If it takes a village to sustain a community, the Martha’s Vineyard Film Society’s founder/executive director Richard Paradise is one of our most dedicated citizens. Under his leadership, he has turned a fledgling organization into one of the Island’s very significant resources. The film society began in 1999 when they held weekly summer night screenings […]
With summer arrive Featherstone outdoor movies once again. Called “Summer Trips and Treats,” the Featherstone series is a collaboration with the M.V. Film Society and will play some of the best recent films and at least one classic. The summer series is held every Wednesday from July 6 until August 10. ‘Summer of Soul,’ July […]
Richard Paradise, founder and executive director of the Martha’s Vineyard Film Society, is planning three enticing festivals in the next few months. For Paradise, festivals are special a film, plus an experience. Here you get a chance to interact with and listen to filmmakers, experts, or the movie subjects themselves. There’s an opportunity to […]
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Socially distanced seating at the Film Center. Courtesy M.V. Film Society
The Martha’s Vineyard Film Center saw attendance go up slightly in March, with an uptick of people going to the Film Center when Island elders began getting vaccinated with the two-shot Pfizer and Moderna vaccines.
“Being a nonprofit, we have that flexibility,” said Film Center executive director Richard Paradise. The Film Center is a movie theater attached to the nonprofit Martha’s Vineyard Film Society.
Paradise is planning to hold the fifth annual Spectrum Film Festival for the LGBTQ community and the Martha’s Vineyard Environmental Film Festival in May, with the FilMusic Festival in June and Doc Week in August.