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East Coast Premiere East Coast Premiere The Adderall The Americans THE AUTOMATIC HATE Band of Robbers Diaries An episode from the the Directed by Justin Lerner Directed by Adam Nee & Aaron Nee with James Franco, Ed Harris critically acclaimed show USA / 2015 / 97 minutes USA, France / 2015 / 95 minutes Directed by Pamela Romanowski followed by an in depth discussion with showrunner Upstate Films WOODSTOCK USA / 2015 / 87 minutes Joe Weisberg Thur Oct 1 • 9:00pm Upstate Films WOODSTOCK Fri Oct 2 • 7:00pm WOODSTOCK Playhouse Orpheum Theater SAUGERTIES Fri Oct 2 • 10:00pm Upstate Films WOODSTOCK Sat Oct 3 • 7:30pm ROSENDALE Theatre Sat Oct 3 • 2:15pm Sat Oct 3 • 2:15pm Orpheum Theater SAUGERTIES Courtesy of funfilm Sat Oct 3 • 5:00pm Courtesy of FX How would you react if you Expertly adapting the characters Courtesy of A24 discovered everything you thought from Mark Twain’s seminal stories you knew about your family turned into the 21st century, Band of Adapted from Stephen Elliott’s STINGERS out not to be so? After an enigmatic Robbers is a clever escapade that true crime memoir of the same visit to his dying grandfather and the truly honors the essence of its name, The tells the unflinchingly Season 3, Episode 10 source material. We meet thrill- honest story of Elliott (James Philip and Elizabeth deploy a surprise appearance of an alluring plan for the C.I.A.’s Mujahideen and whimsical young woman claiming seeking Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer Franco), a once-successful novelist as young boys pursuing adventure. paralyzed by writer’s block and in visitors. Tensions at the Jenning’s to be his cousin, Davis Greene home escalate. discovers a family he never knew But the authorities have a different the thrall of an Adderall addiction, concept of fun, and after being who becomes fascinated by a high- Nominated for numerous awards existed. Gingerly, he allows himself and two-time winner of the AFI to be seduced into uncovering the released from his latest stay in profile murder case as a way to prison, petty crook Huck hopes to escape his personal struggles. As Best TV Program of the Year,is an past. But as estranged cousins Davis exciting Cold War series about two and Alexis grow close to each other, leave his criminal activities behind. Elliott delves into the twisted case But lifelong friend and corrupt and its motley crew of suspects, Soviet intelligence agents posing they discover the dark secret that as a married couple to spy on the shattered the relationship of their police officer Tom has a different he is haunted by the memories of idea in mind. In a final endeavor to his own tortured childhood and his American government. This superb fathers. suburban spy thriller, staring Keri achieve their childhood dreams, Tom cruel, estranged father (Ed Harris). The second feature film from Russell and Matthew Rhys, balances pulls the gang back together in the When his father mysteriously director Justin Lerner, is an intimate the escapades of espionage with the hopes of discovering a legendary resurfaces and claims that his and gripping portrait of a family told tribulations of parenting and, in the treasure. Little do they know, this son’s nightmarish memories were with spectacular pacing and assured process, achieves what might appear new caper will send them into fabricated, Elliott’s past is further unimaginable — empathy for the en- direction, offering plenty of surprise more unexpected and dangerous thrust under the microscope. He emy. Explore the ins and outs of this turns along the way. Starting out as territories than they ever faced as embarks on a journey to separate “hide in plain sight” story with show a simple indie drama, where Davis children. The sophomore feature fact from fiction, amidst a backdrop creator Joe Weisberg, who worked in and his girlfriend are struggling to from brothers Aaron and Adam Nee, of self-medication and false the CIA’s Directorate of Operations in understand their relationship, The with its impressively talented cast, confessions. the early 1990s. evolves into a heartbreaking romance comes together to create a slightly Q&A Attendee: Pamela Romanowski that spans two generations of fami- dark, but always witty comedy- Emily Nussbaum, TV critic at the New lies broken apart. – Sam Robotham adventure. – Sam Robotham Yorker calls The Americans “possibly Q&A Attendees: the best current drama out there.” Justin Lerner and several cast members Q&A Attendees: Adam Nee & Aaron Nee in depth discussion with showrunner Joe Weisberg follows screening

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WORLD PREMIERE New York Premiere CLOSING NIGHT FILM East Coast Premiere Blunt Force Trauma Bob and The Trees The Forbidden Room Good Ol’ Boy with Mickey Rourke Directed by Diego Ongaro Directed by Guy Maddin with Jason Lee Directed by Ken Sanzel USA / 2015 / 92 minutes Co-director: Evan Johnson Directed by Frank Lotito Columbia / 2015 / 96 minutes CANADA / 2015 / 120 minutes USA / 2015 / 102 minutes ROSENDALE Theatre Upstate Films WOODSTOCK Fri Oct 2 • 3:30pm WOODSTOCK Playhouse WOODSTOCK Playhouse Fri Oct 2 • 9:30pm Upstate Films WOODSTOCK Sun Oct 4 • 7:30pm Fri Oct 2 • 2:00pm Orpheum Theater SAUGERTIES Sun Oct 4 • 11:30am ROSENDALE Theatre Sun Oct 4 • 12:30pm Courtesy of kino Lorber Sun Oct 4 • 2:30pm Bob is a handsome, rugged Welcome to an underground, logger who spends his days The Forbidden Room is Guy The year is 1979, when life was money-making subculture of either cutting trees in the silent, Maddin’s ultimate epic simpler but families were still people who wear bulletproof vests majestic Massachusetts woods or phantasmagoria. Honoring classic complex, and an Indian family and shoot each other. Set against listening to hardcore rap music cinema while electrifying it with moves to America hoping to live Colombia’s majestic landscapes and and playing golf. But this routine energy, this Russian nesting doll of the American Dream. Reminiscent impoverished villages, Blunt Force life is rudely interrupted when one a film begins (after a prologue on of The Wonder Years, Good Ol’ Boy Trauma follows two modern-day gun- of his beloved cows gets brutally how to take a bath) with the crew is an endearing coming-of-age slingers, John and Colt, who are on wounded and his work suffers a of a doomed submarine chewing story, where 10-year-old Smith parallel but very different journeys, financial blow following a bad flapjacks in a desperate attempt to falls for the girl next door and is one seeking excitement, the other business deal. Suddenly Bob finds breathe the oxygen within. Suddenly, caught between his family’s Hindu revenge. Part action drama-part love himself facing some hard decisions. impossibly, a lost woodsman wanders traditions and his desire to become story and always engrossing, their Despite family opposition, the into their company with his tale of a good ol’ boy. While the children worlds collide with passion and pain unyielding winter woods ultimately escaping a fearsome clan of cave and their stories take the lead, Good as John and Colt each try to fulfill push Bob to do whatever it takes to dwellers. From here, Maddin and Ol’ Boy challenges the stereotypical their own wants and at the same time keep his failing business alive. Just co-director Evan Johnson take us notion of both traditional Indian keep each other safe in the dueling how much is he willing to sacrifice high into the air, around the world and predictable redneck families as underworld. to hold his life together? and into dreamscapes, spinning tales the patriarchs help tell a compelling Writer/director Ken Sanzel Bob and the Trees thrives of amnesia, captivity, deception, tale of the struggles of parenthood impressively weaves a yarn of loss, on ultra-realism. With non-actors murder, skeleton women, and and married life for anyone of any longing, alienation, and revenge, right portraying fictionalized versions of vampire bananas. Like some glorious race or background. By initially up to the climactic moment of fleeting themselves, debut feature director meeting between Italo Calvino, treating the characters as carica- satisfaction when John finally meets Diego Ongaro succeeds in getting Sergei Eisenstein and a perverted tures of themselves, we’re given the the fight champion, impeccably played impressively honest performances six year-old, The Forbidden Room is chance to laugh with them as we by Mickey Rourke. is a visual master- from his cast, especially lead Bob Maddin’s grand ode to lost cinema. watch how the depth of their char- piece and a must-see film for anyone Tarasuk, who plays himself in the Created with the help of master poet acters and love for their families with an interest in realistic action film. The arresting Berkshires and John Ashbery, the film features a evolve. – Benjamin Scott dramas. -Woodstock Film Festival slow-building tension add to this high profile cast playing a cavalcade Q&A Attendees: story of struggle that pays tribute Frank Lotito, Anjul Nigam Q&A Attendee: Ken Sanzel of misfits, thieves and lovers, all to a declining population still hold- joined in the joyful delirium of the ing onto their rural dreams. – Sam kaleidoscopic viewing experience. Robotham Be prepared for a trip like nothing Q&A Attendee: Diego Ongaro you’ve taken before! Q&A Attendee: Guy Maddin

