WOMEN’S FILM FESTIVAL KICKS-OFF PLANNING FOR 20TH ANNIVERSARY
WITH VOLUNTEER SOIREE
Brattleboro, Vermont: September 14, 2010. People interested in volunteering to be
part of one of Vermont’s most noteworthy events -- the annual Women’s Film Festival
– on its historic 20th anniversary are invited to attend a Volunteer Soiree’ on Monday,
20 September 2010 from 6:00 to 8:30 pm at the Marlboro Graduate Center, Room 2 East, 28 Vernon
Road, in Downtown Brattleboro. Food and beverages will be served, a short film
showed and volunteer and internship opportunities discussed.
The 20th annual Women’s Film Festival will run from March 11 through 20, 2011 at
the Latchis Theater and the New England Youth Theater in Downtown Brattleboro.
Google ‘womens film festival’ and the Women’s Film Festival in Brattleboro comes up
first and for good reason. It is the longest running women’s film festival in the nation
and is internationally recognized for the breadth and quality of films presented each
year.
The festival is also important – and unique – in that 100% of proceeds support the
Women’s Crisis Center which, for more than 30 years, has helped free women and
children from the painfully common cycle of domestic violence.
“The festival is 100 percent volunteer-run,” Marilyn Buhlmann, chairperson of the
Women’s Film Festival Steering Committee and Chair of the Board of Directors of
the Women’s Crisis Center said. “People who attend the soiree will explore exciting
opportunities to express their talents while helping others.”
Volunteer and academic internships are available in the following areas: Publicity,
marketing and design, volunteer coordination, special events, hospitality, art show and
silent auction, bookkeeping and budget, administrative support, corporate and individual
sponsorship and fundraising and film selection.
Those who cannot come to the Soiree and would like more information, including job
descriptions, should visit the film festival website at www.womensfilmfestival.org or
contact Gail Haines at 802 387-5676 or gail@svcable.net.
Thursday, September 16, 2010
Sunday, April 25, 2010
Thank You
The Women’s Film Festival would like to thank everyone who attended our 2010 festival and all of the businesses, organizations and individuals who continue to offer support and enthusiasm for this annual event which benefits The Women’s Crisis Center. The festival is truly a group effort; one that includes dozens of sponsors, donors and volunteers.
This year’s festival was made possible by The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences; The Kates Foundation; Latchis Theater/Brattleboro Arts Initiative; Hooker Dunham Theater and Gallery; Key Bank; Brattleboro Food Co op; Brattleboro Museum & Art Center; The Brattleboro Retreat; Chroma Technology; Brattleboro Savings and Loan; Clear solutions; Dr. Elizabeth McLarney; Planned Parenthood of Northern New England; Vermont Partnership for Fairness and Diversity;Bernstein & Fisk Psychotherapy Associates; Dr. Mary Bove/ Brattleboro Naturopathic Clinic; Peter Havens; Brattleboro Area Farmers Market; Melissa Hayes; Park Place Financial Advisors; Richards Insurance Group; Cheryl Wilfong; The Austine School; Brattleboro Housing Authority; Tapestry; Westgate Tenant’s Association; Department of Youth Services; Nancy Groff/ Vermont Interpreter Referral Services; ASL interpreter, Bridgit Paradis; Randy Susan Meyers; Harry Saxman; The Putney Co-op; Landmark College; Putney Inn; North Country Naturals; Someone’s in the Kitchen; Vermont Country Deli; Amy’s Bakery & Arts Café; Side Hill Farms; Chai Wallah; Domino’s Pizza; Fireworks Grill; Grafton Village Cheese; Riverview Café; TJ Buckley’s; Cappella Clausura and Suzanne d’Corsey and, of course, to all of our loyal and hard working volunteers- this festival would truly not exist without you.
