WHITE RIVER INDIE FESTIVAL 2017 WHERE IS THE FEST? THURSDAY CONTINUED Barrette Center for the Arts BORDER INCIDENT 74 Gates St White River Junction, VT We screen at two venues at Barrette Center for the Arts. The Byrne Theater 6:30pm Byrne Theater is the larger theater. Schleicher Studio is the smaller screening room, (1949) by Anthony Mann, 94 minutes, Narrative, Unrated, USA seating is limited at 75. This dark and harrowing noir Main Street Museum unfolds against the backdrop 58 Bridge St #6 White River Junction, VT of the Bracero Program, a This is the venue for “Walk on the Wild Side” event on Saturday, June 3. US-Mexican labor recruitment deal that brought thousands of HOW DO I BUY A TICKET? Mexican peasants to the fields of California and all along the A ticket is required for all programs at the festival EXCEPT for Panels, border. Ricardo Montalban and 48-hour Film Slam, and Freedom & Unity Contest. George Murphy team up as government agents trying to crack Ticket prices: down on bandits and racketeers Friday Night Gala and Reception (with The Hanji Box screening): preying on the defenseless $40 Adults / $20 Students migrants. Set amidst the irrigation ditches of the Joaquin Valley and Space permitting, single tickets to The Hanji Box will be available online shot in beautiful grey tones by beginning 6:00 pm on May 30, 2017, and during WRIF Box Office hours. legendary cinematographer John All Access Pass (includes Gala and all festival programs) $75* Alton, this classic story about *A limited number of passes available. All-Access Pass Holders are not elemental violence and human trafficking has lost none of its topicality. guaranteed a seat and should arrive at screenings in enough time to secure Q&A following screening with Gerd Gemünden, Professor of Film and Media Studies at a seat. Dartmouth. Adult single ticket $10 Student single ticket $5 FRIDAY Buying Tickets: Buy tickets in advance online, or at the Box Office during the festival. FRIDAY GALA AND RECEPTION WITH THE HANJI BOX Online SCREENING* Buy Tickets at www.wrif.org 6:00pm Barrette Center for the Arts BOX OFFICE HOURS: WRIF’s annual fundraiser and reception for the Upper Valley premiere of Nora Jacobson’s The Hanji Box. Food, friends, and live music with Mambo Monk, jazz trio Thursday June 1: 2:30pm - 7:00pm with Bill Craig. Screening at 7 p.m. followed by Q&A with director Nora Jacobson, Friday June 2: 5:00pm - 9:30pm actress Suzanne Dudley (Schon), memoirist Meg Dean Daiss Hurley (whose work inspired the film), and members of cast and crew. The Hanji Box features the work of Saturday June 3: 8:00am - 9:00pm local film professionals including director of photography Ben Silberfarb, Executive Sunday June 4: 9:00am - 7:30pm Producer Bill Stetson, and Production Designer Antoinette Jacobson. Payment Methods accepted at Box Office: *Reception tickets are $40, includes The Hanji Box screening Cash, Credit Card, Check THE HANJI BOX 7:00pm Byrne Theater THURSDAY (2017) by Nora Jacobson, 60 minutes, Narrative, Unrated, USA How does it feel to be adopted? To adopt a child from a different SALT OF THE EARTH culture? Nora Jacobson’s latest 3:30PM Byrne Theater film,The Hanji Box, is a quietly compelling drama about (1954) by Herbert Biberman, 94 minutes, Narrative, Unrated, USA Hannah, an American mother “No American film emerging heartbroken from a is more inspiring and divorce, and Rose, her adopted emotionally satisfying Korean daughter. When the than this remarkable mysterious Hanji Box—Rose’s 1954 film.” (Danny precious link to Korea—is Peary, Cult Movies II). broken, Hannah travels to New Salt of the Earth is the York’s Koreatown to mend it. work of blacklisted There she meets a charismatic Korean artist who takes her on a journey of cultural filmmakers Herbert discovery. Nuanced performances by Hanover actress Suzanne Dudley (Schon), Biberman, Paul Jarrico, Toronto-based Daniel Park, and New York actress Natalie Kim illuminate issues of and Michael Wilson, longing and belonging, loss, mothering, identity, and US-Korean history. The film and is the only entire was inspired by a memoir written by Jacobson’s childhood friend, Meg Dean Daiss film of the era that was Hurley. suppressed for political reasons. Based on an actual strike against the Empire Q&A following screening with director Nora Jacobson, Suzanne Dudley (Schon), Meg Dean Zinc Mine in New Mexico, the film deals with the prejudice against the Daiss Hurley, Natalie Kim and more of the cast and crew. Mexican-American workers, who struck to attain wage parity with Anglo Sponsored by The Boatwright Foundation workers in other mines and to be treated with dignity by the bosses. Community Partner: Child and Family Services of New Hampshire Q&A following screening with Rick Winston. Winston was co-founder of Montpelier’s Savoy Theater, and was