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Special section: Brattleboro Film Festival

Wednesday, October 31, 2012 — Issue 176

BRATTLEBORO — Our special supplement for the first annual Brattleboro Film Festival, Friday through Sunday, Nov. 2 through 4:

Overview

-Films that movie lovers from Brattleboro would appreciate seeing: A new festival celebrates worlds where people might be demented, enlightened, brave, interesting, vulnerable, charming, gifted, and sometimes even joyously happy, by Joyce Marcel.

Schedule

-First annual Brattleboro Film Festival, Nov. 2-4, to feature 12 films, special discussions, and events

Reviews

-Staten Island kids sing at the Oscars. Review of Once in a Lullaby by Robin Antepara.

-A homage to art, dance, song, and jazz, jazz, jazz. Review of Chico and Rita by Arlene Distler.

-Love, legal connections, and defining families. Review of Any Day Now and Cloudburst by Suzanne d'Corsey.

-Recipients of our best intentions, victims of our worst inclinations. Review of One Nation Under Dog by Debbie Jacobs.

-'Unlikely activists asking tough questions.' Review of The Atomic States of America by Lissa Weinmann.

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