Special thanks go to the Steering Committee and Film Selection Committees who labor all year round to produce this event; to our Publicity folks - who got our name out far and wide; to our excellent web site and new media committee who brought us reluctantly into the world of Google documents, Twitter, FaceBook et al and especially to Kristin Wilson for her tireless work on our website; to our fund-raising /grant committee who acquired much needed funding; the Visions Art Show crew for organizing a wonderful venue for local artists; BethAnn Agostini for her invaluable legal advice; the show volunteer committee and all the show volunteers - who made sure there were people to sell tickets and welcome film goers; and to the dozens of other volunteers from hospitality, film trackers and marketing to proofreaders, Best in Fest and data compilation - we are very grateful for you all.
Finally, our gratitude and awe go to the many courageous and strong women in the world who are making their own lives and the lives of many others better, by winning over unsurmountable odds. And to the creative and insightful film makers and directors who tell their stories.
Kris Alden
This year’s festival was made possible by The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences; The Kates Foundation; Latchis Theater/Brattleboro Arts Initiative; Hooker Dunham Theater and Gallery; Key Bank; Brattleboro Food Co op; Brattleboro Museum & Art Center; The Brattleboro Retreat; Chroma Technology; Brattleboro Savings and Loan; Clear solutions; Dr. Elizabeth McLarney; Planned Parenthood of Northern New England; Vermont Partnership for Fairness and Diversity;Bernstein & Fisk Psychotherapy Associates; Dr. Mary Bove/ Brattleboro Naturopathic Clinic; Peter Havens; Brattleboro Area Farmers Market; Melissa Hayes; Park Place Financial Advisors; Richards Insurance Group; Cheryl Wilfong; The Austine School; Brattleboro Housing Authority; Tapestry; Westgate Tenant’s Association; Department of Youth Services; Nancy Groff/ Vermont Interpreter Referral Services; ASL interpreter, Bridgit Paradis; Randy Susan Meyers; Harry Saxman; The Putney Co-op; Landmark College; Putney Inn; North Country Naturals; Someone’s in the Kitchen; Vermont Country Deli; Amy’s Bakery & Arts Café; Side Hill Farms; Chai Wallah; Domino’s Pizza; Fireworks Grill; Grafton Village Cheese; Riverview Café; TJ Buckley’s; Cappella Clausura and Suzanne d’Corsey and, of course, to all of our loyal and hard working volunteers- this festival would truly not exist without you.
Special thanks go to the Steering Committee and Film Selection Committees who labor all year round to produce this event; to our Publicity folks - who got our name out far and wide; to our excellent web site and new media committee who brought us reluctantly into the world of Google documents, Twitter, FaceBook et al and especially to Kristin Wilson for her tireless work on our website; to our fund-raising /grant committee who acquired much needed funding; the Visions Art Show crew for organizing a wonderful venue for local artists; BethAnn Agostini for her invaluable legal advice; the show volunteer committee and all the show volunteers - who made sure there were people to sell tickets and welcome film goers; and to the dozens of other volunteers from hospitality, film trackers and marketing to proofreaders, Best in Fest and data compilation - we are very grateful for you all.
Finally, our gratitude and awe go to the many courageous and strong women in the world who are making their own lives and the lives of many others better, by winning over unsurmountable odds. And to the creative and insightful film makers and directors who tell their stories.
Kris Alden
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Best in Fest Party
Women’s Film Festival “Best of Fest” Party
The Women’s Film Festival invites you to their gala closing party on Saturday, March 27th at Hooker Dunham Theater. The festivities begin at 6 PM with a celebration of our very successful festival; delicious food and drinks, a chance to make your final (or first) bid on some wonderful art, the long awaited drawing for our fabulous festival prizes, including passes to the 2011 Film Festival; autographed copies of the internationally acclaimed novel; The Murderer’s Daughters by Randy Susan Meyers; an assortment of incredible Side Hill Farm jams; a basket of scrumptious goodies from Someone’s in the Kitchen plus the most popular film of this year’s festival: The Topp Twins! This film sold out at both previous showings so come early to get a seat and join us in our celebration. The Topp Twins will be shown at 7:30 PM. Food, Art, Prizes and the Topp Twins!
What more could you want?
