A Day in the Life of Nantucket

Kit Noble, photographer and accomplished local filmmaker has teamed up with The Nantucket Dreamland Foundation to produce an exciting new community project.  On October 8, they are launching Nantucket 24, meant to capture on film a single day on-island as seen and documented through the lenses of hundreds who call this magical island home.

Coinciding with the Nantucket Arts Festival in October, islanders will take to the streets and beaches, forests and fields armed with handheld video cameras—be it iPhone, GoPro, Flip-cam, or the like.  Over the course of the next 24 hours (from 5 a.m. October 8 to 5 a.m. October 9), these community filmmakers will log up to 15 minutes of their best footage.  Whether it is interviewing friends or strangers, capturing landscapes, or documenting activities or events, all subject matter is fair game, as long as it takes place on Nantucket, is appropriate for all ages, and is filmed within the designated 24 hours.  The raw footage will then be submitted to the Dreamland offices at 12 Oak Street where the collected material will be edited and scored by the talented folks at Nantucket Films to tell the story of one day on Nantucket. 

According to Noble anything goes:  ”feeding a kid breakfast, cranberry festival, music, sports, paddleboarding...it’s really wide open.  We’re encouraging filmmakers to do street interviews to create interesting soundbites.  The idea is to film moments...slices of life.  We want the best of the best.”

Though they don’t know what they’ll receive from the day of filmmaking, Noble and Patty Roggeveen, executive director of Dreamland Foundation, are both confident that the results will be stellar:  “It’s a way for us to pull together film and community...we want people to know that filmaking is as much fun as film watching,” commented Roggeveen.   “The real magic of this whole project is that we don’t know what we’re going to get,” Noble added.

Should the weather not cooperate on Saturday, October 8, the raindate for Nantucket 24 is Sunday, October 9.  To find out if the event is postponed and for film guidelines, visit www.facebook.com/nantucket24

For those without a handheld HD device, contact the Dreamland (508-332-4822) where a limited number of Flip Cameras will be available for rent ($20) or purchase ($70).

In the spring of 2012, Nantucket 24 will premiere at the newly opened Dreamland Theater.  The Nantucket Dreamland Foundation is dedicated to enriching the cultural and intellectual life of Nantucket.  Nantucket 24 will help kick start this exciting new chapter in the Dreamland legacy.