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FEATURES World Premiere East Coast Premiere East Coast Premiere 2nd Serve 419 Any Day Now Apartment in Athens Directed by Tim Kirkman Directed by Ned Thorne Directed by Travis Fine (Appartamento ad Atene) USA / 2012 / 89 minutes USA / 2012 / 90 minutes USA / 2012 / 98 minutes Directed by Ruggero Dipaola Utopia Studios WOODSTOCK Upstate Films WOODSTOCK Italy / 2011 / 95 minutes Upstate Films WOODSTOCK Sat Oct 13 • 7:30PM Fri Oct 12 • 9:30PM Fri Oct 12 • 7:00PM In Greek and German with subtitles Upstate Films I RHINEBECK Upstate Films II RHINEBECK Upstate Films II RHINEBECK Sun Oct 14 • 6:30PM Sat Oct 13 • 9:30PM Upstate Films I RHINEBECK Sat Oct 13 • 7:00PM Sat Oct 13 • 2:00PM Owen “Game Set” Match (Josh Hopkins) Ned Thorne’s directorial debut is a Set in the 1970s, Travis Fine’s Any Day Upstate Films WOODSTOCK is one of the best tennis pros around. He documentary-style narrative that gives Sun Oct 14 • 7:30PM Now explores the unique struggles of a coasts through life while working at the af- a raw look at what a man will do when Ruggero Dipaulo brings home the pain gay couple as they fight both prejudice fluent Fountain Club, until his bad decisions he feels he has nothing left to lose. of occupation of World War II in his and the law for custody of a a junkie lead to him being fired by his boss and high A struggling American actor (Mike Ivers) feature debut, Apartment in Athens, neighbor’s neglected and abandoned school tennis nemesis Charles (Dash Mihok). invests everything he has in what turns out winner of the Italian Golden Globe for son. Drag performer Rudy and district at- Taking a job at the much less fancy public to be a South African-based Internet scam. First Feature Film. The Helianos family’s torney Paul have only just met, yet are con- club Derby City, Owen is reunited with Taking an untraditional route to help him world is turned upside down as they are given fident in their love for one another as well his former trainer, the relentlessly intense come to terms with the ordeal, his two best the “honor” of hosting a German officer, Captain as their love and ability to care for Marco, Coach Bussey. The club’s manager, Sherry, friends decide to bring him back to Cape Kalter played superbly by Richard Sammel a 14-year old boy with Down Syndrome who (Alexie Gilmore) is wary of her new hire, but Town to pursue the thief. Their journey (Inglorious Basterds), in their home. Forced faces a future of foster care after his moth- comes around when she sees how well Owen leads them into the underworld of the city, to cater to his each of his exacting needs or er’s arrest. Despite Marco’s happiness, the gets along with her misfit son, Jake. Want- where corruption and self-preservation seem face retribution, Nikolas the patriarch of the new family is ripped apart when authorities ing to settle the score with Charles and the to motivate everyone’s decisions. Searching family, quickly realizes he must do what he can find the two gay men as unfit caretakers for rest of his Fountain Club rivals, Owen enters restaurants, bars, townships and Internet to protect his family and swiftly succumbs to the abused teen. a ragtag group of tennis pros from Derby cafés, the trio leaves no stone unturned in the officer’s whims. Family bonds are tested by Any Day Now follows the intimate City into the Combo Cup to decide once and their quest for the truth. The bonds of their their uninvited guest and the subservient role development of not just Rudy and Paul’s for all which club is the best. friendship are tested when those they trust the patriarch is forced to play. As Nikolas begins relationship with one another but the devel- –Heather Olin fall under suspicion, and their personal and to cut through Kalter’s hard exterior, a human opment of their love for a son that is being professional lives start to crumble around side to the officer is briefly glimpsed, offering torn from their grasp. – Chandra L. Knotts them. 419 will keep you on the edge of your the Helianos family a moment of hope. Patiently seat, and have you talking long after the crafted and wonderfully acted Apartment in credits roll. – Heather Olin Athens, based on Glenway Wescott’s stirring 1945 novel, discovers both the horror and the humanity in war. – Michael Burke New York Premiere with her manic father (played their father’s newest job opportunity and Arcadia brilliantly by Academy Award winner away from their mother, who is said to be Directed by Olivia Silver John Hawkes), a man who hops away visiting her sister. While her siblings USA / 2012 / 90 minutes between overly-enthusiastic ravings seem