TABLE OF CONTENTS

3 About WFF

4 Hudson Valley FIlm Commission

6 Features Contact info 12 Documentaries Woodstock Film Festival, Inc. PO Box 1406, Woodstock, NY 12498 email: [email protected] 19 Shorts website: www.woodstockfilmfestival.com

22 Panels

24 Concerts

25 Souvenier, Sponsors & Advertisers

26 Ticket Information Box Office Location: (NEW LOCATION) 27 Schedule 34 Tinker Street Woodstock, NY 12498 (We are right in the center of town across from Joshua’s Cafe and next to the Kleinert/James Art Gallery)

phone#: 845-810-0131 email: [email protected] Tickets and up-to-date schedule info are available online at www.woodstockfilmfestival.com

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WOODSTOCK FILM FESTIVAL 2007 ABOUT THE WOODSTOCK FILM FESTIVAL

The Woodstock Film Festival As a not-for-profit, 501(c)(3) organization, our mission is to present an annual pro - celebrates new and established gram and year-round schedule of film, voices in independent film with music and art-related activities that pro - screenings, seminars, workshops mote artists, culture, and inspires learning and diversity. The Hudson Valley Film and concerts throughout the mid- Commission promotes sustainable eco - Hudson Valley. nomic development by attracting and sup - porting film, video and media production. Every fall, film and music lovers from around the world gather here for an exhilarating vari - Founded by filmmakers, ety of films, concerts, celebrity-led seminars, workshops, an awards ceremony and superlative the festival is centered in parties. Visitors find themselves in a relaxed, receptive atmosphere surrounded by some of the the historic arts colony of most beautiful landscapes in the world. More than 125 films are presented annually, including feature narratives, documentaries Woodstock, New York, with and shorts, many of which are premieres from the U.S. and abroad. Many of the filmmakers additional events and follow up screenings with screenings taking place in the Q&As. Specific categories include Exposure, Films of nearby towns of Bearsville, the Hudson Valley, Focus Rhinebeck, Hunter and on Music, World Cinema and Youth Screenings. Rosendale.

YEAR-ROUND PROGRAMMING Crazy Sexy Cancer Committed to offering the Hudson Valley year- round programming, the Woodstock Film Festival presents screenings throughout the year, from New York City to the Capital Region. This year the annual WAMC Northeast Public Radio/WFF collaboration Independent Film on the Air, presented Crazy Sexy Cancer by local filmmaker Kris Carr. WFF also presented an early summer screening series sponsored by Assemblyman Kevin A. Cahill, which featured films such as Racing Daylight, Gracie and Twelve The Painted Veil Disciples of Nelson Mandela. The Hudson Valley Programmer’s Group kicked off its touring series with filmmaker-comedian Mitchell Rose’s The Mitch Show . Other year-round screenings since last year’s festival featured An Unreasonable Man (with IFC and Red Envelope Entertainment), The Painted Veil (with Warner Independent Pictures), and Before the Music Dies (with B-Side).

TheTwelve Disciples of Nelson Mandela The Mitch Show

2007 WOODSTOCK FILM FESTIVAL 3 ABOUT THE HUDSON VALLEY FILM COMMISSION

Photo: M. Baker

To facilitate local produc - tion, the commission pro - vides and constantly updates its online location info and free production services directory to serv - Join us October 10-14, 2007, then On the set in Athens, NY (2005) with WAR OF THE WORLDS, ice the film, fashion and directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Tom Cruise. come back (or stay here) and media industries, and pro - shoot your next film in the beautiful vides a free online produc - Hudson Valley/Catskills. tion guide listing of businesses and local residents that can cater to the film/video industry. The website also includes location pictures and a message board for up-to-date work opportunities. In addition, HVFC provides promo - tional and networking opportunities through its vast contacts and monthly The Hudson Valley Film Commission newsletters to over 15,000 industry members throughout the world. has consistently developed sustain - able economic initiatives in the Hudson Valley/Catskill region by attracting, supporting and promoting Locally produced films that will regional film, video, and media pro - screen at the 2007 Woodstock Film duction including feature films, televi - Festival (and many other festivals sion shoots, print media, short films, and theaters around the country) and TV ads. These productions bring include Bonneville 101, The Cake jobs, opportunity and revenue to the Eaters, Chasin’ Gus’ Ghost, High Falls, area. Film is a practical and sustainable Hunt Me, Man, Night of the Living industry to address local economic needs Jews, Red Angel, Severed Ways; The in a clean, environmentally friendly and Norse Discovery of America, socially responsible manner. Superheroes, and True Love . Many other films, which screened as part On location for flea market scene with of WFF’s year-round series ( Racing Select projects that have shot THE CAKE EATERS and director Mary Stuart Masterson . Daylight, Crazy Sexy Cancer, The in the Hudson Valley include: Twelve Disiple of Nelson Mandela, The •Severed Ways: The Norse Discovery of America (directed by Painted Veil) were produced by, directed by, written by or featuring local talent. Tony Stone and screening at WFF2007) •Superheroes (directed by Alan Brown and screening at WFF2007) The film industry accounts for over $6 billion dollars in New York State’s •The Human Footprint (from National Geographic) annual economic activity. In order to continue local growth, the Hudson •The Cake Eaters (directed by Mary Stuart Masterson) Valley needs tax initiatives to •Racing Daylight (directed by Nicole Quinn) compete with Connecticut •The Northern Kingdom (directed by Dorothy Lyman) and Pennsylvannia, and we

A •The Night Listener (starring Robin Williams) need a local soundstage that

B •The White Countess (extras ADR, directed by James Ivory) can qualify for existing NY

O •War of the Worlds (directed by Steven Spielberg) State incentive. Please sup - • (starring Willem Dafoe) U Before It Had a Name port the the thriving local

T •The Thing About My Folks (starring Paul Reiser and Peter Falk) film industry. •Down to the Bone (winner of two prizes at 2004 Sundance Film

H Festival)

V •Personal Velocity (Grand Jury Prize at Sundance 2002) F

C On location with 35,000 very cool rubber duckies for an upcom - ing television special which recently shot in the Hudson Valley thanks to the services of the Hudson Valley Film Commission. For more info, visit www.hudsonvalleyfilmcommission.org 4 WOODSTOCK FILM FESTIVAL 2007 Terms and Conditions for Prius Raffle “...celebrate and support the BECOME A SUPPORTER This ticket represents a chance to coolest event in the Hudson Valley, With Your Help we can continue to offer the world’s premier independent films, highlight win the opportunity to accept an namely the Woodstock Film offer of the stated prize on the terms emerging talent and present intimate panel discussions for adults and youth, and conditions set forth below. Festival, which is becoming known featuring top actors and industry insiders. Ticket price: $100 each. around the country as a TRUE film Maximum of 500 tickets sold. 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N WORLD PREMIERE EAST COAST PREMIERE EAST COAST PREMIERE W Bearsville Theater • Thur Oct 11 • 3:30 PM R Upstate II • Fri Oct 12 • 7:15 PM W Bearsville • Sat Oct 13 • 4:15 PM R Upstate Films • Sun Oct 14 • 12:15 PM W Tinker Street • Sat Oct 13 • 1:30 PM Rosendale • Sun Oct 14 • 12:00 PM Competition Finalist 3 AMERICAS AMERICAN FORK AUGUST EVENING Directed by Cristina Kotz Cornejo Directed by Chris Bowman Directed by Chris Eska USA/Argentina / 2007 / 98 minutes USA / 2007 / 94 minutes USA / 2007 / 135 minutes In Spanish with subtitles and in English It’s the end of spring in Boston, and sixteen- Welcome to the trials and tribulations of Tracy year-old America Hart Campos (Kristen Orbison, a dopey man who excels at being a August Evening follows aging, undocumented Gonzalez) is looking forward to the end of grocery store clerk by day and dreams of moon - farm worker Jaime and his young, widowed school. lighting as an actor by night. Tracy thinks he may daughter-in-law Lupe as they journey across Texas and With summer approaching, America has two have found the key to success when he joins an their lives are thrown into upheaval. Lupe is more of issues, or so she thinks. She hates school and her acting class taught by an egotistical D-list star a daughter to Jaime than his own children, and the aunt Carolina’s (Gy Mirano) alcoholic husband, Joey (hilariously portrayed by William Baldwin). But two try to stick together...but change is inevitable. (Gilberto Arribas). She passes the days shoplifting, things don’t always go the way Tracy hopes, and he The pair settle in San Antonio with Jaime’s grown hanging out with her friends and trying to avoid Joey. soon finds himself mentoring a young thug, while children, who are far more assimilated into the But after a life-changing event, America, whose continuing his never-ending quest to lose “about American way of life. At the heart of the story is the Spanish is limited, is sent to Buenos Aires, to live with ten pounds.” Produced by Jeremy Coon, one of the conflict between generations. The father must recog - her grandmother, Lucia America, an expatriate with masterminds behind Napoleon Dynamite , American nize the unstoppable force of time and say goodbye to strong anti-American sentiments. As the young girl Fork displays wisdom and insight into American his daughter so that she can start her own life. The struggles to find her place with a grandmother she has cinema’s growing genre of “dork comedy.” Tracy’s film is naturalistic, featuring humming cicadas, ethe - never known, she forms a friendship with Sergio, a story has a ton of heart, endearing the audience to real music, chicken farms, meaningful glances, and neighbor twice her age. the main character so quickly you will laugh even rustling leaves. Both heartbreaking and heartwarming, as you cringe at his misadventures. August Evening accurately depicts the struggles (Michael Lerman) Mexican-American immigrants face, while effectively illuminating the Japanese idea of “mono no aware;” finding peace with life’s imperfections. August Evening took home the prestigious Best Feature Award at the 2007 Los Angeles Film Festival.

This year’s Exposure Program rep - Films with local To honor its musical heritage, the As technology makes our world resents the very core of our mission. ties are a sig - WFF has made music an integral part increasingly accessible, we are pre - We are proud to present a line-up of nificant part of the WFF. The of its programming. WFF’s Focus on sented with the opportunity to expand films that represent the myriad of Hudson Valley/Catskills is a hotbed of Music showcases films about music our global consciousness. Film remains challenges our world faces in these creative energy and home to many and musicians while actively explor - an ideal vehicle for such expression, precarious times, the voices of our established and emerging filmmakers. ing music’s role in film. Many of the offering audiences the scenery, sounds, diverse planet, and the heroes who Film production in the Hudson films emphasize music as a powerful and personalities of faraway places. dedicate themselves to making a dif - Valley/Catskills also attracts filmmak - tool for expression and conflict WFF is proud to present the World ference as they refuse to just accept ers from around the world. resolution. Cinema program to further our com - the status quo. mitment to the sharing experiences across con tinents.

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W Bearsville • Sat Oct 13 • 1:45 PM W Tinker Street Cinema • Fri Oct 12 • 7:00 PM Rosendale • Fri Oct 12 • 7:00 PM Rosendale • Sun Oct 14 • 3:15 AM R Upstate Films • Sat Oct 13 • 9:30 PM W Bearsville • Sat Oct 13 • 11:00 AM Competition Finalist THE CAKE EATERS CHICAGO 10 CHOOSE CONNOR Directed by Mary Stuart Masterson Directed by Brett Morgen Directed by Luke Eberl USA / 2007 / 95 minutes USA / 2007 / 95 minutes USA / 2007 / 114 minutes “Coming of Age” is not the exclusive The tale of the Chicago Protest during the 1968 Bright and precocious fifteen-year-old Owen domain of the young, as evidenced in Mary Stuart Democratic National Convention and the subse - Norris is fresh out of middle school, practically Masterson’s sensitive story of the intertwining lives quent trial of eight activists/cultural icons, including friendless and looking to make a difference in the and loves portrayed in The Cake Eaters . Young and old Abbie Hoffman and Bobby Seale, is fertile ground for world. But when Owen gets a job with Lawrence learn lessons of love and acceptance. Steeped in long - any documentary team. But in the hands of Brett Connor, the local Congressman and neighborhood ing and sensuality, the sun beats down on young Morgen, the talent responsible for 2002’s award-win - hero in the area, his life begins to change. Fueled by Georgia Kaminski as she leans against a car, her rag- ning film The Kid Stays in the Picture , it becomes an his parents’ excitement and his drive to be an over - doll body afflicted with Friedreich’s Ataxia, a neuro - innovative piece of storytelling. Using the rotoscoping achiever, Owen impresses Connor, prompting the cre - logical disorder. This moment, midway through this animation techniques made famous in films like ation of a new cabinet position: youth campaign wise and gentle character study set in a sleepy, Waking Life and A Scanner Darkly , Morgen recon - spokesman. But as Owen begins to peel back the lay - Hudson Valley farming community, encapsulates the structs the courtroom proceedings with the help of ers of the inner workings of his hometown govern - inner lives and secret passions connecting the the voice talents of Hank Azaria, Nick Nolte, Mark ment, he learns more than he ever wanted to know of Kimbrough and Kaminski families. Beagle Ruffalo, Liev Schreiber, Dylan Baker, Roy Scheider and the terrifying truth about American politics. Playing Kimbrough, the nurturing younger son of newly wid - Jeffrey Wright. Blending these animated sequences with strong allegories and the loss of innocence, first- owed Easy (Bruce Dern), finds himself displaced by with powerful archival riot footage ranging from news time writer/director Luke Eberl unfolds a complex the reappearance of his brother Guy, who returns after reels to home movies, Chicago 10 captures the spirit - story with great subtlety and wit, reminding us all of a three-year absence and a failed career in music. Guy with humor and tragedy–of both the events them - that time in our lives when we realized that our has a glimpse of what his life might have been had he selves and the time period. This impactful cautionary parental figures weren’t as perfect as we once stayed and married the woman he loved. Easy comes chronicle illuminates a pivitol time in American believed. Supported by fantastic performances by to terms with a secret he no longer wishes to hide, history. Steven Weber and Alex D. Lintz, Choose Connor is a and Beagle leaves boyhood behind and earns the (Michael Lerman) frightening slow-burn political thriller that packs an respect of his father. incredible punch. (Barbara Pokras, A.C.E.) (Michael Lerman)

