Film
Moonlight Movies
Take a bite out of the sky this weekend, Saturday, June 23, when the Tisbury Business Association, Jawsfest and the Martha’s Vineyard Film Society host an outdoor Moonlight Movies event at Owen Park in Vineyard Haven. The movie is Blue Water, White Death, a 1971 documentary, one of the first of its kind, about the Great White Shark.
The event is part of a campaign called Summer of the Sharks 2012 to promote shark conservation and awareness.
High school students turning into zombies. It’s not only a fair description of students with looming finals — it’s what viewers at the Capawock Theater in Vineyard Haven witnessed on the big screen last Thursday evening at the world premiere of Ian Chickering’s latest film, Last Night on Earth.
Mr. Chickering, the writer, director, producer and editor of the film, is a 17-year-old student at the Charter School. Last Night on Earth is his eighth film; he began making movies in the fifth grade, and he thinks it’s his best so far.
Film Society Movie
A young lover juggles passion and morals. She tries to balance atop a teetering marriage. She hides a blooming love affair. She’s got all the duties of a crowd of circus performers, but not the skill sets. Her act is crumbling.
Relax, this is not an Island resident - it’s Hester Collyer, a confused wife in post-War England in the movie, The Deep Blue Sea, playing on Saturday, June 9, at the Katharine Cornell Theatre, located at 54 Spring street in Vineyard Haven.
Film Society Screens Pina
Tonight, May 4, at 7:30 p.m., the Martha’s Vineyard Film Society is showing a documentary by Wim Wenders called Pina. The film chronicles the career of choreographer Pina Bausch. During the filming, Ms. Bausch died and Mr. Wenders nearly decided to discontinue the project. Thankfully, he persevered.
The Martha’s Vineyard Film Society is collaborating with the Vineyard Conservation Society on a new series of films on the environment called Green on Screen. On April 28 at 7:30 p.m. they will present the film One Day on Earth at the Katharine Cornell Theatre in Vineyard Haven.
Last month documentary filmmaker Len Morris of Vineyard Haven accepted the 2012 Iqbal Masih Award for the Elimination of Child Labor from the U.S. Department of Labor at a ceremony in Washington D.C. But Mr. Morris does not have the luxury of basking in the afterglow of the award ceremony. His Kenyan Schoolhouse program, now in its tenth year, is currently putting 34 former child laborers and street children through secondary school, thanks mainly to Island donations, and on Thursday morning this week he got the bill for the latest semester: $4,125, due May 1.