Started in 1984, CCTV/Town Meeting TV now houses one of the largest archives of civic engagement and community produced media in the state of Vermont. This ethnography will illuminate what the shifting media landscape means for CCTV, and how the organization continues and sustains its mission as technology changes and community development remains as important as ever.

Controversy over their high school mascot, the Rebels, began to rock the small town of South Burlington, Vermont in 2015 when a former history teacher spoke out against the school's historical alliance with the Southern Confederacy. Racist vandalism, stalking, legal disputes, and a "kill list" ensued. "Slinging Cartoon Rifles" is a feature-length, 16mm film essay that traces the origins of South Burlington High School’s mascot, histories of colonialism and slavery in Vermont, acts of white supremacy, and the anti-racist activism—led by students of color—that ultimately persuaded the school board to drop the Rebels name in 2017.

A contemporary political filmmaker revisits the legacy of forgotten American documentarian Allan Francovich. Francovich, who died in 1997 under murky circumstances, made a series of films focused on hidden histories of U.S. governmental malfeasance -- from Mississippi in the 1960s, to collusion with Central American death squads in the 1980s, to decades long involvements with terrorist networks in Europe and Africa.

"A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork. What is significant, and is so difficult for the urban stranger to understand, is that the two statements in that sentence are connected by an and and not by a but." -- John Berger

Untitled County Fair Movie is a documentary that will show the relationship between a pig and the child (8 - 12 years old) that is raising the pig to show it at the county fair. The movie will start around the birth of the pig and follow the relationship between the child and the pig for the 5-7 months until they show the pig at the fair.

The cascading intergenerational effects of government-sanctioned scalp bounty hunting of Native Peoples are revealed in the hidden epic of Wabanaki peacemaker, Margaret Moxa.

Chelsea: An Essential City (working title) is a documentary portrait of an immigrant Latinx city of essential workers. Through cinéma vérité stories of Chelsea’s residents, the film reveals how the coronavirus pandemic tests the resolve and resilience of this community. Chelsea provides a lens onto longstanding structural inequities laid bare by the pandemic as black and brown communities across America struggle under the disproportionate impact of COVID-19.

Flyover Country follows real-life passengers on a three day cross-country train ride as they struggle to make a scripted film. As boundaries progressively erode inside the compressed space of the train, the social and economic disparities among the crew, actors, and passengers become the real source of drama.

As the climate crisis threatens Tahiti, an alliance of women embarks on a sacred journey to protect their island home. TE PUNA ORA combines mythology and reality in a character-driven cinematic documentary that follows the lives of three Tahitian women as they discover and shape an environmental movement in Tahiti. We spend time with each woman at home and in the community, exploring the intricacies and complexities of managing family and relationships as they form an alliance on the front lines of climate change. At the heart of the story is a deep connection to nature and cultural heritage rich in knowledge, which is mirrored in the interwoven story of the Polynesian creation myth that guides them on their personal and environmental missions.

Paul of Tarsus—who relentlessly expanded a Messianic Jewish sect around the Mediterranean—has inspired pedantic scolds, imperialists, bigots, wedding planners, poets, radical Catholics and liberation theologians. How is this possible? Combining humor with deep research and experimental techniques, this film will create a portrait of Paul’s ideological struggles and his profound influence.

Samuel Habib, 21, wants to date, leave home, go to college. But he drives a 500-pound wheelchair and can have a seizure at any moment. Determined to find his path forward, he sets off in search of insights from America’s most rebellious disability activists. Will they empower him to launch the bold adult life he craves?

Under the high mountain desert of Colorado’s San Luis Valley water from the Rio Grande aquifer is pumped to the surface and sustains the valley. While the demand for this scarce resource continues to grow, local ranchers and farmers grapple with a shifting reality that threatens their way of life and existence in the valley.

ISIS has your children, and the US government ties your hands. What do you do next? "We Want to Negotiate" offers an in-depth exploration of the No Negotiation policy -- its origins, history and ethical implications.