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Green Mountain Film Festival
The Green Mountain Film Festival is an annual film event and awards show in Vermont. The first festival took place in Montpelier, Vermont, in 1997. In March 1999, a second festival was held and it has been an annual March event ever since. In 2010, the festival was extended to include a series of satellite screenings in St. Johnsbury, Vermont. In 2018, the festival also hosted screenings in Essex Junction, at the Essex Cinema. The 23rd Green Mountain Film Festival returned to Downtown Montpelier in March 2024 after a 4 year hiatus, with film screenings at both The Savoy Theater and The Capitol Theater in Montpelier, Vermont. Background The program focuses on new work from around the world together with a few classic films. Around half the films shown are documentaries. There are also screenings of shorts and student films. Screenings are often followed by informal discussions often involving the filmmakers themselves. The festival also features special appearances by establi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Montpelier, Vermont
Montpelier is the List of capitals in the United States, capital city of the U.S. state of Vermont and the county seat of Washington County, Vermont, Washington County. The site of Government of Vermont, Vermont's state government, it is the List of capitals in the United States, least populous state capital in the United States. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population was 8,074, with a daytime population growth of about 21,000 due to the large number of jobs within city limits. The Vermont College of Fine Arts is located in the municipality. It was named after Montpellier, a city in the south of France. Montpelier was chartered as a town by proprietors from Massachusetts and western Vermont on August 14, 1781, and the Town of Montpelier was granted municipal powers by the "Governor, Council and General Assembly of the Freemen of the State of Vermont". The first permanent settlement began in May 1787, and a town meeting was established in 1791. The city r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karen Dillon (filmmaker)
Karen Dillon is a filmmaker, educator and arts administrator who is currently the Executive Director of the Chandler Center for the Arts. Prior to coming to the Chandler, Dillon was the Executive Director of the Green Mountain Film Festival. Biography Dillon was born in Ulysses, Kansas. She received a BFA from the School of Visual Arts in photography and film, and her MFA in film writing, directing and producing from Columbia University. Dillon is also a film educator who has taught filmmaking and screenwriting at Columbia University, the Kansas City Art Institute, and Norwich University. She also lived in Abu Dhabi and worked at Higher Colleges of Technology, Abu Dhabi Women's College teaching media to Emirate women. She was a founding partner and editor of the magazine, ''Blue Sky, Green Earth'' in Lawrence, Kansas. She lives on a small farm in Riverton, Vermont and raises dairy goats and saffron. Awards Her film script, ''Birds With Teeth'' won a screenwriting award ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Cave Of The Yellow Dog
''The Cave of the Yellow Dog'' (Mongolian ''Шар нохойн там'') is a 2005 Mongolian/German film written and directed by Byambasuren Davaa. The film was submitted as Mongolia's contender for the 2005 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. It won the 2006 Deutscher Filmpreis Award for Best Children's Picture. The story is a gentle fable about the limitations of life and its acceptance. A girl learns the painful lesson of letting go of want and desire when her father insists on leaving her newfound stray dog. However, the ending of the film offers hope—another lesson of life being full of changes and the consequences of change may bring unexpected rewards. Plot The story opens with Nansal returning from boarding school to her family. The family of five lives in a yurt and lives off of their livestock, which include sheep, goats, and cattle. Nansal's father is worried about his family's survival because of the wolves that have been attacking their herd. While Na ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Black Gold (2006 Film)
''Black Gold'' is a 2006 documentary film that follows the efforts of an Ethiopian coffee union manager as he travels the world to obtain a better price for his workers' coffee beans. The film was directed and produced by Marc James Francis and Nick Francis from Speakit Films, and co-produced by Christopher Hird. It premiered at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival. Synopsis The film focuses on the coffee growers of the Oromia Region of southern and western Ethiopia, the birthplace of coffee. It follows Tadesse Meskela, the General Manager of the Oromia Coffee Farmers Cooperative Union, as he visits coffee-growing regions in Sidamo and Oromia (including the Kilenso Mokonisa Cooperative in the Bule Hora woreda in the Borena Zone of the Oromia Region), as well as a coffee processing center, a coffee auction house, and his union's headquarters in Addis Ababa. He also travels to England and the United States in an effort to promote Ethiopian coffee by eliminating the numerous midd ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beauty In Trouble
''Beauty in Trouble'' () is a 2006 Czech tragicomedy directed by Jan Hřebejk. Eddie Cockrell, writing in '' Variety'', said the " tle comes from the Robert Graves poem, itself adapted into a Czech popular song in the 1980s, and performed in the film by homegrown thrush Radůza. Germ of the pic's idea was the first line, 'Beauty in trouble flees to the good angel/On whom she can rely...'" Plot The script is based on Robert Graves's enigmatic poem "Beauty in Trouble", and it begins with these words sung by a chanteuse who accompanies herself on the accordion. The film is a naturalistic love story about the sex life of a beautiful woman, Marcela, and her concurrent relationships with three men; Jarda, her abusive husband, Risha, her abusive step-father, and Evžen, a dashing, older man she meets shortly after the film begins. With her husband, Jarda, she enjoys lustful sex and his physical abusiveness is an extension of a chauvinism that powers strong sexual encounters, but he is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rob Mermin
