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CALLING ALL VT-BASED FILMMAKERS to submit their films to the Vermont Filmmakers™ Showcase.

The Vermont International Film Festival is proud to celebrate Vermont filmmaking with our annual Vermont Filmmakers’ Showcase™, the oldest and largest juried presentation of Vermont films in the state. Please fill in the  online application form, print and sign, and then mail to VTIFF Filmmakers’ Showcase PO Box 483 Burlington, VT 05402-0483 along with a preview of [...]

Vermont International Film Festival 2012

If you enjoyed last year’s festival and would like to support this year, do consider making a donation. Any amount is appreciated and even $100 entitles you to some free tickets. Larger donations and sponsorships will see your name on screen, your ad in the press and a range of other benefits. The festival is [...]

2013 Festival Trailer Competition!

Open to all Vermont residents and students. Have your trailer shown before festival films! The Vermont International Film Festival invites film/videomakers to enter a competition for making the 2013 VTIFF festival trailer. The competition is open to all Vermont residents and to students attending any Vermont college, university or high school. Festival trailers are shown before [...]

VTIFF Presents Monthly Global Roots Film Series Starting In April

Burlington, VT: (Monday, April 1, 2013) The Vermont International Film Festival is pleased to present Global Roots, a new monthly series of films from the countries of New Americans living in Vermont. The series starts Sunday, April 14th, and is the second Sunday of every month at 5pm through September 2013 at North End Studios, [...]

Report From the VT International Film Festival

Seven Days October 31, 2012 MARGOT HARRISON Appropriately for spook season, one of the biggest sensations of last week’s Vermont International Film Festival was death — A Band Called Death, that is. Directed by locals Mark Covino and Jeff Howlett, the music doc played to a packed house at the Essex Cinemas and netted the fest’s Audience Award…

Burlington Mayor’s Press Conference

Vermont International Film Festival Tribute to George Stoney, Father of Public-Access Television Mayor Miro Weinberger promotes a tribute by the Vermont International Film Festival (VTIFF) to George Stoney, documentary filmmaker, educator, and father of public-access television. Weinberger is joined at the event by Orly Yadin, filmmaker and executive director of the VTIFF, Lauren-Glenn Davitian, executive [...]

Gorging at the Vermont International Film Festival

Seven Days October 21, 2012 by Alice Levitt Last year, for the first time, the Vermont International Film Festival was organized thematically — and one of those themes was food. It was intended to be a one-time special, but, says executive director Orly Yadin with a laugh, ”I can’t keep away from food. It was really successful and we [...]

Short Takes on Film

Seven Days August 29, 2012 MARGOT HARRISON Want a preview of the Vermont International Film Festival (October 19 to 28)? Next Wednesday, head to the top of Burlington’s Church Street to watch trailers of films to be screened at VTIFF, plus a 40-minute movie called Green. It’s a narration-less documentary about an orangutan falling victim to deforestation [...]