NewportFILM Outdoors, a unique celebration of documentary moviemaking that is held in some of the most iconic locations in one of the most storied summer resorts in America, has unveiled its latest line-up of films for its summer season.
They include “It’s Only Life After All,” a look at the Indigo Girls; “After the Bite,” an examination of a community’s reaction to a shark attack; and “Invisible Beauty,” the story of pioneering model, agent and activist, Bethann Hardison. What makes the Newport, Rhode Island event so memorable is that these screenings take place on the lawns of mansions like Marble House and The Elms, as well as historical locations like Fort Adams, which hosts the annual Newport Jazz Festival, and the Newport Polo Grounds. It’s all very shades of Edith Wharton.
“Patrick and the Whale” will open the weekly series on the lawn of the Great Friends Meeting House.
They include “It’s Only Life After All,” a look at the Indigo Girls; “After the Bite,” an examination of a community’s reaction to a shark attack; and “Invisible Beauty,” the story of pioneering model, agent and activist, Bethann Hardison. What makes the Newport, Rhode Island event so memorable is that these screenings take place on the lawns of mansions like Marble House and The Elms, as well as historical locations like Fort Adams, which hosts the annual Newport Jazz Festival, and the Newport Polo Grounds. It’s all very shades of Edith Wharton.
“Patrick and the Whale” will open the weekly series on the lawn of the Great Friends Meeting House.
- 6/20/2023
- by Brent Lang
- Variety Film + TV
The 2023 Nantucket Film Festival, running June 21-26, with kick off with four films on its opening day lineup. For the 12th consecutive year, a Disney and Pixar movie will open the festival with “Elemental,” which premieres in May at the Cannes International Film Festival.
Also on Day 1 are Sophie Barthes’ “The Pod Generation,” coming off stops at Sundance and Sarasota — Barthes will also receive the inaugural Maria Mitchell Visionary Award for the film; SXSW-premiere documentary “Joan Baez I am a Noise,” with Baez herself in attendance; and Austrian documentary “Patrick and the Whale,” which premiered at TIFF 2022.
Recent Bleecker Street acquisition “Jules,” starring Ben Kingsley, Harriet Sansom Harris, and Jane Curtin, will be the closing-night film.
Guests announced to be in attendance include Michaela Watkins (“You Hurt My Feelings”), Allison Williams (“M3GAN”), Lola Tung (“The Summer I Turned Pretty”), Graham Greene (“Dances with Wolves”), and Julio Torres (“Problemista”).
Other films...
Also on Day 1 are Sophie Barthes’ “The Pod Generation,” coming off stops at Sundance and Sarasota — Barthes will also receive the inaugural Maria Mitchell Visionary Award for the film; SXSW-premiere documentary “Joan Baez I am a Noise,” with Baez herself in attendance; and Austrian documentary “Patrick and the Whale,” which premiered at TIFF 2022.
Recent Bleecker Street acquisition “Jules,” starring Ben Kingsley, Harriet Sansom Harris, and Jane Curtin, will be the closing-night film.
Guests announced to be in attendance include Michaela Watkins (“You Hurt My Feelings”), Allison Williams (“M3GAN”), Lola Tung (“The Summer I Turned Pretty”), Graham Greene (“Dances with Wolves”), and Julio Torres (“Problemista”).
Other films...
- 4/26/2023
- by Christian Blauvelt
- Indiewire
In “Patrick and the Whale,” director and editor Mark Fletcher explores an area not often examined by wildlife filmmakers: the emotional connections that bind sperm whales and their ability not only to communicate to one another, but also, seemingly, to humans.
Produced by Austria’s Terra Mater Studios and screening in the Zurich Film Festival’s Focus Competition, the film centers on Patrick Dykstra, a passionate wildlife explorer, BAFTA-winning cameraman and host of the Discovery series “Chasing Ocean Giants,” and his relationships with two female sperm whales.
Employing stunning underwater footage, the film follows Dykstra as he delves into the fascinating nature of sperm whales, seeking to better understand their intelligence and complexity while also highlighting their fraught relationship with humankind.
Dykstra, a former corporate lawyer who ditched his office job to explore the oceans, initially experienced a close encounter with one of the whales off the coast of the Caribbean island of Dominica,...
Produced by Austria’s Terra Mater Studios and screening in the Zurich Film Festival’s Focus Competition, the film centers on Patrick Dykstra, a passionate wildlife explorer, BAFTA-winning cameraman and host of the Discovery series “Chasing Ocean Giants,” and his relationships with two female sperm whales.
Employing stunning underwater footage, the film follows Dykstra as he delves into the fascinating nature of sperm whales, seeking to better understand their intelligence and complexity while also highlighting their fraught relationship with humankind.
Dykstra, a former corporate lawyer who ditched his office job to explore the oceans, initially experienced a close encounter with one of the whales off the coast of the Caribbean island of Dominica,...
- 9/21/2022
- by Ed Meza
- Variety Film + TV
‘The Blackening’, ’Sisu’, ’How To Blow Up A Pipeline’ all in play.
After a traditionally quiet start over the first weekend, market activity is heating up with a Focus Features worldwide buy on Alexander Payne’s off-festival title The Holdovers as interest builds on a number of films in selection.
The Holdovers deal is understood to have closed in the 30m region and excludes Middle East. The 1970-set project reunites Payne with his Sideways star Paul Giamatti and follows an unpopular New England prep schoolteacher forced to spend Christmas holidays with a stranded, unruly student and a Black head cook...
After a traditionally quiet start over the first weekend, market activity is heating up with a Focus Features worldwide buy on Alexander Payne’s off-festival title The Holdovers as interest builds on a number of films in selection.
The Holdovers deal is understood to have closed in the 30m region and excludes Middle East. The 1970-set project reunites Payne with his Sideways star Paul Giamatti and follows an unpopular New England prep schoolteacher forced to spend Christmas holidays with a stranded, unruly student and a Black head cook...
- 9/12/2022
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
‘The Blackening’, ’Sisu’, ’How To Blow Up A Pipeline’ all in play.
After a traditionally quiet start over the first weekend, market activity is heating up with a Focus Features worldwide buy on Alexander Payne’s off-festival title The Holdovers as interest builds on a number of films in selection.
The Holdovers deal is understood to have closed in the 30m region and excludes Middle East. The 1970-set project reunites Payne with his Sideways star Paul Giamatti and follows an unpopular New England prep schoolteacher forced to spend Christmas holidays with a stranded, unruly student and a Black head cook...
After a traditionally quiet start over the first weekend, market activity is heating up with a Focus Features worldwide buy on Alexander Payne’s off-festival title The Holdovers as interest builds on a number of films in selection.
The Holdovers deal is understood to have closed in the 30m region and excludes Middle East. The 1970-set project reunites Payne with his Sideways star Paul Giamatti and follows an unpopular New England prep schoolteacher forced to spend Christmas holidays with a stranded, unruly student and a Black head cook...
- 9/12/2022
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
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