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This collection of short films, created by the filmmaking department at the Martha’s Vineyard Film Festival, features stories about the Island. It includes films about fishermen, the local effects of climate change, the affordable housing crisis, and Vineyard students who traveled to Kentucky and Chicago to explore the social divide in America. Watch for free below!

OFF ISLAND
Dir. Brian Ditchfield | Documentary | U.S.A. | 2021 | 10 min.

Join five seventh graders from West Tisbury as they pack up filmmaking equipment and travel to rural Kentucky and a neighborhood school on Chicago’s West Side. Interviewing students and elders along the way, they explore the social divide in our country and reflect on the political and socioeconomic bubbles we live in.

FISHING, FARMING, AND MARTHA’S VINEYARD’S CLIMATE CHANGE
Dirs. Ollie Becker and Danielle Mulcahy | Documentary | U.S.A. | 2021 | 5 min.

In this short film produced by the Island Climate Action Network, hear Vineyard men and women who make their living from the land, ocean, and ponds. They speak about how climate change is impacting their work and the places they love. Learn how they are shifting their practices to both adapt to the changes they see and be a part of the solutions we need.

GATHERING GROWTH: MARTHA’S VINEYARD
Dir. Ollie Becker | Documentary | U.S.A. | 2020 | 6 min.

Follow Brian Kelley, the photographer and archivist behind the Gathering Growth Foundation, as he visits Martha’s Vineyard to photograph the largest Japanese pagoda tree in the nation.

MEET YOUR FISHERMEN
Dir. Ollie Becker | Documentaries | U.S.A. | 2020 | various lengths

Meet five fishermen in these short films produced by the Martha’s Vineyard Fishermen's Preservation Trust. Head out with Tubby Medeiros on the Elisabeth Mae, take a sea scallop trip with Sam Hopkins, join Nick Wilbur and Will Diamond aboard the Dixie W VII, and harvest quahogs on the pond with Billy Sweeney. You'll learn about fishing heritage, what it's like to make a living on the water, and hear concerns regarding the state of our ocean.

A TISBURY TRANSFORMATION
Dirs. Ollie Becker and Danielle Mulcahy | Documentary | U.S.A. | 2020 | 5 min.

See how the Island Housing Trust purchased the Twin Oaks Inn from the Perlman family and transformed it into seven affordable year-round rental apartments.


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