Festival
Manchester, VT
Thu, May 23, 2024 at 9:00 AM EDT
A Celebration of Storytelling
VFFF's mission is to serve the people of southern Vermont by creating an annual event which underscores the importance of story to who we are as a society with a shared set of values, while simultaneously discovering and nurturing some of the most talented storytellers of our time.
Co-founded by MovieMaker Magazine founder Tim Rhys and Filmmaker Magazine and IndieWire co-founder Karol Martesko-Fenster, the inaugural VFFF is a four-day cultural event in May, 2024 that will celebrate storytelling via the traditional film festival medium of moving images on the big screen. In addition to cinema, VFFF will also celebrate storytelling via oral and written mediums.
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A Japanese businessman goes on an unwitting journey of self-discovery when he takes a company trip from Tokyo to a Montana cattle ranch.
Barbara Dane turns setbacks into opportunities, paving her own way with her art, participating in, and influencing international social justice and musical movements across nine decades.
SHORTS PROGRAM 1 screening:
SUBTEXT
RIZOO
SCREWJOB
LEAF
COMMON AS RED HAIR
YOU CAN'T SHRINK LOVE
SCAM
Films proudly made in Vermont!
screening:
MOTHER'S HOUSE
LIA: A BODYBUILDING STORY
LOVE OF THE LAND
STEVE'S CHAPEL
THE THAW
Filmmaker Karen Akins' darkly quirky personal quest to curb noise pollution in her quaint Vermont village uncovers dire consequences for noise regulation, not only in her home state, but nationwide.
SHORTS PROGRAM 2 screening:
THE ABCs OF BOOK BANNING
MATTRESS EXPRESS
TREE CROWN
VESPA
DECIDING VOTE
A portrait of life in the radioactive desert on the Navajo Reservation, following a group of indigenous scientists, elders, and activists as they work to protect a vital living space on contaminated land.
A uniquely American couple's captivating story during the pinnacle of American exploration and social change.
Determined to make the planet a better place, former Texas cattle rancher Renee King-Sonnen transforms her husband's beef operation into a farm animal sanctuary, encouraging other farmers to transition from animal agriculture to plant-based food production.
Faced with a traumatic injury that leaves you permanently disabled; how would you reinvent yourself? Trevor Kennison's life was forever altered by a broken back - for worse and for better, in equal measures.
"No words" can describe him, literally. Robert Shields, one of the most unique performers of the century, performing for 2 Presidents and a Queen while gaining the admiration of many of Hollywood's greats - all of it done without saying a word.
Seminar on Native Vermont Storytelling
SHORTS PROGRAM 1 screening:
SUBTEXT
RIZOO
SCREWJOB
LEAF
COMMON AS RED HAIR
YOU CAN'T SHRINK LOVE
SCAM
Alienated by friends and family for her lack of ambition, 29-year-old Misha finds a dangerous acceptance in a bright 18-year-old athlete who mistakes her for a fellow student.
SHORTS PROGRAM 2 screening:
THE ABCs OF BOOK BANNING
MATTRESS EXPRESS
TREE CROWN
VESPA
DECIDING VOTE
A hardscrabble Vermont dairy farmer risks losing the only home he's ever known to chase his dreams of dog mushing in Alaska. Meticulously captured over the course of a decade, the film paints an intimate verite portrait of Doug Butler as he puts a curiously optimistic twist on the kinds of family farm tragedies that have marked American rural life.
After being fired, Marcella, a gentle-hearted mother going through separation, buys a tow truck, gets trapped deeper and deeper in a cynical and aggressive world until a terrible opportunity shines in front of her.
Films proudly made in Vermont!
screening:
MOTHER'S HOUSE
LIA: A BODYBUILDING STORY
LOVE OF THE LAND
STEVE'S CHAPEL
THE THAW
The solution of Regenerative farmers to bring soil health across the continent and beyond.
On the night of their high school reunion, Charlie and her boyfriend Reese have come with plans to exact revenge on former classmate, Liam. The plan - to stage the same heinous crime he committed in high school, but this time collect the evidence to prove his guilt.
Over a weekend visit in Los Angeles, two first-generation Sierra Leonean American brothers navigate the changing dynamics of brotherhood after a surprise announcement.
A documentary film that explores the day to day challenges and incredible resiliency that low-income Vermonters bear witness to every day. The film sheds light on an often hidden Vermont population persevering against all odds to feed and house themselves and their families.
A rebellious teen witch is turned into a tiny werewolf and thrown into the middle of a decades-old war between one small town's creatures of the night - and the local mafia.
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