The Women’s Film Festival invites you to their gala closing party on Saturday, March 27th at Hooker Dunham Theater. The festivities begin at 6 PM with a celebration of our very successful festival; delicious food and drinks, a chance to make your final (or first) bid on some wonderful art, the long awaited drawing for our fabulous festival prizes, including passes to the 2011 Film Festival; autographed copies of the internationally acclaimed novel; The Murderer’s Daughters by Randy Susan Meyers; an assortment of incredible Side Hill Farm jams; a basket of scrumptious goodies from Someone’s in the Kitchen plus the most popular film of this year’s festival: The Topp Twins! This film sold out at both previous showings so come early to get a seat and join us in our celebration. The Topp Twins will be shown at 7:30 PM. Food, Art, Prizes and the Topp Twins!
What more could you want?
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Cappella Clausura
Cappella Clausura: Sacred Music by Women Composers
Sunday, March 28, 2010, 4:30 pm First Baptist Church, 190 Main St., Brattleboro
In honor of Women's History Month, and in collaboration with WFF and "Visions" art show, Cappella Clausura will present a program benefiting the local Women's Crisis Center. Cappella Clausura is a women's vocal ensemble of music professionals from the Boston area. Their Brattleboro program includes works by contemporary composers Patricia Van Ness and Hilary Tann, as well as Hildegard von Bingen from the early 1100s, late Renaissance composers Sulpitia Cesis and Raphaella Aleotti, and Baroque composers Chiara Cozzolani (whose five-movement Messa Paschale is threaded throughout) and Orsina Vizzana. Some pieces will include accompaniment on portative organ, viola da gamba, and theorbo (a lute-like instrument).
Tickets: $18, including a $5 donation to the Women's Crisis Center. This event is supported in part by a New England States Touring grant from the New England Foundation for the Arts, as well as a $500 "challenge grant" from composer Patsy Rogers, a former Brattleboro-area resident and supporting member of Friends of Music.
There will be a preconcert lecture by composer Hilary Tann. For further information on the Tann presentation and the concert, call: 802-254-3600, or go to www.fomag.org.
The Cappella Clausura website is www.clausura.org http://www.clausura.org>
Thursday, February 11, 2010
Events at the Womens Film Festival
Visions Art Show:
March 5th On view at the Hooker-Dunham Theater & Gallery
Another special feature of the Festival—“Visions,” a show of women’s art and craft, with proceeds from the month-long silent auction also going to the Crisis Center. The show opens on Gallery Walk Friday, March 5th.The Moon Inside You: Q&A with Director Diana Fabianova by Skype
March 13, Sat. 18:30:00 Hooker-Dunham Theater
Talk with the Director Diana Fabianova in Slovakia who will be on the screen through Skype after the film.(women's health, menstruation)
Quest for Honor: Q&A with Director Mary Ann Smothers Bruni
March 13, Sat 19:00:00 Brattleboro Museum and Art Center
Mary Ann Sothers Bruni, just back from Iraq will be here for Q&A after the film. A photographer, this is her first film.(Kurdish Iraq violence against women, women activists)
Kaziah: The Goat Woman: Q&A with Director Amy Duzinski Janes
March 14, Sun. 13:00:00 Brattleboro Museum and Art Center
Amy Duzinski Janes, Director coming from California will be here along with a new painting by Kaziah, of local fallen soldier Kyle Gilbert to be presented to family.(Art, grief, farming)
Glass House: Q&A with Producer Melissa Hibbard
March 18 Thurs. 18:30:00 Latchis Theater
March 19, Fri. 10:00:00 Room 101, International Center, School for International Training
Producer, Melissa Hibbard will be on hand for Q&A after the film.(Iran social issues, young women and teens)
Motherland: Q&A with Director Jennifer Steinman
March 20, Sat 13:00:00 Latchis Theater
Director Jennifer Steinman here from California will be available for Q&A after the film.(mother's grief)
Orgasm Inc: Q&A with Director Liz Canner
March 20, Sat 18:30:00 Latchis Theater
Vermont Director Elizabeth Canner will be here for Q&A after the film.(women's health, pharmaceutcal politics)
Closing Party:
On Saturday, March 27th, a festive closing party will include the final evening of bidding on the artwork in the “Visions” exhibit and a screening of the film chosen by festival-goers as “the Best of the Fest."Cappella Clausura:
Finally, on Sunday, March 28th, the Women’s Film Festival welcomes Boston's Cappella Clausura: Sacred Music by Women Composers, performing a special benefit concert for the Women's Crisis Center.19th Women’s Film Festival March 12-21, 2010
19th Women’s Film Festival March 12-21, 2010
March in Vermont is traditionally mud season, with cold winds, waning cabin fever, and St. Patrick’s and Town Meeting Days. In Brattleboro, it has also come to mean the Women’s Film Festival, when this southern Vermont town hosts a premier event showcasing films made by women about women. Proceeds from ticket sales go to the Women’s Crisis Center, which helps women and children affected by domestic or sexual abuse.
