WOODSTOCK FILM FESTIVAL September 28 - October 2 2005 Fiercely Independent

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SHORTS THE GREAT IDEA

BINTA AND THE GREAT IDEA BINTA AND THE GREAT IDEA (BINTA Y LA GRAN IDEA) Directed by Javier Fesser RIDE OF THE MERGANSERS SPAIN, SENEGAL / 2004 / 30 minutes In French with English subtitles A SONG FOR DANIEL SOUVENIR EAST COAST PREMIERE Binta is a seven-year old girl who lives in a small village on the Casamance river in 55 minutes southern Senegal. She goes to school. Her Fri.S ept.30, 5:00PM @ Upstate 2 cousin Soda, does not have the same good Sun.Oct.2, 2:45PM @ Bearsville fortune and is not allowed to learn about the things of the world. Meanwhile, Binta’s father (a humble fisherman) is concerned about the devel- opment of mankind and he determined to carry out his great idea.

RIDE OF THE MERGANSERS A SONG FOR DANIEL SOUVENIR Directed by Jason DaSilva S Directed by Steve Furman Directed by Stephen Rose H O

2004 / USA / 11 minutes 2005 / IRAQ, USA / 9 minutes 2004 / USA / 5 minutes R T The Hooded Merganser is a rare and reclu- In English and Arabic S EAST COAST PREMIERE sive duck found only in North America. A Song For Daniel compares a routine day A shadowy fable unfolds from inside a sou- Every spring, in the Great Lakes region, the of two nine-year-old Iraqi boys: one living venir snow globe, in this unique film that wary hen lays and incubates her eggs in a in Baghdad and the other born and raised was shot entirely with a toy camera. nest high in the trees. Just 24 hours after in New York City. hatching, the tiny ducklings must make the perilous leap to the ground below to begin life in the wild. This age-old rite is rarely observed by humans. Ride of the Mergansers brings this hidden drama to the screen. Filmed entirely in northern Minnesota, Ride of the Mergansers offers a rare glimpse into the secret world of the Hooded Merganser.

WOODSTOCK FILM FESTIVAL 2005 71 SHORTS SCREENING WITH… Dave Holland Directed by Ulli Gruber CLOSE 2004 / USA / 22 minutes DAVE HOLLAND US PREMIERE HOW I KNOW YOU Dave Holland is one of the world’s lead- PARTY FOR THE PEOPLE: ing acoustic bass players. His career ROCK AND REVOLUTION spans more than three decades. It was IN REGGIO EMILIA Miles Davis who discovered the young Englishman in 1967. This documentary THE RAFTMAN’S RAZOR gives insight to the musician’s life and THE TOURIST approach towards his work. Dave Holland won the Grammy Award (2002) THE VENTURE for Best Performing Big Band. W(IT)H Screens prior to: Stranger: Bernie Worrell on Earth WHAT I’M LOOKING FOR

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O 2005 / USA / H 2:30 minutes S Our witless hero rolodexes through his brain to remember how he knows the man walking towards him. Yoga? The video store? Stabbings can be so awkward like that. How I Know You is a dark comedy about familiar faces.

Screens prior to Sarah Silverman: Jesus Is Magic

CLOSE Directed by Tom Hopkins IRELAND / 2004 / 8:47 minutes PARTY FOR THE PEOPLE: ROCK AND When Jill awakes after a serious car crash, she finds herself REVOLUTION IN REGGIO EMILIA Directed by Sascha Paladino floating above her own body, still lying in the wreckage of her car below. Not finding encouragement in the bitter thoughts ITALY,USA / 2005 / she hears as she floats over the bystanders, she prepares to 7 minutes leave for good, but then one last miracle happens.... WORLD PREMIERE Screens prior to Automatic An exploration of the connections between communism and rockabilly music in northern Italy. Screens prior to Instrumental

WOODSTOCK FILM FESTIVAL 2005 72 SHORTS SCREENING WITH... THE RAFTMAN’S RAZOR Directed by Keith Bearden USA / 2005 / 7 minutes THE VENTURE Two teen boys spend the summer trying Directed by Ben Fleisher to figure out the secret of their favorite USA / 2005 / 8 minutes comic book hero, the Raftman, who drifts out to sea without food, water, or any noticeable superpowers. He just WORLD PREMIERE shaves, thinks an odd philosophical A businessman, rushing to an thought, and stares at the ocean. Will he be rescued? Use his straight razor on himself? important meeting, has a day of Starve to death? What does it all mean anyway? By summer’s end, they get their answer, delays, distractions, and obstacles. and it’s nothing like they ever imagined. As his frustrations reach a peak, his anxieties are relieved by a memory Screen prior to Puffy Chair from his childhood. With a nod to classical melodrama, and a wink to postmodern exhibitionism, this hip THE TOURIST fable begs the question, “How Directed by James Israel much is your childhood really and Jeff Israel worth?” USA / 2005 / 15 min- Screens prior to Runaway utes

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day of hiding inside her T apartment has changed S after she discovers a mysterious box of puzzle pieces in her closet. As she assembles the puzzle to reveal the image, she struggles to confront her loneliness and self-imposed isolation. Screens prior to 212

W(IT)H Directed by Hunter Carson WHAT I’M LOOKING FOR Directed by Shelly Silver USA / 2005 / 11 minutes USA / 2004 / 15 minutes The last, tricky, funny 11 minutes on the night A woman sets out to photograph a hitman (Tim Roth) moments of intimacy. On an revisits his old neighbor- Internet dating site she writes: A hood to do a whack-job. woman sets out to photograph moments of intimacy. On an Screens prior to Dead Internet dating site she writes: ‘I’m Man’s Shoes looking for people who would like to be photographed in public revealing something of themselves... What I’m Looking For documents this adventure; the connections formed at this inter- section between virtual and actual public space. The video is a rumination on the nature of photography and the persistence of vision. It is a short tale of desire and control. Screens prior to Zizek

WOODSTOCK FILM FESTIVAL 2005 73 SHORTS NY X 10 NYC WEIGHTS AND MEASURES E=NYC2 Directed by Jem Cohen HARLEM SISTAS USA / 2005 / 5:30 minutes DOUBLE DUTCH Jem Cohen’s NYC WEIGHTS AND MEASURES film opens with a parade A REASONABLE FACSIMILE for astronaut ROUTINE John Glenn, then makes THE SPACE INVADERS its way across E=NYC2 boroughs and Directed by Kimi Takesue SUPER POWER BLUES time to USA / 2005 / 5:15 minutes THROUGH THE ICE explore New York City’s many moods–from loud and relentless to grave Structured in a series of observational and dreamy. THE UNDERMINER vignettes, this visually-driven piece cap- ZERO VISIBILITY tures the dynamic energy and movement of New York City. It features New Yorkers moving through self-contained yet inter- 52 minutes connected worlds as they pursue dreams, earn a living, escape into fantasy, and find *Parental Advisory: mature content ways to enjoy the day. S

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H theatrical screening of S A REASONABLE FACSIMILE NY X 10 outside of NYC. Directed by Edin Velez USA / 2005 / 5 minutes Encompassing every genre– from narrative to documentary Edin Velez’s multi-layered video combines and from animation to documentary material and narrative seg- ments to reveal a city rife with missed con- experimental–NY X 10 nections and misunderstandings among its features 10 short films created inhabitants. specifically to celebrate the tenth season of Thirteen/WNET’s acclaimed independent film and video HARLEM SISTAS series, REEL NEW YORK. DOUBLE DUTCH Sun.Oct.2, 5:15PM @ WCC Directed by Nicole Franklin USA / 2005 / 5:37 minutes

Courtesy of Vivian, a free-spirited diva who is thriving in Harlem’s new renaissance, WNET-TV gives advice to her admiring, 27-year-old niece in Nicole Franklin’s film, which reveals how family bonds can get in the way of a woman’s night on the town.

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THROUGH THE ICE Directed by Jennie Livingston USA / 2005 / 5:30 minutes

In this film, Jennie Livingston explores how Miguel Flores broke through the ice of Prospect Park Lake in Brooklyn in January of 2003. The dog walkers saw it hap- pen. What was he doing there? What were the repercussions of the events of that day? What is it that binds us together as New Yorkers and as human beings who all walk on the same uncertain ground? ROUTINE Directed by Micahel Britto

USA / 2005 / 4:50 minutes THE UNDERMINER A visual meditation on the redundancy of Directed by Todd Downing the more mundane aspects of life in New USA / 2005 / 5:45 minutes York, Michael Britto’s short work examines the notion of fleeting time and mortality, Based on the book and makes a case for putting a little variety by Mike Albo and into the mix. Virginia Heffernan, Todd Downing’s film reveals the insidious tactics of THE SPACE INVADERS the quintessential S

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passive aggression T Black-and-white video is combined with who throws his vic- S hand-drawn animation in Marina Zurkow’s tim into a spiral of unsettling, post-apocalyptic (post-election) self-doubt and hopelessness vision of a bleak and capricious future every time he sees him. involving spies and a miscreant race of alien invaders who take over New York’s desolate streets. ZERO VISIBILITY SUPER POWER BLUES Directed by Kathy High Directed by Greg Pak USA / 2005 / USA / 2005 / 6:40 minutes 5:30 minutes

Greg Pak’s film tells the story of Super Using lightning Power Go Girl, a Japanese super-heroine as a symbol for who lives in New York City and deals with both creation endless crises– and destruc- when all she really tion, Kathy wants to do is High’s video tells the story of a seer who prophesizes sleep with her about dangerous experiments being done to New boyfriend. York City. Her science fiction scenario of a possible future and a possible past is an allegory for the cur- rent climate of fear that has gripped the city and the nation.

WOODSTOCK FILM FESTIVAL 2005 75 SHORTS WOM•AN THE BIG EMPTY TWITCH BREACHED Directed by Leah CON TODA PALABRA Meyerhoff 2004 / USA / 10 PATCH minutes / CON TODA PALABRA Tisch School of TWITCH Directed by Ralph Dfouni and Brigitte Henry the Arts WET 2004 / CANADA / 4:33 minutes A young woman must come to Featuring the music of Lhasa, this is about terms with the the poetic trinity of Love and the battle of 80 minutes fact that her boyfriend might only be inter- the elements: fire, water, and wind. *Parental Advisory: mature content ested in her body and that her mother’s disability is not contagious. Sat.Oct.1, 12:00PM @ WCC Sun.Oct.2, 3:00PM @ WCC PATCH Directed by WET Christopher Romero Directed by Hannah Beth King USA / 2005 / 15:30 minutes USA / 2005 / 15:40 minutes / NY PREMIERE Columbia University A woman returns

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R shortly after her On the eve of her baptism, 12 year-old Jane O THE BIG EMPTY mother’s death. is caught between her newly awakened sex- H Directed by S Hidden inside a recurring dream, she dis- uality and her family’s strict moral sensibil- J. Lisa Chang and ities. WET is her haunting journey of Newton Thomas Sigel covers an erased childhood memory. Late one evening she travels down the back sensual awakening into an adult reality she USA / 2005 / 20 minutes roads of her youth and uncovers an ugly is not yet prepared to confront. The film features a score by Dickon Hinchlife of the A bittersweet tale of Alice (Selma Blair), her secret at the roadside memorial. Featuring British indie band Tindersticks. vagina, and the infinite nature of the tundra. Melissa Leo, Deborah Harry, and Leo Burmester.

