Nantucket Film Festival 2023
PHOTOS BY BILL HOENK
The Nantucket Film Festival, the island's annual salute to screenwriting, returned to Nantucket for its 28th edition, featuring an array of films and programs.
Among notable faces and personalities at this year's festival was Joan Baez. The legendary singer-songwriter was in attendance to support the opening-day film Joan Baez I Am a Noise, which offers "an honest look back and a deep look inward" of the singer's life and career.
Baez later sat down for an "in-depth and revealing conversation" with journalist and Vanity Fair correspondent Maureen Orth about Baez's use of music as a tool for political activism. As NFF notes, "From the beginning, the life's work of Joan Baez was mirrored in her music. At a point when it was neither safe nor fashionable, she put herself on the line, singing about freedom and Civil Rights everywhere, from the backs of flatbed trucks in Mississippi to the steps of the Lincoln Memorial at Dr. King's March on Washington in 1963."
