NewEnglandFilm Discovery
2021 Online New England Film Festival Retrospective | NewEnglandFilm Discovery | Comedy | Massachusetts | |
Holy Tortilla
A dash of magic realism, sprinkled with hope, and baked on faith. When a woman sees the face of Jesus in her tortilla, she begins a quest to prove that miracles really are possible in everyday life.
2021 Online New England Film Festival Retrospective | NewEnglandFilm Discovery | Comedy | Massachusetts | Watch Online Now |
The Blinking Madonna and Other Miracles
Making ethnographic documentaries about her North End neighbors had allowed filmmaker Beth Harrington to keep her own background and beliefs at bay. But when she inadvertently videotapes a “miracle” with her camera, she has to wrestle with her past and what it means to believe and belong.
2021 Online New England Film Festival Retrospective | NewEnglandFilm Discovery | Drama | Massachusetts | Watch Online Now |
The Commitment
Robert and Ethan are an interracial gay couple fulfilling their dream of adopting a newborn baby. After they meet the expectant Asian birthmother, however, they receive a surprise that threatens their own relationship.
2021 Online New England Film Festival Retrospective | NewEnglandFilm Discovery | Animation | Massachusetts | Watch Online Now |
Repetition Compulsion
An animated documentary about trauma & the cycles of abuse suffered by homeless women.
2021 Online New England Film Festival Retrospective | NewEnglandFilm Discovery | Documentary | Massachusetts | Watch Online Now |
FIBA Allow Hijab
Bilqis Abdul-Qaadir is the all-time leading scorer in Massachusetts history for high school basketball (male or female). In 2010, she became the first NCAA Division I player to wear a hijab on the court. But today she is blocked from pursuing her professional basketball career due to a FIBA rule that bans headscarves in international competitions. Forced to sit out, Abdul-Qaadir is now leading the fight for Muslim women’s right to play.
2021 Online New England Film Festival Retrospective | NewEnglandFilm Discovery | Comedy | Massachusetts | Watch Online Now |
Celebration
An unexpected take on emerging from the closet with a deeper meaning about identity.
2021 Online New England Film Festival Retrospective | NewEnglandFilm Discovery | Documentary | Massachusetts | Watch Online Now |
My Father’s Story
The story of what happened to the non-Jewish Poles during World War II is seldom heard. “My Father’s Story” is just one Polish voice -out of two and a half million people who were taken from their homes and placed into forced labor by the Nazis. This is the story of Romuald Kocol’s struggle, liberation by the Americans, and his emigration to the United States.
2017 Online New England Film Festival | NewEnglandFilm Discovery | Documentary | Rhode Island | Watch Online Now |
Branch
Living in isolation, Branch only communicates with the portraits he has created. His reality begins to break down when Branch is met by a mysterious voice outside his apartment door. As bizarre circumstances begin to unfold before his eyes, Branch tries to decipher reality from delusion, and discover the truth of who or what he really is.
2009 Online New England Film Festival | NewEnglandFilm Discovery | Animation | | |
The Wing
When your dreams come true, what happens next? In this film an average circus performer realizes his dream of growing wings — what happens next?
2009 Online New England Film Festival | NewEnglandFilm Discovery | Documentary | Massachusetts | | Audience Award Winner
Virginia Lee Burton—A Sense of Place
Virginia Lee Burton—A Sense of Place explores the life and art of Virginia Lee Burton [1909-1968], considered to be one of the most significant children’s book author and illustrators of the 20th century. For 70 years, her classic books, including the beloved Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel and the Caldecott Award-winning, The Little House, have engaged generations of readers young and old. Burton was also a talented textile designer and established a highly successful textile collective known as The Folly Cove Designers, in the Folly Cove area of Gloucester, Massachusetts. These handcrafted designs with motifs from nature rendered in bright colors were sold nationwide. Through never-before-seen archival materials, location footage and interviews with family, friends and scholars, this film reveals that Burton was a true Renaissance woman whose art and literature remain an enduring part of America’s cultural heritage.