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11-13 Rock City Road Woodstock, NY 12498 (Right in the center of town across from the Chamber of Commerce booth and next to two municipal parking lots) phone#: 845-810-0131 email: tickets@woodstockfilmfestival.org For TICKETS and the most up-to-date info including SCHEDULES, added screenings and OTHER EVENTS, visit

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction Staff & Volunteers Volunteers Special Thanks Advisory Board Board of Directors Year-Round Programming Specialty Programming Endorsement Hudson Valley Film Commission

19 Sponsors 22 Awards 26 Awards Jury 29 Narratives 57 Documentaries 84 Shorts 91 Music 93 Special Events 94 Panels 99 Host Town - Woodstock 103 Host Town - Kingston 105 Host Town - Rhinebeck 107 Host Town - Rosendale 109 Host Town - Saugerties 111 Thirty Mile Map 113 Two Mile Map 115 Ticket Information 116 Schedule at a Glance WoodstockFilmFestival.org

NARRATIVES INTRODUCTIONS WELCOME TO THE 20TH ANNUAL WOODSTOCK FILM FESTIVAL Hard to believe that it has been twenty years since the Woodstock Film Festival first began. Over the course of the past two decades, we have celebrated many highly accomplished filmmakers, as well as watched many talented ones come through our doors early in their 2000: Martha Frankel, Haskell Wexler, David Strathairn, Meira Blaustein, Les Blank

careers, going on to great success and acclaim. Independent filmmaking has evolved and expanded. Film production has become a mainstay in the Hudson Valley, and the countless young interns and assistants whose first jobs were at the Woodstock Film Festival have gone on to flourishing careers. It has been a privilege to welcome filmmakers and film lovers alike to the Woodstock Film Festival all these years, and we invite you

2002: Tim Robbins and Liev Schrieber

all to once again join us as we celebrate twenty years of fiercely independent filmmaking. Welcome to the 2019 Woodstock Film Festival! See you at the movies.

2003: Woody Harrelson

2004: Melissa Leo, Peter Reigert

2007: Patricia Clarkson and Steve Guttenberg

2009: Lucy Liu

2005: Steve Buscemi

2008: Donovan singing in the rain

2006: Pamela Yates, Rachel Grady, Melissa Leo, Sabine Hoffman, Amy Gossels

2009: Uma Thurman

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2012: Jonathan Demme

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INTRODUCTIONS thank-you to all the photographers who made this visual history available

2015: Waffle Street crew

Career Day

2008: Kevin Smith

2010: Keanu Reeves and Vera Farmiga

2017: Bill Pullman

2011: Bill Plympton, Signe Baumane, Chris Wedge

2009: Jenna Rosher

2012: Timothy Hutton, Lori Singer

2013: Peter Bogdanovich, Mira Nair

2014: Jennifer Connely, Natalie Portman, Darren Aronofsky

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2016: Alec Baldwin

2018: Wheels cast & crew

2016: Adam Blaustein Rejto and Leon Gast

Haskell Wexler

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2016: Giancarlo Esposito and daughter

Gray Schwartz

Photo: Franco Vogt

NARRATIVES STAFF ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR/CO-FOUNDER Meira Blaustein ADMIN DIRECTOR/CO-FOUNDER DEPUTY DIRECTOR OFFICE MANAGER

Laurent Rejto Nikki Goldbeck Sage Higgins

FESTIVAL PROGRAMMING FEATURES & DOCUMENTARIES

Meira Blaustein, Nikki Goldbeck Chase Mayo, Charlee Liebeskind, Alicia Katz, Katie Cossolotto ANIMATION Joy Buran, Noelle Melody GUEST PROGRAMMER Roger Ross Williams SCREENERS Michael Barron, Robert Belli, Alexandra Berger, Jay Blotcher, Avery Davenport, Gene Fischer, Jessica Giacobbe, Rey Gonzalez, Sage Higgins, Emma Hyatt, Jeff Morris, Kathryn S. O’Mara, Jessica Peeters, Clayton Pickard, Alexa Register, Laurent Rejto, Jonathan Sherburne, Sierra Slaughter, Mitch Vinicor, Max Wexler, Erin Wolcott, Caroline Zink PANELS, JURY, HONORARY AWARDS Meira Blaustein MUSIC PANEL Doreen Ringer Ross VIRTUAL REALITY LOUNGE Dario Laverde, Carol Silverman SHORTS

FESTIVAL OPERATIONS OPERATIONS DIRECTOR

Jacob Hutchings Sage Higgins OPERATIONS MANAGER DEPUTY Jason F. Vasquez EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT Kathryn S. O’Mara VOLUNTEER COORDINATOR Valerie Ubriaco TRANSPO COORDINATOR Emma Hyatt ART DEPARTMENT Stacey Anderson, Tim Bruno, Jack Bruno PIPE & DRAPE Jeremiah Wenutu COMMUNICATION SERVICES Greg Carttar, Char Harner (3rd St R&D Production Services) MEDIA COORDINATOR Nina Shepperson SPECIAL EVENTS Lauri Andretta MAVERICK AWARDS PRODUCER Erin Cass BSP TECHNICAL DIRECTOR Chase Pierson SOUND ENGINEER Ron Kuhnke, Jeff Notti BSP LIGHTING DIRECTOR Jeff Wilson TECH DIRECTOR Jeff Kantor (Canus Major Prods) TECH PROJECTIONISTS Dr. Sven Furberg, Jake Haisley, George Naytohowcon, Smokey Mike O’Brien, Arby Schuman, Tim Sullivan, Zoot Damnit TRAILER Wheelhouse NYC VIDEO PREP & PANELS Jeff Economy YOUTH INITIATIVE COORDINATOR David Nelsen Epstein, Onteora High School OPERATIONS ASSISTANTS Michael Barron, Robert Belli, Ashley Biederman, Marlee Capuano, Emma Hyatt, Alicia Katz, Charlee Liebeskind, Chase Mayo, Bridget McGuigan Kathryn S. O’Mara, Clayton Packard, KJ Ryan, Conner Sweeney AD & SPONSORSHIP SUPPORT Beth Troxell OPERATIONS MANAGER

FESTIVAL SERVICES GUEST RELATIONS DIRECTOR GUEST RELATIONS HOSPITALITY CATERING REGISTRATION BADGE MASTER

Nikki Goldbeck Nancy Caigan, Gabrielle Kleinmann, Maggie Mitchell, Barbara Silver Deb Markes, Beth Troxell Tracy Cohen Kamien Sam Kandel

BOX OFFICE BOX OFFICE

Liz English

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STAFF PROGRAM

GRAPHIC DESIGN (PROGRAM/ADS) Naomi Schmidt (Naomi Graphics) PUBLICATION EDITOR BLURB WRITERS

DATA SOLUTIONS WEBSITE

Nikki Goldbeck Jay Blotcher, Avery Davenport, Ben F. Fischer, Gene Fischer, Jess Giacbbe, Svetlana Krotex, Tamara Pajic Lang, Clayton Pickard, Monique Ray, Sierra Slaughter, Max Wexler Diana Simonson Laurent Rejto

PUBLIC RELATIONS PRESS AND MARKETING ASST PRESS ASSISTANTS PRESS CONSULTANT VIDEOGRAPHY PHOTO COORDINATOR PHOTO CONSULTANT PHOTOGRAPHERS

Jaron Gandelman Avery Davenport Kayli Berardinelli, Olivia Luisi, Zach Percy Abbe Aronson Gregory Bray PhD, and SUNY New Paltz Students Zach Bell Naomi Schmidt Nate LaBrusciano, Mike Sofokles, Stephen Honicki, Jason Stapf, Bobby Morris, Aaron Rodriguez, Elkyn Orellana, Brian Cohen, Giancarlo Anastasio, Laura Revercomb, Dion Ogust, John Mazlish, Leslie Hill

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PRESS TEAM

SITE MANAGEMENT BEARSVILLE THEATER

Marie Caruso, Sydelle Freed, Eleanor Minsky, Julius Minsky Janan Craige, Sandra Harris WOODSTOCK PLAYHOUSE Alice Lotosky, Masha Zabara WOODSTOCK COMMUNITY CENTER Tanya Garraghan, Andrea Mythen, Michelle Warman KLEINERT/JAMES ART CENTER Hope Gamble ROSENDALE THEATRE Lynn Bauer, Donna Perry ORPHEUM THEATER SAUGERTIES Tom Cherwin, Kristin Hoerup UPSTATE FILMS RHINEBECK Willis Williams UPSTATE FILMS WOODSTOCK

ADDITIONAL SUPPORT AWARD TROPHIES LEGAL SERVICES

Steve Heller (Fabulous Furniture) Richard J. Goldman, Esq.

Volunteers as of September 10 Norman Aaronson Anne Canzonetti Matthew Kamien Risa Kamien Tris Korol Julie Nichols Fern Revzin Phylliss Serrur Diane Silverberg Tracy Kaimen Deb Brindis Leah Brown Diane Christi Renee Englander Leif Grund Christine Matmati John Quigley Brendan Sheridan Julie Sheridan Jan Sasnowitz

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Cookie Zucker Sue Worthmon Adelaide Simon Laura Zinn Mo Moshaty Melissa McNeese Valeria Ramos Jeff Bauml Emily Sassano Alex Camilleri Liz Proscia Ethan Jobson Betty MacFarlane Isler Mike McCabe Lil Turner Stephen Mayes Mary Beth Tinnirello Tim Gerstner Malim McLean Lauren Piperno

Jonathan Capiris Lauren Mathis Bob Katz Tuknekah Noble Lydia Stone Joel Craig Alex Rosenblatt Sophia Bergere Nate LaBrusciano Arianna Kaminski Michael Sofokles Stephen Honicki Laura Revercomb Kathryn Ornstein Leah Brown Frank Beresheim Siouxzanne Harris Emily Farrar Diane Christi Margo Obourn

Gerald Obourn Kathleen Wise Susan Nathan Jim Haskin Erin Scherer Alison Hoffman Klaus Buchele Alan Amato Beatrice-Ann Amato Randy Mundi Andy Mundi Terence Mccorry Deborah Lukaszewski Noel Van Etten Sacha Fleming Deb Brindis Jerilynn Babroff Mel Babroff Cathy Scala Karen Charman

Barbara O’Brien Marilyn Acquafredda Jennifer Wright Jennifer Lawrence Joyce Kahn Jay Kahn Lynne Brush Erika Neal Jennifer Arnaboldi Sara Higgins Tim Higgins Jan Sosnowitz Barbara Cazakoff Maggie Roach Arianna Kaminski Roni Wilder James Najjar Bethany Hutchings William Szabo Beth Baylis

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Tim Bruno Frank Kosteczko Marilyn MacClellan Alison Irwin Stephen Mihic Jim Boyd Ann Byer Richard Folger Lou Laconture Faith Grant Jessica Childs Margery Schab Constance Harkin Melissa Mcneese Sam Kendel Nora Busch Anne Ames Abigail Robin Faith Grant Kasey Smith

Liz Raum Yvonne Sewall Mary Holmes Scott Ross Stephen Mihic Connie Pinkosz Joel Craig Michael White Beth Baylis Andrewa Newman Bob Frick Michael Winsor Melissa Weiss Marilyn MacClellan Geri Stein

NARRATIVES SPECIAL THANKS

SPECIAL THANKS

If we forgot to thank you, please forgive our oversight and know that your help and support is very much appreciated.

MOVIE LEGENDS

Alan Siegel Brian & Brooke Devine Mark Braunstein & Katharine McKenna Sarah Johnson & Greg Cornell Silvija & Brian Devine Sr.

MOVIE STARS

Jonathan Gray Lauri Andretta Shari Sant Plummer Stephen Hays

DIRECTORS

Wendy Ettinger Bill Goldstein Alison Jones Jennifer Hicks

SCREENWRITERS Wendy Ettinger David Baldwin Declan Baldwin He Fan Ilene Marder Nurit Spector Nina Warren

Michael Canter Joseph C. Felece Charitable Fund Greg Meola Michael O’Brien Lori Rotskoff Alan Schacter Daniel Schneider

GAFFERS

The Derald H. Ruttenberg Foundation William Dineen Lowell Miller Ron Nyswaner

PRODUCERS

CINEMATOGRAPHERS

Lisa Alt Jeff Bauml Michael Brody Daniel Hoffman Amy & Richard Hutchings Joni Elenson Susan Alexander

SPECIAL THANKS

Adam & Daniel Allen & Ellen Zerkin Andretta Foundation Anne & Matt Canzonetti Anthony Straquadanio Barbara Pokras Barry Price Beth Troxell Bob Malkin Brian Barney Bruce Weiss Cargo Releasing Char Harner Christine Rollet & Issar Smith Chuck Girard Cynthia Kane Darya Panesoff

David Nelsen Epstein Dean Holtermann Debra Ramsden Dede Leiber Deirdre Miller Detective John Amaroso Diana & Dale Ziegenfelder Dick & Susan Goldman Doreen Ringer Ross Edwina & Marty Henderson Elizabeth Henry Eran Polishuk FilmRise Gail Bradney Gary Chetkof Governor’s Office of Motion Picture & Television Development Greg Meola Gunpowder & Sky HBO Heidi Emrich Hotel Woodstock IFC Films Janet Bogardus Janna Ritz Jason Stern Jennifer Dragon Jim Mickle Jimmy Buff Joe & Avis Toochin Johanna Trimboli Judy Flynn Kate Miller Karen & Rusty Goodman Kino Lorber Lauri Ylvisaker

Leah & Dan Rubenstein Leann & Neil Ratner Lisa Alt Lizzie Vann Lori Spector March Gallagher Margery Schab Margo Obourn Marlyn Park Mary Anne & Richard Erickson Michele Rejto Nancy & Steve Abrams Neon Netflix Owen Clarke Patricia Goodwin Paul Green Robert Broder Sanjay Rawal Shawn Greene Shelly Kendal Tumen Steve & Elise Pittleman Steve Leiber Susan & Alec Meiklejohn Susan Herl Susan Manuel Susanne Herl Terry & Mark Antman Terry Dagrosa The Herwood Inn Thomas Morton Town of Woodstock Twin Gables Wendy Lidell Woodstock Inn on the Millstream

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ADVISORY BOARD

Richard Abramowitz Distributor, Abramorama Judy Arthur

Publicity/Consultant (Philadelphia, The Silence of the Lambs)

Joe Berlinger

Filmmaker (Brother’s Keeper, Paradise Lost Trilogy, Metallica: Some Kind of Monster, Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile)

Eamonn Bowles

President of Magnolia Pictures

Robin Bronk

CEO of The Creative Coalition

Vincent D’Onofrio Actor (Daredevil, Men in Black, Full Metal Jacket) Griffin Dunne

Director/Producer/Actor (Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold, Fierce People, Dallas Buyers Club)

Leon Gast

Filmmaker (When We Were Kings, The Grateful Dead)

Jonathan Gray

Attorney/Producer Gray Schwartz LLP

Ethan Hawke

Director/Actor (The Magnificent Seven, Boyhood, Before Sunrise, Chelsea Walls, First Reformed)

Sabine Hoffman

Editor (Story of a Girl, Maggie’s Plan, The Glorias)

Gill Holland

Producer, The Group Entertainment (Beauty Mark, Look & See: A Portrait of Wendell Berry, Were the World Mine)

Michael Lang

Producer/Promoter (1969, 1995, 1999 Woodstock Festival)

Melissa Leo

Oscar-winning Actor (I’m Dying Up Here, The Fixer, The Fighter, Frozen River, 21 Grams, Treme)

Ron Mann

Filmmaker (Grass, Going Further, Altman, Carmine Street Guitars), Distributor (Films We Like)

Stephen Nemeth

Executive Producer / Producer (The Three Hikers, Fields of Fuel, Fear, Loathing in Las Vegas)

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SPECIAL THANKS

Annie Nocenti Journalist/Screenwriter/Teacher/Filmmaker Ron Nyswaner

Screenwriter/Director (Homeland, Ray Donovan, She’s The Best Thing In It, Philadelphia)

Bill Plympton

Animator (Cop Dog, Cheatin’, Idiots & Angels)

Aidan Quinn

Actor/Producer (Elementary, Legends of the Fall)

Peter Saraf

Producer, Executive Producer, Big Beach Productions (A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, Little Miss Sunshine)

Liev Schreiber

Actor/Director (Ray Donovan, The Painted Veil)

Lori Singer

Actor (Footloose) Dancer, Cellist

John Sloss

Attorney/Producer, Sloss Law & Cinetic Media (Boyhood, Bernie, Pieces of April, Far From Heaven)

Ted Hope

Head of Production, Amazon Original Movies: Amazon Studios

Fisher Stevens

William Horberg

Producer (Crash Pad, The Promise, Milk, Cold Mountain, Adventureland, Death at a Funeral)

Founding Partner, Greene Street Films, Actor/ Producer/Director (The Grand Budapest Hotel, Awake)

David Strathairn

Actor (The Debt, Lincoln, Good Night and Good Luck)

Barbara Kopple

Director (Miss Sharon Jones!, Woodstock: Now & Then, Shut Up & Sing, My Generation, Harlan County USA)

Christine Vachon

Producer and founder of Killer Films (Still Alice, I Shot Andy Warhol, Boys Don’t Cry, Far from Heaven)

Claude Dal Farra

Ilene Marder

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Lauri Andretta

David Baldwin

Meira Blaustein

Jennifer Hicks

Joan Quigley

Jeff Morris

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We’ll Focus On The Rest Congratulations To The Filmmakers www.panavision.com

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NARRATIVES YEAR-ROUND PROGRAMMING

YEAR-ROUND PROGRAMMING

The Woodstock Film Festival celebrates both emerging and established voices in independent filmmaking with screenings, panels and concerts throughout the MidHudson Valley. The Festival is centered in the historic arts colony of Woodstock, with additional events held in the nearby towns, including Rhinebeck, Rosendale, Saugerties, and Kingston. As a not-for-profit, 501(c)(3) organization, Woodstock Film Festival’s mission is to present an annual program and year-round schedule of film, music and art-related activities that promote artists and culture and inspired learning and diversity. Its sister organization, the Hudson Valley Film Commission, promotes sustainable economic development by attracting and supporting film, video and media production.

YEAR-ROUND PROGRAMMING

THE WOODSTOCK FILM FESTIVAL & HUDSON VALLEY FILM COMMISSION, PRESENT YEAR-ROUND SCREENINGS, WORKSHOPS, MIXERS, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVES, AND SPECIAL EVENTS.

Adam Blaustein Rejto & Beck Underwood

In March, the Woodstock Film Festival, in collaboration with Radio Kingston, hosted a free WOMEN IN FILM & TELEVISION panel at Aaron Rezny’s beautiful photography studio in Kingston, NY. Hundreds attended the inspirational event celebrating powerful and talented women working in the media industry. Our dynamic panelists included Janet Grillo, Ellen Kuras, Blair Breard, Lacey Schwartz-Delgado, Wendy Ettinger, Wendy Lidell, and Lisa Myers. Special screening for The Dead Don’t Die

Feeding Mrs. Moskowitz

Every fall, film and music lovers from around the world gather in Woodstock for an exhilarating variety of films, concerts, celebrity-led seminars, workshops, an awards ceremony, and superlative parties. Visitors find themselves in a relaxed, receptive atmosphere surrounded by some of the most beautiful landscapes in the world. The range of films presented includes feature narratives, documentaries and shorts, many of which are premieres from the U.S and abroad. Filmmakers often attend and follow up screenings with Q&As. Specialty programming includes Exposure, Films of the Hudson Valley, Focus on Music, LGBTQ Focus, Spotlight on Women, World Cinema, and the Youth Initiative.

Our 2019 year-round programming featured special screenings, panels, a staged screenplay reading, screenwriting seminar, our seventh annual Taste of Woodstock, and the Summer Youth Film Lab.

Taste of Woodstock

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In April, the Woodstock Film Festival, in collaboration with Upstate Films, screened a sold-out electrifying showing of the documentary AMAZING GRACE at Upstate Films Woodstock. With the fabulous Simi Stone setting up the mood first with her beautiful singing, “Soulful” and “Amazing” were a few words that attendees used to describe the event on their way out. In May, the Woodstock Film Festival and Hudson Valley Film Commission hosted the 7TH ANNUAL TASTE OF WOODSTOCK , celebrating the culinary diversity and delicacies that the region has to offer. Over twenty restaurants and hosts participated, including A&P Bar, Bread Alone, Calmbucha, Catskill Mountain Pizza, Colony, Early Terrible, Fruition Chocolate Works, Joshua’s, Lenny’s Bee Productions/Woodstock Winery, Little Apple, Mountain Gate Indian Restaurant, Nancy’s Artisanal Creamery, Oriole 9, Reservoir Inn, Sharkie’s Meatballs, Shindig, Silvia, Station Bar & Curio, T Salon, Woodstock Meats, Woodstock Pizza Theater, Woodstock Wine & Liquors, Yum Yum Noodle Bar. PLEASE SUPPORT THESE WONDERFUL ESTABLISHMENTS.

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Outdoors Screening with Oscillation Transia Film Festival

Summer Youth Film Lab

Also in May, the Woodstock Film Festival co-presented a sold-out staged reading of FEEDING MRS. MOSKOWITZ with Actors & Writers The ensemble troupe directed and performed. On June 4, the Hudson Valley Film Commission was presented a special citation organization award by Arts Mid Hudson. On June 11, the film commission hosted a special screening and mixer for Jim Jarmusch’s THE DEAD DON’T DIE courtesy of Focus Features. In June, the Woodstock Film Festival held three more events. First, in collaboration with Radio Kingston, was a free DIVERSE VOICES IN FILM & MEDIA PANEL, returning once again to Aaron Rezny’s photography studio. Moderated by Lacey Schwartz Delgado. filmmakers Lisa Cortes, Yurba Richen and Roger Ross Williams shared their perspectives on the current state of diversity in the film industry.

YEAR -ROUND PROGRAMMING

Diversity Panel

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YEAR-ROUND PROGRAMMING

Mapping the Movie in Your mind Seminar

In collaboration with the OSCILLATION TRANSIA FILM FESTIVAL, June also featured a double-feature outdoor screening at the Congressman Maurice D. Hinchey Catskill Visitor Center. The event was powered by solar energy! Prior to the screening, Oscillation Transia Film Festival hosted an informative workshop on solar energy.

The Great Hack

In August, the Woodstock Film Festival, in collaboration with Upstate Films Rhinebeck, hosted a special screening of THIS CHANGES XEVERYTHING, directed by festival alum Tom Donahue and executive produced by Geena Davis. Following the screening of this eye-opening new documentary about gender disparity in Hollywood, audience members and Donahue engaged in a spirited discussion about the extensive research that went into the film, which included interviews with 98 women in the entertainment industry and a crew that was 75 percent female.

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In July, the Woodstock Film Festival hosted a special sold-out screening of THE GREAT HACK at Upstate Films in Woodstock. This Netflix documentary was followed by a Q&A with Academy Award-nominated directors Jehane Noujaim and Karim Amer, executive producer Sarah E Johnson, and surprise guest Brittany Kaiser, the former Cambridge Analytica executive and whistleblower. Kaiser is one of the main subjects in this captivating, illuminating documentary about the company behind the data hacking scandal that influenced the 2016 US presidential elections and political campaigns world-wide.

Richard Hutchings

Also in June, was a sold-out, four-week, two-section SCREENWRITING SEMINAR: MAPPING THE MOVIE IN YOUR MIND, taught by screenwriter/director Alex Smith.

