2010 Woodstock Film Festival Program by Woodstock Film Festival

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“YOUR FILM TITLE HERE” Peace, Love & Misunderstanding, Francine, Higher Ground, Mother’s House, Second Thyme Around, Rocksteady, Bitter Feast,

Stake Land, Whisper Me a Lullaby, Meskada, Handsome Harry, Taking Woodstock, American Gangster, Michael Clayton, Splinterheads, Against the Current,

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Love Wedding Marriage

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Man on the Train

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The Experiment

Rocksteady

Good

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Henry ’s Crime

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INTRODUCTION WELCOME TO THE 2010 WOODSTOCK FILM FESTIVAL

Windfall

The world around us is becoming increasingly attuned to the effects of globalization and climate change. Technology is in the forefront of change and the world of film has transformed to keep pace with it. Films today are promoted through social networks such as Facebook and Twitter and on the web, in large part, leaving oldform media behind; production companies are heeding the state of the environment, producing eco-friendly films in ways that the old-school film masters would hardly recognize. This year, the Woodstock Film Festival is proud to present an extraordinary roster of films and panels that reflect this changing techno-and-environmental landscape. The Singularity is Near is a film that addresses the futurist projection that machines will soon become more integral to our minds than ever before. Windfall explores not only the future of wind power, but the cautionary aspects of using new technologies, and Made in India tackles the eerie new world of outsourcing motherhood. These are only a few of the many films in this year’s line-up that challenge the way we perceive personal commitment and social responsibility, and the way we interact with the world around us.

Made In India

INTRODUCTION

Hello Lonesome

The ironic and often unpredictable result of the intense connectivity of the Internet has also inspired filmmakers to focus in the opposite direction, specifically, the frustrating inability of people to connect on a personal level. Colonel’s Bride, Hello Lonesome, 3 Backyards, Stranger Things, and Bitter Feast are just a few films in this year’s superb lineup that reflect the human desire to connect. In fact, this is a theme that seems to run through many of our narrative films: As technology makes it easier to connect, why is “disconnection” such a zeitgeist of this age?

Stranger Things

Phil Ochs: There But For Fortune

We also see a trend of intimate portrait films: from William S. Burroughs: A Man Within to Grace Paley: Collected Shorts and Phil Ochs: There But For Fortune and the story of Flora in One Lucky Elephant, to films like Marwencol, about a man who deals with pain by building an entire town in his backyard. Families of all persuasions are a prime subject at WFF 2010, with such films as First Circle, The Kids Grow Up, Some Dogs Bite and White Irish Drinkers. Relationships are formed and collapse, young and old alike come of age, and everyone finds themselves confronted by a universal question: Who am I and what am I doing in this world? In short, a thoughtful and often surprising exploration of the enduring human condition. As ever, we at the Woodstock Film Festival celebrate filmmakers, our modern-day story tellers who help us make sense of the universe and our place within it. With vision, dedication and hard work, they travel the world, delving into the depths of wind and ocean, bravely exploring our hearts, minds and souls.

Marwencol

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INTRODUCTION We invite you to join us in this exaltation of great film, art, music and free expression. Come meet the filmmakers and panelists who have made their way here from all corners of the world… from Greenland to London, Los Angeles to Brooklyn. We are delighted to present their wonderful feature narratives, documentaries and shorts. Rejoice in their music, learn from their experience, and contemplate the artistry inherent in each and every film. Experience the drama, the joy, the unique, and the inquisitive that is expressed in the diverse program that will unfold before you. And while you are here, take in the beauty and charm of the Catskills. Nestled in the artists’ colony of Woodstock and beyond, including the towns of Rhinebeck, Kingston and Rosendale, surrounded by majestic mountains and sparkling streams, and dotted by galleries, restaurants and shops, the Woodstock Film Festival is a celebration of all the senses. Experience it. Enjoy it. Allow it to inspire and empower you.

Colonel’s Bride

Bitter Feast

INTRODUCTION

We extend our thanks to the many people who took part in making the Woodstock Film Festival what it is today. The hard working, skilled and dedicated volunteers and staff, the filmmakers and industry members, the sponsors and individual contributors, our board of directors and our advisory board members, and last but not least, our distinctive, appreciative, community at large. We thank you all for your commitment, hard work and generous support. The festival could not have been here without you. Grace Paley: Collected Shorts

This year, the Woodstock Film Festival has a new dream. In partnership with our sister organization The Hudson Valley Film Commission, we aim to purchase a building that will not only be the home base for the festival, but will provide a space for film workshops, film production, special events, jobs, casting for local productions and a much-needed year-round center for creativity in film. The festival is excited about our future home and asks you to show your support by your generous contribution to our capital campaign to bring about a world-class Film Center here in Woodstock. First Circle

Welcome to the 11th Annual Woodstock Film Festival everyone. See you at the movies. Meira Blaustein & Laurent Rejto Co-Founders

The Kids Grow Up

The Dream: New WFF and HVFC Film Center in Woodstock

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Help Make our D r e a m a Reality The Woodstock Film Festival and Hudson Valley Film Commission would like to purchase a building in the center of Woodstock.

What the proposed FILM CENTER can mean to WFF, HVFC and YOU! • WFF operations, communications center and tech headquarters

• Space for casting calls and office space for local film productions

• Centrally located WFF and HVFC administrative office

• Encourage economic growth in our community

• A revitalized space for conferences, classes and workshops

• Generous benefits for contributors

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BOARD OF DIRECTORS Lauri Andretta, Meira Blaustein, Eva Marie Graham, Stephen Hays, Ilene Marder, Laurent Rejto

ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF Executive Director/Co-Founder

Meira Blaustein

Adminsitrative Director/Co-Founder

Laurent Rejto

Deputy Director

Nikki Goldbeck

Office Manager

Heidi Johnson

Interns

Maggie Vasconi, Juliana Warren, Jacob Brades, Kimberly Sawicki, Samantha Robinson, Mycalia Reynaud, Randy Moses

FESTIVAL PROGRAMMING

Communications Director

Ilene Marder

Press Director

Gabriel Meyers

Press Assistants

Mycalia Reynaud, Kimberly Sawicki

Videography

Gregory Bray

Video (compilations, final cut master)

Jordan Matthews

Photography Director

Naomi Schmidt

Photography Coordinator

Kelly Marsh

Program Graphic Design

Naomi Schmidt (Naomi Graphics)

Program (compilation)

Laurent Rejto, Naomi Schmidt

Features & Documentaries

Meira Blaustein

Publication Editor

Annie Nocenti

Shorts

Laurent Rejto

Website

Laurent Rejto

Animation

Bill Plympton, Signe Baumane

Box Office Tech

Diana Simonson

Youth Screening

Sam Robinson, Adam Blaustein Rejto

Screeners

Michael Burke, Nikki Goldbeck, Barbara Pokras A.C.E., Geri Gast, Gabriel Meyers, David Becker, Jacob Brades, Kimberly Sawicki, Bill Stitt, Aaron Weisblatt

SITE COORDINATION

Panels

Jury

Meira Blaustein, Sabine Hoffman Doreen Ringer-Ross, Brian Geldin, Heidi Ewing Meira Blaustein

FESTIVAL OPERATIONS

STAFF

Operations Director

Heidi Johnson

Operations Manager

Michael Burke

Personnel Director

Amber Plaut

Art Department / Pipe & Drape

Stacey Anderson, Vincent DeBellis, Greg Meola

Exec Director Assistant

Amanda Warman

Communication Services

Greg Carttar, Char Harner 3rd St R&D Production

Print Trafficker

Michael Burke

Special Events

Lauri Andretta, Donna Parisi

Technical Director

Jeff Kantor (Canus Major Productions)

Technical Assistant

Alder Lakish, Matt Kehoe

Technical-Projectionists

Jim Dodge, Scott Francis, Erik Hendricks, Hunter Kelley, John David Williams

Trailer

Based on poster by Portia Munson Ivan Joy with music by David Van Tieghem Aaron Hughes, Lisa LaBracio, Joy and Noelle Vaccese, James Buran

Transportation Director

Kevin Bell

Venue Directors

Glenn Warnock, Michael Franklin

Youth Initiative Coordinator

David Nelsen Epstein, Onteora HS

Audience Award Coodinator

Andrew Emrich

Awards Ceremony Coordinator

Amanda Stahl

Legal Counsel

Richard J. Goldman, Esq.

FESTIVAL SERVICES Guest Relations Director

Nikki Goldbeck

Guest Relations

Laura Kandel, Roberta Jehru, Gabrielle Kleinmann, Gail Nussbaum, Barbara Silver

Registration

Tracy Cohen-Kamien, Sam Kandel

Registration Coordinators

Risa Kamien, Matt Kamien

SALES

PUBLIC RELATIONS

Accounting Coordinator

Wynn Eggleston

Box Office Manager

Emily Suttmeier

Box Office

Joan Quigley, Adam Blaustein Rejto

Merchandise Coordinator

Christina Cole

Bearsville Theatre (Woodstock)

Richard Malvey, Ashley Cornier

Upstate Films at Tinker (Woodstock)

John Bilotti, Gerald Habib

Town Hall (Woodstock)

Daniel Falk, Yael Korat

Utopia Studio (Woodstock)

Donna & Russell Parisi

Woodstock Community Center

Henry Slattery

Rosendale Theatre

Gregory Boydston

Upstate Films (Rhinebeck)

Clark Frankel

ADDITIONAL SUPPORT Award Trophies

Steve Heller (Fabulous Furniture)

VOLUNTEERS (as of September 7) Debbi Adelman Marcia Albert Maryelle Aliberti Adira Baum Joanna Bilotti Susan Black Mitch Burkowsky Thomas Buttner Ann Byer Emily Cahill Emily Carragher Theresa Carroll Mercedes Catania Barbara Cazakoff Barbara Cobb Elias Cohen Josh Conrad Elizabeth Conway Karen Craig Dona Crawford Laura Cullen David Morris Cunningham Angela DeMarta Jean-Michel Desjardins Colin DeVries Wendy Dompieri Joy A. Dryer, Ph.D. Sean Dugan Sue Edwards Juliette Eisenson Renee Englander Ian Ettinger Oona Fessenden Camilo Garcia Geri Garfinkle Rick Gilbert Scott Goren Melita Greenleaf Nissa Gustafson Kathryn Haber Richard Haffar Janet Hamilton Beth Hanigan Gary Harnischfeger

Ilfra Harper Mario Harris Patrice Heber Toni Helton Edwina Henderson Jean Hendrickson Ruth Hirsch Julie Hough Tanya Hulbert Dianne Jabbour Dan Jacobs Liam Kahn Zivile Kaminskaite Laura Katz Bob Katz John Kelley Jennifer Kiaba Barry John Kruppa Eliza Kunkel Jane Laiken Trish Lease Lukas Lerner Marcus Lindner Alice Linz Angela Lisi Melissa Luke Colleen Lynch Marijo Mallon Seraphina Mallon-Breiman Janet Malzahn Jill Matusiak Michael Mayer John Mazlish Jim McElroy Gregory Merigliano Julius Minsky Eleanor Minsky Edie Monroy Rio Morales Jessilina Cambier Ellen Naney Jacqueline Northacker Barbara O’Brien Dion Ogust

Jill Olin Katie Oliver Leah Ostrander Zack Pardee Ron Parker Kelly Perry Nicholas Peterson Matthew Phillips Joan Quigley Fern Revzin Michael Roberts Abigail Robin Dinath Rose Claudia Rose Larry Ross Kayla Sacco Porsha Salvino Michael Sandler Darlene Scialpi Vicky Shapiro Paula Silbey Kate Small Jillian Sprague Lindsay Stanley Lindsay Suchow Julie Szabo Kaitlyn Thompson Brian Tobey Patrice Tortorelli Gary Trieste Liza Tumen Chris Vanderessen Becky Vanderloop Sandy Viani Paige Vinson Peter Wallack Christopher Washington Rachel Weiner Cherity Wicks Eli Wolf Leslie Yeaple Cookie Zucker

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It’s showtime.

TIME is proud to sponsor the 11th Annual Woodstock Film Festival

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

Special Thanks

THANK YOU

Adam and Daniel for their patience and support Adam Keen Adam Schlesinger Alan Schacter America Ferrera Amy Dotson Andretta Foundation Andrew Emrich Barbara Bogart Barbara Kopple Barbara Norton Barbara Pokras A.C.E. Barry Cherwin BCDF Pictures Bill Collins Bill Plympton Bill Stitt Bill Topazio Bingham Ray Bob Berney Bob Malkin Brian Geldin Brian Shapiro Brigid Walsh Bruce Beresford Caralee Moor Charlotte Pfahl Conan Gorenstein County Executive Mike Hein Congressman Maurice D. Hinchey Christina Cacioppo Dan Berger Dana O’Keefe Daniel H. Schneider, Esq. David Enkle David Goldbeck David Nelson-Epstein Dede Leiber Dick Goldman, Esq. Don Gregorious Donna and Russell Parisi Doreen Ringer-Ross Dorothea Swiac Doug Jones

Eamonn Bowles Emily H. Fisher Eva Marie Graham F-Stop Fitzgerald Gail and Abe Nussbaum Hachette Book Group Harris Dew Haskell Wexler Heather Rae Heidi Ewing Ikutiel Blaustein Ilene Marder Jackie Early Jay Andretta Jeanne Berney Jeff Kantor Jeff Moran Joan Knight Joan Quigley John LaValle John Sloss Jonathan Schein Josh Braun Josh Fox Judy Arthur Kale Kaposhlin Kate Pierson Katherine Carpenter Kathy Ruttenburg Kayle Nicholls Kuldeep Malkani Lance Matteson Lauri Andretta Lemore Syvan Leon and Geri Gast Linda Saffire Lisa Protter Liza Burnett Fefferman Lori DuBord Luc Moeys March Gallagher Mariann Harrigfeld Marietta Hanley Mark Braunstein Martha Frankel

Marti Ladd Martin Granoff Mary Giuliani Mary Gormley Matt Dentler Matt Kehoe Melissa Leo Michael and Tamara Lang Michael Beattie Michael Cacchio Michele Rejto Nikola Duravcevic Nina Paturel NY Assemblymember Kevin A. Cahill NY State Senator John J. Bonacic Patrick Lyons Paul Higgins Peter Cantine Peter Mayer Peter Saraf Portia Munson Rachel Grady Ric Orlando Richard Abromowitz Robert L. Seigel Ron Mann Ryan Piers Williams Ryan Werner Sabine Hoffman Sara Bernstein Sherry Enger-Gottschalk Steve Lieber Susanne Carol Tali Cherizli Ted Hope Thelma Adams Tom Quinn Tracy Lynch Victoria Langling William Geary

In Memory of Nancy K. Lynch Nancy Olsen Lynch, 59, died August 22, 2010 at home after a long battle with cancer. She was a loving wife, a dedicated sister and a friend to many. She will be missed by all. In an effort to honor Nancy’s commitment and dedication to the students of Ulster County and SUNY Ulster the foundation created the Nancy Olsen Lynch collegiate scholarship fund. Nancy was an integral part of the Woodstock Film Festival Youth Initiative.

In Memory of sheila amos “Sheila Amos [a dedicated film screener for WFF in 2009], 63, died peacefully on July 11 from leukemia. Sheila was a film and Emmy-nominated TV editor, potter, photographer, caseworker and world traveler. Deeply spriritual, Sheila’s wonderful sense of humor carried her throughout her illness. She is loved and remembered by her many close friends from coast to coast.” (New York Times, July 2010)

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advisory b oard

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

Bill Plympton - Animator (Mexican Standoff, Idiots and Angels )

Eamonn Bowles - President, Magnolia Pictures (Client 9, Terror’s Advocate, Jesus Camp)

Aidan Quinn - Actor/Producer (32 A, Dark Matter, Legends of the Fall, Benny & Joon, Evelyn)

Griffin Dunne - Director/Producer/Actor (Broken English, Snow Angels, Fierce People, The Accidental Husband)

Tom Quinn - Senior Vice President, Magnolia Pictures

Martha Frankel - Entertainment Journalist/Author (Hats & Eyeglasses) Leon Gast - Filmmaker (Smash His Camera, When We Were Kings) Ethan Hawke - Director/Actor (Brooklyn’s Finest, Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, Chelsea Walls, The Hottest State)

Bingham Ray - Former President Kimmel Entertainment & UA. Founder October Films Peter Saraf - Producer, Executive Producer, Big Beach Productions (Jack Goes Boating, Little Miss Sunshine, Adaptation) Steve Savage - President/Co-founder, New Video and Docurama

Sabine Hoffman - Editor (The Private Lives of Pippa Lee, The Ballad of Jack and Rose, Brother to Brother, Personal Velocity)

Liev Schreiber - Actor/Director (Salt, Taking Woodstock, The Painted Veil, A Walk on the Moon, Everything is Illuminated)

Gill Holland - Producer, The Group Entertainment (FLOW: For Love of Water)

Ira Schreck - Partner, Schreck Rose Dapello Adams & Hurwitz

Ted Hope - Producer (Adventureland, 21 Grams, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind)

Zachary Sklar - Screenwriter (JFK, Feast of the Goat)

advisory board

Michael Lang - Producer/Promoter (1969, 1995, 1999 Woodstock Festival)

John Sloss - Attorney/Producer, Sloss Law & Cinetic Media (I’m Not There, Pieces of April, Far From Heaven, Before Sunset)

Stephen Nemeth - President of Rhino Films/ Producer (Climate Refugees, Fields of Fuel, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas)

Fisher Stevens - Founding Partner, Greene Street Films, Actor/Producer/ Director (Awake, Pinero, Just a Kiss, The Cove)

Jeremiah Newton - NYU Industry Liaison, Producer (Beautiful Darling)

David Strathairn - Actor (Cold Souls, Good Night and Good Luck)

Annie Nocenti - Journalist/Screenwriter/Teacher, Cine Institute

Lemore Syvan - Producer, Elevation Filmworks (Henry’s Crime, Personal Velocity, The Ballad of Jack and Rose)

Ron Nyswaner - Screenwriter/Director/Producer (The Painted Veil, Soldier’s Girl, Philadelphia) Sarah Plant - Composer/Musician/Associative Music Director

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a b out wff The Woodstock Film Festival celebrates emerging and established voices in independent film with screenings, seminars, workshops and concerts throughout the Mid-Hudson Valley. The festival is centered in the historic arts colony of Woodstock, New York, with additional events and screenings taking place in the nearby towns of Rhinebeck, Rosendale, Mt. Tremper, Boiceville and Kingston.

As a not-for-profit, 501(c)(3) organization, the Woodstock Film Festival’s mission is to present an annual program and year-round schedule of film, music and artrelated activities that promote artists and culture and inspire learning and diversity. The Hudson Valley Film Commission promotes sustainable economic development by attracting and supporting film, video and media production. 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.

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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&A’s. Each year the festival presents films in the categories of: Exposure, Films of the Hudson Valley, Focus on Music, World Cinema and Youth Screenings.

Year-Round Programming The Woodstock Film Festival and the Hudson Valley Programmers Group are committed to providing the Hudson Valley with year-round programming, offering screenings and events from New York City to the Capital Region. This year the Hudson Valley Programmers Group presented Oscar® nominated filmmaker Rachel Grady (Jesus Camp) with her latest film 12th & Delaware to a deeplyengaged audience. HVPG also brought Cuban-American Short Filmmaker Hugo Perez on tour with a series of shorts, some of which were shot in the Hudson Valley. Keep an eye out for Jon Bowermaster’s latest SoLa: Louisiana Water Stories, as it will tour colleges around the region. The Woodstock Film Festival held special screenings Battle of the Sexes: Animated with animators Bill Plymton and Signe Baumane, Holy Rollers with Actor/Director Danny A. Abeckaser, Mighty Uke with with special guests directors Tony Coleman, Margaret Meagher and renowned ukulele virtuoso James Hill, Smash His Camera with special guests Academy Award® winning Director Leon Gast and Paparazzo Extraordinaire Ron Galella, The Dry Land with actors America Ferrera, Melissa Leo and more, and Gasland with Director Josh Fox and Congressman Maurice Hinchey. Other year-round screenings have included Taking Woodstock with James Schamus and Academy Award® winner Ang Lee, Answer Man with Lauren Graham and Oscar®-winning documentary Man On Wire with Philippe Petit.

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Films with local ties are a significant part of the WFF. The Hudson Valley and Catskills are a hotbed of creative energy and home to many established and emerging filmmakers. Film production in the Hudson Valley/Catskills also attracts filmmakers from around the world.

Photo: Molly Hawkey

WFF is committed to progressive thinking. The programming of the festival seeks to encourage those who use film to explore social, political and environmental themes and to challenge their inherent boundaries.

Current film production includes Peace, Love and Misunderstanding with Jane Fonda and Catherine Keener, directed by Bruce Beresford. Recent local films include Higher Ground by Vera Farmiga, Bitter Feast by Joe Maggio, Taking Woodstock directed by Ang Lee, Handsome Harry and National Geographic’s Human Footprint. A number of locally produced projects are screening at this year’s festival. Look for the logo in the program, which indicates a film was shot in the Hudson Valley. The Hudson Valley Film Commission promotes economic development by highlighting local talent and attracting outside film, video and media production to the region. For more info, visit www.hudsonvalleyfilmcommission.org.

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This year’s Exposure Program represents the very core of our mission. We are proud to present a line-up of films that represent the myriad of challenges our world faces in these precarious times, the voices of our diverse planet, and the heroes who dedicate themselves to making a difference as they refuse to just accept the status quo. Additional programming, including panels and year-round events, has covered a broad range of socioeconomic and political topics. Select participants have included Woody Harrelson, Tim Robbins, Peter Gabriel, Barbara Kopple, Arlo Guthrie, Haskell Wexler, Liev Schreiber, D.A.Pennebaker, Albert Maysles, Christine Vachon and many others.

To honor its musical heritage, WFF has made music an integral part of its programming. Focus on Music showcases films about music and musicians while actively exploring music’s role in film. Many of our films emphasize music as a powerful tool for expression and conflict resolution. Past musical participants have included Pine Top Perkins, Donovan, Abigail Washburn and the Sparrow Quartet, Dub Trio, The Felice Brothers, The Sad Little Stars, Bernie Worrell, Bela Fleck & Edgar Meyer, Mike Gordon and Trey Anastasio of Phish, Kate Pierson of the B-52s, Arlo Guthrie, Grammy® winner Peter Rowan, Levon Helm, Marshall Crenshaw, Duncan Sheik, Rahat Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and many others. This year’s films, Don’t Quit Your Daydream, Sounds Like a Revolution, Neda’s Eyes and Roscoe Holcomb: From Daisy Kentucky, will feature live music in addition to film screenings.

As technology makes our world seem smaller and increasingly accessible, we are presented with the opportunity to expand our global consciousness. Film remains an ideal vehicle for such expression, offering audiences the scenery, sounds, and personalities of faraway places. WFF is proud to present the World Cinema program to further our commitment to sharing experiences across continents. World Cinema films that have screened at WFF in the past have frequently gone on to receive Academy Award® nominations. Such recent films include Mike Leigh’s Happy-Go-Lucky, Ellen Kuras and Thavisouk Phrasavath’s The Betrayal (Nerakhoon), Julian Schnabel’s The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Susanne Bier’s After the Wedding, Rachid Bouchard’s Days of Glory and Denys Arcand’s Barbarian Invasions.

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hudson Valley filM commission Join us September 29 - October 3, 2010, then come back to shoot your next film in the beautiful Hudson Valley/Catskills.

The Hudson Valley Film Commission (HVFC) creates sustainable economic development by attracting, supporting and promoting local film, video and media production in the Hudson Valley - Catskills. Conservative estimates based on collected data, show that 2010 projects will create well over $15-million of revenue regionally. Production spending includes hiring local crews, cast members, extras, lodging, car & truck rentals, locations, catering, production supplies, equipment, administrative facilities, post production offices and a variety of other expenditures.

Photo: Rick Gilbert

In many cases the film commission is completely responsible for bringing projects to the area. This is as a result of its far-reaching ability to network with industry members and to market the region internationally.

On set with Francine, starring Melissa Leo, directed by Melanie Shatzsky and Brian Cassidy.

“HVFC was a limitless resource in helping our production secure everything from local crew and lodging to office space, locations, community support and even a few great restaurant recommendations! Thank you HVFC!” producer Anthony Moody regarding the 2009 production of the feature film Rocksteady.

Production also kicked off on Francine starring Oscar® nominee Melissa Leo and Mother’s House starring Law and Order: Criminal Intent’s Kathryn Erbe. Meanwhile, production continues on three German films: Second Thyme Around, Harriet’s Dream and To Hell With David. Without a doubt film production in the Hudson Valley is booming.

Photo: Alan Carey

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This past summer, two films from BCD&F Productions shot in the region. Higher Ground, directed by and starring Academy Award® nominee Vera Farmiga, filmed throughout the Hudson Valley in May and June. In July two-time Academy Award® nominated director Bruce Beresford (Tender Mercies, Breaker Morant, Driving Miss Daisy) began production on the film Peace, Love & Misunderstanding, starring double Oscar® winner Jane Fonda and two-time nominee Catherine Keener. Prep work is already underway for The Art of Love, slated for October production. Two-time Academy Award® winner Jane Fonda with nominee and 2010 Honoroary Maverick, Bruce Beresford on the set of Peace, Love & Misunderstanding.

The HVFC provide services free of charge and is supported in part by the Ulster County IDA and Markertek.

Select projects that have shot in the Hudson Valley include: • Peace, Love & Misunderstanding (directed by Bruce Beresford, Starring Jane Fonda, Chace Crawford and Catherine Keener) • Higher Ground (directed by Vera Farmiga) • Francine (directed by Brian Cassidy and Melanie Schatzky) • Rocksteady (directed by Mustapha Khan) • Bitter Feast (directed by Joe Maggio) • Handsome Harry (starring Jamey Sheridan and Steve Buscemi) • Taking Woodstock (directed by Ang Lee) • Splinterheads (directed by Brant Sersen) On location for the Four Years Strong music video

• Against the Current (directed by Peter Donovan) • The Human Footprint (from National Geographic) • The Cake Eaters (directed by Mary Stuart Masterson) • Racing Daylight (directed by Nicole Quinn) • The Night Listener (starring Robin Williams) • War of the Worlds (directed by Steven Spielberg) On location with Rocksteady in 2009 at Accord Speedway.

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MAVERICK AWARD /mav·er·ick /: 1. Being independent in thought and action or exhibiting such independence. 2. One who refuses to abide by the dictates of a group.

Bruce Beresford The Woodstock Film Festival is proud to present two-time Academy Award® nominated writer/director Bruce Beresford with the 2010 Honorary Maverick Award.

