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The Vermont International Film Festival invites you to join them for
The Vermont International Film Foundation recently announced the program for the 16th Vermont International Film Festival, October 13 -16, 2005. Along with the Festival’s focus on films dealing with issues of global concern, this year’s festival will include a College Filmmakers Showcase at the Higher Ground on Thursday, October 13 from 1:30pm – 7:15pm. Saint Michael’s College filmmakers will be featured in the session that runs from 3:30 – 5:15pm.
Contact Information:
Buff Lindau, Public Relations
802.654.2536
blindau@smcvt.edu
The filmmakers are students of Jon Hyde, Assistant Professor in the Department of Journalism and Mass Communication at Saint Michael’s, and the documentaries were created as part of the Department’s capstone senior project requirement.
Flea Diaries: Culture, People, and Artifacts in a New York City Flea Market, directed by Nicki Manchisi ’05, explores the lives and subcultures of people connected to New York City flea markets.
Yoga Pop! The Americanization of Yoga, directed by Abbie Corse ’05 and Erin Britt ’05, explores the growing popularization of yoga in the U.S. and asks whether yoga has become over-hyped and over-commercialized. The film explores the benefits and limitations of introducing a series of ancient spiritual practices associated with mind, body, and soul into a modern consumer culture which is fixated on speed, efficiency, and the rationalization of life.
Culture Shock: International Students in the U.S., directed by Stefan Botchev ’04, profiles the lives of five different international students going to college in the United States. The film is a cross-cultural look at the aspects of American culture and education they find most wonderful, and challenging as well as those that may be a little bit strange.
The College Filmmakers Showcase is free to college students with an ID, and $5 for general admission.
The Vermont International Film Festival celebrates the independent spirit of films by providing a forum for stories dealing with issues of global concern. This year the Festival will feature more than 60 compelling films with distinctive styles, techniques and structures, ranging from social commentaries, travel diaries, and political tracts, to experimental shorts. Films will compete for the best film in three categories - War and Peace, Justice and Human Rights, and the Environment. Selected films include 5 world premieres, 10 USA premieres and 50 Vermont premieres.
The program offers a closer look on Latin America, a spotlight on women as far as Kyrghistan and China, an examination on some health issues such as autism and other mental diseases. A very special showcase of narrative features and documentaries from Germany, Finland, China, France, South Africa, Korea, and Australia present gripping lives of refugees and displaced people. We dedicate this program to the Gulf Coast victims of Hurricane Katrina.
It is VIFF’s tradition to pay tribute to a filmmaker who challenges the political and social status quo, and who awakens public attention to vital human rights and environmental issues. The 16th Vermont International Film Festival is honored to present to VANESSA REDGRAVE the Socially Conscious Achievement Award for her remarkable artistic career and human rights activism.
Vermont filmmakers and college students will be highlighted in a special, two-day program of locally produced films.
The Vermont International Film Festival invites you to join us for four days of films, discussions and celebrations. VIFF events will take place at Burlington City Arts’ Contois Auditorium in City Hall, Lorraine B. Good Screening Room at the Firehouse Center for Visual Arts, Merrill’s Roxy Cinema, and Higher Ground.
Please check our website www.vtiff.org for a full schedule, ticket information and programming updates.
Buff Lindau, Public Relations
802.654.2536
blindau@smcvt.edu
The filmmakers are students of Jon Hyde, Assistant Professor in the Department of Journalism and Mass Communication at Saint Michael’s, and the documentaries were created as part of the Department’s capstone senior project requirement.
Flea Diaries: Culture, People, and Artifacts in a New York City Flea Market, directed by Nicki Manchisi ’05, explores the lives and subcultures of people connected to New York City flea markets.
Yoga Pop! The Americanization of Yoga, directed by Abbie Corse ’05 and Erin Britt ’05, explores the growing popularization of yoga in the U.S. and asks whether yoga has become over-hyped and over-commercialized. The film explores the benefits and limitations of introducing a series of ancient spiritual practices associated with mind, body, and soul into a modern consumer culture which is fixated on speed, efficiency, and the rationalization of life.
Culture Shock: International Students in the U.S., directed by Stefan Botchev ’04, profiles the lives of five different international students going to college in the United States. The film is a cross-cultural look at the aspects of American culture and education they find most wonderful, and challenging as well as those that may be a little bit strange.
The College Filmmakers Showcase is free to college students with an ID, and $5 for general admission.
The Vermont International Film Festival celebrates the independent spirit of films by providing a forum for stories dealing with issues of global concern. This year the Festival will feature more than 60 compelling films with distinctive styles, techniques and structures, ranging from social commentaries, travel diaries, and political tracts, to experimental shorts. Films will compete for the best film in three categories - War and Peace, Justice and Human Rights, and the Environment. Selected films include 5 world premieres, 10 USA premieres and 50 Vermont premieres.
The program offers a closer look on Latin America, a spotlight on women as far as Kyrghistan and China, an examination on some health issues such as autism and other mental diseases. A very special showcase of narrative features and documentaries from Germany, Finland, China, France, South Africa, Korea, and Australia present gripping lives of refugees and displaced people. We dedicate this program to the Gulf Coast victims of Hurricane Katrina.
It is VIFF’s tradition to pay tribute to a filmmaker who challenges the political and social status quo, and who awakens public attention to vital human rights and environmental issues. The 16th Vermont International Film Festival is honored to present to VANESSA REDGRAVE the Socially Conscious Achievement Award for her remarkable artistic career and human rights activism.
Vermont filmmakers and college students will be highlighted in a special, two-day program of locally produced films.
The Vermont International Film Festival invites you to join us for four days of films, discussions and celebrations. VIFF events will take place at Burlington City Arts’ Contois Auditorium in City Hall, Lorraine B. Good Screening Room at the Firehouse Center for Visual Arts, Merrill’s Roxy Cinema, and Higher Ground.
Please check our website www.vtiff.org for a full schedule, ticket information and programming updates.
