Learn all the ins and outs of music licensing and usage in film from Rick Clark, a long-time music producer and industry professional from Nashville,Tennessee. Rick is joined by Vermont musicians Tom Pearo and Neil Cleary with Big Heavy World, to discuss their Vermont music licensing platform. * Sponsored by Mike Gordon *
This screening is sold out The World Is Ours (Le Monde Est A Elles) Nadia Louis-Desmarchais | 21:27 | QC Six Montreal teenage girls with symptoms of anxiety and depression, leave their urban environment for the first time to take part in a nature canoe-camping expedition. Weight, What? Sarah Furie | 28:12 | MA […]
This screening is sold out The Dam (Barrage) Rémi Fréchette | 19 min | QC In 1964, during the construction of an electric dam, a macabre discovery causes a serious incident. Raymond and Fleurian are sent to the site to repair it. The Yorkie Werewolf Michael DiBiasio-Ornelas | 74 min | VT A rebellious […]
This special event is SOLD OUT! The Vermont Production Collective (VPC) presents: A Staged Reading Of New Vermont-based Screenplays VPC invites you to a Staged Reading of selected scenes from new works for film, developed over the last nine months in the Vermont Screenplay Incubator by 5 local screenwriters. The stories, while all set in […]
This workshop is SOLD OUT. Location: The Media Factory In this presentation and hands-on workshop, Women in Film and Video New England (WIFVNE), President Emerita and Line Producer Alecia Orsini and Camera Operator and Rental Tech at Talamas, Scott Lebeda, walk you through some of the lingo, gear, safety procedures, and best practices for becoming […]
Location: Driven Studio Join Pat Wright, lighting professional at Driven Studio, for a demonstration of different lighting techniques, including interview and product lighting. *Space is very limited. Be sure to book early*
Clear Results Seth Jarvis | 3:21 | VT When you need to be sure, choose Clear Results Home Pregnancy Test. A Shit Day (Jour De Merde) Kevin T. Landry | 91:21 | QC *Jury Honorable Mention* A single mother, drowning under the abuses of her ex-husband is sent by her condescending boss to […]
Cicada – Winner of the MHFF 2024 Audience Favorite Award Matteo Moretti | 13:23 | RI After losing his wife, Papou reconciles with a changed sense of belonging as he returns to his home village without her. A tender portrait of Moretti’s Greek grandparents. My Tomato Heart (Mon Coeur De Tomate) Benôit Le […]
This screening is sold out * VTIFF Award for Best Fiction * Filmed with non-professional actors from immigrant communities, the film follows three young people, each discovering their own path in life. Humorous and compassionate, this dramedy is a revelation.
Huguette: A Story In Hifi (Huguette En Hifi) David Dufresne-Denis | 8:55 | QC We don’t see much of Huguette in our family home movies. This is the story of a woman, a mother, a grandmother who has been worried all her life. Larsen Sarah Toussaint-Léveillé | 7 | QC Arielle, 35, is […]
Audishun Marianne DiMascio | 4:54 | VT A woman auditions for a groundbreaking new play. The Weenies (Les Roteuses) Garance Chagnon-Grégoire | 13:25 | QC Philomène and Carolanne are the anti-capitalist feminist punk-rock group «The Weenies». After a fiery argument both their friendship and their highly (un)anticipated gig are put at risk. […]
Just Getting By is a sweeping and yet intimate look at the lives of Vermonters who are struggling with food and housing insecurity. The film explores the day-to-day challenges and incredible resiliency that low-income Vermonters bear witness to every day. Just Getting By sheds light on an often hidden Vermont population persevering against all […]
Sara Morgan Greene is a 20-year circus veteran, and 43-year-old single mother, with a big dream—to start her own tented circus. She decides that now is the time to fulfill it before her mentor and stepmother Soos passes away.
Vermont’s film scene would be an entirely different and much lesser animal without Rick Winston’s contributions. The New-York-born Winston arrived in Vermont in 1970 and quickly founded the Lightning Ridge Film Society, which then became Montpelier’s iconic Savoy Theater. Winston was a founder of the Green Mountain Film Festival and its Programming Director until 2012. […]
For the third installment in his Jazz Soundtracks series, local jazzman Ray Vega offers up this classic from 1986. Propelled by jazz immortal Dexter Gordon’s singular, phenomenal lead performance and Herbie Hancock’s dazzling soundtrack, Bertrand Tavernier’s ‘Round Midnight is one of the very best movies about jazz, the music and the people who make it. […]
Master documentarian Frederick Wiseman’s latest film, Menus-Plaisirs– Les Troisgros, is a film about the Troisgros family and their three restaurants: Troisgros, Le Central and Colline, located in three neighboring locations in bucolic central France. Troisgros is a legendary restaurant, founded 93 years ago with a sustaining 3-star Michelin rating for the past 55 years. In […]
Strictly as a legal undertaking, The People’s Joker is fascinating just for the fact of its existence – IndieWire accurately calls it “one of the most impressive and subversive stretches of fair use law ever put to film.” Writer/director/star Vera Drew adapts and deeply subverts the famous DC Comics villain, taking shots at all variety […]
In 1968, Peace Corps veteran David Schickele enlisted his friend Paul Eyam Nzie Okpokam to star in a light-hearted comedy about the adventures of a young Nigerian intellectual in San Francisco. Using a docu-fictional style reminiscent of Cassavetes’ Shadows, the film observes the foibles of late 1960s African-American culture with an outsider’s incisive eye. The […]
This criminally overlooked comic masterpiece finally gets a 4k restoration and the deluxe treatment it deserves! Wendell B. Harris wrote, directed and starred in this edgy, hilarious deep-dive into the mind of a brilliant African-American, William Douglas Street, a man who seeks to adopt any identity – baseball player, journalist, Harvard grad student, even surgeon […]
Everyone has their own idea of cinematic ‘cool’: maybe you think Bogart in The Big Sleep can’t be beat, or that Brando’s Wild One is the ultimate, or that Sigourney Weaver’s Ripley in the Alien franchise is tops. Hey, it’s all valid, but if your list doesn’t have Alain Delon in Jean-Pierre’s so-cool-it’s-glacial 1967 masterpiece […]