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TABLE OF CONTENTS

7 Introduction 93 Music

Contact info 8 Festival Staff 96 Awards

Woodstock Film Festival, Inc. 9 Fundraiser Thank Yous 98 Pre Fest Advertisors PO Box 1406, Woodstock, N. 12498 e. info@woodstockfilmfestival.com w. www.woodstockfilmfestival.com 10 Volunteers 100 Print Source Contacts

11 Thank Yous 104 Listings

14 About WFF 105 Venues

18 Woodstock FIlm Commission 110 Woodstock, Hunter, Rhinebeck & Rosendale 19 Letters 111 Souvenirs Box Office Location: 20 Sponsors Woodstock Film Festival How to Get Here and There 103 Mill Hill Road 112 (@ Routes 212 & 375 in Woodstock) 22 Advisory Board T Woodstock, NY 12498 113 2 Mile Map t. 845 679-6997 O 25 Features e. tickets@woodstockfilmfestival.com C Tickets and up-to-date schedule info 114 30 Mile Map are available online at www.woodstockfilmfestival.com 51 Documentaries 115 Ticket Information **ALL INFORMATION IN THE FESTIVAL PROGRAM IS 71 Shorts SUBJECT TO CHANGE. 116 Schedule PLEASE VISIT 86 Youth Initiative WOODSTOCKFILMFESTIVAL.COM FOR THE MOST UP-TO-DATE Seminars, and Panels INFORMATION INCLUDING 88 SCHEDULES, ADDED SCREENINGS, AND OTHER EVENTS.

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INTRODUCTION WFF 2005: CELEBRATING THE HUMAN SPIRIT

Creating a film festival is somewhat akin to creating a film—it’s a collaborative effort that starts with a vision and a passion which can only be realized with the skill and talent of many, all working towards a goal that will hopefully give joy to countless individuals.

And much like an apprehensive filmmaker on their way to his or her film premiere, be it their first or their tenth, so are we, the festival directors, filled with excitement and anticipation as we approach the start of the 6th Annual Woodstock Film Festival, ready to welcome the many who are about to gather in our “field of dreams.”

While the end result is ultimately what counts—the moment when thousands or millions come to see your film in darkened theaters, or, for us, when thousands descend on our little town of Woodstock— the journey there is such an integral part of the creative process, and one that will never be forgotten.

We feel privileged to work with so many amazing people on our team, be it the volunteers, the staff, the programmers, the filmmakers, the industry, the board members, the sponsors and the community at large, and we thank them all, today and every day, for their hard work and generous support.

As we have worked throughout the year with the screeners and the programmers, going through I thousands of entries, thinking and rethinking the final line up, we were struck by the realization that N T

so many of the films, whether political, social or personal, dealt with the challenges facing our lives, R confronting them, chronicling them, and in the end, offering a positive change. O D U

If we look around us, challenges are a common thread that unite communities and nations and pull C T I

them together towards a better place. And in the midst of it are the filmmakers—observing it all, O

trying to make sense out of seeming chaos, adding their thoughts and ideas into this crazy mix we N call life on earth. Their films reflect our journey and inspire us to understand and push ahead.

So gather around with all our stellar filmmakers and creative talents who will be here at the 2005 Woodstock Film Festival. Join in the celebration of the human spirit and the human voice—forever courageous and strong, forever capable of challenging our thinking and conquering our fears. They inspire us to dream, and hopefully, realize positive change.

We invite you to experience their art and their spirit while enjoying all the beauty and culture that Woodstock, Rhinebeck, Hunter and Rosendale have to offer.

See the films, concerts, panels and workshops; visit the stores, galleries, restaurants, and cafes; hike the mountains tops and dip your feet in the rivers and swimming holes; and enjoy to the fullest what the Woodstock Film Festival and the beautiful Hudson Valley Catskills have to offer.

Welcome to the 6th Annual Woodstock Film Festival everyone. See you at the movies!

Meira Blaustein Co-Founder / Executive Director

Laurent Rejto Co-Founder / Director of Development

WOODSTOCK FILM FESTIVAL 2005 7 FESTIVAL STAFF

ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF SALES Executive Director/Co-Founder Meira Blaustein Box Office Coordinator Joan Quiqley Director of Development/Co-Founder Laurent Rejto Accounting Coordinator Wynn Eggleston Deputy Director Nikki Goldbeck Merchandise Coordinator Anne Canzonetti (prefestival),Jane Laiken Office Manager Amy Witkus Personnel Director Anne Canzonetti PUBLIC RELATIONS Press Director Brigid Walsh Special Advisor Joan Mack Press Assistant Lilly Cano,Noel Nelson Administrative Assistants Kirstin Steffen,Patti Edwards Photographers Ben Caswell,Alan Carey,Gregor Trieste,Naomi Schmidt, Interns Daniel Aliberte,Miro Cassetta,Bryon Dormandy, Matthew Phillips,Dion Ogust,Jeffrey Milstein,Terri Gold Kelly Fancher,Christopher Gallo, Alexis Garcia,Ed Schnumberger Photography (other) Tiziano Magni Videographers Ian Ellerby,Nelson Simao FESTIVAL PROGRAMMING Trailer (press conference) Kelly Fancher,Michael Lerman, Features & Documentaries Ryan Werner (Head Programmer) Laurent Rejto,Patrica Edwards Tom Quinn (Co-Programmer) Trailer (festival) Tiziano Magni (director),Ian Ellerby (camera,editing) Meira Blaustein Libby McInerny (Programming Consultant) Michael Lerman (Programming Assistant) MARKETING Graphic Design (program, ads) Naomi Schmidt (Naomi Graphics) Shorts Laurent Rejto Program (compilation) Laurent Rejto Animation Signe Baumane,Bill Plympton Publication Editing Annie Nocenti,Anne Canzonnetti Youth Initiative Dana Weidman Dorrity Program Cover Photographer Tiziano Magni Special Consultant Liza Burnett Program Cover Model Angie Schmidt Screeners Daniel Aliberte,Meira Blaustein, Matt Canzonetti, Christopher Gallo,Nikki & David Goldbeck, Program Cover Layout Ruba Abu-Nimah (Talk To The Hand Studio,Inc) Michael Lerman,Joan Mack,Madeleine Molyneaux, Program Ad Coordinator Kirstin Steffen Barbara Pokras,A.C.E.,Laurent Rejto,Ed Schnurnberger, F Michael White Sponsor Liason Lisa Protter F Website Laurent Rejto

A Panels Meira Blaustein,Libby McInerny

T Additional Panels Seth Carmichael,David D’Arcy,Larry Fessenden, Consultants Diana Cassidy,Jack Rosa S Martha Frankel,Alan Hoffmanis,Annie Nocenti, SITE COORDINATION L Laurent Rejto,Doreen Ringer Ross,Melisse Seleck

A Bearsville Theatre (Woodstock) Lisa Purcell V

I FESTIVAL OPERATIONS Colony Café (Woodstock) Donna and Russell Parisi

T Operations Director Jackie Eaton Tinker Street Cinema (Woodstock) John Bilotti S Operations Manager Danielle Reisigl Town Hall (Woodstock) Hannah Lewis-Rosenblum E

F Operations Assistant Tim Vierling Woodstock Community Center Waylon Smith Special Event Coordinators Lauri Andretta,Victoria Langling Hunter Cinemas Jeff Economy Transportation Coordinator Gary Bielski Rosendale Theatre (Rosendale) Barbara Cazakoff Venues Coordinator Glenn Warnock Upstate Films (Rhinebeck) Jesse Crooks,Georgia Dent,Jane Glucksman Venues Assistant Coordinator Nathan Bielski Audience Award Coordinators Susan Avery,Kenneth Thompson OTHER Legal Counsel Richard J.Goldman,Esq. Maverick Trophies Steve Heller (Fabulous Furniture) Woodstock Film Commission Laurent Rejto,Bill Stitt FESTIVAL SERVICES Year Round Pioneer Screening Series Sabine Hoffman,Meira Blaustein,Anura Idupuganti Guest Relations Nikki Goldbeck,Alice Radosh,Barbara Silver, Gail Nussbaum,Christine Maggio,Nancy Caigan Hospitality (food services) Paula Gillen,Mason Dunbar Registration Coordinator Tracy Cohen-Kamien

PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT Technical Director Jeff Kantor Projectionists Jim Dodge,Scott Francis,Rick Hendricks Print Trafficking Bryon Dormandy,Patricia Edwards BOARD OF DIRECTORS Joan Mack (chairman), Laurent Rejto (vp), Eva Marie Graham (treasurer), Rose Pipe/Drape Coordinator Phillip Levine Koplovitz (secretary) Nicholas Adler, Lauri Andretta,Tony Conza, Stuart Hammerman, Technical Assistant Vanessa Lucas Rose Koplovitz, Ilene Marder Venue Design Coordinator Josef Treggor ADVISORY BOARD Concert Coordinator Robert F.Kennedy Elmer Bernstein ((honorary chair, emeritus), Judy Arthur, Eamonn Bowles, Ellen Live Events Hank Neimark Chenoweth, Griffin Dunne, Martha Frankel, Leon Gast, Ethan Hawke, Stephen Hays, Production Manager, Opening Concert Jerry Mitnick Sabine Hoffman, Gill Holland, Michael Lang, Stephen Nemeth, Jeremiah Newton, Youth Initiative Coordinator Dana Weidman Dorrity Annie Nocenti, Ron Nyswaner, Sarah Plant, Bill Plympton, Aidan Quinn, Bingham Ray, Peter Saraf, Steve Savage, Ira Schreck, Liev Schreiber, Zachary Sklar, John Sloss, fisher Youth Initiative Assistant Dena Giannelli Stevens, David Strathairn, Lemore Syvan

WOODSTOCK FILM FESTIVAL 2005 8 FUNDRAISER THANK-YOU’S

Henry Diltz

Ken Regan F U N D R A I S E R T H A

Barry Feinstein Elliott Landy N K S

Ballad of Jack & Rose, Benefit Summer Auction Donors Linda Forster and Mad Hot Ballroom Gala & Auction Andrea Barrist Stern Liv Tyler Benefits Joe Trapanese Margery and Irwin Gaffin of Angelina Jolie Martin Scorsese Jon Ersidar Atlantic Records Mary Anne Erickson *Lauri Andretta Barry Feinstein Michael Anderson Lemore Syvan Brad Pitt Nicolena’s B&B Marbletown Teen Center Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Nina Shengold Maryilyn Agrelo Daniel Day-Lewis Paul Reiser Mohonk Mountain House Amy Witkus David Bowie & Iman Peter Falk Abbie-Rose Flower Market Nathan Bielski Barbara Kashuk Docurama Picturehouse Films Amy Witkus Nikki Goldbeck Barry Cherwin, Auctioneer Doug Liman Phillip Bloch Andrea Barrist Stern (photos) Paramount Classics Ben Caswell (photos) Dreamweavers Potter Brothers Ski & Snowboard Ben Caswell (photos) Paula Gillen *Donna Parisi Drums of Woodstock Rage in Kingston The Big Cheese Peter Kindlon Colony Liquors Ellen Lewis Randy Rissman Brian Cange Rebecca Miller Diageo Elliott Landy The Red Onion Restaurant Cyrus Hernstadt * Rose Koplovitz Joan Mack Fire & Forge in Woodstock Robert Tonner Daniel Day-Lewis Russell Parisi Stuart J. Rothkopf High Falls Mercantile Roger Ricco Danielle Reisigl The Rosendale Theater *Lauri Andretta Holli Gersh The Rosendale Cement Co. Donna Parisi The Rosendale Cement Co. *Rose Koplovitz James Cox Gallery Todd Rundgren Elevation Filmworks Rosendale Police Department Russell Parisi Jean Morris Steve Buscemi Hilary Partridge The Tinker Street Cinema Steve Parisi Joan Mack Steve Savage IFC Films Town of Rosendale Stuart J. Rothkopf Julia Santos Solomon Ulster Performing Arts Center Gary Bielski Russell Parisi *Victoria Langling Ken Regan Walt Disney World Jane Laiken *Victoria Langling Wiltwyck Country Club K.L. McKenna *Joan Mack Lenny Kislin Levon Helms’ Midnight Ramble *commitee members WOODSTOCK FILM FESTIVAL 2005 9 VOLUNTEERS

Volunteers (As of 8/30) *see staff page for additional listings

Norman Aaronson Lisa Cutten Mary Frances Huang Melanie Pettus Vanessa Ahern Lynn Dennison Allison Irwin Matthew Phillips Daniel Aliberte Georgia Dent Ken Irwin Stephanie Pincar Mary Ellen Aliberte Brian Dors Louis Jargow Susan Piperato Evelyn Alvarez Joy A. Dryer, Ph.D. Katy Jordan Amber Plaut Lauri Andretta Kathy Duda Laura Kandel Jeri Plitt Laura Angelini Stacie Duda Martin Keith Ashley Post Pandora Apuzzo Kathy Dunbar Cynthia Kudren Lisa Protter Betsy Arlantico Melissa Dunbar Jane Laiken Lisa Purcell Adam Auslander Melissa Durbin Kat (Katharine) Langling Alice Radosh Susan Avery Otti Duval Nick Langling Eve Rakower Chrisso Babcock Renee Englander Victoria Langling Victoria Read Michele Baker Thomas Evans Danine Lareau Victoria Ree Barbara Barnes Georgia Farkas Tara Laughlin Sandra Reid Brett Baschnagel Jackie Felczak Hannah Lewis-Rosenblum Nancy Baysinger Rebecca Feldbin Jessica Lippman Danielle Reisigl Larry Bielski Elaine Fernandez Vanessa Lucas Rachel Remler John Bilotti Denise A. Furlong Julia Lukacher Fern Revzin Adam Blaustein Rejto Mark Gallagher Katherine Lukacher Liz Roche

S Corliss Block Tina Gallagher Sheri MacNutt Gregg Roth R

E Alicia Bock Alexis Garcia Marijo Mallon Roy Schecter E

T Amanda Bonavita Dena Giannelli Seraphina Mallon-Breiman Betsy Scheffel

N Pamela Bosco Paula Gillen Jaime Lee Martire Lynn Schraut U

L Lisa Brennan Jane Glucksman Alice Chahbazian Mateychak Dolly Shivers O Nancy Caigan Terri Gold David Mathews Barbara Silver V Lilly Cano Ethan Goldbeck Lauren McTague Nelson Simao Matt Canzonetti Susan Goldman Jessica Medenbach Sherry Small Jaimie Caprotti Scott Goren Jesse Meisler-Abramson Josh Smith Alan Carey Ryan Graham Barry Miller Steven Smith Miro Cassetta Shelley (Michaela) Graham Sharon Miller Waylon Smith Benson Caswell Alan Grayson Liz Montesano Tasha Space Barbara Cazakoff Judy Grayson Diane Moshe Kenneth Thompson Barry Cherwin Corey Greenberg Ellen Naney Terry Tompkins Tom Cherwin Ellen Greenberg Hank Neimark Juan M.Torres Larry Christopher Kate Greenberg Jency Neimark Lisa Tumbleson Jason Cohen Steve Grenadir Noel Nelson Tracy Cohen-Kamien Alisha Halwick Lois Nicoletti Becky Vanderloop Felix Counts Denise Halwick Gail Nussbaum Carol Viglielmo Evan Crane David Hanzl Heather Olin Missy Weeks Jesse Crooks Hannah Heinrich Jill Olin Jeanne Weiss Laura Cullen Edwina Henderson Mary Olsen Colleen Welsh Anton Cullo Julie Hough Steven Parisi Michael White Andrea Cunliffe Lucas Howard Hilary Partridge Merrie Zaretsky

WOODSTOCK FILM FESTIVAL 2005 10 THANK YOU

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

Mark Braunstein Dick Goldman, Esq. Judy Jamison Nicolette Aizenberg Doreen Ringer Ross Julie Fontaine Pat Lieske Adam, Daniel and Julian Eamonn Bowles Julie Goldman Pat Swinney Kaufman Amy Devra Gossels Elizabeth Freund JW Johnson Peter Carafano Amy Heller Ellen Barry Katharine McKenna Peter Finn Anthony Katagas Elliott Landy Ken Regan Rob Williams Assemblyman Kevin A. Cahill Elizabeth Freund L.M. Kit Carson Roeg Sutherland Barry Feinstein Emily Russo Larry Fessenden Ron Mann Barbara Kashuk Erin Eggers Legislatore Brian Shapiro Seth Carmichael Barbara Pokras, A.C.E Erin Heidenreich Legislature/Majority Leader Shani Ankori Barbara Sicuranza Gary Rubin Michael L. stock Ben Stambler George (air chair) Murphy Levon Helm Studios Signe Baumane Bob Berney Grover Crisp Libby McInerny State Senator John Bonacic Carol Ricken Matthew (Haz-Mat) Phillips Liesl Copland Stephen Hays Cathy Ellis Hipbone Studios Linda Livingston Steve Buscemi Chad Boones Ira Deutchman Marian Koltai-Levine Stuart J. Rothkoph Chris Stein Ira Fusfeld Marie Therese Guirgis Suzanne Hilleary Marisa Keselica Congressman Maurice D. James cox and Mary Anna Tamara Lang Hinchey Goetz Mark Urman Thelma Adams Dan Goldberg Jared Moshe Marvin Seligman Town of Hunter Dan O’Meara Jeanne Berney Mary Ann Hult T Town of Rhinebeck H

Dana O’Keefe Jeff Reichert Matt Canzonnetti A Daniel J. Ahouse Jennifer Stott Melissa Leo Town of Rosendale N K David D’Arcy Jerome Stoeffhaas Melisse Seleck Town of Woodstock Y

David Fenkel Joan Roberts Michael Lang Woodstock Police O David Goldbeck Joe Krein Michael Silberman Woodstock Playhouse U David Koplan John Sloss Michelle Panzer Women Make Movies David Saltz Jonathan Clyde Neal Block Yvonne Conza

