Environmental Film Festival Highlights Ingenuity On, Off Screen

Virtually attending a film festival on Martha’s Vineyard has become a lot easier over the months since the pandemic first sent movie presenters scrambling for alternatives to in-person screenings.

Using an internet streaming platform called Eventive, the Martha’s Vineyard Film Society opened its annual Nature as Inspiration Environmental Film Festival last Thursday with six films, a program of shorts and a series of recorded interviews, all of which remain available through May 27.

It’s a leap forward from the society’s Spectrum LGBTQ+ festival a few weeks ago, for which every film was hosted on a different website and every ticket purchase required an individually-composed email.