Andy Mitchell takes a lead role in film festival

“I’ve spent my career helping, nurturing, mentoring young filmmakers. That’s a big part of my motivation for doing this.” — Andy Mitchell

The Emmy-award-winning moviemaker and local resident steps ups as Managing Producer of the Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival, which will host its 12th season this August.

Frozen in the New Year? Heat things up with the Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival Selects monthly screening series that starts Wednesday, Jan. 14.

The Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival is looking for a new executive director.

MNFF officials say film festival attendance was up 10% from 2024.

In mysterious ways, each year’s MNFF selections tend to fall into clusters, thematically. Artistic Director Jay Craven says this year’s crop of films includes characters acting on deeply principled stands — win or lose.

Documentaries, short films, student work, movies made in Vermont – there’s a lot to discover at this year’s Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival.

“Traces of Time,” a film by Simeon Hutner and winner of MNFF’s Shouldice Family Prize for Best Vermont Film, will screen on Aug. 21.

This year’s Middlebury New Filmmakers Festivals features 107 films. Here are a few from Vermont filmmaker Jay Craven’s must-see list.

Jay Craven offers a look behind the curtain of the Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival guest-list.

Late August is still two months away, but the county’s shire town is already being readied for its annual role as host of the Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival, a five-day showcase of some of the most exciting and thought-provoking work of both aspiring … (read more)

Details for the 11th annual Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival are still coming together, but MNFF11 Artistic Director Jay Craven gave us a preview of some of the coming attractions for the Aug. 20-24 event.

The MNFF Selects Series concludes with a screening of “Winter’s Bone, a 2010 narrative film directed by Debra Granik, on Sunday, April 27, at 3 p.m., at Town Hall Theater in Middlebury.

‏I remember the surprise I experienced in 1988 when I first saw Erroll Morris’ pioneering true crime documentary, “The Thin Blue Line.” I’d never seen anything like it, with its relentless questioning, probing interviews, tense recreations, shadowy detect … (read more)

The Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival will try something new this winter and spring, with a Selects Series we’re calling “Lost Chances: Neo-Noir Here and Now.”