How Martha's Vineyard film festival became a hotspot for Black Hollywood

Mass : Martha's Vineyard It had a movie like feeling.

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Oscar winner Viola Davis is seen in one shot shining brightly at a VIP cocktail hour overlooking the Vineyard Haven Marina

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At the yearly white celebration in Oak Bluffs, the actress Regina Hall can be seen slicing through the crowd in one image.

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Two days after former president Barack Obama and NBA icon Ray Allen played at Farm Neck Golf Club, Spike Lee was there.

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Or perhaps it was just the middle of August on Martha's Vineyard, the small island in the Atlantic ...

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...that has hosted "the summer's finest film festival" honouring Black stories for the past 20 years.

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The Martha's Vineyard African American Film Festival, which was founded by Stephanie and Floyd Rance 20 years ago

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in their Brooklyn apartment, has been steadily expanding in size" and reputation.

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It is ideally situated at the intersection of Black culture, industry change, and everyone's ideal vacation.

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