Schedule of Events:
12:00pm: Master Class: Christy Cashman
Christy has been an actor, director, producer and author who has appeared in more than twenty films, including American Hustle, Joy, The Women, Ted 2, and The Forger. An active member of the Boston community and beyond, she is on the board of directors for the Associates of the Boston Public Library and co-chairs its Literary Lights committee. Her first novel, The Truth About Horses, published in August 2023, has earned significant praise in the literary world and admiration from the equestrian community. In 2021, Christy founded YouthINK, a nonprofit that connects passionate teenaged creators with leading industry creatives to provide a supportive, encouraging, and nurturing space for mentorship and artistic expression. Christy will talk about her journey and how she embraced change yet stayed in the creative sector.
Cost: $20.00
Location: Woods Hole Community Hall
4:00pm: Brief Tender Light
A Ghanaian filmmaker follows four African undergraduates through MIT, America’s premier technological university and his alma mater. The students embark on their MIT education with individual ambitions. And while their missions are distinct, they are fueled by a common goal: to become agents of positive change back home.
Cost: $16.00
Location: Redfield Auditorium
5:30pm: Counted Out
Through a mosaic of personal stories, Counted Out shows what’s at risk if we keep the status quo. Do we want an America in which most of us don’t consider ourselves “math people”? Where math proficiency goes down as students grow up? Or do we want a country where anyone can understand the math that undergirds our society—and can help shape it. The film is dedicated to Bob Moses, the civil rights leader and MacArthur genius who saw math access as the civil rights issue of our time, and whose work we follow in some of the last filmed interviews of his life.
Cost: $16.00
Location: Clapp Auditorium
5:30pm: SHORTS: The Spirit of Massachusetts
The Lost Weekend, The Day Keeper, Smile, Gorgeous, She, Who Dared
*Q&A Post Screening
THE LOST WEEKEND
In the Summer of 2004, James, a teenage boy grappling with his masculinity, embarks on a weekend trip to Cape Cod. As he confronts toxic expectations about what it means to be a man, James must make a life-changing decision that will shape his future.
THE DAY KEEPER
The last of a dying breed, daytime lighthouse keeper Cliff must justify his seemingly unnecessary job while struggling to keep his own inner light shining.
SMILE
A regular at an early morning coffee shop begins to get a little too friendly with the young woman working there.
GORGEOUS
Beth is getting married in 36 hours and her mother hasn’t seen her dress. If this sounds low stakes, you aren’t a fat woman with a mother.
SHE, WHO DARED
Lois Weber, a pioneer of cinema, is a successful Hollywood filmmaker whose new film ”What Do Men Want?” threatens to expose her true feelings about her relationship, and men in general.
Cost: $16.00
Location: Falmouth Academy - Simon Center
6:15pm: Sugarcane
In 2021, evidence of unmarked graves was discovered on the grounds of an Indian residential school run by the Catholic Church in Canada. After years of silence, the forced separation, assimilation and abuse many children experienced at these segregated boarding schools was brought to light, sparking a national outcry against a system designed to destroy Indigenous communities. Set amidst a groundbreaking investigation, SUGARCANE illuminates the beauty of a community breaking cycles of intergenerational trauma and finding the strength to persevere.
Cost: $16.00
Location: Redfield Auditorium
8:00pm: Crookedfinger
After the sudden deaths of her parents, Maria returns to her childhood home on Cape Cod. When her estranged brother Nico shows up to help sort out the estate, tensions soon rise about how to best sell the decrepit house.
Cost: $16.00
Location: Falmouth Academy - Simon Center
8:00pm: The Blues Society with How It Breathes
In the segregated Memphis of the 1960s, blues masters and beatniks created a music festival that rocked the foundations of a conservative world. The Blues Society weaves together hypnotic and unforgettable performances with animation, archival images, and a chorus of diverse voices to create a moving image mixtape that both celebrates the music and re-evaluates the era.
HOW IT BREATHES
A musician reflects on his role in preserving and sharing a unique musical identity in Washington D.C.
Cost: $16.00
Location: Clapp Auditorium
8:30pm: Abroad
Taemin and Minji, a couple of Korean tourists, travel to the Northern part of the United States to see the Aurora Borealis for the first time. But, after Minji mysteriously disappears, Taemin becomes the main suspect, turning the desperate search of his girlfriend into a fight to stay alive.
Cost: $16.00
Location: Redfield Auditorium