Programmer for the Green Mountain Film Festival for many Space permitting, single tickets to The Hanji Box will be available online years. Since the sale of the Savoy, he has been a lecturer with the Vermont Humanities beginning 6:00 pm on May 30, and during WRIF Box Office hours. Council Speakers Bureau, speaking on the Hollywood Blacklist and other film Paintings by Meg Dean Daiss Hurley are featured in the Byrne Theater lobby. subjects. Page 2 Buy tickets online at: WRIF.ORG WHITE RIVER JUNCTION, VERMONT FRIDAY CONTINUED IN THE BIGHT, BY BEN FINER LAPS, BY CHARLOttE WELLS 28 minutes, Narrative 6 minutes, Narrative AMERICAN HONEY What begins as a day of playing in the forest On a routine morning, a woman on a 9:15pm Byrne Theater slowly transforms into an adventure exploring crowded New York City subway is sexually the wonders and darkness of the childhood assaulted in plain sight. (2016) by Andrea Arnold, 163 minutes, Narrative, imagination. R, USA THE COLLINWOOD FIRE, BY DANIEL A teenage DOLL POWER, BY MIKE GORDON AND HOUGHTON girl with NEIL MADSEN RYAN nothing to 7 minutes, Animation lose joins 9 minutes, Narrative On March 4, 1908, the Collinwood a traveling Eight-year-old Tessa is given magical powers to Elementary School burned to the ground, magazine save the world by her genie doll. As she seeks trapping and killing 172 school children, two sales crew out humanity’s biggest problems, she is faced teachers, and one rescuer. The Collinwood and gets caught up in with a difficult choice. Fire reanimates the inferno through the a whirlwind sensationalist newspaper headlines of the day of hard BLOCK TWO 10:00-10:45AM and the silent moving picture images of an partying, law aspiring young filmmaker cranking his camera bending, and young love as she crisscrosses the DIVIDED BY DIVERSITY, BY DUANE at the blaze. Midwest with a band of misfits. Stars Sasha Lane ARLETON and Shia LaBeouf. Winner of the Jury Prize at the C DAD’S 50TH SURPRISE PARTY, BY MAtt 2016 Cannes Film Festival. 10 minutes (excerpt), Documentary LENNON Sponsored by Liora Alschuler In 2010, five African-American students 10 minutes, Narrative Community Partner: Revolution from New York City were accepted to attend Two brothers team up to finally one-up their a Catholic high school in Vermont where prankster dad for his 50th birthday. they made the basketball team. Divided by SATURDAY Diversity explores many of the elements that BLOCK FOUR 11:30AM-1:00PM contributed to the xenophobic resistance the EITHER HADOW OF URNING BY REGIONAL SHORT FILM SHOWCASE students, their teammates, coaches, and hosts N S T , DRIAN ENTONI AND 9:00AM BYRNE THEATER endured. A C JUSTIN DERRY View the best short films, docs, and THE SIGN, BY JIM LANTZ 20 minutes, Narrative animation from our richly talented extended 14 minutes, Documentary film community. Magic talking dolls, car Trapped in snowy isolation, husband and After their homemade “Trump 4 President” wife descend into darkness as their lives are crashes, epic period pieces, the films have it sign was run over twice, a Vermont filmmaker all. Featuring new cinematic offerings from threatened by illness. A short film about love travels to Virginia to interview his parents to and control. (Phish bassist) Mike Gordon, award-winning understand their support for (then) presidential animator Daniel Houghton, and acclaimed candidate, Donald Trump. YELLOW, BY ALEXANDER HANKOff AND playwright Jim Lantz. ALEXANDER MAXWELL SUNDAY 1287, BY BRANDON DEL POZO Join the filmmakers to celebrate and explore 18 minutes, Narrative their work on the big screen and continue 11 minutes, Narrative the conversation at the catered reception A small-town race car driver struggles with the Vanessa’s family takes her to her boyfriend’s proposition of a sponsor who takes an interest to follow. If you’re interested in film or if apartment so she can leave him, this time, for in the sport’s potential for carnage. you make film, this is the way to start your the last time. Saturday. Catch one block or stay for them all. BLACK CANARIES, BY JESSE KREITZER 18 minutes, Narrative BLOCK ONE 9:00-10:00AM BLOCK THREE 10:45-11:30AM Isolated, desperate, and haunted by his coal-stained birthright, Clarence Lockwood HANTOM BY VERY ELZER AND FLICKER, BY JEREMY LEE MACKENZIE P , A M continues his daily descent into the accursed DYLAN POLLAK Maple mine—even after it has crippled his 13 minutes, Narrative 10 minutes, Narrative father and blinded his youngest son. Set in When a young girl’s mother passes away 1907 and based on director Jesse Kreitzer’s she copes by believing her mom’s soul is An adrift young man longs to escape his own coal-mining ancestry, Black Canaries is reincarnated as a candlestick to communicate forested solitude and return home but a powerful meditation on patrimony, loyalty, through shadow puppets.