Posts Tagged ‘storytelling’
West Newton Cinema presents Behind the Screen: Hoosiers with Brad Stevens
ABOUT THE FILM: A coach with a checkered past and a local drunk train a small town high school basketball team to become a top contender for the championship. PANEL…
Read MoreWest Newton Cinema presents Night Fight
Night Fight is a hybrid documentary, nonfiction framed with creative, cinematic storytelling directed and edited by Khary Saeed Jones. The film emerges from a harrowing incident in 2017 when Jones…
Read MoreWest Newton Cinema presents Behind the Screen: All God’s Children
In an unprecedented attempt to heal centuries of racism and antisemitism, and combat the rising racial and ethnic tension in their Brooklyn communities, the largest reform synagogue and the oldest…
Read MoreCapella Clausura presents “‘in tongues’: Ruehr’s “Cassandra”
Magic spells, prophecies, secrets, prayers; what happens when words mean more than what they say? Speech has the power to persuade, clarify, distort, and to move. It can even affect…
Read MoreWest Newton Cinema presents Behind the Screen: The Testament of Ann Lee
ABOUT THE FILM: From award-winning writer-director Mona Fastvold (The World to Come, The Brutalist) comes the extraordinary true legend of Ann Lee, founder of the devotional sect known as the…
Read MoreWest Newton presents Behind the Screen: Sinners
SINNERS is a genre-defying period horror drama written and directed by Ryan Coogler, set in 1932 Mississippi during the Jim Crow era. The story follows twin brothers Elijah “Smoke” Moore…
Read MoreWest Newton Cinema presents There Was, There Was Not
In THERE WAS, THERE WAS NOT, myth and reality intertwine to reveal the lives of four Armenian women facing the loss of their homeland. What began as a quiet observation…
Read MoreBest of Fests: Remaining Native
Best of Fests: REMAINING NATIVE Co-Presented by Salem Film Fest ABOUT THE FILM REMAINING NATIVE is a coming-of-age documentary told from the perspective of Kutoven (Ku) Stevens, a 17-year-old Native…
Read MoreThe Tree Nursery on Nonantum Hill: A Durant-Kenrick Walking Tour
Did you know Newton Corner was the site of one of New England’s first commercial nurseries? Put yourself back in time to when the Kenrick family cultivated fruit trees, ornamental…
Read MoreWalking Tour: Founding Newtonians in East Parish Burying Ground
How does a burying ground tell our local story? Ramble through East Parish Burying Ground as we visit the grave sites of some of Newton’s early English settlers and the…
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