Dillon tanner is a filmmaker, and perhaps equally as important, a community leader and organizer. He’s a founder and one of the small team running the Mothership Monthly Film Festival in Burlington, VT. The self proclaimed “ MOST MONTHLY FILM FESTIVAL IN VERMONT” is an ongoing monthly film festival where filmmakers have one month to make a film of 7 minutes or less related to that month’s theme. The audience at the screening decides the winner by popular vote, and the winner is then endowed with the responsibility of choosing the next month's theme. His latest feature documentary, Roland & Mary (A Winter of Towing in the Northeast Kingdom) is a beautifully human story of a couple who own a towing company and all the challenges that come with piling health concerns and the inevitable difficulties of running a small business in a small rural setting. Its heartwarming, heartbreaking and humorous all package into one extremely personal and unfeigned verite style documentary. Dillon’s softspoken and kindhearted, curious nature made for a wonderful conversation about being a creative person here in Vermont, creating community and fostering the needs of it where it previously didn’t exist and what he sees for the future of filmmaking in the state.
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