STEVE HYTNER LIVE STAND UP COMEDY

LIVE STAND UP COMEDY PERFORMANCE BY STEVE HYTNER

AKA “Kenny Bania” from Seinfeld! “That’s Gold Jerry!”

Also seen in Modern Family, Two and a Half Men and iZombie

Steve Hytner has made an indelible impression on both the large and small screens.

GEORGIA O’KEEFFE: THE BRIGHTNESS OF LIGHT

Georgia O’Keeffe: the Brightness of Light is a feature documentary film exploring the life and art of the most important American woman artist of the 20th century. Known as the “Mother of American Modernism,” O’Keeffe exploded on the New York art scene in the 1920s with her paintings of flowers, bones, and the beauty of nature. Nude photographs of O’Keeffe taken by her lover, Alfred Stieglitz, shocked the public and contributed to the perception that her paintings were sexually charged. In the 1970s, O’Keeffe, famously isolated in the New Mexico desert, emerged as an iconic role model for second wave feminists. From Academy Award-winning director Paul Wagner, the film features music by Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch, narration by Hugh Dancy, and Claire Danes as the Voice of Georgia O’Keeffe.

BOULDER ENOFF OPENING NIGHT RECEPTION - UPGRADE

THIS TICKET IS FOR ONLY THE RECEPTION, NOT FILM (which is sold out). Yet you should already have a Dairy Arts ticket for the film.

Thursday, July 17 at 5:30PM to 7:00PM

Reception at Hilton Garden Inn Boulder on Canyon. Outdoor Courtyard

Buffet, Passed Appetizers, & Libations (cocktails, wine, beer, or soft drink)

Live Music by The Atom Collective, a jazz band making people happy on Colorado’s front range since 2019. Kyle Banker at Piano, Tobin Munsat on Drums, Adisa Nickerson on Trumpet, & Todd Van Selus on Bass. 

Film at 7:30PM at Dairy Arts Center THE LOST WOLVES OF YELLOWSTONE

SEPARATED

Followed by a discussion with the author Jacob Soboroff, moderated by David Helpern

Academy Award®-winning filmmaker Errol Morris incisively probes the darkest chapter in recent American history: family separations. Merging narrative vignettes of one migrant family's plight with hard-hitting interviews with government officials, Morris paints a jaw-dropping picture of the state-sponsored crisis of cruelty, as over 1300 children remain separated today, according to the Department of Homeland Security.

DEAF PRESIDENT NOW

Followed by a discussion with co-director Davis Guggenheim in person!

"Deaf President Now!" recounts the eight days of historic protests held at Gallaudet University in 1988 after the school's board of trustees appointed a hearing president over several very qualified Deaf candidates. After a week of rallies, boycotts and protests, the students of Gallaudet University triumph as the hearing president resigns and beloved dean Dr. I. King Jordan becomes the university's first Deaf president. The protests marked a pivotal moment in civil rights history, with an impact that extended well beyond the Gallaudet campus, and paved the way for the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).

BECOMING KATHARINE GRAHAM

Becoming Katharine Graham tells the story of a painfully shy woman's accidental rise to power and how it changed history. After a family tragedy, Kay evolved from a "doormat wife" into a legendary newspaper publisher. Nixon's nemesis during Watergate, she fought for truth, broke barriers in a sexist world, and won a Pulitzer Prize, inspiring generations with her courage and resilience.

DOC WEEK: THE STRINGER

A former Saigon photo editor plagued by a 52-year secret courageously makes a stunning admission, setting off a gripping two-year investigation into five decades of buried secrets behind one of the Vietnam War’s most iconic photographs. Acclaimed war photographer Gary Knight and journalists Fiona Turner, Terri Lichstein, and Lê Vân embark on a relentless search to locate and seek justice for a man known only as “the stringer.”

The work of photographers during the Vietnam War exposed the horrors committed against the civilian population to a Western audience largely unaware of the scale of the atrocities. The iconic photograph, The Terror of War, also known as Napalm Girl, was shocking in its depiction of the violence experienced by children, prompting global protests and calls to end the war. But a claim by a former Associated Press photo editor raises doubts over the image’s origins. Bao Nguyen’s film follows a relentless journey to find the truth, locating a photographer known only as ‘the stringer’ who claims he took the photo, throwing the AP photographer credit into question. In following this investigation Nguyen’s film tackles racial injustice and journalistic ethics as it questions why Vietnamese photographers’ essential contribution to this conflict have not found their place in history.

