The Kent Film Festival in Kent, Connecticut is expanding for its second year. Last year it was held over two days and attracted 700 people, but this year it will be held over four days. The festival will feature both short films and feature-length films from various places around the world, including the US, Italy, Argentina, India, and Brazil. Some of the films were made by filmmakers who are not yet old enough to vote. The festival will open with the film "The Orange Thief" made by three Americans in Italy with local non-professional actors.

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ne film tells the story of an orange thief
O who wants only to make enough money
to buy a plot of land in Sicily, where the
movie was made for $15,000 in two
months.
Another stars Lynn Redgrave and James Earl
Jones, weaving a tale about the unlikely relation-
ship between an eccentric, alcoholic woman —
Poinsettia — who lives in a fantasy land where
Puccini is her partner, and Fish, a Jamaican immi-
grant who wrestles an internal demon.
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Yet others are animated shorts, by award-win-
ning filmmakers on the rise and novices alike.
Some of the entries even come from filmmakers
not yet able to vote.
They come from places as varied as Argentina,
India, Brazil, Waterbury and Kent.
The second Kent Film Festival kicks off Thurs-
day night with a showing of “The Orange Thief,” a
film made by three Americans in Italy incorporat-
ing local non-actors. The film already received
awards at the Milwaukee, Mill Valley and Wood-
stock film festivals.
Only in its second year, the Kent Film Festival —
set in this Northwest Connecticut town of nearly
3,000 residents — has expanded. Last year, the
event took place over two days, drawing about 700
people. This year it will unfold across four days.
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