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East Coast Premiere East Coast Premiere New York Premiere the Grace of Jake Homeless How He FellI n Love I Dream Too Much Directed by Chris Hicky Directed by Clay Riley Hassler Directed by Marc Meyers with Diane Ladd USA / 2015 / 91 minutes USA / 2015 / 92 minutes USA / 2015 / 108 minutes Directed by Katie Cokinos USA / 2015 / 93 minutes Bearsville Theater WOODSTOCK Upstate Films I RHINEBECK Upstate Films I RHINEBECK Sat Oct 3 • 5:00pm Fri Oct 2 • 3:00pm Fri Oct 2 • 6:00pm WOODSTOCK Playhouse Thu Oct 1 • 3:30pm Upstate Films I RHINEBECK Upstate Films WOODSTOCK Upstate Films WOODSTOCK Sun Oct 4 • 12:30pm Sun Oct 4 • 4:45pm Sat Oct 3 • 10:00pm Orpheum Theater SAUGERTIES Fri Oct 2 • 6:00pm Just out of prison, drifter/ Filmed in a real shelter with real Courtesy of visit films musician Jake steals a car and people, Homeless tells the story Like many recent college grads, hits the road for small town of Gosh (Josh), a teenage boy A sweeping drama about forbidden Dora (Edith Brolin) doesn’t know Arkansas, intent on exacting lost in the bleak routine of life in romance, How He Fell in Love is a what to do with her life. She spends revenge from the father he never a shelter. After his father is sent story of love doomed to failure. most of her time in daydreams about knew. Although he never met the to jail and his grandmother passes Struggling young musician Travis traveling the globe and becoming man, Jake blames him for all of life’s away, Gosh, unable to pay rent, is (Matt McGorry of ) has fallen head a romantic poet, while her overly troubles, starting with his mother’s forced onto the streets with only the over heels for the beautiful, older, practical mother is more focused death. Arriving in this dustbowl town clothes on his back and his iPod. married yoga teacher Ellen (Amy on her daughter staying at home in with only a guitar to sustain him, Jake If this were a Hallmark production, Hargreaves of ). Alternating between New Jersey to prepare for the LSATs. discovers nothing is as he imagined. we’d expect some kindhearted soul vulnerability and pulsating sexuality, After learning her great-aunt Vera The Grace of Jake is, at its core, the to rescue Gosh. And indeed, after McGorry and Hargreaves seduce the (Oscar Winner Diane Ladd) is injured story of a man who finds redemption weeks of loneliness and setbacks, audience with an impossible love and requires assistance at her home through friendship, faith and his he is befriended and lands a job. story that is mesmerizing to watch. in Upstate NY, Dora jumps at the deep-rooted love of gospel music, But Homeless isn’t a family-TV With New York City as the backdrop chance to escape, hoping to find her which bonds him with the locals and movie. Based on a real life story, to their love, and a steamy getaway true calling. The sophomore feature sets him on a righteous path. Religion, debut director Clay Riley Hassler to the country as added spice to their from director Katie Cokinos, I Dream however, is backdrop to the music. manages to truly portray a sense of already hot relationship, the lovers Too Much is a light-hearted, dreamy Grammy-nominated director Chris Hicky what being homeless is like. With traverse this dangerous road with story of self-discovery that initiates proves his musical aptitude by wisely heartbreaking honesty, we are pulled alternating abandon and control. a candid relationship between two casting Jake La Botz, who learned his into the world in which it is set. But Supported by veteran character artistic, intelligent women two trade from old Mississippi bluesmen, despite the stark realism, Homeless is actor Mark Blum, who delivers a generations apart. In the time they as lead man. The soul-filled music is a tender story, told in quiet yet deep touching performance as Henry, the spend together, both Dora and Vera extraordinary, the acting genuine, and beats that slowly pierce our hearts. jilted husband, the film peaks when will learn that no matter your age, the tempo in perfect harmony with – Ben F. Fischer husband and lover confront each now is always a good time to follow the surroundings. From crop dusters to Q&A Attendees: other in the park. Will new love or old your dreams. – Sam Robotham Clay Hassler, Tif Hassler relationships persevere? Come see for gospel churches, this compassionate Q&A Attendee: Katie Cokinos film captures the essence of the yourself. – Svetlana Krotek Arkansas delta. – Ben F. Fischer Q&A Attendee: Marc Meyers Q&A Attendee: Jake La Botz

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World Premiere New York Premiere EAST COAST Premiere US Premiere It Had To Be You Lamb Love & Taxes Meet Me in Venice Directed by Sasha Gordon Directed by Ross Partridge Directed by Jacob Kornbluth Directed by Eddy Terstall USA, Italy / 2015 / 82 minutes USA / 2015 / 97 minutes USA / 2014 / 98 minutes Co-Director: Erik Wünsch Netherlands / 2015 / 93 minutes Upstate Films WOODSTOCK Upstate Films II RHINEBECK Upstate Films II RHINEBECK Fri Oct 2 • 9:30pm Fri Oct 2 • 3:30pm Upstate Films WOODSTOCK Thur Oct 1 • 6:30pm Thur Oct 1 • 4:00pm Upstate Films I RHINEBECK Upstate Films WOODSTOCK Bearsville Theater WOODSTOCK Sun Oct 4 • 7:15pm Sun Oct 4 • 7:45pm Upstate Films II RHINEBECK Fri Oct 2 • 9:00pm Love & Taxes is a riveting comic Fri Oct 2 • 6:30pm Sonia is a neurotic and utterly Based on the novel by Bonnie account of seven years of tax charming jingle writer who has Nadzam, Lamb traces the self-dis- avoidance. Director Jacob Kornbluth The parent-child relationship is a covery of David Lamb in the weeks always dreamt of a big and ex- takes on the role of “biographer,” popular theme in film; typically there following the disintegration of his citing life. Surprised by a sudden is friction between the generations, marriage and the death of his fa- following the exploits of his brother proposal of marriage and subse- Josh, who is an autobiographical but gradually each realizes they have ther. Hoping to regain some faith more in common than previously quent ultimatum from her easy-go- monologist (think Spalding Gray). in his own goodness, he turns his thought. Meet Me in Venice adds a ing boyfriend, Chris, Sonia has to The child of a radical upbring- attention to Tommie, an awkward new voice to this story. Recounted by decide whether she’ll join the ranks ing, Josh prides himself on living yet adventurous eleven-year-old Lisa through a video she makes for her of her married friends or take a leap “outside the system.” Thus, despite girl played beautifully by rising son, this Dutch father-daughter story and pursue her fantasies. Director working for a high-powered tax young star Oona Laurence. Lamb is of reconciliation unfolds between a Sasha Gordon, who worked on past attorney, he hasn’t filed his taxes in convinced that he can help Tommie woman and the father she first meets Woodstock Film Festival favorites seven years. When he decides to go avoid a destiny of apathy and in adulthood. When the absentee Mauro and Dear Lemon Lima (2009), God legit, everything in his life takes an emptiness, and takes her for a road invites Lisa to join him in Venice, she of Love (2010) and I Believe in Uni- upward turn. Or does it? trip from Chicago to the Rockies, decides to go. But the journey doesn’t corns (2014), brings the same sen- Part documentary, part narra- planning to initiate her into the stop there, and the father-daughter sitivities to It Had To Be You, her tive, Love & Taxes blends Josh’s solo beauty of the mountain wilderness. road trip takes them from Italy to directorial debut. In this whimsical performances with scripted scenes to Never quite certain where is going, Istanbul along the Orient Express and edgy romantic comedy that is bring the subjective reality of the the film maintains a slow-burning route, with breathtaking imagery of raunchy yet gentle, she explores the storyteller hilariously to life. What intensity as the unfolding circum- the Balkans and heartwarming musical choices women face today, while at is real, what is exaggerated, we may stances threaten to veer into very interludes. In getting to know her the same time satirizing cultural ex- never know. Nor does it matter. In disturbing territory. But Lamb is not father, Lisa gets to know herself. She pectations of gender and romance. this tale of procrastination, making Lolita and Ross Partridge masterfully shares this experience with her son so – Woodstock Film Festival movies and growing up, we are privy directs and stars in what is truly when he is older, he will understand Q&A Attendee: Sasha Gordon to a middle-aged coming-of-age a provocative psychological drama story that is, quite possibly, the her decisions and life choices. Anguish of two lonely strangers who use first ever pro-tax romantic comedy. and charm combine to make watching one another to find direction and A perfect antidote for these trou- enjoyable and enlightening at the same purpose in their lives. – Woodstock bled financial times. – Woodstock time. – Ben F. Fischer Film Festival Film Festival Q&A Attendees: Q&A Attendees: Ross Partridge Eddy Terstall, Erik Wünsch Q&A Attendees: Jacob & Josh Kornbluth, Brian Newman

