Room for Us (MSE) is a documentary about the housing crisis on Nantucket -- and the people living through it.

Room For Us? was produced through the 2024 iteration of Semester Cinema, a unique Vermont-based production program that brings together professional filmmakers and college students to tell powerful human stories. Every two years, the program selects 45 students from over a dozen colleges and pairs them with 30 film industry mentors to collaboratively create two full-length feature films—one narrative and one documentary—for national release. The program’s 2024 cohort came to Nantucket to explore timely, place-based stories. The students quickly identified housing as a pervasive issue. The result is a documentary that is both cinematic and grounded, capturing not only the urgency of the island’s housing crisis but also the heart of a community rising to meet it.