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Download 2015 WRIF Program New films by local filmmakers | CATV/WRIF Film Slam with $3,000 in prizes | Program honoring Vermont filmmakers Ed & Jane Pincus Vermont filmmakers Ed & Jane Pincus Program honoring CATV/WRIF Film Slam with $3,000 in prizes | New films by local filmmakers | Authors/activists Terry Tempest Williams & Brooke Williams | Live show with John McEuen (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band) Williams & Brooke Tempest Authors/activists Terry Revolutionary Cinema! guards of the revolution and rock and roll and rock of the revolution guards CELEBRATING INDEPENDENT FILMMAKING AND THE CREATIVE POWER OF THE INTERNET WHITE RIVER INDIE FESTIVAL 2015 computer chess, women soldiers, stolen documents, an American kill team, van WHITE RIVER JUNCTION, VERMONT Google sponsored Tell-it-in #Transmedia Awards with DJ Spooky | Feature films on ecoclimate - Cold War activism, a female vampire, War activism, a female vampire, films on ecoclimate - Cold with DJ Spooky | Feature Awards #Transmedia Tell-it-in Google sponsored APRIL 24 - APRIL 27 WHITE RIVER INDIE FESTIVAL 2015 FRIDAY THE YEAR WE THOUGHT ABOUT LOVE 5PM $9/$7 At Hotel Coolidge Documentary USA 68 Minutes Unrated (Family Friendly) With wit, grace, and attitude, a diverse troupe of LGBTQ youth transforms their personal struggles into theater for social change—starting with a simple and surprising kiss in the first act. The Year We Thought About Love is a documentary that celebrates the powerful work of a Boston LGBTQ troupe, True Colors: OUT Youth Theater, as they write a play about love. Panel discussion with Director Ellen Brodsky, Producer Pam Chamberlain, and two teens from the film immediately following the screening. OPENING NIGHT GALA / RECEPTION / WRENCHED 7PM Reception / 8:15PM Film $35 At Hotel Coolidge Documentary USA 93 Minutes Unrated The party begins at 7:00 with a cash bar and hors d’oeuvres followed by the screening of Wrenched, director ML Lincoln’s new documentary. The film chronicles author Edward Abbey’s (The Monkey Wrench Gang, Desert Solitaire) legacy of environmental civil disobedience to stop the destruction caused by “the industrialization of the West”—clear cutting, strip mining, coal burning power plants, and an over-abundance of recreation. Also featured are interviews with actor, director and activist Robert Redford, naturalist and author Doug Peacock, Earth First co-founder Dave Foreman, climate activist Tim DeChristopher, and marine conservationist Paul Watson. Meet authors and environmental activists Terry Tempest Williams and her husband Brooke Williams, who will be at the Gala to discuss the film and their work for social change. SATURDAY COMPUTER CHESS ZERO MOTIVATION 10AM $9/7 At Hotel Coolidge 11:45AM $9/7 At Hotel Coolidge BREAKFAST WITH CURTIS Comedy, Mockumentary USA 91 Minutes Drama Israel 97 Minutes Unrated Unrated 8:15AM Suggested Donation: $5 Described At Hotel Coolidge This hilarious satire about the world of as “Private chess Benjamin Comedy/Drama USA 82 Minutes and early meets Unrated computer M*A*S*H,” geeks Zero Moti- was shot vation is a in black dark, humorous portrait of everyday life and for a unit of young, female, Israeli soldiers. white us- Stuck at a remote desert outpost, these ing early zany troopers bide their time pushing analog paper, wielding staple guns like automatic video cameras and mostly non-profession- weaponry, and playing computer games, al actors. It plays as a documentary, but all while counting down the minutes until for the occasional surreal, dream-like im- they can return to civilian life. If there is When introverted, teenage Curtis gets agery. In Computer Chess, we meet some a war going on, it’s one against boredom, mixed up with the freewheeling bohe- of the eccentric geniuses who are trying bad uniforms, silly rules, and doing every- mians next door, the chill between their to teach a metal box to defeat man at his thing in triplicate. This debut feature for neighboring houses begins to thaw, heal- own game, laying the groundwork for ar- Talya Lavie reveals her extraordinary gifts ing old wounds, revealing repressed tificial intelligence. The Village Voice calls as both a writer and a director. secrets, and igniting new possibilities. it “the funniest, headiest, most playfully Q&A with director Laura Colella, Found- eccentric American indie of the year.” ing Faculty Chair of the Film Program at Vermont College of Fine Arts, immediately following the film. Page 2 Buy tickets online at: WRIF.ORG WHITE RIVER JUNCTION, VERMONT 1971 FRANK THE CULT OF JT LEROY 2:00PM $9/7 At Hotel Coolidge 6:45PM $9/7 At Hotel Coolidge 8 PM Suggested Donation: $5 Documentary USA 80 Minutes Comedy/Drama Ireland 95 Minutes At Center for Cartoon Studies Unrated Rated R for language and some sexual content. Documentary USA 90 Minutes Unrated On March 8, 1971, eight ordinary citizens broke into an FBI of- fice in