Brookfield Film Festival March 21-24

The Brookfield Film Festival has grown!  Proceeds of the film festival go toward scholarships for a graduating high school senior from Brookfield who is pursuing a career in the arts. New this year is the festival kick off, Music Indie Evening, an evening of Music Videos from local bands at 7:30 PM on Thursday March 21^st.

Friday, March 22^nd at 7:30 PM is the first screening of the always popular Shorts & to the Point, a curated selection of award winning films from across the country.

Saturday, March 23^rd begins with Read Through Indie Morning at 10 AM. This section of the film festival allows actors, directors, and writers to connect while reading through and critiquing scripts. Read Through Indie Morning is followed by Regional Indie Afternoon at 2:00PM. Regional Indie Afternoon is a screening of short films directed by filmmakers from CT, MA, NY and RI. A second screening of Shorts & to the Point at 7:30 PM rounds out the activities for March 23^rd. Sunday March 24^th is the festival’s closing showing of Shorts & to the Point at 3PM.

If you have questions or are interested in tickets, please contact the Brookfield Arts Commission by email at brookfieldartscommissionct@gmail.com.

Starting on February 20th there will be a Sandra Cointreau Art Exhibit at Brookfield Town Hall!

Since graduating as the sole female in her civil engineering class of 1,000 males, 50 years ago, Sandra has been painting. Mostly she painted nights and weekends, while she worked as a civil engineer on hazardous waste remediation, infrastructure strategic planning, and climate change mitigation. 

Her projects took her from army arsenal sites to post conflict zones, and into the slum areas of the world’s poorest areas…to over 65 countries. Traveling about 30% each year to do the field work, and able to be home in the countryside of Connecticut for the research, analysis, and report writing. 

Painting and meditation helped her balance her analytical work with intuition and creativity…and she learned to consider these activities an important part of her work. Sandra learned that this balance of art, meditation and engineering allowed the subconscious to help find creative solutions and see how they mapped out strategically. And watercolor traveled well, becoming her primary medium. No matter where she was in the world, her paintings were based on her personal and genetic memory and love of Connecticut, where her family has been based for over 400 years. Her paintings were her home away from home. She hopes you enjoy the color and serenity of these works.

Come by Town Hall to check them out!

Brookfield Arts Commission will host a reception for Sandra Cointreau at Brookfield Town Hall on Tuesday, March 12 at 5:00 pm.  Sandra plans to do a painting demonstration during the reception.  Come along to see her wonderful art and enjoy some refreshments. Town Hall is at 100 Pocono Rd, Brookfield.