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Courtesy of All Relative Amir a & Sam Arwad fmunfil Before I Disappear Directed by J.C. Khoury Directed by Sean Mullin Directed by Directed by Shawn Christensen USA / 2013 / 85 minutes USA / 2013 / 88 minutes Samer Najari and Dominique Chila USA / 2014 / 98 minutes In English, and Arabic with subtitles Canada / 2013 / 105 minutes Upstate Films I RHINEBECK In English, and French and Arabic with Upstate Films WOODSTOCK Sat Oct 18 • 7:30pm Upstate Films WOODSTOCK subtitles Thur Oct 16 • 7:00pm Thur Oct 16 • 4:30pm WOODSTOCK Playhouse Upstate Films WOODSTOCK ROSENDALE Theatre Sun Oct 19 • 5:15pm Orpheum Theater SAUGERTIES Fri Oct 17 • 4:45pm Fri Oct 17 • 6:30pm Fri Oct 17 • 7:00pm Courtesy of FilmBuff Orpheum Theater SAUGERTIES Courtesy of ifcfilms Reminiscent of classic Hollywood Sun Oct 19 • 12:30pm When Harry, a graduate student romances, where the leads hold Before I Disappear follows Richie in New York City, meets Grace, their own and the chemistry runs Rarely does a film combine such (Shawn Christensen), a man who he immediately falls for her. With high (think Hepburn and Grant, Bogie high quality elements. With Arwad, is very much inclined to commit the help of some dating tips from a and Bacall), Sam and Amira spar with directors Dominique Chila and Samer suicide. After facing his end and de- seductive divorcee, Harry successfully their wits and embrace with their Najari have crafted a visually stunning, ciding to take his own life, he receives courts Grace. But when he’s introduced hearts. Behind this romantic curtain, emotionally charged masterpiece. Ali a phone call from his younger sister, to her parents, a shared secret turns however, is a film that addresses (Ramzi Choukair, who has been described Maggie (Emmy Rossum of Shameless), his world into a living nightmare. race, class and militarism. Under the as the Syrian Javier Bardem) struggles begging him to look after her daugh- Forced to survive a weekend riddled restrained hand of director Sean Mullin, with a harsh middle-aged reality after ter for a few hours. Willing to with- with tension and socially awkward it takes place with a dose of humor and his beloved mother dies. Torn between hold death for a little while longer, moments, the bonds of both couples a light touch. a wife and a mistress; his family and a Richie agrees to take care of his niece, are tested to their breaking point. Just back from Iraq, floundering desire for adventurous spontaneity; the Sophia (Fatima Ptacek). Sam, played with reserved mien by old world and the new; he travels home What follows is an intensive Martin Starr (Freaks and Geeks) is with his mistress and his mother’s ashes glimpse into the life of a man who be- lured into the world of finance by his to rediscover his roots. lieves he has nothing to lose. Between ambitious cousin Charlie. But when An unexpected turn of events his shady job with a menacing boss fast-talking, street-savvy Amira, niece of connects past and present in a film that (Ron Perlman), a drugged-out friend Sam’s Iraqi translator, literally descends is exotic, romantic and foreboding. The with a bad temper (Paul Wesley of on him as she goes on the run from soundtrack provides a sparse yet distinct The Vampire Diaries), and an ominous immigration officials, Sam begins to and amorous background matching the twist that throws everything out of rediscover his true self. romantic setting of the remote Syrian whack, Richie must find a way to hold In a charming story that shifts island. The acting is transcendent on to what little life he has left in between moral dilemma and budding and raw, including a commanding order to take care of his quick-witted, romance, the struggling duo has performance by Julie McClemens, hard-hitting, alarmingly determined Table of Contents everyone in the audience rooting for who plays the understanding but niece. them. psychologically exhausted wife. Arwad – Jess Carson 2 Narratives - Ben F. Fischer is an absolute standout of this festival season. – Johnny Misheff 8 Documentaries

14 Shorts WORLD Premiere Following a mysterious suicide at 19 Performances THE AMERICAN SIDE Niagara Falls, a low-rent detective Directed by Jenna Ricker unravels a conspiracy to build a 2014 / USA / 104 minutes revolutionary invention by enigmatic 19 Panels scientist, Nikola Tesla. WOODSTOCK Playhouse Cast features Greg Stuhr, Matthew Broderick, 22 Tickets Thur Oct 16 • 1:00pm Janeane Garofalo, Robert Forster, Camilla Belle, ROSENDALE Theatre Alicja Bachleda and Robert Vaughn. 23 Schedule at a Glance Sat Oct 18 • 9:30pm

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World Premiere EAST COAST Premiere New York Premiere WORLD Premiere Bren ad a d Butter Creep Eat with Me TL HE F Y Room Directed by Liz Manashil Directed by Patrick Brice Directed by David Au Directed by Alexis Gambis USA / 2014 / 89:13 minutes USA / 2014 / 80 minutes USA / 2014 / 96 minutes 2014 / USA / 85 minutes

Upstate Films II RHINEBECK WOODSTOCK Playhouse Bearsville Theater WOODSTOCK WOODSTOCK Playhouse Sat Oct 18 • 3:00pm Sat Oct 18 • 4:30pm Thur Oct 16 • 6:00pm Sat Oct 18 • 9:40pm ROSENDALE Theatre Upstate Films II RHINEBECK Bearsville Theater WOODSTOCK Partly filmed in Red hook and Sun Oct 19 • 7:45pm Sun Oct 19 • 12:00pm Fri Oct 17 • 12:45pm Tivoli Courtesy of RAdius/TWC Courtesy of Wolfe Video Late bloomer Amelia, played by During her first visit to an insect Christine Weatherup, has spent Comprised of psychological enig- Love and food intersect in Eat with lab where her father is deciphering the first three decades of her life ma and horror, as well as humor Me, where the quest to overcome the fundamental laws of genet- alone, reading books and working and sadness, Creep is a two-man loneliness reunites Emma and her ics, 10-year-old Betsey is initially as a receptionist for an eccentric life story set in a remote mountain cabin estranged son, Elliot. When she reluctant to enter this fly world but coach. At the urging of her boss, she in the woods. Joseph, expecting to shows up at Elliot’s apartment for a eventually steps in deeply, receiving starts to search for a soulmate. die soon of an unstated illness, hires “short stay,” secrets abound and con- an unorthodox education. She is both Daniel (Bobby Moynihan, SNL) Aaron through an ad on Craigslist flicts develop. Elliot struggles with his perplexed and fascinated by how her is a kind and introverted client at to document the end of his life as a sexual identity while trying to keep father applies his genetic research to the office. He and Amelia share many legacy to his unborn son. his small restaurant afloat. The one his games of seduction. In the heat of the same idiosyncrasies, fears, Starting innocently enough, thing mother and son do connect over of his excitement, Calvin crosses the and overall naivety. Amelia finds her we meet Aaron, a warm-hearted, is their love of Asian cooking, which line, leaving young Betsey traumatized second prospect from clues written down-on-his luck filmmaker, played to revitalizes their relationship with love by the time spent with him. Glimpses in the margins of a book. Leonard perfection by director/co-writer Pat- and understanding. of Betsey at 21, mourning her father’s (Micah Hauptman, Everest), whose rick Brice. After an unsettling arrival Eat with Me from director death, and in old age reveal how this originality and unpredictability at the cabin, Aaron is soon greeted by David Au is a fresh and well-prepared complex relationship, both nourishing immediately attract her, leads the Joseph, the somewhat off-balance, yet film delivering exhilarating music, and damaging, informs her transition story into a Feliniesque and humor- diabolically sweet and charming pro- mouth-watering food and unexpected to adult life. filled entanglement. tagonist, portrayed with an inspired humanity. – Sam Robotham Liz Manashil directs a cast of mix of goofiness and darkness by indie talented actors to make her oddball icon Mark Duplass (who co-wrote the characters come alive. This quirky and script). But watch out Aaron, Joseph endearing film will bring audiences may have more up his sleeve than ap- together, like bread and butter, in an pears to the naked eye. experience both heartwarming and Unscripted and electrified distinctly human. – Cristin Carlin by the remarkable talent of the two actor/filmmakers, Creep is a roller coaster of wits that twists the viewer’s Souvenirs mind and heart. This film will keep surprising you until the very end. –Svetlana Krotek preceded by Ten rmi al

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World Premiere Fnriends a d I Believe In T HE ImitATION Just Before I Go Romans Unicorns GAME Directed by Courteney Cox Directed by Christopher Kublan Directed by Leah Meyerhoff Directed by Morten Tyldum USA / 2013 / 95 minutes USA / 2014 / 99 minutes USA / 2014 / 80 minutes USA / 2014 / 113 minutes Upstate Films WOODSTOCK Sat Oct 18 • 2:00pm Bearsville Theater WOODSTOCK Upstate Films WOODSTOCK WOODSTOCK Playhouse Fri Oct 17 • 9:30pm ROSENDALE Theatre Fri Oct 17 • 2:30pm Thu Oct 16 • 9:15pm Sun Oct 19 • 2:30pm Upstate Films I RHINEBECK Upstate Films I RHINEBECK Sat Oct 18 • 5:00pm Sun Oct 19 • 5:15pm In THE IMITATION GAME, First time director Courteney Benedict Cumberbatch stars Family man Nick DeMaio drives Cox (Friends, Cougar Town) uses Filmed in as Alan Turing, the genius her comedic style to focus on the a fruit delivery truck by day, but Campbell Hall & GOSHEN, NY British mathematician, logician, his passion is doing background universal struggles of loss, pain The word unicorn conjures cryptologist and computer and desperation in a witty and “extra” parts in mob movies. Yearn- up the sense of fanciful imagi- scientist who led the charge to ing to be a real actor and prove to his smart portrayal of a man on the edge. nation and mythical realism. It crack the German Enigma Code Ted decides to end his mediocre family, and the world, that he’s more also conjures up the longing for the that helped the Allies win WWII. than just a stereotypical goombah, life, but before doing so, he returns to unrealistic and unbelievable to be Turing went on to assist with the his hometown to revisit the demons Nick convinces his mob movie bud- true. In Leah Meyerhof’s debut feature, development of computers at the dies to put on a staged production of of his past: the cruel school teacher; imagination and reality become University of Manchester after the the relentless bully; the girl who got Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar in their interchangeable. Davina, played with war, but was prosecuted by the UK local Staten Island theater. Only the away. While staying with his brother stunning range by Natalia Dyer, seeks government in 1952 for homosexual theater is the hideout of camera shy and his dysfunctional family, he makes to escape her dire life taking care acts which the country deemed mob boss Joey Bananas Bongano, on an unexpected connection with a girl of her disabled mother, by creating illegal. who decides to document his last few the run from the FBI, and with acting dreamy settings in her room and look- ambitions of his own. Now the Feds Directed by Morten Tyldum days. A motley cast of characters helps ing for romance and adventure away with a screenplay by Graham Moore, Ted realize that life is complicated for plant one of their own in the cast to from home. She finds all of that, and the film stars Benedict Cumberbatch, everyone and the memories of the past determine who among the familiar, then some, in Sterling (Peter Vack), Keira Knightley, Matthew Goode, can be reinterpreted. and Familial cast, is the real Mafioso. an older “bad boy” who seems to have Rory Kinnear, Allen Leech, Mat- A compelling story, stellar Cleverly exploring the parallels invented cool. between Shakespeare and the cin- thew Beard, Charles Dance and Mark script and memorable performances The two set off on a wild ad- make Just Before I Go a film that ematic myth of the Mafia, Friends and venture where playfulness and passion Strong. Romans is a comedy about the danger deeply connects with the audience, collide. A celebration of color, sound and takes them on a journey filled of stereotypes, the joy of acting, and and whimsy make I Believe in Unicorns the real meaning of Family. with comedy, angst and love. something you want to believe in. – Cristin Carlin –Svetlana Krotek

TasHE L t Time Mo Perkins directs an stocked stretch limousine), they emotional journey of four meet their uninhibited selves You Had Fun struggling adults trying to let and embark on a night-long Directed by Mo Perkins loose in The Last Time You Had joy ride of self discovery. The Fun, a lighthearted film about spot-on ensemble featuring per- USA / 2014 / 78 minutes divorce, unhappiness, disloyalty formances by Kyle Bornheimer, and love. Orpheum Theater SAUGERTIES Eliza Coupe, Mary Elizabeth Ellis, Meet Ida, Alison, Clark, Demetri Martin, and Carlyne Yi, Sat Oct 18 • 9:40pm and Will, who attempt to escape East Coast Premiere it all for just one night. Trying will connect with anyone who Upstate Films WOODSTOCK to recreate the events that has ever been in a relationship, Sun Oct 19 • 4:45pm inspired the last time Clark and will take audiences on a could remember having fun journey of raucous humor and (an episode involving a fully candor. – Cristin Carlin