BROADWAY DIVAS

CLEO KING PRESENTS BROADWAY DIVAS

Come enjoy an evening of SONGS by Broadway's finest!  Our first annual Broadway Divas!!! We will also have poetry & spoken word!  The Story telling and videos to share with you of more than 30 years of show business In New York City and Los Angeles.  Broadway Divas have also done television and film and will share clips of these that you will recognize right away.  Come and enjoy the talents of these lovely ladies and I promise we won't need to convince you next year!!!

One of our own Natasha Yvette Williams has recently won a Grammy for her broadway show, Some Like It HOT!!! You don't want to miss this Songbird.  SHE IS TRULY SOMETHING SPECIAL!!

Cleo King is the grandma/Nana on Mike & Molly.  You have seen her in movies & tv & film.  The Hangover, Pineapple Express, Dreamgirls, Recurring on Grey's Anatomy, Shameless, Lemony Snickets, Minx, CSI, NCIS, She is so happy to finally make her dream come true.  Bringing these talented performers to the stage at the Film Society in Martha's Vineyard.
Come have fun with us and we just might bring you up on stage too.  ONLY if you want to participate!!!!  WE know how to have fun and give you a great show!!!

LOST NATION

Followed by a discussion with filmmaker Jay Craven in person!

“Lost Nation” is a Revolutionary War-era action drama set in the early upstart Republic of Vermont.  “Lost Nation” stars Irish actor Kevin Ryan (“Copper,” Harry Wild”) as Vermont founding father and rebel schemer, Ethan Allen, who leads resistance to New Yorker land claims, launches an ill-fated attack on British forces in Montreal, and leads invasions by his Green Mountain Boys into Yorker strongholds of Guilford and Brattleboro. At every turn, Allen navigates thick entanglements with allies, enemies, and family. 

“Lost Nation’s” parallel and intersecting story features Kenyan actress Eva Ndachi (“Beautifully Broken”) as Lucy Terry Prince, whose poem, “Bars Fight,” about the 1746 Deerfield Massacre, is the first known work of African American literature. Enslaved in Western Massachusetts at the age of 3 - for 30 years - Terry then settled with her family on a Guilford homestead carved out of the forest by her husband, formerly enslaved frontier transport operator, Abijah Prince.  

Like Ethan Allen, the Princes found themselves caught up in turbulent times that threatened their prospects for the land and freedom they sought.  Like Allen, Lucy Prince upset the status quo in her assertive use of early Vermont’s legal and political systems to defend her family in the face of pressure and threats. 

MODERISM, INC: The Eliot Noyes Design Story

Followed by a live discussion with Fred Noyes, architect and son of Eliot Noyes

Mid-century architect and designer Eliot Noyes built the design programs for some of America’s most powerful postwar corporations. The film weaves Noyes’ story with the broader context of corporate America’s embrace of Modernism during the period of postwar economic expansion and culminates in the backlash against Noyes and his generation during the countercultural upheaval of the Vietnam era. The life and work of Eliot Noyes is a vehicle to explore the intersection of postwar business, technology and design – a story that continues to resonate in the contemporary context.

AGE GROUP WINNER

Followed by a live discussion with director Alexandra Helgerson!

In 1980 Jay Helgerson shocked the world, becoming the first person to run a marathon a week for a year – each race completed in under three hours. For the last ten years, his daughter, filmmaker Alexandra Helgerson, followed him with a camera in order to understand the eccentric man who raised her. What she gets are his projected anxieties, his struggles with physical age and emotional distress, all while he endlessly trains for the Boston Marathon. But as Jay trains, the film is nearly derailed by Alexandra’s encounter with a life threatening illness. Ultimately, AGE GROUP WINNER is an affirmation of the will to live.

Jimmy Tingle: Humor and Hope for Humanity

Fresh off a NYC theatrical run of his newest critically acclaimed one person show Humor and Hope for Humanity at the SoHo Playhouse and the release of his new Comedy Documentary JIMMY TINGLE: The “Radical” Middle- Why Would a Comedian Run for Office?  Three time "Best of Boston" winner comedian Jimmy Tingle  makes his return to the Martha's Vineyard Film Center with one show only on Wednesday, August 20th.  

In Humor and Hope for Humanity Jimmy will take us on a very funny and soul-searching journey from his Boston roots as an aspiring comic and street performer to network television, Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, a run for political office and up to the present 2025 moment.