This Changes Everything

Also in August, the Woodstock Film Festival, in collaboration with Upstate Films Woodstock, hosted a special screening of Ron Mann’s documentary CARMINE STREET GUITARS, with Rick Kelly, Cindy Hulej and Eleanor Friedberger participating in the Q&A. Carmine Street Guitars

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NARRATIVES SPECIALTY PROGRAMMING

SPECIALTY PROGRAMMING

The Woodstock Film Festival is proud to present the WORLD Bamboo Stories CINEMA program to further our commitment to sharing experiences across continents. 2018 highlights include The Last Color (India), A Portrait of a Lady on Fire (France), Synonyms (France, Germany, Israel), Bamboo Stories (Bangladesh, Germany), and The Condor & the Eagle (USA, Germany, France,) Parasite (South Korea,) among others. These films offer a rare opportunity to expand our global consciousness. Parasite

Programming at the WOODSTOCK FILM FESTIVAL encourages those who use film as a way to explore The Condor and the Eagle social, environmental and political themes, while challenging their inherent boundaries. In this year’s EXPOSURE PROGRAM we are proud to present a lineup of films that represent the myriad challenges our world faces in these times of uncertainty, with the voices of our diverse planet and the heroes who dedicate themselves to changing the worldview against the status quo. Among others, the program includes Foster Boy, Accept the Call, New Homeland, The Pollinators, Parkland Rising, Maxima, Paradise without People, 17 Blocks, The Condor & The Eagle, and Ernie & Joe. Additional programming, including panels and year-round events, covers a broad range of socioeconomic and political topics. This year, there will be a special panel discussion featuring filmmakers whose work delves into hot button issues, including gun reform, climate change and immigration.

FOCUS ON MUSIC showcases films Simon Shaheen: about music and musicians, A Musical Journey simultaneously exploring the role that music plays in film. Several of this year’s films illustrate how music can be an important and powerful tool for expression. The films are Simon Shaheen: A Musical Journey, Gay Chorus Deep South, Not Not Jazz, The Remix: Hip Hop X Fashion, The Apollo, I want My MTV, and Speed Of Life.

The BMI Music Panel will feature songwriter/ singer and 10-time Grammy award-nominee, Janis Ian, talking about her life and career.

Janis Ian

SPOTLIGHT ON WOMEN IN FILM & Nothing Fancy: Diana Kennedy MEDIA initiative highlights exciting new works by some of today’s most talented, established and up-and-coming female directors. The aim is to feature the work of female directors and empower women of all ages who want to work in film and media to follow their dreams and carve their path in an industry that is still dominated by men. There are 23 female-directed feature length films in the 2019 program, including Liz Manashil’s Speed of Life, Céline Sciamma’s Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Julia Kots’s Inez & Doug & Kira, Debra Eisenstadt’s Imaginary Order, Chinonye Chukwu’s Clemency, Haroula Rose’s Once Upon a River, Ashley Avis’s Adolescence, Alma Har’el’s Honey Boy, Cheryl Horner McDonough’s Parkland Rising, Beth Aala’s Made in Boise, Barbara Kopple’s New Homeland, Elizabeth Carroll’s Nothing Fancy: Diana Kennedy and Rebecca Miller’s Personal Velocity.

The Hudson Valley and Catskills #LIKE have been a hotbed of creative energy and artistic vibrancy for over a century. In addition to attracting production talent from all over the world, many established and emerging filmmakers have now made the Hudson Valley their home. The 2019 WFF schedule has programmed several locally produced films, including #Like, The Pollinators, Land of Little Rivers, Once Upon a River, and Swallow.

LGBTQ FO C U S

The Woodstock Film Festival’s

Portrait of a Lady on Fire

THE HUDSON VALLEY AND CATSKILLS

Since its inception, the Woodstock Film Festival has explored and celebrated LGBTQ voices with an The Garden Left Behind exciting slate of films, concerts and specials guests. 2019 highlights include The Garden Left Behind, Gay Chorus Deep South, and A Night at Switch n’ Play.

G U E S T PROGRAM Curated by director Roger Ross Williams, featuring films that The Remix: Hip Hop X Fashion demonstrate the scope, depth and creativity that is possible when diverse filmmakers tell their own stories. This year’s picks include The Remix: Hip Hop X Fashion, Gay Chorus Deep South.

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ENDORSEMENTS

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ABOUT HVFC

On location with HBO’s The Undoing

Special screening/mixer for The Dead Don’t Die

On location with HBO’s The Undoing Photo: Company 1 Productions

SINCE 2000, the HUDSON VALLEY FILM COMMISSION has worked with over 500 productions, helping to secure locations, crew, cast, catering, lodging, soundstages, vendors, post production facilities, and more! Over $200-million in direct local spending has resulted including thousands of jobs and new businesses that cater to film and tv production.  Recent production highlights include Charlie Kaufman’s I’m Thinking of Ending Things (Netflix), On location with HBO’s I Know This Much is True

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Derek Cianfrance’s I Know This Much is True, David E. Kelley’s The Undoing (HBO), The Plot Against America (HBO), Avengers: Endgame (Marvel), The Dead Don’t Die (Focus), Planet Earth (Netflix & Silverback Films), A Quiet Place (Paramount), and Shirley (Killer Films).  Actors who have appeared in recent productions include (among others) Emily Blunt, Steve Buscemi, Asa Butterfield, Toni Collette, Brian Dennehy, Adam Driver, Vera Farmiga, Danny Glover, Whoopi Goldberg, Selena Gomez, Hugh Grant, Kathryn Hahn, Jonah Hill, Jeremy Holm, Nicole Kidman, John Krasinski, John Leguizamo. Melissa Leo, Juliette Lewis, Elisabeth Moss, Bill Murray, Rosie O’Donnell, Anna Paquin, Estelle Parsons, Jesse Plemons, Mary Kay Place, Iggy Pop, Mark Ruffalo, Kurt Russell, Chloë Sevigny, Emma Stone, Michael Stuhlbarg, Donald Sutherland, Tilda Swinton, David Thewlis, Marisa Tomei, Tom Waits, and Maisie Williams.  Over the years, the Hudson Valley Film Commission has proudly helped recruit and train hundreds of crew members and filmmakers. Throughout the year, community outreach gets the word out at local libraries, town halls, mixers and schools. 2019 outreach included the New Paltz Chamber breakfast, Kingston Library, Woodstock Library, SUNY New Paltz, Saugerties Library, Saugerties High School, Highland Library, Marlboro Middle School, Marlboro Library, Tivoli Free Library and the Poughkeepsie Library.  2018-19 saw a sharp increase in regional post production work on films that were not filmed in New York State. Thanks to high speed internet, local editors and composers can now easily work from remote locations. Picture editing for Robert Stone’s PBS series Chasing the Moon (PBS) has been done in Rhinebeck, while sound editing was handled in Bearsville by Coll Anderson and color correction in Kingston by Chad Smith. The film Roma, which received 10 Oscar nominations, was filmed in Mexico but some sound editing and recording was handled in Glenford by Wyatt Sprague. The film Run With The Hunted (screening at 2019 Woodstock Film Festival) was filmed in Oklahoma but picture editing was handled locally by editor Jon Greenhalgh. Coll Anderson did sound editing in Bearsville. Michael Cristofer’s The Night Clerk was filmed in Utah, but picture editing was handled in Woodstock. Stepping Stone Foley worked on many projects including Maniac for Netflix, The Deuce for Showtime and The Ballad of Buster Scruggs for the Coen Brothers. Grammy winner David Baron composed and recorded the score for Keely & Du and The Big Break, which screens at the 2019 Woodstock Film Festival.  To analyze the impact of regional film, TV and media production, the commission collects data to track the local economic impact of productions. Data includes scouting days, production days, local lodging information, local crew and cast hires, location fees, catering, transportation rentals and more. By collecting and studying data from different production sources, the film commission estimates and reports how direct spending benefits sustainable local economic development. Data does not include “multipliers,” or indirect spending, but that revenue stream (which results from shopping, tourism, dining, recreation, new businesses, indirect jobs, services, royalties and new home buyers) must be taken into account.

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ANIMATION AWARD The ANIMATION AWARD, presented for Best Animated Short, is selected by New York-based animation and design duo Joy Buran and Noelle Melody (JOY + NOELLE) and Lizzi Akana.

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HASKELL WEXLER AWARD FOR BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY SPONSORED BY PANAVISION The Woodstock Film Festival HASKELL WEXLER AWARD for Best Cinematography, with support from Panavision, provides film camera equipment rentals to the winner of this esteemed award. Panavision is the leading designer, manufacturer and supplier of high precision camera systems, comprised of cameras, lenses and accessories for the motion picture, television series and television commercial markets in North America, Europe and the Asia Pacific region. The HASKELL WEXLER AWARD for Best Cinematography, named after the legendary cinematographer and two-time Academy Award winner, continues under the guardianship of Wexler’s friend and colleague Ellen Kuras. Kuras is one of the most important pioneering filmmakers of the last two decades, known for her visually stunning work in films like Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Blow and Summer of Sam. One of the first women invited to join the American Society of Cinematographers, she has worked with directors Michel Gondry, Martin Scorsese, Spike Lee, and Jonathan Demme, “One of the most inventive and unique voices in cinema of our time, Haskell was a rebel and advocate of progressive causes who lived his politics through his work and his work through his spirited beliefs,“ wrote Kuras. “We continue to honor Haskell and his work by recognizing filmmakers who reflect his passion.”

BEST SHORT NARRATIVE + BEST STUDENT SHORT Recognizing the director of the jury’s choice for short narrative. Recognizing the director of the jury’s choice for best student short.

THE JAMES LYONS EDITING AWARD FOR NARRATIVE & DOCUMENTARIES FEATURES Originally established by editor Sabine Hoffman, the James Lyons Editing Award was named in honor of the accomplished editor who had a home near Woodstock. James Lyons was best known as a film editor and particularly for his long collaboration with Todd Haynes on the award-winning features Poison, Safe, Velvet Goldmine (for which he also co-wrote the story). He also edited Sofia Coppola’s The Virgin Suicides, Jesse Peretz’s First Love, Last Rites and The Chateau, Tom Gilroy’s Spring Forward, Peter Friedman’s Silverlake Life, and more than a half-dozen other features and documentaries.

THE CARPE DIEM ANDRETTA AWARD for living life to its fullest honors VINCENT “JAY” ANDRETTA III THE CARPE DIEM ANDRETTA AWARD is presented to a film that best exemplifies living life to the fullest through character and story development in a full length narrative or documentary film. The Carpe Diem Andretta Award honors longtime area resident VINCENT “JAY” ANDRETTA III, who passed away in December 2014. The Glenford resident is remembered as a successful businessman, a driven, avid athlete and a loving, dedicated husband, father, son, and a great friend to many, including the Woodstock Film Festival. Jay’s favorite quote was “Carpe Diem (Seize the Day).” His life was a testament to the phrase.

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ABIGAIL E. DISNEY A true trailblazer in both visual storytelling and humanitarian activism, Emmy Award-winning director Abigail E. Disney champions equality and human rights as she focuses on projects that foster peace, justice and human understanding. After years as a not-for-profit volunteer activist and stay-at-home mother, Abigail turned to documentaries. She started and led Fork Films as CEO, inspired at the outset to tell the story of a brave group of women who used nonviolent protests to bring an end to Liberia’s long civil war. Along with renowned filmmaker Gini Reticker, she made the widely acclaimed Pray the Devil Back to Hell and created the subsequent five-part PBS series, Women, War & Peace. Since founding Fork Films, the company has produced and funded over 100 documentary films, shining a light on some of the most challenging social issues of our time. Abigail is also the co-founder and chair of Level Forward, an entertainment company that develops, produces and finances multi-platform storytelling while exploring ways to extend the work’s opportunity and influence to advance economic transformation and equity. Current work includes films from Nicole Riegel, Celine Held and Logan George, Semi Chellas’ feature film debut, the Broadway shows Oklahoma! and What The Constitution Means To Me, the website Rotten Apples, and the industry-wide Gun Neutral initiative. She is also the founder of Peace Is Loud, a non-profit that uses storytelling to advance social movements and the Daphne Foundation, which supports organizations working for a more equitable, fair and peaceful New York City. Abigail is the recipient of numerous awards, including an honor from the International Women’s Media Foundation for advancing women’s issues and peace initiatives, the Amicus Award from the International Documentary Association and the Cardozo Law School’s International Advocate for Peace Award. Added to all her impressive accomplishments, she is a mother of four.

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DAVID DINERSTEIN is an award-winning producer and one of the most accomplished industry executives. He has released over 200 movies, helped launch the careers of numerous iconic filmmakers, and has garnered over 96 Academy Award Nominations and 15 Academy Awards. He co-founded Paramount Vantage and was one of the original architects of Fox Searchlight. Currently, David is the president of Aviron Pictures and is a voting member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences.

PAMELA YATES is the co-founder and creative

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ALEX SMITH is a screenwriter, filmmaker and educator.

He and his brother Andrew have made the acclaimed features Walking Out, Winter in the Blood and The Slaughter Rule. Alex has written scripts and pilots for Amazon, HBO, Warner Brothers, Disney, Fox Searchlight, and FX. He also adapted Chekhov’s The Duel for Terrence Malick. He has taught at Columbia University, NYU, the University of Texas, and the University of Tulsa.

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film and television for over two decades. His films include the landmark documentaries Brothers Keeper, the Paradise Lost trilogy, and Metalica: Some Kind of Monster, a film that re-defined the rockumentary genre. Joe’s recent narrative feature, Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile, starring Zac Efron, Lily Collins, and John Malkovich, premiered at Sundance and was acquired by Netflix for a reported $9 million.

Joe Berlinger

ROGER ROSS WILLIAMS is an Academy and Emmy awardRebecca Miller

JULIE TAYMOR, a Tony, Emmy and Grammy-winning

and Oscar-nominated-filmmaker, has conquered both stage and screen with her innovative direction. Award-winning films include Fool’s Fire, Oedipus Rex, Titus, Frida, Across the Universe, The Tempest, and A Julie Taymor Midsummer Night’s Dream. Recent projects include The Glorias, based on Gloria Steinem’s memoir, and a TV Series, Hackabout, based on Erica Jong’s book, Fanny. Her Tony awardwinning Broadway adaptation of The Lion King has played over 100 cities in 19 countries and its worldwide gross exceeds that of any title in box office history.

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winning director, producer, writer, and the first African American director to win an Academy Award for his film Music By Prudence. Roger’s work pushes the boundaries Roger Ross Williams of culture and film. His documentaries include Academy Award-nominated and Emmy Award-winning Life, Animated, as well as God Loves Uganda, American Jail, The Apollo and VR experience Traveling While Black. He is currently working on his first narrative feature for Amazon studios.

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SABINE HOFFMAN ACE, has edited Rebecca Miller’s

films Maggie’s Plan, The Private Lives of Pippa Lee, The Ballad of Jack and Rose, and Personal Velocity, Richard LaGravenese’s musical The Last Five Years, Jesse Peretz’ Juliet, Naked, Michael Lembeck’s upcoming Never Too Late, and currently Julie Taymor’s The Glorias. Sabine serves as a consultant and story adviser and has also edited numerous documentary films.

Sabine Hoffman

NAOMI GERAGHTY is known for her work on The Upside,

JOY + NOELLE Joy Buran and Noelle

Melody are illustrators, animators and, as it happens, twins. They specialize in story-driven work, including commercial video, independent short films and book illustration. Select clients include NBC, Netflix, Cartoon Network, Nickelodeon, Amazon Studios, Sesame Studios, and Joy Buran & Noelle Melody Anthropologie. They most recently artdirected Human Kind Of, an Annie Award-nominated animated series for Facebook Watch. Joy and Noelle began curating the Animation Program at the Woodstock Film Festival in 2016.

LIZZI AKANA is an award-winning director, animator

and designer. Since graduating from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2005, she’s cultivated a diverse portfolio as a freelance artist in the field of animation, working in television, advertising, feature film, music videos, and illustrative design for many of the top studios in New York and Los Angeles. In addition to her contract work, in 2019, Lizzi returned to her alma mater to teach Cinematic Storytelling.

Pamela Yates

JOE BERLINGER has been a leading voice in nonfiction

REBECCA MILLER, winner of multiple Sundance and Gotham awards, has written and directed Angela, Personal Velocity, The Ballad of Jack and Rose, The Private Lives of Pippa Lee, Maggie’s Plan and Arthur Miller: Writer, an HBO documentary. She is the screenwriter of Proof, and author of the short story collection Personal Velocity, and the novels The Private Lives of Pippa Lee and Jacob’s Folly.

director of Skylight, a non-profit dedicated to combining cinematic arts with the quest for justice to inspire the defense of human rights. Her awardwinning films include When the Mountains Tremble, Witness to War, State of Fear: The Truth About Terorism, Granito: How to Nail a Dictator, and 500 Years. Pamela is a member of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, Writers Guild of America and the International Documentary Association, and directing a new documentary film, Borderlands.

Limitless, Hotel Rwanda, and In America. She has worked extensively in television, including David Simon’s Treme (HBO), Bloodline (Netflix) and Showtime’s Billions. She recently made her directing debut on Billions and will continue in the upcoming season. Naomi has enjoyed a long collaboration with director Neil Burger and is currently editing his science fiction thriller Voyagers.

Naomi Geraghty

KATE WILLIAMS ACE, has cut five films for Fred Schepisi,

including Empire Falls, for which she was nominated for an Emmy; Steve Buscemi’s Trees Lounge; Sundance Frozen River; Clara Law’s The Goddess of ’67; Michael Almereyda’s This So Called Disaster; and the English films, Effie Gray and Anton Chekhov’s The Duel. She is currently producing and editing Juliet Ellis’s Ruby.

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NICK HOUY’S recent feature film credits include Greta

Lizzi Akana

Gerwig’s Oscar-nominated Lady Bird and her upcoming adaptation of Little Women. Nick recently edited Jonah Hill’s directorial debut Mid 90s, and garnered his first Emmy award for editing HBO’s The Night Of. He is currently editing Stephen Karam’s film adaptation of his Tony-winning play, The Humans. Nick Houy

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ELLEN KURAS is an Emmy and Independent Spirit Award-nominated director/cinematographer whose visionary, eclectic work has

made a significant mark in cinema. She has collaborated with such directors as Michael Gondry, Martin Scorsese, Spike Lee, Sam Mendes, Jim Jarmusch, Errol Morris, and Rebecca Miller. Well-known for her stunning cinematography on Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Blow, she is the unprecedented three-time winner of Best Dramatic Cinematography at Sundance. Her directorial debut, The Betrayal (Nerakhoon), was nominated for an Academy and a Spirit Award and won the Primetime Emmy for Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking. She is now directing episodic TV, including Ozark, Legion, Umbrella Academy, and Catch 22.

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JANE APPLEGATE has produced several award-winning

working in TV and film since 1975. TV highlights include Steambath (Showtime), Night Court (NBC), Northern Exposure (CBS), Almost Grown (CBS), Coach (ABC). Film highlights include Straight Time, Coming, Home, Weeds, Crossing the Bridge, Coupe de Ville. Rita had the privilege of shooting some documentaries with Haskell Wexler and the joy of their long term partnership still guides her.

Rita Taggart

KAREN ALLEN started in film in 1978 as Katy in

Animal House and has since starred in over 40 feature films, including Raiders of the Lost Ark, Starman, Scrooged, Bad Hurt, Year By the Sea, and most recently Colewell. She works in theatre, both on and off Broadway, as a director and actor. She directed her first film in 2017, A Tree a Rock a Cloud.

ISIL BAGDADI is an indie film producer, distributor Karen Allen

DAN OMEARA is the VP, Documentary & Special

Projects at NEON. The company’s recent doc releases include Three Identical Strangers, Apollo 11, Amazing Grace, and The Biggest Little Farm. Dan’s producing credits include By The People: The Election of Barack Obama (HBO), Freakonomics: The Movie (Magnolia/ Showtime), and Print the Legend (Netflix).

Dan Omeara

ULTRA INDIE

HARRIS DORAN wrote/directed Beauty Mark

(Woodstock Ultra Indie Award, shortlisted 2018 Independent Spirit Awards’ Someone to Watch Award, and many others), and The Story of Milo & Annie (Indie Memphis Award). He wrote for Lifetime’s I Love You But I Lied, and the screenplays Harris Doran COG (Nicholl quarterfinalist), In The Wake (Austin semifinalist), and is prepping for Atticus Brown Is Still Here (Sundance, Tribeca, Hamptons Sloan finalist). He studied at Juilliard and teaches in Columbia’s film MFA.

JAMIN O’BRIEN is the co-founder of The Community,

founded in 2012, and producer of Hateship Loveship, Chronically Metropolitan and The Drowning. He went on to produce Just Like the Son by longtime collaborator Morgan J. Freeman, and executive-produced West 32nd for longtime collaborator Michael Kang, and Handsome Harry for another longtime collaboraJamin O’Brien tor Bette Gordon. Most recently, Jamin executiveproduced Drunk Parents, with Alec Baldwin and Salma Hayek, Bo Burnham’s Eighth Grade, The Last Thing He Wanted from Dee Rees, and Chemical Hearts from Richard Tanne.

LORI SINGER is a Golden Globe-winning actress,

known for Ariel Moore in Footloose. She has acted in Short Cuts, The Falcon and the Snowman, Warlock, The Man with One Red Shoe, Equinox, and Experimenter. She executive-produced the Peabody and Emmywinning Silence in the House of God, and was featured in God Knows Where I Am. Singer starred in the TV Lori Singer series Fame and VR5. An inspired concert cellist, she performed on film with Yo Yo Ma in Atom Egoyan’s Inspired by Bach, and as an orchestra soloist, most recently at Carnegie Hall.

DOCUMENTARY EDITING

IAN OLDS was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for his work as a director and editor of both narrative and documentary films. Editing credits include Occupation: Dreamland, Fixer: The Taking of Ajmal Naqshbandi, Burn Country, As I Lay Dying, and Cul de Sac: A Suburban War Story.

TOBY SHIMIN began editing in 1988, with The

Ian Olds

Children’s Storefront, nominated for an Academy Award. Editing credits include Peabody Award-winner How to Dance in Ohio, A Leap Of Faith, Martha & Ethel, Miss America, Everything’s Cool, and the Sundance Audience

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independent films and shorts, including Beauty Mark, which won Woodstock’s Ultra-Indie award in 2016. She teaches film finance and the business of entertainment at the Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema at Brooklyn College, is an active member of the Producers Guild of America, New York Women in Film and Television, and the Jane Applegate Women Independent Producers, and mentors actors and producers through her consulting company, www.Showbizing. com. A former reporter and producer for CNN, CNBC and Bloomberg TV. Jane lives in Brooklyn, NY. and publicist. In 2001, Isil and her business partner Michael Sergio started CAVU Pictures to produce and distribute cutting-edge, critically acclaimed and awardwinning independent films. CAVU specializes in theatrical distribution, consulting and publicity services for indie filmmakers. As President of Distribution, she Isil Bagdadi oversees all of CAVU’s marketing, PR and distribution campaigns. She frequently serves as a panelist, moderator, mentor, and juror at numerous film festivals throughout the year.

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SHORT NARRATIVES

RITA TAGGART is a veteran of stage and screen,

DECLAN BALDWIN Declan Baldwin, founding partner

of Big Indie Pictures, has executive-produced, coproduced and produced such films as True Adventures of Wolfboy, Manchester by the Sea, Captain Fantastic, Alice, Adventureland, Far from Heaven, The Laramie Project, and many others. He is a a long-standing member of the DGA and the PGA.

