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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.

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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. A “must see!” faces in independent film. chef and “Bitter Feast” supporting actor, – Barbara Pokras, A.C.E. – Michael Burke Mario Batali and catered by Mary Giuliani.

Don’t Go in the Woods love, greed and ruthlessness, revealing the music and horror in a highly original way, Directed by Vincent D’Onofrio lengths that people will go to in order to “Don’t Go in the Woods” will captivate and make their dreams come true. terrify in equal measure. USA / 2010 / 83 minutes Described as “Glee” meets “The Emerson Resort Pavilion MOUNT TREMPER Blair Witch Project,” the film cleverly “Don’t Go In The Woods” – The Band Fri Oct 1 • 8:00pm walks an unusual line, maintaining a When a young band goes into the sinister and creeping sense of dread as The stars of Vincent D’Onofrio’s film “Don’t Go In woods to write songs they hope will well as a feeling of genuine suspense, The Woods” will be performing together at Fright give them their break, the quiet which follows the characters from the Night. This ensemble of actors all proved their getaway turns into a nightmare beyond very beginning. The film displays the musical abilities in the film. Bo Boddie and Sam their wildest imaginings. “Don’t Go In musical talents of a gifted ensemble cast, Bisbee star in the film and also co-wrote much of The Woods,” the feature length directorial including Matt Sbeglia as Nick, the band’s music and songs that are featured in the score. debut of Vincent D’Onofrio, is a twisted, lead singer, and the music of Bo Boddie bizarre, musical/horror tale that explores and Sam Bisbee, who also star. Blending

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New York Premiere East Coast Premiere East Coast Premiere US Premiere East Coast Premiere COMPETITION FINALIST Courtesy: FILM MOVEMENT COURTESY: IFC Films Helena From the Wedding Hello Lonesome Henry’s Crime The Imperialists Directed by Joseph Infantolino Directed by Adam Reid Directed by Malcolm Venville Are Still Alive! USA / 2010 / 93 minutes USA / 2010 / 93 minutes USA / 2010 / 109 minutes Directed by Zeina Durra Upstate Films WOODSTOCK Upstate Films WOODSTOCK Upstate Films WOODSTOCK USA / 2010 / 90 minutes Thurs Sept 30 • 1:00pm Fri Oct 1 • 11:30am Sat Oct 2 • 4:00pm Upstate Films WOODSTOCK Upstate Films RHINEBECK ROSENDALE Theater ROSENDALE Theater Fri Oct 1 • 4:30pm Fri Oct 1 • 9:30pm Sun Oct 3 • 12:30pm Sun Oct 3 • 3:00pm Upstate Films RHINEBECK Everyone has, at some moment in Sleepwalking his way through life, Newlyweds Alex and Alice are hosting Sun Oct 3 • 8:30pm a weekend-long New Year’s Eve party their life, known what it feels like to Henry (Keanu Reeves) gets an unex- Durra’s debut is a fascinating look at for their closest friends at a remote be alone. But what if that feeling followed pected wake-up call when he becomes the underground art and fashion world. cabin in the mountains. Any thoughts of you everywhere? Adam Reid’s “Hello Lone- an unwitting participant in a bank The film follows conceptual artist Asya from a perfect getaway are quickly thrown out the some” is the story of four people who are heist. Rather than give up the names the night she learns that her close friend window as newly separated Nick arrives with desperate to find companionship any way of the real culprits, he takes the fall and Faisal has been abducted, supposedly by they can. discovers his true calling. Having done only a cooler of meat and the news that he the CIA. That same evening Asya meets A true gem of a film, it is a the time, Henry reasons he may as well do and his most recent girlfriend have also called a handsome medical student, sparking beautifully crafted and touching story about the crime. Discovering a forgotten tunnel romance even as he challenges her thoughts it quits. Don and Lynn show up a few minutes love and friendship, mixed with moments of connecting the bank to a nearby theater, he later deep in an argument. Finally, Eve and of a grand political conspiracy. poignancy and tenderness, that is equally recruits his old cellmate Max (James Caan) Durra guides the viewer through New Steven make it to the cabin with a surprise heartwarming and heartbreaking. The story to aid in the robbery, all the while playing York, exhibiting a consummate understand- guest in tow—Eve’s friend Helena. follows the lives of an embittered voice the lead in the theater’s current production ing of the city. With the conflict in Israel With tensions running high at the actor, a recent widow and a young couple where he finds himself falling for his lead- constantly in the minds of the characters cabin, Alex tries to approach the young and who meet via the Internet. Although the ing lady, Julie (Vera Farmiga). and with clever reminders that post-9/11 beautiful Helena. When she rebuffs him, Alex lives of the characters never intersect, they life has changed for many Americans, this seems to forget about his new wife and the all share common traits pertaining to how intelligent film explores the deep effects of life she represents, and instead begins to they relate with the world around them. the so-called War on Terror. Taken from the With wonderfully understated and moving wallow in the fact that nothing seems to go point of view of characters who, in Durra’s performances, “Hello Lonesome” will lift the right for him. As it creeps closer to midnight words, are only just “reaching an age of ma- spirits of all who see it, as it reminds us turity,” “The Imperialists Are Still Alive!” is on New Year’s Eve, we realize that nearly ev- that happiness is often found in the most eryone in the group of friends isn’t who they a beautifully insightful film that will inspire unlikely of places. – Jacob Brades the viewer to reconsider how they perceive appear to be—deep down, they all are a little their own 21st Century psyche. lost in the world. –Jacob Brades

Inhale Directed by Baltasar Kormákur Every day, rising Santa Fe District Attorney south in a frantic search for the only man USA / 2010 / 100 minutes Paul Chaney and his wife, Diane, wait for who may be able to save Chloe. But after word that there’s a donor for their daughter, arriving, he realizes Dr. Novarro’s medical Upstate Films WOODSTOCK Chloe. Diagnosed with a rare degenerative ring runs deep into a criminal underworld Fri Oct 1 • 7:15pm condition, Chloe is on a long list to receive where his patients aren’t donors – they’re ROSENDALE Theater a double lung transplant. As her health victims. With his career, his family and Sat Oct 2 • 3:30pm worsens, Paul becomes desperate to save his life on the line, Paul finds himself at a Every day, rising Santa Fe District his young child…so desperate that he’ll risk critical crossroads: expose a massive, illegal Attorney Paul Chaney and his wife, everything to organize an operation. When harvesting operation and save the lives of Diane, wait for word that there’s a Paul learns of a Dr. Novarro who performs hundreds of children, or save the life of his donor for their daughter, Chloe. transplants in Juarez , Mexico, he heads daughter. North American Premiere COURTESY: IFC Films

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US Premiere New York Premiere COMPETITION FINALIST COMPETITION FINALIST Inuk The Locksmith Nice Guy Johnny Norman Directed by Mike Magidson Directed by Brad Barnes and Todd Barnes Directed by Edward Burns Directed by Jonathan Segal Greenland, France / 2009 / 90 minutes USA / 2010 / 88 minutes USA / 2010 / 90 minutes USA / 2010 / 97 minutes In Greenlandic Inuit with subtitles Upstate Films RHINEBECK Upstate Films WOODSTOCK Upstate Films RHINEBECK Fri Oct 1 • 2:00pm Upstate Films RHINEBECK Fri Oct 1 • 4:15pm Sat Oct 2 • 1:30pm Sat Oct 2 • 4:00pm WOODSTOCK Town Hall Upstate Films RHINEBECK Bearsville Theater WOODSTOCK Sat Oct 2 • 9:15pm Bearsville Theater WOODSTOCK Sun Oct 3 • 3:45pm Sun Oct 3 • 4:45pm Sun Oct 3 • 2:15pm Mike is a locksmith. He’s also a pris- Johnny Rizzo is forced to travel from Norman is a remarkable young man. A stunning coming of age adventure oner on work release, but he’s just the Bay Area to New York by his over- With his mother dead and his father featuring dynamic performances trying to focus on his house calls and bearing fiancée to discuss a mundane seriously ill but refusing treatment, by amateur Inuit actors akin to or reconcile with his ex-girlfriend... until job with her father that would put an Norman must take it upon himself to surpassing any professional. “Inuk” is Margo hijacks his day. “The Locksmith” is end to his dream of sports casting. His make life bearable. the story of a sixteen-year-old boy who is a romcom amusingly tripped up by a stolen life is soon disrupted by Brooke, a spirited Struggling with his own teenage taken from his broken family in the capital vehicle, drug dealer, interrogation and just young tennis instructor. With his uncle Terry angst, Norman is catapulted into a lie that city of Greenland and placed in a home for a little bit of sweet redemption. pushing him to have one last wild time affects others’ perceptions of him and the troubled youth in the remote north of the When ex-con Mike (Anslem Richard- before his upcoming marriage, Johnny must way he views himself. Dan Byrd, as Norman, country. What follows is a dramatic, arctic son) gets a call to open a door for frantic decide whether he’ll continue to be the per- beautifully captures the struggles of the journey as Inuk and the other teens at the Margo (Ana Reeder), he has no idea he’s son who always pleases others, or whether character, his idiosyncrasies and sense of center are led on a cross-ice voyage where about to be swept away into her peculiar he’ll make himself happy. humor that prevail throughout. they will be forced to grow into adulthood reality, which takes the unlikely pair on Writer, director Ed Burns, who puts in This powerful coming-of-age drama and face their troubled pasts. a hunt to find out if Margo’s boyfriend is a star turn as the sleazy Uncle Terry, returns stars the Academy Award® nominated The film introduces Gaba Peterson in cheating. Brad and Todd Barnes wrote and to his roots, creating a film that is engag- Richard Jenkins, Dan Byrd (“Cougar Town”), the breakthrough title role and Ole Jorgen directed with an irresistible charm that ing, funny, warm and down to earth. Matt Emily VanCamp (ABC’s “Brothers & Sisters”) Hammeken in a spellbinding turn as Ikuma, embraces the viewer; you’ll feel like a friend Bush (“Adventureland”) is totally convincing and Adam Goldberg (“Saving Private Ryan”). the quiet Inuit hunter who leads the excur- along for the ride. Through sticky situations, as the eponymous Johnny and Kerry Bishé “Norman” also features an original score and sion while confronting his own inner demons. their colorful, nuanced characters and quick lights up the screen as Brooke, showing songs from acclaimed musician Andrew Bird. Breathtaking cinematography highlights the dialogue lead us through an unexpected Johnny all that he is missing. This delight- Jonathan Segal’s film beautifully immaculate winter landscapes of Greenland, chase to unlock the truth. – Heidi Johnson ful film will have every viewer smiling and examines the strategies used by an adolescent creating another character entirely from the serves as a lovely reminder that nice guys to deal with circumstances and emotions that snow and ice. “Inuk” is a powerfully moving don’t always finish last. – Jacob Brades challenge one’s sense of self. A poignant and piece, set against the dangerous world of engaging film, “Norman” combines great the Arctic, that will remain frozen in your pathos and sadness with moments of razor- memory long after the final frame. sharp comedy. – Jacob Brades – Michael Burke

Rocksteady Fresh hope arrives in the shape of Cedric Sanders and Natalie Knepp and cre- Directed by Mustapha Khan his old friend Faith, whose belief in him ates characters that an audience cannot help but like. With pulsating race sequences USA / 2010 / 92 minutes gives BC the confidence to follow his heart. Set to a reggae soundtrack and fea- coupled with tender and studious scenes, ROSENDALE Theater turing acting and musical performances by “Rocksteady” is guaranteed to delight all Fri Oct 1 • 7:00pm Grammy award-winner, Steel Pulse, “Rock- who see it. – Jacob Brades Bearsville Theater WOODSTOCK Sat Oct 2 • 2:15pm steady” follows a young man’s journey over the course of a racing season, but more BC has big dreams. A talented young importantly of self-discovery and growth. driver, he wishes to go to LA and turn It is a heart-warming and highly his hobby into a job, but his mother’s enjoyable coming of age story. Director mounting financial concerns are about Mustapha Khan gets superb performances World Premiere to ruin this dream. from the young cast, especially from leads

