WHITE RIVER INDIE FILMS

02/15/2023

And.... we are LIVE! For immediate release: WRIF 2023 White River Indie Film Festival is coming to White River Junction March 23-26! JAM and WRIF have officially joined forces to support a thriving media arts community in the Upper Valley. Check out the incredible festival coming up.

White River Indie Films (WRIF) now lives under JAM's roof. Save the dates for WIRF Festival 2023 March 23-26!

01/24/2023

WRIF 2023 is coming! Save the dates!
MARCH 23-26
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White River Indie Films (WRIF) now lives under JAM's roof. Save the dates for WIRF Festival 2023 March 23-26!

07/14/2022

WRIF presented Jay Craven’s MARTIN EDEN at the Briggs Opera House on August 6, 2021 as part of LIGHT RIVER JUNCTION.

See the film at the Hopkins Center this Friday, July 15

07/14/2022

Andrew Richardson and Hayley Griffith as Martin Eden and Ruth Morse in Jay Craven’s new film, “Jack London’s Martin Eden” based on the celebrated writer’s autobiographical novel of the same name. Craven will introduce the film and lead Q & A at at 7:30pm, Friday, July 15th screening at the Loew Theater, Hopkins Center, Hanover. Information at

www.hop.dartmouth.edu/events/martin-eden-0

06/16/2022

TOMORROW
June 17
Freedom & Unity Filmmakers Showcase
Presented by WRIF
and sponsored by Ledyard Bank

10am & 2pm

Films premiere in the JAM space, make your pick for Audience Choice

*voting closes at 5pm*

7pm
Awards Show at Briggs Opera House
Watch the winning films and discover the audience choice!

05/29/2022

Closing Night Film

EL GRAN MOVIMIENTO, dir. Kiro Russo, Bolivia (subtitled), 85 min

Sunday, May 29th, 7pm at Briggs Opera House A Community Arts Center

Stunningly shot in the ancient Bolivian highlands and contemporary La Paz, EL GRAN MOVIMIENTO ("The Great Movement") is a musically structured blend of drama, documentary, political messaging, and avant-garde adventuring, with superbly textured images and a pulsing soundtrack. Working with nonprofessional actors, director Kiro Russo follows three dispossessed rural miners seeking justice and, failing that, employment in the Bolivian capital. Through their stories, EL GRAN MOVIMIENTO probes the experience of deprivation and survival in neoliberal South America.

Sponsored by Harper Environmental Associates/John Turner Consulting, Inc.

Tickets & Info: https://wrif2022.eventive.org/schedule/62448feac7cf6d008542e4bb

Una película de Kiro Russo..Producida por Kiro Russo, Pablo Paniagua, Alexa Rivero. SOCAVÓN / ALTAMAR FILMS..Con la participación de JULIO CÉSAR TICONA MAX B...

05/29/2022

PLAYGROUND, dir. Laura Wandel, Belgium (subtitled), 72 min

Sunday, May 29th, 3pm at Briggs Opera House A Community Arts Center

Belgium’s submission to the Academy Awards and shortlisted for a Best International Feature nomination, PLAYGROUND takes us inside a world often hidden from adult eyes. Hewing insistently close to the perspective of 7-year-old Nora (Maya Vanderbeque)—the cameraman literally had the camera slung about his waist while shooting—the film exposes the social microcosm of the schoolyard and the cycles of bullying and meanness that some children suffer there. Writer-director Laura Wandel locates the nascent prejudices and aggressions that plague our society in the relationships children forge when away from their parents. The young cast members of PLAYGROUND deliver extraordinarily believable performances, and the film’s unrelenting fidelity to their POV creates an emotionally taut and intensely gripping viewing experience.

Sponsored by Tanya Van Sant & Jeremy Sterritt

With an opening short film sponsored by : "The Burden" by Niki Lindroth von Bahr

Tickets & Info: https://wrif2022.eventive.org/schedule/624490bc32394700705ff0ed

Coming to theaters February 11th! https://www.filmmovement.com/playground In this debut feature by writer-director Laura Wandel, the everyday reality of gra...

05/29/2022

THREE MINUTES - A LENGTHENING, dir. Bianca Stigter, UK/Netherlands, 69 min

Sunday, May 29th, 12pm @ Briggs Opera House A Community Arts Center.

Three-minutes’ worth of 16mm film on the verge of ruin is what Glenn Kurtz found in his parent’s Florida home shortly after their passing. Shot by Kurtz’s grandfather on a European tour in 1938, the amateur footage captures the Jewish community of Nasielsk, Poland, just one year prior to the Nazis’ brutal invasion. Frame by frame, slowed, stilled, played backwards and forwards, THREE MINUTES - A LENGTHENING interrogates the found footage to resurrect the people and the town that disappeared in one of history’s most monumental tragedies. Based on Kurtz’s award-winning book, "Three Minutes in Poland," and narrated by Helena Bonham Carter, this documentary is an act of archival revelation, both fascinating in its scholarship and chilling in its discovery.

Sponsored by Pat Glowa & Don Kollisch. Presented in partnership with the Upper Valley Jewish Community & Shir Shalom Vermont.

Tickets & Info: https://wrif2022.eventive.org/schedule/62439e93e2343d0091df6688

So long as we are watching history, history is not over. Three minutes of footage, shot by David Kurtz in 1938, are the only moving images remaining of the J...

05/28/2022

HIT THE ROAD, dir. Panah Panahi, Iran (subtitled), 93 min

Saturday, May 28th, 7pm @ Briggs Opera House A Community Arts Center

Panah Panahi, the son of the great Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi, makes his feature-film debut with this tender, sharp-witted, and deeply moving comic drama. Full of humor and sorrow, and politically deft in the way that only films from repressive theocracies like Iran ever are, HIT THE ROAD follows two middle-aged parents, their taciturn adult son, and one irrepressible six-year-old on a road trip across the Iranian countryside. The destination and reasons for the trip are mysterious, but it’s the journey that matters, and HIT THE ROAD puts in the miles. Come along on an inventive and eccentric exploration of familial love and loss, and revel in a joyful tour-de-force performance from child actor Rayan Sarlak.

Sponsored by DPF Design

With an opening short film sponsored by Co-op Food Stores: "Precious Hair & Beauty" by John Ogunmuyiwa

Tickets & Info: https://wrif2022.eventive.org/schedule/6244a32becdf950062bbd9a7

Now in theaters: bit.ly/hittheroadfilmPanah Panahi, son and collaborator of embattled Iranian master Jafar Panahi, makes a striking feature debut with this c...