more interested in boys and seeing of California’s beauty and enraged the Grand Canyon, Greta cannot keep from outbursts towards his children at the thinking of her mysteriously absent mother, ROSENDALE Theatre mention of negativity or, even worse, despite her fathers promises of a united Sat Oct 13 • 7:30PM their mother. First time director Olivia family beneath the California sunshine. Ryan Upstate Films WOODSTOCK Silver takes audiences along with Greta’s Simpkins captivates as Greta in a story of Sun Oct 14 • 2:00PM family on their stressful ride through newfound maturity and the burdens of lost Twelve-year old Greta is less than cheap motels and diners to California in a innocence. – Chandra L. Knotts thrilled to be traveling cross-country beat-up station wagon, heading towards All events are subject to change. For latest updates, visit 2 www.WoodstockFilmFestival.com WOODSTOCK FILM FESTIVAL 2012 FEATURES New York Premiere World Premiere New York Premiere COMPETITION FINALIST Archaeology of a Woman Art Machine Between Us California Solo Directed by Sharon Greytak Directed by Doug Karr Directed by Dan Mirvish Directed by Marshall Lewy USA / 2012 / 100 minutes USA / 2011 / 88 minutes USA / 2012 / 90 minutes USA / 2012 / 93 minutes WOODSTOCK Playhouse WOODSTOCK Playhouse WOODSTOCK Playhouse Upstate Films II RHINEBECK Sat Oct 13 • 4:30PM Fri Oct 12 • 10:00PM Sat Oct 13 • 9:30PM Thur Oct 11 • 8:15PM ROSENDALE Theatre Upstate Films WOODSTOCK Archaeology of a Woman rides the edge At age six, child prodigy painter Declan Sun Oct 14 • 8:00PM Sat Oct 13 • 2:00PM between reality and fiction when a Truss was propelled into the art world daughter (Tony winner Victoria Clark) as a rare marvel, but by seventeen, the Some things are better kept private, When you reach the top, is there any- returns home to care for her mother’s tightrope of notoriety is catching up even among the best of friends. This is where to go but down? Former Brit-pop worsening dementia and discovers her with him. Declan seeks inspiration as a lesson that couples Grace and Carlo rock star Lachlan MacAldonich, in a sublime connection to a thirty year-old crime. the immense pressures of an impend- (Julia Stiles, Taye Diggs), and Sharyl performance by Robert Carlyle, finds himself Oscar nominee and Golden Globe winner ing coming-of-age exhibition loom. and George (Melissa George, David Har- at this precipice as a once promising music Sally Kirkland is the feisty, guilt-ridden His world expands when he stumbles on a bour) learn the hard way. Taking place career is now awash in booze and self- mother who fights to protect her freedom in commune of rebellious freethinkers. Declan over two evenings set several years apart, loathing. Director Marshall Lewy’s sopho- spite of the dementia she can not control. reaches beyond painting to wild experimen- the couples’ friendship becomes undone more effort is a moving departure from his As the daughter runs between her own tation, quickly spinning out of control. As during two nights of frank conversation feature debut, the comedy Blue State, as aspiring career and the demands of her he becomes consumed by his mania, he be- about sex, money and religion. Confronta- Lachlan, now a farm manager in southern mother, the small surveillance camera she gins to regard his family as part of a system tion erupts as they realize their lives have California, faces deportation after another installed to help monitor mom at home that’s keeping him down, and magnetically moved in irrevocably different directions. ill-fated night of drinking and driving. In an reveals a far more private life of fear, lust rallies the rebels to take part in his progres- As each couple’s fractured relationship is effort to stave off expulsion from the U.S. and longing. Archaeology investigates the sively subversive art exhibition—one that revealed in front of the other, the collateral he must reconnect with his ex-wife and the visceral experience of age-related dementia will ultimately shock and destroy. damage is an old friendship. Based on Joe daughter he barely knows and finally face through the unsettled lives of two very dif- Set against the backdrop of Brook- Hurtua’s award winning play, Dan Mirvish’s the demons he has been avoiding to reclaim ferent generations of women. lyn’s vibrant art and music scene, Art Ma- film features wonderfully emotional and a life teetering on the edge. – Michael Burke chine is a dark comedy about the tenuous complicated performances from all four relationship between art and commerce, accomplished actors who learn why some the fine line between creative genius and things should be kept just Between Us.