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“We are thrilled to be presenting our Honorary Maverick Award to Bruce Beresford this year,” said WFF Co-Founder and Executive Director Meira Blaustein. “Throughout his extensive body of work, Beresford has exhibited unique talent, drawing award winning performances from his actors while subtly creating stories filled with humanity, nuances and discontent. His ability to masterfully bring heart, soul and social critique to all of his work distinguishes him as a true maverick.” Insightful, politically conscious dramas, Beresford’s intelligent works of art depict real-life characters locked in life and death struggles with dark elements of their societies. In his films, characters have lived in a collection of vastly different environments from the Irish courts of the 1950s, to the pre-civil rights south; from the harsh world of seventeenth century Canada to a British military camp during the Boer War; yet in every struggle, Beresford’s characters always valiantly fight for compassion, truth and justice. Woodstock’s dedication to the same values his characters espouse could be what brought him to Woodstock for his upcoming project Peace, Love & Misunderstanding starring Jane Fonda, Catherine Keener and Chace Crawford. A native of Australia, Beresford graduated from Sydney University in 1962, afterwards traveling to England seeking film work. After spending two years in Nigeria editing films, he returned to Australia, where he made his directorial debut in 1972. His international reputation blossomed as part of the Australian new wave, when the astonishing courtroom drama Breaker Morant (1980) won major awards and the screenplay, which Beresford co-wrote, was nominated for an Academy Award®. In 1983, Beresford helmed Tender Mercies which was nominated for five Academy Awards®. The extraordinarily successful Driving Miss Daisy (1989) was nominated for nine Academy Awards®, won four including best picture, best actress (Jessica Tandy), and best screenplay (Alfred Uhry). “As a kid growing up in outback Australia I always wanted to be a film director,” Beresford reminisced. “Now, at age 70(!) I am so lucky to have made films all over the world, including a number in America – where I have been welcomed and made so many friends. To be honored at Woodstock is a great thrill for me, the recognition (but not the finale, I hope) of my 50 years in the film industry.” An extremely talented director of actors, Beresford has directed six stars in Academy Award® nominated performances (Robert Duvall, Sissy Spacek, Tess Harper, Morgan Freeman, Jessica Tandy, and Dan Aykroyd) as well as being nominated for two Academy Awards® himself both for directing (Tender Mercies) and writing (Breaker Morant). Beresford’s work also includes Black Robe, Crimes of the Heart, The Fringe Dwellers, Her Alibi, Mister Johnson, Double Jeopardy, Evelyn and the recent release Mao’s Last Dancer.

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awards Trailblazer Award /Trail-blaz-er /: An innovative leader in a field; a pioneer

Bob Berney The Woodstock Film Festival is thrilled to announce that long time film distribution guru Bob Berney will be honored as the 2010 Woodstock Film Festival Trailblazer Award recipient. Berney has been a preeminent force in the international film world for more than two decades operating four of the most successful independent film distribution and marketing companies: Apparition, Picturehouse, Newmarket Films and IFC Films. Berney’s sharp eye for performances and material has brought a multitude of smart, challenging and entertaining films to the screen. “We are honored to present our Trailblazer Award to Bob Berney,” said Meira Blaustein, co-founder and director of WFF. “His innovative approach to film marketing and distribution has been admired by many in our industry and his independent and uncompromising spirit make him the epitome of a Trailblazer.”

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“I’m glad to be thought of as a ‘trailblazer’ instead of an ‘industry vet,’ for a change, it’s very nice. I respect the spirit of the Woodstock Film Festival; its adventuresome programming, not only in film but in music and many other art forms. The sense of community there reminds me of my days in the movie theater business and the pure joy of experiencing something new through film in a shared environment,” said Berney. Berney’s film credits speak for themselves. As founder and operator of Apparition, Picturehouse, Newmarket Films and IFC Films, Berney has overseen the releases of Academy Award® nominated and winning films There Will Be Blood, Monster, La Vie En Rose, The Passion of the Christ, Whale Rider, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Y Tu Mama Tambien, A Prairie Home Companion, Pan’s Labyrinth, Mongol and many more. In addition to critical successes, Berney has a proven track record for acquiring material that audiences want to see, including box office smashes like The Passion of the Christ ($370 million) and My Big Fat Greek Wedding ($240 million). As an independent distribution and marketing consultant, Berney was responsible for the release of Christopher Nolan’s Memento for Newmarket Capital Group and Todd Solondz’s critically acclaimed Happiness for Good Machine International (now Focus Features). “How do you know Bob Berney is the essence of true independence?” asks James Schamus, CEO of Focus Features and a previous Trailblazer Award Recipient. “You can use the names of both Todd Solondz and Mel Gibson in the same sentence when celebrating him. How awesome is that?” Berney reminisced about previous WFF experiences, “One of my favorite memories is being in Levon Helm’s ‘barn’ after a great film and extending that creative excitement through his music. I’m very honored to be part of this year’s event and glad to hang out in Woodstock for a while.”

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EXCELLENCE IN ACTING AWARD for performances in Hollywood and independent film

Keanu Reeves Keanu Reeves will be recognized for skillfully skirting the boundaries between tent-pole studio releases and smaller, character driven films. He is best known for his roles in Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure, Speed and the science fiction-action trilogy The Matrix. He has worked under top indie directors, such as Stephen Frears in the period drama Dangerous Liaisons; Gus Van Sant in the gritty My Own Private Idaho; Bernardo Bertolucci’s Little Buddha; Richard Linklater’s A Scanner Darkly, Rebecca Miller’s The Private Lives of Pippa Lee, Mike Mills’ Thumbsucker and this year’s Henry’s Crime by Malcolm Venville, which makes its US premiere at the Woodstock Film Festival.

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In addition to his film roles, Reeves has also performed in theater. His performance in the title role in a Manitoba Theatre Centre production of Hamlet was praised by Roger Lewis, the Sunday Times, who called Reeves “...one of the top three Hamlets I have seen, for a simple reason: he is Hamlet.” Born in Lebanon, Reeves began acting at a very young age on both the stage and in television. He got his break in 1986’s Youngblood opposite Rob Lowe and Patrick Swayze. The offers came pouring in during the late 1980s, and he had roles in films such as The Prince of Pennsylvania directed by Hudson Valley resident Ron Nyswaner and 1988’s Oscar-winning period film Dangerous Liaisons. Reeves breaktrhough came starring in Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure. He became a household name after appearing as Neo in The Ma trix Trilogy. Despite his enormous successes, Reeves refuses to be drawn into just one type of film and chooses instead to appear not just in high-octane effects-driven movies, but also astute indie films. The Woodstock Film Festival is proud to recognize Keanu Reeves with the 2010 Excellence in Acting Award for his work in Hollywood and independent films.

HASKELL WEXLER AWARD FOR BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

The Woodstock Film Festival HASKELL WEXLER AWARD FOR BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY, with support from Panavision, will provide $15,000 worth of 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 is selected by Haskell Wexler, A.S.C. (Bound for Glory, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Coming Home, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolfe, The Secret of Roan Inish). Wexler is a five-time Academy Award® nominee and the recipient of a star on Hollywood’s Walk of Fame.

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awards JAMES LYONS EDITING AWARD Established originally by editor Sabine Hoffman, the JAMES LYONS EDITING AWARD has been named in honor of the accomplished editor who had a home near Woodstock. When the Woodstock Film Festival began, just down the road, Lyons became a strong supporter–sitting on juries and panel discussions, hosting his filmmaking friends, and seeing everything at the festival that he could. Lyons liked nothing better than to see one of his assistants develop as an editor, so when he passed on, his family and partner, Terrence Savage, felt that establishing an award for excellence in film editing would be an appropriate way to commemorate his life and work. The award will also include a cash prize and in-kind contributions. 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) and Far from Heaven. 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. As an actor, he played lead roles in Poison, Steve MacClean’s Postcards from the Edge (as the artist David Wojnorowicz) and Mary Harron’s I Shot Andy Warhol. A gifted writer, he received a Creative Capital grant for his script, A Short Film about Andy Warhol and was in pre-production for it when he passed away in 2007. –Amy Taubin

THE DIANE SELIGMAN AWARDS

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The Woodstock Film Festival and sponsor Lowel Light will continue to reward, support and encourage the next generation of inspired filmmakers with annual cash/in-kind awards for Best Short Narrative, Best Short Doc and Best Student Short in honor of Diane Seligman, a very loving person who celebrated life in the way she lived. THE DIANE SELIGMAN AWARD is presented to films that are vibrant, life affirming, creative and passionate. Diane Seligman was a beautiful and giving person who touched and inspired all who knew her. As a teenager in the 1960’s, she was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s disease and was the lone survivor in a large experimental treatment group. Against the odds and medical advice, she gave life to and raised a son and a daughter. She passed away on Feb 27, 2004 from respiratory complications caused by the radiation that had originally helped to save her. Diane lived in the moment, in the flow, in harmony with the life force and source with grace and dignity. She was grateful for every day.

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AWARD JURY FEATURE NARRATIVE JURY John Anderson is a film critic for Variety, The Washington Post and Newsday. His work appears regularly in the New York Times and he has contributed to the Los Angeles Times, The Nation, Film Comment, the Village Voice, The Wall Street Journal and Schizophrenia Digest. He is a past member of the selection committee of the New York Film Festival and the author of Sundancing (Avon) and with Laura Kim, I Wake Up Screening (Billboard Books). With David Sterritt, he edited The B List, the most recent book by the National Society of Film Critics. He is a member and two-time past chair of the New York Film Critics Circle and a member of the National Society of Film Critics.

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Amy Dotson is the Deputy Director of IFP, the nation’s oldest notfor-profit membership and advocacy organization of independent filmmakers. She oversees all programming for the organization’s signature programs: Independent Filmmaker Labs and Independent Film Week. Before joining IFP, Dotson was Associate Programmer/Special Programs Producer for SILVERDOCS: AFI/Discovery Channel Documentary Festival. Dotson also produced Brad Beesley’s latest feature documentary, Sweethearts of the Prison Rodeo, which had its world premiere at SXSW and premiered on HBO in 2009. Griffin Dunne, an accomplished actor and producer, has also directed the feature films Addicted to Love, with Meg Ryan and Matthew Broderick, Practical Magic with Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman, Fierce People with Diane Lane and Donald Sutherland, Lisa Picard is Famouswith Spike Lee and Melissa Gilbert andThe Accidental Husband with Uma Thurman, Colin Firth, and Jeffrey Dean Morgan. Dunne is currently starring opposite Keira Knightley and Guillaume Cane in the upcoming film Last Night.

FEATURE DOCUMENTARY JURY Barbara Kopple is a two-time Academy Award® winning filmmaker for the documentaries Harlan County, USA and American Dream. Her other films include 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. Barbara is also the recipient of the Woodstock Film Festival Maverick Award, Los Angeles Film Critics Award, the DGA Award for Outstanding Direction and the SilverDocs/ Charles Guggenheim Award among others.

Molly Thompson launched and runs A&E IndieFilms, the network’s feature documentary division. She executive produced the division’s original productions including Jesus Camp and American Teen. Other A&E IndieFilms include the Oscar® nominated, Sundance Award-winner Murderball and My Kid Could Paint That. Thompson is EP on The Tillman Story directed by Amir Bar-Lev, which will be distributed theatrically by the Weinstein Company in 2010 as well as Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer, directed by Alex Gibney and being released by Magnolia Pictures in 2010. Leon Gast is best known for directing such seminal documentaries as Hell’s Angels Forever and the Oscar® winning When We Were Kings. Gast recently completed the documentary Smash His Camera, about the 78 year old self-proclaimed Paparazzo Superstar, famous for intruding on the lives of decades worth of celebrities, and capturing beautiful images in the process. Gast’s next project is co-directing Live at the Fillmore with Amalie Rothschild, a film that explores the modern rock business with a focus on Bill Graham’s Fillmore.

SHORT DOCS JURY Since his twenties Ron Mann has been making awardwinning feature documentaries that focus on alternative and dissent culture. WFF has been showing Ron’s films since Go Further and we are pleased to present the US premier of his latest In the Wake of the Flood. Heidi Ewing is the co-director of of the Oscar®nominated documentary Jesus Camp and she and Rachel Grady recently premiered 12th & Delaware at Sundance and HBO. Ewing also recently directed a film for MTV on Saudi Arabian teens and is part of a consortium of filmmakers that adapted Freakonomics for the big screen. She is currently directing Detroit Hustles Harder, a feature length doc about those that have vowed to stick with Motor City. Petra Epperlein was born in Karl Marx City, GDR. After some years of work as a bricklayer, Epperlein studied architecture in Dresden where after receiving her diploma, she headed west to America. She has been making films with Michael Tucker ever since. Together they have made Gunner Palace, Bulletproof Salesman and How to Fold a Flag and are currently finishing the film Fightville.

SHORTS JURY A practicing attorney since 1990, Jonathan Gray is a dedicated advocate for emerging and established directors, producers, production companies, screenwriters, investors and distributors in film, television and other media. He is the senior partner at Gray Krauss Des Rochers LLP, a full-service entertainment law firm. Ryan Piers Williams worked for Steven Soderbergh and George Clooney on Ocean 12 & Ocean 13, Good Night and Good Luck and The Good German. Williams has written and directed over 10 short films before wrote and directed his first feature, the award winning The Dry Land, which premiered at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival in the Dramatic Competition. It will be released theatrically in 2010. Joshua Zeman has been creating and collaborating in the independent film business for over 10 years. At the 2009 Sundance Film Festival, Zeman premiered Against The Current (released by IFC films). Also in theaters is Cropsey, a documentary that marks Zeman’s directorial debut. Zeman has been a fellow of the Sundance Creative Producing Initiative and also served as a mentor for Independent Film Projects (IFP) 2008 Rough Cut Labs. Carly Hugo is a founding partner of The Group Entertainment, an NYC film production and talent management company. Her producing credits include Beautiful Darling, Beware the Gonzo, Peter and Vandy, and Loggerheads. Carly has several films in post-production, including Higher Ground, which was directed by Vera Farmiga and shot in the Hudson Valley.

Student SHORTS JURY Amy Devra Gossels has been casting director and producer of more than seventy productions in NY. Feature film casting credits include Something’s Gotta Give, Godsend, Milk & Honey, Shoot First and Pray You Live and she is currently in pre-production for One Dead Man. Gossels has cast and produced more than thirty awardwinning short films, including the Academy Award® winning Zen and the Art of Landscaping. She also casts a wide range of television projects, including the 2009 IFC TV series Z Rock as well as the hybrid production The Ride, slated to open on Broadway this fall.

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Amos Poe’s films as a writer, director and/or producer, include Night Lunch, The Blank Generation, Unmade Beds, The Foreigner, Subway Riders, Alphabet City, Rocket Gibraltar, Triple Bogey, Joey Breaker, Dead Weekend, Frogs For Snakes, Steve Earle: Just An American Boy, Empire II, The Guitar and La Commedia Di Amos Poe. Poe also teaches screenwriting & experimental film production at NYU/Tisch. He splits his time between NYC and Florence, Italy.

ANIMATION JURY Since her arrival to New York, Signe Baumane has produced and co-produced, written, directed and designed fourteen independent animated shorts. She has continued her collaboration with Rija Films, where she directed two of her own stories. Her films have screened at such prestigious festivals as Annecy, Tribeca, Sundance, Berlin and Ottawa and have received numerous awards. Baumane is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and is a Fellow in Film with the New York Foundation for the Arts. She advises a series of film festivals in the U.S. on their animation programs and curates special shows where she personally presents films and filmmakers. Bill Plympton was born and raised in Portland, Oregon and moved to New York City after graduating from Portland State University in Graphic Design. He began his career creating cartoons for publications such as New York Times and National Lampoon. In 1997 he was nominated for an Oscar for his short Your Face. Since 1991 Bill has made eight feature films-six of them animated, including 2008’s Idiots and Angels. In 2005, Bill received another Oscar® nomination, this time for Guard Dog, which is part of the highly successful Plympton dog series that includes Hot Dog, Guide Dog and his most recent Horn Dog.

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Haskell Wexler, A.S.C, is considered one of the most well respected cinematographers in the film industry today. His career spans six decades and his work includes such films as One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Interviews With My Lai Veterans and American Graffiti. Wexler has received five Academy Award® nominations and a number of other prestigious awards honoring his outstanding achievements in the photography of a wide range of films. He won his first Best Cinematography Oscar® in 1967 for Mike Nichols’ Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and received the coveted prize again, ten years later, for Hal Ashby’s Bound for Glory. His other nominations were for One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1976), Matewan (1988) and Blaze (1989).

In addition to editing the pilot & first three seasons of the award winning Mad Men, Malcolm Jamieson’s credits include Treme, Bored to Death, Nurse Jackie, and Damages -for which he was nominated for an ACE Eddie Award. His feature work includes Daniel Minahan’s Series 7, Joseph Castelo’s political drama The War Within, and Debra Granik’s debut feature Down to the Bone which won best director at Sundance and a special jury prize for actress Vera Farmiga. He is currently editing Joshua Marston’s second feature Albania.

EDITING JURY–DOCUMENTARY Sabine Hoffman has edited and consulted on narrative films and documentaries for 20 years. Credits include Rebecca Miller’s films Personal Velocity, The Ballad of Jack and Rose, starring Daniel Day-Lewis and The Private Lives of Pippa Lee, starring Robin Wright and Blake Lively. She edited Morgan J. Freeman’s films Hurricane Streets and Desert Blue, Bill Jenning’s Harlem Aria and recently Ryan Piers Williams’ The Dry Land. She is an adjunct professor at Columbia University and serves on the Woodstock Film Festival Advisory Board. Sloane Klevin has been an editor of films, television, commercials, music videos and trailers for 20 years. Taxi to the Dark Side, which she edited and co-produced, won the 2008 Academy Award® for best Documentary Feature and the WGA Award for Best Doc Screenplay among others. The film also had its cable premier on HBO in September of 2008, for which Sloane won an Emmy®. On her latest feature project Freakonomics, she edited segments for directors Alex Gibney, Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady. Sam Pollard has edited,produced and directed films for almost 30 years. His first assignment as a documentary producer came in 1989 for the Emmy Award winning Eyes On The Prize II: America at the Racial Crossroads. Several years later he co-produced Spike Lee Presents Mike Tyson and more recently, produced award winning HBO special When the Levees Broke. Sam is a Professor of Film Studies at the New York University Tisch School of the Arts.

Craig McKay, A.C.E. is a feature film editor recognized with two Academy Award® nominations for Reds and The Silence of the Lambs, and an Emmy and Eddie Award for editing the NBC mini-series Holocaust. He has edited more than fifty films including Philadelphia, Cop Land, Everything is Illuminated, Sin Nombre, and currently Robert Redford’s The Conspirator. Sabine Hoffman (See Editing JuryDocumentary)

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Isil Bagdadi is a film producer, publicist, marketing & distribution executive. In addition to producing the award winning indie feature film Under Hellgate Bridge, she oversaw the theatrical distribution and brokered the domestic video deal with Lions Gate Entertainment. Isil and her business partner Michael Sergio started CAVU Pictures where Isil executive produced and/or released many films including the Slamdance Film festival Grand Jury prize winner The Holy Land.

All trophies are handcrafted by Steve Heller, a self taught artist who works in wood, found metal and Cadillacs from the 1950s. He shows at his Fabulous Furniture gallery (www. fabulousfurnitureon28. com) in Boiceville, NY. Handcrafted trophies and prizes are awarded for Best Feature Narrative, Best Feature Documentary, Best Short Documentary, Best Short and Best Student Film. Other awards are presented for best cinematography, animation and editing. In addition audience awards for Best Feature, Narrative and Best Feature Documentary will be presented. Previous Best Feature Narrative winners include Don’t Let Me Drown, Prince of Broadway, August Evening, Day Night Day Night, Down to the Bone, Assisted Living, Wendigo, Recoil, Interview With the Assassin and The Dreamcatcher. Winners of the Best Feature Documentary award include Junior, In A Dream, The Cool School. Beyond Eyruv, Double Dare, A Boy’s Life, Spellbound, Passages and Freestyle.

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F E AT U R E S 33 3 Backyards 34 A NY Thing 35 Bitter Feast 36 Cherry 37 The Colonel’s Bride 38 Don’t Go in the Woods Performance following Q&A

39 Helena From the Wedding 40 Hello Lonesome 41 Henry’s Crime 43 The Imperialists Are Still Alive! 44 Inhale 45 Inuk 46 The Locksmith 47 Nice Guy Johnny 48 Norman 49 Rocksteady 50 Some Dogs Bite 51 Stake Land 52 Stone 53 Stranger Things 54 Tender Mercies 55 The Tested 56 Welcome to the Rileys 57 White Irish Drinkers

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Eric Mendelsohn has been working in the New York film industry for the past 20 years. His feature film debut, Judy Berlin, starring The Sopranos Edie Falco, Madeline Kahn, Barbara Barrie, and Julie Kavner was an Official Selection of the Cannes Film Festival (Un Certain Regard), won Best Director at Sundance, and was nominated for three Independent Spirit Awards. His short film, Through An Open Window, starring Anne Meara and Cynthia Nixon, premiered at The Sundance Film Festival, enjoyed festival screenings internationally, was an Official Selection of The Cannes Film Festival (Un Certain Regard) and garnered him a guest spot on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. His new film, 3 Backyards, premiered in competition at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival, where it garnered the Best Director award making Mendelsohn the only person in the festival’s history to have received the award twice.

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Nearly every sense is called upon to observe and absorb the many layers of meaning in this elusive and nuanced masterwork by Eric Mendelsohn. Set in a preternaturally squeaky-clean seaside suburb, the ordinary lives of three of its residents take unexpected turns. Driven by an eerily plaintive score and voyeuristic cinematography, 3 Backyards blends genuine suspense with brilliant performances; a chameleon-like Edie Falco as Peggy hungers for excitement while dabbling in painting to gloss over a humdrum life. And if divorce is what happens when the conversation ends, then the marriage of worldweary John (Elias Koteas) teeters on the brink of dissolution. Eight-year-old Christina (Rachel Resheff) must guard a precious gift while stumbling upon a disturbing secret. A treatise on loss? Are “backyards” the underbrush where secrets reside? At times maddeningly subtle, this is a mesmerizing film unafraid to pose possibly unanswerable questions. A “must see!” – Barbara Pokras, A.C.E.

Directed by Eric Mendelsohn USA / 2010 / 88 minutes Main Credits: Featuring

Edie Falco Elias Koteas Embeth Davidtz Rachel Resheff

Exec Producer

Fred Berner

Producers

Rocco Caruso Eric Mendelsohn Amy Durning

Screenwriter

Eric Mendelsohn

Cinematographer

Kasper Tuxen

Editors

Morgan Faust Jeffrey K. Miller

Composer/Music

Michael Nicholas

Showing at: Upstate Films RHINEBECK

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A NY Thing Directed by Olivier Lécot France, USA / 2009 / 86 minutes English and French with English Subtitles Main Credits: Featuring

Greta Gerwig Jonathan Zaccai Fanny Valette Ebon Moss-Bachrach Leo Fitzpatrick Reg E. Cathey

Producers

Jeffrey Saunders Pierre Javaux

Screenwriter

Olivier Lécot

Cinematographer

Isabelle Dumas

Editor

Delphine Cohen

Sound Editors

Laurence Ohayon Jerome Pougnant Yves Servagent

Three days in New York. Three days in which Antoine must pretend to be ‘John’ while staying at Aurthur’s place, who dates Alice, whom Antoine desperately loves. Three days to discover all women are not as romantic as him. Three days to test his potential as a comic, his talent as a liar, his French charm and his existential melancholy. Three days to love New York and be loved in return. This engaging ensemble film takes surprising twists and charming turns, all the while revealing an enlightened look at just how differently the French and Americans see love. The film is laced with comedic texture and an intense passion for love. How far would you go to secure love in your life? Olivier Lécot is an award winning writer and director. He has made five short

BIO films that have won awards at international festivals and a variety of commercials that have screened on TV worldwide. Most recently, Olivier wrote the scripts for Yvan Attal’s sections of New York I Love You. He moved on to writing and directing with this, his feature debut film: A NY Thing.

Showing at: ROSENDALE Theater

Thu Sept 30 • 8:00pm WOODSTOCK Town Hall

Fri Oct 1 • 12:00pm

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Joe Maggio’s first film, Virgil Bliss, was nominated for two 2002 Independent Spirit

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Debut Performance (for actor Clint Jordan.) Virgil Bliss was purchased for theatrical distribution by First Run Features and for North American cable by The Sundance Channel. Virgil Bliss was also theatrically released to critical acclaim. It won a Special Jury Prize for Best Screenplay at the 2003 Atlanta Film Festival and was acquired by Wellspring Media. Paper Covers Rock, Joe’s third feature, premiered at the 2008 SXSW Film Festival and was purchased by IFC Films for worldwide VOD and DVD distribution. Bitter Feast is Maggio’s third film to screen at the Woodstock Film Festival and the first that was produced and filmed in the Hudson Valley. Maggio is currently in post-production on his fifth film, The Last Rites of Joe May.

Bitter Feast F E AT U R E S

Renowned chef Peter Gray, played smartly by James LeGros, is having an awful day. His celebrity cooking show is sinking fast in the ratings and his posh New York City restaurant, Feast, has once again received a nasty review from online food critic JT Franks (Joshua Leonard), leaving Gray frazzled, frustrated and fired. Now out of a job and with his good name ruined, Gray seeks retribution by kidnapping the critic who has tormented him for so long. What follows in Joe Maggio’s revenge thriller is a delightfully crafted tale of intrigue, torture and culinary delight. Featuring a cameo by celebrity chef Mario Batali, Bitter Feast cuts beyond the generic Hollywood horror tale, creating complex characters and motivations. Hudson Valley resident Larry Fessenden produces and co-stars in a film that is sure to be a banquet, not just to your eyes and ears, but your taste buds as well. Bon Appetit. – Michael Burke

Directed by Joe Maggio USA / 2010 / 103 minutes Main Credits: Featuring

James LeGros Joshua Leonard Amy Seimetz Larry Fessenden Megan Hilty Owen Campbell Tobi Campbell John Speredakos Mario Batali

Producers

Larry Fessenden Peter Phok Brent Kunkle

Screenwriter

Joe Maggio

Cinematographer

Michael McDonough

Editor

Seth Anderson

Composer/Music Sound Editor

Jeff Graceo Jeff Seelye

Showing at: Emerson Resort & Spa

Fri Oct 1 • 8:00pm The October 1 Emerson Resort & Spa “Bitter Feast” screening includes a pre-screening feast for ticket holders, featuring a menu created by celebrity chef and “Bitter Feast” supporting actor, Mario Batali. The dinner will be catered at the Phoenix Restaurant by Mary Giuliani Catering & Events. Ticket holders will also have access to the Fright Night after party.

