Schedule:

10:30 AM - Filmmaker Friday: Film Scoring & Sound Design
In this master class, we will introduce the topics of film scoring and sound design. In the first half, Instructor Christopher Lehmann will explain how scoring and sound design differ from one another, and how they both help to tell the story of a film. In the second half we will cover how modern music and sound design are made using a Digital Audio Workstation (DAW).
Location: JAM - Junction Arts & Media

12:00 PM - Filmmaker Friday Lunch Panel: Independent Production In Vermont and New Hampshire
Julia Anderson and Kiersten White (Black Girls Kissing) discuss with Brian Carrol (Endlessly an Observer) independent filmmaking in Vermont and New Hampshire over lunch. They will discuss the challenges and benefits of filmmaking in our area, getting creative with financing, finding community and collaborators, and answer questions from participants. Bring a brown bag lunch or get take-out from one of White River Junction's many great restaurant options!
Location: JAM - Junction Arts & Media

1:30 PM - Filmmaker Friday: Production Management
Location: JAM - Junction Arts & Media

5:30 PM - WRIF Valentine's Day Party
Love (of movies) is in the air! Celebrate 20 years of WRIF this Valentine's Day with good food, good music by Route 5 Jive, and good people in the newly renovated Briggs Opera House Lobby. Mingle with filmmakers and film lovers alike as the festival kicks off.
Location: The Briggs Opera House

7 - 9 PM - A Photographic Memory & Endlessly an Observer
A filmmaker ventures into the archives of her photographer mother to construct a personal story of love, loss, and finding someone in the work they leave behind.
Location: The Briggs Opera House

9:30 PM - Ponyboi
Unfolding over the course of Valentine’s Day in New Jersey, a young intersex sex worker must run from the mob after a drug deal goes sideways, forcing him to confront his past. Official selection at Sundance and Newfest, Ponyboi bursts off the screen in this bombastic, edgy, and campy roller-coaster ride of a film.
Location: The Briggs Opera House