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A Force of Nature Being Elmo: RIO Directed by Barbara Kopple A Puppeteer’s Directed by Carlos Saldanha USA / 2011 / 46 minutes Journey USA / 2011 / 96 minutes Kleinert James Art Center WOODSTOCK Directed by Constance A. Marks WOODSTOCK Playhouse Sun Sept 25 • 11:00am USA / 2011 / 76 minutes Sun Sept 25 • 10:00am Ellen Ratner, the award-winning The film, Rio is set in the wonderful Bearsville Theater WOODSTOCK journalist and philanthropist, defies Sat Sept 24 • 9:30pm city of Rio de Janeiro and the flour- easy description but never shies away from ROSENDALE Theater ishing rainforest of Brazil. lending a strong opinion as a fierce advo- Sun Sept 25 • 2:30pm cate of free speech and social justice. The film centers on Blu, a rare macaw who “A Force of Nature” celebrates Ellen’s life Beloved by children of all ages around the believes that he is the last of his kind, and work. This documentary portrays an world, Elmo is an international icon. Few however he shortly discovers there’s another impassioned crusader driven to ease the people know his creator, Kevin Clash, who macaw out there, a girl named as Jewel. suffering of others, a woman characterized dreamed of working with his idol, master Then to set up a life with her, he leaves his by her friends as “being out to change the puppeteer Jim Henson. cage in small town Minnesota and heads world.” to Rio de Janeiro. Blu is domesticated Displaying his creativity and talent at a and flight-challenged, and Jewel is the “A Force of Nature” is told through Ellen’s young age, Kevin ultimately found a home fiercely independent, high-flying female. work, following her as she travels from on Sesame Street. Narrated by Whoopi They embark on an adventure of a lifetime, home base in Washington, DC, to hurricane- Goldberg, this documentary includes rare where they find out about friendship, love, ravaged Mississippi, to war-torn South archival footage, interviews with Frank Oz, courage, and being open to life’s many Sudan. “A Force of Nature” offers a rare Rosie O’Donnell, Cheryl Henson, Joan Ganz wonders as unpredictably thrown mutually. perspective, revealing the passions that Cooney and others and offers a behind-the- ‘Rio’ also brings collectively a menagerie of keep her reaching for a better tomorrow. scenes look at Sesame Street and the Jim bright characters, a heart-warming story, Henson Workshop. colorful backdrops, stimulating Latin & Featuring her friends, family and political modern music, and family-friendly song & peers, as well as the people she is dedicated dance. to helping, “A Force of Nature” tells the inspiring story of how one, unapologetically committed person can make a difference and help others do the same.iller FEATURES FRIDAY NIGHT Fright Night

New York Premiere East Coast Premiere East Coast Premiere World Premiere COMPETITION FINALIST 96 Minutes An Ordinary Family Another Happy Day Another kind Directed by Aimeé Lagos Directed by Mike Akel Directed by Sam Levinson Directed by Jonathan Blitstein USA / 2011 / 94 minutes USA / 2011 / 93 minutes USA / 2011 / 115 minutes USA / 2011 / 75 minutes Upstate Films I RHINEBECK ROSENDALE Theater Upstate Films I RHINEBECK WOODSTOCK Playhouse Fri Sept 23 • 9:00pm Fri Sept 23 • 7:00pm Fri Sept 23 • 6:00pm Fri Sept 23 • 11:00pm Upstate Films WOODSTOCK WOODSTOCK Playhouse WOODSTOCK Playhouse Upstate Films II RHINEBECK Sat Sept 24 • 4:45pm Sun Sept 25 • 12:30pm Sat Sept 24 • 12:30pm Sat Sept 24 • 10:00pm COURTESY: Arc Entertainment Seth takes his partner, William, to his COURTESY: Phase 4 Films Some city folk can’t even handle a brother’s lakeside home for a family weekend upstate! Patrick, Jamie, Nate In a single shocking act, four young Ellen Barkin delivers yet another reunion, and just before they enter and Laura, a group of 20-something New lives are irrevocably changed. Thrill- astounding performance in what has Yorkers, drive to the Catskills for a long ingly told in an interlocking structure, 96 the threshold, he drops a bomb—his been a stellar career for the actress weekend of winter camping, but shortly Minutes centers around Dre, a precocious family still thinks he’s straight. They (Barkin is the recipient of this year’s after beginning their trek, it becomes ap- student on his way to university. Still tied are all blindsided, but none more than Woodstock Excellence in Acting parent that they were probably better off to his violent neighborhood, Dre attempts Thomas, Seth’s conservative preacher Award). Playing the excitable, emotional staying home. Strange and inexplicable to show his troubled friend, Kevin, other brother. The week is thrown into awkward Lynn, Barkin is at the center of a whirl- things begin to occur — creepy and mys- possibilities in life. On the other side are turmoil, creating an environment that is at wind of a family reunion, on the eve of her terious lights flash around them, their cell Carley and Lena, two smart and beautiful times both comedic and seriously heartfelt. estranged son’s (Michael Nardelli) wedding. phones go haywire and their camping gear soon-to-be college graduates out for a night As Thomas and the rest of the family come Family dynamics have never been more goes missing. They lose all sense of direc- of fun, who find themselves in the wrong to terms with Seth’s homosexuality in their intense as this roller-coaster drama careens tion, and after a snowy, frostbitten night, place at the wrong time. In an instant, the own ways, Seth must work through his own between Lynn’s on-going warfare with her the bitter cold numbing their bodies and four collide in a dreadful scenario with an differences with both his brother and his ex-husband (Thomas Hayden Church) and minds, they begin having strange visions. acutely uncertain outcome. With incredible partner. his prickly wife (Demi Moore), the alarming It becomes difficult for them to discern performances by a multicultural cast, this Following the success of Chalk, Mike behavior of Lynn’s other three children, and dreams from reality, and little do they know, spellbinding and riveting moral tale deftly Akel once again creates a film full of eclec- her mother’s (Ellen Burstyn) and sisters’ a twisted surprise awaits them back at the touches on issues of race, class, friendship tic and multi-dimensional characters, all of derision and reproach. As Lynn tries to trail head. and shows our connections to the past and which are perfectly cast. An Ordinary Family confront reality, her mother sweeps it away. Touching on our fears that, at any that no matter how small the choice may is a bittersweet dramedy that reminds us But reality has a way of asserting itself. The moment anyone can lose one’s grip on be, it can change our lives forever. that even a drastic difference in world views family warfare escalates and wounds, and reality, director Jonathan Blitstein crafts a – Patrick Miller can’t break up the love of a family. – Emily Suttmeier the minefields that span three-generations suspenseful horror flick that will have your are portrayed with raw performances from heart racing until the very end. the ensemble cast. – Emily Suttmeier

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Coming Up Roses She shuttles her teenage daughter Alice (in Directed by Lisa Albright a terrific performance by Rachel Brosna- USA / 2011 / 93 minutes han), across small-town America, confront- ing bad neighborhoods, money woes, failed WOODSTOCK Playhouse love affairs and depression. Larger-than-life Fri Sept 23 • 5:45pm Diane pins her hopes on wrong man after ROSENDALE Theater wrong man, until one promising suitor Sat Sept 24 • 6:15pm enters her life. But is this really their salva- Bernadette Peters is transfixing as tion? A disturbing yet tender portrait of a the domineering Diane, a woman theatrical mother and her impressionable with enormous problems and a daughter as they desperately cling to shreds titanic personality to match. of hope and dreams of a better life.

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FRIDAY NIGHT Fright Night

World Premiere World Premiere Photo: Susan Meiselas East Coast Premiere New York Premiere COMPETITION FINALIST Downtown Express East Fifth Bliss the Innkeepers Letters from Directed by David Grubin Directed by Michael Knowles Directed by Ti West the Big Man USA / 2011 / 91 minutes USA / 2010 / 97 minutes USA / 2010 / 101 minutes Directed by Christopher Munch Upstate Films WOODSTOCK ROSENDALE Theater WOODSTOCK Playhouse USA / 2011 / 115 minutes Thurs Sept 22 • 4:00pm Sat Sept 24 • 11:30am Fri Sept 23 • 8:15pm ROSENDALE Theater ROSENDALE Theater WOODSTOCK Playhouse ROSENDALE Theater Fri Sept 23 • 9:30pm Sun Sept 25 • 12:00pm Sun Sept 25 • 3:15pm Sat Sept 24 • 9:00pm BEARSVILLE Theater COURTESY: Dark Sky Films World-renowned violinist Philippe Michael C. Hall is terrific as Morris Sun Sept 25• 6:45pm Quint takes his acting bow in David Bliss in this coming-of-age tale of What is a day in the life of an inn- The deeper Sarah, an environmental Grubin’s witty, musical romance and a 35-year-old with a wicked case of keeper like ... if the inn is haunted? scientist, travels into the lush forests directorial debut feature, Downtown inertia. Bliss still lives at home with his After over 100 years of service, of Oregon collecting field data, the Express. Quint, a two-time Grammy nomi- father (Peter Fonda), mourns the death The Yankee Pedlar Inn is shutting more she feels as though someone nee, dazzles as Sasha, a Russian immigrant of his mother and just can’t seem to find its doors for good. The last remain- or some thing is following her. As she and Juilliard student preparing for his final a way out. When he stumbles into an ing employees — Claire (Sara Paxton) and is offered better glimpses of the creature, recital. Sasha spends his free time with his awkward relationship with the sexually Luke (Pat Healy) — are determined to Sarah comes to realize that he is, in fact, father and cousin entertaining the subway precocious, 18-year-old daughter (Brie uncover proof of what many believe to be the elusive sasquatch. Struck by curious riders of New York for tips, but things begin Larson) of a former high school classmate one of New England’s most haunted hotels. awe, she begins to stalk her strange stalker. to go off the rails when he falls for Ramona (Brad Henke), Morris quickly discovers his As the Inn’s final days draw near and odd The big man isn’t the only man Sarah guests check in, the pair of minimum wage (played by singer-songwriter Nellie McKay) static life comically unraveling and opening meets on her journey; she also strikes up a ghost hunters begin to experience strange and joins her Bohemian band. Now torn up in ways that are long overdue. Featuring romance with Sean, a wilderness advocate, between his overbearing, but well-meaning quirky characters and performances by Lucy and alarming events that may ultimately cause them to be mere footnotes in the with his own ideas about the pursuit of the father (Michael Cumpsty), his burgeoning Liu, Chris Messina and Sarah Shahi. hotel’s long unexplained history. Claire, an mythical beast. Ultimately, Sarah is forced classical musical career and his new found inquisitive girl attracted to the gothic, is to choose between love of work, of man or passion for Ramona and her music, Sasha compelled deeper into the twisty turns of of living myth. must decide where his music leads him. mystery in this exquisitely crafted, gripping Innovative sound design paired with Featuring virtuoso performances by Quint, film that will keep you guessing until the brilliant cinematography creates a haunt- as well as magnetic concerts by the violin- last second. ingly beautiful atmosphere for Lily Rabe, ist and McKay, Downtown Express is a lively whose captivating performance carries the and entertaining film that captures the film. A meditation on the unique relation- eclectic sounds of New York’s music scene ship between a woman and a Bigfoot si- while showing off one of today’s premiere lently helping one another move from grief musical talents. – Michael Burke to enlightenment. – Emily Suttmeier

New York Premiere When is a white lie the right lie? COMPETITION FINALIST pursuing his own dream of creating an Could it be that a lie is sometimes edible face cream. Lonnie, finally fed up the Lie the best path to truth? Young with his insipid job, tells a life altering parents Lonnie and Clover are lie that rapidly spins out of control and Directed by Joshua Leonard escalates into a week of unimaginable USA / 2011 / 82 minutes at a crossroads. Offered a job in the pharmaceutical industry, Clover, an consequences, with his adorable baby Upstate Films WOODSTOCK idealistic law student, wants to provide Xana at its center. Must we surrender Thurs Sept 22 • 9:15pm security for her family, while Lonnie, a our dreams? Dark humor and astute ROSENDALE Theater would-be rocker, faces the nightmare observation coupled with pitch-perfect Sat• Sept 24 2:00pm of a life spent at a soul-crushing job performances, deft editing and smart COURTESY: Screen Media editing banal commercials. Choosing writing, make The Lie witty and well- a life of freedom, best-friend Tank worth watching. navigates between the couple while – Barbara Pokras, A.C.E.