Starting with a special benefit screening of Academy Award-nominated “Precious” on March 5th at the Latchis Theater, then continuing on March 12th and running for ten days through March 21st, Brattleboro becomes headquarters for the finest in cutting-edge, innovative, and informative film-making.
In this, the Festival’s nineteenth year, twenty-five award-winning documentaries and feature films will be presented, hailing from Colombia, Iran, Canada, South Africa, England, the United States, New Zealand, Scotland, and France. Owing to the Festival’s growing reputation, more directors than ever will be present to introduce their films.
The festival opens with “The Topp Twins: Untouchable Girls,” a New Zealand film about yodeling lesbian country-western singers, called “provocative and disarming.” Other highlights of the festival include “The Beaches of Agnes,” a poignant and cinematically creative memoir by Agnès Varda, short-listed for an Academy Award; the heroic tale of an artist street-survivor, “Begging Naked;” Kim Longinotto’s “Rough Aunties,” a documentary about women in South Africa who work to save children traumatized by sexual abuse and assault, documentary-making at its finest and most inspiring; “The Jazz Baroness,” about filmmaker Hannah Rothschild’s aunt who became the benefactor of Thelonius Monk, narrated by Helen Mirren.
The Festival closes with a one-time screening of “Yoo-Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg,” an award-winning feature-length documentary directed by Aviva Kempner about the life of Molly Berg, a pioneer in TV comedy, weaving Berg’s personal story with the history of early television and Jewish-American life in the first half of the 20th century.
This is only a small sample of the films lined up for this year’s Festival.
March in Vermont is traditionally mud season, with cold winds, waning cabin fever, and St. Patrick’s and Town Meeting Days. In Brattleboro, it has also come to mean the Women’s Film Festival, when this southern Vermont town hosts a premier event showcasing films made by women about women. Proceeds from ticket sales go to the Women’s Crisis Center, which helps women and children affected by domestic or sexual abuse.
Starting with a special benefit screening of Academy Award-nominated “Precious” on March 5th at the Latchis Theater, then continuing on March 12th and running for ten days through March 21st, Brattleboro becomes headquarters for the finest in cutting-edge, innovative, and informative film-making.
In this, the Festival’s nineteenth year, twenty-five award-winning documentaries and feature films will be presented, hailing from Colombia, Iran, Canada, South Africa, England, the United States, New Zealand, Scotland, and France. Owing to the Festival’s growing reputation, more directors than ever will be present to introduce their films.
The festival opens with “The Topp Twins: Untouchable Girls,” a New Zealand film about yodeling lesbian country-western singers, called “provocative and disarming.” Other highlights of the festival include “The Beaches of Agnes,” a poignant and cinematically creative memoir by Agnès Varda, short-listed for an Academy Award; the heroic tale of an artist street-survivor, “Begging Naked;” Kim Longinotto’s “Rough Aunties,” a documentary about women in South Africa who work to save children traumatized by sexual abuse and assault, documentary-making at its finest and most inspiring; “The Jazz Baroness,” about filmmaker Hannah Rothschild’s aunt who became the benefactor of Thelonius Monk, narrated by Helen Mirren.
The Festival closes with a one-time screening of “Yoo-Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg,” an award-winning feature-length documentary directed by Aviva Kempner about the life of Molly Berg, a pioneer in TV comedy, weaving Berg’s personal story with the history of early television and Jewish-American life in the first half of the 20th century.
This is only a small sample of the films lined up for this year’s Festival.
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