Bend Film Opens 9th Festival

The festival's director, Orit Schwartz says they'll be showing 90 films across eight screens in central Oregon.

This year's festival will be showing 17 documentaries, 15 features and dozens of shorts.

The opening night film is a feature length documentary called "Ethel" on Ethel Kennedy.  It was directed by her daughter, Rory.

The four day film festival starts on Thursday and will wrap up on Sunday.