Film
JAY ALEXANDER BROWN
Hold on to your hat, because on Tuesday, July 22, the Oak Bluffs Tabernacle will be whisked away to the Valley of the Wind.
Thomas Bena, founder of the Martha’s Vineyard Film Festival, stood in front of a mostly full house at the Chilmark community center last Wednesday night, and shared an anecdote.
“I can remember one night a few years ago when a man approached me on his way out the door. He told me that he appreciated what we were doing here, but that the film we had just shown was repetitive and just generally not very good. I thanked him for his thoughts and was watching him leave when someone else came up to me and said ‘Do you know who that guy was?’”
Truth comes from the mouths of babes — or rather kids, or young adults, or the future of humanity. Whatever you label them, these pint-sized pulse-takers of youth culture are back this summer with their own reviews of movies for young viewers screening every Wednesday at the Chilmark Community Center.
The organizers of the Summer Film Series at the Martha’s Vineyard Film Festival teamed up with the Gazette to bring you reviews by Island kids, here for the summer or year-round, each Tuesday, before each Wednesday film presentation.
If You Screen It, They Will
Come: Field of Dreams
The 2nd annual Baseball Fest will be held Thursday, July 17, at 5:30 p.m. at the baseball field at Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School in Oak Bluffs.
The event will feature games, batting cages, hot air balloon rides, a radar gun, face painting, and ball park food. Field of Dreams will be shown courtesy of Martha’s Vineyard Film Society on the big screen in the outfield starting at 8 p.m.
Institute Presents Film,
Panel Discussion on Family
The Summer Institute of the Martha’s Vineyard Hebrew Center in the coming week will present a film and a panel discussion on the theme of family, with experts on raising girls and boys.
Truth comes from the mouths of babes — or rather kids, or young adults, or the future of humanity. Whatever you label them, these pint-sized pulse-takers of youth culture are back this summer with their own reviews of movies for young viewers screening every Wednesday at the Chilmark Community Center.
The organizers of the Summer Film Series at the Martha’s Vineyard Film Festival teamed up with the Gazette to bring you reviews by Island kids, here for the summer or year-round, each Tuesday, before each Wednesday film presentation.