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East Coast Premiere world Premiere world Premiere LATE PHASES Listening Little Accidents Mahjong Directed by Adrián García Bogliano Directed by Khalil Sullins Directed by Sara Colangelo and the West USA / 2014 / 96 minutes USA / 2014 / 98 minutes USA / 2014 / 104 minutes Directed by Joseph Muszynski USA / 2014 / 93 minutes Upstate Films II RHINEBECK Upstate Films WOODSTOCK Upstate Films WOODSTOCK Thur Oct 16 • 7:15pm Thur Oct 16 • 9:30pm Fri Oct 17 • 12:00pm WOODSTOCK Playhouse Upstate Films WOODSTOCK Upstate Films I RHINEBECK Orpheum Theater SAUGERTIES Fri Oct 17 • 2:30pm Sat Oct 18 • 9:30pm Fri Oct 17 • 8:30pm Sun Oct 19 • 3:00pm ROSENDALE Theatre Sat Oct 18 • 7:00pm Courtesy of dark side films Listening brings us a powerful After a mine collapses in a small debut from director Khalil Sullins, Appalachian community, sole Filmed in rhinebeck, wood- Maddy runs a New York interior as it skirts the sci-fi genre with its survivor Amos Jenkins (beautifully design firm with her mother, Diane. stock & KINGSTON, NY own unique storytelling approach played by Boyd Holbook) finds When a hit-and-run accident kills Crescent Bay is not the best place and bold cinematic style. Many of himself embroiled in a court case her mother, Maddy returns to rural surrounding the disaster. to live out one’s golden years. us have fantasized about having the Wyoming for the first time in fifteen Families of deceased co-workers Once an idyllic retirement power to read minds but a dark side years, where she grieves alongside her expect him to testify that the accident community, the secluded neighbor- looms. Mahjong-playing grandmother. But was the coal company’s fault, while hood has been beset by mysterious In this psychological thriller, a when Maddy reconnects with Kate, miners untouched by the tragedy want and deadly attacks. When grizzled group of penniless graduate students an old childhood friend, it reawakens him to keep quiet. war veteran Ambrose McKinley (Nick thinks they have solved their financial memories of their violent, troubled When the son of the mine’s Damici, Stake Land) moves in, the problems when they invent a new past. As both women tiptoe around boss goes missing, a chain reaction residents immediately take offense technology that allows them to share their history, they live hard and booze is set off that impacts three very dif- at his abrasive personality. But his each other’s thoughts. What they don’t their way through the mourning pro- ferent families and gives an intimate take-no-prisoners attitude is just what realize is that they have opened up a cess along with Jack and Stewart, two view of what life is really like in the he needs to survive as it becomes Pandora’s box that will come crash- local bull riders. rust-belt. clear that the increasingly violent and ing down on them. As the experiment Immersed in cowboy culture, Debut director Sara Colangelo patterned attacks are being caused destroys their relationships and falls the girls embark on a kamikaze course, handles her cast with such sensitiv- by beasts that are neither animal nor into the wrong hands, the audience running from the past and toward ity and finesse that, while steeped in man, and that the tight-knit com- is presented with a color-saturated thrills and comfort. But pressure anguish, Little Accidents is a beautiful, munity of Crescent Bay is harboring vision of a new reality that twists and builds and their extended reunion touching gem. something truly sinister in its midst. turns along the way. proves that neither control nor chaos – Ben F. Fischer –Sam Robotham can erase their trauma. And if they can’t erase it, they’ll either have to make peace with it or set it on fire.

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The BMI Music Panel and concerts play a critical role in Focus on Music programming.­ This Hugh Masekela year BMI will have a panel/discussion with world- East Jerusalem/West Jerusalem renowned flugelhornist, Hugh Masekela. Partici­pants over the years Focus on Music have included Pine Top Perkins, Donovan, Levon Helm, Bernie Worrell, showcases films about music and musicians while, at the same time Bela Fleck and Edgar Meyer, Mike Gordon and Trey Anastasio of Phish, exploring the role that music plays in film. Many of the films emphasize Kate Pierson, Arlo Guthrie, Peter Rowan, Marshall Crenshaw, Duncan how music can be an important and powerful tool for expression and Sheik, Rahat Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, and many others. 2014 Focus on conflict resolution. Music feature films include East Jerusalem/West Jerusalem.

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World Premiere EAST COAST Premiere New York Premiere Thane M Who Patrick’s Day The Red Robin runoff Saved the World Directed by Terry McMahon Directed by Michael Z. Wechsler Directed by Kimberly Levin Directed by Peter Anthony Ireland / 2014 / 101 minutes USA / 2013 / 93 minutes USA / 2014 / 90 minutes Denmark / 2014 / 105 minutes Upstate Films II RHINEBECK Upstate Films WOODSTOCK Bearsville Theater WOODSTOCK In English, and Russian with subtitles Fri Oct 17 • 3:45pm Fri Oct 17 • 9:45pm Sat Oct 18 • 8:40pm Upstate Films WOODSTOCK Orpheum Theater SAUGERTIES Upstate Films I RHINEBECK Upstate Films I RHINEBECK Sat Oct 18 • 4:15pm Sun Oct 19 • 5:45pm Sun Oct 19 • 2:45pm Fri Oct 17 • 5:45pm In Patrick’s Day, Terry McMahon The beauty of the land Upstate Films WOODSTOCK Judd Hirsch plays Dr. Shellner, a cannot mask the brutality of a Sat Oct 18 • 12:00pm writes and directs about the Nobel Prize-winning psychiatrist As harvest draws near, destructive force of love, the whose work with war refugees has farm town. No one knows his name. No one question of sanity, the value of brought him considerable fame. Betty Freeman confronts a terrifying knows his story. But everyone intimacy, the impact of memory and While doing PTSD-related work in war new reality. She goes to desperate owes their life to Stanislav Petrov. the consequence of choice. Patrick, a zones decades ago, Shellner adopted lengths to save her family and must September 26, 1983, Stanislav warm, open, twenty-six year old virgin three orphans who crossed his path. coldly decide whom to sacrifice. Petrov saves the world from nuclear schizophrenic played beautifully by These now grown children, along with First-time writer/direc- Armageddon. Decades later, after his the talented Moe Dunford, falls in love his biological son, have gathered in tor Kimberly Levin’s emotionally life has unraveled around him, his with Karen, a suicidal flight attendant, their childhood home to celebrate their gripping debut features a rivet- contribution to the world today is setting off a magical yet impossible dying father’s 75th birthday. ing performance by Joanne Kelly. recognized, and he embarks on a spec- love affair. The reunion doesn’t turn out Shot on rural Kentucky’s working tacular journey to save himself. Convinced that Karen will quite as Shellner expected when farms, invoking a kind of heart- The Man Who Saved the World either break her son’s heart or steal adopted son Tommy (Ryan O’Nan) land neo-realism, Runoff combines seamlessly mixes fact and fiction to his affection, Patrick’s mother enlists accuses him of war crimes and mind a driven narrative urgency with a create a historical thriller and personal the help of a dysfunctional detective, control experiments. Tommy’s story sharp, almost documentary eye. This redemption story. This unlikely real who will use his position to help her, starts to take on an element of truth, skillfully written narrative flips the life hero reminds us how close we for a price. as strange things begin to unfold. Eerie standard gender dynamic and brings came to apocalypse, and what the loss With exquisite cinematography flashbacks suggest hidden secrets in a of billions of lives looks and feels like. and stellar performances, audiences long night of accusations and revela- unexpected insight and realism to are skillfully guided on a ride through tions. an established genre. a chaotic circus of emotions in this The Red Robin combines family provocative Irish film. –Cristin Carlin drama with psychological thriller, and keeps the audience perched on the edge of their seats to see how it ultimately unfolds. – Ben F. Fischer

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A Snake Gives Birth to a Snake As technology makes our world seem smaller and increasingly Award ­accessible, we are given the rare opportunity to expand our global consciousness. Film remains one of the highest forms for such expression, offering audiences the scenery, sounds and personalities of faraway places. WFF is proud to present the World Cinema program to further our commitment to sharing experiences across continents. 2014 highlights include Antarctica 3D: On the Edge, Arwad, The Man Who Saved the World, Patrick’s Day, and Red Lines. A Small Section of the World

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world Premiere NORTH AMERICAN Premiere O PENING NIGHT FILM East Coast Premiere SACRIFICE The Sisterhood TWO MEN IN TOWN Uncertain Terms Directed by Michael Cohn of Night Directed by Rachid Bouchareb Directed by Nathan Silver USA / 2014 / 100 minutes Directed by Caryn Waechter USA / 2014 / 120 minutes USA / 2014 / 71 minutes USA / 2014 / 102 minutes ROSENDALE Theatre WOODSTOCK Playhouse Upstate Films I RHINEBECK Thur Oct 16 • 7:00pm Thur Oct 16 • 6:30pm Fri Oct 17 • 3:30pm WOODSTOCK Playhouse Upstate Films WOODSTOCK Sat Oct 18 • 7:00pm Bearsville Theater WOODSTOCK Sat Oct 18 • 7:00pm After a troubled youth and Sat Oct 18 • 6:30pm ROSENDALE Theatre 18 years in prison, William Sun Oct 19 • 5:00pm When four high school friends Garnett (Forest Whitaker) is Robbie is a guy who’s just venture into the wilderness for a being released. With the help of looking for an escape. Venturing to hunting trip, one of the boys shoots Filmed in KINGSTON, NY an idealistic parole agent (Brenda Upstate New York to flee the city and a stranger in the woods, mistaking Based on the short story by Pulit- Blethyn) and his new-found Islamic complications of his marriage, he arrives him for a deer. At first the four friends zer Prize-winning author Steven faith, Garnett struggles to rebuild his at his aunt’s bucolic country home work together in a frantic struggle Millhauser, The Sisterhood of life and overcome the violent impulses where he hopes to find room to breathe. to save the wounded victim, but Night is a story of friendship and which possess him. However, Bill Agati He soon discovers that the house has when this fails they are paralyzed loyalty set against the backdrop (Harvey Keitel), the Sheriff of the been repurposed as a respite home for with fear and uncertainty, and soon of a modern-day Salem witch trial. small New Mexico border county where pregnant teenage girls. Despite doing become divided about what to do and Shot on location in Kingston, NY, the Garnett is released, has other ideas. his best to keep to himself, Robbie whether to hide this terrible accident. film chronicles a group of girls who Convinced that Garnett is soon forms bonds with the girls, stirring Increasingly desperate to stay out have slipped out of the world of social unredeemable and is a threat to up the kinds of emotions that he was of trouble, they act with the hope of media into a mysterious world deep in the security of his county, Agati attempting to escape and creating an leaving their nightmare behind, yet the woods. The tale begins when Emily launches a campaign to return upheaval of jealousy and love triangles each decision only deepens their guilt Parris exposes a secret society of teen- Garnett to prison for life. Also stars where rest and tranquility are meant to and further ensnares them in a web of age girls she discovers in the woods at Luis Guzman, Dolores Heredia, Tim be the norm. unforeseen consequences. night. Accusing them of committing Guinee, and Ellen Burstyn. Prominent indie director, Nathan sexually deviant acts, Emily’s allega- Silver, presents a film inspired by his tions throw their small American town mother’s life. Cindy Silver (Nathan’s real into the national media spotlight. The life mother) plays a lead role that steals mystery deepens when each of the the show. The rest of the cast, com- accused takes a vow of silence. What prised of professionals and non-actors, follows is a chronicle of three girls’ makes this gem of a film authentic. unique and provocative alternative to Filled to the brim with scenes that are the loneliness of adolescence, reveal- both poetic and wrenching, Uncertain ing the tragedy and humor of teenage Terms is an original story about how years changed forever by the Internet love isn’t always as easy as boy meets Age. girl. –Sam Robotham Whabbite R it A lifetime of unrelenting as he becomes the target of school yard violence, humiliation and horror set bullies. His only friends are Julie, an the stage for the smoldering rage emotionally unstable newcomer and his Directed by Tim McCann that turns Harlon, a sensitive child, best friend Stevie, a vulnerable, under- into a school shooter. Told from the sized side kick. USA / 2013 / 89 minutes inside out with haunting revelations White Rabbit is a voyage into along the way, we first meet Harlon the heart of madness so skillfully drawn ROSENDALE Theatre as a vulnerable three-year old, back we can’t help feeling compassion for to camera, as he endures the abuse of Fri Oct 17 • 9:00pm his cruel, homophobic and overbearing the shooter. Flawless performances and East Coast Premiere father. Growing up in gun country and first-rate cinematography in the service Upstate Films WOODSTOCK forced to shoot a white rabbit, Harlon’s of an all too timely subject make this a psychological study you won’t want to Sun Oct 19 • 7:30pm world is soon infiltrated by voices and images that take on increasing ferocity miss. This is masterful filmmaking. – Barbara Pokras, ACE

