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UNSON M ORTIA © P SEPTEMBER 29 - OCTOBER 3 2010 AWARDS THE 2010 WOODSTOCK FILM FESTIVAL AWARDS CEREMONY Come celebrate 2010 Honorary recipients include: Bruce Beresford MAVERICK AWARD: The Honorary Maverick Award is given each year to an individual Bob Berney whose life and work is based on creativity, independent vision and Keanu Reeves social activism. Previous recipients include Richard Linklater, Kevin Smith, Christine Vachon, Barbara Kopple, Tim Robbins, Les Blank, D.A. and the Pennebaker & Chris Hegedus, Woody Harrelson, Mira Nair and Steve Woodstock Film Festival Buscemi. The Woodstock Film Festival is proud to present two-time Academy at the 11th annual Award® nominated writer/director Bruce Beresford with the 2010 Maverick Awards Honorary Maverick Award. His international reputation blossomed as part of the Australian new wave, when the astonishing courtroom drama Ceremony Breaker Morant won major awards and the screenplay, which Beresford Saturday, October 2 co-wrote, was nominated for an Academy Award®. In 1983, Beresford helmed Tender Mercies which was nominated for five Academy Awards®. @ Backstage Production The extraordinarily successful Driving Miss Daisy was nominated for Studios in Kingston. nine Academy Awards®. Beresfrod’s most recent film, Peace, Love & Misunderstanding was produced in the Hudson Valley and stars Jane 7:00pm: Fonda, Catherine Keener, Chase Crawford, Liz Olsen, Nat Wolff and many Cocktail party in Gallery. others including local featured actors and extras. Look for the release sometime in 2011. 8:15pm Seating for awards begins. TRAILBLAZER AWARD: 9:00pm: Award Ceremony with presentations to our honorary The Trailblazer award, which recognizes an innovative leader and pioneer in the field industry will be presented to distribution guru Bob recipients in the categories of: Berney. A preeminent force in the international film world for more Feature Narrative, than two decades, Berney has worked with four of the most successful Documentary Narrative, independent film distribution and marketing companies: Apparition, Picturehouse, Newmarket Films and IFC Films. He has overseen the Cinematography, releases of Academy Award® nominated and winning films There Will Be Editing in Documentary Blood, Monster, La Vie En Rose, The Passion of the Christ, Whale Rider, My and Big Fat Greek Wedding, Y Tu Mama Tambien, A Prairie Home Companion, Pan’s Labyrinth, Mongol and many more. Past WFF Honorary Trailblazer Editing in Feature Narrative, Award recipients include James Schamus of Focus Features, Ted Sarandos Animated Short, of Netflix, Jonathan Sehring of IFC Entertainment, and John Sloss of Cinetic Media. Short Film, Student Short EXECLLENCE IN ACTING AWARD and for performances in Hollywood and Independent Film Short Doc. Keanu Reeves will be recognized for skillfully skirting the boundaries between tent-pole studio releases and smaller, character driven films. He Jurors including is best known for his roles in Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure, Speed and the science fiction-action trilogy The Matrix. He has worked under indie Actors, directors, such as Stephen Frears in the period drama Dangerous Liaisons; Directors, Gus Van Sant in the gritty My Own Private Idaho; Bernardo Bertolucci’s Little Buddha; Richard Linklater’s A Scanner Darkly, Thumbsucker, The Film Critics, Private Lives of Pippa Lee and this year’s Henry’s Crime. Producers, In addition to his film roles, Reeves has also performed in theater. and other distinguished His performance in the title role in a Manitoba Theatre Centre production of Hamlet was praised by Roger Lewis, the Sunday Times, who called members of the industry will Reeves “...one of the top three Hamlets I have seen, for a simple present the Awards to the reason: he is Hamlet.” winning filmmakers. Reeves also has musical interests and played bass guitar in the grunge band Dogstar. Front cover byPortia Munson, poster available at woodstockfilmfestival.com/store/souvenirs.php All events are subject to change. For latest updates, visit 2 www.WoodstockFilmFestival.com WOODSTOCK FILM FESTIVAL 2010 Help Make our DreaM a reality The Woodstock Film Festival and Hudson Valley Film Commission would like to purchase a building in the center of Woodstock. What the proposed FILM CENTER can mean to WFF, HVFC and you! • WFF operations, communications • A revitalized space for confer- • Encourage economic growth in center and tech headquarters ences, classes and workshops our community • Centrally located WFF and HVFC • Space for casting calls and office • Generous benifits for contributors administrative office space for local film productions We need your help to make a permanent home a reality. I’d like to make a tax-deductible contribution to the yeS! Woodstock Film Festival & Hudson Valley Film Commission CAPITAL CAMPAIGN $25 contribution $250 contribution $2,500 contribution $25,000 contribution I’d like to make a donation of a different amount for __________ Please bill my Visa MC AmEx Card # _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Ex. Date: _ _ / _ _ I have enclosed a check made out to Woodstock Film Festival (or Hudson Valley Film Commission) Name: ______________________________ Address: _______________________________________________ Telephone: ________________________ Email: _________________________________________________ Please return to: Woodstock Film Festival, PO Box 1406, Woodstock, NY 12498 To view additional details or to contribute online, visit: woodstockfilmfestival.com/cart/capitalcampaign.php The Woodstock Film Festival and Hudson Valley Film Commission are non profit 501 (c) 3 organizations FEATURES COMPETITION FINALIST East Coast Premiere New York Premiere New York Premiere COURTESY: DARK SKY FILMS COMPETITION FINALIST COMPETITION FINALIST 3 Backyards Bitter Feast Cherry The Colonel’s Bride Directed by Eric Mendelsohn Directed by Joe Maggio Directed by Jeffrey Fine Directed by Brent Stewart USA / 2010 / 88 minutes USA / 2010 / 103 minutes USA / 2009 / 99:30 minutes USA / 2009 / 73 minutes Upstate Films RHINEBECK Emerson Resort MOUNT TREMPER Upstate Films WOODSTOCK Upstate Films RHINEBECK Thu Sept 30 • 7:30pm Fri Oct 1 • 8:00pm Fri Oct 1 • 10:00pm Fri Oct 1 • 7:30pm Upstate Films WOODSTOCK ROSENDALE Theater Upstate Films RHINEBECK Bearsville Theater WOODSTOCK Sat Oct 2 • 7:00pm Sat Oct 2 • 6:30pm Sun Oct 3 • 5:30pm Sun Oct 3 • 12:00pm Nearly every sense is called upon to Renowned chef Peter Gray, played Arriving at an Ivy League school at Brent Stewart presents his directorial, observe and absorb the many layers of smartly by James LeGros, is having an the tender age of 17, Aaron feels narrative feature debut. “The Colonel’s meaning in this elusive and nuanced awful day. His celebrity cooking show is out of place. Looking to settle down and Bride” is a compelling and quiet masterwork by Eric Mendelsohn. Set in a sinking fast in the ratings and his posh New escape the bonds of his overbearing mother, drama, featuring James DeForest preternaturally squeaky-clean seaside suburb, York City restaurant, Feast, has once again Aaron’s quiet life is quickly disrupted by Parker in a convincing performance as the ordinary lives of three of its residents received a nasty review from online food the vivacious Linda and her feisty young Bill Best, a lonely Vietnam Veteran in daughter Beth. take unexpected turns. critic JT Franks (Joshua Leonard), leaving failing health. The broken colonel seeks So begins an unlikely love triangle Driven by an eerily plaintive score Gray frazzled, frustrated and fired. Now out solace in the company of Gwynn, a young in which everyone loves someone, but no and voyeuristic cinematography, “3 of a job and with his good name ruined, Gray mail order bride from Vietnam, but as Bill’s one loves the right one. As the relationships Backyards” blends genuine suspense with seeks retribution by kidnapping the critic old world and new reality begin to clash, between the three grow, splits emerge that brilliant performances; a chameleon-like who has tormented him for so long. What he is forced to reconcile past war sins, threaten to ruin valuable friendships. Edie Falco, as Peggy, hungers for excitement follows in Joe Maggio’s revenge thriller is a seeking out redemption in the form of his “Cherry” features exceptional while dabbling in painting to gloss over delightfully crafted tale of intrigue, torture new bride. performances from a predominantly young a humdrum life. And if divorce is what and culinary delight. Featuring a cameo by Meanwhile Gwynn, played admirably cast portraying characters that evolve happens when the conversation ends, then celebrity chef Mario Batali, “Bitter Feast” by Alicia Truong in her feature film debut, is throughout the film as their perceptions the marriage of world-weary John (Elias cuts beyond the generic Hollywood horror trapped in a world she doesn’t understand, of each other and themselves alter. Jeffrey Koteas) teeters on the brink of dissolution. tale, creating complex characters and motiva- hoping for a better life than she had in Fine’s film is a wonderfully woven tapestry Eight-year-old Christina (Rachel Resheff) tions. Hudson Valley resident Larry Fessenden Vietnam, but quickly realizing that perhaps about love, joy, redemption and friendship must guard a precious gift while stumbling produces and co-stars in a film that is sure to she had left the better world behind. “The that shows how life can be better lived upon a disturbing secret. be a banquet, not just to your eyes and ears, Colonel’s Bride” is an undeniably touching when in the company of the people who A treatise on loss? Are “backyards” but your taste buds as well. – Michael Burke film featuring beautiful cinematography care about you. – Jacob Brades the underbrush where secrets reside? At by Neil Lisk. Stewart, who also penned the Oct 1 Screening includes a pre- times maddeningly subtle, this is a mesmer- script, was recently named by Filmmaker screening feast for ticket holders, izing film unafraid to pose possibly unan- Magazine as one of 2010’s twenty-five new featuring a menu created by celebrity swerable questions.