BREACHED Directed by Laura Richard USA / 2005 / 18:10 min- utes / New York University In Spanish and English

A Mexican woman nearing delivery is determined to have her baby on American soil. In order to WOM•AN noun (pl. wom • en | wimin |) an adult human female. take advantage of immigra- • a female worker or employee. • a wife, girlfriend or lover: he wondered whether Billy had his tion policy, she waits until her cervix is dilated woman with him. enough to cross the border in active labor. To com- • [with adj.] a female person associated with a particular place, activity, or occupation: a young American woman. plete her journey, Maria must face the intense • [in sing.] female adults in general: woman is intuitive. physical strain of childbirth and the dangerous • a female paid to clean someone’s house and carry out general domestic duties. • a peremptory form of address to a woman: don’t be daft, woman. complications of illegal border crossing. (from Oxford American Dictionaries)

WOODSTOCK FILM FESTIVAL 2005 76 SHORTS MAN AND THE LANDSCAPE AND THE LANDSCAPE WILL SEEM TO SWAY WILL SEEM TO SWAY Directed by CHAIM Filipe Bessa and Nick Schwartz CHOKED USA / 2004 / 16 minutes / Florida State University CRICKETS

WORLD PREMIERE THE NATURAL ROUTE A recent college graduate blindly navigates the increasingly violent world around him. He’s looking RECOIL for respect and admiration, but if he doesn’t open his eyes, he could soon be the next victim. YOUNGSTER CRICKETS (Tsarsarim) Directed by Matan Guggenheim 91 minutes ISRAEL / 2004 / 16:30 minutes / Tel Aviv University *Parental Advisory: mature content In Hebrew with English subtitles Sat.Oct.1, 2:30PM @ WCC After losing his parents in a terrorist attack, Sun.Oct.2, 1:00PM @ WCC Ido starts to hear crickets in his head. To CHAIM put an end to the incessant noise, he finds Directed by Jonathan Greenfield an outrageous solution. USA / 2005 / 14:30 minutes RECOIL In German, Russian, and Yiddish Directed by Billy McCannon S

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Aside from his days working alongside a S small team of workers in his small Berlin NY PREMIERE fish factory, Chaim is at home imprisoned A paramilitary man by a chronic childhood memory. The arrival THE NATURAL ROUTE is confounded by a detective’s questioning. of a letter from America threatens Chaim’s (La Ruta Natural) An answer may offer redemption to both, but impressively layered psychological flood- Directed by Alex Pastor threatens to condemn one to prison. gates from being overwhelmed. SPAIN / 2004 / 11:30 minutes In Spanish with English subtitles YOUNGSTER CHOKED EAST COAST PREMIERE Directed by Will Canon Directed by Brad Barnes When Divad wakes after an accident his USA / 2004 / 7:55 minutes USA / 2005 / 11:56 minutes / home, his wife... everything is unknown to New York University him. Maybe the answers he needs lie in the NY PREMIERE past. A visitor with a large case enters a school Marcus Jenkins, Jr. is a 12-year-old kid new and meets unexpected consequences. to the world of drug dealing. On one of his first deals, Marcus is approached by a pushy, MAN strung-out crack addict named Ronald noun (pl. men | men | ) Williams. When he mistakenly gives Ronald an adult human male. a crack rock without first getting paid, • a male worker or employee: more than 700 men were laid off | CNN’s man in India. • a male member of a sports team: Johnson took the ball past three men and scored. Marcus must decide whether to trust a man •(men) ordinary members of the armed forces as distinct from the officers: he had a platoon of forty men to prepare for battle. with every reason to lie, or to try and recov- • a husband, boyfriend, or lover: the two of them lived for a time as man and wife. er the money by his own means. • [with adj.] a male person associated with a particular place, activity, or occupation: a Harvard man | I’m a solid union man. • a male pursued or sought by another, esp. in connection with a crime: Inspector Bull was sure they would find their man. • dated: a manservant or valet: get me a cocktail, my man. (from Oxford American Dictionaries)

WOODSTOCK FILM FESTIVAL 2005 77 SHORTS TOGETHER Antonym: Separately FUTURE IMPERFECT HAPPY Directed by Marshall Lewy USA / 2004 / 14 minutes FUTURE IMPERFECT LEO AND SANDRA NY PREMIERE What happens when your lost love sud- NO SHOULDER denly re-appears after five years? A dark romantic comedy about what might have RESURRECTION been. TWO MEN HAPPY THE YOUTH IN US Directed by Luke Stettner USA / 2005 / 6:40 minutes 81 minutes WORLD PREMIERE *Parental Advisory: mature content Ben wants nothing more than to settle into his Fri.Sept.30, 5:00PM @ WCC Sunday newspaper and coffee routine but his girl- Sun.Oct.2, 10:30AM @ WCC friend insists on quizzing him with a survey titled, Are You Happy? S

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H ITALY / 2004 / 6:35 minutes / Suzi Yoonessi S London Film School USA / 2005 / 10 minutes / Leo is a quiet child who would like to Columbia University introduce himself to his neighbor who studies on the opposite terrace. WORLD PREMIERE Ruth (Melissa Leo) reflects on the life she left behind in a fervent confrontation with a troubled teenager (Samanthan Sloyan).

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RESURRECTION Directed by Mitchell Lichtenstein USA / 2004 / 11 minutes

A young boy living in subur- ban isolation with his mother makes a break for freedom, but dawn brings regret.

TWO MEN Directed by Ian Olds S

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Columbia University O R T US PREMIERE S After being humiliated in the bathroom of the local bowling alley, a small town loser with a gun and a penchant for paranoid fantasies spends the rest of the night trying to reclaim his dignity. The stranger he discovers in the back of his car has other ideas.

THE YOUTH IN US Directed by Joshua Leonard USA / 2005 / 12 minutes

NY PREMIERE Lukas Haas and Kelli Garner star as two young lovers who find the courage to confront the future by looking to the past.

WOODSTOCK FILM FESTIVAL 2005 79 SHORTS DOCUMENTARIES

CAUGHT IN PAINT CAUGHT IN PAINT Directed by Rita Blitt THE JEW ON TRIAL USA / 2003 / 6 minutes RIDE OF THE MERGANSERS Caught In Paint captures RUN TO JAY’S: painter/sculptor Rita Blitt painting on TOURNAMENT OF CHAMPIONS transparent surfaces while the David Parsons A SONG FOR DANIEL Dance Co. dance in mid-air through the painting, imitating Blitt’s paint strokes. Photographer Lois Greenfield shoots dynamic stills during process. THIS MORNING RIDE OF THE MERGANSERS A SONG FOR Directed by Steve Furman DANIEL 60 minutes USA / 2004 / 11 minutes Directed by Jason DaSilva The Hooded Merganser is a rare and reclu- IRAQ, USA / 2005 / Sat.Oct.1, 4:45PM @ WCC sive duck found only in North America. 9 minutes Every spring, in the Great Lakes region, the In English and Arabic JEW ON TRIAL wary hen lays and incubates her eggs in a Directed by Albert Maysles nest high in the trees. Just 24 hours after A Song For Daniel hatching, the tiny ducklings must make the 2005 / USA / 7 minutes (work in progress) compares a routine day of two nine-year- perilous leap to the ground below to begin old Iraqi boys: one living in Baghdad and In 1913, a Jew named Mendel Beilis living life in the wild. This age-old rite is rarely the other born and raised in New York

S outside of Kiev, Russia, was brought to trial. observed by humans. Ride of the Mergansers City. This short is a profound examination T He was falsely accused of murdering a 13- brings this hidden drama to the screen. R of culture and place seen through the eyes O year-old Christian boy to use his blood in This short documentary is an unexpected of two boys on opposite sides of the world. H the baking of the Passover Matzos. Mendel

S and heartwarming blend of natural history, Beilis was not a religious man and lived humor, and suspense. You’ll be enter- among gentiles as a dispatcher in a brick tained, educated, and inspired–and come factory. Being a Jew allowed the authorities away with a newfound appreciation of the THIS to twist and turn this man’s fate. This film phrase, “leap of faith.” MORNING offers insight into what it was and appar- Directed by Lucy ently always will be to be Jewish. Beilis’s Mulloy descendants still live in the Bronx and USA / 2005 / recount their harrowing tale of duplicity, 10 minutes corruption and outright legalized anti-semi- Jay’s toy is tism. Ritual murder accusations, which broken. Dafeney gets the blame. They fight. have been going on for centuries dating This Morning was nominated for a back to 12th Century, Yorkshire, England, 2005 Student Academy Award. and continuing well into this century, claim that Jews kill Christian children and take their blood and mix it with Matzos for the Passover celebration. There is absolute- RUN TO JAY’S: TOURNAMENT OF CHAMPIONS Directed by Brett Spackman ly no basis for such a practice in any Jewish text, beliefs or deeds. Evidence against USA / 2004 / 16:20 minutes Beilis was brought forth from “The Three years ago, during a TV commercial break, Brett asked Casey if he thought it was pos- Protocols Of The Elders Of Zion”, which sible to sprint from their front door to Jay’s Market across the street and around the cor- has served as the cornerstone for anti-semi- ner, buy a soda, and then return to the front door in under two minutes. Brett’s attempt tism in this century. failed, but launched a competition that would span three years and involve dozens of ath- letes. With rules established and strategies devised, record times were being set at nearly every race, until one athlete set a mark that many thought could never be broken.

WOODSTOCK FILM FESTIVAL 2005 80 SHORTS FOOD & FILM FARMING FOR THE FUTURE Directed by Matthew Kraus FARMING FOR THE FUTURE USA / 2005 / 14:36 minutes FIVE FEELINGS ABOUT FOOD In the rolling hills of Southeast Ohio exists a movement of small-scale farmers who pro- duce food without chemicals or significant mechanical input. For these visionary men PAINTER OF THE LAND and women of the earth, pesticides are an unnecessary hazard, while one’s own sweat and toil proves more efficient than fossil-fueled machines. Farming for the Future enters the fields to uncover the motivations of these forward-thinking yeomen, illuminating the subtler and oft-forgotten aspects of the vital commodity called food. Tromp through Fri.Sept.30, 2:45PM @ WCC the fields of Athens County with this outspoken group of conscientious cultivators to witness sustainable alternatives to conventional methods, and find out what farmers really think about the state of food production in the United States today.