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EAST COAST Premiere US Premiere NORTH AMERICAN premiere EAST COAST Premiere the Missing Girl Moscow Never Oliver’s Deal Outliving Emily Directed by A.D. Calvo Sleeps with Stephen Dorff with Olympia Dukakis, USA / 2015 / 89 minutes Directed by Johnny O’Reilly and David Strathairn Andre Braugher and Zosia Mamet Directed by Eric Weber ROSENDALE Theatre Ireland / 2014 / 100 minutes Directed by Barney Elliott USA / 2015 / 87 minutes Fri Oct 2 • 9:00pm In Russian with English subtitles Peru, USA / 2014 / 97 minutes Bearsville Theater WOODSTOCK WOODSTOCK Playhouse ROSENDALE Theatre Upstate Films I RHINEBECK Sat Oct 3 • 7:30pm pm Sat Oct 3 • 11:00am Thur Oct 1 • 7:30 Sat Oct 3 • 12:30pm WOODSTOCK Playhouse When watching writer/director A.D. Orpheum Theater SAUGERTIES WOODSTOCK Playhouse Fri Oct 2 • 7:30pm Sun Oct 4 • 5:00pm Calvo’s The Missing Girl it is hard Sun Oct 4 • 3:00pm to find anything, well... missing. Moscow Never Sleeps is a Courtesy of atlantic pictures Outliving Emily is the poignant The Missing Girl follows quint- multi-narrative drama that dives Set against a backdrop of interna- story of the tumultuous marriage essential comic book store owner, headlong into the volatile inter- tional finance and intrigue in New of Tim and Emily Hanratty, from Morty, who has a hard time letting go sections of Moscow itself and the York and Peru, Oliver’s Deal weaves a the night they meet in a bar to of the past. His humdrum existence is intimate lives of five Muscovites tapestry of exploits, corruption, familial their twilight years half a century The Hanrattys are cleverly dramatically changed when he hires the from diverse backgrounds. The bonds, and human redemption. Oliver later. portrayed by six diverse pairs of too-beautiful-to-be-working-as-a-clerk film tracks an oligarch forced to Campbell, an American businessman, Ellen, a burgeoning artist and satirist leave Russia, a young man conflicted actors in six acts, with real-life finds himself torn between the icy cor- husband and wife Louis Zorich with an appreciation of his meticulous about sending his grandmother to a porate CEO and the poverty stricken Pe- and Olympia Dukakis playing the yet grumpy nature. nursing home, a famous comedian on his death bed, a woman powerless in ruvian boy who tends the family’s sheep couple in the final stage of their life Integrating illustrations and her marriage, and an aspiring singer. and llamas while dreaming of a new life. together. Tim and Emily wrestle with split scenes in classic graphic novel The characters are connected by past Though cold greed propels the story, the extraordinary push and pull of a layout, details of the characters relations, as well as chance, and the suffering that eventually seeps in long-term relationship – the feelings desires are symbolically displayed while they don’t always physically alters the trajectory and softens the of attraction and antagonism, the in dream sequences or drawings by cross paths, all experience a certain hearts of some of the more hardcore desire to please and the desire to dominate. Unfolding in a series of Ellen, who uses her art and her new element of Moscow at the same characters. In this intense drama that shape-shifting roles between race, day job to try and escape her former time. The city, in fact, is one of the keeps you speculating throughout the life as an erotic dancer. When Ellen main characters. Opening with stun- gender, sexual orientation, and age, interwoven stories, we see people from the Hanratty marriage skillfully seemingly disappears, our emotion- ning panoramas of Moscow at dawn, vastly different walks of life facing demonstrates that no matter who we ally stunted hero transforms into a the calm gives way to the hustle and bustle of Moscow City Day, an annual situations no one has prepared them are - man, woman, black, white, gay, detective. The Missing Girl cleverly bal- festival celebrating the biggest for. With a gifted international and straight - we all love the same. A ances tension and suspense, fantasy metropolis in Europe, which is the American cast and outstanding cinema- unique and daring approach to one and intrigue, as we search for a girl backdrop for the 24-hour roller- tography, director Barney Elliot tells a of life’s most universal subjects. who perhaps isn’t missing at all. coaster encounter. – Ben F. Fischer story that is unpredictable, emotional Q&A attendees: Eric Weber, Sean Dev- aney, Josh Sugarman – Benjamin Scott Q&A Attendee: Johnny O’Reilly and ultimately questioning whether the Q&A Attendee: A.D. Calvo end can justify the means. – Svetlana Krotek Q&A Attendees: Barney Elliott, Darren OPENING NIGHT FILM Goldberg Remember A week following the death of his has been living in the U.S. ever beloved wife Ruth, he suddenly gets since under an assumed identity. Directed by Atom Egoyan a mysterious package from his close Max is wheelchair-bound but in full CANADA / 2015 / 95 minutes friend Max (Academy Award®-winner command of his mental faculties; Martin Landau), containing a stack with his guidance, Zev will embark Courtesy of A24 of money, a gun, and a letter detail- on a cross-continental road-trip to Remember tells the story of Zev ing a shocking plan. Both Zev and bring justice once and for all to the Guttman (Academy Award®-winner Max were prisoners in Auschwitz, man who destroyed both their lives. Christopher Plummer), a 90-year-old and the same sadistic guard was re- struggling with memory loss who is sponsible for the death of both their Q&A Attendee: Atom Egoyan living out his final years in a bucolic families—a guard who, immediately US Premiere retirement home. after the war, escaped Germany and

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US Premiere East Coast Premiere Us Premiere New York Premiere Rendez-vous Scout Silver Skies Summer (Zomer) Directed by Antoinette Beumer with Ellen Burstyn and Nikki Reed with George Hamilton Directed by Colette Bothof The Netherlands / 2015 / 100 minutes Directed by Laurie Weltz Directed by Rosemary Rodriguez The Netherlands / In Dutch & French USA / 2015 / 92 minutes USA / 2015 / 96 minutes 2014 / 89 minutes with English subtitles Bearsville Theater WOODSTOCK Dutch with English Subtitles WOODSTOCK Playhouse Fri Oct 2 • 10:00pm Sat Oct 3 • 4:00pm Bearsville Theater WOODSTOCK Bearsville Theater WOODSTOCK Upstate Films II RHINEBECK Fri Oct 2 • 7:15pm Sat Oct 3 • 10:00pm Sat Oct 3 • 3:30pm Silver Skies chronicles a group of Upstate Films II RHINEBECK seniors whose lives turn upside ROSENDALE Theatre Sun Oct 4 • 1:00pm Despite a disregard for conven- down when their Los Angeles Sun Oct 4 • 5:00pm tion and lax parenting, rebellious apartment complex threatens Simone needs a change. Together 15-year-old Scout is willing to risk to be sold out from under them. Zomer (Summer) is sweltering in with her husband Eric and their everything for her little sister. Director Rosemary Rodriguez has a Dutch village where everyday two children, she buys a decrepit When this charming con-artist assembled a high-profile cast to life is dominated by the con- mansion in the south of France to enlists a wealthy mental patient to play some very complicated roles. tinually droning power plant. turn it into a home and B&B. While Sixteen-year-old Anne, her brother help her find Lulu, we embark on a With humor and compassion, she the chaos of the renovation grows, and their friends spend the days road trip across Texas in search of brings these old-timers to a place Simone flees into a thrilling affair biking through winding roads that their estranged carnie father who of fear, a little romance and deep with one of the French construction lead nowhere and everywhere. It is has kidnapped his young daughter. caring for each others’ well-being. workers, the gorgeous twenty-year- a time of adventure and youthful The characters in this film are as Long term pals Phil and Nick old Michel. She slowly loses control awakening. Anne, however, a quiet unpredictable as the story. Twen- (George Hamilton and Jack McGee) of her life and the French dream girl who longs to escape the con- ty-one-year-old India Ennenga as tenderly face Phil’s descent into turns into her worst nightmare. Scout and child star Onata Aprile as fines of her small town, often feels Alzheimer’s. Ethel (the sexy Valerie like an outsider — until she meets Exquisitely shot and acted, Lulu are supported by a stellar cast: Perrine) finds friendship trumps this whirlwind tale of forbidden and James Frecheville as the convincing Lena, a new girl in town who rides love. Mariette Hartley’s Harriet a motorbike, wears leather and is dangerous passion is one you will suicidal side-kick, Jane Seymour discovers life is good when you different from everybody else. With as his overbearing mother, Danny not be able to keep your eyes off. let down your guard. And with the awkward tenderness of youth Glover as the misleadingly menacing Q&A Attendee: Antoinette Beumer incredible moxie, Eve (Barbara and innocence, the two girls quickly Red, Tim Guinee as the malevolent Bain) demonstrates that age is form a bond and the audience gets dad, Nikki Reed as his religious no impediment when it comes to to watch as young love unfolds. zealot wife, and Ellen Burstyn as defending what’s right. The story Authentic performances and cinema- sympathetic but erratic Gram. In is easily relatable, as our aging tography that captures the languor spite of its wit and dysfunction, at population confronts a downturn in and heat of summertime create a its heart, Scout is a touching tale of health, money and self-esteem. Now beautiful story of sexual awakening deep sisterly bonds and two misfits in their twilight years, facing the and a girl daring to be different. For who come together to create a new unknown, these underdogs will have those who have traveled beyond the kind of family. – Ben F. Fischer you rooting for them all the way. – teenage years, it is a reminder of Q&A Attendees: Laurie Weltz Ben F. Fischer the possibilities life holds. Q&A Attendees: Rosemary & Nestor – Woodstock Film Festival Rodriguez Q&A Attendees: Colette Bothof

