By Lloyd Komesar
VERMONT PREMIERE Winner of a 2017 Peabody Award, the evocative documentary Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise, from directors Rita Coburn and Bob Hercules, is the first feature film to be made about the incomparable Maya Angelou, the singer, dancer, activist, poet and writer who inspired generations with modern African-American thought that pushed boundaries. The Read More...
After Sherman is a story about inheritance and the tension that defines our collective American history. The director’s exploration of coastal South Carolina as a site of pride and racial trauma through Gullah cultural retention and land preservation is interrupted by the shootings at Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina. CREDITS Directed by: Read More...
SCREENING INFORMATION
MNFF Selects "Larger Than Life" Series
Thursday, November 10
7pm
Town Hall Theater, Middlebury VT
SCREENING INFORMATION
MNFF Selects "Larger Than Life" Series
Thursday, December 8
7pm
Town Hall Theater, Middlebury VT
SCREENING INFORMATION
MNFF Selects "Larger Than Life" Series
Sunday, January 8
2pm
Town Hall Theater, Middlebury VT
Abigail Disney looks at America’s dysfunctional and unequal economy and asks why the American Dream has worked for the wealthy, yet is a nightmare for people born with less. As a way to imagine a more equitable future, Disney uses her family’s story to explore how this systemic injustice took hold. CREDITS Directed by: Abigail Read More...
SCREENING INFORMATION
MNFF Selects "Larger Than Life" Series
Sunday, February 5
2pm
Town Hall Theater, Middlebury VT
VERMONT PREMIERE Inspired by real events between 2015 and 2019, American Thief follows its protagonists in a plot aimed at manipulating the 2016 American presidential election. Toncruz, a teenage hacker, uses the internet to try to avenge his father’s death, while his best friend, Diop, uses hacking as a tool in the fight for racial Read More...
VERMONT PREMIERE
SCREENING INFORMATION
MNFF Selects "Larger Than Life" Series
Sunday, March 5
2pm
Town Hall Theater, Middlebury VT
SCREENING INFORMATION
Date: Saturday, August 27
Time: 7:15pm
Location: Swift House Inn