Guest Relations Thank Yous Adrianne Rona Deborah Ramsden Joan Roberts Martin,and Grace Evans Bowne Alice Goodman,and David Gillis Dick,and Susan Goldman Joe DiThomas,and Martin Torres Mitchell Milner Alice Radosh,and Bart Myer Doreen Marr Joy,and Bob Hausman Monique,and Bob Schweik Angela Schapiro,and Byron Schiers Edwina,and Marty Henderson Joy Dryer and Sol Mora Nancy,and Pete Caigan Anne,and Matt Canzonetti Elaine Jaffe Joyce Beymer Nicole Rosco,and Matthew Avis,and Greg Gebhart Ellen Bitterman,and Richard Caggiano Judy Jamison,and Barry Feinstein Immergut Bar Scott,and Peter Schoenfeld Eve,and Art Cohen Judy Steinfeld Roz Balkin,and Bob Whitcomb Bearsville Inn / Habib Gardee Eve Rakower Katherine McKenna,and Mark Steve and Elise Pittelman Bed by the Stream /Bill Rheinhart Genny Abbot Braunstein The Highwoods House Black Bear Cottages/ Judith Dahl Grace,and Jerry Wapner Lauri,and Jay Andretta Village Green B&B / Larry & Paul Bruce Hottum Helen Bird Laurie Schwartz,and Nathan Wild Rose / Marti Ladd Brenowitz Bruria Falik Henry Ford,and Michael Knauth Woodstock Inn on the Millstream / Linda,and Bruce Bodner Jocelyn Stein Bryn Kelsey Holli,and Ed Gersh Lori Ylvisaker Woodstock Lodge Carol Ricken Howard Johnsons,Saugerties Marie and Ed Gordon Cathy,and Sam Magarelli Jane Laiken,and Billy Goldstein Marita Lopez-Mena Chez Bevet Jay Cohen,and Anel Visser Mark,and Tina Gallagher Darcy Dwyer Joan Apter

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ABOUT WFF

The Woodstock Film Festival As a not-for-profit, 501 (C) (3) organization, our mission is to present an annual program and year-round schedule of film, music, and art-related activities that promote artists, culture, celebrates new and established and inspires learning and diversity. The Woodstock Film Commission promotes sustainable voices in independent film with economic development by attracting and supporting film, video, and media production. screenings, seminars, workshops, Every fall, film and music lovers from around the world gather here for an exhilarating variety of films, concerts, celebrity-led seminars, workshops, a closing-night awards ceremony, and concerts throughout the mid- and superlative parties. Visitors find themselves in a relaxed, receptive atmosphere surround- Hudson Valley. ed by some of the most beautiful landscapes in the world. More than one-hundred-fifty films are screened—feature films, documentaries, and shorts, including premieres from the U.S. and abroad. Many of the filmmakers follow-up Founded by filmmakers Meira screenings with Q&As. Specific programs include the Feature Showcase, In Competition Narratives and Documentaries, Shorts, Youth Initiative, Focus on Music, Exposure, and more. Blaustein and Laurent Rejto, The festival has drawn rave reviews nationwide from filmmakers, industry members, film the festival is centered in the lovers, and the media. In its yearly “Top Ten Film Festival Getaways,” [Film Festival Reporter] wrote, “Sure, you’ve heard about the historic rock shows, but film is the reason to come to historic arts colony of Woodstock.” The festival is also proud to be listed in the travel guide, “1,000 Places to See Woodstock, New York, with Before You Die.” additional events and screenings taking place in the “One might think that New York City was where all the film action was happening in this state, but since its introduction, the Woodstock Film nearby towns of Rhinebeck, Festival is proving that isn’t true.Since its founding,the event has made fast F Hunter, and Rosendale. friends in members of the press and the film industry. It has also built a F reputation as a festival with impeccable taste.…”

W Jennifer M. Wood, MovieMaker T

U YEAR-ROUND PROGRAMMING O

B As part of its dedication to year-round programming, the A Woodstock Film Festival presents monthly screenings and scheduled workshops, including WFF In The City at the Two Boots Pioneer Theater, Independent film On The Air (a co- presentation with WAMC-NorthEast Public Radio), and the Can Film Festival, which features free screenings where canned or boxed food is the price of admission, to benefit Murderball in Albany local food pantries.

Film screenings over the past year have featured Occupation: Dreamland, Murderball, Playing for Change, Mad Hot Ballroom, Liberia; The Love of Liberty, The Ballad of Jack And Rose, V-Day: Until the Violence Stops, Parallel Lines, Messengers, Down to the Bone, Harsh Beauty and Avoid Eye Mad Hot Ballroom in Woodstock Contact.

The Ballad of Jack and Rose in Rosendale

14 WOODSTOCK FILM FESTIVAL 2005 ABOUT WFF NOVEMBER 10, 2005 WOODSTOCK FILM FESTIVAL GOES TO HOLLYWOOD!

of independently produced films that have THE AMERICAN CINEMATHEQUE’S not yet secured distribution deals. In the ALTERNATIVE SCREEN PRESENTS: past, the series has presented the L.A. pre- Selections from the Woodstock Film miere of Easy Riders, Raging Bulls, the West Festival Coast premieres of films such as Marc November 10, 2005—7:30 PM Forster’s Everything Put Together; Miguel The Alternative Screen Independent For the first time ever, the Woodstock Film Arteta’s Star Maps and Larry Fessenden’s Film Showcase Festival is partnering with the prestigious Habit; and a sneak preview of John Sayles’ American Cinematheque to showcase selec- Casa De Los Babys. Series Producer & Co-Founder tions from the 2005 festival in the A favorite of L.A. cinephiles, the Margot Gerber Cinematheque’s historic Egyptian Theatre in American Cinematheque is one of Southern Series Programmers Hollywood! On Thursday, November 10, California’s most successful exhibitors of spe- John Anderson the Cinematheque will present a feature and a cialty film series in the non-profit arena. Bernadette DeJoya short film from the 2005 WFF line-up as part Established in 1981, the organization pro- Flint Esqueverra of its Alternative Screen Independent Film grams tributes to specific filmmakers, actors Thomas Harris Libby McInerny Showcase series. A discussion with the film- and actresses and presents new films from www.americancinematheque.com makers—and a gathering of old friends and various countries. Exhibition of rare works C

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ABOUT WFF

Exposure Continuing an extraordinary lineup of provocative programming, the Woodstock Film Festival (WFF) presents Exposure, featuring films from around the world with an emphasis on social, political, and environmental matters. In the past, select films have focused on the horrors of war (Tim Blake Nelson’s The Grey Zone, Chico, Routine, Off to War), gay rights and racism (Todd Haynes’ Far From Heaven), disabilities (How’s Your News, Our House), environmental awareness (The Future of Food, Go Further, Garbage, Gangsters and Greed), health related issues (Live Free or Die, Undetectable: The New Face Of Aids), political unrest and media ( Jonathan Demme’s The Agronomist, The Revolution Will Not Be Televised, five Days in March, Amandla) and more. Additional programming has covered a wide range of socioeconomic and political topics with select participants including Woody Harrelson, Tim Robbins, Arlo Guthrie, Barbara Kopple, D. A. Pennebaker, Chris Hegedus, Albert Maysles, Ron Nyswaner, Christine Vachon, Todd Haynes, Tim Blake Nelson, Ethan Hawke, Benjamin Bratt, Marcia Gay Harden, Zachary Sklar, Haskell Wexler, Les Blank, Liev Schreiber, David Strathairn and many others.

State of Fear Focus on Music To honor its musical heritage, WFF has made music an integral part of its programming. WFF’s Focus on Music showcases films about music and musicians while actively exploring music’s role in film. Many of the films emphasize music as a powerful tool for expression and conflict resolution.

Through workshops and seminars featuring musicians with links to films A

in the festival, WFF also focuses on film scoring. B

Musical participants have included seven-time Grammy winner Bela Fleck O

and Edgar Meyer, Mike Gordon and Trey Anastasio of Phish, Gov’t Mule, Kate U

Pierson of the B-52s, Arlo Guthrie, Grammy Award Winner Peter T Rowan, Tony Award Winner Lilias White, 3, Rahat Nusrat Fateh Ali W Kahn, Britta Phillips and Dean Wareham of Luna, Graham Parker, F Levon Helm, Marshall Crenshaw, Mark Geary, and Chris Rael. F Each year, the festival also produces a special complimentary CD featuring music from festival films and local musicians.

Fislm of the Hudson Valley/Catskills Films with local ties are a significant part of the WFF. The Hudson Valley/Catskills region is a hotbed of creative energy and home to many established and emerging filmmakers. Film pro- duction in the Hudson Valley/Catskills region also attracts filmmakers from around the world. The Woodstock Film Commission, under the auspices of the Woodstock Film Festival, promotes economic development by highlighting local talent and attracting outside film, video, and media production to the region. Recent films shot in the region include Stephanie Daley, The Night Listener, Before It Had A Name, War of the Worlds, Transamerica, Runaway, No Shoulder, Patch, and many more. A scene from Patch

WOODSTOCK FILM FESTIVAL 2005 17 WOODSTOCK FILM COMMISSION Join us for the festival, then come back to shoot your next film in the beautiful Hudson Valley/Catskills.

The Woodstock Film Commission (WFC) acts as a conduit for pre-production, production, and post-production for the film industry in the Hudson Valley and Catskill region. Support (including permits, locations, casting calls, and crew referrals) is pro- vided throughout the year to studio and independent features, print media, short films and TV projects. Many equipment needs are supported by local retailers and wholesalers including Markertek Video Supply, America’s broadcast supply house.

The WoodstockFilmCommission.com website provides a free online production guide listing of local residents and businesses who cater to the film/video industry. The website also includes location pictures, and a message board for up- to-date work opportunities. Photo:Laurent Rejto In the studio at the Art Farm in Accord for ADR looping sessions for The White Countess, directed by James Ivory.

N In addition, WFC provides promotional and networking O

I opportunities through its vast contacts and monthly newsletters S

S to over 10,000 industry members throughout the world. I M M O C M L fi K T

S Photo:Elias Moor D On the set in Rosendale, NY with Ellen Kuras (right) W filming Personal Velocity, directed by Rebecca Miller.

Production has seen a steady increase in recent years, largely due to press relations on behalf of WFC, and tax incentives Photo:M.Baker recently passed in New York State. On the set in Mt. Tremper with Paul Reiser and Peter Falk for The Thing About My Folks.

Recent projects include: • The Night Listener (starring Robin Williams) • The White Countess (extras ADR, directed by James Ivory) • War of the Worlds (directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Tom Cruise) • Before it Had a Name (starring Willem Dafoe) • Dead Flowers - post-production only (directed by Jim Jarmusch and starring Bill Murray, Sharon Stone, Jessica Lange.) • The Thing About My Folks (starring Paul Reiser and Peter Falk) • Down to the Bone (winner of two prizes at 2004 Sundance Film Festival) • Personal Velocity (Grand Jury Prize at Sundance 2002) Photo:M.Baker • Patch (starring Melissa Leo and Debbie Harry) On the set in Athens, NY with War Of The Worlds, direct- • No Shoulder (starring Melissa Leo) ed by Steven Spielberg and starring Tom Cruise. • Other locally shot films include Transamerica (NY and Arizona), and Runaway (Saugerties, Athens) For more info, visit www.WoodstockFilmCommission.com 18 LETTERS L E T T E R S

WOODSTOCK FILM FESTIVAL 2005 19 SPONSORS

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SUPPORTING SPONSORS

EVENT SPONSORS

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FOUNDATION SUPPORT STATE AND COMMUNITY SUPPORT HOSPITALITY SPONSORS Andersen Family Foundation We would like to express our gratitude to Senator Adam’s Fairacre Farm Braufman Family Foundation Bonacic for the equipment grant he was able to Adriano Limousine The Perry and Martin Granoff Foundation secure on behalf of the Woodstock Film Festival. Anette’s Chocolate Factory (Brent’s Peanut Brittle) Lee and Peter Mayer Foundation Tony & Yvonne Conza Bread Alone Barbaa Kashuk Brice Discount Beverages EQUIPMENT/TECHNICAL SUPPORT Stuart J. Rothkopf, and Joan Mack Burts Electronics (hospitality music) Canus Major Productions Catskill Mountain Coffee Anonymous Duganworks Cibo Foods The Good Brothers Eve & Art Cohen Herzog’s True Value Home Center Curious Cookies Gregg Roth (master electrician) Deising’s Bakery Metrovision Production Services Brad Jordan Jarita’s Florist Nevessa Production Cathy & Jon Koplovitz New City Productions Rose & Josh Koplovitz Jelly Belly Candy Company Perception Audio Visual Services Patricia Mitchell & David Marell Lachman’s Bakery RFK Artists and Events Barbara & Bob Rohdie Lox of Bagels Sandy & Alan Siegel Magic Hat Brewing Co. Barbara & Ken Silver COMPLIMENTARY CD Mother Earth Health Foods Sunflower Natural Foods Market N-Star Import and Export, LLC Wapner, Koplovitz & Futerfas Old Chatham Sheepherding Company Price Chopper The Woodstock Film Festival event is Stone Pony Deli made possible with public funds Stonyfield Farm from the New York State Council Sunshine Market on the Arts, a state agency Waste Management

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Elmer Bernstein (1922-2004) Griffin Dunne Stephen Hays Michael Lang Feature Film Composer Director,Producer,Actor Executive Producer Producer,Promoter (HONORARY CHAIR) Griffin Dunne is a director (Addicted to Stephen Hays is an executive producer As the founder of Woodstock Ventures, Love, Practical Magic, Lisa Picard is and managing member of 120dB Films, Michael Lang is best known as the pro- 2004 would have been Elmer Famous); producer (Chilly Scenes of a finance company specializing in gap ducer and promoter of the Woodstock Bernstein’s 53rd anniversary as a fea- Winter, Baby It’s You, Running On Empty, loans to the independent film industry. Music & Arts Festival (1969, 1994, and ture film composer. His name will After Hours, Fierce People, Game 6); and He was co-founder and general partner 1999). In addition to his core business always be synonymous with creativity, actor (Marie and Bruce, American of Seneca Capital, a $2.3 billion, New of event production and music man- versatility and longevity. He wrote Werewolf in London, After Hours, and most York-based hedge fund (1996-2003), agement, he is currently working on the music for over 200 major film and tele- recently Game 6). As a screenwriter, he where he remains a partner and adviser. production of a film based on the novel vision scores and was nominated 14 co-wrote Spin (Dreamworks) and, with Prior, he was a managing director at The Master and Margurita by Mikeal times for an Academy Award for such co-writer Adam Brooks, the Academy Furman Selz, a NY-based investment Bulgakov. Other film credits include films as Far From Heaven, The Age of Award-nominated short, Duke of Groove. bank where his focus was proprietary Bottle Rocket, the debut film of director Innocence, To Kill A Mockingbird, and The risk arbitrage and event-driven investing Wes Anderson and actors Luke Wilson Magnificent Seven, among others. He Martha Frankel (1987-1995). Stephen’s first position and Owen Wilson. Entertainment Journalist was awarded the Oscar for best film Martha Frankel has interviewed every- on Wall Street was at Laterman and Co., score for Thoroughly Modern Millie. an arbitrage-focused hedge fund (1985- Jeremiah Newton one from Robert DeNiro, Sean Penn, NYU Industry Liaison and Elizabeth Taylor to Lee Attwater and 87). He graduated from Kenyon College As film and television industry liaison Judy Arthur in 1983 and gained a Masters of Science Public Relations Consultant Mike Tyson for television, newspapers, for the largest film school in America, Judy Arthur directs public relations and and magazines as diverse as The New in Accounting and Finance at the New York University’s Maurice Kanbar D marketing campaigns for the entertain- Yorker, Fashions of the New York Times, London School of Economics in 1985. Institute of Film and Television, R

A ment industry and cultural, interna- Cosmopolitan, the original Details, as Sabine Hoffman Jeremiah Newton created The Directors

O tional, and public affairs. She has been well as many other international maga- Editor Series that takes place twice a week,

B a public relations executive at PolyGram zines. She is a winner of a NYFFA Award As a film editor, Sabine’s credits include involving the latest Hollywood, inde- Films, Orion Pictures, and HBO, direct- in creative nonfiction, and was the 1997 pendent, documentary, and foreign fea-

Y Rebecca Miller’s The Ballad of Jack and Rose

R ing campaigns for numerous Academy Philip Morris Fellow at The MacDowell and Personal Velocity, winner of the 2003 ture films. Jeremiah also administrates

O Award-winning films. Colony and the 2003 Artist-in- Grand Jury Prize at Sundance, the Award for the Mentor Program, which finds

S Residence at SUNY Ulster. She is cur- Best Cinematography, and the John industry mentors for film and television I Eamonn Bowles

V rently at work on a memoir, I See Your students. His writing credits include President,Magnolia Pictures Cassavettes Award. Other credits include D Eamonn Bowles is president of Point... And Raise You One. Morgan J. Freeman’s Desert Blue and work on I Shot Andy Warhol. A Magnolia Pictures (Nine Lives, Hurricane Streets (winner of Audience, Best Leon Gast Annie Nocenti Somersault, Dead Man’s Shoes, Director, and Best Cinematography Award at Filmmaker Screenwriter,Editor Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst, A Leon Gast is the producer, director, edi- the 1997 Sundance Film Festival); Alex Annie Nocenti is a screenwriter, film League of Ordinary Gentlemen, Ong Bak, tor, and writer of When We Were Kings, Sichels All Over Me (a Teddy Award Winner at journalist, and former editor of Capturing The Friedmans, Read My Lips, the Academy Award-winning documen- the Berlin Film Festival); Katja Essons’ Ferry Scenario, a screenwriting magazine. Late Marriage, and Control Room) tary of the 1974 heavyweight champi- Tales (2004 Oscar nominee), Bill Jennings’ Currently she is the dramaturge and onship bout in Zaire between champion Harlem Aria (Audience Award winner at Ellen Chenoweth theatrical photographer of Bath Party George Foreman and underdog chal- Urbanworld NY, Chicago, and Los Angeles) Casting Director and Rodney Evans’ Brother to Brother (Special and an editor-at-large at Stop Smiling Ellen Chenoweth’s credits as a casting lenger Muhammad Ali. He also directed Jury Prize winner at Sundance 2004 and the magazine (stopsmilingonline.com). director speak for themselves. Select and produced the award-winning docu- Showtime Award ) and Saving Face. Sabine films include Confessions of a Dangerous mentary Our Latin Thing; directed, pro- Ron Nyswaner founded the Editing Award for feature and Mind, Analyze That, Bandits, The Man duced, and edited BB King: Live in Screenwriter,Director documentary narratives at the Woodstock Ron Nyswaner has written many Who Wasn’t There, Meet The Parents, O Africa. Other film credits include Hell’s Film Festival in 2004. screenplays including Soldier’s Girl Brother, Where Art Thou?, Arlington Angels Forever, The Grateful Dead Movie, (Peabody Award) and Philadelphia Road, Analyze This, Liberty Heights, The and Celia Cruz: Quantanamera. Gill Holland (Academy Award nomination). Horse Whisperer, Sphere, Affliction, Lolita, Producer and Partner,LaSalle Holland Ethan Hawke Currently, two of his screenplays are in Metro, Going All the Way, The Jackal, Wag Gill Holland most recently produced Actor,director,Author production: The Painted Veil, a feature the Dog, Faithful, Sleepers, Bridges of Ethan Hawke’s film credits as an actor Loggerheads (Sundance 2005, in theaters film directed by John Curran with Madison County, Nobody’s Fool, include Training Day (Oscar nominated for this fall). Nominated for the Spirit Award for Naomi Watts and Edward Norton, and Disclosure, Six Degrees of Separation, The Best-Supporting Actor), Snow Falling on Producer of the Year 1998, Gill produced Filthy Gorgeous, a one-hour pilot for Dark Wind, A Bronx Tale, and Terms of Cedars, Hamlet, Joe the King, Great Sundance-winning Hurricane Streets, the Showtime. His first book, Blue Days, Endearment. Her most recent credits Expectations, The Newton Boys, The Velocity FOX sit-com Greg the Bunny, Spring Forward, Black Nights: A Memoir, was nominated include Good Night and Good Luck, of Gary, Gattaca, Search and Destroy, Before and Emmy-nominated Dear Jesse, and has for a Lambda Literary Award. Mona Lisa Smile, and The Lady Killers. Sunrise, Reality Bites, Floundering, Quiz Mentor (with Rutger Hauer), Just Like The Show, Alive, Rich in Love, Waterland, White Son (with Rosie Perez), “findlove”, and Fang, Midnight Clear, Mystery Date, Dead SweetLand (with Alan Cumming) in post. Poets Society, Dad, and Explorers. He most He produced three volumes of cineBLAST!, recently starred in Taking Lives, Assault on the short film video compilations. His music Precinct 13, and Lord of War. As a feature film label sonaBLAST! Records’ first releases director, his credits include Chelsea Walls. from Mark Geary both hit Top 40 in Ireland.

