The Southern Winds Film Festival in Shawnee will show the documentary “Pappy Boyington Field,” created by Seminole-born Kevin Gonzalez on Sept. 11 in the Hornbeck Theater. The film starts at 1 p.m.
A question-and-answer session with Gonzalez, a 43-year-old ex-Marine who now lives in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, will follow the showing.
The costs to attend the festival are $40 for an all-access pass for each day of the festival, $25 for a one-day pass and $5 for a movie or block pass.
“Pappy Boyington Field” is a documentary film that follows the controversy surrounding an effort to name an airfield in Coeur d’Alene after Boyington.
“When I moved up to Idaho, I got involved in a veteran organization and discovered the detachment was named for Pappy,” Gonzalez said. “Permission was received from his family to name the detachment after him. Then I learned about a campaign to erect a statue at the University of Washington, where Pappy graduated, and the student senate unanimously rejected it.”
The rejection by the student senate in Washington gave new life to the ongoing argument back in Idaho, Gonzalez said.
“The controversy there reignited local controversy in Coeur d’Alene and I took great interest in it,” he said. “The film, I just sort of fell into. Initially, starting out, it dawned on me that someone should document what was going on, so I started putting little pieces together. I had no idea how long it would take or what the outcome would be.”
The outcome is a 65-minute documentary that has shown in several states, including California, Hawaii, Florida, N. Carolina, Washington and others, at film festivals and on military bases.
A commercial DVD is not yet available for purchase, but Gonzalez said he has received several requests to be placed on the waiting list for when it is available.
“The plan is to have the DVD, with the bonus feature section finalized, ready to launch by this fall,” he said.
Gonzalez said the documentary portion of the film took two years to complete and was originally a 90-minute production.
“I continued to work on it after the initial version and reduced the amount of running time by removing some of the footage that was specific to the Coeur d’Alene community,” Gonzalez said. “It was edited to open it to those in other areas and make it appealing to a wider audience. The really surprising thing I learned ... is I was surprised that kids come up afterward and ask questions. I was really surprised to see a younger demographic come to see the film.”
For more information about the film, visit pappyboyingtonfield.com. For more information about the film festival in Shawnee, visit southernwindsfilmfestival.com.
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The Southern Winds Film Festival in Shawnee will show the documentary “Pappy Boyington Field,” created by Seminole-born Kevin Gonzalez on Sept. 11 in the Hornbeck Theater. The film starts at 1 p.m.
A question-and-answer session with Gonzalez, a 43-year-old ex-Marine who now lives in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, will follow the showing.
The costs to attend the festival are $40 for an all-access pass for each day of the festival, $25 for a one-day pass and $5 for a movie or block pass.
“Pappy Boyington Field” is a documentary film that follows the controversy surrounding an effort to name an airfield in Coeur d’Alene after Boyington.
“When I moved up to Idaho, I got involved in a veteran organization and discovered the detachment was named for Pappy,” Gonzalez said. “Permission was received from his family to name the detachment after him. Then I learned about a campaign to erect a statue at the University of Washington, where Pappy graduated, and the student senate unanimously rejected it.”
The rejection by the student senate in Washington gave new life to the ongoing argument back in Idaho, Gonzalez said.
“The controversy there reignited local controversy in Coeur d’Alene and I took great interest in it,” he said. “The film, I just sort of fell into. Initially, starting out, it dawned on me that someone should document what was going on, so I started putting little pieces together. I had no idea how long it would take or what the outcome would be.”
The outcome is a 65-minute documentary that has shown in several states, including California, Hawaii, Florida, N. Carolina, Washington and others, at film festivals and on military bases.
A commercial DVD is not yet available for purchase, but Gonzalez said he has received several requests to be placed on the waiting list for when it is available.
“The plan is to have the DVD, with the bonus feature section finalized, ready to launch by this fall,” he said.
Gonzalez said the documentary portion of the film took two years to complete and was originally a 90-minute production.
“I continued to work on it after the initial version and reduced the amount of running time by removing some of the footage that was specific to the Coeur d’Alene community,” Gonzalez said. “It was edited to open it to those in other areas and make it appealing to a wider audience. The really surprising thing I learned ... is I was surprised that kids come up afterward and ask questions. I was really surprised to see a younger demographic come to see the film.”
For more information about the film, visit pappyboyingtonfield.com. For more information about the film festival in Shawnee, visit southernwindsfilmfestival.com.
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