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World Premiere Sneak Preview New York Premiere COMPETITION FINALIST

Losers Take All MUSICAL CHAIRS the Off Hours On the Ice Directed by Alex Steyermark Directed by Susan Seidelman Directed by Megan Griffiths Directed by Andrew O. MacLean USA / 2011 / 93 minutes USA / 2011 / 102 minutes USA / 2011 / 93 minutes USA / 2011 / 96 minutes Upstate Films WOODSTOCK WOODSTOCK Playhouse Upstate Films WOODSTOCK WOODSTOCK Playhouse Thurs Sept 22 • 1:30pm Sat Sept 24 • 8:00pm Fri Sept 23 • 2:00pm Sat Sept 24 • 5:30pm ROSENDALE Theater PRESENTED BY: ROSENDALE Theater Upstate Films I RHINEBECK Fri Sept 23 • 1:45pm Center for Discovery Sun Sept 25 • 5:00pm Sun Sept 25 • 6:30pm The Fingers have a dream, maybe COURTESY: Visit Films Set amidst the frozen landscape one that you, too, have had – the They are worlds apart, yet a and the unrelenting summer Set in a quiet truck stop, The Off dream of making it. The trials of this passion for dance bridges that sun of America’s northernmost Hours delicately follows the frac- fictional 1980’s indie rock band struggling gap in “Musical Chairs,” a sexy, city- Barrow, Alaska, On the Ice is to balance friendship, love and success are pulse-pounding romance set in the tured lives of its workers and patrons AAndrew O. MacLean’s stunning at once comedic and universal. As the band scintillating, competitive world of in a compelling meditation on loneli- feature debut. Two Iñupiat teens, members lurch, strum and drum AWAY from ballroom dancing. Upper East Side Mia ness and disillusion. In a breathtaking Qalli and Aivaaq, struggle with the daily success, Losers Take All explores the idea (Leah Pipes) is beautiful and vivacious with performance, Amy Semitz plays Francine, a monotony of life by listening to rap music, that even losers can win. The Fingers are a promising career as a dancer. Bronx-born waitress with few aspirations, but with a drinking and seal hunting. This tedium explodes when the unthinkable happens and faced with eternal artistic dilemmas such Armando (EJ Bonilla) sweeps floors at the lust for life. A flirtation with emotionally alienated trucker, Oliver, gives her a spark an argument between the two teens and as: Can you sell out and still be DIY indie? dance studio in exchange for lessons. He for change. At home, her longtime room- another friend ends in tragedy. Shocked and Do corporate rock and punk sensibility make dreams of a time when he will dance with Mia, the love of his life. Both their dreams mate Corey’s daily struggle with his demons horrified, the two make an ill-fated pact to awful but essential bedfellows? And what’s are shattered on one fateful evening, when makes life almost unbearable, forcing them cover up the accident and their choice leads wrong with just rocking out and party- a tragic accident forever confines Mia to a to confront their past. Meanwhile Stu, the them to construct a poorly built tower of ing hard until you self-destruct? Despite wheelchair, never to dance again. True to alcoholic owner of the truck stop, finds him- lies. In addition to brilliant cinematography, these questions, a spirit of youthful energy, his heart, Armando dedicates himself, along self at crossroads as he tries to determine On the Ice features standout performances humor and optimism prevails. An entertain- with a colorful collection of oddballs, to the diner’s future and mend the damaged by Josiah Patkotak as the guilt-ridden Qalli, ing film with solid performances and terrific helping Mia overcome her painful challenges relationship with his estranged daughter. Frank Irelan as the troubled Aivaaq and vintage-style cinematography, director Alex and dance once more. Musical Chairs is Combining exquisite cinematography, end- Teddy Kyle Smith as Qalli’s stoic father. On Steyermark (Prey for Rock and Roll) weaves a story of impossible dreams made true lessly fascinating characters, and an incred- the Ice combines the stark loneliness of The Sweet Hereafter with a coming-of-age tale a riotous love letter to every musician who through the strength of the human spirit ible understanding of life on the fringe, The Off Hours offers a powerful view on regret about misplaced honor and desperation. ever spent miles on the road in a quest for and the power of compassion and love. and acceptance. – Michael Burke success. – Patrick Miller

Paper Birds Spanish filmmaker Emilio Aragón Enrique and their band of traveling artists (Pájaros de Papel) makes his directorial debut with oppose the brutal repression of the Franco “Paper Birds” a film he also co- regime. Miguel, a precocious child, joins Directed by Emilio Aragón wrote. Lush cinematography, the troupe, challenging the embittered Spain / 2010 / 117 minutes stunning set design and a brilliant Jorge to once again embrace life. The story Spanish with Subtitles symphonic score (composed by meanders from its dreamy opening through Upstate Films WOODSTOCK Aragón) anchor this epic work that the darkest post war days, ultimately span- Fri Sept 23 • 6:45pm asks, “Who can be trusted when the ning the centuries. Show Me Your Babaloo Upstate Films I RHINEBECK enemy can be anyone?” When enter- (sung by opportunistic diva Rocina) is Sat Sept 24 • 9:30pm tainer Jorge del Pino loses his wife and but one of many elaborate performances PRESENTED IN CONJUNCTION WITH: son in the dying days of the Spanish Civil integrated into this tale of high intrigue, War, there’s not much left to fear. At war’s betrayal and redemption. Watch for a few The Consulate General of Spain end, jobs are scarce and hunger plentiful. familiar faces slyly inserted in the final The outspoken Jorge, his vaudeville partner theater scene. – Barbara Pokras, A.C.E.

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US Premiere East Coast Premiere World Premiere New York Premiere COMPETITION FINALIST On the Ice Peace, Love, & Perfect Sense Ponies Sahkanaga Directed by Andrew O. MacLean Misunderstanding Directed by David Mackenzie Directed by Nick Sandow Directed by John Henry Summerour USA / 2011 / 96 minutes Directed by Bruce Beresford Germany, UK / 2011 / 90 minutes USA / 2010 / 74 minutes USA / 2011 / 80 minutes WOODSTOCK Playhouse USA / 2011 / 96 minutes Upstate Films WOODSTOCK Upstate Films I RHINEBECK Upstate Films WOODSTOCK Sat Sept 24 • 5:30pm WOODSTOCK Playhouse Sat Sept 24 • 9:30pm Thurs Sept 22 • 7:30pm Thurs Sept 22 • 6:30pm Upstate Films I RHINEBECK Thurs Sept 22 • 6:30pm ROSENDALE Theater Upstate Films WOODSTOCK ROSENDALE Theater Sun Sept 25 • 6:30pm ROSENDALE Theater Sun Sept 25 • 7:30pm Sat Sept 24 • 1:45pm Sat Sept 24 • 4:00pm Set amidst the frozen landscape Fri Sept 23 • 4:30pm COURTESY: While searching for their small piece Based on true events, Sahkanaga is a and the unrelenting summer Multi-award-winning filmmaker of the American Dream, immigrants chilling Southern gothic drama that sun of America’s northernmost Scientist Susan (Eva Green) studies Bruce Beresford, the recipient of Drazen (John Ventimiglia) and Wal- follows Paul, a rural teenager with a city- Barrow, Alaska, On the Ice is epidemics, searching for answers to last year’s Woodstock Film Festival lace (Kevin Corrigan) get sidetracked dark side who is alienated from his AAndrew O. MacLean’s stunning questions so important that she has Honorary Maverick award, returns by the world of off-track betting, emotionally distant family. feature debut. Two Iñupiat teens, given up love. When she meets Mi- After the tribute to the Woodstock genera- dragging Drazen’s cabdriver friend Ken Qalli and Aivaaq, struggle with the daily chael (Ewan McGregor), a talented chef, sudden death of the corrupt town sheriff, tion and Woodstock itself by setting along with them. Though Wallace knows to monotony of life by listening to rap music, everything changes. Susan and Michael expe- he is hypnotically drawn to the sheriff’s quit while he’s ahead, Drazen can’t seem to drinking and seal hunting. This tedium his latest creation, Peace, Love, & rience new and unforeseen depths of feeling, granddaughter, the mysterious Lyla. When stop, slowly driving himself into a danger- explodes when the unthinkable happens and Misunderstanding, here in our town. as all around the world something strange Paul stumbles on the sheriff’s body in the ous addiction, telling himself that if he can an argument between the two teens and The film stars Academy Award-winning Jane is affecting everyone’s emotions. When the woods he is so haunted by the discovery just win some more money he can buy his another friend ends in tragedy. Shocked and Fonda, two-time Academy Award-nominated apocalypse comes, it arrives in most a cun- he returns to the scene and makes an daughter a fancy First Communion dress. horrified, the two make an ill-fated pact to Catherine Keener, international heartthrob ning, ingenious and psychologically damning even more horrific discovery – one that Eventually bad luck begins to get the best cover up the accident and their choice leads Chace Crawford, and Sundance’s breakout way. Susan and Michael embark on a sensual might involve his undertaker father. Paul of him, and one last act of desperation them to construct a poorly built tower of star Elizabeth Olsen. Peace, Love, & Misun- adventure, experiencing head-spinning, is faced with a wrenching moral dilemma leads to an explosive ending. lies. In addition to brilliant cinematography, derstanding is a comedy about an uptight stomach-tightening moments of pure con- and forced to examine the ties that hold An actor himself, Sandow masterfully On the Ice features standout performances New York City lawyer who takes her two nection. Is this because they are falling in a family together in the face of a tragedy directs three amazing performances, from by Josiah Patkotak as the guilt-ridden Qalli, spirited teenagers to her hippie mother’s love or is the world is falling apart? The that brings a community to its knees. With extremely talented veterans Ventimiglia Frank Irelan as the troubled Aivaaq and farmhouse in the countryside for a family stellar performances of McGregor and Green stellar performances and beautiful story- and Corrigan, as well as newcomer Babs Teddy Kyle Smith as Qalli’s stoic father. On vacation. What was meant to be a weekend are a perfect mesh of chemistry, including telling, Sahkanaga weaves a disturbing and Olusanmokun, creating a fascinating the Ice combines the stark loneliness of The getaway quickly turns into a summer adven- a memorably bizarre and romantic bathing stunning tale of youth, love, corruption, character study. Like the thrilling horse Sweet Hereafter with a coming-of-age tale ture of romance, music, family secrets, and scene. A life-affirming look at what it means religious ties and morality. to love and be loved in turbulent times, Per- races the men wager their meager earnings about misplaced honor and desperation. self-discovery. – Patrick Miller fect Sense is a chilly parable, a genre-busting away on, Ponies will have you on the edge – Michael Burke poetic sci-fi film, rich in haunting ideas and of your seat until the very last shot. imagery. A clever and savory dish for those – Emily Suttmeier with discerning tastes.

