Film
The Martha’s Vineyard Film Festival’s Cinema Circus, an ongoing series of film and fun designed for children, features a series of shorts this Wednesday, August 19 from 5 to 7 p.m. at the Chilmark Community Center. Short subjects include a gorgeous warthog getting his comeuppance, a gentle penguin challenging the profit-focused owners at his zoo, and a young boy who softens the heart of a cranky waitress at his local diner. In The Weatherman, a wacky weatherman refuses to go with the flow when his forecasting machine goes on the fritz.
In 1975 Claudia Weill’s film The Other Half of the Sky: A China Memoir, which she codirected with Shirley MacLaine, was an Oscar contender for best feature-length documentary, and she later became the third woman in history to be admitted into the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, known for the prestigious film award, as a film director.
Indie Double Feature in Chilmark
Two young filmmakers with Vineyard ties, Matt Heineman and Sara Greenberg, will screen their documentaries free of charge on Saturday August 15 from at 7:30 p.m. at the Chilmark Community Center.
Ms. Greenberg’s short film B-2247: A Granddaughter’s Understanding, has been accepted into the Philadelphia Jewish Film Festival. She collaborated with Mr. Heineman to make this story of discovering her grandfather’s Holocaust experience.
The Summer Institute’s film series offers its final film of the season, Waves of Freedom, this Sunday at the Martha’s Vineyard Hebrew Center. Coming to the Island from the Boston Jewish Film Festival, this is a documentary about a naval engagement on the shores of what was then Palestine on the eve of the creation of Israel.
The Haganah was a Jewish paramilitary group whose 40-year relationship with the occupying British was something of a roller-coaster ride.
You can bring the kids for the stilt walkers and jugglers, for the popcorn, pizza and face-painting, for all the under-the-big-tent fun that is Cinema Circus at the Chilmark Community Center every Wednesday at 5 p.m. The main act, of course, is the movie. This week the film is Where is Winky’s Horse? and here to review it is Island kid critic Zen Hughes.
For more on the 8 p.m. grownup film, Soul Power, with a question and answer session hosted by director Jeffrey Levy-Hinte, see below.
Mow Crew, a landscaper love affair comedy filmed on Martha’s Vineyard, will have a one-night screening on Saturday, August 8, at the Capawock with two showings, at 7 and 9:15 p.m.
Since it screened to sold-out crowds in the spring, the film has won the Indie Spirit Special Recognition Award at the Boston International Film Festival
Writer-director Taylor Toole will attend with cast and crew members for question-and-answer sessions following the film.