documentary Archives - Vermont Arts Council

NXT Rockumentary Film Series: A Poem Is a Naked Person (1974)

May 22, 2023

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Les Blank considered this free-form feature documentary about beloved singer-songwriter Leon Russell, filmed between 1972 and 1974, to be one of his greatest accomplishments. Yet it was not publicly released […]

Storming Caesars Palace: PBS Documentary Screening + Q&A with Author Annelise Orleck

April 28, 2023

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Annelise Orleck’s Storming Caesars Palace tells the story of the revolutionary Black women welfare organizers of Las Vegas who spearheaded an evergreen, radical revisioning of American economic justice in the […]

The exterior of Town Hall Theater on a clear day in Middlebury.

Fanning the Artistic Flame: New Vermont Works

November 3, 2021

By Catherine Crawley

Mark your calendar! Three exciting new Vermont works are on tap in November, demonstrating the power of small town theater in investing in homegrown talent. The first November weekend, Nov. […]

Love and War and Film

August 3, 2017

By Susan McDowell

“Death in the Wilderness: A Love Story” is one of the films selected for screening in the Vermont Collection of the upcoming Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival. The origin story of […]

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NXT Rockumentary Film Series: A Poem Is a Naked Person (1974)

Storming Caesars Palace: PBS Documentary Screening + Q&A with Author Annelise Orleck

Fanning the Artistic Flame: New Vermont Works

Love and War and Film