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The locally produced documentary “Waiting to Continue: The Venezuelan Asylum Seekers on Martha’s Vineyard” has been chosen to receive the Arlington International Film Festival’s Outstanding Massachusetts Filmmaker Award, Circuit Arts announced last week.  The documentary short, which portrays the after-effects of last year’s unexpected arrival of nearly 50 South American migrants to the Vineyard, was […]

Last weekend, Venezuelan migrants flown unexpectedly to Martha's Vineyard in 2022 returned to the island for a reunion with each other and islanders.

On a balmy September Saturday evening in Edgartown, 36 of the 49 mostly Venezuelan migrants who were transported here a year ago nearly to the day returned to the Island that welcomed them with open arms.  English and Spanish conversation mingled and filled the air in the parking lot of St. Andrew’s Church and Parish […]

 The Grange Hall in West Tisbury hosted a live screening of “Waiting to Continue,” a locally produced documentary focusing on the 48-hour Vineyard stay of 49 unexpected migrants who were flown to the Vineyard from Texas in September. About 50 people attended the half-hour screening last Thursday.  Directed by Ollie Becker, Tom Ellis, and […]

Last fall, after the summer hubbub quieted down, another whirlwind hit the Island community. While the world might have been generally aware of the news, Circuit Film’s original short documentary, “Waiting to Continue: The Venezuelan Asylum Seekers on Martha’s Vineyard” gives us a behind-the-scenes story about the 48 Venezuelan migrants who were flown here from […]