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| | CINEMA CIRCUS --- FREE!
WEDNESDAY, July 24, 5:00 PM
Chilmark Community Center
Join us for fun filmmaking activities, family-friendly food, face painting, costumes, and a circus show under the big top. Then parade into the theater where the Ringmaster will guide children through a program of short films for all ages and from around the world—a joyful celebration for all! | Buy tickets |
| | AMERICAN FACTORY
WEDNESDAY, July 24, 8:00 PM
Chilmark Community Center
In 2014, a Chinese billionaire opened a factory in a shuttered General Motors plant in Ohio. For thousands of locals, the arrival of a multinational manufacturer meant regaining their jobs—and dignity—after a recession had left them high and dry. | Buy tickets |
| | INWARDS: POWER
THURSDAY, JULY 25, 10:00 AM
at the Hayloft at the Beach Plum Inn, Chilmark
This week’s topic is POWER, exploring how inequality impacts lives, communities, and relationships, with guests Carole Vandal, Ismail Samad, Dora Lewin, and Barney Frank. | Buy tickets |
| | Dinner at the Beach Plum Inn
with Kate Taylor
MONDAY, July 29, 6:00 PM
Beach Plum Inn, Chilmark
Just before sunset, join us for dinner overlooking Menemsha Harbor. Enjoy a spectacular view, and a locally sourced three-course meal, with our guests of honor. Dinner includes reserved seating at the outdoor screening of ECHO IN THE CANYON to follow. All proceeds benefit the Martha’s Vineyard Film Festival. | Buy tickets |
| | ECHO IN THE CANYON
MONDAY, July 29, 8:00 PM
outdoors at the Beach Plum Inn, Chilmark
Celebrate the explosion of popular music that came out of L.A.'s Laurel Canyon in the mid-‘60s as folk went electric and the Byrds, the Beach Boys, Buffalo Springfield, and the Mamas and the Papas gave birth to the “California Sound.” | Buy tickets |
| | CINEMA CIRCUS --- FREE!
WEDNESDAY, July 31, 5:00 PM
Chilmark Community Center
Join us for fun filmmaking activities, family-friendly food, face painting, costumes, and a circus show under the big top. Then parade into the theater where the Ringmaster will guide children through a program of short films for all ages and from around the world—a joyful celebration for all! | Buy tickets |
| | THE GREAT HACK
WEDNESDAY, July 31, 8:00 PM
Chilmark Community Center
Data has surpassed oil as the planet’s most valuable asset, and it is being weaponized to wage wars both cultural and political. This incredibly in-depth piece of investigative journalism uncovers the dark realm of data exploitation. | Buy tickets |
| | INWARDS: CIVILITY
THURSDAY, AUGUST 1, 10:00 AM
at the Hayloft at the Beach Plum Inn, Chilmark
This week’s topic is CIVILITY, exploring how a close-knit community can stifle dissent and how we can move beyond division, with guests Carole Vandal, Daniel Goleman, Ismail Samad, and Alan Dershowitz. | Buy tickets |
| | Dinner at the Beach Plum Inn
with Max Kennedy
MONDAY, August 5, 6:00 PM
Beach Plum Inn, Chilmark
Just before sunset, join us for dinner overlooking Menemsha Harbor. Enjoy a spectacular view, and a locally sourced three-course meal, with our guests of honor. Dinner includes reserved seating at the outdoor screening of WORLD AT WAR to follow. All proceeds benefit the Martha’s Vineyard Film Festival. | Buy tickets |
| | WORLD AT WAR
MONDAY, August 5, 8:00 PM
outdoors at the Beach Plum Inn, Chilmark
Seeing the disappearance of fish he loves to catch, 15-year-old Jack Nixon enlists marine conservationist Dr. Sylvia Earle in a years-long quest to save our dying oceans. Photographer Brian Skerry, captain Max Kennedy, and a band of teenage aquanauts bolster expeditions to the high seas of industrial fishing fleets, and to the melting polar ice of the Chukchi Sea. | Buy tickets |
| | INWARDS: MARRIAGE
THURSDAY, AUGUST 8, 10:00 AM
at the Hayloft at the Beach Plum Inn, Chilmark
This week’s topic is MARRIAGE, exploring how committed relationships impact mental health, with guests Kenneth Paul Rosenberg, M.D., Julianne Vanderhoop, and Hilary Dreyer. | Buy tickets |
| | EATING UP EASTER
FREE outdoor screening!
