The opening night film for the 2015 Nantucket Film Festival is The End of the Tour directed by James Ponsoldt & penned by the pulitzer prize winning writer Donald Margulies. The basic synopsis of the film is that a Rolling Stone reporter David Lipsky (Jesse Eisenberg) has hopes of getting inside the life and mind of David Foster Wallace (Jason Segel) over the course of an intimate five-day interview at the end of Wallace’s book tour in 1996.

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The festival has a wide variety of features, docs, shorts, seminars, panels, talks and of course parties. Some of the feature & documentary films that will be screening are as follows: the animated feature INSIDE OUT (co-directors: Pete Docter, Ronnie del Carmen), WHAT HAPPENED, MISS SIMONE? (dir: Liz Garbus), the closing night film BEST OF ENEMIES (Co-Directors: Robert Gordon, Morgan Neville), Sundance Film Festival Award Winner ME AND EARL AND THE DYING GIRL (dir: Alfonso Gomez-Rejon) ,THE STANFORD PRISON EXPERIMENT (dir: Kyle Patrick Alvarez),STEVE JOBS: THE MAN IN THE MACHINE, (dir: Alex Gibney), BEING CANADIAN (dir: Robert Cohen), CARTEL LAND (dir: Matthew Heineman), EXPERIMENTER (dir: Michael Almereyda), HARRY & SNOWMAN (dir: Ron Davis), HOT TYPE: 150 YEARS OF THE NATION (dir: Barbara Kopple), Legendary Filmmaker Ken Loach’s new film JIMMY’S HALL, THE KEEPING ROOM (dir: Daniel Barber), hypnotic, engaging & inventive documentary LISTEN TO ME MARLON (dir: Stevan Riley), MEN GO TO BATTLE (dir: Zachary Treitz), PEGGY GUGGENHEIM – ART ADDICT (dir: Lisa Immordino Vreeland), TIME OUT OF MIND (dir: Oren Moverman), and the documentary A WOMAN LIKE ME (co-directors: Alex Sichel, Elizabeth Giamatti) just to me a few.

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