Secret

Sneak Preview dences with William Burroughs and other film illuminates a world that is equal parts Directed by Sara Driver literary figures, was a film can covered in lunacy, shock and dream. A mysterious USA / 1981 / 50 minutes dust and insecticide powder: a tale that woman, Ethel (Susan Fletcher), wanders BEARSVILLE Theater in itself evokes a Cronenberg/Burroughs/ into the site of a multiple-car accident and Sat Sept 24 • 7:00pm Bowles alternate universe. The film, now seamlessly becomes part of the aftershock. In 1981, Sara Driver made the first- being restored, was named one of the best What follows is a study of quiet terror and ever film from a Paul Bowles story. films of the 1980s by Cahiers du Cinema madness. A remarkable and haunting film. The film was lost for 20 years, until an and features cameos by the then little- original 16-millimeter print was discov- know photographer Nan Golden, writer Luc A Question & Answer follows the screening ered in a sealed room filled with Bowles’ Sante, singer Felice Rosser, and was shot in with director Sara Driver and local writer possessions in Tangiers, Morocco. Among black and white by Jim Jarmusch. Luc Sante (Lowlife). ancient typewriters and Bowles correspon- A mesmerizing study of insanity, the

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New York Premiere East Coast Premiere US Premiere Rio, COMPETITION FINALIST COMPETITION FINALIST The CLOSING NIGHT FILM (tba) Silver Tongues tilt Union Square Directed by Simon Arthur Directed by Viktor Chouchkov Jr Directed by Nancy Savoca & the USA / 2011 / 88 minutes Bulgaria, Germany / 2010 / 97 minutes USA / 2011 / 80 minutes Upstate Films WOODSTOCK Bulgarian with Subtitles Upstate Films I RHINEBECK MAVERICK AWARDS GALA Fri Sept 23 • 10:00pm Sat Sept 24 • 7:00pm Upstate Films I RHINEBECK Upstate Films II RHINEBECK Upstate Films WOODSTOCK Fri Sept 23 • 3:30pm Sat. Sept 24, 7pm at BSP Sun Sept 25 • 7:00pm Sun Sept 25 • 7:00pm Upstate Films WOODSTOCK Two lovers turn their acting abilities Jenny (Tammy Blanchard) is on the Sun Sept 25 • 2:00pm featuring into a dangerous game of devious Tilt, and the game is over if you verge of marriage, Lucy (Mira Sorvi- role-playing for the sole purpose of no) on the brink of a nervous break- push too much, and this is just the Mark Ruffalo ruining lives and the sexual charge way B-Gum, Angie, Gogo and Stash; down. Both struggle with truths they’re this gives them. They travel from town to disaffected, streetwise punks, porn hiding from each other — and from them- selves. Jenny has rejected her tumultuous Ellen Barkin town, shattering anyone unlucky enough to dealers and petty thieves, like to cross their path. They trick a young couple family and cut off communication, seeking live. Operating in the arena of the political into confronting their sexual boundaries, a more ordered life far from her roots in the chaos surrounding the fall of Communism Robin Bronk deceive an entire church congregation, and Bronx. And she’s almost ready to commit to in Bulgaria and under the tutelage of give false hope to yet another one of their her longtime fiancé when her wildly outra- Snake, a middling hoodlum boss, their lives Paul Green’s Band victims, in sick game after sick game that geous sister Lucy — the personification take a turn when Stash falls for Becky, escalate with gripping fascination. of all that Jenny has been trying to flee ° the daughter of a Colonel who will stop at But how far can they go, when surprises her at this critical time. Lucy and of Monkeys nothing to keep the lovers apart. Busted for all they know are lies? And what is this Jenny’s combustible reunion brings both of dealing porn, Angie, Gogo and Stash escape devious couple after? How much can they them to unforeseen places, shattering and and to Germany, where, despite the fall of the bend before they break? And are their reconstructing the worlds they have both Berlin Wall, life is no better. For Stash, love victims, in their complicity, harmed or carefully constructed. Terrific performances, burns deep, bringing unexpected and star- special guests... simply awoken? As this amoral amusement a pitch-perfect script, surprising twists and tling consequences and a surprising ending. spirals out of control, one wonders when turns and stunning character development Betrayal, revenge, love and redemption are woodstockfilmfestival.com the perverse sexuality of this couple will highlight this funny, smart, tumultuous tale interwoven themes in this brilliant story, implode. Director Simon Arthur creates of the reluctant, passionate reunion of two fast-moving and flawlessly executed. Rivet- a haunting, puzzling world of a pair of estranged sisters. ing and utterly believable, Tilt is a gem, not enigmas determined to wreak havoc yet leave no trace. A tense and twisted darkly to be missed. – Barbara Pokras, A.C.E. original film.

JUST IN World Premiere ANSWERS TO NOTHING Directed by Matthew Leutwyler Answers to Nothing is a gritty drama of him to the edge of vigilantism while a USA / 2011 / 123 minutes interweaving stories set in Los Angeles beat cop grieves over the violent death against the backdrop of a child kidnapping of his wife. A recovering addict and her ROSENDALE Theater case. Intertwining stories that explore the wheel chair bound brother prepare for the Thur Sept 22• 7:00pm LA marathon while a self-loathing African WOODSTOCK Playhouse bad in the best of us and the good in the American TV writer searches for love. Fri Sept 23 • 2:45pm worst of us, the story follows five days in COURTESY: Roadside Attractions the life of a woman whose determination to get pregnant keeps her from confronting All these lives weave a path toward an Featuring a stellar ensemble her husband’s infidelity and a detective imminent collision as they search for performance from Dane Cook, assigned to the case of the child abduction. meaning and redemption and affect each Elizabeth Mitchell, Julie Benz, Meanwhile, a school teacher and his other in ways they don’t always see. Barbara Hershey and Zach Gilford, obsession with the missing child pushes

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World Premiere North American Premiere COMPETITION FINALIST World Premiere COMPETITION FINALIST

9 Pianos Adventures in Bombay Beach Cape Spin: An American Directed by Gillian Farrell Plymptoons! Directed by Alma Har’el Power Struggle USA / 2011 / 46 minutes Directed by Alexia Anastasio USA / 2010 / 80 minutes Directed by SHOWING WITH: GIVING BACK USA / 2011 / 85 minutes Upstate Films I RHINEBECK Robbie Gemmel and John Kirby Upstate Films WOODSTOCK Upstate Films II RHINEBECK Sat Sept 24 • 12:00pm USA / 2011 / 88 minutes Upstate Films WOODSTOCK Fri Sept 23 • 4:30pm Fri Sept 23 • 4:00pm BEARSVILLE Theater Sun Sept 25 • 11:30am Adam Markowitz is a piano dealer BEARSVILLE Theater Fri Sept 23 • 2:30pm Sat Sept 24 • 11:45am Moments of astonishing, ethereal and tuner in New York’s Hudson Val- Upstate Films I RHINEBECK Not only is Oscar-nominated anima- beauty rise from the impoverished Sun Sept 25 • 11:15am ley. After Hurricane Katrina, he felt tor Bill Plympton the genius creator lives of those living along the bar- Give wind a chance,” versus “not he had to do something. So he loaded of countless hilarious animations, he ren Salton Sea, a once-pristine in my backyard” is the central his truck with all the pianos that would fit: recreation area near Palm Springs, nine pianos. He and his dog, Walter, drove has successfully fended off lucrative conflict in this darkly humorous them to New Orleans to give them away offers fromH ollywood in order to re- California. Doran ‘Red’ Furgie, an ancient, and profoundly serious tale of a for free to clubs, schools, churches and tain his creative freedom and control armchair philosopher who lives on whiskey community divided by green politics. the musicians who keep New Orleans and as an independent. Generous and mild- and cigarettes, orates a treatise on love as In 2001, entrepreneur Jim Gordon proposed its music alive. The film is peppered with mannered in person, Plympton, rather than we meet Benny, a hyperactive, increasingly building a major wind farm in the middle terrific spontaneous performances as the repressing the wildness of his unconscious medicated bipolar child whose longing for of Nantucket Sound, fabled playground for overwhelmed musicians receive their musical mind, lets it all spill out to create films so love is familial, and CeeJay, escaping from America’s rich and famous. Gordon billed the bounty. manic and imaginative, they have probably the ghetto with dreams of playing for the project as a clean, green power plant that accounted for a big chunk of the laughter in NFL while falling hard for Jessie, a white should be welcomed by all. To his chagrin, the world. girl. “Those desert dwellers living along “Cape Wind” became one of the decade’s Director Alexia Anastasio captures the rim of this nearly dead sea,” says Red, most confounding political battles. Green Plympton in New York City, The San Diego “(are) made up of the misfits of the world.” energy champions like the Kennedys allied Comic Con, his hometown of Portland, Stunning choreographed sequences along with fossil fuel magnates, congressmen, Oregon, and at various film festivals and with the songs of Bob Dylan and the band everyday Joes, and a well-funded Alliance to universities. By interweaving Plympton’s Beirut serve to amplify this haunting and oppose the project. Meanwhile, Greenpeace, animations, his personal storytelling and human story of indelible characters dancing labor unions and environmental groups led a interviews with such luminaries as Terry on the edge of the illusion of the American counter attack, endorsing the wind farm. The Gilliam, Keith Carradine, Ed Begely Jr., dream. Masterful and visually stunning with surprising twists of this story will have the “Weird Al” Yankovic, Moby, as well as a mind bending ending. viewer switching sides as often as the players, Plympton’s family and friends, Anastasio has – Barbara Pokras, A.C.E as environmentalists become hypocrites, fashioned a film as entertaining and wacky reporters choose sides, and Republicans and as the animator himself. Democrats alike take on unlikely bedfellows.

Being Elmo: Beloved by children of all ages around the A Puppeteer’s Journey world, Elmo is an international icon. Few Directed by Constance A. Marks people know his creator, Kevin Clash, who USA / 2011 / 76 minutes dreamed of working with his idol, master puppeteer Jim Henson. Displaying his creativity and talent at a young age, Kevin ultimately found a home on Sesame Street. Narrated by Whoopi Goldberg, this BEARSVILLE Theater documentary includes rare archival footage, interviews with Sat Sept 24 • 9:30pm Frank Oz, Rosie O’Donnell, Cheryl Henson, Joan Ganz Cooney ROSENDALE Theater and others and offers a behind-the-scenes look at Sesame Sun Sept 25 • 2:30pm Street and the Jim Henson Workshop.

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North American Premiere US Premiere US Premiere New York Premiere COMPETITION FINALIST COMPETITION FINALIST Deaf Jam Dolphin Boy Fat Cows Lean Cows Fightville Directed by Judy Lieff Directed by Dani Menkin and Yonatan Nir Directed by Meni Elias Petra Epperlein and Michael Tucker USA / 2011 / 70 minutes Israel / 2011 / 72 minutes Israel, USA / 2011 / 50 minutes USA / 2011 / 85 minutes American Sign Language with Subtitles, English, Arabic, Hebrew with Subtitles Hebrew with Subtitles Upstate Films II RHINEBECK English with subtitles for the Deaf BEARSVILLE Theater Preceded BY: Tasnim Thur Sept 22 • 8:00pm Upstate Films I RHINEBECK Sat Sept 24 • 4:45pm BEARSVILLE Theater Fri Sept 23 • 1:15pm Upstate Films I RHINEBECK Upstate Films I RHINEBECK Fri Sept 23 • 5:00pm BEARSVILLE Theater Sun Sept 25 • 1:45pm Sat Sept 24 • 4:45pm Yell ‘fight!’ on a street corner and a Sun Sept 25 • 2:45pm BEARSVILLE Theater COURTESY: DRAGOmaN films crowd will come running – attracted Sun Sept 25 • 4:45pm Aneta, a spirited and vivacious and repelled by violent spectacle. Seventeen-year-old Morad, an In a world torn by race and so- Israeli-born girl living in Queens, Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) has grown from cial classes, Fat Cows, Lean Cows dreams of seeing the world, but for Israeli Arab, sustained a brutal a controversial gladiatorial sideshow into a her and others at The Lexington beating. Severely traumatized and portrays another possibility: that of billion-dollar phenomenon. But in sweat- School for the Deaf, communication in a constant state of agitation, disparate people living in accord. soaked gyms and low-rent arenas across with the hearing presents obstacles. the boy can no longer speak. When Yossi, an Israeli, has owned a dairy America, men test their mettle, fortified How to bridge the divide? ASL Poetry, a conventional therapy fails, his psychiatrist farm near Gaza for nearly 50 years. with the mythic promise that an ordinary powerful and passionate visual language suggests a novel approach, dolphin therapy, He and his longtime workers, an man can transform into a champion. in which body movement and expression as a last-ditch attempt to reconnect the Arab named Ibrahim and Eddie, from In the hands of this talented veteran create meaning, presents a possible path. boy with reality. They took his soul, his Thailand, have created a makeshift family. filmmaking team, Fightville focuses not Aneta embraces the opportunity, and father laments, and the devastated parents Eddie, with his inquisitive mind, stimulates only on the battle in the cage, but on collaborates with a young Palestinian poet, sell nearly all their possessions to give discussions about Israeli and Arab history, the meaning of the fight. With terrific Tahani Salah. Poetry, friendship and respect Morad a chance at recovery. Filmed over all the while yearning to be with his young cinematography and storytelling, Fightville transcend politics, just as we learn music a four-year period, superb underwater son. Ibrahim, father of seven, escapes into introduces you to the boys who train at can be heard by feeling the vibe. Delightful cinematography documents this astonishing Edith Piaf records to stave off his familial the Gladiators Academy, each struggling to and endearing, utilizing upbeat music and tale of transformation and love between separation. Yossi, the patriarchal figure, escape childhood pain, lives of crime and clever graphics, Deaf Jam immerses us in species. No ordinary tale of swimming with gives everything he has to the farm and dissolution by channeling trauma through the richness and complexity of deaf culture the dolphins, we watch as Morad faces his workers, but his health and the future fighting. Fighting is, for them, a spiritual and gives us a unique perspective into a painful choices if he chooses to reconnect of the farm are in question. Fat Cows, Lean process. world so vibrant, so diverse, it may forever with the world of humans. Will he have the Cows tenderly documents this improvised A fascinating, thought-provoking, change the way we see the non-hearing. strength to face his attackers in court? Is family’s attempt to survive in a chaotic and tense and dramatic peek into a fascinating Barbara Pokras, A.C.E. he too damaged to feel human love? This unstable world with beautiful and nuanced subculture, as well as an exploration of extraordinary film inspires as it explores storytelling to say that yes, we too can get what champions are really made of. parental sacrifice, trust and human-animal along. – Patrick Miller bonding. – Barbara Pokras, A.C.E.

