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Filmmaker Helgeland drew on his New Bedford fishing past for ‘Finestkind’

In a final scene of the film “Finestkind,” as the New Bedford-Fairhaven Bridge slowly pivots open, a father and son cross paths for what might be the last time. One is handcuffed in the back of a police van. The other is outward bound on a fishing trip.  Most in New Bedford know the bridge as little more than a morning traffic jam. But for Brian Helgeland, the 62-year-old New Bedford-raised screenwriter who returned to his hometown to shoot his newest film, the bridge is a symbol of his childhood and his development as a writer.  As a boy, Helgeland rode his bicycle over the bridge. As a young man working on scallop boats, he passed through the bridge as the first leg of a long voyage out to sea. And now, three decades later, the same bridge is also a set in his own film. Photos, more, >>click to read<< 06:45

Head-turning new scallop boat Viking Power arrives in New Bedford

Among the half-dozen people who gathered on the Fairhaven Bridge at 9 a.m. to watch the scallop vessel come into port were friends of Captain Marty Harris, sharing the event with his hospitalized father via a live video call. “We were concerned he wasn’t going to see it,” said Jean Jones of Mattapoisett, whose daughter was running the video. “I think it’s incredible, I have to admit.” Commissioned by Fleet Fisheries owner Lars Vinjerud II, the boat has a hull that slopes outward at the bow, creating a rounded point below the water line, like the nose of rocket. 13 Photo’s, >click to read< 15:44

The Next Generation: Fleet Fisheries’ new scallop boat is turning heads – more photos! >click to read< 10/3/2019