FESTIVAL PROGRAM THE 5TH ANNUAL THURSDAY-SUNDAY AUGUST 22-25, 2019 middfilmfest.org 1 5th Annual Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival | 2019 FESTIVAL PROGRAM CRUISE THE BEAUTIFUL BLUE DANUBE ...and talk CINEMA! OCTOBER 29 TO NOVEMBER 8 Join us in Prague...then down the magnificent Danube, making stops in Germany (Vilshofen), Austria (Linz, Durnstein, Weissenkirchen, Vienna), Slovakia (Bratislava) and Hungary (Budapest). Enjoy dozens of cruise treats and features PLUS (optional) film screenings, discussions and walking tours to film locations in Prague, Vienna and Budapest - organized by indie filmmaker and MNFF Artistic Director Jay Craven! PARTIAL PROCEEDS TO BENEFIT MIDDLEBURY NEW FILMMAKERS FOR MORE DETAILS FESTIVAL AND ADDISON COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE. CONTACT ROBIN BENTLEY AT MILNE TRAVEL 802-388-6600 OR [email protected] Or go to www.milnetravel.com/vacation-travel/jay-craven 2 5th Annual Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival | 2019 FESTIVAL PROGRAM WELCOME TO THE 5TH ANNUAL MIDDLEBURY NEW FILMMAKERS FESTIVAL! Greetings, everyone... Taylor’s film score to accompany the screening of VSO Award winner Jeremy Lee Mackenzie’s new film, The Greatest Night. And thanks for joining us to share these We’ll award our fourth annual VSO winner for best integration four fun days in August when we get of music into film on Closing Night. to connect audiences with filmmakers to celebrate cinema. We’re thrilled to We’ll present our Hernandez/ Bayliss Prize, for a feature welcome you to our fifth edition of the film that best captures the triumph of the human spirit Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival. – and our third Clio Visualizing History Prize for the Advancement of Women in Film. Also our second Gaia Prize We’ve been busy since last year’s Fest - staging our Winter/ for Environmental Filmmaking and our inaugural Shouldice Spring Screening Series at the Town Hall Theater in Middlebury Family Prize for Best Vermont-Made Film. and touring our 2018 Best of Fest selections, Dateline: Saigon and All the Wild Horses – to Burlington, Vergennes, Rutland, Milne Travel will join us again this year as a valued sponsor. Greensboro, Montpelier, Putney and Woodstock. They are organizing a special October 29th to November 8th excursion to Prague and river cruise along the Danube We’ve got more than 110 films scheduled for MNFF5 and they River. Partial proceeds will benefit the Middlebury New promise to enrich and expand our views on people and places Filmmakers Festival and the Addison County Chamber of around the world. And we’ll again offer special pre-festival Kids Commerce. Among many cruise treats and features, MNFF and Family Day screenings on Wednesday, August 21st at the Artistic Director Jay Craven will offer several (optional) film Marquis Theatre. There will be plenty of popcorn and a special screenings, discussions and a couple of walking tours to kids menu! film locations in Vienna and Budapest. For more details, contact Robin Bentley at Milne Travel (802-388-6600 or We’ll host special on-stage honorees including legendary [email protected]). writer/director Paul Schrader, whose films First( Reformed, Affliction, Raging Bull, Taxi Driver) have logged fifteen Academy Enjoy the Festival! Join us for happy hours and parties. And Awards and nominations. Also, acclaimed award-winning actor spread the word to friends and family to join you for all or part Bruce Greenwood (The Sweet Hereafter, Capote, Exotica, 13 Days, of this year’s film extravaganza. Star Trek, I’m Not There, Mad Men) will be here for screenings and discussions. Feel free to also tell us your thoughts on the films and events you see. And please consider tax-deductible support – to help We’ll also welcome back, for a fourth consecutive year, two- us light up the screen. time Academy Award-winning filmmaker and MNFF honoree, Barbara Kopple, with her latest film,New Homeland. Also Warm regards, returning, three-time Emmy nominee and MNFF honoree Ricki Stern, with her new Netflix film,Reversing Roe, that takes a deep historical look at the abortion debate from