Middlebury New Filmakers Festival holds encore showing
DOVER- The Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival Vermont tour will return to the MHCA Dover Cinema and Arts facility on Sunday, February 13, for a double feature screening of “The Ants & The Grasshopper” at 2pm and “Storm Lake” at approximately 3:15 pm.
“Storm Lake” tells the compelling story of 63-year-old Pulitzer-prize winning editor Art Cullen and his family-run newspaper, The Storm Lake Times, in Storm Lake, IA.
In the face of significant long-term economic challenges in western Iowa and the added stress of the pandemic, the paper fights to preserve its editorial integrity, shore up its finances, and bolster the quiet community the Cullens call home. An intimate and revealing chronicle of local journalism in rural America, “Storm Lake” is a living and breathing documentary.
Deerfield Valley News publisher Randy Capitani will give an introduction to the film and be available for discussion after its screening.
“The Ants & The Grasshopper” focuses on Anita Chitaya, an extraordinary woman from Malawi, who has a marvelous gift: she can help bring abundant food from dead soil, make men fight for gender equality, and can end child hunger in her village.
Traveling from Malawi to California to the White House, she meets climate skeptics and despairing farmers. “The Ants & The Grasshopper,” a documentary 10 years in the making, weaves together the most urgent themes of the times: climate change, gender and racial inequality, the gaps between the rich and the poor, and the ideas that groups around the world have generated in order to save the planet.
Tickets for the event are available only at the box office, at 4 Mountain Park Plaza, and ticket pricing will be available at memhall.org. Complete MNFF Vermont tour information, including film trailers, can be found at middfilmfest.org/vermont-tour-2022.
