Time’s Up

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...

Films for the Fall Season

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...

Out in the Desert

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...

Ask Me Where I’m Going

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,...

Short and Sweet

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,...

Waters Edge Cinema

"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...

A Full Circle Rainbow

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...

Home Movies

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...

Not for the Faint of Heart

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...

It’s Just A Movie

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...