Film

Debra Zimmerman of Women Make Movies 10/26/2023

Meghan O'Rourke, CCTV, interviews Debra Zimmerman, Executive Director of Women Make Movies.

For more information please visit: https://www.wmm.com/filmmaker/Debra+Zimmerman/

CCTV Underwriters: Main Street Landing Supports CCTV 10/13/2023

Main Street Landing is an environmentally and socially conscious redevelopment company located in Burlington, Vermont. Their Performing Arts Center has a space that will work for almost any kind of event, meeting, film showing, fundraiser, private party, play, talent show, or performance.

VICII: Hiroshima Day and Oppenheimer Film 08/04/2023

Host Sandy Baird is joined by citizen journalist Eric Agnero, Robin Lloyd and Novelist Marc Estrin to discuss Hiroshima Day (August 6), and the new Oppenheimer Film.

VICII: African Women’s Traditional Building Practices Today 11/17/2022

From VICII:

A discussion about the film “Women Builders and Earthen Architectural Heritage in Africa” as a means of addressing the re-claiming of cultural identify and global architectural expectations and climate change. Featuring the following speakers:

Sandy Baird, citizen of the world, co-producer of VICII

Eric Agnero, citizen journalist, co-producer of VICII

Diane Gayer, architect / ecological planner

Amélie Esséssé, architect / filmmaker

For more information visit vicii.org

Charles Burnett, Filmmaker 10/27/2022

Rajnii Eddins, poet and artist, interviews VTIFF’s First Awardee for Outstanding Contribution to American Cinema, Charles Burnett.

For more information on award winning filmmaker Charles Burnett visit en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Burnett_(director) or his IMDB page imdb.com/name/nm0122344

On the Waterfront: Interview with Orly Yadin about the Vermont International Film Festival 2022 08/17/2022

Mariah Riggs interviews Orly Yadin from VTIFF.

Orly Yadin, Executive Director of VTIFF since Jan 2012, is a filmmaker and producer of both documentaries and animation films and series. Prior to making films, she was a film researcher on historical programmes and since 2001 has been Managing Director of Footage Farm – an archival footage collection. Orly has also taught documentary film history and theory in universities in England and at Burlington College. In 1995 she co-founded and ran Halo Productions specializing in animation films. Many of Halo’s short films won international awards at festivals, and one, Silence, was shortlisted for the Academy Awards. Orly became a VT resident in 2004 and has been a US citizen since 2010.

This year's festival will take place October 21-30, 2022. Located at the Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center with some virtual options and a satellite venue at The Savoy Theater in Montpelier.

For more information: www.vtiff.org

Jet Line: Voicemails from the Flight Path 04/15/2021

This short documentary employs an anonymous hotline to elevate the voices beneath Vermont’s F-35 flight path, the first urban residents to live with one of the US military’s most controversial weapons systems overhead.

Tranquil scenes of unassuming neighborhoods near Burlington International Airport are juxtaposed with voicemails of the unheard, those drowned out by the ear-shattering “sound of freedom.”

Exploring the relationship between picturesque residential areas and the deafening weapons systems overhead, Jet Line is a poetic portrait of a community plagued by war machines, documenting untenable conditions in a small city once voted one of the best places to live in America.

Directed by Duane Peterson III & Patrick McCormack

Learn more at jetlinefilm.com

Film and Awe with Prof. Barry Snyder: Werner Herzog's "Fireball" 11/20/2020

Film critic and scholar Barry Snyder provides a brief history of modern German cinema and discusses the work of Werner Herzog's latest film "Fireball," the future of movies, and the power that awe plays in film.

Lost, Found and Remixed - Panel Discussion 10/12/2013

A panel discussion with screening of clips, geared toward filmmakers as well as the general public, looks at many aspects of repurposing footage for new uses. With Alice Apley, Executive Director of Documentary Educational Resources (co-sponsor of the symposium), filmmaker Caroline Martel, an internationally renowned award-winning documentary artist (Phantom Of The Operator, Wavemakers), Sandra Forman, entertainment lawyer (Eyes on the Prize), Rick Prelinger and Adrian Wood. As part of the symposium VTIFF is excited to launch the GVM – Second Time Around initiative, announcing seed money for restoring and digitizing older Vermont-made films. Part of the Vermont International Film Festival .

Surviving Plenty - Archival Filmmaking in the Age of Mass Production 10/12/2013

Money, patience and courage are no longer necessities for filmmakers choosing to work with archives. While it can still be a struggle to access archival material, vast resources are now freely available for viewing (and often, reuse). But freedom brings new challenges. How can career mediamakers thrive in an age of mass authorship and distributed creativity? What emerging modes of archival work offer the greatest promise? And how can we best use archival material to make works that plumb moving image history so as to propel it forward? Rick Prelinger explores these and other issues in an image-rich talk that includes audience discussion. Rick Prelinger, an archivist, writer and filmmaker, founded Prelinger Archives, whose collection of 60,000 advertising, educational, industrial, and amateur films was acquired by the Library of Congress in 2002 after 20 years’ operation. Part of the Vermont International Film Festival with sponsorship by UVM Burack Distinguished Lecture Series.

Featured Story

CCTV Receives NEH Grant to Support Community Archives

CCTV Center for Media & Democracy is pleased to announce receipt of a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Humanities Collections and Reference Resources grant alongside 32 peer archival institutions across the country. This $49,927 grant award will support efforts to preserve and expand access to audio/visual community history materials in the CCTV Archives. Read more about this opportunity here!