Film
Filmmaker Abby Ginzberg will be on hand Sunday when her story of South Africa's Albie Sachs is screened by the Summer Institute Film Series.
By the time the lights came up after the screening last Wednesday of Matt Shepard Is a Friend of Mine, most of the audience was in tears. The film tells the story of Matt Shepard, an openly gay student at the University of Wyoming who was brutally murdered in 1998.
This weekend Cinema Circus heads to the West Tisbury Public Library and the Field Gallery. The films will be shown Sunday, August 3.
For a week in August, MVAAFF brings to the Island films either directed, produced or starring African Americans. This year, MVAAFF received over 200 submissions from as far away as Iceland and Africa.
Moms and dads can share one of their favorites with their children as the much-loved movie E.T. The Extra Terrestrial plays at Owen Park in Vineyard Haven on Friday, August 1.
On Monday, August 4, the West Tisbury Library is inaugurating a series of documentaries by local filmmakers with a showing of two films by Marjory and Robert Potts.