on location in that wild and isolated land resulted in events that were as dramatic, and ultimately more tragic, than any of her films. She died in 1970, but many of her films live on at Boise State as part of the Idaho Film Collection.


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