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Dark Sky Films For more info, visit bitterfeastthefilm.com

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Cherry Directed by Jeffrey Fine USA / 2009 / 99:29 minutes Main Credits: Featuring

Kyle Gallner Laura Allen Brittany Robertson Esai Morales D.C. Pierson Matt Walsh

Exec Producer

Paul Kurta

Producers

Sam Kitt Matthew Fine

Screenwriter

Jeffrey Fine

Cinematographer

Marvin V. Rush

Editor

Cindy Parisotto

Composer/Music

Bobby Johnston

Arriving at an Ivy League school at the tender age of 17, Aaron feels out of place. Looking to settle down and escape the bonds of his overbearing mother, Aaron’s quiet life is quickly disrupted by the vivacious Linda and her feisty young daughter Beth. So begins an unlikely love triangle in which everyone loves someone, but no one loves the right one. As the relationships between the three grow, splits emerge that threaten to ruin valuable friendships. Cherry features exceptional performances from a predominantly young cast portraying characters that evolve throughout the film as their perceptions of each other and themselves alter. Jeffrey Fine’s film is a wonderfully woven tapestry of love, joy, redemption and friendship that shows how life can be better lived when in the company of the people who care about you. – Jacob Brades A graduate of USC’s film school, Jeffrey Fine has written, directed and produced

BIO for Discovery Channel, National Geographic, PBS and others on such shows as

diverse as Wired Science, Robocars, A Haunting, The FBI Files and The New Detectives. He directed the feature film No Easy Way starring Khandi Alexander and Alan Boyce, which won the Heartland Film Festival’s Crystal Heart Award and the Kodak Visionary Award.

Showing at: Upstate Films WOODSTOCK

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Oct 1 • 10:00pm

Upstate Films RHINEBECK

Sun Oct 3 • 5:30pm

For more info, visit cherrythemovie.com

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Brent Stewart is a photographer and film director from Nashville, Tennessee. In 2003 he received an MFA at Goldsmiths College, London. It was during this time that he first met Harmony Korine, who was then in London filming Above the Below. When the two later returned to Tennessee, they struck up a working relationship, with Korine and O’Salvation producing the 40-minute film Blackberry Winter, written and directed by Stewart. In 2006 Stewart worked on The Aluminum Fowl, another O’Salvation production, as editor and co-cinematographer. The same year, he also directed the Silver Jews video for Sleeping is the Only Love. In 2007 Stewart worked as a photographer on the set of Mister Lonely and produced the photographic series Mister Lonely Portraits. He also directed a one-hour documentary on the production, entitled The Lonely. In June of 2008 production completed on The Dirty Ones, a short film by Stewart that was produced by Korine with O’Salvation, starring Rachel Korine and Raven Dunn.

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Brent Stewart presents his directorial, narrative feature debut, a compelling and quiet drama, featuring James DeForest Parker in a convincing performance as Bill Best, a lonely Vietnam Veteran in failing health. The broken colonel seeks solace in the company of Gwynn, a young mail order bride from Vietnam, but as Bill’s old world and new reality begin to clash, he is forced to reconcile past war sins, seeking out redemption in the form of his new bride. Meanwhile Gwynn, played admirably by Alicia Truong in her feature film debut, is trapped in a world she doesn’t understand, hoping for a better life than she had in Vietnam, but quickly realizing that perhaps she had left the better world behind. The Colonel’s Bride is an undeniably touching film featuring beautiful cinematography by Neil Lisk. Stewart, who also penned the script, was recently named by Filmmaker Magazine as one of 2010’s 25 new faces in independent film. – Michael Burke

Directed by Brent Stewart USA / 2009 / 73 minutes Main Credits: Featuring

James DeForest Parker Alicia Truong Zamvel Oyvetsky Frally Hynes

Exec. Producer

Jeffrey T. Williams

Producers

Brooke Bernard Ryan Zac Brent Stewart

Assoc. Producer

Scott Pierce

Screenwriter

Brent Stewart

Cinematographer

Neil Lisk

Editors

Michael Carter Brent Stewart

Composer/Music

Lindsay Jamieson

Sound Editors

Jim Reed Eric Williams

Showing at: Upstate Films RHINEBECK

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Oct 1 • 7:30pm

Bearsville Theater WOODSTOCK

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Don’t Go in the Woods Performance following Q&A Directed by Vincent D’Onofrio USA / 2010 / 83 minutes Main Credits: Featuring

Matt Sbeglia Bo Boddie Casey Smith Soomin Lee Kate O’Malley Nick Thorp Gwynn Galitzer Cassandra Walker

Exec Producers

Joe Vinciguerra Sam Bisbee

Producers

Ken Christmas Erika Hampson

Screenwriters

Joe Vinciguerra Sam Bisbee

Cinematographer

Mike Latino

Editor

Jennifer Lee

Composers/Music

Sam Bisbee Bo Boddie

Sound Effects

Carmen Borgia

Showing at: The Catamount at the Emerson Resort & Spa

Fri Oct 1 • 8:00pm

When a young band goes into the woods to write songs they hope will give them their break, the quiet getaway turns into a nightmare beyond their wildest imaginings. Don’t Go In The Woods, the feature-length directorial debut of Vincent D’Onofrio is a twisted and bizarre musical/horror tale that explores love, greed and ruthlessness, showing the lengths that people will go to in order to make their dreams come true. Described as Glee meets The Blair Witch Project, the film cleverly walks an unusual line, maintaining a sinister and creeping sense of dread as well as a feeling of genuine suspense which follows the characters from the very beginning. The film displays the musical talents of a gifted ensemble cast, including Matt Sbeglia in his first feature as Nick, the band’s lead singer, and the music of Bo Boddie and Sam Bisbee, who also star. Blending music and horror in a highly original way, Don’t Go in the Woods ensures that it will captivate and terrify in equal measure. – Jacob Brades D’Onofrio is known as an “actor’s actor”. The wide variety of roles he BIO Vincent has played and the quality of his work have earned him a reputation as a versatile talent. Studying at the Actors Studio and the American Stanislavski Theatre, he made his stage debut in the 1984 Broadway play Open Admissions, followed by work in numerous other stage plays. As a film actor, D’Onofrio’s career break came when he played a mentally unbalanced recruit in Stanley Kubrick’s Full Metal Jacket. In 1996 D’Onofrio garnered critical acclaim along with co-star Renee Zellweger for The Whole Wide World, which he helped produce. In 2001 D’Onofrio took his most recognized role: Det. Robert Goren, the lead character in the TV series Law & Order: Criminal Intent. Most recently, D’Onofrio acted in the Academy Award®-winning live action short film The New Tenants, which will be showing at the 2010 Woodstock Film Festival as part of Shorts: Shout, Twist. The stars of Vincent D’Onofrio’s Don’t Go In The Woods will be showcasing a musical performance at Fright Night. The rock ensemble who also act in the film, will perform the songs of singer/songwriter/producer Sam Bisbee, who scored the film, wrote the original music and will also be present for the film’s Q & A. WOODSTOCK FILM FESTIVAL

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Helena From the Wedding is Joseph Infantolino’s first feature film. He is the writer/director of the short film Jimmy Blue which was an official selection of the 44th New York Film Festival (2006) among others. As a producer, his feature credits include films as varied as David Shwimmer’s Run, Fatboy, (2008) and Jim McKay’s Our Song (2001).

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Newlyweds Alex and Alice are hosting a weekend-long New Year’s Eve party for their closest friends at a remote cabin in the mountains. Any thoughts of a perfect getaway are quickly thrown out the window as newly separated Nick arrives with only a cooler of meat and the news that he and his most recent girlfriend have also called it quits. Don and Lynn show up a few minutes later deep in an argument. Finally, Eve and Steven make it to the cabin with a surprise guest in tow—Eve’s friend Helena. What happens when a gorgeous young woman is thrown into the mix of a couples’ retreat? An explosive undercurrent runs through this beautifully nuanced film. With tensions running high at the cabin, Alex tries to approach the young and beautiful Helena. When she rebuffs him, Alex seems to forget about his new wife and the life she represents, and instead begins to wallow in the fact that nothing seems to go right for him. As it creeps closer to midnight on New Year’s Eve, we realize that nearly everyone in the group of friends isn’t who they appear to be—deep down, they all are a little lost in the world. This film will inspire the viewer — both the married and the single— to contemplate the nature and complexity of attachments.

Directed by Joseph Infantolino USA / 2010 / minutes Main Credits: Featuring

Lee Tergesen Melanie Lynskey Paul Fitzgerald Gillian Jacobs Dominic Fumusa Corey Stoll Jessica Hecht Dagmara Dominczyk

Producers

Alexa L. Fogel Brendan Mason

Screenwriter

Joseph Infantolino

Cinematographer

Stephen Kazmierski

Editor

Jennifer Lilly

Showing at: Upstate Films WOODSTOCK

Thu Sep 30 • 1:00pm ROSENDALE Theater

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Oct 1 • 9:30pm

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For more info, visit helenafromthewedding.com

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Hello Lonesome Directed by Adam Reid USA / 2010 / 93 minutes Main Credits: Featuring

Sabrina Lloyd James Urbaniak Lynn Cohen Harry Chase Kamel Boutros Nate Smith

Exec. Producers

Mark Littman David Gioiella

Producer

Adam Reid

Screenwriter

Adam Reid

Cinematographer

Adam Reid

Editors

Scott Rankin

Composers/Music

Ted Gannon Jones Street Station

Showing at: Upstate Films Woodstock

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Oct 1 • 11:30am

Upstate Films Rhinebeck

Sun Oct 3 • 12:30pm

Everyone has, at some moment in their life, known what it feels like to be alone. But what if that feeling followed you everywhere? Adam Reid’s Hello Lonesome is the story of four people who are desperate to find companionship any way they can. A true gem of a film, it is a beautifully crafted and touching story about love and friendship, mixed with moments of poignancy and tenderness, that is equally heartwarming and heartbreaking. The story follows the lives of an embittered voice actor, a recent widow and a young couple who meet via the internet. Although the lives of the characters never intersect, they all share common traits pertaining to how they relate with the world around them. With wonderfully understated and moving performances, Hello Lonesome will lift the spirits of all who see it, as it reminds us that happiness is often found in the most unlikely of places. – Jacob Brades Adam Reid got his start writing and producing promos for Comedy Central,

BIO including South Park and The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. Most recently, Reid wrote and directed a groundbreaking book trailer for The New York Times bestseller Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, written by Seth Grahame-Smith. Hello Lonesome shared its World Premiere with the Los Angeles Film Festival, where it won the Jury Prize for Best Performance in the Narrative Competition, awarded to the ensemble. Reid’s short film, While the Widow is Away, was a winner at film festivals across the country and one of ten films shortlisted for an Oscar nomination in 2007. The film, which Reid wrote, shot, directed and produced, showcased intimate performances by Lynn Cohen and Kamel Boutros, two actors who return in Hello Lonesome. Reid is currently the Executive Creative Director of the production company Bodega in New York City, where he lives with his amazing and beautiful wife Nell.

For more info, visit hellolonesome.com

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photographer and director of TV commercials, music videos and short films, BIO AMalcolm Venville’s first feature film, 44 Inch Chest, was released in 2010 and

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Sleepwalking his way through life, Henry (Keanu Reeves) gets an unexpected wake-up call when he becomes an unwitting participant in a bank heist. Rather than give up the names of the real culprits, he takes the fall and discovers his true calling. Having done the time, Henry reasons he may as well do the crime. Discovering a forgotten tunnel connecting the bank to a nearby theater, he recruits his old cellmate Max (James Caan) to aid in the robbery, all the while playing the lead in the theater’s current production where he finds himself falling for his leading lady, Julie (Vera Farmiga).

Directed by Malcolm Venville USA / 2010 / 109 minutes Main Credits: Featuring

Keanu Reeves Vera Farmiga Judy Greer James Caan Fisher Stevens Peter Stormarer

Exec Producer

Scott Fischer Mark Fischer Cassian Elwes Lisa Wilson Alison Palmer Peter Graham Stephen Hays Sacha Gervasi

Producers

Lemore Syvan Stephen Hamel Keanu Reeves Jordan Schur

Screenwriters

Sacha Gervasi David White

Cinematographer

Paul Cameron

Editor

Curtiss Clayton

Composers/Music

Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings

stars Ray Winstone, Ian McShane and Academy nominees Tom Wilkinson and John Hurt. Henry’s Crime is his second feature-length film. In 2009, Venville published his second book of photography, Lucha Loco, an examination of the personas of masked Mexican Wrestlers.

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For more info, visit hellolonesome.com

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Sat Oct 2 • 4:00pm

ROSENDALE Theater

Sun Oct 3 • 3:00pm

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Zeina Durra is a writer, director based in New York City and London. Durra

BIO received her B.A. in Middle East Studies from Pembroke College, Oxford and an MFA from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts’ Graduate Film Program. Her award winning thesis film, The Seventh Dog, went to over 20 festivals around the world. Durra’s script for The Imperialists Are Still Alive! was selected for the Berlinale Talent Campus Script Clinic in 2006. She is currently working on her next two films.

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The Imperialists Are Still Alive!

Zeina Durra’s feature-length debut is a fascinating look at the underground art and fashion world. The Imperialists Are Still Alive! follows conceptual artist Asya from the night she learns that her close friend Faisal has been abducted, supposedly by the CIA. That same evening Asya also meets a handsome medical student, sparking romance even as he challenges her thoughts of a grand political conspiracy. Durra guides the viewer through New York, exhibiting a consummate understanding of the city. With the conflict in Israel constantly in the minds of the characters and with clever reminders that post-9/11 life has changed for many Americans, this intelligent film explores the deep effects of the so-called War on Terror. Taken from the point of view of characters who, in Durra’s words, are only just “reaching an age of maturity,” The Imperialists Are Still Alive! is a beautifully insightful film that will inspire the viewer to reconsider how they perceive their own 21st Century psyche. –Jacob Brades

Directed by Zeina Durra USA / 2010 / 90 minutes Main Credits: Featuring

Elodie Bouchez Jose Maria de Tavira Karim Saleh Rita Ackerman Mariana Kulukundis

Exec. Producers

Rami Makhzoumi Hani Farsi Mathew Chausse

Producers

Vanessa Hope Zeina Durra

Screenwriter

Zeina Durra

Cinematographer

Magela Crosignani

Editor

Michael Taylor

Showing at: Upstate Films WOODSTOCK

Fri

Oct 1 • 4:30pm

Upstate Films RHINEBECK

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Oct 3 • 8:30pm

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For more info, visit theimperialistsarestillalive.com

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Inhale Directed by Baltasar Kormakur USA / 2010 / 100 minutes Main Credits: Featuring

Dermot Mulroney Diane Kruger Sam Shepard Vincent Perez Rosanna Arquette Jordi Molla

Producers

Nathalie Marciano Michelle Chydzik Sowa Jennifer Kelly

Screenwriter

Walter Doty

Cinematographer

Ottar Gudnason

Editor

Elisbet Ronaldsdottir

Composer/Music

James Newton Howard

Sound Editor

Victor Ray Ennis

Showing at: Upstate Films WOODSTOCK

Every day, rising Santa Fe District Attorney Paul Chaney and his wife, Diane, wait for word that there’s a donor for their daughter, Chloe. Diagnosed with a rare degenerative condition, Chloe is on a long list to receive a double lung transplant. As her health worsens, Paul becomes desperate to save his young child… so desperate that he’ll risk everything to organize an operation. When Paul learns of a Dr. Novarro who performs transplants in Juarez , Mexico, he heads south in a frantic search for the only man who may be able to save Chloe. But after arriving, he realizes Dr. Novarro’s medical ring runs deep into a criminal underworld where his patients aren’t donors — they’re victims. With his career, his family and his life on the line, Paul finds himself at a critical crossroads: expose a massive, illegal harvesting operation and save the lives of hundreds of children, or save the life of his daughter. director, producer and writer Baltasar Kormákur hails from BIO Award-winning Iceland, but his presence in the film industry is felt worldwide. Kormákur has six Edda Awards (Iceland’s Oscar equivalent) to his name. 101 Reykjavik brought him acclaim from publications the world over. Mr. Showbiz hailed the film as “so Almodóvar that it could melt the polar icecap.” Kormákur’s 2002 effort, The Sea, amassed the widest American distribution of any Icelandic film in history. He followed The Sea with 2005’s A Little Trip to Heaven, starring Forest Whitaker and Julia Stiles. Jar City (also known as Myrin) won six Edda Awards in 2006 and the Crystal Globe at the prestigious Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in 2007. Jar City was Iceland’s official Oscar selection for the Best Foreign Film category.

Fri Oct 1 • 7:15pm ROSENDALE Theater

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For more info, visit ifcfilms.com

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Magidson was born at the height of the 1967 Summer of Love in Oakland, BIO Mike California. In 1989, after four years at the University of California and one year at the prestigious French School of Politics, he received a BA in International Relations. He set off to Los Angeles where he was cast in a series of small theater productions and took a job as an apprentice editor with one of Hollywood’s top ranked trailer producers, Intralink Film Graphic Design. In 1998, after several years editing for such reputable directors as Pan Nalin, Antoine de Maximy and Jean-Michel Carre, Magidson made his first award-winning documentary, Kanada. Magidson went on to write and direct over 20 documentaries and shorts; including two powerful films about a remote village in the icy fjords of northern Greenland. It was during the production of those two films that Magidson formed a strong bond with both his French co-writer, Jean-Michel Huctin, and several members of the local Children’s home. Inuk, Magidson’s first feature-length narrative, is the fruit of that unique friendship.

Inuk F E AT U R E S

Mike Magidson’s feature narrative debut is a stunning coming of age adventure featuring dynamic performances by amateur Inuit actors akin to or surpassing any professional. Inuk is the story of a sixteen-year-old boy who is taken from his broken family in the capital city of Greenland and placed in a home for troubled youth in the remote north of the country. What follows is a dramatic, arctic journey as Inuk and the other teens at the center are led on a cross-ice voyage where they will be forced to grow into adulthood and face their troubled pasts. The film introduces Gaba Peterson in the breakthrough title role and Ole Jorgen Hammeken in a spellbinding turn as Ikuma, the quiet Inuit hunter who leads the excursion while confronting his own inner demons. Breathtaking cinematography highlights the immaculate winter landscapes of Greenland creating another character entirely from the snow and ice. Inuk is a powerfully moving piece, set in the dangerous world of the Arctic, that will remain frozen in your memory long after the final frame. – Michael Burke

Directed by Mike Magidson Greenland France / 2009 89:38 minutes In Greenlandic Inuit with subtitles Main Credits: Featuring

Gaba Petersen Ole Jorgen Hammeken Rebekka Jørgensen Sara Lyberth Inunnguaq Jeremiassen

Producers

Sylvie Barbe Mike Magidson

Assoc. Producers

Ann Andreasen Jean-Michel Huctin Marc Buriot

Screenwriters

Mike Magidson Jean-Michel Huctin

Cinematographers

Xavier Liberman Franck Rabel

Editor

Cecile Coolen

Composer/Music

Mathieu Cochin Bruno Lagoarde

Showing at: Upstate Films RHINEBECK

Sat Oct 2 • 4:00pm Bearsville Theater WOODSTOCK

Sun Oct 3 • 2:15pm For more info, visit inuk-film.com

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The Locksmith Directed by Brad Barnes & Todd Barnes USA / 2010 / 88 minutes Main Credits: Featuring

Anslem Richardson Ana Reeder

Exec. Producers

Todd McDonald Richard Selby Gregory P. Shockro Nicole Vodrazka

Producers

Brad Barnes Todd Barnes

Screenwriters

Brad Barnes Todd Barnes Sophie Goodhart

Cinematographer

Daniel Vecchione

Editors

Todd Barnes Tom Griffen

Composer/Music

Todd Snider

Mike is a locksmith. He’s also a prisoner on work release, but he’s just trying to focus on his house calls and reconcile with his ex-girlfriend... until Margo hijacks his day. The Locksmith is a romcom amusingly tripped up by a stolen vehicle, drug dealer, interrogation and just a little bit of sweet redemption. When ex-con Mike (Anslem Richardson) gets a call to open a door for frantic Margo (Ana Reeder), he has no idea he’s about to be swept away into her peculiar reality, which takes the unlikely pair on a hunt to find out if Margo’s boyfriend is cheating. Brad and Todd Barnes wrote and directed with an irresistible charm that embraces the viewer; you’ll feel like a friend along for the ride. Through sticky situations, their colorful, nuanced characters and quick dialogue lead us through an unexpected chase to unlock the truth. – Heidi Johnson and Todd Barnes have been making movies together for 10 years. Their BIO Brad short film, We Todd Did, screened at the Sundance Film Festival in 2004, followed by the short Choked which screened in 2005.

Showing at: Upstate Films RHINEBECK

Fri

Oct 1 • 4:15pm

WOODSTOCK Town Hall

Sun Oct 3 • 3:45pm

For more info, visit theimd.com/homewrecker

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Johnny Rizzo is forced to travel from the Bay Area to New York by his overbearing fiancée to discuss a mundane job with her father that would put an end to his dream of sports casting. His life is soon disrupted by Brooke, a spirited young tennis instructor. With his uncle Terry pushing him to have one last wild time before his upcoming marriage, Johnny must decide whether he’ll continue to be the person who always pleases others, or whether he’ll make himself happy. Writer and director Ed Burns, who puts in a star turn as the sleazy Uncle Terry, returns to his roots creating a film that is engaging, funny, warm and down to earth. Matt Bush Adventureland is totally convincing as the eponymous Johnny and Kerry Bishé lights up the screen as Brooke, showing Johnny all that he is missing. This delightful film will have every viewer smiling and serves as a lovely reminder that nice guys don’t always finish last. – Jacob Brades

Directed by Edward Burns USA / 2010 / 90 minutes Main Credits: Featuring

Matt Bush Kerry Bishé Edward Burns Anna Wood

Producers

Edward Burns Aaron Lubin William Rexer

Co-Producer

Mike Herrop

Burns won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance and an Independent Spirit BIO Edward Award in 1995 for his first feature, The Brothers McMullen. He continues to write,

Screenwriter

Edward Burns

Cinematographer

William Rexer

direct, star in and produce his films, including She’s the One, Sidewalks of New York and Purple Violets.

Editor

Janet Gaynor

Composer/Music

P.T. Walkley

Sound Editor

Gregg Swiatlowski

Showing at: Upstate Films WOODSTOCK

Fri Oct 1 • 2:00pm Upstate Films RHINEBECK

Sat Oct 2 • 9:15pm

For more info, visit: niceguyjohnnythemovie.com

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Norman Directed by Jonathan Segal USA / 2010 / 97 minutes Main Credits: Featuring

Dan Byrd Emily VanCamp Richard Jenkins Adam Goldberg Billy Lush

Exec-Producer

Rich Cowan

Producers

Dan Keston Hawk Koch Jonathan Segal

Screenwriter

Talton Wingate

Cinematographer

Darren Genet

Editor

Robert Hoffman

Composer/Music

Andrew Bird

Sound Editor

Gregg Swiatlowski

Showing at: Upstate Films RHINEBECK

Sat Oct 2 • 1:30pm Bearsville Theater WOODSTOCK

Sun Oct 3 • 4:45pm

Norman is a remarkable young man. With his mother dead and his father seriously ill but refusing treatment, Norman must take it upon himself to make life bearable. Struggling with his own teenage angst, as well as the extra pressures that he must deal with, Norman is catapulted into a lie that affects others’ perceptions of him and changes the way he views himself. Dan Byrd as Norman beautifully captures the struggles of the character, while retaining his idiosyncrasies and sense of humor that prevail throughout. This powerful coming of age drama stars the Academy Award® nominated Richard Jenkins, Dan Byrd Cougar Town, Emily VanCamp (ABC’s Brothers & Sisters) and Adam Goldberg Saving Private Ryan. Norman also features an original score and songs from acclaimed musician Andrew Bird. Jonathan Segal’s film beautifully examines the strategies used by an adolescent to deal with circumstances and emotions that challenge one’s sense of self. The film explores first love, the relationship between a father and son, and themes of loneliness and abandonment. A poignant and engaging film, Norman combines great pathos and sadness with moments of razor-sharp comedy, tenderness and fine performances that ensures it will stay in the memory of any viewer. – Jacob Brades Segal’s film experience has been focused on directing, writing and BIO Jonathan producing. Norman is his second feature film as a director. After graduating from the University of Pennsylvania, Segal was invited to take part in a comprehensive internship program at Paramount Pictures where he had the unique opportunity to work in all departments of physical production, shadowing key studio directors on various television shows. After his time at Paramount, Segal directed the 20-minute short film Ripple starring Anthony Michael Hall, Marcia Cross, David Hyde Pierce and Colm Meaney. Ripple premiered in competition at the Sundance Film Festival and went on to show at over 20 film festivals around the world.

For more info, visit normanthemovie.com

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Mustapha Khan is an Emmy-Award winning television and commercial director. His credits include: the award-winning documentary House on Fire, the PBS film Reflections of A Native Son, the television Nature series WILD TV and numerous other films and specials for Sesame Street, HBO, Nickelodeon, ABC and PBS. Khan is a graduate of Harvard University and lives in Brooklyn with his wife and dogs. Rocksteady is Mustapha Khan’s feature film directing debut.

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BC has big dreams. A talented young driver, he wishes to go to LA and turn his hobby into his profession, but his mother’s mounting financial concerns are about to ruin this dream. Fresh hope arrives in the shape of his old friend Faith, whose belief in him gives BC the confidence to follow his heart. Rocksteady, set against the backdrop of a dirt-track racecourse and to the sound of a thumping reggae score, is a heart-warming and highly enjoyable coming-of-age story. Director Mustapha Khan gets superb performances from the young cast, especially from leads Cedric Sanders and Natalie Knepp and creates characters that an audience cannot help but like. With pulsating race sequences coupled with tender and studious scenes, Rockstady is guaranteed to delight all who see it. – Jacob Brades

Directed by Mustapha Khan USA / 2010 / 92 minutes Main Credits: Featuring

Cedric Sanders Natalie Knepp Jonathan Orsini Sharon Washington Wass Stevens Steel Pulse

Exec. Producers

Stephen Hays Peter Graham

Producers

Anne Chaisson Anthony Moody Kevin Shine

Screenwriters

Kevin Shine Stephen Hays

Cinematographer

Adrain Correia

Editors

John David Allen Peter Devaney

Composers/Music

Clark Clayton

Additional Music

SteelPulse

Showing at: Rosendale Theater

Fri Oct 1 • 7:00pm Bearsville Theater WOODSTOCK

Sat Oct 2 • 2:15pm

Director Mustapha Khan with actor Natalie Knepp on location at Accord Speedway

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Some Dogs Bite Directed by Marc Munden UK / 2010 / 88:29 minutes Main Credits:

A tough but tender story of three brothers. H is eighteen, a petty criminal and unemployed. Casey is an innocent, warm-hearted young teen and Severino is their baby brother. Technically, they’re half brothers, as they share the same mom and have different dads. But when their mom dies, social services splits them up and takes baby Severino away. Casey thinks they should be together. He thinks his estranged father, who lives in the north of Scotland, will take them in. So he ‘snatches’ his baby brother from his London foster home and forces H to join them on the journey north. As the three boys make their haphazard odyssey across the UK, trying not to get caught by the police, they inadvertently learn about growing up and the responsibilities that come with it. Some Dogs Bite is a moving and thoughtful film features terrific lead performances. Juxtaposing a childlike innocence with shocking adult situations, director Marc Munden has created a very fine film that will touch all who see it.

