Made Here

Legendary Grammy Award-winning singer songwriter Janis Ian performs 15 songs from her 50-year career in this beautifully crafted concert. The program is augmented with archival footage, which includes Leonard Bernstein introducing her at age 15 to sing her controversial hit "Society's Child," and Ian's 1975 performance of her iconic lament "At Seventeen." Produced by Flynn Center's John Killacky.

Holding On features three couples coping with the resultant physiological, cognitive, emotional, sexual, and social issues of disability. Twenty years ago film producer and Flynn Center Director John Killacky (one of the subjects of this film) was partially paralyzed from unexpected complications from surgery.

2010 was the 75th Anniversary of the Green Mountain Horse Association's 3-day, 100-mile race. GMHA is the oldest horse organization of its kind, and it is still the most prominent one in the Northeast. People move to the Woodstock area to ride the hundreds of miles of mountainous trails here. Told by the riders themselves. Directed by Bill Phillips from White River Junction, VT.

A Vermont Romance is 100 years old in 2016! The first feature film shot in Vermont and funded by The Vermont Progressive Party in 1916 has been newly restored and remastered by VAMP, The Vermont Archive Movie Project, featuring a new musical score performed by Bob Merrill. This broadcast premiere of a landmark film is certainly a thematic tie-in to Vermont PBS's own 50th anniversary in 2017.

When Mr. Jimmy Moore challenged himself to run 80 kilometers in 1 day for his 80th birthday, his small Mississippi town got behind him to see if they too could "run their age," from age 8 to 80. Mr. Jimmy's quest reveals how a retired railroad man-turned extreme athlete could face the death of his wife and the limitations of his aging body to "enjoy life right up to the end."

A high-stakes game of hangman for a couple on the brink. He just wants to play the game. She just wants to dodge the question. Are these two ready for forever? A delightful dark comedy adapted from a local stage production.

An obituary writer with an uncanny knack for predicting the demise of newsworthy people faces the ultimate deadline when she foresees her own end. As she attempts to sum up her own life, she confronts her deepest regrets and takes a step that changes the course of her life - and death. This is an award winning student film, winning at the Tribeca Film Festival, Rhode Island International Film Fest

In the wake of 2011's Tropical Storm Irene, a group of Vermont mobile home park residents who lost everything banded together to restore their lives and their community. This is their inspiring story. By Vermont filmmaker Rob Koier.

This documentary, directed and edited by Hollywood screenwriter and director Bill Phillips (Christine, The Beans of Egypt Maine) profiles the life and career of Sabra Field. The Vermont-based Field achieved fame and recognition for her masterful printmaking. The documentary explores Field's most commonly seen and circulated images - which celebrate American pastoral motifs in New England.

Dino is a short portrait of Taipei noisician Dino. Through interviews interwoven with performance footage, Dino reveals his musical past, his philosophy of performing, and the underlying Confucian principles of his practice.

A 6 minute film about Vermont sculptor Eben Markowski making his life-size elephant out of iron and steel.

This documentary combines over 200 local historical photos with stories and memories from fourteen residents who lived through some of Waterbury's most influential events. These stories, told by the people who lived through the events, give us a unique perspective on Waterbury's history. Includes making of segment with Bill Doyle's Vermont Government and History class at Johnson State College.

Ben Maddox shoots underwater footage of fish in the streams, lakes, ponds and waterways of Vermont. Then he adds his own musical compositions. The result is beautiful and often unseen local fish. A unique person, project and perspective – and 100% local. See more at http://vermontpbs.org/fishpeople