Made Here Film Festival – Meet the Filmmakers
Ryan Boera (I’m Thinking About Leaving)
Boera has been working as an independent filmmaker for five years, previously in Washington D.C., New York City, and now finally in his home state of Vermont.
Sara Bourdeau (Roseline Like in the Movies)
Bourdeau is a scriptwriter and director based in Montréal. She holds a master’s degree in Fines Arts from Concordia university. Roseline Like in the Movies is her tenth short film.
Sarah-Christine Bourihane (The Winding Farmland)
Bourihane is a filmmaker, independent journalist and emerging artist. She holds an integrated degree in philosophy, theology, and journalism.
Christopher Brown (Clear as Crystal)
Brown is a recent graduate of the film program at Champlain College. Clear as Crystal is his senior capstone film.
John Campopiano (Snapper: The Man-Eating Turtle Movie That Never Got Made
Campopiano is a New England archivist, filmmaker, and writer. He works for PBS and has produced independent documentaries including Unearthed & Untold: The Path to Pet Sematary (2017) and the upcoming, Pennywise: The Story of IT.
Ian Cheney (The Long Coast)
Cheney is an Emmy-nominated & Peabody Award-winning documentary filmmaker. He has completed ten feature documentaries, received bachelor’s & master’s degrees from Yale, and an MFA in Film from the Vermont College of Fine Arts. A former MacDowell Fellow & Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT, he lives in Maine.
Anita Clearfield and Geoffrey Leighton (Natasha Mayers: An Un-Still Life)
Anita Clearfield, Producer/Director, Editor, Artist, is an award-winning documentary filmmaker who has received an AFI independent Filmmakers Grant, worked as a staff producer for Maine Public, and holds an MFA from Massachusetts College of Art and Design.
Geoffrey Leighton, Producer/Director, Cinematographer, Animator, owns the multi-media company, Leighton Images, producing music videos, commercials, and educational series; he teaches Special Effects at the University of Southern Maine.
Larissa Corriveau (Through the Wall)
Corriveau is an artist, actress, author, and filmmaker with several years of experience in music, photography, and dance. Her films and poems have traveled internationally.
Dorothy Dickie (The X Factor: Women in New England Politics)
Dickie is working her way through New England PBS stations from WGBH in Boston where she directed the Peabody Award-winning series Design Squad to Vermont PBS where she produced the Emmy nominated doc series, Beyond Bernie: Searching for Vermont’s Political Identity and most recently Rhode Island PBS where she produced The X Factor: Women in New England Politics.
Cara Feinberg (Lockshop)
Feinberg is a Boston-based writer and filmmaker and works as a producer for the PBS science television show “NOVA”.
Yoni Goodman (The Story of Coronavirus – Director and animator); Deborah Van Dyke (The Story of Coronavirus- Writer and producer)
Yoni Goodman is the director and animator of our “Stories of …” series – including Cholera, Ebola, and our latest, Coronavirus. He is a world-renowned animator with a diverse and creative portfolio, including the acclaimed film Waltz with Bashir
Deb Van Dyke is the founder and director of Global Health Media Project in Waitsfield, VT. She was a family practice clinician in Vermont and worked as a humanitarian aid worker, most often with Doctors Without Borders.
Greg Gransden (The Mystery Mountain Project)
Gransden is a filmmaker and screenwriter based in Montreal.
Greg Guma (Fragile Paradise)
Guma is a writer, editor and historian, and the author of “Spirits of Desire”, “Dons of Time”, “Uneasy Empire” and “The People’s Republic: Vermont and the Sanders Revolution.”
Valerie Hird (What DID Happen to Alice?)
Hird is a multi-media artist (animation, theatrical sets, oil, watercolor) living and working between Vermont, New York, and the MENA region.
Lukas Huffman (While We Wait); Hannah Dennison (While we Wait choreographer)
Huffman is an award winning, Vermont-born filmmaker who strives to tell visually moving and emotionally resonant stories.
Hannah Dennison has been creating, teaching and presenting contemporary dance with communities in Vermont since the 1980’s and is the founding director of Cradle to Grave Arts, Inc.
Amy Jenkins (WISHES)
Jenkins is an award-winning American artist whose installations, films, and photography have been exhibited, screened and collected internationally.
Paul Bronisław Kmiec (Stay for Tea)
Kmiec is a Massachusetts & Vermont-based filmmaker and educator working in New England and Greece. He has lived and worked in Hollywood, Northern California and Boston where he has taught history and theatre. He now resides in Brattleboro, Vermont.
Bob Krist (John Fawcett: A Toy Story)
Krist is a freelance photographer and filmmaker whose work has taken him to all seven continents and has won awards in the Pictures of the Year, Communication Arts, and World Press Photo competitions.
Fanny Lefort (A Broken-Hearted Solstice)
Lefort has directed a dozen music videos and documentaries, created Bête à papa, a web series and has two short films to her name, Sauce à spag and A Broken-Hearted Solstice.
Matteo Moretti (Just Being Here)
Moretti is a passionate filmmaker, fisherman and senior at Middlebury College majoring in Environmental Studies and Film. With a passion for exploration, he seeks out the places — and the moments — that kindle shared human connection.
Cassidy Motahari (Rewilding the Northeast)
Motahari holds a B.S. in wildlife & fisheries biology from the University of Vermont, and uses visual storytelling to highlight environmental conservation and inspire viewers to connect deeply with their landscapes and communities.
Natasha K Ngaiza (A Mother)
Ngaiza teaches film at Middlebury College, writes and directs movies that focus on the Black diaspora and gleans creative inspiration from her adventures raising three daughters with her husband in Vermont.
Duane Peterson III & Patrick McCormack (Jet Line: Voicemails from the Flight Path)
Duane and Patrick are independent filmmakers from Burlington, Vermont exploring stories that might otherwise go untold.
Geneviève Sauvé (Still Untitled/ Encore sans titre)
Sauvé has directed more than ten short films. With 20 years of experience her films have traveled internationally and received several distinctions including an Award of Excellence in the Best Short Competition in California.
Zane Swift (Cooking the Quotes)
Zane Swift is an accomplished student writer and filmmaker, his films cover topics such as climate change, income inequality, sexual assault on college campuses, and journalism.
Philippe Vanasse-Paquet (CAPTIVE)
Philippe Vanasse-Paquet is an 18 years old French-Canadian actor and filmmaker. Since age 8, he has lived on film sets, where he developed his passion for the camera, and made his first short film, Captive, at only 16 years old.
Maia Vota (Yellow Cards for Equal Pay)
Maia Vota is a documentary filmmaker from Burlington, currently studying at Savannah College of Art and Design.