Declan Baldwin

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LACEY SCHWARTZ DELGADO is an award-winning

producer/writer director/outreach strategist who draws on her interdisciplinary background to create compelling stories, both documentary and fiction. She is co-founder of Truth Aid, specializing in stories telling difficult truths; directed, produced and coLacey Schwartz wrote the critically acclaimed documentary Little Delgado White Lie; executive-produced the award-winning narrative film Difret; and directed and produced the viral digital series The Loving Generation on topic.com.

MARSHALL CURRY is a three-time Academy Award-

nominated documentary director, cinematographer and editor. He has won top awards at Sundance and Tribeca and twice nominated for Emmys. His documentary films include Street Fight, If a Tree Falls: a Story of the Earth Liberation Front, Racing Dreams, Point and Shoot, and A Night at The Garden. Marshall recently wrote and directed his first narrative short, The Neighbors’ Window, screening at this year’s Woodstock Film Festival.

Marshall Curry

ROBERT STONE is a multi-award-winning Oscar

and Emmy-nominated documentary filmmaker. He is best known for Radio Bikini, Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst, Oswald’s Ghost, Earth Days, Pandora’s Promise, and this year’s highly acclaimed 6-hour epic documentary on the space race, Chasing the Moon.

Award-winning films, Out of the Past, This is Home and Buck, short-listed for an Academy Award. She received the Documentary Editing Award at the Woodstock Film Festival for 32 Pills: My Sister’s Suicide. Her most recent film, Ernie & Joe, won a Jury Prize at SXSW. She is a principal of Dovetail Films, a production and editing company, serves as a mentor at the Sundance Institute, is on the advisory board of Full Frame, and is co-curator of the documentary film series, Depot Docs, in her Hudson Valley hometown.

Robert Stone

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CONTENTS

30 #LIKE 31 18 To Party 32 Adolescence 33 Ash 34 Banana Split 35 The Cat and the Moon 36 Clemency 37 Colewell 38 Foster Boy 39 The Garden Left Behind 40 Honey Boy - OPENING NIGHT FILM 41 Imaginary Order 42 Inez & Doug & Kira 43 Inside the Rain 44 The Last Color 45 Marriage Story - CLOSING NIGHT FILM 46 Once Upon a River 47 Parasite 48 Personal Velocity 49 Portrait of a Lady on Fire - CENTERPIECE 50 Run With The Hunted 51 Seneca 52 South Mountain 53 Speed of Life 54 Swallow 55 Synonyms 56 The True Adventures of Wolfboy

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#LIKE Directed by Sarah Pirozek USA / 2019 / 93 minutess MAIN CREDITS CAST

Marc Menchaca Sarah Rich Dakota Lustick Jolene Marquez Liz Mienders Samantha Dunn EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Sarah Pirozek PRODUCERS Sarah Pirozek Marc Menchaca Chris Davis SCREENWRITER Sarah Pirozek CINEMATOGRAPHER Brian Jackson EDITOR Matt Yaple PRODUCTION DESIGNER Sam Bader COMPOSER/MUSIC Ariel Marx

In this Woodstock-based, noir thriller, director Sarah Pirozek presents a tale that is equal parts shocking and relevant. #LIKE shines a light on the more disturbing aspects of modern internet culture. On the anniversary of her younger sister’s death, high-schooler Rosie creates a fake online profile through which she hopes to snare the man she believes is responsible. In her hunt to bring him to justice, she becomes increasingly unhinged, willing to take drastic measures. What starts off as a valiant effort to make sense of the tragedy and avenge her sister slowly turns into something much darker. With stunning performances by Marc Menchaca (Ozark/The Outsider) and newcomer, Sarah Rich, the layers peel back, making us consider when does the victim become the perpetrator? Will justice prevail? With this look into the shadows of the virtual world the moral implications of Rosie’s actions will leave the viewer with many questions, where nothing is quite what it seems. It’s been called a feminist horror masterpiece, minus the blood and guts you’ll usually find in the genre. If you like twistfilled-revenge-thrillers, this is the movie to watch. —Max Wexler

Pirozek is an award-winning writer/director with a fine arts and BIO Sarah documentary background. She has directed shorts, music videos, TV commercials, and programming for Sundance Channel, MTV, VH1, PBS, HBO, NAT GEO, AMC, BBC, Channel Four, and Discovery. Her documentary feature Free Tibet, featuring Bjork, De La Soul, Rage Against The Machine, among others, is distributed by Palm Pictures. It won Best of Fest at Edinburgh Film Festival. As a producer, the indie feature, Flora, distributed by Regent Entertainment, won Showtime’s New Talent Award. Her scripts, The Squatters Handbook, Rockaway and feature script, Bearsville, are in development. She’s a DGA member in good standing and her Wu-Tang name is Midnight Prophet.

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Sarah Pirozek, Mark Menchaca, Matt Yaple

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18 TO PARTY Directed by Jeff Roda USA / 2019 / 80 minutes MAIN CREDITS CAST

Alivia Clark Tanner Flood Oliver Gifford James Freedson-Jackson Taylor Richardson PRODUCERS Nikola Durevcevic Emily Ziff Griffin Andrew Cahill Stephanie Marin SCREENWRITER Jeff Roda CINEMATOGRAPHER Gris Jordana EDITOR Kate Williams PRODUCTION DESIGNER Sam Bader COMPOSER/MUSIC Dylan Neely SOUND DESIGNER Tom Paul

It’s 1984 and outside a small-town nightclub, a group of 8th graders gather, grappling with a spate of recent suicides, UFO sightings, their absentee parents, and each other. 18 to Party spans a single evening in the lives of these kids, but manages to transport us fully to a time when waiting for something to happen felt just as significant as the thing itself. Gorgeously atmospheric, with a pulsating sense of anticipation that steadily builds, the film pulls us into the fears, wounds and desires of each character, ultimately revealing that hope may arrive from the last place we expect. The meticulously authentic production design, killer soundtrack and universally excellent performances recall the spirit of classic 80s teen movies like Stand By Me and The Breakfast Club. 18 To Party is a spot-on love letter to Gen X, awkward teenagers and the transcendent power of friendship. —Gene Fischer

Roda has written scripts for DreamWorks, Paramount Pictures, New Regency, BIO Jeff TriStar, HBO, CBS, and MRC. He did the production rewrite on Universal Pictures’ Pitch Perfect, and has been named to the Black List three times. He was also a producer on the Sony Pictures Classics feature Love Liza, starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, which won the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award at the Sundance Film Festival. 18 to Party marks his film directorial debut.

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Jeff Roda, Emily Ziff Griffin, Nikola Durevcevic, Andrew Cahill, plus most of the cast

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ADOLESCENCE Directed by Ashley Avis USA / 2018 / 100 minutes MAIN CREDITS CAST

India Eisley Mickey River Tommy Flanagan Elisabeth Rohm Jere Burns John Driskell Hopkins EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS Michael Milford Mark Cartier Lars Anderson PRODUCERS Edward Winters Larry Hummel SCREENWRITERS Cal Barnes Mickey River Chris Rossi Ashley Avis CINEMATOGRAPHER Garrett O’Brien EDITOR Douglas Crise PRODUCTION DESIGNER Michael Clausen COMPOSER/MUSIC Peter Gregson SOUND DESIGNER Craig Schafer

In this visually stunning and pulse-pounding drama from director Ashley Avis, the coming-of-age story is seen through a whole new lens. Adolescence follows Adam, a sensitive young man from a broken home who’s too shy to talk to most girls in his school. One day, while playing hooky with his friend Keith, Adam meets a mysterious runaway named Alice and falls for her. As their relationship develops, so does their dependence on drugs. From here we see the young lovers fall increasingly deep into a reality that many in this day and age are forced to endure. Can they find their way out? The film perfectly mirrors the perils of drug addiction with the often dangerously intoxicating nature of young love. Avis’ expertly crafted film portrays a terrifying yet shockingly relevant view of modern youth culture. —Max Wexler

Avis is a three-time feature filmmaker and founder of Winterstone BIO Ashley Pictures. Her upcoming projects include the modern day reprisal of Black Beauty, starring Kate Winslet and Mackenzie Foy, as well as a Breyer horse-themed TV series for Imagine Entertainment with executive producers Brian Grazer, Ron Howard and Stephanie Sperber. Her work has been called “timelessly romantic” (White Lies Magazine), “innocent, blending innocence with seduction” (Red Hot Society) and “elegantly sensual” (Elite Daily). She is an avid writer and lives near the ocean with her husband and producing partner Edward Winters.

SHOWING AT BEARSVILLE THEATER WOODSTOCK

Thur Oct 3  8:15pm

ORPHEUM SAUGERTIES

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Sun Oct 6  7:45pm

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ASH Directed by Andrew Huculiak Canada / 2019 / 104 minutes MAIN CREDITS

In the Canadian province of British Columbia, wildfires are raging. Daredevil journalist Stan Hurst (Hudson Valley’s Tim Guinee) is covering the devastation, repeatedly placing himself in danger. But the mammoth fires are

Tim Guinee Chelah Horsdal EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS Simone Urdl Jennifer Weiss Brent Hodge Conrad Whelan PRODUCERS Amber Ripley Josh Huculiak SCREENWRITER Andrew Huculiak

dwarfed by the personal demons that Hurst is fighting within. When the authorities discover his dark and repellent secret, Hurst and his wife Gail (Chelah Horsdal, The Man In The High Castle) must suddenly confront a truth that will destroy their lives. Ash is a powerful and unforgiving drama about transgression and redemption by award-winning director Andrew Huculiak. At its heart is a raw, emotionally naked performance by veteran actor Guinee, complemented by the extraordinary camera work of cinematographer Joseph Schweers, who shot the film amidst the Canadian wildfires in real time, giving it a surreal, apocalyptic feeling. This is a cinematic experience that will remain with you for days to come. —Jay Blotcher

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Huculiak is a twenty-nine-year-old filmmaker who is no stranger to BIO Andrew taking chances. Violent, his first film, was shot in Norway with co-creators

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Josh Huculiak Joseph Schweers Cayne McKenzie

Joseph Schweers EDITOR Joseph Schweers PRODUCTION DESIGNER Cayne McKenzie COMPOSER/MUSIC Cayne McKenzie SOUND DESIGNER Miguel Nunes

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Andrew Huculiak, Amber Ripley

Amazing Factory and mostly in Norwegian—a language none of them spoke. Lauded by Hollywood Reporter for “hurling a brick for Canadian newcomers,” Violent made waves on the international film circuit, where it was awarded with nineteen awards (including Best Canadian Film at VIFF and Best Motion Picture at the Leos) and selected to play at international film festivals in Karlovy Vary, San Sebastián, Canada’s Top 10 by TIFF, Amiens, Los Cabos, and more. With their next film, Ash, Andrew and the rest of the filmmakers behind Violent brought the production home to Peachland, British Columbia, to film a new story that explores both the edges of possibility and the edges of empathy. Fuelled by creative risk, the crew set out to capture real-life wildfires during BC’s worst fire season in recorded history to be the backdrop of a similarly devastating and challenging true story. Combining guerrilla filmmaking with more traditional methods, the film took shape on the precipice of disaster.

SHOWING AT WOODSTOCK PLAYHOUSE

Fri Oct 4 3:30pm

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Sat Oct 5 4:00pm

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BANANA SPLIT Directed by Benjamin Kasulke USA / 2018 / 90 minutes MAIN CREDITS Hannah Marks Liana Liberato Dylan Sprouse Luke Spencer Roberts Addison Riecke EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Hannah Marks Joey Power Eddie Micallef Rowan Riley PRODUCER Jeremy Garelick Mickey Liddell Will Phelps Glen Trotiner Sam Slater SCREENWRITER Hannah Marks Joey Power CINEMATOGRAPHER Darin Moran EDITOR Brendan Walsh PRODUCTION DESIGNER Almitra Corey COMPOSER/MUSIC Annie Hart SOUND DESIGNER Lew Goldstein CAST

Have you ever accidentally befriended your ex-boyfriend’s new girlfriend? April Krillholtz has. Banana Split is co-written by the brilliantly deadpan lead actress Hannah Marks and is based on the true story of the summer she found a new best friend in her ex-boyfriend’s new girlfriend. With a star-studded cast including Liana Liberato (Light As A Feather), Dylan Sprouse (The Suite Life Of Zack & Cody), Luke Spencer Roberts (Fear The Walking Dead), and Jacob Batalon (Spider-man: Homecoming). Prolific cinematographer and Woodstock Film Festival alum Benjamin Kasulke creates a poignant coming-of-age film perfect for 2019 by filling his feature directorial debut with teenage drama, love triangles and multiple references to Carly Rae Jepsen. —Sierra Slaughter

Kasulke is an award-winning director and director of photography based in BIO Ben Los Angeles and New York. Ben’s television credits include the series The Heart She Holler, Review, Married, There’s Johnny, and Red Oak. His feature film credits include Brand Upon The Brain!, Humpday, The Off Hours, The Catechism Cataclysm, Keyhole, Your Sister’s Sister, Safety Not Guaranteed, Touchy Feely, Rat Pack Rat, Laggies, Seances, Dreamland, and The Forbidden Room. Ben’s work has screened at multiple film festivals including Toronto, Berlin, Sundance, and Cannes Film Festival Director’s Fortnight. His feature film work has been released by A24, IFC Films, Magnolia Pictures, Film District, and The Criterion Collection. Banana Split is Ben’s directorial debut.

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Benjamin Kasulke, Annie Hart

SHOWING AT ORPHEUM SAUGERTIES

Fri Oct 4  8:30pm

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Sun Oct 6  6:30pm

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THE CAT AND THE MOON Directed by Alex Wolff USA / 2019 / 114 minutes MAIN CREDITS CAST

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Alex Wolff Skyler Gisondo Mike Epps Stefania Lavie Owen Peter Berg Ken H. Keller Caron Rudner Alex Wolff Anthony Savini Frank Reynolds Alex Wolff Michale Wolff

While his mother seeks treatment in rehab, Nick, a somewhat naive teenager, comes to New York to stay with Cal, a jazz musician friend of his late father’s who he barely knows. During his stay he makes friends with a group of kids who show him what the city has to offer, while at the same time he comes to know more about his past, himself and to think about where he is headed. Director Alex Wolff plays Nick to perfection — a bit awkward, confused and very endearing. The son of a jazz pianist in real life, Wolff’s knowledge of music enriches the story. And Cal, played by Mike Epps, inhabits the role exactly like one might expect a single musician to react to having a teenage boy suddenly drop into his life. The Cat and the Moon is a tender story of friendship, loyalty and finding compassion for others. —Ben F. Fischer

Wolff, actor/writer/director/musician, was selected for the coveted BIO Alex NextGen Rising Star list in The Hollywood Reporter (2016). He received the Auteur Award at the San Diego Film Festival and an award from the Los Angeles Online Film Critics Society for his role in A24’s critically acclaimed, Hereditary, with IndieWire listing him on their 16 Best Film Performances by Actors in 2018. Wolff can soon be seen in the Untitled Jumanji sequel, Human Capital, Bad Education, Castle in the Ground, and starring in The Line, opposite John Malkovich. Other acting credits include Stella’s Last Weekend, House of Tomorrow, Jumanji: Welcome to The Jungle, My Friend Dahmer, Patriots Day, Coming Through the Rye, My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2, HairBrained, Birder’s Guide to Everything, and many more. The Cat and the Moon is his feature directorial debut, which he also wrote and stars in. Performing with his brother Nat, his songs are available on iTunes and Spotify, and can be found on the soundtracks to many of their films

SHOWING AT UPSTATE FILMS WOODSTOCK

Thur Oct 3  8:30pm

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CLEMENCY Directed by Chinonye Chukwu USA / 2019 / 113 minutes MAIN CREDITS CAST

Alfre Woodard Aldis Hodge Richard Schiff Wendell Pierce Danielle Brooks EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS Alfre Woodard Kathryn Bostic Annie Chang Calvin Choong Johnny Chang Emma Lee PRODUCERS Bronwyn Cornelius Julian Cautherly Peter Wong Timur Bekbosunov SCREENWRITER Chinonye Chukwu CINEMATOGRAPHER Eric Branco EDITOR Phyllis Housen PRODUCTION DESIGNER Margaux Rust COMPOSER/MUSIC Kathryn Bostic

SHOWING AT WOODSTOCK PLAYHOUSE ROSENDALE THEATRE

Thur Oct 3  12:00pm

Years of carrying out death row executions have taken a toll on prison warden Bernadine Williams, played with exquisite depth and insight by Academy Award-nominee Alfre Woodard. As she prepares to execute yet another inmate, Bernadine must confront the psychological and emotional demons her job creates, ultimately connecting her to the man she is sanctioned to kill. But there is another story here, that of a man sentenced to death for the killing of a cop, which he insists he didn’t do. In a powerful film, filled with tension, horror and compassion, we witness this stoic woman’s marriage and job being slowly undermined every time she interacts with the prisoners she has come to regard more like a caring teacher than a warden. And we watch a desperate man condemned to death face both despair and hope. Writer/director Chinonye Chukwu masterfully captures visually and emotionally what it means to live in a world with capital punishment in a way that is truly unforgettable. —Ben F. Fischer

Chukwu began is a filmmaker, educator and social justice advocate. BIO Chinonye She is the founder of Pens to Pictures, a filmmaking collaborative that teaches and empowers incarcerated women to make their own short films, from script to screen. Clemency is her second feature film. The script was a 2017 Athena List winner for best feature script featuring a female protagonist. Chinonye has also been a recipient of the prestigious Princess Grace Award and Princeton Hodder Fellowship. Her debut feature film, Alaskaland, has screened globally and been released on several digital and VOD platforms.

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Fri Oct 4  3:45pm

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COLEWELL Directed by Tom Quinn USA / 2019 / 73 minutes MAIN CREDITS Karen Allen Kevin J. O’Connor Hannah Gross Malachy Cleary Craig Walker EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS Cameron Brodie Catherine Kellner Jennifer Konawal Micah Spear Jenifer Westphal Joe Plummer PRODUCERS Craig Shilowich Alexandra Byer Matthew Thurm Joshua Blum SCREENWRITER Tom Quinn CINEMATOGRAPHER Paul Yee EDITORS Darrin Navarro Tom Quinn PRODUCTION DESIGNER Alan Lampert COMPOSER/MUSIC Dara Taylor SOUND DESIGNER Richard Gould CAST

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Colewell, starring Karen Allen, is a powerful character study of postmistress Nora Pancowski, whose livelihood and sense of community are threatened when officials decide to close her local post office. Nora’s post office is a socializing spot for Colewell’s mostly graying, rural Pennsylvania population; its closure affects not only Nora, but the entire town. Allen’s brilliant portrayal of a reserved, yet resolute woman underscores the importance of our identity, human interaction and lost time. Although essentially a loner, Nora’s conversations with fellow citizens at work, her endearing friendship with a fellow postal worker, and her interactions with a young footloose woman, who causes Nora to reflect on her own more carefree past, weave a profound story of what makes life worth living. Written and directed by Woodstock Film Festival alum Tom Quinn, Colewell crafts a sensitive and beautiful portrait of an aging woman struggling to hold on, and a disappearing life in small town America. —Monique Ray

Quinn is a Philadelphia-based writer and director. He is a Gotham and BIO Tom Independent Spirit Award-nominee for his debut film, The New Year Parade, which won the Grand Jury Prize at Slamdance before screening at festivals and venues, including SXSW and MoMA. Tom was listed as one of the “25 New Faces of Independent Film” by Filmmaker Magazine and one of the “Ten Young Writer-Directors to Watch” by Moviemaker. He was a visual effects producer at DIVE on films including Lawless, Safety Not Guaranteed and The Chernobyl Diaries. His current film, Colewell, was developed through the Biennale College Cinema, participated in the Sundance Film Music and Sound Design Lab and received a grant from the San Francisco Film Society and Kenneth Rainin Foundation. Tom is the program director for Film and Television at Drexel University.

Tom Quinn, Karen Allen, Alexandra Byer, Matthew Thurm

SHOWING AT UPSTATE FILMS I RHINEBECK

Fri Oct 4  3:00pm

WOODSTOCK PLAYHOUSE

2019

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Sat Oct 5  3:45pm

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FOSTER BOY Directed by Youssef Delara USA / 2018 / 109 minutes MAIN CREDITS CAST

Matthew Modine Louis Gossett Jr Shane Paul McGhie Julie Benz Michael Hyatt EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS Shaquille O’Neal Michael Parris Mary Beth O’Connor John Schimmel Danny Mooney Steve Sarowitz Max Adler The Lipari Family PRODUCERS Jay Paul Deratany Anne-Marie Mackey Peter Samuelson Andrew Sugerman SCREENWRITER Jay Paul Deratany CINEMATOGRAPHER Ben Kufrin EDITORS Andrew Drazek Thom Noble PRODUCTION DESIGNER Fernando Valdes III COMPOSER/MUSIC Kathryn Bostic

The life of Michael Trainer (Matthew Modine), a cold hearted successful litigator with a long career protecting corporate clients, takes a sharp turn when he is forced by the court’s judge (Louis Gossett Jr.) to represent Jamal Randolph (Shane Paul McGhie), an angry young man in prison after years of abuse in foster care. The more Trainer (Three Piece, as Jamal calls him) learns about Jamal (Thug, as Trainer calls him), the more we discover a systemically corrupt for-profit foster care system that, for Jamal, has lead to catastrophic results. Dark secrets are probed and unearthed, as a tough corporate lawyer transforms into a heroic defender and an abused young victim of a system that has failed him becomes an outspoken face for change. Inspired by true events, the combined strength of the story and the impeccable cast illuminate both the power of the human spirit and the horrifying deceitfulness and abuse of a system that impacts hundreds of thousands of children each year. —Gene Fisher

Delara is a native of Los Angeles and a proud alum of Loyola MaryBIO Youssef mount Film School, where he focused on directing. Delara has writer, director and editor credits on a number of films, including: English as a Second Language, a powerful drama loosely based on Delara’s experiences living in Los Angeles, starring Kuno Becker, Maria Conchita Alonso and Michael Higgins; Filly Brown, a passion project set in the streets of LA that was selected for Dramatic Competition in the 2012 Sundance Film Festival, staring Latino staples Edward James Olmos, Jenni Rivera and Lou Diamond Phillips, as well as rising star Gina Rodriguez; and Enter the Dangerous Mind, a twisted psychological thriller that was selected to the 2014 SXSW film festival, starring Nikki Reed, Scott Bakula and Jason Priestly. Delara is honored to represent Foster Boy at The Woodstock Film Festival and hopes you enjoy the show!

