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Download Pre-Fest Program 14th Annual Fest with 125+ events FILMS • PANELS • CONCERTS • PARTIES & MAVERICK AWARDS GALA The Woodstock Film Festival is a not-for-profi t, 501c3 organization with a mission to present an annual program and year-round schedule of fi lm, music, and art-related activities that promote artists, culture, inspired learning, and diversity. About WFF Opening Night Film YEAR-ROUND PROGRAMMING BROADWAY IDIOT Directed by Doug Hamilton The Woodstock Film Festival and the Hudson USA / 2013 / 81 minutes Valley Programmers Group are committed to providing the Hudson Valley with year-round From punk rock mosh pits and sold-out stadiums to the Great White Way, this electrifying documentary follows programming, o ering screenings and events. Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong as he works with Broadway veterans to turn his mega-hit album, American Idiot, into January found WFF and HVFC at the Sundance Film a Broadway musical. The fi lm goes behind the scenes to Festival in Park City, Utah, where they hosted a reveal the creative choices and challenges made by Grammy® brunch for industry members in conjunction with winner Billie Joe and Tony® winning director Michael Mayer 120dB Films and the NY Governor’s Offi ce of Motion (Spring Awakening) to create the thrilling and one-of-a- Picture and TV Development. kind musical experience... Broadway Idiot provides a unique window into the art of theater as rock stars and stage stars In March, WFF presented a Woodstock screening collide and create something never seen before. and fundraiser of local fi lmmaker Tracy Christian’s documentary Street Journeys. WFF held its annual Soho house benefi t in New York City in April with a special screening of ASS BACKWARDS the acclaimed documentary A Place at the Table. Closing Night Film Directed by Chris Nelson Renowned chef Tom Colicchio attended for an USA / 2013 / 92 minutes engrossing Q&A with the fi lmmakers about the state WOODSTOCK Playhouse of the underfed in the United States. Sun Oct 6 • 6:30PM WFF presented several other important and topical Kate and Chloe are two childhood best friends who screenings, including co-hosting the fracking met when they placed dead last in their hometown beauty documentary Bidder 70 with Frack Free Catskills pageant. Now they are all grown up and living in New York and Catskill Mountainkeepers. Environmental City, where Chloe works as a “girl in a box” at a nightclub and activist Tim DeChristopher was on hand to relay his Kate is a CEO of her own one-woman egg donor “corporation.” experiences fi ghting the federal government. Lost in delusion, they believe they are living large until an invitation to their hometown pageant arrives and their past WFF also hosted a special presentation by author comes back to haunt them. Join these two loveable losers and Life of Pi associate producer Jean Christophe- as they take an ass backwards journey home to reclaim their Castelli. Castelli signed his book The Making of the crown, stopping off at a women’s separatist commune, an Life of Pi: A Film Journey, taking attendees inside amateur strip club competition, and meeting their favorite the long road to bringing a novel to life as an reality TV star along the way. NEW YORK PREMIERE Academy Award winning fi lm. In June, WFF presented a screening of William Greaves documentary Ralph Bunche: An American New Panel Odyssey. The legendary fi lmmaker’s wife and PAUL RUDD TALK AND Q&A daughter were in the audience for a tribute to this Kleinert James Art Center Wed Oct 2 • 4:00PM iconic documentarian. This special talk featuring Paul Rudd will discuss the In July, WFF and BCDF held the fi rst annual Summer charismatic actors extensive work in the fi lm and television Meet Up as eight fi lmmakers came together to industry as well as his unique comedic style and the running delve honestly and openly into their fi lm projects. gags that have made him a household name on top of his As fi lmmaker Isabel Barton noted, the experience Hollywood success. Rudd began his career as an actor in the “provided a rare opportunity to take a look at 1995 fi lm Clueless alongside actress Alicia Silverstone and the reality of the current fi lm industry arena and directed by WFF alumni, Amy Heckerling. Rudd is best known showcase our works-in-progress within a nurturing for his roles in fi lms I Love You Man, Anchorman: The Legend environment.” of Ron Burgundy, The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Knocked Up, Forget- ting Sarah Marshall, Role Models, Our Idiot Brother, The Perks The Hudson Valley Programmers Group presented of Being a Wallfl ower and This Is 40. two tours over the past year. WFF 2012 Opening Night fi lm Dear Governor Cuomo... made its