East Coast Premiere Freaks In Love for the endless tour that, on a good day, included Directed by a place to sleep and free beer. The film weaves Skizz Cyzyk and David Koslowski vintage performance footage, recent reminisces, USA / 2010 / 100 minutes and interviews with music heavyweights such as BEARSVILLE Theater producer Martin Bisi, Curt Kirkwood of Meat Puppets Fri Sept 23 • 7:30pm and Jello Biafra, who describes the band as the Unlike many famous bands that rose to the missing link between R.E.M. and the Butthole Surf- top, Alice Donut, despite their bizarre acid- ers, to create a truly memorable film. Made by two fueled shows, is a band that actually got along and stayed Freaks in Love. Alice Donut earned a fierce music veterans of the Baltimore indie scene, Freaks cult following with its twisted, hard-driving songs, in Love pays homage to a genuinely alternative hitting the road like so many others piled into vans band that remains indie to the core.

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Giving Back I’m Carolyn Parker: Kings Park: KumarÉ Directed by Meera Gandhi The Good, the Mad Stories from an American Directed by Vikram Gandhi USA / 2010 / 25 minutes and the Beautiful Mental Institution USA / 2011 / 83 minutes SHOWING WITH: 9 Pianos Directed by Jonathan Demme Directed by Lucy Winer BEARSVILLE Theater Fri Sept 23 • 12:15pm Upstate Films WOODSTOCK USA / 2011 / 81 minutes USA / 2011 / 108 minutes Fri Sept 23 • 4:30pm Upstate Films II RHINEBECK Upstate Films WOODSTOCK BEARSVILLE Theater Sat Sept 24 • 12:15pm International humanitarian, author Sat Sept 24 • 7:15pm Thurs Sept 22 • 3:15pm COURTESY: Future Bliss Films and filmmaker Meera Gandhi Upstate Films I RHINEBECK Upstate Films II RHINEBECK explores the deeply personal and Sun Sept 25 • 8:45pm Sat Sept 24 • 2:30pm The search for spiritual fulfillment unique ways in which her friends Carolyn Parker was the last to Do abandoned building have a voice? becomes grist for the mill as Hindu- from around the world ‘give back’ leave her neighborhood when The massive and forbidding King’s American skeptic Vikram Gandhi a mandatory evacuation order to humanity. This touching and inspiring Park State Hospital warehoused sets out on a grand experiment to documentary follows Mrs. Gandhi as she was decreed as Hurricane Katrina close to 10,000 patients at its height. prove that religious leaders are no talks to Cherie Blair, singer Bono, human approached New Orleans in the The so-called patients included the sane, better than the rest of us. Vikram, rights activist Kerry Kennedy, Grameen summer of 2005. After the floodwaters the homeless, and even children born and through a few cosmetic changes, transforms supporter and Credit Suisse MD Vikram subsided, Mrs. Parker was the first resident raised there. Among them was Lucy Winer, himself, becoming the guru Sri Kumaré. Gandhi, Steven Rockefeller, actress Patricia to return to her now flood-devastated the film’s director, who was committed as a Accompanied by two colleagues, the Velasquez, Bollywood producer Viveck community with what many thought was the suicidal teenager in the late 1960s. King’s newly minted guru heads for Phoenix. His Vaswani, Hip-Hop producers Charles and ”impossible dream” of bringing her ruined Park is the story of one woman’s courage, teaching? Illusion is truth, and truth is Randy Fisher, and many others. The film home back to life. Award-winning director as she visits her now abandoned “home,” illusion, and that we don’t need gurus to includes cameos by US Secretary of State Jonathan Demme creates an inspiring wanders the decrepit halls, and begins a make ourselves happy. He soon attracts a Hillary Clinton, Wyclef Jean of the Haiti portrait of a woman who was raised in the ten-year quest to face her past. Along the following and Kumaré becomes a mirror for Relief Foundation, and scenes from Mother segregated Lower 9th Ward, joined the front way the film sheds light on the nation’s the observer. Ironically, one of his followers Teresa’s Asha Dan, and discusses ideas lines in the Civil Rights movement, worked past and current mental healthcare crisis, proclaims, “There’s nothing phony about such as micro-credit, sustainable economic for 30 years as a cook-turned-chef, and captures the eerie legacy and spirit of the him.” But what happens when the “holy activities, and, of course, giving. became one of the most outspoken voices moldering hospital, and gives it, and its man” must reveal the hoax? And will the in the fight for every New Orleanian’s right ex-patients, voice. Using firsthand accounts student become the teacher? An orgiastic to return home after the devastation of the that bear witness to the many changes in sound healing session is just one of the floods. That Carolyn faced these odds with treatment, policy and attitudes over the many delights in this smart and very funny unbridled wit, spirituality and an abiding past century, King’s Park is a fascinating and film, part Zelig with a nod to a kinder, sense of social justice borne of her life in highly compelling look at both the past and gentler Borat. – Barbara Pokras, A.C.E. New Orleans makes for a unique cinematic the present state of “warehousing people.” tale of personal triumph.

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More To Live For depend on finding the perfect bone marrow Chippendale, successful entrepreneur, Directed by Noah Hutton match. Nigerian born Seun Adelbiy might finds in leukemia a life altering challenge, morphing from party boy to founder of the USA / 2010 / 83 minutes be mistaken for a human torpedo as he trains for the U.S.A. Olympic Skeleton Love, Hope, Strength Foundation. This is WOODSTOCK Playhouse Competition, but the road ahead for this accomplished film making and essential Fri Sept 23 • 12:00pm 26-year-old Yale law school graduate viewing that just Upstate Films I RHINEBECK is much tougher than high-speed turns might save a Sun Sept 25 • 4:00pm around an icy track. World-class tenor life! What if you had the chance to save saxophonist and 15-time Grammy-award – Barbara a life; would you do it? You may find winner Michael Brecker defeated substance Pokras, A.C.E. the answer from three extraordinary men. abuse to be the consummate musician, Each suffers from leukemia and their lives family man and role model. James

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New York Premiere East Coast Premiere COMPETITION FINALIST East Coast Premiere COMPETITION FINALIST the Other F Word Poetry of Resilience Semper Fi: Skateistan: Four Wheels Directed by Andrea Nevins Directed by Katja Esson Always Faithful and a Board in Kabul USA / 2011 / 99 minutes USA / 2011 / 40 minutes Tony Hardmon, Rachel Libert Directed by Kai Sehr BEARSVILLE Theater screening with: USA / 2011 / 76 minutes Germany, USA / 2011 / 94 minutes Thurs Sept 22 • 8:45pm Africa Diary & The Thing That Happened Upstate Films WOODSTOCK English, Dari and German Fri Sept 23 • 11:45am Upstate Films II RHINEBECK Upstate Films II RHINEBECK with English subtitles Fri Sept 23 • 9:30pm Upstate Films II RHINEBECK Fri Sept 23 • 6:45pm Upstate Films I RHINEBECK COURTESY: Sun Sept 25 • 2:00pm Upstate Films WOODSTOCK Sat Sept 24 • 2:15pm Oscilloscope Laboratories Master Sergeant Jerry Ensminger de- Sun Sept 25 • 4:30pm BEARSVILLE Theater Pennywise, Black Flag and The Circle War, genocide and oppression: voted nearly 25 years to the United Sun Sept 25 • 12:00pm Jerks are just a few of the plethora unfathomable tragedies affect so States Marine Corps, following their A love of skateboarding reveals a of punk rock groups represented in many and paint a dark portrait of motto Always Faithful as a way of rarely-seen side of Afghan culture this fast-paced, surprisingly tender the human condition. And yet, out of life. When his nine-year-old daughter died and promise for the country’s and wise exploration of a generation atrocity the beauty of poe try can flow, as of a rare form of leukemia, a grief-stricken youth in this awe-inspiring and Ensminger took on a quest that would lead of musical rebels now facing father- those who lived it attempt to make sense heartfelt film.“We build ramps, not him to a shocking discovery: the organiza- hood and middle age. For Pennywise of it all. Through the poems and words of bombs,” say Oliver and Sharna, founders tion to which he had pledged his loyalty lead singer Jim Lindberg, hair dye and Am- six extraordinary artists and a unique visual of Skateistan, an aid foundation whose was responsible for one of the largest water bien are de rigueur for grueling tours that style, comes director Katja Esson’s deeply goal is to bring education and equality contamination incidents in US history. This keep him away from family for months on contemplative examination of the ever- to the overwhelmingly adolescent Afghan searing exposé follows Ensminger’s mission end. And how to reconcile the anti-author- present questions of violence, society and population through the freedom of to make the Marine Corps live up to its itarian ethos of punk rock with the need to the reality of being an artist and survivor. skateboards. With the help of energizing own motto and be accountable for expos- be a responsible authority figure to a child? Put best by poet Li-Young Lee: “I wish demonstrations from visiting professional ing thousands of soldiers and their families Says Brett Gurewitz (Bad Religon), “You I could say the human spirit is resilient skaters and an outpouring of enthusiasm to carcinogens. Along the way, Ensminger write a song when you’re eighteen... ‘I’m – some days I don’t think so.” Shot on from locals and officials alike, they decide sheds light on conditions that affect gonna die before I get old,’ but then you get location from Hiroshima to Rwandad, we are to construct a skate park in the center military families across the nation and a old, you don’t want to die.” Part music, part given an intimate look into the language of of Kabul. Touching on gender, ethnic and government regulatory system that fails to musical history, this is an engaging and the soul and the creative process behind it. social mores in Afghanistan, Skateistan’s protect all of us from toxic chemicals. intimate portrait of a pierced and tattooed And in the end, we come a little closer to vision for a future of equality through generation holding on to themselves while understanding the madness of war and how skateboarding is an exhilarating tale that learning to be better fathers than their art will flourish in spite of every obstacle. will give you some hope for the future of fathers were. – Barbara Pokras, A.C.E. – Patrick Miller this war-torn country. It’s quite amazing what a board and four wheels can do. – Patrick Miller

In a time when our economy is to create world-class and world-changing suffering, the last film one might be companies such as Intel, Apple, Cisco, interested in would be a love story Atari, and Genentech — companies about capitalism. And yet, Something that gave birth to the biomedicine and Ventured is an engaging, thought- microchip technology that are integral provoking documentary about money parts of our lives today. that is surprisingly inspirational. Meet Featuring an entertaining and the enterprising men who invented the diverse palette of venture capitalists, as term venture capitalist; the men with the well as a smart and savvy group of entre- preneurs, this is a film that breathes life Something Ventured BEARSVILLE Theater foresight and courage to back ambitious Thurs Sept 22 • 1:00pm entrepreneurs such as Steve Jobs during back into the capitalistic spirit. Something Directed by Upstate Films II RHINEBECK the upstart years in Silicon Valley. These Ventured just might motivate audiences to Daniel Geller and Danya Goldfine Fri Sept 23 • 1:30pm investors and innovators worked together start investing in and developing inspiring USA / 2011 / 85 minutes COURTESY: Zeitgeist Films new ideas. – Emily Suttmeier