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World Premiere East Coast Premiere New York Premiere World Premiere CLOSING NIGHT FILM COMPETITION FINALIST Norman Some Dogs Bites Stake Land Stone Stranger Things Directed by Jonathan Segal Directed by Marc Munden Directed by Jim Mickle Directed by John Curran Directed by Eleanor Burke and Ron Eyal USA / 2010 / 97 minutes UK / 2010 / 88:29 minutes USA / 2010 / 95 minutes USA / 2009 / 105 minutes UK USA / 2010 / 75 minutes Upstate Films RHINEBECK Bearsville Theater WOODSTOCK Bearsville Theater WOODSTOCK Upstate Films WOODSTOCK Upstate Films RHINEBECK Sat Oct 2 • 1:30pm Sat Oct 2 • 7:30pm Sat Oct 2 • 10:00pm Sun Oct 3 • 6:45pm Fri Oct 1 • 2:00pm Bearsville Theater WOODSTOCK Upstate Films RHINEBECK Sun Oct 3 • 9:30pm Upstate Films WOODSTOCK Sun Oct 3 • 4:45pm Sun Oct 3 • 3:00pm In a fierce, alternative vision of Sun Oct 3 • 1:30pm Norman is a remarkable young man. “Some Dogs Bite” is the tough but America’s bleak future, a young boy is Academy Award winner Robert De Niro With his mother dead and his father tender story about three brothers. about to learn how cruel the world can and Oscar nominee Edward Norton “Stranger Things” tells of the seriously ill but refusing treatment, H is eighteen, a petty criminal and be. Martin was a normal teenage boy before deliver powerful performances as a unusual and touching bond that Norman must take it upon himself to unemployed. Casey is an innocent, the country collapsed in an empty pit of seasoned corrections official and a forms between the isolated Oona make life bearable. warm-hearted young teen and Severino economic and political disaster. scheming inmate whose lives become and homeless Mani. Set against the Struggling with his own teenage is their baby brother. And from the ashes rose a new breed of dangerously intertwined in “Stone,” a backdrop of a quiet seaside village in angst, Norman is catapulted into a lie that Technically, they’re half brothers, as terror. A vampire epidemic has swept across thought-provoking drama directed by England, this beautifully shot tale of one affects others’ perceptions of him and the they share the same mom and have differ- what is left of the nation’s abandoned John Curran. stranger reaching out to another is the way he views himself. Dan Byrd, as Norman, ent dads. But when their mom dies, social towns and cities, and it’s up to Mister, a As parole officer Jack Mabry counts feature debut of Eleanor Burke and Ron beautifully captures the struggles of the services splits them up and takes baby death dealing, rogue vampire hunter, to the days toward a quiet retirement, he is Eyal. Together they have crafted a film that character, his idiosyncrasies and sense of Severino away. Casey thinks they should be get Martin safely north to Canada, the asked to review the case of Gerald “Stone” explores grief and loneliness, but has, at humor that prevail throughout. together. He thinks his estranged father, continent’s New Eden. Creeson, in prison for covering up the its heart, a unique and distinctive pair who This powerful coming-of-age drama who lives in the north of Scotland, will take murder of his grandparents with a fire. are able to find solidarity and surprising stars the Academy Award® nominated them in. So he ‘snatches’ his baby brother Now eligible for early release, Stone needs intimacy in one another’s company. Richard Jenkins, Dan Byrd (“Cougar Town”), from his London foster home and forces H to convince Jack he has reformed, but Through minimal and nuanced filmmaking, Emily VanCamp (ABC’s “Brothers & Sisters”) to join them on the journey north. his attempts to influence the older man’s Burke and Eyal deliver a compelling work of and Adam Goldberg (“Saving Private Ryan”). As the three boys make their hap- decision have profound and unexpected maturity and sensitivity. New faces Akhtar “Norman” also features an original score and hazard odyssey across the UK, trying not to effects on them both. and Collins are magnetic in the central songs from acclaimed musician Andrew Bird. get caught by the police, they inadvertently “Stone” skillfully weaves together the roles. Jonathan Segal’s film beautifully learn about growing up and the responsi- parallel journeys of two men grappling with “Stranger Things” is a wonderfully examines the strategies used by an adolescent bilities that come with it. dark impulses, as the line between lawman singular film that brings with it a great to deal with circumstances and emotions that This moving and thoughtful film and lawbreaker becomes precariously thin. sense of calm and joy, reminding us that challenge one’s sense of self. A poignant and features terrific lead performances. Juxta- anything in life is possible and that very engaging film, “Norman” combines great posing a childlike innocence with shocking often strange things can bring with them pathos and sadness with moments of razor- adult situations, director Marc Munden has unexpected happiness. – Jacob Brades created a very fine film that will touch all sharp comedy. – Jacob Brades COURTESY OF Overture Films who see it. On Location with Stake Land in Andes, NY Tender Mercies Directed by Bruce Beresford USA / 1983 / 92 minutes Upstate Films WOODSTOCK Robert Duvall won an Oscar for his winning screenplay by Horton Foote, this Sat Oct 2 • 10:00am performance as Mac Sledge, a once- film is a powerfully nuanced masterpiece popular country-western singer of resurrection and redemption. Richard This screening will be preceded by and now exhausted alcoholic, who Corliss of “Time” declared it the “best collapses in a small, drab motel in American movie of the new year.” Carol A CONVERSATION the Texas Bible Belt. He finds peace Olten of “The San Diego Union-Tribune” WITH BRUCE BERESFORD with Rosa Lee (Tess Harper), a Vietnam declared “Tender Mercies” the best Moderated by Bradley Jacobs – War widow and mother, who agrees to let movie of 1983 and “the most poignant, “US Weekly” Senior Editor. him work off his debt provided he does but forthright, film of the year, with a not drink on the job. With an Oscar- brilliant performance by Robert Duvall.

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World Premiere East Coast Premiere US Premiere LATE ADDITION COMPETITION FINALIST COURTESY: SAMUEL GOLDWYN FILMS East Coast Premiere

The Tested Welcome To The Rileys White Irish Drinkers A NY Thing Directed by Russell Costanzo Directed by Jake Scott Directed by John Gray Directed by Olivier Lécot USA / 2010 / 90 minutes USA / 2010 / 110 minutes USA / 2010 / 109 minutes USA / 2009 / 86 minutes Bearsville Theater WOODSTOCK Upstate Films WOODSTOCK Upstate Films II RHINEBECK ROSENDALE Theater Fri Oct 1 • 7:15pm Sat Oct 2 • 9:30pm Fri Oct 1 • 10:00pm Thu Sep 30 • 8:00pm ROSENDALE Theater ROSENDALE Theater Upstate Films WOODSTOCK WOODSTOCK Town Hall Sun Oct 3 • 5:30pm Sun Oct 3 • 8:30pm Sun Oct 3 • 3:45pm Fri Oct 1 • 12:00pm Set against the backdrop of a ”Welcome To The Rileys” is an No one would envy the lives of Danny N 3 days in New York. 3 days in which gritty, urban New York City, “The emotional journey that takes us and Brian Leary, brothers trapped in Antoine must pretend to be ‘John’ Tested” is a powerful document through grief, self-reinvention and blue collar Brooklyn, circa 1975, in while staying at Arthur’s place, who of life on the street and how peo- healing. The Rileys have been struggling a family where brutality is the norm. dates Alice, whom Antoine desper- ple struggle to get by. Following in their marriage since losing their teenage Petty criminal Danny (Geoff Wigdor) takes ately loves. the lives of three people all affected daughter eight years prior. Once a happily the brunt of the punishment doled out by 3 days to discover all women are by one tragedy, Russell Costanzo’s film married couple, Lois (Melissa Leo) and Doug Patrick (Steven Lang), their tyrannical, not as romantic as him. 3 days to test his is a gripping and unabashed portrayal (James Gandolfini) have grown distant and alcoholic father, as long-suffering wife and potential as a comic, his talent as a liar, his of what can happen when youth cul- trapped in grief. Lois has become agoraphobic mother Margaret (Karen Allen), stands by French charm and his existential melan- ture clashes with authority. and won’t leave the house, while Doug tries helplessly. Brian (Nick Thurston), afraid to choly. 3 days to love New York and be loved Unwilling to shy away from to escape his pain with philandering. reveal his talents, works for the hapless in return. asking difficult questions and refusing On a business trip to New Orleans, Whitey (Peter Riegert) at the nearly defunct to sugarcoat the reality of its charac- Doug meets Mallory (Kristen Stewart), a teen- Layfeyette movie theater. Shauna (Leslie ters’ lives, “The Tested” is brutal and age runaway. Doug recognizes an innocence Murphy), Brian’s love interest, strikes the tender, unsparing and compassionate. in Mallory, which rekindles his paternal perfect note of rough-edged authenticity as It is a truly engrossing film to watch, instinct. The opportunity to protect Mallory she, too, struggles to escape. Alternately helped in no small part by terrific supplants the void in his heart, and brings tender and violent and peppered with hu- performances from all three leads, in- new meaning to his life. Doug decides to sell mor, this is smart and suspenseful storytell- cluding Michael Morris Jr. making his his business and stay in New Orleans to give ing where the ties that bind can also break feature debut. As a slice of real life, Mallory the help she can’t bring herself to a family, and childhood memories haunt few films aim as high as this. ask for. and deceive. Writer-director John Gray skill- – Jacob Brades Lois must summon all her courage to fully turns tragedy to triumph with an end- overcome her agoraphobia and venture south ing bound to shock and surprise. Powerful, before her marriage is lost. “Welcome to the well-crafted and thoroughly engaging. Rileys” is an unflinching story of love lost and – Barbara Pokras, A.C.E. found.

Career Day: The Woodstock Film Festival has a strong director Haskell Wexler. Additional past Youth Initiative committment to aspiring young filmmakers. participants include Academy Award® To that end, The Career Roundtable offers nominated screenwriter Ron Nyswaner; Onteora High School students a unique opportunity to meet actor/filmmaker Larry Fessenden; casting Fri Oct 1 • 8:00am - 2:00pm with A-list film industry professionals in director Ellen Chenoweth; Academy Award®- small groups, ask questions and learn about winning documentary filmmaker Leon Gast; careers in film and new media. producer John Sloss; studio executive Participants in this youth event have Bingham Ray; actors Melissa Leo, Norman included the late legendary composer of Reedus and Giancarlo Esposito, and many more than 200 film scores, Elmer Bernstein, others. and award-winning cinematographer and

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

All events are subject to change. For latest updates, visit 8 www.WoodstockFilmFestival.com WOODSTOCK FILM FESTIVAL 20102010 WOODSTOCK FILM FESTIVAL DOCUMENTARIES Anton Perich Perich Anton COMPETITION FINALIST New York Premiere COURTESY: Magnolia Pictures Arias with a Twist: Beautiful Darling: Camp Victory, Client 9: The Docufantasy The Life and Times of Afghanistan The Rise and Fall Directed by Bobby Sheehan Andy Warhol Superstar (The Director’s Cut) of Eliot Spitzer USA / 2010 / 86 minutes Candy Darling Directed by Carol Dysinger Directed by Alex Gibney USA / 2010 / 117 minutes Upstate Films RHINEBECK Directed by James Rasin USA / 2010 / 84 minutes Fri Oct 1 • 9:30pm USA / 2010 / 86 minutes In Dari with subtitles, and English Upstate Films WOODSTOCK Bearsville Theater WOODSTOCK Thur Sept 30 • 3:45pm Sat Oct 2 • 4:45pm WOODSTOCK Town Hall Preceded BY Neda’s Eyes An in-depth look at the rapid rise and Fri Oct 1 • 10:00pm Outrageously original mind-bending, Bearsville Theater WOODSTOCK dramatic fall of New York Governor As the line in the Lou Reed song, gender-bending entertainer Joey Arias, Fri Oct 1 • 12:00pm Eliot Spitzer. Nicknamed “The Sheriff of “Walk on the Wild Side,” goes: ‘Candy self-described “goddess of the new gen- ROSENDALE Theater Wall Street,” when he was NY’s Attorney Sun Oct 3 • 12:30pm der,” meets his match in Basil Twist, a came from Long Island ...’ The Candy General, Spitzer prosecuted crimes by third generation boundary-breaking mas- of that song was born James Lawrence “Camp Victory, Afghanistan” offers America’s largest financial institutions and Slattery in 1944. Young Jimmy lost ter puppeteer. Weaving together surrealistic, insight into the struggles of combat some of the most powerful executives in the himself in movies and television and his hallucinogenic performances (think “Busby through the story of the American Exit country. After his election as Governor, with life began to change when he met Andy Berkeley on LSD), the two perform cabaret in a Strategy. Using 300 hours of footage shot the largest margin in the state’s history, Warhol. By then, Jimmy had transformed frenzy of excess liberally sprinkled with fetish over the course of three years, the film follows many believed Spitzer was on his way to into the glamorous Candy Darling, who fantasy, space aliens, B-movies, and Aria’s a battle-tested Afghan General and the steady becoming the nation’s first Jewish President. worked alongside Sophia Loren, Jane pitch-perfect channeling of Billie Holiday. stream of U.S. National Guard soldiers deployed Then, shockingly, Spitzer’s meteoric rise Fonda, Tennessee Williams and became a Video Artist Courtney Harmel calls Arias “...a to train the men of his newly formed battalion. turned into a precipitous fall when “The New star on the Off-Off Broadway stage, before living cartoon,” and the genius of Twist adds It is the first film to examine the reality of York Times” revealed that Spitzer — the succumbing to cancer in NYC in March of fluidity, abstraction and an alter-ego to Aria’s building a functioning Afghan military — but paragon of rectitude — had been caught 1974. The film offers tender insight into larger-than-life persona. Tracing the history it is also a story about friendship and the un- seeing prostitutes. As his powerful enemies a rare personal struggle, and at the same of the 70’s - 80’s collaborative downtown NYC likely bonds that form across cultural, political gloated, his supporters questioned the time catapults the viewer into a world of underground art scene, this film is a treasure and social barriers. timing of it all: as the Sheriff fell, so did seductive glamor and those hungry for trove of commentary and rare archival footage Deeply personal, “Camp Victory, Af- the financial markets, in a cataclysm that fame at all costs. of cutting-edge personalities. There’s even a ghanistan” is an original look into a world that threatened to unravel the global economy. nod to Michele Obama in a Toledo creation. most will never see. Thoughtfully filmed and With unique access to the escort world and From the heyday of Fiorucci to the scourge tenderly handled, “Camp Victory, Afghanistan” well as friends, colleagues and enemies of of AIDS and beyond, “Arias With a Twist” is proves that regardless of country, language the ex-Governor (many of whom have come a supremely satisfying visual and aural feast. or beliefs, people can work together in an at- forward for the first time) the film explores Brilliant and wildly entertaining! tempt to improve the way they live. the hidden contours of this tale of hubris, – Barbara Pokras, A.C.E – Jacob Brades sex and power.

