Film
Acclaimed director Susanne Bier returns with her most powerful film yet, the Academy Award nominee for best foreign language film, After the Wedding.
Far from home, Jacob (Mads Mikkelsen), runs a struggling orphanage in one India’s poorest regions. Desperate to save the orphanage from closure, he returns to Denmark to meet Jorgen (Rolf Lassgard) a wealthy businessman and potential benefactor. Jorgen offers Jacob a seemingly innocent invitation to attend his daughter’s wedding.
Left hungry on the street after his mother’s death, on the run from police and stoned on shoemaker’s glue, 13-year-old Emmanuel has meager expectations for life. He is simply looking for something to eat, a place to sleep and perhaps just a chance at a better life.
“I want to go school right now!” he defiantly shouts over and over to anyone who will listen.
Vicious art as a warm-up for brutal sport? Super Sunday on the Vineyard offered exactly that.
Galen Films will present the Vineyard premiere of their new film Rescuing Emmanuel on Monday and Tuesday, Feb. 9 and 10 at the Capawock Theatre on Main street, Vineyard Haven. The event will benefit Media Voices for Children, a nonprofit web-based news agency and media resource library for children’s rights.
The Martha’s Vineyard Film Society is turning to the Island’s artistic community with a competition to design the poster for its 2009 Martha’s Vineyard International Film Festival, set for September. The winning poster design will receive a cash prize of $250, two opening night film festival tickets and a two-person membership to the film society. Each serious entry will receive two tickets to one festival screening.
In Paul Schneider’s 2001 book, The Enduring Shore, there is a photo of Menemsha, courtesy of the Martha’s Vineyard Historical Society, from the silent film, Annabel Lee.