Green Mountain Film Festival

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Green Mountain Film Festival logo by Edward Koren. Koren, a longtime contributor of cartoons to the New Yorker lives in Vermont.

The Green Mountain Film Festival was started in Montpelier, Vermont in 1997. In March 1999 a second festival was held and it has been held annually ever since. The festival takes place in March each year, and draws a devoted audience, attracted by both the quality of the films and the intimacy of the setting. The program is 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 Molly Haskell, Phillip Lopate, David Thomson and Matthew Hays and screenwriter Robin Swicord. In 2007, the guests will include the documentary maker Albert Maysles and the writer and critic Kenneth Turan.

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."^[1]

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.

1 10th Green Mountain Film Festival 2007
2 Films in Earlier Green Mountain Film Festivals (2006)
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[edit] 10th Green Mountain Film Festival 2007

The 10th Green Mountain Film Festival will run from 16th to 25th March 2007. The full program can be found here. Guests will include Albert Maysles and Kenneth Turan.