New York Premiere Private McKinley Nolan vanished from the cotton belt of Texas, to the COMPETITION FINALIST 40 years ago in Vietnam on the battlegrounds of Vietnam, to the killing The Disappearance Cambodian frontier. Some say he was fields of Cambodia and unfolds as a of McKinley Nolan captured, some say he was a traitor, mysterious fever dream filled with doubt, longing and the will to believe. Nolan’s Directed by Henry Corra some even say he was an American ghost starts out as a nostalgic vision that operative. The U.S. Army officially claims Cambodia, USA, Vietnam / we want to capture. But, like a will-o-the- he was radicalized and “went native,” 2010 / 85 minutes wisp or a banshee, he calls us deeper and joined the Viet Cong and was later In Cambodian and Vietnamese with sub- deeper into the jungle and into impossible murdered by the Khmer Rouge. In 2006, liaisons with Viet Cong and Khmer Rouge. titles, and English retired U.S. Army Lt. Dan Smith, revisiting “The Disappearance of McKinley Nolan” is Upstate Films RHINEBECK the battlefields of his youth, may have a mystery, but it’s also, more profoundly, Fri Oct 1 • 6:45pm encountered McKinley, alive. So begins a a haunting meditation on war, memory Upstate Films WOODSTOCK journey into the heart of darkness. and love. Sat Oct 2 • 1:30pm The film follows the Nolan family

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For latest updates, visit WOODSTOCK FILM FESTIVAL 20102010 WOODSTOCK FILM FESTIVAL www.WoodstockFilmFestival.com 9 DOCUMENTARIES Diana Davies Diana East Coast Premiere World Premiere COMPETITION FINALIST East Coast Premiere COURTESY: National Center of Jewish Culture Don’t Quit First Circle Gerrymandering Grace Paley: Your Daydream Directed by Heather Rae Directed by Jeff Reichert Collected Shorts Directed by Clark Stiles and Merritt Lear USA / 2010 / 75 minutes USA / 2010 / 77 minutes Directed by Lilly Rivlin USA / 2009 / 85 minutes Bearsville Theater WOODSTOCK Bearsville Theater WOODSTOCK USA / 2009 / 74 minutes Sat Oct 2 • 12:00pm Preceded BY Tarantula Thu Sept 20 • 5:45pm WOODSTOCK Town Hall Upstate Films RHINEBECK Upstate Films RHINEBECK Fri Oct 1 • 7:30pm Bearsville Theater WOODSTOCK Sun Oct 3 • 3:30pm Sat Oct 2 • 4:45pm Upstate Films RHINEBECK Thur Sept 30 • 8:15pm For any parent, the thought of having Right now, across the country, our two Sat Oct 2 • 2:00pm ROSENDALE Theater a child taken away is a horrific notion. major political parties are gearing up for In the opening moments of “Grace Paley: Fri Oct 1 • 4:30pm Yet all across America, children whose fami- a once-a-decade war, whose winner will Collected Shorts,” Paley rhetorically A profound musical adventure lies can no longer provide proper support control Congress for the next ten years. asks an audience, “What is the featuring first time director Clark are being put into foster care. There will be battles in every state, and each responsibility of a poet?” We soon learn Stiles and his band The Good Listeners Heather Rae brings to the screen will be kept carefully hidden from the prying that Gracy Paley answered that question as they embark on a last ditch, cross her own story of a family effected by foster eyes of average voters. emphatically throughout her entire life. country, album recording extravaganza care due to drug and alcohol addiction in Democrats and Republicans collude to Lilly Rivlin’s inspiring film brings to save their musical identity and the deeply touching and extremely personal keep these skirmishes private so that they can to life the momentous times in which this hopefully their careers. The idea is “First Circle.” With her nephew having spent maintain total control over the ultimate political author and activist lived as she reads from simple: collaborate with a collection of mostly time in the foster care system, her brother weapon: the ability to directly determine the her short stories, poems and essays. Paley local, unknown and eclectic talent across in prison and her sister-in-law recovering outcome of elections. Why bother stuffing was a firebrand on the front line of protest. the US, from a down and out Memphis blues from drug rehabilitation, Rae looks not ballots when they can just draw districts? She opposed war and nuclear proliferation guitarist and mechanic to a banjo-playing just at her own family, but at others whose “Gerrymandering” exposes the most effective and fought for the rights of women, which gator swamp tour guide, to create a diverse children are similarly effected. She follows form of manipulating elections short of outright often landed her in jail. As a teacher, she new album. The results are often humorous, the police, who see firsthand the terrible fraud. After the 2010 Census is finished, will you influenced generations of writers. Paley is surprisingly touching, and in the end, form conditions in which some children live, and know where your district went? a New York icon whose life attests that one an amazing compilation of talented musicians those who volunteer to foster the children This thoroughly entertaining film traces person can combine public responsibility and songs pieced together by desire and in hopes of providing a better life for them. the ever-changing battle lines as politicians with individual creativity. Paley not only talent. Adrian Grenier of “Entourage” produces Incredibly poignant and touching, “The often seek to draw their closest opponents broke the mold, she created a new approach and also teams up with Clark and his band First Circle,” shows a small slice of the life out of their districts entirely, effectively to her life’s work that combined equal parts on one of the musical numbers. This is a road that effects nearly 300,000 children a year, eliminating the competition. Reichert depicts writer, activist, woman and mother. movie like no other that will inspire every making this a film that demands to be seen. with humor and aplomb how today, politicians The film tells the story of this child dreamer to give it one last try. – Michael Burke – Jacob Brades from both sides have mastered the art form. of Russian-Jewish immigrants, raised in New This is the rare political documentary that Live music with The Good Listeners and York City in the 1930s. We hear many of manages to entertain while enlightening a Grace Paley’s own words: the greatest joy of Adrian Grenier follows Sept 30 screening. serious civil issue. – Michael Burke Rivlin’s revealing film. – David Becker US Premiere In the Wake of the America to celebrate the publication of compromised planet before her work of Flood her new dystopian novel, “The Year of speculative fiction transforms into prophesy. Atwood’s odyssey is captured in Ron Directed by Ron Mann the Flood.” Rather than mount a traditional Mann’s new film, “In The Wake of the Flood.” Canada / 2010 / 47 minutes tour to promote a book’s publication, Atwood conceived and executed something Rendered as a fly-on-the-wall cinéma vérité, WOODSTOCK Town Hall far more ambitious and revelatory—a Ron Mann mixes new footage, archival ma- Sun Oct 3 • 1:45pm theatrical version of her novel. Along terials and evocative animation in featuring Preceded BY YESNO the way she reinvented what a book tour Atwood on the road and at home as an aging On the eve of her seventieth birthday, could (and maybe should) be. But Atwood but buoyant literary rock star spreading a Canadian writer Margaret Atwood set wasn’t selling books as much as advocating message of warning and hope as she staged out on an international tour criss- an idea: how humanity must respond to and participated in the novel production. crossing the British Isles and North the consequences of an environmentally

All events are subject to change. For latest updates, visit 10 www.WoodstockFilmFestival.com WOODSTOCK FILM FESTIVAL 20102010 WOODSTOCK FILM FESTIVAL DOCUMENTARIES Photo: Courtney Bent Courtney Photo: Photo: Bob Gruen– Photo: East Coast Premiere New York Premiere COURTESY: ARTHOUSE FILMS US Premiere COMPETITION FINALIST COMPETITION FINALIST Journey from Zanskar The Kids Grow Up Lennon NYC Made in India Directed by Frederick Marx Directed by Doug Block Directed by Michael Epstein Directed by USA / 2010 / 90 minutes USA / 2009 / 90 minutes USA / 2010 / 115 minutes Rebecca Haimowitz and Vaishali Sinha In Tibetan with subtitles, and English Upstate Films RHINEBECK Bearsville Theater WOODSTOCK USA / 2010 / 97 minutes Bearsville Theater WOODSTOCK Thu Sept 30 • 8:00pm Wed Sept 29 • 7:30pm In English and Hindi with subtitles pm In 1971, John Lennon arrived in New Thu Sept 30 • 3:15 WOODSTOCK Town Hall WOODSTOCK Town Hall WOODSTOCK Town Hall Sat Oct 2 • 7:15pm York City and felt reborn: at last living Fri Oct 1 • 5:00pm Sun Oct 3 • 6:30pm Eighteen years in the making, “The in the country that had dominated his Upstate Film RHINEBECK How far would you go to save your Kids Grow Up” beautifully depicts the artistic imagination, Lennon and his Sun Oct 3 • 1:00pm dying culture? Two Buddhist monks fulfill childhood of a daughter through the new bride Yoko Ono found in the city “Made In India” follows the remarkable their pledge to the Dalai Lama to help save loving eyes of her father. Filmmaker the perfect blend of music, politics, story of Lisa and Brian Switzer and their dying Tibetan culture by leading a Doug Block (“51 Birch Street”) has always culture, and lifestyle. But those heady their attempts to have the children group of seventeen poor children, ages been a “camcorder dad,” filming the life of first years eventually gave way to a dark pe- they feel are needed to complete their four to twelve, on a journey from Zanskar his daughter Lucy at every opportunity, not riod in which both Lennon’s musical career family. Unable to have children of their in remote northwest India through the Hi- wanting to lose a moment in the growth of and his personal life almost ran aground— own and with surrogacy in America costing malayas — on foot, on horseback, by jeep his only child. Now faced with his daughter until once again New York City came to upwards of $70,000, the couple journey to and bus — whatever it takes. Sometimes leaving home for college, Block is terrified his rescue. Using remarkable, rarely seen the Indian sub-continent in order to have you have to give up your children in order of letting go while Lucy is ready to move footage and interviews with many who were their baby. to save them. Thirty years ago, when they on. close to John, filmmaker Michael Epstein Told between the points of view of were children, these same monks walked Told through clips of Lucy as a child, pre- has created a moving, revealing portrait of The Switzers and Aasia Khan, the chosen the same path. The seventeen children with teen and teenager, Block is able to relate the music legend’s New York years, detail- surrogate, directors Rebecca Haimowitz and them now may not return home for ten to his experience as a father, moving through ing not only his triumphs but also some Vaishali Sinha guide the viewer through the fifteen years or more. This is the story of memories seamlessly as if his audience were hard times over which he so beautifully process of surrogacy, examining the effects their incredible journey. watching him think. Block’s captivating vi- recovered in the final years of his tragically on both parties. The journey they embark sual collage, assisted by an eerie, nostalgic curtailed life. on makes for an extraordinary film that score, perfectly portrays Lucy and Doug’s at times is more akin to a psychological coming of age journey. The result is a funny, thriller, making the family and the viewer touching and remarkably loving exploration question their moral and ethical scruples of a father and daughter taking the next and forcing them to wonder whether they step together. – Jonathan Myers could do the same. This extraordinary quest to have a family makes “Made In India” a touching and important documentary. – Jacob Brades