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East Coast Premiere East Coast Premiere East Coast Premiere There Should Be Touched With Fire WaffleSt reet The Walk Rules with Katie Holmes with James Lafferty with Joseph Gordon-Levitt Directed by Linda-Maria Birbeck Directed by Paul Dalio and Danny Glover and Ben Kingsley Sweden / 2015 / 89 minutes USA / 2015 / 101 minutes Directed by Eshom and Ian Nelms Directed by Robert Zemeckis In Swedish with English subtitles Upstate Films I RHINEBECK USA / 2015 / 90 minutes USA / 2015 / 100 minutes Thur Oct 1 • 7:00pm Upstate Films WOODSTOCK ROSENDALE Theatre WOODSTOCK Playhouse WOODSTOCK Playhouse Fri Oct 2 • 4:30pm Fri Oct 2 • 6:30pm Sat Oct 3 • 1:30pm Sat Oct 3 • 6:30pm Orpheum Theater SAUGERTIES WOODSTOCK Playhouse Courtesy of sony pictures Sat Oct 3 • 12:00pm Courtesy of roadSIDE attractions Sun Oct 4 • 12:30pm Twelve people have walked on Mia and Mirjam, two passionate, Dedicated to a long list of bi-polar Directors Eshom and Ian Nelms the moon. Only one has ever, or free-spirited 14-year-olds, along artists, Touched With Fire propels (Lost On Purpose, 2013) return will ever, walk in the immense void with Karl, who is inventive and wise us into the roller coaster lives of to Woodstock with their second between the World Trade Center beyond his years, are a close knit Marco and Carla, two young poets feature, Waffle Street, based on towers. threesome in a small town in Sweden drawn to each other’s mania. Is the memoir of James Adams, former Philippe Petit (Joseph Gor- where nothing ever happens. Although it a gift? An illness to be cured? An VP of a $30 billion hedge fund, don-Levitt), guided by his real-life the young friends spend nearly every entry into fierce creativity? Does ma- who loses his job and unexpect- mentor, Papa Rudy (Ben Kingsley), waking hour together, each attempts nia inspire fierce genius, and if so, edly winds up in the world of is aided by an unlikely band of in- to discover a unique path to coming is it worth the price of the crushing the unemployed. In this genuine ternational recruits, who overcome of age. In the center is Mia, torn depression that inevitably follows riches-to-rags story, Jimmy, played long odds, betrayals, dissension and between youth and adulthood, family the high? Writer-director Paul Dalio by a charming James Lafferty, countless close calls to conceive and friends. Mia wishes there were no tells his story from the inside-out, finally finds work waiting tables at and execute their mad plan. Robert rules and tempts life again and again. using Van Gogh’s Starry Night as the a chicken & waffles chain, where Zemeckis, the master director of Mirjam, seeking love, finds her road backdrop to an alternate reality. Ka- the hectic pace and general mayhem such marvels as Forrest Gump, Cast to adulthood in a steamy romance tie Holmes and Luke Kirby strike just become both comedic and endear- Away, Back to the Future, Polar Ex- with an older man who claims he loves the right note as the manic young ing. Under the tutelage of master press and Flight, again uses cutting her. Karl, supporting Mia’s sense of lovers, and Christine Lahti’s Sara is grill man Edward (Danny Glover in edge technology in the service of loss as her best friend is pulled away perfect as Carla’s mother navigating a stunningly earnest performance), an emotional, character-driven by new love, helps concoct ways to the difficult terrain between pro- Jimmy learns some hard lessons story. With innovative photorealistic bring Mirjam back to them. While tecting and alienating her daughter. about life, finance and making grits. techniques and wizardry, The Walk friendship and family bonds are tested Lighting is used to great effect But the foremost thing he discovers is genuine big-screen cinema, a and facades eventually crumble, the in this harrowing story of lovers is carpe diem, as he begins to enjoy chance for moviegoers to viscerally teens declare, ‘we are never becoming spinning in and out of control and the pleasures of the moment and experience the feeling of reaching ordinary.’ And they don’t. Beautifully a cameo by Kay Jamison, author of realize that the measure of a man the clouds. shot and acted, and superbly written, Touched with Fire, the definitive work is far more than luxury homes and It is also one of the rare There Should Be Rules exemplifies fine on creativity and madness, lends expensive cars. Fundamentally, live-action films that is a PG-rat- Swedish cinema, where nuances are even more authenticity. – Barbara Waffle Street is an authentic ac- ed, all-audience entertainment for everything and delicate stories unfold Pokras, ACE count of what it means to rediscov- moviegoers 8 to 80 — and a true in their own tempo and style. Q&A Attendees: Paul Dalio, Kristina er yourself. – Ben F. Fischer story to boot. It is unlike anything – Svetlana Krotek Nikolova Q&A Attendees: Eshom and Ian Nelms audiences have seen before, a love Q&A Attendee: Linda-Maria Birbeck letter to Paris and New York City in Carpe Diem award recipient the 1970s, but most of all, to the Towers of the World Trade Center. – Woodstock Film Festival

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US Premiere East Coast Premiere World Premiere 1 Giant Leap II: 3 Still Standing A Woman Like Me After the Spill What about me? Directed by Robert Campos and Directed by Alex Sichel Directed by Jon Bowermaster Directed by Duncan Bridgeman Donna LoCiera and Elizabeth Giamatti USA / 2015 / 60 minutes USA / 2014 / 90 minutes and Jamie Cato USA / 2015 / 84 minutes WOODSTOCK Playhouse USA / 2015 / 85 minutes Sun Oct 4 • 3:00pm Bearsville Theater WOODSTOCK Upstate Films II RHINEBECK Thur Oct 1 • 8:00pm Sat Oct 3 • 6:30pm WOODSTOCK Playhouse Evocatively titled, After The ROSENDALE Theatre Fri Oct 2 • 5:00pm Upstate Films WOODSTOCK Spill takes us five years out, Fri Oct 2 • 1:00pm Sun Oct 4 • 2:15pm ROSENDALE Theatre after BP’s Deepwater Horizon Sat Oct 3 • 5:00pm Courtesy of Cargo Films and When filmmaker Alex Sichel exploded and sank in April 2010. Releasing learns she has metastatic breast Has life returned to normal along 1 Giant Leap: What About Me? is a cancer, she decides to persevere Louisiana’s coastline? Or has it 3 Still Standing follows three by making a movie about a woman unique music, TV and film project, been changed forever? Filmmaker the culmination of 4 years of veteran stand-up comics as they facing the same diagnosis, dis- struggle to survive the downfall of and adventurer Jon Bowermaster directors Duncan Bridgeman and playing as much optimism as she Jamie Catto visiting 50 locations comedy in a changing world. Con- was putting the finishing touches can, while simultaneously docu- around the world, collecting temporaries of Robin Williams, Dana on SoLa, Louisiana Water Stories, menting her own experience. The wisdom and musical jewels. It’s Carvey and others in the hotbed which he began filming in 2008, an inspiring and alarming look at of San Francisco during the heady result is two movies unfolding side- when the well exploded. The film our collective insanity: how we are 1980s, success seems to be just one by-side, with behind-the-scenes gorgeously captured a place and ego-driven, needy in relationships, great set away for Will Durst, Larry footage of both. a way of life that many believe insatiable in desire, addicted to “Bubbles” Brown and Johnny Steele. A Woman Like Me proceeds will never return. Bowermaser status, wounded by childhood, and Now that the heyday is over and with unflinching honesty, humor and his camera have revisited the area many times, interviewing unable to stop thinking, but still comedy seems to have taken a hia- and an enormous dose of personal fishermen, scientists, politicians, manage to be inspired and creative. tus, the skilled live performers must strength. A majority of the film is environmentalists, and oil-rig At its core is the music, starting with seek new ways to reinvent their acts diary-style, with Alex speaking into in an unfamiliar landscape of social workers to investigate how the pre-composed backing tracks and her handheld camera. Enlisted to seamlessly layering on international media and online celebrity. With Louisiana coast has been altered. play Anna, Alex’s upbeat fictional stars like Alanis Morissette, KD Lang, surprisingly serious intent — after What really happened to that oil? alter-ego, Lili Taylor is directed Michael Franti, Michael Stipe, Khrisna all these men are comedians — the What about the dispersant used Das, and Stewart Copeland, Bedouin “3” pursue creative ways to make on screen in scenes that meander to push it beneath the surface? musicians, Chinese rappers, Gabonese their comebacks. 3 Still Standing is between pure fantasy and reenact- How has the spill impacted local pygmies, Tuvan throat singers, a 30-year roller-coaster ride through ments of real-life moments, playing economies, human health and the Egyptian folk musicians, Japanese comedy’s boom and bust, with them not always as Alexis behaved, health of marine life and the Gulf taiko drummers, and more. Along with recollections from contemporaries but in the way she wishes she had. itself? Has Louisiana’s coastline been tainted forever? With skill Noam Chomsky, Eckhart Tolle, Stephen and close colleagues Rob Schneider In a brave effort, that is at times and determination, filmmaker Jon Fry and other renowned thinkers, and Paula Poundstone. And on a painful, yet always touching, the Bowermaster probes and uncovers writers, and entertainers, everyday poignant note, we get to hear one legacy Alex leaves is raw and real. of Robin Williams last recorded in- the truth beneath the spill. folks speak out — gravediggers, – Ben F. Fischer taxi drivers, brain surgeons, street terviews. – Woodstock Film Festival – Woodstock Film Festival Q&A Attendee: Elizabeth Giamatti kids. These unscripted conversations Q&A Attendees: Q&A Attendee: Jon Bowermaster reveal how we are connected by Robert Campos, Donna Lokiero, not only creativity and beliefs, but Will Durst, Johnny Steele primarily through our madness! SCREENING Followed by Aa Rare An unforgettable and completely Live Performance unconventional musical and cinematic WITH COMEDIANS journey that will leave you stunned Will Durst & Johnny SteelE and inspired. – Woodstock Film Festival Q&A Attendees: Duncan Bridgeman, Krishna Das, Stewart Copeland All events are subject to change. For latest updates, 2015 WOODSTOCK FILM FESTIVAL visit www.WoodstockFilmFestival.com 9 documentaries