Featuring

Thomas Brode Sangster Aaron Taylor Michelle Asante Aymen Hamdouchi Mandeep Dhillon

Exec Producers

Anne Brogan Melanie Stokes

Producer

Sara Feilden

Screenwriter

Lin Coghlan

Cinematographer

Wojciech Szepel

Editor

David Charap

filmmaker Marc Munden is known for his short films, documentaries and BIO British features produced for BBC television. Previous credits include the television

Composer/Music

Ben Bartlett

mini-series’ The Devil’s Whore and Vanity Fair and films The Mark of Cain and Miranda.

Sound Editor

Simon Gershon

Showing at: Bearsville Theater WOODSTOCK

Sat Oct 2 • 7:30pm Upstate Films RHINEBECK

Sun Oct 3 • 3:00pm

For more info, visit kindleentertainment.com

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Jim Mickle’s debut feature film, Mulberry Street, enjoyed a phenomenal film festival BIO run, having screened in 25 major international festivals, including Tribeca and South by Southwest. In 2007, the film took home a coveted Audience Award at Fantasia. It later won Best Film as the opening night gala film at the Toronto After Dark Film Festival. Horror bible Fangoria magazine heralded it as “One of the best independent horror features in recent years,” and it landed on a number of critics’ “Best of 2007” lists. Mulberry Street was acquired theatrically by Lionsgate Films and After Dark Films. Since then he has directed the animated short One Night in December and the postapocalyptic vampire film Stake Land. Mickle studied film production at NYU, writing and directing three award-winning short films including The Underdogs, which screened at the Woodstock Film Festival in 2003. He has worked professionally as a storyboard artist, a lighting technician, a 3D animator, and film editor, gathering over 40 credits to his name. He is currently developing an adaptation of Joe R. Lansdale’s classic noir novel Cold in July.

Stake Land F E AT U R E S

In a fierce, alternative vision of America’s bleak future, a young boy is about to learn how cruel the world can be. Martin was a normal teenage boy before the country collapsed in an empty pit of economic and political disaster. And from the ashes rose a new breed of terror. A vampire epidemic has swept across what is left of the nation’s abandoned towns and cities, and it’s up to Mister, a death dealing, rogue vampire hunter, to get Martin safely north to Canada, the continent’s New Eden. Welcome to Stake Land, kid…

Directed by Jim Mickle USA / 2010 / 95 minutes Main Credits: Featuring

Nick Damici Connor Paolo Danielle Harris Kelly McGillis Michael Cerveris Sean Nelson

Exec. Producers

Malik B. Ali Badie Ali Hamza Ali Greg Newman

Producers

Larry Fessenden Peter Phok Brent Kunkle Adam Folk

Screenwriters

Nick Dimici Jim Mickle

Cinematographer

Ryan Samul

Editor

Jim Mickle

Composers/Music

Jeff Grace

Sound Editors

Graham Reznick

Showing at: Bearsville Theater WOODSTOCK

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Oct 2 • 10:00pm

For more info, visit glasseyepix.com

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Stone Directed by John Curran USA / 2009 / 105 minutes Main Credits: Featuring

Robert De Niro Edward Norton Milla Jovovich Frances Conroy

Exec Producers

Avi Lerner Danny Dimbort Trevor Short René Besson

Producers

Holly Wiersma Jordan Schur David J. Mimran

Screenwriter

Angus MacLachlan

Cinematographer

Maryse Aberti

Editors

Alexandre de Franceschi

Composers/Music

Jon Brion

Showing at: Upstate Films WOODSTOCK

Sun Oct 3 • 6:45pm Sun Oct 3 • 9:30pm

Academy Award® winner Robert De Niro and Oscar® nominee Edward Norton deliver powerful performances as a seasoned corrections official and a scheming inmate whose lives become dangerously intertwined in this thought-provoking drama directed by John Curran. As parole officer Jack Mabry counts the days toward a quiet retirement, he is asked to review the case of Gerald “Stone” Creeson, in prison for covering up the murder of his grandparents with a fire. Now eligible for early release, Stone needs to convince Jack he has reformed, but his attempts to influence the older man’s decision have profound and unexpected effects on them both. Stone skillfully weaves the parallel journeys of two men grappling with dark impulses, as the line between lawman and lawbreaker becomes precariously thin. John Curran garnered international acclaim for his independent film We Don’t Live

BIO Here Anymore. Starring Mark Ruffalo, Laura Dern, Peter Krause and Naomi Watts,

We Don’t Live Here Anymore was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival and the Grand Special Prize at the Deauville American Film Festival. Most recently, he directed The Painted Veil, an adaptation of the 1925 novel by Somerset Maugham starring Edward Norton and Naomi Watts. Curran also served as executive producer on the film. His debut feature film, Praise, earned him the Film Critics Circle of Australia Award for Best Direction. Curran’s other directing credits include the award-winning short film Down Rusty Down. Curran wrote the screenplay for the 2010 thriller, The Killer Inside Me. The film, based on Jim Thompson’s classic novel about a West Texas sheriff-turned-serial-killer, was nominated for the Berlin Film Festival’s Golden Bear award.

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For more info, visit overturefilms.net

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Eleanor Burke and Ron Eyal are a writing and directing duo who use actorcentric methods to create a fresh style of dramatic filmmaking. They were recently featured in Filmmaker Magazine’s “25 New Faces of Independent Film.” Burke and Eyal grew up far across the pond from each other, one in England, the other in California. They met while attending NYU’s Graduate Film Program and started their collaboration with the short film Ruth and Maggie, which premiered at the 2006 Slamdance Film Festival. Both filmmakers have received several accolades for their films and screenplays, including a fellowship award for excellence for Eleanor Burke from director Ang Lee. Their debut feature, Stranger Things, was one of only 10 films from across the U.S. selected to participate in the 2009 IFP Narrative Filmmaker Lab, where it won the lab’s top award. Burke and Eyal are currently writing the screenplay for their next feature.

Stranger Things Directed by Eleanor Burke and Ron Eyal UK USA / 2010 / 75 minutes Main Credits: Featuring

Bridget Collins Adeel Akhtar

Producers

Eleanor Burke Ron Eyal

Screenwriters

Eleanor Burke Ron Eyal

Cinematographer

Eleanor Burke

Editors

Michael Taylor Eleanor Burke

Sound Editor

Daniel Pagan

Showing at: Upstate Films RHINEBECK

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Oct 1 • 2:00pm

Upstate Films WOODSTOCK

Sun Oct 3 • 1:30pm

For more info, visit strangerthingsfilm.com

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The story of the unusual and touching bond that forms between the isolated Oona and homeless Mani. Stranger Things is the feature debut of Eleanor Burke and Ron Eyal. Set against the backdrop of a quiet seaside village in England, this beautifully shot tale of one stranger reaching out to another. Together they have crafted a film that explores grief and loneliness, but has, at its heart, a unique and distinctive pair who are able to find solidarity and surprising intimacy in one another’s company. Through minimal and nuanced filmmaking, Burke and Eyal deliver a compelling work of maturity and sensitivity. New faces Akhtar and Collins are magnetic in the central roles. Stranger Things is a wonderfully film that brings with it a great sense of calm and joy, reminding us that anything in life is possible and that very often strange things can bring with them unexpected happiness. – Jacob Brades

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This screening will be preceded by A CONVERSATION WITH BRUCE BERESFORD moderated by Bradley Jacobs, senior editor at “US Weekly”

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Tender Mercies Directed by Bruce Beresford USA / 1983 / 92 minutes Main Credits: Featuring

Robert Duvall Tess Harper Betty Buckley Willford Brimley Ellen Barkin

Producer

Philip S. Hobel

Screenwriter

Horton Foote

Cinematographer

Russell Boyd

Editor

William Andersony

Composers/Music

George Dreyfus

Sound Editor

Stan Bochner

Showing at: Upstate Films WOODSTOCK

Sat Oct 2 • 10:00am Movie starts at 11:00am

Robert Duvall won an Oscar® for his performance as Mac Sledge, a oncepopular country-western singer and now exhausted alcoholic, who collapses in a small, drab motel in the Texas Bible Belt. He finds peace with Rosa Lee (Tess Harper), a Vietnam War widow and mother, who agrees to let him work off his debt provided he does not drink on the job. With an Oscar®-winning screenplay by Horton Foote, this film is a powerfully nuanced masterpiece of resurrection and redemption. Richard Corliss of Time declared it the “best American movie of the new year.” Carol Olten of The San Diego Union-Tribune declared Tender Mercies the best movie of 1983 and “the most poignant, but forthright, film of the year, with a brilliant performance by Robert Duvall”. Bruce Beresford — the two-time Academy Award®-nominated writer/director

BIO will be presented with the 2010 Honorary Maverick Award by the Woodstock Film Festival, during its Gala Award Ceremony, Saturday evening, October 2, at BackStage Productions in Kingston, NY. Creating insightful and politically conscious dramas, Bruce Beresford’s intelligent works depict real-life characters locked in life and death struggles with dark elements of their societies. In his films, characters live in a collection of vastly different environments, from the Irish courts of the 1950s, to the pre-civil rights South and a British military camp during the Boer War. Yet in every struggle, Beresford’s characters always valiantly fight for compassion, truth and justice. A native of Australia, Beresford graduated from Sydney University in 1962, afterwards traveling to England seeking film work. After spending two years in Nigeria editing films, he returned to Australia, where he made his directorial debut in 1972. His international reputation blossomed as part of the Australian new wave, when the courtroom drama Breaker Morant (1980) won major awards and an Oscar nomination for best screenplay. In 1983, Beresford helmed Tender Mercies, which was nominated for five Academy Awards. The extraordinarily successful Driving Miss Daisy followed with nine Academy Awards nominations and four wins, including best picture and best actress. His most recent film, Peace, Love & Misunderstanding, starring Jane Foda and Catherine Keener was filmed and produced in the Hudson Valley.

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Costanzo attended NYU, where he started script reading for USA Films BIO Russell and Lions Gate Films. Soon thereafter, he wrote and directed numerous short films that set him apart as a director to watch, including the award winning telemarketing comedy Cold Call, The Wedding Bout, starring ESPN’s Max Kellerman and Jeffrey, a genre-busting film about OCD that resonated with audiences for its unique sensibility. After having his script Crashers optioned, Costanzo shot a short version of The Tested, which won Top Prize at the prestigious Los Angeles International Short Film Festival and debuted on BET. The Tested was then chosen to participate in the IFP Filmmaker Lab and Emerging Narratives at IFP Film Week. Costanzo is currently in development on his next feature, Broken Smile, a dramedy about sibling rivalry, as well as a TV series about the Russian Mob.

The Tested F E AT U R E S

Set against the backdrop of a gritty, urban New York City, The Tested is a powerful document of life on the street and how people struggle to get by. Following the lives of three people all affected by one tragedy, Russell Costanzo’s film is a gripping and unabashed portrayal of what can happen when youth culture clashes with authority. Unwilling to shy away from asking difficult questions and refusing to sugarcoat the reality of its characters’ lives, The Tested is brutal and tender, unsparing and compassionate. It is a truly engrossing film to watch, helped in no small part by terrific performances from all three leads, including Michael Morris Jr. making his feature debut. – Jacob Brades

Directed by Russell Costanzo USA / 2010 / 90 minutes Main Credits: Featuring

Aunjanue Ellis Armando Riesco Michael Morris Jr. Nathan Corbett Tobias Truvillion Annie Parisse Frank Vincent

Exec. Producers

W. Michael Weinstein Steven Prigge Ray Javdan

Producer

Melissa B. Miller

Screenwriter

Russell Costanzo

Cinematographer

Chris Scarafile

Editors

Michael Taylor Russell Costanzo

Composer/Music

Michael Damon

Sound Editors

Eric Offin Jeff Formosa

Showing at: Bearsville Theater WOODSTOCK

Fri

Oct 1 • 7:15pm

ROSENDALE Theater

Sun Oct 3 • 5:30pm For more info, visit thetestedthemovie.com

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Welcome to the Rileys Directed by Jake Scott USA / 2010 / 110 minutes Main Credits: Featuring

James Gandolfini Kristen Stewart Melissa Leo

Exec. Producers

Ken Hixon Steven Zaillian

Producers

Ridley Scott Tony Scott Giovanni Agnelli Scott Bloom Michael Costigan

Screenwriter

Ken Hixon

Cinematographer

Christopher Soos

Editor

Nicolas Gaster

Composers/Music

Marc Streitenfeld

Sound Editors

Javier Bennassar Leslie Shatz

”Welcome To The Rileys” is an emotional journey that takes us through grief, self-reinvention and healing. The Rileys have been struggling in their marriage since losing their teenage daughter eight years prior. Once a happily married and loving couple, Lois (Melissa Leo) and Doug (James Gandolfini) have grown distant and trapped in grief. Lois has become agoraphobic and won’t leave the house, while Doug tries to escape his pain with philandering. On a business trip to New Orleans, Doug meets Mallory (Kristen Stewart), a teenage runaway. Doug recognizes an innocence in Mallory, which rekindles his paternal instinct, something he has been longing to provide. The opportunity to care and protect Mallory supplants the void Doug’s marriage has left in his heart, and brings new meaning to his life. Doug decides to sell his business and stay in New Orleans to give Mallory the attention and help she can’t bring herself to ask for. Meanwhile, Lois must summon all her courage to overcome her agoraphobia and venture south before her marriage is lost. Welcome to the Rileys is unusual and unflinching story of love lost and found. Music Video director Jake Scott is the man behind the film “Welcome To The

BIO Rileys.” He has directed some classic music videos for REM’s Everybody Hurts,

Radiohead’s Fake Plastic Trees, The Cranberries’ When You’re Gone, as well as videos for Soundgarden, The Smashing Pumpkins, Live, Blind Melon, The Strokes, The Verve, U2 and more.

Showing at: Upstate Films WOODSTOCKk

Sat Oct 2 • 9:30pm ROSENDALE Theater

Sun Oct 3 • 8:30pm

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Samuel Goldwyn Films For info, visit welcometotherileys-movie.com

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Gray was born in Brooklyn, NY and has worked extensively in film and BIO John television. Most recently he created the hit CBS television series Ghost Whisperer, which just completed its fifth season. Gray has written and directed many critically-acclaimed movies for television, including Martin and Lewis, starring Sean Hayes and Jeremy Northam, The Hunley, starring Armand Assante and Donald Sutherland and the miniseries Haven, starring Natasha Richardson and Anne Bancroft. He also wrote and directed his feature film debut Billy Galvin and directed the Warner Brothers features Born to Be Wild and The Glimmer Man. Gray lives in New York with his wife Melissa Jo Peltier and daughter Caitlin.

White Irish Drinkers F E AT U R E S

None would envy the lives of Danny and Brian Leary, brothers trapped in blue collar Brooklyn, circa 1975, in a family where brutality is the norm. Petty criminal Danny (Geoff Wigdor) takes the brunt of the punishment doled out by Patrick (Steven Lang), their tyrannical, alcoholic father, as long-suffering wife and mother Margaret (Karen Allen), stands by helplessly. Brian (Nick Thurston), afraid to reveal his talents, works for the hapless Whitey (Peter Riegert) at the nearly defunct Layfeyette movie theater. Shauna (Leslie Murphy), Brian’s love interest, strikes the perfect note of rough-edged authenticity as she, too, struggles to escape. Alternately tender and violent and peppered with humor, this is smart and suspenseful storytelling where the ties that bind can also break a family, and childhood memories haunt and deceive. Writer-director John Gray skillfully turns tragedy to triumph with an ending bound to shock and surprise. Powerful, well-crafted and thoroughly engaging. – Barbara Pokras, A.C.E.

Directed by John Gray USA / 2010 / 109 minutes Main Credits: Featuring

Stephen Lang

Karen Allen Peter Riegert Nick Thurston Geoffrey Wigdor Leslie Murphy Producer

John Gray Melissa Jo Peltier Paul Bernard James Scura

Screenwriter

John Gray

Cinematographer

Seamus Tierney

Editor

Neil Mandelberg A.C.E.

Composer/Music

Mark Snow

Sound Editor

G. Michael Graham

Showing at: Upstate Films RHINEBECK

Fri

Oct 1 • 9:45 pm

Upstate Films WOODSTOCK

Sun Oct 3 • 3:45pm

For more info, visit whiteirishdrinkersthemovie.com

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D O C U M E N TA R I E S 61 with a Twist: The Docufantasy 62 Beautiful Darling: The Life and Times

of Andy Warhol Superstar Candy Darling

63 Camp Victory, Afghanistan Preceded by Neda’s Eyes

64 Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer 65 The Disappearance of McKinley Nolan 66 Don’t Quit Your Daydream Preceded by Tarantula

67 First Circle 68 Gerrymandering 69 Grace Paley: Collected Shorts 70 In the Wake of the Flood Preceded by YESNO

71 Journey from Zanskar 72 The Kids Grow Up 73 Lennon NYC 74 Made in India 75 Marwencol 76 My Life with Carlos 77 My So-Called Enemy 78 One Lucky Elephant 79 Phil Ochs: There But For Fortune 80 Ray Charles America 81 The Singularity is Near (A True Story About the Future)

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82 SoLa: Louisiana Water Stories 83 Sounds Like a Revolution 84 William S. Burroughs: A Man Within 85 Windfall 60

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Directed by Bobby Sheehan USA / 2010 / 86 minutes Main Credits: Featuring

Joey Basil Twist

Exec. Producer

Sara Feldmann Sheehan

Co-Exec. Producers Barbara Busackino Julia Kisla Robert Sorcher Producer

Bobby Sheehan

Assoc. Producers

Michael Caso Tony Frere Lez Rudge

Screenwriter

Zeke Farrow

Cinematographers

Bobby Sheehan Russell Swanson

Editor

Robert Whitney

Composers/Music

Randy Lee

Filmmaker and photographer Bobby Sheehan’s first foray into the feature world

BIO was the critically acclaimed Seed (IFC Films) of which Variety raved: “A highly

imaginative, collage-like, experimental epic that relentlessly strips away at the boundaries between features and documentaries.” Sheehan is also creating Listen To The World, a feature documentary about the first-ever museum to house instruments from all over the world, Privileged a documentary film for the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities featuring Michelle Obama, Ed Norton and Sarah Jessica Parker and I Thee Wed a short film for the United Nations featuring their Goodwill Ambassador Gisele about the importance of preserving our planet. Sheehan coined the phrase “docufantasy” to describe With A Twist: The Docufantasy. Sheehan recently wrote, produced and directed the film Cayman Went, and his television credits include The Talent Collector, (AMC); the reality series Repo Men starring, Vincent Pastore, for TLC and Discovery Networks; the documentary Jeff Koons: Beyond Heaven for Ovation TV; and was writer and producer on Mr. Prince a tribute to the legendary Broadway director Hal Prince also for Ovation TV and directed by Sara Feldmann Sheehan.

2010

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DOCUMENTARIES

with a Twist: The Docufantasy

Outrageously original mind-bending, gender-bending entertainer Joey , self-described “goddess of the new gender,” meets his match in Basil Twist, a third generation boundary-breaking master puppeteer. Weaving together surrealistic, hallucinogenic performances (think Busby Berkeley on LSD), the two perform cabaret in a frenzy of excess liberally sprinkled with fetish fantasy, space aliens, B-movies, and Aria’s pitch-perfect channeling of Billie Holiday. Video Artist Courtney Harmel calls “...a living cartoon,” and the genius of Twist adds fluidity, abstraction and an alter-ego to Aria’s larger-than-life persona. Tracing the history of the 70’s - 80’s collaborative downtown NYC underground art scene, this film is a treasure trove of commentary and rare archival footage of cutting-edge personalities. There’s even a nod to Michele Obama in a Toledo creation. From the heyday of Fiorucci to the scourge of AIDS and beyond, With a Twist is a supremely satisfying visual and aural feast. Brilliant and wildly entertaining! – Barbara Pokras, A.C.E.

Showing at: Upstate Films RHINEBECK

Fri Oct 1 • 9:30pm

Bearsville Theater WOODSTOCK

Sat Oct 2 • 4:45pm

For more info, visit working-pictures.com/features.html

Photo: Anton Perich

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Beautiful Darling: DOCUMENTARIES

The Life and Times of Andy Warhol Superstar Candy Darling Directed by James Rasin USA / 2010 / 86 minutes Main Credits:

As the line in the Lou Reed song, “Walk on the Wild Side,” goes, ‘Candy came from Long Island ...’ The Candy of that song was born James Lawrence Slattery in 1944, as a boy, young Jimmy lost himself in movies and television. His life began to change when he met Andy Warhol. By then, Jimmy had transformed into glamorous Candy Darling, who worked alongside Sophia Loren, Jane Fonda, Tennessee Williams and became a star on the Off-Off Broadway stage, before succumbing to cancer in NYC in March of 1974. Beautiful Darling offers tender insight into a rare personal struggle, and at the same time catapults the viewer into a world of seductive glamor and those hungry for fame at all costs.

Featuring

Candy Darling Andy Warhol Tennessee Williams Julie Newmar Fran Lebowitz Holly Woodlawn

Exec Producer

Michael Newman

BIO Ghat, was screened at the Venice Biennale and won the Gold Plaque at the Chicago

Producer

Jeremiah Newton

Screenwriter

Yony Leyser

Cinematographer

Martina Radwan

International Film Festival. His short documentary, Gregory Corso Reads from the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights, was included in the Whitney Museum’s Beat Culture and the New America and was also in the Venice Biennale.

Editor

Zac Stuart-Pontier

Composer/Music

Gerald Busby

Sound editor

Andy Hay

James Rasin is a New York City writer and filmmaker. His short film, The Burning

WOODSTOCK Town Hall

Fri Oct 1 • 10:00pm

For more info, visit beautifuldarling.com

Robert Heide Collection

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Camp Victory, Afghanistan offers insight into the struggles of combat through the story of the American Exit Strategy. Using 300 hours of footage shot over the course of three years, the film follows a battle-tested Afghan General and the steady stream of U.S. National Guard soldiers deployed to train the men of his newly formed battalion. It is the first film to examine the reality of building a functioning Afghan military — but it is also a story about friendship and the unlikely bonds that form across cultural, political and social barriers. Deeply personal, Camp Victory, Afghanistan is an original look into a world that most will never see. Thoughtfully filmed and tenderly handled, Camp Victory, Afghanistan proves that regardless of country, language or beliefs, people can work together in an attempt to improve the way they live. – Jacob Brades Carol Dysinger has been a feature film and documentary editor for the past 25

BIO years. Her editing credits include the Emmy-nominated documentary films Deadline and Pvunk, as well as Rain and Santitos. Dysinger has served as a consultant for a variety of documentary films, feature films and music videos. She has also had a career as a screenwriter with scripts produced for 20th Century Fox, Disney and HBO. Carol is a tenured Professor of Graduate Film and New Media at NYU Film School in the Tisch School of the Arts.

(The Director’s Cut) Directed by Carol Dysinger USA / 2010 / 84 minutes In Dari with subtitles, and English Main Credits: Featuring

General Fazil Ahmad Sayar Colonel Michael Shute U.S. Army Reserves Ret.

Producers

Jeff Levy-Hinte Dallas Brennan-Rexer Carol Dysinger

Cinematographer

Carol Dysinger

Editors

Mary Lampson Mary Manhardt

Composer/Music

Sasha Gordon

Showing at: Bearsville Theater WOODSTOCK

Fri Oct 1 • 12:00pm

ROSENDALE Theater

Sun Oct 3 • 12:30pm

For more info, visit campvictoryafghanistanthemovie.com

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DOCUMENTARIES

Camp Victory, Afghanistan

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Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer DOCUMENTARIES

Directed by Alex Gibney USA / 2010 / 117 minutes Main Credits: Featuring

Eliot Spitzer

Exec. Producer

Alexandra Johnes

Producers

Alex Gibney Jedd Wider Todd Wider Maiken Baird

Cinematographer

Erin Barnett

Editor

Alison Amron Plummy Tucker

Composers/Music

Peter Nashel

Showing at: Upstate Films WOODSTOCK

Thur Sept 30 • 3:45pm

This documentary feature takes an in-depth look at the rapid rise and dramatic fall of New York Governor Eliot Spitzer. Nicknamed “The Sheriff of Wall Street,” when he was NY’s Attorney General, Eliot Spitzer prosecuted crimes by America’s largest financial institutions and some of the most powerful executives in the country. After his election as Governor, with the largest margin in the state’s history, many believed Spitzer was on his way to becoming the nation’s first Jewish President. Then, shockingly, Spitzer’s meteoric rise turned into a precipitous fall when The New York Times revealed that Spitzer — the paragon of rectitude — had been caught seeing prostitutes. As his powerful enemies gloated, his supporters questioned the timing of it all: as the Sheriff fell, so did the financial markets, in a cataclysm that threatened to unravel the global economy. With unique access to the escort world and well as friends, colleagues and enemies of the ex-Governor (many of whom have come forward for the first time) the film explores the hidden contours of this tale of hubris, sex and power. Alex Gibney (Writer, Director, Producer) wrote, directed and produced the 2008

BIO Oscar-winning film Taxi to the Dark Side and the 2006 Oscar-nominated film Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room. Other films by Gibney include: No End in Sight (Executive Producer); Mr. Untouchable (Producer); Who Killed the Electric Car (Consulting Producer); The Trials of Henry Kissinger (Writer/Producer); Herbie Hancock: Possibilities (Producer); Lightning in a Bottle (Producer); Wim Wenders’ Soul of a Man (Producer) and Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues (Producer). Gibney’s current slate of projects include a feature documentary about Lance Armstrong for SONY Pictures and Magic Bus, a time-travel immersion experience about Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters.