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Sarah Plant Bingham Ray Zachary Sklar Fisher Stevens Composer Producer Screenwriter Actor,Producer,Director Sarah Plant was associate music director, Bingham Ray is the former president of Zachary Sklar is a screenwriter, journal- Fisher Stevens is an accomplished actor, arranger, and flutist for Ang Lee’s Oscar-nom- United Artists (Bowling for Columbine, ist, author, and editor. His most recent director, and producer. In addition to per- inated Eat Drink Man Woman. Feature and Assassination Tango, Nicholas Nickleby, feature is The Feast of the Goat, based on forming both on the stage and in numerous documentary credits include Shoot George, City of Ghosts). As co-founder of the novel of the same name by Mario television series, Fisher has starred in a wide Juliette of the Herbs (PBS), Entwined, Spotted October Films, he distributed inde- Vargas-Llosa. The film is directed by range of feature films, such as Reversal of Puppets (Canal+), Brothers and Others: The pendent films such as Secrets & Lies, Luis Llosa and stars Isabella Rossellini. Fortune, The Flamingo Kid, Short Circuit, Only Impact of 9/11 on Arabs and Muslims in Breaking The Waves, and The Apostle. Zach is best known as co-author (with You, Undisputed, and most recently On The America (CBC, Hallmark, Swiss TV), Oliver Stone) of the Oscar nominated Couch and Undiscovered. In 1996, Fisher co- Guillermo Gomez-Peña, (PBS), Going Organic Peter Saraf screenplay for the film JFK. Zach recent- founded GreeneStreet Films, a New York- Producer (PBS) and Bravo Profiles: Julie Taymor (Bravo). Peter Saraf is the producer of Liev ly completed a second feature screen- based independent production company, Scores include American Museum of Natural Schreiber’s feature film directorial play for Stone’s Illusion Entertainment. with John Penotti. Since then, the company History biodiversity films, museum art instal- debut, Everything Is Illuminated. He was He has served as a creative adviser for has produced and financed a number of crit- lations and a commission for Bill T. Jones executive producer of Spike Jonze’s crit- screenwriting labs at Sundance (Utah), ically acclaimed films, such as In the Bedroom, Dance Company. Her work has been per- ically acclaimed Adaptation, starring Sundance International (Mexico), and Pinero, Swimfan, The Chateau, and Lisa Picard formed at the Kennedy Center, BAM, Nicholas Cage. As a producer, his cred- Equinoxe (France). Is Famous. Fisher made his feature film direc- Carnegie Recital Hall, and the Spoleto its include The Truth About Charlie, torial debut with GreeneStreet’s Just a Kiss. Festival. John Sloss Mandela, Ulee’s Gold, Courage and Pain, Sloss Law Office & C inetic David Strathairn Into the Rope, and Storefront Hitchcock. John Sloss has acted as executive pro- Actor A

Bill Plympton D Animator,Founder Plymptoons He is currently producing the feature ducer for more than 30 feature films David Strathairn is an accomplished film Bill Plympton’s animated films include Little Miss Sunshine, which is in princi- including, most recently, Before Sunset, and stage actor. He has appeared in many V I his latest feature Hair High, which won pal photography. Pizza, Land of Plenty, A Home at the End independent and studio films including S the Gold Jury Prize at the Fant-Asia fes- of the World, November, and Far From the upcoming films The Notorious Bettie O tival in Montreal; the short film Guard Steve Savage Heaven (2002 WFF). Other credit Page, Heavens Fall, Good Night and Good R President,Docurama Y Dog, which was nominated for an Steve is president and co-founder of New include John Sayles’ City of Hope, Passion Luck, and Missing In America. He has also Oscar; and a special prize at the Fish, The Secret of Roan Inish, Lone Star, starred in Map of the World, LA B

Video, a New York-based DVD company. O Hiroshima Animation Festival. Past and Men With Guns; Maggie Confidential, Simon Birch, Dolores

New Video has released a catalog of more A projects include Mutant Aliens, I Married Greenwald’s The Ballad of Little Jo; Claiborne, The River Wild, Silkwood, and than 1,500 titles under The History Channel, R a Strange Person, and The Tune. His short A&E, NBC, and IFC imprints. Since 1999, Richard Linklater’s Before Sunrise, many more films. He is best known for D films have been seen widely around the New Video has distributed a catalog of more SubUrbia, The Newton Boys, and Waking his work with director John Sayles, which country, highlighting many animation than 100 independent and classic documen- Life; Michael Corrente and David includes Limbo, Passion Fish, Eight Men festivals, and on DVD in the taries under their Docurama label. For Mamet’s American Buffalo; Edward Out, Matewan, Brother From Another Plymptoons and Mondo Plympton col- preschoolers the company offers a series of Burns’ She’s the One and No Looking Planet, and Return of the Secaucus Seven lections. He is currently working on a classic children’s books on DVD under the Back; Victor Nunez’s Ulee’s Gold; Whit sequel to Guard Dog, called Guide Dog. Stillman’s The Last Days of Disco; Errol Lemore Syvan Scholastic brand. Producer Morris’ Mr. Death; Brad Anderson’s Lemore Syvan founded Elevation Filmworks. Aidan Quinn Liev Schrieber Happy Accidents and Session 9; and Actor,Producer Recent works include The Ballad of Jack and Actor Kimberly Pierce’s Boys Don’t Cry. As an Aidan Quinnˆs current film Nine Lives Liev Schreiber has quickly established himself Rose, Duane Hopwood, Some Kind of Heaven, attorney, John represents clients in all will screen at the 2005 Woodstock Film as one of the most versatile actors of his gen- and King of the Corner. Lemore recently fin- aspects of motion picture financing, Festival. Since his film Cavedweller eration through his ability to effortlessly play ished filming the psychological thriller First production, and distribution, including screened at the 2004 Woodstock Film roles ranging from classical Shakespearean to Born. Throughout her career, she has worked motion picture producers, directors, Festival, he has also filmed Shadow of contemporary film. Among his film credits with many distinguished filmmakers in the writers, and broadcast networks, as well Fear, Return to Sender, Proud, and the tel- are, most recently, The Manchurian Candidate, independent film community, including as professional sports teams. evision version of the acclaimed The Sum of All Fears, Kate & Leopold, Spring John Sayles (Casa de Los Babys) and Rebecca Broadway show, The Exonerated. Other Forward, The Hurricane, and A Walk on the Miller’s (Personal Velocity) which took home projects include Song for a Raggy Boy Moon. He recently starred in the Tony Award- the Grand Jury Prize and Cinematography (WFF 2003), Plainsong, and Evelyn. He winning Broadway revival of Glen Gary Award at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival, as has appeared in more than 35 inde- Glenross. He is currently promoting the well as the John Cassavetes Award for pendent and studio features including upcoming release of his feature film directori- Outstanding Achievement at the 2003 Desperately Seeking Susan, An Early al debut, Everything Is Illuminated. Independent Spirit Awards. Other award- Frost, Avalon, At Play in the Fields of the winning films from Lemore include Mexican Lord, Benny and Joon, Legends of the Fall, Ira Schrek director Alejandro Springall’s Santitos, which and Michael Collins. Entertainment Attorney won the Latin America Cinema Award at the Ira Schrek is a principal in the law firm 1999 Sundance Film Festival, and Rebecca Schrek, Rose and Depello. He has over- Miller’s Angela, which took home both the seen the legal aspects of many feature Filmmakers Trophy and Cinematography films, including The Muse, A Walk on the Award at the 1995 Sundance Film Festival. Moon, Ripe, Canadian Bacon, In the Name of the Father, and My Own Private Idaho.

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photo:Tiziano Magni

26 212 35 MY TINY UNIVERSE 43 SOMERSAULT 27 AUTOMATIC 36 NINE LIVES 44 SYMBIOPSYCHOTAXIPLASM: 28 CAVITE 37 POLICE BEAT TAKE 21⁄2 29 DEAD MAN’S SHOES 38 THE PUFFY CHAIR 45 TENNIS ANYONE...? 30 DUANE HOPWOOD 39 REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE 46 TRANSAMERICA 31 FATELESS(SORSTALANSÁG) 40 ROOM 47 USHPIZIN 33 MEMORIES IN THE MIST (KALPURUSH) 41 THE ROOST 48 WHERE THE TRUTH LIES 34 MUTUAL APPRECIATION 42 RUNAWAY 49 WINTER PASSING

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Living in matchbox apartments and Directed by Anthony Ng Anthony Ng was born and raised S working mechanical, mundane jobs, 2005 / USA / 80 minutes BIO in Hong Kong and graduated from E three sets of urbanites struggle to con- Town Hall Town Hall the NYU Film School in 2000. His debut R nect with each other in New York City. Thu. Sept 29 • 4:15PM Sat. Oct 1 • 3:00PM feature, 212, premiered at the 2005 U Through pre-destined meetings and ill- Sundance Film Festival. In 2001, his short T Main Credits: Featuring Ajay Naidu

A fated misses, they try to overcome all film, é (dot dot dot), garnered numerous Brian Gant

E obstacles to find love in the city that Michelle Luchese awards from film festivals nationwide. Ng is

F never sleeps. Catherine Zambri also the recipient of the 2004 DGA Best Priscilla Garita Johnny Sanchez Asian-American Student Filmmaker award Lori Prince as well as the Vague Award, a $75,000 Richard Furlong grant, which was used to finance 212. Production Co. Blue Fish Pictures Exec Producers Anthony H. H. Ng Mark Biegelman Producers Chris Romano Dan O’Meara Screenwriter Anthony Ng Cinematographer Yaron Orbach Editor Stephanie Sterner Composer Ryan Shore

IN COMPETITION

“...some of the most pure romances ever put to screen in an independent film.... It announces filmmaker Anthony Ng as one to watch in the future.... A beautiful film.... A pleasure to watch.” (Chris Parry, efilmcritic)

preceded by THE TOURIST

WOODSTOCK FILM FESTIVAL 2005 26 FEATURES EAST COAST PREMIERE

Automatic

“Automatic is edgy and bright. The first Directed by Jonathan Walls BIO In 1996, Jonathan Walls di- F shot tells it all–the difficulty we face in 2005 / USA / 85 minutes rected, shot, and edited his thesis E trying to connect. Director/editor video Preserving Life: The Legacy Project. A Town Hall Upstate 2 Jonathan Walls never lets us forget we are After receiving his undergraduate degree T Fri. Sept 30 • 8:30PM Sun. Oct 2 • 3:15PM creatures with a past, as each character is from St. Bonaventure University, he studied U

introduced frozen in time and accelerated Main Credits: directing at the New York Film Academy. In R Featuring Jamie Anne Brown back to childhood. An ensemble piece Jennifer Ferguson 2000, Walls took his talents abroad, where E both in front of and behind the camera, Brandy Howard he shot and edited a historical documen- S Sean O’Bryan the film’s stellar performances and Travis Schuldt tary about an Indian community in nuanced writing are fully supported by a Jay Thames Malaysia for the National History Museum haunting, sometimes minimalist score and Production Co. 35 Terrace of Singapore. He stayed in Asia and pro- superb cinematography. Far more than the Producers Tavis Schuldt duced, shot, and edited an award-winning Jay Thames dissolution of a marriage, this is a story of Sean O’Bryan TV series for MTV Asia called It’s My Life. jealousy and seduction, of brother hurting Michael Rooney Recently, he directed a music documentary brother, and of seduction born of the Screenwriter Jay Thames called Playing For Change, which has played irrefutable need to be a part of another. Cinematographers Dale Mark film festivals around the world, winning the Jon Darbonne Boundaries are crossed with the inevitable Best of Fest award at the York International Editor Jonathan Walls and often painful knowledge that there is Film Festival in England and the Jury Prize Composer Pierpaolo Tiano no going back.” (Barbara Pokras, A.C.E) at the AIFF in Agen, France. Automatic is his first narrative feature film.

preceded by CLOSE

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Cavite Directed by In the town of Cavite, Philippines, people Ian Gamazon & Neill dela Llana Ian Gamazon’s first feature was S will do just about anything to survive. This PHILIPPINES, USA / 2004 / 82 minutes BIO Diego Stories, an anti-Sleepless in E is the harsh reality for many Filipinos living in a English and Tagalog with English subtitles Seattle romantic comedy shot in a no- R poverty-stricken nation. Town Hall Upstate 1 budget fashion in 1996. It premiered at the U Adam, an American citizen visiting his Fri. Sept 29 • 6:30PM Sat. Oct 1 • 3:15PM New York Asian International Film Festival. T

A home country for his father’s funeral, soon real- Main Credits: His second feature was Freud’s 2nd Law Featuring Ian Gamazon

E izes this when he arrives at the Philippines Airport world premiered at SXSW. Cavite world- Dominique Gonzalez

F and receives a phone call from an anonymous premiered at the Rotterdam International Producers Ian Gamazon caller letting him know that his mother and sister Neill dela Llana Film Festival. have been kidnapped and will be killed if he Quynn Ton Neill Dela Llana’s first film was a sci- doesn’t comply with the caller’s demands. Directors Ian Gamazon fi, no-budget, suspense feature The Book, Neill dela Llana Helpless and alone in a country he barely knows, about a guy who stumbles upon a book of Screenwriters Ian Gamazon he must submit himself to the fanatic’s every Neill dela Llana conspiracies about a secret government wish or face the consequences. Cinematographer Neill dela Llana bent on world domination. Composer Ato Mariano

IN COMPETITION

“Cavite” is guerilla filmmaking at its finest. Instead of treating no budget, one actor and a catch-as-catch-can shooting scheme as a liability, writer-director-pro- ducers Neill Dela Llana and Ian Gamazon have designed this thriller to take advantage of those very limitations.” (Kirk Honeycutt, Hollywood Reporter)

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RHINEBECK

Dead Man’s Shoes

Directed by Shane Meadows

Richard (Paddy Considine) has always 2004 / UK / 86 minutes center in Nottingham. He borrowed a cam- F protected his simple-minded little Upstate 1 Tinker corder on weekends and made short films E brother Anthony (Toby Kebbell). When Thu. Sept 29 • 7:00PM Sun. Oct 2 • 1:15PM with his friends as actors. After producing a A Richard leaves the rural village where short film every month for a year, he was T

Main Credits: U they have grown up to join the army, Featuring Paddy Considine approached to direct the TV documentary Anthony is taken in by Sonny (Gary Gary Stretch The Gypsy’s Tale (1995). Meadows also R

Stretch), a controlling and vicious local Toby Kebbell E Jo Hartley wrote, produced, directed, edited and co- drug dealer and his gang of lads. Seamus O’Neill starred in the Small Time (1996). S Anthony becomes the gang’s pet and Stuart Wolfenden After Stephen Woolley (producer of Paul Sadot play-thing. Seven years later Richard Paul Hurstfield The Crying Game, Interview With A Vampire) returns, hunts down each member of the Emily Aston Newton saw Shane’s eclectic mix of short films, he Neil Bell George gang, and in increasingly elaborate ways, signed Meadows to write and direct the Exec Producers Steve Beckett settles the score. Peter Carlton BBC-financed 24/7 (1997). The film cen- Dead Man’s Shoes is a genre-defying Will Clarke tered on Bob Hoskins’ attempts to rescue Tessa Ross film blending horror, supernatural ele- the disaffected youths of a town by opening Producer Mark Herbert ments, comedy, and social realism. Set in a boxing club. The film won the FIPRESCI Screenwriters Paddy Considine a Midlands village, it explores the under- Shane Meadows award at the 1998 Venice Film Festival. belly of contemporary rural Britain in Additional Writing by Paul Fraser Turning down offers from Hollywood, communities where crime is unchecked Cinematographer Danny Cohen Meadows opted to complete his Midlands and drugs, intimidation, and power Editors Chris Wyatt trilogy. A Room For Romeo Brass (1999) was games are blandly accepted as the fabric Lucas Roche a dark and comic rite-of-passage story fea- Celia Haining of daily life. turing an impressive debut performance Sound Editor Steve Haywood from Paddy Considine. The film has gone Composer Aphex Twin BIO Raised in Uttoxeter England, on to be a British cult classic. Shane Meadows dropped out of The final part of his trilogy, Once Upon A school as a teenager. He embarked on a Courtesy of Time In The Midlands, is Meadows’ comedic journey that took him from a clown’s assis- homage to the Spaghetti Western genre, and tant, to a spell at steel erecting, before was selected for Director’s Fortnight at the eventually studying acting and photogra- 2002 Cannes Film Festival and was picked phy. Disillusioned with the educational sys- up by Sony Classics for the US. tem, Shane volunteered at a local film preceded by W(IT)H

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ROSENDALE “Solid performances and refreshing seaside locations add authenticity, while Dick Cavett as the would-be helpful neighbor is a delightful surprise.” (Barbara Pokras, A.C.E.)