East Coast Premiere World Premiere East Coast Premiere NEW YORK Premiere the Babushkas Buried Above Deep Run DRAWING THE TIGER of Chernobyl Ground Directed by Hillevi Loven Directed by Amy Benson, Scott Directed by Holly Morris, Directed by Ben Selkow USA / 2015 / 75 minutes Squire & Ramyata Limbu Anne Bogart (Co-Director) USA / 2015 / 85 minutes USA / 2015 / 97 minutes Bearsville Theater WOODSTOCK In Nepali with Subtitles USA / 2015 / 72 minutes Fri Oct 2 • 11:45am English and Ukranian with subtitles Upstate Films II RHINEBECK Fri Oct 2 • 1:00pm Upstate Films II RHINEBECK Upstate Films WOODSTOCK Upstate Films WOODSTOCK Bearsville Theater WOODSTOCK Sun Oct 4 • 6:00pm Thu Oct 1 • 1:30pm Fri Oct 2 • 12:00pm Sun Oct 4 • 5:15pm Orpheum Theater SAUGERTIES Growing up is difficult. But when ROSENDALE Theatre Sat Oct 3 • 2:30pm you are a boy living in the body of Sat Oct 3 • 12:00pm Buried Above Ground brings to a girl in rural North Carolina, life light the global health condition In rural Nepal, where each day is can be extremely complicated. Here in the exclusion zone life we now recognize as Post-Trau- a work-filled struggle to survive, Meet 17-year-old Spazz, exiled by never stopped, nature just took matic Stress Disorder (PTSD) by young Shanta Darnal is her family’s sharing the courageous journeys her family, rejected by her ex, with over. So says Valentyna Ivanivna, hope for something better. When of three Americans wrestling no one to lean on for support. one of a remarkable group of elderly Shanta is awarded a scholarship with the aftermath of devastating When Spazz falls in love again, she babushkas living in the shadows to attend school in the city, they events. The film broadens the scope finds the courage to transition to of Chernobyl in a scattering of envision circumstances changing. of PTSD beyond combat veterans to Cole Ray Davis, a gutsy trans young small villages on some of the most And so they do, but in a way neither include other forms of debilitating man. Directed by social justice toxic land on earth. Ironically, the family nor the filmmakers, who trauma that currently impact 450 activist Hillevi Loven and executive this contaminated earth produces spent seven years filming, could million people worldwide. Struggle produced by LGBTQ supporter herbs, fruits and vegetables that have anticipated. Drawing the along with U.S. Army captain Luis Susan Sarandon, Deep Run is seem to sustain the babushkas. How Tiger is an unflinchingly real and Montalvan, back from the Iraq War, Cole’s coming-of-age and coming- is it possible that these ancient almost unbearably touching portrait as he learns to cope with his inner out story. It is also an intimate women continue to thrive? Is of an impoverished family and a war wounds and resurface via the exploration of young outsiders in an the deep and enduring friendship young girl faced with an enormous bond he forms with his service dog, insular Christian community, whose they share part of the answer? responsibility. In their first feature- Tuesday. Relive Hurricane Katrina candid humor and steadfast beliefs Do we need to rethink everything length production, Amy Benson and with evacuee Ashley as she pledges help them face the harsh, gritty we’ve been taught about nuclear Scott Squire exhibit an amazing to rebuild her home while she reality of their daily lives. With a contamination? What about the commitment to telling the story of rebuilds herself. Empathize with small group of supportive friends, thrill-seeking young men who tempt a family and a culture, even when, Eurndina, fighting to stay sober and relatives, and his girlfriend, Ashley, fate in acts of bravado that may as can happen with a documentary, go back to school after surviving Cole’s search for love and belonging someday claim their lives? Evacuees happenstance takes the story in a child abuse and domestic violence. leads him to a radical revision of were told they could never return, unplanned direction. The exquisite Filmed over six years, with intimate what faith and church can be. but motherland is everything. Each cinematography, whether in the access to these survivors as they – Ben F. Fischer person should live where their majestic yet desolate village or the unburden themselves of the past, Q&A Attendees: soul desires, says one. This is a chaotic, bleak city, perceptively fascinating and powerful film, with Buried Above Ground pays tribute to Hillevi Loven, Samara Levenstein, Chris Talbott, Cole Ray Davis complements this compelling and indelible images and a near perfect the human spirit and the skill of the filmmaker. – Woodstock Film Festival poignant story of an impossible score. Brilliant and courageous situation that goes from bad to worse Q&A Attendees: Ben Selkow preceded by filmmaking. A must see. – Barbara All About Amy when it was only supposed to get Pokras, ACE Directed By better. – Ben F. Fischer Q&A Attendee: Holly Morris Samuel Centore Q&A Attendees: Amy Benson USA / 2014 / 7:33 Minutes An intimate portrayal that follows a widowed transgender taxi driver in the catskills. amy recounts her late wife’s support as she works the night shift and returns at sunrise to her unfinished, decaying home in the woods. All events are subject to change. 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North American Premiere EAST COAST Premiere East Coast Premiere Family Matters Hot Type: 150 Years I Will Not Incorruptible Directed by Noa Roth of The Nation Be Silenced Directed by E. Chai Vasarhelyi Israel / 2015 / 67 minutes Directed by Barbara Kopple Directed by Judy Rymer SUSA / 2014 / 93 minutes Hebrew with Subtitles USA / 2015 / 92 minutes Australia / 2014 / 84 minutes French,Wolof with English subtitles Upstate Films II RHINEBECK English and Swahili with subtitles Bearsville Theater WOODSTOCK Upstate Films WOODSTOCK Thu Oct 1 • 7:30pm Sat Oct 3 • 2:30pm Bearsville Theater WOODSTOCK Sat Oct 3 • 5:15pm Upstate Films WOODSTOCK Fri Oct 2 • 2:00pm Upstate Films I RHINEBECK Fri Oct 2 • 2:30pm When a renowned filmmaker Upstate Films II RHINEBECK Sun Oct 4 • 5:30pm makes a film about a renowned Courtesy of Go2films magazine, the outcome is sure to Sun Oct 4 • 3:30pm In the spring of 2011, Senegal was be captivating. Barbara Kopple is Charlotte Campbell got more than pitched into crisis when President Deep family secrets and well known to Woodstock, and around heartfelt attempts to heal broken she bargained for when she left Abdoulaye Wade decided to change the globe, for such break-through relationships are the crux of this her home in Australia to volunteer the constitution to allow for a third moving documentary about the films as Harlan County USA, Woodstock in Africa to help orphans and vul- term. An artist-led youth movement little known world of the extreme My Generation, Shut Up and Sing, nerable kids and experience the — the Y’en a Marre (Enough is orthodox Jewish population. Running from Crazy, and more. Her Kenyan way of life. She became Enough) — erupted to protect one Directed by Noa Roth, Family Matters latest, Hot Type; 150 Years of The the victim of a violent daytime of Africa’s oldest and most stable is her unflinching journey of self- Nation, is a vivid look at America’s rape by a gang of young thugs. democracies. Fourteen candidates ran discovery as she tells the story of oldest continuously published weekly Assuming the police and the court for president. Incorruptible follows the how, 30 years ago, the divorce of her magazine. With editor Katrina vanden system would mete out justice, main players: incumbent President parents shook the religious Israeli Heuvel (who will be in attendance) Charlotte reported the attack and Wade, opposition candidate Macky city of Bney Barak and affected at the helm, as well as an impressive landed at the intersection of law Sall and music superstar Youssou the lives of their seven children. array of brilliant and passionate and culture. While rape has become Ndour, along with the Y’en a Marre Her father was an esteemed rabbi; writers, the film takes us on a journey a pandemic in Kenya, especially movement. Displaying passion, after she left with the children, her into the soul of American Journalism. in the slums, women are afraid to exuberance, corruption, religious mother became a renowned author. With unfettered access and unfiltered report it out of embarrassment and ploys, a call for accountability, The film follows a family divided honesty, Hot Type captures the fear of reprisal from the police. Is collaboration, and the registration between the conflicting worlds of the day-to-day pressures and challenges justice delayed, justice denied? of 300,000 new voters, the results ultra-orthodox and the secular. Roth of publishing a weekly magazine, as Certainly in this case, but Charlotte, were stunning. More people voted bravely travels among the ghosts well as illuminating how the past determined to find justice, set out than ever before in the history of of her childhood in an attempt to continuously ripples through and to empower other rape victims, independent Senegal. Macky Sall, reunite her fractured family and, shapes current events. It is the story many of whom were sexualized at running on a platform of reform finally, start one of her own. Told of The Nation — and the nation a young age through poverty, poor and anti-corruption, won. The film with respect and love for both worlds, — evolving into the future, as it is living conditions and gender bias. explores this transition and asks: Family Matters is a testament to self- guided by its remarkable past. Mobilizing women to stand up to after you unite against something, empowerment and the deep-seated the rapists, Charlotte’s journey is what do you then unite for? With force of religious life. – Svetlana a story of courage in the face of democracies around the world under Krotek enormous obstacles. An inspiration- siege, Incorruptible offers hope, while Screening will be followed by a al and unforgettable film. – Barbara honestly examining the sustainability conversation Pokras, ACE of a peoples’ movement and the role between director Q&A Attendee: Judy Rymer youth are taking to shape the future. Barbara Kopple Inspiring! and The Nation’s Q&A Attendee: E. Chai Vasarhelyi Editor and Publisher, Katrina vanden Heuvel Hosted by Robin Bronk

