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"The indie spirit is strong at WRIF, which has a robust complement of offerings for filmmakers seeking support as well as inspiration...Whether you come for hard-hitting stories, heartwarming ones or both, this year's festival offers plenty of opportunities to fall in love with indie film."  -Seven Days 2.5.25

Thursday Feb 13

@ Briggs Opera House

Filmmaker competition kick-off

#PitchFest 3.0

Thursday, Feb 13 5:30PM FREE @BOH

Get in at the start as local filmmakers pitch their ideas to a panel of judges. Winners take home cash money and pledges of JAM crew support to bring their vision to life! The shark-tank style competition takes place at the Briggs Opera House in White River Junction, VT. Don't miss the fun!

Local Films

PitchFest 2.0 Winners &

"One Night at Babe's"

Thursday, Feb 13 7PM @BOH

Cheer on last year's PitchFest winners as their premiere their finished films! Then enjoy VT docu-short, "One Night at Babe's." A filmmaker Q&A with Julia Anderson and Kiersten White of "Black Girls Kissing," Jacob Ford and Loren Howard of "Dizziness Man," and "One Night at Babe's" director Angelo Madsen Minax to follow, with 2025 Pitchfest 3.0 Winners to be announced!

Indie film breakout

Hundreds of Beavers

Thursday, Feb 13 8:30PM @BOH

Buster Keaton meets Looney Tunes in this DIY live-action/animation comedy in which a drunken fur trapper goes head to head with many many angry beavers. This breakout, self-distributed independent comedy will have you laughing until your ribs ache.

Directed by Mike Cheslik (USA)

WRIF continues Feb 13 - 16!

Filmmaker networking, new global and local cinema

@ JAM, Briggs Opera House, Putnam's Vineyard, and Upper Valley Yoga

in White River Junction, VT

Filmmaker Workshops

FILMMAKER FRIDAY

Friday, Feb 14 @JAM

Workshops run 9AM-4:15PM

Join film and media professionals for a series of hands-on master class-style workshops in Cinema Lighting & Color (9AM), Film Scoring & Sound Design (10:30AM), Production Management (1:30PM), and Cartooning & Storyboarding for Pre-visualization (3PM), with a brown bag lunch panel of VT & NH filmmakers sharing creative solutions to getting their ideas to the screen. Join one workshop or get a pass for the day!

Filmmaker Brunch

Emerging Filmmaker Brunch

Saturday, Feb 15 @Putnam's Vineyard

10-11:30AM

A breakfast celebrating WRIF's regional Emerging Filmmakers and local filmmakers from the Upper Valley. All WRIF attendees are invited to join us in Putnam's secret garden and meet cool people making cool stuff!

MEDIA ARTS EXHIBITS

@ JAM – Junction Arts & Media throughout the festival

Media Arts Exhibits

STARLINGS: LEAFLETS

On display throughout the festival

Feb 12 - 16

@JAM – Junction Arts & Media

Experience STARLINGS : LEAFLETS, an interactive video art installation by artist and designer, Saba Maheen (Dartmouth '20) unpacking the IDF's leaflet campaign in Gaza. Maheen will participate in the 2/15 panel following 2pm screening of No Other Land.

With PEACE BIRDS, a community-engaged art action that grew out of a shared desire of Mona Shiber and JuPong Lin, two artist friends who come from lineages of occupation and struggle for sovereignty in Palestine and Taiwan, to transform the agony of witnessing atrocities. Shiber and Lin will participate in the 2/15 panel following 2pm screening of No Other Land.

WRIF Preview Screening 2/8

WRIF partnered with Hop Film for a preview co-presentation of Soundtrack to a Coup D'État and festival kick off at the Black Family Visual Arts Center. Great to see so many familiar faces and many new ones!

TOJ Marceau and Nora Jacobson

Carla Kimball and Annabelle Cone

Samantha Davidson Green, Craig Sterrit, Ali Punjani, Johanna Evans

JAM – Junction Arts & Media

Contact us at info@uvjam.org

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