Media, PA. Calling themselves the Citizens’ Commission to Investigate the FBI, they Starring Michael Fassbender and Maggie removed all Gyllenhaal, Frank is about an aspiring the files and singer/songwriter who falls under the spell began mailing of an enigmatic musician who performs them, anony- while wearing a huge paper mache head. mously, to At first, we think the head is a gimmick, newsrooms. but the film works its emotional magic, The most turning what seems like grand farce into significant tragedy. The music is great, and the de- revelation that resulted was about COIN- piction of the rock ‘n’ roll world is spot TELPRO, a series of covert, and at times on, replete with scenes actually shot at illegal, activities conducted by the FBI the South by Southwest Music Festival. aimed at surveying, infiltrating, The Daily Telegraph calls it “off-beat and discrediting, and disrupting domestic punk-spirited,” while The Guardian says political organizations. Despite one of the it “works as satire, as memoir, as comedy largest investigations ever conducted, the bromance, but it works mostly because it JT LeRoy was a teen prostitute, addicted FBI never caught the burglars, and those is just so weird.” to heroin and infected with HIV, when a responsible never revealed their identities. therapist encouraged him to write his life Until now. For the first time the burglars A GIRL WALKS HOME ALONE story. Buoyed by a cadre of celebrities, he have decided to talk about their actions. AT NIGHT published three critically acclaimed books 1971 is their story. including Sarah and The Heart is Deceitful 8:45PM $9/7 At Hotel Coolidge Johanna Hamilton, director, will Skype in Above All Things. But as his fame skyrock- and Julia Rabig, Dartmouth professor, will Horror USA 99 Minutes Rated PG13 eted, the shocking truth emerged: JT was lead discussion. not what he seemed. What followed was a downfall as bewildering as it was tragic. 112 WEDDINGS Director Marjorie Sturm is an award- 4:45PM $9/7 At Hotel Coolidge winning filmmaker whose films span the genres: narrative, documentary and Documentary USA 95 Minutes experimental. Unrated For the past two decades, acclaimed This Iranian vampire Western is set in documentary filmmaker Doug Block a ghost town full of seedy characters. (51 Birch Street, The Kids Grow Up) has Known only as “The Girl,” this lone vam- helped support himself by shooting wed- pire (played by Sheila Vand) sometimes dings. Hired for his intimate documentary glides around on a skateboard, adding style, he found himself emotionally bond- a surreal modern layer to the hauntingly ing with his wedding couples on their beautiful tale of love told in the style of big day, only to send off their videos and David Lynch and Jim Jarmusch. Living in never see them again. Many years and Bad City, The Girl is impersonal, in con- 112 weddings later, having long wondered trol, and guarded until she meets Arash what’s become of their marriages, Block (played by Arash Marandi), a slick rebel begins to track down some of his favorite who intrigues and confuses her. Comple- couples. Juxtaposing rapturous wedding mented by a soundtrack that mashes up day flashbacks with remarkably candid 60’s-inspired Western guitar and Iranian present-day interviews, 112 Weddings ex- pop, this first time feature for writer and plores timeless themes of love and marital director Ana Lily Amirpour is what A.O. commitment. Scott calls a “rock ‘n’ roll Persian feminist Q&A with director Doug Block fable.” Last year, Filmmaker magazine immediately following the film. named Amirpour one of the “25 New Faces of Independent Film.” Page 3 Buy tickets online at: WRIF.ORG WHITE RIVER INDIE FESTIVAL 2015 SPECIAL PROGRAM AT MAIN STREET MUSEUM: HONORING ED AND JANE PINCUS Filmmakers, Flower Farmers, and Feminists Ed Pincus (1938-2013) was a documen- PANEL ON FIRST PERSON FILMMAKING couples to see what has become of their tary filmmaker best known for his “First marriages. Person, Direct Cinema” approach, and for 12:15-1:45PM at Main Street Museum his seminal film, Diaries—about his family, As viewers, we are accustomed to film BLACK NATCHEZ (1967), BY ED PINCUS loves and life. Jane Pincus was instrumental crews hiding off screen and directors AND DAVID NEUMAN in founding the Boston Women’s Health standing behind the camera. Revealing 4:45-5:50PM at Main Street Museum Book Collective, and in writing the revolu- them would destroy the illusion of life tionary women’s health book, Our Bodies, unfolding magically. What happens when The film documents the black community Ourselves in 1970. She also was one of the filmmaker is a character in the film, of Natchez, Mississippi as they organize several filmmakers who made “Abortion”. when making the film is part of the story? to fight police brutality and to register Together they operated a flower farm in What are the ethical and aesthetic chal- black voters.
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