W Bearsville • Thur Oct 11 • 8:30 PM Rosendale • Fri Oct 12 • 2:00 PM DARK MATTER duality of the two cultures. Xing, Directed by Chen Shi-Zheng obsessed with solving the complex dark matter problem, believes he USA / 2007 / 90 minutes can escape the Chinese model Wealthy Joanna Silver (Meryl Streep), student where the student never challenges of Chinese culture , practices the ancient art of Tai the teacher. Here in America, he Chi. Thus begins Dark Matter . the story of bril - assumes academic freedom will pre - liant Chinese astrophysics student Liu Xing, who vail. Confronting Professor Reiser leaves Beijing to study under famed scientist Jacob with ideas that run counter to Reiser (Aidan Quinn). Reiser’s group of Chinese Reiser’s proves disastrous and Xing students, who live and work together, find learns a dark lesson in the politics of academia. professor’s theories, and events, do indeed take a American ways amusing and their observations, Despite Joanna’s intervention, he is displaced by a dark turn. subtitled as they speak Chinese, pinpoint the more compliant student willing to support the (Barbara Pokras, A.C.E.)

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W Tinker Street Cinema • Thur Oct 11 • 6:45 PM W Tinker Street • Fri Oct 12 • 4:30 PM W Bearsville • Sat Oct 13 • 7:30 PM R Upstate I • Thur Oct 11 • 7:00 PM Rosendale • Sat Oct 13 • 7:00 PM H Catskill Mtn Fdn • Sat Oct 13 • 9:00 PM THE DIVING BELL GRACE IS GONE THE HOUSE IS BURNING AND THE BUTTERFLY Directed by James Strouse7 Directed by Holger Ernst Directed by Julian Schnabel USA / 2007 / 90 minutes Germany / USA / 2006 / 97 minutes USA / 2007 / 112 minutes There was a time when Stanley Phillips (John A night of chaos looms ahead for Mike Miller just In French with subtitles Cusack) could see his entire life clearly. He as he’s about to leave for the army. In a reckless act At 43, Jean-Dominique Bauby, the rakishly suc - dreamed of patriotic service and was destined of betrayal, Mike’s girlfriend Val breaks up with him, cessful and charismatic editor-in-chief of for a military career. He came close to that dream later bragging about it to her friends. Terry, Val’s con - French Elle was a man defined by his passion for until it was cut short simply because of his poor eye - fidant, is so psychically bruised, not even the pills she life. On December 1995, he suffered a massive sight. Now he’s serving customers at a home supply downs can fix the pain. Add to the mix Phil, a brutal stroke and his brain stem was rendered inactive. In store while his Sergeant wife is fighting in Iraq. drug dealer on the verge of a big score, and Steve, so these few bewildering moments, his life was forever While tolerating his job and stumbling through ravaged by the regular beatings he endures from his changed. After lapsing into a coma, he awoke 20 parenting Heidi, their twelve-year-old daughter and father he exists in a perpetual state of rage and confu - days later to find himself the victim of a rare her eight-year-old sister Dawn, he is abruptly awak - sion, and the stage is set for a farewell party where vio - locked-in syndrome - mentally alert but perma - ened when tragedy strikes. Ill prepared to deal with it lence and excess rule. Not since Larry Clark’s Kids has nently deprived of movement and speech. Refusing himself, he is at a complete loss, contemplating how a film so completely thrust itself into the dark side of to accept his fate, Bauby determined to escape the to tell his children. Desperate to delay telling the chil - adolescence. Melissa Leo is outstanding as Mike’s paralysis of his diving bell and free the butterflies of dren, they embark on a spontaneous road trip. widowed and tormented mother clinging to her frag - his dreams and imagination. The only way he could Grasping to give them their last moments of inno - ile daughter, Stella, whom she fears she may lose. express his frustration, however, was by moving his cence, Stanley reveals a softer side as they travel to (Barbara Pokras, A.C.E.) left eye. These movements, and blinking a code Dawn’s chosen destination - Enchanted Gardens representing letters of the alphabet became his sole Theme Park. means of communication. Slowly, painstakingly, The farther they drive, the closer they become words, sentences, paragraphs and finally an affect - ,yet Stanley knows he must face the inevitable task of 7

ing, and life-affirming memoir emerged. This changing their lives forever. 0 0 2 courageous and breathtaking film won the coveted C W T / k

Best Director Award at Cannes. n e W n a h t W Tinker Street • Sun Oct 14 • 6:00 PM a n o J

I’M NOT THERE W Tinker Street • Sun Oct 14 • 9:00 PM - s e n y

Directed by Todd Haynes a H d d

USA / 2006 / 97 minutes o T n i e d u

Inspired by the life and many lives of Bob Dylan, the protest-music scene, and later as a born-again J s a t I’m Not There is an unconventional journey . Six Christian, Julianne Moore as a folk-singing cham - t e h c n a

actors portray Dylan as a series of shifting personas, pion, Heath Ledger as an actor and motorcycle l B e t

weaving together a rich and colorful portrait of this enthusiast, and Cate Blanchett as an increasingly a C ever-elusive American icon. The seven different iden - nihilistic persona. Evading emotional attachments tities are braided together, seven organs pumping and basic self-preservation, his dangerous game pro - through one life story, as dense and vibrant as the pels him into existential breakdown. This last char - era it inspired. The film stars Ben Wishaw as a rene - acter (Richard Gere) is discovered in full retreat from gade symbolist poet, Marcus Carl Franklin as a pre - the world. But events force him to abandon sanctu - cocious train-hopper, Christian Bale as the herald of ary and continue moving on. CLOSING NIGHT FILM

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W PM W Bearsville Theater • Fri Oct 12 • 4:45 PM W Tinker Street Cinema • Fri Oct 12 • 11:30 AM Tinker Street Cinema • Thur Oct 11 • 9:30 R Upstate Films • Sun Oct 14 • 5:30 PM H Catskill Mtn Fdn • Fri Oct 12 • 9:00 PM Competition Finalist IN SEARCH OF A MIDNIGHT KISS ISKA’S JOURNEY LET THEM CHIRP AWHILE Directed by Alex Holdridge Directed by Csaba Bollyk Directed by Jonathan Blitstein USA / 2007 / 98 minutes Hungary / 2007 / 92 minutes USA / 2007 / 91 minutes In Hungarian (with subtitles) and English In Search of a Midnight Kiss takes a candid Let Them Chirp Awhile is a film comedy about look at the new standards of love and romance Iska’s Journey is the tough and inspiring true story two over-educated, midwestern transplants in fast-paced Los Angeles. At the persistent urging of an innocent young girl who spends her days col - struggling to make it as artists in New York of his roommate, Wilson, a disillusioned writer, lecting and selling scrap metal in order to support her City’s East Village. posts an Internet ad in search of a date for New family - and her parents’ drinking habits. . Retaining Bobby (Justin Rice from Mutual Appreciation, Year’s Eve. Enter Vivian, a straightforward beauty her dignity, Iska dreams of one day taking a voyage at Funny Ha-Ha ) is an aspiring writer and Scott on mission: to be with Mr. Right when the clock sea. Enduring setbacks and hardships, she wonders (Brendan Sexton III from Welcome to the Dollhouse, strikes midnight. As the new friends negotiate whether she’ll ever get out of the brutal, low-class, Empire Records ) wants to be a musician, but neither themselves through the bizarrely comic events of dreary Eastern European town where she lives, and are successful because they share an unhealthy the fated evening, facades give way to honest con - onto a better life. But the resilient Iska refuses to give obsession with the integrity and meaning of their fessions and undeniable attraction. Featuring gen - up hope and she may just yet experience the nautical work. Hart Carlton, (Zach Galligan from Gremlins ) uine performances from Scoot McNairy and Sara journey she’s been waiting for, even if it’s not how she their mutual friend, is a pretentious and prolific Simmons and shot in black and white, In Search of imagined. Based on real events with a cast almost playwright whose success comes because he lacks a Midnight Kiss offers a funny and touching look entirely portraying themselves in this fictional narra - Bobby and Scott’s high standards. When Hart’s into the chaotic emotional lives of the 20-some - tive (including an incredibly strong performance from newest “masterpiece” - a morality tale about 9/11 thing in the 21st century. newcomer Mária Varga), Iska’s Journey is a searing and gets produced with Anthony Rapp ( Rent, A (Shannon Gallagher) powerful tale that will certainly find a place in your Beautiful Mind ) in the starring role, Scott spirals heart. downward into a mess of guilt and rage, while (Michael Lerman) Bobby absentmindedly loses his friend’s dog. What results is a biting social satire about moral relativism, self-reliance, authorship and authenticity in a stylized homage to the Italian neo- realist films of the 50s and 60s.

Rosendale • Fri Oct 12 • 4:30 PM Bearsville • Sun Oct 14 • 11:00 AM Competition Finalist very carefully weighs the pros and cons LIBERTY KID of taking on his greatest fear, which, he feels, may be his only option: joining the Directed by Ilya Chaiken U.S. Army. Gritty, streetwise, and yet USA / 2007 / 91 minutes sensitive, director Ilya Chaiken tells the Derrick and Tico’s friendship was like intimate and touching tale of two men any other. Best buds from a young age, fighting to keep it together in a world the two navigate their way through the that is falling apart. Featuring pointedly city streets together, discussing women solid performances from Al Thompson and dreams of getting rich. But when and newcomer Kareem Saviñson, Liberty Derrick and Tico lose their jobs in the and friendship from falling to pieces. Looking Kid is a potent slice of life with an engag - wake of 9/11, their worlds are turned upside for a quick solution, Tico turns to petty crime ingly, timely twist that feels very close to down and they must struggle to keep their lives and trickery, while the more responsible Derrick home. (Michael Lerman)