THURSDAY, August 8, 8:00 PM
outdoors on the Aquinnah Circle
For centuries, the monolithic mo’ai statues and sensationalized "mysteries" of Easter Island, or Rapa Nui (as its aboriginal Polynesian people and language are also known), have drawn curious visitors to its shores. Today, the tiny, barren island is experiencing an economic boom as tourism skyrockets. Yet its indigenous culture and fragile environment are suffering. | Buy tickets |
| | Dinner at the Beach Plum Inn
with executive producer Laurie David
MONDAY, August 12, 6:00 PM
Beach Plum Inn, Chilmark
Just before sunset, join us for dinner overlooking Menemsha Harbor. Enjoy a spectacular view, and a locally sourced three-course meal, with our guests of honor. Dinner includes reserved seating at the outdoor screening of THE BIGGEST LITTLE FARM to follow. All proceeds benefit the Martha’s Vineyard Film Festival. | Buy tickets |
| | THE BIGGEST LITTLE FARM
MONDAY, August 12, 8:00 PM
outdoors at the Beach Plum Inn, Chilmark
What do you do when your barking dog gets you evicted from your apartment? Molly and John Chester decide to create a farm on 200 acres of nutrient-depleted land suffering from drought. | Buy tickets |
| | CINEMA CIRCUS --- FREE!
WEDNESDAY, August 14, 5:00 PM
Chilmark Community Center
Join us for fun filmmaking activities, family-friendly food, face painting, costumes, and a circus show under the big top. Then parade into the theater where the Ringmaster will guide children through a program of short films for all ages and from around the world—a joyful celebration for all! | Buy tickets |
| | BEDLAM
WEDNESDAY, August 14, 8:00 PM
Chilmark Community Center
Psychiatrist, author, and filmmaker Kenneth Rosenberg explores a major social crisis of our time—the lack of adequate care for the mentally ill. | Buy tickets |
| | INWARDS: SANITY
THURSDAY, AUGUST 15, 10:00 AM
at the Hayloft at the Beach Plum Inn, Chilmark
This week’s topic is SANITY, exploring stigma, dignity, and acceptance in caring for people with mental illness, with guest Kenneth Paul Rosenberg, M.D., and moderator Diana Barrett. | Buy tickets |
| | Dinner and a Movie with
CHEF FLYNN MCGARRY
MONDAY, August 19, 5:30 PM
Grey Barn and Farm, Chilmark
Join us at the Grey Barn and Farm for a magical celebration—a farm-to-table dinner and a documentary about CHEF FLYNN! Chef Flynn McGarry will cook a custom five-course meal inspired by Martha’s Vineyard. Flynn will source the majority of the meal’s ingredients from the Grey Barn, and what he can’t find there he will procure from other Island farms and fishermen. All proceeds will benefit the Martha’s Vineyard Film Festival’s free educational programs.
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| | CINEMA CIRCUS --- FREE!
WEDNESDAY, August 21, 5:00 PM
Chilmark Community Center
Join us for fun filmmaking activities, family-friendly food, face painting, costumes, and a circus show under the big top. Then parade into the theater where the Ringmaster will guide children through a program of short films for all ages and from around the world—a joyful celebration for all! | Buy tickets |
| | DRIVING WHILE BLACK
WEDNESDAY, August 21, 8:00 PM
Chilmark Community Center
For no people was the call of the automobile and the highway—the promise of freedom and mobility, choice and adventure, agency and self-expression—more powerfully felt, more freighted with hope, more fraught with danger and anxiety, than it was for African Americans. | Buy tickets |
| | INWARDS: EXTINCTION
THURSDAY, AUGUST 22, 10:00 AM
at the Hayloft at the Beach Plum Inn, Chilmark
This week’s topic is EXTINCTION, exploring the place of fear, joy, and equanimity in facing the possibility that our species is rapidly coming to an end, with guests Rory Kennedy, Daniel Goleman, and Noli Taylor. | Buy tickets |
| | MAIDEN
WEDNESDAY, August 28, 8:00 PM
Chilmark Community Center
In the late 1980s, British sailor Tracy Edwards decided she’d had enough of often being dismissed and belittled as the only woman among male seafarers. Setting her sights on the Whitbread Round the World Race, she assembled the world’s first all-female, multinational sailing crew, oversaw their DIY refurbishment of a beat-up old vessel, and entered the competition. | Buy tickets |
| | ASK DR. RUTH
SATURDAY, August 31, 8:00 PM
Martha's Vineyard Performing Arts Center, Oak Bluffs
Come for just the movie, or have dinner with Dr. Ruth Westheimer before the screening! Location TBD.
Although under five feet tall, Dr. Ruth Westheimer is a force. At 90 years old, this pioneer of sex therapy hasn’t stopped working—and still promises the best sex you’ve ever had, if you listen to her. This inspiring portrait, colored by her almost arresting openness, spans from her childhood as an orphan of the Holocaust to her emergence from the darkness, bringing light to so many people.
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Information
Tickets will be sold online until 1 hour before show time. There is a $2 per-ticket surcharge for all sales, but this fee is waived for members. Members may also purchase tickets in advance by calling the MVFF Box Office at (508) 645-9599 during box office hours. All advance tickets must be either printed ahead, or can be shown on a phone at the theater entrance.
All ticket holders must be in the theater 10 minutes prior to showtime or risk losing their ticket.
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