Duane Hopwood

Directed by Matt Mulhern David Schwimmer stars as Duane,a down- Matt Mulhern studied acting S 2005 / USA / 86 minutes on-his-luck divorced father who works the BIO under William Esper and received E Rosendale Tinker night shift as a pit boss at Caesar’s Palace in his BFA from Rutgers University. He began R Fri. Sept 30 • 6:45PM Sat. Oct 1 • 6:30PM Atlantic City. Heartsick about the demise of his acting career in Neil Simon’s Biloxi Blues U Main Credits:

T his marriage to Linda (Janeane Garofalo), he Featuring David Schwimmer on Broadway. Film credits include Michael

A does nothing but work and drink. When Janeane Garofalo Cimino’s The Sunchaser, Matthew Judah Friedlander E his visitation rights are threatened after he’s Broderick’s Infinity, Walter Hill’s Extreme Susan Lynch

F caught driving while intoxicated with his Dick Cavett Prejudice, Mike Nichols’s Biloxi Blues, and daughter in the backseat, Duane decides Steven Schirripa Steve Holland’s One Crazy Summer. He was that the time has come to get his life back Production Co. Elevation Filmworks a regular on the CBS hit comedy Major on track before he loses everything. Duane Producers Marc Turtletaub Dad. Mulhern lives north of New York City Lemore Syvan Hopwood is a moving and humorous look at with his wife, Karen, and sons Connor and Screenwriter Matt Mulhern the limits of unconditional love, what Jack. Cinematographer Mauricio Rubinstein defines a family, and how we’re all respon- Editor Tom McArdle sible for our own happiness. Sound Editor 701 sound Set in the cold, windswept world of Composer Michael Rohayton an Atlantic City November, Duane Hopwood is the story of a man who comes back from the brink, and is finally able to celebrate life in all its imperfections. Also starring Judah Friedlander and Susan Lynch.

PRESENTED BY

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EAST COAST PREMIERE

Fateless is Hungary’s foreign language entry for the 2006 Oscar® Awards.

Fateless (Sorstalanság)

The directorial debut of acclaimed Lajos Koltai F Directed by Lajos Koltai BIO was born in cinematographer Koltai, this sweep- Budapest, Hungary, in 1946. E

ing, profoundly moving drama offers a 2005 / HUNGARY,UK & GERMANY Fateless is his directorial debut. As a cine- A

new perspective on one of modern his- 140 minutes matographer, he has worked on over 60 T

tory’s darkest junctures, as 14-year-old In Hungarian w/ English subtitles films including a number of American proj- U

Gyurka is shuttled between the death Tinker Upstate 2 ects, most notably director Luis Mandoki’s R

factories of Auschwitz-Birkenau, Sat. Oct 1 • 9:00PM Sun. Oct 2 • 5 :15PM Gaby–A True Story (1987) and White Palace E S Buchenwald and Zeitz–all the while Main Credits: (1990). Koltai is best known for his 20-year maintaining his stubborn, stoic belief Featuring Marcell Nagy collaboration with legendary director Istvan that ‘There’s nothing too unimaginable Aron Dimény Szabo on films including Confidence, the András M Kecskés to endure.’ Vast in scale, yet boasting a Oscar®-winning Mephisto, Colonel Redl, Exec. Producer Andras Hamori remarkable historical detail, and with a Producers Ildiko Kemeny Hanussen, Sunshine, Meeting Venus, and the sweeping score by Ennio Morricone, Peter Barbalics Oscar®-nominated Being Julia. In 2000, this is a work of immense compassion, Jonathan Olsberg Koltai was nominated for an Oscar® for his unlikely beauty and shattering power– Screenwriter Imre Kertész cinamatography on Malèna. (based on his novel) a true testament to the resilience of the Cinematographer Gyula Pados human spirit. Editor Hajnal Sellö Sound Simon Kaye “This is a magnificent Holocaust drama– Composer Ennio Morricone fully the equal of Schindler’s List. From the novel by 2002 Nobel Prize laureate Courtesy of (and concentration camp survivor) Imre Kertész.” (from Edinburgh International Film Festival)

WOODSTOCK FILM FESTIVAL 2005 31 FEATURES HONORARY MAVERICK AWARD FILM

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Lonesome Jim Directed by Steve Buscemi In this humorous and moving portrait 2005 / USA / 91 minutes BIO Steve Buscemi’s acting resume of working-class life, Jim (Casey Affleck) Bearville includes Jim Jarmusch’s Mystery begrudgingly returns to his hometown in Fri. Sept 30 • 4:30PM Train for which he received an IFP Spirit rural Indiana after failing to make it on his Main Credits: Award nomination, Alexandre Rockwell’s own in New York. Living in his childhood Featuring Casey Affleck In the Soup, Martin Scorcese’s New York room, he soon remembers why he left: a dot- Liv Tyler Stories, the Coen Brothers’ Barton Fink, the Mary Kay Place ing but overbearing mother (Mary Kay Place), Seymour Cassel Academy Award®-winning Fargo and The a distant father (Seymour Cassel), and a Kevin Corrigan Big Lebowski, Stanley Tucci’s The Imposters, depressed older brother (Kevin Corrigan). Production Co. InDigEnt Con Air, Armageddon, Tom DiCillo’s Living Shortly after his homecoming, a mysteri- in Oblivion, Escape From L.A., Desperado, Screenwriter James C. Strouse ous accident forces Jim to take on his broth- Domestic Disturbance, Things To Do in er’s duties in the family home and factory. A Cinematographer Phil Parmet Denver When You’re Dead, Somebody to Love, glimmer of hope springs from his developing Editor Plummy Tucker Robert Altman’s Kansas City and his IFP relationship with a beautiful nurse (Liv Tyler) Spirit Award-winning performance as Mr. Composer Evan Lurie and her young son, showing Jim how to Pink in Quentin Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs. move forward without leaving everyone Buscemi made his feature film direc- Courtesy of behind. torial debut with Trees Lounge, in which he Skillfully directed by Steve Buscemi, also performed and wrote the screenplay. Lonesome Jim’s understated performances and Buscemi’s second directing effort, Animal engaging dialogue dramatize the rich details Factory, starred Willem Dafoe and Edward of ordinary lives. Furlong. In 2000, he was nominated for an . Emmy and a DGA Award for directing the Pine Barrens episode of HBO’s The Sopranos. His most recent film, Lonesome Jim, featuring Liv Tyler and Casey Affleck, will be released by IFC Films.

WOODSTOCK FILM FESTIVAL 2005 32 FEATURES WORLD CINEMA US PREMIERE

Memories In The Mist (Kalpurush)

Ashwini had a thirst for unknown, but his Directed by Buddhadeb Dasgupta BIO India’s master dramatist F quest for a greater world was folded Buddhadeb Dasgupta takes on E 2005 / INDIA / 120 minutes beneath his love for his wife, Putul and his family intimacies, global politics and time A In Bengali with English subtitles son, Sumonto. At the most crucial junction of itself in Memories in the Mist. Adapting his T

his life, Ashwini finds himself all alone, Town Hall Upstate I own novel, America, America, he returns to U Thurs.Sept 29,1:30PM Sat. Oct 1 • 12:30PM deprived and misunderstood by the world the layered portraits of Bengali society that R

around him. To Ashwini, death seemed Main Credits: have earned him a reputation in the top E Featuring Cast Mithun Chakraborthy S sweeter than life. Rahul Bose ranks of world cinema. Dasgupta is as play- When his son Sumonto’s rejection of Sameera Reddy Sudipt ful as he is serious in this film, blending an amoral compromise bars him from getting Labony Sarkar satire with domestic drama and bending a promotion in his office, he becomes a fail- Exec Producer Sanjaay Routray the personas of his stars to surprising new Producer Jugaal Sughand ure in the eyes of the world. Consequently, ends. Screenwriter Buddhadeb Dasgupta his cold and mechanical relationship with his Cinematographer Sudip Chatterjee wife Supriya takes a turn for the worse. Editor Sanjib Dutta Sumonto just wanted to communicate with Sound Editor Anup Mukhopadhyay someone, mostly his father, and now stands Composer Biswadeb Dasgupta on a ridge between life and death. The film explores ever-changing human relationships, is hued with the grandeur of a traveling theater troupe, embroidered with a series of surreal sequences and underlined with amazing touches of humor. Based on Dasgupta’s novel America, America.

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Mutual Appreciation

Alan, a musician whose band has just Directed by Andrew Bujalski Andrew Bujalski’s first feature S broken up, moves to New York City hop- 2005 / USA / 109 minutes BIO film, Funny Ha Ha, began its festi- E ing to put together a new version of the Tinker Rosendale val run at the 2002 Woodstock Film R group. He searches for a drummer for a Fri. Sept 30 • 4:30PM Sat. Oct 1• 6:30PM Festival and has since had a long slow-burn U show he’s already lined up and otherwise lifespan culminating in theatrical release in T Main Credits: goes about the mechanics of self-promo- Featuring Justin Rice spring/summer 2005. The Boston Globe A tion. In down time he drinks and strate- Rachel Clift

E described Bujalski as “unerringly polite and Andrew Bujalski

F gizes with his old friend Lawrence, a grad Seung-Min Lee somewhat disheveled.” At the 2004 student, and Lawrence’s girlfriend, Ellie, a Kevin Micka Independent Spirit Awards, Bujalski won Bill Morrison journalist. Alan endeavors to keep his Pamela Corkey the Someone to Watch Award. shoulder to the wheel and fend off distrac- Mary Varn Tamara Luzeckyj tions of both romantic and decidedly unro- Ralph Tyler mantic natures, while Ellie, meanwhile, Kate Dollenmayer grows anxious and finds herself compelled Keith Gessen Peter Pentz by Alan. Long nights and mixed emotions Salvatore Botti ensue. Producers: Ethan Vogt Morgan Faust Dia Sokol Mynette Louie Screenwriter Andrew Bujalski Cinematographer Matthias Grunsky Editor Andrew Bujalski IN COMPETITION

“Authentic and hilarious. This film sparks with a natural comic rhythm. With films like these, you normally want to step into the screen and live with the characters, but you’ll be reminded so much of your own friends that when the movie is over, you’ll go find them and give them a great big hug.” (Eric Campos, Film Threat)

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My Tiny Universe

Directed by In My Tiny Universe,a dark comedy, Bobby Glen Scantlebury and Lucy Phillips BIO Glen Scantlebury and Lucy F Devillin ( John Heard) is one of the biggest E 2004 / USA / 94 minutes Phillips wrote and directed their producers in Hollywood, having made a first feature film, Steal America, in 1992 A Bearsville Theater string of big-budget action films during the (released by Tara Releasing). Their second T Thur. Sept 29 • 8:30PM last two decades. But his personal life is a feature film, My Dubious Sexdrive, played at U trainwreck. Vee (Lesley Ann Warren) his sec- Main Credits: numerous festivals around the world. R Featuring John Heard ond wife, hosts a Hollywood TV Magazine Lesley Ann Warren In between projects, Scantlebury is a E show. She desperately clings onto their 15- Debi Mazar film editor and has edited a number of fea- S Andy Comeau year marriage in spite of his many infidelities. ture films, including Francis Ford Production Co. Pavement Pictures Inc On a particular Saturday afternoon, Coppola’s Dracula, Michael Bay’s Producer Lucy Phillips Bobby’s life crashes to a halt. His pregnant Armageddon, Simon West’s Conair, The Screenwriters Glgen Scantlebury mistress Bonnie (Debi Mazar) has flown out Lucy Phillips General’s Daughter, and Tomb Raider, John from New York to confront him, just as his Cinematographer Eliot Rockett Dahl’s Joyride, and Werner Herzog’s Little negotiations with superstar “Tom” are break- Editors Todd Miller Dieter Needs To Fly. ing down. While jogging with Karen, his L.A. Glen Scantlebury Phillips has worked as an assistant girlfriend, she suddenly grabs his cell phone Sound Editor Philip Perkins director and producer for 15 years, culmi- and throws it into the bushes. Composer Greg Hale Jones nating as executive producer at Colossal A suicidal actor (Andy Comeau) is star- Pictures. She presently works as a consult- tled out of his moment of truth when he hears ant for independent films, and is writing the ringing sound of a cell phone in the bush. their next project. He answers the phone, and with relish unrav- els Bobby’s elaborate web of deceit by luring all the participants up to his treetop hideaway, wreaking havoc on Bobby’s world.

“The cell phone looms large as the personal power tool of the Hollywood aristocracy in this dark and delicious mix of greed, depres- sion, blackmail and infidelity. A small but delightful cast delivers smart and funny dialogue in this well-paced comedy of errors.” (Barbara Pokras, A.C.E.)

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Nine Lives Directed by Rodrigo Garcia A moving exploration of the individual 2004 / USA / 115 minutes Rodrigo Garcia was born in Cuba S experiences of nine women as told BIO in 1959. He was the son of

E Tinker Upstate 1 through nine single unbroken takes. Thurs. Sept 29 • 4:45PM Sun. Oct 1• 9:00PM Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez. R Rodrigo Garcia interweaves a grand tapes- He has directed numerous series episodes U Main Credits: try of universal resonance that hinges on Featuring Robin Wright Penn for HBO, including The Sopranos, Six Feet T Glenn Close

A performances from an incredible ensemble. Under, and Carnivale. Holly Hunter

E By depicting nine different characters at Sissy Spacek Dakota Fanning F emotional crossroads, Nine Lives examines Elpida Carrillo how we so often find ourselves captive in Lisa Gay Hamilton relationships, both past and present. Amanda Seyfreid Amy Brenneman Featuring Holly Hunter, Sissy Spacek, Kathy Baker Elpida Carrillo, Robin Wright Penn, Lisa Production Co. Mockingbird Pictures Gay Hamilton, Amanda Seyfreid, Amy Production Brenneman, Kathy Baker, Glenn Close, and Exec Producer Alejandro Gonzlez Dakota Fanning. Producer Julie Lynn Screenwriter Rodrigo Garcia Cinematographer Xavier Pérez Grobet Editor Andrea Folprecht Courtesy of

“‘Like ghosts dragging their chains,’ characters appear and reappear in these powerful and haunting vignettes, each observed at a critical moment in time. A brilliant cast skillfully pro- pels each story to surprising and unexpected conclusions. Beautifully crafted and scored, this PRESENTED BY is a meditation on the deepest and most vulnerable parts of our souls.” (Barbara Pokras, A.C.E.)

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Police Beat

Directed by Robinson Devor

Police Beat is a highly unconventional 2004 / USA / 80 minutes Chronicle. The only US film selected to play F crime film in which the protagonist Z is so Town Hall CMF 2 at The New York Film Festival, Sundance, E preoccupied with his possibly unfaithful girl- Fri. Sept 30 • 2:30PM Sun. Oct 2 • 1:00PM and SXSW in the same year, The Woman A friend that he never once acknowledges the Chaser received critical high marks T

Main Credits: U criminal world that swirls around him. The Featuring Pape Sidy Niang throughout its 2000 U.S. theatrical run crimes Z encounters become mirrors of his Anna Oxygen (“Wicked and brilliant,” The New Yorker; R turbulent inner state, allowing him to philos- Eric Breedlove “This year’s ‘ ’” ). E Sarah Harlett Rushmore, The NY Post ophize about his unstable romantic relation- Elijah Geiger When it was released on video, MovieMaker S ship as well as his own development as an Executive Producers Michael Seiwerath magazine called it a “masterpiece” and emotional being. While Z’s regular interac- Mark Winitsky named it the “Video Release of 2000.” The Jeremy Meyer tions are in English, his thoughts–the film’s Barnaby Dorfman film received its broadcast premiere on the narration–are in his native Wolof, the primary Producers Jeffrey Brown Sundance Channel and the Showtime language of West Africa. In this way, Police Alexis Ferris Network. Beat is an unusual portrait of an immigrant Screenwriters Robinson Devor Before writing and directing The Charles Mudede new to the United States that focuses less on Woman Chaser, Devor directed the Cinematographer Sean Kirby the protagonist’s socioeconomic difficulties acclaimed documentary, , about the Editors Mark Winitsky Angelyne than on his emotional responses to American Joe Shapiro eponymous LA billboard queen. It aired sev- life. eral times on PBS, and was called “a knock- IN COMPETITION out” by the Village Voice. A native New Yorker now living in both Los Angeles and Seattle, Devor received his BFA in Film from Southern Methodist University (Dallas, Texas). He has lived and worked in Africa Named one of Variety’s “10 (for Africa’s largest indigenous banking net- BIO Directors To Watch” in 2000, work), co-curated an art exhibition with Robinson Devor made his feature film UCLA of Sub-Saharan contemporary artists, directorial debut with The Woman Chaser, and worked as a counselor for the Suicide which was named one of the “Ten Best Prevention Center at the Didi Hirsch Mental Films of the Year” by the San Francisco Health Hospital in Los Angeles.

