
The WRIF Emerging Filmmakers Contest showcases the talents of young filmmakers (age 18-30) living in VT & NH. These films were selected to be shown at WRIF because they resonate with the festival's independent, creative and community-building spirit. We invite you to pay what you can for this screening to contribute to prizes for the Audience Award winners, which will be announced at the end of the festival!
**AUDIENCE AWARD WINNER!!**
"Desk worker or nerdy-guy by day and adventurer by night” is how Robert Bonner describes his father. Harry follows Henry “Harry” Miller Bonner on his journeys across the Atlantic Ocean in the ’60s and ’70s. He and a small crew traveled the distance in a 32-foot boat twice, the second time meeting his sons and wife in France. Using found footage from the trips, his granddaughter interviews her father and his brothers in order to piece together the story.
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Grace Bonner has been making films with her friends since 2010. She will begin her third year studying Cinema and Photography at Ithaca College this fall. Grace and her family lived with her grandfather for the first half of her life hearing about his
traveling adventures. She created Harry at the beginning of quarantine using digitized footage of her grandfather. This is her first film accepted into a film festival and she is excited about the experience.
- Runtime10 minutes
- DirectorGrace Bonner
The WRIF Emerging Filmmakers Contest showcases the talents of young filmmakers (age 18-30) living in VT & NH. These films were selected to be shown at WRIF because they resonate with the festival's independent, creative and community-building spirit. We invite you to pay what you can for this screening to contribute to prizes for the Audience Award winners, which will be announced at the end of the festival!
**AUDIENCE AWARD WINNER!!**
"Desk worker or nerdy-guy by day and adventurer by night” is how Robert Bonner describes his father. Harry follows Henry “Harry” Miller Bonner on his journeys across the Atlantic Ocean in the ’60s and ’70s. He and a small crew traveled the distance in a 32-foot boat twice, the second time meeting his sons and wife in France. Using found footage from the trips, his granddaughter interviews her father and his brothers in order to piece together the story.
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Grace Bonner has been making films with her friends since 2010. She will begin her third year studying Cinema and Photography at Ithaca College this fall. Grace and her family lived with her grandfather for the first half of her life hearing about his
traveling adventures. She created Harry at the beginning of quarantine using digitized footage of her grandfather. This is her first film accepted into a film festival and she is excited about the experience.
- Runtime10 minutes
- DirectorGrace Bonner