FIVE FEELINGS ABOUT FOOD Directed by Cornelia Ravenal and Mikael Sodersten SWEDEN, USA / 2005 / 27:22 minutes

This isn’t a traditional documentary. But neither is the subject. Artists Mimi Oka and Doug Fitch take a wildly explorative approach to food. With shows and installa- tions in the United States, Europe, and Japan, they not only challenge our notions about eating, but our notions about art. As the filmmakers put it: “We went S H

to the French village where they were working to shoot O them creating dining events. But as we witnessed their R T

processes and results, we realized that instead of straight S documentation, we had to create a film that expressed the spirit of the art: dynamic, playful, provocative, sometimes complex, yet always... easy to digest. And as we spent more time together, we began to view their work through the lens of five feelings...”

PAINTER OF THE LAND Directed by Joel Fendelman FRANCE / 2004 / 8:30 minutes In French with English subtitles

NY PREMIERE Georges Adrian works on a land that has been passed on to him by his father, who passed it on to him by his father, and so on. This land lies between the two towns of Lacoste and Bonnieux in the Southern Provence region of France. The film is a look at Georges on his farm, on his land, in his life–about a man and how he uses the earth as his canvas.

WOODSTOCK FILM FESTIVAL 2005 81 SHORTS ANIMATION Programmed by Bill Plympton and Signe Baumane COLD WAR Directed by Brian Garrigan US PREMIERE 529 USA / 2004 / 3:19 minutes/ NY PREMIER 9 School of Visual Arts

THE BACKBRACE Cold War is a high tech mix of old meets new. The 9 COLD WAR art direction and Directed by Shane Acker DENTIST character design are USA / 2004 / 10:40 minutes / UCLA influenced by 1930s sci-fi pulp magazines US PREMIERE DER PARK A mechanical beast attacks two rag doll and vintage advertising posters, and it pays tribute to Warner Brothers and Mad THE FAN AND THE FLOWER creatures as they scavenge the ruins of their world. After witnessing the death of Magazine. All these influences were brought US PREMIERE FAUNA SUTRA his mentor 5, the rag doll 9 must confront together by two students at the School of this vile creature. Only through cunning Visual Arts in Manhattan for their thesis film GOPHER BROKE and the use of his primitive technology can project. Cold War seeks to veer away from standard student films and get back to the HANDSHAKE 9 hope to destroy the monster and steal the talisman of trapped souls it carries as a roots of animation, namely comedy. INSOMNIA trophy. Cold War was nominated for a 2005 9 was awarded the 2005 Student Student Academy Award. US PREMIERE LEARN SELF DEFENSE Academy Award for animated shorts. LIFE IN TRANSITION

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S AUSTRIA / 2005 US PREMIERE RETURN I WILL / 5 minutes TO OLD BRAZIL This park is no bed of roses.

90 minutes THE BACKBRACE *Parental Advisory: mature content Directed by Andy and Carolyn London FAUNA SUTRA USA / 2004 / 6 minutes Directed by Johan Klungel

Fri.Sept.30, 6:45PM @ CMF 2 Puberty is never a good time for anyone. The NETHERLANDS / 2004 / 3:45 minutes Sat.Oct 1, 12:30PM @ Bearsville Particularly if you’re a teenage boy diag- The animal world is full of bizarre behavior. nosed with scoliosis and forced by your Not in the least their sexual habits can take zealously well-intentioned parents to wear strange forms. In Fauna Sutra we can see 529 a backbrace. This is the tragic and awkward what our world would look like if evolu- Directed by world of Carolyn and Andy London’s auto- tion had taken a different path and had Maarten de With biographical animated short. The Backbrace given us the habits of certain animals. and Niek Castricum is a chronicle of puberty, social humiliation, NETHERLANDS, and the perils of over-parenting. BELGIUM / 2004 / 7 minutes

US PREMIERE DENTIST An office worker tries to escape the drag of Directed by Signe Baumane his nine to five existence with ever-increas- USA / 2004 / 10 minutes ing drastic measures. Is the hen to blame? An enthusiastic dentist, a reluctant patient, and a strange picture on the wall...

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MOONRAKER Directed by Fran Krause THE FAN AND THE FLOWER Directed by Bill Plympton USA / 2004 / 4:30 minutes USA / 2005 / 7 minutes A short about a content but lonely astro- naut stranded on a haunted moon. This is An ill-fated and unconsummated a startlingly funny and poignant film about romance between a fan and a flower exploration, honing in on how humanity magically creates a fairy tale ending. A affects the universe with our seemingly very atypical Bill Plympton film. harmless intrepid investigations. The moon is watching.

PETUNIA Directed by Aaron Hughes USA / 2005 / 3 minutes

GOPHER BROKE A charming love affair between a man and Directed by Jeff Fowler his flower bounces merrily along from this world into the next. USA / 2004 / 4:18 minutes LEARN SELF DEFENSE Gopher Broke tells the tale of a cunning Directed by Chris Harding

rodent’s smashing encounter with a pro- S duce truck on a lonely country road. USA / 2004 / 5 minutes H O

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for anyone interested in personal safety S and/or world domination. Watch as a cock- sure narrator guides an ordinary citizen through five strangely familiar lessons of self-defense! Marvel as he is turned loose in the streets to wreak bloody havoc!

HANDSHAKE Directed by Patrick Smith RETURN I WILL TO OLD BRAZIL Directed by Alex Budovsky USA / 2004 / 5 minutes USA / 2004 / 4 minutes In this animated film, an innocent greeting between two people is quickly transformed This animated music film is based on the into a sticky, tangled struggle for survival. Mickael Kamen song Brazil, performed by Geoff Muldaur. It is a story of a Brazilian monkey who left his motherland and wants to return. INSOMNIA (BEZMIEGS) LIFE IN TRANSITION Directed by Vladimir Leschiov Directed by John Dilworth LATVIA / 2004 / 7 minutes USA / 2005 / 4:10 minutes

She comes at night as quiet as a cat, to take Life in Transition is a visual and symbolic his sleep away until he feeds her. All she journey depicting the continual transfor- needs is for him to bring some milk, some- mations of life from birth to death to re- where between sleep and reality. Her name birth. is Insomnia.

WOODSTOCK FILM FESTIVAL 2005 83 SHORTS ANIMATION FOR CYTOPLASMS KIDS OF ALL AGES IN ACID ENVIRONMENT AQUARIUM Directed by Irene Iborra, David Gautier, THE CLONE TROOPER ORCHESTRA and Eduard Puertas CYTOPLASMS IN ACID ENVIRONMENT SPAIN / 2004 / 4 minutes / *COLD WAR Zeros Animation School, Barcelona SURLY SQUIRREL Directed by Peter Lepeniotis The terrible consequences of a boring class. *GOPHER BROKE CANADA / 2005 / 10:45 minutes *PETUNIA NEW YORK PREMIERE REVENGE OF THE BRICK COLD WAR A starving park squirrel and rat come Directed by Brian Garrigan *SURLY SQUIRREL across a discarded pizza slice. The duo’s USA / 2004 / 3:19 minutes / SVA greed disrupts the natural order of the *ZIT Two planet settlers claim their stake! park. Simultaneously, across the street from the park, a bank heist is taking place in the human world. The two worlds col- *Programmed by Bill Plympton lide in an uproarious escape for both and Signe Baumane GOPHER BROKE rodents and bank robbers alike. The story Directed by Jeff Fowler culminates in a full-on car chase with Sun.Oct.2, 10:30AM @ Bearsville USA / 2004 / 4:18 minutes police and park animals in hot pursuit. The pigeons save the day, restoring order Gopher Broke tells the tale of a cunning to both worlds, for now... rodent’s smashing encounter with a pro- S Sponsored by T duce truck on a lonely country road. R O

H ZIT S Directed by Mike Blum AQUARIUM USA / 2005 / 4:45 minutes Directed by Nadia Roden Timmy, a young PETUNIA boy on his way USA / 2005 / 2:15 Directed by Aaron Hughes minutes to the big USA / 2005 / 3 minutes school dance, is WORLD PREMIERE forced to deal A charming love affair between a man and his with his first An underwater ballet to the music of flower bounces merrily along from this world into pimple prob- Saint-Sciens’ Aquarium Busby Berkeley- the next. style! Sea horses playing the harp, urchins lem--and what a swaying, jellyfish on the piano, octopuses problem it is! Every attempt he makes to changing color, tiny fish turning into a rid himself of the ever-growing dilemma REVENGE OF THE BRICK kaleidoscope of color and pattern. only succeeds in making the situation Directed by Royce Graham worse. Timmy comes up with an ingenious USA / 2005 / 5:15 minutes plan to rectify his situation, but he never This computer-animated mini-movie starring the anticipated the surprising consequences of new LEGO Star Wars characters & vehi- THE CLONE TROOPER ORCHESTRA his actions. And neither will cles. Inspired by Directed by Royce Graham Star the audience. Wars Episode III,” it USA / 2005 / 1 minute combines the iconic building properties of The Clone Trooper Orchestra features a LEGO LEGO with Star Wars- mini-figure of Darth Vader acting as John style action for an excit- Williams conducting an orchestra of clone troop- ing and comedic story. ers performing “The Imperial March.”

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YOUTH INITIATIVE Sponsored by The Career Day and Youth Forum are part of WFF’s annual YOUTH INITIATIVE.The CAREER DAY Woodstock Film Festival is The Woodstock Film Festival Career Day committed to youth and offers students a unique opportunity to education as a means to meet with industry professionals in positive development, conflict small groups to ask questions and learn resolution, and growth about careers in film production. Participants in this youth event have opportunity. included the legendary composer of more than 400 film scores, Elmer Bernstein; award-winning cinematogra- pher and director Haskell Wexler; Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker Leon Gast, and agents, actors, studio executives, animators, film editors and producers. Fri.Sept 30th at 5pm at Woodstock Elementary For students only (ages 14-20) You must get a ticket (free) from box office or talk to your school guidance counselor or call (845) 679-4265 E

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I The 2005 Woodstock Film Festival Youth Forum offers a first look at some up-and-coming filmmakers from a N

I variety of regional media arts programs, including: the Parsons Pre-College Academy, a weekend and summer

H intensive program that brings students into New York City to learn about design; the Indie program at Onteora T High School; and the Downtown Community TV (DC-TV) Center on Lafayette Street in NYC. U O Y Fri.Sept 30, 7:30PM @ WCC

BULLETS IN THE HOOD: A BED-STUY STORY Directed by Terrence Fisher and Daniel Howard USA / 2004 / 22:36 minutes / Downtown Community Television Center (DCTV)

“Guns took eight of my friends’ lives. I could be next.” Terrence Fisher, age 19, lives in the Louis Armstrong Housing Project in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. Eight of his friends have been shot in his neighborhood. The most recent death occurred on January 24, 2004. Terrence and his best friend, Timothy Stansbury, were met by gunfire on the rooftop of Terrence’s building. A bullet struck Timothy’s heart, sending Timothy and Terrence tumbling down the stairs in a spray of blood. Timothy died. Terrence lost his best friend. The shooter was a policeman. Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said the killing was unjustified, but no indictment was issued. As fate would have it, Terrence was producing a documentary about gun violence when the killing occurred. This tape contains frightening images that could only be captured by someone like Terrence, who has spent his entire life in the projects and experienced the tragedy of gun violence in his everyday life.