WOODSTOCK FILM FESTIVAL 2005 37 FEATURESNY PREMIERE

The Puffy Chair

Directed by Jay Duplass 2004 / USA / 85 minutes Town Hall Upstate 1 Sat. Oct 1 • 9:30PM Sun. Oct 2• 12:30PM

Main Credits: Featuring Mark Duplass Rhett Wilkins Kathryn Aselton Production Co Duplass Brothers Productions Exec Producers Larry and Cindy Duplass Producer Mark Duplass Screenwriter Mark Duplass Cinematographer Jay Duplass Editor Jay Deuby

S IN COMPETITION E R

U Josh likes to be on time. He likes to save Jay and Mark Duplass have been have a feature at Sundance. So they made a T money. And he likes to dominate the BIO making movies a long time. In the feature film and called it The Puffy Chair. A small things in this world. Rhett likes to film beginning, the movies were bad. Some of It’s about being stuck in a van for three E lizards in the bushes outside his apartment them were kind of expensive and bad too. days with your brother and your girlfriend F and talk at length about honesty and bad And both brothers were depressed, espe- and a big maroon Lazy-Boy. The Puffy Chair mojo and how they feed off of your energy. cially Jay. Then Mark forced Jay to stop was accepted for Sundance 2005 and Jay Emily’s favorite movie is Sleepless In Seattle, whining and make a movie one day, which and Mark are really, really happy now. They and she likes to make sweeping statements was later called This Is John. It was shot in a plan to make another film but they don’t about what really is the true essence of mar- single 20-minute take with a three-dollar know what it’s about yet. riage. Josh and Emily have been dating for tape. It’s about a guy who tries to perfect three years. Rhett is his younger brother. the personal greeting of his answering Josh’s life pretty much sucks. He’s a machine and fails, a tragedy with which the failed NYC indie-rocker, and a failing booking Duplass Brothers both have personal expe- agent, but he finds hope somehow in a really rience. This Is John got into Sundance in bad idea. He purchases a 1985 Lazy-Boy on 2003, and Jay got happy and Mark said: I Ebay, just like the one his dad had when Josh told you so. They signed with William was a kid. He will drive it cross-country and Morris and some other important people. deliver it to his father as a surprise birthday The next year the Duplass Brothers made a “The Puffy Chair is an extremely gift. And he and Emily will get some much- short film called Scrabble, again capitalizing intelligent comedy with great per- needed alone time on the way. But Rhett on the drama of their own lives. Although formances and a documentary wants to come too. He needs to connect with the budget of this one was jacked up to style that seems to fit perfectly.” his dad, face to face. What happens next has about 200 bucks, they still shot in a (Michael Lerman) something to do with a big-ass purple Lazy- kitchen. This movie also went to Sundance Boy and what it does to the three passengers and won some awards later that year. Jay on their trip down south. and Mark were excited mostly because they Written by Mark Duplass, this is the lat- had made two films that didn’t suck. Then preceded by est film by the Duplass Brothers. Jay and Mark decided that they wanted to The Raftman’s Razor

WOODSTOCK FILM FESTIVAL 2005 38 FEATURES OPENING NIGHT FILM

HUNTER

Rebel Without A Cause F E

The classic film about alienated and Directed by Nicholas Ray BIO American-born film director A rebellious youth that made James Dean 1955 / USA / 110 minutes Nicholas Ray (1911-1979) rose to T U an indelible icon. CMF 1 prominence in the 1950s with such films R For a moody teenager like Jim ( James Fri. Sept 30 • 7:00PM as Johnny Guitar, They Live By Night, and his Dean), trouble sticks to him like gum to a best-known work, Rebel Without A Cause, E shoe. Alienated from his weakling father Main Credits: which transformed leading man James S Featuring James Dean (Jim Backus) and domineering mother Natalie Wood Dean into an American icon. Ray’s films (Ann Doran), Jim is ready to explode from Sal Mineo often portrayed the sensitive, troubled out- Jim Backus anger. Except for friends Plato (Sal Mineo) Ann Doran sider, a heroic figure thwarted by life and and Judy (Natalie Wood), Jim finds little Corey Allen love in a dysfunctional postwar society. William Hopper acceptance at his new high school where Rochelle Hudson Although he directed more than 20 feature he’s challenged by the reigning gang of Dennis Hopper films between 1948 and his death in 1979, punks to prove his manhood: first with a Producer David Weisbart Ray’s most critically acclaimed works were switchblade, then with a hot rod. Screenwriter Stewart Stern made between 1952 and 1955. Senseless tragedy leads to under- Cinematographer Ernest Haller standing and reconciliatioin in this timeless Editor William Ziegler tale of restless American youth. Beware of Composer Leonard Rosenman the Rebel Without a Cause. James Dean passed away at the age of Courtesy of 24 on September 30 in 1955 after the com- pletion of this film.

WOODSTOCK FILM FESTIVAL 2005 39 FEATURES EAST COAST PREMIERE

Room

Directed by Kyle Henry Christmas time: Houston, Texas. Paradise Kyle Henry has directed two fea-

S 2005 / USA / 80 Minutes Bingo, a strip-mall storefront painted BIO ture documentaries: American E Tinker CMF 1 neon pink and acid green. Folding tables, Cowboy, a 1998 Student Academy Award R Sat. Oct 1 • 6:45PM Sun. Oct 2• 3:30PM bingo boards, TV monitors in every corner. Julia winner, and University Inc., a 1999 doc U Barker arrives, late again, after picking up her Main Credits: about the corporatization of the largest uni- T Featuring Cyndi Williams

A daughters from school and is immediately sent versity in America. University Inc. played at Production Co. The 7th Floor

E out on the floor to sell sheets of bingo paper. C-Hundred Film Corp. more than 75 colleges, museums, and inepraxis Productions F Julia is the breadwinner and axis for a media arts centers as part of the McCollege family of dependents whose needs drown her Exec Producers Jim McKay Tour, which was underwritten in part by Michael Stipe own personal desires in an exhausting daily filmmakers Michael Moore and Richard Producers Jesse Scolaro struggle to make ends meet. Sales are down, Allen Bain Linklater. Henry’s shorts have been broad- paychecks are late, grocery shopping is a dis- Darren Goldberg cast on PBS’ Frame of Mind, and mal choice between tuna-in-oil and tuna-in- Screenwriters Kyle Henry IFC/Bravo’s Splitscreen. His short N.ew Y.ork water, and smack in the middle of it all, Julia Cinematographer PJ Raval C.asino won Best Experimental Short at gets a wave of excruciating migraine Editor Pete Beaudreau SXSW in 2003, and toured international headaches. Inside her splitting mind, disturb- Composer Fritz Robenalt museum/arts centers as part of the Black ing visions erupt, intensify, and Julia begins to IN COMPETITION Maria Film, Un-American, and Itinerant experience blackouts. Making a series of des- Cinema tours. perate choices, she robs her employer, aban- Henry is also the editor of the dons her family, grabs a plane, and arrives Sundance award-winning film Manito completely unprepared on the streets of New (2002), and the PBS documentaries Are The York City. Alone, in a flea-bag hotel in Kids Alright (2004) and Learning To Swallow Queens, she stands naked before her image in (2005). He was a 2004 Rockefeller Media a mirror.... then shuts off the lights. Her pil- Artist Fellowship nominee and is currently grimage has begun. a 2004 Creative Capital Fund finalist. He Room explores the mid-life crisis of a calls Austin, Texas home. Room marks his working-class American woman as she steps feature narrative film debut. outside of her traditional role for a chance at self-discovery.

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“A movie with bats in its belfry, The Roost cel- ebrates and restores the 1970s B-horror pic with zero gloss and terrific, rough-hewn craft. Imagining what happens when a group of young people en route to a friend’s wedding get sidetracked at a farm taken over by vam- pire bats, debuting helmer Ti West taps into the realist-horror spirit of mentor and exec producer Larry Fessenden.” (Robert Koehler, Variety) F

Ti West gained Larry Fessenden’s E

BIO attention after mutual friend and A teacher, filmmaker Kelly Reichardt (River Of T Gras) introduced the pair in the fall of U 2000. In 2001, West wrote, directed, edit- R ed, produced, and photographed the short E film The Wicked as part of a sophomore year S film project. Fessenden was so impressed It’s midnight and Frightmare Theatre is with the film that he hired West to work as about to begin! Your Host sets the scene: The Roost an intern on the making-of featurette for After a violent car accident a group of the DVD of his own film No Telling. The friends become stranded in the middle of Directed by Ti West Wicked later went on to play in numerous nowhere. Quickly deciding to search for 2005 / USA / 81 Minutes film festivals nationwide, including the help, they come upon a deserted farm. Town Hall CMF 2 Slamdance Anarchy Film Festival and the Once the secrets of the barn are unleashed, Fri. Sept 30 • 11:00PM Sat. Oct 1 • 10:15PM Hollywood Underground Film Festival. the night of terror begins! An enormous Recently Doug Liman’s (Swingers, The roost of vampire bats is disturbed. They fill Main Credits: Featuring Tom Noonan Bourne Identity) company Hypnotic pur- the sky in search of their new prey. As the Karl Jacob chased The Wicked for distribution. hellish night goes on people are bitten and Vanessa Horneff Sean Reid Hypnotic is one of the largest short film once they are bitten they change. They Wil Horneff distributors in the world, and the copro- become not like themselves; they become John Speredakos Larry Fessenden ducers of the hit television show The O.C. The Undead! The friends are split up, Exec Producer Larry Fessenden West is the recipient of the 1999 scared, secluded, and trapped within the Producers Susan Leber Rhode Island School of Design Award, win- old barn. They must deal with their sur- James Felix McKenney ner of Best Director of a Student Film at the roundings, fight for their survival, and... Peter Phok 2001 New York International Independent they must kill each other. They must try to Screenwriter Ti West Film Festival, and a 2003 nominee for escape! Cinematographer Eric Robbins Editor Ti West Outstanding Achievement in Cinema- Sound Editor Graham Reznick tography at the Dusty Film Festival. Composer Jeff Grace

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Runaway

Directed by Tim McCann Michael Adler has run away from home 2005 / USA / 80 minutes

S Before directing Runaway for with his little brother Dylan. CMF 2 Town Hall BIO E Hiding out Tribeca-based Filbert Steps Sun. Oct 1• 6:30PM Sun. Oct 2• 3:15PM Tim McCann R in a quiet, rural town, Michael’s trying to Productions, had directed make a better life for them both. But as three feature films. Desolation Angels U Main Credits: Featuring Aaron Stanford T Michael falls in love with his co-worker, received awards at the Toronto Film Robin Tunney A Carly, his past catches up with him, threat- Peter Gerety Festival, the Telluride Film Festival, and the

E ening everything he has and wants. Melissa Leo Rotterdam International Film Festival. Michael Gaston F Featuring Aaron Stanford, Robin Tunney, McCann was one of five finalists in the Terry Kinney Peter Gerety, Melissa Leo, Michael Gaston, Production Co. Filbert Steps Production 1996 IFP Spirit awards. His second feature, and Terry Kinney. Exec Producers Jim Kohlberg Revolution 9, premiered at the 2001 Alan Klingenstein Telluride and Toronto Flm Festivals, where Producers Alan Klingenstein critic Roger Ebert praised it as one of the David Viola best films at each festival, calling it “brave” Screenwriter Bill True and “utterly absorbing.” McCann’s third Cinematographer Frank Barerra feature, Nowhere Man was theatrically Editor Lisa Barnable released in the spring of 2005 by First Run Sound Editor Nick Renbeck Features. Composer Robert Miller McCann has directed episodes of Barry Levinson’s Homicide: Life on the Street for NBC. In addition to directing, McCann has also worked as a cinematographer, and has shot four feature films, including Larry “A slacker psycho thriller that will keep audiences off balance ‘til the bitter end, O’Neil’s Throwing Down. He lives in Runaway manages to use the questions it raises–via narrative inconsistencies Piermont, NY, and teaches film at Purchase and character quirks–to pack more powder into its explosive payoff. Pic will College, S.U.N.Y. find favor not just at fests but with younger auds in general, especially those craving a bit of the off-beat. Teenaged moviegoers in particular may relate to the alienated, James Deanish persona of Michael Adler, played with convinc- ing, fractured charm by Aaron Stanford..” preceded by (John Anderson, Variety) The Venture (woodstock only)

WOODSTOCK FILM FESTIVAL 2005 42 FEATURESSPECIAL SCREENING

Somersault

Directed by Cate Shortland

After making a misjudged advance 2004 / AUSTRALIA / 106 minutes BIO Cate Shortland studied Fine Arts F toward her mother’s boyfriend, 16-year- Tinker Upstate 1 at Sydney University. Shortland E old Heidi (Abbie Cornish) flees her home Fri. Sept 1 • 7:30PM Sat. Oct 1• 6:30PM has a Graduate Diploma in directing from A for the small Australian ski town of the Australian Film Television and Radio T Main Credits: Jindabyne. Entranced by the startling beau- Featuring Abbie Cornish School where she received the Southern U ty of the wintry landscapes and falling Sam Worthington Star Award for most promising student. R Lynette Curran snow, she begins to create a new life for Erik Thomson She has written and directed four E herself. With little money or practical expe- Hollie Andrew award-winning short films: Strap On S rience, she accepts a job at a gas station Exec Producer Jan Chapman Olympia (1995), Pentuphouse (1998), and finds lodging with Irene (Lynette Producer Anthony Anderson Flowergirl (1999) and Joy (2000)–all of Curran). When she falls for Joe (Sam Screenwriter Cate Shortland them in collaboration with producer Worthington), the son of a wealthy local Cinematographer Robert Humphreys Anthony Anderson. The films have been farmer, her self-destructive tendencies re- Editor Scott Gray received with acclaim at festivals around surface, and her fragile new world threat- Composer Decoder Ring the world, including Oberhausen, ens to come tumbling down. Courtesy of Tampere, Clermont-Ferrand, Berlin and An erotic, lyrical depiction of a young London. girl’s sexual awakening, Somersault is a Between 2001 and 2003 Shortland breakthrough debut for both its director directed episodes of The Secret Life Of Us for and its star. Southern Star/Channel 4. Somersault is Shortland’s feature film debut. She has been developing the screenplay with Red Carpet Productions since 1996.

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Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: 1 Take 2⁄2

Directed by William Greaves 2005 / USA / 80 minutes Upstate 2 Tinker Fri. Sept 30 • 7:15pm Sat. Oct 1 • 1:30PM

Main Credits: (2005 crew) Featuring Audrey Henningham Shannon Baker Marcia Karp Ndeye Ada Sokhna Jonathan Gordon Terence McCartney-Filgate Robert Rosen Phil Parmet Stevan Larner William Greaves Steve Buscemi “The triumphant return of brilliant filmmaker William Greaves. This follow-up Exec. Producers Steven Soderbergh Steve Buscemi to his experimental 60s narrative is an intimate, behind-the-scenes look at the Producer(s) William Greaves set for a fake film. Intriguing us with the unexpected, Greaves splits his sequel Louise Archambault (co) into two sections, one part an extension of the previous footage, a meditation Prod Manager Bill Stitt (from Woodstock) S on the workings of a disgruntled film crew, and one part a true follow-up, a Cinematographers Terence McCartney-Filgate E modern day re-creation of the original scene using the same actors 35 years Philip Parmet

R Henry Adebonojo later. The results are spellbinding.”

U Editor(s) Christopher Osborn (Michael Lerman) Travis Antolik (additional) T William Greaves (supervising) A Composer Ron Carter E 1969. New York. Central Park. A film Director, producer, and F director and his crew are shooting a BIO writer William Greaves scene for a movie. The director shoots, and began his career as a featured actor on American Odyssey, a two-hour documentary reshoots, the same scene over and over Broadway and in motion pictures. His work which aired prime-time on PBS, was shown again in various ways and locations. behind the camera has earned him over 70 in competition at Sundance, and has won a Meanwhile, the “real” action is taking place international film festival awards including Gold Award from two international film fes- “off” camera. Multiple cameras capture the an Emmy and four Emmy nominations. He tivals. Greaves also produced, wrote, and reactions of the actors, the director, and of was recently honored with the directed three feature films: an increasingly disenchanted crew. International Documentary Association’s Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One, The Central Park. 35 years later. The same, prestigious Career Achievement Award. Marijuana Affair, and Ali, The Fighter, star- if somewhat older-looking, director is back Greaves has produced and directed ring Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier. He filming the same actors in the roles. All television, documentaries, and feature also served as executive producer of seems well as they greet one another. But, films. For two years, he served as executive Universal Pictures’ Bustin’ Loose, starring as the director pursues his relentless search producer and co-host of the pioneering Richard Pryor and Cicely Tyson. for the “symbiopsychotaxiplasmic” network television series Black Journal, for moment, old wounds resurface. Then a which he was awarded an Emmy. Among mysterious psychodramatist reappears his outstanding documentary from the past. Is this reality or fiction? The films are From These Roots, an in- crew wonders. depth study of the Harlem Renaissance which has won over 20 film festival awards; Ida B. Wells: A Passion for Justice, which has also won 20 film festival awards; and Ralph Bunche: An

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Tennis Anyone...? F E A T

Directed by Donal Logue U

2004 / USA / 100 minutes R Two Hollywood fringe players befriend CMF 2 Tinker Donal Logue, who is famous for E each other on the set of a C-production. Sat. Oct 1 • 4:00PM Sun. Oct 2• 11:00AM BIO his role as Jimmy the cab driver on S Danny Macklin (Donal Logue), the slightly MTV promos, is nothing like the greasy, Main Credits: more successful of the two, loses his wife, Featuring Donal Logue typical Boston cabby he portrays. Raised in his TV show, and almost his mind in quick Kirk Fox El Centro, California, he was ASB president Jason Isaacs succession. His friend Gary Morgan (Kirk Kenneth Mitchell at his local highschool, and went on to Fox) attempts to save him by re-igniting his Kyle Bax attend Harvard University. Although he Stephen Dorff passion for the game of tennis by introduc- J.P.Manoux had always considered himself a writer, his ing him to the world of celebrity tourna- Sam McMurray interest in theater was sparked at Harvard. ments. In reclaiming his sense of self, he D.W. Moffett He studied at the British-American Drama Maeve Quinlan must confront his mortal enemy in comedy Paul Rudd Academy in London, and performed in and in the world of celebrity tennis: Johnny Danny Trejo many plays before getting his break in Green (Jason Isaacs). Company Ria Productions Sneakers. From there he went on to perform Exec Producer Seymour Tenney in films such as Little Women, An Eye For An Producers Orion Williams Eye, and Disclosure. Even today, Logue Donal Logue Screenwriter Kirk Fox, Donal Logue enjoys writing almost more than acting. He Cinematographer Todd Kirschner writes the Jimmy the cab driver promos. Editors Jeffrey M.Werner “With acting, you gotta wait until someone Don Miller Robinson gives you a role in a play or movie,” says Composer Don Miller Robinson Logue. “With writing, you’re not depend- ent on others, you don’t have to wait. You can sit down and just create.”

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Transamerica

Directed by Duncan Tucker Bree (Felicity Huffman) is days away 2005 / USA / 100 minutes Transamerica is Duncan Tucker’s S from a dream she has focused on for Rosendale Tinker BIO feature debut. His 2000 short film, E years–the completion of her gender reas- Fri. Sept 30, 9:00PM Sun. Oct 3•:30PM The Mountain King, played in over 30 film R signment surgery. Her plans come to a festivals worldwide, and was featured in

U Main Credits: grinding halt when she receives a call from Featuring Felicity Huffman numerous special best-of-festival programs. T Kevin Zegers

A New York and discovers she has a son, and Fionnula Flanagan The Mountain King received a nationwide

E that he has been picked up by the police. Graham Greene theatrical release in 2001 in a program of Elizabeth Peña F Bree’s closest friend and therapist, four short films titled Boys To Men, which Burt Young Margaret (Elizabeth Peña) tells Bree she has was distributed by Jour De Fete/Rialto Production Co. Belladonna Productions LLC to deal with her past before she can move Films. The video/DVD of was Exec Producer William H. Macy Boys to Men into her future. Producers Linda Moran released by Strand Releasing. Tucker’s short Reluctantly, Bree springs Toby (Kevin René Bastian story, “Many Fish,” appeared in Ascent Zegers) from jail under the pretense that Sebastian Dungan magazine, and his photographs and paint- she’s a missionary worker. Toby begs Bree Screenwriter Duncan Tucker ings have been shown in New York at to take him with her to Los Angeles, and so Cinematographer Stephen Kazmierski Civilian Warfare Gallery, The Patrick Fox they set out, each hiding their true motives Editor Pam Wise Gallery, and White Columns in Soho. and identities. With Duncan Tucker’s Composer David Mansfield directorial debut, he has created a story about parents and children, family and acceptance, all on a delightful estrogen cocktail.

