Hand crafted films made in Vermont.
Films at a Glance
Notary Uprising! and the Flag Stomp Romp (2025)
An absurdist dystopian comedy in which flag inspectors, hunted notaries, and unlikely Jewish sages transform American bureaucracy into a surreal battleground of identity, patriotism, and rebellion.
Gully’s Paradise (2024)
An old-school Jewish bookie on Manhattan’s Upper West Side fights to preserve human connection and cultural tradition as AI, legalized gambling, and corporate algorithms threaten to erase his world.
That’s Life (2023)
In a Vermont town devastated by the opioid crisis, ordinary citizens become vigilantes, forcing a reckoning with grief, justice, and the moral cost of taking the law into their own hands.
Loup Garou (2022)
When rumors of a werewolf haunt a rural Vermont community, fear, folklore, and environmental anxiety collide in a tense struggle between superstition and reason.
Days of Atonement (2020)
After fifty years in prison, an aging man returns to rural Vermont seeking forgiveness and meaning, confronting the lifelong consequences of a single tragic act.
The Ballad of Arcady and the Hawk (2021)
Along Vermont’s northern border, an aging farmer shelters eco-activists fleeing persecution, igniting a powerful journey through guilt, resistance, and moral responsibility.
A Night at Goodfellas (2021)
Over one volatile evening in a Vermont tavern, mobsters, dreamers, and hustlers collide in a darkly comic noir about loyalty, ambition, and desperation.
Individual Film Descriptions
Notary Uprising! and the Flag Stomp Romp (2025)
Notary Uprising! and the Flag Stomp Romp is an absurd, dystopian comedy that transforms everyday bureaucracy into an epic and delirious battlefield. In a small city and its surrounding countryside, Flag Inspectors roam in search of illegal flags while Notaries are forced into disguises, hunted for the power of their official stamp. The film moves between Vermont and New York City, following Joseph Chelm, a deeply introspective flag inspector plagued by existential questions, and Nova Harris, a rebellious notary resisting the system from within.
Chelm’s journey takes a surreal turn in Central Park, where he encounters a group of Jewish military veterans who convince him that he himself is Jewish—and that his destiny lies in Nutley, New Jersey, where Reb Pineas, descendant of the legendary sages of Chelm, may hold the answers to his spiritual confusion. Along the way, the film erupts into exaggerated patriotic rituals, lobster-clawed activists, Mossad agents, Three Stooges–style slapstick, and an all-out showdown involving stamps, flags, and national mythologies.
Equal parts political satire, folk farce, and philosophical comedy, Notary Uprising! skewers authority while celebrating grassroots resistance, communal absurdity, and the human need for meaning inside systems designed to erase it.
Gully’s Paradise (2024)
Set on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, Gully’s Paradise is a sharp, funny, and poignant portrait of a disappearing way of life. Gully Abrams is an old-school Jewish bookie whose business depends not on algorithms but on memory, relationships, and trust. As legal online betting, AI-driven odds-making, and a ruthless new competitor encroach on his territory, Gully finds himself fighting forces far larger than any rival—modernity itself.
Anchored by a performance from poet David M. Katz and supported by an ensemble cast working heavily in improvisation, the film balances humor and melancholy with cultural specificity. It captures a neighborhood in transition and a man whose identity is inseparable from his work. Gully’s Paradise is both a loving elegy for human-scale hustles and a timely meditation on what is lost when technology replaces lived experience.
That’s Life (2023)
In the rural quiet of Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom, That’s Life confronts the devastating human toll of the opioid epidemic. When a local teenager dies of an overdose, grief ripples through the community, exposing frustration, rage, and a sense of abandonment. As law enforcement and institutions fail to stem the crisis, a group of ordinary citizens begins to take justice into their own hands.
Set against starkly beautiful landscapes, the film blends suspense with moral inquiry, asking where accountability ends and vigilantism begins. Raw, intimate, and unflinching, That’s Life explores loss, complicity, and the dangerous allure of simple answers in a world shaped by addiction and despair.
Loup Garou (2022)
Loup Garou unfolds in a Vermont community where the line between myth and reality begins to blur. Strange howls echo through the woods, unexplained events unsettle daily life, and whispers of a werewolf spread fear among neighbors. As the town divides between believers and skeptics, superstition collides with scientific reasoning and environmental anxiety.
Drawing on folklore, ecological concerns, and psychological tension, the film uses the werewolf myth as a lens to examine humanity’s fraught relationship with nature and with its own darker instincts. Atmospheric and unsettling, Loup Garou is as much a meditation as it is a mystery.
The St. J Trilogy
Days of Atonement (2020)
Days of Atonement follows an elderly man released after fifty years in prison for a crime that irrevocably shaped his life and the lives of others. Returning to a rural Vermont community marked by silence and memory, he attempts to seek forgiveness and understanding in the shadow of his past.
Quiet, spare, and deeply reflective, the film explores aging, remorse, and the fragile possibility of redemption. Through evocative imagery and restrained storytelling, Days of Atonement asks whether atonement is ever complete- or simply a lifelong process.
The Ballad of Arcady and the Hawk (2021)
Set along Vermont’s northern borderlands, The Ballad of Arcady and the Hawk centers on Arcady, an aging Ukrainian-American farmer who provides forged papers and safe passage to eco-activists fleeing persecution into Canada. Among them is Hawk, a tormented veteran activist haunted by the accidental death of a logger during a protest.
As guilt, fear, and idealism collide, the film traces an uneasy alliance shaped by necessity and conscience. Richly atmospheric and morally complex, the story examines resistance, responsibility, and the personal costs of political action.
A Night at Goodfellas (2021)
Taking place over a single volatile night in a Danville, Vermont tavern, A Night at Goodfellas brings together mobsters, dreamers, hustlers, and loners whose lives intersect with combustible consequences. Fueled by a pulsing soundtrack and improvisational performances, the film blends dark comedy with noir sensibilities.
As loyalties shift and tensions erupt, A Night at Goodfellas captures the restless energy beneath small-town nightlife and the choices that can change lives in an instant.