Vineyarders Bring Home Oscar Award

Two Vineyard seasonal residents took home Oscar awards Sunday as co-producers of Icarus, the winner for best feature documentary film.

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Islanders Join Limelight on Oscar Awards Night
Landry Harlan

Jim Swartz and David Fialkow are nominated as producers of Icarus, a documentary about Russian doping in the 2014 Winter Olympics.

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Vineyard Filmmakers Nominated for Academy Award
Bill Eville

Kate Davis and David Heilbroner were nominated for an Academy Award for their documentary short Traffic Stop. They will walk the red carpet with the subject of their film, Breaion King.

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Silicon Valley Documentary Film

The West Tisbury Library is hosting a screening of the documentary Brave New World — How Silicon Valley is Shaping our Future, and a discussion with the filmmaker Angela Andersen.

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Familiar Topic, New Terrain for An Inconvenient Sequel
Alex Elvin

The new documentary An Inconvenient Sequel opened in theatres this summer, including a run at the Martha’s Vineyard Film Society that continues through August 30.

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Documentary Captures Melancholy Mood of a Vineyard Winter
Heather Hamacek

Susanna Styron's 1976 film Suspended Sentence will play on Wednesday, August 23, at the Chilmark Community Center.

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Behind the Movie: Real Life Fighters
Bill Eville

I Am Jane Doe, a harrowing look at the sex trafficking industry, opens Documentary Week at the Martha’s Vineyard Film Center. The movie arrives on the Vineyard thanks to the efforts of Alexi Ashe Meyers and Rebecca Dince Zipkin.

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Saving the Children, One Film at a Time
Louisa McCullough

Media Voices for Children will present their new film, The Same Heart, which screens on Sunday, July 24, at the Strand Theatre in Oak Bluffs.

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Big Houses Plus Evolution of a Filmmaker
Alex Elvin

One Big Home, director Thomas Bena’s first feature-length film, which took more than a decade to shoot and edit, makes its Island debut Wednesday as part of the Martha’s Vineyard Film Festival summer series.

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In Film and Life, Black Panthers Party Continues to Resonate
Alex Elvin

Award-winning filmmaker Stanley Nelson's new documentary The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution aired last month on PBS.

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