FILM

Photo: Keynote speaker April Reign A Report from the Provincetown Women’s Media Summit by Rebecca M. Alvin This year’s Academy Awards ceremony was markedly different. It seemed the...

by Rebecca M. Alvin Movie lovers tend to fall into two categories: those who love blockbusters and big spectacle Hollywood films that provide escape and...

by Rebecca M. Alvin When Donna Deitch’s Desert Hearts came out in 1985, the topic of two women in love with each other was still...

Rediscovering Chavela Vargas by Rebecca M. Alvin For the documentary filmmaker, timing is everything. Of course, having a passion for your subject matter goes without saying,...

by Rebecca M. Alvin The earliest films ever made were short films. Of course, this was due to the technical limitations of early motion pictures,...

"The cinema’s aim is to offer the community a mix of mainstream and independent films that span a variety of genres and subject matter." The...

Documentaries on LGBT History by Steve Desroches With 1969 generally marked as the beginning of the modern movement for equal rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual and...

Short Documentaries Focus on New England at Film Fest by Steve Desroches For those who live in the region it sometimes takes a trip afar to...

Sebastian Junger and Hell on Earth by Rebecca M. Alvin It’s no surprise that in the past two years there have been a lot of documentaries...

Jaws and the Seduction of Fear by Steve Desroches Swimming in the ocean became an entirely different affair after 1975.  For some, even going in a...