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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. BLIND PASS Shot entirely on location in Southwest Florida and Ireland, the fi lm Directed by Steve Tatone follows the journey of a young, wealthy woman (newcomer Danielle White) USA / 2012 / 94 minutes who learns that she is going blind. A psychologist (Chris McKenna) struggles to keep her from following WOODSTOCK Playhouse the path of her demanding father (Armand Assante) who died from an appar- Fri Oct 4 • 4:30PM ent suicide after battling the ravages of multiple sclerosis. Upstate Films II RHINEBECK Along the way, the doctor/patient relationship is stretched to the Sun Oct 6 • 12:45PM limit as we learn that both characters are hiding dark secrets that neither of them dare reveal... lest circumstances spin completely out of their con- trol.

Conditioned into an ethos of self-suffi ciency by his overbearing mother, Atticus has been preached to about the dangers of television, ticks THE COLD LANDS and corn syrup-saturated cupcakes. More importantly, however, she’s passed Directed by Tom Gilroy onto him the lesson of bearing the brunt of life’s trials without running to USA / 2012 / 101 minutes others for aid. Following her untimely passing, the 11-year-old continues to Upstate Films WOODSTOCK be haunted by her eccentric teachings. Thur Oct 3 • 3:30PM Hardly looking back, Atticus takes to the wilderness, fending for Upstate Films I RHINEBECK himself at every turn until having a curious run-in with a man named Carter. Sat Oct 5 • 6:45PM The two learn together just how much they have in common as they join forces out on the open roads of upstate New York. Holding fast to an engag- ing story line from start to fi nish, director Tom Gilroy incorporates gorgeous locations and creative talent, all into a single, powerful feature. – Terence Gardner

All events are subject to change. For latest updates, visit WOODSTOCK FILM FESTIVAL 2013 3 www.WoodstockFilmFestival.com NARRATIVES Opening and Closing Night  lms will be announced shortly on WFF website NEW YORK PREMIERE Will Slocombe’s Thanksgiving dramedy Cold Turkey follows a holiday reunion turned raconteur hair-raiser when patriarch, Poppy (Peter Bogdanov- COLD TURKEY ich), has to face the moral and fi scal responsibilities of fatherhood within Directed by Will Slocombe his disgruntled household. USA / 2013 / 85 minutes An autobiographical picture inspired by Slocombe’s family experi-

ences, “Cold Turkey” confronts not only the trying nature of siblinghood, but WOODSTOCK Playhouse Sat Oct 5 • 1:45PM the underlying value in shared upbringing, revealing the safe-haven that an otherwise train wreck of a reunion can provide to a family torn by individual Upstate Films I RHINEBECK Sun Oct 6 • 5:30PM differences and times past.

While “Cold Turkey” might engender some resistance toward the holiday season, it also recognizes that home is where the heart is – and is priceless. – Chandra Knotts

CONCUSSION Abby is a middle-aged, married lesbian housewife who, after suf- Directed by Stacie Passon fering a blow to the head, awakens with a new desire for something more USA / 2013 / 93 minutes than her banal suburban existence. Walking the city streets, Abby remembers Upstate Films WOODSTOCK what it felt like to be sexy, and her pent-up libido shakes off its inhibitions. Thur Oct 3 • 6:30PM She creates a dual life as a high-end escort named Eleanor. Director Stacie Passon delivers a sensually hypnotic directorial debut, while Robin Weigert’s performance is a powerful sexual double-take delicately balancing two very different and complicated women.

“Concussion” delves into the thorny issues of midlife crises and what emerges is a portrait of a woman on the verge of sexual liberation. – Michael Burke

WORLD PREMIERE Akim grows up in Tunisia with a father who teaches him the heal- DNA ing powers inside him and in nature. When his father dies, Akim moves Directed by Thierry Obadia to France, only to discover that a pharmaceutical group is after his blood USA / 2013 / 98 minutes in search of a cure for a deadly virus. With outstanding cinematogra- ROSENDALE Theater phy of the surrounding environs and an intimate portrait of a dedicated Sat Oct 5 • 9:45PM man, director Thierry Obadia’s plot twists and turns in this good versus evil tale, where we are never quite sure which side all the characters are on.

U.S. PREMIERE IN COMPETITION Eddie Mullins takes living off the grid to a whole new level DOOMSDAYS with his latest feature fi lm Doomsdays, a self-proclaimed ‘‘pre-apocalyptic Directed by Eddie Mullins comedy,’’ starring Justin Rice and Leo Fitzpatrick as low-budget vandals with USA / 2013 / 91 minutes little regard for the law. Dirty Fred and Bruho are a tag team of criminal ROSENDALE Theater house-hoppers who fi nd themselves with more than they bargained for when Thur Oct 3 • 7:00PM a disenchanted teenager and indignant young woman join them in their WOODSTOCK Playhouse shenanigans. The newcomers unintentionally reveal to Fred and Bruho that Fri Oct 4 • 9:30PM the feeling of family doesn’t necessitate a home and the feeling of home doesn’t necessitate settling, but that both can be found within the company you keep. – Chandra Knotts

EAST COAST PREMIERE ESCAPE FROM Disney from the dark side. Like nothing you’ve ever seen, Randy Moore’s directorial debut is a bold and TOMORROW ingenious trip to the happiest place on earth, where newly unemployed, Directed by Randy Moore middle-aged American (played by Roy Abramsohn) embarks on a full day USA / 2013 / 103 minutes of park hopping amid enchanted castles and fairytale princesses with his nagging wife and two wound-up children. Soon, the manufactured mirth of Bearsville Theater WOODSTOCK the fantasy land around him begins to haunt his subconscious and the idyllic Sat Oct 5 • 9:40PM family vacation quickly unravels into a surrealist nightmare of paranoid vi- sions, bizarre encounters and an obsessive pursuit of a pair of sexy teen- age Parisians. Chillingly shot in black and white to create a neo-noir effect that has led critics to compare Escape from Tomorrow to the work of Roman Polanski and David Lynch.

All events are subject to change. For latest updates, visit WOODSTOCK FILM FESTIVAL 2013 4 www.WoodstockFilmFestival.com NARRATIVES Opening and Closing Night  lms will be announced shortly on WFF website NEW YORK PREMIERE FACE OF LOVE Love at fi rst and second sight. Directed by Arie Posin Face of Love is the story of a widow named Nikki (Annette Bening) who, USA / 2013 / 92 minutes several years after the loss of her husband Garrett, meets a man named Tom (Ed Harris) who looks exactly like her deceased husband. Suddenly, WOODSTOCK Playhouse a fl ood of old feelings rush back to her: she’s met the love of her life. Fri Oct 4 • 7:00PM Again. The fi lm is a romantic story fi lled with humor, surprise, and refl ec- Orpheum Theater SAUGERTIES tions on the mystery of love surrounding us. Bening and Harris star, with Sat Oct 5 • 9:15PM an important supporting turn from Robin Williams as Nikki’s confi dante and would-be lover.

NEW YORK PREMIERE Atang has been disconnected from his father for years after being up- IN COMPETITION rooted from his hometown of Lesotho as a child. Currently living in the city THE FORGOTTEN of Johannesburg, South Africa, Atang is misguided and full of resentment. KINGDOM News of his father’s death comes with a preordained trip to Lesotho for his Directed by Andrew Mudge burial. Reluctantly, Atang embarks on the visit to his ancestral land, where USA / 2012 / 97 minutes he forms an unexpected connection with his childhood friend, Dineo. Director Andrew Mudge wonderfully portrays the mystery and spirit Upstate Films I RHINEBECK of the land as audiences accompany Atang on his journeys. Atang’s initial Fri Oct 4 • 6:00PM trek to bury his deceased father evolves into a voyage to reconnect with WOODSTOCK Playhouse Dineo, her stubborn, traditional father and her terminally ill sister. Power- Sun Oct 6 • 1:30PM ful performances delivered by each cast member, paired with exceptional

cinematography, makes “The Forgotten Kingdom” a compelling story that leaves the audience emotionally moved and wanting more. – Nina Gioia

NEW YORK PREMIERE When they were girls, Bernice and Fontayne were as close as sisters. GO FOR SISTERS Time and trouble have taken their toll and 20 years later they meet again, Directed by John Sayles when one is the parole offi cer for the other. Bernice needs help from the dark USA / 2013 / 122 minutes side and calls on Fontayne, who is just out of prison and fi ghting to stay Upstate Films I RHINEBECK clean. Bernice’s son Rodney is missing and may be found on the Mexican Fri Oct 4 • 8:30PM border in hiding or in the hands of smugglers. The friends enlist The Termi- nator, Freddy Suárez (Edward James Olmos), a disgraced ex-LAPD detective suffering from macular degeneration, to help them fi nd the boy before it’s too late. How far would you go for an old friend?

WORLD PREMIERE Leo and Nick, college friends now estranged, meet again after the funeral IN COMPETITION of their friend James. Seemingly polar opposites, straight-laced east-coast HERE COMES THE NIGHT family man Leo and fl akey would-be Hollywood movie producer Nick embark Directed by Peter Kline and Pete on a series of outrageous nocturnal adventures. With a knowing nod to the Shanel worst of L.A. stereotypes, Nick pulls Leo along on what becomes a homage USA / 2013 / 84 minutes to debauchery. Ably assisted by Trish and Claire, a pair of drug-loving young beauties they meet along the way and hook up with for a while, Leo and Orpheum Theater SAUGERTIES Nick’s journey is both poignant and hilarious. Fri Oct 4 • 9:20PM With a wealth of unexpected and thoroughly engaging plot twists Bearsville Theater WOODSTOCK and turns, this is one of those rare fi lms that strikes just the right balance Sun Oct 6 • 7:15PM between comedy and pathos. Pitch perfect casting, snappy dialogue, sly

observations, seamless editing and an evocative score make this a “must-see” movie. Sweet, gentle, hilarious and thought provoking. – Barbara Pokras

IN COMPETITION In this raw and haunting story, 14-year-old Lila longs for a relation- IT FELT LIKE LOVE ship, as she tags along behind her seductive friend Chiara and her latest Directed by Eliza Hittman boyfriend. Innocent and vulnerable, Lila longs to have a sexual experience of USA / 2013 / 82 minutes her own and, in doing so, sets herself up for humiliation and heartbreak. Set in working-class Brooklyn, director Eliza Hittman, in her fi rst feature fi lm, Bearsville Theater WOODSTOCK Thur Oct 3 • 5:00PM deftly captures the emotions and the ambience and of her characters and the location. Upstate Films II RHINEBECK Sat Oct 5 • 7:00PM

All events are subject to change. For latest updates, visit WOODSTOCK FILM FESTIVAL 2013 5 www.WoodstockFilmFestival.com NARRATIVES Opening and Closing Night  lms will be announced shortly on WFF website EAST COAST PREMIERE

KILIMANJARO For years, Doug Collins has been working a soul-sucking job and coming Directed by Walter Strafford home to an increasingly loveless relationship. After his girlfriend moves out, USA / 2013 / 80 minutes Doug pushes himself to live a more fulfi lling life starting with a trek to the ROSENDALE Theater summit of Mt. Kilimanjaro. Life pushes back. In the face of challenges from Fri Oct 4 • 6:30PM every direction, Doug struggles to make his way to the mountaintop. Bearsville Theater WOODSTOCK Sat Oct 5 • 4:00PM

