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. He’s captured these and many more experiences in his fantastic book Save Me a Seat: A Life With Movies, which he’ll be discussing at The Screening Room @ VTIFF on Saturday, April 20.
The hour-long event will feature numerous stills from the films that have impacted his life and work since childhood, and there will be plenty of time for discussion, too. He’ll focus on how a small-town film society grew into one of Vermont’s most respected and long-running cinemas.
In case you don’t have a copy of the book, no worries! Copies of Save Me a Seat will be available for purchase at the event: $17 cash / $19 card