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Lee’s 88 Keys Left on Purpose Look tA Us Now, Mavis! Directed by Susan Robbins Directed by Justin Schein Mother! Directed by Jessica Edwards USA / 2015 / 104 minutes Co-director David Mehlman Directed by Gayle Kirschenbaum USA / 2015 / 81 minutes USA / 2014 / 85 minutes USA / 2014 / 84 minutes Orpheum Theater SAUGERTIES Levon Helm Studios Fri Oct 2 • 8:30pm Bearsville Theater WOODSTOCK Bearsville Theater WOODSTOCK Fri Oct 2 • 9:30pm Thur Oct 1 • 5:30pm Thur Oct 1 • 3:00pm You may not know her name, but Upstate Films I RHINEBECK Calling singer/civil rights activist 88-year-old jazz pianist Lee Shaw Upstate Films II RHINEBECK Sat Oct 3 • 6:00pm Mavis Staples a living legend is is a legend among musicians. She Sat Oct 3 • 9:00pm no overstatement. With roots in was coveted by Lionel Hampton (but When director Justin Schein gospel and a visionary father who ‘Mother knows best’ hardly applies declined an invitation to join him), set out to film the life story of molded his family into the Staple to Mildred Abramowitz Kirschern- tutored by Oscar Peterson, and her Mayer Vishner, an aging hippy Singers, we watch the group go baum, the ascerbic, hypercritical current trio boasts Hudson Valley and former political activist living and sometimes downright nasty from gospel performances at local homeboys Rich Syracuse on bass and alone in NYC in a tiny, overly mother of documentarian Gayle churches during the 1960s and Jeff Siegel on drums. Shaw fell in love crowded apartment, it is unlikely Kirschernbaum. With wit, humor ‘70s to chart-topping mainstream with the piano at age 5, and director he anticipated the turn the story and compassion, Gayle, a bulldog hits. Skillfully combining archival Susan Robbins’ bio-pic, Lee’s 88 Keys, would take. Loneliness is one of of a daughter, is determined to material, new interviews and live comes alive with recollections of the hardest maladies to live with, understand, forgive and cherish performances, filmmaker Jessica Shaw first hearing music and learning and Mayer, after years of coping her mother before it’s too late. But Edwards hits all the high notes to play, on to becoming a bona-fide with solitude, and six months into how? Forgiveness is easy to roll of the Staple Singer’s tenure. musician. The story is rich with music, filming, announces that his last po- off the lips, but what if you’d been The movie continues to track the history and a multitude of anecdotes litical act will be the taking of his criticized and made to feel deficient rollercoaster of the artist’s solo and accolades from fellow musicians, own life. An ethical struggle ensues all your life by the one person who career, including such tender former students (including local as the filmmaker can’t help but put means the most? What if the only moments as Mavis’ visit to the luminary John Medeski), and friends. himself inside the story, trying to safe love is the four-legged kind? late Levon Helm at his Barn. Shaw has struggled with being a help his subject create a different Gayle and Mildred travel the road Julian Bond, Bonnie Raitt, Wilco’s woman in a male dominated field, ending. As Schein’s own young to forgiveness with alternately Jeff Tweedy, and Bob Dylan are the financial challenges of pursuing a child becomes a part of the film in hilarious and poignant stops along prominent among the friends, musical dream, and the conflict of her a tender moment that restores hope the way. Gayle’s journals, starting fellow musicians and civil rights ever-sharp mind residing in an aging that Vishner’s life can be preserved, at age eight, reveal an acutely veterans who pay homage to vessel. Indomitable, she is driven the viewer is inadvertently pulled sensitive child who can’t understand the documentary’s star. But it is by her love of music and passion for into the unfolding tragic drama in what she’s done wrong. Was she Mavis herself who performs most jazz. Experience that passion in Lee’s a rare and deeply affective expe- born into the wrong family? Should eloquently, especially after winning 88 Keys. – Ben F. Fischer rience of self-questioning. Left on she have been a boy? Gerald, Gay- a 2011 Grammy for her album “You Q&A Attendee: Susan Robbins Purpose is a cinematic journey that le’s downtrodden father, seems to Are Not Alone.” “Mavis!” — both poses ethical questions not easily the woman and the film — richly The Lee Shaw Trio will be performing answered, yet oh so important to be think so. So does her therapist. You before the screening, at Love Bites in won’t want to miss this delight- deserve the exclamation point in asked. – Svetlana Krotek the title. – Woodstock Film Festival Saugerties from 5pm to 9pm Q&A Attendees: ful, searingly honest and intimate Q&A Attendee: Jessica Edwards Justin Schein, David Mehlman, Eden mother-daughter story. – Barbara Pokras, A.C.E Wurmfeld, Yael Bridge Q&A Attendees: Gayle Kirschenbaum, Jessica Philliips

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world Premiere New York Premiere WORLD Premiere Monty Python: Paradise Is There the Poet of Havana Reconquest of the The Meaning of Live A Memoir Directed by Ron Chapman Useless Directed by Roger Graef & James Rogan by Natalie Merchant, Canada / 2015 / 97 minutes Directed by Sam Pressman The New Tigerlily Recordings UK / 2014 / 92 minutes English and Spanish with Subtitles USA / 2015 / 79 minutes

WOODSTOCK Playhouse USA/2015/90 minutes Ulster Performing Arts Center Bearsville Theater WOODSTOCK Wed Sept 30 •7:30 pm Sat Oct 3 • 9:00pm Thur Oct 1 • 12:30pm WOODSTOCK Playhouse ROSENDALE Theatre Orpheum Theater SAUGERTIES (film only) ROSENDALE Theatre Thur Oct 1 • 9:15pm Sat Oct 3 • 10:00pm Sun Oct 4 • 12:00pm Sat Oct 3 • 8:00pm Twenty years after it was first re- The Poet of Havana explores the Reconquest Of The Useless is a In 1969, six men joined forces leased, singer/songwriter Natalie cultural, political and social sig- documentary film that follows the to create an absurd surrealist Merchant has re-recorded her 5 nificance Carlos Varela has had in travails of three young men as comedy group that would one day million-selling album Tigerlily. his 30 years as a singer-songwrit- they journey nearly 5,000 miles become one of the most notable Paradise Is There, A Memoir by er. A veteran of censorship battles through the Peruvian Amazon icons of the comedy world. Now, Natalie Merchant, directed by Mer- with the Cuban government, his searching for inspiration, adven- nearly 35 years later, these illus- chant, is a personal account of emotionally charged songs—raw, met- ture and the legacy of Werner Her- trious Monty Python players have the beloved singer’s journey. Told aphoric chronicles of contemporary zog’s classic film Fitzcarraldo thirty reunited to bring their unique brand through her voice and the voices of years after it was made. Like Fitz- of silliness back to their massive fan Cuban life— have drawn comparisons her fans, the bio-pic illustrates how base. Focusing on their sold-out, to Bob Dylan’s work. Jackson Browne’s carraldo, who dreamed of building powerfully the songs from the re- ten-night run at The O2 Arena in translation of Varela’s Muros y Puertas an opera house in the jungle, and cord — Carnival, River, Wonder, The London, Monty Python: The Meaning (Walls and Doors), talks about how Herzog himself, with his transcen- of Live presents a behind-the-scenes Letter, and more — have impacted polarized we are as a society, evident dent vision of cinema, the creators look at Monty Python’s largest show her audience. At the same time, it is in the song’s refrain, “There can be of Reconquest Of The Useless also ever. Filled with heartfelt interviews a first-hand telling of how the music freedom only when nobody owns it.” pursue quixotic dreams: to travel and insights, as well as a nostalgic and her avid admirers have signifi- Shot in Havana with unique access, without being tourists and to have look back at old sketches, this his- cantly influenced Merchant’s own the audience enjoys stunning concert transformative experiences by ex- toric documentary shows the always life. We have all enjoyed her music and insider backstage moments, along ploring what is rarely sought after. hilarious, always hard-working and with this film we get to know with exclusive interviews with such Imbued with the spirit of Fitzcarral- Pythons in a brand new light. Art- Merchant in a new way and appreci- international stars as Ivan Lins, Luis do, the ultimate film for impossible fully balancing stage performance, ate the humanity of the woman that Enrique, Juan and Samuel Formel, dreamers, Reconquest Of The Useless personal memories, and a view of is reflected in her songs. Filled with Diana Fuentes, X Alfonso, Alexander is about the quest for the ineffable who these men are today, this film archival footage from her early days Abreu, in addition to Jackson Browne and unknown, and where that path is sure to have you laughing in your fronting 10,000 Maniacs, this is the and actor Benicio Del Toro (The Usual can take you. A true journey for the seat. A treat for any fan of this bril- first documentary about herself that Suspects, Traffic, Guardians of the audience to embark upon. liant, one-of-a-kind comedy group Natalie Merchant has participated Galaxy). – Woodstock Film Festival Q&A Attendees: and an education for anyone who in. Sam Pressman, Walter Saxer missed them back in the day. – Sam Robotham Q&A Attendees: Natalie Merchant, Jon Bowermaster Wednesday’s Screening will be followed by a performance featuring Cuba’s Carlos Varela and band with special guest Jackson Browne