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new york Premiere US Premiere W ildLike A Small Section A Snake Gives Directed by Frank Hall Green of the World Birth to a Snake USA / 2014 / 98 minutes Directed by Lesley Chilcott Directed by Michael Lessac USA / 2014 / 62 minutes USA/South Africa / 2014 / 101 minutes Upstate Films I RHINEBECK Thur Oct 16 • 7:00pm In English, and Afrikaans, Albanian, Bearsville Theater WOODSTOCK Bosnian, Serbian, Xhosa, Zulu with WOODSTOCK Playhouse Sat Oct 18 • 11:45am Sat Oct 18 • 2:00pm Subtitles Upstate Films II RHINEBECK Sun Oct 19 • 3:00pm WildLike is an overwhelmingly WOODSTOCK Playhouse Fri Oct 17 • 5:00pm beautiful and heartwarming tale Courtesy of FilmBuff of two strangers who cross paths Upstate Films I RHINEBECK in the wilderness of the Alaskan How many hands touch your Sun Oct 19 • 12:00pm frontier Mackenzie, portrayed by morning coffee before you? How the show-stopping young actress many of those hands are women’s? A How do we heal a world where Ella Purnell, is sent to live in Alaska Small Section of the World is an inspi- neighbors kill neighbors and vio- with her uncle. Brian Geraghty is rational story about a group of women lence runs rampant? A diverse group unnervingly brilliant in this malevolent from a remote farming region of Costa of South African actors try to share a role. When their relationship turns, Rica whose ideas sparked a revolution message of rapprochement based on Mackenzie decides to run. Utterly on in the coffee-growing world. After the Truth and Reconciliation hearings her own, she struggles to navigate her the men of the village left in search in their own country. As the troupe way back to her mother in Seattle, and of work, the women came together to tours war-torn regions of Northern begins to follow a solitary backpacker, imagine a different future for them- Ireland, Rwanda and the former Yu- played magnificently by Bruce selves, their families and their com- goslavia, they ignite a highly charged Greenwood. The unlikely pair traverses munity. The film follows the impact of dialogue among people still suffer- the last frontier, and together they this remarkable story of perseverance ing from the raw memories of recent both begin to heal from the wounds of as it touches lives around the globe. atrocities in their own countries. their past. The movie features the original song, Emotions are right on the sur- While the breathtaking Alaskan The Morning, by Alanis Morrisette and face. This powerful play turns real as scenery is a sight to behold on screen, Carlos Tapado Vargas. the actors question their own capacity the real beauty in this film comes from for healing and forgiveness. Everyone the actors’ extraordinary performances. is forced to confront their homeland’s preceded by The characters are undeniable in their violent past and no one comes out of BUTTER & Cheese complete captivation of the audience. it unscathed. Featuring original music Through Frank Hall Green’s direction, composed on screen for the play by jazz legend Hugh Masekela, A Snake the story is brought to life with both Directed by Gives Birth to a Snake brings us full authenticity and wonder. WildLike Tashi Dhondup circle to the question of can we put takes viewers on an adventure of body USA/ 2013/ aside our differences to create a world and soul in an emotionally captivating 12:28 minutes and provocative film experience. where all people can live with respect –Cristin Carlin Shot at an altitude and justice. of 14,000 feet – Ben F. Fischer above sea level, close to India-Tibet border, the film captures the unique Q&A with lifestyle of the yak herders against the Hugh backdrop of the Himalayan mountains. Masekela & Micheal lessac

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New York Premiere World Premiere World Premiere World Premiere Angel Azul Antarctica 3D: Dnown I East Directed by Marcelina Cravat On the Edge Shadowland Jerusalem / Mexico, USA / 2014 / 71 minute Directed by Jon Bowermaster Directed by Tom DiCillo West Jerusalem In English, and Spanish with subtitles USA / 2014 / 38 minutes USA / 2014 / 66:31 minutes Directed by Erez Miller and Henrique Cymerman Upstate Films I RHINEBECK Regal Cinemas, Kingston, NY Sat Oct 18 • 12:00pm Sun Oct 19 • 10:30am Bearsville Theater WOODSTOCK Israel / 2014 / 80 minutes Fri Oct 17 • 7:15pm In English, Upstate Films WOODSTOCK With a reputation as cold, forbid- Arabic and Hebrew with subtitles Sun Oct 19 • 2:30pm ROSENDALE Theatre ding and remote, Antarctica can Sat Oct 18 • 2:30pm WOODSTOCK Playhouse Artist Jason deCaires Taylor is a also be a fragile place, home to an incredible variety of life along its VIP Admission Wed Oct 15 • 6:00pm passionate environmentalist who If the whole of humanity were General Admission Wed Oct 15 • 7:30pm is concerned about what the world edges. marched before our eyes, it might will look like for future genera- Join National Geographic resemble Down in Shadowland, a explorer Jon Bowermaster as he and At a time when Israelis and Pales- tions. Marcy Cravat’s beautifully shot descent into the subterranean universe tinians seem hopelessly divided, film transports us to an underwater his team travel along the continent’s of the iconic New York City subway. frozen coastline in Antarctica 3D, On renowned Israeli musician David world populated by Taylor’s hauntingly Told in eight parts, each probing ever Broza’s new album East Jerusalem/ life-like statues that give birth to an The Edge. more deeply into the human psyche, The adventurers explore by sea West Jerusalem was created with such artificial coral reef designed to restore Shadowland is a profound meditation a spirit of determined optimism that the ecosystem. kayak, ice-worthy sailboat and on foot on the human condition. to gain an up-close look and attempt it’s hard not to feel hopeful. Through stunning underwater This is a world where the cam- Henrique Cymerman and Erez cinematography, we see his magical to better understand just how the era is restless, constantly exploring, seventh continent is changing – and Miller’s film documents the creation of creations in various stages of being unearthing private movements, hold- Broza’s album, produced by legendary transformed by coral, algae and other in some parts changing very fast – in ing until we are struck with revelation. part due to a warming ocean. Meet American musician (and part-time Wood- forms of life. We also experience the A telephone receiver hangs down, an stock resident) Steve Earle. The music mentoring of local artisans in the Yu- scientists and the wildlife they study impotent reminder of disconnect, like up-close and learn about the history is rich in converging sounds of Israeli, catan peninsula, where Taylor’s project the hordes of people oblivious of one Palestinian and American musicians. is conceived, and the camaraderie that of exploration and the continent’s another. Just when we think we’re future. At its heart, the film is a story comes from his labor-intensive plaster following someone, they disappear. about searching for hope by using casting of real people. From its place anchoring the The train itself becomes both serpent bottom of the globe, Antarctica might the power of music to bridge cultural As is often the case, Taylor and protector, alternately maniacal divides and form lasting friendships. must play the political game as he seem too frozen to have any impact and comforting. Every strata of life – on the rest of the planet. But the very In these troubled times, it can be seeks to install his sculptures in some howling madmen, distracted mothers, difficult to find even a sliver of opti- of the Earth’s most beautiful - and en- fact that it is constantly changing – sleepy children – reveals itself. the sea around it freezing and thawing mism. East Jerusalem/West Jerusalem dangered - underwater habitats. An- Bold, masterful and entirely exists in that sliver of light, and it’s gel Azul, like Taylor’s moving artistry, every year – makes it the planet’s unpredictable with a soundtrack that beating heart, its rhythm intimately a welcome change of perspective. forces us to consider our choices and propels us forward with the velocity The light may be small but it shines the impact of climate change already influencing the earth’s weather, ocean of the train itself, Shadowland is a currents and climate. brightly; and to watch this film is to being felt around the world. remarkable film that leaves no doubt bask in the glow of hope. – Ben F. Fischer we are in the hands of a master. – David Becker Screening will be followed by a – Barbara Pokras, ACE Screening will be followed by a A CONVERSATION and Q&A with very sPECIAL acoustic Jon Bowermaster Screening will be followed by a concert with musicians A CONVERSATION and Q&A with D AVID BRozA Tom DiCillo and STEVE EARLE  General Admission TICKETS include concert  General admission doors open at 7:15pm  GOLDEN CIRCLE TICKETS include cocktail reception prior to screen- ing at 6pm and VIP seating at 7pm

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World Premiere new york Premiere New York Premiere world Premiere Enquiring Minds the Hand That Feeds How I Got Over Killswitch Directed by Ric Burns Directed by Directed by Nicole Boxer Directed by Ali Akbarzadeh USA / 2014 / 97 minutes Rachel Lears and Robin Blotnick USA / 2014 / 88 minutes USA / 2014 / 72 minutes USA / 2014 / 88 minutes Bearsville Theater WOODSTOCK In English, and Spanish with subtitles Bearsville Theater WOODSTOCK Bearsville Theater WOODSTOCK Thur Oct 16 • 8:30pm Thur Oct 16 • 1:00pm Sat Oct 18 • 2:00pm Orpheum Theater SAUGERTIES Bearsville Theater WOODSTOCK Upstate Films I RHINEBECK Upstate Films II RHINEBECK Fri Oct 17 • 9:30pm Fri Oct 17 • 12:00pm Fri Oct 17 • 1:00pm Sun Oct 19 • 5:30pm Upstate Films II RHINEBECK Emmy award winning filmmaker Sun Oct 19 • 12:45pm Is it possible to travel the road The Internet is under attack. Com- Ric Burns focuses his camera on from a homeless shelter, tough munications, culture, free speech, The National Enquirer and its The Hand That Feedsshows what streets, and a life of abuse and trauma, innovation, and democracy are all legendary founder and editor, solidarity can do when a small group all the way to stand under the bright up for grabs. Killswitch is about the Gene Pope, whose outsized of restaurant workers in New York City lights of The Kennedy Center in Wash- battle for control over the Internet. personality matched the paper. go from invisible laborers to budding ington DC? This is not an ordinary path, Lawrence Lessig and Tim Wu frame the Pope learned the tricks of the trade union members. In this classic underdog but then again, the women in How I Got story of two young hactivists, Aaron from his father, an Italian newspaper story, we witness the courageous actions Over are far from ordinary. Swartz and Edward Snowden, who editor, and took what was a struggling of undocumented workers at a bakery café Lives of addiction and abuse symbolize the disruptive and dynamic broadsheet and transformed it into in NY City’s Upper East Side. Although they have taught these women to shy away nature of the Internet. the world’s most-read tabloid. Burns are smiling on the job, these workers are from the public eye, but have also left Their lives parallel one another follows the fascinating and incredible subjected to sub-legal wages, danger- them with the depth of raw emotions as they free information to millions on 80 year history of the Enquirer: from ous machinery, and abusive managers and harrowing traumas that could be the Internet, putting them directly in being a notorious tabloid to the who threaten to fire them for calling in mined under the right guidance. Enter the cross-hairs of the most powerful corner stone of a huge media empire sick. When mild-mannered sandwich man the skilled teachers from the Theater interests in the world. Will this be and a major breaking news source. Mahoma Lopez has finally had enough, he Lab of the Dramatic Arts. Under their a cautionary tale of what happens convinces a few of his co-workers to join leadership, which remains steadfast even when you dare to take on elite power him in protest. when a couple of the women are about structures? Or will it be the spark that Risking deportation and loss of to walk away, some of the most dramatic ignites a revolution that will redefine livelihood, the workers, joined by a crew human stories you are ever likely to hear democracy in the digital age? of young organizers, ride out a year-long come to life. The result is not just mes- roller coaster of events to set a historic merizing, but remarkably professional precedent for low-wage workers. Watch- and accomplished. As you watch the ing them in action is a deeply humanizing performance, these brave and talented experience that will change how we view women and those sitting in the packed peoples’ struggle for rights and activism in house at the Kennedy Center are moved general. – Ben F. Fischer to tears of joy and understanding. You will be too. – Svetlana Krotek

World Citizen, The Hand that Feeds, How Look for the logo I Got Over, A Small Section of the World, in the program Limited Partnership, Mentor, Little White Angel Azul Lie, East Jerusalem/West Jerusalem, and Red Lines Programming at the Woodstock Film the myriad challenges our world faces in Red Lines. Festival encourages those who use film as these times of uncertainty. This year’s Additional programming, including a way to explore social, environmental and films are the voices of our diverse planet panels and year-round events, cover political themes, while challenging their and reveal the heroes who dedicate a broad range of socioeconomic and inherent boundaries. themselves to changing the worldview political topics. Select participants have This year’s Exposure Program is a against the status quo. This includes included Mark Ruffalo, Woody Harrelson, depiction of that goal. We are proud to such films as Angel Azul, Two Raging Tim Robbins, Peter Gabriel, Barbara present a line-up of films that represent Grannies, Snake Gives Birth to a Snake, Kopple, Arlo Guthrie, and many others.