Courtesy of The Weinstein Company On the set with Transamerica in Callicoon,NY. Photo courtesy M.Baker

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Ushpizin

Directed by Gidi Dar 2004 / ISRAEL / 90 minutes Jerusalem. Moshe and Mali, a poor Born in Haifa, Israel, Gidi Dar’s F In Hebrew with English subtitles BIO childless Orthodox couple, find them- filmography includes 1988’s The E selves penniless on the eve of the Jewish Tinker CMF 1 Poet, with Shalom Rand and Moshe Ivgi; A Fri. Sept 30 • 2:00PM Sun. Oct 1• 9:00PM holy day of Succoth. 1992’s Eddie King, with Shalom Rand, T As they both pray desperately to the Main Credits: Ronit Elkabets and Eithan Bloom, which U

Featuring Shalom Rand R Lord to help them, the impossible hap- Michal Bat Sheva Rand was shown at the Locarno Film Festival; pens. Their prayers are heard and they Shaul Mizrahi 1998’s music video, Blue & Green; 1999’s E receive an unexpected charitable donation. Ilan Gannai Shine, a documentary that was shown at S Avraham Abutbul However, a miracle doesn’t come without a Yonathan Danino the 2000 Berlin Film Festival and the 2000 test–two escaped convicts appear uninvit- Daniel Dayan Docfest NY; 2001’s The Kids from Napoleon Michael Vaigel ed on the couple’s doorstep, friends from Daniel Rand Hill, a TV fiction series, which won an Moshe’s shady secular past. Yizhak Levkovits Israeli academy award; 2002’s The Kids Shmuel Ovadia Moshe and Mali believe it is another from Napoleon Hill, Part 2, which won an Producers Rafi Buckaee sign and that God will bless them with chil- Gidi Dar Israeli academy award. dren if they follow the religious custom of Screenwriter Shuli Rand receiving guests (Ushpizin) for the holy Cinematographer Amit Yasur day. They perceive the convicts as messen- Editors Isaac Sehayek gers, but God works in mysterious ways. Nadav Harel The outrageous behavior of these Sound Editor Chen Harpaz unholy messengers and the havoc it brings Composer Nethaniel Mechaly to the Orthodox community will put Moshe’s and Mali’s faith to the ultimate Courtesy of test. Picturehouse Films

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WHERE THE TRUTH LIES

In the 1950s, Lanny Morris (Kevin Directed by Atom Egoyan Director/writer Atom Egoyan was S Bacon) and Vince Collins (Colin Firth) BIO raised in Victoria, BC, moving to

E USA / 2005 / 107 minutes are the most beloved entertainers in Toronto at age 18 to study international rela- R Tinker Street Tinker Street America. A classic duo–Lanny is the manic tions and classical guitar at the University of

U Sun. Oct 2 • 6:00PM Sun. Oct 2 • 8:30PM comedian, while Vince is his cool and col- Toronto. It was there that he began to seri- T lected straight man–the boys know how to Main Credits: ously explore cinema, and started making A Cast/Featuring Kevin Bacon

E make audiences roar with laughter at their films which progressed to reflect his own, Colin Firth

F jokes, or shed tears at one of their famous Alison Lohman very personal thematic obsessions, delving telethons. They are at the top of their game, Rachel Blanchard into issues of intimacy, displacement and the David Hayman wealthy, powerful, and enormously popular, Maury Chaykin impact of technology and media in modern when something terrible happens to threaten Kristin Adams life. Sonja Bennett their success. Inexplicably, a dead beauty Deborah Grover Egoyan’s impressive and acclaimed film turns up in their hotel suite. Their reputa- Beau Starr credits include: Next of Kin (1984), Family tions are sullied but, thanks to rock-solid ali- Exec. Producers Atom Egoyan, Colin Viewing (1987), Speaking Parts (1989), The Leventhal, Daniel J.B. bis, neither is charged with the crime. Their Taylor, Donald A. Starr Adjuster (1991), Calendar (1993), Egoyan partnership, on the other hand, is destroyed. Screenwriter Atom Egoyan achieved a wider audience with the darkly Lanny and Vince manage to salvage separate Cinematographer Paul Sarossy mysterious Exotica (1994), which won the careers, but years pass, with neither speaking Sound Editor Steven Munro International Critics Prize for Best Film, and to the other, or to anyone else, about the girl’s Composer Mychael Danna swept the Genies. The Sweet Hereafter (1997) death. The reason for the break-up of Morris had its world premiere at Cannes where it and Collins becomes one of show business’ won The Grand Prize of the Jury, two awards Courtesy of greatest mysteries. at Toronto, swept the Genies, was named to Fifteen years later, in the 1970s, up-and- more than 250 top-ten lists, and was nomi- coming writer Karen O’Connor (Alison nationed for two Academy Awards. He went Lohman), decides to turn this cold case into on make Felicia’s Journey (1999), Krapp’s Last a hot story. Beginning with her discovery of a Tape, an adaptation of Samuel Beckett’s play, kinky menage a trois that may have led to a and Ararat (2002), which won numerous murder, Karen unravels a serpentine, shock- awards. ing tale of talent and treachery, love and lust, buried secrets and betrayed trust.

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WINTER PASSING

Directed by Adam Rapp

A dramatic comedy, Winter Passing is Adam Rapp completed a playwrit- F USA / 2005 / 98 minutes BIO the debut feature of writer/director ing fellowship at The Juilliard School E

Adam Rapp, charting the fractious Tinker Street Tinker Street in New York City, where he currently resides. A reunion of an estranged father and Thurs 9/29 • 7:30PM Thurs 9/29 • 9:30PM He has published many plays including T daughter. Struggling twenty-something Nocturne, Animals and Plants, Blackbird, Finer U Main Credits: actress Reese Holden (Zooey Deschanel) has Featuring Ed Harris Noble Gases, Faster, Trueblinka, Dreams of the R been promised $100,000 by book editor Lori Zooey Deschanel Salthorse and Gompers, as well as two antholo- E Will Ferrell Lanskey (Amy Madigan), if Reese can secure Amelia Warner gies of plays. He has also published a number S for publication love letters written by her leg- Amy Madigan of novels for young adults such as Missing the endary, but reclusive, father Don (Ed Harris) Production Co. Stratus Film Company Piano, The Buffalo Tree, 33 Snowfish and Under to his equally revered late wife–Reese’s moth- Exec Producer(s) Mark Gordon the Wolf, Under the Dog. Winter Passing is his Bob Yari er. Suddenly highly motivated, Reese treks Laura Bickford first feature film. from New York to Michigan–where she finds Producer(s) P.Jennifer Dana Don in flagrant disregard of his own health David Koplan and living with two younger housemates, Screenwriter Adam Rapp practical former graduate student Shelly Cinematographer Terry Stacey (Amelia Warner) and would-be-musician Editor Meg Reticker Corbit (Will Ferrell). Reese, though no angel Sound Noah Timan Dave Paterson herself, does not approve of this ad hoc fami- Composer John Kimbrough ly. But she comes to appreciate her unlikely new “siblings” and, as secrets are revealed, comes to terms with her father and their shared past and future. (synopsis from Ithecia.com.au)

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DOCUMENTARIES D O C U M E

photo:Tiziano Magni N T A R I E S

52 The American Ruling Class 59 Learning To Swallow 63 Sarah Silverman: Jesus is Magic 53 Be Here To Love Me 59 Instrumental 64 State Of Fear 53 Anytown USA 60 Midnight Movies: 65 Stranger: 54 The Boys of Baraka 61 Our Brand Is Crisis Bernie Worrell on Earth 55 Bruce & Me 61 New York Doll 66 Troop 1500 56 The Concert For Bangladesh 62 The Outsider 67 TV Party 57 The Devil’s Miner 62 Press On 67 Unknown White Male 58 Favela Rising 63 Shakespeare Behind Bars 68 Zizek!

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The American Ruling Class Directed by John Kirby

S Is there an American ruling class? And if 2005 / USA / 100 minutes The American Ruling Class marks E BIO I there is, how do I join? That’s what our the feature directorial debut of John

R Bearsville Upstate 2 two hapless Yale grads, Mike and Jack, want Kirby. He has produced and edited for many A Fri. Sept 30 • 12:00PM Sat. Oct 1• 7:00PM T to know. Lewis Lapham, the jaded socialite- major broadcasters, including numerous N Main Credits: E cum-muckraker editor of Harper’s, is Mike projects for the award-winning Blowback Featuring Lewis Lapham M and Jack’s guide in this star-studded journey James A Baker III Productions. His credits as an editor include U Barbara Ehrenreich C through America’s establishment. We get to HBO’s America Undercover documentaries Peter Peterson O meet Kurt Vonnegut, Walter Cronkite, Mike Pete Seeger Gladiator Days: Anatomy Of A Prison Murder D Medavoy, Robert Altman, Barbara Ehrenreich, Arthur Sulzberger and the Emmy-award winning, Thug Life In Vartan Gregorian, Martin Garbus, Bill Bradley, Exec. Producers Paula Silver D.C. With his production partner Libby Stanley F.Buchthal Larry Summers, James Baker, Pete Peterson, Handros, Kirby recently completed The Good Producer Libby Handros Hodding Carter, and even the small but insis- Fat Diet, a groundbreaking study of the role of Screenwriter Lewis Lapham tent opposition voice of Pete Seeger. Mike Omega-three fatty acids in human nutrition, Cinematographer Mark Benjamin attempts to find out whether a good banking to be released this year on public television. Editors Leah O’Donnell job is all that his future holds for him and John Kirby Jack tries to decide whether his offer from Composers Qasim Naqvi Goldman Sachs is the right first step to take. Lucas Johnson-Yahraus Written by Lewis Lapham, and under John Kirby’s direction, the film is an over-the-top sketch, with some good hard pokes at the complacency of this nation’s elite college graduates, and an occasionally surrealistic touch. The film provides more evidence that there’s plenty of energy in the melding of documentary and fiction. Will Mike give up his chance at the Great American Novel and take that banking job? Should he? Whatever your answer, you’ll love to hear from these mentors in the ruling class–which might or might not exist. Judge for yourself.

WOODSTOCK FILM FESTIVAL 2005 52 DOCUMENTARIES NY PREMIERE Anytown USA Directed by Kristian Fraga 2005 / USA / 93 minutes WCC Upstate 2 Fri. Sept 30• 9:30PM Sun. Oct 2 • 5:30PM Main Credits: Production Co. Sirk Productions “This study of a microcosm Kristian Fraga is a graduate of the Producers John L. Sike BIO Juan Dominguez of a town in suburban New film program at NYU. His senior the- Cinematographer Jonathan Wolff Jersey and its election for sis film, The Mind’s Eye, was the first digitally Editors Robert Greene mayor refuses to take sides. shot student film at NYU and was distributed Sandy Patch Director Fraga explores the race from by Atom Films. In 2001, Fraga wrote, pro- Composer Robert Miller every angle and lets you make your own duced, and directed the award-winning PBS Sound Editors William Enrico decision for who the best man is in this documentary, The Inside Reel: Digital Vincient Rongone smart documentary that always keeps Filmmaking. He currently serves as producer IN COMPETITION you intrigued.” on the television series, The Inside Reel. Fraga (Michael Lerman) and his producing partner Marc Perez found- Political tempers heat up as fierce “Hilarious and endlessly quirky.... ed Sirk Productions, LLC, in 1997. Currently, opposition, passionate support, and Anytown USA mixes the humor of the Fraga is writing, directing, and producing Severe Clear, a feature documentary about a

old-fashioned mudslinging characterize best Christopher Guest movies with D

the race for mayor between three candidates both the scrutiny and pathos of a politi- soldier’s experience during Operation Iraqi O cal satire.” Freedom. His book Tim Burton: Interviews, C in a two-party system, where two of the three U (Steve Snyder, Minnesota Daily) politicans are legally blind. will be published in May 2005. M E N T

NY PREMIERE A R I E

Be Here S To Love Me: Steve Shelley of Sonic Youth, Lyle Lovett, Steve Earle, A Film About Townes Van Zandt Guy Clarke, and Kris Kristofferson, among many Directed by Margaret Brown others. Director Margaret Brown focuses on Van 2004 / USA / 99 minutes Zandt’s decision to live his life for his art–to “blow Town Hall everything off get a guitar and go!” Her haunting and Sun. Oct 2 • 5:30pm lyrical film combines interviews with friends and Main Credits: Bearsville family, never-before-seen footage of Van Zandt from Featuring Fri. SeptTownes 1 • 12:00 Van PMZandt Willie Nelson rare performance and interview footage, and intimate Steve Shelley portraits shot in Van Zandt’s own home throughout Lyle Lovett Steve Earle the years. Guy Clarke Kris Kristofferson Emmylou Harris Townes Van Zandt is widely recognized as a This is Margaret Brown’s directorial BIO Exec. Producers Paul Stekler true songwriter’s songwriter, a musician whose debut. She produced Six Miles of Eight Louis Black brilliance and lyrical insight made him popular Feet, which won a Student Academy Award. She was Producers Sam Brumbaugh amongst true fans and other musicians. Having the cinematographer for Ice Fishing, which received Amy Shatsky released dozens of albums since the mid-1960s, Van a special jury prize from Sundance in 2000, and for Cinematographer Lee Daniel Zandt, who died in 1997, solidified his place in which she received the Nestor Almendros Award for Editors Karen Skloss Michael Taylor America’s musical pantheon. Be Here To Love Me is Cinematography from the NYU Graduate Film an artful, expertly directed portrait of Van Zandt’s life Program. Brown also produced a feature-length Courtesy of and career and features Van Zandt, Willie Nelson, western about singing cowboys, Mi Amigo.NE NEED

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The Boys of Baraka Directed by

S The Boys of Baraka is a stunning coming- Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady Heidi Ewing has produced and

E BIOS

I of-age story that follows a group of extraor- directed documentaries for The 2005 / KENYA, USA / 84 minutes R dinary 12-year-old boys from the most violent Discovery Channel, Britain’s Channel 4, A&E A Upstate 1 Bearsville T ghettos of Baltimore who leave everything they Network, and Arte. Ewing produced and co-

N Fri. Sept 30 • 7:00PM Sat. Oct 1• 5:00PM

E know to attend an experimental boarding directed Ward 2 West, shot entirely inside the

M school in the most rural corner of Kenya, East Main Credits: Kirby Forensic Psychiatric hospital on Ward’s U Production Co. Loki Films

C Africa. An emotionally explosive journey shot Island. Previously, she traveled to Ethiopia Exec Producers Heidi Ewing O over three years, the film zeros in on a group of Rachel Grady and Sri Lanka for a film about the ancient ori- D brave kids who are willing to cross the ocean Cinematographers Tony Hardmon gins of body modification. Ewing also pro- to chase an opportunity, boys with a fierce Marco Franzoni duced a three-part series on the criminal determination to fight the label of “throw- Editor Enat Sidi justice system in the Bronx, focusing on juve- away.” Composer JJ McGeehan niles (Discovery Channel). Her most recent directorial success was Dissident: Oswaldo Paya and the Varela Project. IN COMPETITION A private investigator turned filmmaker, Rachel Grady has produced and directed documentaries for Discovery Channel, A&E, and Britain’s Channel 4. Previously, she focused on the erratic and complex New York “As triumphant as it is touching, this heartwarming criminal justice system for a special A&E docu-saga follows a group of inner-city Baltimore kids series, New York Justice, about five overworked who are taken from the worst neighborhoods and public defenders. She also completed Mad picked to attend a private school in Kenya, East Africa. Justice, about the troubling fate of mentally ill Watching the lives of these vibrant characters change for defendants and parolees, and TX, an eight- the better is possibly the most exhilarating and uplifting part series made for VH1 which follows 10 experience you will have in the cinema this year.” young adults as they battle to get off alcohol, (Michael Lerman) heroin, crack, and pills.

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NY PREMIERE

Oren Siedler Bruce & Me BIO has written and directed numerous Directed by Oren Siedler documentaries and 2004 / USA / 55 minutes short films, including Bearsville CMF 2 Suburban Rituals–Rite Fri. Sept 30 • 2:45PM Sat. Oct 1• 8:30PM Of The Horned God, a Main Credits: documentary broadcast Production Co. Storyline Entertainment Inc. on Australian televi- Producers Ed Barreveld Oren Siedler sion. She wrote and Screenwriter Oren Siedler Oren is a documentary filmmaker and a directed Red Sands, Cinematographer Oren Siedler violin teacher. Bruce is an outlaw who Blue Seas, an Australian Film Commission Editor Ricardo Acosta has seen the inside of more jails and owns documentary which was broadcast on Composer Ken Myhr Discovery and National Geographic. more fake credit cards and aliases than a con- Sound Editors Elma Bello man out of a Hollywood movie. Oren lives a Born in New York City, Siedler immigrat- Allison Clark quiet life by the sea in beautiful Byron Bay, ed with her mother and stepfather to Daniel Pellerin Australia. Bruce is either on the road avoiding Australia in 1975. She studied film produc- the law or holed up in his hideaway in hill- tion and screen studies at the University of “‘Going straight was my way of billy country, USA. Their connection: Bruce Technology Sydney where she obtained a rebelling,’ says Siedler, of growing up is Oren’s father. Bachelor’s Degree in Communications. with a criminal father. Insightful and

When not making films, Siedler plays sometimes painful, Bruce & Me is a D violin in a classical string quartet, and teach- very personal video journal.” O (Barbara Pokras, A.C.E.) C es music. She lives in Byron Bay, Australia. U M E N T A R I E S

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The Concert for Bangladesh was the first Recollections: benefit concert of its kind in that it “I think the awareness is maybe even more brought together an extraordinary assemblage important than the money because again even if of major artists collaborating for a common we make five million dollars, it’s still small com- humanitarian cause–setting the precedent pared to the size of the problem so it’s more that music could be used to serve a higher important to really bring the awareness around cause. The concert sold out Madison Square to the mass of people.” Garden and along with the Grammy Award- George Harrison winning triple-album boxset, and the feature film, has generated millions of dollars for “The concert had a special feeling. Overnight UNICEF and raised awareness for the organi- everybody knew the name of Bangladesh, because zation around the world, as well as among it came out in all the newspapers everywhere, so other musicians and their fans. It is therefore it had a tremendous value. Since then there acknowledged as the inspiration and forerun- have been hundreds of special programs in differ- ner to the major global fundraising events of ent places in the world. It was the first of its kind recent years. To quote the United Nations and set an example.” S

E Secretary-General Kofi Annan, “George and

I Ravi Shankar

R his friends were pioneers.”