New York Premiere COMPETITION FINALIST Marwencol Hogancamp, who suffered a traumatic life prior to the attack almost completely Directed by Jeff Malmberg brain injury from the beating, retreats to gone, Hogancamp is forced to start over his backyard following his physical recov- resurrecting what he can from photos USA / 2010 / 83 minutes ery and begins his own mental renais- and old friends, but what he discovers Bearsville Theater WOODSTOCK sance by constructing a 1/6 scale WWII in the sanctuary of Marwencol may just Fri Oct 1 • 2:15pm era town he names Marwencol, replete be a true chance to start anew and leave ROSENDALE Theater with lifelike doll characters based on his what had been a life in decay behind. Sat Oct 2 • 1:00pm friends, neighbors and co-workers in ad- “Marwencol” is an astounding story of First time director Jeff Malmberg dition to Nazi soldiers. He creates scenes one man’s triumph in rebuilding a life on documents Kingston, NY resident and storylines within the town reflecting the brink of disaster. Mark Hogancamp’s recovery from a his life, which serve a dual purpose as – Michael Burke vicious beating in this poignant film. therapy sessions. With the memory of his

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New York Premiere East Coast Premiere World Premiere COMPETITION FINALIST COMPETITION FINALIST COURTESY: First Run Features my Life with carlos my So-called enemy One Lucky elephant phil Ochs: Directed by German Berger-Hertz Directed by Lisa Gossels Directed by Lisa Leeman there but For Fortune Chile, Germany, Spain / USA / 2010 / 89 minutes USA / 2010 / 81 minutes Directed by Kenneth Bowser 2009 / 82 minutes In English, and Arabic & Hebrew Upstate Films RHINEBECK with subtitles USA / 2010 / 97 minutes In Spanish with subtitles Fri Oct 1 • 2:30PM Bearsville Theater WOODSTOCK WOODSTOCK Town Hall WOODSTOCK Town Hall Upstate Film RHINEBECK Fri Oct 1 • 4:45PM Sat Oct 2 • 4:45PM Sat Oct 2 • 12:00PM Sat Oct 2 • 7:00PM Upstate Films RHINEBECK Upstate Films RHINEBECK ten years in the making, “One Lucky Upstate Film WOODSTOCK Sat Oct 2 • 6:30PM Sun Oct 3 • 5:45PM elephant” is a love story unlike any Sun Oct 3 • 11:00am Few names conjure up the sound of If all your life you had been told tHeY other. It is a touching, surprising and his beautiful and haunting film, direc- the 1960s like phil Ochs. More than just are the enemy, tHeY are the ones you unforgettable film created with a deep tor German berger-Hertz explores the a folk singer, Ochs helped to infuse popular should fear, what happens when that commitment from the filmmaker to tell this repercussions of an act of political music with a political perspective, rallying very notion is challenged? The Palestinian- one-of-a-kind story. violence that tore his family apart. This the like-minded and challenging the status Israeli conflict has raged for the last 62 years David Balding, founder and producer single act of violence, one of many com- quo. and recent events have generated dangerous of Circus Flora, had the best of intentions mitted in Chile under the dictatorship of Phil Ochs, like many of his new levels of friction. This film touches on when he adopted a young African elephant Augusto Pinochet, continues to reverberate generation, was engaged with the issues of a brave new front for peace: young women. and made her the centerpiece and namesake across decades and through generations. his time. He sang in the famous Greenwich In 2002, 22 Palestinian and Israeli teen girls of his show. Balding cared for Flora, his Like a long-distance letter from a son Village cafes, in front of massive rallies and visited the U.S. as part of the Building Bridges young elephant, like she was his own child. to his father, Berger-Hertz attempts to recon- in world famous concert venues. Kenneth for Peace program. They got to know each But elephants, like children, grow up, and nect with the father he knew only as a boy. Bowser’s insightful and ultimately tragic other as human beings and have real dialogue, when it came time for Flora to find a new “My Life with Carlos” is both profoundly per- film, “Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune” away from the conflict in Israel and Palestine. home, Balding’s troubles began. sonal and at the same time strikingly univer- explores the motives and goals that drove Over the course of the next seven years we “A parable of pachydermish sal. What often stays just a statistic in a book Phil Ochs to chase after fame. Bowser also become entangled in the lives of six of the proportions, “One Lucky Elephant” is a or a name etched in marble, here becomes reveals the personal struggles, that in the young girls as they grow into womanhood. bittersweet story of man, beast and a a deeply felt emotional legacy. Berger-Hertz end, proved overpowering. Idealized world views to friendships become very real relationship that makes helmer shares his journey of personal anguish, and With the voices of his family and much more complicated as the everyday Lisa Leeman’s docu the thinking person’s perhaps forgiveness, in a way that brings an many of the well-known musicians who con- realities of the Palestinian/Israeli conflict “Dumbo” — and, coincidentally, one of the important but painful history to light. sidered themselves fans of Phil Ochs, Bowser continue to haunt their lives. Gossels captures better kids’ movies on the fest circuit.” — The film presents a new and hope- creates a vivid and compelling portrait of an the maturation of each woman and the diverse John Anderson, VARIETY ful generation, unafraid to confront the icon of the ‘60s whose life was cut tragically set of circumstances each must face as they In “One Lucky Elephant” we see the tragedies of the past with the objective that short. – David Becker enter adulthood, revealing an emotionally complicated and often heartbreaking results they never be repeated. charged film about conflict, camaraderie and of taking wild animals away from their – David Becker ultimately…hope. – Michael Burke natural home. – David Becker

ray charles america World Premiere Directed by Alexis Manya Spraic COURTESY: A&E USA / 2010 / 90 minutes Bearsville Theater WOODSTOCK Sun Oct 3 • 7:30PM Few american icons resonate with so many Charles America” examines the social and politi- aspects of our culture. Few people unify cal context of Charles’ work and how his unique our ideals. Ray Charles was not only one of the approach to music and his ability to transcend greatest artists in American history, but he had racial barriers changed the cultural landscape as one of the greatest stories. Over time, both his we know it. Through in depth interviews, unre- story and his work became two sides of the same leased music and never before seen footage, the coin. Few came from less — dirt poor, blind film tells the stories of Charles’ impact in broader and, ultimately, orphaned–to achieve more. “Ray stories of love, politics, art and business.

All events are subject to change. For latest updates, visit 12 www.WoodstockFilmFestival.com WOODSTOCK FILM FESTIVAL 20102010 WOODSTOCK FILM FESTIVAL DOCUMENTARIES Photo: Courtney Bent Courtney Photo: East Coast Premiere East Coast Premiere US Premiere New York Premiere Screening in conjunction with COURTESY: Oscilloscope Laboratories HUDSON VALLEY PROGRAMMERS GROUP The Singularity is Near SoLa: Sounds Like a Revolution William S. Burroughs: A True Story About the Future Louisiana Water Stories Directed by A Man Within Directed by Directed by Jon Bowermaster Summer Love and Jane Michener Directed by Yony Leyser Anthony Waller and Ray Kurzweil USA / 2010 / 60 minutes Canada / 2010 / 76 minutes USA / 2010 / 87 minutes USA / 2010 / 78 minutes Mount Saint Mary College in Newburgh (free) Bearsville Theater WOODSTOCK Upstate Films RHINEBECK Fri Oct 1 • 10:00pm Preceded BY World Without Numbers Wed Sept 29 • 7:00pm Fri Oct 1 • 4:45pm ROSENDALE Theater WOODSTOCK Town Hall Bearsville Theater WOODSTOCK SUNY New Paltz (free) Sat Oct 2 • 9:30pm Sat Oct 2 • 9:30pm Thu Sept 30 • 1:00pm Thu Sept 30 • 4:00pm “Sounds Like a Revolution” is a Genius, junkie, gun-toting iconoclast, Upstate Film RHINEBECK WOODSTOCK Town Hall Sun Oct 3 • 8:00pm Sun Oct 3 • 11:45am powerful reminder that music is still Harvard grad, lethal lover, lax father, The future: human history and mythol- Everywhere you look in Southern a voice for protest and defiance. The self-proclaimed “queer” and heir to ogy have been consumed with foretell- Louisiana (SoLa) there’s water – film harkens back to the 1960s, when music the Burroughs Adding Machine Com- ing it, traveling to it and depicting it in bayous, swamps, the Mississippi, the sparked a generation of youth to rise up in pany, William S. Burroughs authored dissent against the Vietnam War. our pop culture. “Science Fiction” futures Gulf of Mexico. And everyone in Cajun “Naked Lunch” and “Queer” two of Artists across the musical spectrum are imagined where robots have equaled or Country has a water story, or two the most pivotal novels of the second recount their motivations and struggles in surpassed human intelligence and we have or three. When Bowermaster arrived in half of the twentieth century. A vision- a post-9/11 environment where dissent was conquered disease through genetics and Louisiana in July 2008 to make a film about ary, Burroughs influenced generations of silenced and censorship was commonplace. technology. Is that future becoming reality? the relationship between man and water, he artists, and though he loathed labels, he, Featuring interviews with Steve Earle, David In Anthony Waller’s “The Singularity never expected that the reportage would end along with Kerouac and Ginsberg, formed Crosby, Ani Difranco, Pete Seeger and Henry is Near,” celebrated futurist Ray Kurzweil with the planet’s biggest ecologic disaster – the vanguard of the “Beat Generation.” An Rollins, the film focuses on today’s politi- presents his and other preeminent luminar- the BP oil spill polluting the Gulf of Mexico. homage to the newsreels of the 1940s and cally-minded musicians, including Michael ies’ visions of the approaching singular- Watching “SoLa,” one realizes just 1950s, his ironic poem, “Thanksgiving Day: Franti, the Dixie Chicks and Paris, who, ity, where artificial intelligence begins to how vital these vast expansions of water are, 1986” is as timely today as it was in when despite the daunting obstacles placed in surpass our own, changing the face of how not just to the local fishermen who rely on first written. Packed with commentary from their way, continue to motivate and inspire the human race lives and interacts. them to make a living, but to the country as the likes of John Waters, Patti Smith, Laurie America’s youth for a positive revolutionary While also delving into the potential a whole due to the enormous array of wild- Anderson, Gus Van Sant, Iggy Pop, along change. – Michael Burke dangers on a philosophical and technologi- life that make Louisiana their home. Man’s with extensive archival footage of Allen cal level, Kurzweil delivers an outlook of the obsession with oil and gas are increasingly Ginsberg and Andy Warhol, director Yony future that is both insightful and bewilder- becoming a serious threat to the entire area. Leyser paints a rich portrait of an elusive ing and imaginative and hopeful “SoLa” is beautifully filmed and Friday Night screening followed by and complicated man. At once intimate and . – Michael Burke thoughtfully handled. – Jacob Brades performance with singer, songwriter expansive, this is compelling viewing, not Justin Sane (see music) to be missed. – Barbara Pokras, A.C.E.

