Accolades for the Black Bear Film Festival

MILFORD — The Black Bear Film Festival did it again. Two of the films previewed this year opened in New York City after the festival and received rave reviews. “The Necessities of Life”, the story of a Canadian Inuit with tuberculosis, who struggles to adapt to life in a Quebec City sanitarium where no one speaks his language, and “That Evening Sun”, starring Hal Holbrook, a film about a man who escapes from his retirement home and returns to a family farm, now occupied by an old foe. There is an acerbic war of wills between his old adversary and even his son, while he still tries to preserve his pride. The 2008 Envirofest showed a trailer for “Water Under Attack”, Josh Fox’s working title at the time for “Gasland”. Now “Gasland” is a selection at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival - from Black Bear Film Festival to Sundance. “We are all very proud of our little festival that ‘can’ or is it Cannes?” said Director Nancy Pitcher. The eleventh festival, coming on Oct. 15 to 17, will have some very exciting surprises. Festival organizers are looking forward to 2010 with the next inspiring lineup of great films presented by Pike County’s Black Bear Film Festival.