NEW YORK PREMIERE Ambling well past their mid-twenties, brothers Rooker and Randall Lee are beginning to learn just how unaccommodating the universe really is. LOST ON PURPOSE Rather than bend to their plans, it has kept them working on a dairy farm for Directed by Eshom Nelms, Ian Nelms the past several years in the company of three close friends, Leslie, Jackie, USA / 2012 / 101 minutes Wade, and their boss Elizabeth James (Jane Kaczmarek). Ms. Liz is a woman whose unforgiving, temperamental nature is a force to reckon with. Bearsville Theater WOODSTOCK Fri Oct 4 • 9:15PM When co-op owner, Delbert Furgeson (C. Thomas Howell) threatens to dismantle her operation with a buyout, Ms. Liz is more than ready to Orpheum Theater SAUGERTIES Sun Oct 6 • 4:00PM man the barricades and meet him head on. Meanwhile, the Lee brothers and friends come face-to-face with their own demons throughout the fi lm, each struggling to fi nd his place in the world. Whether it’s an estranged relation-

ship with one’s parents or a history of violent feuds, the cast of “Lost on

Purpose” lives each ordeal with impeccable grace. – Terence Gardner

EAST COAST PREMIERE Set in modern Beijing, Man of Tai Chi marks Keanu Reeves’s directorial debut. The spectacular martial-arts epic stars Matrix stuntman Tiger Chen and MAN OF TAI CHI features fi ght choreography by the legendary Yuen Woo-ping. Directed by Keanu Reeves Also starring Reeves, Man of Tai Chi follows the spiritual journey of USA / 2013 / 105 minutes a young martial artist whose unparalleled Tai Chi skills land him in a highly WOODSTOCK Playhouse lucrative underworld fi ght club. As the fi ghts intensify, so does his will to Sat Oct 5 • 6:45PM balance pacifi st principles with violent impulses. ROSENDALE Theater Sun Oct 6 • 2:30PM

US PREMIERE Based on Willy Vlautin’s novel, THE MOTEL LIFE The Motel Life explores a few weeks in the broken lives of two working-class Directed by Alan Polsky, Gabriel brothers, (Emile Hirsch and Stephen Dorff) who abruptly ditch their Reno Polsky motel after a tragic accident. The two brothers are a case study in hard luck: USA / 2012 / 85 minutes their mother died when they were teens, and their father is a deadbeat. They Upstate Films WOODSTOCK grew up dependent on each other. Both dream of escaping the challenges of Sat Oct 5 • 7:00PM their transient life. The accident forces them to face their past, the separa- Upstate Films I RHINEBECK tion between their dreams and reality, and the redemptive power of hope. Sun Oct 6 • 3:00PM

NEW YORK PREMIERE IN COMPETITION ORENTHAL: The Musical OJ Simpson may be one of the most recognizable and infamous names of the last 20 years. So when overly eccentric theatre artist Eugene Oliver Directed by Jeff Rosenberg (Jordan Kenneth Kamp) decides to make Mr. Simpson the subject of his

USA / 2013 / 90 minutes next musical, the results are truly something spectacular. “Orenthal: The

Musical”, the hilarious new fi lm from director Jeff Rosenberg, captures, in Bearsville Theater WOODSTOCK outstanding mockumentary style, the process of developing the great- Fri Oct 4 • 7:00PM est musical regarding a murder trial ever to be produced. With the help ROSENDALE Theater of some loyal childhood friends, a handful of local actors and a group Sat Oct 5 • 5:00PM of producers from a biblical theater company, can Eugene and company overcome the obstacles they face and achieve their goal of creating the next great American musical – Sam Robotham

All events are subject to change. For latest updates, visit WOODSTOCK FILM FESTIVAL 2013 6 www.WoodstockFilmFestival.com NARRATIVES Opening and Closing Night  lms will be announced shortly on WFF website EAST COAST PREMIERE

THE RETRIEVAL In a powerful period drama set during the Civil War, Chris Eska Directed by Chris Eska patiently crafts a brilliantly acted tour de force that foists tough ethical questions USA / 2013 / 91 minutes upon the viewer. Upstate Films WOODSTOCK Moral boundaries are crossed when Will, a young African-American, Fri Oct 4 • 9:30PM joins his Uncle Marcus as a bounty hunter. The two are contracted to cross Upstate Films I RHINEBECK Union lines and bring back a freed slave and accused murderer. Sat Oct 5 • 4:00PM During their odyssey, the Texas landscape comes to life as an essential character, thanks to Yasu Tanida’s beautiful cinematography. – Michael Burke

SECRET SCREENING Directed by Mystery Director USA / 2013 / 75 minutes Bearsville Theater WOODSTOCK Thu Oct 3 • 9:45PM

It’s like Disney, but don’t bring the kids.

Director Francesca Gregorini pulls audiences underwater and into a THE TRUTH world of fragility and twisted perceptions in this sophomore feature starring

ABOUT EMANUEL Jessica Biel “(7th Heaven)” and Kaya Scodelario “(Skins)”. Directed by Francesca Gregorini Linda, a new mother in a new town, manages to fi nd companionship USA / 2013 / 95 minutes in her neighbor Emanuel, a troubled teen who refuses to forgive herself for the death of her own mother. Emanuel becomes Linda’s friend and confi dant Upstate Films II RHINEBECK when she begins baby sitting her infant daughter Chloe, immersing herself in Fri Oct 4 • 6:30PM Linda’s personal life as she grows increasingly distant from her own family. Upstate Films WOODSTOCK As Emanuel grows closer to Linda, she fi nds herself drowning in the Sat Oct 5 • 9:30PM secrets of Linda’s jarring reality, and the women struggle to stay afl oat as old memories tempt their lost minds beneath the waves. – Chandra Knotts

US PREMIERE After killing two skinheads in a failed operation against NeoNazis, young undercover intelligence agent Daniel Krell fi nds a hiding place UMMAH and new friends in Berlin’s Arab community. Realistic and witty, Berlin (AMONG FRIENDS) fi lmmaker Cueneyt Kaya shows the rapprochement of two worlds which seem Directed by Cüeneyt Kaya violently opposed. Wounded physically and psychologically, Daniel’s cultural GERMANY / 2013 / 104 minutes isolation breaks down as he becomes integrated into the Islamic community. German with English subtitles Stereotypes vanish as we gain human perspective on a culture too often seen as radicalized. Here, family bonds are strong, and Daniel’s physical and WOODSTOCK Playhouse psychological wounds begin to heal. But unable or unwilling to intervene Thur Oct 3 • 4:00PM when his friends are stopped and harassed by the police, Daniel feels the Upstate Films II RHINEBECK impotence of his own inaction. Is there redemption? And why do we fear the Sun Oct 6 • 5:45PM stranger? This is assured fi lmmaking, unfl inching and timely. – Barbara Pokras, A.C.E.

WORLD PREMIERE Set in the near future, Under the Same Sun looks back at the story of UNDER THE SAME SUN two businessmen - one Palestinian and one Israeli - who struggle to set up Directed by Sameh Zoabi a solar energy company that would bring green energy to both sides of the Israel / 2013 / 75 minutes border. In Arabic and Hebrew with subtitles As they battle the societal powers working against them, as well as the open hostility within their own families, they are confronted with their Orpheum Theater SAUGERTIES own issues of trust. Using social media, the pair creates a popular campaign Sat Oct 5 • 1:15PM that may just change how two societies can fi nally come together. Israeli Bearsville Theater WOODSTOCK Producer Amir Harel and Palestinian director Sameh Zoabi will join the fi lm Sun Oct 6 • 4:45PM for a discussion following the screening.

All events are subject to change. For latest updates, visit WOODSTOCK FILM FESTIVAL 2013 7 www.WoodstockFilmFestival.com NARRATIVES Opening and Closing Night  lms will be announced shortly on WFF website SPECIAL HUDSON VALLEY PROGRAMMER’S GROUP SCREENING We Are What We Are, a seemingly wholesome and benevolent WE ARE WHAT WE ARE family, the Parkers have always kept to themselves, and for good reason. Behind closed doors, patriarch Frank (Bill Sage) rules his family with a rigor- Directed by Jim Mickle ous fervor, determined to keep his ancestral customs intact at any cost. As USA / 2013 / 105 minutes a torrential rainstorm moves into the area, tragedy strikes and his daughters WOODSTOCK Playhouse Iris (Ambyr Childers) and Rose (Julia Garner) are forced to assume respon- Sun Oct 6 • 9:15PM sibilities that extend beyond those of a typical family. As the unrelenting downpour continues to fl ood their small town, the local authorities begin to uncover clues that bring them closer to the secret that the Parkers have held closely for so many years.

EAST COAST PREMIERE IN COMPETITION Virgil wakes up in a ditch on the plains of Montana, battered WINTER IN THE BLOOD and hung-over. His wife has left him and taken his beloved rifl e. Fueled Directed by Andrew and Alex Smith by alcohol, Virgil embarks on a wild and darkly comic odyssey to retrieve the USA / 2013 / 98 minutes rifl e. Ultimately, he fi nds himself.

Adapted from the celebrated novel of the same name, “Winter in the Upstate Films WOODSTOCK Blood” is largely a visualization of internal memories and thoughts. The audi- Fri Oct 4 • 4:15PM ence is never quite sure what is real and what isn’t because Virgil isn’t so ROSENDALE Theater sure either. Sun Oct 6 • 5:15PM Filmed on location in Montana, with gorgeous cinematography and a haunting and evocative score, this is a melancholic and surreal depiction of a distraught hero trying to make peace with his past and his identity. – Eliza Kunkel

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All events are subject to change. For latest updates, visit WOODSTOCK FILM FESTIVAL 2013 8 www.WoodstockFilmFestival.com DOCUMENTARIES Opening and Closing Night  lms will be announced shortly on WFF website

EAST COAST PREMIERE Rena and Nadine, two documentarian sisters, leave their jobs in reality television to revisit their secret rural upbringings at The Farm, America’s AMERICAN COMMUNE largest commune. The fi lm cuts between past and present as the fi lmmakers Directed by explore what is left of their alternative childhood, bridging gaps between

Rena Mundo Croshere, Nadine Mundo their adult metropolitan lifestyles and their off-the-grid rearing. “American

USA / 2012 / 90 minutes Commune” reveals the rise and fall of The Farm, a 1970s commune that created what appeared to be the ideal self-suffi cient community. Members Bearsville Theater WOODSTOCK shared everything from child rearing and communal households, to currency, Fri Oct 4 • 2:30PM clothing and food. Through unapologetic storytelling and a hint of nostalgia, Orpheum Theater SAUGERTIES the Mundo sisters tap into the alternate universe of their pasts and bring to Sun Oct 6 • 1:00PM light the undying legacy of true community.

WORLD PREMIERE Why is there a polarization between the Left and the Right within American Society? Why are there millions of Americans waiting for the End of AMERICAN JESUS the World? How does that effect American foreign policy in the Middle East? Why Directed by Aram Garriga is Christian Pop Culture a growing multi-billion dollar industry? How is spiritual- USA, Spain / 2013 / 78 minutes ity expressed through the American Dream? These are some of the questions that Upstate Films II RHINEBECK American Jesus explores through a wide array of characters that truly represent the Fri Oct 4 • 3:45PM American social texture in its very different spheres. Christian organizations, Chris- Upstate Films WOODSTOCK tian pop culture specialists, secular analysts, apocalyptic preachers and their view Sun Oct 6 • 4:45PM of the End Times, Christian bikers, cowboys and wrestlers create an enriching and otherwise impossible dialog, drawing a map of American Christianity as it remains today. American Jesus approaches a subject that has been under constant explora- tion over the last decades from a non-judgemental perspective, letting viewers extract their own conclusions.

