The 23rd annual Nantucket Film Festival celebrated a wide spectrum of films and drew more than a few Hollywood heavyweights over the weekend. The Best\u2026<\/b>
\nThe 23rd annual Nantucket Film Festival celebrated a wide spectrum of films and drew more than a few Hollywood heavyweights over the weekend.
The Best Narrative Feature went to \u201cBurden,\u2019\u2019 directed by Andrew Heckler and starring Garrett Hedlund, Forest Whitaker, and Usher Raymond IV, which tells the true story of a man trying to break ties from the Klu Klux Klan for the sake of his family.
Meanwhile, the Dava Whisenant -directed \u201cBathtubs Over Broadway\u2019\u2019 took home the Best Documentary Feature award. The quirky doc follows \u201cLate Night with David Letterman\u2019\u2019 writer (and Harvard grad) Steve Young \u2019s strange journey into the world of \u201cindustrial musicals,\u2019\u2019 Broadway-level productions put on by giant corporations solely for their respective salesforces.
Finally, Irene Taylor Brodsky \u2019s \u201cHomeless: The Soundtrack,\u2019\u2019 a film about singer-songwriter Jenni Alpert \u2019s search for her biological father, won Best Short Feature.
Meanwhile, the Mr. Rogers documentary \u201cWon\u2019t You Be My Neighbor?\u2019\u2019 and \u201cJuliet, Naked,\u2019\u2019 the Ethan Hawke -starring film based on Nick Hornby \u2019s novel, were named the weekend\u2019s Best of Fest winners.
The NFF also announced the winners of Showtime Tony Cox Screenplay Competition, which spotlights screenplays and television pilots that have yet to be produced. The top prize went to Henry Hayes and Zolan Kanno-Youngs for \u201cCambridge,\u2019\u2019 which tells the life of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev through the friends who knew him before he became the infamous Boston Bomber.
The accolades don\u2019t stop there: writer-director Noah Baumbach (\u201cThe Meyerowitz Stories,\u2019\u2019 \u201cFrances Ha,\u2019\u2019 \u201cThe Squid and the Whale\u2019\u2019) was honored at the Screenwriting Tribute Awards on Saturday night. The event was co-hosted by Ben Stiller and actor\/comedian Mike Birbiglia, and Baumbach accepted the award from frequent collaborator Adam Driver.
Morgan Neville also accepted the Special Achievement in Documentary Storytelling Award for \u201cWon\u2019t You Be My Neighbor?,\u2019\u2019 which was presented by Dr. Fran\u00e7ois Clemmons, better known to \u201cMister Rogers\u2019 Neighborhood\u2019\u2019 fans as Officer Clemmons.<\/p>\n

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