A “There’s Live Aid and Bangladesh, what else? I T Besides George Harrison himself, the N concert film features some of his friends, The Concert For mean for George it was a personal thing and for E Bob [Dylan] it was a personal thing, that you M including: Ravi Shankar, Bob Dylan, Eric Bangladesh U Clapton, Ringo Starr, Leon Russell and Billy know without a doubt these guys would not have C Directed by Saul Swimmer been able to sleep if they hadn’t been able to do O Preston. Performances include Here Comes 1971 / USA / 99 minutes D something about it.” Eric Clapton The Sun, Something, While My Guitar Gently Bearsville Theater Weeps, My Sweet Lord, Just Like A Woman, Fri. Sept 30 • 10:00PM “Now people go in and shoot concerts on video Blowin In The Wind and A Hard Rain’s A- cameras and stuff and it’s not a big deal. In Gonna Fall. Main Credits: Featuring George Harrison those days it was a very big deal. We had 6 During the struggle for independence Ringo Starr cameras, which we thought was tremendous at from Pakistan, millions of refugees fled to Jim Keltner the time... George was in the editing room with Billy Preston neighboring India to escape hunger, disease Leon Russell us every day… and the editing took a year and bloodshed. The crisis was deepened Klaus Voorman …Dylan would come in every morning around when massive floods hit the region. Alerted to Jesse Ed Davis Eric Clapton 10 o’clock and be there with us till around 1, the scale of the suffering by his friend Ravi Bob Dylan when we would have lunch. And then [he] would Shankar, George Harrison organized The Badfinger Ravi Shankar go home and George would come in in the after- Concert For Bangladesh at Madison Square Producers George Harrison noon… And so that was one of the reasons it Garden on August 1st, 1971 with the pro- Allen Klein took a year to edit the picture; [George] didn’t ceeds going to UNICEF. think we’d ever be finished; it was endless.” Saul Swimmer, Director

WFF will be raffling off a photo The DVD will be released by WSM (Warner Strategic from The Concert For Bangladesh, Marketing) on October 25, 2005, as a 2-disc package, including the original 99-minute film restored and taken and graciously donated by remixed in 5.1, as well as 72-minutes of extras. All artists’ royalties from the sales of the DVD and the CD legendary photographer will continue to go to UNICEF. Barry Feinstein.

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The Devil’s Miner Directed by is the story of 14-year- The Devil’s Miner Kief Davidson and Richard Ladkani documentary, Blood Ties: The Life And Work old Basilio Vargas and his 12-year-old Of Sally Mann. He is the recipient of two 2005 / USA / 82 minutes brother Bernardino as they work in the Emmy nominations for his work with Bolivian silver mines of Cerro Rico, which Town Hall Upstate 2 National Geographic, and on the journalistic Fri. Sept 30• 12:00PM Sat. Oct 1 • 2:15PM date back to the sixteenth century. Through film What’s News? he earned an International D the children’s eyes we encounter a world of Main Credits: Monitor Award for Best Editing. Davidson O Featuring The Miners of Cerro Rico C devout Catholic miners who sever their ties currently divides his time between Los U Basilio Vargas with God upon entering the mountain. It is Bernardino Vargas Angeles and New York City. M Vanessa Vargas E an ancient belief that the devil, represented N Manuela Altica Vargas Richard Ladkani is an acclaimed documen- T

by hundreds of statues constructed in the Braulio Jancko A tunnels, determines the fate of all who work Padre Jesus tary filmmaker of over 35 international docu- R I

Saturnino Ortega E within the mines. mentaries filmed in some of the most remote Producers Kief Davidson regions of the world. His award-winning skills S Richard Ladkani as director and cameraman have produced Cinematographer Richard Ladkani “A tender, compelling and visually documentaries on topics ranging from Editor Kief Davidson magnificient view of life in a wildlife, in Encounters With The Great White Composers Leonardo Heiblum remote Bolivian mining village.” Andrés Solis Shark, to political films such as Escape Over (Nikki Goldbeck) The Himalayas, about Tibetan refugee chil- IN COMPETITION dren, which won 15 international awards. Ladkani has worked on big-budget his- Courtesy of Kief Davidson is an award-win- torical documentaries featuring large-scale re- BIOS ning feature film and documen- enactments, such as Judas The Traitor and tary director born and raised in Brooklyn, The Crusaders, as well as character-driven New York. The Devil’s Miner had its world personal stories shot on location in premiere at the Rotterdam Film Festival in Uzbekistan, Vietnam, 2005 and won awards at the Tribeca Film and Mongolia. A 20-part Festival (Emerging Filmmaker) and Hot Docs series, Monasteries Of (FIPRESCI-Film Critic Award). Davidson The Danube River, wrote and directed the dark comedy, Minor earned him both the Details, an independent feature film starring Austrian and Italian Peter Sarsgaard and Larry Pine, and has cinematography awards directed and produced documentaries for for best picture. The Discovery Channel, ABC News, PBS, and A&E. Davidson began his career in 1993 as editor on the Academy Award-nominated

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“Lyrical and powerful, this grip- ping story of Brazilian life in the Favela Rising favelas is as much a social as a Directed by music documentary. Anderson Sa grew up to the sounds of Jeff Zimbalist and Matt Mochary violence and believes music can 2005 / BRAZIL, USA / 78 minutes change reality. Beautifully shot In Portuguese with English subtitles and lit with gritty, high contrast exteriors, this is a film that flies

S Favela Rising documents a man and a Town Hall Upstate 1

E by without a wasted moment.

I movement, a city divided, and a favela Fri. Sept 30 • 6:30PM Sun. Oct 2• 3:15PM The music is amazing.” R (Brazilian squatter settlement) united. A Main Credits: (Barbara Pokras, A.C.E.) T Anderson Sa is a former drug-trafficker turned Featuring Anderson Sa N Jose Junior Jeff Zimbalist has edited many E revolutionary in Rio de Janeiro’s most feared Andre Luis Azevedo BIOS M slum. Haunted by the murders of his family documentary films for broadcast

U Production Co. Stealth Films on PBS and Women’s Entertainment C and many of his friends, Sa uses hip-hop Producers Matt Mochary O music and Afro-Brazilian dance to rally his Jeff Zimbalist Television. He has shot, directed, and edited a D community to war against the violent oppres- Cinematographers Jeff Zimbalist variety of short films, and has provided media Matt Mochary consulting services to the UNDP and other sion enforced by teenage drug armies and Kelly Mark Green nonprofit service organizations. Zimbalist is a sustained by corrupt police. At the dawn of Editor Jeff Zimbalist faculty member at both the New York Film liberation, just as collective mobility is over- Composer Force Theory Academy and the Maine Photographic coming all odds and Sa’s grassroots Sound Editors Jeff Zimbalist AfroReggae movement is at the height of its Paul Bercovitch Workshops. Favela Rising is his feature-length success, a tragic accident threatens to silence directorial debut. IN COMPETITION the movement forever. Favela Rising is Matt Mochary’s first film. Previously, Mochary was a partner at Spectrum Equity Investors, the founder and chairman of Totality Corporation, the chair- man of AEKus Properties, and the founder of The Mochary Foundation, a charitable organ- ization that promotes public education.

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WORLD PREMIERE Instrumental Directed by Gabriel Shalom 2005 / USA / 65 minutes / Bard College Town Hall Upstate 2 Fri. Sept 30 • 4:30PM Sat. Oct. 1• 12:30PM Main Credits: Featuring Bart Hopkin Bradford Reed Art Harrison Thomas Truax “Fascinating musicians who build their own eccentric instruments are explored in this Exec Producer Gabriel Shalom smartly handcrafted documentary from Bard College student Gabriel Shalom. Using Producers Gabriel Shalom personal and musical interviews, electrifying concert material and found footage, Shalom Love Intelligence Group feeds our curious appetites with an engaging look into the true inspiration behind the Cinematographer Gabriel Shalom creation of these instruments and the music they make.” Editor Gabriel Shalom (Michael Lerman) Bradford Reed, Thomas Truax, Bart Gabriel Shalom is an electronic See Arthur Harrison Hopkin, and Art Harrison are four musi- BIO musician, laptop DJ, videomaker, and his theremin and Bradford Reed cians who make their own special elec- VJ, graphic designer, and cartoonist. He live in concert Friday night at tro-acoustic instruments. Instrumental is was born and raised in suburban Maryland. 8pm at the Colony Cafe (see music) a poetic meditation on the lives of these He performs electronic music solo as D O

instrument builders and the musical worlds Tweaky Bambino, and performs as a vocal C

Preceded by: they inhabit. Through interviews and per- percussionist with Fabian Wendt (electric U Party For the People: formances, the instrument builders are pre- M

bass) and Fried Dahn (electric cello), in the E

Rock and Revolution in Reggio Emilia sented in the context of their homes, Stuttgart, Germany-based experimental trio N T

workshops, and surrounding environments. Tigershrimp. A R I E S NY PREMIERE Learning To Learning To Swallow follows Patsy Swallow Desmond, a charismatic artist with bipolar disorder, as she struggles to Directed by Danielle Beverly rebuild her life after a suicide attempt 2005 / USA / 90 minutes destroys her digestive system. This intimate CMF 2 WCC and riveting documentary takes us on her Fri. Sept 30 • 9:00PM Sat. Oct 1• 7:00PM rocky quest for redemption, where it’s a Main Credits: slim margin between life and death. Pruduction Co. Petunia Productions Producer Danielle Beverly Cinematographer Danielle Beverly Editor Kyle Henry “Learning To Swallow is a harrowing roller- coaster ride through the life and mind of IN COMPETITION Patsy Desmond. Her voiceover narration is relentlessly honest and contains not a Danielle Beverly directs and pro- people markedly affected by 9/11, as well as shred of self-pity. Patsy’s triumph over BIO duces for PBS and cable. She co-pro- the rebuilding of the World Trade Center, in physical and emotional obstacles is truly duced the Emmy-winning Dance From The 35mm time-lapse film. Project Rebirth is a inspiring. Like its subject, this is lean, Heart, about The Joffrey Ballet and disability. finalist for the WTC Memorial Museum. well-sculpted filmmaking.” Through 2011, Beverly will serve as field pro- Beverly holds a BA in public health and an (Barbara Pokras, A.C.E.) ducer for Project Rebirth, a longitudinal docu- MFA in film/video. Learning To Swallow is her mentary that follows the healing process of 10 first feature.

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Midnight Movies: From The Margin

S Based on Stuart Samuels’ 1983 book To The Mainstream Stuart Samuels produced and co-

E BIO I of the same name, Midnight Movies fea- directed the award-winning docu- R tures the preeminent filmmakers of this Directed by Stuart Samuels mentary Visions Of Light: The Art Of A T genre talking about their small, independ- 2005 / CANADA / 86 minutes Cinematography, which was named the Best N

E ent films that broke all kinds of box-office Upstate 1 Bearsville Documentary of 1993 by New York Film M records, but only when screened at mid- Fri. Sept 30 • 9:30PM Sat. Oct 1• 10:00PM Critics Circle, National Society of Film U

C night. Interviews with David Lynch Critics, and Boston Society of Film Critics.

O (Eraserhead), Perry Henzell (The Harder Samuels has a PhD in history from Stanford. D They Come), George Romero (Night of the He was a history professor at the University of Living Dead), John Waters (Pink Flamingos), Pennsylvania from 1967 to 1981, founding Richard O’Brien (The Rocky Horror Picture member of the Society of Cinema and Media Show), and Alejandro Jodorowsky (El Topo) Studies, and an expert consultant in film his- reveal the impulses that guided these tory, film archives, and academic libraries. A filmmakers to create the works that would former Woodstock resident, he now lives in make their names. Perhaps just as impor- Toronto, Canada. tant is the story of the man who gave the films a chance to build an audience week after week, Ben Barenholtz, founder of the now-defunct Elgin Cinema in New York City, home to the first screening of a mid- night movie. This fun and insightful study of the six films that inspired the brand of screening known as The Midnight Movie is a pure cinematic treat. Mixing flashy visuals with hilarious interviews full of interesting sto- ries, Samuels rekindles the spirit of a type of interactive cinema that will not soon be forgotten.

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New York Doll

Directed by Greg Whiteley 2005 / USA / 77 minutes Bearsville Fri. Sept 30 • 6:45PM Main Credits: Featuring Arthur “Killer” Kane David Johansen New York Doll relates the meteoric rise, becomes a born-again Mormon. When rocker Paul Morrissey resounding fall, and recent all-too-brief Producers Ed Cunningham Morrissey organizes a London reunion of the Seth Gordon resurrection of the seminal New York New York Dolls, Kane prepares for an unlikely Cinematographers Rod Santiano glam-rock-punk band, the New York Dolls, comeback. Can these musicians possibly recap- Seth Gordon but it is foremost a story about the band’s amazing ture the energy and élan that made them legends Editors Seth Gordon bassist and leader, Arthur “Killer” Kane. Director and in their own brief time? Greg Whiteley Jake Young friend Greg Whiteley follows Kane and interviews musicians, friends, and colleagues to uncover the BIO Greg Whiteley is a Clio Award-win- Courtesy of legacy of the Dolls and their significant impact on ning director who received his BA from FIRST INDEPENDENT PICTURES the London music scene in the dizzying heyday of Brigham Young University and his MFA at the Art the early 1970s. Center College of Design in Pasadena. Raised in

After Kane and his band bottom-out on Seattle, Washington, he has a wife, Erin, and two D O

drugs and alcohol, he disappears from music and kids, Henry and Scout. C U M E

In elections around the N T

Our Brand Is Crisis world, on every continent, A R

American strategists-for- I

Directed by Rachel Boynton E

hire reshape the opinions of S 2005 / USA / 87 minutes voters from behind closed Bearsville Upstate 2 doors. Our Brand Is Crisis is the Fri. Sept 30 • 4:30PM Sat. Oct 1• 9:30PM story of one of their elections. Main Credits: It follows James Carville, Featuring James Carville Jeremy Rosner Jeremy Rosner and others from Stan Greenberg the Greenberg Carville Shrum Tad Devine Gonzalo Sanchez firm as they travel to South America to help BIO Our Brand Is Crisis is Rachel de Lozada Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada (Goni) Boynton’s directorial debut. Exec Producers Steven Shainberg become President of Bolivia. When the Previously, she worked as an associate pro- Robbie Kravis Sanders Goodstein consultants arrive the country is in crisis. ducer on several feature-length documen- Producer Rachel Boynton But Goni, they believe, is the best man to taries, including Well Founded Fear, which Cinematographers Tom Hurwitz solve Bolivia’s problems. With flabbergast- premiered at the Sundance Film Festival Michael Anderson ing access to situations that occur all the and aired nationally on PBS’s P.O.V., and Christine Burrill Jerry Risius time but which we’re never usually allowed the PBS series People Like Us: Special Class Editors Rachel Boynton to see, the film follows the campaign from In America. She also produced for ARD, a Jennifer Robinson start to surprising finish–when the consult- German television station. She received an Composer Marcelo Zarvos ants and the candidate are confronted with MS in journalism from Columbia Sound Editor Brian Langman a disaster the first polls never predicted. University, Graduate School of Journalism, IN COMPETITION Our Brand Is Crisis is about how the world a BA in International Relations from Brown works today: it shows us how marketing University, and a Certificate of Political can subtly influence our opinions on every- Studies from L’Institut d’Etudes Politiques thing, from which soap we buy, to which (Sciences Po) in Paris, France. She is based president we elect. in New York City.

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The Outsider many loyal, famous and powerful friends. Like gambling on horses, Directed by Nicholas Jarecki ingesting 10,000 micrograms of 2005 / USA / 84 minutes LSD and indulging a voracious sex- Upstate 2 Bearsville ual appetite, making movies is a Thurs.Sept 29 • 7:30PM Sat. Oct 1 • 7:45PM compulsion for Toback, something Main Credits: he simply must do. And it’s some- Featuring James Toback Robert Downey, Jr. thing he does like nobody else. Neve Campbell The Outsider is Nicholas Jarecki’s por- Featuring Robert Downey, Jr., Brooke Mike Tyson trait of James Toback, the notorious Shields, Mike Tyson, Harvey Keitel, Norman Harvey Keitel Brooke Shields New York movie director. For structure, Mailer, Barry Levinson, Jim Browne, Robert Woody Allen Jarecki makes it his business to chronicle Towne, Brett Ratner, Roger Ebert, Bijou Norman Mailer the production of Toback’s last thriller, Phillips and perhaps the only on-set interview Production Co. Green Room Films When Will I be Loved, starring Neve Woody Allen has ever granted, The Outsider Producer Nicholas Jarecki Campbell. But The Outsider is more than a is far from hagiography. But we imagine Jim’s Cinematographer Nicholas Jarecki pretty happy with it. Editors Anna Fogg behind-the-scenes look at moviemaking; JC Khoury it’s a ‘behind-the-eyes’ look at a forceful, Nicholas Jarecki magnetic personality driven by keen intelli- BIO Twenty-four year old Nicholas gence, shaped by undeniable creativity, Jarecki is the author of the 2001 Doubleday book Breaking In: How 20 Film school, Jarecki has directed several music videos

S forged by joyful narcissism, hammered by

E . A graduate of NYU film I insatiable compulsions and nurtured by Directors Got Their Start and commercials. This is his first feature film. R A T N E M U C Press On O

D Directed by Gillian Grisman 2005 / USA / 77 minutes Bearsville CMF2 Gillian Grisman works in theatri- Sat. Oct 1• 3:00PM Sun. Oct 2• 3:00PM BIO cal, television, and DVD mediums Main Credits: Press On is the story of Grammy-nominated with a strong emphasis on music. Her credits Featuring Robert Randolph (pedal steel) Danyel Morgan (bass) artist Robert Randolph and the spiritual tradi- include Grateful Dawg, her award-winning theatri- Marcus Randolph (drums) tion in which he was raised. The film follows the cal debut about the musical friendship between the Jason Crosby John Ginty (keyboards) Pedal Steel guitar phenomenon through the first late Jerry Garcia and her father, mandolinist David Sacred Steel Legends monumental stages of Randolph’s professional Grisman. She created the critically-acclaimed four- (Ted Beard, Calvin Cooke, career as he takes this unique style of music out part series Keeping Time: New Music From Willie Eason, Aubrey Ghent) Eric Clapton of the church and into the mainstream with his America’s Roots for the Sundance Channel (2003). Dave Matthews group Robert Randolph and the Family Band. In 2004, Grisman produced a tour documentary Warren Haynes Blind Boys Of Alabama Press On also traces the evolution of the Sacred about Matchbox Twenty for their DVD Show. She The Lee Boys Steel from its gospel origins in the House of God coproduced a concert documentary series on the Deerfield Steel Players Church to the future of rock ‘n’ roll. Much of this Bonnaroo Music Festival, and is currently in pro- Production Co. 11th Hour Productions & Entertainment story is told through Randolph’s bandmates as duction on a feature documentary about Rob Exec Producers Keith Wortman well as his own family, many of whom are church Thomas. Grisman’s earliest film credits include pro- Louis Levin deacons and elders. The film also features Sacred ducing the Grateful Dead short-form music docu- Producers Alicia Sams Steel virtuosos Ted Beard, Calvin Cooke, The Lee mentary Backstage Pass, and a short film for Francis Gillian Grisman Boys, and the Deerfield Jamboree, as well as Ford Coppola about his winery. Grisman has also Cinematographer Gillian Grisman musicians Eric Clapton, Dave Matthews, Warren produced music videos and programming for VH1, Editors Charles Marquardt Gillian Grisman Haynes, and The Blind Boys of Alabama. Warner Bros., and others.

