Congratulations to Ethan Dufault on his premiere of What I Meant to Tell You, a film about father and acclaimed poet Peter Kane Dufault, at this Berkshire International Film Festival this past weekend. The film played to a full audience who weren’t shy with jubilant applause at the end. BMA was proud to be a part of this important and moving work. Both Ethan’s and PKD’s voice overs were recorded at the studio with the additional result of an audiobook of poetry which can be heard on the CD Verses: Civil and Uncivil on BMA Audio. The poems vary from strong indictments of past administrations to some of the most beautiful descriptions of nature in print.

Three years in the making, the film chronicles the life and work of acclaimed poet Peter Kane Dufault – the director’s father. With cinematography by BMA’s Rick Sands viewers are mesmerized with breathtaking shots of forest landscapes, fields, beaches, and kestrels gliding through marshes. PKD’s poems have appeared in the New Yorker, London Magazine, Poetry and The Norton Anthology of Poetry. The film features Law and Order’s Chris Noth and poets Richard Wilber and Maxine Kumin.

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