Dick Lehr began covering Boston mob boss James (Whitey) Bulger in 1988, and later coauthored a book about Whitey. This week he saw the work transformed into a major motion picture.

Now in its 10th year, the festival featured 20 films from all over the world over the course of four days.

The Noepe Center for Literary Arts in Edgartown is hosting a fundraiser on Sept. 19 with a showing of The End of the Tour at the Martha's Vineyard Film Center.

The movies and parties for the MV International Film Festival continue all weekend long, with a closing night party on Sunday.

The future is closer than it appears in Chilmark where a group of film visionaries, including director Doug Liman, recently tested out new technology to begin work on a virtual reality web series.

Al Schackman, longtime guitarist for Nina Simone, will attend the screening of What Happened, Miss Simone? at the Martha's Vineyard Film Center Tuesday night where he will talk about their lives together.