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 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."^[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 11th Green Mountain Film Festival 2008
2 10th Green Mountain Film Festival 2007
3 Films in Earlier Green Mountain Film Festivals (2006)
4 External links
5 References

[edit] 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...
Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten
King Corn
Leonard Bernstein on "Omnibus"
Mother of Mine
Note by Note: The Making of Steinway L1037
One Family: An Ethiopian Adoption
OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies
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

[edit] 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
Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple
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