By RICK CHATENEVER, Entertainment Editor
The Maui News: June 11, 2008
Maui Film Festival crew members preview the Celestial Cinema site earlier this week in preparation for the ninth annual festival, which opens tonight. The festival issued another reminder that an earlier policy was reversed and low-back folding beach chairs will be allowed at the venue on the Wailea golf course.
DAVID HESSEMER photo
WAILEA — Crews put the finishing touches on the upgrade of the Dolby Digital sound system Monday and then settled into their beach chairs for a a preview of the Maui Film Festival’s ninth season, which gets rolling tonight with a gala reception at the Fairmont Kea Lani Resort and film screenings on both sides of the island.
“Feel what’s reel” is the theme of this year’s celebration of all things cinematic, which expects attendance of more than 10,000.
This year’s festival “is about exploring themes of bedrock interest to 21st-century culture,” said Barry Rivers, festival founder and co-director with his wife, Stella. “And also about having a great time.”
Close to 100 films, if you include shorts, are on the schedule, continuing through...
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