NEW YORK PREMIERE What constitutes revolution? IN COMPETITION 98-year-old writer and radical activist Grace Lee Boggs has no hesitations AMERICAN when it comes to changing the world, one conversation at a time. REVOLUTIONARY: Filmmaker Grace Lee initially sought out Grace Lee Boggs due to their shared name and unexpectedly found a breath of rebellious inspiration in The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs Boggs that continues to motivate nonviolent philosophies of civil rights, Directed by Grace Lee revolution and evolution. Once a 1960’s militant, the Detroit-based activist USA / 2013 / 82 minutes Boggs is still challenging expectations through her lifelong devotion to the Upstate Films WOODSTOCK African-American movement and fi ght for individual freedoms. Fri Oct 4 • 11:30AM American Revolutionary is a story of growth: of Boggs’ lifetime commit- Upstate Films II RHINEBECK ment to activism, of fi lmmaker Grace Lee and of the viewer as well, as they are Sat Oct 5 • 1:45PM drawn into Boggs’ philosophy of positivity and change. – Chandra Knotts

EAST COAST PREMIERE Sam Barzan Malkandi, an Iraqi refugee to the US and beloved BARZAN father, was working toward his piece of the American Dream in a Seattle Directed by suburb, but a footnote in The 9/11 Commission Report, connecting him to Alex Stonehill, Bradley Hutchinson a high-level Al-Qaeda operative through his childhood nickname, changed USA / 2012 / 77 minutes everything. In Farsi and English To neighbors, Sam Malkandi was the model immigrant and perfect family man. He worked hard to buy a house, secure a better future for his Bearsville Theater WOODSTOCK children and assimilate into American life. To investigators, Malkandi was a Fri Oct 4 • 12:00PM cold-blooded terrorist who represented a potential link between Iraq and the Upstate Films II RHINEBECK 9/11 attacks. To audiences, Malkandi is a mercurial character whose story Sun Oct 6 • 3:15PM embodies controversial issues of immigration, xenophobia and the price of security in the 21st century.

NEW YORK PREMIERE BIRTH OF 1968: A year of peace, love and music? Try peace, love and the undead. THE LIVING DEAD Rob Kuhns’s feature-length documentary “Birth of the Living Dead,” Directed by Rob Kuhns compiles original and found footage to provide a stunning portrait of George

USA / 2012 / 76 minutes A. Romero and his 1968 cult classic, “Night of the Living Dead.” Kuhns explores ROSENDALE Theater the birth of zombie culture, as well as the political and cultural backdrop of Fri Oct 4 • 9:00PM the 1960s that led to “Night of the Living Dead’s” overwhelming success, revo- WOODSTOCK Playhouse lutionary backbone and the ever-changing reception of our society to media Sat Oct 5 • 9:35PM violence. –Chandra Knotts

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Miss Israel Linor Abargil was abducted, stabbed, and raped in BRAVE MISS WORLD Milan, Italy, at age 18. She had to represent her country in the Miss World Directed by Cecilia Peck USA / 2013 / 92 minutes competition only six weeks later. When to her shock she was crowned the winner, she vowed to do something about rape. Upstate Films WOODSTOCK The fi lm explores the trauma of sexual assault through one young Thu Oct 3 • 9:15PM woman’s journey from teenage rape victim to Miss World to empowered Orpheum Theater SAUGERTIES lawyer and activist. Sun Oct 6 • 6:45PM

NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE Perhaps one of the most overlooked yet universal aspects of pregnancy BREASTMILK and childbirth is the production of a mother’s breast milk. Despite end- Directed by Dana Ben-Ari less research on the benefi ts of breastfeeding, the stigma surrounding this USA / 2013 / 90 minutes natural and age-old practice has led to a new world of motherhood where Upstate Films WOODSTOCK maternity confronts sexuality and naturalists are forced to confront a culture Fri Oct 4 • 7:00PM brimming with baby formulas, breast pumps and endless skepticism. In her feature debut, director Dana Ben-Ari takes a daring look at the world surrounding breast milk in exclusive interviews with both men and women, professionals and parents, bringing the clandestine world sur- rounding breastmilk to the forefront. –Chandra Knotts

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NY PREMIERE Academy Award®-winning fi lmmaker and lifelong activist Haskell Wexler FOUR DAYS IN CHICAGO takes a personal look at Chicago over four days in May 2012 — four days Directed by Haskell Wexler fi lled with politics, protest and police. The Occupy movement and others USA / 2013 / 82 minutes converged on Chicago to tell President Obama and Mayor Emanuel to stop Bearsville Theater WOODSTOCK the insane spending on wars around the world and bring the money home Sat Oct 5 • 11:30AM for housing, schools and healthcare. Mayor Emanuel spent $27 million to secure the city against the threat of citizens speaking out. It was a huge event in Chicago, but the national press wouldn’t cover it. The national media ignored stories of citizens exercising their constitutional right to protest. Emanuel’s decision to militarize the city to protect the war-makers of NATO raised a key question: is the government of the people, by the people, and for the people — or is it of, by and for the 1%?

God Loves Uganda explores the role of the American evangelical movement in Uganda, where American missionaries have been credited with both creating GOD LOVES UGANDA schools and hospitals and promoting dangerous religious bigotry. The fi lm Directed by Roger Ross Williams follows evangelical leaders in America and Uganda, along with politicians USA / 2013 / 83 minutes and missionaries, as they attempt the task of eliminating ‘‘sexual sin’’ and converting Ugandans to fundamentalist Christianity. In Swahili and English Academy Award® winner Roger Ross Williams, directing his feature Bearsville Theater WOODSTOCK debut, provides a rare view of the most powerful evangelical minister in Thur Oct 3 • 2:30PM Uganda, who lives in a mansion where he’s served by a white-coated chef.

ROSENDALE Theater Shocking, horrifying, touching and enlightening, “God Loves Uganda” Fri Oct 4 • 1:00PM will make you question what you thought you knew about religion.

NEW YORK PREMIERE IN COMPETITION Chicken Wings have become a staple of the American culi- THE GREAT nary experience, but fi lmmaker, journalist and upstate New Yorker Matt CHICKEN WING HUNT Reynolds takes fi nding the best wings to an entirely new level. Abandoning Directed by Matt Reynolds his successful career as an overseas reporter, Matt returns to the States to USA / 2013 / 71 minutes embark on a quest accompanied by his confused Czech girlfriend, Lucie. In an odyssey covering over 2500 miles, Matt and his cabal of chicken-wing-ob- Orpheum Theater SAUGERTIES sessed friends consume nearly 300 varieties of wings in two weeks. Eventu- Fri Oct 4 • 7:00PM ally Matt must decide what is greater: his love for wings or Lucie. Upstate Films WOODSTOCK “The Great Chicken Wing Hunt” is more than a foodie’s delight; it’s three Sat Oct 5 • 2:00PM parts gastronomic competition, two parts oddball comedy and one part love story. – Michael Burke

All events are subject to change. For latest updates, visit WOODSTOCK FILM FESTIVAL 2013 10 www.WoodstockFilmFestival.com DOCUMENTARIES Opening and Closing Night  lms will be announced shortly on WFF website WORLD PREMIERE For three weeks in September 2008, one person was charged with preventing the collapse of the global economy. No one under- stood fi nancial markets better than Hank Paulson, the former CEO of Gold- HANK: FIVE YEARS man Sachs. Yet Paulson wasn’t quite the pinstriped banker he appeared to FROM THE BRINK be. A devout Christian Scientist with left-leaning politics, he’d refused two Directed by Joe Berlinger previous offers to be Secretary of the Treasury before fi nally accepting. In Hank: Five Years From the Brink, Paulson tells the complete story of how he USA / 2013 / 85 minutes persuaded banks, congress and presidential candidates to sign off on nearly Upstate Films WOODSTOCK $1 trillion in bailouts—even as he found the behavior that led to the crisis Sat Oct 5 • 4:15PM and the bailouts themselves morally reprehensible. Directed by Academy Award® nominee Joe Berlinger (Paradise Lost, Some Kind of Monster, Crude), the fi lm features Paulson and his wife of 40 years, Wendy. It’s a riveting portrait of leadership under unimaginable pressure—and a marriage under unfathomable circumstances. – Courtesy Lincoln Center

WORLD PREMIERE Rebecca Babcock is for all intents a normal young woman, but her I AM A VISITOR life was tragically altered at the age of 25 when she was diagnosed with IN YOUR WORLD colon cancer. Undeterred by her disease, she took to the blogosphere to Directed by Miguel Silveira inspire others. Director Miguel Silveira and fi lmmakers Scott Busch and Ehsan USA / 2013 / 82 minutes Ghoreishi, in their documentary premiere, capture an unfl inching depiction that is graphic in its authenticity and honest in painting a portrait of living Upstate Films I RHINEBECK with a life-altering illness. Silveira’s access to Rebecca and her ongoing Fri Oct 4 • 1:00PM treatment will lead you on an emotional journey as she fi ghts not just her Upstate Films WOODSTOCK disease, but also the medical system that is stacked against her. Her words Sun Oct 6 • 2:30PM moved and inspired a nation of readers that followed her to keep up their

own struggles. “I Am a Visitor in Your World” tells Rebecca’s story and we fi nd out that she was more than just passing through. – Michael Burke

EAST COAST PREMIERE Stealing millions of dollars worth of jewelry takes a meticulous, carefully thought out plan in order to be perfectly executed without THE LIFE AND CRIMES getting caught - but not for Doris Payne. Provoked by the blatant acts of OF DORIS PAYNE racism she encountered in the 1950s as a black woman, Ms. Payne found Directed by a way to casually obtain any jewel she wanted. Teeming with interviews, Matthew Pond and Kirk Marcolina the fi lm delves into the process of how this 83-year-old woman stole two USA / 2013 / 74 minutes million dollars worth of jewelry throughout her lifetime, free of any inhibi- tions. Originally justifying her theft as a means of freeing her mother from Upstate Films II RHINEBECK an abusive relationship, Doris soon fell in love with her newfound lifestyle Sat Oct 5 • 9:30PM of wealth, glamour and over thirty aliases. As she now stands on trial for Upstate Films WOODSTOCK the theft of a department store diamond, the sharp-minded, sweet-hearted Sun Oct 6 • 12:00PM Doris Payne sways the audience into rooting for her innocence. – Nina Gioia

WORLD PREMIERE In the picturesque Vermont town of Dorset, twelve elderly men get to- gether every day at 1 pm to play a game called paddle tennis. With an aver- THE LONGEST GAME age age of 81, these men spend their time batting a small, spongy ball back Directed by Camille Thoman and forth across the courts that they frequent. Director Camille Thoman’s USA / 2013 / 70 minutes fi rst feature documentary is an intelligent and humorous examination of building a brotherhood, while at the same time preserving a youthful spirit Upstate Films II RHINEBECK into old age. Over the years, the walls of the Paddle Hut have absorbed every Fri Oct 4 • 1:15PM lavish story these men tell. Through a handful of jokes and dozens of witty Bearsville Theater WOODSTOCK insults, “The Longest Game” is a thought provoking fi lm on memory, fantasy, Sun Oct 6 • 12:00PM time, love, death and most importantly, paddle tennis.

