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The 35TH
WOODS HOLE

FILM FESTIVAL

Saturday, July 25 - Saturday, August 1, 2026

8 DAYS OF SCREENINGS, WORKSHOPS, FESTIVAL
HEADQUARTERS
PANEL DISCUSSIONS, FILMMAKER Q&A’S, AND STORE

MUSIC, PARTIES AND MORE... 89 Water Street, Second Floor
Woods Hole, MA 02543.
Open daily 11 am – 6 pm.
How to Festival 2026
The 35th Woods Hole Film Festival will include over 120 film
screenings and events over the 8 day Festival at venues in Woods Hole LINDSAY UTZ
and Falmouth. 2026 Filmmaker In Residence
Screening and event venues in Woods Hole and Falmouth: Lindsay Utz is an award-winning director, producer, and
Redfield Auditorium (WHOI), Clapp Auditorium (MBL), Meigs Room, editor who has helped shape some of the most acclaimed
documentaries of the past decade. Her directorial debut,
Swope Center (MBL), Woods Hole, Woods Hole Community Hall, Prime Minister (2025)—a revealing portrait of former New
Old Woods Hole Fire Station and Falmouth Academy, Falmouth. Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern—premiered at the
Sundance Film Festival, where it won the World Cinema
Tickets packages and passes available now online at Documentary Audience Award. The film was released
woodsholefilmfestival.org. Individual tickets available starting July 1. by Magnolia Pictures and later premiered on HBO and
Festival box office at Fire Station open daily starting July 7th. CNN. Utz is currently directing and producing a feature
documentary on the origins of NPR, tracing the institu-
For more information about the films and events, including tion’s founding and enduring role in American
public life.
workshop, panels, event descriptions and film trailers, check
woodsholefilmfestival.org. As an editor, she cut the Academy Award–
winning American Factory (2019), the
Emmy-nominated Martha (2024), the
Oscar-shortlisted Billie Eilish: The World’s
SPECIAL SCREENING a Little Blurry (2021), Miss Americana
(2020), and the Peabody-nominated Quest
she is known for transforming deeply
Friday, July 24th 7:30 pm (2017), among others. Across her films,
personal stories into emotionally
Redfield Auditorium resonant, widely accessible cinematic
experiences.

You Got Gold: In 2024, she co-founded Win Win
Pictures with Grammy Award–win-
A Celebration of ning music supervisor and producer
Margaret Yen, developing premium
John Prine film and television projects centered
on culture, music, and power.

Feature Documentary
by Michael John Warren
USA • 2025 • 90 min.
A star-studded tribute to the legendary
songwriter John Prine, filmed in October 2022
at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium. The event
brought together acclaimed artists such as
Bonnie Raitt, Brandi Carlile, Tyler Childers,
Lucinda Williams, Dwight Yoakam, Jason
Isbell, and Bob Weir, amongst many others,
as well as friends and family to share behind-
the-scenes stories and perform classic songs,
honoring Prine’s enduring legacy. Martha’s Vineyard radio www.MVYRADIO.org
88.7FM Cape & Islands, MA | 96.5FM in Newport, RI

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