Panels

PANELS at the bucolic White Feather Farm, 1389 Rt. 212, Saugerties, NY 12599 (unless otherwise stated)

Intimate conversations with filmmakers, creatives, scientists, and explorers

Food and beverages served after each panel

Catering provided by Raspberry Fields Farm

Come for the conversation, stay for the food

CHAT with KELSEY GRAMMER

moderated by Thelma Adams

Barn at White Feather Farm  Fri Oct 1  11am

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Join six-time Emmy Award-winner, Kelsey Grammer, known for his starring roles in the long-running shows Cheers and Frasier, as he talks about his diverse career, from a Shakespearean actor to his endearing role as Dr. Frasier Crane, and beyond. Currently starring in The Space Between, his talent as a musician won’t come as a surprise to longtime fans. Thelma Adams is a prominent American film critic and an outspoken voice in the Hollywood community. direct url rb.gy/gy4ktv

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CHAT with TIM BLAKE NELSON

moderated by Greg Gattine

Barn at White Feather Farm  Fri Oct 1  2pm

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Tim Blake Nelson, who stars in Old Henry, is a celebrated actor, writer, director, and producer, appearing in 100 films and TV shows since 1989, including The Incredible Hulk, Meet the Fockers, Minority Report, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, and The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, in which he played the title role. Join in a lively chat about his career and life.

Greg Gattine is Programming Director and morning host at Radio Woodstock.

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CHAT with MATT DILLON & JONATHAN GRAY

Barn at White Feather Farm  Sat Oct 2  1:30pm

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Matt Dillon‘s successful film career spans over three decades and has showcased his wide range of dramatic and comedic talents, including his arresting performance co-starring as a racist cop in Crash, and his hilarious role as an obsessed private investigator in There’s Something About Mary. Dillon made his feature film directorial debut with City of Ghosts, and directed and executive-produced El Gran Fellove. Jonathan Gray is a partner at the entertainment law firm Gray Schwartz LLP, and highly regarded in the independent film community as an attorney, producer and advisor to filmmakers, producers, financiers, and distributors. He has acted as production counsel on countless noted documentaries and seminal independent narratives. Gray has produced over 70 films, including El Gran Fellove. Cucina WOODSTOCK RESTERAUNT  Sat Oct 2  12:30pm

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The Creative Coalition will present a moderated panel discussion and luncheon at the Woodstock Film Festival to showcase the short film competition winners: Emmy Award-nominated actor Kelly Jenrette (The Handmaid’s Tale, All American: Homecoming), Emmy and Tony Awardwinner David Gallo (“Sesame Street,” The Drowsy Chaperone, August Wilson’s Jitney), Greg DePaul (Bride Wars, Saving Silverman), and Academy Awardnominated director Stephen Kessler (Paul Williams Still Alive).

PANELISTS

Kelly Jenrette

Emmy Award-nominated actor, The Handmaid’s Tale, All American: Homecoming

David Gallo

Emmy and Tony Award-winner, Sesame Street, The Drowsy Chaperone, August Wilson’s Jitney

Greg DePaul

Bride Wars, Saving Silverman

Stephen Kessler

Academy Award-nominated director, Paul Williams Still Alive

Robin Bronk

CEO, The Creative Coalition

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EYEWITNESS STORYTELLING with After Antarctica subject and crew, moderated by Peter DeMenocal

Barn at White Feather Farm  Sat Oct 2  10:30am

Join renowned polar explorer Will Steger, eyewitness to the greatest changes in the polar regions of our planet, filmmakers Tasha Van Zandt and Sebastian Zeck, and executive producer Sarah Pisllsbury discussing the importance and impact of eyewitness stories about climate and our environment.

MODERATOR

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Peter B. de Menocal World renowned climate scientist and presid. is president and director of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

PANELISTS

Throughout over fifty years of exploration, Will Steger is the leading eyewitness to the most dramatic transformation of the world’s most hostile landscapes.

Tasha Van Zandt is a globally focused director, cinematographer and Emmy-nominated producer who has traveled on assignment around the globe and to all seven continents.

Sebastian Zeck is a documentary filmmaker and producer whose focus is on storytelling to effect social change.

Sarah Pillsbury, After Antarctica executive producer, has shepherded many award-winning films and television series.

Barn at White Feather Farm  Sat Oct 2  4:30pm

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Mental Health Panel Inspired MODERATOR by the film Here. Is. Better., this Paul Rieckhoff cutting-edge discussion will focus activist and veterans’ advocate, is on mental health at this critical founder and president of Righteous moment in history when suicide is Media, founder of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, host of the podcast a leading cause of death in both the veteran and civilian communities. Independent Americans, and a frequent Moderated by Paul Rieckhoff, with contributor on CNN and MSNBC. panelists Dr. Kathleen Chard and PANELISTS Jason Kander. Dr. Kathleen Chard

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is Associate Chief of Staff for Research at the Cincinnati VA and global expert on PTSD. She is featured in the film Here. Is. Better. Army veteran Jason Kander, also featured in the film Here. Is. Better., is host of the podcast Majority 54 and a former Missouri congressman and State Secretary.

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Barn at White Feather Farm  Sun Oct 3 11am

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As the state of the film industry shifts underneath our feet, this panel of industry experts will explore if and how we can move towards a more utopian model of film culture. If we dream big yet practical, could we achieve a resurgence of a “Woodstock” type alternative thinking, acting & execution?

PANELISTS

John Sloss

Entertainment lawyer, film producer, talent manager, sales agent, and founder of Cinetic Media, whose credits include The Velvet Underground, Green Book, Boyhood, I’m Not There, Before Sunset, Far from Heaven, among others. Roger Ross Williams

Oscar and Emmy Award-winning director, producer and writer, and the first African American director to win an Academy Award®, with his film Music By Prudence. Marian Koltai-Levine,

President of Film, Content and Marketing at Rogers & Cowan PMK is a strategic marketing communication professional with over 25 years of experience in film, experiential immersive content and marketing.

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CHAT with ELIZA HITTMAN & RY RUSSO-YOUNG

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Barn at White Feather Farm  Sun Oct 3  2pm Eliza Hittman is an award winning filmmaker known for her films It Felt Like Love, Beach Rats, and Never Rarely Sometimes Always. See page 23 for more details direct url rb.gy/itbk6h

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Ry Russo-Young is an award winning filmmaker known for her films Before I Fall and The Sun also a Star, and her mini series Nuclear Family.

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