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Art C. Smith, who has spent the last two years filming within the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR), will screen "DIVINE OF THE MADDENING" at Woods Hole and join Kidlat Tahimik at Xwhaves to bring ANWR's message to Woods Hole Film Festival and how its' future will impact upon our lives.	Kidlat Tahimik, whose films "TURUMBA" and "PERFUMED NIGHTMARE" will be shown at this year's festival, will join Art C. Smith during Xwhaves JOURNEYS, the highlight event at Xwhaves, showing recent work on the filming of remote Ifugao villagers in Northern Luzon, the Philippines.

Xwhaves – a new event at the 2005 Woods Hole Film Festival

Content, in all formats, is being developed everywhere we look. From expensive variable frame rate HD cameras to sleek megapixel digital still cameras capable of delivering full-frame digital video on postage stamp-sized flash cards; from high-end scientific video apparatus that can remotely see in places deep in the ocean far from humanly possible to cell phones that can stream content wirelessly in the palm of your hands, our ability to capture digital imagery-- to tell digitally constructed and edited stories-- is becoming easier and extremely accessible.
 
While this bloom in the ability to create smaller and easier tools for digital storytelling has grown in leaps and bounds with the shrinking of chips and the improvement of imaging technology, so too have the possibilities for how these stories get seen.
 
For the past two years, the Woods Hole Film Festival has included information and events based on bringing information to the filmmaking community about the most recent advances in production technology.  This year, the event has crystallized into a new and exciting program called Xwhaves. Dan Berube and Jon Goldman, two board members of the Woods Hole Film Festival and producers themselves, envisioned Xwhaves as a way to look at this convergence of media and opportunity by posing the following question:

Where is this digital wave taking us?

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