Tommy Hyde

The Vermont film premiere of Underdog screens at Town Hall Theater on Saturday, November 6. The film, created by Middlebury College alum Tommy Hyde, profiles the curiously optimistic tale of Doug Butler, a hardscrabble Vermont dairy farmer who risks losing the only home he's ever known to chase his dreams of dog mushing in Alaska. In the era of the pandemic, the resonance of Doug's journey extends to all who have faced down loneliness, isolation and the struggle to make sense of forces beyond control.