Rob Mermin is the founder of the award-winning international touring youth circus Circus Smirkus. Biography Rob Mermin grew up in a lively Jewish family, and in 1969 Mermin ran off to join the circus. He clowned with various European circuses including England's Circus Hoffman, Sweden's Cirkus Scott, Denmark's Circus Benneweis in the Circus Building by the Tivoli, the Hungarian Magyar State Cirkusz, and circus palaces throughout the former Soviet Union. His formal training includes mime with masters Marcel Marceau and Etienne Decroux, and a degree in Drama and Literature from Lake Forest College in 1971. He is former Dean of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Clown College, and President of Blackfriar’s Summer Theater. In 1987 Mermin founded Circus Smirkus in Greensboro, Vermont. Awards Mermin's awards include Copenhagen's ''Gold Clown''; Vermont's ''Bessie'' Award; ''Best Director Prize'' at the International Circus Festival on Russia's Black Sea; the Lund Family Center's "I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Syrian Bride
''The Syrian Bride'' () is a 2004 film directed by Eran Riklis. The story deals with a Druze wedding and the troubles the politically unresolved situation creates for the personal lives of the people in and from the village. The film's plot looks at the Arab–Israeli conflict through the story of a family divided by political borders and how their lives are fractured by the region's harsh political realities. The film has garnered critical acclaim and has won or been nominated internationally for several notable awards. Plot Set in the summer of 2000, Mona (Clara Khoury), a young Druze woman living at Majdal Shams in the Golan Heights, is about to marry a successful Syrian actor. Following the hostilities between Israel and Syria there is now a zone occupied by UNDOF in the Golan Heights. Crossing of the zone is extremely rare as it is only granted by both sides under special circumstances. It has taken 6 months to obtain permission from the Israeli administration for Mona to lea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Sidewalk Astronomer
''A Sidewalk Astronomer'' is a 2005 documentary film about former Vedanta monk and amateur astronomer John Dobson. The film follows Dobson to state parks, astronomy clubs, and downtown streets as he promotes awareness of astronomy through his own personal style of sidewalk astronomy. The documentary includes voice overs by Dobson himself promoting his unorthodox views on religion and cosmology Cosmology () is a branch of physics and metaphysics dealing with the nature of the universe, the cosmos. The term ''cosmology'' was first used in English in 1656 in Thomas Blount's ''Glossographia'', with the meaning of "a speaking of the wo .... Crews * Produced and directed: Jeffrey Fox Jacobs * Director of photography: Jeffrey Fox Jacobs * Editor: Jeanne Vitale * Music: John Angier * Release: Jacobs Entertainment Inc * Running time: 78 minutes Review "An inspiring film about an inspired teacher".. ''New York Times'' Screenings Shown at: Tribeca Film Festival 2005 ; Singapore F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Red Wagon
''The'' is a grammatical article in English, denoting nouns that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with nouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of the archaic pronoun ''thee'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Real Dirt On Farmer John
''The Real Dirt on Farmer John'' is a 2005 documentary film directed by Taggart Siegel about the life of Midwestern farmer John Peterson, operator of Angelic Organics. It tells the history of the eccentric farmer's family farm in rural Caledonia, Illinois. Awards ''The Real Dirt on Farmer John'' won 31 awards at film festivals. This includes the first ever Reel Current Al Gore Award at the Nashville Film Festival, the Audience Award at the Chicago International Documentary Festival, the Grand Jury Award at the San Francisco International Film Festival, the Audience Award at the Slamdance Film Festival and the Italian Environmental Film Festival. References External links Angelic Organics website* ''The Real Dirt on Farmer John''site for ''Independent Lens'' on PBS The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is an American public broadcaster and non-commercial, free-to-air television network based in Arlington, Virginia. PBS is a publicly funded nonprofit organization and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paradise Now
''Paradise Now'' () is a 2005 psychological drama film directed by Hany Abu-Assad. It follows the story of two Palestinian men preparing for a suicide attack in Israel. The film won the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film and received an Academy Award nomination in the same category. According to Abu-Assad, "The film is an artistic point of view of that political issue. The politicians want to see it as black and white, good and evil, and art wants to see it as a human thing."Glaister, Dan"It was a joke I was even nominated" ''The Guardian'', January 20, 2006. Plot ''Paradise Now'' follows Palestinian childhood friends Said and Khaled who live in Nablus and have been recruited for suicide attacks in Tel Aviv. It focuses on what would be their last days together. Their handlers from an unidentified militant group tell them the attack will take place the next day. The pair record videos glorifying God and their cause, and bid their unknowing families and loved ones ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