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NY PREMIERE Sarah Silverman has been compared to the legendary Lenny Bruce, and is Sarah Silverman: known as one of the funniest and most Jesus Is Magic provocative people in comedy. Despite Directed by Liam Lynch the current political climate, in Jesus is Magic 2004 / USA / 70 minutes she takes on such pitch-black topics as September 11th, unwanted body hair, and the Upstate 2 Town Hall PM PM Holocaust, and spins them into decidedly un- Fri.Sept 30 • 10:00 Sat. Oct 1 • 7:30 PC comedic gold. Sarah Silverman: Jesus Is preceded by Magic is written by Sarah Silverman and How I Know You directed by Liam Lynch. Lynch collaborated with Silverman to adapt her show to the screen. The film comprises Silverman’s per- formance before a live audience interwoven with stylish musical numbers and backstage BIO Director Liam Lynch is a fast-ris- intrigue. Comedians Bob Odenkirk and ing video and film director cur- Brian Posehn make appearances along with rently in production on the feature Silverman’s band, The Silver Men. Tenacious D in: The Pick of Destiny.

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“Using Shakespeare as a D metaphor for transforma- O

Shakespeare C

Behind Bars tion, this brutally honest U and compelling story of a M Directed by Hank Rogerson E group of extraordinary N

2005 / USA / 92 minutes T

actors – prisoners who have com- A

Town Hall Upstate 2 mitted heinous crimes – cast them- R I Sun. Oct 2 • 1:00PM Sat. Oct 1• 4:30PM selves and through their characters E S Main Credits: attempt a better understanding of Production Co. Philomath Films their lives. The simple, moving score Producer Jilann Spitzmiller and lack of narration allow us to Screenwriter Hank Rogerson more fully enter their world.” Cinematographer Shana Hagan (Barbara Pokras, A.C.E.) Editor Victor Livingston Composer James Stemple umph and a means of personal liberation. The site was commissioned as a pilot site Sound Editor Derek Sample Shakespeare Behind Bars is a tremendously for the ITVS web-original series, Electric IN COMPETITION moving film, where the protagonists are not Shadows. Circle Of Stories played at merely defined by their crimes but are Sundance Film Festival in 2003 and at Shakespeare Behind Bars follows an all- afforded dignity and a fresh chance to look SXSW. Rogerson also freelances as a writer, male Shakespeare company working truth in the eye, and embrace it. director, and producer within the film behind bars at Kentucky’s Luther industry, with clients ranging from NBC to Luckett Correctional Complex. Take Hank Rogerson coproduced, the Discovery Health Channel. As an actor, Shakespeare’s final play The Tempest, with BIO directed, and edited the award- Rogerson has studied Shakespeare at A its violent seas, windswept island, crucial winning Homeland, about four families on Noise Within in Los Angeles, and played connection to nature, and underlying the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Lysander in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. theme of forgiveness, and bring it into a Dakota, which aired nationally on PBS and His other projects include the play The prison, the ultimate venue of confinement. was seen at festivals around the world. Butter and Egg Man, and the film The The result is an extraordinary story about Rogerson also co-directed and produced Orange Orange (2001), as well as guest the creative process and the power of art to Circle Of Stories, a cutting edge multimedia roles on E.R. and Judging Amy. Rogerson heal and redeem–in a place where the very project that brings to life the vibrant art of also performs improv at Bang Studios in act of participation in theatre is a human tri- Native American storytelling at pbs.org. Los Angeles.

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State Of Fear Directed by Pamela Yates 2005 / PERU, USA / 94 minutes

How can an open society balance Upstate 1 Bearsville Brotherhood Of Hate, a study of violent white demands for security with democracy? Fri. Sept 30 • 4:30PM Sun. Oct 2 • 12:30PM supremacy, broadcast on the Showtime Networks. State Of Fear dramatizes the human and Main Credits: Brotherhood Of Hate and Cause For Murder were both S Production Co. Skylight Pictures

E societal costs a democracy faces when it coproductions with The New York Times. Yates pro- I Producer Paco de Onís R embarks on a war against terror, potentially duced on the series Trauma: Life And Death In The

A Cinematographer Juan Durán

T without end, all too easily exploited by ER. Trauma was the highest rated series on The

N unscrupulous leaders seeking personal polit- Editor Peter Kinoy Learning Channel (1997-1998) and Yates’ program E Composers Tito La Rosa

M ical gain. The film follows events in Peru, yet Loss Of Innocence received a national Emmy. Tavo Castillo U it serves as a cautionary tale for a nation like Yates was a producer from 1993 to 1995 on C

O the United States. Filmmakers Pamela Yates, Michael Moore’s TV Nation for NBC and Fox. Her “Parallels abound in this meticulously D Peter Kinoy, and Paco de Onís masterfully independent films in Latin America include Witness constructed chronology of the ease with blend personal testimony, history, and To War (Academy Award, 1985), about an American which Peruvian democracy, reacting to archival footage to tell the story of escalating doctor behind rebel lines in El Salvador; When The terrorism, transformed itself into a violence in the Andean nation, and reveal Mountains Tremble (Special Jury Award, Sundance despotic, corrupt and murderous how the fear of terror undermined its 1984), featuring Nobel Prize laureate Rigoberta regime. Twenty years of killing came to democracy, making Peru a virtual dictator- Menchu; and Nicaragua: Report From The Front. She an end only when protests spearheaded ship where official corruption replaced the also produced and directed Takeover, (Official selec- by the Human Rights Movement ousted rule of law. Terrorist attacks by Shining Path tion, Sundance 1991), Poverty Outlaw (Sundance the regime and established the Truth insurgents provoked a military occupation 1995), and the Independent Television Service pres- and Reconciliation Committee.” of the countryside. Military justice replaced entation Outriders on PBS (1999). Yates directed the (Barbara Pokras, A.C.E.) civil authority, widespread abuses by the first music video made in China, No More Disguises, Peruvian Army went unpunished, and the with Ciu Jian, which was named by Rolling Stone as terrorism continued to spread. Nearly one of the 10 best music videos of 1989. It had its Pamela Yates 70,000 civilians eventually died at the hands BIO is a director with a US premiere at the Human Rights Watch of Shining Path and the Peruvian military. breadth of experience in both commercial International Film Festival.Yates is one of the television and independent documentaries. Prior to founders and president of Skylight Pictures, a film directing State Of Fear, she directed Presumed Guilty, and video production company in Manhattan. and produced and directed Cause For Murder, which was commissioned by the PBS international series Wide Angle (2002). The film explores the cost of political bravery in the lives and deaths of two young Mexican lawyers, Digna Ochoa and Marigeli Tames. In 2000, she produced and directed

WOODSTOCK FILM FESTIVAL 2005 64 DOCUMENTARIES 65 PM Town Hall Town Sat. Oct 1 • 5:30 PM Philip Di Fiore Philip David Byrne David George Clinton Bootsy Collins Haynes Warren Mos Def Bill Laswell Will Calhoun Paul Prince Chris Frantz Tina Weymouth Kalafer Steve Seth Lind (see music) on Earth Stranger: Stranger: 005 / USA / 40 minutes 2 Directed by Philip Di Fiore Directed by Philip Di Bernie Worrell Bernie Worrell Town Hall Town 8pm at the Bearsville Theater the Bearsville8pm at or live in concert Wednesday night at at night Wednesday in concertlive inematographer Seth Lind,Tibbar Rae dit See Bernie Worrelland the Strangers the Strangers Worrelland See Bernie Composer Bernie Worrell Featuring Bernie Worrell Main Credits: Bernie Featuring Co.Production Producers pd101 studios C Di Fiore Philip E Thurs.Sept 298:00 • - - en won ’s life DOCUMENTARIES ork. T Stranger Using synthesizers, citing new film proj x His career spans more Since writing a piano writing Since age eight, at concerto gives insight into the musician y Over three years in the making, . than three decades. It was Miles Davis who dis and work. Dave Holland won the Grammy Award Big Band. Featuring (2002) for Best Performing Dave Holland, Miles Davis, and many others. Directed by Ulli Gruber 2004 / USA / 22 minutes leading Holland is one of the world’s Dave bass players. acoustic DAVE HOLLAND DAVE covered the young Englishman in 1967. This documentar iore is currently cultivating two e US PREMIERE is an award-winning director living in Brooklyn, New Y is an award-winning director living in Brooklyn, Preceded by Preceded e ior F i hilip D P years ago he moved to New York City and performed as a songwriter and gui- City and performed as a songwriter years ago he moved to New York Stranger: Bernie Worrell On Earth Stranger: Bernie Worrell BIO ects to begin in the fall. Bernie Worrell has been acknowledged as a musical genius. Worrell Bernie he invented sounds that had never before existed in the universe. His work has been existed he invented sounds that had never before him to Beethoven, His peers compare imitated and copied to the point of ubiquity. of fading from the book is in danger and Jimi Hendrix. But Bernie Worrell Charlie Parker of musical history. awards in the US and abroad. Di F tarist at dive bars throughout the city. In 2001, he attended film school at New School In 2001, he attended tarist at dive bars throughout the city. films and videos. and directed experimental University on scholarship, where he wrote in order to complete his first large-scale proj- He left school six credits shy of graduation ect: NY PREMIERE WOODSTOCK FILM FESTIVAL 2005 WOODSTOCK FILM FESTIVAL DOCUMENTARIES

NY PREMIERE

Troop 1500

Troop 1500 tells the story of a unique Directed by Ellen Spiro Ellen S For almost two decades

E 2004 / USA / 63 minutes BIO

I Girl Scout troop comprised of girls Spiro has created award-winning

R whose mothers are incarcerated at the Bearsville CMF 2 and imaginative documentaries, including A

T Gatesville Prison in Texas. The main char- Thu.Sept 29•6:30PM Sat. Oct 1 • 2:30PM Diana’s Hair Ego, Greetings From Out Here, N

E acters–Caitlin, Jessica, Mikaela, Jasmine, Main Credits: Roam Sweet Home, Atomic Ed & the Black

M and Jessica–face harsh realities as children Company Mobilus Media Hole, and now, Troop 1500. U Exec Producer Sally Jo Fifer

C of incarcerated mothers. Members of Girl Spiro’s films have pushed the bound-

O Scout Troop 1500, the prison troop chal- Producers Karen Bernstein aries of the documentary form, thriving

D Ellen Spiro lenges the stereotypic image of the Girl both in the art world and in television and Cinematographer Ellen Spiro Scout as a middle-class girl in a perfectly film festival venues. Her works are housed Editor Jenn Garrison creased uniform striving to win achieve- in the permanent collections of the ment badges in camping and home eco- Museum of Modern Art in New York and in nomics. While moving in ways far beyond the Peabody Collection of the Museum of what Girl Scout founder Juliette Gordon Television and Radio. Spiro is the recipient Low could have imagined for her value- “Troop 1500 traverses tough emotional of a Guggenheim Fellowship, National based organization in 1912, the themes of terrain. As an intervention for the fami- Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and surviving in the wilderness and self-reliance lies to defeat the cycle of crime, the girls Jerome Foundation Fellowship. She is a remain pertinent. Julia Cuba, the very hip seek to better understand their mothers two-time Rockefeller Fellowship recipient. Troop 1500 leader, works tirelessly with Dr. through tough and sometimes painful Her films have been broadcast on PBS, Darlene Grant to interrupt an insidious video interviews.” HBO, and BBC. For more than five years cycle of crime within families. (Barbara Pokras, A.C.E.) Spiro worked with the girls of Troop 1500 as both mentor and volunteer, training the girls in filmmaking before even beginning her own film.

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TV Party From 1978 to Directed by Danny Vinik 1982, Glenn 2005 / USA / 90 minutes O’Brien hosted a New York City WCC cable TV show Sat. Oct 1 • 9:30PM called TV Party. Main Credits: Cohosted by Chris Featuring Glenn O’Brien Chris Stein Stein from Blondie BIO Danny Vinik Walter Steding and directed by has been an Production Co. Brink Films filmmaker Amos online pioneer since the Producers Danny Vinik Poe, television went where it had never inception of the web as we know it. His novel Kai Erie gone before. Shot in the style of its subject Blue Paige was published in 1999. His compa- Cinematographer Chris Edwards matter, TV Party is an ode to the cable tele- ny, Brink Media, creates web solutions and Editor Jeff Flohr vision show that is as much a piece of late marketing campaigns for a wide variety of Composer Clif Taylor ‘70s culture as it is a definition of it. clients, including Kevin Spacey’s filmmakers Sound Editor Paul McKenney Featuring interviews with famous regulars community site, Christy Turlington, and the such as Debbie Harry, Amos Poe and, of band Velvet Revolver. Vinik has been intimately culture, yet still manage to defy easy categoriza- course, the host Glenn O’Brien, this docu- involved with indie film production at many tion. The Brink is also a popular webzine and mentary captures the playful spirit of this levels and he is the brawn, if not the brains, Brink’s films include 2003’s Spun and 2005’s

radical talk show that touches on themes of behind The Brink, a group of entertainment Pornstar Pets, as well as a courageous slate of D music, politics and ‘sub-realism.’ companies that exist on the margins of popular films in development. O C U M

NY PREMIERE E N T Unknown White A R I

Male E S Directed by Rupert Murray 2005 / UK / 87 minutes Tinker Rosendale Fri. Sept 30, 9:30PM Sat. Oct 1, 9:15PM Main Credits: Featuring Doug Bruce Exec Producer Jess Search One morning, Doug Bruce finds himself Unknown White Male, directed and Producer Beadie Finzi BIO Screenwriter Rupert Murray on a train heading to Coney Island, hav- edited by Rupert Murray and pro- Cinematographer Orlando Stuart ing completely lost his memory–his duced by Beadie Finzi, is the first docu- Editor Rupert Murray name, his family and friends, and his sense mentary film from Spectre Broadcast. Composer Muklu of self are all simply gone. In detailing how Previous joint ventures for the team include and why this happened to his friend, film- the performance/drama hybrid This Was My Courtesy of maker Rupert Murray has created a War, based on the cult lo-fi music scene thoughtful and sometimes unsettling exam- seeping out of American suburbia. Murray ination of who we are and how we define also shot and edited Playing For England, ourselves. As Bruce re-acquaints himself about the England Football supporters with his own life, he has to decide what band as well as Seconds To Impact, an and who from his past is worth remember- extraordinary insight into the world of base ing and what he can let go of. Slowly, a new jumping for the UK’s Channel 4. In 2004 person emerges, but one who still must Murray won the prestigious advertising face the painful experiences that may have IVCA Grand Prix gold award for his short instigated his break in the first place. film on drug addiction.

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US PREMIERE Zizek! Directed by Astra Taylor 2005 / CANADA, USA / 71 minutes Upstate 2 Town Hall Sun. Oct. 2 • 1:00PM Sat. Oct. 1 • 12:30PM

Main Credits: Featuring Slavoj Zizek Production Co. Documentary Campaign Producer Lawrence Konner Cinematographers Martina Radwan Zizek! trails the thinker as he crisscross- relationship to his growing celebrity. Jesse Epstein es the globe, racing from New York City “Erudite and outrageous, mixing inno- Editor Laura Hanna lecture halls, through the streets of Buenos vative animations with uncensored Composer Jeremy Barnes Aires, and even stopping at home in interviews, Zizek! is both an unforget- Sound Editor Laura Hanna Ljubljana, Slovenia. All the while Zizek table lesson in philosophy and a com- Courtesy of obsessively reveals the invisible workings of pelling portrait of an intellectual ideology through his unique blend of maverick.” (Barbara Pokras, A.C.E.) Lacanian psychoanalysis, Marxism, and critique of pop culture. Never ceasing to tion in southern Senegal, after which she observe the paradoxes that underpin our Astra Taylor was born in 1979 in associate produced Persons Of Interest S BIO E perception of reality, little goes untheorized Canada but spent most of her (Sundance 2004) about the detention of I

R over the course of the film, particularly childhood unschooling in Athens, Georgia. Arabs and Muslims after 9/11. Taylor lived A

T Zizek’s recurring themes–ideology, belief, She taught sociology at the University of in Lake Hill, New York, while she was mak- N revolution, and love. But Zizek is also Georgia and at SUNY New Paltz, and her ing Zizek!, which was edited in a barn off of E

M unafraid to turn his critical gaze on himself, writing has appeared in Salon, The Nation, Library Lane in Woodstock. U astutely analyzing his private life for the and Monthly Review. In 2001 she made a C preceded by

O camera and contemplating his conflicted short documentary about infant malnutri- What I’m Looking For D

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