Free Speech TV on Burlington Telecom
We’re incredibly excited that one of our most loyal supporters and sponsors is coming to town. Free Speech TV is bringing its 24/7 independent news, analysis and documentaries to Burlington Telecom. Starting March 1st, we’ll be able to tune in to FSTV on BT’s newest channel (122) on its “basic tier.” The catch is that they need to raise an additional $5000 in matching funds until the end of February. If you’re a supporter, we urge you to log into their Kickstarter campaign.
Flaherty taking fellowship applications
To all Vermont Filmmakers—
You may be interested to know that The Flaherty is accepting
applications for the LEF Fellowship Program, which provides economic
support to New England-area filmmakers interested in attending the
2012 Robert Flaherty Film Seminar this June in Hamilton, NY.
Programmed by Josetxo Cerdán, the 2012 Seminar is entitled “Open
Wounds”, and will look at changing perspectives on politics, the
economy, technology, culture, and ethics over the past century, and
explore how filmmakers contribute to new ways of seeing the world
based on their own heritage.
The LEF Fellowship covers the filmmaker’s entire registration fee
(including room, board and special events) to the Seminar, which will
take place at Colgate University from June 16-22 in Hamilton, NY.
Please check out the information at
http://flahertyseminar.org/the-flaherty-seminar/
fellowship-information-2012/
Go for it! If you do go, we’d love to get your feedback. Write to orly@vtiff.org
VTIFF has new Executive Director
Hi Everyone: Deb Ellis, President of the Board, asked me to post this on her behalf:
“There’s no time like the New Year to share the news that VTIFF has hired an Executive Director.
Orly came to Vermont from London, England 7 years ago. She has been a member of the VTIFF Board of Directors for two years and brings experience and energy to the position. Orly owns an international historical footage company, Footage Farm Ltd. She has produced documentary and animated films for 25 years, was on the program committee of the UK Jewish Film Festival, has served on juries for international film festivals, and has taught a range of film-related subjects in film schools in England and at Burlington College. Please join us in welcoming former board member Orly Yadin as VTIFF’s new Executive Director!”
And I’d like to add that I’m really thrilled to be doing this and, with everyone’s help, am looking forward to making VITFF 2012 even better! If you have ideas about the festival you’d like to share with me, jot me an email.
2011 Vermont Filmmakers' Showcase Winners!
Another year, another batch of Vermont Filmmakers’ Showcase winners!
Congrats to Bloom: The Plight of Lake Champlain which snagged the Footage Farm USA Documentary Award, Mongolia: Mining Challenges a Civilization which scored the Ben & Jerry’s Award, and Circus Dreams which was chosen for the James Goldstone Award.
If you haven’t seen these great Vermont films yet, there’s still time! All three, along with the showcase favorite Soul Keeper, will have encore presentations on Sunday, October 30th
We were extraordinarily proud of ALL the films in our Vermont Showcase this year – the turn out for all of them has been fantastic! Here’s hoping we see a bunch of your filmmaking faces again in the future!
Mars is coming!
Mars is science fiction, it’s animation and it’s a romantic comedy and it’s coming to VTIFF! Austin, Texas based filmmaker Geoff Marslett developed the animation technique specifically for this film.
From the film’s website:
This romantic comedy is told in the playful style of a graphic novel- using a unique animation process that director Geoff Marslett developed specifically for the film. Underneath the silliness Mars is also an exploration of exploration. Why do we want to know what is out there? How do we react to what we find? Is it really that important? And where does love fit into the whole thing?
And Vermont’s own Cartoon Laureate, James Kochalka, is featured in the film as well! In fact, it was James who approached VTIFF about including the film in this year’s festival.
Here’s the trailer…
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