way around the Hudson Valley into numerous theaters, Look for the logo in the program spreading the message about fracking in New York State. Then in March, HVPG brought the locally The 2013 WFF schedule will feature fi lmed The Brass Teapot, with producer Darren many locally produced fi lms Goldberg, for screenings in Newburgh and Beacon. including the feature fi lms Doomsdays and A Birder’s Guide to Everything, and the short In August, WFF held a fundraiser in Rhinebeck with A Birder’s Guide to Everything fi l m s Relics, Mobile Homes, On the House, a special screening of Magic Men (also making its Promised Land, The Exit Room, In the Blind and World Premiere at WFF 2013). The Hudson Valley and Catskills have been a Aerodrome, among others. hotbed of creative energy and artistic vibrancy Finally, WFF hosted the fi rst annual Taste of Woodstock in May. The event was a huge hit and for over a century. In addition to attracting plans are already in the works for the second production talent from all over the world, many annual event in 2014. Over 20 local restaurants established and emerging fi lmmakers have now and businesses took part in a wonderfully delicious made the Hudson Valley their home. evening. Doomsdays NARRATIVES Opening and Closing Night lms will be announced shortly on WFF website EAST COAST PREMIERE At Middleton subverts all expectations of a standard college romance, focusing on the bittersweet adult years of two unsatisfi ed parents who AT MIDDLETON come together in a single afternoon of magic. Vera Farmiga and Andy Garcia Directed by Adam Rodgers star in Adam Rodgers’s romantic dramedy as eccentric mother, Edith, and USA / 2013 / 100 minutes straight-laced father, George, two strangers who come to life in one another’s company and decide to play hooky on their respective children’s college tour. WOODSTOCK Playhouse Sat Oct 5 • 4:10PM While “At Middleton” initially seems to follow the college hopefuls, Edith and George quickly steal the focus of what becomes a revealing and enlighten- Upstate Films I RHINEBECK Sun Oct 6 • 12:15PM ing experience for the two adults. The parents come together despite their opposing temperaments in an afternoon reminiscent of their lost youth, ditching the textbook tour for a crash course in the pursuit of passion. “At Middleton” is sure to steal the hearts of all ages in its portrait of the timelessness of romance and youth. – Chandra Knotts WORLD PREMIERE Refreshingly authentic, Bastards of Young is a debut feature that puts a new twist on the coming of age cliché – maybe because everyone has already come BASTARDS OF YOUNG of age. Jen has reached a breaking point with her husband of ten years, while Directed by Josiah Signor Jesse is an artist-turned-schoolteacher who refuses to accept that the couple USA / 2013 / 77 minutes were married too young. Jen and Jesse are forced to face buried emotions at their old college friends Kevin and Julie’s annual Halloween party. The couple Upstate Films II RHINEBECK Thur Oct 3 • 7:15PM must confront their own adulthood, while Kevin and Julie work to do the same. Even Halloween costumes fail to maintain youthful spirits as sex, drugs and rock WOODSTOCK Playhouse Fri Oct 4 • 2:15PM n’ roll intermingle with thoughts of pregnancy, adultery and divorce. Signor’s casting features an outstanding ensemble of rookie actors that deliver authenticity and relatability despite the dramatic tension. “Bastards of Young” will leave you charmed and reeling at the fact that this is Signor’s student thesis and fi rst feature fi lm from the NYU Tisch Graduate Film Program. – Chandra Knotts David Portnoy is a 15-year-old birding fanatic who has made the discovery of a lifetime…or so he thinks. Now, on the eve of his father’s A BIRDER’S GUIDE remarriage, he sets out with his two best friends on a bizarre road trip to TO EVERYTHING confi rm his rare sighting. Nerdy, naive and totally unequipped to handle the Directed by Rob Meyer challenges of the real world, the band holds it together through misfortune USA / 2012 / 90 minutes upon misadventure as well as their own ineptitude. Rob Meyer’s feature de- but is a unique coming of age comedy featuring Academy Award® winner Ben ROSENDALE Theater Kingsley as David’s ornithologist idol. As David begins to come to terms with Sat Oct 5 • 7:30PM his father’s impending marriage, he realizes that there is more to life than WOODSTOCK Playhouse his birding obsession. Featuring winning performances by Kodi Smit-McPhee Sun Oct 6 • 4:00PM (Let Me In) and Kingsley and fi lmed in the Hudson Valley A Birder’s Guide is a hilarious and heartwarming comedy. – Michael Burke EAST COAST PREMIERE Blind Pass is a psychological drama-thriller starring Armand Assante and a terrifi c ensemble cast.
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