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EAST COAST Premiere New York Premiere New York Premiere East Coast Premiere Limited Little White Lie Magician: The mentor Partnership Directed by Lacey Schwartz Astonishing Life and Directed by Alix Lambert Directed by Thomas G. Miller USA / 2014 / 65 minutes Work of Orson Welles USA / 2013 / 79 minutes USA / 2014 / 76 minutes WOODSTOCK Playhouse Directed by Chuck Workman Bearsville Theater WOODSTOCK Fri Oct 17 • 7:45pm USA / 2014 / 95 minutes Fri Oct 17 • 2:45pm Upstate Films II RHINEBECK Sat Oct 18 • 12:30pm Orpheum Theater SAUGERTIES Upstate Films WOODSTOCK Orpheum Theater SAUGERTIES Sat Oct 18 • 12:00pm Sat Oct 18 • 2:00pm WOODSTOCK Playhouse Fri Oct 17 • 7:15pm Sun Oct 19 • 3:00pm Partly Filmed in Woodstock, Courtesy of Cohen Media Group At first glance, Mentor, Ohio, Limited Partnership is a love story NY seems like any other wholesome Magician: The Astonishing Life spanning 40 years between two midwestern town, even earning What defines our identity, our and Work of Orson Welles looks men who fought the system and a spot in Money Magazine’s “100 family of origin or the family at the remarkable genius of Orson never gave up. In 1975, Richard, a Best Places to Live.” But Mentor’s that raises us? How do we come to Welles on the eve of his cente- Filipino-American, married his lover, tree-lined streets and marching bands terms with the sins and mistakes of nary – the enigma of his career as a Tony, an Australian citizen living in could not prevent the spate of teen our parents? Lacey discovers that Hollywood star, a Hollywood director the US, thus becoming one of the first suicides caused by relentless bullying answering those questions means (for some a Hollywood failure), and a gay couples to marry legally. Soon, and an indifferent school system. understanding her parents’ own crucially important independent film- though, the happy couple received a The Vidovic family came to stories as well as her own. She pieces maker. Orson Welles’s life was magical: letter from the Immigration and Natu- Mentor to escape the war in Croatia together her family history and the a musical prodigy at age ten, a director ralization Service stating, “You have only to have their daughter Sladjana story of her dual identity using home of Shakespeare at fourteen, a painter failed to establish that a bona fide commit suicide at age 16 after years videos, archival footage, interviews, at sixteen, a star of stage and radio at marital relationship can exist between of relentless bullying. More interested and episodes from her own life. Little twenty, romances with some of the most two faggots.” in maintaining its image than in White Lie is a personal documentary beautiful women in the world, including Outraged by this blatant show helping protect vulnerable students, about the legacy of family secrets, Rita Hayworth. His work was similarly of discrimination, the couple sued the Mentor High School failed to punish denial, and redemption. extraordinary, most notably Citizen Kane, the perpetrators. U.S. government, officially becoming (considered by many to be the most the first to seek equal treatment for a Eric Mohat, 17, hardly seemed important movie ever made), created by the type to be targeted by bullies. Ac- same–sex marriage in the U.S. What Welles when he was only twenty-five. In ensued for the two men was decades tive in musical theatre, he seemed like the years following Citizen Kane, Welles’s a happy kid. Until the day he committed of legal battles that mirrored the LGBT career continued to change as he made marriage and immigration equality suicide, his family had no idea of the film after film (some never finished, bullying he endured. movements. Through it all, they never many dismissed) and acted in other lost their sense of humor and joyous Devastating, illuminating and projects often to earn money in order buttressed with a haunting score, disposition. to keep making his own films. Magi- A David and Goliath story, director Alix Lambert skillfully docu- cian features scenes from almost every ments bullying in the internet age and Limited Partnership is ultimately existing Welles film, from Hearts of Age both celebratory and inspiring, re- makes us wonder if Mentor is just the (which he made in a day when he was tip of the iceberg. This film is thought minding us that love and tenacity are only 18 years old) to rarely-seen clips powerful life tools. provoking and unforgettable. from his final unfinished works like The –Barbara Pokras, ACE – David Becker Other Side of the Dream, The Deep, and Don Quixote, as well as his television and commercial work.

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East Coast Premiere East Coast Premiere New York Premiere US Premiere Pauly Shore PLAYING Qs ueen & Red Lines Stands Alone WITH Cowboys: Directed by Andrea Kalin Directed by Pauly Shore PARKINSON’S A Straight Year and Oliver Lukacs USA / 2014 / 86 minutes Directed by Burrill Crohn On The ayG Rodeo USA / 2014 / 99 minutes In English, and Arabic with subtitles USA / 2014 / 50 minutes Directed by Matt Livadary WOODSTOCK Playhouse Fri Oct 17 • 9:45pm USA / 2014 / 92 minutes Upstate Films II RHINEBECK WOODSTOCK Playhouse Fri Oct 17 • 6:00pm ROSENDALE Theatre Thur Oct 16 • 3:45pm Orpheum Theater SAUGERTIES Bearsville Theater WOODSTOCK Sat Oct 18 • 4:45pm Upstate Films II RHINEBECK Sat Oct 18 • 7:00pm Sun Oct 19 • 5:15pm Sat Oct 18 • 8:15pm Bearsville Theater WOODSTOCK The full spectrum of human emo- Sun Oct 19 • 2:45pm At first glance, you might think tions and condition are on display Jazz guitarist Sangeeta Michael in this brutally honest self-portrait Razan Shalab al-Sham and Mouaz Berardi played with many of the Matt Livadary’sQueens & of the sadness behind the clown. Moustafa are just your average greats. After Berardi was diagnosed Cowboys leaps from the screen young Middle Eastern professionals Years after his Hollywood golden era with Parkinson’s Disease in 2003, he in a rousing and uplifting story of the ‘90s, Shore sets out to revive – bright, sophisticated and tech continued to make music without with a big heart and a rollicking savvy. The truth is hardly “average” his career – or document its decline self pity and with plenty of humor. sense of humor. More than just – as he goes on the road, through – these two are revolutionaries. They Now, eighty years later, he is mak- an entertaining exploration of the are conspirators in a deadly serious snow-covered towns, appearing in ing his first CD since his diagnosis. rodeo, the film is a high-octane, small comedy clubs strewn throughout collaboration to create a secular, He reunites with musicians from moving portrait of a community whose democratic Syria, and the risk is the midwest. In Shore’s typical self- former recording sessions and though members support each other inside the deprecating and free-style uncensored enormous. Mouaz, Executive Director his technical skills diminished, he arena and out. of the Syrian Emergency Task Force, performance, he gets his audience and they have to find the common We meet some of the extraor- to laugh and strangely draws us, the practices shuttle diplomacy on the ground he calls the ‘virtuosity of the dinary men and women who compete international stage, while Razan, from viewer, to empathize with him. While soul’. Featuring terrific performances, over a full season in the International you watch Shore taking charge of his one of Syria’s most prominent families, interviews and Sangeeta’s views on Gay Rodeo Association (IGRA). Wade commands a team of dedicated elderly, ailing mother, or exchanging life, death and beyond, Playing with Earp, descendant of the legendary raunchy comments with members of “smugglers,” delivering humanitarian Parkinson’s is not just about music, or lawman Wyatt Earp, struggles to keep aid, medicine, fighters, money and his audience, you find yourself cheer- Parkinson’s, but the everyday heroes his rodeo dream alive; young Chris journalists into Syria. As the situation ing him on and hoping that Pauly who walk among us. Sherman nearly gave up on his love of deteriorates, the two activists feel Shore will not stand alone for long. rodeo before finding his place in the certain the West and the free world – Svetlana Krotek IGRA; and Char Duran, a female bull will intervene once the “Red Line” preceded by rider, is determined to win a buckle. – the use of chemical weapons – TODD WHO? Queens & Cowboys reveals the is crossed. Yet no military aid is Directed by strength it takes to be gay in the rural forthcoming, even as we witness dead Gavin Bond and west, while busting every stereotype Ian Abercromby and dying children, victims of a brutal of what makes a “real cowboy.” –David regime intent on destroying its own Australia / 2013 / Becker 34:30 minutes people. This is a harrowing story, all the more so because it is still going A quirky and pas- preceded by on. Unforgettable, graphic and not for sionate Australian documentary that Passing Ellenvile the faint-hearted. chronicles a fan’s thirty year obsession – Barbara Pokras, ACE Directed by with rock musician Todd Rundgren. Gene Fischer The film combines rare archival and and Samuel Centore historical footage with interviews, to USA / 2014 / Also see weave an intriguing narrative about a 16:11 minutes Woodstock icon. Pauly Shore Live Passing Ellenville follows two transgender youths in a small, economically- Colony Cafe Sat Oct 18  10:00pm depressed town in the Catskill Mountains of New York.

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Work-in-progress SLINGSHOT Stray Dog TWO RAGING Untitled Film On Directed by Paul Lazarus Directed by Debra Granik GRANNIES “World Citizen USA / 2014 / 93 minutes USA / 2014 / 105 minutes Directed by Håvard Bustnes #1” Garry Davis WOODSTOCK Playhouse In English, and Spanish with subtitles Norway / 2013 / 77 minutes Directed by Arthur Kanegis USA / 2014 / 78 minutes Sun Oct 19 • 12:30pm Upstate Films II RHINEBECK ROSENDALE Theatre Sat Oct 18 • 5:30pm Fri Oct 17 • 1:00pm SlingShot focuses on inventor WOODSTOCK Playhouse Dean Kamen and his work to solve Bearsville Theater WOODSTOCK Bearsville Theater WOODSTOCK Sat Oct 18 • 11:15am the world’s safe water crisis. Sun Oct 19 • 12:00pm Sat Oct 18 • 4:15pm Iconoclast Kamen, is a modern A lost piece of history that gives hero. His inventions, mostly medical Director Debra Granik returns to A combination of curiosity and hope for a fabulous future! devices, help people in need and ease the screen to tell the fascinating frustration with the status quo In May, 1948, a former U.S. suffering. SlingShot is a film about an story of a man who sparked her drives Shirley and Hinda, two Army pilot, horrified over having imagination while she was filming gutsy, nearly 90-year-old Ameri- indomitable man who just might have bombed civilians in World War II, the Oscar-nominated Winter’s can women, to seek answers to the enough passion, will, and innovative walked into the U.S. Embassy in Paris Bone. Her talent for capturing the burning question on everyone’s mind: thinking to create a solution for a and officially gave up his national honesty of her characters in their How do we get out of this economic crisis that affects billions. citizenship. Garry Davis astonished natural environment carries through in mess? In this touching and thought- A quirky genius with a sharp Embassy officials by declaring himself this gritty, yet surprisingly touching provoking documentary they challenge wit and a provocative worldview, the first citizen of the world. His act portrait of a man struggling to find the idea that we must continue to Kamen is our era’s Thomas Edison. He galvanized war-weary Europe, and peace with himself. shop, consume, amass, and keep the takes on the world’s grand challenges along with his succeeding bold ac- At first glimpse Ron ‘Stray Dog’ economy growing. Armed with cour- one invention at a time. Best known tions, sparked a massive movement Hall is hell on wheels. The chain- age, humor, a long friendship and a for his Segway Human Transporter, Ka- which helped pave the way for pas- smoking, moonshine-drinking, bike- zest for life, Shirley and Hinda take men has reconceived kidney dialysis, sage of the UN’s Universal Declaration riding tough guy Hall is a Vietnam vet to cities and towns across the US to engineered an electric wheelchair that of Human Rights. running a trailer park in rural Missouri, engage everyone from the recently can travel up stairs (the Ibot), re- Bookended by comments from still fighting off the demons of his homeless to economics students, to worked the heart stent, built portable the incomparable Martin Sheen, this days in service. But quickly Hall’s growth economists and Wall Street insulin pumps, founded FIRST robotics forthcoming documentary tells the gentle spirit and wounded soul rise tycoons, questioning the sustainability to inspire young students, and on and inspiring story of a former song and to the surface as Stray Dog takes us of continued economic growth, and on. Holder of over 440 patents, Kamen dance man and understudy to the leg- on a ride along with Hall’s endearing demonstrating that it is never – ever devotes himself to dreaming up prod- endary Danny Kaye, who devoted his Mexican wife and his crew of Harley- – too late to get out and make a ucts that improve people’s lives. For life to promoting peace. Director Ar- riding gentle giants. difference. the last 15 years, he has relentlessly thur Kanegis masterfully uses archival Hall’s raw pain mixed with pursued an effective way to clean up footage along with this Broadway ac- eternal respect for all of those who the world’s water supply. tor’s on-stage mesmerizing storytelling fought the fight with him become an Dean Kamen has invented an to present one of the most enlighten- open, touching book. Under Granik’s energy efficient vapor compression ing histories ever to be shown on film meticulous and loving eyes, his story distiller that can turn any unfit source – and what Sheen calls “a roadmap to unfolds. Between concocting his own of water (seawater, poisoned well a better future.” Be forewarned: This brand of coffee to standing still in water, river sludge, etc.) into potable, film may cause you to think that you front of the Vietnam War Memorial in safe water without any need for can change the world! Washington D.C., Stray Dog is a true chemical additives or filters. Kamen slice of Americana that is far more has nicknamed his device the Sling- layered than first meets the eye. Shot as in the David and Goliath story. – Cristin Carlin In Kamen’s imagining, undeveloped countries are filled with little Davids, and just like the biblical slingshot and stone, the SlingShot device is the tiny piece of technology that is going to take down the gigantic Goliath of bad water.

