"Golden Days," which screens at 4:30 p.m. Friday and 9 p.
m. Saturday
In addition, the film's director, Chris Suchorsky, is Rocks" seminar at 11:30 a.m.
Sunday. The film tells the corporate end of the industry.
film," said Waterfront co-founder and film programmer Hopwood DePree, who worked to bring the band and the film to and when they got signed, they found they weren't moving forward.
They ran into a lot of red tape, and the Thursday, followed by an outdoor screening of "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" at dusk. The Steven Spielberg classic, celebrating its 30th anniversary, should location in Cook Park, on the banks of the Kalamazoo River. The party was moved from its previous spot, on a blocked-off section of Water Street, for fire-code reasons.
"It just seems like a cool movie to show outdoors, on the water," DePree said. "And it's good for all ages. It's hard to find a film that can appeal to everybody, so we went back to something tried and Waterfront, now in its eighth year, has grown in popularity and regularly draws more than 7,000 people to downtown Saugatuck to see independent films.
This year, 25 features will be shown, 11 of them documentaries, and the Michigan features and shorts.
Lindsay Lohan and Jared Leto, who plays Mark David Chapman, the man who killed John Lennon. Tomorrow," which won boatloads of awards in its
Shark," about two misfits in love, was a Grand Jury nominee at the profiles Charles Nelson Reilly, who died May 25. "It'll be nice to pay tribute to Reilly," documentaries before, including "March of the Penguins" and "Born into Brothels." This Wisenthal, narrated by Nicole Kidman.
The festival's hidden gem, though, according to DePree and co-founder Kori Eldean, is the documentary "Row Hard No Excuses," about two middle-aged men crossing the Atlantic Ocean in a rowboat.
"These are the oldest men in a competition, and it does aspects of the movie business. Among those slated to appear are Billy Baldwin, who stars in the comedy "American Fork," and former New Kids on the Block singer Joseph McIntyre, who's bringing the dramedy "On Broadway" to Waterfront.
Over!," featuring stars Brandy McClendon and Ruth we've had," DePree said. "As we grow, we get challenging to make the final decisions.
The festival is that wants to exhibit its work here.
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