Expanding for the first time from six to 12 days, Nantucket Film Festival will next month offer virtual, drive-in and “garden” movie screenings while honoring and hosting more than a dozen film, TV and literary celebrities.
Actor Kelsey Grammer (TV’s “Frasier”) will receive the festival’s Compass Rose Award for Career Achievement, while Amy Sherman-Palladino and Daniel Palladino (“The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” “Gilmore Girls”) will receive the Excellence in Television Writing Award, according to an announcement today.
The June 17-28 festival will screen 25 features and 32 short films in its hybrid format necessitated by COVID-19 precautions. This year s fest will open with “Summer of Soul (. Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised,” a documentary about 1969’s Harlem Cultural Festival by The Roots Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson, which is due to be released later this year.