Massachusetts
2010 Online New England Film Festival | Rhode Island International Film Festival | Documentary | Massachusetts | Rhode Island | Watch Online Now |
Inside the Outside: A Profile of the Top Drawer Art Center
Inside the Outside: A Profile of the Top Drawer Art Center takes a look at an innovative Rhode Island-based arts center serving the developmentally-disabled population. Understanding that the Top Drawer Art Center is a microcosm of the larger ‘outsider art’ movement, the film reflects on the artists’ place in society and in the art world at large. The immediacy of the artists’ work, their lack of self-consciousness around making it, and the experimental use of materials become a source of inspiration for the artists and the people around them. Three of the art center’s nationally-recognized artists Brian Lamora, Emmitt Estrada, and Katrina Cathcart are featured prominently. This film won 2nd place in the 2008 Providence Film Festival.
2010 Online New England Film Festival | New Hampshire Film Festival | Drama | Massachusetts | New Hamsphire | |
Killing Dinner
“Dinner is the best form of foreplay. Especially when it leads to sex, guns and mayhem.” A special ops agent drops off the grid and into the kitchen, working incognito as a chef. When old lovers and comrades in arms come calling with guns blazing, Michael Dinner must put down his chef’s knife and pick up a gun.
2010 Online New England Film Festival | Woods Hole Film Festival | Documentary | Massachusetts | | Audience Award Winner
Making the Crooked Straight
Making the Crooked Straight tells the story of one man’s work to save the world, one child at a time. Dr. Rick Hodes has spent 20 years in Ethiopia working with indigent children, curing illness and changing lives. He has adopted seven, and shares his home with 20 or more.
The film is an inspiring tale of interfaith tolerance and support: Dr. Hodes is an Orthodox Jew, and his children are Muslim and Christian.
A gorgeous soundtrack of indigenous music accompanies this award-winning documentary.
2010 Online New England Film Festival | Woods Hole Film Festival | Comedy | Massachusetts | Watch Online Now |
Red Flag
Tracy, an “everywoman” in her early 30’s, goes on four blind dates…nightmares. She emerges unscathed, even after ignoring red flag after red flag, and seems to have given up on dating. Free and alone, she stumbles upon a fabulous guy in the park. All is looking good until it’s time to say goodbye.
2010 Online New England Film Festival | Woods Hole Film Festival | Drama | Massachusetts | Watch Online Now | Audience Award Winner
Unmoored
James is dead. Sarah stole his ashes. They’re both gonna have a long day.
Unmoored is the story of a couple with one afternoon left to get things right.
2010 Online New England Film Festival | Maine International Film Festival | Documentary | Massachusetts | Watch Online Now | Audience Award Winner
Upstream to Downstream (In Our Bloodstreams)
Upstream to Downstream (In Our Bloodstreams) examines the systems of our culture, of which we are all participants; we dump unfathomable amounts of pollutants and DNA altering chemicals into our streams and rivers which eventually end in the ocean. It was once believed that waters were so vast, that whatever was dumped into it was somehow absorbed and made inert, or cleansed by the water. However, what goes around – comes back around, either by drinking water, consumption of contaminated foods, or loss of marine habitats’ ability to sustain life. Baker says, “Water is our lifeblood.” This eerie short in the style of flowing painterly public-service-announcement examines a need to restructure our water, waste, and energy systems – but first our way of thinking. Maine Ecological Artist and Film Director, Krisanne Baker makes a case for the changing of our cumulative consumerist practices in this experimental documentary short.
2009 Online New England Film Festival | 2021 Online New England Film Festival Retrospective | | Experimental | Massachusetts | Watch Online Now |
A Work In Progress
A Work In Progress is a short experimental film that illustrates one way of understanding how life works, through knitting. In this film, the needles never stop knitting, motions never cease, and the most important people never truly leave. Scenes and sounds from a classic French film put you in a state of nostalgia no matter what year you were born. Yet it’s the unmistakable scratch of super 8 home movies fused with intimate and far away views of the knitter that stitch together the idea that our lives begin way before we know and will always be “a work in progress.”
2009 Online New England Film Festival | NewEnglandFilm Discovery | Drama | Massachusetts | |
Carapace
A bug enters an apartment window on a summer afternoon and discovers Beth and Davey – two young lovers on the brink of change.
2009 Online New England Film Festival | Woods Hole Film Festival | Comedy | Massachusetts | Watch Online Now | Audience Award Winner
Clam Pie
After gorging on a classic old-fashioned seaside delicacy a curious woman finds herself launched into a radical encounter with heaven. Clam Pie was shot at the Great Island Bakery in South Yarmouth, and at other Cape locations including Chapin Beach in Dennis.
2009 Online New England Film Festival | NewEnglandFilm Discovery | Drama | Massachusetts | | Audience Award Winner
Did You…
Did You… is the story of a day in the life of a high school student who seems to have everything going for him. But is everything as it seems?