Moviegoers exit a theater Sunday after viewing “Every Little Thing” during the 27th Maine International Film Festival at the Maine Film Center at 93 Main St. in downtown Waterville. Rich Abrahamson/Morning Sentinel WATERVILLE — For Maine International Film Festival organizer Peter Haase, the 10-day event is about much more than movies.
Haase had attended MIFF several times in years prior, but this was the first time he was formally working as an event coordinator. He works at the Paul J. Schupf Art Center at 93 Main St.
, where he has coordinated community events, art galleries and more for the past year. Greta Thiele bags popcorn Sunday for moviegoers during the 27th Maine International Film Festival at the Maine Film Center at 93 Main St. in downtown Waterville.
Thiele says she popped two 50-pound bags of popcorn during the 10-day festival that concluded Sunday. Rich Abrahamson/Morning Sentinel Tessa Shanteler, an event assistant, samples popcorn Sunday during the 27th Maine International Film Festival at the Maine Film Center at 93 Main St. in downtown Waterville.
Shanteler, who is wearing earrings in the shape of popcorn tubs, says she sold popcorn and completed other jobs during the 10-day festival that concluded Sunday. Rich Abrahamson/Morning Sentinel Though Haase said he has only seen snippets of this year’s films, seeing festivalgoers, instead of movies, has given him a deeper appreciation for the community that MIFF has helped create. “Filmmaking is a remin.