Henry Ferrini-Future Projects

NOW SHOWING

Now Showing: Lowell Blues: The Words of Jack Kerouac

Daily 4:00PM Screenings
Lowell National Historical Park
Visitor Center
246 Market St.
Lowell
(more screenings)
*new*
International Screening: France

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.

ART

  • Polis Is This
  • Lowell Blues
  • Prez
  • Poem in Action
  • Know Fish
  • Witch City
  • Radio Fishtown
  • Loco in Euzkadi
  • Leather Soul
  • Last Call
  • Middle Street
  • Who is Sylvia
  • Ray Parson
  • Sandy's Jazz Revival

BIZ

  • Non-Profit Work
  • World of Arco
  • GE Plastics
  • UMass-Boston
  • United Nations
  • Mass Audubon
  • Center For Millennial Studies

KNOW FISH

Know Fish

One, two three, four, five,
Once I caught a fish alive.
Six, seven, eight, nine, ten,
Then I let it go again.
Why did you ever let it go?
Because it bit my finger so.

The child's rhyme above could easily be the high concept log line of our feature length screenplay Know Fish. This parable set in contemporary Gloucester, Massachusetts, pits small-town working folks who refuse to lie down for the bulldozer of so-called progress, against predatory bottom line property developers bent on bringing order and elegance to a hard scrabble waterfront.

Know Fish is loosely based on our PBS-aired documentary that writing partner, Ken Riaf, a former commercial fisherman out of Gloucester, and I then adapted to the feature screen form. The script was a finalist in the Massachusetts Film Office screen writing contest and showed second place at the Nantucket Film Festival script competition.

The story has the scope of the open ocean and the intimacy of small town New England. Gloucester, stalwart and serene, has been the backdrop for many stories. In Know Fish it tells its own tale.

Know Fish is in search of a producer. A prominent independent producer, to whom I'll grant anonymity, has agreed to executive produce, and I am currently and actively seeking financing for this film. Budget information is available on request.