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CESSATION Q & A Directed by Bryan Schlam Directed by Paul Perez USA / 2005 / 3:05 minutes / USA / 2004 / Dutchess Community College 8:23 minutes / Crossroads High When a man gets the news that his wife is School, going to die of cancer, he relies on her Los Angeles, CA strength and advice to help him find a way A young boy turns to to tell their children. his older brother for advice on how to ask a girl out,. The flattered older brother pro- ceeds to give advice based upon his expe- SAHAR: BEFORE THE SUN CHANNUMASADAN Light House (Charlottesville, VA) Directed by Joey Daoud riences with girls. But is he really the right person to turn to for advice? AFGHANISTAN, USA / 2004 / 5:37 minutes USA Beyond Borders

After the Taliban took control of Kabul in 1996, Sahar Adish fled Afghanistan with RUNAWAY BALL Directed by Dan Cayea her family to find safety in the United States. Sahar, at age 18, speaks powerfully to the courage and aspirations of her par-

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Channukah, Christmas, and Ramadan. SIERRA LEONE / 2004 / 6 minutes / V Joined with his girlfriend, Marie, they USA Beyond Borders E spend the whole day sampling and explor- Ten year-old Mohamed Sidibay is a bright, ing a bit of each holiday in three easy steps. hard working 4th grader who likes to play soccer, work on computers and go to school. Yet, only two years earlier he was MANUAL USA / 2005 / 2:43 minutes / commanding rebel troops in the “bush” in Directed by Trevor Grassi Onteora High School, Boiceville, NY Western Africa. USA / 2005 / 9:19 minutes /INDIE A pet ball runs away from home. WEEP NO MORE An intelligent computer discovers Directed by Rosie Rion creativity. USA / 2003 / 4:18 minutes / Onteora High School, Boiceville, NY

Weep No More parallels an OFF SEASON argument between two sis- Directed by Sam Richards ters to a summer storm, USA / 2005 / 5:35 minutes showing how, though time may bring on its obstacles, Filmed during the last week of the year, Off the magic of friendship Season is a visual poem with jazz accompa- always prevails. niment of Coney Island in the off-season.

WOODSTOCK FILM FESTIVAL 2005 87 SEMINARS • PANELS • WORKSHOPS All events take place at the Colony Café in Woodstock unless otherwise indicated. Film Story & Screenwriting Panel What are the secrets of a great film plot? Where do the best stories come from? What Programs and panelists are makes a character memorable? How much can you bend the truth when adapting a subject to change. true story to film? Is mixing fiction with documentary the cutting edge of filmmaking? These are just some of the ideas discussed at this yearly panel devoted to art of story Please make sure to visit narrative and screenwriting. Past participants include: Jim Taylor, Tim Robbins, Mary www.woodstockfilmfestival.com Harron, Peter Riegert, Donald Westlake, Ron Nyswaner, Michael Almereyda, Tim Blake Nelson and Zachary Sklar. for the most up-to-date Moderator: Annie Nocenti (screenwriter, film journalist and former editor, schedule. Scenario Magazine) Panelists: James Toback (writer/director: Harvard Man, Black and White, Love in Paris,Two Girls and a Guy,The Pick-Up Artist, Love and Money.Writer: Bugsy) Lewis Lapham (editor: Harper’s magazine and screenwriter: The American Ruling Class) Kyle Henry (writer/director: Room, American Cowboy, and University, Inc.) L. M. Kit Carson (writer: Perfume, Bullfighter,The Texas Chain Massacre 2, Breathless, and Paris,Texas. ) William Greaves (writer/director: Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take 1 Horror! One & Take 2 ⁄2, Ralph Bunche: An American Odyssey)

Sponsored by the Writers Guild of America, East since 2001.

S Fri.Sept.30, 4:00PM @ Colony Cafe L E N A P Modern-Day Catharsis & Actors Dialogue Box-Office Bonanza Please join esteemed entertainment jour- nalist Martha Frankel for an intimate con- From remakes of Asian originals to home- versation with some of today’s greatest grown frighteners, horror is now on the actors. The Actor’s Dialogue has been a radar in a huge way. The genre’s timeless, sold-out event since the first Woodstock primal themes enthrall audiences and pro- Film Festival, and past participants have vide a modern-day catharsis, for which the included Aidan Quinn, David Straitharn, demand seems unyielding. Join us for a Stanley Tucci, Liev Schrieber, Marcia Gay dialogue about the underlying themes of Harden, Parker Posey, Lily Taylor, Annabella Sciorra, Olympia the genre, the reasons for its recent explo- Dukakis, Peter Riegert and Sam Rockwell. Always full of surprises sion, and why it represents the quintes- and laughter, The Actors Dialogue is a relaxed atmosphere where sential indie filmmaking business model. versatile and passionate actors get to discuss their craft, tell stories Panelists: Larry Fessenden (writer/ director of the art horror films No Telling, about their films, and answer questions from their fans. Martha Habit,Wendigo and the forthcom- Frankel’s work has appeared in scores of publications, including ing The Last Winter. Fessenden is producer of low-budget Scareflix The Times of London, The New Yorker, Cosmopolitan, Movieline and The Roost,The Off Season, and Details. Death To The Automatons. He was Panelists: executive producer on Zombie Steve Buscemi (Mystery Train, In the Soup, Barton Fink, Fargo, Honeymoon.) The Big Lebowski, Con Air, Armageddon, Living in Oblivion, Stuart Samuels (director, Things To Do in Denver When You’re Dead, Kansas City, Reservoir Midnight Movies: From the Margin Dogs). to the Mainstream; producer, Janeane Garofalo (Duane Hopwood,Wonderland, Visions Of Light.) Steal This Movie, Dogma,The Truth About Cats and Dogs) Stuart Samuels (rogue auteur, Prologue, Sisters)

Fri.Sept.30, 1:30PM @ Colony Cafe Sat.Oct 1, 10:00AM @ Colony Cafe

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Indie Film Revival Reality Show Bingham Ray Recent corporate divorces and consolida- Politics, Film and Real Life tion have changed the playing field in the Join moderator David D’Arcy, film independent and specialty film business, and entertainment journalist, as he leading some to claim there simply aren’t tries to connect the dots between enough quality films to sustain all these today’s filmmaking and real-life businesses. At the same time, the demand events that affect our lives. for thought-provoking, original work is higher than ever, and national- and state- Panelists include: Bob Berney (president, Picturehouse; former president, wide tax incentives are promoting indie Newmarket Fims; former vice president, IFC Films) film production. This panel looks at how Bingham Ray (former president, United Artists, and co-founder, the independent film business has October Films ) changed in just the past few years, and Mark Urman (president,THINKFilm) what new opportunities have emerged for Andrew Hurwitz (founding partner. Law Firm of Epstein, independent filmmakers to finance, pro- Levinsohn, Bodine, Hurwitz & Weinstein, LLP) duce, and sell their films. Sat.Oct 1, 2:15PM @ Colony Cafe Moderator: Eugene Hernandez (co-founder, senior editor, Indiewire) Panelists: Steven C. Beer (legal representa- tive, producers rep, executive pro- ducer, producer: The Hebrew Hammer, Blue Vinyl, L.I.E., My Generation, Snow Days, Tumbleweeds.)

Jason Kliot (executive producer, P producer: The Assassination of A Richard Nixon, Coffee and N Cigarettes, Lovely & Amazing, Chuck E & Buck,Welcome to the Dollhouse, Post Post - Pre Distribution: L and Enron: The Smartest Guys in PR, Film Festival Srategy, Marketing and S the Room.) Selling Your Indie Film. Joana Vicente (executive produc- er, producer; Enron: The Smartest Curated and moderated by Guys in the Room; The Seth Carmichael (member: Producers Guild of Assassination of Richard Nixon; America Founder and partner in Carmichael Films, an Coffee and Cigarettes; Lovely & independent Film Sales and PR company. Carmichael Amazing; Chuck & Buck; Welcome has over 15 years of production, publicity, sales and to the Dollhouse marketing experience ranging from stadium rock con- certs, Internet and new technology to film and TV) Mark Urman (president, THINKFilm: Murderball, The Panelists: Liesl Copland (film sales, Cinetic Media. Formerly Aristrocrats,The Assassination of industry liaison and manager for the Tribeca Film Richard Nixon, Mondovino, Festival as well as the IFP/NY No Borders C-Production Spellbound.) market, and producer on films for Columbia Screen Gems, Dimension Films and RKO Pictures. liesl@cinetic- media.com) Sat.Oct 1, 12:15PM @ Colony Cafe Ron Mann (As a documentary filmmaker, Ron is best known for his films Go Further, and Grass. He is current- ly working on Rat Fink, about the artist Ed “Big Daddy” Roth. Mann is also co-founder of Canadian distribution company, Films We Like) Jeanne R. Berney (independent marketing and public relations consultant and an IFP Board member. She has worked for film compa- nies and agencies in New York and Los Angeles, most recently as executive vice president of film and digital entertainment for Rogers & Cowan where she head- ed up the film division for six years.)

Sat.Oct 1, 4:00PM @ Colony Cafe

It is with great sadness that in 2005, the world lost one of it’s Maverick filmmakers and a beloved member of the Upstate New York Community.

