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BOSTONCOMMON-MAGAZINE.COM 113 Raul Esparza and Bill Curran Molly Shannon and Oliver Stone Maris Curran and Irene Taylor Brodsky Zachary Quinto and Miles McMillan Becky and Doug Gladstone Sarah Megan Thomas NANTUCKET FILM FESTIVAL The annual Nantucket Film Festival celebrated award winners for narrative, documentary, and short films. The comedic drama Other People, written and directed by Chris Kelly and starring Molly Shannon, won best narrative feature while Life, Animated, directed by Roger Ross Williams, won best documentary feature. Tel Aviv on Fire, written by Sameh Zoabi and Dan Kleinman, took top prize as winner of the feature screenplay competition. Notable guests included Oliver Stone, Bennett Miller, Seth Meyers, and more. Heidi Ewing Mike Birbiglia and Seth Meyers Joyce Linde and Tom Patti Richard Dix, Gregory Bulger, Lina Plantilla, and Eduardo Plantilla Sara Perles and Chase Womack Jacques Lacombe and Joshua Bell Mark Volpe, Jill Horner, and Yo-Yo Ma Alli and Bill Achtmeyer Sanford and Isanne Fisher TANGLEWOOD OPENING NIGHT The Boston Symphony Orchestra celebrated the start of its Tanglewood season with an opening night program featuring violinist Joshua Bell—his 28th consecutive summer at Tanglewood—as soloist in Saint-Saëns's "Violin Concerto No. 3." Canadian conductor Jacques Lacombe opened the program with Ravel's colorful "Alborada del gracioso" and closed with Prokofiev's "Symphony No. 5." A preceding gala fundraiser raised $475,000 for the music venue. The more than 400 guests included event co-chairs Gregory Bulger, Richard Dix, and Lina and Eduardo Plantilla, along with BSO board chairs Bill Achtmeyer with wife Alli, board president Paul Buttenwieser with wife Katie, managing director Mark Volpe, overseer Jill Horner with husband and star cellist Yo-Yo Ma, and trustee Joyce Linde. Bailee Madison