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N EAST COAST PREMIERE WORLD PREMIERE W Bearsville Theater • Fri Oct 12 • 7:15 PM W Tinker Street • Sat Oct 13 • 6:45 PM W Bearsville Theater • Thur Oct 11 • 6:00 PM R Upstate Films • Sun Oct 14 • 3:00 PM Rosendale • Sun Oct 14 • 6:00 PM R Upstate Films • Sat Oct 13 • 1:45 PM Competition Finalist Competition Finalist THE LIVING WAKE LARS AND THE REAL GIRL NEAL CASSADY Directed by Sol Tryon Directed by Craig Gillespie Directed by Noah Buschel USA / 2007 / 90 minutes USA / 2007 / 106 minutes USA / 2006 / 80 minutes The Living Wake is a dark comedy set in a time - Written by Six Feet Under scribe Nancy Oliver, Lars Noah Buschel’s intelligent and unusual new less storybook universe. Self-proclaimed artist and the Real Girl is a heartfelt comedy starring biopic focuses on the life of Neal Cassady, a and genius K. Roth Binew has one day to live. He Academy-Award ® nominated Ryan Gosling as Lars young man who fell into the circle of writers that has enlisted his best and only friend, Mills Joquin, Lindstrom a loveable introvert whose emotional baggage would later become famous for launching the Beat to take him around on a bicycle-powered rickshaw. has kept him from fully embracing life. After years of Generation. Cassady became a cultural icon when his In a final attempt to probe life’s deepest mysteries, what is almost solitude, he invites Bianca, a friend he new confidants used him as the impetus for their Binew endures one ridiculous trial after the next. met on the internet to visit him. He introduces Bianca to writing. Chronicled by greats like Allen Ginsberg and He concludes his day with a final performance, his his Brother Gus (Paul Schneider) and his wife Karin Hunter S. Thompson, Cassady became an anti-hero living wake. On a makeshift stage in an open field, (Emily Mortimer) and they are stunned. They don't for a new age. But, it was as Dean Moriarity, the lead Binew’s friends and enemies gather to witness his know what to say to Lars or Bianca - because she is a life- character in Jack Kerouac’s historic On the Road, that madness one final time size doll, not a real person and he is treating her as he will be most remembered. And it is in Cassady’s though she is alive. They consult the family doctor relationship with this alter-ego character that Dagmar (Patricia Clarkson) who explains this is a delu - Buschel’s film finds its heart. Moriarty, a sore spot for sion he's created - for what reason she doesn't yet know Cassady in later life when he’d hoped to find a private but they should all go along with it. What follows is an peace, forces him to never forget the demons he emotional journey for Lars and the people around him. uncovered on his fateful road trip with Kerouac. Primarily shot in gorgeous black and white, and with a searing hip tone that mirrors the writing of the gen - eration, Neal Cassady poses the question: can we ever really escape our past? (Michael Lerman)

W Tinker Street • Fri Oct 12 • 9:30 PM Rosendale • Sat Oct 13 • 9:45 PM

Reservation Road is the compelling new their 10-year-old son Josh (Sean Curley). On the way dramatic thriller from two-time home, they all stop at a gas station on Reservation Academy Award-nominated writer/ Road. There, in one terrible instant, he is taken from director Terry George ( Hotel Rwanda ). A them forever. tale of anger, revenge, and great courage, On a warm September evening, law associate SPECIAL SCREENING Reservation Road follows two fathers as Dwight Arno (Mark Ruffalo) and his 11-year-old RESERVATION ROAD their families and lives converge. son Lucas (Eddie Alderson) are attending a base - On a warm September evening, college profes - ball game. Dwight cherishes his time spent with Directed by Terry George sor Ethan Learner (two-time Academy Award nomi - Lucas. Driving his son back to his ex-wife, Lucas’ USA / 2006 / 102 minutes nee Joaquin Phoenix), his wife Grace (Academy mother Ruth Wheldon (Academy Award winner Based on the critically acclaimed novel of the Award winner Jennifer Connelly), and their daughter Mira Sorvino), Dwight heads toward his fateful same name by John Burnham Schwartz , Emma (Elle Fanning) are attending a recital featuring encounter at Reservation Road.

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SEVERED WAYS: SUPERHEROES TRIGGER MAN THE NORSE Directed by Alan Brown Directed by Ti West DISCOVERY OF AMERICA USA / 2007 / 84 minutes USA / 2007 / 80 minutes Directed by Tony Stone Superheroes follows the return of an Iraq war Three old friends, determined to get out of the USA /2007 /107 minutes/ veteran, Ben Patchett, to American life, and city, set off for a hunting trip in the woods of rural In the year 1007 AD, somewhere on the North explores the damage inflicted on one man by war Delaware. Taking their time, they carefully survey the American coast, two Vikings are stranded and left and the limitations of redemption. While Ben was scene, looking for wild game while drinking beer and for dead when their expedition is attacked. Left with away, his wife left him for another man, taking their discussing their home lives. But when a surprisingly no other choice but to make their homes in the wild, daughters with her. His body filled with shrapnel horrific incident occurs, their lives are changed for - one camp at a time, the men trudge through the from a mine explosion and pumped full of medica - ever. In a kind of nightmarish version of The Fugitive woods hoping to reunite with their countrymen. But tion, Ben is back living with his parents in his mixed with Diner , Ti West, director of The Roost , the foreign terrain presents a wholly new set of chal - childhood home in Queens, traumatized and in slightly shifts gears for this buddy movie cum high- lenges, one that is compounded by the arrival of both constant pain. He attends a Post-Traumatic Stress octane thriller, which deals more with real-world ter - Indians and Irish Monks. In one of the most unique Disorder support group at a V.A. clinic in New rors. Featuring a cameo from producer Larry feats of filmmaking of recent years, first-time director York. There he meets Nick Jones, who has volun - Fessenden, Trigger Man is a chase film with a viseral, Tony Stone (a Bard College graduate) takes his mini - teered to videotape Ben’s PTSD group. Just a year vérité approach to horror. mal budget to the extreme in this epic adventure shot out of college, Nick half-heartedly pursues a career primarily in the Hudson Valley. At once meditative in documentary film while living with his dancer and exhilarating, Severed Ways is an adventure worthy ex-girlfriend. When Ben invites Nick to come and preceded by NIGHT OF THE LIVING JEWS of Werner Herzog, featuring full Nordic ballads and film him during his stay at a borrowed house in the Directed by Oliver Noble incredible historical accuracy to boot. A one-of-a-kind Catskills, a wary but ultimately tender friendship USA/2007/17:30 minutes homegrown sensation, Stone is sure to go on as one evolves between these two very different men. of America’s most promising cinematic voices. Featuring cameos from Hudson Valley filmmakers, (Michael Lerman) actors, authors, poets, luminaries and other lunatics, Night of the Living Jews is not just another Hasidic Zombie movie.

R Upstate Films • Sat Oct 13 • 6:45 PM Tinker Street • Sun Oct 14 • 3:15 PM UNDER THE SAME MOON W Directed by Patricia Riggen USA / 2007 / 109 minutes Under The Same Moon (La Misma Luna ) tells the parallel stories of nine-year-old Carlitos and his mother, Rosario. In the hopes of provid - ing a better life for her son, Rosario works illegally in the U.S. while her mother cares for Carlitos back in Mexico. Unexpected circumstances drive both Rosario and Carlitos to embark on their own journeys in a desperate attempt to reunite. Along the way, mother and son face challenges and obstacles but never lose hope that they will one day be together again. Riggen’s film is not only a heartwarming family story; she also offers sub - tle commentary on the much-debated issue of illegal immigration. . CENTERPIECE SCREENING

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W Community Center • Sat Oct 13 • 9:45 PM W Town Hall • Fri Oct 12 • 12:00 PM

S W Town Hall • Fri Oct 12 • 7:00 PM W Town Hall • Sun Oct 14 • 6:00 PM Rosendale • Sat Oct 13 • 2:15 PM E

I Competition Finalist R BEGGING NAKED BILLY THE KID BLACK WHITE & GRAY: A

T Directed by Karen Gehresz Directed by Jennifer Venditti A PORTRAIT OF SAM WAGSTAFF

N USA / 2006 / 70 minutes USA / 2006 / 84 minutes AND ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE E Directed by James Crumpi The George Washington Bridge is the road tra - The words touching and haunting come to mind M USA / 2007 / 77 minutes

U versed by Elise Hill, a teenage runaway escap - when thinking about Jennifer Venditti’s intimate

C ing an abusive suburban family and slipping, portrait of Billy P., an adolescent with a history of At the epicenter of the New York punk-arts scene

O purposefully, into life as a sex worker in the pre- behavioral problems and medical treatments. Billy the was a unique trio of characters. Sam Wagstaff, D Guilliani Times Square peep show district. With Kid begins as an intimate portrait that quickly Robert Mapplethorpe, and Patti Smith had a compli - the “Disneyfication” of Times Square, Elise, a bril - expands into broader social observation of teenage cated, intricate and powerful relationship that rocked liant artist, attempts to support herself by selling self-discovery; both the darkest and brightest places the worlds of music and art. Neatly weaving the her work. Unable to pay her rent and facing evic - in youth. Shot in eight days over two seasons, the film messy pieces together without sacrificing any of its tion from her virtual squatter’s home, a converted uses a trans-genre, vérité approach in which the sub - complexities, James Crump pries open the world of air-shaft in an apartment building, Elise teeters on ject seems to be directing the movement of the film as burgeoning art and social conflict while keeping us the brink of madness. Sally Roth, Elise’s upscale equally as the filmmakers. Intrigued by Billy’s engaged in a fascinating story. With magnificent cine - neighbor, befriends her. Though worlds apart, Sally eccentric wisdom and pop-infused sensibility, matography, the audience is swept through the provides commentary and nurturing, appreciates Venditti traveled to Maine to capture moments from engrossing life of Sam Wagstaff, an enigmatic curator Elise’s art, and, as Elise’s life unravels, attempts to the precocious teen’s everyday life. Billy allowed the and collector who changed the face of art by bringing normalize the terror of life on the streets with gifts filmmakers to follow him and witness the highs and controversial and previously neglected art into play. of showers, laundry and home cooked meals. lows of school, as well as emotional discussions with But Wagstaff’s legacy goes beyond this; in the 70s, Filmmaker Karen Gehres has created a stunning his mother. When Billy serendipitiously crosses paths Wagstaff launched Mapplethorpe into stardom and portrait of her friend over a nine-year period. with his crush Heather at the local diner, the film thus began an extraordinary, influential art world rela - Heartbreaking, haunting and compassionate, takes an unexpected turn. Billy shares acute observa - tionship. Patti Smith provides insightful interviews Begging Naked is not to be missed. tions about himself and those around him without into their lives and relationships, keeping the film (Barbara Pokras, A.C.E.) restriction. The film challenges viewers to look accessible and intimate. beyond labels and contemplate the undetermined (Cait Van Damm) future of a teen.

W Town Hall • Sun Oct 14 • 1:15 PM BONNEVILLE 101 Directed by Viktor Von dracek 2006/USA/86 minutes Last March (2006), a local motorcycle club decided to follow up its weekly Tuesday night din - ner with a movie at the Rosendale Theatre. They caught The World’s Fastest Indian , starring Anthony Bernard set out to break the world record. Hopkins. The night out inspired club members Scott After discussing the inconceivable idea with This fly-on-the-wall doc follows these would- Kolb and Chris Bernard to fabricate a 100% custom motorcycle enthusiast and Markertek be record holders, dreamers, techies and master streamliner motorcycle which they would enter into owner/founder Mark Braunstein, a plan was craftsmen as they struggle with fabrication in their the world motorcycle speed trials at Bonneville Salt hatched. With his support and help from dozens of upstate New York machine shop, then set out to Flats in Utah in September - only five months later! other friends and local businesses, Kolb and become the ‘world’s fastest!’

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WORLD PREMIERE EAST COAST PREMIER EAST COAST PREMIER W Town Hall • Sat Oct 13 • 12:00 PM R Upstate Films • Fri Oct 12 • 4:30 PM D Bearsville • Sat Oct 13 • 10:00 PM W R Upstate Films • Sun Oct 14 • 12:45 PM W Bearsville Theater • Sun Oct 14 • 4:00 PM O

Competition Finalist Competition Finalist C

CHASIN’ GUS’ CONSTANTINE’S SWORD THE COOL SCHOOL U M GHOST Directed by Oren Jacoby Directed by Julien Temple E

Directed byTodd Kwaiti USA / 2006 / 95 minutes USA / 2007 / 86 minutes N

Japan, USA / 2007 / 97 minutes In English, German, Italian, and Yiddish T Morgan Neville’s The Cool School is a detailed and A Constantine’s Sword begins in Colorado Springs, A personal exploration of the devotional profile of Venice Beach beats turned R

roots and growth of Jug Band Music in the where anti-Semitism and Evangelical endorse - modern art movers and shakers. On the East Coast, I United States, starting with Gus Cannon and ments are running rampant at the U.S. Air Force Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock and Jasper Johns E S Cannon’s Jug Stompers, The Memphis Jug Band Academy. James Carroll, a former Catholic priest were blasting creative boundaries, while in and the Dixieland Jug Blowers. The film weaves a with an Air Force upbringing, dives head-on into the Hollywood, the anti-commie brigade was stifling tapestry through interviews, live performances, dark past of Catholicism and how its roots have come movies and artwork that refused to kowtow to their archival footage and photographs, showing Jug to flourish in the modern era. Focusing on Christian standards of decency. Enter Walter Hopps and Ed Music’s influence on the folk and rock movements anti-semitism and the more recent violence against Kienholz, who in 1957 flipped over a hotdog wrapper of the 60s and 70s. The film proceeds to reveal Jug Muslims, Carroll traces how traditional Christian and scribbled a pledge to open L.A.’s premiere mod - Music’s modern popularity in Japan and features heroes marginalized a vibrant people, and makes the ern gallery. Ferus—a simple space with grand ambi - interviews and performances by John Sebastian, history of anti-Semitism painfully clear and accessible. tions—was a California earthquake. Its scrappy artists Geoff Muldaur, Jim Kweskin, Bob Weir and the leg - In doing so, he artfully integrates his own personal shook up the dull tastemakers, got arrested for endary Fritz Richmond. Chasin’ Gus’ Ghost is a his - story of religion and activism. The film offers a har - obscenity and expanded their ranks to embrace fellow torical retrospective that spans the globe and rowing look into U.S. foreign policy, past and pres - innovators from across the spectrum, including honors many great talents from yesterday and ent, and the role that religious fanaticism has Marcel Duchamp, Dennis Hopper and Andy Warhol, today. played. Constantine’s Sword whips around the globe whose first-ever gallery show of 32 soup cans debuted to reveal the ancient shortcomings of a great power not in Manhattan, but in Los Angeles. But with great and its modern implications. From the Crusades to success came even greater egos, and competition Bush’s war in Iraq, Constantine’s Sword pulls its threatened to take the movement down before it was audience through history and is an essential tool for fully up and running. understanding war and religion throughout the ages.