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East Coast Premiere East Coast Premiere World Festival Premiere World Festival Premiere She’s The Best The Student Body Shelter Sporting Dreams Thing In It Directed by Directed by Barbara Kopple Directed by Leon Gast Directed by Ron Nyswaner Bailey Webber, Michael Webber USA / 2015 / 52 minutes USA / 2015 / 52 minutes USA / 2014 / 80 minutes USA / 2015 / 85 minutes screening with Sporting screening with Shelter Upstate Films WOODSTOCK Upstate Films II RHINEBECK Dreams Bearsville Theater WOODSTOCK Sat Oct 3 • 7:45pm Sat Oct 3 • 1:00pm Bearsville Theater WOODSTOCK Sat Oct 3 • 11:45am Upstate Films I RHINEBECK Bearsville Theater WOODSTOCK Sat Oct 3 • 11:45am Sun Oct 4 • 3:00pm Sun Oct 4 • 2:30pm Courtesy of Al Jazeera Courtesy of Al Jazeera Oscar-nominated writer/producer 10th grade filmmaker Bailey Webber Through the intimate stories of is on a mission. The investigation Ron Nywaner’s first documentary During the final year of an unprec- three American families, we grasp feature is an examination of the begins when her school district edented national effort to end that childhood and high school actor’s craft and the sacrifices implements a controversial mandate military veteran homelessness, sports are still the bridge to demanded by a lifelong career. forcing schools to perform Body Mass two-time Academy Award winning attaining the American Dream.... Watch the feisty and and at times Index tests in a misguided attempt to director Barbara Kopple intimately for the child as well as the parent. hilarious veteran character actor address childhood obesity. After a sixth documents the on-the-ground work Is it worth it? and Tony Award winner, Mary Louise grader voices her protest against the of the veteran-founded communi- Sports play an enormous part Wilson, age 79, teach her first “fat letters,” Webber recognizes the ty-based service organization, Vet- in the American social fabric. More acting class to skeptical members of injustice of telling children they are erans Resource Center, in Northern children than ever are participating the YouTube generation, smashing fat if they don’t fall within a narrowly California. Sharing the struggles of in competitive sports. Sports can help their red carpet illusions and chal- accepted range. Believing they are those they seek to pull out of a life achieve their athletic dreams, help with lenging them to bring emotional being unfairly profiled and bullied, her lived on the streets, Shelter tells a their academics, teach how to deal with honesty into their acting. Featuring keen inquiry includes a relentless chase story of vets saving vets, delving adversity and failure, learn to succeed interviews with Frances McDormand, after the bureaucrat who sponsored the into the psychological trauma cre- through hard work and dedication and, Melissa Leo, Tyne Daly, Estelle Par- law. Whether she is staging a vigil at ated by military service, the effects of course, how to have fun. Academy sons, Valerie Harper, and playwright the state house, or interviewing health that remain long after active duty, Award® winner Leon Gast looks at Doug Wright, She’s The Best Thing in experts for their input, Bailey never and the difficult road back to a nor- several different individual and team It discusses what it means to be a loses her cool. Her dogged pursuit is mal life for these women and men. sports in America: from boxing and character actor, whether acting can always done with poise and immense – Woodstock Film Festival hockey, to the girls AAU basketball. be taught, what constitutes ‘talent,’ charm. Despite the filmmaker’s youth, The film examines family relationships and whether the profession is harder The Student Body is a sophisticated, between mothers and fathers and sons for women. Nyswaner, known for smart, steadfast, sensitive, and often and daughters. We look at their joys and such features as Philadelphia, The humorous chronicle of two brave girls struggles by exploring how sports play a Painted Veil and the popular TV se- who expose the hypocrisy of grownups part in their American dream. ries Ray Donovan, handles this film who think they are safeguarding the and its real life subject with the nation’s young. – Ben F. Fischer same sympatico and style that he Q&A Attendees: brings to his perceptively portrayed Bailey Webber, Michael Webber ttendees ast fictional characters. – Woodstock Q&A A Leon G Kopple & Film Festival rbara Q&A Attendees: Ba Ron Nyswaner, Mary Louise Wilson

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Sarah Shourd, Shane Bauer and Joshua Fattal, human rights activists and educators, got more than they bargained for when, in 2009, they inadvertently stepped out of Kurdistan and stumbled into Iran. Caught in the WFF Mugs $10 WFF Caps - $15 turmoil of strained diplomatic relations following the notorious 1979 hostage- taking episode and more recent student Available at Box Office • 13 Rock City Road • Woodstock, NY uprisings protesting rigged elections, www.woodstockfilmfestival.com the three were thrown into prison and charged with crimes punishable by death. Sarah was held in solitary confinement, The Woodstock Film Festival while Shane and Josh shared a cell. With and Hudson Valley Film Commission limited access to diplomatic intervention — the Swiss Ambassador, the Sultan of C APITal CAMPAIGN Oman, and behind-the-scenes American efforts played a role — the plight of the NEEDS YOUR HELP three, through family and friends, sparked a grassroots movement that eventually caught the attention of Desmond Tutu, Sean Penn and Cesar Chavez. Far more than a story of wrongful imprisonment, The Three Hikers is a testament to courage, endurance and the power of love. Electrifying filmmaking. – Barbara Pokras, ACE Q&A Attendees: Natalie Avital, Joel Ides

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ARuntime:NIM 78:00AT IMinutesON WITH BILL & SIGNE Upstate Films Woodstock Sat Oct 3 • 12:00Pm Alchemist’s Letter Driving The Night Directed by Directed by Nate Theis of the Naporitan Carlos Andre Stevens USA / 2015 / 3:51 minutes Directed by Ysuke USA, UK / 2015 / 5:17 Driving is a satirical Sakamoto minutes look at people in their Japan / 2015 / A late alchemist cars. With explosions. 6:19 minutes exposes his estranged son to the truth Eggplant A tragic story of spaghetti, who surrounding his tumultuous life and the Directed by Yangzi She dark magic used to power a gold making USA / 2015 / 7:40 minutes never learned to love others. machine. Made at UCLA The Panty Fairy Aubade Durian was born with Directed by Juanwei Chen Directed by Mauro Carraro his facial expressions USA / 2014 / 2 Switzerland / 2014 / 5 opposite to everyone minutes minutes else’s. The School of Visual In a surrealist backlit Arts The Five Minute East Coast Premiere scene, swimmers and One day, a young birds witness the Museum teenage girl spectacle of the dawn, Directed by Paul Bush suddenly lost her hypnotized by the music of a cellist. USA / 2015 / 5 panties as she was taking them out to dry. Billy, the Ayn Rand on Love minutes The Five Minute Museum panty fairy, happens to come Directed by Patrick Smith is an experimental across her lost panty and USA / 2015 / 5 minutes animation in which thousands of artifacts decided to return it to her. Ayn Rand talks about New York Premiere from museums are brought to life in a Religatio love and other things history of human endeavor. in this animated inter- Directed by Jaime Giraldo view. Haircut Canada / 2014 / Directed by Virginia Mori 3:23 minutes Behind My Behind France, Italy / 2015 / Made at Vancouver Directed by David Chai 8 minutes Film School USA / 2014 / 4 minutes A teacher and her pupil Beings who exist A disheartened Earnest Knapp learns that linger in an empty class- in a world hanging the things he holds most dear are often room. Through their looks from ropes are all just a butt cheek away. and gestures, a strange engaged in a strug- Birthday confrontation begins. gle to stop themselves from falling into the void below. Directed by Nick Tustin Loneliest Stoplight USA / 2015 / 3 minutes Toro Directed by Bill Plympton New York Premiere School of Visual Arts USA / 2015 / 6 minutes Directed by Lynn Kim An alien bug is born The life and times of a USA / 2015 / 3:30 minutes into a dangerous jungle. As he enters this neglected stoplight. A closer look into the strange new world, he realizes things are bullfight. Hand drawn not what they appear. Mojo Thunder and stop motion Directed by Benjy animation. Chase Me Brooke, Vikkal Parrikh, Directed by Kris Merc Wandering Eye Gilles-alexandre USA / 2015 / 3 minutes Directed by Edwin Deschaud The story of a man try- Chavez France / 2015 / 3 minutes ing to escape the pain USA / 2015 / 1 minute New York Premiere This short film follows of his past, only to see Hostos Community a ukelele-playing girl himself sinking deeper College who is chased through a dark forest by into the grim realities A parasitic eye the monster that emerges from her own of life. wanders around shadow. and consumes New York Premiere Music Jail everything in its Directed by path. Jeremy Galante, David North American Premiere Cowles USA / 2015 / 3 minutes Where you going buddy? Won’t you come with me to music jail? The “Week 4” video of They Might Be Giants’ 2015 Dial-A-Song project.

