- Actress Maggie Gyllenhaal and actor husband Peter Sarsgaard, who live in Ripton, attended Saturday’s screening of her 2002 movie “Secretary” and she did a question-and-answer session after the film moderated by Vergennes-based actor Jeremy Holm. Independent photo/Steve James
- TOWN HALL THEATER Executive Director Lisa Mitchell and MNFF producer Lloyd Komesar at the festival. Independent photo/Steve James
- KAREN ALLEN AT the Middlebury Inn for the MNFF. Independent photo/Steve James
- JUDE DRY OF Middlebury won a VTeddy for directing the film “Monsieur le Butch.” (On stage with mother, Cecilia) Independent photo/Steve James
- MAGGIE GYLLENHAAL AT an MNFF screening this week. Independent photo/Steve James
- AN MNFF AUDIENCE at Town Hall Theater. Independent photo/Steve James
- MORISSA MALTZ WON two VTeddies for her feature film, “The Unknown Country.” She was at the festival with her husband, Tommy, who is from Orwell, Vt. Independent photo/Steve James
- VERMONT-BASED FILM director Nora Jacobson, a festival honoree, had an on-stage discussion on Thursday after a screening of her documentary “Ruth Stone’s Vast Library of the Female Mind” about the life of Vermont poet Ruth Stone. She appeared with Stone’s daughter Phoebe, right, who lives in Whiting. Independent photo/Steve James
- THE VSO PLAYED the original score to Middlebury College Animation Studio Director Daniel Houghton’s short animated film “Estrellita” at the first ‘Night at the Movies’ presentation last August. Independent photo/Steve James
- JEREMY HOLM, A star of TV’s “House of Cards” and “Mr. Robot” and the horror series “The Ranger,” attended opening night with his wife Dawn Wagner, an artist and chocolatier. Independent photo/Steve James
- CHRIS SPENCER OF Vergennes won the Shouldice Family Prize for best Vermont-made film. His short, screened at the festival, was “The Life of Stephen Bates,” a story about Vermont’s first black sheriff. Independent photo/Steve James