SPECIAL SCREEINING W Town Hall • Sat Oct 13 • 10:00 AM FOR LOVE OF JULIAN Directed by Meira Blaustein USA / 1999 / 67 minutes For Love of Julian is an inspired and personal documentary about multiply handi - capped, medically fragile children. Featuring the director’s son, the movie dispels the fears and mysteries surrounding these children. At once impassioned and unsentimental, For Love of Julian is a recognition of the humanity in these children, and a plea for the rest of us to honor and nurture humanity in all its myriad forms. Candid and strikingly intimate interviews with parents and professionals are combined with unflinching images of the chil - dren themselves to open a unique window into this unfamiliar world.

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WORLD PREMIERE NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE W Community Center• Fri Oct 12 • 5:30 PM R Upstate II • Thur Oct 11 •7:15 PM R Upstate Films • Fri Oct 12 • 4:45 PM S R Upstate Films • Sat Oct 13 • 7:30 PM W Town Hall • Sat Oct 13 • 7:30 PM W Tinker Street • Sat Oct 13 • 4:00 PM E I

R FREEHELD GOOD OL’ CHARLES SCHULTZ HIPPIE MASALA A

T Directed by Cynthia Wade Directed by David Van Taylor Directed by

N USA / 2007 / 38 minutes USA / 2007 / 84 minutes Ulrich Grossenbacher & Damaris Luthi

E Switzerland / 2006 / 93 minutes follows the historic battle of Lieutenant For 50 years, Charles M. Schulz captivated and M Freeheld In German, Hindi and English

U Laurel Hester, a dying New Jersey police officer comforted millions with Peanuts, his innovative

C who fights to transfer her pension to her domestic daily chronicle of cruelty, hope and heartbreak in Hippie Masala translates as “Forever in India,” a

O partner, Stacie Andree. As her elected officials, The the younger set. But unprecedented worldwide choice made by some of the millions of Flower D Freeholders, stand firmly against her, and the town success did not quiet his own Charlie-Brown-style Children who flocked to India in the 1960s and explodes around her, Laurel races against time to pro - doubts. Instead, the outwardly mild-mannered 70s. Indian peasants assumed that a severe drought vide for the love of her life — before it is too late. Schulz relentlessly revisited the turbulent realities in the West was the reason for their migration. of his lost childhood in search of elusive answers. India’s holy men saw it, more accurately, as a preceded by Like Citizen Kane (a film Schulz watched over 40 search for spirituality. And those who stayed on Airplanes Casting Pearls times), Good Ol’ Charles Schulz tries to decipher an shared a profound need for personal freedom, as well as a love of drugs and/or spirituality. Cesare, Directed by Jen Heck Directed by Andrea James iconic, enigmatic American success story. Produced by Ron Nyswaner an Italian expatriate, emaciated and hunched over, USA / 2006 / 10 minutes sacrifices personal identity in order to immerse USA / 2006 / 7 minutes Two teenaged girls hook up himself in yoga. Robert from Holland, a gifted at a carnival, but when Calpernia Addams stars as painter, lives with a wife and young children. evening falls, their tentative The Actress, and we follow Meera, a recluse, seeks enlightenment on her own. friendship threatens to her on a hectic series of audi - Hanspeter, a Swiss, reveals a dark side as he farms dissolve. tions. Despite all the horri - and builds an elaborate home. And Erica and ble, funny and cruel things Gillian, South African sisters, seek the world’s said by various Hollywood party spots. A fascinating chronicle, beautifully industry people, The Actress shot and meticulously crafted. carries on with plucky deter - (Barbara Pokras, A.C.E.) mination .

W Tinker Street Cinema • Fri Oct 12 • 2:00 PM H Catskill Mtn Fdn • Sat Oct 13 • 6:30 PM HOW TO COOK YOUR LIFE (WIE MAN SEIN LEBEN KOCHT) Directed by Doris Dörrie 2007/Germany/93 minutes Move over Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance! Filmmaker Doris Dörrie turns EAST COAST PREMIERE her attention to Buddhism and that age-old say - ing, ‘you are what you eat.’ the guiding principles of Zen Buddhism as they “When you wash the rice,” he replied, “wash In How to Cook Your Life, Dörrie creates a life apply to the preparation of food and life itself. the rice; when you cut the carrots, cut the carrots; affirming documentary by followoing the charis - “When I was first starting to cook,” recalls when you stir the soup, stir the soup.” matic Zen Master Edward Espe Brown to explain Brown, “I asked Suzuki Roshi if he had any advice How to Cook Your Life is a tasteful reminder that for me.” eating well is an essential part of living well.

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EAST COAST PREMIER NEW YORK PREMIERE

Bearsville Theater • Fri Oct 12 • 11:45 AM Rosendale • Fri Oct 12 • 9:45 PM D W W Town Hall • Sat Oct 13 • 10:00 PM W Tinker Street • Sat Oct 13 • 9:15 PM

R Upstate Films • Sat Oct 13 • 11:30 AM O Competition Finalist C

IRON LADIES OF LIBERIA JOE STRUMMER: LIVING THE BLUES U M Directed by Daniel Junge and Siatta Scott Johnson THE FUTURE IS UNWRITTEN Directed by Timothy Duffy & Larry Banks E

USA / 2007 / 77 minutes Directed by Julien Temple N

UK / 2006 / 123 minutes Armenia / 2006 / 40 minutes T Iron Ladies of Liberia is a unique look behind the Living the Blues is an intimate visit with nine A

scenes at the rebirth of a nation and democracy Taking his message through time and fame, Joe R elder blues artists that have kept a musical in action, under the steady hand of a woman deter - Strummer embodied all that punk could be. I mined to use the power of her position to help her Director Julien Temple invites you to jump down the tradition alive. These men and women have experi - E S people and move her country forward. rabbit hole into the world of 70s London, where enced the transition from the old South to the new. After nearly two decades of brutal civil war, Strummer and his mates formed their first band. Thus They have worked as sharecroppers and laborers in Liberia was a nation ready for change. In January begins a raucous and intimate ride through time, the factories and fields of the American South. Their 2006, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf was inaugurated chronicling the rise and fall of the Clash, Strummer’s stories define how the gift for musical expression can President, immediately earning a place in history as political devotion to punk, and his post-Clash cre - sustain a person through the hardest of times. the first woman ever elected president of an African ation, the Mescaleros. preceded by nation. Since her surprising victory over interna - Perhaps the most influential punk band ever, preceded by tional soccer star George Weah, President Sirleaf The Clash took the world by storm in the early 80s Woodstock-Siberia has appointed women to key positions throughout with Strummer at the lead with a call to arms against Blues Express the government. This diverse group of women, the corrupt bourgeoisie. Strummer’s life and musical Directed by Boris Mamlin along with other women across the country, has clout, however, resonate long after the last chords of Russia/USA / 2006 / 26 minutes adopted their popular President’s nickname: they London Calling . This short reveals how music are all “Iron Ladies of Liberia.” The film follows The film includes footage that spans the full can bring two worlds together as the President and the extraordinary women sur - length of his career along with intimate interviews it follows Professor Louie’s visit rounding her as they develop and implement poli - from band-mates and those he influenced. Beautifully to Siberia, where he taught chil - cies to rebuild their ravaged country, and prevent a put together and utterly fearless, Joe Strummer: The dren English through singing, descent back into civil war. The stakes are high, Future Is Unwritten will leave you exhilerated. and performed and taught the and the outcome uncertain, but the commitment (Cait Van Damm) blues to local musicians. of the Iron Ladies will not falter.

R Upstate Films • Sat Oct 13 • 2:15 PM NEW YORK PREMIERE W Town Hall • Sun Oct 14 • 3:30 PM Competition Finalist MAKING TROUBLE Directed by Rachel Talboti USA / 2006 / 85 minutes Comediennes Cory Kahaney, Jackie Hoffman, Jessica Kirson and Judy Gold take us on a com - edy tour of five of the funniest women in the sex, husbands and pantyhose into hilarious and Wasserstein’s sharply observed female characters. history of Jewish humor, all the while noshing on informative forays into the lives and work of early Commentary by Martin Short, Molly Haskell, platters of pastrami, half sour pickles, knishes and pioneers Molly Picon and Fanny Brice, stars of Fyvish Finkel and a host of others adds to the mix. other treats at that mecca of Jewish culture, Katz’s Yiddish Theater, the outrageous Sophie Tucker, and Making Trouble is sheer delight. And best of all, you delicatessan on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. on to the “compulsively candid” humor of Gilda don’t have to be Jewish. But it couldn’t hurt! Conversation glides effortlessly from chatter about Radner, “in your face” Joan Rivers and Wendy (Barbara Pokras A.C.E.)

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NEW YORK PREMIERE WORK IN PROGRESS US PREMIER W Town Hall • Fri Oct 12 • 9:30 PM W Community Center • Sat Oct 13 • 5:15 PM R Upstate Films • Fri Oct 12 • 9:45 PM S R Upstate Films • Sat Oct 13 • 4:45 PM E

I Competition Finalist

R MOVING MIDWAY NEITHER MEMORY NOMADAK.TX A

T Directed by Godfrey Cheshire NOR MAGIC Directed by Raul de la Fuente

N USA / 2007 / 98 minutes Directed by Hugo Perez Spain / 2006 / 86 minutes E 2007/USA/70 minutes Arabic, Basque, English, Gujarati,

M After working for years as a film critic in Hindi, Spanish with subtitles

U New York, Godfrey Cheshire returned to his In the spring of 1946, a mass grave was

C An aural and visual feast, cele - native North Carolina to try his hand at film - unearthed in the Hungarian village of Abda. Nömadak Tx

O brates cultural diversity while simultaneously making. Twenty-two decayed bodies were found sprawled in D demonstrating the unity of humankind. In his brilliant debut, Cheshire delves deep the pit. One of the bodies found in the grave was Basque into his personal history and a sensitive part of that of the poet Miklos Radnoti, shot into the grave musicians Igor Otxoa and Harkaitz Mtnez. de San American history. The film tells the story of Midway by Hungarian fascists 18 months earlier. Found in Vicente travel to some of the most remote and Plantation, a property in Chesire’s family since the front pocket of his coat was a small notebook exotic places on the planet, bringing with them the 1848. In light of “big box urbanization,” soaked in his bodily fluids. It was laid out to dry in music of the txalaparta, a traditional instrument Cheshire’s cousin Charlie, now owner of t he prop - the sunlight and when examined later revealed the made of wood and played by two people. The erty, plans to move the house to a more rural loca - poet’s last poems carefully handwritten onto the txalaparta produces astounding and exhilarating tion. But there is more to a plantation than just the ruled lines of the notebook. Neither Memory Nor rhythms, belonging not to the individual player but iconic house. As graveyards, ghosts and concealed Magic uses Radnoti’s final poems to tell the story of to the collaboration of the two. From sweltering family lines are dug up and put on display, Moving a man who believed in the power of his poetry to Mumbai to the Saapmi people of the Arctic Circle, Midway presents a thoughtful and intelligent dis - survive even while he knew that he himself would the Mongolian steppes to the desolate Sahara, the cussion on traditional Southern values. not. Narrated by Patrica Clarkson, this compelling deceptively simple rhythms and the exchange of The film captivates as Cheshire, along with a film is beautifullly edited, photographically stun - music create a bond joining together the people of long-lost African-American descendent of the plan - ning, and honors how a spirit can live on beyond the world. In a brilliant third act montage, a great tation’s former owner and a cook, explore what the adversity in the powerful words of a poet. well of wishes rises up and the rhythm of the txala - plantation represents in terms of history, race and parta becomes the very pulse of life. Visceral and family. inspiring, Nömadak Tx is a powerful and joyous (Cait Van Damm ) reminder that we are, indeed, all one people. (Barbara Pokras, A.C.E.)