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Jay Paul Deratany, Shane Paul McGhie, Kurt Smith

SHOWING AT UPSTATE FILMS I RHINEBECK

Sat Oct 5  1:00pm

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Sun Oct 6  2:30pm

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THE GARDEN LEFT BEHIND Directed by Flavio Alves USA, Brazil / 2019 / 88 minutes In English, and Spanish with subtitles MAIN CREDITS Carlie Guevara Ed Asner Michael Madsen Tamara Williams Miriam Cruz EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS Kristen Parker Max Berger Waqas Khan Adam Beasley PRODUCER Roy Wol SCREENWRITERS John Rotondo Flavio Alves CINEMATOGRAPHER Koshi Kiyokawa EDITOR Alex Lora PRODUCTION DESIGNER Kimberly Matela COMPOSER/MUSIC Robert Pycior SOUND DESIGNER Tim Korn CAST

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Flavio Alves, Roy Wol, John Rotondo, Ivana Black, Anthony Abdo, Bernadette Quigley, Dawn Young, Caroline Sinclair

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Imagine a life where undocumented people fear deportation on a daily basis. Now imagine that you are also a transgender Latina woman. This is the plight of thirty-year-old Tina, who is transitioning, and her grandmother, Eliana, who strive to make a life for themselves as undocumented immigrants in New York City. Left alone to raise her grandchild, Eliana yearns to return to Mexico, while Tina struggles for acceptance as a transgender woman in America. Working as a gypsy cab driver to save money for her transition, Tina battles the constant anxiety of being undocumented. After yet another brutal beating in the transgender community, she emerges as an outspoken advocate, a role that changes everything. Underlying this straightforward story of family, friends and community, is the theme of transphobia and the very real threat of violence toward women like Tina, especially trans woman of color. This leads to a finale that is haunting and a film that is unforgettable. —Gene Fischer

Alves is a Brazilian film writer, director and producer. He was granted BIO Flavio political asylum in the United States in 1998 with the help of the Immigrants and Refugee Rights Clinic at the City University of New York School of Law. Shortly thereafter, he attended Columbia University, where he earned an undergraduate degree in political science. After graduating, Alves worked as an assistant to then New York Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton. In 2007, Flavio returned to school to study film production at NYU, where he received the Technisphere Award for Outstanding Achievement. His new film, The Garden Left Behind, premiered at SXSW, where it won the Audience Award. The Garden Left Behind is an IFP Narrative Lab project and has recently received support from GLAAD and NALIP. Flavio is the recipient of grants from numerous organizations, including the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) and Jerome Foundation.

SHOWING AT ROSENDALE THEATRE

Sat Oct 5  5:30pm

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Sun Oct 6  12:45pm

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HONEY BOY Directed by Alma Har’el Austria / 2019 / 95 minutes MAIN CREDITS CAST

Shia LaBeouf Noah Jupe Lucas Hedges FKA twigs EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS Fred Berger Rafael Marmor PRODUCERS Brian Kavanaugh-Jones Daniela Taplin Lundberg Anita Gou SCREENWRITER Shia LaBeouf EDITORS Monica Salazar, Dominic LaPierre COMPOSER/MUSIC Alex Somers

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Daniela Lundberg

From a screenplay by Shia LaBeouf, based on his personal experiences, award-winning filmmaker Alma Har’el (Bombay Beach, LoveTrue) brings to life a young actor’s stormy childhood and early adult years as he struggles to reconcile with his father and deal with his mental health. Fictionalizing his ascent to stardom and subsequent crash-landing into rehab and recovery, Har’el casts Noah Jupe (A Quiet Place) and Lucas Hedges (Boy Erased, Manchester by the Sea) as Otis Lort, navigating different stages in a frenetic career. LaBeouf takes on the therapeutic challenge of playing a version of his own father, an ex-rodeo clown and a felon. FKA Twigs makes her feature-film debut, playing neighbor and kindred spirit to the younger Otis in their garden-court motel home. Har’el’s feature narrative debut is a one-of-a-kind collaboration between filmmaker and subject, exploring art as medicine and imagination as hope through the life and times of a talented, traumatized performer who dares to go in search of himself.

Har’el is a DGA Award-nominated director, known for her documentaries BIO Alma LoveTrue and Bombay Beach, top prizewinner at the 2011 Tribeca Film Festival, nominated for a Film Independent Spirit Award, and taught in Harvard’s Sensory Ethnography Lab and Film Center as a “genre-redefining work.” Her first narrative film, Honey Boy, winner of the Special Jury Award for Vision and Craft at Sundance 2019, further cements Har’el as one of the most genre-bending filmmakers today. She has worked commercially on campaigns for AirBnB, Coca-Cola, Chanel, and P&G, earning a 2018 DGA Award nomination for the Winter Olympics commercial Love Over Bias. She founded the non-profit Free the Bid, which in 2019 expanded to film, TV and music as Free The Work: a curated talent-discovery service of women and underrepresented creators. This, along with her directing work, landed Har’el in Fast Company’s “Most Creative People of 2018” and Adweek’s “Disruptors of 2018.”

SHOWING AT WOODSTOCK PLAYHOUSE ROSENDALE THEATRE

Thur Oct 3  6:00pm

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Fri Oct 4  9:30pm

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IMAGINARY ORDER Directed by Debra Eisenstadt USA / 2019 / 104 minutes MAIN CREDITS CAST

Wendi McLendon-Covey Max Burkholder Christine Woods Steve Little Cathy Curtin EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS Emma Lee Johnny Chang Ace Pictures Iron City Prods PRODUCERS Debra Eisenstadt Timur Bekbosunov Peter Wong Cosmos Kiindarius SCREENWRITER Debra Eisenstadt CINEMATOGRAPHER Franck Tymezuk EDITOR Debra Eisenstadt Clark Harris PRODUCTION DESIGNER Adele Fenner COMPOSER/MUSIC Mel Elias SOUND DESIGNER Michael Kross

Wendi McLendon-Covey (Bridesmaids, Reno 911 and The Goldbergs) creates a moving portrait of Cathy, an OCD, middle-aged woman, struggling to maintain control and significance amid fears her husband is having an affair and her thirteen-year-old daughter is becoming estranged. Cathy retreats to her sister’s home where she cat-sits, compulsively cleans and spies on a neighboring family. One by one these eccentric neighbors — mother, father and teenage son — lure Cathy into their lives, inspire her rebellion and threaten to unravel everything, from her precarious marriage to her daughter’s innocence to her own wavering sanity. As Cathy’s orderly life becomes increasingly messy, with equal parts wit and angst, she is forced to see beyond her routines and look at where her life is heading. Imbued with depth, compassion, sharp dialog, and terrific chemistry among the actors, Imaginary Order is a tour de force from writer-director and Woodstock Film Festival alum Debra Eisenstadt. — Svetlana Krotex

Eisenstadt works as a writer, director, producer, and editor. She began BIO Debra her career as an actress, on and off Broadway and for film and television. Most notably, she starred in the theater and film versions of David Mamet’s Oleanna. Eisenstadt has helmed four feature films; Before The Sun Explodes (Gravitas Ventures, SXSW), The Limbo Room (with Melissa Leo and Peter Dinklage), Daydream Believer (Independent Spirit Award winner, Slamdance Grand Jury Prize winner), and most recently, Imaginary Order, which premiered in competition at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival. Additionally, she co–executive-produced the acclaimed documentaries Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck and the Emmy Award-winning Jane.

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Debra Eisenstadt

SHOWING AT UPSTATE FILMS I RHINEBECK

Thur Oct 3  7:00pm

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Fri Oct 4  10:45am

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INEZ & DOUG & KIRA Directed by Julia Kots USA / 2019 / 95 minutes MAIN CREDITS Michael Chernus Tawny Cypress Talia Thiesfield EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS Robert Edwards Trevor Norwitz Jeffrey Wald Edith Mandel James Cole Jr. David Silk Jonathan Winer Alexander M. Guest PRODUCERS Caitlin Gold Marcia Mayer Julia Kots Joe Dinnen SCREENWRITER Julia Kots CINEMATOGRAPHER Freek Zonderland EDITOR Julia Kots PRODUCTION DESIGNER Alina Smirnova COMPOSER/MUSIC Lambert SOUND DESIGNER Keith Hodne CAST

The story of Inez & Doug & Kira is set in motion after Inez, a brilliant yet unstable recovering addict, commits suicide and leaves no note. Inez’s mysterious death leaves the two mourners — her sister Kira and Kira’s fiancé, Doug — with a mound of unanswered questions. As they look for clues and dig up the past, the puzzle pieces begin to come together, uncovering the trio’s complicated web of relationships. In a film that explores the collateral damage that can be caused by a loved one’s psychological unraveling, writer/director Julia Kots tackles themes of mental health, addiction and love in an intimate, yet unflinching light. This is a film that provides as many thrilling twists as it does gut-punches. — Max Wexler

Kots’ award-winning short films have screened on PBS and in dozens of BIO Julia festivals worldwide, including Slamdance, Cinequest, Woodstock, Hamptons, Edmonton, and Chicago International. She has received awards and grants such as IFP Audience Choice Award, Coca Cola Refreshing Filmmakers Grant, New Line Cinema Grant, Milos Forman Fund, ASCAP Scoring Grant, AMPAS Foundation Grant, as well as a residency from the MacDowell Colony. Julia was an editor on the Oscar-nominated film My Week With Marilyn, and is currently editing for Thirteen/PBS. She emigrated from the former Soviet Union and holds an M.F.A. from Columbia University Film School and a B.A. from Yale University. Julia’s first narrative feature film, Inez & Doug & Kira, is a recipient of the NYFA Made In NY grant.

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Julia Kots,Caitlin Gold, Marcia Mayer, Michael Chernus, Tawny Cypress, Talia Thiesfield

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Sat Oct 5  12:45pm

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INSIDE THE RAIN Directed by Aaron Fisher USA / 2019 / 90 minutes MAIN CREDITS CAST

Aaron Fisher Ellen Toland Rosie Perez Eric Roberts Catherine Curtin EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS Christine Vachon Danny Fisher Javier Gonzalez PRODUCER George LaVoo SCREENWRITER Aaron Fisher CINEMATOGRAPHER Josh Fisher EDITORS Aaron Fisher Esteban Uribe MUSICS SUPERVISORS Annie Pearlman Melissa Chapman SOUND DESIGNER Jared Paul

College film student Benjamin Glass (played by writer-director Aaron Fisher) has it all: ADHD, OCD, borderline personality. And he’s also bipolar. But Glass is more than his diagnoses — he prefers the term “recklessly extravagant” — and he’s determined to prove his abilities. When a misunderstanding threatens to expel him, Glass pushes back; he plans on recreating the incident on video, with the help of a moonlighting porn actress (Ellen Toland), to clear his name. But how will he raise the film money, when his parents dismiss the scheme as another manic episode? Inside the Rain is a wincingly funny rom-com-drama, anchored by off-kilter performances by co-stars Fisher and Toland. The colorful ensemble cast includes Rosie Perez as a tough love shrink, Eric Roberts as an unhinged film producer, and Catherine Curtin and Paul Schulze as the long-suffering parents. The ultimate underdog film and proof that if you believe in yourself, anything is possible. —Jay Blotcher

Fisher is a recent graduate of the School of Visual Arts in New York City. BIO Aaron His short film, Love Out of Mind, screened at numerous festivals, including the Big Apple Film Festival and the Max Ophuls Prize Film Festival in Germany. Aaron, who has bipolar disorder, took the last ten years of his life and compressed them into his first feature film, Inside the Rain, a 90-minute romance-drama-comedy. According to Aaron, nothing has caused him more misery than his bipolar disorder but, like Ben, he is trying to move on from hardships in the past to just “enjoy myself in my current situation.“

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Aaron Fisher, Danny Fisher, Ellen Toland, Rosie Perez, Eric Roberts, Catherine Curtin

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2019

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THE LAST COLOR Directed by Vikas Khanna India, USA / 2019 / 90 minutes In Hindi with subtitles MAIN CREDITS Neena Gupta Aqsa Siddiqui EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS Poonam Kaul Bindu Khanna Jitendra Mishra PRODUCERS Poonam Kaul Bindu Khanna Jitendra Mishra SCREENWRITER Vikas Khanna CINEMATOGRAPHER Subhranshu Das EDITOR Archit Rastogi COMPOSER/MUSIC Vikas Khanna CAST

In this moving Indian drama, filmmaker Vikas Khanna adapts his own novel into a multi-generational tale about defying tradition in the name of love. The story centers around the friendship between nine-year-old Chhoti, a penniless tightrope walker who longs for an education, and Noor, a white-clad widow who, bound by society’s taboos, must live a life of total abstinence. After hearing stories of Noor’s childhood, Chhoti promises to defy tradition and splash her new friend with her favorite pink color to celebrate the upcoming Holi, the Indian festival of colors. Fate intercedes to prevent this, but 24 years later, Chhoti emerges as an advocate fighting for societal reforms that will bring about the rehabilitation of both street children and widows. Can structural change be enacted in a centuries-old caste system? The Last Color is a story of promises and promise, celebrating the victory of the human spirit and the day when color became a symbol of rebirth and freedom. —Max Wexler

Khanna was born in Amritsar, India. He is an actor and director, known for BIO Vikas The Last Color (2019), Master Chef Australia (2009) and Kitchen, Khanna and Konversations (2018). He has been a chef for 29 years, 19 in NY, and owner of the New York City restaurant Junoon. When in India working on a cookbook on Indian festivals he visited Holi, the Festival of Colors, which was the inspiration for the movie that was almost 7 years in the making. Vikas has received several national and international awards for his foundations Cooking for Life and SAKIV.

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Vikas Khanna

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Scarlett Johansson Adam Driver Laura Dern Alan Alda Ray Liotta Julie Hagerty Merritt Wever Azhy Robertson Craig Shilowich Noah Baumbach David Heyman Noah Baumbach Robbie Ryan Jennifer Lame Randy Newman

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Marriage Story is Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Noah Baumbach’s incisive and compassionate portrait of a marriage breaking up and a family staying together. The film stars Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver. Laura Dern, Alan Alda, and Ray Liotta co-star. According to Indiewire, “The power of Marriage Story stems from the way it transcends the simplicity of its premise, with writer-director Noah Baumbach matching the material for his most personal movie with filmmaking ambition to spare, and a pair of devastating performances from Adam Driver and Scarlett Johansson that rank as their very best.” And fom RobertEbert.com reviewer, “Suffice to say that this is perhaps the most compassionate and smart film I’ve seen on marriage and divorce, elevated by Randy Newman’s heartbreaking score, and precise craftsmanship.”

Baumbach was born in Brooklyn, New York. His films include Kicking and BIO Noah Screaming, The Squid and the Whale, Margot at the Wedding, Greenberg, Frances Ha, While We’re Young, Mistress America, The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected), and the documentary, De Palma.

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Directed by Noah Baumbach USA / 2019 / 136 minutes

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ONCE UPON A RIVER Directed by Haroula Rose USA / 2019 / 95 minutes MAIN CREDITS CAST

Kenadi DelaCerna John Ashton Tatanka Means Lindsay Pulsipher Ajuawak Kapashesit EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS David Macias Susan Berghoef Rhianon Jones Ian Keiser Ted Reilly Kelly Waller PRODUCERS JJ Ingram Haroula Rose SCREENWRITER Haroula Rose CINEMATOGRAPHER Charlotte Hornsby EDITORS Steven Lambiase Sofi Marshall PRODUCTION DESIGNER Amy Frazzini COMPOSER/MUSIC Zac Rae SOUND DESIGNER Ryan Billia

Based upon the 2011 novel by Bonnie Jo Campbell, Once Upon A River is the story of a Native American teenager, Margo Crane, in 1970s Michigan. Margo, played by talented first-time actor Kenadi DelaCerna, takes life into her own hands to travel the Stark River in search of her estranged mother. Margo uses the skills she was taught by her father to survive on her own, while along the way she meets many colorful characters. Most importantly, she encounters a man named Smoke, played by John Ashton, who has all but given up on life. Despite the harsh conditions, caught beautifully on camera, Margo is ultimately able to stay true to herself as she discovers what it means to live on her own terms. — Sierra Slaughter

Rose works in both fiction and nonfiction filmmaking. Her directorial BIO Haroula debut, Once Upon A River, was named one of the “most anticipated films of 2019” by Filmmaker Magazine and is currently on the festival circuit with upcoming screenings around the world. Rose’s pilot, Lost & Found, created in partnership with Warner’s Project 150, starring Melonie Diaz, Terence Nance, Will Janowitz, and Jennifer Lafleur, premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival. Rose’s work has been supported by a Fulbright Fellowship, Tribeca’s All Access and Warner Brothers Directing Workshop. Her short films include Wedding Dress, Baby Crazy and As They Slept.

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Haroula Rose, Kenadi DelaCerna, John Ashton, Coby Goss, Lindsay Pulsipher

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PARASITE Directed by Bong Joon-ho South Korea / 2019 / 132 minutes

Meet the Park Family — the picture of aspirational wealth. And the Kim Family — rich in street smarts but not much else. Be

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it chance or fate, these two houses are brought together and the Kims sense a golden opportunity. Masterminded by college-aged Ki-woo, the Kim children expediently install themselves as tutor and art therapist to the Parks. Soon, a symbiotic relationship forms between the two families. The Kims provide “indispensable” luxury services while the Parks give the Kims a way out of their shabby circumstances. But this new ecosystem is fragile, and soon enough greed and class prejudice threaten to upend the Kims’ newfound comfort. Within a series of twists and turns, acclaimed director Boon Jooh Ho’s Parasite delivers a satire that, despite its sharp comedic approach, offers a powerful and poignant social commentary. Winner of Cannes Film Festival’s prestigious Palme d’Or.

MAIN CREDITS Song Kang Ho Lee Sun Kyun Cho Yeo Jeon Choi Woo Shik Park So Dam EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS Miky Lee Heo Min Heoi PRODUCER Jan Young Hwan SCREENWRITERS Bong Joon-ho Han Jin Won CINEMATOGRAPHER Hong Kyung Pyo EDITOR Yang Jinmo PRODUCTION DESIGNER Lee Ha Jun COMPOSER/MUSIC Jung Jae Il CAST

Bong Joon Ho directed six feature films before Parasite: Barking Dogs Never Bite BIO (2000), Memories of Murder (2003), The Host (2006), Mother (2009), Snowpiercer (2013), and Okja (2017). The modern-day classic Memories of Murder delves into the investigation behind a well-known serial murder case that was never solved, depicting the authoritarian era of the time with satire and sharp insight. The Host takes as its basis the abduction of a young girl by a strange creature that crawls out of the Han River, turning the monster movie genre on its head while also issuing stinging social commentary. Mother, the story of a woman trying to protect her son from a murder charge, is a dark portrait of motherly love taken to the extreme, while the sci-fi film Snowpiercer portrays the last remnants of humanity in a future world that has been frozen over due to mankind’s overdone efforts to fix global warming. Finally, Okja tells of the country girl Mija’s adventure to rescue the genetically-engineered “super pig” she raised from the profit-driven corporation that owns it.

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PERSONAL VELOCITY Directed by Rebecca Miller USA / 2002 / 86 minutes MAIN CREDITS CAST

Kyra Sedgwick Parker Posey Fairuza Balk Wallace Shawn John Ventimiglia EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS Caroline Kaplan Jonathan Sehring John Sloss PRODUCERS Alexis Alexanian Lemore Syvan Gary Winick SCREENWRITER Rebecca Miller CINEMATOGRAPHER Ellen Kuras EDITOR Sabine Hoffman COMPOSER/MUSIC Michael Rohatyn

Delia (Kyra Sedgewick) escapes from an abusive husband. Greta (Parker Posey) risks her marriage on a new career. And Paula (Fairuza Balk) takes flight after a tragic accident. These women must overcome seemingly insurmountable obstacles that confine them. But are they really on their way to making new lives—or are they just making new mistakes? As Greta’s father says, “Everyone has their own personal velocity.” Personal Velocity won the Grand Jury Prize and Cinematography Award (Ellen Kuras) at Sundance in 2002, as well as the Cassavetes Award at the Independent Spirt Awards of that year.

Miller has written and directed six feature films: Angela, winner of the BIO Rebecca Sundance Film Festival Filmmakers Trophy and Cinematography Award, as well as the Gotham Award; Personal Velocity, starring Parker Posey, Kyra Sedgwick and Fairuza Balk, winner of the Sundance Grand Jury Prize and Cinematography Award, as well as the Independent Spirit John Cassavetes Award; The Ballad of Jack and Rose, starring Daniel Day-Lewis and Camilla Belle; The Private Lives of Pippa Lee, starring Robin Wright and Keanu Reaves; Maggie’s Plan, starring Greta Gerwig, Ethan Hawke and Julianne Moore; and Arthur Miller: Writer, a documentary for HBO. Miller is also the screenwriter of the feature film Proof, adapted from the stage, and the author of the short story collection Personal Velocity and the novels The Private Lives of Pippa Lee and Jacob’s Folly. She adapted Personal Velocity and The Private Lives of Pippa Lee for the screen.

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Rebecca Miller

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PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE Directed by Céline Sciamma France / 2019 / 121 minutes In French with subtitles MAIN CREDITS CAST

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Noémie Merlant Adèle Haenel Luana Bajrami Valeria Golino Bénédicte Couvreur Céline Sciamma Claire Mathon Julien Lacheray Jean-Baptiste de Laubier Arthur Simonini

France, 1770. Marianne, a worldly female painter, is commissioned to paint the portrait of Héloïse, an inexperienced young woman who has been brought home from a convent to be married. Héloïse, a reluctant bride and subject, poses a challenge to Marianne, who looks for creative ways to observe her subject and produce the painting without her knowing. As the women take walks along the remote Brittany coastline, the crashing waves mimic the ebb and flow of their developing relationship. Playing cards in the evening by candlelight, the flickering flames are symbolic of the burning emotions that begin to well up between them. With an all-female cast, Portrait of a Lady on Fire is uniquely feminine — simultaneously restrained and emotive. Winner of Cannes Film Festival’s Best Screenplay, it has been described as a film “painted with the same delicacy and craft as an 18th century oil masterpiece.”

Sciamma received a master’s degree in French literature before enrolling BIO Céline at the La Fémis film school. She writes for film and television and debuted as a director in 2007 with Water Lilies. Her internationally praised second feature film, Tomboy (2011), was awarded at the Berlin and Odessa International Film Festivals, among others. Her coming-of-age-drama Girlhood (2014) won three awards in the first year after premiering, including the Bronze Horse at the Stockholm Film Festival. Portrait of a Lady on Fire is her latest film.

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RUN WITH THE HUNTED Directed by John Swab USA / 2019 / 93 minutes MAIN CREDITS Ron Perlman Michael Carmen Pitt Dree Hemingway Mark Boone Junior William Forsythe EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS Ron Perlman Josh Crook Andre Relis Wes Hull David Lugo Scott Thomas Mark Farrow Glenn Hudgens Ken Williams Renee Willett Todd Remis David Moscow Ali Jazayeri Viviana Zarragoitia Gore Abrams Jordan Abrams Matthew Helderman Luke Taylor Giles Daoust Catherine Dumonceaux PRODUCERS Jeremy M. Rosen John Swab SCREENWRITER John Swab CINEMATOGRAPHER Matt Clegg EDITOR Jon Greenhalgh PRODUCTION DESIGNER Jose Cavazos COMPOSER/MUSIC Will Bates SOUND DESIGNER Coll Anderson CAST

An urban tale of lost innocence, writer-director John Swab’s film is operatic in emotion, Shakespearean in tone and epic in ambition. Young Oscar is running from a dangerous past and lands among a gang of young pickpockets. He eventually becomes their surrogate father, teaching his brood honor among thieves. But the stakes are high and betrayal is always lurking. When a woman from the old days arrives, Oscar must confront the flawed code that rules his life. Run with the Hunted is a sweeping drama that is both stirring and unsettling. We meet an ensemble cast of dangerous but compelling — and sympathetic — characters, led by the oddly paternal Birdie (veteran actor Ron Perlman). Cinematography deftly captures the look and feel of the amoral landscape they inhabit. This film grabs your gut from the start and never lets go. — Jay Blotcher

Swab is an American writer-director from Tulsa, Oklahoma, now living in BIO John the Hudson Valley. He is currently directing his third feature film, Body Brokers,with Frank Grillo, Melissa Leo, Michael K Williams, Jack Kilmer, and Jessica Rothe. His second feature film, Run With The Hunted, stars Ron Perlman, Michael Carmen Pitt, Dree Hemingway, Mark Boone Junior, and William Forsythe. His feature debut, Let Me Make You A Martyr, starring Marilyn Manson, premiered at Fantasia and Sitges. At the age of fifteen, John was forced to run away. He ended up living on the streets amongst criminals. His films are based upon themes from his life: addiction, abuse, and crime.