WORLD PREMIERE Pick a card, any card. The illusion and mystery of even the simplest magic trick can be incredibly captivating. However, for some, being a magi- MAGIC MEN cian is much more than just making cards disappear. In this emotionally Directed by Ted Wallach charged documentary, the audience follows the story of two troubled teenag- USA / 2012 / 80 minutes ers from Queens, NY, who found magic as an escape from the gangs, drugs, depression, poverty and violence that once ruled their lives. As the two Bearsville Theater WOODSTOCK struggle through the roadblocks in their paths to becoming famous magi- Sat Oct 5 • 1:45PM cians, they learn that certain things can’t be made to vanish with a wave of the hand, but their persistent and diligent work can lead them to a happier place. With narration from executive producer and hip-hop luminary, Common, Magic Men is a hopeful tale that is sure to make you believe that, if you look hard enough, magic is indeed real. –Sam Robotham

All events are subject to change. For latest updates, visit WOODSTOCK FILM FESTIVAL 2013 11 www.WoodstockFilmFestival.com DOCUMENTARIES Opening and Closing Night  lms will be announced shortly on WFF website NEW YORK PREMIERE IN COMPETITION Step into the whimsical, visionary and thought-provoking world of lifetime outsider artist Al Carbee, an 88-year old eccentric who spends MAGICAL UNIVERSE his days creating outlandish works of art featuring Barbie Dolls. Filmmaker Jeremy Workman spent over a decade of friendship with Carbee, compiling Directed by Jeremy Workman extensive footage and memories to provide a look into the magical universe USA / 2013 / 77 minutes of Carbee’s bizarre creative force. Upstate Films WOODSTOCK What began as a simple trip to Maine with his girlfriend became, Sat Oct 5 • 11:45AM over time, a life-changing partnership between Workman and Carbee that ROSENDALE Theater culminates in this extraordinary bio-pic, a glimpse of an otherwise unknown Sun Oct 6 • 12:00PM artist’s lifelong body of work. Magical Universe provides a priceless look at the immeasurable wonder of creative drive and inspiration. –Chandra Knotts

U.S. PREMIERE For his bar mitzvah, fi lmmaker Shawney Cohen asked for a set of IN COMPETITION hockey pads. His father bought him a lap dance instead. Since the family THE MANOR owns a strip club, he surely got a discount. Directed by Shawney Cohen In the tradition of “Grey Gardens”, “The Manor” is an unblinking yet Canada / 2013 / 79 minutes compassionate portrait of a family and its demons. Father Roger weighs Upstate Films II RHINEBECK almost 400 pounds. Mother Brenda weighs only 85 pounds. Brother Sammy Sat Oct 5 • 4:45PM revels in the strip club culture. Filmmaker Shawney wants to try and fi gure Upstate Films WOODSTOCK out where his family lost its way – and what, if anything, they can do Sun Oct 6 • 7:00PM about it. The Cohen’s lifestyles are fi nanced by the business of sex steeped with alcohol and drugs. They are corroded by the same forces that sustain them. Is change possible? Always honest, and at times sad, funny and sur-

real, “The Manor” depicts a unique family that is, somehow, just like the rest of us. – Eliza Kunkel

NEW YORK PREMIERE IN COMPETITION In a small town that seems to have been forgotten, directors Andrew MEDORA Cohn and Davy Rothbart explore the convoluted lives of the Medora Hornets Directed by Andrew Cohn and Davy varsity basketball team. The dynamic of the run-down, struggling town of Rothbart Medora, Indiana, directly refl ects the disadvantage that its high school bas- USA / 2012 / 90 minutes ketball team faces each year. The Medora Hornets, a small force stemming from a school of only 72 students, often fi nd themselves competing against WOODSTOCK Playhouse consolidated schools up to twenty times their size. Fri Oct 4 • 12:00PM A once-fl ourishing community teeming with employment opportuni- ROSENDALE Theater ties, the termination of surrounding factories and the fl ooding of farms has Sat Oct 5 • 12:40PM stripped Medora of almost all economic value. The fi lm provides insight into the broken, confl icted homes that pervade the dwindling town and the im- minent death of small-town America. – Nina Gioia

EAST COAST PREMIERE A line in the sand is drawn in Purgatorio where only the desper- IN COMPETITION ate and courageous dare cross. Documentary director Rodrigo Reyes PURGATORIO questions the role of humanity on planet Earth and how the divisions we’ve Directed by Rodrigo Reyes created between one another have set in motion a millennium of adversi- USA / 2012 / 80 minutes ties. In English and Spanish with subtitles Fast forward to present day, where the border between the United States and Mexico echoes the mistakes of generations past, as immigrants ROSENDALE Theater are taking great pains to fi nd a better life north of the Rio Grande. They will Fri Oct 4 • 3:30PM endure heat exhaustion, dehydration, sexual assault and much worse. All Bearsville Theater WOODSTOCK of this to escape a world from where even the most devout must work from Sun Oct 6 • 2:15PM dawn until dusk under the baking sun in order to survive. Even then, the fatal whims of a stray bullet threaten to cut short a life of perdition and deliver them to whatever waits beyond. –Terence Gardner

The Hemingway family may be considered the most distinguished family RUNNING FROM CRAZY in American literature. But with such talent and brilliance, also come a slew Directed by Barbara Kopple of dark thoughts and haunting secrets. Two-time Academy Award® win-

USA / 2013 / 100 minutes ner Barbara Kopple focuses her newest fi lm, “Running from Crazy,” on Mariel Hemingway, granddaughter of the legendary writer Ernest, using her as a Bearsville Theater WOODSTOCK Thur Oct 3 • 7:15PM vehicle to explore the family’s history of mental illness and suicide. Kopple’s use of stunning archival footage, intimate scenes from Upstate Films I RHINEBECK Sat Oct 5 • 9:20PM Mariel’s life, and the examination of the heartbreaking Hemingway legacy, create an emotionally powerful history, unfolding one step at a time. Through Mariel’s work as an advocate for suicide prevention and her power in overcoming the same fate that has cursed her family for years, she may just be able to fi nd strength and inner peace. –Sam Robotham

All events are subject to change. For latest updates, visit WOODSTOCK FILM FESTIVAL 2013 12 www.WoodstockFilmFestival.com DOCUMENTARIES Opening and Closing Night  lms will be announced shortly on WFF website U.S. PREMIERE Only through searching can the universe experience itself. Director Nik Fackler takes us along with a motley crew of addicts and SICK BIRDS DIE EASY personalities into the heart of Western Africa on a search for enlightenment with the help of iboga, a natural shrub made illegal in the 1960s due to Directed by Nik Fackler its potent psychedelic properties. The group quickly fi nds itself trapped in USA / 2013 / 86 minutes Eden with the devil and God, or perhaps Fackler’s version of this, where the Upstate Films II RHINEBECK camera is God while Ross, a drug-addicted conspiracy theorist, represents Fri Oct 4 • 9:00PM humanity. Bearsville Theater WOODSTOCK What initially began as a trip towards enlightenment becomes Sat Oct 5 • 7:15PM a desperate attempt at maintaining safety and sanity when the party turns sour, the fear of an ancient curse tearing relationships apart and resulting in a drug-addled – if not edifying, journey. – Chandra Knotts

EAST COAST PREMIERE More than forty years ago, Dick Fontaine made a fi lm with the bril- SONNY ROLLINS liant and infl uential jazz saxophonist Sonny Rollins, who suddenly rejected BEYOND THE NOTES fame and ‘the jazz life’ to play alone high above the traffi c on the Wil- Directed by Dick Fontaine liamsburg Bridge in New York. Back then the fi lm followed him on his lonely UK / 2012 / 78 minutes journey to fi nd out why. What was he searching for? Now 43 years later, in the context of his historic 80th birthday concert and with the help of other Woodstock Playhouse jazz legends, including Ornette Coleman, who Sonny invited to celebrate the Wed Oct 2 • 8:00PM history of his music with him, “Beyond the Notes” follows Rollins extraordinary Upstate Films I RHINEBECK journey, still refusing stereotype and compromise and still searching for Thur Oct 3 • 7:00PM answers to his music and his life.

EAST COAST PREMIERE State of Control is a fi rsthand account of the global technological arms race between the voices of dissent and the power of the state. Can the STATE OF CONTROL struggle for basic human rights survive in the global media age? Technology Directed by enables dissenters while also extending state repression beyond any physical Christian Johnston, Darren Mann borders. USA / 2013 / 84 minutes In the months leading up to the Beijing Olympics, Tibetan rights activists were determined to make their voices heard to the international Upstate Films WOODSTOCK community. Filmmakers Christian Johnston and Darren Mann traveled to In- Thur Oct 3 • 1:15PM dia, Nepal, China and Tibet intending to shoot a documentary about regional Upstate Films I RHINEBECK unrest. With their efforts thwarted by constant surveillance by the Chinese Fri Oct 4 • 3:30PM government, the fi lmmakers turned their cameras on themselves and their

harassers. “State of Control” is a chilling depiction of both the ham-handed and high-tech methods of a 21st century police state.

WORK IN PROGRESS To Be Forever Wild was created by a group of fi mmakers, musicians and TO BE FOREVER WILD artists in New York’s Catskill Mountains. Based in a little red cabin perched Directed by David Becker above a waterfall, the crew spent several weeks exploring the landscapes USA / 2013 / 70 minutes that are considered to be American’s fi rst wilderness. More than a portrait of a place, the fi lm profi les the people who live in and visit this region, WOODSTOCK Playhouse including artists, hikers, scientists, farmers and young people. In the fi lm Thur Oct 3 • 1:20PM we see the power of nature to restore, reclaim and provoke our deepest Orpheum Theater SAUGERTIES emotions and connections to the world. It’s a fi lm that inspires people to Sat Oct 5 • 7:00PM reconnect with nature in their own way, wherever they happen to be.

NEW YORK PREMIERE Town Hall casts an unfl inching eye on Katy and John, two Tea Party activists from the battleground state of Pennsylvania during the 2012 TOWN HALL Presidential election, who believe America’s salvation lies in a return to true Directed by Sierra Pettengill, Jamila conservative values. Wignot In Katy, we see a political novice rocketed to media stardom after a USA / 2013 / 74 minutes sensational confrontation at a town hall meeting with her senator. A young Upstate Films WOODSTOCK stay-at-home mom turned Tea Party spokesperson, she is gifted a new identity, Fri Oct 4 • 2:00PM steeled by the voices of conservative media. Orpheum Theater SAUGERTIES For John, a retired former businessman and lifelong Republican, the Sat Oct 5 • 3:45PM America he knows is slipping away. Heading up a local Tea Party group is his last, best chance at stanching the changes he is witnessing all around him. Viewers of every political persuasion will be riveted and educated by Town Hall.

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A Tangled Tale Grand Central Diary Directed by Corrie Francis Parks Directed by USA/2013/6 minutes Andy & Carolyn London In this unusual romance, USA/2013/5:13 minutes hand-tinted sand becomes a Distinguished citizens are metaphor for two souls as they interviewed for the centennial join and separate. Visit www.atangledtalefi lm.com anniversary of Grand Central Visit www.londonsquared.net Terminal. Christmas Day NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE Directed by Richard O’Connor Lake USA/2012/3:50 minutes Directed by Steven Subotnick This fi lm is a holiday gift to USA/2013/4 minutes everyone who has experienced A burial on a frozen lake. the confl icting sadness of the season. Visit www.aceandson.com Pepe & Lucas Visit www.stevensubotnick.com Directed by NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE Drunker than a Skunk Wim Bien and Mo Davoudian Directed by Bill Plympton USA/2012/7:24 minutes USA/2013/3.5 minutes A hi-tech street fi ght is waged Bill Plympton adapts a poem between an angry clown and an by Walt Curtis about a cowboy innocent street mime. town that torments the local Visit www.plymptoons.com drunk. Visit www.brainzoostudios.coma Rocks in My Pockets: Linda The Duke Directed by Signe Baumane Directed by Jonathan Campo USA/2013/3 minutes USA/2012/2 minutes A funny fi lm about depression The Duke is about a sandwich – that ponders why very smart a chicken parmesan hero to be people go crazy. precise. Visit www.camptastical.com Visit www.rocksinmypocketsmovie.com Sidewalk Dumb Day EAST COAST PREMIERE Directed by Celia Bullwinkel Directed by Kevin Eskew USA/2013/4:15 minutes USA/2012/10 minutes A woman walks through life, Flower sniffi ng, carpet but the real journey is deeper calisthenics and other restless within as she confronts her leisure-time activities. changing body and learns to Domestic life can be tough. love herself. Visit www.sidewalk.virb.com Finally, the day breaks. Visit www.kevineskew.org Subconscious Password Ed Directed by Chris Landreth Directed by Gabriel Garcia Canada/2013/10 minutes Brazil/2013/14 minutes A friendly guy meets up Meet Ed and his extraordinary with someone whose name life. Fifty years of an completely escapes him. unforgettable journey. What Visit www.nfb.ca nobody knows is why Ed wants to end it. Woman Who Hates Plants Directed by Morgan Miller Feral USA/2013/1 minute Directed by Daniel Sousa ...but she likes cigarettes. USA/2012/13 minutes

