*Every August, Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts hosts the Martha’s Vineyard African American Film Festival. Now in it’s 16th year, this brain child of Floyd and Stephanie Rance, co-owners of Run & Shoot Filmworks, brings some of the biggest names in films, not Black films, but FILMS … to the island.
On Monday (08-06-18), the Festival’s opening presentation was two hours of exclusive, “Clips and Conversation with Academy Award Winning Director Spike Lee, Actor John David Washington and Author Ron Stallworth – BLACKkKLANSMAN.”
The weather has been atypical for “the Cape and Islands” with humidity and temperature in the sweltering range, but the folks came out to see their island neighbor Spike, who has lived on MV for over 20 years, for the SRO evening.
The buzz in the line was of hopefulness, even anxiousness that this film would be a critical and commercial winner for Spike Lee. As one attendee put it:
“I loved the documentaries (The Academy award nominated “4 Little Girls”, and Emmy winner “When the Levees Broke”), but I want him to have a big hit movie like Malcolm X.”
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