Film
By Alley Ellis
EEP is a movie about a creature that is half-girl and half-bird, or is it half-bird, half-girl? She goes on a series of adventures and meets new people and friends. Along the way, she is followed, appears on the news and is rescued by a firefighter.
Gone are the grownup gatekeepers of movie merit — kids are the audience for the weekly Cinema Circus films. So the Gazette and the Martha’s Vineyard Film Festival bring you the big view from the smaller viewers with weekly kid critics.
Call them critics-in-training. Children go behind the camera, videotaping kids' reactions to films.
Some 20 people gathered last Sunday evening at the Capawock Theatre in Vineyard Haven to watch a free showing of the movie Tea Party: The Documentary.
Hebrew Center Screens a Gentle Fable
The Summer Institute at the Martha’s Vineyard Hebrew Center this year celebrates the 10th anniversary of its film series, the Best of the Boston Jewish Film Festival. A season of eight films selected from the Boston festival will open at the Martha’s Vineyard Hebrew Center this Sunday, June 20, with the screening of Wondrous Oblivion at 7:30 p.m. Admission is $10.
The auteur-director of the earliest Saturday Night Live short films, and one of the show’s original writers, Tom Schiller, will present some of his classic films next weekend at the Vineyard Playhouse.
There will be two separate showings — on Friday, June 25 and Saturday, June 26 at 7:30 p.m. — both presented by Judy Belushi Pisano