New York Premiere Windfall across the Northeast. Directed by Laura Israel Battles surge among friends, neighbors and family members over the giant turbines erected on their properties. Israel USA / 2010 / 82:20 minutes also touches on threatening health risks, dwindling property WOODSTOCK Town Hall values and the controversial environmental value of the Fri Oct 1 • 2:30pm farms. Upstate Films RHINEBECK In a world struggling to come to terms with its growing Sat Oct 2 • 9:30pm energy needs and dependence on foreign oil, wind power Wind power. Clean, efficient, renewable, perfect... seems a viable alternative. But as you will witness in this or so you thought. “Windfall” is the story of a community stirring documentary, the answers are not always so simple. torn asunder by the not-so-gently blowing breeze. First- – Michael Burke time director Laura Israel discovers a wholly surprising and troubling trend in the wind turbine farms springing up

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Animation

Programmed by Bill Plympton & Signe Baumane WOODSTOCK Community Center Fri Oct 1 • 7:30pm Down to The Bone The Lost Tribes of Old Fangs WOODSTOCK Town Hall Directed by Peter Ahern New York City Directed by Sat Oct 2 • 2:30pm USA / 2009 / 4 minutes Directed by Andy and Carolyn London Adrien Merigeau & Alan Holly When the baby-sitter dispatches little Mi- USA / 2009 / 3 minutes Ireland / 2009 / chael to the yard, his allergies get worse. A dose of perspective, which takes into ac- 11 minutes count some of the personalities and objects A young wolf who has not seen his father Anna that make New York City so great. since childhood, decides to confront him. Blume Directed by Vessela Love and Theft Dantcheva Directed by Germany, Andreas Hykade Bulgaria / 2009 / 9 minutes Germany / 2009 / An experimental animation inspired by 6 minutes the love poem, “An Anna Blume” by Kurt Golem “And I‘m still carrying Prayers for Peace Schwitters. Directed by Joy Vaccese, the gift you gave, It‘s Directed by Dustin Grella Noelle Vaccese and James Buran a part of me now, it‘s been cherished and USA / 2009 / 8 minutes

USA / 2010 / 4 minutes saved, It‘ll be with me unto the grave, And Drawn entirely with pastels on a slate The Cow Who Golem’s Asylum is a place where idealistic then unto eternity.“ (Bob Dylan) chalkboard, “Prayers for Peace” confronts Wanted to Be dreams of musical success are twisted and the memory of the director’s younger a Hamburger distorted into prepackaged fodder for ranks Music Scene brother who was killed in the current con- Directed by Bill of zombified fans. For more info, visit twin- flict in Iraq. Plympton sareweird.com Directed by USA / 2010 / Anthony Teat Beat 5:30 minutes Lebensader Francisco of Sex: A children’s fable about the power of adver- Directed Schepperd Episodes tising, the meaning of life and ultimately by Angela USA / 2010 / 4 minutes Hair and the test of a mother’s love. Steffen Germany / North American Premiere: Soul 2009 / 6 minutes An animated mind melt into a post human Directed by Institute of Animation New York where TV and animals rule. All Signe Baumane USA / 2010 / 4 minutes Filmakademie Baden-Wurttemberg cast to the sincerely melodic soul of Block- Another shocking view of sex from a A little girl finds the whole world inside a leaf. head’s “The Music Scene.” woman’s perspective.

Breaking Up is Hard God of Sunday Shorts: WOODSTOCK Community Center Love Punch View on the WEB Fri Oct 1 • 3:00pm Directed Directed by This year, several short films are available WOODSTOCK Community Center for online viewing at Sat Oct 2 • 2:30pm by Luke Dennis Hauck Matheny USA / 2010 / woodstockfilmfestival.com/festival2010 USA / 2010 18:28 minutes Abraded / 18 minutes US Premiere Titles include: Directed by New York After one too Adrift Lew Baldwin University many bad nights, Directed by directed by USA / 2010 / A lovestruck, lounge-singing darts cham- a ring girl decides 7 minutes Ben Casey, Ben Clube & Matt Smart pion finds his prayers are answered – liter- it’s high time to Having been ally – when he mysteriously receives a box get out separated from his of love-inducing darts. from under the thumb of a local Anyone’s Song family on vaca- gangster and burn every bridge she Directed by Michael Vincent & Robbie Barclay tion, Joel begins can on the way out. featuring Mammal of PAradise to remember the series of events that led Some Boys him into the forest. Don’t Leave Rising Directed by Dot Directed by Kathleen Weldon & Alex McLean Maggie Kiley featuring music of Lhasa De Sela Directed by Bennett Elliott USA / 2009 / 16:30 minutes USA / 2010 / 15 minutes American Film Institute A wide-eyed young girl with a big imagina- A story about what happens We’ll Be Alright tion engages in a flying machine competi- when the break-up happens Directed by Jarek Zabczynski tion with a rival inventor. but the break does not. featuring Theory

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Documentaries Haiti WOODSTOCK Community Center WOODSTOCK Community Center • Sun Oct 3 • 11:30am US Premiere Sat Oct 2 • 12:00pm Ciné Institute provides Haitian youth with film education and produces films that promote Sun Oct 3 • 4:00pm excellence in Haitian cinema. After the earthquake in January 2010, despite the loss of their homes, school and friends, the Ciné Institute students picked up their cameras and became a functioning A Circle and Three Lines newsroom, creating a startling array of powerful films. Directed by Jan Selby This screening is programmed and moderated by Ciné USA / 2009 / 10 minutes Institute teacher and Woodstock Film Festival advisory East Coast Premiere board member Annie Nocenti, who also headed up the The peace symbol unifies people around 2010 WFF Youth At Risk Summer Workshop at the Center the world, crossing language barriers and for Creative Education in midtown Kingston, NY. Nocenti inspiring hope. “A Circle and Three Lines” produced these films with the students in Haiti, and follows the peace symbol from the 1950s John G. Morris there will be a Q&A after the screening. through today, challenging us to remem- ‘Eleven Frames’ For more info, visit cineinstitute.com ber its past and to take responsibility for Directed by Douglas Sloan its future. USA / 2010 / 8 minutes A Legacy Under the Rubble Le Jour de Seisme This film tells the story of John G. Mor- Directed by Frero Pierre Directed by Simeus Fritzner ris – the most influential photo editor of Haiti / 2010 / 3:38 minutes Haiti / 2010 / 5 minutes the 20th century – the era when photo The houses in the historic area of Jacmel are Early reportage from the day of the earth- editors chose the images that defined war, under threat of demolition. quake, this footage was the first on CNN politics, culture – the life and times of from Jacmel, Haiti. generations. Chana Directed by Jean Bernard Bayard Look at Me Haiti / 2010 / 4:05 minutes Directed by Pierre Lucson Bellegarde A young girl in Jacmel volunteers each day Haiti / 2010 / 2:09 minutes to help heal her fellow Haitians. A handicapped man forms a protest to help the newly handicapped. Born Sweet Directed by Cynthia Wade Mobilisation - Allah MP2 Real Cambodia / 2010 / 28 minutes Directed by Manasse Fortune & Ilrique Perin In Cambodian with English subtitles Haiti / 2010 / 4:10 minutes Fifteen year old Vinh Voeurn has accepted An uplifting music video of one of the first his destiny to be sick for the rest of life songs written about the earthquake. with incurable arsenic poisoning, but his Resurrection Man The Overlooked illness does not stop him from fantasizing Directed by Jonas Carpignano Directed by Marco Saint-Juste about becoming a karaoke star and win- USA / 2010 / 5 minutes Haiti / 2010 / 2:44 minutes ning the affections of adoring fans. New York University Crying Man A sensitive portrait of the “overlooked” US Premiere Directed by Vadim Janvier professions of Haiti. Based on real events, “The Resurrection Haiti / 2010 / 4 minutes Man” takes us through a night in the life A man mourns the loss of his wife with song. Silent March of Grandison Harris, an ex-slave hired by Grande Mere the University of August to exhume bodies Directed by Roudeline Michel for medical research. Haiti / 2010 / 5:05 minutes A tender portrait of a tough grandmother who survived Papa Goodbye Chicken, and Baby Doc’s regimes, and now an Farewell Goat earthquake. Directed by Julius Onah USA / 2009 / 5:30 minutes Aider Pour East Coast Premiere Survivre Seven years since his last visit to Nigeria, Directed by Directed by Huguens Saintil a filmmaker meditates on the death of his Ralphden Laurent Haiti / 2010 / 3:46 minutes father. Haiti / 2010 / 3:43 minutes The Carnival in Haiti, usually a colorful event, is Watermelon Man A woman helps her village after the earth- replaced by a profoundly moving Silent March. Directed by quake by making the best of what little food they have. Tent in the Water Matt Morris Directed by Yvette Lamour USA / 2009 / I’m Still Alive Haiti / 2010 / 2:42 minutes 12:30 minutes Directed by Keziah Jean Life in a tent camp after a hard rain. New York Premiere Haiti / 2010 / 6 minutes In rural North Carolina, a watermelon A young boy is proud to have helped save I Will Be Back farmer is given a task by God to write his brother from under the rubble of his Directed by Donald Charles & Silvio Dieudonne Haiti / 2010 / 4:10 minutes children’s books. home. Courageous volunteer orthopedic doctors val- iantly set casts for earthquake victims.

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Journeys Off Season Music Woodstock Community Center Directed by WOODSTOCK Community Center Fri Oct 1 • 12:45pm & Sat Oct 2 • 5:00pm Jonathan Van Tulleken Sat Oct 2 • 9:15pm & Sun Oct 3 • 6:00pm USA, UK / 2009 / 12 minutes Hirosaki When an Players alcoholic Directed by Lights transient Jeff Sousa Directed by Giulio Ricciarelli Germany / 2009 / 14 minutes ventures USA / 2009 / from his 19:20 minutes A small town policeman dreams of being a usual path In Japanese respected crime fighter. When he realizes he in search of with subtitles is not needed, he take matters into his own a full bottle he makes a terrifying discovery On a tense opening night, a playwright hands to establish law and order. that unravels his solitary existence. struggles with a legendary Samurai film star for control of the play and their relationship.

Shadow of the Road 5 Variations on a (Betzel Ha Derech) Long String Junko’s Directed by Yaniv Linton Israel / 2009 / 13 minutes Directed by Peter Esmonde Shamisen USA / 2010 / 20 minutes The Sam Spiegel Film & TV School, Jerusalem Directed by In Hebrew Over the past quarter century, com- Solomon with subtitles poser, performer Ellen Fullman has Friedman Miriam’s Song Maurice walks developed and perfected her extraordi- Canada / 2009 Directed by Shabnam Piryaei nary ‘long string instrument.’ More than / 10:15 minutes back home USA / 2010 / 5 minutes fifty feet long, the instrument envelops In Japanese after many and English An exploration on the resilience of children years of ab- its audience in dense masses of sound; A young Japa- in circumstances of trauma and loneliness. sence, but his imagine standing inside an enormous nese orphan and her mystical friend, exact shadow won’t pipe organ, or a huge grand piano. poetic justice on a malevolent samurai lord. let him be. Recorded in multichannel surround sound, this short film is an intense musical exploration of Ellen Fullman’s creative process and her mind-blowing Sex, Friends, Work Gene sound world. Woodstock Community Center Directed by Roscoe Holcomb: Fri Oct 1 • 9:30pm & Sat Oct 2 • 7:15pm Tony Leech From Daisy Kentucky USA / 2009 / Directed by John Cohen 5:10 minutes Appropriate Sex USA / 2009 / 30 minutes World Directed by Shandor Garrison John Cohen explores the life, phi- USA / 2009 / 9 minutes Premiere Nothing Happened losophy and music of Eastern Kentucky New York University Two doors. Directed by Julia Kots banjo player, coal miner and construc- A college cre- Two strangers. USA / 2009 / 10 minutes tion worker Roscoe Holcomb. Holcomb ative writing One ridiculous Sex, drugs, diet tips. Girlfriends tell each has been injured on the job and forced class turns conversation. other everything. But is there one topic into early retirement. He discusses his rowdy over that should stay off-limits? life and music and plays a number of the question: Live Girls traditional songs from his region. Using is Mandy Directed by Pamela intimate footage of Holcomb at home Shaw’s short story a little horny? Mandy Romanowsky as well as footage of his family, com- herself provides the answer in office hours, USA / 2010 / munity and region, Cohen presents a re- and Professor Lowe sees his career, family 11:19 minutes markable and visually beautiful portrait and morality hanging in the balance. Based New York University of Roscoe Holcomb, a man who despite on the short story by best-selling author World Premiere economic hardship and changing times Steve Almond (Candyfreak). A disenfranchised medical student develops has maintained a powerful and authen- a new sense of urgency and an increasingly The Position tic personal music and philosophy. warped view of reality while working nights Directed by Kevin Stocklin in her uncle’s sleazy sex shop. USA / 2010 / 13 minutes Me Time Chasing the job of her dreams at a high- Directed by Matt Schuman powered Manhattan firm, young debutante USA / 2009 / Hope Turnell finds the 10:15 minutes interview delving into Gayby New York Premiere unexpectedly intimate Roscoe Holcomb music tribute Directed by Jonathan Lisecki “Me Time:” you want territory. with with John Cohen and the USA / 2010 / 12 minutes it, you need it, but Dustbuster follows October 2 A gay man and a straight woman decide at what length will screening. to have a child together the old fashioned you go to get it?. way.