Q&A PARTICIPANT *subject to change John Swab, Jeremy Rosen

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SENECA Directed by Jason Chaet USA / 2019 / 90 minutes In English, Spanish with subtitles MAIN CREDITS CAST

Armando Riesco Tony Plana Susan Misner Shirley Rumierk Cote De Pablo EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS Jonathan Gray Gary E. Schreiber Brian Devine Jerry Pekow Michael Buttiglieri PRODUCERS Armando Riesco Jason Chaet SCREENWRITERS Armando Riesco Jason Chaet CINEMATOGRAPHER Meg Kettell EDITOR Jason Chaet PRODUCTION DESIGNER Sarah Caye COMPOSER/MUSIC Robert Manganaro SOUND DESIGNER Andres E Marthe Gonzalez

David Seneca, portrayed by writer/actor Armando Riesco in an engagingly vulnerable performance, is just another New York City actor for hire, navigating the tedium of auditions and callbacks. Being Puerto Rican, he also has to deal with casting directors seeking Latino stereotypes. To make ends meet, David gives speech lessons to foreigners, all the while mentoring a young protégé whose star is rising. As his childhood mentor battles cancer, his married life breaks down and his homeland is hit with the devastating Hurricane Maria, the frazzled David gets caught in a street fight, captured on video, going viral and turning him into an infamous internet sensation. David must ponder how to move forward. Collaborating with director Jason Chaet, Riesco has crafted a perceptive, multi-layered screenplay that captures a man at odds with himself and his past. A meditation on personal identity, career and finding your place in a complicated world, there’s immense heart (and humor) at the center of Seneca — while bruised, it’s still hopeful. —Jay Blotcher

Chaet, is an award-winning filmmaker, theatre director, producer, editor, BIO David and acting teacher based in New York City. He got his start at the Ensemble Studio Theatre where he worked with off-broadway icon Curt Dempster and developed the new work of playwrights, including David Mamet and Arthur Miller. He has a vast array of theater directing credits in NYC and around the country. Jason moved into the world of independent film when he directed the workshops, then served as creative consultant on the award-winning independent film Kissing Jessica Stein. His feature film, Putzel, had it’s world premiere at the Woodstock Film Festival, appeared in over fifty film festivals around the world, and was distributed internationally by Filmbuff. Jason is also proud to be a longtime faculty member at AMDA, where he serves as the supervisor of first semester acting, acting for camera, and screenwriting.

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Jason Chaet, Armando Riesco

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SOUTH MOUNTAIN Directed by Hilary Brougher USA / 2019 / 85 minutes MAIN CREDITS CAST

Talia Balsam Scott Cohen Andrus Nichols Michael Oberholtzer Naian González Norvind EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS Jean-Christophe Castelli PRODUCERS Susan A. Stover Maria Rosenblum Kristin M.Frost SCREENWRITER Hilary Brougher CINEMATOGRAPHER Ethan Mass EDITOR Ethan Mass PRODUCTION DESIGNER Storm Garner COMPOSER/MUSIC Herdîs Stefánsdóttir SOUND DESIGNER Ric Schnupp

Lila is an artist and teacher who has built a modest rural paradise in New York’s Catskill Mountains with her writer husband, Edgar, and their teen daughters. Soon after the girls head off on summer adventures, Edgar reveals he’s started a new family with another woman, leaving Lila alone for a season of anger, revenge and self rediscovery. In a performance by Talia Balsam that is remarkable for its realism and range of emotions, Lila explores the light and dark corners of grief, anger and desire, kindled by the attentions of one of her daughter’s friends, while exacerbated by her best friend battling cancer. As Lila’s world overturns, those who count on her likewise come undone. In a story that is counterbalanced by the quiet beauty of it’s mountain setting, it is possible to believe that better times are still ahead. —Monique Ray

Brougher is a writer/director who lives and works in NYC. Her first BIO Hilary feature, The Sticky Fingers of Time (1997), was presented at SXSW, and the Venice, Rotterdam, and Toronto Film Festivals. Her second feature, Stephanie Daley, featuring Tilda Swinton and Amber Tamblyn, premiered at Sundance in 2006’ where it won the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award and went on to numerous international film festivals, including Locarno, Deauville, as well as Milan, where it won Best Director. She is a member of faculty in the MFA Film Program at Columbia University School of the Arts, and also the current film division chair. Hilary is married to cinematographer Ethan Mass, who collaborated with her on South Mountain.

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Hilary Brougher, Ethan Mass, Talia Balsam, Scott Cohen

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SPEED OF LIFE Directed by Liz Manashil USA / 2019 / 76 minutes MAIN CREDITS CAST

Ann Dowd Ray Santiago Vella Lovell Jeff Perry Allison Tolman Sean Wright EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS Tiffany Gray Khalil Sullins Dustin Duke Dlouhy PRODUCERS Nicolaas Bertelsen J.D. Compton Pardis Sullins SCREENWRITER Liz Manashil CINEMATOGRAPHER Julia Swain EDITOR Josie Azzam COMPOSER/MUSIC Troy Herion SOUND DESIGNER Teddy Salas ANIMATOR Marcie Maute

Visit www.speedoflifefilm.com

In this quirky, heartfelt film, the sudden death of David Bowie rocks the lives of young couple, June and Edward, in a fittingly otherworldly way. The superstar’s passing rips a literal hole in the universe, sucking Edward in. Fast forward to an undefined future, a much older June is shocked to find her once-beloved shot back out of this inter-dimensional portal, unchanged from his entry in 2016. Guided by the keen eye of Woodstock Film Festival alum Liz Manashil (Bread and Butter), the ensemble struggles to understand all the extreme ch-ch-changes that have befallen them and society during the passing years. Ann Dowd (The Handmaid’s Tale) gives a superb performance as June and leads a similarly stellar supporting cast. With an utterly inimitable storyline, this dramedy is a study on the nature of change, as well as a perceptive tribute to the memory of a man synonymous with transformation. Whether you’re a Bowie fan or just appreciate a mesmerizing story, Speed of Life delivers. —Max Wexler

Manashil earned her B.A. in Film and Media Studies at Washington BIO Liz University in St. Louis, and her M.F.A. from USC’s School of Cinematic Arts. Post graduation, Liz spent several years as a film critic for the PBS/Hulu series Just Seen It (which she also helped produce and direct). Overlapping this, Liz worked with distribution guru Peter Broderick. Her debut feature, Bread and Butter, was called “an absolute must-watch for women everywhere” by HelloGiggles. It premiered at Woodstock Film Festival, was released by The Orchard and can be seen on VOD nearly everywhere. Liz is currently on the film festival circuit with her second feature, Speed of Life, and in development on her third and fourth features. She lives in Los Angeles with her dog Laura Palmer, her partner Sean Wright and their new son Colin Manashil Wright. PRECEDED BY A LIVE MUSICAL PERFORMANCE

ROBERT BURKE WARREN

Robert Burke Warren will perform a live selection of acoustic David Bowie.

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SWALLOW Directed by Carlo Mirabella-Davis USA / 2019 / 94 minutes MAIN CREDITS CAST

Haley Bennett Austin Stowell Elizabeth Marvel David Rasche Denis O’Hare EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS Haley Bennett Joe Wright Constantin Briest Yohann Comte Pierre Mazars Eric Tavitian Sam Bisbee PRODUCERS Mollye Asher Mynette Louie Carole Baraton Frédéric Fiore SCREENWRITER Carlo Mirabella-Davis CINEMATOGRAPHER Katelin Arizmendi EDITOR Joe Murphy PRODUCTION DESIGNER Erin Magill COMPOSER/MUSIC Nathan Halpern

Hunter is a songbird in a gilded cage. Her capitalist husband provides the finest that money can buy. There is even a baby on the way. But Hunter’s personal freedom is at odds with the many suffocating rules of her upper class life. In response, Hunter begins to swallow everyday household items and inedible objects — a medical condition known as pica. When her secret is discovered, Hunter becomes pitted against her husband and in-laws in a struggle over her sanity and very survival. Writer-director Carlo Mirabella-Davis has created a harrowing tale of modern life, keenly and compassionately observed. Shot chiefly in the Hudson Valley and boasting an extraordinary and award-winning performance by lead actress Haley Bennett, Swallow showcases the expansive beauty of local vistas and the totems of elegant living, but cinematographer Katelin Arizmendi imbues each frame with a palpable sense of dread. Swallow is both unsettling and revelatory. — Jay Blotcher

Mirabella-Davis, born and raised in NYC, got his M.F.A. and B.F.A. from BIO Carlo NYU’s Tisch film program. His short, Knife Point, premiered at Sundance, and his feature documentary, The Swell Season, premiered at Tribeca. He’s an alumnus of the Sundance Screenwriters and Directors Labs. Swallow is inspired by his grandmother, Edith.

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Carlo Mirabella-Davis, Mynette Louis

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SYNONYMS Directed by Nadav Lapid France, Germany, Israel / 2019 / 123 minutes French, English, Hebrew with subtitles MAIN CREDITS CAST

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Tom Mercier Quentin Dolmaire Louise Chevillotte Saïd Ben Saïd Michel Merkt Nadav Lapid Haïm Lapid Shaï Goldman Era Lapid François Gédigier Neta Braun

Newly arrived from Israel, Yoav knocks on the door of the Parisian flat where he’s supposed to stay, only to discover it is empty. While taking a bath, his belongings are stolen. Yet this young man, full of expectations, isn’t easily dissuaded. Yoav sees becoming French as his only hope for salvation. Step one is to replace his language; thus he forsakes Hebrew and his dictionary becomes his constant companion. The visits to the Israeli embassy annoy him, the naturalization test has its pitfalls, and the young French couple whom he befriends has some strange ideas about how to help. Yoav’s attempts to find himself awaken past demons and open an existential abyss in this tragicomic puzzle that wisely knows how to keep its secrets. Based on the real life experiences of writer-director Nadav Lapid (The Kindergarten Teacher, Policeman), Synonyms, Berlinale’s Golden Bear winner, explores the challenges of putting down roots in a new place.

Lapid was born in Tel Aviv, Israel, and studied philosophy at Tel Aviv BIO Nadiv University. He later earned his degree at the Sam Spiegel Film and Television School in Jerusalem. After directing his first short film, Emile’s Girlfriend, in 2006, Lapid’s debut feature film, Policeman, won the Locarno Festival Special Jury Prize at the 2011 Locarno International Film Festival. Since then, he has gone on to direct three feature films, including The Kindergarten Teacher, released by Kino Lorber and later remade in English. Synonyms won him the prestigious Golden Bear award at the 2019 Berlin International Film Festival.

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THE TRUE ADVENTURES OF WOLFBOY Directed by Martin Krejci USA / 2019 / 89 minutes MAIN CREDITS CAST

Jaeden Martell John Turturro Sophie Giannamore Chris Messina Chloe Sevigny EXECUTIVE PRODUCER John Turturro PRODUCERS Kimberly Steward Josh Godfrey Lauren Beck Declan Baldwin Benjamin Blake SCREENWRITER Olivia Dufault CINEMATOGRAPHER Andrew Droz Palermo EDITOR Joseph Krings PRODUCTION DESIGNER Aaron Osborne COMPOSER/MUSIC Nick Urata

Paul, a lonely kid living with his father in a run-down house in a run-down city, has hypertrichosis, a condition that causes a thick coat of hair to grow over the entirety of his body. Not surprisingly, he is subjected to bullying and endures isolation and self-loathing. His life takes a turn for the worse on his thirteenth birthday when, provoked by an argument with his father, Paul runs away from home to reunite with his estranged mother. In his travels, Paul encounters, befriends and antagonizes an assortment of colorful misfits. While being pursued by police officers and criminals alike, he must come to terms with his appearance and, ultimately, learn the secret history of his familial heritage. Structured in the manner of a 19th century European children’s book, this coming-of-age tale is infused with realism and grit, while still maintaining a sense of playfulness and fantasy. It’s a celebration of the unconventional and unloved.

Krejci is one of the most sought-after commercial directors in the world. BIO Martin He graduated from the Film & Television School at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. His commercial work has won the Gold Award at the Cannes Young Lions Director Awards and has been selected for the Saatchi & Saatchi Young Director showcase. Some of his clients include IKEA, Ford, Stella Artois, Heineken, Phillips, and Guinness. His Nike ad for Wieden + Kennedy Shanghai was released last year to much critical acclaim and declared “Ad of the Day” by AdWeek. Most recently, Martin directed his feature debut, The True Adventures Of Wolfboy, written by Olivia Dufault and financed by K Period Media.

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Declan Baldwin

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66 The Condor & The Eagle 67 Ernie & Joe 68 Gay Chorus Deep South 69 I Want My MTV 70 Land of Little Rivers 71 Letter To The Editor 72 Made in Boise 73 Maxima 74 Museum Town 75 New Homeland 76 Not Not Jazz 77 Nothing Fancy: Diana Kennedy

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17 BLOCKS Directed by Davy Rothbart USA / 2019 / 96 minutes MAIN CREDITS CAST

Cheryl Sanford Emmanuel SanfordDurant Jr. Denice Sanford-Durant Akil “Smurf” Sanford Justin Sanford EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS Cheryl Sanford Jennifer Tiexiera & Sheila Nevins PRODUCERS Alex Turtletaub Michael B. Clark Rachel Dengiz Marc Turtletaub SCREENWRITERS Jennifer Tiexiera Davy Rothbart CINEMATOGRAPHER Zachary Shields EDITOR Jennifer Tiexiera COMPOSER/MUSIC Nick Urata

In 1999, when Emmanuel Sanford was just nine years old, filmmaker Davy Rothbart gave him a camera and he began filming his perilous everyday life, growing up just seventeen blocks from the US capitol building. For the next two decades, 17 Blocks continues to capture the constant struggles of an African American family living in the most crime-ridden part of our nation’s capital. In a film that is both raw and personal, we become fully immersed in the world of the Sanford’s. Taking a vérité, fly-on-the-wall approach, this a rare opportunity to witness up close the anger and loss that comes when living with murders, drug addiction, the breakdown of family, and grief, and ultimately how, with the passage of time, it becomes possible to hope once again. — Max Wexler

Rothbart is an Emmy Award-winning filmmaker, bestselling author and BIO Davy journalist, This American Life contributor, and the creator of Found Magazine. Rothbart’s film Medora, executive produced by Steve Buscemi and Stanley Tucci, premiered at the 2013 SXSW Film Festival, later aired on the acclaimed PBS series Independent Lens, and won an Emmy Award. Rothbart previously directed two documentaries about the activist band Rise Against, which became best-selling DVDs. His short, featuring Rise Against’s song Make It Stop, won an MTV Music Video Award. Rothbart’s This American Life stories have reached more than 20 million listeners, and his books Found and My Heart Is An Idiot appeared on The New York Times bestseller List. He has made multiple appearances on The Late Show With David Letterman and has been profiled in The New Yorker and The New York Times. An Ann Arbor, Michigan native, he now lives in Los Angeles.

Q&A PARTICIPANT *subject to change

Davy Rothbart

SHOWING AT BEARSVILLE THEATER WOODSTOCK

Thur Oct 3  2:45pm

UPSTATE FILMS I RHINEBECK

Visit www.17blocksfilm.com

Fri Oct 4  5:45pm

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2019

A NIGHT AT SWITCH N’ PLAY Directed by Cody Stickels USA / 2019 / 71 minutes MAIN CREDITS Divina GranSparkle K.James Miss Malice Nyx Nocturne Pearl Harbor Vigor Mortis Zoe Ziegfeld EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS Chelsea Moore Cody Stickels PRODUCER Chelsea Moore CINEMATOGRAPHER Matthew Heymann EDITOR Cody Stickels COMPOSER/MUSIC George Miata ANIMATOR Dylan Reitz CAST

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Cody Stickels, Chelsea Moore, Matthew Heymann Divina GranSparkle, K.James, Miss Malice, Nyx Nocturne, Pearl Harbor, Vigor Mortis, Zoe Ziegfeld,

SHOWING AT THE COLONY WOODSTOCK

Fri Oct 4  8:00pm

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Cody Stickels

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On the stages of Brooklyn’s bars and nightclubs, the boundaries of gender are being subverted into something both refreshingly weird and delightfully erotic. Featuring an all-star cast of standout performers from across the spectrum of queer identity, follow the members of the Switch n’ Play collective as they strip, strut and squirt their way towards being one of the Big Apple’s most exciting drag burlesque acts. Beneath the many layers of makeup and synthetic hair, the individuals of this colorful troupe find a space to express themselves and reclaim ownership of their bodies from the narrow confines of societal beauty standards. For Switch n’ Play members, baring it all to crowds of delighted strangers with their chosen family provides a sense of affirmation found nowhere else. — Avery Davenport

Stickels is a trans-male director, editor and recent master’s graduate of BIO Cody NYU’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study with a focus in Queer Filmmaking. As a transgender filmmaker, they focus on stories that celebrate the queer spirit and investigate the complexity of identity. Their work has screened at film festivals including Outfest, Frameline, Newfest, Flickerfest, Iris Prize, aGLIFF, Raindance, and New Orleans Film Festival, as well as having won awards at aGLIFF, ClexaCon and NC Gay and Lesbian Film Festival. They currently live in Brooklyn with their cat, Benny.

FOLLOWED BY A LIVE PERFORMANCE

SWITCH N’ PLAY

Immediately following the screening, all seven members of Switch n’ Play, Brooklyn’s award-winning drag and burlesque collective, will showcase live performances that are queer in every sense of the word. Visit www.sourpeachfilms.com/switchnplay

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ACCEPT THE CALL Directed by Eunice Lau USA / 2019 / 82 minutes In English, and Somali with subtitles MAIN CREDITS CAST

Yusuf Abdurahman Zacharia Abdurahman Ikraan Abdurahman Tony Osman Bihi Abdirizak EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS Sally Jo Fiffer Lois Vossen PRODUCER Eunice Lau SCREENWRITERS Yasu Inoue Eunice Lau CINEMATOGRAPHER “Anonymous” EDITOR Yasu Inoue COMPOSER/MUSIC Osei Essed SOUND DESIGNER Matt Rocker

Zacharia Abdurahman is a Somali Muslim raised in Minneapolis. When the young man attempts to join ISIS, the FBI intervenes and puts him in federal prison for ten years. Accept the Call is the harrowing and morally complex story of how the Abdurahman family continues with their lives. Father Yusuf is horrified by his son’s decision to become a terrorist and embarks on a campaign to warn fellow Muslims to resist ISIS propaganda. Meanwhile, daughter Ikraan speaks out publicly about the rising trend of American xenophobia towards Muslims. The centerpiece of this documentary is a fascinating series of phone calls between Yusuf and his jailed son as they attempt to understand one another. Director Eunice Lau’s film is brutally frank and emotionally honest, complemented by lyrical cinematography. Accept the Call raises urgent but uncomfortable questions for all Americans. A brave and powerful documentary. — Jay Blotcher former broadcast journalist, Eunice Lau has a penchant for telling stories BIO Aconcerning social justice. Her film Through the Fire was nominated for best short documentary at AMPAS Student Academy in 2013. She won the Spike Lee Fellowship for her feature documentary A-Town Boyz, while pursuing her M.F.A. in film directing at New York University. With her training in narrative filmmaking, she seeks to bring a cinematic form to documentary films. Accept the Call is a continuum of her exploration of the definition of the American hyphenated identity and capturing the journey of the immigrant.

Q&A PARTICIPANT *subject to change

Eunice Lau, Yusuf Abdurahman, Yasu Inoue

SHOWING AT ORPHEUM SAUGERTIES

Fri Oct 4  12:30pm

BEARSVILLE THEATER WOODSTOCK

Visit www.acceptthecall.com

Sun Oct 6  1:30pm

WoodstockFilmFestival.org

2019

DOCUMENTARIES

Amy Rapp

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WORL D PR E M I E R E

AFTER THE MURDER OF ALBERT LIMA Directed by Aengus James USA, Honduras / 2019 / 99 minutes MAIN CREDITS CAST

Paul Lima Art Torres Zora Colakovic Kent Crimm Cindy Crimm EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS David Harris Floris Bauer Meredith Vieira Van Toffler PRODUCER Aengus James Paul Lima Colin King Miller Amy Rapp SCREENWRITER Aengus James CINEMATOGRAPHERS John James Aengus James EDITOR Yoni Reiss COMPOSER/MUSIC Adam Sanborne SOUND DESIGNER Anthony Echegoyen

After thirteen years of unsuccessfully seeking justice for his murdered father, Paul Lima travels to Honduras with two American bounty hunters to capture the killer. He is forced to take such drastic action due to government corruption and bureaucratic impasses in the U.S. State Department. While the Honduran government has agreed to put the culprit behind bars on a murder charge, there is one huge catch — the killer keeps paying off local authorities to remain free. Shot over the course of a week, the film documents Paul’s final efforts to get justice for his father. This true-crime film is an adrenaline fueled tale about taking matters of justice into your own hands when institutions fail. From clandestine surveillance and covert chases to multiple near successes. This highly intense, emotional documentary will keep you on the edge of your seat. —Clayton Pickard

James is the co-founder and head of This is Just a Test produtions. BIO Aengus Aengus has created content for networks, publishers, brands, platforms, as well as a number of non-profit organizations and causes. As a director and producer, his work has received numerous awards and honors, including special recognition from the White House (not the current one) and United Nations for raising issues of awareness, including the environment, suicide prevention for vets and women’s healthcare around the world.

Q&A PARTICIPANT *subject to change

Aengus James, Amy Rapp, David Zieff, Colin Miller, Paul Lima

SHOWING AT

UPSTATE FILMS I RHINEBECK

C O U RT E S Y O F

Fri Oct 4  8:30pm

BEARSVILLE THEATER WOODSTOCK

Visit www.gunpowdersky.com

Sat Oct 5  8:45pm

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EAST CO AST PR E M IE R E

ANIMATION OUTLAWS Directed by Kat Alioshin USA / 2018 / 68 minutes MAIN CREDITS Weird Al Jankovic Seth Green Nick Park Pete Docter Andrew Stanton Mike Mitchell Emek Joanna Priestly Joan C. Gratz EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Kat Alioshin PRODUCER Kat Alioshin SCREENWRITER Jon V. Peters CINEMATOGRAPHER Carl Miller EDITOR Erica Jordan PRODUCTION DESIGNER Tom Proost COMPOSER/MUSIC John Nau Andrew Feltenstein SOUND DESIGNER Dave Nelson ANIMATOR Tim Hittle Cindy Ng Lyla Warren Kris Tocanini CAST

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Animation historian Jerry Beck once said, “Spike and Mike came from nowhere with nothing and created a market where none existed.” This is the simplest way to explain the massive impact Spike and Mike’s Festival of Animation had on the world. From guerrilla marketing to traveling eleven months out of the year, Spike and Mike created a family, bringing together animators from all over the globe. Animation Outlaws tells the story of the festival that changed animation as we know it. With interviews from your favorite animators behind Beavis and Butthead, Wallace and Gromit, Happy Tree Friends, and many more, we hear how Spike and Mike, two hippies, cultivated a one-of-a-kind festival that launched the careers of today’s animation legends. Animation Outlaws is a beautifully crafted documentary that shows stunning animation, while reminding us that no matter how weird we might be, there is always a place we belong. —Sierra Slaughter

Alioshin met Spike and Mike in 1985 and was part of the festival’s publicity BIO Kat and ticket sales team. Kat has been working in stop motion animation since 1991, starting with Nightmare Before Christmas through Coraline in 2009. On James and the Giant Peach, she was assistant director to Henry Selick. She was DP for Some Divine Wind, which is now on permanent collection at NYMoMA. The stop motion-live action mixed short Mermaids on Mars won the Carmel Film Festival Animation award. She received attention for producing Life with Loopy on the Nickelodeon show KaBlam! Kat has been budgeting the Stop Motion Features, which includes The Inventor, for Jim Capobianco, while working on the documentary. PRECEDED BY

I, CANDY

Directed by Candy Kugels

Kat Alioshin

USA / 2019 / 22 minutes

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Filmmaker Candy Kugel deconstructs a drawing she did when she was 6 years old to explore her life.