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For more info, visit magpictures.com

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Directed by Henry Corra Cambodia, USA, Vietnam / 2009 / 85 minutes In Cambodian and Vietnamese with subtitles, and English Main Credits: Featuring

Michael Nolan Mary Nolan Lt. Dan Smith U.S. Army Ret. Richard Linnett Sheila Jackson Lee

Exec.Producers

Danny Glover Joslyn Barnes David Alcaro

Producers

Celia Maysles Jeremy Amar

Cinematographer

Henry Corra

Editors

Kimberley Hassett Eben Bull

Composer/Music

Robert Burger

Henry Corra is a New York City-based documentary filmmaker best known for his

BIO highly acclaimed films Umbrellas, Same Sex America and the Emmy-nominated

NY77: The Coolest Year in Hell. Corra’s films have been exhibited worldwide in theatrical venues in New York City, San Francisco, Paris and Berlin, and in broadcast venues, including HBO, CBS, PBS, VH1, and CHANNEL 4. His work has also been exhibited in museum and cultural venues internationally, including The Museum of Modern Art, New York, The Louvre in Paris and The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. Corra has also done episodic TV projects for broadcasters including MTV, VH1, Bravo and The Sundance Channel, and he’s been singled out as one of the foremost directors of reality TV commercials in America, creating highly successful campaigns for clients ranging from Gateway Computers, Proctor and Gamble, SC Johnson, Reebok, McDonalds and Ford.

DOCUMENTARIES

The Disappearance of McKinley Nolan

Private McKinley Nolan vanished forty years ago in Vietnam on the Cambodian frontier. Some say he was captured, some say he was a traitor, some even say he was an American operative. The U.S. Army officially claims he was radicalized and “went native,” joined the Viet Cong and was later murdered by the Khmer Rouge. In 2006, retired U.S. Army Lt. Dan Smith, revisiting the battlefields of his youth, may have encountered McKinley, alive. So begins a journey into the heart of darkness. The film follows the Nolan family from the cotton belt of Texas, to the battlegrounds of Vietnam, to the killing fields of Cambodia and unfolds as a mysterious fever dream filled with doubt, longing and the will to believe. Nolan’s ghost starts out as a nostalgic vision that we want to capture. But, like a will-o-the-wisp or a banshee, he calls us deeper and deeper into the jungle and into impossible liaisons with Viet Cong and Khmer Rouge. The Disappearance of McKinley Nolan is a mystery, but it’s also, more profoundly, a haunting meditation on war, memory and love.

Showing at: Upstate Films RHINEBECK

Fri Oct 1 • 6:45pm

Upstate Films WOODSTOCK

Sat Oct 2 • 1:30pm

For more info, visit mckinleynolan.com

2010

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Don’t Quit Your Daydream DOCUMENTARIES

Directed by Clark Stiles and Merritt Lear USA / 2009 / 85 minutes Main Credits: Featuring

The Good Listeners Adrian Grenier

Exec. Producers

Sandlot Venture Group Jon Divens Tom Halbach

Producers

Adrian Grenier Reckless Productions John Loar JLoar Productions

Cinematographer

Marcin Nadonly

Editors

Shawn P. Mitchell

Showing at:

Don’t Quit Your Daydream is a profound musical adventure featuring first time director Clark Stiles and his band The Good Listeners as they embark on a last ditch, cross country, album recording extravaganza to save their musical identity and hopefully their careers. The idea is simple: collaborate with a collection of mostly local, unknown and eclectic talent across the United States, from a down and out Memphis blues guitarist to a mechanic to a banjo-playing gator swamp tour guide, to create a diverse new album. The results are often humorous, surprisingly touching, and in the end, form an amazing compilation of talented musicians and songs pieced together by desire and talent. Adrian Grenier of Entourage produces and also teams up with Clark and his band on one of the musical numbers. Don’t Quit Your Daydream is a road movie like no other that will inspire every dreamer to give it one last try. – Michael Burke Clark Stiles is one half of the pop/rock

BIO outfit The Good Listeners and Creative

Director for Ludlow Kingsley Design Studio in Los Angeles. Don’t Quit Your Daydream is his first documentary feature.

Bearsville Theater WOODSTOCK

Thu Sept 30 • 8:15pm

ROSENDALE Theater

Fri Oct 1 • 4:30pm

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Tarantula Directed by Barry Feinstein USA / 1968 / 7 minutes World premiere of one of the first music videos ever shot.

The Thursday screening will be followed by a live performance of the indie band The Good Listeners, featuring Don’t Quit Your Daydream’s Nathan Khyber & Clark Stiles with special guest Adrian Grenier, star of the Emmy®nominated HBO’s series Entourage. see Concerts Page

For more info, visit dontquityourdaydream.com

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Heather Rae, Russell Friedenberg and Randy Redroad have collaborated for

BIOS many years. Rae produced Frozen River which was nominated for two Academy Awards, and the award-winning films The Dry Land and Trudell, both of which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. Friedenberg wrote and directed Ibid, which premiered at SXSW, and was nominated for the prestigious CineVision Award at Munich International, and an Independent Spirit Award. Friedenberg was the writer on Trudell, Sawtooth and Out of the Blue. Randy Redroad wrote and directed The Doe Boy, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, winning the NHK Award. Redroad also directed Haircuts Hurt, High Horse and 133 Skyway. Rae, Redroad and Friedenberg will collaborate next year on a pot-growing comedy called Pot Luck.

First Circle DOCUMENTARIES

For any parent, the thought of having a child taken away is a horrific notion. Yet all across America, children whose families can no longer provide proper support are being put into foster care. Heather Rae brings to the screen her own story of a family effected by foster care due to drug and alcohol addiction in the deeply touching and extremely personal First Circle. With her nephew having spent time in the foster care system, her brother in prison and her sister-in-law recovering from drug rehabilitation, Rae looks not just at her own family, but at others whose children are similarly effected. She follows the police, who see firsthand the terrible conditions in which some children live, and those who volunteer to foster the children in hopes of providing a better life for them. Incredibly poignant and touching, First Circle, shows a small slice of the life that effects nearly 300,000 children a year, making this a film that demands to be seen. – Jacob Brades

Directed by Heather Rae USA / 2010 / 75 minutes Main Credits: Exec Producers

John Priddy Ed Priddy Robert Tullis Paull Cho

Producers

Heather Rae Russell Friedenberg Randy Redroad

Co-producers

Laura Mehlhaff Cynthia Enriquez

Screenwriter

Russell Friedenberg

Cinematographers

Randy Redroad Blackhorse Lowe Jaki Covington

Editor

Randy Redroad

Composer/Music

Robin Zimmerman

Sound Editor

Ryan Price

Showing at: Bearsville Theater WOODSTOCK

Sat Oct 2 • 12:00pm

Upstate Films RHINEBECK

Sun Oct 3 • 3:30pm

For more info, visit firstcirclefilm.org

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Gerrymandering DOCUMENTARIES

Directed by Jeff Reichert USA / 2010 / 77 minutes Main Credits: Featuring

Arnold Schwarzenegger Gray Davis Howard Dean Ben Barnes Pete Wilson Ed Rollins

Exec. Producer

Bill Mundell

Producers

Dan O’Meara Jeff Reichert Chris Romano

Screenwriter

Jeff Reichert

Cinematographer

Gary Keith Griffin

Editor

Sam Pollard

Showing at: Bearsville Theater WOODSTOCK

Thu Sept 30 • 5:45pm

Upstate Films RHINEBECK

Sat Oct 2 • 4:45pm

Right now, across the country, our two major political parties are gearing up for a once-a-decade war, whose winner will control Congress for the next ten years, and possibly more. There will be battles in every state, and each will be kept carefully hidden from the prying eyes of average voters, who only become more disenchanted with their government with each meaningless election. Democrats and Republicans collude to keep these skirmishes private so that they can maintain total control over the ultimate political weapon: the ability to directly determine the outcome of elections. Why bother stuffing ballots when they can just draw districts? For the first time, Gerrymandering exposes the most effective form of manipulating elections short of outright fraud. After the 2010 Census is finished, will you know where your district went? Follow first-time filmmaker Jerry Reichert in this fast-paced and thoroughly entertaining documentary as he sets out to trace the ever-changing battle lines that are drawn and redrawn as politicians often seek to draw their closest opponents out of their districts entirely, effectively eliminating the competition. The practice of gerrymandering goes back to the birth of the United States, and Reichert depicts with humor and aplomb how today, politicians from both sides have mastered the art form. Gerrymandering is the rare political documentary that manages to entertain while enlightening a serious civil issue. – Michael Burke Jeff Reichert recently served as Senior Vice President of Magnolia Pictures where

BIO he developed release campaigns for some of the most theatrically successful

documentaries in recent years, including Academy Award-nominees Capturing the Friedmans, Enron: the Smartest Guys in the Room, Jesus Camp and No End in Sight and the Academy Award-winning Man on Wire among many other fiction and nonfiction features. He is the co-founder and editor of the popular online film journal Reverse Shot.

For more info, visit gerrymanderingmovie.com

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Lilly Rivlin has spent the majority of her film career creating art about social issues, feminism, women’s political activism and spiritual advancement. Her films include Can You Hear Me, about Israeli and Palestinian women working together for peace in the Middle East; The Tribe, a microcosm of the saga of Jewish history that documents the reunion of 2,500 family members in Jerusalem; Miriam’s Daughters, about the birth and growth of Jewish feminism; and Gimme A Kiss, an exploration of the meaning of love as told through Rivlin’s parents who, at the close of their lives, lay in hospital beds next to each other. Rivlin was born in Jerusalem and came to the United States during WWII when her family settled in Washington, D.C. She went on to earn a Bachelor’s Degree from George Washington University and a Master’s Degree in International Relations and Indian Studies from the University of California, Berkeley. She has also written for Newsweek, Ms. Magazine and The Washington Post.

BIO

DOCUMENTARIES

Grace Paley: Collected Shorts

In the opening moments of Grace Paley: Collected Shorts, Paley rhetorically asks an audience, “What is the responsibility of a poet?” We soon learn that Gracy Paley answered that question emphatically throughout her entire life. Lilly Rivlin’s inspiring film brings to life the momentous times in which this author and activist lived and worked as she reads from her short stories, poems and essays. Paley was a firebrand on the frontline of protest. She opposed war and nuclear proliferation and fought for the rights of women, which often landed her in jail. As a teacher, she influences generations of writers. Grace Paley is a New York icon whose life attests to the possibility that one person can combine public responsibility with individual creativity. Paley not only broke the mold, she created a new approach to her life’s work that combined equal parts writer, activist, woman and mother. In Grace Paley: Collected Shorts we learn the story of this child of RussianJewish immigrants, raised in New York City in the 1930s. We hear from her daughter, granddaughter and a wide range of fellow writers and activists. We also hear many of Grace Paley’s own words, the greatest joy of Rivlin’s revealing film. – David Becker

Directed by Lilly Rivlin USA / 2010 / 74 minutes Main Credits: Featuring

Grace Paley

Producers

Lilly Rivlin Margaret Murphy Laura D’Antoni

Screenwriter

Russell Friedenberg

Cinematographer

Wolfgang Held

Editor

Pola Rapaport

Showing at: WOODSTOCK Town Hall

Fri Oct 1 • 7:30pm

Upstate Film RHINEBECK

Sat Oct 2 • 2:00pm

COURTESY OF

The National Center of Jewish Culture For more info, visit gracepaleythefilm.com

2010

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In the Wake of the Flood DOCUMENTARIES

Directed by Ron Mann Canada / 2010 / 47 minutes Main Credits: Featuring

Margaret Atwood

Producers

Ron Mann Bill Imperial

Co Producer

Judith Keenan

Screenwriter

Solomon Vesta

Cinematographer

John M. Tran

Editor

Robert Kennedy

Music Supervisor

Mike Rosnick

Sound Designer

John Laing

On the eve of her seventieth birthday, Canadian writer Margaret Atwood set out on an international tour crisscrossing the British Isles and North America to celebrate the publication of her new dystopian novel, The Year of the Flood. Rather than mount a traditional tour to promote a book’s publication, Atwood conceived and executed something far more ambitious and revelatory—a theatrical version of her novel. Along the way she reinvented what a book tour could (and maybe should) be. But Atwood wasn’t selling books as much as advocating an idea: how humanity must respond to the consequences of an environmentally compromised planet before her work of speculative fiction transforms into prophesy. Atwood’s odyssey is captured in Ron Mann’s new film, In The Wake of the Flood. Rendered as a fly-on-the-wall cinéma vérité, Mann mixes new footage, archival materials and evocative animation while featuring Atwood on the road and at home as an aging but buoyant literary rock star spreading a message of warning and hope as she staged and participated in the novel production. Ron Mann‘s exuberant films are anthologies which give voice and vision to an

Showing at: WOODSTOCK Town Hall

Sun Oct 3 • 1:45pm

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YESNO Directed by Brian D. Johnson Canada / 2010 / 7:16 minutes An apocalyptic montage takes us from the folds of the cerebral cortex to the jungles of “Fitzcarraldo” and “The African Queen.”

BIO array of articulate artists underrepresented by mainstream pop media. Mann

established his international reputation while in his 20s with a series of award-winning theatrical documentaries including Imagine the Sound, Poetry in Motion, Comic Book Confidential, Twist and Dream Tower. Mann is best known for the 1999 documentary Grass which presents a balanced history of recreational marijuana use in the late 20th century. The success of Grass was followed with Go Further, Tales of Rat Fink and Know Your Mushrooms. In addition to making films, Mann and veteran Toronto film and music promoter Gary Topp distribute films in Canada under the banner “Films We Like.”

For more info, visit sphinxproductions.com

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Journey from Zanskar Directed by Frederick Marx USA / 2010 / 90 minutes In Tibetan with subtitles, and English Main Credits: Featuring

Richard Gere (Narrator)

Producer

Frederick Marx

BIO producer/director with 35 years in the film business. He was named a Chicago

Screenwriter

Frederick Marx

Cinematographer

Nick Sherman

Tribune Artist of the Year for 1994, a 1995 Guggenheim Fellow and a recipient of a Robert F. Kennedy Special Achievement Award. His film Hoop Dreams played in hundreds of theaters nationwide after winning the Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival and was the first documentary ever chosen to close the New York Film Festival. Having worked for a time as an English and creative writing teacher, Marx began his movie career as a film critic, and has worked both as a film distributor and exhibitor. Along with Journey From Zanskar, his interest in foreign cultures is reflected in PBS’ international human rights program Out Of The Silence (1991) and the widely acclaimed personal essay Dreams From China (1989).

Editors

Joanna Kiernan Frederick Marx

Composers/Music

Michael Fitzpatrick Adam Schiff

Frederick Marx is an internationally acclaimed, Oscar and Emmy nominated

DOCUMENTARIES

How far would you go to save your dying culture? Two Buddhist monks fulfill their pledge to the Dalai Lama to help save their dying Tibetan culture by leading a group of seventeen poor children, ages four to twelve, on a journey from Zanskar in remote northwest India through the Himalayas — on foot, on horseback, by jeep and bus — whatever it takes. Sometimes you have to give up your children in order to save them. Thirty years ago, when they were children, these same monks walked the same path. The seventeen children with them now may not return home for ten to fifteen years or more. This is the story of their incredible journey.

Showing at: Bearsville Theater WOODSTOCK

Thu Sept 30 • 3:15pm

WOODSTOCK Town Hall

Sun Oct 3 • 6:30pm

For more info, visit journeyfromzanskar.com

2010

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The Kids Grow Up DOCUMENTARIES

Directed by Doug Block USA / 2009 / 90 minutes Main Credits: Producers

Doug Block, Lori Cheatle

Screenwriter

Doug Block

Cinematographer

Doug Block

Editor

Maeve O’Boyle

Composer/Music

H. Scott Salinas

Eighteen years in the making, The Kids Grow Up beautifully depicts the childhood of a daughter through the loving eyes of her father. Filmmaker Doug Block 51 Birch Street has always been a “camcorder dad,” filming the life of his daughter Lucy at every opportunity, not wanting to lose a moment in the growth of his only child. Now faced with his daughter leaving home for college, Block is terrified of letting go while Lucy is ready to move on. Told through clips of Lucy as a child, pre-teen and teenager, Block is able to relate his experience as a father, moving through memories seamlessly as if his audience were watching him think. Block’s captivating visual collage, assisted by an eerie, nostalgic score, perfectly portrays Lucy and Doug’s coming of age journey. The result is a funny, touching and remarkably loving exploration of a father and daughter taking the next step together. – Jonathan Myers

Showing at: Doug Block is a New York-based filmmaker whose work includes much-acclaimed

Upstate Films RHINEBECK

Thu Sept 30 • 8:00pm

WOODSTOCK Town Hall

Sat Oct 2

• 7:15pm

BIO feature documentaries.

His film 51 Birch Street was named as one of the 10 Best Films of the Year by The New York Times, The Chicago Sun-Times and the Ebert & Roeper Show, and was selected as one of the outstanding documentaries of the year by the National Board of Review. His first film, The Heck With Hollywood, was released in the U.S. by Original Cinema as well as being broadcast on PBS. An Emmy nomination followed with his second film Home Page, which also screened at the Sundance and Rotterdam Film Festivals. As a producer and cameraman, Block has worked on numerous award-winning films, such as Silverlake Life, Jupiter’s Wife and Love & Diane. Block is also the founder and co-host of The D-Word, a popular international online discussion forum for documentary professionals.

For more info, visit thekidsgrowup.com

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DOCUMENTARIES

Lennon NYC Directed by Michael Epstein USA / 2010 / 115 minutes Main Credits: Exec. Producers

Stanley Buchthal Michael Cohl Susan Lacy

Producers

Susan Lacy Jessica Levin Michael Epstein

Screenwriter

Michael Epstein

Showing at: Bearsville Theater WOODSTOCK

Wed Sept 29 • 7:30pm

Photo: Bob Gruen

In 1971, John Lennon arrived in New York City and felt reborn: at last living in the country that had dominated his artistic imagination, Lennon and his new bride Yoko Ono found in the city the perfect blend of music, politics, culture, and lifestyle. But those heady first years eventually gave way to a dark period in which both Lennon’s musical career and his personal life almost ran aground— until once again New York City came to his rescue. Using remarkable, rarely seen footage and interviews with many who were close to John, filmmaker Michael Epstein has created a moving, revealing portrait of the music legend’s New York years, detailing not only his triumphs but also some hard times over which he so beautifully recovered in the final years of his tragically curtailed life. Michael Epstein Epstein is a documentary director, writer and producer whose

BIO work has been nominated for an Academy Award, and been awarded a George

Foster Peabody, an Emmy, and a Writers Guild Award. Epstein’s latest effort, Combat Diary: The Marines of Lima Company was nominated for a 2006 Primetime Emmy for Exceptional Merit in Non-Fiction Filmmaking. Both Newsweek and the Los Angeles Times have heralded Combat Diary as the best film about the Iraq War. Since 1998 he has run his own production company, Viewfinder Productions, Inc., which has produced innovative programming for PBS, Trio, A&E, and The History Channel.

2010

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COURTESY OF

Arthouse Films American Masters For more info, visit pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/

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Made in India DOCUMENTARIES

Directed by Rebecca Haimowitz and Vaishali Sinha USA / 2010 / 83 minutes Main Credits: Exec Producer

Erin Heidenreich

Co-Exec Producer

The Fledgling Fund Chicken & Egg Pictures

Producer

Rebecca Haimowitz Vaishali Sinha

Cinematographers

Adri Thakur Basia Winograd Rebecca Haimowitz Vaishali Sinha

Editor

Myles Kane

Composer/Music

Amritha Vaz

Showing at: WOODSTOCK Town Hall

Fri Oct 1 • 5:00pm

Upstate Films RHINEBECK

Sun Oct 3 • 1:00pm

Made In India follows the remarkable story of Lisa and Brian Switzer and their attempts to have the children they feel are needed to complete their family. Unable to have children of their own and with surrogacy in America costing upwards of $70,000, the couple journey to the Indian sub-continent in order to have their baby. Told between the points of view of The Switzers and Aasia Khan, the chosen surrogate, directors Rebecca Haimowitz and Vaishali Sinha guide the viewer through the process of surrogacy, examining the effects on both parties. The journey they embark on makes for an extraordinary film that at times is more akin to a psychological thriller, making the family and the viewer question their moral and ethical scruples and forcing them to wonder whether they could do the same. This extraordinary quest to have a family makes Made In India a touching and important documentary. – Jacob Brades Rebecca Haimowitz received her MFA in Filmmaking from Columbia

BIOS University’s Graduate School of the Arts. Her short film, Follow Me, screened at several international film festivals (including SXSW and Woodstock Film Festival). Haimowitz has directed various short documentary films, including a piece about feminist work in the prison abolition movement, a youth-produced series on overpolicing in NYC schools (made for the NYCLU), and Soundproof, about cochlear implants and deafness in her family. Vaishali Sinha co-directed the short documentary, Red Roses, exploring the lives of South Asian women who come to the United States via marriage & family obligations, and Choose Life? a short narrative about abortion and personal choice. She is also currently co-directing the film Kashmir, which documents personal accounts of university students in Kashmir at the brink of graduation in the extremely contentious and politically troubled state of India. Sinha has worked as researcher and editing associate for filmmaker Richard Wormser at Videoline Productions.

For more info, visit madeinindiamovie.com

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Jeff Malmberg’s directorial debut, the feature-length documentary Marwencol,

BIO recently won the Grand Jury Award for Best Documentary at the 2010 South by

Southwest Film Festival and will be released theatrically in the fourth quarter of this year. Malmberg produced and edited Red White Black & Blue with Tom Putnam, with Variety citing “terrific editing by Jeff Malmberg.” Malmberg’s credits include the critically acclaimed BET documentary series American Gangster, A&E’s Biography, ESPN’s SportsCentury and numerous shows for the History Channel. He has cut over 100 commercials for such directors as George Lucas, Errol Morris, TRAKTOR and Harald Zwart. Malmberg also produced the short film Tom Hits His Head, the Fox Searchlab short Broadcast 23 and the feature film Shafted! Malmberg is a graduate of USC School of Cinematic Arts. Other producing credits include the upcoming pilot for the PBS/ITVS series Burn, which he created with partner Tom Putnam and Tremolo Productions.

Marwencol DOCUMENTARIES

First time director Jeff Malmberg documents Kingston, NY resident Mark Hogancamp’s recovery from a vicious beating in this poignant film. Hogancamp, who suffered a traumatic brain injury from the beating, retreats to his backyard following his physical recovery and begins his own mental renaissance by constructing a 1/6 scale WWII era town he names Marwencol, replete with lifelike doll characters based on his friends, neighbors and co-workers in addition to Nazi soldiers. He creates scenes and storylines within the town reflecting his life, which serve a dual purpose as therapy sessions. With the memory of his life prior to the attack almost completely gone, Hogancamp is forced to start over resurrecting what he can from photos and old friends, but what he discovers in the sanctuary of Marwencol may just be a true chance to start anew and leave what had been a life in decay behind. Marwencol is an astounding story of one man’s triumph in rebuilding a life on the brink of disaster. – Michael Burke

Directed by Jeff Malmberg USA / 2010 / 83 minutes Main Credits: Featuring

Mark Hogancamp

Producer

Chris Shellen Jeff Malmberg Matt Ridecki

Cinematographer

Jeff Malmberg

Editor

Jeff Malmberg

Composer/Music

Ash Black Buffalo

Showing at: Bearsville Theater WOODSTOCK

Fri Oct 1 • 2:15pm

ROSENDALE Theater

Sat Oct 2 • 1:00pm

For more info, visit marwencol.com

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My Life with Carlos DOCUMENTARIES

Directed by German Berger-Hertz Chile Germany Spain / 2009 / 82 minutes In Spanish with subtitles Main Credits: Exec. Producer

German Berger-Hertz

Producer

German Berger-Hertz

Screenwriters

German Berger-Hertz Joaquim Jorda Roberto Brodsky

Cinematographer

Miguel Littin-Menz

Editors

Andrea Chignoli Danielle Fillios

Composer/Music

Miranda and Tobar

Sound Editor

Boris Herrera

Showing at: Upstate Films RHINEBECK

Sat Oct 2 • 7:00pm

Upstate Films WOODSTOCK

Sun Oct 3 • 11:00am

In this beautiful and haunting film, director German Berger-Hertz explores the repercussions of an act of political violence that tore his family apart. This single act of violence, one of many committed in Chile under the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet, continues to reverberate across decades and through generations. Like a long-distance letter from a son to his father, Berger-Hertz attempts to rediscover and reconnect with the father he knew only as a boy. My Life with Carlos is both profoundly personal and at the same time strikingly universal. What often stays just a statistic in a book or a name etched in marble, here becomes a deeply felt emotional legacy. Berger-Hertz shares his journey of personal anguish, and perhaps forgiveness, in a way that brings an important but painful history to light. Not satisfied with living in anger and hatred for past injustices, My Life with Carlos presents a new and hopeful generation, unafraid to confront the tragedies of the past with the objective that they never be repeated. – David Becker German Berger-Hertz was born in Santiago, Chile in 1972. He received a

BIO Bachelors Degree in Journalism at Diego Portales University and a degree in Art and Aesthetics at the Catholic University of Chile. He worked as a journalist for two Chilean TV stations and produced a series of short documentaries, Hincha Pelotas and Eros among the most relevant. He studied direction and cinematography at CECC and pursued a Masters Degree in Documentary of Creation at Pompeu Fabra University. BergeHertz’s first work, Esmorzar, was a short narrative film shot in Super 8mm. He subsequently directed Todo lo solido, a mid-length documentary selected by more than twenty International Festivals. He has directed more than thirty documentaries for Editorial Planeta and UNESCO, including Cambios, winner of the Barcelona City Award in 2006. In 2001, Berger-Hertz shot Viaje a Narragonia, his first feature documentary, in the Netherlands. My Life with Carlos is his second feature-length documentary.

For more info, visit mividaconcarlos.com

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Lisa Gossels’ first feature documentary, The Children of Chabannes, won an Emmy

BIO Award in 2001, ten film festival awards, had a limited theatrical release, aired on

HBO Signature and local PBS stations and is now distributed by Docurama. The Children of Chabannes has been praised as “One of the most heartening Holocaust films ever made — splendid, informative and emotionally involving,” (Los Angeles Times) and called “a seamless memoir of courage and a tribute to the human spirit” (New York Daily News). Gossels started making My So-Called Enemy, her second feature documentary, in 2002. She became a documentarian because she believes in the power of film to affect social change. Beyond her documentary work, Gossels produces and directs educational and promotional films for corporate and nonprofit clients through her New York Citybased company, Good Egg Productions, Inc. She is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Brown University.