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. . Shout, twist Screening prior to... WOODSTOCK Community Center Junkyard The Horror world Fri Oct 1 • 5:00pm & Sun Oct 3 • 1:45pm Jesus at Glen without Directed by Atty Numbers Banana Christoph Directed by Directed by Kuschnig Bread Brent Kunkle Mitchell Rose Directed by USA / 2010 USA / 2010 / Barton / 12:30 minutes 4:30 minutes USA / 2010 / 3:32 minutes Landsman Manny fences cars for quick cash. When A roving man protects his land when EAST COAST PrEMIErE An exploration of the horrors of a number- USA / 2009 / 9 he partners with his buddy Jesus, their poachers get too close. minutes less world through the lens of childhood friendship is jeopardized by a disturbing Screens prior to “Bitter Feast.” Matt Meyerson discovery. melodrama. has a worried Jewish mother. She’s con- For more info, visit kuschnig.net Neda’s For more info, visit mitchellrose.com. cerned about his health, his career and just Eyes Screens prior to “The Singularity is about everything else. She might actually Directed Near.” have good reason to worry. by Planet YESNO For more info, visit bananabreadfilm.com Pictures Directed USA / 2010 / by Brian B. Black Ops 5:30 minutes Johnson Arabesque On June 20, 2009, during her non-violent The New Tenants Canada / 2010 Directed by pursuit of freedom, Neda Agha-Soltan was Directed by Joachim Back / 7:16 minutes Jared Drake murdered. “Neda’s Eyes” reflects the cour- USA, Denmark / 2009 / 21 minutes A playful, USA / 2009 / age of all Iranians seeking democracy. 4:45 minutes In this Oscar® winning short from 2010, poetic vision two men move into a new apartment and Screens prior to “Camp Victory.” A secret service of the planet on the verge of a nervous find themselves entangled in its terrifying agent yearns to be a dancer. For more info, Tarantula breakdown. Based on the book by eminent history. visit www.firesidefilm.com Directed by Canadian poet Dennis Lee, it combines live For more info, visit thenewtenantsfilm.com Barry Feinstein action and animation in a narrative that The USA / 1968 / On A Roll jives between hope and despair. Lee’s words Hardest Part 7 minutes are voiced by a pantheon of Canadian poets, Directed by Directed by Oliver WOrLD PrEMIErE including Leonard Cohen, Michael Ondaatje Refson Kate Riedl In 1968, Feinstein thought it would be cool Australia, USA and Margaret Atwood. UK / 2009 / 13:26 to film a group while they were playing. Screens prior to “The Singularity is minutes / 2010 / He shot the improvisational rock band 6:37 minutes Near.” An aging actor has Tarantula in an abandoned amusement park finally secured the NEW YOrK PrEMIErE outside of LA. In 2010, Grasso found the audition of a lifetime, Destiny unfolds one number at a time... never-before seen film. It might just be the but just how badly first music video ever. For more info, visit kateriedl.com does he want the role? Screens prior to “Don’t Quit Your Daydreams.”

teen Films A Notion Hide and Seek Paper Onteora High School Fri Oct 1 • 7:00pm of Pretty Directed by Matt Tompkins Directed by Addison 28 and Counting Directed by USA / 2010 /2:20 min Cook Directed by Zack Edith Lerner Is it just a game? USA / 2009 USA / 2010 / 7:30 min Onteora HS Bernstein and Kosher Christian Vogeler Onteora HS This stop-motion Directed by Hila Shuchoy explores the endless USA / 2010 / 8min What do teenage girls believe is beautiful? Isreal / 2009 / 15:00 min possibilities provided Byram Hills HS Apple Story of a Muslim Israeli boy’s search for identity. by a simple piece of paper. Some people never learn. Directed by Merchant of Ron Geffen: Music Producer A Euphoric Relationship Roman venice Directed by Tyler Silver Directed by Ileen Rhyse-Kleckanda USA / 2010 / Directed by Lauren USA / 2009/ 6:45 min Gutgarts 1:28 minutes Tischler Clarkstown HS North USA / 2010 / Onteora HS USA / 2009 / 8 min Midwood HS An adolescent describes The survival of the innocent fruit. 3:43 min the path to a career A poetic exploration of Onteora HS launched at a young age. a troubled love story be- Can’t We Talk A colorful adaptation of a play by Shakespeare. tween a boy and a girl. Directed by What I Love On the Terrace of a Thousand A Look Through My Eyes WFF Youth Initiative Directed by USA / 2010 / 4:30 min Yellow Suns WFF Youth Initiative Directed by WFF Summer Directed by Luca Balser USA / 2010 / Shalaun D. Nelson Film Intensive USA / 2010 / 3:50 minutes 4:30 minutes USA / 2010 / 9 min Edward R. Murrow High School WFF Summer Midwood HS The world is one of A beautifully crafted, film expressing a girl’s Film Intensive Letting a stranger into techno-interupts... can frustration with eggs. Kids discuss dreams and aspirations. your life may not be the two people simply find a way to talk? made possible in easiest decision. part thanks to

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A performance by Portland, Oregon natives Nathan shift home studio. The song “Time Will Khyber and Clark Stiles began their careers Tell” was featured on the soundtrack of The Good Listeners as part of the 90s band “Absinthe.” After the hit film “The Devil Wears Prada.” with Adrian Grenier signing a recording contract, Stiles left With their third album “The Good Begins around 10 pm after Q&A the band. A decade later, when personal Listeners” have embarked on their most tragedy rekindled the pair’s friendship, ambitious journey yet. With the help of following Don’t Quit Your Daydream they started an exciting musical odyssey Grenier, they criss-crossed America look- Bearsville Theater WOODSTOCK as “The Good Listeners.” ing for musical inspiration and harmony. Thursday Sept 30 • 8:15pm With an affinity for recording their The journey is the foundation of music in unusual places with unorthodox the film “Don’t Quit Your Daydream,” The stars of the film “Don’t Quit people, “The Good Listeners” have an which was named for the album they Your Daydrean” joined by pro- ability to thrive under these conditions. recorded during the trip. Having travelled ducer Adrian Grenier (Entourage) In 2005, “The Good Listeners” recorded all across the country in search of musical will take the stage following the their debut album “Ojai,” comprising of enlightenment, we are thrilled that they screening to prove that it’s never ten songs recorded in ten days in a make- have made a pit stop in Woodstock. too late to follow your dreams.

A performance by epic work of divas Kate Bush and Tori Amos as Perotta well as such classically tinged ‘60s acts as the Zombies, the Left Banke and the Beach Boys. Colony Café in WOODSTOCK With Perrotta on Rhodes keyboard, Moog synth Friday, Oct 1 • 10:00p m and vocals, the latest album “Tonight” (2010) delves into the edgier realm of rock,courtesy Perrotta is the namesake band of critical- of ace guitarist Johnnie Wang and his clever ly acclaimed Hudson Valley songstress tonal palette, the driving backbeats of drummer Sarah Perrotta, an ensemble that serves Will Olsen and the signature melodic lines of as the perfect vehicle for the singer and legendary bassist Tony Levin (Peter Gabriel, keyboardist’s uncommonly ethereal King Crimson). With the orchestral sweep of the brand of gossamer pop. Under her own arrangements along with their memorable and name in 2007. The former “Outloud Dreamer” romantic melodies, “Perrotta’s” music can best front woman made her solo debut with “The be described as cinematic at it’s core, a must Well” (Independent), a startlingly dramatic see for music and film lovers alike. showing whose piano-based songs recall the A performance by Also a noted solo artist, it is a pleasure to welcome him to Woodstock. Justin Sane Sane is featured throught the Begins around 11:30 pm after Q&A film “Sounds Like a Revolution,” which following Sounds Like a Revolution explores the power of music can and Bearsville Theater WOODSTOCK how it can effect real and sustainable Friday, Oct 1 • 10:00p m change. As an artist who, in his own words, has been “focused on a specific Music also follows screening of Singer/songwriter Justin Sane is socio-political agenda (with a little bit a member of the political punk- of fun and humour thrown in),” this “Don’t Go in the Woods” rock band “Anti-Flag,” formed in performance is sure to compliment the Friday, Oct 1 Pittsburgh in 1988. film’s powerful look at the new wave of The stars of Vincent D’Onofrio’s film protest music sweeping America. “Don’t Go In The Woods” will be per- forming together at Fright Night. Roscoe Holcomb A truly gifted singer, guitarist This ensemble features the musical and banjo player, Holcomb has talents of a gifted ensemble cast, includ- Tribute influenced numerous musicians from ing Matt Sbeglia as Nick, the band’s lead with John Cohen and the Dustbusters Bob Dylan to Eric Clapton. singer, performing songs written by Sam Bisbee, who also stars. WOODSTOCK Community Center Film director and Holcomb “Don’t Go in the Woods” explores the Friday, Oct 1 • 9:15p m friend, John Cohen — an accomplished musician and member of the band “New lengths that people will go to in order to make their dreams come true, and marks the Following he screening of Lost City Ramblers” — will be joined directorial debut of actor D’Onofrio. “Roscoe Holcomb: From Daisy by the Dustbusters to perform some of Kentucky” comes an impromptu Holcomb’s timeless music. performance featuring the music of the legendary banjo player.

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Panels take place at Utopia Studios in Woodstock unless specified otherwise. Programs and panelists are subject to change. Please make sure to visit woodstockfilmfestival.com for the most up-to-date info. The Singularity Is Near Sponsored by Film Marketing and Publicity Utopia Studios • Thur Sept 30 • 3:00pm Utopia Studios • Fri Oct 1 • 4:00pm Programmed by Sabine Hoffman For the past couple of years, Facebook, Twitter and You Tube have threatened traditional marketing campaigns. With the runaway success of the iPad and newer generation smart We live in an era of exponentially increasing advances in artificial intelligence, nano phones, has the day finally arrived when the promise of instant access puts the nail in technology, robotics, designer drugs, bionics, and techniques to defeat—and perhaps the coffin of traditional pulp media? This panel of experts addresses the impact of social even reverse—cellular aging. Scientific optimists look forward to a transhuman future media and other next generation trends in film marketing and publicity. The discussion will when our life expectancy will be dramatically, if not infinitely, extended; when people no cover DIY, self-distribution, the changing role of executives, publicists and lawyers, the longer suffer from disability or disease; when super-intelligent machines will “reproduce” consolidation of studios, and delivery systems including VOD, PPV. While many filmmakers by designing and building their own successors; when the line between humans and decide to hire a publicist, many do not understand the role of publicity in festival computers will increasingly blur, as we “download” our memories and minds into strategies, creating buzz, and the role PR plays in self-distribution or the sale of a film to machines and become bionic ourselves. What promises and challenges does this vision of a distributor. the future hold? Moderator: Gary Springer is an enter- John Murphy has a diversi- Moderator: Ray Kurzweil is one of the tainment publicist represent- fied background in public world’s leading inventors, ing film, theater and events. Paul Hoffman is the relations, having created and thinkers and futurists, with In film, his company, Spring- implemented both corporate editorial chairman of a 20-year track record of er Associates PR, represents and consumer media cam- BigThink.com, a storyteller accurate predictions. Called independent and foreign films paigns for clients spanning at The Moth, and an award- “the restless genius” by the at festivals in the US and feature film, television, cable, winning science writer. “Wall Street Journal,” PBS abroad. He also represents Internet and publishing. As His own work explores the included Ray as one of 16 NY campaigns for film and part of this, Murphy has represented a full relation between genius, “revolutionaries who made talent for end of year Awards consideration. slate of films at Sundance, Toronto, Tribeca and madness, and obsession. Formerly the president America.” He established Singularity Springer’s first career was as an actor and his The Hamptons and handled the press for the University in 2009 to assemble, educate and film appearances include “Dog Day Afternoon,” of Encyclopedia Britannica and the editor in Nantucket, Woodstock and Children’s Interna- inspire a cadre of leaders who strive to “Small Circle of Friends” and “Law and Disorder.” chief of “Discover” magazine, Hoffman is the tional Film Festivals. Recent theatrical film understand and facilitate the development of He is a voting member of the Academy of Motion winner of the first National Magazine Award campaigns include “A Serious Man,” “Taking exponentially advancing technologies in order Pictures Arts & Sciences and was a founding for Feature Writing and is a member of the Woodstock,” “Milk,” “Shakespeare in Love,” to address humanity’s grand challenges. Board member of the Creative Coalition. American Academy of Arts and Sciences. “Life is Beautiful” and many more. Martine Rothblatt, Ph.D, Panelists: Josh Braun runs Submarine MBA, is a lawyer, author Panelists: Entertainment, a hybrid sales Michelle Byrd is the and entrepreneur. She is New York based film publicist Donna Dickman and production company, Co-President of Games for the founder of numerous has successfully worked in the film industry, consulting and strategizing Change, a non-profit which companies, including Sirius from publicity assistant at United Artists to on the sale, distribution and seeks to harness the Satellite Radio and United SVP of publicity at Focus Features. She gained development of documenta- extraordinary power of Therapeutics. She has invaluable experience working at USA Films, ries and feature films. Some digital games to address cyber-scripted pioneering Gramercy Pictures, Miramax and MGM, oversee- of the films represented by the most pressing issues of websites including ing the New York publicity campaigns on such Braun include the award- our day, including poverty, endracism.org. Her company “Terasem Media notable and varied films such as “Gosford winning “Winter’s Bone,” “Man on Wire,” “Smash education, human rights, and Films” produces independent narrative Park,” “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,” His Camera,” “Food Inc,” “The Cove,” “Supersize global conflict and climate change. Byrd has and documentary films that raise public “Brokeback Mountain,” “Traffic,” “The Pianist” Me” and “Encounters At The End of the World.” previously served as the Executive Director of awareness and understanding of innovations and “Clerks.” Braun was also an executive pro ducer on David the Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP), the in human life extension through the Cronenberg’s Oscar nominated “A History of oldest and largest organization of indepen- geo-ethical application of cyber consciousness Violence”. dent filmmakers in the US and been awarded and biotechnologies. the “Made in New York” career tribute.