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ROSENDALE Theater Mountain View Studios CONVERSATIONS Sat Oct 5 • 2:55PM DYSTOPIA WOODSTOCK Mountain View Studios Fri Oct 4 • 5:15PM WOODSTOCK Sat Oct 5 • 8:45PM Sun Oct 6 • 6:15PM The Big Leap The Charlatan Directed by Kristoffer Rus Directed by Poland, Sweden/2013/ Alexis Manya Spraic 13 minutes USA/2013/13:20 minutes A black comedy about moral Sleight of hand… illusion… dilemmas in a time of global smoke and mirrors... Call it fi nancial crisis. Visit www.bigleapthemovie.com what you will, it’s all magic, Visit www.thecharlatanfi lm.com just as long as you can get away with it. The Compositor Directed by John Mattiuzzi School of Visual Arts In the Blind USA/2012/31:49 minutes Directed by Davis Hall A slave artist fi nds himself USA/2013/17:30 minutes hopelessly fi ghting to escape A duck blind is a place of the industrial grip of the Visual Visit www.thecompositorfi lm.com concealment, but for two Effects Film Industry. estranged brothers who just lost their father, too much is revealed. Visit www.intheblindthemovie.com The Exit Room Directed by Todd Wiseman Jr. USA/2012/10 minutes Last Remarks Directed by Umar Riaz Imprisoned journalist Joseph Pakistan, USA/2012/ Michaels faces a government 17 minutes execution during a future Visit hayden5.com/theexitroom In Urdu and English American Revolution. In 1947, on the eve of the creation of his new country Hunger Pakistan, Arastu Jan, an Directed by Güclü Aydogdu isolated native servant to Visit www.imdb.com/title/tt2086867 Turkey/2013/2:16 minutes a British colonialist, fi nds A deadly game played by a himself with ten minutes to family of four. record the confession of his Visit www.gucluaydogdu.com brief lifetime. Promised Land Late Spring Directed by Joe Turner Lin Directed by Zachary Kerschberg USA/2013/19:17 minutes New York University Refugees from the future have USA, Tunisia/2013/15 minutes found a way to return to the past. In Arabic with subtitles Visit www.itvs.org/fi lms/promised-land Mahmoud, a petty clerk in a police station, must suddenly Visit www.windmillsandgiants.com choose sides when a tortured prisoner asks him for help. Screening Prior to...

Riding Shotgun WORLD PREMIERE On The House Directed by Jack Fessenden Directed by USA / 2013 / 32:27 minutes Daniel Serafi ni-Sauli Atticus and Max are just two USA/2013/5:25 minutes ordinary teenagers who spend On a cold fall day, a their days bickering over the beleaguered man goes into a little things, while all around rural pawn shop to purchase a Visit www.via73fi lms.com them the big thing is closing fi rearm. in. Screens prior to Birth of the Living Dead

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WOODSTOCK Playhouse Mountain View Studios FAMILY Sat Oct 5 • 11:45AM WOODSTOCK Mountain View Studios WHOOPS Fri Oct 4 • 9:45PM Sun Oct 6 • 11:25AM Sat Oct 5 • 6:35PM 1982 NEW YORK PREMIERE Directed by Jeremy Breslau Horrible Things USA/2013/10:24 minutes (Les choses horribles) A blocked novelist refl ects on Directed by Vincent Biron a pivotal year in his life when, Canada / 2012 / 12 minutes as a precocious six-year-old, he In French with subtitles struggled for the attention of Dédé, Carole and Steve each Visit www.1982short.com Visit http://vbiron.com his bickering parents. try to buy back their faults in a desperate yet mundane attempt Boneshaker to appease guilt. Directed by Frances Bodomo New York University The Interviewer EAST COAST PREMIERE USA/2013/13 minutes Directed by An African family, lost in Genevieve Clay-Smith America, travels to a Louisiana and Robin Bryan church to fi nd a cure for its Australia/2012/ 13 minutes Visit www. boneshakerfi lm.com problem child. Thomas Howell gets more than he’s bargained for in a job WORLD PREMIERE Visit www.theinterviewer.com.au interview at a prestigious law The Early Birds fi rm. Directed by Lena Beug USA/2013/3:40 minutes A magical journey through a Night Giant normal day turned upside down Directed by Aaron Beckum by the absence of adults. Canada, USA/2013/11 minutes Visit www.moxiepictures.com A young man contacts a Giant Hunter to help him destroy his WORLD PREMIERE The Earth, the Way problem. Visit www.aaronbeckum.com I Left It Directed by Jeff Pinilla USA/2013/17:28 minutes Penny Dreadful A child coping with death in the Directed by Shane Atkinson family is visited by a stranger Columbia University USA/2013/17:45 minutes from the stars. Visit www.facebook.com/earthfi lmm The story of a kidnapping gone horribly wrong. Visit www.pennydreadful.net Relics EAST COAST PREMIERE Directed by Jennie Allen NEW YORK PREMIERE USA/2013/14 minutes Spooners A vacuum cleaner salesman must Directed by Bryan Horch decide how far he will go to USA/2013/13:21 minutes please his customers. Nelson is forced to come out Visit relicsfi lm.com in a spectacular way while shopping for a new bed. Time 2 Split Visit www.spoonersmovie.com Directed by Fabrice Bracq France/2012/4:38 minutes A couple and their young child realize that sometimes in life we must go our separate ways.

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gives him some added incentive: Visit www.charlieandersonfi lm.com no sex until he successfully quits.

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Mountain View Studios Mountain View Studios SHE WON WOODSTOCK SHE TOO WOODSTOCK Sat Oct 5 • 2:00PM Fri Oct 4 • 3:00PM Sun Oct 6 • 4:00PM Sat Oct 5 • 4:15PM

NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE Above the Sea The Biggest Fear Directed by Keola Racela WORLD PREMIERE (La paura piu grande) Columbia University Directed by Nicola di Vico USA/2013/16:23 minutes Italy/2013/9:37 minutes In Mandarin with subtitles In Italian with subtitles A young woman is forced Media information induces a to take extraordinary risks father to avenge the rape of to survive in the dangerous Visit www.facebook.com/PromioFilm underworld of 1930s Shanghai Visit www.abovetheseafi lm.com his daughter. when her life is threatened by a Care murderous policeman. Directed by Brett Wagner USA/2013/25 minutes Close Your Eyes Drea, a 20-something woman Directed by Sonia Malfa living in Brooklyn, struggles to In English and Spanish make progress in her own life while being the sole care- USA/2013/14:32 minutes Visit www.carethemovie.com Thirteen-year-old Imani Cortes giver for her father, who has is a gifted photographer long- Alzheimer’s. ing to experience her fi rst kiss. Visit www.sophialeang.com/fi lms.html Cloisters WORLD PREMIERE Directed by Steve Durand Made In Chinatown USA/2013/3:47 minutes Directed by Kevin Lau WORLD PREMIERE A music video from Yasou Columbia University Benedict. Expressions of inner USA/2013/17:20 minutes turmoil caused by love lost A frog, a seamstress and a come to life in the surreal factory king all collide in this dreamscape of this story. Visit facebook.com/YassouBenedict tragic love story. Keys. Wallet. Phone. Visit www.madeinchinatownfi lm.com Directed by NEW YORK PREMIERE Juliet Lashinsky-Revene Mobile Homes Columbia University Directed by NEW YORK PREMIERE USA/2012/11 minutes Vladimir de Fontenay USA, France/2012/13 minutes A woman seeks peace over breakfast in a café. But peace A young mother survives the is not to be found this morn- day-to-day binds of human Visit www.facebook.com/KeysWalletPhone ing... traffi cking, while her son dreams of fi nding a permanent Visit www.vladimirdefontenay.com Mr. Lamb home. Directed by Jean Pesce WORLD PREMIERE USA/2013/15 minutes A dark comedy about a lonely The River waitress who is in love with Directed by Sam Handel USA/2013/12:18 minutes her pen pal — the convicted murderer, Charles Lamb. On a sweltering hot day, a very pregnant Maria (Lauren Visit www.jeanpesce.com Ambrose), desperate for a Social Butterfl y Directed by Lauren Wolkstein cooling swim, encounters obstacles on her path to the Visit www.facebook.com/TheRivershort USA/2012/14 minutes river. A 30-year-old American woman attends a teenage party in the South of France. Some of the guests wonder who she is and what she is doing there. Visit www.socialbutterfl yfi lm.com

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Upstate Films I RHINEBECK Mountain View Studios SHORT DOCS I Sat Oct 5 • 1:30PM SHORT DOCS II WOODSTOCK WOODSTOCK Playhouse Fri Oct 4 • 1:00PM Sun Oct 6 • 11:30AM Sat Oct 5 • 11:55AM

Aerodrome WORLD PREMIERE The Beast and the Angel Directed by Devin Pickering Directed by Shira Piven USA/2013/18 minutes USA/2012/19:46 minutes Set in upstate New York’s Old Peer into the transformed Rhinebeck Aerodrome, this life of Wayne Kramer, famed visually stunning documentary guitarist and founder of the paints an intimate portrait of Visit www.aerodromethemovie.com infl uential American band the a group of pilots who not only MC5. He once lived a life of rock transcend the sterile world of and roll. Now 14 years sober, modern aviation, but stay true to what pioneers Wayne’s belief in service as a healing principle held close to their hearts over 100 years ago. takes shape both through his music and his charity, Jail Guitar Doors, which brings guitars Disarming Falcons into prisons for inmate rehabilitation. Directed by Wendy Johnson WORLD PREMIERE and Annie Nocenti Poustinia EAST COAST PREMIERE USA, Pakistan/2013/15 minutes Directed by Kristian Berg Two American women document USA/2013/27:20 minutes a falcon hunt in the desert of Gendron Jensen is a man pas- Pakistan. With an international sionately devoted to his artistic cast – Qatars, Baloch, Leba- calling. For more than forty nese, Egyptians. years, the 73-year-old artist has obsessively, lovingly trans- Visit www.bramblefi lms.com/poustinia Eddie Adams: formed found relics into wakeful Saigon ‘68 images of uncommon beauty. His meticulously Directed by Douglas Sloan rendered, often monumental, graphite drawings USA/2012/17 minutes invite the viewer to journey beyond ordinary The little known and surprising context to a deeper, more spiritual realm. back-story behind the most in- fl uential photo of the Vietnam Where Beasts Dwell War and how it transformed Directed by David Kaplan the lives of the Pulitzer Prize- USA/2013/12:00 minutes winning photographer and the Artist Kathy Ruttenberg lives man who pulled the trigger. The and works in the country with fi lm also launches a broader inquiry into our her menagerie of animals. perception and understanding of the visual image. Visit www.kaplanworks.com & www.kathyruttenberg.com First Name: Jogger, Last Name: John Directed by Kaleigh Griffi n WORLD PREMIERE SUNY New Paltz USA/2013/15:24 minutes A short documentary about an extraordinary man and his symbiotic relationship with the town of Woodstock, NY. Visit www.kaleighgriffi n.com

