Grange Hall Cultural Center and Across Roads Center for the Arts presents:

A Kingdom County Production

Just Getting By

A new documentary film by Bess O'Brien

on Vermonters struggling with food and housing insecurity plays

Grange Hall Cultural Center, Waterbury Center, VT

April 13 @ 7pm &

April 14 @3pm

$15 suggested donation

Just Getting By, a new documentary film be Bess O’Brien focused on Vermonters struggling with food and housing insecurity will tour Vermont from March 22-April 14th. The movie will screen at 7pm on April 13 and 3pm on April 14 at Grange Hall Cultural Center, 317 Howard Ave in Waterbury Center. Tickets are $15 and can be purchased at the door.

Just Getting By is a sweeping, and yet intimate look at the lives of Vermonters who are struggling with food and housing insecurity.

Vermont has the second highest rate of homeless people in the United States, right after California. One third of Vermonters struggle to put food on the table. These are big issues for a small state. Just Getting By focuses on these issues in the lives of everyday people.

The film tells the stories of working families, folks who are homeless and accessing food shelves and soup kitchens and people who are living in temporary hotel/motel programs. In addition, the film focuses on New Americans grappling with the cost of living in America, Native people creating innovative farming practices and folks on the ground providing services to their fellow Vermonters in need.

Just Getting By explores the day to day challenges and incredible resiliency that low-income Vermonters bear witness to every day.

The film was shot during 2022-23 by director Bess O’Brien and cinematographer Patrick Kennedy. “We wanted to capture the day to day lives of Vermonters who were living paycheck to paycheck and who were struggling to keep food on the table and a roof over their head. We also wanted to show the incredible resiliency and courage of folks who have very little and still manage to get up every day and strive for a better life.” O’Brien says.

“We hope by touring the film across the state that we can raise consciousness about these pressing issues of food and housing insecurity with Vermont audiences across the state.” Says O’Brien.

The movie is produced by Kingdom County Productions. There will be Q and A’s after each screening of the movie with the Director, folks from the movie and audience members.

For more information about ticketing, contact Grange Hall Cultural Center

[email protected] or 802-244-4168

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