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Sh orts: Mountain View Studios WOODSTOCK Fri Oct 17 • 9:00pm 5 Ways to Laugh Sat Oct 18 • 6:30pm 5 Ways 2 Die Anthony Directed by Daina Directed by Jonathan Van Papadaki Tulleken Cyprus/2013/15 minutes UK/2013/15:35 minutes In Greek with subtitles In English, and Finnish with Makis explores different subtitles ways of death, struggling On Christmas Eve, an to achieve the most ideal enormous explosion tears through Lapland. Santa and his result. East Coast Premiere elf, Anthony, have crash-landed in the middle of nowhere world Premiere on their busiest night. All The Pain World Premiere WHY I’M NOT ON In The World Jewish Girls Are Easy Directed by Tommaso Directed by Charlotte FACEBOOK Pitta Glynn Directed by Brant Pinvidic National Film and TV School USA/2013/13:12 minutes In English, and Yiddish with USA, Canada / 2014 / 78 minutes UK/2014/12:30 minutes A man desperately tries to save the life of a fish, but the situation subtitles spirals out of control. Tova scrambles to pull off Bearsville Theater WOODSTOCK her first Passover Seder Thur Oct 16 • 3:30pm without a hitch, but her brother Sol and his brisket are ROSENDALE Theatre nowhere to be found. Fri Oct 17 • 3:30pm Sequestered Directed by Lucas One man’s soul-searching decision Spaulding on whether or not he should join USA/2013/9 minutes Facebook sets him off on an epic Two would-be bank robbers journey of self-discovery as he run into trouble when each takes exception to the weighs the pros and cons of becoming other’s mask. a member of the world’s largest social networking site. Along the way he talks with family, friends, total strangers and even celebrities whose lives have all Year-Round Programming The Woodstock Film Festival (WFF) and the Hudson Valley Programmers Group (HVPG) are committed to providing the Hudson been touched in one way or another by Facebook. From the long lost high Valley with year-round programming, offering screenings and events from New York City to the Capital Region and beyond. school friend who uses it to stay in January found WFF and HVFC with a strong presence at the Throughout the year, the Hudson Valley Programmers Group touch with classmates, to the pick-up Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. Executive director presented a terrific slate artist who trolls the site to score with Meira Blaustein particpated in a panel discussion at the NY of films. It started with a women, to the criminal who tracks your Lounge, while HVFC bragged about the FIVE Hudson Valley presentation of Trish Dalton’s every movement to know when to rob Films premiering at Sundance. documentary Bordering on your house, the best and the worst of Treason. Over the summer In April, the 3rd Annual Spirit of Woodstock Award was Facebook is on display. HVPG presented films and presented to Markertek filmmakers at various venues Founder and CEO in the Hudson Valley, Mark Braunstein, as Cold in July including Upstate Films well as a posthumous Woodstock, The Rosendale Award to music legend Theatre, The Spectrum 8 in Albany and The Downing Film Levon Helm, a founding Center. Films included Cold in July by Jim Mickle. The picture, member of The Band and which stars Michael C. Hall, Don Johnson and Sam Sheppard, a long time Woodstock was filmed in the Hudson Valley. HVPG also presented Ron resident. Entertainment Spirit of Woodstock Mann and his classic documentary Twist, OJ: The Musical with was provided by Robbie actor Jordan Kamp, the award-winning The Forgotten Kingdom Dupree and Simi Stone. with Andrew Mudge, To Be Forever Wild with David Becker, and In May, WFF hosted the 2nd Annual Taste of Woodstock. The The Great Chicken Wing Hunt with director Matt Reynolds. event turned out huge crowds and an overwhelming amount In early August, WFF presented a secret screening of Altman of great food. Over 20 local restaurants and businesses took by internationally renowned documentary filmmaker Ron part in a wonderfully delicious evening. Mann. A party followed at Yum Yum Woodstock. In June, WFF and the Golden Notebook co-hosted a book Also in August, WFF unveiled its 2014 poster by Mike signing and Q&A with Dubois and co-presented Guillermo Fesser, author (with Elena Zang Gallery) of the best selling One a special screening of The Hundred Miles from Visions of Mary Frank with Manhattan. filmmaker John Cohen and Mary Frank herself. A reception followed at the Elena Zang Gallery. Taste of Woodstock Visions of Mary Frank reception

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Mountain View Studios WOODSTOCK SHORTS: Fri Oct 17 • 6:30pm Shorts: ANIMATION WITH BILL & SIGNE Sun Oct 19 • 2:00pm ATTACHMENTS Mountain View Studios WOODSTOCK 365 My Kingdom Sat Oct 18 • 2:00pm | Sun Oct 19 • 10:00am Directed by Directed by The Brothers McLeod Debra Solomon Frank and Azalee Austin UK/2013/7 minutes USA/2014/4 Directed by One Year. One Film. minutes Zachary Kerschberg One Second a Day. It’s my personal New York University Bless You space…the 24 USA/2014/10 minutes Directed by David Barlow inches around me, which I must defend to the death, A green card inter- USA/2014/3 minutes without barbed wire or attack dogs, especially on the view breaks down, subway. A man takes the subway. then changes three Inside his brain, a count- Philip Seymour lives. down clock hits zero and Hoffman on Market Hours a little person prepares for Happiness lift-off. Directed by Directed by Jon Goldman Carpark Patrick Smith USA/2014/14:30 Directed by Anthony USA/2014/5 minutes minutes Blades Philip Seymour Randall spends his USA/2014/1:23 minutes Hoffman talks days imagining the A simple shopping trip about life, death and happiness. vibrant inner lives goes horribly wrong. of various vendors Silent at the multicultural The Dam Keeper Directed by urban market where he works: none more so than Directed by Robert Kondo Brandon Oldenburg Angela, an angel with her own pastry shop. and Limbert Fabian and Dice Tsutsumi Nighthawks USA/2013/18 minutes USA/2014/2:40 North american premiere minutes Directed by The tale of a young pig Jun Bung Lee encumbered with an impor- A cinematic adven- tant job, and the meeting ture into UK/2014/31 minutes of a new classmate who the history of sight and The lives of three changes everything. sound in movies. lonely strangers interconnect. Dirdy Birdy Redux Tarzan Directed by John Dilworth Directed by Signe So You’ve Grown USA/2014/8 minutes Baumane Attached Directed by Flower sniffing, carpet USA/2014/3 minutes New York Premiere calisthenics and other A man meets a Kate Tsang restless leisure-time woman on NYC New York University activities. subway and they USA/2014/15 minutes flirt until it hurts. An imaginary friend is Footprints forced to consider re- Directed by Bill Plympton Twiller Parkour #2 tirement when his best USA / 2014 / 4 minutes New york premiere friend creator starts to A gullible man goes on a Directed by grow up. quest to find a mysterious, Morgan Miller destructive monster. USA/2014/1 In the Beginning minute FILM C ENTER Directed by Arthur Metcalf Randy’s going to Help KEEP our USA/2014/2:32 minutes show people how Dream There can be no doubt a it’s done. little girl had a hand in a Reality creation. Her fingerprints Why Do are everywhere. I Study Isle of Seals (Ronu Physics? sala) Directed by Directed by Xiangjun Shi Edmunds Jansons USA/2014/3:14 Latvia / 2014 / 6 minutes minutes Seals and hunters live While seeking a rational world, irrationality shad- together in a cruel balance. ows every step of my journey. One day, the Photographer The Woodstock Film Festival and arrives to document this everyday life. Zhukya Hudson Valley Film Commission Monkey Rag (The Gum) The FILM CENTER Directed by Directed by needs your help Joanna Davidovich Olga Makarchuk USA/2013/ 3:45 minutes Ukraine /2014/7:41 You can contribute by mail: minutes A bouncy, animated romp Woodstock Film Festival, PO Box 1406, Woodstock, NY 12498. set to the rollicking Asylum A day in life of an To view additional details or to contribute online, visit: Street Spankers tune. ordinary bubble gum. woodstockfilmfestival.com/cart/capitalcampaign.php

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Sh orts: DesPAIR Shorts: SHORTS: Hudson FINDING HOME Valley DOCS WOODSTOCK Playhouse: Fri Oct 17 • 12:00pm Mountain View Studios WOODSTOCK Mountain View Studios WOODSTOCK Upstate Films I RHINEBECK: Sat Oct 18 • 2:15 pm IntendedFri Oct for 17mature • 12:00 audiencespm | Sun only. Oct 19 • 4:30pm Fri Oct 17 • 2:15pm | Sat Oct 18 • 5:45pm Contains scenes of a sexual nature. Gloom Star Without (Perfidia) A Name Directed by Directed by Ariel NORTH AMERICAN Premiere David Figueroa Cohen Garcia Israel/2013/20 World Premiere Mexico/2013/25 minutes Against The minutes In Hebrew with Wind When Lucia’s father dies under mysteri- subtitles A Sudanese Directed by ous circumstances, the hierarchies of the Tomasz Gubernat household shift, and Lázaro, the driver, refugee needs feels that this might be his only chance to to decide whose and resolve his desire for her. life he is going Christopher to save - his family’s or his Nostrand Krisha own. USA/2014/8:22 minutes Directed by New York Premiere A group of weather-hardened ice yachters cling Trey Edward Shults Too Alone Directed by to the traditions of a centuries old sport on the USA/2013/14:13 Hudson River, despite the looming threat of minutes Chi Kit Chan climate change. Hong Kong/2013/ When Krisha decides 24 minutes World Premiere to join her family Catskill Park for a holiday dinner, In Cantonese with Directed by Nina tensions escalate as she struggles to keep subtitles Warren her demons at bay. A man wakes USA/2014/13:33 up from a stupor East Coast Premiere minutes Siham amid the wreckage What’s so special Directed by Cyril of a birthday party. As he about the Aris confronts his situation, his Catskills? Why has mind races through the chain Columbia University this area inspired of events that have impacted Lebanon, USA / so many over his life and those closest to 2013/13:20 minutes the last two centuries? The film explores this him. In Arabic with question in interviews with many who have subtitles They Came at discovered the magic of this place. A young couple, expecting their first child, Night The Game World Premiere struggles to save their marriage. Directed by Changer Winter Morning Andrew Ellis Directed by (Vetrarmorgun) and Alex Mallis Indrani Kopal USA/2013/ Hofstra University Directed by 19:20 minutes Sakaris Stora USA/2014/17:25 In a desperate attempt to Faroe Islands/2013/ return home, an abducted minutes 19 minutes child soldier risks his life to Susan Slotnick teaches modern dance at a In Faroese with flee from Joseph Kony’s Lord’s prison for men. This is their story. subtitles Resistance Army. World Premiere Two teens, Maria and Birita, struggle with Twelve-Foot- stigmas, love, friendship and identity. Tall Rabbits Of Rokeby Farm Directed by Samuel Crow Mountain View Studios WOODSTOCK and Rubi Rose s hortS: docs Fri Oct 17 • 4:15pm | Sat Oct 18 • 11:30am USA/2014/ 22:03 minutes A short documentary about hares and hurricanes.

Waning Wolf World Premiere Directed by Ian Todaro Suny New Paltz Captive Radio Our Curse (Nasza latwa) The War Photographers USA/2014/17:11 minutes Directed by Lauren Rosenfeld Directed by Ariel Cohen Directed by Steven Kochones USA/2013/28 minutes The story of Atka, USA, Columbia/2012/23 minutes Poland/2013/27 minutes the ambassador In Spanish with subtitles In Polish with subtitles See what it takes to do your job in the middle of the world’s most wolf from the Wolf Conservation Center in The Voices of Kidnapping Radio A personal documentary about two dangerous war zones with photo- South Salem, NY. Program helps families commu- parents coping with their newborn journalists who have risked their nicate with their loved ones held child’s incurable disease, known as lives reporting back to us. hostage by rebel guerrilla groups in Ondine’s Curse. Colombia.

