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On the eve of the Book Festival, the Martha's Vineyard Film Festival and the Martha's Vineyard Book Festival have joined forces to bring you a special presentaton.  This joint event celebrates island artists: filmmaker, author, publisher, photographer, and the fine craftsmanship of two extraordinary island boat builders. We are delighted to bring you this special event. 

Charlotte
Dir. Jeffrey Kusama-Hinte
Documentary | U.S.A. | 2011 | 100 min.

Discussion with director Jeffrey Kusama-Hinte, and with  

Schooner author Tom Dunlop and photographer Alison Shaw,

and film and book subjects Nat Benjamin and Ross Gannon, to follow

Schooner will be available for sale and signing following the screening

Golden Globe winner and Vineyard resident Jeffrey Kusama-Hinte brings us his most recent project, an extraordinary film about the Gannon & Benjamin Marine Railway. Ross Gannon and Nat Benjamin established their Vineyard Haven boatyard in 1980 with the purpose of designing, building, and maintaining traditionally-built wooden boats. Through its careful portrayal of the everyday activities in and around the boatyard, the film emerges as a meditation on craftsmanship, tradition, family, community, and the love of the sea. 

The Gannon and Benjamin Marine Railway is also the subject of the book, Schooner: Building a Boat on Martha's Vineyard.  Through Tom Dunlop's lively text and Alison Shaw's outstanding photography, Schooner chronicles the design and construction of Rebecca, the largest wooden boat to be launched from Martha’s Vineyard in the last 150 years.
 

Filmmaker Jeffrey Kusama-Hinte

Lisa Genova discussing, Still Alice, in 2009