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Music for Film Join moderator Doreen Ringer Ross, vice president of film/TV From Novel to Relations at BMI, for a frank discussion about music in film and the Screen ins and outs of film scoring, music supervision and licensing. What’s the difference Panelists: Michael Bacon (composer: Loverboy, Losing Chase,The Man Who between writing prose and Walked Between the Towers, Brother in Arms,The Hamptons, screenplays? How does a Napoleon, MacArthur, Sleeping Together) story evolve as it moves Kevin Bacon (director: Loverboy, Losing Chase. Actor, Where the Truth Lies, Cavedweller,The from one form to another? Woodsman, Mystic River,Wild Things, Apollo 13, The River Wild, JFK, Footloose) Book signing directly Panelists: Nic Harcourt (music director and host of Kim Wozencraft Morning Becomes Eclectic at KCRW(89.9 FM), following panel (author, Rush, which was adapt- and former programmer of the highly respect- ed and starred Jennifer Jason ed radio station,WDST-FM, in Woodstock, New Leigh; Wanted optioned by York. Harcourt was also the music supervisor Warner Brothers/ Plan B for of The Dukes of Hazzard and Igby Goes Down) Meryl Streep and Jennifer Tracy McKnight (music supervisor: Murderball, Aniston) Born Into Brothels, Coffee and Cigarettes, Raising Paul Hoffman Victor Vargas, Human Nature, High Art, and co- (author, Wings of Madness, cur- founder, Commotion Records) rently in production for NOVA) Duncan Sheik (Recording Artist, Producer, Film Nina Shengold and Theatre Composer) (Writers Guild Award winner for Labor of Love, and author of the Sponsored by BMI since 2000 recently published Clearcut, which The Oregonian calls “Jules et Jim with hoedads.”) Sun.Oct 2, 10:00AM @ Colony Cafe Joan Schweighardt

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P Amazing Women in Film Sun.Oct 2, 3:00pM @ Colony Cafe From the director’s chair to the producer’s team, amazing women are a growing pres- ence in the film world. Join us for a panel featuring some of the top movers and shakers in the industry today.

Moderator: Thelma Adams (film critic US Weekly) Panelists: Terry Lawler (executive director, NYWIFT) Melissa Leo (actor: American Gun, Patch, Runaway,The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, 21 Grams,The 24 Hour Woman) Anne Walker-McBay (producer: Have You Heard?, A Scanner Darkly, Before Sunset,Tape,Walking Life,The Newton Boys, SubUrbia, Before Sunrise, Dazed and Confused) Ariana Bocco (head of feature packaging, Gersh Agency) Debra Zimmerman (Executive Director: Women Make Movies) Michelle Byrd (executive director, IFP) Ellen Kuras (cinematographer, The Ballad of Jack and Rose, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Analyze That, Personal Velocity, Blow, Summer of Sam, I Shot Andy Congratulations Warhol, He Got Game, Postcards from America) Produced by Melisse Seleck Woodstock Film Festival Presented by New York Women in Film & Television

Sun.Oct 2, 1:00pm @ Colony Cafe

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MUSIC BERNIE WORRELL & THE STRANGERS and special surprise guests Wednesday, September 28, 8:00pm at the Bearsville Theater

Catch the film Living Parliament? Funkadelic Colour? We’re not sure what it STRANGER: BERNIE WORRELL ON EARTH by Phil Di Fiore is, but it rocks. With a backbeat provided by resident stam- Woodstock Town Hall 9/29/2005, 8:30PM pede impersonator, Will Calhoun, and a groove from Doug and 10/1/2005, 5:30PM Wimbish that is deeper than the needle’s made on your Physical Graffitti vinyl, Bernie Worrell flies anywhere and everywhere on his magic carpet woven together from waveforms of all creeds and colors. Is it pos- sible that three people are responsible for all of these sounds? Yep, they’re guilty. It wouldn’t be too farfetched to call Bernie Worrell the Zelig of funk. Back in the day, he was alongside Clinton, Bootsy and everybody else who was in the deep funk of things as the musical director of Parliament Funkadelic. Throughout the years, he’s popped up time and again—like an M U

ivory-tickling, versatile Waldo—in the most intriguing places: performing with musical outfits like S I

Bootsy’s Rubber Band and Mos Def’s rap-rock supergroup Black Jack Johnson; collaborating with C the Talking Heads and eventually ending up in their magnificent concert film Stop Making Sense; and backing up every rapper to come out of the West Coast (in sampled form, of course). Now that he’s on tour with his own backup crew, the Strangers featuring Will Calhoun and Doug Wimbish of Living Color, folks can rest assured that, in these less-than-funky times, there is still one man out there who is willing to deliver the funk—by any means necessary. (C.D.L.)

Uncle Funk

Heating up the room with a rockin’ R&B groove is Uncle Funk whose powerhouse lineup for this special opening night concert includes frontman Joe Beesmer along with Pete Levin, Jesse Gress, Paul Casciaro, and Jerry Marotta. John Barry of the Poughkeepsie Journal has this to say about Uncle Funk: “What tran- spires behind [Uncle Funk frontman] Beesmer is a cavalcade of modern rock history and symphonic landscape that shakes like a fault line under pressure.” That might have to do with the fact that the ensemble is made up of rock heavy hitters who have played with the likes of Peter Gabriel, Miles Davis, Todd Rundgren, and Paul McCartney, to name just a few.

WOODSTOCK FILM FESTIVAL 2005 93 MUSIC INSTRUMENTAL CONCERT The Cassettes Friday, September 30, 8:00pm The Cassettes were originally at the Colony Cafe featuring formed as an out-growth of The Cassettes and front-man Shelby Cinca’s four- Bradford Reed. track recordings: odd pop nuggets that diverged from his Both Arthur Harrison of The previous project, Frodus. Cassettes and Bradford Reed Drummer Saadat Awan are featured in Gabe Shalom’s spent periods of his childhood documentary Instrumental. with his parents in Pakistan and had recently been delving into the centuries-old art of tabla-playing, when he was asked to join the band in 2002. Having moved to Washington D.C. from the swampy flatlands of Louisiana, Stephen Guidry was initially recruited to add his own analogue synthesizers and Cajun-style accordion to several demo songs. Latest to join but certainly not least, Tom Bernath’s skills on the bass guitar and stand-up bass are renowned throughout the Western Hemisphere. Tom brings his valued prowess, power and perspective to bear on the new old sounds of the group. C

I It was during a performance at a planetarium, featuring his theremins S and analogue sequencers that Arthur Harrison was encountered. Soon, he U

M became a full-fledged member of the group, recruited for the sake not only of his theremin skills, but also for his delightful crooning. Visit www.thecassettes.com

Bradford Reed Joining the Cassettes, this NY-based composer, performer and producer fights and tames the idiosyncrasies of the pencilina, an original instrument of his own design and construction. The pencilina is an electric 10-stringed col- lision of the hammer dulcimer, slide guitar, koto and fret- less bass with six pickups of varied types. It is struck with sticks, plucked and bowed, giving Reed an incredibly wide sonic palate. Bradford played in the Blue Man Group’s original band. In addition to his solo perform- ances he plays with NOMAH and King Missile III (and produced four of their records). He was awarded a fel- lowship to the Sundance Institute’s Film Composers Lab and a residency at the Ucross Foundation. In May, Bradford was in Athens and Berlin playing live music in Raptus–Eve Sussman’s much anticipated new film after 89 Seconds at Alcazar, a re-stageing of Diego Velasquez’s masterpiece. In addition to writing music for a new album, Bradford is currently working on a commission for the Julia Ritter dance company and music for a TV pilot for Augenblick Animation Studios. Learn more at www.pencilina.com.

WOODSTOCK FILM FESTIVAL 2005 94 MUSIC See It Hear FirstTM

Emerging songwriter artists and Saturday, October 1, 8:00pm recent signings will be featured. at The Colony Cafe Acoustic Cafe from 8:00-10:00pm featuring Capitol Record’s sponsored by recording artist Brendan James with Mieka Pauley, Jeremy Gregory and Adriano Sciavo. An electric eve kicks off at produced by 10:00pm with Duncan Sheik and special guests Spooky Ghost and Pamela Sue Mann.

Duncan Sheik Recording Artist, Producer, Film and Theatre Composer

In 1996, Duncan Sheik traveled to France to record his debut album for Atlantic Records. It earned him a RIAA Gold Record award as well as a Grammy nomination. He followed up his debut with the first single from the Great Expectations Soundtrack, which also went gold. In 1998 he released his sec-

ond full-length, Humming, on Atlantic and then, wishing to M make a different kind of record, moved to the more adventurous U S

Nonesuch label for his third release. The resulting record, I C Phantom Moon, an all-acoustic collaboration with playwright/lyricist Steven Sater, was on the 2001 top 10 lists of many critics including The New York Times and The Village Voice. Sheik returned to Atlantic for his fourth release, the more modern Daylight, the first single from which went top 20 in the US and was a number one hit across Asia. Soon after the release of Daylight, Sheik composed original music for the Shakespeare in the Park Production of Twelfth Night. Last year Duncan scored his first feature film, A Home At the End of the World for Warner Brothers Classics, and his original songs and score for the movie were released on Milan records. As well as finishing up his fifth record, Sheik is completing work on his first full- length musical, Spring Awakening, hich had it’s debut at Lincoln Center in February. WACBIZ-BMI-WFF will have CD Samplers available to all registrants of the Festival.... don’t miss this very special evening!!!!

ABOUT WACBIZ

WACBIZ was conceived in Spring 2003, positively emerging out of the music industry at a time when the future was unclear and frustrating for many, including their own. WACBIZ set its sights and goals for artists, writers and producers to work cooperatively as a team, with a network of executives at the core, offering their collective experience. Artists will communicate as they always do, through writing, perform- ing, recording and touring, but now have a way through Technology that would make a difference to their futures. Visit www.wacbiz.com for more info.

WOODSTOCK FILM FESTIVAL 2005 95 AWARDS mav·er·ick adj. 1. Being independent in thought and action or exhibiting such independence. 2. One who refuses to abide by the dictates of a group.

The fiercely independent Woodstock Film Festival The Honorary Maverick Award is pre- took the name for its award–The Maverick–from sented to an individual whose life the original Woodstock arts colony of the early and work is the very definition of the 1900s, where the first of many Maverick festivals word “maverick.” Past recipients took place each summer. These festivals celebrated include Mira Nair, Woody Harrelson, Tim Robbins, D. A. Pennebaker and independence, social responsibility, and good Chris Hegedus, and Les Blank. times, all in honor of the creative spirit. Mira Nair accepts 2004 Honorary Maverick

THIS YEAR’S HONOREES /Trail-blaz-er/: an innovative 2005 HONORARY leader in a field; a pioneer MAVERICK AWARD JOHN SLOSS RECIPIENT The 2005 Woodstock Film Festival inaugural STEVE BUSCEMI Trailblazer Award will be presented to Steve Buscemi’s acting resume groundbreaking entertainment attorney/ includes Jim Jarmusch’s Mystery Train, executive producer/producer John Sloss. for which he received an IFP Spirit Mr. Sloss clearly represents the award’s pur- Award nomination; Alexandre

S pose in honoring a distinguished industry Rockwell’s In the Soup; Martin D Scorcese’s New York Stories, the Coen R member who, through his pioneering

A approach, has carved new and uncharted Brothers’ Barton Fink, the Academy W

A territories in the film world. To give this award to someone on the Award®-winning Fargo and The Big Lebowski: Stanley Tucci’s

K legal and business side of filmmaking says much about the out- The Imposters; Con Air; Armageddon; Tom DiCillo’s Living in C I Oblivion; Escape From L.A., Desperado, Domestic Disturbance, R side-the-box, forward thinking of Mr. Sloss.