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Shorts: Shorts: SHORTS: ORIGINS RAG BAG SCREENING PRIOR ... Mountain View Studios WOODSTOCK ROSENDALE Theatre: Sat Oct 18 • 12:00pm Sat Oct 18 • 4:15pm | Sun Oct 19 • 12:00pm Mountain View Studios : Sun Oct 19 • 6:45pm New york Premiere

Adjust-A- The End of War NEW YORK Premiere Butter & Dream Directed by Cheese Directed by Bernard E. Directed by Tashi Jonathan Wysocki James Dhondup USA/2014/6 minutes Canada/2014/9 USA/ 2013/ minutes Trust issues are 12:28 minutes As World War I tested as a gay In Nepalese with couple shop for their first mattress. winds down, three subtitles Allied soldiers anticipate Shot at an altitude of 14,000 feet above sea lev- The Lipstick armistice. Stain el, close to India-Tibet border, the film captures Lomax the unique lifestyle of the yak herders against Directed by Dagny the backdrop of the Himalayan mountains Looper Directed by Jesse Kreitzer Screen s prior to: New York University A Small Section of the World USA/2013/9:30 USA/2013/11:33 minutes minutes NEW YORK PREMIERE A young girl tries to connect with her estranged In 1941, folklorist Passing father who runs the town’s local funeral home. Alan Lomax traveled Ellenville from the Library of Directed by Gene Points of Origin East Coast Premiere Congress to the Missis- Fischer and Directed by Anya sippi Delta to discover the most beautiful and Samuel Centore Leta USA / 2014 / USA/2014/19 minutes harrowing songs ever sung. 16:11 minutes In English, and Hindi Passing Ellenville follows two transgender youths with subtitles One Armed Man NEW YORK Premiere in a small, economically-depressed town in the Will the relation- Directed by Tim Catskills mountains of New York. ship between an American radio host and his wife survive the ethi- Guinee Screen s prior to: cal dilemmas of outsourcing a pregnancy in India? USA/2014/27 minutes Queens & Cowboys: A wealthy cotton Straight Year On The Gay Rodeo Sunday gin executive is Directed by Iva confronted by a Terminal NORTH AMERICAN Premiere Gocheva disgruntled former Directed by Davur employee demanding the USA/2014/12:26 Djurhuus minutes return of his arm. Faroe islands, UK / A young, Bulgarian Suddenly woman in New York east coast Premiere 2013 / 10 minutes is forced to deal Directed by It seems to be just with reality when her Visa expires. Merav Elbaz another day in the Belschner streets of London, The Young East Coast Premiere USA/2014/13 minutes except it’s not. A Housefly When a desperate, group of Londoners Directed by reclusive writer is will forever be affected by the actions of one Laurence Vannicelli confronted with man. Columbia University reality, only the gun can Screen s prior to: USA/2013/8 minutes help him overcome his Creep An unlikely love creative block. story inside a sub- TODD WHO? urban house ends in cosmic revelations. Directed by Gavin Bond and Ian Abercromby Australia / 2013 /

Upstate Films II RHINEBECK | Fri Oct 17 • 8:45pm 34:30 minutes Shorts: A quirky and passionate Upstate Films WOODSTOCK | Sun Oct 19 • 12:30pm Australian documentary that Self Deception chronicles a fan’s thirty year obsession with rock musi- North American Premiere cian Todd Rundgren. The film Satellite Beach The Suffering combines rare archival and Directed by Luke Kind historical footage with interviews, to weave an Wilson and Andrew Directed by Kevin intriguing narrative about a Woodstock icon. Wilson Liddy Screen s prior to: USA / 2014 / 26 USA/Ireland / 2014 / Playing With Parkinson’s minutes 26 minutes The unique journey Visit www.satellitebeachfilm.com/ Somewhere up the of the Endeavour Hudson river, two men space shuttle as it — an inner city priest and a sanitation worker — travels through the streets of Los Angeles. grapple with the ghosts of their past, the longings that haunt them and a chance to set them free. What happens when the treasure you seek is inside you?

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Bearsville Theater WOODSTOCK T een Films Fri Oct 17 • 5:00pm SHORTS: Music Videos ONLINE No tickets available. No tickets available. The Adults Momentum Videos are viewable online only Directed by Directed by Videos are viewable online only Jack Fessenden Alexander Bergmann Fallen Sun USA/2014/17:34 Germany / 2013 / Music by Bosai minutes 16:45 minutes BLVD A dinner party with a All life is change. Directed by Ivan twist. Andrijanic The Noise Eater USA / 2013 / Black Rock Creek New york premiere Directed by Directed by 3 minutes Emma Pittelman Malone Lumarda Shadow play meets & Casey Hall Watch Fallen Sun online at La Salle High School Gothic world of Dracula http://bit.ly/1nQNoov Woodstock Day School castle in a romantic USA /2013/5:17 story told in an exciting animated combination of live minutes USA / 2014 / 2 minutes A young girl takes a action band performance integrated with 2D dynamic A young girl takes a layers. mystical walk along chance and gains an beautiful Black Rock unusual friend. Visit www.woodstockdayschool.org Globe Trot Creek. The Oracle Music by City So Fine Stayed at Home William Goodrum Directed by Directed by Dante Directed by Mitch- Michael Stevantoni Kanter ell Rose Canada / 2013 / 4:01 Woodstock Day School USA / 2013 / minutes USA/2014/1 minutes 4:30 minutes Watch Globe Trot online at http://bit.ly/1xU3bN2 Khaya Cohen per- If you knew all things An international past and present, crowd-sourced dance-film project, as 54 filmmakers on forming her original Visit www.woodstockdayschool.org song City So Fine. would you be able to get off the couch? all seven continents each contribute two seconds of movement by renowned choreographer Bebe Miller. Food Fight Untitled Directed by Directed by Organs Ejaniia Clayton & Nyze- Emma Pittlelman Music by The ria Bush Woodstock Day School Uncluded Youth FX USA/2014/2 Directed by Bent USA/2014/10 minutes minutes Image Lab Food Fight explores Layered images dance USA / 2013 / the challenges of eating healthy amidst inner city food with each other in this experimentalVisit www.woodstockdayschool.org video. 3:13 minutes deserts. The painful process Watch Organs online at Gifts of grief and the grace http://bit.ly/1qO2no7 Directed by of organ donation Morgana McKenzie punctuate the latest music video ‘Organs’ by rock duo The Uncluded. USA / 2014 / 10 minutes Career Day: Youth Initiative Pale Little Ghost After a lifetime of ex- Onteora High School: Fri Oct 17 | 8:00am - 2:00pm Music by Mark periencing visions of Donato others’ pain and suffering, thirteen year old Jan hopes Directed by Beck to intervene on fate and prevent a murder. Underwood In the Land of the New York Premiere USA / 2014 / Blind (Regione 4 minutes Watch Pale Little Ghost online at Caecorum) l A man is haunted by http://bit.ly/1pXe9qP Directed by Drew a ghost Goldsmith . photopgraphy: David Rosenberg Start Again USA/2013/2:54 Each year over 150 students from schools Music by Bishop minutes Allen An evening of speed throughout the region gather at Onteora High School in Boiceville for Career Day, where stu- Directed by Chad dating turns the Smith tables on ability – and dents meet with A-list film industry professionals USA/2014 / disability. in small groups, ask questions and learn about Watch Start Again online at 4:38 minutes careers in film and new media. http://bit.ly/1uzfwBw Minimum Max Bishop Allen’s new Directed by Joshua In addition to video for Start Again Ovalle takes us on a journey through their hometown of conversations with Kingston, NY. USA/2014/3:09 minutes leading authorities A brief and powerful on filmmaking, first-hand account from students are also high school student, treated to a film Max, who must navi- screening, which is gate through the world followed by a Q&A of ADD and all the medications that come along with it. session with the filmmakers.

All events are subject to change. For latest updates, visit 18 www.WoodstockFilmFestival.com WOODSTOCK FILM FESTIVAL 2014 performances pANELS A live performance with M USIC IN Film Music Videos ONLINE Music As The DAVID BROZA and PRESENTED BY No tickets available. Unifying Voice Videos are viewable online only STEVE EARLE Kleinert/James Center Fri Oct 17 • 3:00pm follows the World Premiere screening of Moderator: East Jerusalem/West jerusalem Sleeping with Doreen Ringer-Ross is Vice President a Friend Woodstock Playhouse Wed Oct 15 of Film and TV Relations at BMI. She Music by has worked in the music industry The Neon for over two decades and currently Trees specializes in outreach to the film and Directed by music communities. Brad & Brian Watch Sleeping With Friends online at http://bit.ly/ZjtRHN Hugh Masekela is a world- Palmer renowned flugelhornist, USA / 2014 / 3:48 minutes singer and defiant political Falling asleep and waking up all over again. voice who remains deeply Wait For It Singer/songwriter David A protégé of legendary connected at home, even Broza’s charismatic and songwriters Townes Van as his international career Music by Zandt and Guy Clark, continues to swell. He was Papertwin energetic performances have brought to Steve Earle quickly born in the town of Witbank, Directed by worldwide audiences became a master South Africa in 1939. He first Juliet Lashinsky a fusion of the three storyteller in his own picked up a horn at age 14, and is still blowing strong Revene different countries in right, with his songs at 75. He spent much of his life in exile, during which USA / 2014 / Watch Wait For It online at which he was raised: being recorded by Johnny time he released over 40 albums (and is featured on 4:15 minutes http://bit.ly/X7FWyl Israel, Spain, and Cash, Willie Nelson, countless more) and worked with legends like Harry With amazing England. Filling concert Emmylou Harris, The Belafonte, Dizzy Gillespie, The Byrds, Miles Davis, pixilation, the filmmaker follows a young man halls with his famous Pretenders, Joan Baez Abdullah Ibrahim, Paul Simon and the late Miriam on a journey of introspection after a break up. guitar playing, Broza and countless others. Makeba. Masekela has been honored with a Grammy 1986 saw the release Award, a Lifetime Achievement Award at WOMEX Whiskey Pick unites the three worlds by taking on the troubadour of his debut record, and had March 18th proclaimed ‘Hugh Masekela Day’ Music by Lara tradition, featuring lyrics Guitar Town, which in the US Virgin Islands. Masekela is now based in Hope and of the world’s greatest shot to number one on Johannesburg, South Africa, while continuing a lively the Ark-Tones poets. the country charts and international tour schedule. He recently started his immediately established own label: House of Masekela under which he released Directed by More than a singer/ the term New Country. his latest album Playing @ Emily Carragher songwriter, David Broza What followed was an Work. USA / 2014 / is also well known for 3:35 minutes extremely exciting and his commitment and varied array of releases Director/producer Michael Lara Hope and the dedication to building Watch Whiskey Pick online at including the biting Lessac wrote and directed the Ark-Tones perform http://bit.ly/1qPKOCC awareness around feature film House of Cards their single Whiskey hard rock of Copperhead several humanitarian Road, the minimalist starring Tommy Lee Jones Pick off their new issues, predominantly, and Kathleen Turner. He has album, Luck Maker. beauty of Train A Comin’, the Israeli-Palestinian the politically charged directed sixteen pilots and Yarmouth conflict. In January masterpiece, Jerusalem over 200 television episodes, Road 2014, the album East and the Grammy Award among them Taxi, Newhart, Grace Under Fire, The Jerusalem West Jerusalem Winning albums The Drew Carey Show, Just Shoot Me, and Everybody Music by Mike was released worldwide. Gordon Revolution Starts… Loves Raymond. David Broza is currently Now. I’ll Never Get Out For the stage, Mr. Lessac has directed at the Directed by touring intensely, Philip Of This World Alive is National Theatre of Yugoslavia, The Guthrie Theatre, presenting the story of Steve Earle’s 14th Studio The Denver Theatre Center, The Arena Stage, The Andelman the album that was made Album. Kennedy Center, The Hartman Stage and The Public USA / 2014 / Watch Yarmouth Road online at in East Jerusalem, in Theatre in New York City. He was also founder and 4:07 minutes http://bit.ly/YDGGg2 the Palestinian studio Earle’s acting credits include Law & Order: artistic director of the Colonnades Theatre Lab in Do-it-yourselfer goes terribly wrong. Sabreen, with Israeli, New York where he produced and directed over thirty Palestinian and American Special Victims Unit, The Your Direction Wire, Leaves of Grass, productions with a company of established actors, musicians, and produced playwrights, and composers. He is founder and artistic Music by by Grammy-winning 30 Rock, and HBO’s musically infused Treme. director of Global Arts Corps, which seeks to develop T he Boy recording artist Steve new theatre pieces around the world highlighting Dahlia Earle. the struggle for justice, basic human dignity, and the Directed by possibility of perceptual change. Lauren Brady USA / 2014 / 3:35 minutes Watch Your Direction online at Love, loss and http://bit.ly/1u2jscz PAULY SHORE live lunch. Colony Cafe Sat Oct 18 • 10:00pm The premiere Stand-up comic, actor, writer, director Pauly Shore tasted super-stardom in music video from San-Francisco based musical 1990 when his precedent-setting MTV show Totally Pauly hit the airwaves to duo, The Boy Dahlia. major fan approval. In 1993, he wrote and starred in a one-hour HBO television special, Pauly Does Dallas. He had roles in films from 1988, providing supporting comedy relief, but it was the wildly popular Encino Man that put Pauly on the map. College music journalists named his first album, The Future of America, Best Comedy Album in 1991. Pauly has made several appearances as a recurring guest on Howard Stern’s late- night show and David Letterman’s talk show. He tours the country with his stand-up comedy act. In 2003, Shore produced, wrote, directed and starred in Pauly Shore Is Dead, a semi-autobiographical mockumentary, and in 2005 starred in the reality television series Minding the Store.