various points along the ideological spectrum. Ricki will be here with one of the film’s stars,Dr. Colleen McNicholas, an important figure in Jay Craven the struggle for reproductive rights. MNFF Artistic Director Todd Balfour We’re pleased to again partner with Orly Yadin and the Vermont International Film Festival, sponsors of The Biggest Little Farm screening (1:30pm, Saturday, August 24th at Dana Auditorium). And we’ll stage an informative discussion focused on indie film distribution and one on acquisition policies and practices within the PBS system. And there’s much more, Lloyd Komesar including a world-premiere live performance by Vermont Matt Kiedaisch MNFF Producer Symphony Orchestra musicians of composer Matthew Evan 3 5th Annual Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival | 2019 FESTIVAL PROGRAM FESTIVAL MAP OPENING NIGHT PARTY! ^ Seymour St SWIFT HOUSE INN NORTH SCREENING VENUE Elm St Stewart Ln High St NOT TO SCALE FESTIVAL DESTINATION Maple St Seymour St 7 ? INFO & MERCH CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH Seminary St PUBLIC PARKING LOT SAT NIGHT PARTY AMERICAN FLATBREAD Washington St Printer’s Alley SAT HAPPY HOUR MARBLE WORKS Main St Court Sq MIDDLEBURY INN Weybridge St TOWN GREEN Footbridge Merchants Row 23 FROG HOLLOW ? 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(Non-Passholders can attend the Saturday night party for $15, its festive color treatment. Our staff will be on site from 9:00am to payable at the door.) 5:00pm on Thursday, August 22, Friday, August 23 and Saturday, Au- gust 24 and 9:00am to 1:00pm on Sunday, August 25. Printed film and event schedules will also be available throughout town, at numerous CAN I JUST BUY SINGLE TICKETS TO MOVIES? locations and all screening venues. Individual ADVANCE tickets to all feature films will be on sale through August 25 at middfilmfest.org. Tickets are $15 and provide priority WHERE AND WHEN ARE FILMS BEING SCREENED? seating following Festival Pass holders. Advance ticket availability is based on venue size. So, our smaller venues, Marquis Theatre and On Opening Day, Thursday, August 22, films screen at 10:00am Twilight Hall, will have fewer seats available in advance. and 1:30pm at Marquis Theatre and Town Hall Theater. Our Open- ing Night film will be screened that night at Town Hall Theater at Single WALK-UP/RUSH tickets for any film are available for $12 at 7:00pm. (Please note: this event is ticketed separately. A Festival each of the four main venues’ lobby box offices – at any time during Pass does not grant entry.) the Festival. A single ticket is good for any film at any venue on any day. Single ticket seating begins 5 minutes prior to listed showtime On Friday, August 23 and Saturday, August 24, films screen at Town after all Passholders and Advance Ticket holders have been seated. Hall Theater, Marquis Theater, Dana Auditorium and Twilight Hall. Screening times are 10:00am, 1:30pm and 7:15pm. No films screen between 4pm-7pm. The 4pm slot features special panels and on- DOES MY FESTIVAL PASS ADMIT ME TO THE stage conversations. Check the daily schedule grid or the Festival OPENING NIGHT FILM? Program for details. No. Opening Night is a separately ticketed event and can be pur- chased at our website, middfilmfest.org, or in person at the THT Box On Sunday, August 25, films screen at Town Hall Theater, Marquis Office. Admission to both the Film Screening and the After Party at Theater, Dana Auditorium and Twilight Hall, starting at 10am, 1pm Swift House Inn is $60. Please note: Opening Night is now on a Wait- and 4pm. list Only basis. The presentation of the VTeddy Awards at the Closing Ceremony will be on Sunday, August 25 at 6:30pm at Town Hall Theater followed WHERE CAN I BUY FESTIVAL MERCHANDISE? by our Closing Night Film at 7:30pm. Festival merchandise will be sold at the MNFF Information & Mer- chandise Store. Hours and location are noted above in the Festival WHERE CAN I BUY FESTIVAL & DAY PASSES? Information paragraph. 2019 items include our popular MNFF hats Festival Passes and Day Passes can be purchased directly at our in black and navy blue and handsome black tote bags.