Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival
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MNFF to screen noir doc ‘The Thin Blue Line’
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,…
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MNFF to debut neo-noir film series with screening of ‘Chinatown’
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.”
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MNFF announces new board members
The Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival (MNFF) announced the addition of Alex Draper, Drey Ward, and Jenny Williams to the Board of Directors this past December. These three accomplished…
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‘Jim Henson: Idea Man’ to play on Dec. 19
Film director Ron Howard’s five-time Emmy-winning documentary film, “Jim Henson: Idea Man” will screen at 7 p.m., Thursday, Dec. 19, at the Town Hall Theater, as part of…
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Movie review: Using film to ask the right questions
“The Teachers’ Lounge” was one of this year’s Best Foreign Film nominees — though its closely observed drama set inside a contemporary seventh-grade German classroom could have easily…
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Ways of Seeing: MNFF organizers do it the right way
This month the Middlebury New Filmmakers Film Festival held a friendly cocktail hour at Middlebury Inn to thank the hosts who had given housing to this year’s filmmakers…
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New MNFF director ready for her closeup
Caitlin Boyle has spent the past two decades working behind the scenes helping filmmakers from throughout the country get their creations seen on screens big and small. She’s…
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Monthly screening series returns to Middlebury with three films
The Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival Selects Monthly Screening Series returns to Town Hall Theater in Middlebury with its 2024-25 program beginning Thursday, Oct. 10, with a 7 p.m.…
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MNFF10 was a record breaker
The 10th annual Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival (MNFF) went all-out for its first double-digit birthday, and that paid off in attendance and quality for the five-day extravaganza that…
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Oliver Stone takes a bow in Middlebury
Celebrated film Director Oliver Stone already has four Academy Awards on his mantel. Now he’ll make some room for his first VTeddy Award, which he accepted this past…