This Fiber Film Festival offers professional short documentaries about community broadband networks and the need to ensure everyone has high-quality Internet access. Please enjoy these films and share them.
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Connected Documentary
The story behind Vermont's Communication Union Districts - CUDs - that are bringing fiber optic networks to residents across the most rural regions. A great grassroots solution to a problem common to most of rural America. Produced by Well Told Films.Ammon's Model: The Virtual End of Cable Monopolies
The city of Ammon, Idaho is building the Internet network of the future. Households and businesses can instantly change Internet service providers using a specially-designed innovative portal.Follow Ammon's cutting-edge approach on MuniNetworks.org. ⤏
Do Not Pass Go
Small communities battle monopolistic telecoms over the right to build locally owned gigabit networks. This 22 minute film covers a small town that got fiber from a nearby municipal network - Wilson's Greenlight - only to have the state of North Carolina demand they rip it out because it upset the cable company.Gig City Sandy: Home of the $60 Gig
Located at the foot of Mount Hood in Oregon, Sandy's municipally-owned full fiber network offers gig Internet service for under $60 to every resident in the city.This affordable model of high-speed Internet service is possible in every community in the U.S. ⤏