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Harrison Ford in 'What Lies Beneath' filmed near Middlebury A Glimpse Behind the Scenes


You're driving through a little village nestled in the Green Mountains when you say, "Haven't we seen this before?" It's your first trip to Vermont but this place seems so familiar.
  Women's Film Festival
 

This festival, held in and around Brattleboro, benefits the Women's Crisis Center in that Community. It will be held this year from March 14-23.

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11th Annual Green Mountain Film Festival

The Green Mountain Film Festival is held each year in Montpelier. The festival provides public showings of films with cultural, social and historic interest; discussions of the films with the directors and/or producers and is an opportunity for independent filmmakers to exhibit their works.

The festival will be held March 21-30, 2008.

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The chances are you have been here - through the magic of film. Vermont has been a winter and summer filming location for many memorable films. Perhaps it's that pond in Stowe that Alan Alda and company dunked a Mercedes into (The Four Seasons, 1979). Or, you're driving through East Corinth where Geena Davis and Alec Baldwin tried to out spook Michael Keaton in Beetlejuice (1987).

From Bennington in southern Vermont, to Woodstock, Plainfield or Montpelier in the center of the state, to St. Johnsbury, Peacham or Craftsbury Common in the north - filmmakers have utilized our state's scenic qualities since the earliest movies.

The first film was made here in 1920, with Lillian Gish appearing in the black and white film, Way Down East. That may have been the first, however, the crews really started coming after Alfred Hitchcock filmed "The Trouble With Harry" (1955) in Craftsbury Common. The Common looks much as it did then when he declared it "the classic New England town."

Jim Carrey on the set of 'Me, Myself & Irene' in BurlingtonYou say you like more recent films? Then check out the roads around Woodstock and Reading that Tom Hanks ran on for "Forrest Gump" (1993). Go down to the Burlington Waterfront area where Jim Carrey cavorted in "Me, Myself and Irene" (2000), or view the apple orchards where Tobey Maguire worked in "The Cider House Rules" (1998). Or visit the D.A.R. State Park in Addison, the site that was used as Harrison Ford and Michele Pfeifer's house in "What Lies Beneath" (2000).

So, whether you are looking for the stars in the sky (we have some of the most viewable night skies) or the other type of stargazing, Vermont's the place to be.

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