Amazing Women in Film With more women sitting in the Director’s Chair and Moderator Thelma Adams has twice served as the New York Film Critics Circle Chair. She Utopia Studios • Sat Oct 2 • 12:00pm holding top positions as executives, producers, and has written for “The New York Times,” “O: The Oprah Magazine,” “Marie administrators, has the balance finally shifted to a Claire,” “The Huffington Post,” “Interview,” and more. She has appeared point of equality? Join us as a diverse group of power- on CNN, E!, NBC’s The Today Show, among many others. In 1993 she ful women discuss their work and the state of the film earned a MFA from Columbia University and graduated Phi Beta Kappa Panelists: industry, from the woman’s perspective. from UC Berkeley in 1981. Lemore Syvan is a New York Amy Dotson is the Deputy Joslyn Barnes co-founder of For the past several years, based independent producer. Director of IFP, the nation’s Louverture Films, is a Jeanne R. Berney has served She recently completed oldest not-for-profit screenwriter and Emmy-nomi- as Director of Public Relations “Henry’s Crime” starring Keanu membership and advocacy nated producer. She is the and Marketing at the Film Reeves, Vera Farmiga and James organization of independent author or co-author of Society of Lincoln Center. A Caan. Prior to that in 2009, filmmakers. She provides numerous commissioned member of the senior Syvan produced “The Private ongoing support and screenplays for feature films management team, her Lives of Pippa Lee,” directed by mentorship to over 350 including the upcoming responsibilities were to Rebecca Miller. Syvan’s work independent filmmaker “Toussaint,” “The Cosmic position the Film Society and also includes “The Ballad of Jack and Rose,” starring alumni each year and serves the independent Forest,” and the award-winning “Bàttu.” Since its programs across all marketing platforms, Daniel Day-Lewis and Catherine Keener, “Gracie,” film industry and community by connecting them co-founding Louverture Films, Barnes has executive including advertising. In addition, Berney directed by Academy Award® winner Davis with new, ‘off-the-radar’ creative talent. produced or produced the award-winning features revamped NYFF Press and Industry Screenings and Guggenheim, “Bamako,” “Africa Unite” and the Oscar and Emmy worked with sponsors, filmmakers, the film industry nominated “Trouble The Water.” and program partners from around the world.

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New Distribution Paradigms Moderator: Utopia Studios • Sat Oct 2 • 2:00pm Bingham Ray has nearly 30 years of executive experience, having overseen the production of numerous critically ac- The 21st century brought with it extraordinary advances in the way that films are distributed. The claimed and successful releases. In 2001, Ray was named advent of the Internet, cable and satellite television and on-demand services now allows a viewer President of United Artists and during his three-year to choose exactly how and when they watch a film. This change in dynamic between the work and tenure there, he again oversaw multiple successes, releas- ing Academy Award winning films “No Man’s Land” and the audience has allowed many films a chance to shine that would have otherwise been denied. In “Bowling For Columbine.” Prior to United Artists, Ray co-founded October turn this has opened up a whole new world of cinema for the public to enjoy, making such changes Films. One of the foremost independent film companies of the 1990’s, the incredibly valuable and worthwhile. This panel will discuss the remarkable leaps forward that have company won two Oscars, 13 nominations and top prizes at the Cannes been made in the world of film distribution and look ahead to what the future may hold. Film Festival on three occasions. Panelists: Edward Burns Ted Hope Richard Bob Berney has John Sloss is a gained Co-founder of This Abramowitz is been a preeminent founding member international is That & Good President of force in the of Cinetic Media, recognition for his Machine, Hope Abramorama, international film as well as the first feature “The has produced over consulting on the world for more Managing Partner Brothers McMullen,” 60 films, including production, than two decades, of Sloss Law Office, which premiered in “21 Grams,” marketing and founding and LLP. Sloss has also competition at the “American distribution of operating four of acted as Executive 1995 Sundance Film Splendor,” independent the most successful Producer for over Festival, winning the Grand Jury prize “Happiness,” “In The Bedroom,” films. His recent distribution independent film distribution and 35 feature films including “The Fog of and going on to become the year’s most three Sundance Grand Prize winners projects include “Exit Through the marketing companies: Apparition, War “(2004 Academy Award winner, profitable release. Burns’ second film, and the first features of Alan Ball, Gift Shop,” “ANVIL! The Story of Picturehouse, Newmarket Films and IFC Documentary Feature), “Pieces of “She’s The One” reinforced Burns’ Michel Gondry and Ang Lee. He blogs Anvil!” and “Agora.” A veteran of 30 Films. As an independent distribution April” and “Far From Heaven.” Sloss versatile talent as a writer, director and at HopeForFilm.com and co-founded years in film, he’s worked with and marketing consultant, Berney was serves as a partner in InDigEnt, a low actor. His ninth feature as a writer, the Indie Film review site filmmakers such as Jonathan Demme, responsible for the release of budget production company for director and actor, “Nice Guy Johnny” is HammerToNail.com. Hope is currently John Turturro, Morgan Spurlock, Christopher Nolan’s “Memento” for high-level filmmaking talent and screening at this year’s Woodstock Film in post-production on “Super,” James Ivory and Neil Young. He’s Newmarket Capital Group and Todd recently founded the digital sales Festival. As an actor, Burns starred written and directed by James Gunn, also an Adjunct at NYU’s Tisch Solondz’s critically acclaimed initiative Cinetic Rights Management, opposite Tom Hanks and Robert De Niro and starring Rainn Wilson, Ellen School of the Arts. “Happiness” for Good Machine which launched its branded VOD in “Saving Private Ryan” and “15 Page, Liv Tyler and Kevin Bacon. International (now Focus Features). channel, Cinetic FilmBuff in 2009. Minutes” respectively. .

Music For Change Moderator: Legal Issues Utopia Studios • Sat Oct 2 • 4:00pm Doreen Ringer-Ross is Vice- in Film Workshop Showcasing prominent and emerging musicians and filmmakers President of Film and TV Colony Cafe • Sat Oct 2 • 4:00pm who use music as a tool for social change. Relations at BMI. She has worked in the music industry for over two decades This class will provide an overview and currently specializes in outreach to the of the legal issues and common film and music communities. Panelists: business arrangements used in film and Kenneth Bowser is a director Ron Mann makes award- Justin Sane is the founding television projects. In addition, option of documentaries, feature winning feature documenta- member of the seminal punk agreements for the acquisition of literary films and episodic television ries that focus on alternative band Anti-Flag. Sane is a properties; distribution agreements and and specializes in crafting and dissent culture. WFF has founding member of the a comprehensive release for reality based stories about American been showing Mann’s films non-profit Military Free Zone. television program will be discussed. culture. In addition to “Phil since “Go Further,” a He has worked with Amnesty We will also take a look at legal issues Ochs: There But For Fortune,” musical-eco-road movie about International, Green Peace, he is the writer, producer and activism and sustainable Peta and numerous other surrounding recent films such as “Borat.” director of NBC’s Emmy-nomi- living. This year, WFF is organizations. This class will be taught by Elena M. Paul, nated network special, “Live From New York: The pleased to present “In the Wake of the Flood,” Sussan Deyhim is an Esq., VLA’s Executive Director. First Five Years of Saturday Night Live,” which puts Margaret Atwood’s words to music for Iranian composer, vocalist celebrating the 30th Anniversary of SNL. He also change. and performance artist. Panelists: worked on the SNL network specials for the 80s As the leader of the folk-rock Deyhim’s wide-ranging and 90s and is currently creating the 2000s band the Lovin’ Spoonful, collaborations with leading Elena M. Paul, Esq., is episode. His next project is a narrative feature John Sebastian was artists have included Peter the Executive Director based on Peter Biskind’s bestseller entitled “Down responsible for a string of Gabriel, Jerry Garcia, The of the Volunteer Lawyers & Dirty Pictures.” Top Ten hits in 1965-1967 Blue Man Group and for the Arts (VLA), the that included the chart- Summer Love (Naomi prominent female visual artists Shirin Neshat leading provider of pro toppers “Daydream” and Preney) has produced and Sophie Calle. Currently Deyhim is working bono legal services and “Summer in the City,” and he several short documentaries on “The House is Black,” based on the work advocacy to the arts returned to number one in showcasing up-and-coming and life of the literary icon of Iranian community. Paul creates many of VLA’s 1976 as a solo artist with “Welcome Back.” As an Canadian fashion designers contemporary poetry Forough Farrokhzad. original programs, including the VLA Clinic, instrumentalist, primarily playing harmonica, he and musicians. With her the Statewide Service Initiative and Ask the has accompanied a wide range of artists company, Deltatime Lawyer. She lectures nationally on a variety including Judy Collins, Crosby, Stills & Nash, the BMI Composer Miriam Cutler co-produced and Productions, she heads up a of arts and entertainment topics, including, Doors, Bob Dylan, Laura Nyro, Graham Parker, scored the documentary “One Lucky Elephant” team of creative talent intellectual property, fundraising and form- Dolly Parton, Peter, Paul & Mary, John Prine, and competing this year at the Woodstock Film Festival. whose passion for music and politics helped ing for-profit arts businesses. In 2000, Paul Bonnie Raitt. He was inducted into the Rock and Other scores include “Ghosts of Abu Grhaib”, “Family create her first feature documentary, “Sounds was elected to serve as a Wasserstein Public Roll Hall of Fame in 2000. Affair”, “Chris and Don”, “Lost in La Mancha”, Like a Revolution.” “Licensed to Kill”. Cutler is a lab advisor Sundance Interest Fellow at Harvard Law School. Documentary Composers Lab.