W Town Hall • Sat Oct 13 • 2:30 PM OPERATION FILMMAKER R Upstate Films • Sun Oct 14 • 3:15 PM Directed by Nina Davenport USA / 2007 / 92 minutes English and Arabic In a story as convoluted as the Iraq war itself, 25-year-old Iraqi film student Muthad Mohmed is invited to intern on Liev Schreiber’s Everything is Illuminated in the Czech Republic. Ironically, the theme of the film, young people crossing a cultural divide, becomes the story of Muthad and the film - makers who set out to help him. Nina Davenport, hired to direct the docu - mentary, is soon caught up in the conflicts between Muthad, who refuses to US PREMIERE fulfill the expectations of his benefactors, and the political realities of the dangers that the boy would face back in Iraq. Muthad truly becomes a “man without a country.” “I love George Bush because he changed my life,” says Muthad early on. But as the war escalates and he becomes disenchanted with motives of all those around him, what emerges is a gripping portrait of an angry young man adrift in an alien culture. (Barbara Pokras, A.C.E.)

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WORLD PREMIER NEW YORK PREMIERE SPECIAL SCREENING R Upstate Films • Fri Oct 12 • 7:00 PM W Town Hall • Fri Oct 12 • 4:45 PM R Upstate Films • Sat Oct 13 • 4:15 PM D W Bearsville • Sun Oct 14 • 1:30 PM W Town Hall • Sun Oct 14 •11:00 AM W Tinker Street • Sun Oct 14 • 12:45 PM O

Competition Finalist C

OSWALDS GHOST RUN GRANNY RUN STEAL A PENCIL U M Directed by Robert Stone Directed by Marlo Porasi FOR ME E

USA / 2006 / 90 minutes USA / 2007 / 78 minutes Directed by Michele Ohayon N

USA / 2006 / 94 minutes T Smart and compelling, this doc - Doris “Granny D” Haddock is the nation’s oldest A

umentary pulls the audience into a land of con - political newcomer. At the ripe young age of 90, she Steal a Pencil for Me is a compelling documen - R

spiracy and wonder about an infamous moment in laced up her sneakers and walked across America in a tary about the power of love and the ability of I American history. The assassination of President personal rally against big money’s influence in today’s humankind to rise above unimaginable suffering. E S John F. Kennedy in November 1963 was to its era electoral process. Four years later, documentary film - Ina, young beauty from a rich family, captures the what the attacks on September 11th are to ours. maker Marlo Poras followed Granny D, now 94, in her heart of Jack, an unassuming accountant. But Jack What followed was a decade of political paranoia, quest for a seat on the U.S. senate. Employing a mot - is already married, to a flirtatious spouse. History unprecedented division of the American public, ley crew of political aces and amateurs, and using a itself intervenes: during the Nazi occupation of and accusations of governmental skulduggery. In grassroots strategy, Granny crafts a feisty campaign Holland in 1943, Jack and Ina are placed in the the White House, a conspiratorially-minded presi - that spreads her idealistic notion of a government cre - same concentration camp, along with Jack’s wife, dent threw the nation headlong into a divisive and ated by and for the people across her home state of who forbids the two from seeing each other. Jack unnecessary war in response, partly, to his own New Hampshire, one doorstep at a time. Porasi cap - and Ina must resort to writing secret love letters, growing paranoia over the assassination of his tures the powerful perseverance of the campaign with which sustain them throughout the horrible cir - predecessor. With Oswald’s Ghost , director Robert a sensitive comedic touch in this beautiful film that is cumstancs of the war. Jack and Ina are irresistibly Stone offers a deconstruction of the mythologies bursting at the seams with character. Far from just a witty, eloquent and endearing and the documen - and controversy surrounding what is perhaps the living legend in her own rural community, Granny D tary tells a touching and fascinating true story that most tangled and far-reaching murder mystery of might just be the old school, backwoods politician will warm your heart. A tale of love for all ages. all time. this country has been waiting for. Get ready to stand (Michael Lerman) (Cait Van Damm) up and cheer. (Michael Lerman)

W Bearsville Theater • Sun Oct 14 • 6:30pm SUPER HIGH ME Directed by Michael Blieden USA / 2007 / 90 minutes Featuring comedian Doug Oswald. The comedy rou - Benson, Super High Me tines and on-the-road explores the current debate hijinks create an amusing over medical marijuana. As look at a controversial sub - ject. Benson’s journey cov - part of the journey, Benson WORLD PREMIER ingests and inhales medical ers the two extremes of marijuana for 30 consecutive days in order to get medical exams. Along the way Benson performs detox and addiction, an experience that has “super high.” But first, Benson must go 30 days across the country and hangs with fellow comics brought him a certain infamy amoung the coun - without any marijuana and undertake a series of Sarah Silverman, Bob Odenkirk and Patton terculture of Los Angeles.

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NY PREMIERE W Town Hall • Fri Oct 12 • 2:15 PM W Tinker Street • Thur Oct 11 • 3:30 PM W Bearsville Theater • Thur Oct 11 • 1:00 PM S R Upstate Films • Sat Oct 13 •9:45 PM E I

R SURFWISE TERROR’S ADVOCATE THE UNFORESEEN A

T Directed by Doug Pray Directed by Barbet Schroeder Directed by Laura Dunn

N USA / 2007 / 92 minutes FRANCE / 2007 / 135 minutes USA / 2007 / 88 minutes E Starting with the local story of Austin, Texas’s war M Director Doug Pray, who has made a career of “This film is the director’s point

U skillfully exploring subcultures , artfully combines of view on Jacques Verges , which may differ from on development tycoon Gary Bradley, and trans -

C a rich tapestry of archival footage with modern con - the opinions of people interviewed in it.” Thus begins forming into an allegory for globalization, direc -

O tent, music and graphics in Surfwise, a portrait of the Terror’s Advocate , the controversial and riveting tale of tor Laura Dunn’s new documentary The Unforeseen D Paskowitz Family: The Most Well-Known Family in Jacques Verges, brilliant defense attorney for many of tells an incredibly shocking tale. Those of you who Surfing. The family is led by patriarch Dr. Dorian the world’s most notorious villains. His rogue’s gallery thought that creating small utopias open to all would “Doc” Paskowitz, who left a lucrative medical career of clients and friends includes the likes of Pol Pot, Klaus be the way to jumpstart environmental change one in Hawaii in the fifties to follow his passion for a nat - Barbie, Saddam Hussein, Slobodan Milosevic and piece at a time, think again. This delicately told ural, healthy lifestyle and surfing. He became a leg - sundry other terrorists, despots and murderers. account of Bradley’s downfall, and the facts uncov - endary surfer, introduced the sport to Israel and Fiercely anti-colonial, Verges cuts his teeth defending ered here, serve as a cautionary saga. Dunn’s docu - returned to the United States where he married Algerian terrorists whom he regards as “freedom fight - mentary thrives on not only its power and piercing Juliette and they had nine children in rapid succes - ers.” With clips from “Battle of Algiers,” Schroeder role reversals, but also on its incredible visual sion. The family survived in a tiny, cramped camper illustrates the role of Djamila Bouhired, the young scheme. The film’s lush, widescreen cinematography where they were home-schooled with an alternative, Algerian woman arrested and tortured for planting is so startlingly beautiful that its no surprise that sometimes-despotic philosophy and raised on the bombs in cafes in 1957. A potent symbol of Algerian Terrence Malik was an Executive Producer. Dunn strict diet and lifestyle of animals in the wild. Every Independence, Djamila is both defended by -- and exposes the terrifying realities behind populist vic - night, the kids were exposed to Doc and Juliette’s dis - eventually wedded to -- Verges. Verges, who converts to tory and shocks us into reflection about man’s rela - turbingly open sexual intercourse, and every day, they Islam, is soon overshadowed by Djamila and leaves the tionship with the world he lives in. Essential viewing surfed. Interviewing the Paskowitz parents and all marriage,disappearing for eight years. Yet, through it all, for all environmentally conscious moviegoers. nine children, Pray masterfully establishes the individ - Verges appears charming and urbane. Schroeder has (Michael Lerman) uality of each family member, their bonds, divisions created a portrait of an enigmatic man and in doing so, and their dramas. forces us to examine our own moral conscience. (Barbara Pokras, A.C.E.)

W Bearsville Theater • Fri Oct 12 • 2:00 PM WAR/DANCE Directed by Sean Fine & Andrea Nix Fine USA / 2007 / 105 minutes Set in Northern Uganda, a country ravaged by more than two decades of civil war, this immensely moving documentary tells the story of three children. For their entire lives, Dominic, Nancy and Rose have lived in an active war zone battered by a revolutionary force known for its recruitment of child soldiers. Their families have been murdered, their homes destroyed, and their spirits nearly crushed. But when their school is invited for the first time to compete in Uganda’s National Music and Dance Competition, their historic journey to the nation’s capital also becomes an opportunity prove that fear, war and vio - lence cannot diminish their sense of community nor deter their self-discipline. Throughout, rousing music and dance sequences display the tremendous talent of these joyful children and their classmates who represent the hopes and dreams of the entire village and the spirit of their ancestors. This highly- emotional and beautifully-shot documentary is an unforgettable story of resilience and the power of hope.

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BETON LAVATORY- PAPIROFLEXIA TEAT BEAT OF SEX Directed by Ariel Belinco, Michael Faust LOVESTORY Directed by Joaquin Baldwin Directed by Israel/2007/7 minutes Directed by USA / 2007 / 2:30 minutes Signe Baumane Konstantin The army, annoyed by the existence of a An origami tale of a skillful paper folder USA/Italy/Latvia / Bronzit kite in the clear blue sky, decides to who could shape the world with his 2007 / 4 minutes solve the problem.. Russia / 2007 / hands. Four short lectures 10 minutes on sex given by a FANTAISIE IN BUBBLEWRAP A public bathroom provides the back - knowing woman. Directed by Arthur Metcalf drop for this charming story of sweet USA / 2007 / minutes love that can’t be stalled. THE TOURISTS A short, whimsical jaunt through the Directed by Malcolm Sutherland MERMAID world of bubblewrap Canada / 2007 / Directed by Lisa Barcy 3 minutes INTRUDER USA / 2007 / 16:45 minutes US Premiere Directed by Alessandro Ceglia The marriage of Carl and Doris, darlings Another transient day on the beach. USA / 2007 / of the marine biology world, has gone PEARCE SISTERS 3:18 minutes south. While Doris makes pathetic Directed by Luis Cook ZOOLOGIC When a woman, alone in her house, attempts to salvage its remains, Carl UK / 2007 / 9 minutes Directed by Nicole Mitchell receives a series of mysterious phone pines away for that most elusive of sea An amusingly bleak hearted tale of two USA / 2007 / 4:30 minutes calls, she. attempts to calm her nerve creatures.. weather lashed old spinsters. A fussy zookeeper maintains strict order PAINTBALLING SHUTEYE HOTEL in his zoo by arranging the animals to Directed by Grant Orchard Directed by Bill Plympton his liking until he encounters a UK / 2007 / 2 minutes USA / 2007 / 7 minutes s cops investigate gruesome resident who refuses ove... Sport... Paintballing to be shaped to fit. S Two rival armies, camouflaged, lying in murders, they become victims H wait, guns at the ready. The most of an evil force. What Jaws did colorful game in the world goes to swimming, Shuteye Hotel O

“ballistic”.. will do for sleeping. R T DOCUMENTARIES S W Community Center • Fri Oct 12 • 1:00 PM W Community Center • Sun Oct 14 •1:00 PM

