Academy Award accredited Martha’s Vineyard African American Film Festival (MVAAFF), in partnership with Facebook, will present an exclusive, first-ever virtual film festival that will feature original content, immersive panel discussions and the official 2020 MVAAFF film slate. The Festival will be streamed exclusively via Facebook on the MVAAFF page from October 6 – 10, 2020.
This year’s 15th edition of Martha’s Vineyard International Film Festival will run September 8-13th, 2020. Due to COVID, the festival will be a hybrid affair, with socially distanced seating (of 25 or less) at the Film Center’s screenings, virtual interviews, and all festival films available online for viewing.
Ten short films have been selected as finalists for the Juried Short Film competition at the 2019 Martha’s Vineyard International Film Festival. More than 350 entries from 25 countries were submitted for review. To be eligible, the films must have been completed within the past year and under 20 minutes in length.
Actor Danny Glover and Producer Joslyn Barnes of Louveture Films will attend the 2017 Martha’s Vineyard International Film Festival, where they will receive the Martha’s Vineyard Film Society’s 2017 Global Citizen Award. The Martha’s Vineyard International Film Festival will take place September 5 to 10, 2017.
A screening of White Sun, a film produced by Glover and Barnes will immediately follow the on-stage conversation with Ms. Barnes and Mr. Glover about their careers and achievements.
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Danny Glover
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer Louveture Films
In addition to being one of the most acclaimed actors of our time, Mr. Glover is also the recipient of countless awards for his humanitarian and advocacy efforts on behalf of economic and social justice causes, Glover is a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador and a recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from Amnesty International.
His career spans 35 years and includes film classics like “Places in the Heart,” “The Color Purple,” the “Lethal Weapon” series and the acclaimed “To Sleep with Anger.” Mr. Glover has also executive produced numerous projects for film, television and theatre. Among these are “Good Fences,” “3 AM,” “Freedom Song,” “Get on the Bus,” “Deadly Voyage,” “Buffalo Soldiers,” “The Saint of Fort Washington,” and “Mooladé,” as well as the series “Courage and America’s Dream.”
Joslyn Barnes
Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer Louveture Films
Joslyn Barnes is a writer and producer. In 2017, Ms. Barnes was the recipient of both the Cinereach Producer Award and the Sundance Institute Amazon Studios Producer Award.
Prior to co-founding Louverture, she served as a program officer and expert consultant at the United Nations. She has lived and traveled widely in Africa and Asia, and has written numerous articles covering trade and social development issues, as well as contributing to books on the establishment of electronic communications in developing countries, food security in Africa, and strategic advocacy for the inclusion of gender perspectives on the international development agenda.
Ms. Barnes also wrote and directed the short film Prana for Cinétévé France as part of an internationally distributed series of 30 short films to promote awareness of environmental issues.
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Eleven short films have been selected as finalists for the Juried Short Film competition at the 2017 Martha’s Vineyard International Film Festival. More than 300 entries from 25 countries were submitted for review. To be eligible, the films must have been completed within the past year and be under 20 minutes in length.
All eleven films will be screened the night of Saturday, September 9, at the Capawock Theater. At the conclusion of the shorts program, a panel of judges will announce the winning film. A cash prize of $1,000 will be awarded to the winning filmmaker(s).
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The 17th Martha’s Vineyard Film Festival (MVFF) will be taking place March 16 to 19, 2017.
The 10th Martha’s Vineyard International Film Festival will take place this year September 8 to 13, 2015. There are two “pre-festival events” again this year. First, on Tuesday, September 8, is THE SALT OF THE EARTH, the Oscar-nominated documentary by director Wim Wenders, about Brazilian photographer Sebastiao Salgado, and on Wednesday, September 9, is AMY, the biopic about pop/jazz/blues artist Amy Winehouse.
The official Opening Night kicks off with MEET THE PATELS (pictured above), the documentary by the brother-sister team of Geeta and Ravi Patel which plays like a comedy, and traces the misadventures of 30-year-old Ravi Patel as his parents, desperate to see him married, escort him back to India to find a proper bride. Closing night is the Italian comedy BUONI A NULLA (GOOD FOR NOTHING).
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The festival’s lineup includes dozens of films, documentaries, dramas and comedies, including the acclaimed family drama ABERDEEN, from Hong Kong and a quirky Swedish film, THE 100 YEAR OLD MAN WHO CLIMBED OUT THE WINDOW AND DISAPPEARED. Director Genevieve Bailey interviewed eleven-year-old girls from many countries and all walks of life for I AM ELEVEN.
From France there is UNE NOUVELLE AMIE (THE NEW GIRLFRIEND), and from Israel the comedy ZERO MOTIVATION. Dramas and documentaries from Mexico, Norway, Australia, the USA and Caribbean round out the features program.
Saturday, short films are the focus, with two popular forums returning. In the afternoon, animator Signe Baumane, presents a curated collection of short animations from around the globe and in the evening is the juried International Shorts film competition.
Nine finalists have been selected for the fourth annual Short Film contest sponsored by the Martha’s Vineyard International Film Festival. Festival director, and Martha’s Vineyard Film Society founder, Richard Paradise says over 300 entries were submitted this year to the contest. There is a cash prize of $500 for the maker of the winning film, which will be announced the evening of Friday, September 6, following a showcase screening of all the finalists. The winning film will also be screened on Closing Night.
This year’s nine finalists include shorts from the UK, Israel, Australia, Ireland, Syria, and the United States.
The finalists include:
“HEAD OVER HEELS,” an animated film from the UK that was nominated for Best Animated Short at the 2013 Oscars;
“JUST PASSING BY,” a short doc made up of impromptu interviews in New York City;
“THE OP SHOP,” an Australian comedy set in a charity store;
“THE ROAD TO TEL-AVIV,” a tense Israeli film, winner of the Best Student Short at the New York Short Film Festival;
“BIRD FOOD,” animated Irish short about a man who has trouble with some pesky, hungry birds in a park;
“NOT ANYMORE,” the story of the Syrian revolution as told through the experiences of two young Syrians, a male rebel fighter and a female journalist, as they fight an oppressive regime for the freedom of their people.
“EVERY TUESDAY,” A US film about four New Yorker cartoonists;
“BORN YESTERDAY,” US film centers on a life lived in a single day;
“SLEIGHT OF HAND,” fanciful Australian stop-motion film about illusions.