My So-Called Enemy DOCUMENTARIES

If all your life you had been told THEY are the enemy, THEY are the ones you should fear, what happens when that very notion is challenged? The Palestinian-Israeli conflict has raged for the last 62 years and recent events have generated dangerous new levels of friction. Director Lisa Gossels’ documentary feature My So-Called Enemy touches on a brave new front for peace: young women. In 2002, twenty-two Palestinian and Israeli teen girls visited the U.S. as part of the Building Bridges for Peace program. They got to know each other as human beings and have real dialogue, away from the conflict in Israel and Palestine. Over the course of the next seven years bonds are nurtured, strengthened and tested and we become entangled in the lives of six of the young girls as they grow into womanhood. Idealized world views of friendships become much more complicated as the everyday realities of the Palestinian/Israeli conflict continue to haunt their lives. Gossels captures the maturation of each woman and the diverse set of circumstances each must face as they enter adulthood, revealing an emotionally charged film about conflict, camaraderie and ultimately…hope. – Michael Burke

Directed by Lisa Gossels USA / 2010 / 89 minutes In Arabic Hebrew with subtitles and English Main Credits: Producers

Lisa Gossels Eden Wurmfeld

Co Producer

Justin Schein

Cinematographer

Justin Schein

Editors

Lisa Gossels David Mehlmans Toby Shimin

Composer/Music

Nathan Larson

Supervising Sound Editor Lew Goldstein Sound Editors

Cate Montanas Tom Ryans Alex Soto

Showing at: WOODSTOCK Town Hall

Sat Oct 2 • 4:45pm

Upstate Films RHINEBECK

Sun Oct 3 • 5:45pm

For more info, visit mysocalledenemy.com

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One Lucky Elephant DOCUMENTARIES

Directed by Lisa Leeman USA / 2010 / 81 minutes Main Credits: Producers

Cristina Colissimo, Jordana Glick-Franzheim

Co-producers

Miriam Cutler

Screenwriter

Cristina Colissimo

Cinematographers

Sandra Chandler Neil Brown Cristina Colissimo Shane Hagan

Screenwriter

Lisa Leeman Cristina Colissimo

Editors

Kate Amend Tchavdar Gerogiev

Composer/Music

Miriam Cutler Christopher Strollo

Sound Mixer

Christopher Strollo

Showing at: Upstate Film RHINEBECK

Fri Oct 1 • 2:30pm

WOODSTOCK Town Hall

Ten years in the making, One Lucky Elephant is a love story unlike any other. It is a touching, surprising and unforgettable film created with a deep commitment from the filmmaker to tell this oneof-a-kind story. David Balding, founder and producer of Circus Flora, had the best of intentions when he adopted a young African elephant and made her the centerpiece and namesake of his show. Balding cared for Flora, his young elephant, like she was his own child. But elephants, like children, grow up, and when it came time for Flora to find a new home, Balding’s troubles began. “A parable of pachydermish proportions, One Lucky Elephant is a bittersweet story of man, beast and a very real relationship that makes helmer Lisa Leeman’s docu the thinking person’s Dumbo — and, coincidentally, one of the better kids’ movies on the fest circuit.” — John Anderson, VARIETY Filmmaker Lisa Leeman lets the story unfold over the years, as it takes one surprising and dramatic turn after another. In One Lucky Elephant we see the complicated and often heartbreaking results of taking wild animals away from their natural home. – David Becker Lisa Leeman‘s film work has taken her to the Himalayas, Chernobyl, rural

BIO Australia and her own backyard of Venice Beach, California. Her first feature doc, Metamorphosis: Man into Woman, won the Filmmakers Trophy at Sundance. Other credits include co-directing & editing Who Needs Sleep with renowned cinematographer & director Haskell Wexler (WFF 2005), and directing the recent feature doc Out of Faith (PBS). Leeman is currently co-directing, with Paola di Florio, a feature documentary about the famed swami Paramahansa Yogananda, and is co-producing Crazy Wisdom: The Life & Times of Chogyam Trunga, which profiles the influential and provocative Tibetan Buddhist teacher and his deep impact on the West.

Sat Oct 2 • 12:00pm

For more info, visit oneluckyelephant.com

WOODSTOCK FILM FESTIVAL

2010

World Premiere

D O C U M E N T AWorld R Premiere IES

Kenneth Bowser is a director of documentaries, feature films and episodic

BIO television and specializes in crafting stories about American culture. In addition to Phil Ochs: There But For Fortune, he is the writer, producer and director of NBC’s Emmy-nominated network special, Live From New York: The First Five Years of Saturday Night Live, celebrating the 30th Anniversary of SNL. He also worked on the SNL network specials for the ‘80s and ‘90s and is currently creating the 2000’s episode. His next project is a narrative feature based on Peter Biskind’s bestseller entitled Down & Dirty Pictures.

DOCUMENTARIES

Phil Ochs: There But For Fortune

Few names conjure up the sound of the 1960s like Phil Ochs. More than just a folk singer, Ochs helped to infuse popular music with a political perspective, rallying the like-minded and challenging the status quo. Phil Ochs, like many of his generation, was engaged with the issues of his time. He sang in the famous Greenwich Village cafes, in front of massive rallies and in world famous concert venues. Kenneth Bowser’s insightful and ultimately tragic film, Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune explores the motives and goals that drove Phil Ochs to chase after fame. Bowser also reveals the personal struggles, that in the end, proved overpowering. With the voices of his family and many of the well-known musicians who considered themselves fans of Phil Ochs, Bowser creates a vivid and compelling portrait of an icon of the ‘60s whose life was cut tragically short. – David Becker

Directed by Kenneth Bowser USA / 2010 / 97 minutes Main Credits: Featuring

Joan Baez Lola Cohen Tom Hayden Christopher Hitchens Ed Sanders

Producer

Kenneth Bowser

Editor

Pamela Scott Arnold

Showing at: Bearsville Theater WOODSTOCK

Fri Oct 1 • 4:45pm

Upstate Films RHINEBECK

Sat Oct 2 • 6:30pm

COURTESY OF

First Run Features For more info, visit philochsthemovie.com

2010

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D O C U M E N TA R I E S World Premiere

Ray Charles America DOCUMENTARIES

Directed by Alexis Manya Spraic USA / 2010 / 90 minutes Main Credits: Featuring

Quincy Jones Bill Cosby Clint Eastwood BB King Tom Waits Fran Drescher Ben Harper Common

Exec. Producer

Tony Gumina Valerie Ervin Andy Berg Rob Sharenow

Producers

Morgan Neville Alexis Manya

Associate Producer Spraic Jaime Reichner Screenwriter

Morgan Neville Alexis Manya Spraic

Cinematographer

Warren Kommers

Editors

Alexis Manya Spraic Nic Hill

Few American icons resonate with so many aspects of our culture. Few people unify our ideals. Ray Charles was not only one of the greatest artists in American history, but he had one of the greatest stories. Over time, both his story and his work became two sides of the same coin. Few came from less—dirt poor, blind and, ultimately, orphaned—to achieve more. Ray Charles America examines the social and political context of Charles’ work and how his unique approach to music and his ability to transcend racial barriers changed the cultural landscape as we know it. Through in depth interviews, unreleased music and never before seen footage, the film tells the stories of Charles’ impact in broader stories of love, politics, art and business. Alexis Manya Spraic is a documentary filmmaker based in Los Angeles and New

BIO York. Her most recent work includes producing and editing, Jean-Michel Basquiat:

The Radiant Child (Sundance 2010) and her directorial debut, Shadow Billionaire (Tribeca Film Festival 2009). Additionally she produced and edited Cat Dancers for HBO (winner of Special Jury Prize for editing at SXSW) and Maxed Out (WFF2006) for Showtime/ Magnolia Pictures. Her work has been seen on HBO, Showtime, PBS, IFC, as well as theatrically and at festivals internationally. Ray Charles America is her second feature documentary.

Showing at: Bearsville Theater WOODSTOCK

Sun Oct 3 • 7:30pm

COURTESY OF For more info, visit aetv.com/indiefilms

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2010

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(A True Story About the Future)

Anthony Waller studied at UK’s National Film School. Director John Schlesinger awarded Waller the Shakespeare Scholarship 1981, and he attended Munich’s HFF (Film and Television School) in Germany. He won first prize for his graduation short film “When the Rain Stops at the International Festival of Film Schools in Munich. Waller has also directed and edited 200 commercials.

BIO

Directed by Anthony Waller and Ray Kurzweil USA / 2010 / 78 minutes Main Credits: Featuring

Ray Kurzweil Alan Dershowitz Tony Robbins Pauley Perrette Bill Joy Mitch Kapor

Exec. Producer

Martine Rothblatt

Producer

Ray Kurzweil Ehren Koepf Toshi Hoo

Screenwriter

Ray Kurzweil

Cinematographer

Ian S. Takahashi

Editors

Cameron Loewenstein Anthony Waller

Showing at:

P receded b y

World Without Numbers

Bearsville Theater WOODSTOCK

Directed by Mitchell Rose USA / 2010 / 3:32 minutes

Upstate Film RHINEBECK

An exploration of the horrors of a numberless world through the lens of childhood melodrama.

2010

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Thu Sept 30 • 1:00pm

Sun Oct 3

East Coast Premiere

For more info, visit mitchellrose.com

• 8:00pm

For more info, visit singularity.com/themovie

DOCUMENTARIES

The Singularity is Near

The future: human history and mythology have been consumed with foretelling it, traveling to it and depicting it in our pop culture. Science Fiction futures are imagined where robots have equaled or surpassed human intelligence and we have conquered disease through genetics and technology. Is that future becoming reality? In Anthony Waller’s The Singularity is Near, celebrated futurist Ray Kurzweil presents his and other preeminent luminaries’ visions of the approaching singularity, where artificial intelligence begins to surpass our own, changing the face of how the human race lives and interacts. While also delving into the potential dangers on a philosophical and technological level, Kurzweil delivers an outlook of the future that is both insightful and bewildering and imaginative and hopeful. – Michael Burke

D O C U M E N TA R I E S East Coast Premiere

SoLa: Louisiana Water Stories DOCUMENTARIES

Directed by Jon Bowermaster USA / 2010 / 60 minutes Main Credits: Exec Producer

Mark Terk

Producer

Jon Bowermaster

Screenwriter

Jon Bowermaster Chris Cavanagh

Cinematographers

Jefferson Miller Brian C Miller Richard

Editor

Chris Cavanagh

Music

Roddie Romero and the Hub City All Stars

Sound Editor

Jacques Boulanger Creative Audio

Showing at: Mount Saint Mary College in Newburgh* Wed Sept 29 • 7:00pm SUNY New Paltz*

Thu Sept 30 • 4:00pm

Onteora High School Fri Oct 1 • TBD Woodstock Town Hall Sun Oct 3 • 11:45am

Everywhere you look in Southern Louisiana (SoLa) there’s water – bayous, swamps, the Mississippi River, the Gulf of Mexico. And everyone in Cajun Country has a water story... or two or three. When filmmaker Jon Bowermaster arrived in Louisiana in July 2008 to make a film about the relationship between man and water, he never expected that the reportage would end with the planet’s biggest ecologic disaster — the BP oil spill polluting the Gulf of Mexico. Watching SoLa, one realizes just how vital these vast expansions of water are, not just to the local fishermen who rely on them to make a living, but to the country as a whole due to the enormous array of wildlife that make Louisiana their home. The waterways are home to the biggest economies in Louisiana — a $70 billion a year oil and gas industry and a $200 million a year fishing business. Both are in the midst of sizable changes. Man’s obsession with oil and gas are increasingly becoming a serious threat to the entire area. SoLa is beautifully filmed and thoughtfully handled. – Jacob Brades A six-time grantee of the National Geographic Expeditions Council, Jon

BIO Bowermaster’s 2007-2008 Antarctic expedition was the final in his Oceans 8 project, which over the past decade has taken him and his teams around the world by sea kayak, including expeditions to the Aleutian Islands, Vietnam, French Polynesia, Chile, Argentina, Bolivia, Gabon, Croatia and Tasmania. Bowermaster’s films on the Galapagos, Louisiana and the Maldives are in-production. His blog Notes From Sea Level gives him a daily forum. He is the author of ten books and producer of a dozen documentary films. *Also screening as part of the Hudson Valley Programmers Group Tour for additional details, visit hvpg.org

For more info, visit jonbowermaster.com

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2010

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Summer Love (Naomi Preney) produced several short documentaries showcasing up-and-coming Canadian fashion designers and musicians. With her company, Deltatime Productions, she heads up a team of creative talent whose passion for music and politics helped create her first feature documentary, Sounds Like a Revolution.

BIOS

Jane Michener started her career in Prague producing short films with local artists. She started Petersburg Films in Toronto with director Jay Fields. Michener has produced several award-winning short films, including Desastre, which premiered at Toronto and garnered her a Genie nomination. She created Deltatime Productions with Summer Love and is currently producing a 35mm short film in partnership with Bravo television and is in development on her first dramatic feature.

2010

WOODSTOCK FILM FESTIVAL

The Friday screening followed by performance with singer/songwriter Justin Sane

DOCUMENTARIES

Sounds Like a Revolution

Sounds Like a Revolution is a powerful reminder that music is still a voice for protest and defiance. The film harkens back to the 1960s, when music sparked a generation of youth to rise up in dissent against the Vietnam War. Artists across the musical spectrum recount their motivations and struggles in a post-9/11 environment where dissent was silenced and censorship was commonplace. Sounds Like a Revolution presents a unique historical perspective behind the new wave of protest music sweeping America and offers new hope for the future. Featuring interviews with Steve Earle, David Crosby, Ani Difranco, Pete Seeger and Henry Rollins, Sounds Like a Revolution focuses on the music and work of today’s politically-minded musicians, including Michael Franti, the Dixie Chicks and Paris, who, despite the daunting obstacles placed in their way, continue to motivate and inspire America’s youth for a positive revolutionary change. – Michael Burke

Directed by Summer Love and Jane Michener Canada / 2010 / 76 minutes Main Credits: Featuring

Michael Franti & Spearhead Ani DiFranco Pete Seeger Steve Earle Justin Sane David Crosby

Exec. Producers

Judy Holm Michael McNamara

Producers

Summer Love Jane Michener

Co-Producer

Susan Martin

Screenwriter

Susan Martin

Cinematographer

Summer Love

Editor

Tiffany Beaudin

Composer/Music

Mischa “Book” Chillak

Sound Design

Terry Wedel

Showing at: Bearsville Theater WOODSTOCK

Fri Oct 1 • 10:00pm

ROSENDALE Theater

Sat Oct 2 • 9:30pm

For info, visit soundslikearevolution.com

John Blumb

D O C U M E N TA R I E S

William S. Burroughs: A Man Within DOCUMENTARIES

Directed by Yony Leyser USA / 2010 / 87 minutes Main Credits: Featuring

John Waters Patti Smith Laurie Anderson Gus Van Sant Iggy Pop

Producers

Carmine Cervi Scott Crary Ilko Davidov Yony Leyser

Screenwriter

Yony Leyser

Editor

Ilko Davidov

Composer/Music

J and Bernard The Master Musicians of Jajouka led by Bachir Attar with Sonic Youth Devin McNulty Thurston Moore Lee Ranaldo

Showing at: Upstate Films RHINEBECK

Fri Oct 1 • 4:45pm

Genius, junkie, gun-toting iconoclast, Harvard grad, lethal lover, lax father, self-proclaimed “queer” and heir to the Burroughs Adding Machine Company, William S. Burroughs authored “Naked Lunch” and “Queer” two of the most pivotal novels of the second half of the twentieth century. A visionary, Burroughs influenced generations of artists, and though he loathed labels, he, along with Kerouac and Ginsberg, formed the vanguard of the “Beat Generation.” An homage to the newsreels of the 1940s and 1950s, his ironic poem, “Thanksgiving Day: 1986” is as timely today as it was in when first written. Packed with commentary from the likes of John Waters, Patti Smith, Laurie Anderson, Gus Van Sant, Iggy Pop, along with extensive archival footage of Allen Ginsberg and Andy Warhol, director Yony Leyser paints a rich portrait of an elusive and complicated man. At once intimate and expansive, this is compelling viewing, not to be missed. – Barbara Pokras, A.C.E. Yony Leyser is a 25-year-old filmmaker living in Chicago, Illinois. He has directed

BIO several short films. After film school, he moved to Lawrence, Kansas, and began his passionate first feature film, William S. Burroughs: A Man Within, about one of the most interesting icons of the 20th century, He also works as a curator, video artist and photographer, documenting people who are outside the mainstream of society. His photograph series have included Ida, a utopian transgender commune in Tennessee; Christiana, an anarchist village in Copenhagen; Kopi, Berlin’s largest squat, and naked bike rides in the US. His work has been shown work in galleries and theaters in Chicago, New York, London, Berlin, Paris, Vienna and Los Angeles. Yony Leyser brings a more personal perspective to Burroughs’ legacy, examining the private versus the public persona of Burroughs and the effect this may have had on his most intimate self.

WOODSTOCK Town Hall

Sat Oct 2 • 9:30pm

COURTESY OF For more info, visit burroughsthemovie.com

Oscilloscope Laboratories

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2010

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Laura Israel grew up in New Jersey and wandered around taking photos in downtown New York City as a teenager. After getting her degree in film from NYU, she began her career editing music videos for Lou Reed, Keith Richards, David Byrne, New Order, Patti Smith, Ziggy Marley and Sonic Youth, among others. Israel has worked as photographer/filmmaker Robert Frank’s editor for nearly two decades, collaborating on films that have screened all over the world and won numerous awards. Other editing credits include Stephanie Black’s feature documentary Africa Unite, Life For a Child, directed by Academy Award nominee Ed Lachman, Music of Regret by Laurie Simmons and numerous award-winning advertising and television promo campaigns.

BIO

Windfall DOCUMENTARIES

Wind power. Clean, efficient, renewable, perfect…or so you thought. Windfall is the story of a community torn asunder by the not-so-gently blowing breeze. First-time director Laura Israel discovers a wholly surprising and troubling trend in the wind turbine farms springing up across the Northeast. Battles surge among friends, neighbors and family members over the giant turbines erected on their properties. Israel also touches on threatening health risks, dwindling property values and the controversial environmental value of the farms. In a world struggling to come to terms with its growing energy needs and dependence on foreign oil, wind power seems a viable alternative. But as you will witness in this stirring documentary, the answers are not always so simple. – Michael Burke

Directed by Laura Israel USA / 2010 / 82:20 minutes Main Credits: Exec. Producer

Don Faller

Producers

Laura Israel Autumn Tarleton

Cinematographer

Brian Jackson

Editors

Stacey Foster Alex Bingham

Composer/Music

Hazmat Modine

Showing at: WOODSTOCK Town Hall

Fri Oct 1 • 2:30pm

Upstate Films RHINEBECK

Sat Oct 2 • 9:30pm

For more info, visit windfallthemovie.com

2010

WOODSTOCK FILM FESTIVAL

SHORTS Animation

Programmed by Bill Plympton & Signe Baumane Woodstock Community Center • Fri Oct 1 • 7:15pm Woodstock Town Hall • Sat Oct 2 • 2:30pm

The Lost Tribes of New York City

Directed by Andy and Carolyn London

USA / 2009 / 3 minutes A dose of perspective, which takes into account some of the personalities and objects that make New York City so great. For more info, visit londonsquared.net

Anna Blume

Love and Theft

Directed by Vessela Dantcheva

Directed by Andreas Hykade

Germany, Bulgaria / 2010 / 6 minutes An experimental animation inspired by the love poem, “An Anna Blume” by Kurt Schwitters. For more info, visit finfilm.com

Germany / 2009 / 6 minutes “And I‘m still carrying the gift you gave, It‘s a part of me now, it‘s been cherished and saved, It‘ll be with me unto the grave, And then unto eternity.“ (Bob Dylan)

The Cow Who Wanted to Be a Hamburger

Music Scene

USA / 2010 / 5:30 minutes A children’s fable about the power of advertising, the meaning of life and ultimately the test of a mother’s love. For more info, visit plymptoons.com

North American Premiere:

Directed by Bill Plympton

SHORTS

Down to The Bone

Directed by Anthony Francisco Schepperd USA / 2010 / 4 minutes

An animated mind meld into a post human New York where TV and animals rule. All cast to the sincerely melodic soul of Blockhead’s “The Music Scene.” For more info, visit themanimator.com

Directed by Peter Ahern

Old Fangs

USA / 2010 / 4 minutes When the baby-sitter dispatches little Michael to the yard, his allergies get worse. For more info, visit opticcandy.wordpress.com

Directed by Adrien Merigeau

Ireland / 2009 / 11 minutes A young wolf who has not seen his father since childhood, decides to confront him. For more info, visit cartoonsaloon. ie

Golem

Directed by Joy Vaccese, Noelle Vaccese and James Buran

USA / 2010 / 4 minutes Golem’s Asylum is a place where idealistic dreams of musical success are twisted and distorted into prepackaged fodder for ranks of zombified fans. For more info, visit twinsareweird.com

Lebensader

Directed by Angela Steffen

Germany / 2009 / 6 minutes Institute of Animation Filmakademie Baden-Wurttemberg

Prayers for Peace Directed by Dustin Grella

USA / 2009 / 8 minutes Drawn entirely with pastels on a slate chalkboard, “Prayers for Peace” confronts the memory of the director’s younger brother who was killed in the current conflict in Iraq. For more info, visit dustingrella.com

Teat Beat of Sex: episodes Hair and Soul Directed by Signe Baumane USA / 2010 / 4 minutes

A little girl finds the whole world inside a leaf. For more info, visit lebensader-film.com

Another shocking view of sex from a woman’s perspective. For more info, visit signebaumane.com

WOODSTOCK FILM FESTIVAL

2010

shorts Abraded

Breaking Up is Hard

USA / 2010 / 7 minutes Having been separated from his family on vacation, Joel begins to remember the series of events that led him into the forest. For more info, visit lewbaldwinfilm. com

Woodstock Community Center

Directed by Lew Baldwin

Directed by Bennett Elliott

USA / 2010 / 15 minutes A wide-eyed young girl with a big imagination engages in a flying machine competition with a rival inventor. For more info, visit dotthemovie.com

God of Love

Directed by Luke Matheny

USA / 2010 / 18 minutes New York University A lovestruck, lounge-singing darts champion finds his prayers are answered – literally – when he mysteriously receives a box of love-inducing darts. For more info, visit lukemathenyfilms.com

Fri Oct 1 • 3:00pm & Sat Oct 2 • 2:30pm

Directed by Maggie Kiley

USA / 2009 / 16:30 minutes American Film Institute A story about what happens when the break-up happens but the break does not. For more info, visit someboysfilm.com

Sunday Punch

Directed by Dennis Hauck

USA / 2010 / 18:28 minutes U.S. Premiere

After one too many bad nights, a ring girl decides it’s high time to get out from under the thumb of a local gangster and burn every bridge she can on the way out. For more info, visit foekillerfilms.com

SHORTS

Dot

some boys don’t leave

Shorts: View on the WEB This year, several short films are available for online viewing at woodstockfilmfestival.com Titles include:

Adrift Directed by directed by Ben Casey, Ben Clube & Matt Smart

Anyone’s Song Directed by Michael Vincent & Robbie Barclay featuring Mammal of PAradise

Rising Directed by Kathleen Weldon & Alex McLean featuring music of Lhasa De Sela

We’ll Be Alright Directed by Jarek Zabczynski featuring Theory

2010

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SHORTS Documentaries Woodstock Community Center Sat Oct 2 • 12:00pm & Sun Oct 3 • 4:00pm

John G. Morris ‘Eleven Frames’ Directed by Douglas Sloan

A Circle and Three Lines Directed by Jan Selby

Resurrection Man

USA / 2009 / 10 minutes East Coast Premiere

SHORTS

The peace symbol unifies people around the world, crossing language barriers and inspiring hope. “A Circle and Three Lines” follows the peace symbol from the 1950s through today, challenging us to remember its past and to take responsibility for its future. For more info, visit acircleandthreelines.com

Born Sweet Directed Cynthia Wade

USA / 2010 / 8 minutes This film tells the story of John G. Morris – the most influential photo editor of the 20th century – the era when photo editors chose the images that defined war, politics, culture – the life and times of generations. For more info, visit icontent.tv

Cambodia / 2010 / 28 minutes In Cambodian with English subtitles Fifteen year old Vinh Voeurn has accepted his destiny to be sick for the rest of life with incurable arsenic poisoning, but his illness does not stop him from fantasizing about becoming a karaoke star and winning the affections of adoring fans. For more info, visit bornsweetfilm.com

Goodbye Chicken, Farewell Goat

Directed by Jonas Carpignano

USA / 2010 / 5 minutes New York University U.S. Premiere

Based on real events, “The Resurrection Man” takes us through a night in the life of Grandison Harris, an ex-slave hired by the University of August to exhume bodies for medical research.

Watermelon Man Directed by Matt Morris

USA / 2009 / 12:30 minutes New York Premiere

In rural North Carolina, a watermelon farmer is given a task by God to write children’s books. For more info, visit mattmorrisfilms.com

Directed by Julius Onah

USA / 2009 / 5:30 minutes East Coast Premiere

Seven years since his last visit to Nigeria, a filmmaker meditates on the death of his father. For more info, visit juliusonah.com

WOODSTOCK FILM FESTIVAL

2010

shorts A Legacy Under the Rubble

Haiti

Directed by Frero Pierre

Haiti / 2010 / 3:38 minutes The houses in the historic area of Jacmel are under threat of demolition.

Chana

Directed by Bayard Jean Bernard

Haiti / 2010 / 4:05 minutes A young girl in Jacmel volunteers each day to help heal her fellow Haitians.

Crying Man

Woodstock Community Center Sun Oct 3 • 11:30am Ciné Institute provides Haitian youth with film education and produces films that promote excellence in Haitian cinema. After the earthquake in January 2010, despite the loss of their homes, school and friends, the Ciné Institute students picked up their cameras and became a functioning newsroom, creating a startling array of powerful films. This screening is programmed and moderated by Ciné Institute teacher and Woodstock Film Festival advisory board member Annie Nocenti, who also headed up the 2010 WFF Youth At Risk Summer Workshop at the Center for Creative Education in midtown Kingston, NY. Annie Nocenti produced these films with her students in Haiti, and there will be a Q&A after the screening.

Directed by Vadim Janvier

Grande Mere

Directed by Roudeline Michel

Haiti / 2010 / 5:05 minutes A tender portrait of a tough grandmother who survived Papa and Baby Doc’s regimes, and now an earthquake.

Aider Pour Survivre Directed by Ralphden Laurent

Haiti / 2010 / 3:43 minutes A woman helps her village after the earthquake by making the best of what little food they have.

I’m Still Alive

Directed by Keziah Jean

For more info, visit cineinstitute.com

The Overlooked

Directed by Marco Saint-Juste

Haiti / 2010 / 2:44 minutes A sensitive portrait of the “overlooked” professions of Haiti.

Silent March Directed by Huguens Saintil

Haiti / 2010 / 3:46 minutes Carnival, usually a colorful event, is replaced by a profoundly moving Silent March.

Tent in the Water Directed by Yvette Lamour

US Premiere

Haiti / 2010 / 2:42 minutes Life in a tent camp after a hard rain.

A young boy is proud to have helped save his brother from under the rubble of his home.

We’ll Be Back

Haiti / 2010 / 6 minutes

Look at Me

Directed by Pierre Lucson Bellegarde

Haiti / 2010 / 2:09 minutes The handicapped man helps the newly handicapped.