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MUSIC VIDEOS ONLINE No tickets available. Videos are viewable online only

vimeo.com/68763769 Mik & Gilles Duck Sauce It’s You Directed by Philip Andelman Rappin’ For Godot Directed by Stephen Blauweiss USA / 2013 / 2:53 minutes USA / 2012 / 3:50 minutes Duck Sauce duo A-Trak and Elusive humorists Mikhail Armand Van Helden seem to Horowitz and Gilles Malkine have the magic touch as hair present the breakthrough play comes alive in all shapes and Visit http://vimeo.com/68763769 of Samuel Beckett, as it might Visit www.nycmediaarts.com/ sizes. be performed by a hapless pair Rappin-For-Godot.html Foster McGinty of academic rappers. Curious Pretenders  Directed by Heidi Sjursen and State Radio Jeffrey Abell Freckled Mary Directed by USA / 2013 / 3:37 minutes Michael Parks Randa The new music video for the France/2012/4:38 minutes super talented Foster McGinty. Visit http://vimeo.com/51468059 A music video featuring the State Radio song Freckled Visit wwwvimeo.com/colliewoods/freckled-mary Janina Gavankar Mary. Waiting For Godot Steffy De Cicco and Adax Directed by Caitlin Pashalek Feat. Dayna Hollins USA / 2013 / 4:39 minutes Incredible A high-art music video for Directed by Jarek Zabczynski Janina Gavankar’s single Waiting Italy, USA / 2013 / 4:34 for Godot. Visit http://youtu.be/ZT9PYL0oGC0 What’s beautiful on the outside isn’t always the case. Visit www.vimeo.com/65873672 Killer Mike Reagan Walter Lukens Directed by Harry Teitelman and Dear Someone Daniel Garcia Directed by Tetsuo Kamata USA / 2012 / 4:09 minutes Japan / 2013 / 3:38 minutes A darkly animated accompani- With amazing pixilation, the ment to the rapper’s tirade fi lmmaker follows a young man Visit www.vimeo.com/49052101 on a journey of introspection against political corruption and Visit www.vimeo.com/62268599 media debauchery. after a break up. Kyle McNeill Suzanne Yeah Yeah Yeahs Directed by Sacriledge Pele Alexandria Kudren Directed by Megaforce USA / 2013 / 3:18 minutes USA / 2013 / 4:03 minutes A close look at the paralyzing British actress-model Lily effects of an ex-girlfriend who Visit http://youtu.be/JyUKxmUbBJU Cole portrays a woman who is just straight effed you up. condemned for having multiple Visit http://youtu.be/jmRI3Ew4BvA lovers. Max Schneider Nothing Without Love Directed by Daniel Karp USA / 2013 / 3:50 minutes The fi rst single and video from Woodstock native, Max Schnei- der’s, upcoming album. Visit http://youtu.be/quppZeNV3f0

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Bearsville Theater WOODSTOCK YOUTH FILMS Fri Oct 4 • 5:00PM Inside The Ring The Painted Girl NEW YORK PREMIERE Directed by Darian Henry Directed by Ben Kadie and Imani Peterkin Interlake High School, Bellevue, WA Youth FX, Albany USA/2012/ 8:53 minutes USA/2013/7:35 minutes A teen/parent/graffi ti story. There is more to this boxing gym than what you see inside the Pretty Good Problems- Visit www.youthfx.org Directed by Hunter Hopewell Visit www.benkadie.com ring. Coronado High School, Henderson, NV WORLD PREMIERE Lok USA/2013/4 minutes Directed by A story about an average kid who Kayleigh A. Myer, Brandon dreams about having a rock band Sawhill-Aja and Jazmin Kay with raving fans. Woodstock Day School USA /2013/1 minutes Quicksand A lust for life is corrupted by greed Directed by Lance Oppenheim Visit www.rockcomedyfi lm.com and passion swept with psychedelic Pine Crest School, Boca Raton, FL imagery. USA/2013/ 4:48 minutes Visit www.woodstockdayschool.org An elderly gentleman attempts to Madeshwarahah retrieve forgotten memories while Directed by David Britton Rhinebeck High School battling the progression and USA/2013/3:48 minutes regression of the cycles of life. A young man sets out on a Train whimsical journey to retrieve Directed by Jack Warren Visit www.pinecrest.edu his feline friend. Onteora High School USA/2013/1:50 minutes Mental Health PSA WORLD PREMIERE Directed by Students at In a time different from our own, Woodlawn School, Mooresville, Visit www.rhinebeckcsd.org two teenagers, Sam and Sylvia, NC meet in the ruins of a forgotten USA/2013/3:08 minutes train station. For the fi rst time in A narrative short created in both their lives they dance and order to dispel the myths and discuss the troubles of their torn eradicate the stigmas associated pasts. Visit www.woodstockdayschool.org with mental health. Wynther Directed by Kayleigh Myer Visit www.woodlawnschool.org Opus Woodstock Day School Directed by Stephen Boyer WORLD PREMIERE La Salle High School, Pasadena, CA USA/2013/1:50 minutes USA / 2013 / 12 minutes NEW YORK PREMIERE In an experimental fi lm centered A teen that has walled himself around exuding an internal vibe off from being sentimental wrapped around vivid understand- learns the value of human ing of the unconscious self, Wyn- connections through required ther utilizes light to cultivate an Visit www.woodstockdayschool.org community service. essence within the viewers mind and perception of imagery. Visit www.lasallehs.org

Film Career Day: YOUTH INITIATIVE Onteora High School • Fri Oct 4 • 8:00AM - 2:00PM

Each year over 150 students from schools throughout the region gather at Onteora High School in Boiceville for Career Day, where students meet with A-list fi lm industry professionals in small groups, In addition to conversations with leading authorities on fi lmmak- ask questions and learn about careers ing, students are also treated to a fi lm screening, which is followed in fi lm and new media. by a Q&A session with the fi lmmakers.

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Panels take place at Kleinert/James Center for the Arts. Programs and panelists are subject to change. Please make sure to visit www.woodstockfi lmfestival.com for the most up-to-date info.

Kleinert/James Center KEYNOTE SPEECH BY SLAVA RUBIN Wed Oct 2 • 6:00PM HOW TO CROWDFUND YOUR PROJECT A crash course in crowdfunding, from it origins to its application. Learn how Slava Rubin crowdfunding works, including case studies showing how fi lmmakers and other is the CEO and creatives can avoid the hassle of maxing out credit cards trying to get bank loans and co-founder of studio help, how crowdfunding can get press and promotion for your project before it Indiegogo, a company launches, and how to engage viewers by offering perks to build relationships with fans dedicated to and make them feel part of the project. revolu tionizing the way that Find out how Bought the Movie fi lm makers used Indiegogo to raise more than $150,000 people fund to fund their documentary Bought, the hidden story behind vaccines, big pharma and projects that food; how Pure Pwnage, a popular web TV series was able to not only raise funds matter to them, and has for the movie, but also get fans of the TV series excited about the fi lm; how the We led the organization to becoming the largest Animals book raised more than $50,000 on Indiegogo and before publication generated crowdfunding platform in the world. Slava consumer interest with 680 contributions; how Angry Video Game Nerd solicited people represented the crowdfunding industry at the White House during the signing of the JOBS Act to be in the end credits for their contributions of $200; and how We Make Stuff, a book and has played a crucial role working with the showcasing one hundred artists and innovators exploring the collision of faith and White House and the SEC to fi nalize the rules and creativity, invited $1,000 contributors to include their logo in the back of the book. regulations for equity crowdfunding.

Kleinert/James Center CASE STUDY: Sat Oct 5 • 10:00AM ESCAPE FROM TOMORROW , Panelists: A candid discussion of one of this year’s most controversial fi lms, John Sloss is a founding member of exploring its highly unusual provenance as well its unique marketing and Cinetic Media, as well as the Managing distribution approaches. Partner of Sloss Law Offi ce, LLP. Sloss has also acted as executive producer for Escape from Tomorrow was fi lmed on location at Walt Disney World and over 35 feature fi lms, including The Fog Disneyland without permission from the Walt Disney Company, which of War (2004 Academy Award®-winner, owns and operates both parks. Since Disney has a reputation for being Documentary Feature), Pieces of April and Far From Heaven. Sloss serves as a partner fi ercely protective of its intellectual property, fi lmmaker Randy Moore John Sloss in InDigEnt, a low budget production employed guerrilla techniques to avoid attracting attention, such as company for high-level fi lmmaking talent, keeping scripts on iPhones and shooting on handheld video cameras and recently founded the digital sales initiative Cinetic Rights similar to those used by park visitors. Moore was so determined to keep Management, which launched its branded VOD channel, Cinetic FilmBuff in 2009. the project a secret from Disney that he edited it in South Korea. Richard Abramowitz is at the forefront Many people thought the fi lm would never be shown to audiences due to of innovation in the world of distribution the legal issues involved and the negative depiction of the parks. Engage and marketing of independent fi lms. His company, Abramorama, is an industry with the team behind PDA - Exit Through the Gift Shop, Senna, The Way leader in the personalized, focused - as they take you step by step through the exploration of the Fair Use form of fi lm marketing/distribution that Doctrine and into a national, multi-platform release. bypasses traditional fi lm studios and Richard Abramowitz their methodology, providing invaluable distribution alternatives to current content makers and owners. His releases in the past few years have included Exit Through the Gift Shop, Anvil: The Story of Anvil, Senna, Pearl Jam Twenty and The Way.

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Kleinert/James Center TELL ME SOMETHING: Saturday Oct 5 • Noon Advice from Documentary Filmmakers What can you learn from the world’s best documentary fi lmmakers? In the new book Tell Me Moderator Something, editor Jessica Edwards has compiled over 50 fi lmmakers who contribute funny, Jessica Edwards insightful and inspiring advice on life, relationships and fi lmmaking. Several fi lmmakers has a broad in the book join Edwards to talk about giving and getting advice and bestow some of the background in the fi lm industry as a wisdom gathered in the book. director, producer and publicist. Her award-winning short documentary, Seltzer Works, screened at festivals around the world and aired on the PBS series POV in 2010. Her subsequent fi lms, Tugs and The Landfi ll, have screened at numerous festivals, including Sundance and SXSW. She is the editor of Tell Me Something, Joe Berlinger Judith Helfl and Ron Mann Liz Garbus Barbara Kopple a book of advice from documentary fi lmmakers. PANELISTS: Joe Berlinger, Academy Award® nominated and two-time Emmy and extreme heat and the politics of disaster. As much a teacher and fi eld- Peabody winner Joe has been a leading voice in nonfi ction fi lm and builder as an independent fi lmmaker, she is the proud Co-Founder of television for two decades. Films include the landmark documentaries both Working Films and Chicken & Egg Pictures. Brother’s Keeper, Paradise Lost and Metallica: Some Kind of Monster, a Ron Mann’s latest documentary is Altman, a feature documentary about fi lm that re-defi ned the rockumentary genre. His Amazon oil pollution the American iconoclastic fi lm director Robert Altman, expected to be expose, Crude, recently triggered a high-profi le First Amendment battle completed Spring 2014. with Chevron. His Emmy-winning Paradise Lost Trilogy for HBO spawned a worldwide movement to free The West Memphis Three from wrongful Liz Garbus is one of the most celebrated American documentary murder convictions, resulting in the three men walking out of prison in fi lmmakers working today. Co-founder and co-president of Moxie 2011 after 18 years of wrongful incarceration. Firecracker Films, Garbus’ fi lms have won awards worldwide, including multiple Academy Award® nominations and Emmy Award wins. Garbus’ Judith Helfl and is known for her ability to take the dark worlds of latest fi lm, Love, Marilyn featuring the never-before-seen writings of chemical exposure, heedless corporate behavior and environmental Marilyn Monroe, internationally opened as a Gala Premiere at the 2012 injustice and make them personal, highly-charged and entertaining. Toronto Film Festival and aired on HBO summer of 2013. Her crowd-pleasing toxic comedies Blue Vinyl (co-directed with Daniel B. Gold) and its Peabody Award-winning prequel A Healthy Baby Barbara Kopple is a two-time Academy Award®- winning fi lmmaker. A Girl, both premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, with national director of documentaries, as well as narrative TV and fi lm, her most broadcasts on PBS (POV), HBO and Sundance Channel. In 2007 she recent project is the documentary Running from Crazy, which premiered received a United States Artist Fellowship, one of 50 awarded annually at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival. Her other fi lms include Harlan to ‘America’s fi nest living artists.’ Most recently, she was awarded County USA, American Dream, The House of Steinbrenner, Woodstock: a MacArthur grant for Cooked, her current fi lm-in-progess about Now and Then, Shut Up and Sing, and many more.

