It's here!
Welcome to the 20th Vermont International Film Festival!
We’re lighting the lights and threading the projectors and all the fun starts this afternoon at the Palace. Watch this space for schedule updates and special announcements. For the Twitter-inclined among you, follow us there.
We hope to see you tonight at our opening film, The Men Who Stare at Goats.
Huzzah!
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Luis Guzmán to Attend VIFF 2009
Actor and Vermonter Luis Guzmán (The Limey, Punch Drunk Love, Maldeamores) is a confirmed guest of the festival this year! Luis will join us on Saturday October 24. The actual event is still in the planning stages but will probably involve a film screening or two and some sort of Q&A and after-party. Watch this space for details!
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VIFF 2009 is here!
Things are coming together for the 2009 Vermont International Film Festival. As I type this, Labor Day weekend has ended and we’re officially in film festival season!
The festival will run a full ten days this year! That’s more than twice as long as the 2008 festival. As usual, we’ll be screening a wide variety of independent, international and Vermont-made films at the Palace 9 in South Burlington.
Get all the latest up-to-date festival announcements and screening info by watching this blog, following VIFF on Twitter, and/or joining our Facebook group.
You can help support VIFF in several important ways.
DONATE
Ticket sales alone don’t begin to cover the cost of putting on a great festival every year. We only exist because of the generosity and commitment to great filmmaking of local sponsors and donors. If you think you can part with a few dollars to help put on the festival, please visit our sponsorship page and click on the PayPal “donate” button. A gift of any amount is greatly appreciated.
ADVERTISE
Please consider supporting the Vermont International Film Festival with an advertisement for your business or organization in our 2009 festival program guide.
The program guide (featuring your ad) will be inserted into Seven Days the week of October 14 (circulation 34,000, readership 80,000+). An additional 6,000 copies will be distributed elsewhere and available to festival goers.
Please download the rate card (PDF) and email your questions to info@vtiff.org
ATTEND
This is the fun and easy way to help us out! Come see a bunch of movies during the festival’s run, October 23 – November 1. Sold-out screenings not only help the festival financially, but they reassure us that the work we’re doing is valued in the community and they energize the festival staff AND the film-going audiences.
Tickets to screenings and festival events will be available at the Palace 9 in October.
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Special Screening
The Vermont International Film Festival presents a premiere presentation of The Brothers Bloom, starring Adrian Brody, Mark Ruffalo and Rachel Weisz, on Thursday May 28th.
This special invitation-only event is presented by The Palace 9 and the Vermont International Film Festival in partnership with SEVEN DAYS and WVMT 620 Radio.
Listen to WVMT and watch the pages of SEVEN DAYS for your chance to win tickets to this exclusive screening.
The Brothers Bloom are the best con men in the world, swindling millions with complex scenarios of lust and intrigue. Now they agree to take on one last job, showing a beautiful and eccentric heiress the time of her life with a romantic adventure that takes them around the world.
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Student Showcase awards!
The VIFF student showcase featured films from area colleges and high schools and was juried by a panel of five college students from the participating schools. Filmmaker Orly Yadin moderated the judging process. The judges were…
From Burlington College:
Ben Youngbaer
From Champlain College:
Frank Stetson II and Matt Reevy
From the University of Vermont:
Sam Carpenter and Suzannah Mullen
The winners in the Best Short, Feature and Editing categories won editing software packages by AVID and the winner in the Best Production Values category won the Ultimate Stock Footage Collection, which contains footage from 80 of Footage Firm’s best selling reels.
And the Awards went to…
Best Short
The First Supper
Graham Raubvogel
Burlington High School
Best Feature
Abe Gallaway
Ian Sotzing
University of Vermont
Best Editing
Animayday
David Kaufman & Gef Gove
University of Vermont
Best Production Values
What Should Never Be
Heather Beliveau, Jaron Collins & Jeff White
Burlington College
Honorable Mentions
Chasing Discovery
Mark Gould & Bill O’Connor
St. Michael’s College
La Nintenda
Jeff White & Ian Johnson-Sherman
Burlington College
Blame the Woman
John Lazzaro
University of Vermont
If You Can’t Say Anything Nice
Keith LaFountaine
Burlington High School
Congratulations to all the winners!
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