Green Mountain Film Festival

[
thumb|300px|Green Mountain Film Festival logo by Edward Koren. Koren, a longtime contributor of cartoons to "The New Yorker", lives in Vermont.] The first Green Mountain Film Festival took place in Montpelier, Vermont in 1997. In March 1999 a second festival was held and it has been an annual event ever since. The festival takes place in March, and draws a devoted audience, attracted by both the quality of the films and the intimacy of the setting. The program comprises mostly new films from around the world with a few film classics. In recent years about one-half of the films shown have been documentaries. There are also screenings of shorts and student films. Many screenings are followed by informal discussions sometimes involving the filmmakers themselves. The festival also features special appearances by established film critics and filmmakers. Recent guests have included critics Kenneth Turan, Molly Haskell, Phillip Lopate, David Thomson and Matthew Hays. Filmmakers have included the screenwriter and director, Robin Swicord, producer Christine Vachon,and documentary makers Albert Maysles and Ralph Arlyck.

No prizes or awards are given. The emphasis has always been on presenting films on their own merits without the distraction of competition.

The critic Stuart Klawans, writing in "The Nation," described the 2003 Green Mountain Film Festival as "a cinephile's utopia: a festival organized and supported by an entire community of local moviegoers." [The Nation, March 29, 2004]

Matthew Hays, the Montreal-based film critic, called the 2006 festival "incredible ... a mind-bendingly fascinating diet of movies."

Every year scores of volunteers come together to help run the festival and host special events in venues across Montpelier, Vermont—the nation's smallest capital city.

11th Green Mountain Film Festival 2008

The 11th Green Mountain Film Festival runs from 21st to 30th March 2008. The films showing are:

The Axe in the Attic
The Birthday
Bittersweet

Blame it on Fidel
The Business of Being Born
The Cake Eaters

China Blue
Dancemaker

Daratt (Dry Season)
Daughters of Wisdom

Day for Night

The Dhamma Brothers
Digital Pamphleteer

The Edge of Heaven

Everything's Cool

For the Bible Tells Me So

Fraulein
High and Outside

Honeydripper

I'm Not There

It's a Free World...


King Corn
Leonard Bernstein on "Omnibus"

Mother of Mine

One Family: An Ethiopian Adoption

Pete Seeger: The Power of Song

Protagonist

The Seventh Seal
Shout It Out — The Voice Project Movie: A Preview
Steal a Pencil for Me
Super Amigos
Taking Root: The Vision of Wangari Maathai
Two Square Miles
The Union: The Business behind Getting High
The Valentine Bandit
The Violin

The Visitor

10th Green Mountain Film Festival 2007

The 10th Green Mountain Film Festival ran from 16th to 25th March 2007. Guests included Albert Maysles, Ralph Arlyck,Rob Mermin and Kenneth Turan. The films shown were:

Avenue Montaigne

Beauty in Trouble
Been Rich All My Life

Black Gold
El Carro

The Cave of the Yellow Dog
Climates

C.R.A.Z.Y.
Family Law

Flock of Dodos

Following Sean

Gimme Shelter
Gobi Women's Song

Grey Gardens
Gypsy Caravan
Holding Our Own

The Host

Into Great Silence

Land Mines: A Love Story
The Light Ahead
Living on the Fault Line
Men at Work
Meredith Holch: Homegrown Animation
Molly's Way

Our Daily Bread

El Perro
The Refugee All-Stars
The Ritchie Boys

The Rules of the Game

Salesman
Shakespeare behind Bars
Sisters in Law

Suite Habana

Ten Canoes
Today's Man

Wondrous Oblivion

Films in Earlier Green Mountain Film Festivals (2006)

After Innocence

After the Fog

Ballets Russes

The Boys of Baraka

Campfire

Commune

Duma

The Education of Shelby Knox

Elevator to the Gallows

Le Grand Voyage

Hawaii, Oslo

Homeland

I Like Killing Flies

Intimate Stories

Isn't This a Time!

Live and Become

Living the Autism Maze

The Lizard, or Marmoulak

"Music and the Movies" with Lloyd Schwartz

Midnight Movies

Mind Games

Paradise Now

The Real Dirt on Farmer John

The Red Wagon

A Sidewalk Astronomer

The Singers

Sir! No Sir!

The Syrian Bride

Tony Takitani

Touch the Sound

The Warrior

Winterwalk

The World Outside

External links

* [http://greenmountainfilmfestival.org/ Green Mountain Film Festival Official Site]
* [http://savoytheater.com/gmff/ Savoy Theater Official Site]
* [http://www.travel-vermont.com/TravelPlanner/ItemDetail.aspx?outsideLink=false&spID=22261 Planning a trip to the Green Mountain Film Festival]
* [http://fargofilmmaking.wikia.com/wiki/Green_Mountain_Film_Festival Green Mountain Film Festival] at the Fargo Filmmaking Wiki Project
* [http://www.independentfilms.org/ Independent Film Festivals and Indie Films]
* [http://www.killerfilms.com/ Killer Films]

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