E John Sloss is principal in Sloss Law Office, and the Things To Do in Denver When You’re Dead, Somebody to Love; V

A founder of Cinetic Media, a consulting firm specializing in the Robert Altman’s Kansas City and Buscemi’s IFP Spirit Award- M entertainment and media industries. He is also a partner in winning performance as Mr. Pink in Independent Digital Entertainment (InDigEnt), an innovative Quentin Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs. production company dedicated to making digital features in col- Buscemi made his feature film laboration with established filmmakers and actors. directorial debut with Trees Lounge, Mr. Sloss has served as executive producer for more than in which he also performed and 40 feature films, including Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, Waking wrote the screenplay. His second Life, Far from Heaven, the Academy Award®-winning The Fog of War, Tadpole, Session 9, Lone Star, and She’s the One. directing effort, Animal Factory, He has orchestrated several of the most notable distribution starred deals in the last decade, including Napoleon Dynamite, Super Size W illem Me, Control Room, Capturing the Friedmans, and The Station Agent. Dafoe and Films produced by Sloss in association with InDigEnt, Edward include Campbell Scott’s Final, Ethan Hawke’s Chelsea Walls, Furlong. In Rebecca Miller’s Personal Velocity, which won the Grand Jury 2000, he was nominated for an Prize and the Cinematography Award at Sundance 2002, and Emmy and a DGA Award for directing Pieces of April, which earned Patricia Clarkson a Golden Globe the Pine Barrens episode of HBO’s nomination. Soon-to-be-released InDigEnt titles are Alan The Sopranos. His most recent film Taylor’s Kill the Poor, Greg Harrison’s November, Mark Lonesome Jim, Liv Tyler and Casey Christopher’s Pizza, and Wim Wenders’ Land of Plenty. Affleck will be released by IFC Films.

The Maverick and Trailblazer Awards are handcrafted by Steve Heller, a self-taught artist who works in wood, found metal, and Cadillacs from the 1950s. He shows at his gallery, Fabulous Furniture, in Boiceville, NY.

WOODSTOCK FILM FESTIVAL 2005 96 AWARDS JURY MEMBERS Maverick Awards FEATURES: STUDENT SHORTS: sponsored by Markertek Sponsored by Lowel-Light Handcrafted trophies and prizes are awarded for Best Feature Peter Saraf Jeremiah Newton Narrative, Best Feature Documentary, Best Short (Producer,Little Miss Sunshine,Everything (industry liaison,New York University) is Illuminated,The Agronomist,Adaptation, Documentary, Best Short, and Best Student Film. Other The Truth About Charlie, Storefront Amy Devra Gossels awards are presented for cinematography, animation and edit- Hitchcokc,Ulee’s Gold) (Casting Director / Producer, Solidarity,The Picture of Dorian Gray,Wrigley,Young ing. An audience award is presented for feature narrative and Anne Walker-McBay Americnas,Mile and Honey,Broken,Rising documentary. (Producer,Have You Heard?,A Scanner Low,Mercury in Retrograde,Zen and the Darkly,Before Sunset,Tape,Walking Life, Art of Landscaping) Past recipents include Down to the Bone, Assisted Living, The Newton Boys,SubUrbia,Before Wendigo, Recoil, The Dreamcatcher, Interview With the Assassin, Sunrise,Dazed and Confused) James Rasin, (filmmaker,screenwriter) (features) Double Dare, A Boy’s Life, Spellbound, Passages and Freestyle, (doc- Fisher Stevens umentaries). In competition finalists–all first or second time feature film- (Actor,Producer,Director,Slow Burn, ANIMATION: Factotum,Yes,Just a Kiss,Famous,Pinero, Bill Plympton (see bio) makers– are selected by a committee headed up by Ryan Werner, head of Swimfan,Uptown Girl,Sam the Man) Signe Baumane (see bio) theatrical distribution at Wellspring, and Tom Quinn, Magnolia Pictures. DOCUMENTARIES CINEMATOGRAPHY: sponsored by A&E Indie Films & sponsored by Kodak Docurama Haskell Wexler (see bio) Nancy Abraham (Vic President of HBO / Cinemax EDITING: The Haskell Wexler Award Documentary Films) Sabine Hoffman for Best Cinematography (Editor,Twelve Disciples of Nelson Mandela, David D’Arcy The Ballad of Jack and Rose, Saving Face, (Film and Entertainment Journalist) Brother toBrother,Ferry Tales,Personal This is presented by Haskell Wexler, A.S.C. (Bound for Brett Morgan Velocity,The Last Party,Sam the Man, (director, The Kids Stays in the DesertBlue,Hurricane Streets) Glory, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Coming Home, Who’s Picture,On the Ropes) Afraid of Virginia Woolf, The Secret of Roan Inish). Wexler is a James Lyons SHORT DOCS: (Editor,Imaginary Heroes,Ghostlight, five-time Academy Award nominee and a recipient of a star on Hollywood’s sponsored by A&E Indie Films & Far From Heaven,Prozac Nation,The Walk of Fame. Docurama Virgin Suicides,Velvet Goldmine,

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Robertson received the award in 2005 for Song For a Raggy Boy. Hells Angels Forever,The Grateful (Editor, Mad Hot Ballroom,My R

Dead Movie,B.B.King:Live in Africa) Architect:A Son’s Journey,Heartbreak D

Hospital,15 Months in May) S Michael Cristofer (Writer/director,Fade out,Original Sin, Gia,Mr.Jones,The Bonefire of the Vanities, The WFF Maverick Award for Best The Witches of Eastwick;Director, Original Animated Film Sin,Gia,Body Shots,Candida) This is presented by Bill Plympton and Signe Baumane. SHORTS: Bill Plympton is recognized as one of America’s foremost Sponsored by Lowel-Light Gill Holland illustrators, cartoonists, and animators. His highly success- (Producer,Shooting Vegeterians,Sweet ful short films have won countless prizes and have Land, Loggerheads,Bluegrass Journey, appeared with frenzied frequency at film festivals, on Pagans,The Fittest,Greg the Bunny, Martin television, and online. His 2004 short film Guard Dog &Orloff,Revolution # 9.Snow Days, Spring Forward,Hurricane Streets) was nominated for an Academy Award. Morgan J. Freeman Signe Baumane is an independent animator origi- (Director,Just Like the Son,Dawson’s nally from Latvia, now living in and working in Creek,Desert Blue,Hurricane Streets) Other Award Sponsors: Jungle Software NYC. Her films include Dentist, Woman, Natasha, Debra Granik Showbiz Software and Love Story. (Director,Down tothe Bone,Snake Feed) New Award The Woodstock Film Festival and grant- Student Short” to honor films that are vivor in a large experimental treatment maker Lowel-Light will support, promote vibrant, life-affirming and created by film- group. Against the odds and medical and reward the next generation of inspired makers filled with energy, creativity and advice, she gave life to and raised a son filmmakers with an annual cash/in-kind passion. Three other in-kind awards will and a daughter. She passed away on Feb awards valued at $10,000. be presented for “Best Feature,” “Best 27, 2004 from respiratory complications In memory of Diane Seligman, a Documentary,” and “Best short doc.” caused by the radiation that had originally beautiful person who celebrated life in the Diane Seligman: Diane was a lov- helped to save her. Diane lived in the way she lived, and for all those who knew ing, and giving person who touched and moment, in the flow, in harmony with the Diane and in whom she still lives, the inspired all who knew her. As a teenager in life force & source, with grace and dignity. DIANE SELIGMAN AWARD is presented the 1960s, she was diagnosed with She was grateful for every day. to the “Best Short Narrative” and “Best Hodgkin’s disease and was the lone sur-

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NARRATIVE FEATURES SYMBIOPSYCHOTAXIPLASM:TAKE 2 1/2 PRESS ON DER PARK William Greaves Productions 11th Hour Productions & Nicolas Mahler 212 www.williamgreaves.com Entertainment [email protected] Anthony Ng [email protected] (212) 529-6074 TENNIS, ANYONE...? THE FAN AND THE FLOWER [email protected] Kevin Iwashina SARAH SILVERMAN: JESUS IS Plymptoons [email protected] MAGIC www.plymptoons.com AUTOMATIC IDP FIlm Jay Thames TRANSAMERICA [email protected] FAUNA SUTRA [email protected] The Weinstein Company Johan Klungel www. automaticmovie.com SHAKESPEARE BEHIND BARS [email protected] USHPIZIN Hank Rogerson CAVITE Picturehouse Philomath Films GOPHER BROKE www.cavitemovie.com www.picturehouse.com [email protected] Jamie Breuer Artisans PR DEAD MAN’S SHOES WHERE THE TRUTH LIES STATE OF FEAR [email protected] Magnolia Pictures THINKFilm Paco de Onis www.magpictures.com www.thinkfilmcompany.com [email protected] HANDSHAKE Patrick Smith DUANE HOPWOOD WINTER PASSING STRANGER: Blend Films Elevation Filmworks (310) 617-7100 BERNIE WORRELL ON EARTH www.patsmith.com www.elevationfilmworks.com [email protected] Phil Di Fiore www.strangermovie.com INSOMNIA (BEZMIEGS) FATELESS DOCUMENTARY FEATURES Vladimir Leschiov THINKFilm TROOP 1500 [email protected] www.thinkfilmcompany.com THE AMERICAN RULING CLASS Women Make Movies www.theamericanrulingclass.org 212.925.0606 LEARN SELF DEFENSE LONESOME JIM www.wmm.com Chris Harding Animation www.indigent.net ANYTOWN USA Concern www.sirkproductions.com TV PARTY www.chrisharding.net MEMORIES IN THE MIST Brink FIlms BE HERE TO LOVE ME... Archana Tamboskar www.brink.com/tvp.php LIFE IN TRANSITION [email protected] Palm Pictures Stretch Films, Inc. E www.palmpictures.com UNKNOWN WHITE MALE (212) 691-9969 C MUTUAL APPRECIATION Wellspring Media www.stretchfilms.com R THE BOYS OF BARAKA Houston King www.wellspring.com U [email protected] Heidi Ewing MOONRAKER O www.lokifilms.com ZIZEK! Fran Krause S MY TINY UNIVERSE Zeitgeist Films 917 741 6086

T BRUCE AND ME Lucy Phillips www.zeitgeistfilms.com [email protected]

