Nantucket Film Festival puts writing in the spotlight

For 17 years, a Nantucket Film Festival has renowned itself as a progam that puts a spotlight on writers. ?All of a live events are secure in essay and storytelling,? says artistic executive Mystelle Brabb?e. She cites NFF signature programs ?Late Night Storytelling,? hosted this year by actor-writer Mike O?Malley, and Ben Stiller?s 4th annual All-Star Comedy Roundtable. Both events take place Friday.

Brabb?e says she?s generally gratified that a NFF?s renouned staged reading earnings this year on Saturday after a hiatus. An garb of actors will perform a new script, ?The Lost Cause? by Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor, with Taylor directing a reading. ?These are dual of Hollywood?s hottest writers and [there?s] a good expel entrance in. It will be a genuine provide for a assembly and not something they customarily get to see,? says Brabb?e.

Frank Langella in ?Robot and Frank,?? that screens during a Nantucket Film Festival on Saturday and subsequent Sunday.

Kicking off on Wednesday, this year?s NFF honors screenwriter and executive Nancy Meyers, who will accept a 2012 Screenwriters Tribute on Saturday during 8 p.m. Her longtime crony Diane Keaton, star of a Meyers-penned films ?Something?s Gotta Give? and ?Baby Boom,? will benefaction a award. Meyers will speak about her career with ?Hardball? horde Chris Matthews subsequent Sunday morning during 11:30 a.m.

Fresh off his Tony assignment for ?Man and Boy,? theatre and shade star Frank Langella heads to a NFF as this year?s target of a Compass Rose behaving award. Matthews will benefaction a endowment and talk Langella on Saturday during 10:15 a.m. Langella?s many new film, ?Robot and Frank,? screens during a NFF on Saturday during 7 p.m. and subsequent Sunday during 4:30 p.m.

?We done a vital preference that a festival would offer a hands-on knowledge for festivalgoers,? says NFF executive executive Colin Stanfield. ?It?s tiny and intimate. There are some-more opportunities to accommodate and rivet with filmmakers.?

A new NFF live eventuality this year is ?The Fog and Flounder Radio Hour? (Thursday, 7 p.m.) hosted by Tom Bodett from National Public Radio?s ?Wait Wait .?.?. Don?t Tell Me!? It facilities live song from Sierra Hull and her band, selected comedy sketches from Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara, and new pieces created and achieved by veterans of a Upright Citizens Brigade (Meghan O?Neill) and The Onion (Dan Mirk and Sascha Stanton-Craven) with additional element by Nantucket teenagers operative in this year?s NFF Teen View Writing Lab.

On a film front, a NFF includes ?Beasts of a Southern Wild,? with author Lucy Alibar in attendance. The film, that screens on Wednesday, is about a 6-year-old lady in a lost lagoon village unfortunate to save her bum father and falling home. It won a grand jury esteem for thespian film during a Sundance Film Festival. It?s formed on Alibar?s play ?Juicy and Delicious.? Alibar, who co-wrote a book with executive Benh Zeitlin, will accept a NFF?s New Voices in Screenwriting award.

For some-more information, go to www.nantucketfilmfestival.org.

Band in Boston

Boston?s punk song stage between 1981 and 1984 is documented in ?All Ages: The Boston Hardcore Film.? The film, that premiered during this year?s Boston Independent Film Festival, will have 4 screenings during a Friday to subsequent Sunday run during a West End Museum. Duane Lucia, executive writer of a film, is also a executive executive of a museum. In a early ?80s, Lucia owned and operated Gallery East, an art and opening space in Boston?s Leather District that supposing a venue for rising internal bands to perform in front of an all-ages audience. The film is destined by Drew Stone, who was a film vital during Emerson College in a early ?80s. Stone was also a front male for a Mighty CO?s, a rope that achieved during Gallery East.

?All Ages: The Boston Hardcore Film? facilities never-before-seen archival footage and interviews with members of a hardcore scene, including author Michael Patrick McDonald and Newbury Comics owners Michael Dreese, along with a soundtrack by SS Decontrol, Gang Green, Jerry?s Kids, The F.U.?s, and more.

Tickets are $10. A apportionment of a deduction will go to support programming during a West End Museum, 150 Staniford St., Boston. For some-more information, go to www.thewestendmuseum.org.

Superhero kitsch

If Hollywood?s summer blockbusters ?Marvel?s The Avengers,? ?The Amazing Spider-Man,? and ?The Dark Knight Rises? enthuse small some-more than a yawn, maybe your middle superhero needs ?Captain Celluloid vs. a Film Pirates? (1966). It?s nonetheless another problematic cinematic classical dug adult by a super folks during Channel Zero, who call a film a ?weirdest pledge superhero sequence ever made.? It screens, along with a few other oddities and surprises, on Jun 29 at8 p.m. during a Somerville Theatre Screening Room (55 Davis Square). Admission is $5. For some-more information, go to www.channel0.blogspot.com.

Fishing buddies

The DocYard, Boston?s showcase for documentary film, continues a twice-monthly summer module during a Brattle Theatre on Monday with ?Low Clear.? Tyler Hughen and Kahlil Hudson?s film, leader of a Emerging Visions Audience Award during a 2012 SXSW Film Festival, explores a loyalty between dual group during a winter fly-fishing outing in Canada. The screening is during 8 p.m., followed by a contention with Kahlil Hudson moderated by film publisher and writer Erin Trahan. For some-more information, go to www.thedocyard.com or www.brattletheatre.org.

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