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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. 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 US Premiere New York Premiere East Coast Premiere of our diverse planet, and the heroes who COMPETITION FINALIST dedicate themselves to making a difference as they refuse to just accept the status Taking a Chance Unraveled the Welcome quo. Additional programming, including on God Directed by Marc H. Simon Directed by Kim Shelton panels and year-round events, has covered a Directed by Brendan Fay USA / 2010 / 78 minutes USA / 2011 / 93 minutes broad range of socioeconomic and political USA / 2011 / 53 minutes Upstate Films WOODSTOCK BEARSVILLE Theater topics. Select participants have included Woody Harrelson, Tim Robbins, Peter Gabriel, Preceded BY: I Now Pronounce You Sat Sept 24 • 11:30am Thurs Sept 22 • 6:00pm Husbdand & Husband Upstate Films II RHINEBECK Upstate Films II RHINEBECK Barbara Kopple, Arlo Guthrie, Haskell Wexler, Sun Sept 25 • 11:45am Sat Sept 24 • 7:15pm Liev Schreiber, D.A.Pennebaker, Albert WOODSTOCK Playhouse Just days before Bernard Madoff Maysles, Christine Vachon and many others. Sat Sept 24 • 3:15pm With an intensity to rival many A POW in Nazi Germany, Vietnam captured headlines as the largest dramas, The Welcome is an intimate The 2011 Exposure program is sponsored by peace promoter, leading gay rights Ponzi schemer in U.S. history, Marc and powerful documentary that the Academy® of Motion Picture Arts and advocate and loving partner of 45 Dreier, a prominent Manhattan follows a group of veterans still very Sciences. attorney, was arrested for years to Charles Chiarelli, Taking a much at war with themselves. Group orchestrating a massive fraud Chance on God follows the extraordinary leader Michael Meade brings veterans from As technology makes scheme that netted hundreds of life of 85-year-old Jesuit priest John the Afghan, Iraq and Vietnam wars to a our world seem smaller millions of dollars from hedge funds. retreat in Ashland, Oregon, in an attempt to McNeill. McNeill, the co-founder of the and increasingly Brazen forgeries and impersonations help them come to terms with their trauma of GLBT Catholic group Dignity NY, author ­accessible, we are branded the white collar crime spree war by expressing themselves through poetry. of the revolutionary The Church and presented with the opportunity to expand remarkable. Unraveled is set in the Each share their heartbreaking story, often our global consciousness. Film remains the Homosexual, and leader in the gay ‘purgatory’ of house arrest, an upper East interrupted by heated debate about issues of an ideal vehicle for such expression, community during the AIDS crisis of the Side penthouse, where the court has race, identity and the realities of being in the offering audiences the scenery, sounds, 1980s, has refused to let his voice be ordered Dreier confined until sentencing military. As the veterans cathartically come and personalities of faraway places. WFF is silenced despite being expelled from the day. The film weaves Dreier’s struggle to closer to personal understanding and the proud to present the World Cinema program Catholic Church after forty years of faithful prepare for possibile life imprisonment closure of old wounds, the film culminates to further our commitment to sharing service. Chronicling his love for the Church, with first-person flashbacks that reveal his beautifully with a public performance of their experiences across continents. World Cinema the GLBT community, his Jesuit brothers audacious path of destruction. Shattered newly written poems and songs. A riveting films that have screened at WFF in the past and his partner Charlie, Taking a Chance on by his own hubris, Dreier attempts to grasp and enlightening look into the hearts and have frequently gone on to receive Academy minds of veterans, a group that is so often God proves that there can and should be his tragic unraveling. With unprecedented Award® nominations. Recent world cinema access, Unraveled exposes a mastermind forgotten and who are simply in search of harmony between the gay community and films include Eleanor Burke and Ron Eyal’s of criminal deception and, along the way, home and a path back into the community of the Catholic Church. Stranger Things, Mike Leigh’s Happy-Go- the inevitable unraveling of his schemes. neighbors, friends and family. Lucky, Ellen Kuras’ The Betrayal (Nerakhoon), – Emily Suttmeier Filmmaker Marc Simon worked for Dreier and – Patrick Miller Julian Schnabel’s The Diving Bell and the gained intimate access to create a stunning Butterfly, Rachid Bouchard’s Days of Glory portrait of a man who dances between and Denys Arcand’s Barbarian Invasions. villain, victim and sociopath.

Films with local ties are a significant part of the WFF.The To honor its musical heritage, WFF has made music an integral Hudson Valley and Catskills are a hotbed of creative energy and home part of its programming. Focus on Music showcases films about music to many established and emerging filmmakers. Film production in the and musicians while actively exploring music’s role in film. Many Hudson Valley/Catskills also attracts filmmakers from around the world. of our films emphasize music as a powerful tool for expression and conflict resolution. Recent film production includes Persephone starring Melissa Leo, Family Tree starring John Slattery and Jenna Malone, and Brass Teapot starring Juno Temple. Some local Past musical participants have included The New Listeners with Adrian Grenier, Pine Top productions screening at the 2011 WFF include 9 Pianos, Angels, Another Kind, Beatrice and Perkins, Donovan, Abigail Washburn and the Sparrow Quartet, Dub Trio, The Felice Brothers, Bob, Gravity, Mother, Mother’s House, No Lights, Old Man River and the opening night film – Bernie Worrell, Bela Fleck & Edgar Meyer, Mike Gordon and Trey Anastasio of Phish, Kate Peace, Love, & Misunderstanding, Look for the logo in the program, which indicates if a film Pierson of the B-52s, Arlo Guthrie, Grammy® winner Peter Rowan, Levon Helm, Marshall was shot in the Hudson Valley. Crenshaw, Duncan Sheik, Rahat Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and many others. The Hudson Valley Film Commission promotes economic development by highlighting local Focus on Music films include 9 Pianos and Losers Take All. Music videos feature songs by talent and attracting outside film, video and media production to the region. For more The Sadies, Bon Iver, Gogol Bordelo, Blondie and many others. info, visit www.hudsonvalleyfilmcommission.org.

All events are subject to change. For latest updates, visit 2011 WOODSTOCK FILM FESTIVAL www.WoodstockFilmFestival.com 13 SHORTS Book Girl & Luminaris Scarecrow Animation Cabinet Girl Directed by (Espantapájaros) Programmed by Directed by Jane Wu Juan Pablo Zaramella Directed by Bill Plympton & Signe Baumane USA / 2010 / 3:43 Argentina / 2011 / Blanca Esteve Stéphant minutes 6:20 minutes Spain / 2011 / 1:24 minutes A story of how friends In a world controlled Spanish with Subtitles Bearsville Theater - WOODSTOCK are just always there for you, even if you’re and timed by light, an ordinary man has a world Premiere: Sat Sept 24 • 2:00pm plan that could change the natural order of A black and white poem about a special kind Upstate Films II RHINEBECK apart and things get in the way of friend- Sun Sept 25 • 4:15pm ships. Visit www.janeimagines.com things. Visit www.zaramella.com.ar of woman. Accumulonimbus Deep Masks Something Directed by Andy Kennedy Directed by Pes Directed by Left, USA / 2010 / USA / 2011 / 1:19 Patrick Smith Something 4:30 minutes minutes Singapore, USA / 2011 / Taken 7:40 minutes Natural and manmade Animator Pes brings Directed by Max Porter objects on a spin cycle common objects and A musical interpreta- and Ru Kuwahata accumulate, disintegrate and tools to life in a deep dark ocean scene. tion of modern exploitation, production and USA / 2010 / 10:13 minutes multiply, created by stop motion animating Visit www.eatpes.com consumption, inspired by the music of Karl An animated dark comedy about a vacation- clay on glass. Visit www.andykennedy.com von Kries. Visit www.patsmith.com ing couple’s encounter with a man they Enrique Wrecks the believe to be the Zodiac Killer. AprÈs Moi World Millhaven Visit www.tinyinventions.com Directed by Paul Emile Directed by David Chai Directed by Boucher, Thomas USA / 2010 /4:27 Bartek Kulas Suicide: An Excerpt From minutes Poland / 2010 / Bozovic, Madeleine “Rocks in My Enrique learns the 7:00 minutes Charruaud, Dorianne Polish with Subtitles Pocket” Fibleuil, Benjamin hard way that actions Fifteen-year-old Loretta knows we all have Directed by Signe Flouw, Mickaël Riciotti, Antoine Robert speak louder than to die. A reinterpretation of Nick Cave’s The Baumane France / 2010 / 4:02 minutes birds! Visit www.houseofchai.net Curse of Millhaven. visit www.bartekkulas.com USA / 2011 / A frustrated lover chases an illusion, but Giraffe-stronaut 4:30 minutes always ends up finding himself again. Visit world Premiere: Directed by Jacob Place Stamp Suicide is a work-in-progress excerpt from www.inatma.fr Kafka Here USA / 2010 / Directed by Joy Vaccese, Signe Baumane’s upcoming animated feature The 1:18 minutes Noelle Melody and Kelly Rocks In My Pockets. Backwater New York Sharp Visit www.rocksinmypocketsmovie.com Gospel University USA / 2010 / 4:30 Directed by Bo Mathorne A giraffe’s neck grows minutes TMZ Music Video Denmark / 2011 / so long that its head is in outer space. The world disassembles us, and then puts Directed by Bill Plympton 9:32 minutes Visit www.weirdhat.com us back together, and we’re never quite the USA / 2011 / 3:40 The Animation Workshop same as when we started. Then again, nei- minutes Taking place in a small, isolated community Grandpa Looked Like ther is the world. Weird Al’s hilarious in the Dust Bowl of the 1930’s, The Back- William Powell Visit www.twinsareweird.com new song paired water Gospel features a minister hell-bent Directed by David Levy with on ruling his flock and an undertaker who USA / 2010 / 4:20 a wacky video always precedes death. minutes animated by Bill Visit www.backwatergospel.blogspot.com Sometimes a memento Plympton. only reminds you how Visit www.plymptoons.com little you know someone.

Darkness Inside Crazy Beats Strong The Strange Ones WOODSTOCK Kleinert James Art Center Every Time Directed by Christopher Radcliff and Directed by Moon Molson Lauren Wolkstein Sat Sept 24 • 5:45pm USA / 2011 / 27 minutes USA / 2011 / 13 minutes Sun Sept 25 • 3:30pm New York Premiere Markees finds his stepfather passed out Dead in the Room drunk in their project building hallway and A man and a boy, traveling to an unknown Directed by Adam Pertofsky destination, find respite in a motel swim- is pressured by a friend into murder. USA / 2010 / 9 minutes Visit www.crazybeatsstrong.com ming pool, but nothing is what it seems to At a screenwriters’ pitch event, a writer be. Visit www.thestrangeones.com turns the tables on a movie executive. Knife Block Directed by Directed by Chadd Harbold James Johnston USA / 2010 / 12 minutes USA / 2010 / A young actress living in Brooklyn discovers 11 minutes how profoundly her hostile environment A transfixing, has affected her. slow-burning Visit www.lastpictures.com gothic tale of greed and vengeance. Visit www.knifemovie.com

All events are subject to change. For latest updates, visit 14 www.WoodstockFilmFestival.com WOODSTOCK FILM FESTIVAL 2011 shorts Short docs Family Feuds WOODSTOCK Kleinert James Art Center WOODSTOCK Kleinert James Art Center Fri Sept 23 • 1:00pm Sat Sept 24 • 3:15pm Sat Sept 24 • 8:00pm Sun Sept 25 • 1:00pm

The Recorder Exam Directed by Bora Kim Elliott Erwitt: South Korea / 2011 / 28:30 minutes “It Bark a Dogs” Columbia University Directed by Douglas J. Sloan Korean with Subtitles USA / 2011 / 11:33 minutes Bayou Black US Premiere A film about the great photographer Elliott Directed by Jonas Carpignano Nine-year old Eunhee anxiously prepares USA / 2010 / 12:32 minutes A Bridge Delivered Erwitt, who has made some of the most for her recorder exam as she struggles to New York University find a place within her own family. Directed by Stephen Mallon memorable photographs of the twentieth Willy Jones, a swamp rat trapper and USA / 2011 / 4 minutes Visit www.facebook.com/therecorderexam century-- portraits of legends and aston- struggling single father, makes a desperate Using stop-motion filming, over 30,000 ishing scenes of everyday life, filled with decision that leads to an out-of-control Stefan photographs animate the journey of the poetry, wit and humor. Visit www.icontent.tv confrontation. Directed by new Willis Avenue Bridge down the Hudson Juliet River to NYC. Lashinsky- Visit www.stephenmallon.com Revene USA / 2010 / 16 minutes East Coast Premiere Stefan uses his earplugs to create a sealed- Dying Every Day off world where only he and his mother (Morir Cada Día) exist, but when she brings a stranger home Hurdy Gurdy Directed by Aitor Echeverría for dinner his world begins to crumble. Visit www.stefanfilm.com Directed by Daniel Seidenederr Spain / 2010 / 13 minutes Germany / 2010 / 3:30 minutes Spanish with Subtitles Sunny Boy Brother Rob NORTH AMERICAN Premiere North American Premiere Directed by Directed by Sofian Khan An enclosed cosmos -- just like a Hurdy Not content to sit through another boring USA / 2011 / 19:30 minutes Jane Gull Gurdy -- that starts over to play its song family dinner, Blanca drags old skeletons UK / 2011 / Controversial Pastor Terry Jones is intent anew. For more info, visit seideneder.com out of the closet and onto the table. 11:14 minutes on burning the Koran; a former truck driv- Visit www.aitorecheverria.com New York Premiere er, born Baptist and now Muslim, provides Danny wants to be a different perspective. Visit a regular teenager www.capitalkpictures.com but his rare skin condition is getting in the way.