All events are subject to change. For latest updates, visit 2014 WOODSTOCK FILM FESTIVAL www.WoodstockFilmFestival.com 19 Panels take place at Kleinert/James Center in Woodstock unless specified otherwise. panels Programs and panelists are subject to change. Please make sure to visit woodstockfilmfestival.com for the most up-to-date info. WOMEN IN THE IMPACT FILMMAKING DIRECTOR’S CHAIR Kleinert/James Center Sat Oct 18 • Noon Independent filmmakers have been known to devote Moderator Kleinert/James Center Sat Oct 18 • 10:00am their lives, time, money, work, hearts and souls into Robin Bronk is CEO of The Women directors are notoriously underrepresented issue films with the hope of making an impact and Creative Coalition—the in Hollywood, with recent polls estimating only 2% effecting change in others’ lives. They may choose leading national, nonprofit, nonpartisan social and public - 4.4% of all Hollywood directors are female. Women to shine a light on a problem in a remote part of the world, or on an environmental concern or social advocacy organization of are better represented in independent film, with the the arts and entertainment percentages jumping when a female screenwriter or problem, looking to inspire and mobilize. But is there industry. As CEO, Bronk director is involved. As filmmakers and audiences success at the end of all that work? Do their labors of is dedicated to educating, mobilizing, and increasingly value telling the authentic stories by and love really change anything? How many Supersize Me activating the entertainment industry and arts about women, female writers and directors are finding and An Inconvenient Truths can there be our world? community on issues of public importance, particularly the First Amendment, arts advocacy, more and more ways to collaborate to bring these This panel of dedicated filmmakers (with a cause) will examine these questions as they try to come up with arts in education, and media literacy. She narratives to the screen. has published three books, Art & Soul (Hearst answers for when, how and why some films can be a Join a group of accomplished female feature filmmakers Communications) and If You Had Five Minutes tool for change. With the President (Harper Collins), and the as they share their film’s journey and reveal what they upcoming Art of Discovery (in bookstores are doing to close the gender gap in film. October 14th from Rizzoli Publishing).

Moderator Thelma Adams is the contributing Emmy Award winning producer Jedd Wider editor at Yahoo! Movies. St. Martin’s has produced, along with his brother Todd, Press published her debut novel Panelists: numerous critically and commercially successful Playdate, an O magazine pick. She Joe Berlinger Jedd Wider was the film critic at Us Weekly from Joe Berlinger is an Academy Award® and seven-time feature documentary films including King’s 2000 - 2011, following six years at the Emmy nominated and Peabody winning filmmaker, Point (2012) nominated for an Academy Award for New York Post. She has twice chaired whose films include the landmark documentaries Best Documentary Short, the multiple Primetime Emmy the New York Film Critics Circle, where she has been a Brother’s Keeper, the Paradise Lost Trilogy and Award and Peabody Award winning Mea Maxima Culpa: member since 1995. She has also written for The New Metallica: Some Kind Of Monster, a film that redefined Silence in the House of God (2012), the Emmy Award York Times Magazine, O: The Oprah Magazine, The New the rockumentary genre. Crude, about oil pollution nominated Semper Fi: Always Faithful (2011), the York Observer,Parade,Variety,Marie Claire, The Huffington in the Amazon Rainforest, won 22 human rights, multiple Emmy Award nominated Client 9: The Rise Post, More, Interview Magazine, The New York Times, The environmental and film festival awards and Under and Fall of Eliot Spitzer (2010), and Taxi to the Dark international Herald Tribune, Cosmopolitan and Self. African Skies, about Paul Simon’s seminal album, Side (2007) the 2008 Academy Award Winner for Best was nominated for three primetime Emmy awards. Documentary, a 2008 Peabody Award Winner and 2009 Recently Berlinger completed Hank: 5 Years From The Emmy Award Winner for Best Documentary. Brink for Netflix and WHITEY: United States of America He was nominated by the Producers Guild of America v. James J. Bulger, which was released by Magnolia for Outstanding Producer of Documentary Theatrical Pictures this summer. Motion Pictures. Late Additions: Jon Bowermaster & Ali Akbarzadeh

Courteney Cox Debra Granik Leah Meyerhoff Panelists: Courteney Cox, best known for her role as Monica in Long And Short Stories: the Emmy® Award winning comedy Friends and for her Golden Globe® nominated role in Cougar Town, A Conversation with Ron Nyswaner made her feature film directorial debut with her Kleinert/James Center Sat Oct 18 • 2:00pm dark but outrageously funny film Just Before I Go. From PHILADELPHIA to RAY DONOVAN: writing and producing films and series in television’s Additional directorial credits include the Lifetime “second golden age.” Original Movie, Talhotblond, and the drama Monday Before Thanksgiving for Glamour’s Reel Moments Ron Nyswaner’s writing and producing career has taken him through the major shifts in the film Project. In addition, she has directed numerous and television industry, from independent films to breakthrough Hollywood dramas, award winning episodes of Cougar Town. In 2004, Cox established television movies and, most recently, a hit cable series. In a lively and insightful conversation her own production company, Coquette. Projects have with US Weekly editor, Bradley Jacobs, Nyswaner will discuss the attraction of series television for included: Cougar Town, Dirt, Mix It Up, Daisy Does writers; the pleasures and challenges of telling a story over several years rather than two hours; America, and The Tripper. how the relationships between writers and directors differs in television versus film; the thrill Debra Granik is the Academy Award nominated (and terror) of producing twelve hours of drama that must be written, shot, and edited in a matter director and co-writer of Winter’s Bone, which was of weeks; what really goes on in a writers’ room; and why the writer is the industry’s new auteur. nominated for four Oscars, including Best Picture, and won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2010 Sundance Film Ron Nyswaner Festival. Granik and co-writer Anne Rosellini were Oscar Nyswaner’s credits include the first independent nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay. Her first feature Hosted by: film,Down to the Bone, won Granik the Best Director American film to be selected for Main Competition prize at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival. at the Cannes Film Festival Smithereens; one of the Us Weekly most memorable and influential Hollywood dramas editor Leah Meyerhoff’s debut feature film I Believe in of recent times Philadelphia; a critically acclaimed Bradley Unicorns premiered in the narrative competition of and controversial cable television film Soldier’s Girl; Jacobs SXSW 2014 and is currently traveling the film festival and the first American-Chinese co-production of an (aka BJ) circuit. Her previous short films have screened in over independent film The Painted Veil. He has spent the directs film 200 film festivals and won dozens of awards. Leah is a last two years writing and producing Showtime’s hit coverage and appears Tribeca Film Institute mentor and the founder of Film series, Ray Donovan, and his gay-marriage themed regularly on TV. He lives with Fatales, a female filmmaker collective based in New Freeheld is currently shooting in New York, with his partner Jack and two York. Julianne Moore, Ellen Page, and Michael Shannon. He now lives in Los VIPs: their dog, Dexter, and a Jenna Ricker (See bio online) Angeles but considers Woodstock his real home. son, Lucas, 3.

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One On One Conversation A CTORS DialoGUE with DARREN ARONOFSKY Kleinert/James Center Sun Oct 19 • 10:00am Join some of today’s most engaging actors as Kleinert/James Center Sat Oct 18 • 5:00pm they chat about their work and their lives. An intimate conversation with director Darren Aronofsky, the recipient of the Moderator: 2014 Woodstock Film Festival honorary Maverick Award Whether she’s one-on-one in an Academy Award® nominated intimate talk, or leading a discussion director Darren Aronofsky’s with a variety of actors, Martha Frankel’s entertaining first feature, the surrealist panels are one of the festival’s highlights. psychological thriller Pi, earned him the Directing Award at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival, the actors: Bruce Greenwood & Tim Guinee Independent Spirit Award for Best Bruce Greenwood’s rich acting career includes starring roles First Screenplay and the Gotham Moderator: opposite Denzel Washington in the Oscar nominated drama Open Palm Award. Logan Hill is a freelance Flight, opposite Paul Rudd and Steve Carell in Dinner for He followed with Requiem For A journalist and critic who Schmucks, opposite Philip Seymour Hoffman in Capote and Dream, which was named to over regularly contributes opposite Cate Blanchette in I’m Not There. Greenwood recently 150 Top Ten lists, The Fountain, a to The New York Times, wrapped production on Queen of the Night for acclaimed science-fiction romance starring Rolling Stone, New Canadian director Atom Egoyan, marking their fifth film Hugh Jackman and Rachel Weisz, and The Wrestler, which York, Cosmopolitan, together. Greenwood appears in WildLike at WFF. garnered Academy Award® nominations for stars Mickey Rourke Glamour, Mens Journal, Tim Guinee has appeared in over two hundred roles on the and Marisa Tomei. Aronofsky followed with Black Swan, which This American Life, and stage, TV and films. Some of the more recognized work include won Natalie Portman the Academy Award® for Best Actress others. You can find characters in Sweet Land, Iron Man, Iron Man 2, Personal and received four other nominations, including one for Best links to his stories at Velocity, Synecdoche New York, Once Around, How To Make An Picture. His most recent film Noah, starring Russell Crowe, loganhill.com or follow American Quilt, Ladder 49, and Courage Under Fire. As a director, Anthony Hopkins, Jennifer Connelly and Emma Watson, was him on Twitter @ Tim will screen the New York Premiere of his film One Armed released in 2014 to critical acclaim and box office success. loganhill33. Man at WFF. He aso appears in Two Men in Town.

FROM NOVEL TO SCREEN PRESENTED BY CASTING BY Kleinert/James Center Sun Oct 19 • 12:00pm Kleinert/James Center Sun Oct 19 • 2:00pm The Writers Guild of America, East gathers Lucy Alibar Beasts of the Southern Casting Directors, while often the unsung heroes, are among the Wild, The Secret Garden, Tony Kushner Munich, Lincoln, Malia Scotch-Marmo Hook, most instrumental and crucial elements in the success (or fail- Madeline and moderator Thelma Adams to discuss the challenge of adapting books for ure) of any given film. Sought after by actors and directors alike, the screen. They will explore the advantages and hazards of reworking someone else’s they make careers and give the project, on film and/or televi- original concept for a different medium, including the issue of responsibility both to the sion, its successful edge. We have assembled some of today’s author and the pre-existing audience. They will reveal the most effective innovations, as hottest casting directors to shed light on the intricacies of the well as some of the classic pitfalls they’ve discovered through their own work. casting process and share some anecdotes from their experiences Moderator working with some of today’s most exciting actors and directors. Thelma Moderator: Adams is the Claude dal Farra is the president of BCDF contributing and the producer of Bachelorette, Liberal editor at Arts, Peace Love & Misunderstanding, Why Yahoo! for bio Stop Now, Higher Ground, The Last Keepers, see Women in the Directors Chair and Rhymes with Banana. Lucy Alibar Tony Kushner Malia Scotch–Marmo Panelists: Panelists: Tony Kushner PLAYS: A Bright Malia Scotch–Marmo wrote Gayle Keller, an independent New York Lucy Alibar’s work has been Room Called Day; Angels in Steven Spielberg’s fantasy, casting director who has worked with Todd published in Zoetrope, the America, Parts One and Two; Hook, and also served as Solondz on Life During Wartime and Dark Horse, Oxford American, and the Wall Slavs!; Homebody/Kabul; Caroline, associate producer on the Cedric Klapisch on Casse-tete Chinois (Chinese Street Journal, and seen at or Change, with composer film. Her first produced film Puzzle) and Phil Morrison on All Is Bright. National Theatre Studio, Joe’s Jeanine Tesori; The Intelligent was Once Around, directed by Gayle is currently working on Kelly Reichardt’s Pub, Berkeley Rep Williamstown, Homosexual’s Guide To Capitalism Lasse Hallstrom. Scotch-Marmo new feature and the fifth season of the HERE, Avignon Festival, Women and Socialism With A Key To The also received story credit for television series, Louie. Scriptures. OPERA: A Blizzard on Madeline. Her uncredited work Gayle Keller Center Stage/CSC, and the Melissa Leo received an Academy Award®, Cherry Lane. Her first movie, Marblehead Neck, with Tesori. includes Jurassic Park, Other ADAPTATIONS/TRANSLATIONS: Sister, Only You, Enchanted, a Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actors Beasts of the Southern Wild Guild (SAG) Award for her performance in (an adaptation with Benh Corneille’s The Illusion, Ansky’s and Polar Express. She has The Dybbuk, Brecht’s The Good collaborated with many The Fighter. She can next be seen in The Zeitlin of her stage play, Juicy Equalizer with Denzel Washington and in the and Delicious) received the Person of Sezuan and Mother established directors on Courage and Her Children; the produced and hunproduced upcoming FOX series Wayward Pines from Sundance Grand Jury Prize and director M. Night Shyamalan. the Cannes Film Festival Camera libretto for Hans Krasa’s opera material, including Norman D’Or. For her work on Beasts Brundibár. SCREENPLAYS: Mike Jewison, Alfonso Cuaron, Cindy Tolan is a casting director for film, Melissa Leo she was nominated for the Nichols’ Angels In America; Alfonso Arau, Luis Mandoki, TV and theatre. Film credits include, This Scripter, BAFTA, and Academy Steven Spielberg’s Munich and Sabiha Sumar, Garry Marshall, Is Where I Leave You, Winters Tale, Beasts Award. Alibar is a Sundance Lincoln. BOOKS: The Art of and Rob Reiner. Scotch-Marmo Of The Southern Wild, Go For Sisters, The Place Beyond The Pines, Screenwriting Fellow, two time Maurice Sendak, 1980 to the graduated from Columbia Blue Valentine, The Reluctant Fundamentalist, It’s Kind Of A Funny finalist for the Heideman Award Present; Brundibar, illustrations University with an MFA in film. Story, Letters To Juliet, Sugar, The Private Lives Of Pippa Lee, The at ATL, and finalist for the by Sendak; and Wrestling With She is an adjunct professor at Darjeeling Limited, The Namesake, Sherrybaby, Kinsey, Starting Out O’Neill Playwright’s Conference. Zion, co-edited with Alisa Columbia Graduate Film School, In The Evening, The Ballad Of Jack And Rose, Personal Velocity, Solomon. and taught at la FEMIS in Paris. Loggerheads, Casa De Los Babys, and Angela.

