“The Farm Boy,” movie at the Brandon Town Hall

George Woodard is a 3rd generation dairy farmer up in Waterbury. He still lives on the family farm, purchased by his grandfather back in 1912. He’s mostly retired from farming now—“I still milk one cow”—and has turned his attention once again to something he’s done on and off for years: filmmaking. His latest film, “The Farm Boy,” will be shown on Friday, April 28 at 6:30 p.m. at Brandon Town Hall.

“The Farm Boy” is Woodard’s second full-length feature, after “The Summer of Walter Hacks,” which he filmed in 2004 and released in 2010 (it’s hard to find time to edit a film when you still have a herd of 25 cows to milk). Both films star Woodard’s son, Henry, who filmed “Walter Hacks” as an 11-year-old and “The Farm Boy” as an adult. In “The Farm Boy,” Henry Woodard plays Calvin Dillard, a young man who drives a milk truck for his father in rural Vermont during World War II. He marries a girl named Mary (played by Grace Woodruff) he met at a dance, yet barely has time to settle into marriage when he’s drafted and sent to war in Belgium. While in Europe, he meets another woman, Renée (Coco Moseley), and his experiences with her change him in profound ways.