N (323) 469 4235 www.storylineentertainment.ca I [email protected] PETUNIA R THE DEVIL’S MINER ANIMATED SHORTS

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RUN TO JAY’S A REASONABLE FACSIMILE RIDE OF THE MERGANSERS SHORTS: YOUTH FORUM Brett Spackman Edin Velez Steve Furman www.runtojays.com www.edinvelez.com www.rideofthemergansers.com BULLETS IN THE HOOD: A BED- STUY STORY A SONG FOR DANIEL ROUTINE A SONG FOR DANIEL DCTV Jason DaSilva Michael Britto Jason DaSilva www.dctvny.org (212) 222-2113 www.brittofied.com (212) 222-2113 [email protected] [email protected] CESSATION THE SPACE INVADERS Bryan Schlam THIS MORNING Marina Zurkow SOUVENIR [email protected] Luce Mulloy [email protected] Stephen Rose [email protected] [email protected] CHANNUMASADAN SUPER POWER BLUES Joey Daoud SHORTS: FOOD & FILM Greg Pak SHORTS: TOGETHER [email protected] www.gregpak.co FARMING FOR THE FUTURE FUTURE IMPERFECT MANUAL Kraus Films THROUGH THE ICE Marshall Lewy INDIE WORKS [email protected] Jennie Livingston [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] FIVE FEELINGS ABOUT FOOD HAPPY OFF SEASON Wilderness Films UNDERMINER,THE Jason Feurerstein Sam Richards [email protected] Todd Downing: (917) 660-4802 (Cell) [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] PAINTER OF THE LAND Q&A Joel Fendelman ZERO VISIBILITY LEO AND SANDRA Paul Perez [email protected] Kathy High Alessandro Celli [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] SHORTS: MAN RUNAWAY BALL SHORTS: SCREENING WITH NO SHOULDER Dan Cayea AND THE LANDSCAPE WILL SEEM Sanguine Film [email protected] TO SWAY CLOSE www.sanguinefilm.com Florida State Universtiy Film School One Productions Limited SAHAR: BEFORE THE SUN [email protected] RESURRECTION [email protected] PBS - Beyond Borders P Resurrection Short, LLC www.listenup.org R CHAIM DAVE HOLLAND [email protected] I Jonathan Greenfield Ulli Gruber WE DON’T WANT NO WAR N [email protected] (917) 929-3407 TWO MEN PBS - Beyond Borders T

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VENUES R S Woodstock WOODSTOCK Rhinebeck COMMUNITY CENTER (films) BEARSVILLE THEATER (films) 56 Rock City Road UPSTATE FILMS Route 212, Bearsville, NY.12409 Woodstock, NY 12498 6415 Montgomery Street (845) 679-4406 Rhinebeck, NY 12572 WOODSTOCK PLAYHOUSE www.upstatefilms.org COLONY CAFÉ (panels & music) (box office & hospitality) Rock City Road 103 Mill Hill Road Hunter Woodstock, NY 12498 Rtes 212 & 375 (845) 679-5342 Woodstock, NY 12498 CATSKILL MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION THEATER www.colonycafe.com (845) 679-2764 7960 Main Street [email protected] Hunter, NY 12442 TINKER STREET CINEMA (films) www.woodstockplayhouse.org www.catskillmountain.org 132 Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY 12498 WOODSTOCK TOWN HALL (films) (845) 679-6608 Tinker Street Rosendale Woodstock, NY 12498 ROSENDALE THEATER Main Street Rosendale, NY 12472 (845) 658-8989

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549 Albany Ave, Kingston, NY 12401 845 331-5011 We Love

The Woodstock Film Festival

Yvonne & Tony Conza

(And Pomo)

L’chaim

Joan and Stuart WOODSTOCK, HUNTER, RHINEBECK & ROSENDALE

WOODSTOCK Just 90 minutes from New York City, Woodstock is a center for the arts, culture, alter- native lifestyles, with eclectic shopping and great restaurants. The town—known for its writers, musicians, artists, filmmakers, and other creative folk—first gained notoriety in the early 1900s when residents were “greeted” by the arrival of freethinking bohemians and city dwellers. The Byrdcliffe Arts Colony, founded at the turn of the century by artisan philoso- phers to create a Utopian society based on arts and crafts, continues as an active artists colony with a year-round presence. Music has always been a popular part of the town’s mystique, and in the late 1960s, resident musicians such as Bob Dylan, The Band, and Jimi Hendrix placed Woodstock on the rock n’ roll map. The legendary 1969 Woodstock Music and Arts Festival defined a generation and Woodstock’s counter-cultural nature. HUNTER Only 21 miles from Woodstock, Hunter is steeped in American history and folklore. Today, Hunter is home to a world-class ski area, Hunter Mountain, and the non- profit Catskill Mountain Foundation (CMF). CMF offers programs year-round, including music, theater, and dance; gallery exhibits of fine arts and crafts; movie theater; book- store, the annual Mountain Culture Festival; Elderhostel programs; studio arts education programs; working natural agriculture farm and educational facility; and a farm market featuring regional produce and specialty foods. Its Sugar Maples Center for Arts and Education offers an extensive fine arts and crafts curriculum. S N W O T RHINEBECK Rhinebeck, in Dutchess County, is easily reachable by car or public transportation, and offers relaxed yet sophisticated country living with its myriad of shops, antique stores, restaurants, and cultural venues—including Upstate Films. The Hudson River National Historic Landmark District, in which Rhinebeck is locat- ed, has been home to scions of business and industry, presidents, and statesmen who built their mansions along the Hudson River, many now open to visitors. Located 18 miles across the Hudson River from Woodstock, Rhinebeck’s location enables visitors to easily visit both areas during a short stay.

ROSENDALE “Rosendale Cement,” was most notably used in the foundations of both the Brooklyn Bridge and the Statue of Liberty. Only 18 miles south of Woodstock, this now-defunct mining com- munity has resurrected as a picturesque village, with its majestic railroad trestle and Main Street that winds along the Roundout Creek. From the venerable “Uncle Willy,” the unofficial town mayor in his long purple cape, to the annual two-day Rosendale Street Festival with its 60 bands, to Bill’s garden store that dou- bles as a barber shop, it’s a tolerant town with a lot of spirit. And from the Blue Wolf to The Alamo, Rosendale boasts many new cafes and resturants, plus vintage clothing and furniture stores, a cheese shop and a grand old movie theater, one of the few single-screen theaters in the county.

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Souvenirs are available for purchase online at www.woodstockfilmfestival.com, and will also be available at the box office and venues throughout the festival. HOW TO GET HERE & THERE For additional directions visit www.woodstockfilmfestival.com SHUTTLE SERVICE BY CAR: RHINEBECK Shuttle service is available during the festival WOODSTOCK From Woodstock, Ulster County & west to film venues in Woodstock. A shuttle runs side of Hudson River: Take Rt. 375 towards From NYC & SOUTH: Take the NYS continuously throughout the day on Friday, Rt. 28. Turn LEFT onto Rt. 28. Merge onto Thruway (Interstate 87) North to Exit 19 Saturday and Sunday from 9:15 am until US-209 N toward Kingston-Rhinecliff Bridge. (Kingston). Head WEST on Rt. 28 toward 11:15pm, leaving the Woodstock Playhouse Go over the Kingston-Rhinecliff Bridge, con- Pine Hill. After six miles turn RIGHT at the approximately every ten minutes and making tinue straight to second traffic light. Turn light onto Rt. 375 and follow three miles into stops at each venue in Woodstock. Filmgoers right onto Route 9G. At first light turn right Woodstock! in Woodstock are encouraged to use the onto Route 9. Go straight into the center of shuttle as parking is limited. From ALBANY & MASS PIKE: Take NYS Rhinebeck. Theater is at 6415 Montgomery AUTO RENTAL Thruway (Interstate 87) South on I-87 to Exit Street/Route 9 next to Foster’s Coach House Restaurant. The Woodstock Film Festival is a member of 20 (Saugerties/Woodstock). Turn LEFT onto the Enterprise Rent-A-Car Corporate Class Rt. 32, then RIGHT onto Rt. 212. Follow Rt. From South, also west side of Hudson: 212 for nine miles into Woodstock. The Program, which offers discounted rates to vis- Go over the Mid-Hudson Bridge to Route 9 Tinker Street Cinema is located at 132 Tinker itors. Most importantly, Enterprise Rent-A- North. Go approx. 12 miles to center of Street. The box office is located at the Car has 15 local offices in Hudson Valley, and Rhinebeck. Theater is north of traffic light at Woodstock Playhouse, at the corner of route will be happy to pick you up from any loca- 6415 Montgomery Street/Route 9 next to 212 & 375. Other venues are located tion when needed! Foster’s Coach House Restaurant, across throughout the town. from Rhinebeck Savings Bank. Reservations can be made on their website. Just type in our Corporate ID#-24H6506 to From East: Take Route 199 west. Bear left at make a reservation. Your three digit pin code the fork with the only traffic light. Take Route is “WOO” or call the National Reservation HUNTER 308 to village traffic light. Make a right onto number at 800-593-0505 with the ID#. *Bus transportation is available from 2-6 Mill Route 9. Upstate Films Theater will be on BY BUS Hill Rd., Woodstock to Main St. (Hunter your left at 6415 Montgomery Street/Route Auto Repair), Hunter. (See “by bus” for more.) 9, next to Foster’s Coach House Restaurant, To Woodstock: Take Adirondack Trailways across from Rhinebeck Savings Bank. From Woodstock Toward Saugerties: S from Port Authority to Woodstock. N This drops you off at the Village Green or you Take Rt. 212 east to Rt. 32 north (stoplight O intersection at Hess Service Station). Take a I can ask to be let off at the Woodstock T Playhouse Box Office. For schedule, call LEFT onto Rt. 32 north (towards NYS Thruway ROSENDALE C SOUTHBOUND entrance). Continue several E Adirondack Trailways at 800-858-8555. From New Paltz area: Take Route 32 North