SHORTS

Haiti / 2010 / 4 minutes A man mourns the loss of his wife with song.

Directed by Donald Charles & Silvio Dieudonne

Haiti / 2010 / 4:10 minutes Courageous volunteer orthopedic doctors valiantly set casts for earthquake victims.

Le Jour de Seisme Directed by Simeus Fritzner

Haiti / 2010 / 5 minutes Early reportage from the day of the earthquake, this footage was the first on CNN from Jacmel, Haiti.

Mobilisation - Allah MP2 Real

Directed by Manasse Fortune and Ilrique Perrin Haiti / 2010 / 4:10 minutes An uplifting music video of one of the first songs written about the earthquake.

2010

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SHORTS Sex, Friends, Work Woodstock Community Center Fri Oct 1 • 9:30pm & Sat Oct 2 • 7:15pm

Appropriate Sex

Live Girls

Directed by Pamela Romanowsky USA / 2010 / 11:15 minutes New York University World Premiere

A disenfranchised medical student develops a new sense of urgency and an increasingly warped view of reality while working nights in her uncle’s sleazy sex shop.

Directed by Shandor Garrison

USA / 2009 / 9 minutes New York University A college creative writing class turns rowdy over the question: is Mandy Shaw’s short story a little horny? Mandy herself provides the answer in office hours, and Professor Lowe sees his career, family and morality hanging in the balance. Based on the short story by bestselling author Steve Almond (Candyfreak). For more info, visit appropriatesex.com

Me Time

Directed by Matt Schuman

USA / 2009 / 10:15 minutes New York Premiere

“Me Time:” you want it, you need it, but at what length will you go to get it?. For more info, visit freshhead.com/MeTime

Nothing Happened Directed by Julia Kots

Gayby

USA / 2009 / 10 minutes Sex, drugs, diet tips. Girlfriends tell each other everything. But is there one topic that should stay off-limits?

Directed by Jonathan Lisecki

SHORTS

USA / 2010 / 12 minutes A gay man and a straight woman decide to have a child together the old fashioned way. For more info, visit gaybyfilm.com

The Position

Directed by Kevin Stocklin

Gene

Directed by Tony Leech

USA / 2010 / 13 minutes

Chasing the job of her dreams at a high-powered Manhattan firm, young debutante Hope Turnell finds the interview delving into unexpectedly intimate territory. For more info, visit thepositionmovie.com

USA / 2009 / 5:10 minutes World Premiere

Two doors. Two strangers. One ridiculous conversation. For more info, visit dangerousimages.com

Screening Prior to... The Horror at Glen Atty

Tarantula

USA / 2010 / 4:30 minutes

World Premiere

Directed by Brent Kunkle

A roving man protects his land when two poachers get too close. Screens prior to “Bitter Feast.”

Neda’s Eyes

Directed by Planet Pictures Hamed Saber

USA / 2010 / 5:00 minutes On June 20. 2009, during her non-violent pursuit of freedom, Neda Agha-Soltan was murdered. Neda’s Eyes reflects the courage and commitment of all Iranians seeking democracy. This film is dedicated to her memory. Screens prior to Camp Victory, Afghanistan.

Directed by Barry Feinstein USA / 1968 / 7 minutes

In 1968, Barry Feinstein thought it would be cool to film a group while they were playing. He came up with a concept and decided to shoot the improvisational rock band Tarantula in an old abandoned amusement park outside of LA. Decades later, Feinstein and Tarantula lead singer, songwriter Tom Grasso met in Woodstock. In 2010, Grasso found the never-before seen film. It might just be the first music video ever. Screens prior to “Don’t Quit Your Daydream.”

WOODSTOCK FILM FESTIVAL

2010

shorts Banana Bread

Shout, Twist

Directed by Barton Landsman

USA / 2009 / 9 minutes Matt Meyerson has a worried Jewish mother. She’s concerned about his health, his career and just about everything else. She might actually have good reason to worry. For more info, visit bananabreadfilm.com

Black Ops Arabesque Directed by Jared Drake

USA / 2009 / 4:45 minutes A secret service agent yearns to be a dancer. For more info, visit www. firesidefilm.com

Woodstock Community Center Fri Oct 1 • 5:00pm & Sun Oct 3 • 1:45pm

The New Tenants Directed by Joachim Back

USA, Denmark / 2009 / 21 minutes In this Oscar® winning short from 2010, two men move into a new apartment and find themselves entangled in its terrifying history. For more info, visit thenewtenantsfilm.com

The Hardest Part Directed by Oliver Refson

SHORTS

UK / 2009 / 13:26 minutes An aging actor has finally secured the audition of a lifetime, but just how badly does he want the role?

Junkyard Jesús

Directed by Christoph Kuschnig USA / 2010 / 12:30 minutes Manny fences cars for quick cash. When he partners with his buddy Jesús, their friendship is jeopardized by a disturbing discovery. For more info, visit kuschnig.net

On A Roll

World Without Numbers

YESNO

USA / 2010 / 3:32 minutes

Canada / 2010 / 7:16 minutes

Directed by Mitchell Rose East Coast Premiere

An exploration of the horrors of a numberless world through the lens of childhood melodrama. For more info, visit mitchellrose.com. Screens prior to “The Singularity is Near.”

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Directed by Kate Riedl

Australia, USA / 2010 / 6:37 minutes New York Premiere

Destiny unfolds one number at a time... For more info, visit kateriedl.com

Screening Prior to... Directed by Brian B. Johnson

”YESNO” is a playful, poetic vision of the planet on the verge of a nervous breakdown. Based on the book by eminent Canadian poet Dennis Lee, it combines live action and animation in a narrative that jives between hope and despair. Lee’s words are voiced by a pantheon of Canadian poets, including Leonard Cohen, Michael Ondaatje and Margaret Atwood. An apocalyptic montage takes us from the folds of the cerebral cortex to the jungles of “Fitzcarraldo” and “The African Queen.” Screens prior to “In the Wake of the Flood.”

SHORTS Journeys

Miriam’s Song

Directed by Shabnam Piryaei

Woodstock Community Center Fri Oct 1 • 12:45pm & Sat Oct 2 • 5:00pm

Hirosaki Players Directed by Jeff Sousa

USA / 2009 / 19:20 minutes In Japanese with subtitles On a tense opening night, a playwright struggles with a legendary Samurai film star for control of the play and their relationship. For more info, visit tk-digital.com/thehirosakiplayers

Junko’s Shamisen

Directed by Solomon Friedman

Canada / 2009 / 10:15 minutes In Japanese and English A young Japanese orphan and her mystical friend, exact poetic justice on a malevolent samurai lord. For more info, visit junko-film.com

Off Season

Directed by Jonathan Van Tulleken

USA, UK / 2009 / 12 minutes When an alcoholic transient ventures from his usual path in search of a full bottle he makes a terrifying discovery that unravels his solitary existence. For more info, visit offseasonfilm.com

Shadow of the Road

(Betzel Ha Derech) Directed by Yaniv Linton

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Lights

Directed by Giulio Ricciarelli

Germany / 2009 / 14 minutes A small town policeman dreams of being a respected crime fighter. When he realizes he is not needed, he takes matters into his own hands to establish law and order.

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Israel / 2009 / 13 minutes The Sam Spiegel Film & TV School, Jerusalem In Hebrew with subtitles Maurice walks back home after many years of absence, but his shadow won’t let him be. For more info, visit jsfs.co.il

Roscoe Holcomb: From Daisy Kentucky Directed by John Cohen

Woodstock Community Center Sat Oct 2 • 9:15pm & Sun Oct 3 • 6:00pm

5 Variations on a Long String

Directed by Peter Esmonde

USA / 2010 / 20 minutes Over the past quarter century, composer, performer Ellen Fullman has developed and perfected her extraordinary ‘long string instrument.’ More than fifty feet long, the instrument envelops its audience in dense masses of sound; imagine standing inside an enormous pipe organ, or a huge grand piano. Recorded in multichannel surround sound, this short film is an intense musical exploration of Ellen Fullman’s creative process and her mind-blowing sound world.

USA / 2010 / 5 minutes An exploration on the resilience of children in circumstances of trauma and loneliness. For more info, visit shabnampiryaei.com/live

USA / 2009 / 30 minutes John Cohen explores the life, philosophy and music of Eastern Kentucky banjo player, coal miner and construction worker Roscoe Holcomb. Holcomb has been injured on the job and forced into early retirement. He discusses his life and music and plays a number of traditional songs from his region. Using intimate footage of Holcomb at home as well as footage of his family, community and region, Cohen presents a remarkable and visually beautiful portrait of Roscoe Holcomb, a man who despite economic hardship and changing times has maintained a powerful and authentic personal music and philosophy.

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shorts Teen Films Showing at: Onteora High School

28 and Counting

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Oct 1

• 7:00pm

Directed by Zack Bernstein and Christian Vogeler

A Euphoric Relationship

Directed by Ileen Gutgarts

USA / 2010 / 8 minutes Midwood High School A poetic exploration of a troubled love story between a boy and a girl.

A Look Through My Eyes

Directed by Shalaun D. Nelson

USA / 2010 / 9 minutes Midwood High School Letting a stranger into your life may not be the easiest decision.

A Notion of Pretty Directed by Edith Lerner

USA / 2010 / 7:30 minutes Onteora High School What do teenage girls believe is truly beautiful?

Kosher

Directed by Hila Shuchoy

USA / 2009 / 15 minutes Hebrew Reali School of Haifa Amir Kosher is an 18 year old Muslim Israeli searching for an identity.

Merchant of Venice Directed by Lauren Tischler

USA / 2009 / 3:43 minutes Onteora High School A colorful adaptation of a play by Shakespeare.

On the Terrace of a Thousand Yellow Suns Directed by Luca Balser

USA / 2010 / 3:50 minutes Edward R. Murrow High School A beautifully crafted, experimental film expressing a girl’s frustration with life and eggs.

Paper

Directed by Addison Cook

Directed by Roman Rhyse-Kleckanda

USA / 2009 / 0:16 minutes Onteora High School Inventive and captivating, this stop-motion experiment explores the endless possibilities provided by a simple piece of paper.

Can’t We Talk

Ron Geffen: Music Producer

Apple

USA / 2010 / 1:28 minutes Onteora High School The survival of the innocent fruit.

Directed by WFF Youth Initiative USA / 2010 / 4:30 minutes

Directed by Tyler Silver

Woodstock Film Festival Summer Film Intensive The modern world is one of information overload, white noise and techno-interupts... can two people simply find a way to talk?

USA / 2009/ 6:45 minutes Clarkstown High School North An adolescent describes the path to a career launched at a young age.

Hide and Seek

USA / 2010 / 4:30 minutes Woodstock Film Festival Summer Film Intensive Kids discuss dreams and aspirations.

Directed by Matt Tompkins

USA / 2010 /2:20 minutes Is it just a game?

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USA / 2010 / 8 minutes Byram Hills High School Some people never learn.

What I Love

Directed by WFF Youth Initiative

concerts In addition to the great music-related films and panels, the Woodstock Film Festival has presented some OUTSTANDING LIVE CONCERTS and SHOWCASES over the past decade. A long list of past musical participants includes Pinetop Perkins and the Perfect Age of Rock’n’Roll Blues Band, Bela Fleck, Edgar Meyer, Bernie Worrell, Will Calhoun, Doug Wimbish, Duncan Sheik, Mike Gordon and Trey Anastasio of Phish, Gov’t Mule, Kate Pierson, Arlo Guthrie, Peter Rowan, Rahat Nusrat Fateh Ali Kahn, Britta Phillips & Dean Wareham of Luna, Graham Parker, Levon Helm, Marshall Crenshaw, and many more. Stay tuned for additional announcements about music events

The Good Listeners with Adrian Grenier F o ll o wi n g Don’t Quit Your Daydream Begins after the film and Q&A Bearsville Theater WOODSTOCK

Thursday Sept 30 • 8:15pm

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Adrian Grenier is an actor as well as co-producer and star of HBO’s Emmy-nominated series, Entourage, which is currently in its sixth season. As a director, Grenier’s first work was the deeply personal yearlong quest to find his father, from whom he had been estranged for 18 years. Documenting his search, Shot In The Dark was the film that evolved from it. The film was shown during the 2002 Woodstock Film Festival. In the same year, Grenier founded Reckless Productions. Its mission was to bring socially responsible and important topics to public attention through the mediums of television and film. Little wonder that Grenier saw a wonderful story in The Good Listeners and produced the film Don’t Quit Your Daydream. Not only a fine actor and champion of social causes, Grenier is also a talented singer, guitarist and harmonica player who collaborated with The Good Listeners on the track Chemtrails, one of the groups most successful songs. The stars of the film Don’t Quit Your Daydrean, joined by producer Adrian Grenier (Entourage), will take the stage following the screening to prove that it’s never too late to follow your dreams. Portland, Oregon natives Nathan Khyber and Clark Stiles began their careers as part of the 90s band Absinthe. After signing a recording contract, Stiles left the band. A decade later, when personal tragedy rekindled the pair’s friendship, they

started an exciting musical odyssey as The Good Listeners. With an affinity for recording their music in unusual places with unorthodox people, The Good Listeners have an ability to thrive under these conditions. In 2005, The Good Listeners recorded their debut album Ojai, comprising ten songs recorded in ten days in a makeshift home studio. The song Time Will Tell was featured on the soundtrack of the hit film The Devil Wears Prada.

With their third album The Good Listeners have embarked on their most ambitious journey yet. With the help of Grenier, they criss-crossed America looking for musical inspiration and harmony. The journey is the foundation of the film Don’t Quit Your Daydream, which was named for the album they recorded during the trip. Having travelled all across the country in search of musical enlightenment, we are thrilled that they have made a pit stop in Woodstock.

A P erformance b y :

Sussan Deyhim F e atu r e d i n Neda’s Eyes Colony Café in WOODSTOCK

Friday, Oct 1 • 10:00pm

Sussan Deyhim is a composer, vocalist and performance artist who combines her voice with technical wizardry in order to create a unique sonic and vocal

language that summons rituals, history and a sense of the unknown. Deyhim’s wide-ranging collaborations have included Peter Gabriel, Branford Marsalis, Bobby McFerrin, Jerry Garcia, Doug Wimbish and The Blue Man Group. She has performed at the Lincoln Center Summer Festival, Carnegie Hall, Albert Hall, The Old Vic, Queen

Elizabeth Hall, Royce Hall and many other major venues. Deyhim will perform a musical homage in conjunction with the screening of Neda’s Eyes — a tribute film to Neda Agha-Soltan, whose murder in Iran made international news and made Neda an inspriational symbol for peace to many Iranians and others throughout the world. WOODSTOCK FILM FESTIVAL

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A P erformance b y :

with John Cohen and the Dustbusters

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justin sane

Roscoe Holcomb

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Shorts: Music

Friday, Oct 1 • 10:00pm

WOODSTOCK Community Center

Singer/songwriter Justin Sane is a member of the political punk-rock band Anti-Flag, formed in Pittsburgh in 1988. Also a noted solo artist, it is a pleasure to welcome him to Woodstock.Sane is featured throughout the film Sounds Like a Revolution, which explores the power of music how it can effect real and sustainable change. As an artist who, in his own words, has been “focused on a specific socio-political agenda (with a little bit of fun and humor thrown in),” this performance is sure to compliment the film’s powerful look at the new wave of protest music sweeping America.

Friday, Oct 1 • 9:15pm

Following the screening of Roscoe Holcomb: From Daisy Kentucky comes an impromptu performance featuring the music of the legendary banjo player. A truly gifted singer, guitarist and banjo player, Holcomb has influenced numerous musicians from Bob Dylan to Eric Clapton. Film director and Holcomb friend, John Cohen — an accomplished musician and member of the band “New Lost City Ramblers” — will be joined by the Dustbusters to perform some of Holcomb’s timeless music.

Music also follows

Don’t Go in the Woods

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Sounds Like a Revolution Begins after film and Q&A

Music begins after Q&A The Emerson Resort & Spa, Mt. Tremper Friday, Oct 1 • 10:00pm The stars of Vincent D’Onofrio’s film Don’t Go In The Woods will be performing together at Fright Night. This ensemble of actors all proved their musical abilities in the film. This original pop group includes Bo Boddie, who not only starred in the film, but also co-wrote much of the music and songs that appear throughout it. The rare opportunity to hear and see this unlikely band perform is one that absolutely should not be missed.

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Panels take place at Utopia Studios in Woodstock unless specified otherwise. Programs and panelists are subject to change. Please make sure to visit woodstockfilmfestival.com for the most up-to-date info. Sponsored IN PART by

The Singularity Is Near Utopia Studios • Thur Sept 30 • 3:00pm programmed by Sabine Hoffman

We live in an era of exponentially increasing advances in artificial intelligence, nano technology, robotics, designer drugs, bionics, and techniques to defeat— and perhaps even reverse—cellular aging. Scientific optimists look forward to a transhuman future when our life expectancy will be dramatically, if not infinitely, extended; when people no longer suffer from disability or disease; when superintelligent machines will “reproduce” by designing and building their own successors; when the line between humans and computers will increasingly blur, as we “download” our memories and minds into machines and become bionic ourselves. What promises and challenges does this vision of the future hold? Panelists:

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Michelle Byrd is the Co-President of Games for Change, a non-profit, which seeks to harness the extraordinary power of digital games to address the most pressing issues of our day, including poverty, education, human rights, global conflict and climate change. Byrd has previously served as the Executive Director of the Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP), the oldest and largest organization of independent filmmakers in the U.S. and been awarded the “Made in New York” career tribute.

Moderator: Paul Hoffman is the editorial chairman of BigThink.com, a storyteller at The Moth, and an award-winning science writer. His own work explores the relation between genius, madness, and obsession. Formerly the president of Encyclopedia Britannica and the editor in chief of Discover magazine, Hoffman is the winner of the first National Magazine Award for Feature Writing and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Ray Kurzweil is one of the world’s leading inventors, thinkers and futurists, with a 20-year track record of accurate predictions. Called “the restless genius” by the The Wall Street Journal, PBS included Ray as one of 16 “revolutionaries who made America.” He established Singularity University in 2009 to assemble, educate and inspire a cadre of leaders who strive to understand and facilitate the development of exponentially advancing technologies in order to address humanity’s grand challenges.

Martine Rothblatt, Ph.D, MBA, is a lawyer, author and entrepreneur. She is the founder of numerous companies, including Sirius Satellite Radio and United Therapeutics. She has cyber-scripted pioneering websites including endracism.org. Her company Terasem Media and Films produces independent narrative and documentary films that raise public awareness and understanding of innovations in human life extension through the geo-ethical application of cyber consciousness and biotechnologies.

Career Day: Youth Initiative Onteora High School • Fri Oct 1 • 8:00am - 2:00pm Since 2002, the WFF Youth Initiative has inspired learning opportunities for students, by providing the opportunity for one-onone exchanges with filmmakers and top film industry members who hold a variety of positions including screenwriter, actor, director, producer, cinematographer, editor, composer, attorney, animator, casting director, make-up artist, documentary filmmaker and film critic. Several Academy Award® winners have been a part of the Youth Initiative over the years including the legendary composer Elmer Bernstein, who was nominated for 15 Oscars®, filmmakers Barbara Kopple, Ron Nyswaner and Leon Gast, screenwriter Zachary Sklar and cinematographer Haskell Wexler, who is the only cinematographer with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Each year over 150 students from schools throughout the region gather at Onteora High School in Boiceville for Career Day, where students meet with A-list film industry professionals in small groups, ask questions and learn about careers in film and new media. In addition to conversations with leading authorities on filmmaking, students are also treated to a film screening, which is followed by a Q&A session with the filmmakers.

“I am always amazed at the quality of the program and especially impressed by the depth of understanding these youngsters have of the filmmaking process. It has been a privilege to share my documentary experiences at the WFF Career Day forum.” — Leon Gast, Academy Award® Recipient, When We Were Kings.

The WFF Youth Initiative is funded in part by Ulster Savings Charitable Foundation, SAGINDIE and a Federal Judiciary Grant from the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention

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PANELS Film Marketing and Publicity Utopia Studios • Fri Oct 1 • 4:00pm

For the past couple of years, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube have threatened traditional marketing campaigns. With the runaway success of the iPad and newer generation smart phones, has the day finally arrived when the promise of instant access puts the nail in the coffin of traditional pulp media? This panel of experts addresses the impact of social media and other next generation trends in film marketing and publicity. The discussion will cover DIY, self-distribution, the changing role of executives, publicists and lawyers, the consolidation of studios, and delivery systems including VOD, PPV. While many filmmakers decide to hire a publicist, many do not understand the role of publicity in festival strategies, creating buzz, and the role PR plays in self-distribution or the sale of a film to a distributor. Moderator:

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Gary Springer is an entertainment publicist representing film, theater and events. In film, his company, Springer Associates PR, represents independent and foreign films at festivals in the U.S. and abroad. He also represents NY campaigns for film and talent for end of year Awards consideration. Springer’s first career was as an actor and his film appearances include Dog Day Afternoon, Small Circle of Friends and Law and Disorder. He is a voting member of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences and was a founding Board member of the Creative Coalition.

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Amazing Women in Film

Utopia Studios • Sat Oct 2 • 12:00pm With more women sitting in the Director’s Chair and holding top positions as executives, producers, and administrators, has the balance finally shifted to a point of equality? Join us as a diverse group of powerful women discuss their work and the state of the film industry, from the woman’s perspective. Panelists: Joslyn Barnes co-founder of Louverture Films, is a screenwriter and Emmy®nominated producer. She is the author or co-author of numerous commissioned screenplays for feature films including the upcoming Toussaint, The Cosmic Forest, and the award-winning Bàttu. Since co-founding Louverture Films, Barnes has executive produced or produced the award-winning features Bamako, Africa Unite and the Oscar® and Emmy®-nominated Trouble The Water. She also was the associate producer on the 2010 Cannes Palme d’Or winner Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives. For the past several years, Jeanne R. Berney has served as Director of Public Relations and Marketing at the Film Society of Lincoln Center. A member of the senior management team, her responsibilities were to position the Film Society

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Josh Braun runs Submarine Entertainment, a hybrid sales and production company, consulting and strategizing on the sale, distribution and development of documentaries and feature films. Some of the films represented by Braun include the award-winning Winter’s Bone, Man on Wire, Smash His Camera, Food Inc., The Cove, Supersize Me and Encounters at the End of the World. Braun was also an executive producer on David Cronenberg’s Oscar®-nominated “A History of Violence”.

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John Murphy has a diversified background in public relations, having created and implemented both corporate and consumer media campaigns for clients spanning feature film, television, cable, internet and publishing. As part of this, Murphy has represented a full slate of films at Sundance, Toronto, Tribeca and The Hamptons and handled the press for the Nantucket, Woodstock and Children’s International Film Festivals. Recent theatrical film campaigns include A Serious Man, Taking Woodstock, Milk, Shakespeare in Love, Life is Beautiful and many more.

Thelma Adams has twice served as the New York Film Critics Circle Chair. She has written for The New York Times, O: The Oprah Magazine, Marie Claire, The Huffington Post, Interview, and more. She has appeared on CNN, E!, NBC’s The Today Show, among many others. In 1993 she earned a MFA from Columbia University and graduated Phi Beta Kappa from UC Berkeley in 1981.

and its programs across all marketing platforms, including advertising. In addition, Berney revamped NYFF Press and Industry Screenings and worked with sponsors, filmmakers, the film industry and program partners from around the world. Following her work at NYFF Berney worked as the publicist for Apparition Films until May 2010. Amy Dotson is the Deputy Director of IFP, the nation’s oldest not-for-profit membership and advocacy organization of independent filmmakers. She provides ongoing support and mentorship to over 350 independent filmmaker alumni each year and serves the independent film industry and community by connecting them with new, ‘off-the-radar’ creative talent. Before joining IFP, Dotson held the position of Associate Programmer/Special Programs Producer for SILVERDOCS: AFI/Discovery Channel Documentary Fes tival and AFI Silver’s The European Union Film Showcase.

Lemore Syvan is a New York-based independent producer. She recently completed Henry’s Crime starring Keanu Reeves, Vera Farmiga and James Caan. Prior to that in 2009, Syvan produced The Private Lives of Pippa Lee, directed by Rebecca Miller. Syvan’s work also includes The Ballad of Jack and Rose, starring Daniel Day-Lewis and Catherine Keener, Gracie, directed by Academy Award® winner Davis Guggenheim, starring Dermot Mulroney, and many others. She also produced Rebecca Miller’s Personal Velocity, which won the Grand Jury Award at Sundance, as well as the John Cassavetes Award at the 2003 Independent Spirit Awards.

PANELS New Distribution Paradigms Utopia Studios • Sat Oct 2 • 2:00pm

The 21st century brought with it extraordinary advances in the way that films are distributed. The advent of the internet, cable and satellite television and on-demand services now allows a viewer to choose exactly how and when they watch a film. This change in dynamic between the work and the audience has allowed many films a chance to shine that would have otherwise been denied. In turn this has opened up a whole new world of cinema for the public to enjoy, making such changes incredibly valuable and worthwhile. This panel will discuss the remarkable leaps forward that have been made in the world of film distribution and look ahead to what the future may hold. Moderator:

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Bingham Ray has nearly 30 years of executive experience, having overseen the production of numerous critically-acclaimed and successful releases. In 2001, Ray was named President of United Artists and during his three-year tenure there, he again oversaw multiple successes, releasing the Academy Award®-winning films No Man’s Land and Bowling For Columbine. Prior to United Artists, Ray co-founded October Films. One of the foremost independent film companies of the 1990’s, the company won two Oscars®, 13 nominations and top prizes at the Cannes Film Festival on three occasions.

Panelists: Edward Burns gained international recognition for his first feature The Brothers McMullen, which premiered in competition at the 1995 Sundance Film Festival, winning the Grand Jury prize and going on to become the year’s most profitable release. Burns’ second film, She’s The One reinforced Burns’ versatile talent as a writer, director and actor. His ninth feature as a writer, director and actor, Nice Guy Johnny is screening at this year’s Woodstock Film Festival. As an actor, Burns starred opposite Tom Hanks and Robert De Niro in Saving Private Ryan and 15 Minutes respectively.

Ted Hope, co-founder of This is That & Good Machine, has produced over 60 films, including 21 Grams, American Splendor, Happiness, In the Bedroom, three Sundance Grand Prize winners and the first features of Alan Ball, Michel Gondry and Ang Lee. He blogs at HopeForFilm. com and co-founded the Indie Film review site HammerToNail.com. Hope is currently in post-production on Super, written and directed by James Gunn and starring Rainn Wilson, Ellen Page, Liv Tyler and Kevin Bacon. Richard Abramowitz is President of Abramorama, consulting on the production, marketing and distribution of independent films. His recent distribution projects include Exit Through the Gift Shop, ANVIL! The Story of Anvil! and Agora. A veteran of 30 years in film, he’s worked with filmmakers such as Jonathan Demme, John Turturro, Morgan Spurlock, James Ivory and Neil Young. He’s also an Adjunct at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts.