Life, Love, Death Babyland Directed by WOODSTOCK Kleinert James Art Center Woody/before/Allen Marc Fratello Fri Sept 23 • 5:15pm USA / 2011 / Directed by Masha Vasyukova Sun Sept 25 • 5:45pm 27:42 minutes Russia, USA, France / 2011 / 13:30 minutes Columbia world Premiere University A native of Kaliningrad, Russia, makes it Love ain’t easy to find in small her mission to put up a statue of Woody town America... but you can try. Allen to commemorate the bizarre connec- Visit www.babylandfilm.com Come on Down and tion between the two former Konigsbergs. Pick Me Up Visit www.woodybeforeallen.com The Sea Is All I Know Directed by Jon Bougher, You Have Angels Directed by Jordan Bayne Nicholas Corrao Directed by Zachary Kerschberg USA / 2011 / 29:27 minutes USA / 2011 / 9 minutes the Right USA / 2011 / 10:32 minutes New York Premiere world Premiere to an New York University An honest portrait of a family coming to Neon artist Fred Kress is Attorney WORLD Premiere terms with their relationship with death. within weeks of dying from Directed by A young girl attempts to “fix” her newborn Academy Award-winner Melissa Leo stars. terminal liver disease, but Matt Bockelman brother. Visit www.windmillsandgiants.com Visit www.jordanbayne.com USA / 2011 / he has turned his bedroom 13 minutes into a glowing work of art in A behind-the- which to escape the ultimate reality of his scenes look at the tough world of public disease. Visit www.nickcorrao.com defenders in the South Bronx. Visit www.youhavetherighttoanattorney.com

All events are subject to change. For latest updates, visit 2011 WOODSTOCK FILM FESTIVAL www.WoodstockFilmFestival.com 15 SHORTS Lost & found Mother’s MUSIC VIDEO WOODSTOCK Kleinert James Art Center House Bearsville Theater WOODSTOCK Memory Layne - Fri Sept 23 • 3:00pm Directed by Davis Hall Fri Sept 23 • 10:00pm (live music after) Dolly Rocker Movement USA / 2011 / Directed by Sat Sept 24 • 10:00pm Upstate Films II RHINEBECK 27 minutes John Charter Sat Sept 24 • 5:15pm Beatrice While emptying his late USA / 2010 / AND Bob mother’s rural home, Break the Spell - Gogol 3:51 minutes Directed by Thomas and his wife, Bordelo The ghost of Kendra Elliott Catherine, discover Directed by a murdered USA / 2011 / increasingly disturbing secrets until the Bruno Decharme groom longs for his widowed bride until 13:45 minutes choice between memory and truth threat- France / 2011 / 4:10 she can no longer live without him. East Coast Premiere ens to destroy them both. minutes When Beatrice goes back to work, after Break the Spell shows laying her father to rest, a stalker named the living conditions of the Roma in to- Miss Daisy Cutter - Bob makes all her paranoid nightmares...and New skin day’s Europe. The Veils secret fantasies, come true. Directed by Directed by Vladimir de Fontenay Laen Sanches Burning Wigs of France / 2010 / Bunny USA / 2011 / 12 minutes world Premiere Sedition - 5:50 minutes Directed by Robert Snow USA / 2011 / 12 minutes No one should be alone The Extra If Walt Disney took on New Years Eve. Action some bad acid this is what his trip would Marching look like. Don’t say you weren’t warned. With the help of his best friend, a young boy Band Visit www.laensanches.com ventures into a rural Pennsylvania ghetto to save Directed by Anna Fitch and Simon Cheffins his stolen bunny. USA / 2010 / 9:22 minutes Mother - Blondie The steamy belly of the rowing galleon is Directed by Laurent Rejto Love is a Bitch! a place of Sisyphean suffering driven by USA / 2011 / WOODSTOCK Kleinert James Art Center drums and the cracking whip. 4:45 minutes Fri Sept 23 • 7:30pm WORLD Premiere Sat Sept 24 • 11:15am Calgary - Bon Iver An homage to Directed by Andre Durand and Dan the club Mother NYC, featuring the band Bang, Huiting Blondie. Filmed at BSP Studios in Kingston, Directed by Holle Manhattan Melody USA / 2011 / 4:13 NY. This is the world premiere of the direc- Singer Directed by Sasha Gordon minutes tor’s cut. USA, UK / 2011 / USA / 2011 / 19 minutes The first single from 7 minutes New York University Bon Iver’s second No Lights - East Coast Premiere East Coast Premiere album, depicts a Yassou Benedict A Real Man encounters the dangers of the A thrilling and bittersweet musical story of mysterious ritual enacted by beautiful Directed by Steve hunt, and his own fantasies, when he sees a lonely young manicurist who finds unex- models in a remote enchanted forest. Durand pected adventure with a charismatic thief. a Beautiful Woman at the theater. USA / 2011 / 7 Everything Becomes minutes Cataplexy True Colors Whole - Sarah Fimm WORLD Premiere Nostalgia comes Directed by Directed by Anthony Onah Directed by Erik Montovano John Salcido USA / 2010 / 8 minutes USA / 2011 / 4:13 minutes knocking on youth’s door for the first time. worldPremiere USA / 2010 / As a couple Music video for 7:25 minutes negotiate their Rumbleseat - The Sadies “Everything Becomes Good looking, ideal wedding Directed by Michael Roberts Whole,” from the successful and single, Sidney has a clever guest list, it Canada, USA / 2011 new album “Near solution for an unusual medical problem; becomes clear / 6 minutes Infinite Possibility.” he just never factored in old friends. they have dif- A man awakes to find fering opinions Marionette - himself in the back Gravity about who makes the cut. of a demonic hotrod Coldwater Jane driven by mysterious Directed by Pamela Romanowsky Directed by Beck Underwood ghouls. USA / 2011 / 12:49 minutes USA / 2011 / 3 minutes New York University We’re Leaving WORLD Premiere New York Premiere Directed by Zachary Treitz A love story about Wizbot - Sea of Bees Amid alienation and brutality, Mae forms an USA / 2011 / 12:35 minutes working it out, in stop Directed by Aaron unexpected connection with a wounded rab- Finding a new motion, no strings at- Rosenbloom bit, and finds that its fate is tied to her own. home can be tricky tached. USA / 2010 / when your teen- 4:46 minutes ager is big, green old man river - Watch Julie Ann Bee and tends to bite. the five points band sing and play lots of Directed by John Bongiorno musical instruments. USA / 2011 / 4:46 minutes A dark tale of murder and mayhem. The first single from the Band’s album, Family.

All events are subject to change. For latest updates, visit 16 www.WoodstockFilmFestival.com WOODSTOCK FILM FESTIVAL 2011 shorts Remember to Smile Screening Prior to... WOODSTOCK Kleinert James Art Center I NOW pronounce you The Thing That Happened Fri Sept 23 • 9:45pm husband & husbanD Sat Sept 24 • 1:15pm Directed by Stephanie Donnelly USA / 2010 / 20 minutes Vassar College Fantastic Flying Books In 2004, Jason West, then mayor of New of Mr. Paltz, NY, was criminally charged after mar- Morris Dandelion (Pampeliška) rying twenty-four same-sex couples. Lessmore Directed by Laurel Parmet Screens prior to Taking a Chance on God. Directed by William Czech Republic,USA / Directed by Andrew Walton Joyce and Brandon 2010 / 8 minutes Tasnim USA / 2011 / 28 minutes Czech with Subtitles Oldenburg Directed by Elite The Hope North Secondary School in USA / 2010 / 14:45 minutes After a fight with her abusive father, Klara Zexer Uganda provides a home and education New York Premiere spends the day playing with her friend, but Israel / 2010 /11:40 for displaced children of civil war personal A poignant, humorous allegory inspired by can’t forget the realities of her life at home. minutes account is a poetic and moving tribute to Arabic with subtitles Hurricane Katrina, Buster Keaton and The Screens prior to Sahkanaga. the living and the dead. Wizard of Oz. A surprise visit from Tasnim’s father forces Screens prior to Poetry of Resilience. AFRICA DIARY her to confront the conservative norms of Good Men Directed by L.M. Kit Carson, the family tribe and the fact that she is no Directed by USA/ 2011 / 30 mins longer daddy’s-little-girl. Brian Connors Screens prior to Poetry of Resillience. Screens prior to Fat Cows Lean Cows. USA / 2011 / 11:30 minutes . New YOrk Teen Films Everything That Dies Shed Premiere Onteora High School Directed by Directed by These old men Fri Sept 23 • 3:00pm Russell Carter Brendan Elmore live to fight and fight to live. Starring Ed USA / 2010 / USA / 2011 / Asner and Mark Rydell. The 36 4:49 minutes 13:06 minutes Directed by Nic Oak Park High Noblesville High Weinfeld School School Smile USA / 2011 / 7:00 The touching life Trying so hard to remember... in order to Directed by Interlochen Arts cycle of a relationship under pressure. forget. Lauren Elmer Academy USA / 2011 / What You Become 5:55 minutes Set in 1945 Poland, the story of a Polish Secret Club woman who witnesses the harassment of Directed by 14-year-old Directed by Ben Kadie Christopher Finn Sally has a crush on her orthodontist and two liberated Jewish women. USA / 2011 / USA / 2011 / 2 at her last appointment, she prepares to 3:17 minutes minutes confess her undying affection, but all does The Apple Interlake High Nyskayuna High School School not go as planned. Directed by Jason Farrell The modern A colorful expression of jealousy and USA / 2011 / 2:44 world is one of acceptance. Special Things To Do minutes Some clubs should simply remain secret. Directed by T.J. Misny Saugerties High School An apple a day keeps the doctor away. Sedated Seat Big City, Small Town Directed by Ethan Oberman USA / 2011 / 3 minutes . Directed by Stefanos Tai Columbia High Career Day: USA / 2011 / 13:41 minutes School Friends Seminary High School Youth Initiative A visually and USA / 2010 / 18:07 minutes World Premiere Onteora High School musically hyp- world Premiere Will one of New notic experimen- Fri Sept 23• 8:00am - 2:00pm A burnt out tennis prodigy (Noot Seearr) York’s most iconic tal film. must confront her demons when she meets communities, lose a terminally ill teenage boy (Nat Wolff) who its identity in the wants to score more than just her autograph. biggest city in the Seeds Of Hope Visit www.specialthingstodo.com country? Directed by Imani Peterkin & Mohamed Gardner Time Freak Break the Silence USA / 2010 / Each year over 150 students from schools Directed by Directed by Shaniece Bouldinr 8:45 minutes throughout the region gather at Onteora USA / 2010 / 6:42 minutes Andrew Bowler YouthFX High School in Boiceville for Career Day, USA / 2010 / Reel Works Teen After he was Filmmaking where students meet with A-list film in- 11:20 minutes killed, Allison is A teenage girl dustry professionals A neurotic in- inspired to not allow her son to become reflects on her in small groups, ask ventor creates just another forgotten casualty of gun childhood, con- questions and learn a time machine violence. fronting haunting about careers in film and gets lost traveling around yesterday. moments from her past. and new media.

