Vermont-made films coming to the Welden | Things To Do

ST. ALBANS CITY — Those interested in Vermont-made movies will find a few new features to check out at the Welden Theatre this January.

The first, “The Yorkie Werewolf”, is scheduled to play at 7 p.m. Tuesday night, Jan. 21. Then, a week later, “The Farm Boy” is scheduled for its premiere at 6:30 p.m. on Jan. 28. Both movies were written and directed by Vermont filmmakers.

The first feature, “The Yorkie Werewolf,” tells the campy horror story crafted by St. George filmmaker Michael DiBiasio-Ornelas. Leaning on some comedic gore and special effects, the movie attempts to recreate horror B-movies of the ‘70s and ‘80s, with a grandiose storyline surrounding the pasta mafia and a woman cursed with being an undersized Yorkshire Terrier werewolf monster.

“The Yorkie Werewolf” is Dibiasio-Ornelas’ fourth feature-length film, with past directing credits on “The Sleepless” and “Stetson Tenz: Remote Therapist.”

If horror doesn’t get movie-goers excited though, the second local feature playing next week might. 

Released in 2023 by George Woodard, “The Farm Boy” tells the story of what happens after a young Vermont man ends up missing during the Battle of the Bulge. The two-and-a-half hour feature-length movie was filmed on Woodard’s family farm in Waterbury to tell the story in the same filmmaking styles seen in the latter days of black-and-white movies.

It is Woodard’s second movie. His first, “The Summer of Walter Hacks,” was released back in 2009 when Woodard’s son Henry was 11. In the latest feature, Woodard bases the story loosely around the real life story of his parents back in 1944, when “war took young men away from their homes and returned them as heroes,” according to the film’s website.

More information about the Welden Theatre, located at 104 N. Main Street in St. Albans, can be found at weldentheatre.com, or by calling 802-527-7888.

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