SPONSORED Kleinert/James Center BY MUSIC IN FILM Saturday Oct 5 • 2:00pm

Some of the most rewarding elements in the collaborative art of fi lmmaking are the Moderator: continuous relationships spawned between like-spirited artists. This is particularly Doreen Ringer-Ross is apparent in the relationship between a director and fi lm composer. How they work Vice President of Film and TV Relations at BMI. together and what makes this dynamic sustain and fl ourish will be explored in a lively She has worked in the discussion with this year’s recipient of the Meera Gandhi Giving Back Award, director music industry for over Mira Nair, and Academy Award®-winning composer Mychael Danna. Some of the fi lms two decades and currently specializes in outreach they worked together on include Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love, Monsoon Wedding and to the fi lm and music Vanity Fair. Doreen Ringer Ross, VP Film/TV Relations at BMI will moderate. communities. PANELISTS: Mira Nair is the rare, prolifi c fi lmmaker who moves Mychael Danna is an Academy Award®-winning fl uidly between Hollywood and independent cinema. fi lm composer recognized for his evocative After several years making documentary fi lms, Nair blending of non-western traditions with made a stunning entry on the world stage with orchestral and electronic music. He composed the her fi rst feature, Salaam Bombay!, the fi rst Indian transculturally-inspired 2013 Oscar and Golden fi lm to win the Camera D’Or at the Cannes Film Globe-winning score for Ang Lee’s Life of Pi, Festival. In 2012, Nair was awarded the Padma as well as many award-winning scores for his Bhushan, India’s distinguished honour for work longtime collaborator, Atom Egoyan, including Mira Nair in the arts. Her most recent fi lm is The Reluctant Mychael Danna Exotica, Felicia’s Journey, Ararat and The Sweet Fundamentalist, based on the novel by Mohsin Hereafter. Other noted credits include Oscar- Hamid. She is currently in production of the stage musical of her fi lm, winning and Oscar-nominated fi lms such as Moneyball, Capote, The Monsoon Wedding, due to open on Broadway in 2014. Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, Monsoon Wedding, Shattered Glass, Little Miss Sunshine, (500) Days of Summer, Surf’s Up, Water, Antwone Fisher, Being Julia and Girl, Interrupted.

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Kleinert/James Center TALK WITH PETER BOGDANOVICH Saturday Oct 5 • 4:00pm One-on-one conversation with one of America’s foremost directors, writers, actors, producers and fi lm scholars.

PETER BOGDANOVICH HOSTED BY: American director, writer, actor, producer, fi lm historian and former fi lm critic, Bogdanovich was part of the wave Annie Nocenti is of "New Hollywood" directors, which included William a journalist, writer Friedkin, Brian De Palma, George Lucas, Martin Scorsese, and fi lmmaker. Her Michael Cimino and Francis Ford Coppola. His most current short doc, Annie Nocenti critically acclaimed fi lm is The Last Picture Show (1971). Disarming Falcons, is He currently discusses past fi lms and their fi lmmakers premiering at WFF 2013. Her feature online at Blogdanovich.com. script Taking Chances was produced After spending most of his teens studying acting with in 2009. She teaches fi lmmaking the legendary Stella Adler and working as an actor in Finmark, Norway and at the Cine in live TV and various theaters around the country, Institute in Haiti. She received the including the New York and the American Shakespeare Humanitarian Award from the Tulsa Festivals, Bogdanovich, at age 20, began directing plays International Film Festival for her Off-Broadway and in NY summer theater. He also wrote work in Haiti. She was the editor of a series of three monographs for the Museum of Modern Scenario, a screenwriting magazine, Art on Orson Welles, Howard Hawks and Alfred Hitchcock, the fi rst such retrospective studies and her journalism has appeared in of these directors in America. Other writings include a classic series of feature articles Details, Utne, HEEB, Stop Smiling, and profi les for Esquire, doing the ground-breaking Humphrey Bogart tribute, as well as PRINT, Filmmaker, and more. defi nitive pieces on James Stewart, Jerry Lewis and John Ford, among others.

Kleinert/James Center ACTORS DIALOGUE Sunday Oct 6• 10:00AM

Join some of today’s most engaging actors as they chat about their work and their lives.

ACTORS: Stephen Dorff is Andy Garcia was one of the most nominated for both the respected actors Academy Award® and in Hollywood, Golden Globe for his known for his consistently searing performance MODERATOR: in Godfather III. Other powerful memorable roles include performances Whether she’s one- The Untouchables, in fi lms such on-one in an intimate When a Man Loves a as Somewhere, talk, or leading a Public Enemies, Woman, Internal Affairs, discussion with a The Power of One, Ocean’s 11, 12, 13, and variety of actors, Backbeat, I Shot City Island, which he Martha Frankel’s also produced. He also Andy Warhol, Blade, Felon, entertaining panels directed, produced and are one of the scored The Lost City. Most recently, Garcia produced Shadowboxer, festival’s highlights. and co-stars with Vera Farmiga in At Middleton, World Trade Center, Cold Creek Manor, which is playing at the 2013 Woodstock Film Entropy, Black Water Transit, Immortals Festival. and Brake, among others. photos: Dion Agust Dion photos:

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Kleinert/James Center MAKING TELEVISION FOR THE INTERNET: Sunday Oct 6 • 12:00PM How Can Content Creators Build Audiences, Have a Solid Distribution Platform, and Develop New Revenue Streams In an Online Industry?

Co-curated by Amanda Warman Now that our TVs are connecting to the Internet, Web TV programming is MODERATOR: becoming commonplace and TV studios are devoting more resources than ever Kevin McDonough is a nationally syndicated columnist and television critic. to creating original online shows. Independent content creators have more His column “Tune in Tonight” appears in opportunities than ever to get in the game, and traditional fi lmmakers are 60 newspapers nationwide. In addition also making the switch to online, hoping for greater creative freedom. This to his column, McDonough’s articles have panel discusses how original online content creators can reach large audiences appeared in Newsday, Huffi ngton Post and Kevin McDonough without the built-in audience that comes with traditional TV distribution. the New York Times. PANELISTS: Adam Goldman is an award-winning executive producer and game designer with nearly 20 years as the Brooklyn-based writer and director of The Outs, Papermag’s ˝best web series ever,˝ hailed by Interview magazine as ˝the most accurate and essentially human portrayal of young gay men today.˝ He has just wrapped production on his next project, Whatever This Is, which raised $170,000 on Kickstarter and is available at whateverthisis.com. Chase Pierson Adam Goldman Steve Menkin Steve Menkin is the president of Deliver Your Audience.com, a digital marketing company and data aggregator that reaches fi lm and entertainment Chase Pierson has been working in the broadcast industry for 13 years consumers nationwide through multi-channel digital marketing campaigns. as a technology and distribution consultant. Currently he is the VP of Menkin’s career spans three decades at the forefront of independent fi lm. He Content and Distribution for a company that has quietly become one of has produced 17 feature fi lms and distributed and marketed well over 150 the biggest players in the digital revolution in Hollywood, BiteSizeTV. fi lms across all digital and traditional platforms.

Kleinert/James Center TURNING YOUR SHORT INTO A FEATURE Sunday Oct 6 • 2:00PM

For many fi lmmakers, a short fi lm can serve as a calling card to the MODERATOR: fi lm industry that demonstrates creative and technical abilities. Lydia Dean Pilcher - founder of Cine In many respects, due to their lack of potential profi t, shorts are Mosaic and a producer of over 30 features, driven by a purity that feature fi lms can rarely afford. This panel most recently The Reluctant Fundamentalist, starring Riz Ahmed, Kate Hudson, Kiefer features several fi lmmakers whose short fi lms, success have given Sutherland, Liev Schreiber; and Cutie & them a chance to move into the realm of feature fi lmmaking. Find The Boxer, directed by Zachary Heinzerling. Lydia Dean Pilcher out how they made the transition and how the art of fi lmmaking is Nominated for fi ve Emmy and Golden Globe Awards, including You Don’t Know Jack, (dir: Barry Levinson) affected when success relies on fi nding distribution and a return starring Al Pacino, Pilcher’s producer credits include The on investment. Darjeeling Limited, (dir:Wes Anderson); and a long-standing collaboration of ten movies with director Mira Nair. PANELISTS: Rob Meyer is an NYU graduate whose short Shawn Christensen graduated from Pratt fi lm, Aquarium, won awards at festivals around Institute with a BFA in Illustration and Graphic the world, including the Diane Sleigman Award Design. After graduating, he formed indie rock for Best Student Short at the 2007 Woodstock band Stellastarr* and, while on tour, wrote and Film Festival. Rob was previously an associate sold many screenplays, including Sidney Hall producer at PBS’s NOVA, HBO Documentary Films (Scott Free Productions) and Karma Coalition and National Geographic. Based in New York (Warner Bros.). His latest short fi lm, Curfew, has Rob Meyer City, Meyer directs commercials and has several Shawn Christensen won over 40 awards in fi lm festivals around the projects in development with his writing partner, world including the Diane Seligman Award for Luke Matheny, who won the Diane Sleigman Award Best Short at the 2012 Woodstock Film Festival for Best Student Short at the 2010 Woodstock Film Festival before and Best Live Action Short Film at the 2013 Academy® Awards. going on to win the 2011 Oscar for best live action short.

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Celebrate legendary jazz saxophonist SONNY ROLLINS in kicking off this year’s music programming with JD ALLEN TRIO WEDNESDAY October 2 Woodstock Playhouse PRE-SCREENING RECEPTION STARTS AT 7PM A live performance with the JD Allen Trio on Wednesday, October 2 at the Woodstock PLayhouse will follow the feature screening of Dick Fontaine’s documentary Sonny Rollins Beyond the Notes. Jazz tenor saxophonist JD Allen, born in Detroit in 1972, has Allen’s debut album, In Search Of J.D. Allen, was awarded spent most of his career in New York City, where he has played the Best New Artist award in Italy in 1999. His next release, with Lester Bowie, George Cables, Betty Carter, Ron Carter, Jack Pharoah’s Children, was named one of Jazziz Magazine’s Critics DeJohnette, Frank Foster Big Band, Winard Harper, Butch Morris, Pics Top 10 Albums of the Year. The Victory! album, released David Murray, Wallace Roney, Cindy Blackman, Orrin Evans, in 2011, received a four star rating in Down Beat and was Gerald Cleaver, Me’shell Ndegeocello, Dave Douglas and Nigel ranked as the third best jazz album of 2011 by NPR. It also won Kennedy, among others. DownBeat’s 2011 Rising Star Award.

sponsored by Skytop Steakhouse and Brewery CONNOR KENNEDY AND FRIENDS FRIDAY October 4 Skytop Steakhouse • 10:00PM Look forward to some great music from Connor Kennedy and Friends, including Shear Shazar, as they perform on Friday, October 4 at Skytop Steakhouse & Brewing Co. at WFF’s annual Filmmaker Party.

Local rising superstar Connor Kennedy spent his childhood years collecting classic movie monster memorabilia and working as a stand-in for a CBS soap opera before falling in love with music and taking up the guitar in the third-grade. In his early teens, Connor rose to prominence performing throughout the northeast with Shear & Shazar Hudson Valley and world- Jules Shear has recorded almost 20 albums to Bon Jane renowned talent. Recently, he Connor Kennedy date. He wrote the Cyndi Lauper hit All Through shifted his focus to songwriting the Night and the Bangles If She Knew What and his debut record Nothing Lasts: Nothing’s Over—a collection of songs that She Wants. Artist, songwriter Pal Shazar is a encompass many genres, but create something new entirely—was released on founding member of the 1980s New Wave pop June 29, 2013 at a CD Release Party at Levon Helm Studios. group, Slow Children. Their fi rst collaborative CD Shear/Shazar was released in 2013.

