‘Somewhere With No Bridges’ Streams Feb. 15
First Run presents the streaming premiere of Charles Frank’s new documentary Somewhere With No Bridges, beginning February 15, 2022, on Apple TV, iTunes, Amazon & Vimeo
Heralded as “a celebration of life like you’ve never seen,” the film is a a stirring, lyrical journey beneath the brusque, reticent surface of a New England fishing community.
Twenty years after a beloved local fisherman, Richie Madeiras, goes missing off the shores of Martha’s Vineyard, a distant cousin locates Richie’s kind, indelible spirit in the stories of family, friends, and the sweeping sea which has defined their lives.
Produced by Andrew Hutcheson, Charles Frank, Jeff Melanson
Edited by Nico Frank
Written by Nico Frank, Charles Frank
Cinematography by Jeff Melanson
Original Score by Jeff Melanson
Sound Design & Mix by Calvin Pia
60 minutes, color, 2020
Charles Frank is a director and founding partner of Voyager, a production company built to prove that small, intimate, empathetic documentaries could change people’s minds, one viewer at a time. His work has reached millions of people online, been featured in The Atlantic, Huffington Post, and Short of the Week, and received numerous Vimeo Staff Picks. His debut feature doc, Somewhere With No Bridges, is a film set on Martha’s Vineyard exploring masculinity and the mystical power of the ocean. Heralded as “a celebration of life like you’ve never seen,” the film won the Audience Award at Salem Film Fest 2020. In the age of Instagram, influencers, and content creators, Charles’ empathetic and heart-filled portraits of real people feel more prescient than ever. The connective tissue between all of his work is his very real desire to connect audiences to the subjects’ onscreen, but also to one another.
