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Another Harvest Moon
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Narrative Feature, 2009, 87 min
Directed by: Greg Swartz
Interests: *Feature Length Films, Drama

Anne Meara and Greg W. Swartz in attendance. With a powerful performance by Anne Meara as Ella, Another Harvest Moon is a sensitive drama about four elderly Americans coping with life in a nursing home. Read More

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Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work
15th Anniversary Sidebar
Documentary Feature, 2010, 87 min
Directed by: Ricki Stern and Annie Sundberg
Interests: *Feature Length Films, Biography, Female Director

This hilarious, perceptive, and entertaining new film by talented filmmakers and Nantucket Film Festival alumnae Annie Sundberg and Ricki Stern exposes the private dramas experienced by irreverent comedian and pop icon Joan Rivers as she fights tooth and nail to remain the queen of comedy. Read More

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When the World Breaks
15th Anniversary Sidebar
Documentary Feature, 2010, 84 min
Directed by: Hans Fjellestad
Interests: *Feature Length Films, Arts & Artists

Jerry Stiller in attendance. In 1929 the world was launched into the darkest time in modern economic history. That same year, Ernest Hemingway wrote, “The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong in the broken places.” When the World Breaks is a film about creativity and survival during the Great Depression of the 1930s, with striking parallels to current times. Read More

Winter's Bone
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Narrative Feature, 2010, 100 min
Directed by: Debra Granik
Interests: *Feature Length Films, Drama, Female Director

Based on the novel by Daniel Woodrell, Winter’s Bone tells the story of 17-year-old Ree Dolly. Ree sets out to track down her father, who put up her family’s house as his bail bond and then disappeared. If Ree fails to find him, she and her family will be turned out into the Ozark woods. Read More