The Maine Humanities Council announced that Karan Sheldon and David Weiss, co-founders of Northeast Historic Film in Bucksport, are the 2003 recipients of the Constance H. Carlson Public Humanities Prize. They are being recognized for their contributions to the preservation and interpretation of New England’s historic moving image history.

“Karan and David’s first big project in Maine, funded in part by the Council, was the restoration of an amateur historic movie, “From Stump to Ship: A 1930 Logging Film,” said Dorothy Schwartz, executive director of the Maine Humanities Council. “We are thrilled that this film was recently awarded a place in the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress. Their success with ‘From Stump to Ship’ prompted Sheldon and Weiss to found Northeast Historic Film in 1986. It is now the leading non-profit film archive in the U.S.”

Sheldon and Weiss will be honored at a luncheon at Page Farm and Home Museum in Orono Sept. 18. Gregory Lukow, chief of the Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division in Washington, D.C., and State Senator Mary Cathcart of Orono will be guest speakers.

The Maine Humanities Council created the Constance H. Carlson Public Humanities Prize to commemorate Carlson, a founding member of the Council.

For tickets or information about the luncheon, call the Maine Humanities Council at 773-5051. For more information about Northeast Historic Film, visit www.oldfilm.org.