Showcase sponsor: Ben & Jerry’s and Vermont Arts Council We Are Small Director: Jeremy MacKenzie | Fiction | 2014 | 11 mins When a little girl is shunned for being “too small” by other kids in the neighborhood who are making a snowman, she is inspired by her doll collection to prove that smallness has its strengths, too. All the […]
Showcase sponsor: Ben & Jerry’s and Vermont Arts Council Do Not Disturb Director: Matt Lennon | Fiction | 2014 | 11 mins A man spends the last night of his life alone in a hotel room. Things don’t go as smoothly as expected. Thaw Director: Sheryl Glubok | Fiction | 2014 | 10 mins On a winter weekend getaway, a woman picks up […]
Sponsored by Green Valley Media and Nat Winthrop Panel/audience discussion and announcement of a new initiative for the digitization of Vermont films and the presentation of the first two grantees. This event will include clips from the films awarded the grant, a short compilation of clips and footage of VT films through the ages, and […]
Showcase sponsor: Ben & Jerry’s and Vermont Arts Council Past Tense Director: Robert Fritz | Fiction | 2013 | 91 mins Elizabeth’s parents died in a car crash when she was 11 years old, and her visits to the cemetery, where she begins to do grave rubbings, open her eyes to the other gravestones and other past lives, and she […]
A special reception to celebrate the screening of Human Capital (Il Capitale Umano) Sponsored by the Vermont Italian Club, with food prepared courtesy of Little Garden Market with pasta and sauces provided courtesy of Rana Pasta & Sauces. Cash bar.
Director: Paolo Virzi | Italy| Fiction | 2014 | 110 mins Film source: Film Movement Sponsor: Vermont Italian Club Film introduced by David Tomasi, followed by Q&A. Please join us at 5:30 for a pre-screening reception in the Lake Lobby: sponsored by Rana Pasta & Sauces and Little Market Garden. Cash bar. The term “human capital” is legalese that […]
Director: Mitchell Kezin | Canada | Documentary | 2014 | 92 mins Film source: Filmmaker A hilarious backstage pass into a fascinating underground world of alternative Christmas music. It all began with Nat King Cole’s The Little Boy That Santa Claus Forgot. As a child, filmmaker Mitchell related to the song’s emotional message about a lonely little boy with an absent father. […]
Director: Catherine Gund | USA | Doc | 2014 | 82 mins Film source: The Film Collaborative Sponsor: Chiropractic Works and Old Spokes Home Followed by Bodies in Action Panel, led by dancers and choreographers Lida Winfield, Hannah Dennison, Paul Besaw, & Selene Colburn. They will discuss Streb’s work and the issues associated with the physical demands, limitations, and considerations of […]
Director: Jeremy Young & Trevor Aaronson | USA | Documentary | 2014 | 47 mins Film source: Al Jazeera Network Sponsor: John Douglas On the surface, the scene unfolds without any hint of intrigue. A young Muslim convert named Darren Griffin meets fellow congregants at a local mosque in northwest Ohio. In addition to sharing the same faith as his […]
Director: Michael Roemer | USA | Fiction | 1964 | 95 mins Film source: Cinedigm Sponsors: Kate and Bill Schubart Perhaps the best movie ever made about the African-American experience during the Civil Rights era, Nothing But a Man remains just as powerful and relevant today, 50 years after its release. Starring Ivan Dixon as Duff Anderson, a […]
Director: Philippe Garrel | France | Fiction | 2013 | 77 mins Film source: Distribfilm Like the best films of the French New Wave, Philippe Garrel’s Jealousy pays homage to its cinematic forefathers while also making movies seem new again and full of endless possibilities. Garrel literally came of age during the New Wave (he made his first short […]
Reception sponsored by Misery Loves Company preceding the screening of Dr. Strangelove. Cash bar.
Director: Kitty Green | Australia/Ukraine | Documentary | 2013 | 80 mins Film source: Cinephil Q&A with Jennifer Dickinson, Director, Center for Teaching and Learning, Associate Professor, Anthropology “The world sees our country as one big brothel. Tourists come here to find whores. We believe that we need to protest against this. We need to do everything we can so the world […]
Director: Stanley Kubrick | USA | Fiction | 1964 | 95 mins | Film source: Sony Pictures Repertory Introduced by: Taylor Downing Sponsor: Eyes of the World Has it really been 50 years since Stanley Kubrick’s Cold War masterpiece made the fallout shelter generation fall out of its seats laughing at the terrifying yet absurd prospect of mutual assured nuclear destruction? Originally conceived […]
Director: Ana Lily Amirpour | Iran/USA | Fiction | 2014 | 99 mins Film source: Kino Lorber Writer/Director Ana Lily Amirpour’s first feature A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night has been described as a “Middle Eastern feminist vampire romance” but it’s much more than that. In the Iranian ghost-town Bad City, a place that reeks of death and […]
Director: Stanley Kubrick | UK/USA | Fiction | 1964 | 95 mins Film source: Sony Pictures Repertory Sponsor: Eyes of the World BAFTA Award for Best British Film, 1964 Writers Guild of America Best Written American Comedy Award, 1964 New York Film Critics Circle Best Director Award, Stanley Kubrick Has it really been 50 years since Stanley Kubrick’s Cold War masterpiece made […]
Sponsor: Middlebury College Lunch provided by Kountry Kart Deli included in price of ticket Gina Haraszti will be present at the screening. Gina Haraszti is an acclaimed filmmaker and artist based in Montreal and we are delighted to be hosting her. Running Order: ORISON (2014) – World Premiere! Black-and-white meditation on the tension between scientific knowledge and religious […]
Director: Nancy Kates | USA | Documentary | 2014 | 101 mins Film source: The Film Collaborative Sponsor: Judy Gerber “Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.” Susan Sontag remained attentive and eager throughout her life and career as one of the most important literary, political and feminist icons of her generation. […]
Director: Jesse Moss | USA | Documentary | 2014 | 100 mins Film source: Drafthouse Sponsor: Vermont Energy Investment Corporation The Overnighters is a brilliant exploration of community, compassion, and morality. It tells a story of a small American town in North Dakota where jobless people from all over the country come to work hard and make money off the Natural Gas industry. […]
Director: James E. Duff | USA | Fiction | 2013 | 73 mins Film source: Filmrise Sponsor: Bobbie Lanahan Introduced by Ethan de Seife of Seven Days An Indian woman studying in Prague and a lonely New Yorker begin an unconventional correspondence through video letters – two strangers searching for human connection in a hyper-connected world. When their relationship deepens, […]