Filmmakers in attendance Lil’ Hybrids Directed by Mike Wirkkala New Hampshire | 2018 | Animation, Fiction | 5 min When three alien hybrids abduct a cow, and one hybrid gets disgruntled, mayhem ensues. It Will Be the Past Directed by Ali Salem* Vermont | 2018 | Fiction […]
Filmmakers in attendance Lil’ Hybrids Directed by Mike Wirkkala New Hampshire | 2018 | Animation, Fiction | 5 min When three alien hybrids abduct a cow, and one hybrid gets disgruntled, mayhem ensues. It Will Be the Past Directed by Ali Salem* Vermont | 2018 | Fiction | 17 min Inspired by the poem “Heaven” […]
Kicking off NEQ and the festival, is a special reception for all regional filmmakers – from Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, Northern New York State and Québec. This is the place to get to know your local filmmakers, mingle and find out more about what’s going on filmwise in the North East. Representatives from The Media […]
Lowell Thomas: Voice of America Directed by Rick Moulton VT | 2018 | Documentary | 85 min Filmmaker in attendance Lowell Thomas helped determine how America saw the world in a century when America dominated the world. Creative, entrepreneurial and technologically savvy, Thomas helped create 20th century American journalism: mostly male, nonpartisan, sober, portentous, cosmopolitan […]
Lemonade Directed by Ioana Uricaru Vermont | 2018 | Fiction | 88 min | Romanian/English w/English subtitles Vermont Premiere Sponsor: Middlebury College Followed by Q&A with Filmmaker and lead actress While working in the U.S. on a temporary visa as a caretaker, Mara (Malina Manovici, who debuted in Cristian Mungiu’s Graduation, shown at VTIFF 2017), a […]
Touched Directed by Karl Hearne Québec | 2017 | Fiction | 78 min Filmmaker in attendance A ghostly genre-hopping mystery about a young woman who disappears from her building and her solitary landlord who becomes obsessed with tracking her down. The landlord’s search for his disappeared tenant starts him on a […]
Rooted: Cultivating Community in the Vermont Grange Directed by Ned Castle & Charlotte Barrett Vermont | 2018 | Documentary | 57 min Filmmaker in attendance Vermont’s agricultural heritage gets a starring role in this film, which goes inside the Grange, the national farmers’ organization, to explore how it has worked to strengthen and preserve rural […]
Lake Effect Directed by Jacqueline Heltz Vermont | 2018 | Documentary | 32 min Filmmaker in attendance The alarming rise of cyanobacteria, commonly known as blue-green algae, in the seemingly pristine lakes of Vermont and New Hampshire, has increasingly dominated our local news. In this film, father-daughter filmmakers Jackie […]
Filmmakers in attendance Bump in the Night Directed by Aja Selbach-Broad* & Kaelan Selbach-Broad* Vermont | 2018 | Fiction | 9 min When moving out of his childhood home, Charlie misremembers a childhood trauma, and this time, there is something under his bed. Smoke Grenade Directed by Joe LaRocca […]
Filmmakers in attendance Bump in the Night Directed by Aja Selbach-Broad* & Kaelan Selbach-Broad* Vermont | 2018 | Fiction | 9 min When moving out of his childhood home, Charlie misremembers a childhood trauma, and this time, there is something under his bed. Smoke Grenade Directed by Joe LaRocca […]
Filmmakers in attendance Bump in the Night Directed by Aja Selbach-Broad* & Kaelan Selbach-Broad* Vermont | 2018 | Fiction | 9 min When moving out of his childhood home, Charlie misremembers a childhood trauma, and this time, there is something under his bed. Smoke Grenade Directed by Joe LaRocca Maine | 2018 | Fiction | […]
Kali Yuga Chants Directed by Nilima Abrams Vermont | 2018 | Documentary | 91 min Filmmaker in attendance Kali Yuga Chants follows “Uncle” and “Aunty,” a mixed-race couple living in India, and the 35 children they’re raising in a makeshift foster family. The film chronicles the kids’ transformation from begging in the streets and picking […]
Modified Directed by Aube Giroux Québec | 2018 | Documentary | 87 min | French/English w/English subtitles Filmmaker, Lt. Gov. Zuckerman and Enid Wonnacott, Executive Director of NOFA-VT in attendance Modified is an award-winning first-person documentary that questions why genetically modified organisms (GMOs) are not labeled on food products in Canada and the United States, despite being […]
Filmmakers in attendance Moon Dog Directed by Mathieu Guimond* Québec | 2017 | Animation, Fiction | 3 min Something is happening in the woods, as night fades away. Lily Directed by Danilo Herrera Fonesca Vermont | 2018 | Fiction | 10 min Cooper reconsiders his life plans after his wife Lily convinces him to […]
Filmmakers in attendance Moon Dog Directed by Mathieu Guimond* Québec | 2017 | Animation, Fiction | 3 min Something is happening in the woods, as night fades away. Lily Directed by Danilo Herrera Fonesca Vermont | 2018 | Fiction | 10 min Cooper reconsiders his life plans after his wife Lily convinces him to go […]
Filmmakers in attendance Moon Dog Directed by Mathieu Guimond* Québec | 2017 | Animation, Fiction | 3 min Something is happening in the woods, as night fades away. Playing with: Lily Directed by Danilo Herrera Fonesca Vermont | 2018 | Fiction | 10 min Cooper reconsiders his life plans after his wife Lily convinces him […]
Woman At War (Kona fer í stríð) Directed by Benedikt Erlingsson Iceland/France/Ukraine | 2018 | Fiction | 100 min | Icelandic w/English subtitles Film Source: Magnolia Sponsor: Todd Lockwood * Opening Night film * New England Premiere * Halla (Halldóra Geirharðsdóttir), a choir director leading a seemingly quiet existence in an upscale Reykjavik neighborhood, is […]
Opening Night Party of VTIFF 2018 follows the opening night film. Spill out of the screening into the festive Lake Lobby, get your fill of delights from Penny Cluse Cafe and Mirabelle’s Cafe, imbibe Zero Gravity beers and move to the sounds of the Hokum Bros.
Madeline’s Madeline Directed by Josephine Decker USA | 2018 | Fiction | 93 min Film Source: Oscilloscope Sponsor: Judy Gerber Also showing Monday, October 22 at 7:00PM “You are not the cat — you are inside the cat.” So begins Josephine Decker’s Madeline’s Madeline, an ecstatically disorienting experience that defines its terms right from the start and then […]
Sammy Davis, Jr.: I’ve Gotta Be Me Directed by Sam Pollard USA | 2017 | Documentary | 100 min Film Source: Menemsha Sponsor: Jane Michaud Sammy Davis, Jr. is probably best known today as a member of the Rat Pack — the hard-drinking, wisecracking, womanizing entertainers, led by Frank Sinatra, who ruled Vegas in […]