In February, we showed the 21 minute version of the film at the Investment & Trade Commission in NYC. (We showed the long version in May ’16). This time the Deputy Mayor of Ghent and alumni of Ghent University in the USA attended. Roberta Roll represented the Baekeland Family because Hugh was out of the country.
In early April, the film was shown to students and professors at UMass Lowell and the next week it was screened at CT Film Fest 52, Bethel Cinema, Connecticut. This screening was anticipated by a write up in the Redding Pilot, part of the HAN Network.
John Maher, director, and Marc Huberman, media manager, were interviewed by Pete Stewart on WPKN Bridgeport, CT. Pete was the sound technician on many of our shoots. Listen to interview.
The following week the Team flew to Austin, Texas where Professor of History, Jeffrey Meikle, who appears in the film, organized a screening at the University of Texas.
The next day the Team attended the Gala Awards celebration at the WorldFest Film Festival in Houston. We had submitted the short 21-minute version of the film, but they loved it so much, they showed the longer 56-minute version, which won a Platinum REMI Award.
In the first week of May, the short version of the film was shown at the Plastics New Zealand annual meeting. That same week, both versions were shown simultaneously at ANTEC and at the Society of Plastic Engineers 75th Anniversary celebration in Anaheim, California. Hugh was on hand for the screenings. Soon afterwards, Plastics News ran an article, Celebrating Bakelite, and Baekeland, on screen, on the event and
At the end of May, Hugh and John presented the film at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History (A previous screening there was Nov.’16).
In June, Hugh and John were interviewed for the premier of Fairfield County’s CTV 192 show, “In Good Company” with host Ron Dukenski.
In August, because it had been suggested to us by reliable sources that many people under 50 don’t know what Bakelite is, we decided to add a subtitle, making it: “All Things Bakelite: The Age of Plastic“.
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