Becoming Katharine Graham, a documentary that vividly captures the story of Katharine Graham and her accidental, yet transformative, rise to power as the publisher of the Washington Post, will screen at the Martha’s Vineyard Film Center as part of its annual Doc Week festival.

In all, five documentary films will be screened from July 28 to August 1.

Richard Paradise, executive director of MV Film Society, said documentary week is composed of films that the Vineyard community will be interested in.

“As the curator of the week of films, I feel they will resonate with our audiences because they reflect our audiences’ experiences, as opposed to more mainstream popular films,” he said.

After each screening, a discussion with the directors, producers and subjects of the film will be held.

“The most important thing is that the audience is allowed to engage with the filmmakers, with the subjects of the film, and to get a deeper experience of having just watched that film,” he said.

Becoming Katharine Graham screens on July 29 and will include a discussion with producer Jawad Metni.

Ms. Graham was a longtime Vineyarder, purchasing the estate Mohu in Lambert’s Cove in 1972. Her granddaughter, Katharine Weymouth, who was publisher of the Washington Post from 2008 to 2014, recalled visiting Mohu as a young girl.

“It was just this magical place,” Ms. Weymouth said. “Rose Styron would come over and they would play tennis together and play cards and do beach picnics, so it was a really special place for her, and of course it became the same for us, so I feel lucky to have grown up coming to the Island with her.”

Ms. Weymouth said that Katharine Graham was not your typical grandmother, but she was lucky enough to move to Washington D.C. after graduating law school and get to know her as an adult.

“I could appreciate much more what she had done and what she had become, and was able to ask her more questions about her career and how she grew into her confidence,” she said.

The documentary depicts this growing confidence that Ms. Graham gained over the course of her career.

“She never expected to be running the Washington Post, she was a housewife raising four kids, her husband was running it, of course, until he died,” Ms. Weymouth said. “And so she was sort of this accidental CEO, and as a documentary I think it portrays really beautifully how she came into her own.”

Ms. Weymouth first watched a screening of the film in Washington D.C. in March. She said it reflected well how her grandmother’s story remains relevant today.

“We all know the history of the Pentagon papers and Watergate and whatnot ... but in this documentary, it felt really relevant when the president today is again going after the press and so many other institutions, and we’re seeing those who have had the courage to stand up and how they’re being punished,” she said.

She added that the story told is an important one for young women today.

“I think it’s really a story of a woman coming into her own with a sense of impostor complex and who didn’t know anything about business when she started,” she said. “But it turns out she had really good instinct and she was an amazing business leader, but she would never had predicted that or had the confidence on her own.”

“I think it still can speak to women anywhere in terms of, take some chances, it’s okay if you don’t know everything,” she continued.

Ms. Weymouth said she and her family are thrilled to see Ms. Graham’s legacy honored and her courage highlighted, especially in Martha’s Vineyard, a place so dear to her grandmother.

“It feels so wonderful, and appropriate, and kind of a full circle moment since she loved the Vineyard and spent every summer she could here,” she said.

Becoming Katharine Graham will screen at Martha’s Vineyard Film Festival July 29 at 7:30 p.m.