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The first 'Green Mountain Film Festival' took place in Montpelier, Vermont in 1997. In March 1999 a second festival was held and it has been an annual event ever since. The festival takes place in March, and draws a devoted audience, attracted by both the quality of the films and the intimacy of the setting. The program comprises mostly new films from around the world with a few film classics. In recent years about one-half of the films shown have been documentaries. There are also screenings of shorts and student films. Many screenings are followed by informal discussions sometimes involving the filmmakers themselves. The festival also features special appearances by established film critics and filmmakers. Recent guests have included critics Kenneth Turan, Molly Haskell, Phillip Lopate, David Thomson and Matthew Hays. Filmmakers have included the screenwriter and director, Robin Swicord and documentary makers Albert Maysles and Ralph Arlyck.
No prizes or awards are given. The emphasis has always been on presenting films on their own merits without the distraction of competition.
The critic Stuart Klawans, writing in ''The Nation,'' described the 2003 Green Mountain Film Festival as "a cinephile's utopia: a festival organized and supported by an entire community of local moviegoers."^[1]
Matthew Hays, the Montreal-based film critic, called the 2006 festival "incredible ... a mind-bendingly fascinating diet of movies."
Every year scores of volunteers come together to help run the festival and host special events in venues across Montpelier, Vermont—the nation's smallest capital city.

Contents

11th Green Mountain Film Festival 2008

10th Green Mountain Film Festival 2007

Films in Earlier Green Mountain Film Festivals (2006)

External links

References

11th Green Mountain Film Festival 2008

The 11th Green Mountain Film Festival will run from 21st to 30th March 2008.

10th Green Mountain Film Festival 2007

The 10th Green Mountain Film Festival ran from 16th to 25th March 2007. The full program can be found here. Guests included Albert Maysles, Ralph Arlyck and Kenneth Turan.

Films in Earlier Green Mountain Film Festivals (2006)

After Innocence
After the Fog
Ballets Russes
The Boys of Baraka
Campfire
Commune
Duma
The Education of Shelby Knox
Elevator to the Gallows
Le Grand Voyage
Hawaii, Oslo
Homeland
I Like Killing Flies
Intimate Stories
Isn't This a Time!
Live and Become
Living the Autism Maze
The Lizard, or Marmoulak
"Music and the Movies" with Lloyd Schwartz
Midnight Movies
Mind Games
Paradise Now
The Real Dirt on Farmer John
The Red Wagon
A Sidewalk Astronomer
The Singers
Sir! No Sir!
The Syrian Bride
Tony Takitani
Touch the Sound
The Warrior
Winterwalk
The World Outside

External links

★ Green Mountain Film Festival Official Site

★ Savoy Theater Official Site

★ Planning a trip to the Green Mountain Film Festival

★ Green Mountain Film Festival at the Fargo Filmmaking Wiki Project

★ Independent Film Festivals and Indie Films

★ Killer Films

References

1. The Nation, March 29, 2004