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Documentaries: Environmentally Speaking: Focusing on the craft of filmmaking Improving Our Planet with the Power of Film Utopia Studios • Sun Oct 3 • 12:00pm Utopia Studios • Sun Oct 3 • 2:00pm Some of today’s most accomplished and promising documentary filmmakers reveal their Co-Programmed and Conceived by Brian Geldin process through the examination of some of some of their films’ most pivotal scenes. The Can film make an impact on how we take care of our planet? Do we need to be more directors will discuss their approach to the material, how they got to these moments and environmentally responsible in how we make our films to get our messages across? the vision behind filming and editing them in a particular way. This panel will be an eye Where is the intersection of making films about the environment and making films opener to the audience by providing an insider’s glimpse into the collaborative process of that are environmentally conscious? Join us as filmmakers, industry leaders and documentary filmmaking and the complex thought process that goes along with it. environmental experts discuss the impact films have on our planet. Moderator: Jon Bowermaster is a six-time grantee of the Moderator: Barbara Kopple is a Lydia Dean Pilcher is National Geographic Expedi- president of Cine Mosaic, Heidi Ewing is the two-time Academy Award tions Council. Bowermas- has produced over 28 co-director (with Rachel winning filmmaker for the ter’s 2007-2008 Antarctic feature films. Pilcher is a Grady) of “Jesus Camp,” a documentaries “Harlan expedition was the final in Chair of the Producer’s Guild provocative documentary County, USA” and “American his OCEANS 8 project. He of America Green Committee on the Evangelical right Dream.” Her other films is a producer of a dozen (pgagreen.org), and is a that was nominated for the include “Woodstock: Now documentary films includ- presenter for The Climate 2007 Academy Award. She and Then,” “A Conversation ing SOLA, which screens at local colleges and Project, Al Gore’s climate and Grady recently with Gregory Peck,” “Fallen WFF in conjunction with the Hudson Valley change leadership program. premiered “12th & Champ: The Untold Story of Mike Tyson” and Progragmmers Tour. Delaware” at the Sundance Film Festival and many more. Kopple is the recipient of the Panelists: is the then on HBO. Ewing also recently directed a Woodstock Film Festival Maverick Award, Los Larry Fessenden writer, director and editor of film for MTV on Saudi Arabian teens and is Angeles Film Critics Award and the Sundance Environmental Producer and Green Production the award-winning part of a consortium of filmmakers that Film Festival Grand Jury Prize. She is a Consultant Katherine Carpenter is an award- art-horror trilogy “Habit,” adapted the bestselling book “Freakonomics” member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts winning documentary producer specializing in “Wendigo” and “No Telling.” for the big screen. and Sciences and she actively participates in environmental subjects. She was trained as a organizations that address social issues and climate presenter by Al Gore and The Climate His recent film, “The Last Panelists: support independent filmmaking. Project, and now works also as a carbon-re- Winter” premiered at the 2006 Toronto Film Festival Ricki Stern and duction consultant for film and TV productions Late addition: Doug Block (IFC). Fessenden has Annie Sundberg are with Green Media Solutions of New York (see Michael Tucker is an produced a diverse array of independent films co-founders of Break www.greenmediasolutions.net). acclaimed documentary including “Wendy and Lucy,” The House of The Thru Films. They Joe Berlinger is an filmmaker. In 2003, Tucker Dead,” “I Sell The Dead,” “Stake Land,” and co-directed “Joan award-winning filmmaker, went to Baghdad, where he “Bitter Feast.” In 1991 Fessenden wrote Low Rivers: A Piece of journalist and photographer. followed an armored car Impact Filmmaking: A Guide to Environmentally Work,” Sundance His films include “Brother’s salesman making sales calls for Sound Film and Video Production and to this Award winner ’09, Keeper,” “Paradise Lost: The “Bulletproof Salesman.” While day maintains a website on Global Warming, (IFC FILMS). They Child Murders At Robin Hood filming “Bulletproof Salesman,” www.RunningOutofRoad.com. co-directed the Emmy nominated films “The Hills,” and “Metallica: Some Tucker took interest in the Devil Came on Horseback,” “The Trials of Kind Of Monster.” His most Eva Radke has worked in story of US soldiers and began to work on “Gunner Darryl Hunt,” and “Burma Soldier.” They are recent film, “Crude,” film and commercial Palace.” After the critically acclaimed release of recipients of SPIRIT and GOTHAM nominations, debuted at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival production in NYC for 15 “Gunner Palace” in 2005, Tucker began work on “The Best Female Filmmakers Award — San Diego and received numerous accolades including years, concentrating on the Prisoner: Or How I Planned to Kill Tony Blair,” FF, and the Adrienne Shelly Excellence in Best International Green Film at Berlin’s art department. In 2007 she nominated for an Independent Spirit Award. Tucker’s Filmmaking Award. prestigious Cinema For Peace. formed ArtCube, an online most recent work “How to Fold a Flag” is the final group that facilitates Mari Jo Winkler is chapter of a chronicle that spans seven years of war. collaboration within the currently executive industry. In 2008, she producing David Koepp’s founded Film Biz Recycling to help the film Premium Rush starring industry address the triple bottom line: people, Actors Dialogue Moderator: Joseph Gordon Levitt. She planet and profit. Utopia Studios Martha Frankel has contrib- also Executive Produced the Sun Oct 3 • 10:00am uted to “Details,” “The New soon to be released Doug River of Words: Portraits Yorker,” “Redbook,” “Cosmo- Liman’s Fair Game starring Join some of today’s most engaging actors Noami Watts and Sean Penn, politan” and “The New York of Hudson Valley Writers as they chat about their work and their lives. as well as “Away We Go,” “Dan in Real Life” Kleinert/James Art Center WOODSTOCK Times.” She is the author of and “No Reservations” and has Co-Produced “Hats & Eyeglasses: A Family “Lucky You,” “In Her Shoes” and “Shall We Sat Oct 2 • 1:00pm Love Affair with Gambling” Dance.” She is currently executive producing Celebrate the publication of “River of Words: and “Brazilian Sexy.” David Koepp’s “Premium Rush.” Portraits of Hudson Valley Writers” by Nina Edie Falco most recently appeared in the Naked Angels off-Broadway Shengold, photographs by Jennifer May, with production of “This Wide Night.” She made her Broadway debut in the Tony Conversation with this fast-moving literary montage of short Award-winning play “Sideman,” which garnered her a Theatre World Award Bruce Beresford takes by featured writers: Jon Bowermaster, and a Drama Desk Award nomination. Other Broadway credits include “Frankie Martha Frankel, James Lasdun, Jana Martin, Upstate Films WOODSTOCK and Johnny in the Claire de Lune” and “Night Mother.” Falco is currently Ron Nyswaner, David Rees, Susan Richards, starring as Jackie in the hit Showtime series “Nurse Jackie” for which she Sat Oct 2 • 10:00am was nominated for the 2010 Golden Globe and SAG Awards for Lead Actress in Zachary Sklar, Sparrow, Nova Ren Suma, Kim a Comedy Series. As “Carmela Soprano” in “The Sopranos” Falco received 3 Emmy Awards, 2 Golden Bradley Jacobs (Senior Editor, “US Weekly”) Wozencraft. Globe Awards and 2 SAG Awards for Lead Actress in a Drama Series. Film credits include “Cost of Liv- talka to Academy Award® nominated director Nina Shengold is Chronogram’s Books Editor ing” (AFI’s Best Actress Award), “Sunshine State” (Los Angeles Film Critics Association and New York Bruce Beresford about his films “Driving Miss and a Writers Guild Award winning screen- Film Critics Online Award for Best Supporting Actress), “Laws of Gravity” (Independent Spirit Award Daisy,” “Breaker Morant,” “Tender Mercies” and Nomination for Best Female Lead Actor), “Judy Berlin” and the soon to be released “3 Backyards.” writer. Jennifer May‘s photos appear in The his recent locally-produced “Peace Love & Misun- Additonal panelists TBA. New York Times, Poets & Writers and other derstanding.” A screening of “Tender Mercies” publications. follows at 11:00am.

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All events are subject to change. For latest updates, visit 22 www.WoodstockFilmFestival.com WOODSTOCK FILM FESTIVAL 2010 2010 WOODSTOCK FILM FESTIVAL SCHEDULE AT A GLANCE Wed 9/29 Fri 10/1 Sat 10/2 Sun 10/3 Bearsville Theater Woodstock Onteora High School BOICEVILLE Bearsville Theater Woodstock Bearsville Theater Woodstock 7:30 Lennon NYC 7:00 Shorts: TEEN SHORTS 12:00 First Circle 12:00 The Colonel’s Bride Emerson Resort MOUNT TREMPER 2:15 Rocksteady 2:15 Inuk Thur 9/30 8:00 Don’t Go In the Woods 4:45 Arias With A Twist 4:45 Norman Bearsville Theater Woodstock 8:00 Bitter Feast (dinner at 6:30pm) 7:30 Some Dogs Bite 7:30 Ray Charles America 1:00 The Singularity is Near 10:00 Stake Land Community Center Woodstock Bearsville Theater Woodstock 3:15 Journey From Zanskar Colony Café Woodstock 12:00 Camp Victory 11:30 SHORTS: Haiti 5:45 Gerrymandering w/ Neda’s Eyes 4:00 Workshop: Legal Issue in Film 1:45 SHORTS: Shout, Twist 8:15 Don’t Quit You Daydreams w/ Tarantula 2:15 Marwencol 4:00 SHORTS: Docs (followed by performance with The Community Center Woodstock 6:00 SHORTS: Music Good Listeners with Adrian Grenier) 4:45 Phil Ochs: There But Fortune 12:00 Shorts: Docs 7:15 The Tested 2:30 Shorts: Breaking Up Is Hard Town Hall Woodstock Town Hall Woodstock 10:00 Sounds Like a Revolution 5:00 Shorts: Journeys 11:45 Sola: Louisiana Water Stories 6:00 Phil Ochs: There But For Fortune with live performance by Justin Sane 7:15 Shorts: Sex, Friends, Work 1:45 In the Wake of the Flood 8:30 Battle of the Sexes Colony Café Woodstock 9:15 Shorts: Music 3:45 The Locksmith Upstate Films Woodstock 10:00 Concert: Perotta Kleinert/James Arts Center Woodstock 6:30 Journey From Zanskar 1:00 Helena From The Wedding 1:00 Book Signing: River of Words Upstate Films Woodstock 3:45 Client 9: Community Center Woodstock The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer 12:45 Shorts: Journeys Town Hall Woodstock 11:00 My Life With Carlos 6:45 Freakonomics 3:00 Shorts: Breaking Up is Hard 12:00 One Lucky Elephant 1:30 Stranger Things 9:15 Freakonomics 5:00 Shorts: Shout, Twist 2:30 Shorts: Animation 3:45 White Irish Drinkers 7:15 Shorts: Animation 4:45 My So-Called Enemy 6:45 Stone 9:30 Shorts: Sex, Friends, Work 7:15 The Kids Grow Up 9:30 Stone Town Hall Woodstock 9:30 William S. Burroughs 12:15 A NY Thing Upstate Films Woodstock 2:30 Windfall 10:00 Tender Mercies preceded by a 5:00 Made In India conversation with Bruce Beresford 7:30 Grace Paley 1:30 The Disappearance of McKinley Nolan 10:00 Beautiful Darling 4:00 Henry’s Crime 7:00 3 Backyards Upstate Films Woodstock 9:30 Welcome To the Rileys Utopia Studios Woodstock 11:30 Hello Lonesome 10:00 Panel: Actors’ Dialogue 2:00 Nice Guy Johnny Utopia Studios Woodstock 12:00 Panel: Documentary Workshop - 4:30 The Imperialists Are Still Alive! 12:00 Panel: Amazing Women in Film Focusing on the Craft of Filmmaking Utopia Studios Woodstock 7:15 Inhale 2:00 Panel: New Distribution Paradigms 2:00 Panel: Environmentally Speaking 3:00 Panel: Singularity 10:00 Cherry 4:00 Panel: Music For Change Upstate I rhinbeck Upstate I rhinbeck Utopia Studios Woodstock Upstate I rhinbeck 12:30 Hello Lonesome 7:30 3 Backyards 4:00 Panel: Film Marketing 1:30 Norman 3:00 Some Dogs Bite 4:00 Inuk Upstate I rhinbeck 5:30 Cherry 6:30 Phil Ochs: There But Fortune 2:00 Stranger Things 8:00 The Singularity Is Near 9:15 Nice Guy Johnny 4:15 The Locksmith Upstate II rhinbeck 6:45 The Disappearance Of Mckinley Nolan Upstate II rhinbeck 1:00 Made In India 9:30 Arias With A Twist 2:00 Grace Paley 3:30 First Circle 4:45 Gerrymandering Upstate II rhinbeck 5:45 My So Called Enemy 7:00 My Life With Carlos 2:30 One Lucky Elephant 8:30 The Imperialists are Still Alive! 9:30 Windfall 4:45 William S. Burroughs Rosendale Theater Upstate II rhinbeck 7:30 The Colonel’s Bride Rosendale Theater 12:30 Camp Victory 8:00 The Kids Grow Up 9:45 White Irish Drinkers 1:00 Marwencol 3:00 Henry’s Crime 3:30 Inhale Rosendale Theater Rosendale Theater 5:30 The Tested 6:30 Bitter Feast 8:00 A NY Thing 2:00 Lennon NYC 8:30 Welcome To the Rileys 9:30 Sounds Like a Revolution 4:30 Don’t Quit Your Daydreams Please note that all events are subject to change. 7:00 Rocksteady BSP Studios Kingston 9:30 Helena From the Wedding Check 7:00 2010 MAVERICK Award Ceremony www.woodstockfilmfestival.com to confirm venues and times

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