BEARSVILLE THEATER WOODSTOCK

Fri Oct 4  4:15pm

UPSTATE FILMS II RHINEBECK

Visit www.spikeandmike.film

Sat Oct 5  1:30pm

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DOCUMENTARIES

THE APOLLO Directed by Roger Ross Williams USA / 2019 / 93 minutes MAIN CREDITS CAST

EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS

Lagralane Group David Blackman Cynthia Sexton Charles King Kim Roth Poppy Hanks Carlene C. Laughlin Dave Knott Lynda Weinman Jayson Jackson

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Smokey Robinson Ta-Nehisi Coates Pharrell Williams Patti LaBelle Jamie Foxx Nigel Sinclair Dan Cogan Nicholas Ferrall Julie Goldman Nancy Abraham Lisa Heller Jonelle Procope Geralyn White Dreyfous Jenny Raskin Ken Pelletier Embrey Family Foundation Lisa Cortes Jeanne Elfant Festa Cassidy Hartmann Cassidy Hartmann Jean Tsien Michael Dwyer Jean Tsien John S. Fisher Robert Glasper

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The Apollo, helmed by Oscar- and Emmy-winning director Roger Ross Williams, chronicles the unique history and legacy of New York City’s landmark Apollo Theater. What began 85 years ago as a refuge for marginalized artists has emerged as a hallowed hall of black excellence and empowerment. The film weaves together archival clips of music, comedy and dance performances from such legendary talents as Ella Fitzgerald, James Brown, Aretha Franklin, Richard Pryor, and Lauryn Hill; behind-the-scenes verité footage of the team that makes the theater run; and interviews with such artists as Jamie Foxx, Angela Bassett, Pharrell Williams, Common, Patti LaBelle, and Smokey Robinson. The film also follows the 2018 multi-media adaptation of Ta-Nehisi Coates’ bestseller Between the World and Me! as it comes together on the theater’s grand stage, allowing Williams to explore the struggle of black lives in America, the role art plays in that struggle, and the essential part the Apollo continues to play in the cultural conversation.

Ross Williams is an award-winning director, producer, writer, and the BIO Roger first African American director to win an Academy Award, for his short film Music By Prudence. Williams’ work pushes the boundaries of culture and film. His documentaries include Academy Award-nominated and Emmy Award-winning Life, Animated, as well as God Loves Uganda, American Jail, and VR experience Traveling While Black. Currently, Williams is working on his first narrative feature for Amazon studios.

Q&A PARTICIPANT *subject to change

Lisa Cortes, and special guest

SHOWING AT UPAC KINGSTON

Tues Oct 1  7:00pm

C O U RT E S Y O F Visit www.hbo.com/documentaries/the-apollo

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NORT H AM E R I CAN P R E MIE R E

BAMBOO STORIES Directed by Shaheen Dill-Riaz Bangladesh, Germany / 2019 / 96 minutes In Bengali with subtitles MAIN CREDITS CAST

EXECUTIVE PRODUCER PRODUCER SCREENWRITER CINEMATOGRAPHER EDITOR COMPOSER/MUSIC SOUND DESIGNER

Nurul Islam Mohammad Shoheedul Mohammad Hossain Mohammad Siraz Mosharraf Hossai Hasan Mahabub Bablu Shaheen Dill-Riaz Shaheen Dill-Riaz Shaheen Dill-Riaz Andreas Zitzmann Eckart Gadow Anders Wasserfall

In the misty waters of the Kushiyara River in northeastern Bangladesh, a lone raft drifts towards a distant port, setting the tone for this visually rich and intimate story. Tending to the ramshackle craft are Liakot, Nuru, Hussain, Shoheed, and Shiraz, a five-party crew tasked with transporting their cargo of 25,000 bamboo logs to a wholesaler almost two hundred miles downstream. From the river pirates who extort their limited savings to fierce summer storms that threaten to break apart their fragile vessel, the rafters face threats both natural and man-made in order to make ends meet. Despite these dangers and meager pay, being on these perilous waters provides the men with a rare escape from the stresses of poverty, arranged marriages and personal loss. With great sensitivity and exquisite cinematography, Bamboo Stories reveals how within these moments of respite the men garner hope for a better future, even as the tides of modernization threaten to wash away their profession for good. —Avery Davenport

Dill-Riaz was born in Dhaka, Bangladesh. After spending six years in BIO Shaheen a military boarding school, Shaheen ventured to join the Dhaka film industry at the age of 18. There he met the young filmmakers of the country and became involved in various short film productions. In 1992, Shaheen came to Berlin on a scholarship, where he first studied art history at the Freie Universität Berlin and then cinematography at the Filmuniversity Babelsberg. He is based both in Berlin and Dhaka, working as a director, producer and cinematographer in the European and Asian film industries.

Q&A PARTICIPANT *subject to change

Shaheen Dill-Riaz, Eckart Gadow

SHOWING AT BEARSVILLE THEATER WOODSTOCK

Thur Oct 3  12:00pm

UPSTATE FILMS II RHINEBECK

Visit www.dill-riaz.com/bamboo-stories/

Sat Oct 5  4:30pm

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2019

Samantha Bloom

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BULLY. COWARD. VICTIM. THE STORY OF ROY COHN Directed by Ivy Meeropol USA / 2019 / 95 minutes MAIN CREDITS CAST

Cindy Adams Alan Dershowitz Tony Kushner Nathan Lane John Waters EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS Nancy Abraham Lisa Heller PRODUCERS Ivy Meeropol Julie Goldman Christopher Clements Carolyn Hepburn CINEMATOGRAPHER Daniel B. Gold EDITOR Anne Alvergue Adam Kurnitz COMPOSER/MUSIC Nathan Halpern

Q&A PARTICIPANT *subject to change

Ivy Meeropol, Julie Goldman

SHOWING AT UPSTATE FILMS II RHINEBECK

Fri Oct 4  3:30pm

WOODSTOCK PLAYHOUSE

2019

Bully. Coward. Victim. The Story of Roy Cohn reveals the full, richly controversial character of Roy Cohn, American lawyer, cultural icon and early proponent of a national Republican revolution that began with Ronald Reagan and lead directly to the presidency of Donald Trump. Roy Cohn is a name synonymous with ruthless social division, demagoguery and the politics of paranoia, but for director Ivy Meeropol (granddaughter of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg), he is the moral cypher who argued relentlessly for the execution of her grandparents. Stark contradictions formed the core of Roy Cohn’s personality. A bellicose public figure, he was a closeted homosexual who persecuted gays until he met his death from AIDS in 1986 following a wide ranging, sexually active, club hopping lifestyle; he was a Jewish Democrat who mentored a young Donald Trump on the ways of hypocritically managing the world as one wishes as opposed to how one should — proof again that the past is mere prologue.

Meeropol directed and produced the HBO documentary Bully. Coward. BIO Ivy Victim. The Story of Roy Cohn, which had its world premiere at the 2019 New York Film Festival. She was senior story producer for the 2017 CNNFilms feature-length documentary The End: The Final Days Inside the Obama White House; directed and produced the documentary Indian Point, which premiered at Tribeca Film Festival, won Best Documentary at the Key West Film Festival, and received the 2016 Frontline award for Journalism in a Documentary Film; produced and directed two short films for the Emmy Award-winning climate change documentary series Years of Living Dangerously, airing on The National Geographic Channel; directed and produced an hour-long episode for CNN’s docu-series Death Row Stories; received an IDA nomination for best series for The Hill, which aired on The Sundance Channel; and produced and directed the documentary Heir To An Execution, exploring the legacy of her grandparents, Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, which premiered at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival, was shortlisted for an Academy Award, and screened on HBO. In 2013, Ivy was a Sundance Institute Fellow.

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Sat Oct 5  10:15am

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Clement Guerra

clement guerra

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THE CONDOR & THE EAGLE Directed by Sophie Guerra, Clement Guerra USA, Germany, France / 2019 / 83 minutes English, and Spanish with subtitles MAIN CREDITS CAST

Melina LaboucanMassimo Casey Camp-Horinek Bryan Parras Yudith Nieto Bill McKibben EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS Janet MacGillivray Wallace Alexandra Johnes Jacqueline Garcia PRODUCERS Douglas Blush Alexandra Johnes Janet MacGillivray Wallace Echo Dot Studio SCREENWRITERS Sophie & Clement Guerra CINEMATOGRAPHER Clement Guerra EDITOR Emma Joan Morris PRODUCTION DESIGNER David Gauff COMPOSER/MUSIC Charles Newman SOUND DESIGNER Kevin Wilson ANIMATOR Silvia Prietov

meaning of “climate justice.” The four protagonists learn from each other’s long legacy of resistance to colonialism and its extractive economy. Their path through the jungle takes them on an unexpectedly challenging and liberating journey, which will forever change their attachment to planet Earth and to one another. Oscar-winning Producer/Editor Douglas Blush says: “This documentary takes the struggle for Climate Justice beyond the standard borders of separate nations and shows a new, larger movement rising up across many indigenous peoples, using thrilling cinematography, deeply personal stories and the urgency of tomorrow’s headlines. The Condor & The Eagle is both a profound work of climate journalism and an exhilarating, emotional adventure film.”

Guerra has been working as an international marketing consultant BIO Clèment manager in London, as well as a professional photographer. He has been focusing on creating his own independent production company, promoting a creative approach for documentary films as an innovative social change tool.

Sophie Guerra has been concentrating on researching the health impacts of environmental pollution for the past 10 years. After completing her Master’s Degree in Pharmacology in 2012, she decided to live her passion for films, which she sees as a powerful strategic way to reach out to a larger audience.

Q&A PARTICIPANT *subject to change

SHOWING AT WOODSTOCK PLAYHOUSE

Fri Oct 4 1:00pm

The Condor and The Eagle offers a glimpse into a developing spiritual renaissance as four indigenous environmental leaders embark on an extraordinary trans-continental adventure from the Canadian plains to deep into the heart of the Amazonian jungle to unite the peoples of North and South America and deepen the

Clement Guerra, Janet MacGillivray Wallace

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Visit www.thecondorandtheeagle.com

2019

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DOCUMENTARIES

ERNIE & JOE Directed by Jenifer McShane USA / 2019 / 96 minutes MAIN CREDITS CAST EXECUTIVE PRODUCER PRODUCER CINEMATOGRAPHER EDITOR COMPOSER/MUSIC SOUND DESIGNER

Ernie Stevens Joe Smarro Andrea Meditch Jenifer McShane E.J. Enríquez Toby Shimin Tyler Strickland Paul Toohey

The news these days is filled with stories of police showdowns with mentally ill people that end tragically. But two cops from San Antonio, Texas, want to change that narrative. Ernie Stevens and Joe Smarro are part of a pioneering mental health unit at their police department that uses words, not bullets, to talk down people in crisis. By seeing them as victims rather than criminals, Ernie and Joe save lives. Directed with great skill and sensitivity by Jenifer McShane, Ernie & Joe is a barebones cinema réalité descent into the men’s everyday lives, the frustrations of bureaucracy, the effort to educate new cops and the unbearably intense life-and-death scenarios — several times a week — they must defuse. Along the way, we learn not only who these brave, forward-thinking men are on-duty, but also about their off-duty lives, personal struggles and triumphs. Finally, a story that portrays two heroic policemen with the respect they are due. —Jay Blotcher

McShane is an independent filmmaker committed to using film to BIO Jenifer bridge understanding in situations where structural, cultural or religious divisions typically keep people apart. Ernie & Joe is Jenifer’s third feature documentary. She spent nearly five years visiting Bedford Hills Correctional Facility to make her last documentary, Mothers of Bedford, which reveals the impact of incarceration on jailed mothers and their children. Jenifer’s first film (co-director), A Leap of Faith, follows a group of parents in Belfast, Northern Ireland, as they open an integrated school for Catholic and Protestant children. Jenifer is thrilled to bring Ernie & Joe to Woodstock!

Q&A PARTICIPANT *subject to change

Jenifer McShane, Toby Shimin

SHOWING AT BEARSVILLE THEATER WOODSTOCK

Fri Oct 4  1:30pm

UPSTATE FILMS II RHINEBECK

Visit www.ernieandjoethefilm.com

Sun Oct 6  12:30pm

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LGBTQ FOC U S

GAY CHORUS DEEP SOUTH Directed by David Charles Rodrigues USA / 2019 / 92 minutes MAIN CREDITS Dr. Tim Seelig Chris Verdugo Jimmy White Ashlé Pastor Jim Dant EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS James Goode Tony Hogqvist Brian Chesky PRODUCERS Bud Johnston Jesse Moss SCREENWRITERS David Charles Rodrigues Jeff Gilbert CINEMATOGRAPHERS Adam Hobbs Thorsten Thielow EDITOR Jeff Gilbert PRODUCTION DESIGNER Melinda Gorham COMPOSER/MUSIC Bryan Senti SOUND DESIGNER Pete Horner CAST

This beautiful film has been a massive hit with audiences on the festival circuit. That’s because in these times

G U E S T PROGRAM

of great division, hatred and the rise of white supremacy, it offers a glimmer of hope into the good and reminds us that despite our differences we are more connected than we think. The film follows the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus as they travel through the heartland of America, telling their stories and confronting their past and the families they left behind for a more open life in San Francisco. As a gay man who grew up in the church, I understand the pain of rejection, but filmmaker David Charles Rodrigues has made a film that is about the restorative power of art. Gay Chorus Deep South will fill your heart with joy and your mind with wonderful music. —Roger Ross Williams

Charles Rodrigues is a Greek-American-Brazilian filmmaker and equal BIO David rights activist. He’s the Tribeca 2019 Audience Award Winner and a Sundance New Frontier and Doc Lab fellow. Rodrigues’ short films and commercials have garnered over one billion views online and were featured at MoCA Los Angeles, MoCA Teipei, Skirball Cultural Center, The Art Directors Club, Cannes Lions, and Art Basel Miami. Gay Chorus Deep South is his feature documentary debut.

Q&A PARTICIPANT *subject to change

David Charles Rodrigues, Roger Ross Williams

SHOWING AT ROSENDALE THEATRE

Thur Oct 3  6:15pm

UPSTATE FILMS WOODSTOCK

Visit www.gaychorusdeepsouth.com

Sat Oct 5  3:30pm

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2019

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DOCUMENTARIES

I WANT MY MTV Directed by Tyler Measom, Patrick Waldrop USA / 2019 / 84 minutes MAIN CREDITS CAST Sting

Norman Lear Billy Idol Nancy Wilson Fab 5 Freddy Tom Freston Bret Michaels Pat Benatar Tori Amos EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS Brad Abramson Craig Wilkinson Kerri Borsuk Rick Krim PRODUCERS David Kennedy Nick Quested Tyler Measom Patrick Waldrop SCREENWRITERS Tyler Measom Patrick Waldrop CINEMATOGRAPHER Tyler Measom EDITORS Torben Bernhard Tyler Measom COMPOSERS/MUSIC Matt Nathanson Patrick Stump

The rise of MTV was a cultural phenomenon that no one could escape. Finally, a television channel targeted to kids and teens. Head of talent relations during the birth of MTV, Gale Sparrow, says it worked so well because, “If your parents hated it, you loved it.” I Want My MTV illustrates how a group of scrappy young-adults changed television forever. During the first decade of MTV, the American public finally saw the songs they had been listening to in action. Many artists, such as David Bowie, REO Speedwagon and even Poison, became main attractions on this “rock & roll only” channel. Not without setbacks, I Want My MTV discusses the often controversial music channel. With interviews from Sting, Fab 5 Freddy, Pat Benatar, and many more, I Want My MTV shows us the good, the bad and the ugly of starting the biggest pop culture sensation of the 20th century. —Sierra Slaughter

Measom is the co-director and producer of numerous films, including Sons BIO Tyler of Perdition (Tribeca 2010), which tells the story of teenagers exiled by their polygamist community. He also co-directed and produced An Honest Liar (Tribeca 2014), which looks at the life and lies of James “The Amazing” Randi. He has produced the films Take (Tribeca 2008), starring Jeremy Renner, the Showtime feature documentary Jesus Town, USA and the documentary Elder (Tribeca 2016), which tells the story of a gay Mormon missionary. He is currently co-directing, with Jared Hess, the documentary series The Salamander.

Patrick Waldrop grew up in Easter, Washington. He graduated from UC Berkeley and holds an M.F.A. from UCLA TFT. His debut short, Cosmic Debris, premiered at Tribeca in 2018. Patrick works in narrative and documentary filmmaking.

Q&A PARTICIPANT *subject to change

David Kennedy

SHOWING AT BEARSVILLE THEATER WOODSTOCK

Thur Oct 3  5:45pm

UPSTATE FILMS II RHINEBECK

Visit www.tylermeasom.com

Sat Oct 5  7:30pm

2019

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Aaron Weisblatt

LAND OF LITTLE RIVERS Directed by Aaron Weisblatt USA / 2019 / 93 minutes MAIN CREDITS CAST

EXECUTIVE PRODUCER PRODUCER CINEMATOGRAPHER EDITOR COMPOSER/MUSI SOUND DESIGNER

Robert Lewis Rachel Finn Dave Brandt Ben RInker Mike Canazon Bruce Concors Aaron Weisblatt Robert Featherstone Aaron Weisblatt Ian Hatton Coll Anderson

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Aaron Weisblatt, Bruce Concors

Nestled amongst the mountains and valleys of upstate New York lies the Delaware river system, a network of waterways prized by dry fly fishing enthusiasts for its challenges and remoteness. Catching the wild trout that call these waters home is no easy feat, making the fishermen who hunt them all the more passionate about their craft. Filmmaker Aaron Weisblatt’s documentary explores the annals of these anglers’ obsession, from the art of casting the perfect line, to the sport’s origins as a secretive art known to a select group of local fishing families. Contrary to dry fly fishing’s clandestine beginnings, each man and woman who lines the banks of the Delaware’s watershed is eager to share their carefully honed skills with rookies and veterans alike. Along with its sweeping beauty, Land of Little Rivers provides a charming glimpse into a subculture where unique personalities are as likely to amass as the fish they relentlessly pursue. — Avery Davenport

Weisblatt has cut a wide swath in the film and television industry, BIO Aaron working as an editor, sound editor, cameraman, producer, director, and writer. His film credits include Sam, nominated for an Academy Award; co-produced the critically acclaimed BBC documentary Feast of Death; produced and directed an award-winning feature documentary, Between Two Worlds, which won numerous awards on the film festival circuit. He was a picture editor on History Channel’s 10-part award-winning series, WWII in HD and a cameraman on the first season of A&E’s Tattoo Highway, as well as an episode of Intervention. He has produced non-scripted reality/docu-soaps, Heller on Wheels, Woodstock Loggers and co-produced a series pilot called American Turbo with the producer of Orange County Choppers. Additionally, Aaron produced concert footage of some of the last historic concerts at Levon Helm’s Midnight Ramble. He has also worked on the documentaries Evocateur, Disturbing the Universe and Earth Days, and now that he as finished Land of Little Rivers, he is busy developing feature film stories from his screenplays.

SHOWING AT ROSENDALE THEATRE

Sat Oct 5  8:15pm

BEARSVILLE THEATER WOODSTOCK

Visit www.landoflittlerivers.com

Sun Oct 6  6:30pm

WoodstockFilmFestival.org

2019

DOCUMENTARIES

Alan Berliner

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LETTER TO THE EDITOR Directed by Alan Berliner USA / 2019 / 88 minutes MAIN CREDITS PRODUCER SCREENWRITER EDITOR SOUND DESIGNER

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For 40 years, filmmaker Alan Berliner clipped out photos from The New York Times that caught his eye, organizing them thematically and crossindexing subject matter, sometimes in seemingly unlikely ways. Acting as archivist, librarian and film narrator, he has amassed a collection that is a bold statement on human nature and how history often repeats itself. An elegy to the printed newspaper through sumptuous storytelling and inventive use of visual editing and sound, this tour of history feels like a fast-paced music video mixed with slower melodic movements used to great effect. The film brings to question what is happening to freedom of the press as newspapers die out due to digital news consumption and, as the narrator ponders,“...news is no longer good, bad or fake ...it’s whatever you want it to be because it’s created just for you.“ An incredibly timely and thought-provoking film that makes one appreciate a languid afternoon with the Sunday paper and a cup of coffee, and wonder if this is a vanishing pleasure? —Gene Fischer

Berliner’s uncanny ability to combine experimental cinema, artistic BIO Alan purpose and popular appeal in compelling film essays has made him one of

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America’s most acclaimed independent filmmakers. The New York Times has described Berliner’s work as “powerful, compelling and bittersweet... full of juicy conflict and contradiction, innovative in their cinematic technique, unpredictable in their structures... Alan Berliner illustrates the power of fine art to transform life.” Berliner’s films, First Cousin Once Removed (2013), Wide Awake (2006), The Sweetest Sounds (2001), Nobody’s Business (1996), Intimate Stranger (1991), and The Family Album (1986), have been broadcast all over the world and received awards, prizes and retrospectives at many major international film festivals. Over the years, his films have become part of the core curriculum for documentary filmmaking and film history classes at universities worldwide. All of his films are in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art.

Alan Berliner

SHOWING AT UPSTATE FILMS WOODSTOCK

Fri Oct 4  1:30pm

C O U RT E S Y O F

UPSTATE FILMS I RHINEBECK

Visit www.lettertotheeditor.com

Sat Oct 5  7:00pm

2019

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MADE IN BOISE Directed by Beth Aala USA / 2019 / 86 minutes In English and Spanish with subtitles MAIN CREDITS Nicole and Don Williamson Shannon and Tom Rayner Chelsea and Jeremy Frei Ernesto Cindy Floyd Julian de la Poza Martinez Samantha Diaz David Tsung and Todd Curzon EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS Sally Jo Fifer Lois Vossen PRODUCER Beth Aala Beth Levison CINEMATOGRAPHERS Beth Aala Jenni Morello EDITOR Jen Fineran COMPOSER/MUSIC Melisa McGregor ANIMATOR Molly Schwartz CAST

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Who would have thought that of all places, Boise, Idaho, an idyllic town set in America’s heartland, would be the country’s epicenter of surrogacy? Yet this all-American town is indeed the place where gay couples, singles and those who struggle with infertility go to seek, and start their families through surrogacy. With rare access and an empathetic eye, Made in Boise follows four dedicated women who selflessly put themselves forward (sometimes multiple times) to fulfill the dreams of parenthood for those who need assistance. The span of emotions that the surrogates, their families and the perspective parents experience are nakedly on display as they navigate the rigors of pregnancy and the mixed feelings of their loved ones, who sometimes struggle to understand their choice to risk the physical and emotional complications of carrying babies for someone else. A heartfelt story that epitomizes what it is to give of yourself for the happiness of others. —Monique Ray

Aala is a three-time Emmy and Peabody award-winning producer for her BIO Beth work at HBO. Prior to Made in Boise, which she also produced and filmed, Beth co-directed and produced Rancher, Farmer, Fisherman (Discovery). The film follows unlikely conservationists across the country who are leading to preserve and restore America’s iconic working landscapes and premiered at Sundance in 2017. She also directed and produced Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon (Toronto, 2014) with comedian Mike Myers for A&E IndieFilms. The documentary is an entertaining portrait of talent manager, Shep Gordon, the most famous man you’ve never heard of. It won a Hollywood Film award and garnered a 2015 News and Documentary Emmy Awards nomination. Beth lives in Brooklyn, NY with her husband and two boys. In her free time she makes woodblock prints, cooks, runs, and takes way too many photos of her kids.

