In pre-production stage for Automatic At Sea, writer/director Matthew Lessner saw a woman walking a dog along a Vineyard beach and was rendered speechless.

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.

Three men, two guns, one wall. These are the bare bones of Doug Liman’s newest film, The Wall.

When Brad Silberling was 11 years old his father dropped him off at a movie theatre. The year was 1975 and the movie was Jaws. It changed young Brad’s life.

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.

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.

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

Taylor Toole returns to the Island with Jimmy Was a Carpenter, his newest film about life, death and love, set on Martha's Vineyard. The romantic thriller will premiere at the Martha's Vineyard Film Center on Saturday, April 12.

One in every four children in America doesn’t know where their next meal is coming from.

It’s an issue that has often passed quietly under the radar and gets little attention on TV or in books. But a new film screened Wednesday night at the Martha’s Vineyard Film Center, A Place at the Table, aims to change that by bringing the issue to the forefront of people’s minds.

In 2004 director Shola Lynch’s first film premiered at Sundance. The documentary told the story of Shirley Chis-holm, the first black woman to run for president, and her 1972 campaign. Ms. Lynch was only three years old at the time of the campaign, yet as she grew up she found herself consistently drawn to the time period. The film won a Peabody award.