THE LADIES SALIM BABA TOMATOES OF DISCORD Directed by C. A. Voros Directed by Tim Sternberg Directed by James Rauchman USA / 2006 / 13 minutes USA / 2007 /14:30 minutes & Armando Alvarez In English and Hungarian with Salim Muhammad is a 55-year-old man Cuba / 2007 / 9 minutes subtitles living with his wife and five children in In Spanish with English East Coast Premiere subtitles the slums of North Kolkata, India. Since World Premiere When Vali and Mimi closed learning his craft at their couture shop on his father’s side at Our real-life heroine, a I WAS A DANCER Lexington Avenue they kept a the age of ten he research biologist in Directed by dozen of their best clients, moved Jason Whiton has made a living Cuba, is engaged in a the business into the spare bed - screening films for USA / 2007 / room, and moved Mimi to the fierce campaign to 5:28 minutes the locals in the pull-out couch. Still sewing forty streets in and stock up on all the In this award-winning Cinema Verite- hours a week, the 87 and 93 year around his neigh - supplies she needs for inspired experimental short, form and old sisters reflect on the dying of a borhood. the New Year’s holiday. Complications movement become haunting testimony craft, the importance of family and the ariise when she comes up against a for an elderly Japanese woman who can persistence of the creative spirit. TIME PIECE no longer dance in a local festival. Directed by Kat Mansoor tomato vendor who does NOT believe MUSIC FROM WITHIN UK / 2007 / 10 minutes that, “the customer is always right”. Directed by Molly Snyder-Fink USA / 2007 / 10 minutes Set in Switzerland, Time Piece WILLIAM KLEIN “OUT OF NECESSITY” Leroy Jenkins, the father of free-jazz captures the dying craft of artisan Directed by Douglas j. Sloan violin, is the engaging subject of this watchmaking - a fragile world that is USA / 2007 / 7 minutes short doc that explores the meaning of fast becoming the stuff of history. .. freedom and personal legacy. Out of Necessity provides rare insight into the images of artist, photographer, filmmaker William Klein

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PROGRAM 1 W Community Center • Sat Oct. 13 • 1:15 PM PROGRAM 2 W Community Center • Sun Oct. 14 • 5:15 PM W Community Center • Sat Oct 13 • 11:30 AM W Community Center • Sun Oct 14 • 3:15 AM HIGH MAINTENANCE TRUE LOVE Directed by Phillip Van Directed by Sande Shurin USA / 2006 / USA / 2007 / 4:48 minutes 9:15 minutes Set in a Parisian Cafe at a French A tale of on-again, off-again modern love International airport, subtitled in both French & English. Love seems to blos - QUINCY & ALTHEA som between a beautiful French women Directed by Doug Lenox and a handsome American man among the chatter, clatter and charm of bistro USA / 2006 / 10 minutes AQUARIUM Quincy and Althea have just returned to life unveiling what seems to be a secret each is hiding. Directed by Rob Meyer their flood ravaged New Orleans home. USA / 2007 / 17 minutes Despite the seemingly overwhelming WAITING FOR YESTERDAY For a kid growing up in the suburbs, the task of reconstruction that lies ahead for (DEMAIN LA VEILLE) truth can lie at the bottom of a fish the couple, the last thing on either of Directed by Julien Lecat & Sylvain Pioutaz tank. their minds is rebuilding. All Quincy France / 2006 / 16:40 minutes THE LONELY LIGHTS, and Althea want is a divorce. In French with English subtitles THE COLOR OF LEMONS Directed by Benjamin M Piety THINGS LAST Bob lives in a world where everything moves in reverse. It’s business as usual... USA / 2006 / 16 minutes Directed by Constant van Hoeven until the moment when suddenly, he A visual study of a young jogger who is Netherlands / 2007 / 7:30 minutes finds himself moving FORWARD in shown a series of inkblot paintings that Dutch with English Subtitles time! propel him into a collection of stories Using human souls as a clean energy and memories centering on childhood, source, mankind is on the verge of questions of sexuality and an enigmatic extinction. Zach, the last person alive, is bored out of his mind when suddenly, S girl. the machines in the factory stop work -

T DEAR LEMON LIMA ing. Has humankind invented some - Directed by Suzi Yoonessi R thing beyond it’s control? USA / 2006 / 11:40 minutes O A lonely 13-year old girl with a vivid H imagination, is dumped by her true S PROGRAM 3 love. A chance meeting with ‘angel- Community Center • Sat Oct 13 • 3:15 PM W headed dorks’ Hercules and Nothing, W Community Center • Sun Oct 14 • 11:00 AM enables her to overcome her heartbreak on a serendipitous summer day. THE ELECTION WHO YOU KNOW Directed by Padraig Reynolds Directed by MAN USA / 2007 / 8 minutes Zachary Sluser Directed by Myna Joseph Ray Wise and Lin Shaye star as a politi - USA / 2007 / USA / 2007 / 14:30 minutes cal couple on the verge of an election. 19 minutes Maggie and her sister forge an unusual Why are they in the middle of the An ambitious young man bond dur - desert? What horror could have driven (Roseanne’s Johnny Galecki) brings ing an them to the isolation? Every vote his wife along to a dinner party at encounter counts. RED ANGEL the home of a wealthy businessman in with a Directed by Matthew Ross the hopes of raising money for his proj - HUNT ME young USA / 2007 / 15:16 min - ect. As the evening draws on, he must stranger. Directed by Rick Rodgers utes decide what’s more important - his USA / 2007 / 5:36 minutes On the campus of an integrity or his aspirations. STILL CENTER Local musician Raw Believer wants to be elite East Coast college, celebrated nov - Directed by Carina Tautu hunted in this short that is walks the elist David Blau (Fisher Stvens) spends Romania / 2006 / 15:14 minutes line between mock doc and reality. his time working as a guest lecturer, Romanian The Life has changed quite a bit in the HONORED writing, and seducing his students. Then he meets Leena (Katie Nehra), who may former Eastern Block. We still have our Directed by Stephanie Fischette just be more than he bargained for. goats, but we watch way more televi - USA / 2007 / 17 minutes Adapted from the play by Eric Bogosian sion. And Erie is pregnant with triplets. This sensitive, timely drama cen - and pro - ters on Katie, a young widow duced in who's retreat into isolation is Woodstock. interrupted one afternoon by a visit from Philip, a soldier bearing unsent letters from her husband Carl who died in Iraq.

All events are subject to change. For latest updates visit 20 www.WoodstockFilmFestival.com WOODSTOCK FILM FESTIVAL 2007 SHORTS PROGRAM 4 PROGRAM 5 Rosendale • Sat Oct 13 •12:00 PM Community Center • Fri Oct 12 • 3:15 PM W W Tinker Street • Sun Oct 14 • 10:45 AM W Community Center • Sat Oct 13 • 7:30 PM ORDER UP TRUE COLOURS CAROLINE BY COMMITTEE Directed by Neil Stelzner Directed by Barney Elliott Directed by Mary Haas USA / 2007 / 5 minutes USA / 2006 / 10:38 minutes USA / 2007 / 16:30 minutes East Coast Premiere A social drama about a loving father Welcome to the mind of Caroline with a propensity for violence and his Mulligan. Step on in and stay as long as An ordinary day at a busy diner is dis - struggle to earn his family’s trust. you want. Everyone else does. rupted when a young man tries to secure the attention of a distracted waitress. SALT KISS (BEIJO DE SAL) HIGH FALLS Directed by Fellipe Gamarano Barbosa Directed by Andrew Zuckerman Brazil / 2006 / 18 minutes USA / 2006 / 33 minutes Portuguese NUTS “High Falls” explores the relationship On a secluded island, a carefree 45-year- Directed by Andre Lyon between a married couple and their best old struggles to bring his recently USA / 2007 / 13:45 minutes friend as they navigate the problem of engaged best friend back to the good Mickey insists he’s allergic to nuts. His communication in a world without a life. father doesn’t believe his son is allergic moral center. to anything, and he’ll do whatever it takes to prove it. PROGRAM 6 W Catskill Mtn Fdn • Fri Oct 12 • 6:45 PM SHRINKS W Tinker Street • Sat Oct 13 •11:15 AM Directed by Gregg Brown USA / 2007 / 26:40 minutes Five Shrinks; ANONYMOUS HUNTER TO PAINT THE Directed by Cristian Pozo PORTRAIT OF S One neurotic patient; Directed by Benjamin Gray

Spain / 2006 / 20 minutes USA / 2006 / 20 minutes A BIRD H A modern comedy about mental health. Directed by

In a daydream universe brought on by O Each winter Tub hunts with longtime Seamus McNally writer’s block, love blossoms. friends Frank and Kenny. Approaching USA / 2007 / 15 R

THE LETTER, (PISMO) middle age and still the butt of every minutes T

Directed by Matvei Zhivov joke, Tub wants this year to be Ten year old boy S Canada/ 2007 / 15 minutes different. And it is. Based on a short observes a painter Russian with subtitles story by Tobias as he attempts to capture life, a living A Soviet soldier, fighting thing... a bird... on canvas. The boy then Wolff. VALIDATION with the partisans against composes Jacques Prévert’s classic Directed by Kurt Kuenne the Nazis is seriously poem, To Paint the Portrait of a Bird. USA / 2006 / 16:30 minutes wounded. He is rescued by A fable about a parking attendant, his advancing army regulars but customers and validation. his battle is just beginning.

YOUTH SCREENING W Community Center• Fri Oct 12 • 7:30 PM

17 THE GIRL NO.700 TANNIN Directed by Shamus OConnor ANACHRONISM Directed by Thomas Ciaburri Directed by 2007/USA/1:39 minutes/Clarkstown HS Directed by Noria 2007/USA/9:52 minutes Kaela Smith- North Gugliotta Chavez 2007/USA/2:55 min - OLD SCHOOL/NEW SCHOOL 2007/USA/ THE CULTURE utes/Indie Programs, Boiceville Directed by TRUCE (The Renaissance 12.25 min - Directed by Harrison Rego University for Community Education) utes/Indie 2007/USA/1:19 minutes/Clarkstown HS HARD KNOT LIFE 2007/USA/5:30 minutes Programs, North Directed by TRUCE (The Renaissance STUBBLE YOKAI FROM THE WOMB TO THE niversity for Community Education) 2007/USA/22 minutes Directed by Martin Bergman KAIDAN TOMB 2007/USA/1:38 minutes/Clarkstown HS Directed by Robin Richardson Directed by Jacobo Concepcion Cardona LEARNING TO North USA / 2007 / 3:05 minutes 2007/Puerto Rico/13:40 minutes CURSE ZUCCHERO Directed by Bret Kerven Directed by Christopher Perrella 2006/USA/2:30 minutes/ New York Film Academy 2007/USA/12.25 minutes/Indie Programs,

