2019 Online New England Film Festival
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 | New Hampshire Film Festival | Drama | New Hamsphire | | Audience Award Winner
Somewhere In July
Somewhere In July follows a 10-year-old girl, caught in the chasm of a family divided over her father’s recent transition into a woman. Filmed stylistically from the perspective of the child, our story captures the innocent and pure love of a child, at play with an at times harsh and confusing world. July is forced into an adult world of politics and morality and with all of these pressures and new, mostly negative social attention, she just wants her family back.
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 | | Drama | Connecticut | |
Acts of Contrition
A priest grapples with his experiences of faith, the past, and his ride-sharing night job in an attempt to prevent a grieving penitent’s death.
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 | Rhode Island | Watch Online Now |
The Inner Lock
A nervous woman visits a hardware store looking to get what she needs to change all the locks on her house. She is assisted by a young unsuspecting clerk who tries follows his normal procedure for dealing with customers despite her questionable behavior.
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.