Henry Ferrini-Biz

What's New(s)-updated 2/10/2008

— Salem MA–The life of Gloucester's beloved poet-Vincent Ferrini, will be celebrated on March 6, the final night of the Salem Film Festival. Poem in Action: A Portrait of Vincent Ferrini will be shown at Cinema Salem at 7:30p, followed by a discussion with the filmmaker and a reception and reading of the poet's work. The Salem Film Fest, which runs Feb. 28-March 6, includes outstanding features, documentaries, and short films from around the world. The festival takes place at Cinema Salem, One East India Square. Film and event schedules are available here. For more information, call 978-744-1400.

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The National Plastics Exhibition is held every three years at McCormick Center in Chicago. Check out our award-winning program that filled GE Plastics 250 seat auditorium.

Technological innovations can sometimes be pretty dry. A World without Arco Chemical presents a humorous look at this company's hi-tech advances.

The Center for Millennial Studies at Boston University had FPI travel to Washington DC to document a Christian gathering of apocalyptic proportions (Promise Keepers).

The United Nations hired us to create television programing to help stop the demonization between ethnic minorities in the former Yugoslavia.

When a Bangor, Maine women's health clinic was under attack, we produced an educational film to help defuse this volatile situation.

Fundraising is big business, FPI aided Susan Steiner Productions in creating a 10 minute film that helped launch a 50 million dollar campaign for UMass-Boston.

Noted author and birder Chris Leahy hosts the pilot episode of Birds, a Massachusetts Audubon Society program on the spring warbler migration at Mount Auburn Cemetery.