Beth Levison, Jen Fineran

SHOWING AT ORPHEUM SAUGERTIES

Fri Oct 4  6:00pm

BEARSVILLE THEATER WOODSTOCK

Visit www.pinaypictures.org/index#/made-in-boiset

Sat Oct 5  11:00am

WoodstockFilmFestival.org

2019

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Claudia Sparrow

MAXIMA Directed by Claudia Sparrow USA / 2019 / 88 minutes In English, Spanish with subtitles MAIN CREDITS CAST

Màxima Acuña Mirtha Vàsquez Maryum Jordan Ricardo Giesecke Jacqueline Fowks EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS Lesley Chilcott Leandro Marini Louise Runge Steven Berger Scott Dixon Susan Bay Nimoy PRODUCERS Ryan Schwartz Claudia Sparrow SCREENWRITER Claudia Sparrow CINEMATOGRAPHERS Philip Knowlton Magela Crosignani Leandro Marini EDITOR Alejandro Valdes-Rochin COMPOSER/MUSI Mauricio Yazigi SOUND DESIGNER Alvaro Vela

Maxima is the impassioned story of a simple Peruvian woman, Máxima Acuña, and her stalwart fight to preserve her home and life in harmony with nature. Maxima lives on beautiful land surrounded by the Yanacocha Mine — the second largest producer of gold in the world — controlled by massive American mining conglomerate Newmont Mining Corporation. Newmont is brutally trying to force Maxima off of her land. With exquisite cinematography and deep sensitivity for its subject, we watch this tiny woman in a poncho, full of grace, stand up to corruption and an abusive adversary. A true underdog, this hardworking, brave, resilient, woman stops at nothing in her fight for justice and “nothing more.” If you ever need a reason to stand up to corporate bullies, Maxima shows you that it can be done with dignity and a strength that never wavers. — Sierra Slaughter

Sparrow, born and raised in Lima, Peru, has been recognized in El BIO Claudia Comercio, the main Peruvian newspaper, and Caras magazine as one of the ten prominent filmmakers in Peru. Claudia’s first feature film, I Remember You, starring Stefanie Butler (Stranger Things) and Joe Egender (The Night of), which she wrote and directed, won best dramatic feature film at the Downtown Film Festival Los Angeles and had a theatrical and VOD release in 2016. Her American Film Institute thesis film, El Americano, shot in Lima and Los Angeles, won an Emmy Award in the drama category. Claudia is the recipient of the Franklin J. Schaffner Fellow Award for directing El Americano, and a 2018 Film Independent Fellow.

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Claudia Sparrow

SHOWING AT BEARSVILLE THEATER WOODSTOCK

Sat Oct 5  4:00pm

UPSTATE FILMS I RHINEBECK

Visit www.standwithmaxima.com

Sun Oct 6  3:00pm

2019

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Noah Bashevkin

MUSEUM TOWN Directed by Jennifer Trainer USA / 2019 / 76 minutes MAIN CREDITS Nick Cave Meryl Streep David Byrne Richard Criddle Denise Markonish EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS Rachel Chanoff Susy Wadsworth Jack Wadsworth PRODUCERS Jennifer Trainer Noah Bashevkin Ivy Meeropol SCREENWRITERS Jennifer Trainer Noah Bashevkin Pola Rapaport CINEMATOGRAPHERS Kirsten Johnson Daniel B. Gold Wolfgang Held EDITOR Pola Rapaport COMPOSER/MUSIC John Stirratt Paul Pilot CAST

The importance of art and culture to the viability of a town is evidenced by this inspiring documentary about how MASS MoCA transformed a struggling mill town into an art hub. North Adams, MA, once a bustling manufacturing center, became economically depressed after the local electric company closed in 1984. Thanks to stalwart visionaries, today the town is home to one of the world’s largest contemporary art museums. But the journey wasn’t easy. Museum Town chronicles the tumultuous years and its founders’ vision of art as a tool for economic development. It took 13 years of hard work and politics before the doors opened in 1999. Now a destination for art-enthusiasts, of particular interest is the behind-the-scenes look at the production of Nick Cave’s bric-a-brac explosion, Until. The film is a fascinating foray into a singular success story, while on a larger scale it shows how cultural institutions can help revive communities under duress. —Monique Ray

Trainer was one of a handful of people who developed and built BIO Jennifer MASS MoCA, working at the museum for 28 years as the first director of development. An award-winning journalist and the author of 20 books, including Beyond Einstein: The Cosmic Quest for the Theory of the Universe, Nuclear Power: Both Sides, Trail of Flame, and Jump Up and Kiss Me, she wrote the first story about MASS MoCA for The New York Times. Nominated for three James Beard awards, she has been featured in Martha Stewart Living and Coastal Living magazines, and has written for Yankee, Travel & Leisure, Harvard Magazine, Omni, and other publications. She is currently director of Hancock Shaker Village, a living history museum and performance venue comprised of 20 historic buildings on 750 acres in Western Massachusetts. Museum Town is her first film.

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Jennifer Trainer, Noah Bashevkin, Rachel Chanoff

SHOWING AT

UPSTATE FILMS II RHINEBECK

Thur Oct 3  7:45pm

BEARSVILLE THEATER WOODSTOCK

Visit www.museumtownmovie.com

Fri Oct 4  11:00am

WoodstockFilmFestival.org

2019

Christy Lamberjack

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DOCUMENTARIES

NEW HOMELAND Directed by Barbara Kopple USA / 2018 / 87 minutes MAIN CREDITS EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS PRODUCERS

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Tina Exarhos Athan Stephanopoulos Barbara Kopple David Cassidy Eric Forman Gary Griffin Asad Faruqi Rob Kuhns Amina Megalli David Amram

Legendary Oscar-winning director Barbara Kopple (Harlan County, USA) explores the global refugee crisis through the eyes of five young boys in this revelatory new documentary. After fleeing the bloodshed and terror of their former homes in Syria and Iraq, the boys struggle to integrate into their new homeland of Canada. The film follows them over a two-week period as they navigate the strange new world of sleepaway summer camp. A seemingly fun and exciting experience serves as a test of how well the refugee children can adapt to an environment so radically different than the one that was taken from them. Along the way, the kind hearted camp staff does all that they can to ease the transition. The film explores one of the world’s most pressing issues in a wholly unexpected but completely engrossing way. The end result is a moving testament to the resilience of the human spirit. —Max Wexler

Kopple is a two-time Academy Award-winning filmmaker. A director BIO Barbara and producer of narrative films and documentaries, her most recent projects are the documentary New Homeland, and Desert One, premiering at TIFF. Barbara produced and directed Harlan County USA and American Dream, both winners of the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. Her other films include A Murder In Mansfield, This Is Everything: Gigi Gorgeous, Running From Crazy, The House of Steinbrenner, Woodstock: Now and Then, Shut Up and Sing, Havoc, A Conversation with Gregory Peck, My Generation, Wild Man Blues, Fallen Champ: The Untold Story of Mike Tyson, and many more.

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Barbara Kopple

SHOWING AT UPSTATE FILMS WOODSTOCK

Sat Oct 5  10:00am

UPSTATE FILMS I RHINEBECK

Visit www.newhomelandfilm.com

Sun Oct 6  12:00pm

2019

WoodstockFilmFestival.org

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Katherine Sanders

NOT NOT JAZZ Directed by Jason Miller USA / 2019 / 76 minutes MAIN CREDITS CAST

John Medeski Billy Martin Chris Wood Liz Penta EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS Kevin Flanigan Dexter Braff Jason Miller PRODUCERS Elie Weiss Jim Stark Tyler Davidson CINEMATOGRAPHER Htat Htut EDITOR Lance Edmands

Medeski, Martin & Wood is an American avant-jazz-funk band formed in 1991, consisting of John Medeski on keyboards, Billy Martin on drums, and Chris Wood on bass. The band is influenced by musical traditions including funk and hip hop and is known for an unconventional style sometimes described as “avant-groove.” Not Not Jazz provides an in-depth look at the unique and wholly improvisational creative process of the revolutionary musicians as they endeavor to record a new album at the famed Allaire Studio, twenty-five years after their formation.

Miller is an Emmy-nominated multi-disciplinary artist originally from BIO Jason Atlanta, Georgia. His first feature documentary, The Past is a Grotesque Animal, chronicling prolific indie-glam-rock band of Montreal, was released in 2014 via Oscilloscope Labs. Some of the artists and brands Miller has directed work for include Chairlift, J. Mascis, Diplo, A-Trak, Riff Raff, Ray-Ban, FX Networks, and Fender. He grew up frequently moving around the south before attending the University of Georgia. There he became entwined with the Athens music scene and began collaborating with bands and artists on music videos and short films. Jason currently lives in Los Angeles with his girlfriend, Christie.

FOLLOWED BY A LIVE PERFORMANCE

BILLY MARTIN

Following the Friday, Oct 4 screening, Billy Martin of Medeski, Q&A PARTICIPANT *subject to change Jason Miller, Billy Martin

Martin & Wood will give a solo drum performance

SHOWING AT BEARSVILLE THEATER WOODSTOCK

Fri Oct 4  9:30pm

UPSTATE FILMS I RHINEBECK

Sat Oct 5  9:30pm

WoodstockFilmFestival.org

2019

DOCUMENTARIES

Gina Abatemarco

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NOTHING FANCY: DIANA KENNEDY Directed by Elizabeth Carroll USA, Mexico / 2019 / 73 minutes English, Spanish with English subtitles MAIN CREDITS CAST EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS

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Diana Kennedy Jose Andres Salvatore Fuschetto Anna Godas Jonathan Gould Margaret Martin Nick Zukin Dan Braun David Koh Gina Abatemarco Elizabeth Carroll Paul Mailman Andrei Zakow Paul Lovelace Jordan Schulkin Dan Teicher Brian Goodheart Angelique Georges

Nothing Fancy: Diana Kennedy is the story of the vivacious “prophet” of authentic Mexican food – James Beard Award-winning food writer Diana Kennedy. A 95-year-old British woman might be the last person you would think is an expert on authentic Mexican cuisine, but after many decades, she is still the authoritative source that the food world looks to. The film opens with Kennedy declaring “cooking is great therapy,” and goes on to tell the story of how she fell in love with Mexican cooking and traveled throughout the country in the name of research. Kennedy has always been adamant about preserving the authenticity of dishes – no recipe interpretations necessary. Her larger-than-life personality will quickly capture your heart, as you contemplate the topic of appropriation versus appreciation in this fabulous documentary about a woman’s zest for life, still going strong in her golden years. —Sierra Slaughter

Carroll is a director and producer who studied documentary film at the BIO Elizabeth University of San Francisco under Academy Award-nominated filmmaker and Sundance fellow Sam Green. In 2013, she founded Honeywater Films to produce stories about food. She has directed video content for The New York Times and lives in Brooklyn.

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Gina Abatemarco, Jonathan Gould

SHOWING AT BEARSVILLE THEATER WOODSTOCK

Sat Oct 5  6:30pm

UPSTATE FILMS I RHINEBECK

Sun Oct 6  5:45pm

2019

WoodstockFilmFestival.org

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Francesca Trianni

PARADISE WITHOUT PEOPLE Directed by Francesca Trianni Greece / 2019 / 80 minutes In Arabic with subtitles MAIN CREDITS EXECUTIVE PRODUCER

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Jonathan Woods Ian Orefice Edward Felsenthal Lynsey Addario Aryn Baker Francesca Trianni Francesca Trianni Loulwa Khoury Max Avery Lichtenstein Dan Dzula

Set during the height of Europe’s ongoing migrant crisis, Paradise Without People chronicles the harrowing and emotional journey of two Syrian refugee families as they attempt to build a new life for themselves after fleeing their war-torn homeland. Although mothers Taimaa and Nour gave birth at the same hospital in Greece, their quests to seek asylum for their loved ones lead them down radically different paths. Each passing year, their lives bring different joys and challenges, from learning a new language, to coping with social isolation in a foreign culture, and navigating complicated marital strife. Caught between humanitarian and political forces largely out of their control, fate and raw resiliency can determine each family’s chances of success. Directed by Emmy-nominated journalist Francesca Trianni, Paradise Without People brings a glimmer of humanity to an international emergency that is too often simplified into a talking point for today’s polarized politics. —Avery Davenport

Trianni is an Emmy-nominated director and producer at TIME, where BIO Francesca she has worked since 2013. She has contributed to many of TIME’s most important stories, and her work won a 2018 World Press Photo award for Innovative Storytelling. Paradise Without People is Francesca’s debut feature documentary. A native Italian speaker, Francesca graduated with honors from the Columbia Journalism School in New York.

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Francesca Trianni, Loulwa Khoury

SHOWING AT UPSTATE FILMS I RHINEBECK

Fri Oct 4  12:30pm

BEARSVILLE THEATER WOODSTOCK

Visit www.francescatrianni.com

Sat Oct 5  1:30pm

WoodstockFilmFestival.org

2019

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PARIAH DOG Directed by Jesse Alk USA / 2019 / 77 minutes In Bengali with subtitles MAIN CREDITS Subrata Das Malika Sarkar Kajal Halder Pinaki Dasgupta EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Aditi Sircar PRODUCER Jesse Alk CO-PRODUCER Noah Lerner CONSULTING PRODUCER Sean Farnel SCREENWRITERS Jesse Alk Koustav Sinha CINEMATOGRAPHER Jesse Alk EDITOR Jesse Alk SOUND DESIGNER Brian Rund CAST

A beautiful young adult male pariah (or desi) dog, the native canine breed of South East Asia, sits alone in an empty street in Kolkata, India. His spine-chilling cry calls us to the plight of his species and that of their human counterparts, all of whose lives have been disrupted by modern India. Intertwined with scenes of oblivious residents are four remarkable people eking out an existence on the edge of society, yet committed to providing shelter, food and affection for their similarly displaced four-legged companions. Illustrated via vérité style footage over a three year span, the images captured from the streets of Kolkata are shocking, disturbing and beautiful all at once. Along with the high emotional intensity of the story, there are humorous and life-affirming moments, creating a visceral work of art that produces a powerful statement about humanity, as well as our relationship with nature at a time when the natural world is increasingly under attack. —Max Wexler

Alk was born in Ottawa, Canada, to American parents. He graduated with BIO Jesse honors from the University of California, Santa Cruz, studied briefly at the NYU Tisch School of the Arts film department, and then attended the University of California, Los Angeles M.F.A Directing Program in the School of Theater, Film and Television. He is the son of the late documentary filmmaker Howard Alk. Pariah Dog is his first feature film.

Q&A PARTICIPANT *subject to change

Jesse Alk

SHOWING AT ORPHEUM SAUGERTIES

Sat Oct 5  12:00pm

BEARSVILLE THEATER WOODSTOCK

Visit www.pariahdogmovie.com

Sun Oct 6  4:00pm

2019

WoodstockFilmFestival.org

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PARKLAND RISING Directed by Cheryl Horner McDonough USA / 2019 / 90 minutes MAIN CREDITS David Hogg Jaclyn Corin Manuel Oliver Patricia Oliver EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS Katie Couric will.i.am. PRODUCERS Cheryl Horner McDonough Bill Richmond Emilie Bunnell Lori Raimondo Neil Berkeley CINEMATOGRAPHER Bill Richmond EDITOR Molly McEwan COMPOSER/MUSIC Paul Mirkovich SOUND DESIGNER Keith Hodne CAST

On February 14, 2018, a lone shooter opened fire on a Florida high school. In a fight that has become epic, the survivors of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School massacre have responded with defiance, eloquence and bravery. Parkland Rising follows these remarkable young people and the parents of the victims as they take on those responsible for the lack of gun control laws: Politicians who accept gun lobby money, gun manufacturers and the National Rifle Association. With unparalleled access, the filmmakers share the personal stories of these fierce leaders as they raise their voices in an effort to prevent more mass shootings. Focusing largely on student activist David Hogg and artist Manuel Oliver, grieving father of slain Joaquin Oliver, this is their journey over nine defining months as they channel their anger into action and engage in a valiant battle of wills with the gun lobby. Alternately heartbreaking and life-affirming, Parkland Rising should be seen by every American. —Jay Blotcher

Horner McDonough is a two-time Emmy Award and Peabody-winner BIO Cheryl who has produced and directed documentaries and news specials for eighteen years. She is the producer of the film Bean, which was named Best of Fest and Best Documentary at several festivals and was nominated for a 2018 Daytime Emmy Award. She is director of Katie Couric’s, America Inside Out, which received two Front Page awards. TO MARK THE FILM’S WORLD PREMIERE

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Cheryl Horner, Bill Richmond, Manuel and Patricia Oliver, Jammal Lemy, Sam Zeif, Cameron Kasky, and additional Parkland survivors, family and activists

Friday afternoon, Manuel Oliver, father of slain Joaquin Oliver, will produce a mural in the center of Woodstock, that “will combine psychedelic vibes, street art and activism, with a strong statement from Joaquin ‘Guac’ Oliver.”

SHOWING AT WOODSTOCK PLAYHOUSE ROSENDALE THEATRE

Fri Oct 4  9:00pm Visit www.parklanddocumentary.com

Sat Oct 5  3:00pm

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THE POLLINATORS Directed by Peter Nelson USA / 2019 / 93 minutes MAIN CREDITS CAST

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Dave Hackenberg Bret Adee Susan Kegley Bill McKibben Dan Barber Sally Roy Peter Nelson Sally Roy Michael Reuter Peter Nelson Michael Reuter Douglas J. Cuomo Margaret Crimmins

Q&A PARTICIPANT *subject to change

Peter Nelson, Sally Roy

Our complex food system rests on the wings of the honey bee and the commercial beekeepers who move them from farm to orchard, pollinating the crops that produce the food we eat. And right now, honey bees are dying in record numbers due to parasites, pesticides, poor nutrition, and habitat loss. Can anything be done to protect them? Filmmaker Peter Nelson is also a beekeeper, making his quest to tell the bee’s story personal, as well as critical on a world scale. His cinematographic skills and commitment coalesce in a conversation with farmers, scientists, chefs, economists, and academics who provide a broad perspective about the threats to honey bees and what this means to our food security. Their storytelling reminds us that a solution is possible if we recognize the contribution these fascinating insects make to our lives, and take a conscious approach to their care and preservation. This beautifully crafted film offers tangible evidence to the notion that, indeed, we are all connected. —Jess Giacobbe

Nelson, a Hudson Valley local, has been a director of photography for the BIO Peter past 27 years and has a diverse body of work, including documentaries, feature films and commercials. The Pollinators is his feature debut as a director. Select feature credits include the Emmy Award-winning documentary Art & Copy, Michael Moore’s, Sicko, Pipe Dream, and the cult New York romantic comedy Ed’s Next Move. Peter has done domestic and international documentary work for PBS, HBO, National Geographic, Discovery, and the BBC. His short film, Dance of the Honey Bee, had its broadcast premiere on PBS. Commercial work includes campaigns for IBM, Google, SNHU, Black Rock, ESPN/NASCAR, and many others. Peter received a B.F.A. in Film and Television from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. A passion for nature and documentaries keeps leading him back to explore the intersection between people and the natural world. around us.

SHOWING AT UPSTATE FILMS WOODSTOCK

Sat Oct 5  6:15pm

ROSENDALE THEATRE

2019

Visit www.thepollinators.net

Sun Oct 6  12:30pm

WoodstockFilmFestival.org

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SIMON SHAHEEN: A MUSICAL JOURNEY Directed by Tarik Benbrahim USA / 2019 / 78 minutes In English, and Arabic with subtitles MAIN CREDITS CAST EXECUTIVE PRODUCER PRODUCERS

SCREENWRITER CINEMATOGRAPHER EDITOR COMPOSER/MUSIC

Simon Shaheen Tarik Benbrahim Aljazeera Documentary Channel Tarik Benbrahim Tarik Benbrahim Tarik Benbrahim Tima Yelissen Simon Shaheen

Q&A PARTICIPANT *subject to change

Tarik Bengrahim, Simon Shaheen, Firas Zreik, Tareq Rantisi, Fatima Benbrahim

From the opening scene, we are swept into a breathtaking aural experience as the orchestra’s score reveals a blustery Pennsylvania blizzard, inviting us into another world. A Musical Journey is an intimate portrait of the Palestinian oud and violin virtuoso Simon Shaheen and his influential career as composer, performer and educator. Born into a musical family and educated at the Academy of Music in Jerusalem, Shaheen arrived in America in 1981 to a landscape where traditional Arab music was little known. His passion for and commitment to sharing the music’s complexities come to life as he teaches and performs in vibrant musical performances that energize the film. “He’s like a Swiss army knife of talent and magnetism,” says Roger Brown, president of the prestigious Berklee College of Music where Shaheen is now a professor. Because of Simon Shaheen, America is home to some of the best classical Arabic music being played in the world. That is certainly evident as we watch him here in action. — Tamara Pajic Lang

Benbrahim is a New York-based filmmaker. He has directed and produced BIO Tarik documentaries and works of fiction in North America, North Africa the Middle East and Asia. He has worked with Vanessa Redgrave, Letters from New York to Sarajevo; Jerry Schatzberg, The Girl Who Played Go; Michael Moore, Bowling for Columbine and Fahrenheit 911, French subtitles. Tarik subtitled the 2004 re-release of The Battle of Algiers (1966) for Rialto pictures and for the Criterion Collection release of the film. He also Interviewed director Abbas Kiarostami in 2009 for the Criterion Collection release of the film Close Up. Tarik is currently developing Coffee, History in a Cup, a documentary about the history of coffee around the world and the 6 pm, for Golden Circle Pre-Screening stories and lives of coffee farmers. An Champagne and accomplished oud player and musician, he has Hors d’oeuvres Reception has performed with Simon Shaheen, Walter Thompson, Butch Morris and Henry Threadgill’s FOLLOWED BY A LIVE PERFORMANCE Zooid (Pulitzer Prize Award for music 2016).

