The Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival (MNFF) will mark its 9th birthday this August with at least one multiple Academy Award winner, a growing cast of attending directors and movie-goers now liberated from the shackles of COVID, and a record number of film submissions that have been winnowed down to 125 that’ll be screened at five venues in Addison County’s shire town.
The MNFF Selects “Larger Than Life” series wraps up its with a special screening of the outstanding new documentary, “Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes.”
MNFF Selects is thrilled to present the Vermont premiere of Navalny on Thursday, April 13, at 7 p.m., at Town Hall Theater in Middlebury.
The event, which premiered at the Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival last August, will feature a live, 22-piece VSO chamber ensemble accompanying seven documentary and animation films with Vermont ties.
Four top films from its 2022 8th Annual Festival will screen in seven towns across the state (all outside Addison County) on the expanded weekend of March 23-26 and on April 1.
An exceptionally candid and revealing film, “Golda” presents a powerful look at the five turbulent years of Prime Minister Golda Meir’s leadership of the State of Israel, from 1969-1974.
Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival alums have recently secured Academy Award nominations for their brilliant work.
Theodore John Kaczynski lived a life of almost complete seclusion in a simple wooden cabin in the mountains of Montana.
The Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival has created the MNFF Travel Fund to support the efforts of its selected filmmakers to attend the festival in person each year.
This year’s series, with a “Larger Than Life” theme, will feature seven films about individuals whose lives and presence have genuinely impacted our culture.
MNFF, which ran Aug. 24-28, screened 138 films at five venues on six screens over its run.
The AICEF Prize is presented to a pair of first- or second-time feature filmmakers whose work robustly embraces cross-cultural themes either in the narrative or documentary genre.
The Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival (MNFF) has announced details of its expansive 2022 film program, five-day film schedule, acclaimed honorees and special guests for its 8th annual fest, set for Aug. 24-28.
The Swift House in conjunction with the Middlebury New Film Festival and Town Hall Theater will host a series of live events outside “Under the Tent” from Aug. 2 to 28.
While MNFF8 officials remain vigilant about the impacts of COVID-19 — a pandemic that forced the 2020 MNFF to go fully virtual — they are optimistic that the festival will return to its most “normal” programming since 2019.