All events are subject to change. For latest updates, visit 2011 WOODSTOCK FILM FESTIVAL www.WoodstockFilmFestival.com 17 concerts In addition to the great music-related A long list of past musical participants includes The Good Listeners with Adrian Grenier, Pinetop Perkins and the Perfect Age films and panels, the Woodstock of Rock’n’Roll Blues Band, Bela Fleck, Edgar Meyer, Bernie Worrell, Will Calhoun, Doug Wimbish, Duncan Sheik, Mike Gordon Film Festival has presented some and Trey Anastasio of Phish, Gov’t Mule, Kate Pierson, Arlo Guthrie, Peter Rowan, Rahat Nusrat Fateh Ali Kahn, Britta Phillips OUTSTANDING LIVE CONCERTS and & Dean Wareham of Luna, Graham Parker, Levon Helm, Marshall Crenshaw, and many more. SHOWCASES over the past decade. Stay tuned for additional announcements about music events. Kick off Concert Philippe Quint and Nellie McKay with Special Guest Lori Singer and Tracy Bonham with Jerry Marotta, Explorers, Gorgeous Creatures and Bazaar

Wednesday Sept 21 • 7:30pm [doors open 7pm] Bearsville Theater WOODSTOCK

Woodstock Film Festival 2011 opens to Doris Day, and released three with an incredible line-up of fabulous wildly acclaimed albums of original musicians in what promises to be a music. “McKay’s music evokes the Mother.” This lead to a pair of Grammy™ night to remember. lost elegance of pre-Elvis pop music because nominations in 1997, as well as an MTV Video Award nomination. Described by The Times (London) as having she recognizes that such stylishness and wit are “bravura technique, and unflagging energy,” worth pursuing.” Singer, producer, arranger, and dabbler in many violin prodigy Philippe Quint has gripped (The Washington Post). other instruments like guitar, saxophone, and the eyes and ears of audiences around the Philippe Quint and Nellie McKay can keyboards Jerry Marotta has performed his world. His debut album, a recording of William both be seen, and heard, in David seismic tribal tones with Peter Gabriel and Lori Singer Schuman’s Violin Concerto, garnered two Grubin’s Downtown Express, playing at his intricate percussive rhythms with artists Grammy nominations. Since then, he has WFF 2011. such as Indigo Girls, Suzanne Vega, and Ani Difranco, Marotta Griegraber, California Guitar appeared with major orchestras under the Vocalist Lori Singer is a Golden Globe winning Trio and The Tony Levin Band. His present batons of such noted conductors as Kurt Masur, star of film and television. She has starred in work is with English goth legend Peter Murphy, Carl St. Clair, Marin Alsop, Andrew Litton and such films as Footloose, Short Cuts, Falcon and French pop star Axelle Red, and American more. He recently formed the Quint Quintet – a the Snowman, Trouble in Mind and was one of singer-songwriter Anjani Thomas. group dedicated to exploring the music of Astor the original leads of the hit television show Tracy Bonham Piazzolla and Argentine Tango. Fame, to name a few. New York-based Indie rock band Explorers builds on the foundation of exploring new Impossible to categorize, Nellie McKay has done Vocalist and violinist Tracy Bonham has been sounds by spontaneous creation. The band Brecht on Broadway, opened for Lou Reed at featured on late night television, toured with features Zach Tenorio (Keyboards, Vocals), Zach Carnegie Hall, sung Woody Allen movie songs Blue Man Group, and her 1996 major label Page (Guitar, Vocals), Elijah Rawk (Bass, Drums, at the Hollywood Bowl, performed on A Prairie debut, The Burdens of Being Upright (Island), Vocals) and Ray Belli (Drums, Tabla). They met Home Companion, duetted with Eartha Kitt and sold over 800,000 copies world-wide and went as performers in the Paul Green School of Rock Triumph The Insult Comic Dog, played Hilary gold in the US as well as Holland, Australia, The Explorers All Stars, and reunited to form Explorers. Swank’s sister on the big screen, paid tribute and Canada, spawning the hit single “Mother

Gene Ween Acoustic accompanied by long-time Ween Base player Dave Dreiwitz

Wednesday Sept 21 • 10:00pm [doors open 9pm]

Thursday Sept 22 • 10:00pm [doors open 9pm] Colony Café WOODSTOCK The brilliant, irreverent, satiric, supremely talented Gene Ween of the band Ween has been putting on deliriously demented live shows with Ween for 25 years, and now with his own band.

Born Aaron Freeman, he did home recordings at this show with his breakout acoustic from Ween’s Albums like, “Synthetic Socks,” an early age, and at the behest of the demon- band at the Colony in Woodstock, Gene Ween’s “The Crucial Squeegie Lip,” “Axis: Bold as god Boognish, formed Ween with his best output has been wildly prolific and insanely Boognish,” “White Pepper.” Gene Ween is one friend. From his first live show at Trenton’s City inventive. Just think back, remember and revel awesomely musical dude. Gardens, opening for the Butthole Surfers, to in the ever-changing rhythms and hit songs

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A Sperformancepanish by ENSEMBLE JAVIER LIMÓN, CRISTINA PATO & JOSÉ MANUEL ZAPATA with EMILIO ARAGÓN

FILMMAKER Party Begins at 10pm Friday September 23 Skytop Steakhouse & Brewing Co, KINGSTON These two magnificent artists will perform on stage together for Simi Stone the very first time in what promises to be a seminal synergy of and Jeremy Bernstein talent. They will be joined by tenor José Manuel Zapata and Paper Birds director and keyboard player Emilio Aragón. Friday September 23 Cristina Pato, Doors Open at 9pm a flamboyant Galician bagpiper and a virtuouso piano player, has collaborated with Colony Café, WOODSTOCK world music, jazz, classical and experimental artists Javier Limón is a flamenco guitarist and a Woodstock’s own, singer-song- (including the Chicago Symphony, Yo-Yo Ma, The songwriter trained at the Royal Conservatory of Music writer-violinist Simi Stone is an Chieftains, the Royal Pipe Band). Her unique and in Madrid. He is considered the top studio producer of the Spanish music world. He is currently recording ever evolving multi-dimensional Javier Limon powerful style, full of passion and energy, has been an album for artists Serrat and Sabina. His production talent who is constantly pushing acclaimed by The New York Times as “a virtuosic burst work on Black Tears (Lágrimas Negras), recorded with herself in new directions. of energy,” and the BBC as “the Galician bagpipe diva.” Pato has a Doctorate of Musical Arts from the Cuban jazz pianist Bebo Valdés and flamenco singer She received critical acclaim for her violin Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University Diego el Cigala, earned Limón the Producer of the playing and singing from the editor of and a Masters of Computer Music from the Universitat Year award at the 2004 Latin Grammys. Limón teaches Uncut Magazine Brian Jones as “the sen- Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Spain. flamenco at the Berklee College of Music. sational Simi Stone whose striking voice Jose Manuel Zapata adds an even more testifying flavor to the group sound” Simi is also a member of Paul green’s The Duke and the King. 9 Pianos BAND of JESSE MCBRIDE, Monkeys THE COTTON BROTHERS house band at the & ADAM MARKOWITZ 2011 maverick awards gala Doors Open at 7pm Show begins at 8pm Awards Begin at 9pm Friday September 23 Backstage Studio Productions, KINGSTON Photosensualis, WOODSTOCK Saturday September 24 The Reverends Alex and Allen Cotton are bringing the The ‘soon to be’ legendary Paul Green, founder of real New Orleans to Woodstock. The School of Rock, subject of the documentary Rock School and inspiration for Jack Black in Richard Sarah fimm & “Our genre is Gospel Music from the cradle to the grave,” they say. Linklater’s hilarious film School of Rock, along with After Katrina, they each received a free piano from Adam Markow- a number of his former students from the “School of yassou benedict itz, as depicted in the film 9 Pianos, premiering at WFF 2011. Also Rock,” will be playing music from the greatest movies Following SHORTS: Music Videos performing is New Orleans’ own Jesse McBride. ever made and some other mediocre ones. SHORTS: MUSIC VIDEOS Screening begins at 10pm. Music follows in the lounge @ 11:30pm betty Bearsville Theater, BEARSVILLE Doors Open at 10pm • Show begins at 11:30pm Friday September 23 Saturday September 24 Sarah Fimm is a singer-songwriter, Colony Café in WOODSTOCK who after sewing her musical oats at Berklee College of Music, went on These three charmers perform with hilarious banter, thrilling harmonies, and to independently record and release songs that reflect their lust for life. The trio Elizabeth Ziff (vocals, guitar), Alyson seven albums. Palmer (vocals, bass) and Amy Ziff (vocals, cello) not only dazzle as performers, but have an unceasing commitment to Equality and Human Rights. BETTY performs Yassou Benedict play ear-catching legendary live shows all over the world, often featuring their hits from shows like experimental pop music with densely The L Word, Ugly Betty, Weeds, HBO’s Real Sex, Comedy Central’s Out On The Edge layered harmonies and complex and the upcoming Love Bites on NBC. The band has won two Emmy’s, two BMI rhythmic structures anchored by the Career Excellence Awards, numerous humanitarian awards and the hearts of fans mesmerizing stage presence of bassist everywhere. Guaranteed to win your heart and add it to the pile. and lead singer Lilie Bytheway, whose “BETTY is a wildly fun pop band from NYC whose “[BETTY] combines razor sharp wit and savvy diverse and natural vocals range from the soulful to the haunting and transfixing music combines the ordinary and the bombshell lyrics with deceptively innocent, catchy ethereal. surreal with “A Fellini-esque flair“ tunes“ – Entertainment Weekly – Washington Post

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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 www.woodstockfilmfestival.com for the most up-to-date info.

THE ISSUE DOCUMENTARY Moderated by: Utopia Studios • Friday Sept 23 • 4pm Stephen Nemeth formed and heads up Rhino Films. He is currently working with Amnesty International through What draws a filmmaker to a particular subject? What is the process behind finding, Artists for Amnesty on developing and producing human interviewing and selecting subjects for a documentary? How can you tell if someone will rights related projects. His producer credits include Fear and be compelling enough for an entire film? What are the ethical and artistic choices you’ve Loathing in Las Vegas, Why Do Fools Fall in Love, Dogtown and Z Boys and What We Do Is Secret. He executive- encountered during filming? Join some of today’s most accomplished and promising produced War/Dance, Fuel, Flow, Climate Refugees, Under the documentary filmmakers as they discuss their approach to material, why they chose the Boardwalk: The Monopoly Story, Mr. Bitchin’ and Pick Up The Mic. issues they did, and what their vision was behind filming and editing. This panel will provide an insider’s glimpse into the collaborative process of documentary filmmaking and the complex thought process that goes along with it.

Panelists: LATE ADDITION: Fisher Stevens (The Cove) Jedd Wider is an Emmy Award-winning Lisa Gossels is the President of Good Egg Petra Epperlein was born in Karl Marx City, film producer with Wider Film Projects. Productions in NYC. Her first film was the Germany. After some years working as a They have produced numerous critically Emmy Award-winning The Children of bricklayer, Epperlein studied architecture in and commercially successful Chabannes. Her second film,My So-Called Dresden where, after receiving her diploma, documentaries, including Taxi to the Dark Enemy, screened at the Woodstock FF in she headed west to America. She has been Side, which won the 2008 Academy Award® 2010 and garnered a CINE Golden Eagle. making films with Michael Tucker ever for Best Documentary, Kicking It, What She is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Brown since. Her film Fightville is in WFF 2011. Would Jesus Buy?, Beyond Conviction, A University. Dream in Doubt, Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer and Semper Fi: Always Faithful. Barbara Kopple is a two-time Academy Noah Hutton spent his childhood on film Award®-winning film­maker. Her documentary sets and developed a passion for Ron Mann makes award-winning feature Gun Fight, recently premiered on HBO. Kopple filmmaking. In 2007, he traveled to Uganda documentaries that focus on alternative produced and directed Harlan County USA and and co-directed a documentary Shooting for and dissent culture. WFF has been showing American Dream, both Oscar winners for Best Peace. Hutton had his directorial debut Mann’s films since Go Further, a musical- Documentary Feature. Her other films with Crude Independence, a documentary eco-road movie about activism and include The House of Steinbrenner, Wood- about the oil boom in North Dakota. His sustainable living. His other films include stock: Now and Then, Shut Up and Sing, current film, More to Live For, is part of WFF Know Your Mushrooms, Grass, and most Havoc, A Conversation with Gregory Peck, My 2011. recently, In the Wake of the Flood. Generation, Wild Man Blues and Fallen Champ: The Untold Story of Mike Tyson.

INTERNATIONAL What is financing, partnering and co-production like in Europe and the Middle East? How does the process differ FILM PRODUCTION from American production? What are the challenges and advantages of working overseas? What are the current issues, trials and rewards filmmakers face in production in the two respective markets? Filmmakers working in Europe Utopia Studios • Saturday Sept 24 • 10am today meet with American filmmakers to discuss the differing process, both benefits and disadvantages, and offer illuminating insights from what each has experienced.