SIMON SHAHEEN

SHOWING AT

WOODSTOCK PLAYHOUSE

Wed Oct 2  7:00pm

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WoodstockFilmFestival.org

Followed by a live concert with: Simon Shaheen on oud and violin Firas Zreik on qanun Tareq Rantisi on percussion

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DOCUMENTARIES

THE REMIX: HIP HOP X FASHION Directed by Lisa Cortes, Farah X USA / 2019 / 67 minutes MAIN CREDITS Misa Hylton Dapper Dan April Walker Kerby Jean-Raymond EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS Roger Ross Williams Nina Chaudry Rita Shukhman PRODUCER Lisa Cortes SCREENWRITERS Lisa Cortes Emil Wilbekin Farah X Andrew Mer CINEMATOGRAPHERS Alice Brooks Nausheen Dadabhoy Jendra Jarnagin EDITORS R.A. Fedde Sarah Laties Farah X COMPOSER/MUSIC Wendell Hanes SOUND DESIGNER Joanna Katcher CAST

African American culture has impacted almost every aspect of our daily lives, from music to language and, most definitely, the clothes we wear. The Remix: Hip Hop

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X Fashion takes a close look at the black designers and stylists who created the legendary looks that have had a huge influence on popular culture on the global stage. Often met with resistance or even ignored, only to have their designs appropriated once they became popular, they created fashion that was, in part, a reinterpretation of the brands and people who initially rejected them, and always countered with unique perspectives that they wanted to share with the world. This documentary is a tribute to the contributions of Misa Hylton, April Walker, Dapper Dan, and Kerby Jean-Raymond, who have all played a major part in the direction of fashion throughout the last several decades. A powerful look at the importance of representation, steadfast entrepreneurial spirit and being proud of who you are. —Zach Higgins

Cortés is an Academy Award–nominated producer (Precious, The Apollo) and BIO Lisa director. Her work has been distinguished by her commitment to empowering inclusive voices and for giving light to challenging, visionary stories.

Farah X is an award-winning director and editor. She has worked closely with music industry icons including Beyoncé, Mariah Carey and Prince.

Q&A PARTICIPANT *subject to change

Lisa Cortes, Farah X

SHOWING AT UPSTATE FILMS II RHINEBECK

Fri Oct 4  1:00pm

BEARSVILLE THEATER WOODSTOCK

Sun Oct 6  11:15am

2019

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SHORTS

ALL IN A DAY’S WORK

Runtime: 57 minutes

WOODSTOCK Community Center  Fri Oct 4  2:30pm  Sat Oct 5  9:00pm

New York Premiere

ANIMATION I WITH JOY + NOELLE Runtime: 78 minutes + Q&A

BACK TO THE MOON

Directed by Fx Goby, Helene Leroux

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Directed by Alexander Etseyatse

USA / 2019 / 11 minutes NYU A loss prevention officer is faced with a moral dilemma.

France / 2018 / 3 minutes A look at illusionist and filmmaker Georges Méliès, via his best known films, styles, techniques and characters.

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BREAK DOWN

Directed by Emmett Goodman

USA / 2019 / 3:14 minutes Two disparate characters trapped in an elevator.

CANDY SHOP

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Directed by Patrick Smith

SIDES OF A HORN

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Directed by Toby Wosskow USA / 2018 / 17 minutes

In English, and Zulu with subtitles

Based on actual events, Sides of a Horn documents Africa’s wildlife crimes from both sides of the fence.

USA / 2019 / 2:30 minutes Pills and capsules are choreographed into a cacophony of shape, color and size, resulting in a satirical commentary prescription drugs.

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CARLOTTA’S FACE

New York Premiere

Directed by Valentin Riedl, Frederic Schuld

Germany / 2018 / 5 minutes In German with subtitles

THE THERAPIST

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Directed by Ron Eyal USA / 2018 / 15 minutes An unstable therapist is haunted by his own issues while struggling with a challenging patient. NEW YORK PREMIERE

As a child, Carlotta didn’t expect the people around here to have faces.

CHARLES DARWIN, FAMILY MAN

Directed by Steven Kraus

USA / 2018 / 1:55 minutes Famed naturalist Charles Darwin and his wife Emma try their best to protect their young, accident-prone child from danger.

CONCEPTION: MATT + RICHARD TO HELL WITH CODES

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Directed by Leopold Legrand France / 2018 / 14 minutes In French with subtitles

Despite the high-security that protects the building, death can sometimes trespass.

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Directed by Margaret Cheatham Williams

USA / 2018 / 5 minutes In 2018, it can feel like what divides our society is more evident than what unites it.

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ANIMATION I WITH JOY + NOELLE

WOODSTOCK Community Center  Fri Oct 4  9:00pm  Sat Oct 5  1:45pm

GOING APE

NEW YORK CITY SKETCHBOOK

Nicolas Lesaffre and Charles Blanchard

Hong Kong / 2018/ 4:34 minutes A colourful collage of pop culture, classic film, online and musical references.

Directed by Willy Hartland

www.nicolas-lesaffre.com

Directed by Eghbal Shirzaei

USA / 2019 / 4:45 minutes A classroom erupts into a war of words as students grapple with a seemingly simple prompt: what is the opposite of a gun?

HELL OF A WEEK

Directed by Richard O’Connor

USA / 2018 / 1:45 minutes A journey through North Dublin on Christmas in the rain. www.vimeo.com/damienbastelica

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SEX & VIOLENCE 3 Directed by Bill Plympton

I AIN’T GONNA SUFFER

USA / 2019 / 2 minutes 24 vignettes: seven are about sex, 10 about violence, and seven deal with human frailties, particularly the body as it ages.

Directed by Jennifer Klockner

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STRAY CAT AH Q

Directed by Mulan Fu

USA / 2019/ 5:45 minutes In Chinese with subtitles

MOTHER’S SONG

A friendship that can withstand time and distance.

Directed by Signe Baumane

2019

www.lisalabra.com

RIDE

Directed by Damien Bastelica

USA/2019/2:30 minutes On the night of a full moon, Zelma, age 13, discovers blood on her bed sheets. Her mother and three Mythology Sirens rush to educate her about what it means to be a woman.

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Directed by Anna Samo Lisa LaBracio

Iran / 2019 / 4 minutes It’s a minimal story about a woolen old man as a metaphor of our life!

USA/2018/3 minutes Using a custom built zoetrope based on a bicycle wheel, I have developed a film consisting of cycles.

USA / 2019/ 13 minutes Sketchbook drawings come to life in this dreamlike expression of New York City.

THE OPPOSITES GAME

GREYISH

USA / 2019 / 2:10 minutes Mondays can be a drag. But imagine if every day sucked. Well, that’s Roger’s life and... he’s having one hell of a week.

SHORTS

SWEET NIGHT

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Directed by Lia Bertels www.signebaumane.com

Belgium / 2018 / 13:46 minutes In winter, in Himalaya, a bear does not manage to fall asleep. He thinks too much and is in the doldrums.

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SHORTS

COMEDY

Runtime: 62 minutes + Q&A

WOODSTOCK Community Center  Fri Oct 4  4:45pm  Sun Oct 6  3:30pm

GROWING PAINS

Runtime: 64 minutes + Q&A

I REMEMBER ASHES

EAST COAST PREMIERE

WOODSTOCK Community Center  Fri Oct 4  6:45pm  Sun Oct 6  1:15pm

NEW YORK PREMIERE

Directed by Graham Turner

Czech Republic, USA / 2018 / 8:30 minutes Syracuse University In Czech with subtitles

THE BIG BREAK

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Directed by Philip Andelman

France / 2018 / 13 minutes Ted wanted to win just once in life. When the opportunity arises, will he triumph?

The state of childhood perception www.anaefilm.com is evoked when a mischievous duo run amok in the Czech countryside.

LOLO

EAST COAST PREMIERE

Directed by Leandro Goddinho and Paulo Menezes

NEW YORK PREMIERE

Germany / 2019 / 14 minutes

In German with subtitles

BOCCAMAZZO CONSTRUCTION - WE BUILD WALLS!

www.boccamazzowalls.com

Directed by Paul Riccio

USA / 2018 / 10 minutes Trump’s wall gets the Brooklyn treatment. Fuhgeddaboudit!

MARRIAGE MATERIAL, THE MUSICAL!

www.marriagematerialthefilm.com

A coming-of-age comedy where Lolo, http://augohr.de/catalogue/lolo an 11-year-old boy, and his best friends are trying to understand their sexuality and identities.

MILLER & SON

NEW YORK PREMIERE

Directed by Asher Jelinsky

USA / 2018 / 21 minutes American Film Institute A transwoman mechanic lives between running her www.asherjelinsky.com family’s auto shop by day and expressing her femininity by night.

THIS PERFECT DAY

Directed by Oran Zegman

USA / 2018 / 25 minutes American Film Institute Tired of constantly being rejected, how much is a woman willing to sacrifice to become Marriage Material?

Directed by Lydia Rui

Australia / 2018 / 7 minutes Jules, a wayward youth, walks into a music store. This could be the day that changes their life.

www.lydiarui.com/thisperfectday

WORD IS BOND

Directed by Alexandra Mastoon

TERRIBLE ACCIDENT AT THE BREAD FACTORY

www.katelyndouglass.com

Directed by Katelyn Douglass and Drew Angle

USA / 2018 / 13 minutes Hip-Hop’s best kept secret.

USA / 2018 / 14 minutes After falling into an industrial cooking vat, Marty’s coworkers welcome him back to the bakery with an extravagant party.

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OBLIGATIONS

WOODSTOCK Community Center  Fri Oct 5  11:30am  Fri Oct 6  11:00am

Runtime: 76 minutes + Q&A

BIRTH OF A POET

Directed by James Franco, Pedro Gómez Millán and Zachary Kerschberg USA / 2019 / 14 minutes A man searching for truth turns from journalism to poetry.

DESPERATE? DEFEATED? DEPRESSED?

EVALUATION

NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE

Directed by Eyal Tzadik and Yotam Kislev Israel / 2018 / 15 minutes

In Hebrew with subtitles

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DETAINED

A welfare officer and her client come to different terms of reality during a mental evaluation.

I: AYN RAND

WORLD PREMIERE

Directed by Alexander Koltchak

Directed by A.D. Burnett

USA / 2018 / 13 minutes A downtrodden carpet cleaner calls a suicide prevention number, but the hotline operator may not have his best interest at heart.

SHORTS

www.marriagematerialthefilm.com

NEW YORK PREMIERE

USA / 2019 / 9 minutes Ayn Rand faces eternal confirmation of her failures as a writer and philosopher.

www.facebook.com/IAynRand

www.secretland.us

IN FIELDS FORLORN

WORLD PREMIERE

Directed by Dante DeSario

Directed by Khushnuda Shukurova

USA / 2019 / 16 minutes Wesleyan University A faded celebrity crooner finds a glimmer of hope in a neglected young newlywed.

USA / 2018 / 9 minutes Two refugees flee war only to find themselves in the middle of a travel ban. www.imeo.com/khushnuda

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Chris Wedge

2011: Bill Plympton, Signe Baumane and Chris Wedge

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SHORTS

SHORT DOCS 1

WOODSTOCK Community Center  Fri Oct 4  12:30pm

Runtime: 62 minutes + Q&A

A CLOSE SHAVE Directed by Michele Aboud

THE LAST TRAP FAMILY

NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE

Directed by Hudson Lines

Australia / 2019 / 9 minutes Have you had a close shave in life?

A SISTER’S HOPE Directed by Michael Marantz

www.anaefilm.com NEW YORK PREMIERE

USA / 2019 / 5 minutes Tragedy can sometimes lead to greatness.

THE ACCIDENTAL ACTIVIST Directed by Samia Khan

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Directed by Dan Debrey

www.hudsonlines.com

WORLD PREMIERE

WORLD PREMIERE www.aboutthemselves.com

www.aboutthemselves.com

WE ARE FORBIDDEN Directed by Brian Lindstrom and Cheryl Strayed

EAST COAST PREMIERE

Nepal / 2019 / 8 minutes

USA / 2019 / 8 minutes A short vignette about Charlie Morgan, the last pigeon racer of his generation.

In Nepoli with subtitles

www.dandebrey.com

SHORT DOCS 2

In Nepal, menstruating girls and women are considered impure. This stigma permeates every aspect of their lives.

WOODSTOCK Community Center  Sat Oct 5  6:30pm

Runtime: 77 minutes + Q&A NEW YORK PREMIERE

Directed by Roderick Angle

USA / 2019 / 14 minutes This absurdist art church is a safe place to transgress in the Catskills.

NEW YORK PREMIERE

www.theaccidentalactivistfilm.com

INCOMING

USA / 2019 / 11 minutes The Last Trap Family is a short film about a one-of-a-kind, familyrun fishing operation in Rhode Island.

MIKE OSTERHOUT & THE CHURCH OF THE LITTLE GREEN MAN

USA / 2018 / 7 minutes Aasif Mandvi describes his journey from artist to activist.

NEW YORK PREMIERE

Upstate Films II RHINEBECK  Sun Oct 6  6:00pm

EAST COAST PREMIERE

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www.factionnorth.com

BREACH OF TRUST

GUN SHOW

THREE CHORDS AND THE TRUTH

USA / 2019 / 25 minutes University of Southern California A humanized account of the George Tyndall sexual assault case told from the point of view of the women advocating for change.

USA / 2019 / 30 minutes University of Southern California A sculptor takes mock assault rifles on the road to explore America’s obsession with guns.

Scotland / 2019 / 22 minutes University of Southern California A film celebrating the democratic, anticorporate, maverick spirit of the ‘Cigar Box Guitar Revolution.’

Directed by Mishal Mahmud

Upstate Films I RHINEBECK  Sun Oct 6  3:30pm

Directed by Richard Chisolm

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Directed by Virginia Heath

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TEEN FILMS

Bearsville Theater WOODSTOCK  Fri Oct 4  7:00pm

Runtime: 73 minutes + Q&A

CONTROL YOURSELF

MEAN WITH ENVY

USA / 2018 / 8 minutes A young girl suffering from anxiety confronts the unromantic realities of her first relationship.

USA / 2019 / 7:15 minutes WFF Summer Youth Lab A goth and a jock are blackmailed by a popular girl into breaking and entering, but who will the real victim be?

Directed by Zoë Takaki

Directed by Starla Bollé

CURTAINS

MEETING AT HALF PAST FIVE

Directed by Yoni Azulay

USA / 2019 / 10 minutes Hatboro Horsham High School A high school senior’s final theater performance takes an unexpected turn when he does not land the role he had hoped for.

DEAR AMERICA

Directed by Molly E. Smith, Sage Croft

USA / 2018 / 4 minutes Generation Z shares their fears in the age of school gun violence.

EPILOGUE TO A FRIENDSHIP Directed by Trudy Poux

USA / 2019 / 8:16 minutes WFF Summer Youth Lab Two years after the fall of their friends’ group, Will tries to trick his quarreling ex-friends into having one last get together before they go off to college.

THE GRASSY NULL Directed by Jacob Pfeffermann

USA / 2019 / 3 minutes Santa Cruz High School A teenager in the midst of an existential crisis travels through various layers of reality.

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SHORTS

Directed Daria Litvichenko Russia / 2018 / 4 minutes In Russian with subtitles

Two lovers are pulled apart by circumstance, and a tight leash.

NEED PHOTO

THE RULE OF FOURS

Directed by Max Rogoff

USA / 2019 / 10 minutes James is caught at a crossroad as his worsening Obsessive -Compulsive Disorder threatens to destroy his relationship.

SAME BLOOD

Directed by Malcolm Grover

USA / 2019 / 10 minutes The true story of Fabian Marshall, a man who was assaulted and arrested by the Kingston Police while on his way to work.

THE SECOND

Directed by Zoe Harvey

USA / 2019 / 7:45 minutes WFF Summer Youth Lab He may know his rights, but he doesn’t know her past.

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SHORTS

WOMAN

WOODSTOCK Community Center  Sat Oct 5  4:15pm  Sun Oct 6  5:30pm

Runtime: 70 minutes + Q&A

EVELYN X EVELYN

OUR ALBERTINIA

USA / 2018 / 13 minutes Set in 1956, an African American woman struggles with the death of her child.

South Africa / 2018 / 21 minutes

Directed by Eric Pumphrey

Directed by Chantel Clark

In Afrikaans with subtitles www.anaefilm.com

THE NEIGHBORS’ WINDOW Directed by Marshall Curry

USA / 2019 / 21 minutes The life of a middle aged woman with small children is shaken when two free-spirited twenty-somethings move in across the street.

Columbia University South Africa, 1990. When www.chantelclarkfilm.com the crumbling Apartheid regime affords Marie Abrahams an opportunity to sell the family farm, her daughter Inge fights to keep their ancestral land.

TATTOO

Directed by Farhad Delaram

Iran / 2018 / 15 minutes In Persian with subtitles www.theneighborswindow.com

When a young woman tries to renew her drivers license, her tattooed hand leads to further scrutiny.

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MUSIC

A SPECIAL PRESENTATION OF FILM AND MUSIC WOODSTOCK PLAYHOUSE  Thur Oct 3  3:00pm

PRE CE DI NG THE SC R EENING OF

SPEED OF LIFE

Robert Burke Warren Robert Burke Warren will perform a live selection of acoustic David Bowie tunes.

Cody Stickels

ROSENDALE THEATRE  Fri Oct 4  1:00pm

WOODSTOCK THE COLONY  Fri Oct 4  8:00pm

WOODSTOCK: BEARSVILLE THEATER  Fri Oct 4  9:30pm

F OL L OWIN G TH E S C R E E N I N G O F

F O LLO W I N G TH E S C R E E N I N G O F

A NIGHT AT SWITCH N’ PLAY

All seven members of Switch n’ Play, Brooklyn’s award-winning drag and burlesque collective, will showcase live performances that are queer in every sense of the word.

NOT NOT JAZZ Billy Martin

Billy Martin, of Medeski, Martin and Wood, will give a live solo drum performance.

MUSIC VIDEOS ONLINE ALIVE, TEMPORARILY

MONGOL

Directed by Kate Hoffman

Directed by Hao Zheng

USA / 2018 / 3:51 minutes The matriarch of the cult has made her fatal decision. A sacrifice is made to the sirens of the night.

China / 2018 / 10 minutes Set in ancient Mongolia, a man spends years seeking redemption after abandoning his mother.

MUSIC BY VOODOO KUNGFU

MUSIC BY WHITE COAT MOTEL

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CAN’T SPEAK

PLAYING WITH FIRE

AND ROB MOSTRANSKY

Directed by June Hucko

MUSIC BY DECORA

MUSIC BY BREAKUP SHOES

Directed by Rob Mostransky USA / 2019 / 4 minutes We only have 100 years on this earth, make the best of it and follow that inner light.

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USA / 2019 / 4:30 minutes When a girl moves in next store and steals the heart of a one of the Breakup Shoes band members — a firey situation arises.

COCAINE MARCH

ROYAL REPUBLIC

Directed by Ilya Belov

Directed by Leo Äkesson

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MUSIC BY ANNY CHANDIA

MUSIC BY SUZY JONES

Directed by Danny Chandia

Directed by Maris Jones

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Sweden / 2018 / 3 minutes A gloriously tacky, cringy and www.vimeo.com/306359307 occasionally epileptic homage to the 80’s era of music videos and the general conception that more is more.

VIOLENT WATER

THE FINAL PIECE USA / 2019 / 3:48 minutes ‘60s inspired music video from R n B Soul artist Suzy Jones.

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MUSIC BY FIREMAN AND DANCER

MUSIC BY NICO CARTOSIO

Russia / 2018 / 4:20 minutes Those who can name themselves artists & musicians, writers, will understand what I’m talking about in that composition.

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USA / 2019 / 4:55 minutes Using handcrafted props and www.youtu.be/egvMqTHaO0k costumes, this silent-filminspired music video tells the story of a French Navy captain who discovers a wondrous underwater city, and the mermaid who must rescue him from the danger that awaits.

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A SPECIAL PRE-FESTIVAL SCREENING UPAC KINGSTON  TUE Oct 1  7:00pm

A SPECIAL CELEBRATION OF FILM AND MUSIC WOODSTOCK PLAYHOUSE  Wed Oct 2  7:00pm

A FREE COMMUNITY EVENT A C O - P R E S E N TAT IO N W I T H R A D IO K I N G S TO N A N D BA R DAV O N

FESTIVAL KICK-OFF E VENT

THE APOLLO

SIMON SHAHEEN: A MUSICAL JOURNEY

Directed by Roger Ross Williams USA / 2019 / 93 minutes The Apollo, helmed by Oscar- and Emmy-winning director Roger Ross Williams, chronicles the unique history and legacy of New York City’s landmark Apollo Theater.

An HBO Documentary Film

A S P E C I A L I N S TA L L AT I O N WOODSTOCK: CORNER MILL HILL AND ROCK CITY ROADS 

Fri Oct 4  3:00pm

PRECEDING THE SCREENING Champagne and Hors d’oeuvres Reception for Golden Circle ticket holders FOLLOWING THE SCREENING A live concert with

Simon Shaheen on oud and violin

Firas Zreik on qanun

Tareq Rantisi on percussion

EXPERIENCE THE FUTURE 11 JANE ST. VIRTUAL REALITY LOUNGE  Sat Oct 5

LIVE ART ON THE STREET

VIRTUAL REALITY

TO MARK THE WORLD PREMIERE OF

VIRTUAL REALITY LOUNGE  11am-12pm 12-1pm  1-2pm  2-3pm  4-5pm 5-6pm  6-7pm  7-8pm The exciting Virtual Reality program being shown this year will feature 4 VR experiences, including Gloomy Eyes and Bonfire!, both currently at the Venice Film Festival. The VR program is curated by Carol Silverman, currently in production on her own VR experience, and Dario Laverde, Senior Developer Relations with HTC Vive.

PARKLAND RISING

In Friday afternoon, Manuel Oliver, father of Joaquin Oliver, who was shot and killed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, will produce a mural on the corner of Mill Hill Rd and Rock City Rd in the center of Woodstock. The memorial will combine psychedelic vibes, street art and activism, with a strong statement from Joaquin ‘Guac’ Oliver.

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SPECIAL EVENTS

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PANELS PA NE LS

Kleinert James Center WOODSTOCK  Sat Oct 5  10:00am

WOMEN IN FILM & MEDIA

Some of today’s most accomplished and talented women working in the film and media industries will discuss their career trajectories, today’s state of the film and media industry, and the challenges and accomplishments each has experienced in her professional path.

Hilary Brougher is a writer/direc-

tor who lives and works in NYC. Her first feature, The Sticky Fingers of Time (1997), was presented at SXSW and the Venice, Rotterdam and Toronto Film Festivals. Her second feature, Stephanie Daley, featuring Tilda Swinton and Amber Tamblyn, premiered at Sundance in 2006, where it won the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award and went on to numerous international film festivals, including Locarno, Deauville and Milan, where it won Best Director. She is a faculty member in the M.F.A. Film Program at Columbia University School of the Arts, and also the current film division chair. Hilary is married to cinematographer Ethan Mass, who collaborated with her on South Mountain.

Lisa Cortes is an Academy Award-

nominated producer (Precious, The Apollo) and the co-director of The Remix:Hip Hop X Fashion. Her work has been distinguished by her commitment to empowering inclusive voices and for giving light to challenging, visionary stories.

MUSIC FOR FILM

Liz Garbus is an Academy Award, Grammy, DGA and BAFTA-nominee, and winner

of a Peabody and two Emmy awards, making her one of the most celebrated documentary filmmakers working today. She is renowned for creating electrifying archival-driven historical documentaries that retain all the narrative velocity, artistic craft and conceptual depth of propulsive verite films. Her 2018 Showtime docuseries, The Fourth Estate was nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series. What Happened, Miss Simone?, a Netflix original, was nominated for a 2016 Academy for Best Documentary Feature and took home the Emmy for Best Documentary or Nonfiction Special. Her latest miniseries, Who Killed Garrett Phillips?, premiered on.

Pamela Yates is the co-founder and cre-

ative director of Skylight, a non-profit media organization dedicated to combining cinematic arts with the quest for justice to inspire the defense of human rights. Her award-winning films include When the Mountains Tremble, Witness to War, State of Fear: The Truth About Terorism, Granito: How to Nail a Dictator, and 500 Years. Pamela is a member of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, Writers Guild of America and the International Documentary Association. She is in production directing a new documentary film, Borderlands.