Support Tom Bell’s Award Winning Film

Hello everyone! My name is Helen Crimmins and I’m an associate producer for a short documentary film about WMPG called “An Extraordinary Place”. Like all of the DJs at the station, I really enjoy doing my radio show at WMPG and love spending time enriching my community by playing music with a personal touch.

We’re all very proud of the film and want to be able to continue to enter it into festivals all over the world! So far, it has performed well at different festivals and has even won some awards.

Worcester Film Festival, UK – Best Documentary Film

Maine Outdoor Film Festival – Best Maine Film

Maine International Film Festival – Best Short

Toronto Indie Shorts – Best Documentary

Jersey Shore Film Festival – Best Documentary – Human Interest

Courtyard Independent Film Festival in Italy - Best Editing

We'd love to continue the momentum and work on more entries, but we need some help. For us, awareness is support, and spreading awareness adds extra costs to our finished film. Festival submission fees and travel/accommodations for a representative for the film add up fast. With your help, we can continue to spread the message of what a small community is capable of and the importance of staying engaged.

”An Extraordinary Place” focuses on one quirky radio station in Maine, but its themes are universal. Radio is an obsolete technology that should no longer exist. Consumers today can access 100 million songs on their cell phones with online platforms like Spotify. But the digital world has left many people feeling isolated and lonely. Community radio stations like WMPG are beloved because they are powered by humans rather than algorithms. Audiences worldwide are responding to the film because they yearn for community and a human connection to music.

Thank you for your time and for your support! We appreciate all of you. Every dollar will go to Tom Bell and the rest of our team to cover more distribution costs.

-Helen Crimmins

An Extraordinary Place trailer

An Extraordinary Place on Instagram

Still photos from “An Extraordinary Place”