All events are subject to change. For latest updates, visit 2014 WOODSTOCK FILM FESTIVAL www.WoodstockFilmFestival.com 21 2th 14 Maverick Award 15 Annual awards presented DARREN WOODSTOCK FILM FESTIVAL Gigantic Pictures ARONOFSKY FEATURE NARRATIVE AWARD Academy Award Maverick Awards Ceremony ULTRA INDIE AWARD Nominated Sponsored by Gray Krauss Stratford Sandler Director Darren Saturday. October 18 Des Rochers LLP Aronofsky most Backstage Studio Productions Films We Like recent film Noah KINGSTON, New York FEATURE DOCUMENTARY AWARD was released to Diane Seligman Award for critical acclaim 7:00pm: Cocktail party in Gallery and box office BEST SHORT 8:15pm: Seating for awards begins success in March Diane Seligman Award for 2014. Starring 9:00pm: Awards Ceremony BEST STUDENT SHORT among others Jennifer Connelly Diane Seligman Award for m averick award BEST SHORT DOCUMENTARY presenteRS BEST ANIMATED SHORT presented by Bill Plympton and Signe Baumane

Jennifer Haskell Wexler Award for Fiercely Independent Award Connelly BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY mark sponsored by Panavision duplass Natalie Tangerine Entertainment Juice Award for One of the Portman BEST FEMALE FEATURE freshest and most DIRECTOR prolific voices in independent and more The James Lyons cinema today, Editing Award for NARRATIVE Mark Duplass FEATURE sponsored by Technicolor Postworks NY has produced, Paul Green and written, directed The James Lyons and starred in a Thn e I ternet Trolls Editing Award for DOC string of award- Maverick Awards Ceremony Band FEATURE Paul Green and The Internet Trolls: winning and sponsored by Technicolor Postworks NY Michael Bernier, Jason Bowman, David Jarrett commercially successful films.

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For latest updates, visit 22 www.WoodstockFilmFestival.com WOODSTOCK FILM FESTIVAL 2014 Schedule a Schedule Wed 10/15 Fri 10/17 Sat 10/18 Sun 10/19 WOODSTOCK Playhouse Bearsville Theater Bearsville Theater Bearsville Theater 7:30 East Jerusalem / West 12:00 The Hand That Feeds 11:45am A Small Section of the World 12:00 Stray Dog Jerusalem screening, followed 2:45 Mentor 2:00 Killswitch 2:45 Queens and Cowboys by live acoustic set w/ DAVID 5:00 SHORTS: Teen Films 4:15 Two Raging Grannies (Preceded by Passing Ellenville) BROZA & STEVE EARLE 7:15 Down in Shadowland 6:30 Uncertain Terms 5:15 Red Lines 9:30 Friends and Romans 8:40 Runoff 7:45 Bread and Butter Thur 10/16 Kleinert James Art Center Kleinert James Art center Kleinert James Art center    Bearsville Theater WOODSTOCK PANELS WOODSTOCK PANELS WOODSTOCK PANELS 10:00am 1:00 How I Got Over 3:00 Music in Film - Music as the 10:00am PANEL: Women in the PANEL: Actor’s Dialog 3:30 Why I’m Not on Facebook Unifying Force Director’s Chair 12:00 PANEL: From Novel to The Screen presented by WGA East t 6:00 Eat With Me 12:00 PANEL: Impact Filmmaking Mountain View Studio 2:00 PANEL: Long and Short 2:00 PANEL: Casting By 8:30 Enquiring Minds WOODSTOCK a Glance 12:00 SHORTS: Despair Stories: A Conversation with Ron Nyswaner Mountain View Studio Upstate Films WOODSTOCK 2:15 SHORTS: Finding Home WOODSTOCK 1:45 The Young Kieslowski 5:00 PANEL: A Conversation with 4:15 SHORTS: Docs 10:00am SHORTS: Attachments 4:30 Amira & Sam Darren Aronofsky 6:30 SHORTS: Animated Shorts 12:00 SHORTS: Origins Before I Disappear 7:00 with Bill & Signe Mountain View Studio 2:00 SHORTS: Animated Short 9:30 Listening 9:00 SHORTS: 5 Ways to Laugh WOODSTOCK with Bill & Signe 11:30am SHORTS: Docs WOODSTOCK Playhouse 4:30 SHORTS: Despair Upstate Films WOODSTOCK 2:00 SHORTS: Attachments 6:45 SHORTS: Rag Bag 1:00 The American Side 12:00 Little Accidents Playing With Parkinson’s 4:15 SHORTS: Origins 3:45 2:30 I Believe in Unicorns Upstate Films WOODSTOCK (Preceded by Todd Who?) 6:30 SHORTS: 5 Ways to Laugh 4:45 Arwad 12:30 SHORTS: Self Deception 6:30 Two Men in Town 8:45 SHORTS: Finding Home 7:15 Magician 2:30 Angel Azul OPENING NIGHT FILM 9:45 The Red Robin WOODSTOCK Playhouse 4:45 The Last Time You had Fun 9:30 The Imitation Game 11:15am Untitled Film On “World 7:30 White Rabbit WOODSTOCK Playhouse Citizen #1” Garry Davis ROSENDALE Theatre 12:00 SHORTS: Hudson Valley Docs 7:00 Sacrifice 2:00 WildLike WOODSTOCK Playhouse 2:30 Mahjong and the West 4:30 Creep (Preceded by Terminal) 12:30 SlingShot Upstate Films RHINEBECK I 5:00 A Snake Gives 7:00 The Sisterhood of Night 3:00 Limited Partnership 7:00 WildLike Birth to a Snake 9:40 The Fly Room 5:15 All Relative 7:45 Little White Lie 7:30 The Better Angels Upstate Films RHINEBECK II 9:45 Pauly Shore Stands Alone Upstate Films WOODSTOCK CLOSING NIGHT FILM 7:15 Late Phases 12:00 The Man Who Saved the World Orpheum Theater 2:00 Just Before I Go Orpheum Theater SAUGERTIES 4:15 Patrick’s Day SAUGERTIES 7:00 Amira & Sam 12:30 Arwad 7:00 Sacrifice 9:30 Enquiring Minds 3:00 Little Accidents 9:30 Late Phases 5:45 The Red Robin DAVID BROZA and ROSENDALE Theatre Colony Cafe WOODSTOCK STEVE EARLE 1:00 Two Raging Grannies 10:00 Pauly Shore LIVE Regal Cinemas KINGSTON LIVE ACOUSTIC SET 3:30 Why I’m Not on Facebook 10:30am Antarctica 3D: On the Edge 6:30 Before I Disappear Orpheum Theater Wednesday October 15 9:00 White Rabbit SAUGERTIES ROSENDALE Theatre at Woodstock Playhouse 12:00 Little White Lie 12:00 Creep (Preceded by Terminal) Following 7:30pm screening of Upstate Films RHINEBECK I 2:00 Mentor 2:30 Just Before I Go East Jerusalem / West Jerusalem 1:00 How I Got Over 4:30 The Young Kieslowski 5:00 The Sisterhood of Night 3:30 Uncertain Terms 7:00 Queens and Cowboys Upstate Films RHINEBECK I 5:45 The Man Who Saved the World (Preceded by Passing Ellenville) 15th Annual 12:00 A Snake Gives Maverick Awards Ceremony 8:30 Listening 9:40 The Last Time You Had Fun Birth To A Snake 2:45 Runoff saturday October 18 Upstate Films RHINEBECK II ROSENDALE Theatre 5:15 I Believe in Unicorns at Backstage Studio Productions 12:45 Eat With Me 12:00 SHORTS: Rag Bag 3:45 Patrick’s Day 2:30 Down in Shadowland in KINGSTON Upstate Films RHINEBECK II 6:00 Red Lines 4:45 Pauly Shore Stands Alone 12:45 The Hand That Feeds 7:00pm: Cocktail party in Gallery 8:45 SHORTS: Self Deception 7:00 Mahjong and the West 3:00 A Small Section of the World 8:15pm: Seating for awards begins 9:30 The American Side 5:30 Killswitch 9:00pm: Award Ceremony with Upstate Films RHINEBECK I presentations to our winning 12:00 Angel Azul filmmakers and honorary 2:15 SHORTS: Hudson Valley Docs recipients, Darren Aronofsky and 5:00 Friends and Romans Mark Duplass 7:30 All Relative Music by Paul Green and Upstate Films RHINEBECK II The Internet Trolls with Michael Bernier, 12:30 Limited Partnership Jason Bowman, David Jarrett 3:00 Bread and Butter Please note that all events are 5:30 Stray Dog subject to change. Check PAULY SHORE LIVE 8:15 Playing With Parkinson’s www.woodstockfilmfestival.com (Preceded by Todd Who?) Once online, find out what’s sold out Saturday October 18 and read updated information about at Colony Cafe  10pm events, screenings & panels. in Woodstock

WOODSTOCK FILM FESTIVAL 2014 www.WoodstockFilmFestival.com tickets Pass & ticket holders MUST arrive 15 minutes prior to screenings or prices panels to guarantee admission. Empty seats will be made available  Tickets range in price from Walk-Up Orders to standby line. $5-$75.  Tickets for all venues will be VES NUE PLEASE NOTE: Online and phone available for purchase at the orders will be charged a $4.50 BOX OFFICE a few days prior to WOODSTOCK shipping & handling fee. online sales. BEARSVILLE THEATER (films) 261 Tinker Street  Student and senior discounts  The Rosendale Theatre and are available with ID at the Woodstock, NY 12498 Upstate Films Rhinebeck may 845.679.4406 Box Office. have a select number of tickets www.bearsvilletheater.com PURCHASING  There are NO REFUNDS or available for pre-sale. Please Woodstock Artists EXCHANGES on tickets without contact them directly. Association & Museum I& PICK NG UP exception. (filmmaker lounge) TICKETS  The best way to order tickets 28 Tinker St Telephone Orders Woodstock, NY 12498 Internet Orders and to see updated schedules,  The BOX OFFICE is manned by 845.679.2940 film descriptions and other dedicated VOLUNTEERS who www.woodstockart.org www.woodstockfilmfestival.com festival information is online at are simultaneously filling out UPSTATE FILMS WOODSTOCK (films) Box OfficeL ocation www.woodstockfilmfestival.com Internet and walkup sales. The 132 Tinker Street  PLEASE NOTE: Tickets ordered phones can get very chaotic Woodstock, NY 12498 13 Rock City Road online or phone between and they tend to be busy. If 845.679.6608 Woodstock, NY 12498 September 24th to October 11, you are calling for tickets, www.upstatefilms.org (Across from the WILL BE SHIPPED by USPS mail please leave a message on our Woodstock Playhouse (films) Chamber of Commerce booth) to the mailing address provided machine and someone will get 103 Mill Hill Rd phone 845.810.0131 when ordering. Woodstock, NY 12498 back to you. 845.679.69008  All online and telephone orders  The last day for telephone www.woodstockplayhouse.org Box OfficeH ours placed after October 11 must orders is October 11. KLEINERT/JAMES ART CENTER be picked up at the BOX OFFICE (panels) September 19 to October at 13 Rock City Road in Wood- Day of Event 34 Tinker Street stock.  Tickets are available at the BOX Woodstock, NY 12498 12 www.woodstockguild.org Wednesday-Sunday 12-6pm OFFICE until four hours prior to the event. All unsold tickets Mountain View Studios Closed Mondays and Tuesdays are then available on the (shorts) 20 Mountain View Avenue October 13 - 18 STANDBY line at the screening venue on a CASH ONLY basis. Woodstock, NY 12498 9am-7pm www.mtnviewstudio.com ONTEORA HIGH SCHOOL (career October 19 day) 9am-6pm full festival PASSES 4166 Route 28 Boiceville, NY 12412  Full Festival Passes offer the ul-  Full Festival Passes entitle entry Please note that all events timate Woodstock Film Festival to the Filmmakers’ Lounge. KINGSTON are subject to change. experience. A limited number of  Full Festival Passes are $750 BACKSTAGE STUDIO Check the website to: Canus Major Produtcion these passes are offered. and can be purchased online or PRODUCTIONS (Maverick  Confirm venues and times  Full Festival Passes include at the BOX OFFICE. Awards Gala) Technicolor Postworks New York  Find out what is SOLD OUT 323 Wall Street guaranteed admission for the   Read updated information about Full Festival Passes are non- Kingston, NY 12401 passholder to all screenings and transferable and include a screenings, events and panels Regal Cinemas Hudson Val- panels, with priority seating up picture ID. until 15 minutes prior to the ley Mall (films)  Passes must be picked up at 1300 Ulster Ave, For the most up-to-date event, entry to all parties, plus Festival Registration at the Kingston, NY 12401 information, please visit souvenirs including a commem- Woodstock Artists Association & www.woodstockfilmfestival.com orative T-shirt, cap and poster. R HINEbeCK Museum(WAAM). 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