Film

Film crew shooting performers on a Newport Folk Festival stage set

Side stage to history: local man cast as extra for Newport Folk Fest scenes in new Bob Dylan film

Doug Key plays a festival musician backstage in "A Complete Unknown" starring Timothée Chalamet [...]
Denée Benton speaking with a microphone during a seated conversation

Denée Benton of HBO’s The Gilded Age spends day in Newport  

“Becoming Peggy Scott”: A conversation with Denée Benton and Dr. Erica Armstrong Dunbar of HBO's The Gilded Age [...]
Man in a red shirt leaning on a fence by a farm silo

Spotlight on Local Filmmakers: Lampton Enochs

On producing "Stranger Things," earning an Academy Award for an animated short, and advice for the next generation [...]
Satya Sullivan filming an actress seated on a bed

Spotlight on Local Filmmakers: Satya Sullivan

The budding filmmaker has studied at URI and as a newportFILM fellow [...]
Group of young filmmakers at the Austin Film Festival

Spotlight on Local Filmmakers: The Kinnane Brothers

The group of eight brothers (seven by blood, one by marriage) on making "Water Brother" and other films [...]
Filmmaker Hannah Eaton reclining on a sofa on the beach

Spotlight on Local Filmmakers: Hannah Eaton

The Portsmouth resident recently made the short film "The Stewards" [...]
Film still of a smiling man in a bucket hat on a beach chair

Spotlight on Local Filmmakers: Jack Galvin

The Newporter began hosting a film festival in his backyard that expanded to the Jane Pickens Theater [...]
Filmmaker Corinna Halloran standing by ocean surf

Spotlight on Local Filmmakers: Corinna Halloran

The Newport resident has made several documentaries at the cross-section of nature and adventure [...]
Crowd at an outdoor screening at the Central Street Film Fest

Spotlight on Local Filmmakers

Featuring Corinna Halloran, Hannah Eaton, Jack Galvin, Lampton Enochs, Satya Sullivan and the Kinnane Brothers [...]
Person adjusting a camera with a mounted microphone

3-2-1- Action!

Educators with newportFILM’s Documentary Unbound program help local kids become filmmakers [...]
The Gilded Age scene of a period-dressed lawn party on an oceanfront lawn

Making an Unforgettable Impression

From The Gilded Age to Hocus Pocus, Newport is a memorable filming location [...]