BHS teen filmmaker Graham Raubvogel has written and directed a short film for the high school filmmaking club that met at VCAM on Fridays during the last school year. We shot the film at VCAM with a cast and crew made up of professional filmmakers and film club students, resulting an a veritable master class in filmmaking. Eat your heart out, Maine Workshops!

Art Lovers from Graham Raubvogel on Vimeo.

If you click through to Vimeo you can watch the film in HD.

This was the live stream from the conference “Thought And Expression In A Changing World” hosted by The American Civil Liberties Union of Vermont. The conference took place on Mon. June 29th at the Windjammer Conference Center in South Burlington and was attended by attorneys, policy-makers, private citizens and educators. Visit The ACLU of VT’s website for more information.

Thank you to all who attended the conference and to those who joined us via the live stream.

After the final day of the Open Video conference, Rob talks about what we learned, who we saw, and where we are planning to go.

VCAM attended the first ever Open Video conference last weekend in New York City, where we learned a lot about advancements in the area of net neutrality, open source media on the web, and the movement to standardize international communication using video created by… well, you… Rob Chapman, E.D., talks briefly about what we’ve seen and why we’re here.

Update: From a community media perspective this was such an amazing event to attend. To watch videos of all the presentations from the conference please visit the Open Video Conference website.

Canadian filmmaker Jack Oatmon made this great little documentary about a hackers’ collective in Montreal…

This Thursday and Friday the northern Vermont PEG centers are hosting the Alliance for Community Media’s Northeast regional conference at Champlain College in Burlington. Late May is one of the prettiest times of year in northern Vermont (perhaps second only to early October). We’re thrilled to host our sisters and brothers in community media from all over New York and New England for this event.

VCAM is also hosting the opening night party for the conference Thursday evening starting at 7:00 P.M. The party is sponsored by Videssence, from whom we recently purchased all new studio lights! We’ll have a cash bar and a DJ and all conference goers are invited.

To register for the conference or to learn more, check out the ACM northeast region’s website.