Massachusetts
2016 Online New England Film Festival | Rhode Island International Film Festival | Drama | Massachusetts | |
Theme Song Rebel
In a dystopia where a person’s social class is determined by their theme song, Louise wants to change her tune.
2016 Online New England Film Festival | Woods Hole Film Festival | Documentary | Massachusetts | Watch Online Now |
Crest Of The Hill
As his Alzheimer’s progresses, Greg O’Brien prepares to sell his family home.
2016 Online New England Film Festival | Salem Film Fest | Documentary | Experimental | Massachusetts | Watch Online Now |
Memorial
Craftsmen are dwarfed by giant, abstract sculpture in Memorial, an experimental documentary. Monumental sculptures appear first as silhouettes, emphasizing their geometric purity and reminding us that cinema itself is act of reduction and representation. Human craftsmen provide scale, and the eyes through which we perceive the work. Crawling about and even soaring, God-like, over the rusty plates and tubes, they simultaneously humanize and deify this inanimate work. Archival footage introduces a sense of temporality, and asks us to consider how the scales of time differ for humans and our creations.
Memorial chronicles the complete lifecycle of its steel subject, but leaves the biggest question—why must it be destroyed?—to the audience. In considering this, we confront our own mortality and choices to express ourselves through art, even if it will not outlast us.
2016 Online New England Film Festival | Different Faces Different Voices Film Festival | Drama | Connecticut | Massachusetts | New Hamsphire | |
All My Voice
A view into the mind of a brilliant yet challenged scientist.
2016 Online New England Film Festival | Boston International Film Festival | Drama | Massachusetts | |
Trench
A wounded Australian sergeant comes across an armed Turkish soldier in a trench during World War One.
2016 Online New England Film Festival | Boston International Film Festival | Comedy | Massachusetts | Watch Online Now |
So Help Me God
A short comedy about a hapless guy trying to make it through his day who gets help from an unlikely friend.
2016 Online New England Film Festival | Salem Film Fest | Documentary | Massachusetts | Watch Online Now |
Portle
Matt Portle and I started off as strangers. This narrative documentary is about how we became friends.
2016 Online New England Film Festival | Camden International Film Festival | Documentary | Massachusetts | Watch Online Now |
First Light
First Light independently documents the work of the Maine Wabanaki-State Child Welfare Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), the first such task force in US history to investigate issues important to Native Americans. The TRC was dedicated to uncovering and acknowledging the truth about what happened to Wabanaki children and families involved with the state’s child welfare system. First Light is the first film in a series, anchored by the feature film Dawnland slated for release in 2018.
2016 Online New England Film Festival | Woods Hole Film Festival | Drama | Massachusetts | |
Ribbons
Provincetown, a small harbor village at the very tip of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, was already a home to the LGBT community for a few decades when AIDS devastated its population in the mid-1980s. Ribbons is a short film that explores an episode in the life of a second generation Portuguese boy when his mother brings him to a community memorial service by the sea. The boy experiences firsthand the loss incurred by the epidemic, but also his community’s inspirational response to it; an event that as an adult helps him understand the power of forming a bond with a kindred tribe.
2016 Online New England Film Festival | Boston International Film Festival | Drama | Massachusetts | |
A Mother’s Love
A short film, following a mother’s battle of discovering how to save her son from himself.