Massachusetts
2019 Online New England Film Festival | Roxbury International Film Festival | Documentary | Massachusetts | Watch Online Now |
KWABENA
Narrated & captured by filmmaker Déwun Owusu, the short film ‘Kwabena’ drops you in the middle of a once in a lifetime event. Powered by mystery, revelation and raw emotion, ‘Kwabena’ expressively captures an extraordinary human experience that sticks with you long after the conclusion of the short.
2019 Online New England Film Festival | Roxbury International Film Festival | Documentary | Massachusetts | Watch Online Now | Jury Award Winner
Murder in Mobile
In 1948, in Mobile, Alabama, a black man named Rayfield Davis is beaten to death by a white man who is not prosecuted. The crime is forgotten until 2012, when the investigation is revived by a Northeastern law student. Her discoveries lead to a shocking conclusion.
2019 Online New England Film Festival | Salem Film Fest | Documentary | Massachusetts | Watch Online Now |
Recipe For Disaster: Green Crabs In The Great Marsh
When faced with an invasive species and the prospect of ecological devastation, residents along the New England coast are in search of a sustainable solution to save the marsh.
Recipe For Disaster tells the story of the little-known invasion that is threatening an entire New England ecosystem, and the struggle of local experts and residents to understand and prevent this catastrophe. Driven by the rising temperatures in the Gulf of Maine, billions of green crabs have overrun the abundant natural marshes on coastal Massachusetts, decimating the populations of clams, scallops, mussels, and eelgrass that birds and fish depend upon to survive. In just a few short years of explosive population growth, the damage caused by green crabs has local residents and experts rushing to avert irreparable destruction with approaches such as transplanting eelgrass and paying fishermen to trap the crabs for compost.
The most promising solution, however, is popping up on gourmet restaurant menus in the form of green crab roe.
This short, powerful documentary film explores one aspect of the consequences of climate change that are echoed in coastal communities around the world, with stunning footage of the beautiful marshes and estuaries whose salvation may come on a dinner plate.
2019 Online New England Film Festival | | Sci-Fi | Thriller | Massachusetts | Watch Online Now | Audience Award Winner | Jury Award Winner
Encounter
A woman must fight off a mysterious force encroaching on her independent and isolated lifestyle.
2019 Online New England Film Festival | Rhode Island International Film Festival | Drama | Massachusetts | Watch Online Now | Audience Award Winner | Jury Award Winner
The Extraordinary World of Cecily Blinkstop
Set in 1974 rural New England, this enchanting story moves through the days of Cecily, a seven-year-old girl who, after the death of her baby sister, lives in a world with no music, no color, no laughter, no love—that is, until a magical imaginary friend shows up and joins Cecily on the quest to save her family from the grief that is destroying them. Jennifer Potts wrote the feature film script The Extraordinary World of Cecily Blinkstop in 2014, and this short version is based on the first 15 pages of the feature film script. This short film will be produced as a proof of concept to raise funding for the feature film.
2019 Online New England Film Festival | Provincetown International Film Festival | Experimental | Massachusetts | Watch Online Now | Audience Award Winner | Jury Award Runner Up
Cure for Insomnia
Ed Morgan and family go for a ride through the forest and meet Smokey the Bear. After Joanna Cassidy delivers a public service announcement, Ed starts a fire with his cigarette butt. The children plead in song for a country up in flames as the fire is engulfed by surging seas. Alfred Hitchcock provides the perfect antidote.
2019 Online New England Film Festival | | Experimental | Massachusetts | | Jury Award Winner
ROT
An individual known to the universe as ROT dissects and scavenges a dead world.
2019 Online New England Film Festival | | Drama | Massachusetts | |
Nonplussed
Brice console’s his friend who goes through a lover’s spat only to discover his more manipulative side.
2019 Online New England Film Festival | | Documentary | Massachusetts | Watch Online Now |
Meet The Artist: Melissa Glick
Melissa Glick artist working from the Artisan’s Asylum Somerville, MA transforms old computer parts and recycled paper into assemblages, mosaics, tiles and clocks.
For more information see: www.hackercreations.com
Directed, produced and edited by Sara Pagiaro; Interview & sound by Sam Bruce; Music by Saul Guanipa; Artisanal Asylum. Produced for Cambridge Community Television.
2019 Online New England Film Festival | | Drama | Massachusetts | |
Hyphen
A poetic journey of memory and fantasy told through the eyes of four versions of an artist as she creates her own identity.