Made Here

The epic story of how legal legend Mary Bonauto partnered with small-town Vermont lawyers Beth Robinson and Susan Murray in a 2-decade struggle that built the foundation for the entire marriage equality movement. From winning groundbreaking LGBT legal recognition for same sex couples in 2000, to becoming the first state to enact same sex marriage through a dramatic legislative vote in 2009.

Originally created for public school staff, teachers, and administrators in Vermont, this film was commissioned by the Vermont-NEA Racial Justice Task Force in collaboration with the National Education Association. The film includes interviews with parents, community members, educators, and students who share their accounts of living in and going to school in Vermont.

An inside look at the Ivy League football experience of Black players at Dartmouth College. Three players address the challenges of coming to rural NH for college. Football coach Buddy Teevens, as well as Callie Brownson, are featured as they open up about these players’ impact, and discuss the program as a whole. A film by Elizabeth Jenny.

Dan Higgins, photographer, does not take pictures; he makes them. By collaborating with his subjects Higgins gains insight into often overlooked cultures. While much of the film revolves around Higgins’ work in Winooski, Vermont, this documentary would appeal to anyone interested in small towns and their fate. His remarkable images from the 1970s through 2019 reveal the social impact of the town.

Selections from the Northeast Historic Film vaults - family-donated collections of life and work since the early 1900s. A saunter through our 10 million feet of vintage amateur films and home movies - from Allan Preble Robinson’s horse-drawn logging on deep snow to Veilleux family lobster bakes; from E.B. White’s saltwater farm and the building of his son’s boat, to the Horovitz Family Collection.

This film explores the human relationship to the natural world through an experimental structure: one-by-one, a series of scientists, hunters, paragliders, artists, and naturalists are brought to a small patch of field and forest in midcoast Maine, and left to wander freely. Filmed in all four seasons. A film by Ian Cheney of Waldoboro, Maine. Presented by Wicked Delicate Films.

In the late 1950s a group of ski enthusiasts in Maine built a ski area on Spruce Mountain in North Jay. They cleared trails, bought and installed a rope tow, built a warm-up hut, and sold tickets. It was a great little slope, and lots of people came to ski, but access to the area was difficult, so after two short seasons they decided to move the entire operation to a hilly cow pasture.