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MAVERICK AWARDS GALA Paul Green’s SATURDAY October 5 BAND of Monkeys at Backstage Studio Productions IN KINGSTON house band at the 2013 Join the Woodstock Film Festival maverick awards gala in celebrating the 14th annual at Backstage Studio Maverick Awards Gala Productions IN KINGSTON 7:00pm: Cocktail party in Gallery SAT OCT 5 8:15pm: Seating for awards begins Doors open at 7pm Awards begin at 9 9:00pm: Award Ceremony with presentations to our honorary recipients and winning The legendary Paul Green, and friends, will be playing  lmmakers in the following categories music from the greatest movies ever made (and some mediocre ones too). Acclaimed director, actor, Paul Green is best known as the founder of The School producer, fi lm historian and of Rock, subject of the documentary Rock School and writer Peter Bogdanovich inspiration for Jack Black in Richard Linklater’s hilarious will receive the honorary fi lm School of Rock. Maverick Lifetime Achieve- The new PAUL GREEN ROCK ACADEMY in Saugerties is a ment Award. A native of performance based, interactive music school, based on a Kingston, NY., Bognanovich method honed over the past 17 years. is best known for The Last For details, visit www.rockacademy.com Picture Show, What’s Up Doc, and Paper Moon

The Meera Gandhi Giving A SPECIAL WFF AWARDS Back Award, now in its third year, annually honors AFTER PARTY... a director, producer or actor who best delivers a message Paul Green Presents: of social change and exhibits ROCKY HORROR a strong compassion for at Keegan Ales philanthropy. IN KINGSTON This year’s recipient is SAT OCT 5 director, Mira Nair, whose credits include The Reluctant DOORS OPEN AT 11PM Fundamentalist, Vanity Fair, SHOW BEGINS AT MIDNIGHT Monsoon Wedding, Salaam Bombay, among others. Paul Green and his crew of amazing musicians and OTHER AWARDS To be announced, performers will be staging a special late night concert of INCLUDING everyone’s favorite cross dressing musical psychodrama,  Gigantic Pictures FEATURE NARRATIVE AWARD Rocky Horror. In costume, of course.  Films We Like FEATURE DOCUMENTARY AWARD The audience is encouraged to attend in respectable  Diane Seligman Award for BEST SHORT attire and be quiet during the show. Except the exact  Diane Seligman Award for BEST STUDENT SHORT opposite of that.  Diane Seligman Award for BEST SHORT DOCUMENTARY  BEST ANIMATED SHORT  Haskell Wexler Award for BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY sponsored by Panavision  Tangerine Entertainment Juice Award for BEST FEMALE FEATURE DIRECTOR  The James Lyons Editing Award for NARRATIVE FEATURE sponsored byTechnicolor Postworks NY  The James Lyons Editing Award for DOC FEATURE sponsored by Technicolor Postworks NY

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PRICES  Tickets range in price from $5-$75. Walk-Up Orders PLEASE NOTE: Online and phone orders will  Tickets for all venues will be available for be charged a $7.95 shipping & handling purchase at the BOX OFFICE a few days fee. prior to online sales.  Student and senior discounts are available  The Rosendale Theatre and Upstate Films with ID at the Box Offi ce. Rhinebeck may have a select number of  There are NO REFUNDS or EXCHANGES on tickets available for pre-sale. Please con- tickets without exception. tact them directly. PURCHASING  The best way to order tickets and to see & PICKING UP TICKETS updated schedules, fi lm descriptions and Telephone Orders Internet Orders other festival information is online at  The BOX OFFICE is manned by dedicated www.woodstockfi lmfestival.com www.woodstockfi lmfestival.com VOLUNTEERS who are simultaneously fi lling Box Offi ce Location  PLEASE NOTE: Tickets ordered online or out Internet and walkup sales. The phones phone between September 12-28, WILL can get very chaotic and they tend to be 13 Rock City Road BE SHIPPED by USPS mail to the mailing busy. If you are calling for tickets, please Woodstock, NY 12498 address provided when ordering. leave a message on our machine and some- (Across from the one will get back to you. Chamber of Commerce booth)  All online and telephone orders placed phone 845.810.0131 after September 28 must be picked up at  The last day for telephone orders is the BOX OFFICE at 13 Rock City Road in September 28th. Woodstock. Box Offi ce Hours Day of Event September 12-29  Tickets are available at the BOX OFFICE un- Wednesday-Sunday 12-6pm til four hours prior to the event. All unsold Closed Mondays and Tuesdays tickets are then available on the STANDBY line at the screening venue on a CASH ONLY September 30 to October 5 basis. 9am-7pm October 6 9am-6pm FULL FESTIVAL PASSES  Full Festival Passes offer the ultimate  Full Festival Passes entitle entry to the Please note that all events Woodstock Film Festival experience. A Filmmakers’ Lounge. are subject to change. limited number of these passes are offered.  Full Festival Passes are $750 and can be Check the website to:  Full Festival Passes include guaranteed purchased online or at the BOX OFFICE.  Confi rm venues and times  admission for the passholder to all screen-  Full Festival Passes are nontransferable and Find out what is SOLD OUT  ings and panels, with priority seating up include a picture ID. Read updated information about until 15 minutes prior to the event, entry screenings, events and panels to all parties, plus souvenirs including a  Passes must be picked up at Festival Reg- commemorative T-shirt, cap and poster. istration at the Colony Cafe. Badge pick-up For the most up-to-date instructions will be sent after purchase. information, please visit www.woodstockfi lmfestival.com

IMPORTANT DETAILS  Ticket holders MUST arrive 15 minutes  A STANDBY line will form for all shows  PLEASE leave plenty of time to pick up prior to screenings or panels to guaran- that have tickets available. Five minutes pre-ordered tickets at the BOX OFFICE or tee seating. Empty seats will be sold to prior to show time, available tickets will order online by September 28 to receive those in the standby queue. be sold on a CASH ONLY basis. Standby your tickets by mail.  NOTE: Tickets ordered online or by phone queues form no earlier than one hour  When planning your festival schedule, after September 28 must be picked up prior to any event. please bear in mind that the driving at the BOX OFFICE at 13 Rock City Road in distances from Woodstock and to Woodstock. These tickets will NOT be sent Rosendale are about 35 minutes, to the venue. Woodstock to Saugerties is 25 minutes.

All events are subject to change. For latest updates, visit WOODSTOCK FILM FESTIVAL 2013 27 www.WoodstockFilmFestival.com SCHEDULE AT A GLANCE Wed 10/2 Fri 10/04 Sat 10/05 Sun 10/06 Kleinert James Art center Bearsville Theater Bearsville Theater Bearsville Theater WOODSTOCK 12:00 Barzan 11:30 Four Days in Chicago 12:00 The Longest Game 4:00 PANEL: Paul Rudd Talk 2:30 American Commune 1:45 Magic Men 2:15 Purgatorio and Q&A 5:00 Teen Screening 4:00 Kilimanjaro 4:45 Under the Same Sun 7:00 Orenthal: The Musical 7:15 Sick Birds Die Easy 7:15 Here Comes the Night 6:00 Keynote Event: How to 9:15 Lost on Purpose 9:40 Escape from Tomorrow Crowdfund Your Film on Kleinert James Art center IndieGogo with Slavin Mountain View WOODSTOCK Kleinert James Art center WOODSTOCK Rubin 1:00 Short Docs II WOODSTOCK 10:00 Actor’s Dialog WOODSTOCK Playhouse 3:00 Shorts: She Too 10:00 Case Study: Escape From 12:00 Making Television for the Tomorrow Internet 8:00 Sonny Rollins: Beyond 5:15 Shorts: Dystopia 12:00 2:00 the Notes followed by 7:30 Shorts: Animated Tell Me Something Turning Your Short Into a 2:00 Feature tribute performance to 9:45 Shorts: Whoops Music in Film Sonny Rollins by JD Allen 4:00 Talk with Peter Mountain View Studio Trio (SOLD OUT) Upstate Films WOODSTOCK Bogdanovich WOODSTOCK 11:30 American Revolutionary: 11:25 Shorts: Family The Evolution of Grace Mountain View WOODSTOCK Thur 10/03 Lee Boggs 11:55 Short Docs II 1:45 Shorts: Animated Bearsville Theater 4:00 2:00 Town Hall 2:00 Shorts: She Won Shorts: She Won 2:30 God Loves Uganda 6:15 4:15 Winter in the Blood 4:15 Shorts: She Too Shorts: Conversations 5:00 It Felt Like Love 7:00 Breastmilk 6:35 Shorts: Whoops Upstate Films WOODSTOCK 7:15 Running From Crazy 9:30 The Retrieval 8:45 Shorts: Dystopia 12:00 The Life and Crimes of 9:45 Secret Screening Doris Payne WOODSTOCK Playhouse WOODSTOCK Playhouse Upstate Films WOODSTOCK 2:30 I Am a Visitor in Your 12:00 Medora 11:45 Shorts: Family 1:15 State of Control World 2:15 Bastards of Young 1:45 Cold Turkey 3:30 The Cold Lands 4:45 American Jesus 4:30 Blind Pass 4:10 At Middleton 6:30 Concussion 6:45 The Manor 7:00 Face of Love 6:45 Man of Tai Chi 9:15 Brave Miss World WOODSTOCK Playhouse 9:30 Doomsdays 9:35 Birth of the Living Dead 11:30 Short Docs I WOODSTOCK Playhouse Upstate Films WOODSTOCK Orpheum Theater 1:30 The Forgotten Kingdom 1:20 To Be Forever Wild SAUGERTIES 11:45 Magical Universe 4:00 Ummah 4:00 A Birder’s Guide to 7:00 Great Chicken Wing Hunt 2:00 Great Chicken Wing Hunt Everything 6:45 Broadway Idiot 9:20 Here Comes the Night 4:30 Hank: Five Years from the 6:30 Ass Backwards 9:30 Broadway Idiot (2nd Brink ROSENDALE Theatre 9:15 We Are What We Are screening) 7:20 The Motel Life 1:00 God Loves Uganda ROSENDALE Theatre 9:30 The Truth About Emanuel Orpheum Theater 3:30 Purgatorio SAUGERTIES 7:00 Doomsdays 6:30 Kilimanjaro Orpheum Theater 1:00 American Commune SAUGERTIES Upstate Films RHINEBECK I 9:00 Birth of the Living Dead 4:00 Lost on Purpose 1:15 Under the Same Sun 7:00 Sonny Rollins Beyond the Upstate Films RHINEBECK I 6:45 Brave Miss World Notes 3:45 Town Hall 1:00 I Am a Visitor in Your 7:00 To Be Forever Wild ROSENDALE Theatre Upstate Films RHINEBECK II World 9:15 Face of Love 12:00 Magical Universe 7:15 Bastards of Young 3:30 State of Control 2:30 Man of Tai Chi ROSENDALE Theatre 6:00 The Forgotten Kingdom 5:15 Winter in the Blood 8:30 Go For Sisters 12:40 Medora 2:55 Shorts: Conversations Upstate Films RHINEBECK I Upstate Films RHINEBECK II 5:00 Orenthal: The Musical 12:15 At Middleton 1:15 The Longest Game 7:30 A Birder’s Guide to 3:00 The Motel Life 3:45 American Jesus Everything 5:30 Cold Turkey 6:30 The Truth About Emanuel 9:45 DNA Upstate Films RHINEBECK II 9:00 Sick Birds Die Easy Upstate Films RHINEBECK I 12:45 Blind Pass Skytop KINGSTON 1:30 Short Docs I 3:15 Barzan 9:00 Connor Kennedy & 4:00 The Retrieval 5:45 Ummah Friends + Shear/Shazar 6:45 The Cold Lands 9:20 Running From Crazy Upstate Films RHINEBECK II 1:45 American Revolutionary 4:45 The Manor 7:00 It Felt Like Love . All events are subject to change. 2013 AWARDS GALA 9:30 The Life and Crimes of Check www.woodstock lmfestival.com Backstage Studio Productions in Kingston Doris Payne to con rm venues and times Saturday Oct 5, 2013 Keegan Ales Cocktail party starts at 7pm • Awards start at 9pm 11:00 Music of Rocky Horror For up-to-date info, visit woodstockfi lmfestival.com All events are subject to change. For latest updates, visit WOODSTOCK FILM FESTIVAL 2013 28 www.WoodstockFilmFestival.com GOLD SPONSORS

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