All events are subject to change. For latest updates visit 2007 WOODSTOCK FILM FESTIVAL www.WoodstockFilmFestival.com 21 PANELS ENTERTAINMENT LAW: What AMAZING WOMEN IN FILM Entertainment Lawyers Do For You W Utopia Studios • Sat Oct 13 • 10:00 AM Panelists: Mary Stuart Masterson made her W Utopia Studios • Fri Oct 14 •2:O0 PM Women in the film industry continue to carve a strong film debut at the age of seven in The and meaningful path in a world that used to be tradition - Stepford Wives. She has starred in over Contracts, copyrights, and clearances. Navigating the ally dominated by men. With more and more women sit - 25 films (including At Close Range, complex waters of distribution. All these issues and ting in the Directors Chair and holding top positions as Some Kind of Wonderful, Immediate Family, Fried Green Tomatoes, Benny and more are handled every day by experienced entertain - executives, producers, and administrators, has the bal - ment lawyers, who also often act as producers and pro - Joon ), and numerous plays and musi - ance finally shifted to a point of equality? Join us as a cals (including the Broadway musical, ducers’ representatives. Meet some of today’s top diverse group of powerful women chat about their own Nine [Tony Award nomination], and entertainment attorneys and find out what they can do work and the state of the film industry at large, from the National). Along with her brother Peter, she is in the process of for you. launching a film production company. The Cake Eaters is her woman’s perspective. narrative feature directorial debut. Moderator: Moderator: Katie Roumel began producing films in 1995. Her credits Jackie Borock is an entertainment Film & DVD Critic Thelma Adams , cur - include Kiss Me Guido, Series 7, Hedwig And The Angry Inch, attorney who recently relocated to the rently writes film reviews for US Weekly , Camp, A Home At The End Of The World. Last year Katie pro - Hudson Valley from Philadelphia, PA, and contributes regularly to a plethora duced An American Crime, Savage Grace with Julianne Moore where she served as Director of Legal of publications, including The (to be released by IFC in April 2008) and Then She Found Me and Business Affairs for TLA Entertain- Independent, The New York Times, with Helen Hunt (2008). Katie’s latest project is with ment Group, Inc., a multi-media distri - Cosmopolitan, Glamour, The Christian writer/director Shawn Lawrence Otto House Of Sand And Fog bution firm. Ms. Borock has been Science Monitor, The Huffington Post , and and will go into production in 2008. Before producing inde - practicing law for nearly 20 years, Indie Magazine. pendently Katie was a partner at the NYC independent film representing numerous writers, pro - production company Killer Films with Christine Vachon and ducers, musicians and artists, and is the producer of an award- Pamela Koffler. winning documentary film entitled A Joyful Noise: The Lost Jewish Music of Philadelphia. FILM DISTRIBUTION IN THE 21ST CENTURY Panelists: Ira Schrek has been practicing enter - W Utopia Studios • Sat Oct 13 • 2:00 pm Wendy Lidell is Founder and President of International Film tainment law for over 20 years. A mem - Circuit. More current releases include Don’t Move, Darwin’s ber of both the California and New York Technology is ever changing, and with it, the world of film Nightmare ( which earned her a second Academy Award nomi - bars, Schrek and several colleagues distribution. Should a film today open in theaters and on nation) and most recently, The Devil Came on Horseback , started their own law firm eight years DVD simultaneously or should they create a word of Flanders by Bruno Dumont and Randy and the Mob . She is the ago, specializing in the representation mouth campaign using the Internet and the film festival former Vice President of Theatrical Releasing for Wellspring of the creative community including Media where her releases included Russian Ark, Under the Sand, actors, writers, directors, performers circuit? Joins a diverse panel of distributors to explore Notorious CHO, Yi Yi and On the Ropes . and producers in the film, television these an other choices to try to make sense of the ever Ben Stambler is the Director of Acquisitions at THINKFilm. The and theater industries. Schreck Rose widening field of film exhibition and distribution . company’s recent acquisitions include Taxi to The Dark Side , In Dapello & Adams has a client base that The Shadow of The Moon, The Ten and The Walker. Outside of his includes numerous Oscar, Emmy, Golden Globe, Tony and Moderator: duties at Think, Ben produced Aaron Katz’s second feature Pulitzer recipients. Dade Hayes is assistant managing editor of Variety, based in Quiet City , which had its world premiere at SXSW and has New York. Since 1999, he has covered a range of film stories as Steven Beer has served as counsel to numerous award-win - opened theatrically at the IFC Center in the summer of 07 and a reporter and editor in Los Angeles and New York. A book he ning writers, directors and producers, as well as industry lead - will be released on DVD by Benten Films in 08. Ben assisted in co-wrote in 2004 with Jonathan Bing, OPEN WIDE: How ing film production, film finance and film distribution Acquisitions and Development at Samuel Goldwyn Films in Los Hollywood Box Office Became a National Obsession , was fea - companies. Most recently he was counsel on This Film is Not Yet Angeles, worked in documentary production at Two Tone tured in The New Yorker and on NPR’s Fresh Air . The Atlantic Rated and producer on Strange Culture. Productions in New York and served as Manager of Monthly called it “a classic … the best of a genre.” Hayes’s Acquisitions at Magnolia Pictures for 3 years where he was Entertainment attorney Robert Seigel is a partner in the law writing has appeared in Entertainment Weekly , Premiere, the instrumental in acquiring The Signal, Exiled, Severance, Jesus P firm Cowan, DeBaets, Abrahams & Sheppard LLP, which special - Los Angeles Times and the Boston Globe . In April 2008, Free Camp, The Host and Crazy Love.

A izes in film and theater as well as television, publishing, art, new Press/Simon & Schuster will publish his next book, Anytime media and intellectual property matters on a transactional and Playdate: Inside the Preschool Entertainment Boom, or How Ted Sarandos has worked in film management, distribution, N litigation basis. Television Became My Baby’s Best Friend. and marketing since 1983. Since 2000, he has been Chief Content Officer to Netflix, an instrumental tool in allowing E A practicing attorney since 1990, Jonathan Gray is a dedi - Panelists: the public to view films that didn’t get a chance the first time

L cated advocate for emerging and established directors, pro - Bingham Ray is a distributor and around in theaters. He has been a leading force in Netflix’s ducers, production entities, screenwriters, investors and S producer for Kimmel Entertainment. ascension to the top of the distribution industry with his distributors in film, television and other media. He is the senior He is the former president of United unwavering commitment to content. Through his work at partner at Gray Krauss, a full-service entertainment law firm. Artists ( Bowling for Columbine, Netflix, Mr. Sarandos has shown intent dedication to inde - Originally founded as Spinak & Gray in 1998, Gray Krauss con - Assassination Tango, Nicholas Nickleby, pendent films. In creating Netflix’s original content initiative, centrates its work in independent film and television financ - City of Ghosts ). As co-founder of Red Envelope Entertainment, he opened a window of oppor - ing, production and distribution, as well as music and October Films, he distributed inde - tunity for filmmakers and niche production companies, intellectual property matters. The firm’s clients include motion pendent films such as Secrets & Lies, Breaking The Waves, and enabling smaller and more alternative projects to be widely picture and television producers, directors, writers, distributors The Apostle. distributed. Recently he produced the holocaust love story and financiers. Jonathan is the former chairperson of the New Steal A Pencil For Me . Mr. Sarandos is the recipient of the York State Bar Association Committee on Motion Pictures. Woodstock Film Festival’s 2007 Trailblazer award. Tom Quinn began his film career in L.A. doing domestic CAREER DAY publicity at Dennis Davidson Associates. At Samuel Goldwyn, W Woodstock Elementary School • Fri Oct 12 • 5:00pm he rose to VP of acquisitions, where he was responsible for acquiring Raising Victor Vargas and Supersize Me . Quinn joined OPEN TO ALL STUDENTS the Todd Wagner/Mark Cuban - owned indie distribu - The Woodstock Film Festival Career Day offers students a unique opportunity to tor Magnolia Pictures in 2004, overseeing theatrical and home video acquisitions, reporting to President Eamonn meet with some of today’s most accomplished industry professional in small groups Bowles. His notable buys as Head of to ask questions and learn about careers in film and new media production. Acquisitions at Magnolia have included Ong Participants in this youth event have included the late legendary composer of more Bak, The Host, Jesus Camp and Terror’s than 400 films score, Elmer Bernstein; award - winning cinematogpraehr adn direc - Advocate. He has recently moved up to tor Haskell Wexler; Academy Award - winning documentary filmmaker Leon Gast, Senior VP along with Jeff Reichert. The two Academy Award nominee filmmaker Rachel Grady, Academy Award nominee pro - now jointly share all major responsibilities ducer Jason Kliot, and many A-list actors, studio executives, producers, casting surrounding the release of the company’s directors, animators, editors, and more. expanding slate.

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AND FILMMAKING BEGINS W Utopia Studios • Sat Oct 13 • 4:00 pm W Utopia Studios • Sun Oct 14 • 10.00 AM W Utopia Studios • Sat Oct 13 • 12:00pm Sponsored and curated by BMI since 2000 Join some of today’s most prolific actors as they chat The relationship between journalism and the documen - Join us for BMI’s annual frank and lively discussion about their lives and work. about the role of music in film, the director / composer tary film. Where does the media drop a story and the Moderator: documentarian pick it up? Is a documentary inspired by relationship, music supervision and licensing songs. Martha Frankel has been writing real events considered journalism? Does personal per - Moderator: about film for over two decades. She spective take away from the stories or add depth to them? Doreen Ringer-Ross is Vice President of has contributed to DETAILS, The New Yorker, Redbook, Cosmopolitan , and The Moderator: Film/TV Relations to BMI. Ms. Ringer -Ross has worked in the music industry for over New York Times . She is the author of the Agnes Varnum (agnesvarnum.com) is a book Hats & Eyeglasses; A Family Love film programmer and writer based in the two decades and currently specializes in outreach to the film and music communi - Affair with Gambling , published by New York City area. Her writing appears at Penguin / Tarcher. indieWIRE , International Documentary, ties. Renew Media’s “Resources,” as well as on Panelists: her eclectic but mostly documentary Patricia Clarkson studied drama at Yale. blog, Doc It Out . Recent programming gigs Panelists: She stayed on the East coast working in include the Newport International Film Festival, AOL True theater productions before her feature Stories and the IFP Market. In addition to watching movies and Moby’s career has been a story of film debut in The Untouchables (1987) as writing about the independent media biz, she spends her days extremes and paradoxes. This intense, the wife of Elliot Ness. Continuing to work in marketing and publicity at First Run/Icarus Films in Brooklyn, driven individual has been a hip under - in film, she gained attention for her role as an independent documentary distribution company. ground New York DJ and a punk rock the drug-addicted Greta in the independ - drummer, a determinedly ascetic maker Panelists: ent film High Art . Her career in film con - of euphoric dance music, a highly aware tinued to shine, giving memorable David D’Arcy is a critic for Screen International . He also writes environmentalist and social commentator who jumps around performances in Todd Hayne’s Far From Heaven , locally shot regularly for a wide range of publications and is a frequent stage like a dervish and, finally, a sharply astute advocate of Wendigo , Lars von Trier’s Dogville, All the Real Girls, The Station commentator for the BBC. His dream is to write about war alternative lifestyles who became arguably the biggest dance Agent, Pieces of April, The Dying Gaul, Good Night and Good movies for Guns ‘n’ Ammo . music star on the globe. Luck, Married Life, Lars and the Real Girl , to name a few. Michèle Ohayon is an award winning Brett Morgen is an Academy Award nominated producer director, writer and producer. Credits and director. His credits include Chicago 10 (2007), which he INDIE FILMMAKERS TALK include It Was a Wonderful Life and wrote, produced, and directed. Chicago 10 premiered on open - Cowboy del Amor , and Colors Straight Up, ing night of the 2007 Sundance Film Festival. Morgen’s credits W Utopia Studios • Sun Oct 14 • 12.00 PM which received nominations for the also include the award-winning Robert Evans biopic The Kid Academy Award for Best Documentary Stays In The Picture (2002), and the critically acclaimed boxing Meet the independent filmmakers Feature. Michèle has also produced and documentary On The Ropes (1999), which was nominated for Moderator: directed commercials, episodic televi - an Academy Award for Best Feature Documentary. The film Peter Bowen now senior editor of Filmmaker Magazine , was sion and music videos in addition to won the DGA Award and the IDA Award, making Morgen one previously the editorial director for Original Programming and being a founding board member of of the youngest recipient ever to win both these awards. New Media for Sundance Channel. He has written for other Cinewomen. Bill Plympton is recognized as one of periodicals including Screen International, Art Forum and The Molly Thompson launched and runs A&E IndieFilms, the America’s foremost illustrators, cartoon - Advocate. network’s feature documentary division. She executive pro - ists and animators. His highly successful Panelists: duced Jesus Camp , a film by Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady, short films have won numerous prizes which was nominated for an Academy Award. Thompson is and have appeared with frenzied fre - Ira Sachs first feature, The Delta (1997), also Executive Producer of a film by Nanette Burstein called quency at film festivals, on television was screened at Sundance, Toronto, and American Teen , currently in post-production; and a film on and online. His work has received cout - Rotterdam, and was distributed in the US Anna Wintour, directed by RJ Cutler. Other A&E IndieFilms less awards inclduning several Academy by Strand Releasing. Sachs was the recip - ient of the Emerging Talent award at the include the Oscar-nominated, Sundance Award-winner Award nominations. S Murderball and My Kid Could Paint That . 1997 LA Outfest, and was awarded a William Ross is a prolific, award winning composer and 1999 Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship. L Robert Stone is an Oscar – nominated arranger whose work has spanned feature He has made several shorts, including E director of the film Guerrilla: The Taking of films, the recording industry and television. Vaudeville and Lady (Sundance). His next film, Forty Shades of Patty Heast, Radio Bikini and Oswald’s Ghost. He has composed music for such films as Blue , screened at the Berlin Film Festival , and took away the N Tuck Everlasting, My Dog Skip, Tin Cup, My Grand Jury Prize for Best Drama at the Sundance Film Festival. A Bill Siegel is the executive producer of The Fellow Americans and the IMAX film Young His latest film, Married Life , was written in collaboration with Road to 9/11. As a director/producer, he Black Stallion . He has orchestrated over 100 Oren Moverman (co-writer on Jesus’ Son and I’m Not There ). P films including Matrix Reloaded, Forrest received an Academy Award nomination for the film, The Ron Mann’s exuberant films are anthologies which give voice Weather Underground. M Gump, The Mummy Returns, Stuart Little and Father of the Bride . For Harry Potter, Chamber of Secrets he and vision to an array of articulate artists, under-represented adapted John Williams’ music from the original Harry Potter by mainstream pop media. Mann estab - score as well as conducted the recording session with the lished his international reputation while in London Symphony Orchestra. his twenties with a series of award-win - ning theatrical documentaries. His 1999 documentary, Grass presents a humorous and surprisingly balanced history of recre - ational marijuana use in the late 20th cen - tury. Go Further , which follows actor and activist Woody Harrelson as he takes to the open road on his Simple Organic Living Tour followed. In addition to making films, Mann and veteran Toronto film and music promoter Gary Topp distribute films in Canada under the banner Films We Like. Joana Vicente Vicente is a New York City based film producer who has has produced over 30 feature films by acclaimed directors such as Brian De Palma, Jim Jarmusch, Miguel Arteta, Hal Hartley, Steven Soderbergh, Nicole Holofcener, and Todd Solondz. With her partner Jason Kliot, he has produced eclectic and socially-relevant films such as: Coffee and Cigarettes, Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, Lovely and Amazing, Chuck & Buck , and the latest film by Brian De Palma, Redacted.

