12th Annual Winter Film Festival: January 26 through February 23
This year's film festival explores the power of the human mind in overcoming extreme obstacles. Films show on Sundays at 1:30 pm at Salt Pond Visitor Center on the theater-size screen in surround sound. The auditorium is wheelchair accessible, and the movies are free, thanks to licensing funding from Friends of the Cape Cod National Seashore.
January 26: A Beautiful Mind--135 minutes. 2001 biographical drama based on the life of John Nash, Nobel Laureate in ecomonics. The story follows Nash from his days as a graduate student through his fall into delusion and schizophrenia. Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Supporting Actress.
February 2: Gravity--91 minutes. 2013 sci-fi thriller starring Sandra Bullock and George Clooney as American astronauts stranded in space after a mid-orbit destruction of their space shuttle. Selcted for American Film Institute's Movies of the Year List.
February 9: The Theory of Everything--123 minutes. 2014 biographical drama about theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking. Despite being diagnosed with motor neuron disease and being given two years to live, Hawking had a long career as a researcher and is regarded as one of the most brilliant theoretical physicists since Einstein.
February 16: Apollo 13--140 minutes. This 1995 film dramatizes the aborted 1970 Apollo 13 lunar mission. En route to the moon, an on-board explosion deprives the spacecraft of most of its oxygen supply and electrical power, forcing NASA flight controllers to abort the landing and get the three astronauts home safely.
February 23: In the Heart of the Sea--121 minutes. 2015 adventure-drama based on Nathanial Philbrick's nonfiction book about the sinking of the American whaling ship Essex in 1820, an event that inspired the novel Moby-Dick.
Fees
This event is free to attend.
Location
Salt Pond Visitor Center, 50 Nauset Road, Eastham
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All films play at 1:30. Run times vary (look for details in the event description)
Contact Information
Brent Ellis
508-255-3421
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