Youngstowners' film to screen at festival

Youngstowners' filmto screen at festival
"Slow Time," a 23-minute short film produced by former Youngstown residents Eric Harper and Julie Cancio, has been invited to screen at the 30th annual New England Film and Video Festival, which runs today through Monday in Brookline, Mass.
Harper and Cancio completed the film while living in Youngstown from 2003 to 2005. Cancio is a 1994 graduate of Boardman High School. She met Harper at Kenyon College, where they both completed a bachelor of arts in 1998. Harper produced the film to earn his master of film production degree at Boston University.
"Slow Time" is a thriller about a fugitive and a car thief who both get stranded at a gas station in the middle of the desert. It is scheduled to show with two other narrative shorts at 1 p.m. Monday.
Tuesday poetry readingdedicated to late writer
YOUNGSTOWN -- The Second Tuesday Open Poetry Reading sponsored by the Pig Iron Literary & amp; Art Works at Cedars Cafe, 131 W. Commerce St., will dedicate its Tuesday session to the memory of Frank Polite, a Youngstown poet who died Sept. 20.
Polite, 69, was the author of three books, "Letters of Transit," "Flamingo" and "Hyde." The graduate of Chaney High School and Youngstown State University was published in The New Yorker, Harper's, The Nation and Poetry Magazine. A recipient of many fellowships and awards, Polite was also a resident fellow at the Yaddo and McDowell writers' colonies. He facilitated and mentored his own Fallen City Writers Workshop in Youngstown, established in 1980.
Polite's poetry has appeared in numerous publications by Pig Iron Press. He served as judge for the Kenneth Patchen Competition, a national writing contest.
Presenters are invited to Tuesday's reading and may share a memory of Polite and read his poems or their own. There is a six-minute time limit.
The reading will begin at 8 p.m. and continue until 9:45 p.m. Sign up at the door after 6:30 p.m. For information, call (330) 747-6932.
Program relives old radio programs
NILES -- News broadcasts. War updates. Comedy, Western, mystery and adventure shows. These were all programs that used to attract listeners to gather around the radio in the days before television.
Daniel Buttolph of Nostalgic Productions will present a slide show with audio clips highlighting these shows from the Golden Era of radio, including "Amos 'N Andy," "Abbott and Costello," and "Burns and Allen."
This free program will be held in the Clayman Community room of McKinley Birthplace, at 2 p.m. Saturday.