Special Screening with Filmmaker and panel discussion to follow

The film’s story begins in the summer of 1968, in the middle of a left wing faction fight, when  a group of radical journalists from Liberation News Service (LNS) left New York City for the country. They founded two communes–at Packer Corners in Guilford, VT and in Montague, MA..  After leaving the city and turning away from national politics, the group of mostly young city slickers became pioneers in the back-to-the-land and organic farming movement. With the help of their neighbors, they spent the first five years learning rudimentary agricultural skills as well as how to live and work with each other as a communal family.

The movie takes advantage of an exceptional collection of archival material, much of it produced by commune members themselves. Producers Charles Light and Daniel Keller were members of the community and filmed the nuclear battles–in titles such as Lovejoy’s Nuclear War, The Last Resort and Save the Planet–as well as many hours of daily life at the farms. Far Out also uses material from other professional filmmakers, notably Alan Dater and John Scagliotti’s The Stuff of Dreams, Robbie Leppzer’s, Seabrook ’77, Nora Jacobson and Alan Dater’s, The Vermont Movie, and Barbara Kopple and Danny Goldberg’s, No Nukes.

Ticket proceeds to be split between the Savoy and the filmmaker