Legal Issues in Film Workshop Colony Cafe • Sat Oct 2 • 4:00pm

This class will provide an overview of the legal issues and common business arrangements used in film and television projects. In addition, option agreements for the acquisition of literary properties; distribution agreements and a comprehensive release for reality based television program will be discussed. The panel also take a look at legal issues surrounding recent films such as Borat. This class will be taught by Elena M. Paul, Esq., VLA’s Executive Director. Elena M. Paul, Esq., is the Executive Director of the Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts (VLA), the leading provider of pro bono legal services and advocacy to the arts community. Paul creates many of VLA’s original programs, including the VLA Clinic, the Statewide Service Initiative and Ask the Lawyer. She lectures nationally on a variety of arts and entertainment topics, including, intellectual property, fundraising and forming for-profit arts businesses. In 2000, Paul was elected to serve as a Wasserstein Public Interest Fellow at Harvard Law School.

Bob Berney has been a preeminent force in the international film world for more than two decades, founding and operating four of the most successful independent film distribution and marketing companies: Apparition, Picturehouse, Newmarket Films and IFC Films. As an independent distribution and marketing consultant, Berney was responsible for the release of Christopher Nolan’s Memento for Newmarket Capital Group and Todd Solondz’s critically-acclaimed Happiness for Good Machine International (now Focus Features). John Sloss is a founding member of Cinetic Media, as well as the Managing Partner of Sloss Law Office, LLP. Sloss has also acted as Executive Producer for over 35 feature films including The Fog of War (2004 Academy Award®winner, Documentary Feature), Pieces of April and Far From Heaven. Sloss serves as a partner in InDigEnt, a low budget production company for high-level filmmaking talent and recently founded the digital sales initiative Cinetic Rights Management, which launched its branded VOD channel, Cinetic FilmBuff in 2009.

River of Words: Portraits of Hudson Valley Writers

Kleinert/James Art Center WOODSTOCK Sat Oct 2 • 1:00pm

Celebrate the publication of River of Words: Portraits of Hudson Valley Writers by Nina Shengold, photographs by Jennifer May, with this fast-moving literary montage of short takes by featured writers: Jon Bowermaster, Martha Frankel, James Lasdun, Jana Martin, Ron Nyswaner, David Rees, Susan Richards, Zachary Sklar, Sparrow, Nova Ren Suma and Kim Wozencraft. Nina Shengold is Chronogram’s Books Editor and a Writers Guild Award winning screenwriter. Jennifer May‘s photos appear in The New York Times, Poets & Writers and other publications. WOODSTOCK FILM FESTIVAL

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Utopia Studios • Sat Oct 2 • 4:00pm Showcasing prominent and emerging musicians and filmmakers who use music as a tool for social change. Panelists: Kenneth Bowser is a director of documentaries, feature films and episodic television and specializes in crafting stories about American culture. In addition to Phil Ochs: There But For Fortune, he is the writer, producer and director of NBC’s Emmy®-nominated network special, Live From New York: The First Five Years of Saturday Night Live, celebrating the 30th Anniversary of SNL. He also worked on the SNL network specials for the 80s and 90s and is currently creating the 2000s episode. His next project is a narrative feature based on Peter Biskind’s bestseller entitled Down & Dirty Pictures. Summer Love (Naomi Preney) has produced several short documentaries showcasing up-and-coming Canadian fashion designers and musicians. With her company, Deltatime Productions, she heads up a team of creative talent whose passion for music and politics helped create her first feature documentary, Sounds Like a Revolution.

Doreen Ringer-Ross is VicePresident of Film and TV Relations at BMI. She has worked in the music industry for over two decades and currently specializes in outreach to the film and music communities.

Ron Mann makes awardwinning feature documentaries that focus on alternative and dissent culture. WFF has been showing Mann’s films since Go Further, a musical-eco-road movie about activism and sustainable living. This year, WFF is pleased to present In the Wake of the Flood, which puts Margaret Atwood’s words to music for change. As the leader of the folk-rock band the Lovin’ Spoonful, John Sebastian was responsible for a string of Top Ten hits from 1965-1967 that included the chart-toppers Daydream and Summer in the City, and he returned to number one in 1976 as a solo artist with Welcome Back. As an instrumentalist, primarily playing harmonica, he has accompanied a wide range of artists including Judy Collins, Crosby, Stills & Nash, the Doors, Bob Dylan, Laura Nyro, Graham Parker, Dolly Parton, Peter, Paul & Mary, John Prine, and Bonnie Raitt. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2000.

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Focusing on the craft of filmmaking Utopia Studios • Sun Oct 3 • 12:00pm Some of today’s most accomplished and promising documentary filmmakers reveal their process through the examination of some of some of their films’ most pivotal scenes. The directors will discuss their approach to the material, how they got to these moments and the vision behind filming and editing them in a particular way. This panel will be an eye opener to the audience by providing an insider’s glimpse into the collaborative process of documentary filmmaking and the complex thought process that goes along with it. Panelists: Michael Tucker is an acclaimed documentary filmmaker. In 2003, Tucker went to Baghdad, where he followed an armored car salesman making sales calls for Bulletproof Salesman. While filming Bulletproof Salesman, Tucker took interest in the story of US soldiers and began to work on Gunner Palace. After the critically acclaimed release of Gunner Palace in 2005, Tucker began work on The Prisoner: Or How I Planned to Kill Tony Blair, nominated for an Independent Spirit Award. Tucker’s most recent work How to Fold a Flag is the ﬁnal chapter of a chronicle that spans 7 years of war.

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Barbara Kopple is a two-time Academy Award® winning filmmaker for the documentaries Harlan County, USA and American Dream. Her other films include Woodstock: Now and Then, A Conversation with Gregory Peck, Fallen Champ: The Untold Story of Mike Tyson and many more. Kopple is the recipient of the Woodstock Film Festival Maverick Award, Los Angeles Film Critics Award and the Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize. She is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and she actively participates in organizations that address social issues and support independent filmmaking.

Justin Sane is the founding member of the seminal punk band Anti-Flag. Sane is a founding member of the non-profit Military Free Zone. He has worked with Amnesty International, Green Peace, PETA and numerous other organizations. Sussan Deyhim is an Iranian composer, vocalist and performance artist. Deyhim’s wide-ranging collaborations with leading artists have included Peter Gabriel, Jerry Garcia, The Blue Man Group and prominent female visual artists Shirin Neshat and Sophie Calle. Currently Deyhim is working on The House is Black, based on the work and life of the literary icon of Iranian contemporary poetry Forough Farrokhzad.

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Miriam Cutler co-produced and scored the documentary One Lucky Elephant. Other scores include Ghosts of Abu Grhaib, Lost in La Mancha and Licensed to Kill.

Conceived and Moderated by: Heidi Ewing is the co-director (with Rachel Grady) of “Jesus Camp,” a provocative documentary on the Evangelical right that was nominated for the 2007 Academy®-Award. She and Grady recently premiered 12th & Delaware at the Sundance Film Festival and then on HBO. Ewing also recently directed a film for MTV on Saudi Arabian teens and is part of a consortium of filmmakers that adapted the bestselling book Freakonomics for the big screen. Ricki Stern and Annie Sundberg are co-founders of Break Thru Films. They co-directed Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work, Sundance Award winner ’09, (IFC FILMS). They co-directed the Emmy nominated films The Devil Came on Horseback, The Trials of Darryl Hunt, and Burma Soldier. They are recipients of SPIRIT and GOTHAM nominations, Best Female Filmmakers Award — San Diego FF, and the Adrienne Shelly Excellence in Filmmaking Award.

PANELS Environmentally Speaking:

Improving Our Planet with the Power of Film Utopia Studios • Sun Oct 3 • 2:00pm CONCEIVED & CO-PROGRAMMED by Brian Geldin Can film make an impact on how we take care of our planet? Do we need to be more environmentally responsible in how we make our films to get our messages across? Where is the intersection of making films about the environment and making films that are environmentally conscious? Join us as filmmakers, industry leaders and environmental experts discuss the impact films have on our planet.

Moderator: Lydia Dean Pilcher is president of Cine Mosaic, has produced over 28 feature films. Pilcher is a Chair of the Producers Guild of America Green Committee (pgagreen.org), and is a presenter for The Climate Project, Al Gore’s climate change leadership program.

Panelists: Environmental Producer and Green Production Consultant Katherine Carpenter is an award-winning documentary producer specializing in environmental subjects. She was trained as a climate presenter by Al Gore and The Climate Project, and now works also as a carbon-reduction consultant for film and TV productions with Green Media Solutions of New York (see www.greenmediasolutions.net).

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Joe Berlinger is an award-winning filmmaker, journalist and photographer. His films include Brother’s Keeper, Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills, and Metallica: Some Kind of Monster. His most recent film, Crude, debuted at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival and received numerous accolades including Best International Green Film at Berlin’s prestigious Cinema For Peace.

Actors Dialogue Utopia Studios Sun Oct 3 • 10:00am

Join some of today’s most engaging actors as they chat about their work and their lives.

Mari Jo Winkler is currently executive producing David Koepp’s Premium Rush starring Joseph Gordon Levitt. She also executive produced the soon to be released Doug Liman’s Fair Game starring Noami Watts and Sean Penn, as well as Away We Go, Dan in Real Life and No Reservations and has co-Produced Lucky You, In Her Shoes and Shall We Dance. Jon Bowermaster is a six-time grantee of the National Geographic Expeditions Council. Bowermaster’s 2007-2008 Antarctic expedition was the finale in his OCEANS 8 project. He is a producer of a dozen documentary films including SOLA, which screens at local colleges and WFF in conjunction with the Hudson Valley Programmers Tour.

Moderator: Martha Frankel has contributed to Details, The New Yorker, Redbook, Cosmopolitan and The New York Times. She is the author of Hats & Eyeglasses: A Family Love Affair with Gambling and Brazilian Sexy.

Edie Falco most recently appeared in the Naked Angels off-Broadway production of This Wide Night. She made her Broadway debut in the Tony Award-winning play Sideman, which garnered her a Theatre World Award and a Drama Desk Award nomination. Other Broadway credits include Frankie and Johnny in the Claire de Lune and Night Mother. Falco is currently starring as Jackie in the hit Showtime series Nurse Jackie for which she recently received an Emmy® for Outstanding Lead Actress. As “Carmela Soprano” in The Sopranos, Falco received 3 Emmy® Awards, 2 Golden Globe Awards and 2 SAG Awards for Lead Actress in a Drama Series. Film credits include Cost of Living (AFI’s Best Actress Award), Sunshine State (Los Angeles Film Critics Association and New York Film Critics Online Award for Best Supporting Actress), Laws of Gravity (Independent Spirit Award Nomination for Best Female Lead Actor), Judy Berlin and the soon to be released 3 Backyards, which will be screening at the 2010 Woodstock Film Festival.

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Larry Fessenden is the writer, director and editor of the award-winning art-horror trilogy Habit, Wendigo and No Telling. His recent film The Last Winter premiered at the 2006 Toronto Film Festival (IFC). Fessenden has produced a diverse array of independent films including Wendy and Lucy, The House of The Dead, I Sell the Dead, Stake Land and Bitter Feast. In 1991 Fessenden wrote Low Impact Filmmaking: A Guide to Environmentally Sound Film and Video Production and to this day maintains a website on Global Warming, www.RunningOutofRoad.com. Eva Radke has worked in film and commercial production in NYC for 15 years, concentrating on the art department. In 2007 she formed ArtCube, an online group that facilitates collaboration within the industry. In 2008, she founded Film Biz Recycling to help the film industry address the triple bottom line: people, planet and profit.

Conversation with Bruce Beresford Upstate Films WOODSTOCK Sat Oct 2 • 10:00am

Bradley Jacobs (Senior Editor, US Weekly) talks to Academy Award® nominated director Bruce Beresford about his films Driving Miss Daisy, Breaker Morant, Tender Mercies and his recent locally-produced Peace Love & Misunderstanding. A screening of Tender Mercies follows at 11:00am.

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RIVER OF WORDS AT THE MOVIES A benefit for the Woodstock

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Film Festival Saturday October 2nd From the new book A montage of literary short RiveR of WoRds takes by Jon Bowermaster, Portraits of Martha Frankel, James Lasdun, Hudson Valley Writers Jana Martin, Ron Nyswaner, NiNa SheNgold David Rees, Susan Richards, Photographs by Zachary Sklar, Sparrow, JeNNifer May Foreword by Nova Ren Suma, Kim Wozencraft. d eNNiS Stock $10 admission includes refreshments; $50 donation to WFF includes free book.

For further details, visit www.woodstockfilmfestival.com

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WOODSTOCK • RHINEBECK • ROSENDALE Just 90 miles from New York City, Woodstock is a center for the arts, culture and alternative lifestyles, with eclectic shopping and great restaurants. The town—known for its writers, musicians, artists, filmmakers, and other creative folk—first gained notoriety in the early 1900s when residents were “greeted” by the arrival of freethinking bohemians and city dwellers. The Byrdcliffe Arts Colony, founded at the turn of the century by artisan philosophers to create a Utopian society based on arts and crafts, continues as an active artists colony with a year-round presence. Music has always been a popular part of the town’s mystique, and in the late 1960s, resident musicians such as Bob Dylan, The Band and Jimi Hendrix placed Woodstock on the rock ‘n’ roll map. The legendary 1969 Woodstock Music and Arts Festival defined a generation and Woodstock’s counter-cultural nature.

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BEARSVILLE THEATER (films)

UPSTATE FILMS WOODSTOCK (films)

261 Tinker Street Woodstock, NY 12498 845.679.4406

132 Tinker Street Woodstock, NY 12498 845.679.6608

COLONY CAFÉ (filmmaker lounge/ music)

UTOPIA STUDIO (panels)

22 Rock City Road Woodstock, NY 12498 845.679.5342 www.colonycafe.com

293 Tinker Street Woodstock, NY 12498 845.679.7600

WOODSTOCK COMMUNITY CENTER (films) 56 Rock City Road Woodstock, NY 12498

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TOWN HALL (films) 76 Tinker Street Woodstock, NY 12498

ONTEORA HIGH SCHOOL (career day) 4166 Route 28 Boiceville, NY 12412

EMERSON RESORT & SPA (fright night)

5340 New York 28 Mount Tremper, NY 12457 845.688.2828

Rhinebeck, in Dutchess County, is easily reachable by car VENUES or public transportation, and offers relaxed yet sophisticated UPSTATE FILMS country living with its myriad of shops, antique stores, (films) restaurants, and cultural venues—including Upstate Films. 6415 Montgomery Street Rhinebeck, NY 12572 The Hudson River National Historic Landmark District, 866.FILM.NUT in which Rhinebeck is located, has been home to scions of www.upstatefilms.org business and industry, presidents, and statesmen who built their mansions along the Hudson River, many now open to visitors. Located 18 miles across the Hudson River from Woodstock, Rhinebeck’s location enables visitors to easily visit both areas during a short stay.

Rosendale Cement was once used for the foundations of VENUES both the Brooklyn Bridge and Statue of Liberty. Filled with Rosendale Theatre (films) vibrant characters and activists, it’s a tolerant town with a 408 Main Street homey feel and a young edge. Bill’s Garden Store doubles as a Rosendale, NY 12472 barber shop. The Rosendale Street Fest hosts over sixty bands 845.658.8989 annually. At its heart is a grand old theater, one of the few single-screen theaters in the Hudson Valley. The Rosendale Theatre Collective is dedicated to preserving the historic theater and enhancing the cultural life and economic vitality of Rosendale and Ulster County through film, the performing arts and educational programming

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To Woodstock: Take Trailways from Port

Authority to Woodstock. This drops you off at the Village Green. For schedule, call 800.776.7548 or visit www.trailways.com. Alternative stops incude Kingston and Phoenicia. To Rhinebeck: Take the Shortline Bus from Port Authority to Rhinebeck. For schedule call 800.776.7548. To Rosendale: Take Trailways from Port Authority to Rosendale. For schedule, call 800.776.7548.

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Empire Service Line from Penn Station to Rhinecliff-Kingston. Monday through Friday, the DUCK trolley transports visitors into Rhinebeck. On weekends, a cab is your best bet, and Rhinebeck Taxi is conveniently located at the train station or rent a car from Enterprise-Rent-a-Car, which will meet you at the train station. BY CAR: WOODSTOCK From NYC & SOUTH: Take the NYS Thruway (Interstate 87) North to Exit 19 (Kingston). Head WEST on Rt. 28 toward Pine Hill. After 5 miles turn RIGHT at the light onto Rt. 375 and go 3 miles into Woodstock! From ALBANY & MASS PIKE: Take NYS Thruway (Interstate 87) South to Exit 20 (Saugerties/Woodstock). Turn LEFT onto Rt. 32, then RIGHT onto Rt. 212. Follow Rt. 212 for 9 miles into Woodstock. The Tinker Street Cinema is located at 132 Tinker Street. The box office is located at 13 Roack City Road. Other venues are located throughout the town. BY CAR: RHINEBECK

From Woodstock, Ulster County & west side of Hudson River: Take Rt. 375

towards Rt. 28. Turn LEFT onto Rt. 28. Merge onto US-209 N toward Kingston-Rhinecliff Bridge. Go over the Kingston-Rhinecliff Bridge, continue straight to second traffic light. Turn right onto Route 9G. At first light turn right onto Route 9. Go straight into the center of Rhinebeck. Theater is at 6415 Montgomery Street/Route 9 next to Foster’s Coach House Restaurant.

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From New Paltz area: Take Route 32 North toward Kingston. Turn left after bridge (at traffic light) onto Route 213 (Main Street, Rosendale). Theater is up on right. From Ellenville area: Take Route 209 North toward Kingston. Turn right onto Route 213 in Stone Ridge. Follow Route 213 (thru traffic light, over bridge and thru High Falls) into Rosendale. Theater is on left. Woodstock: Take Route 375 to Route 28 East. Go 5 miles to Roundabout. Take first exit (Washington Avenue). Go straight on Washington Avenue to end and turn right onto Route 32. Go about 6 miles and turn right (just before bridge) to Main Street in Rosendale. Theater is on right (parking in rear). From NYC: Take the NYS Thruway (Interstate 87) to Exit 19 (Kingston). Take the second exit (Washington Avenue). Follow above directions.**

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ticket information Walk-Up Orders

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A handling fee of $7.95 will be added per online order or phone order that is mailed.

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Tickets for all venues will be available for purchase at the BOX OFFICE from September 3 thru October 3.

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Student and senior discounts are available with ID, but must be requested directly at the Box Office or venue.

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Upstate Films and the Rosendale Theater will have tickets available at their respective venues. Please contact them to see what their status is.

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We cannot honor senior discounts online or over the telephone.

Telephone Orders

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There are NO REFUNDS and NO EXCHANGES

PURCHASING TICKETS Internet Orders •

The best way to order tickets and to see updated schedules, film descriptions and other festival information is online starting September 6

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From September 6 through September 25, advance single admission tickets can be purchased through our secure website at woodstockfilmfestival.com. Advance orders will be sent by USPS mail through September 26.

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The BOX OFFICE is manned by dedicated VOLUNTEERS.

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They will do their best to help you with your ticket selection over the telephone.

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Please take into consideration that volunteers are simultaneously filling out Internet, walkup and telephone orders. The phones can get very chaotic and they tend to be busy.

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Please be patient. We are doing our best to help you.

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The last day for telephone orders is September 26th.

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Tickets are available at the BOX OFFICE until four hours prior to the event. All unsold tickets are then available only on the standby line at the screening venue on a CASH ONLY basis. Ticket holders MUST arrive 15 minutes prior to screenings or panels to guarantee seating. Empty seats will be sold to those in the standby queue.

• Tickets will be held at the BOX OFFICE at 13 Rock City Road in Woodstock. If you have tickets at will call, you must go to the BOX OFFICE to pick them up. These tickets will NOT be sent to the venue. • Please note all events listed as ON STANDBY will have a standby queue where any open seats five minutes prior to show time will be sold on a CASH ONLY basis. Standby queues form no earlier than one hour prior to any event.

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The best way to take advantage of everything the festival has to offer is by purchasing a Full Festival Pass. A limited number of these passes remain.

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Each pass includes guaranteed admission for one of all screenings and panels—with priority seating up until 15 minutes prior to the event; all parties; and souvenirs, including a T-shirt and cap.

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Full Festival Passes are $750 and can be purchased online or by phone at 845.679.4265

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Full Festival Passes are nontransferable and include a picture ID.

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Passes must be picked up at Festival Registration. Badge pickup instructions will be sent after purchase.

Day of Event

Starting September 27, all online orders must be picked up at the Box Office at 13 Rock City Road in Woodstock.

For the most up-to-date information, please visit www.woodstockfilmfestival.com

FULL FESTIVAL PASSES

Rosendale that were ordered online or by phone, you must go to the BOX OFFICE to pick them up. These tickets will not be sent to the venues. Leave yourself plenty of time to stop in before going to your venue or order early enough so we can send them to you. When planning your festival schedule, please bear in mind that the driving distance from Woodstock to Rhinebeck and Rosendale is about 30 minutes.

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Box Office Location: 13 Rock City Road Woodstock, NY 12498 (We are across from the Chamber of Commerce booth)

phone#: 845.810.0131 woodstockfilmfestival.com

Box Office Hours September 3-26 Wednesdays-Sundays 12pm-6pm Closed Mondays and Tuesdays

September 27-October 2 9am-7pm

October 3 9am-noon Please note that all events are subject to change. Please check the website to confirm venues and times.

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12:00 First Circle 2:15 Rocksteady 4:45 Arias With A Twist 7:30 Some Dogs Bite 10:00 Stake Land

12:00 The Colonel’s Bride 2:15 Inuk 4:45 Norman 7:30 Ray Charles America

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8:00 Don’t Go In the Woods 8:00 Bitter Feast

1:00 The Singularity is Near Bearsville Theater Woodstock 3:15 Journey From Zanskar 12:00 Camp Victory, Afghanistan 5:45 Gerrymandering w/ Neda’s Eyes 8:15 Don’t Quit You Daydream 2:15 Marwencol w/ Tarantula 4:45 Phil Ochs: There But Fortune (followed by performance with The Good Listeners with Adrian 7:15 The Tested Grenier) 10:00 Sounds Like a Revolution with live performance Upstate Films Woodstock by Justin Sane 1:00 Helena From The Wedding

Colony Café Woodstock 4:00 Workshop: Legal Issues in Film

Community Center Woodstock 12:00 Shorts: Docs 2:30 Shorts: Breaking Up Is Hard 5:00 Shorts: Journeys 7:15 Shorts: Sex, Friends, Work 9:15 Shorts: Music

Community Center Woodstock 11:30 SHORTS: Haiti 1:45 SHORTS: Shout, Twist 4:00 SHORTS: Docs 6:00 SHORTS: Music

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Upstate I Rhinebeck

12:45 Shorts: Journeys 3:00 Shorts: Breaking Up is Hard 5:00 Shorts: Shout, Twist 7:15 Shorts: Animation 9:30 Shorts: Sex, Friends, Work

7:30 3 Backyards

Town Hall Woodstock

Upstate II Rhinebeck

12:00 A NY Thing 2:30 Windfall 5:00 Made In India 7:30 Grace Paley 10:00 Beautiful Darling

3:45 Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer 6:45 TBA - Opening Night 8:15 TBA

Utopia Studios Woodstock 3:00 Panel: Singularity

schedule

8:00 The Kids Grow Up

Rosendale Theater 8:00 A NY Thing

Colony Café Woodstock

10:00 Concert: Sussan Deyhim

Upstate Films Woodstock 11:30 Hello Lonesome 2:00 Nice Guy Johnny 4:30 The Imperialists Are Still Alive! 7:15 Inhale 10:00 Cherry

BSP Studios in Kingston Sat October 2, 2010 Cocktail party starts at 7p with Awards starting at 9pm See Awards page 22 for details For the most up-to-date information, please visit woodstockfilmfestival.com Once online, find out which screenings are sold out and read updated information about events, screenings and panels.

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12:00 One Lucky Elephant 2:30 Shorts: Animation 4:45 My So-Called Enemy 7:15 The Kids Grow Up 9:30 William S. Burroughs

11:00 My Life With Carlos 1:30 Stranger Things 3:45 White Irish Drinkers 6:45 Stone 9:30 Stone

Upstate Films Woodstock

Utopia Studios Woodstock

10:00 Tender Mercies preceded by a 10:00 Panel: Actors’ Dialogue conversation with Bruce Beresford 12:00 Panel: Documentary 1:30 The Disappearance of Workshop - Focusing on McKinley Nolan the Craft of Filmmaking 4:00 Henry’s Crime 2:00 Panel: Environmentally 7:00 3 Backyards Speaking 9:30 Welcome To the Rileys

Utopia Studios Woodstock

4:00 Panel: Film Marketing

12:00 Panel: Amazing Women in Film 2:00 Panel: New Distribution Paradigms 4:00 Panel: Music For Change

Upstate I Rhinebeck

2:00 Stranger Things 4:15 The Locksmith 6:45 The Disappearance of Mckinley Nolan 9:30 Arias With A Twist

1:30 Norman 4:00 Inuk 6:30 Phil Ochs: There But Fortune 9:15 Nice Guy Johnny

Utopia Studios Woodstock

2010 Awards Ceremony

Kleinert/James Arts Center

Upstate II Rhinebeck 2:30 One Lucky Elephant 4:45 William S. Burroughs 7:30 The Colonel’s Bride 9:45 White Irish Drinkers

Rosendale Theater 2:00 TBA 4:30 Don’t Quit Your Daydream 7:00 Rocksteady 9:30 Helena From the Wedding

Upstate II Rhinebeck 2:00 Grace Paley 4:45 Gerrymandering 7:00 My Life With Carlos 9:30 Windfall

Rosendale Theater

Upstate I Rhinebeck

12:30 Hello Lonesome 3:00 Some Dogs Bite 5:30 Cherry 8:00 The Singularity Is Near

Upstate II Rhinebeck 1:00 Made In India 3:30 First Circle 5:45 My So Called Enemy 8:30 The Imperialists are Still Alive!

Rosendale Theater 12:30 Camp Victory, Afghanistan w/ Neda’s Eyes 3:00 Henry’s Crime 5:30 The Tested 8:30 Welcome To the Rileys

1:00 Marwencol 3:30 Inhale 6:30 Bitter Feast

Please note that all events are subject to change. Check www.woodstockfilmfestival.com 9:30 Sounds Like a Revolution to confirm venues and times. WOODSTOCK FILM FESTIVAL

2010