It culminated with a festival-sanctioned picket line at the island’s main public library, the Atheneum. Where to Watch This Week’s New Movies, from ‘Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny’ to ‘Nimona’Īt a time when the WGA strike has caused many writers to avoid FYC events and simply apply their way with words to creating pithy signs for the picket line, the Nantucket Film Festival stood apart from the march to awards season and focused on supporting the ability of writers to write. That film is literally about an author, and so were several others that showed, including Christian Petzold’s “Afire.” (“My Sailor, My Love” won the Narrative Feature Audience Award, while “The Saint of Second Chances” and “Hung Up on a Dream” won the Documentary Feature Audience Award.) And the biggest competition isn’t built around established names at all, but a screenplay contest geared toward finding new talent. The WGA has been a longtime partner of the festival, and the biggest gala event was a Screenwriters Tribute honoring Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, the “To All the Boys I Loved Before” scribe Jenny Han, and Nicole Holofcener, whose “You Hurt My Feelings” screened in the lineup. Stars certainly appear - Allison Williams brought the glamour this year - but pen and paper are more important here than primping and pompadours.
The Nantucket Film Festival, which took place June 21-26 on the foggy isle 30 miles off the Massachusetts coast, is uniquely oriented toward the craft of screenwriting. This one encouraged a picket line to form.
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