This two-day event in Manchester, Vermont, will be the culmination of a grassroots effort to find and share stories of our environment and our role within it. Open submissions for short films -- everyone can be a filmmaker, and we encourage all kinds of work, whether long-term projects or pieces made over a weekend. Share your story, your community, your environment with us.
Partners:
Ninth Wave Global are an organization, community and think-tank working to re-imagine exploration and generate space for investigation and positive change in environmental and community settings.
Levity Mountain is a family-run organic farm, homestead, and symbol of community engagement in the town of Manchester, Vermont. The Levis family have helped shape the organic movement and have given the residents of Manchester a place to unite, as it will this coming September, for our first Equinox Film Festival.
Judges:
Garry and Ross Ferrier - Award-winning independent filmmaking partnership based in Edinburgh and Inverness, Scotland.
Michael Ellenbogen - Film Producer and Co-Director of Village Picture Shows
Gonzaga Gómez-Cortázar Romero - is an artist working with film and photography focused on the environment.
Equinox Mountain Film Festival, September 19th - 20th 2020:
Best Film (category 1)
Best Film (category 2)
People's Choice
Best Cinematography
Best Foreign Language Film*
Best Local Film**
Best Student Film
Best Animation
*Referring to films originally created in a language other than English, with English sub-titles
** Referring to films created within the New England Region (i.e. Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island.
Shortlisted applicants will be screened at Levity Mountain homestead on Saturday 19th September, at the end of which the finalists will be announced.
Finalists will be rescreened at Levity Mountain on Sunday 20th September, with the winner announced after the screenings.
All shortlisted filmmakers will receive free entry to the event.