The Nantucket Movie Pageant has set the lineup for its 2024 version and can honor The Morning Present writer-producer Kerry Ehrin, Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker Roger Ross Williams and Girls5Eva showrunner Meredith Scardino.
The twenty ninth version of the competition will open with Josh Margolin’s June Squibb-starrer Thelma, shut with Ian Bonhôte and Peter Ettedgui’s Christopher Reeve documentary Tremendous/Man and Jeff Zimbalist’s documentary Skywalkers: A Love Story, a couple of daredevil couple who secretly filmed themselves climbing the world’s final tremendous skyscraper. The competition may even proceed its custom of screening a Disney or Pixar movie on its opening day, with a competition screening of Inside Out 2.
The competition additionally introduced a number of honorees: Ehrin will obtain the Excellence in Tv Writing Award; Williams will obtain the Profession Achievement in Filmmaking Award and his newest characteristic Stamped From the Starting, primarily based on the e book of the identical identify by Ibram X. Kendi, will display screen on the competition adopted by a dialog between Williams and Kendi; and Scardino will obtain the New Voices in Tv Writing Award, introduced by Girls5Eva star Paula Pell.
Different movies screening on this 12 months’s lineup, consisting of greater than 60 options and quick movies, embody Sean Wang’s Dìdi; Susanna Fogel’s Winner; Chris Smith’s Devo; Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy and Trish Dalton’s Diane Von Furstenberg doc Girl in Cost; Nanette Burstein’s Elizabeth Taylor: The Misplaced Tapes; Gary Hustwit’s Eno, about visionary musician and artist Brian Eno; and Daybreak Porter’s Luther Vandross movie By no means Too A lot.
NFF has added a NextGen Program this 12 months, consisting of movies with enchantment for millennial and Gen Z audiences. And it’s bringing again, for the third 12 months in a row, its Inexperienced Carpet Cinema Program, that includes environment-focused movies.
“This 12 months’s slate of movies continues to have fun daring and unbiased voices near residence and internationally,” senior programmer Basil Tsiokos and lead programmer Anita Raswant mentioned in a press release. “We invite our audiences to discover a variety of labor that honors the ability of storytelling — and in flip, our shared humanity over the course of our six-day, extremely curated competition.”
Nantucket Movie Pageant government director Mystelle Brabbée added: “Since its inception in 1996, NFF has aimed to foster an area that showcases and celebrates the work of unimaginable storytellers in movie and tv, and this 12 months isn’t any exception. We’re thrilled to introduce our curated lineup of movies, occasions, and artists to our audiences on the Island come summer time. As fascinating as our on-screen experiences are, we’re equally excited to focus on the ability of storytelling off-screen by our signature applications that includes participating stay discussions and occasions with acclaimed screenwriters and filmmakers.”
The twenty ninth version of the Nantucket Movie Pageant is about to run from June 19-24.