12:30 pm: Let’s Get This Party Started

Something Greater Than You Gordon LePage | 9 | ME
Claim the Lane: Becoming Roxy Jesse Huffman | 69 | VT

2:15 pm: Ties that Bind

Anyway, I Piss Sitting Down Zak Slattery | 13 | QC
After the Silence Jean-François Cameron | 6 | QC
Brothers in Arms Francois Lalonde | 11 | QC
Aventure FM Martin C. Pariseau | 19 | QC
Evelyn’s Here Sean Temple, Sarah Wisner | 10 | VT
Hyperlink Juliette Poitras | 12 | QC

4 pm: The Sporting Life

Siren Marilou Caravecchia-Pelletier | 15 | QC
Road 138 Sarah Warren | 19 | QC
Best Day Ever Ben Knight, Berne Broudy | 48 | VT

7:15 pm: Architectonics

LegoMan David Dufresne-Denis | 4 | QC
On the Second Floor Neil Ira Needleman | 5 | ME
Prickly Mountain and My Design/Build Life Allie Macrae Rood | 15 | VT

12:30 pm: Let’s Eat

The Dawnland Kitchen Scott Cherhoniak | 14 | VT
A Culinary Uprising: The Story of Bloodroot Annie Laurie Medonis | 82 | MA

2:45 pm: Acceptance

Ars Animals for Troubled Times Anne Ciecko | 4 | MA
Still Moving Rui Ting Ji | 11 | QC
Deep in the Swirl Mélanie Saint-Germain | 24 | QC
Not Losing You James Lantz | 2 | VT
Sugarhouse Jesse Kreitzer | 29 | VT

7:15 pm: Dance! Music! Poetry!

Hell Parker Croft | 5 | VT
Everyone Is a Bird Christopher Wiersema | 7 | VT
Pippa and Leo Abeille Tard | 19 | QC
The Magician Mathieu Gauvreau | 18 | QC
Muses Simon Vermeulen | 8 | QC
Jazz Infernal Will Niava | 16 | QC

11:30 am: Did Someone Say “America?”

Happy Birthday, America Neil Ira Needleman | 3 | ME
Who Moves America Yael Bridge | 87 | RI

2:45 pm: Learning

M@cy’s High Zoe Boray | 20 | VT
To Your Hands Ana Mouyis | 11 | MA
Gone Guys Chad Ervin | 46 | VT

4:30 pm: Four Walls

The Journey Home Cole Whitaker | 7 | MA
Ghislaine’s Place Franie-Éléonore Bernier | 18 | QC
You’re OUT Marie-Louise Gariépy | 10 | QC
Fan Philippe Berthelet | 9 | QC
People Live Here Gabrielle Côté | 12 | QC
Tomorrow’s Shame Alexandre Lefebvre | 20 | QC

7:30 pm: Artists at Work

A Suspended Tide Félix Caraballo | 13 | QC
My Memory-Walls Axel Robin | 13 | QC
Glorious Obscurity Ronan Furuta | 10 | VT
Marginal Understandings (Dirt: Part Two) David Finkelstein | 22 | VT
Salt Marsh Tom Bell | 15 | ME

1:30 pm: Echoes

Radio Salma AlaaEldeen Badra | 16 | VT
Petticoats Gaëlle Graton | 18 | QC
It Will Always End in the End Nancy Pettinicchio | 16 | QC
Sour Grapes Lorena Santana, Evan Hunt | 6 | VT
Superhost A.P. Bergeron, Sophie Edell | 12 | QC
On This Land Salma AlaaEldeen Badra | 4 | VT

3:15 pm: Bodies, Bears, Suns & Daughters

CORPUS John R. Killacky | 7 | VT
The Downtown Burlington Bear Dillon Tanner | 7 | VT
Little Victories Rafaël Beauchamp | 16 | QC
Veiled Light Myles David Jewell, Alexandra Rose Jewell | 40 | VT

5 pm: Definitely Gangster

U.S. Premiere!
Lee MacKenzie | 70 | VT

Six Steps to Build Your Own Film Distribution Playbook, with Christie Marchese

Friday, April 24 | 4:45 pm | Burlington Beer Co.

Now more than ever, distribution is in the hands of the makers, which brings opportunities and challenges. Christie Marchese, founder/CEO of Kinema, breaks down six steps to developing a distribution playbook for a project to have the greatest chance of meeting its goals, whether it’s for theaters or VOD.

Media Factory Workshop: How We Made It 

Saturday, April 25 | 11 am | Media Factory

Join Vermont filmmakers for a conversation about the craft of creating films featured at Made Here. Filmmakers include: Allie Rood + Corey Hendrickson (Prickly Mountain and My Design/Build Life), John Killacky + Art Bell (CORPUS), Chad Ervin Duane Peterson III (Gone Guys), Sean Temple + Sarah Wisner (Evelyn’s Here, The Thaw). Space is limited so please register in advance.

Crossing Borders: American and Canadian Approaches to Film Distribution

Saturday, April 25 | 1:45 pm | Burlington Beer Co.

Since Made Here is the only festival that celebrates both New England and Quebec filmmakers, we thought we’d look at some of the challenges—how they differ, how they’re similar—in Canadian and American film distribution. This conversation features Christie Marchese, founder/CEO of Kinema, and Élisabeth Dumouchel, Director of Distribution, Marketing and Communications at Vital Distribution in Quebec.

Writing for Vermont Live! Pitch Event and Panel

Sunday, April 26 | 12 pm | Burlington Beer Co.

Five local screenwriters pitch their Vermont-based feature film projects, each at a different stage of development, for the audience. Afterwards, there’s a Q&A about their projects, the process, and the eight-month long Incubator program. The panel includes creatives addressing the joys and challenges of making films in and for Vermont. Presented in collaboration with the Vermont Screenplay Incubator and the Vermont Production Collective. Participants: Julia Anderson (The Emancipation of January Ellis), Marianne DiMascio (Solve for X and Why), Sean Kirby (I Am My Domain), Gina Stevenson (Shelter), Alexis Vail (The Disconnect), and incubator coach Jeanine B. Frost.