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I Alternative stops incude Kingston and will lead you directly onto the main street of toward Kingston. Turn left after bridge (at D Phoenicia. the town of Hunter. The Catskill Mountain traffic light) onto Route 213 (Main Street, To Rhinebeck: Take the Shortline Bus from Foundation Theater is on the left. Rosendale). Theater is up on right. Port Authority to Rhinebeck. For schedule From Ellenville area: Take Route 209 call 800-631-8405. From Woodstock Through Phoenicia: Take Rt. 212 west (bear right at Bearsville) to North toward Kingston. Turn right onto To Hunter: Take Adirondack Trailways from Mt. Tremper, then bear right towards Route 213 in Stone Ridge. Follow Route 213 Port Authority to Hunter. For schedule, call Phoenicia. Pass thru Phoenicia and take a (thru traffic light, over bridge and thru High 800-858-8555. right onto Rt. 214. Continue a few miles until Falls) into Rosendale.Theater is on left. To Rosendale: Take Adirondack Trailways you come to Rt. 23A. Take a left and travel Woodstock: Take Route 375 towards Route from Port Authority to Rosendale. For schedule, directly into Hunter as above. 28. Turn LEFT onto Route 28. **Merge call Adirondack Trailways at 800-858-8555. From the South: Take the NYS Thruway ontoUS-209 South towards Ellenville. Turn right onto County Route 29A/Wynkoop Rd. BY TRAIN: (Interstate 87) to Exit 20, Saugerties. Go left at the traffic light after the toll booth onto Rt. Turn right onto Main Street/CR-29. Turnright To Rhinecliff/Rhinebeck: Take the Empire 212. After a quarter mile, turn right onto onto CR-28/MilbrookAve/CR-94. Turn lefton- Service Line from Penn Station to Rhinecliff- Route 32 North. After about six miles, bear to CR-28/Fortner St/CR-94. Continue to fol- Kingston. Monday through Friday, the DUCK left at the blinking yellow light onto Route low CR-28/CR-94. Turn right onto Lucas trolley transports visitors into Rhinebeck. On 32A. Continue several miles to Rt. 23A West, Avenue Ext/CR-1. Continue to follow CR-1. weekends, a cab is your best bet, and which will lead you directly onto the main Turn slight left onto BinnewaterRoad/CR-7. Rhinebeck Taxi is conveniently located at the street of the town of Hunter. Stay straight to go onto NY-213/Main Street. train station or rent a car from Enterprise-Rent- a-Car, which will meet you at the train station. From the North: Take Interstate 87 to Exit From NYC: To Hunter: Take Amtrak from Penn Station 21, Catskill. Get on Route 23 West and fol- Take the NYS Thruway (Interstate 87) to to the Hudson stop, and rent a car from low it toward Windham. Before entering the Exit 19 (Kingston). Take the second exit Enterprise Rent-A-Car, which will meet you at (Washington Avenue). Follow above direc- the train station. Woodstock is a 21-mile town of Windham, make a left on Route 296 tions**. drive (36 minute) drive from Rhinecliff. South. At the end of 296, go left on Route 23A. Travel directly into Hunter as above. For more info call 800-USA-RAIL or visit www.amtrak.com.

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113 30 MILE MAP TICKET INFORMATION BOX OFFICE LOCATION PRICES Telephone Orders AND HOURS Tickets range from $7 to $15 per screening The Playhouse Box Office is manned by ded- Woodstock Playhouse Box Office and are $15 per panel. Concert prices vary. A icated volunteers who will do their best to 103 Mill Hill Road shipping/handling fee of $4.25 will be added help you with your ticket selection over the per mailing. Student and senior discounts are telephone. Please bear in mind that volun- Woodstock, NY 12498 available with ID, but must be requested teers are simultaneously filling out 845.679.6997 directly at the Playhouse Box Office or venue. Internet orders, walk-up orders, and other woodstockfilmfestival.com We cannot honor senior discounts online or telephone orders. In other words, the over the telephone. phones can get very chaotic and they Box Office Hours tend to be busy. Please be patient. For a complete list of prices, please visit Sept 2-25 www.woodstockfilmfestival.com. The last day for telephone orders is Wednesday-Friday 11am-3pm September 24. Reserve early, as shows tend to sell out quickly. Saturdays & Sundays 12noon-4pm Starting Septemeber 25, all online orders Closed Monday & Tuesdays must be picked up at the Playhouse Box September 5th Office. PURCHASING TICKETS Labor Day 12noon-4pm Walk-Up Orders Sept 26-Oct 1 Internet Orders Tickets for all venues will be available for pur- 9am-7pm The best way to order tickets and to see chase at the Playhouse Box Office September updated schedules, film descriptions, and 1–October 1. Oct 2 other festival information is online. Beginning September 28, tickets for Hunter , 9am-2pm From September 1-24, advance single-admission Rhinebeck, and Rosendale will be available at their respective venues as well. D

tickets can be purchased through our secure O FULL FESTIVAL PASSES website at www.woodstockfilmfestival.com. Day of Event C The best way to take advantage of everything U

Tickets are available at the Playhouse Box M the festival has to offer is by purchasing a Full Advance orders will be sent by USPS mail Office until four hours prior to the event. E Festival Pass. A limited number of these N

through September 24. T unsold All tickets are then available only on passes are available. A the standby line at the venue where the R Each pass includes Admission for one to I screening is taking place. E all screenings and panels–with priority S Ticket holders MUST arrive 15 minutes seating up until 15 minutes prior to the prior to the screening or panel; empty event; all parties; and souvenirs, including a seats will be sold to the standby line. T-shirt, and cap. If you have tickets being held, you must go to the Woodstock Playhouse Box Office to pick Full Festival Passes are $550 and can be pur- them up. These tickets will NOT be sent to chased online at www.woodstockfilmfestival the venue. or by phone (845) 679-6997. Full Festival NOTE: If you have tickets for Hunter, Passes are nontransferable and include a pic- Rhinebeck, or Rosendale that were ordered ture ID. Passes must be picked up at Festival online or by phone, you must go to the the Registration at the Woodstock Playhouse any- Playhouse Box Office to pick them up. These time after 9am on September 28. For the most up-to-date information, tickets will not be sent to the venues. Leave please visit yourself plenty of time to stop in before going www.woodstockfilmfestival.com to your venue or order early enough so we Pass holders MUST arrive 15 minutes can send them to you. prior to the screening or panel; empty seats will be sold to the standby line . Once online, find out which screenings When planning your festival schedule, please are sold out and read updated bear in mind that the driving distance from information about events, screenings, Woodstock to Hunter, Rhinebeck and *Please note that all events are subject to and panels.You can learn about who we Rosendale is about 30 minutes. change. You should check the website and are and what we do, including our year- program as the date approaches to con- round programming. Also please visit firm programs, venues, and times. and support our sponsors.

WOODSTOCK FILM FESTIVAL 2005 115 SCHEDULE C C O O N N T T ’ D ’ WED - 9/28 FRI- 9/30 D Sat- 10/01 Sun- 10/02 Bearsville Theater Tinker Street Cinema Community Center Bearsville Theater 8:00 Bernie Worrell & 2:00 Ushpizin 10:30 Shorts:Animation for Kids the Strangers 12:00 Shorts:Woman featuring Will Calhoun & 4:30 Mutual Appreciation 2:30 Shorts:Man 12:30 State of Fear Doug Wimbish 7:30 Somersault 4:45 Shorts:Docs 2:45 Shorts:The Great Idea 9:30 Unknown White Male 7:00 Learning to Swallow 4:30 Lonesome Jim THU - 9/29 Town Hall 9:30 TV Party Colony Café Bearsville Theater 12:00 The Devil’s Miner Tinker Street Cinema 10:00 BMI Music for Film 2:30 Police Beat 1:00 Amazing Women in Film 6:30 Troop 1500 1:30 Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: 4:30 Instrumental Take 21⁄2 3:00 From Novel to Screen 8:15 My Tiny Universe 6:30 Favela Rising 4:15 Room Community Center Tinker Street Cinema 8:30 Automatic 6:30 Duane Hopwood 10:30 Shorts:Together 4:45 Nine Lives 11:00 The Roost 9:00 Fateless 1:00 Shorts:Man 7:30 Winter Passing Town Hall Upstate Films I 3:00 Shorts:Woman 9:30 Winter Passing 4:30 State of Fear 12:30 Zizek 5:15 Shorts:NYx10 Town Hall 7:00 Boys of Baraka 3:00 212 Tinker Street Cinema 1:30 Memories in the Mist 9:30 Midnight Movies 5:30 Stranger:Bernie Worrell on Earth 4:15 212 11:00 Tennis Anyone? Upstate Films 2 7:30 Sarah Silverman: 1:15 Dead Man’s Shoes 6:30 Cavite Jesus Is Magic 5:00 Shorts:The Great Idea 3:30 Transamerica 8:00 Stranger: Bernie 9:30 The Puffy Chair Worrell on Earth 7:15 Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: 6:00 Where the Truth Lies 1 Take 2 ⁄2 Upstate Films 1 8:30 Where the Truth Lies Upstate Films 1 10:00 Sarah Silverman: E Jesus is Magic 12:30 Memories in the Mist Town Hall L 7:00 Dead Man’s Shoes

U 3:15 Cavite Rosendale Theatre 1:00 Shakespeare Behind Bars D Upstate Films 2 6:30 Somersault

E 3:15 Runaway 6:45 Duane Hopwood H 7:30 The Outsider 9:00 Nine Lives 5:30 Be Here to Love Me

C 9:00 Transamerica S Upstate Films 2 Upstate Films 1 CMF 1 in Hunter 12:30 Instrumental 12:30 The Puffy Chair FRI- 9/30 7:00 Rebel Without A Cause Bearsville Theater 2:15 The Devil’s Miner 3:15 Favela Rising 4:30 Shakespeare Behind Bars 12:00 The American CMF 2 in Hunter 5:15 Fateless Ruling Class 6:45 Animated Shorts 7:00 The American Ruling Class Upstate Films 2 2:45 Bruce & Me 9:00 Learning to Swallow 9:30 Our Brand is Crisis 1:00 Zizek 4:30 Our Brand is Crisis Rosendale Theatre 6:45 New York Doll 3:15 Automatic 6:30 Mutual Appreciation 10:00 Concert for Bangladesh 5:30 Anytown USA Sat- 10/01 9:15 Unknown White Male Bearsville Theater CMF 1 in Hunter Colony Café (panels) CMF 1 in Hunter 1:30 Horror:Modern Day 12:30 Animated Shorts 3:30 Room 9:00 Ushpizin Catharsis & Box 3:00 Press On Office Bonanza CMF 2 in Hunter 5:00 Boys of Baraka CMF 2 in Hunter 4:00 WGAE Screenwriting 1:00 Police Beat 7:45 The Outsider Panel 2:30 Troop 1500 3:00 Press On 8:00 Concert: The Cassettes 10:00 Midnight Movies 4:00 Tennis Anyone? & Bradford Reed Colony Café (panels) 6:30 Runaway 8:30 Bruce & Me Community Center 10:00 Actors Panel 10:15 The Roost 2:45 Shorts:Food & Film 12:15 Panel:Indie Film Revival 5:00 Shorts:Together 2:00 Panel:Reality Show 7:30 Shorts:Youth Forum 4:00 Panel: Pre Distribution 9:30 Anytown USA Marketing 8:30 Concert:See It Hear First For information about year-round events including monthly screenings, screenwriting & other film related workshops, All Events Are Subject To Change visit us online or call (845) 679-6997

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