Dir. Zada Clarke | Documentary | U.S.A. | 2025 | 20 min.

In 1965, less than eight months after learning to sail, Sharon Sites Adams set out for Hawaii, on a twenty-foot Danish folk boat. She would become the first woman to singlehandedly sail across the Pacific, from Yokohama, Japan, to San Diego, California, without GPS, internet, radio, or satellite to guide her. And, she documented it all on 16 mm film. Weaving that footage together with present-day interviews, this film is a historic snapshot, and ultimately a love story between a woman and her boat.

Dirs. Kelsey Leonard and Alejandro Miranda | Documentary | Canada | 2025 | 12 min.

Across the salt-sprayed shores of Cape Cod and Martha’s Vineyard, Indigenous women gather to rematriate wampum as a living system of justice. This intimate documentary foregrounds these knowledge-keepers as they restore wampum’s role in governance, truth-telling, and intergenerational responsibility, rooted in reciprocal relationships with their mollusk relatives and coastal homelands. Examining practices of teaching, making, and collective remembrance, the film reveals how patriarchal disruption, colonial extraction, and climate-driven coastal change threaten not only living shores but the relationships that sustain them; it affirms rematriation as an expression of sovereignty, hope, and the enduring power of Indigenous women.

Dirs. Ollie Becker and Tim Persinko | Documentary | U.S.A. | 2025 | 22 min.

Through archival history and lived experience, this original Circuit Films short documents the working waterfront of Vineyard Haven, honoring the people and practices that continue to define the harbor’s role in Island life.

Dirs. Henry Danielson and Sophia Kolak | Stop-Motion Animation | U.S.A. | 2025 | 3 min.

Follow Tommy and his mother as they arrive on Martha’s Vineyard during the quiet off season, experiencing the Island’s strange charm through dry, awkward humor and handcrafted, imperfect sets.

Dir. Indaia Whitcombe | Documentary | U.S.A. | 2025 | 9 min.

Before Martha’s Vineyard used to go quiet for the winter, the Island fall belonged to the Gay Head demolition derby, a wild, community-built celebration of cars, crowds, and chaos.