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Friday, October 12, 9:30 PM at WACBIZ was conceived in Spring 2003, positively emerging out of the music industry at a time The Colony Cafe 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 net - REVISION work of executives at the core, offering their collective experience. Artists will communicate as & they always do, through writing, performing, recording and touring, but now have a way MECHANICAL BULL through technology that would make a difference to their futures. Visit www.wacbiz.com

Revision Mechanical Bull Mechanical Bull grew out of the ashes of Chase Pierson’s first marriage. After the initial thrill of freedom and independence that followed the break up, Pierson began writing country songs that reflected his experiences in marriage and living the American dream. After years of wandering, Pierson settled down in Woodstock where he teamed up with guitarist/ producer Adam Widoff and began recording some songs. His debut album Songs to Get Divorced To was released in early 2007. The band has recently grown to include an eclectic mix of local musi - cians including Chris Zaloom (Steel/Electric Guitar), Adam Widoff Revision is comprised of three graduates from the Ithaca College of Music: (Electric Guitar), George Quinn Nick Bullock (guitar/vocals), Devon Reehl (drums/vocals) and Jon Petronzio (Electric Bass), Jason Bowman (keyboard/bass keys/vocals). Their freshman album What It Is was released in (Drums/Vocals) and Avalon Peacock 2004, debuting a sound reminiscent of early Steely Dan, Medeski, Martin & (Vocals). Wood, and Phish. The band emerged from their thriving college town to take Check out their new album, A on the United States, playing over 150 shows this past year, from Maine to Million Yesterdays dropping this fall on Atlanta to Saint Louis and Chicago. Revision has shared the stage with bands Woodstock Music Works such acts as Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, George Clinton, Derek Trucks, and Soulive. (www.woodstockmusicworks.com) Revision is currently recording their sophomore album. Check them out at www.revisionmusic.com

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The Felice Brothers are. brothers of blood Ian, Simone, James, and blood brothers Christmas, Farley and The Searcher. Their debut album Through These Reins and Gone was released in 2006 to critical acclaim, making 100.1 WDST’s top 25 albums of the year. This year has seen the release of two new albums, Tonight at the Arizona and The Adventures of The Felice Brothers, Vol. 1 . Touring England and the United States they charm like snake oil sales - men in a 19th-century medicine show and stomp the boards like spirit- “Scruffy and scratched Americana that recalls Townes Van Zandt, Guy filled preachers. They bring a little bit of that front porch feeling with Clark and early Springsteen.” --Time Out them wherever they go. “The Felice Brothers, wow. An old-time feel that is distinctly organic.” For more information visit www.myspace.com/thefelicebrothers --John Barry, The Poughkeepsie Journal

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2007 WOODSTOCK FILM FESTIVAL 25 INFO PURCHASING TICKETS If you have tickets being held, you must go to the BOX OFFICE at 34 Tinker Street in Woodstock to pick Internet Orders them up. These tickets will NOT be sent to the venue. Advance orders will be sent by USPS mail through Oct. 7. The best way to order tickets and to see updated schedules, film descriptions and other festival information is online at NOTE: www.woodstockfilmfestival.com. If you have tickets for Hunter, Rhinebeck or Rosendale From September 18-October 9, advance single- that were ordered online or by phone, you must go to admission tickets can be purchased through our the the BOX OFFICE to pick them up. These tickets will secure website at www.woodstockfilmfestival.com. not be sent to the venues. Leave yourself plenty of Advance orders will be sent by USPS mail time to stop in before going to your venue or order through Oct. 7 early enough so we can send them to you. Box Office Location: (NEW LOCATION) Telephone Orders When planning your festival schedule, please 34 Tinker Street , Woodstock, NY 12498 The BOX OFFICE is manned by dedicated volunteers bear in mind that the driving distance from (We are right in the center of town across from Joshua’s who will do their best to help you with your ticket selec - Woodstock to Hunter, Rhinebeck and Rosendale is Cafe and next to the Kleinert/James Art Gallery) tion over the telephone. Please bear in mind that vol - about 30 minutes. unteers are simultaneously filling out Internet, phone#: 845-810-0131 FULL FESTIVAL PASSES www.woodstockfilmfestival.com walk-up and telephone orders. In other words, the phones can get very chaotic and they tend to be busy. The best way to take advantage of everything Box Office Hours Please be patient. We are doing are best. the festival has to offer is by purchasing a Full Festival Pass. A limited number of these passes remain. Sept 21 - Oct 7 The last day for telephone orders is October 7. Each pass includes Admission for one to all screen - Thursdays-Sunday Starting October 8, all online orders must be picked up ings and panels—with priority seating up until 15 12pm-6pm at the Box Office at 34 Tinker Street in Woodstock . minutes prior to the event; all parties; and souvenirs, including a T-shirt and cap. Oct 8-13 Walk-Up Orders Full Festival Passes are $650 and can be purchased 9am-7pm Tickets for all venues will be available for purchase at the BOX OFFICE September 21-October 14. online at www.woodstockfilmfestival or by phone at Hunter, Rhinebeck and Rosendale will have tickets 845-810-0131. Full Festival Passes are nontransfer - Oct 14 available at their respective venues as well - please able and include a picture ID . Passes must be picked 9am-noon contact them to see what their status is. up at Festival Registration. Badge pickup Instructions will be sent after purchase. For the most up-to-date information, please Day of Event visit www.woodstockfilmfestival.com Tickets are available at the BOX OFFICE until four hours Passholders & ticket holders MUST arrive 15 min - prior to the event. All unsold tickets are then available utes prior to the screening or panel. Empty seats Once online, find out which screenings are will be made available to the standby line . sold out and read updated information only on the standby line at the venue where the about events, screenings and panels. screening is taking place. Please note that all events are subject to change. Ticket holders MUST arrive 15 minutes prior to the Please check the website program event dates screening or panel. Empty seats are sold to standby. approach to confirm venues and times. PRICES VENUES • Tickets range from $7 to $15 per screen - T ing and are $15 per panel. Opening

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T per online order or phone order that is mailed. BEARSVILLE THEATER (films) WOODSTOCK Hunter 261 Tinker Street COMMUNITY CENTER (films)

I H • Student and senior discounts are avail - Bearsville, NY. 12409 56 Rock City Road N CATSKILL MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION Woodstock, NY 12498 able with ID, but must be requested (845) 679-4406 THEATER F 7960 Main Street directly at the Box Office or venue. COLONY CAFÉ ( music) O WOODSTOCK TOWN HALL (films) Hunter, NY 12442 • We cannot honor senior discounts Rock City Road www.catskillmountain.org Woodstock, NY 12498 76 Tinker Street online or over the telephone Woodstock, NY 12498 (845) 679-5342 Rosendale

TINKER STREET CINEMA (films) ROSENDALE THEATRE 132 Tinker Street 330 Main Street Reserve early, as shows tend to sell out quickly. Woodstock, NY 12498 Rosendale, NY 12472 (845) 679-6608 (845) 658-8989

For a complete list of prices, please visit All events are subject to change. For latest updates visit 26 wwww.Wwo.owdsotoockdFislmtFoesctikvafli.clomm festival.com WOODSTOCK FILM FESTIVAL 2007 SCHEDULE WED - 10/10 Fri- 10/12 Sat- 10/13 Sun- 10/14 W Bearsville Theater W Community Center W Town Hall W Tinker Street Cinema 7:00 Sneak Peaks 1:00 Short Docs 10:00 For Love of Julian 10:45 Shorts Program 5 3:15 Shorts Program 4 12:00 The Cool School 12:45 Steal a Pencil for Me 5:30 Freeheld 2:30 Operation Filmmaker 3:15 Under The Same Moon Thurs- 10/11 7:30 Shorts: Youth Screenings 5:00 Shorts: Animation 6:00 I’m Not There W Tinker Street Cinema 9:45 Shorts: Animation 7:30 Good Ol’ Charles Schulz 9:00 I’m Not There 1:00 TBA 10:00 Living the Blues W Colony Café - Concert W Bearsville Theater 3:30 Terror’s Advocate W Community Center 6:45 The Diving Bell 9:30 Revision & Mechanical Bull 11:00 Liberty Kid and The Butterfly 11:30 Shorts Program 2 1:30 Oswald’s Ghost Utopia- Panels 9:30 Let Them Chirp Awhile W 1:15 Shorts Program 1 4:00 Constantine’s Sword 2:00 Entertainment Law 3:15 Shorts Program 3 6:30 Super High Me W Bearsville Theater 5:15 Neither Memory Nor Magic Town Hall 1:00 The Unforeseen W Woodstock Elementary School 7:30 Shorts Program 4 W 3:30 3 Americas 5:00 Students Only 9:45 Begging Naked 11:00 Run Granny Run 6:00 Neal Cassady 1:15 Bonneville 101 R Upstate Films I W Colony Café - Concert 8:30 Dark Matter 3:30 Making Trouble 4:30 Constantine’s Sword 10:00 The Felice Brothers & Friends 6:00 Begging Naked R Upstate Films 1 7:00 Oswald’s Ghost Utopia- Panels W Community Center 7:00 The Diving Bell 9:30 Severed Ways: The Norse W and The Butterfly Discovery of America 10:00 Amazing Women in Film 11:00 Shorts Program 3 1:00 Short Docs R Upstate Films 2 12:00 Where Journalism Ends, and R Upstate Films 2 Filmmaking Begins 3:15 Shorts Program 2 7:15 Good Ol’ Charles Schulz 4:45 Hippie Masala 2:00 Film Distribution 5:15 Shorts Program 1 7:15 American Fork in the 21st Century 9:45 Nomadak, Tx 4:00 Music in Film W Utopia- Panels Fri- 10/12 Rosendale Theatre 10:00 Actor’s Dialogue 12:00 Indiewood Filmmakers Talk W Tinker Street Cinema 2:00 Dark Matter R Upstate Films I 11:30 Iska’s Journey 4:30 Liberty Kid 11:30 Iron Ladies of Liberia R Upstate Films I 2:00 How to Cook Your Life 7:00 Choose Connor 1:45 Neal Cassady 12:15 3 Americas 4:30 The House is Burning 9:45 Joe Strummer: The Future is 4:15 Steal a Pencil for Me 3:00 The Living Wake 7:00 Chicago 10 Unwritten 6:45 Under the Same Moon 5:30 In Search of 9:30 Reservation Road H CMF in Hunter 9:30 Chicago 10 a Midnight Kiss W Bearsville Theater 6:45 Shorts Program 6 R Upstate Films 2 R Upstate Films 2 11:45 Iron Ladies of Liberia 9:00 Let Them Chirp Awhile 2:15 Making Trouble 12:45 The Cool School 2:00 War/Dance 4:45 Moving Midway 3:15 Operation Filmmaker 4:45 In Search of a Midnight Kiss 7:30 Freeheld 5:45 Superheroes 7:15 The Living Wake Sat- 10/13 9:45 Surfwise Rosendale Theatre

9:45 Trigger Man S Tinker Street Cinema Rosendale Theatre 12:00 August Evening

W C Town Hall W 11:15 Shorts Program 6 12:00 Shorts Program 5 3:15 Cake Eaters H

12:00 Black White & Gray: A 1:30 American Fork 2:15 Black White & Gray: A 6:00 Lars and the Real Girl E Portrait of Sam Wagstaff and 4:00 Hippie Masala Portrait of Sam Wagstaff and D Robert Mapplethorpe U 6:45 Lars and the Real Girl Robert Mapplethorpe 2:15 Surfwise 4:30 Superheroes L 9:15 Joe Strummer: The Future is E 4:45 Run Granny Run Unwritten 7:00 The House is Burning 7:00 Billy the Kid 9:45 Reservation Road Bearsville Theater 9:30 Moving Midway W H CMF in Hunter 11:00 Choose Connor For information about year-round events 1:45 The Cake Eaters 6:30 How to Cook including monthly screenings, screenwriting & 4:15 August Evening Your Life other film related workshops, visit us online or call 845.810.0131 7:30 Grace is Gone 9:00 The Diving Bell and the Butterfly 10:00 Chasin’ Gus’ Ghost All Events Are Subject To Change For latest updates visit www.WoodstockFilmFestival.com

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