Moderator: Hilla Medalia is a George Foster Peabody David D’Arcy writes about film for Screen Katja Esson was nominated for an Award-winning director and producer. Her International, The San Francisco Chronicle Academy Award® for her film Ferry Tales, films include To Die in Jerusalem (HBO) and and many other publications. He is a which turns the unlikely setting of the After the Storm (WFF 2010). Currently she is regular critic on the BBC World Service. His Staten Island Ferry women’s bathroom into working on Dancing in Jaffa, about Pierre film blog, Outtakes, can be read at www. a celebration of sisterhood. Her other films Dulaine and Caught In The Net, about artinfo.com. He also writes about art for include Skydancer, Vertical Traveler, Hole in internet addiction in China. Her film Fat Cows The Art Newspaper and Art + Auction. the Sky, Latching On and Hooker, Harlot, Lean Cows is screening at WFF 2011. Whore. Esson’s film Poetry of Resilience is playing at WFF 2011. Larry Fessenden is the writer, director and Panelists: editor of the award-winning art-horror Emilio Aragón was commissioned by Viktor Chouchkov Jr directed Tilt, showing trilogy Habit, Wendigo and No Telling. His Plácido Domingo to orchestrate songs from at this year’s WFF. Previous works include, recent film, The Last Winter, premiered at his work Pasión Española, winner of a the shorts A.T.M, Obsession, and The Statues the 2006 Toronto Film Festival (IFC). Grammy Award. His Cantata for Baritone, Also Die; numerous music videos; Fessenden has produced a diverse array of Choir and Orchestra Largo Suspiro de Vida, documentaries; TV commercials and TV independent films, including Wendy and premiered in 2011. Aragón’s first film, shows, including the Bulgarian version of Lucy, The House of The Dead, I Sell the Carlitos y el campo de los sueños, received Who Wants to be a Millionaire, Jukebox, a Dead, Stake Land and Bitter Feast. numerous awards. His opera prima, Pájaros music show, and Laughter in the Hall, an de Papel (Paper Birds), is the realization of award-winning stand-up comedy show. a lifelong dream. LATE ADDITION: Jason Kliot

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Amazing Women in Film Moderator: Utopia Studios • Saturday Sept 24 • 12pm Thelma Adams has twice served as the New York Film Critics’ Circle Chair. She has written for The New York Times, The New York Post, Women in the film industry continue to carve a strong and meaningful path in a world that O: The Oprah Magazine, Marie Claire, The Huffington Post, Interview and more. She has used to be traditionally dominated by men. With more women sitting in the Director’s chair appeared on CNN, E!, NBC’s The Today Show, and holding top positions as executives, producers and administrators, has the balance finally among many others. In 1993 she earned an shifted to a point of equality? Join us as a diverse group of powerful women discuss their MFA from Columbia University and graduated work and the state of the film industry, from the woman’s perspective. Phi Beta Kappa from UC Berkeley in 1981.

Panelists: Robin Bronk is the recipient of this year’s Debra Granik won awards for her short Nancy Savoca ’s first feature, True Love, Honorary Trailblazer Award. Bronk is Chief film, Snake Feed, including the Jury Prize won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance Executive Officer of The Creative Coalition, for Short Filmmaking at Sundance in 1998. (1989) and has been called one of the “50 the leading national, nonprofit, Granik’s first feature, Down to the Bone, Greatest Independent Films of All-Time” by nonpartisan social and public advocacy won the Directing Award at Sundance in “Entertainment Weekly.” Savoca also organization of the arts and entertainment 2004. Her second feature, Winter’s Bone, directed Dogfight, Household Saints, The 24 industry. She is an author, public speaker won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance in Hour Woman, Reno: Rebel Without A and most recently produced the Showtime 2010 and was nominated for four Academy Pause-Unrestrained Reflections on feature, Poliwood, directed by Academy Awards®. September 11th and Dirt. Award®-winner Barry Levinson. Susan Seidelman’s feature film debut, A former labor organizer, Lisa Rosman is Meera Gandhi is a humanitarian, mother, Smithereens, was the first American currently the film critic for Marie Claire businesswoman and diplomat who was independent film to be selected for and writes the indieWire film blog New born in Mumbai, India. She created the competition at the 1982 Cannes Film Deal Sally. She was the Flavorpill.com film Giving Back Foundation, whose Festival. Her second film, Desperately editor, and has written for LA Weekly, Us beneficiaries are carefully selected Seeking Susan, featuring rising star Weekly, Time Out New York and Premiere, charities and individuals around the world Madonna, was a major box-office success. and has done commentary for the Oxygen with a special emphasis on women and Seidelman’s subsequent movies include Channel, TNT, the IFC and NY1. children in need. The Foundation also Making Mr. Right, Cookie, She-Devil, Gaudi exists to act as a platform for debate and Afternoon and Boynton Beach Club discussion of philanthropy.

WHY DO SOME FILMS MAKE IT AND OTHERs DON’T? Utopia Studios • Saturday Sept 24 • 2pm

Why do some films sink and other soar? Is it the money behind marketing? Finding the right audience? Or is it something more subtle, that has to do with the right story, the right film, the right genre, the right time? Join us for insights from some of the most important players in film today, who have been through highs and lows with films they thought would make it big, and weren’t, and have been taken by surprise by the sleepers.

Moderator: Panelists: Bingham Ray is currently a consultant to For more than 25 years, Michael Silberman John Sloss is the founder of the SnagFilms and to the Film Society of Lincoln has been a leading distribution executive entertainment and media advisory firm Center. Ray was President of Creative Affairs for independent films. Currently, he is the Cinetic Media and a co-founder of Cinetic Head of Distribution for Samuel Goldwyn at Sidney Kimmel Entertainment, and prior Rights Management. He is also the founder Films and ATO Pictures, where he has to that President of United Artists, where of and a partner in the entertainment law spearheaded the release of more than 75 he oversaw multiple successes, releasing the firm Sloss Eckhouse Law Co LLP. theatrical films including Super Size Me, The Additionally, he recently co-founded Academy Award®- winning films No Man’s Land and Bowling For Squid and the Whale, Fireproof, The Apostle Columbine. Ray co-founded October Films in 1991. The company Producers Distribution Agency, theatrical and Breaking the Waves. distributor of Exit Through the Gift Shop and won two Oscars and received 13 nominations as well as top Senna. prizes at the Cannes Film Festival. Dan Berger worked at THINKFilm, then went on to help build Oscilloscope Laboratories with Beastie Boy Adam Peter Saraf co-founded Big Beach, Yauch and David Fenkel. There, Berger helps producing such films as Little Miss Sunshine, distribute films theatrically, digitally, on Jack Goes Boating and Lucky. Saraf was DVD and via osmosis. Select O-Scope partner of director Jonathan Demme and releases have included the Academy Edward Saxon at Clinica Estetico. His credits Award®-nominated films The Messenger, Exit include the multiple award-winning Ulee’s Through the Gift Shop and Burma VJ, as well Gold, The Truth About Charlie and as Bellflower, Meek’s Cutoff, Wendy and Lucy and the upcoming Adaptation. Saraf also produces We Need To Talk About Kevin. documentaries, including The Agronomist and concert films, including Jonathan Demme’s Storefront Hitchcock and The Talking Heads’ re-mastered Stop Making Sense. photo Rick Gilbert Rick photo

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sponsor MUSIC IN FILM Moderator: Utopia Studios Saturday Sept 24 4pm Doreen Ringer-Ross is Vice President of Film and TV Relations at BMI. She has worked in the music industry for over two decades Join us for BMI’s annual frank and lively discussion about the creative and aesthetic aspects of music in and currently specializes in outreach to the film film, the composer/director relationship, and the unique concerns of music in new media. and music communities.

Panelists: Multiple award-winning George S. Clinton Michael Bacon has scored hundreds of Amy Rosen,’ s music supervision career has wrote songs for Warner Brothers Music and television shows and dozens of feature films. encompassed film, television and recorded four albums. He wrote scores for Bacon won an Emmy, an Ace Award nomination advertising. Recent projects include a such diverse films as Cheech and Chong’s Still and a BMI Television Music Award. He and his David O. Russell-directed series of ads and Smokin’, Austin Powers, Mortal Kombat, A brother, Kevin, perform music live as The Bacon viral films for Ketel One vodka scored by Dirty Shame, Wild Things and Salvation Brothers. He is a distinguished lecturer, Alberta Cross, and working with Chuck D Boulevard. In addition, Clinton has written teaching film scoring at Lehman College in NYC. for DirecTV. several concert works, three musicals, and is proud to serve as an advisor at the Sundance Composers Lab. Susan Jacobs was music supervisor on Alex Seyermark is a music supervisor and such films as Shortcuts, Basquiat, Chinese music producer, having worked on films by Box, Happiness, Before Night Falls, Spike Lee, Ang Lee, Barry Sonnenfeld, Jim Director, writer and cinematographer David Unbreakable, Capote, Little Miss Sunshine, Sheridan and Paul Schrader, as well as on Grubin has produced over 100 films, Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Inside Job, the acclaimed rock musical Hedwig and the ranging from history to art; from poetry to Gasland and more. Jacobs started in music Angry Inch. Steyermark directed Prey for science, winning numerous awards. at Island Records as assistant to Chris Rock & Roll, One Last Thing and Losers Take Grubin’s most recent documentary, The Blackwell, and now manages artists, All. Buddha, received an Emmy nomination for composers and producers. Her past clients best documentary writing. Downtown include Hal Willner, Gavin Friday, Evan Lurie and Paul Express is his first independent feature Cantelon. film.

Actors Dialogue FUNDING YOUR PROJECT THE 21ST CENTURY WAY Utopia Studios Utopia Studios • Sunday Sept 25 • 12pm Sunday Sept 25 10:00am Whether she’s one on one in an intimate talk, or leading a discussion among a As today’s economic, political, and creative landscape changes literally from day to variety of actors, Martha Frankel’s entertaining panels are one of the festival day, so are the fundraising avenues filmmakers take in order to finance their films. highlights. Hear from some of the diverse funders on what to do and what not do in order to Past Actors Dialogues have featured Eddie Falco (Nurse Jackie) Vera Farmiga get artistic projects done in today’s market. (Up in the Air), Lucy Liu (Kill Bill) and John Ventimiglia (The Sopranos). Other panelists have included extraordinary discussions with Steve Buscemi, Marcia Gay Harden, Parker Posey, Mary Stuart Masterson and many more. Moderator: Don’t miss this years surprise guest. Jonathan Gray A Reva Goldberg is practicing attorney since Communications & 1990, Jonathan Gray is Fellowships Manager at sponsor the senior partner at Gray Cinereach cinereach. BLUE SKY STUDIOS Krauss Des Rochers LLP org, a not-for-profit film Utopia Studios • Sunday Sept 25 •2:00pm (GKD) and is the former foundation and chairperson of the New production company An in-depth discussion among the creators of one of York State Bar Association Committee that champions vital this year’s hottest animated movies on the process on Motion Pictures. GKD has provided stories, artfully of making the film Rio. From story development, to production counsel services on well over told. She runs the Reach Film Fellowship, sculpting and design, through animation and on to 100 films. Gray is also an award-winning participates on the grants committee, and independent film producer and executive handles external communications. Goldberg the finished film, this panel promises to enlighten. producer. has an extensive background in film Rio is the tale of Blu, a blue macaw who is taken to production and fundraising. Rio de Janeiro to mate with a female. This critically acclaimed film went on to be a huge box office Panelists: has been success. A not-to-be-missed panel for animation lovers and filmmakers. Joana Vicente Kat Popiel spearheads the Executive Director of content at IndieGoGo. the IFP since December Moderator: She led the business 2009. Prior to this, she development of Dekalb and her partner, Jason Chris Wedge won an Academy Award® in 1998 for his short film Bunny, Market in Brooklyn and and has since directed both Ice Age and Robots. His next Blue Sky feature Kliot, produced/ contributes experiential executive produced over is Leafmen. He can also be heard as the voice of the saber-toothed strategy for global squirrel, Scrat, in Ice Age and its sequels. 40 films by such brands, including acclaimed directors as Panelists: K-Swiss, Diesel, Whyte & Jim Jarmusch, Miguel Arteta, Brian De Wedge will be joined by top talents in the animation field, whose work Mackay, Sony, Sothebys, Alexander Palma, Hal Hartley, Steven Soderbergh, includes such hit films as Horton Hears a Who!, both Ice Age films, McQueen, Taschen and Top Shop. She is a Nicole Holofcener and Todd Solondz. The Emperor’s New Groove and Rio. Join Supervising Animato Galen Chu, producer Bruce contributing writer for PSFK.com, founded Anderson and Cinematographer Renato Falcão for a lively and enlightening discussion. On Plate, Still Hungry and produced Something I Ate.

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