All events are subject to change. For latest updates, 16 visit www.WoodstockFilmFestival.com WOODSTOCK FILM FESTIVAL 2015 Shorts About Wff Exposure Programming at the WOODSTOCK FILM FESTIVAL encourages Based On Fever Dream those who use film as a way to explore Woodstock Community Center Woodstock Community Center social, environmental and political themes, while challenging their inherent boundaries.  Fri Oct 2 • 8:30Pm  Fri Oct 2 • 6:30Pm Some of this year’s exposure program films include  Sun Oct 4 • 6:00Pm  Sun Oct 4 • 4:00Pm Incorruptible, Buried Above Ground, After The Spill. How I Didn’t East Coast Premiere Against Night Become A Piano Directed by The Hudson Valley and Catskills have Player Stefan Kubicki been a hotbed of creative energy and Directed by USA / 2014 / artistic vibrancy for over a century. In Tommaso Pitta 28:18 Minutes addition to attracting production talent UK / 2014 / In Russian With from all over the world, many established and emerging 17:40 Minutes English Subtitles filmmakers have now made the hudson valley their home. 9-Year-Old Ted Is Made At American Film Institute (AFI) The 2015 WFF schedule has programmed several locally Desperately Searching For Some- Set In The 1960S, A Cosmonaut Confronts produced films including the feature narratives I Dream thing He Is Good At. On The Day The Death Of His Wife And Daughter Years Too Much, Good Ol’ Boy, How He Fell In Love, and the His Father Comes Home With An Earlier After His Space Capsule Crash Lands short Mountain Low. Old Monstrous Piano, Ted Has A In The Frozen Steppes Of Mongolia. Revelation: He Will Become The Focus on Music showcases films about Next Mozart. Based On The Short Devil’s Work East Coast Premiere music and musicians, while exploring Story Every Good Boy By David Directed by Miguel the role that music plays in film. Many Nicholls. Silveira USA / 2014 / of the films emphasize how music can be an important The Lady Of 19 Minutes and powerful tool for expression and conflict resolution. World Premiere Larkspur Lotion Made At Columbia The BMI music panel and concerts play a critical role Directed by Sergio University in focus on music programming. 2015 Focus on Music Rico A Troubled films include The Poet Of Havana, 1 Giant Leap II, USA / 2014 / 14-Year-Old Boy Grows Increasingly Isolated Paradise Is There, Lee’s 88 Keys, Mavis! 22 Minutes As He Obsesses Over The Circumstances In A Beat-Up Old Surrounding His Father’s Death. His Descent As technology makes our world seem Boarding House In Puts Him On A Dismal And Potentially Vio- smaller and increasingly accessible­ , we New Orleans, A Frustrated Land- lent Course That Will Lead To Major Truths are given the rare opportunity to expand lady Decides To Confront One Of And Even Greater Questions. our global consciousness. Wff is proud Her Troublesome Tenants For The to present the world cinema program to further our Rent. As Their Arguing Ensues, Through The commitment to sharing experiences across continents. An Aspiring Drunken Writer De- Breaking Glass cides To Finally Speak His Truth. Directed by 2015 highlights include Moscow Never Sleeps, There Based On The Play By Tennessee Ivan Mena-Tinoco Should Be Rules, I Will Not Be Silenced, Family Matters. Williams. Spain / 2014 / As a part of this year’s world cinema 15 Minutes program, the WOODSTOCK FILM FESTIVAL Peacock Killer In Spanish With Directed by East Coast Premiere presents a Focus On Dutch Cinema English Subtitles sponsored by the Netherlands Consulate Boyd Holbrook After Waking Up In A Foreign Land, Alice USA / 2015 / and the Department of Dutch Culture USA. The program Does Not Remember Her Name Or How She features three outstanding selections from top dutch 14:39 Minutes Got There. With Evil Forces At Work, She filmmakers: Summer by Colette Bothof, Rendez-vous by A Man And His Dog Will Have To Fight To Survive Wonderland Go On An Unlikely And Get Back To Her Daughter. Antoinette Beumer and Eddy Terstall’s Meet Me in Venice. Journey Of Recon- ciliation. Adapted From A Short Since its inception, the WOODSTOCK Story By Sam Shepard. LGBTQ FILM FESTIVAL has explored and FOCUS Sure Thing celebrated LGBTQ voices with an Directed by exciting slate of films, concerts and special guests. Deborah Reinisch Shorts Some of 2015 highlights include Deep Run, Summer, USA / 2014 / 13 and All About Amy. Minutes Screening Prior To... Bill Takes The Only The WOODSTOCK FILM FESTIVAL’S All About Amy World Premiere Available Seat In Directed by Spotlight on Women in Film & Media A Cafe–At Betty’s Samuel Centore initiative highlights exciting new works by Table. Could She Be The “One”? USA / 2014 / some of today’s most talented, established Could He? Are There Any Guaran- 7:33 Minutes and up-and-coming female directors. The initiative tees When We Open Our Hearts? An Intimate Portrayal includes a panel presented by New York Women in Film Sure Thing. Based On The Play By and Media and a special event presented by film fatale. In David Ives. That Follows A Wid- screens prior to addition the Tangerine Entertainment Juice Award will owed Transgender Taxi Driver In The Catskills. Deep Run be presented for best female director. 2015 highlights are Amy Recounts Her Late Scout, The Adderall Diaries, It Had To Be You, Silver Skies. Wife’s Support As She Works The Night Shift And Returns At Sunrise To Her Unfin- ished, Decaying Home In The Woods.

All events are subject to change. For latest updates, 2015 WOODSTOCK FILM FESTIVAL visit www.WoodstockFilmFestival.com 17 shorts GROWING UP Woodstock Community Center  Fri Oct 2 • 12:00pm LET’S TALK  Sat Oct 3 • 6:30pm Woodstock Community Center Breatharians East Coast Premiere Stanhope  ri ct pm Directed by Marc Directed by F O 2 • 4:30 Turtletaub Solvan “Slick” Naim Upstate Films I RHINEBECK USA / 2014 / USA / 2014 / 17 minutes  Sat Oct 3 • 8:30pm 27 minutes Stanhope, a young Greco Roman East Coast Premiere August is a twelve- teenager from a Directed by year-old boy growing single parent home up on his family’s dairy farm. Dealing with his Theo Sena in Brooklyn, spends a great deal of time with his USA / 2015 / parents separation and navigating the distance Grandmother. When she agrees to buy him his first 5 minutes between his parents’ homes, August must grap- skateboard, a series of events is put into motion Two old friends take ple with whether he can complete a grisly job that will change the course of Stanhope’s life. his father has assigned him. an awkward walk into The Vow their past. Share New York Premiere Directed by Lina Roessler New York Premiere New York Premiere Directed by Pippa Canada / 2014 / 6 Pick Up Bianco minutes Directed by USA / 2014 / 12:17 Joshua Alan Rogers Two 7-year-old girls USA / 2015 / 20 minutes minutes go on a magical trip Jesse Ritter has A 15-year-old girl in an attempt to exe- been living with a returns to school cute a master plan. after someone shares secret. What begins an explicit video of her. as a quiet evening driving for Pick Up (the latest car service to share the road with Uber and Lyft), soon finds Jesse falling for one of his passengers and forced to confess the truth. Woodstock Community Center  Sat Oct 3 • 4:15pm Spit East Coast Premiere NO TRESPASSING Orpheum Theater SAUGERTIES  Sun Oct 4 • 5:30pm Directed by Mtume Gant The Cut Through East Coast Premiere Wait ‘til the Wolves New York Premiere USA / 2015 / Directed by Make Nice 16:15 minutes Weldon Powers Directed by Jeremiah “Monk- USA / 2015 / 5 minutes Jessica dela Merced One” Sinclair, an A bored suburban USA / 2015 / 11 minutes NYC Hip Hop artist has reached a crossroads of husband follows the Four kids turn their trying to understand what success is. Filmed POV neighborhood kids and innocence to ashes style, we enter the body of Monk One, seeing discovers a mysterious portal in the woods leading on a hot summer day in Detroit. through his eyes the loss of passion, love for the to a better, more exciting life. music, and city he once knew. New York Premiere Mountain Low Winter Light The Way Of Tea East Coast Premiere Directed by World Premiere Directed by (Les Fremissements Andrew J. Bruntel du Thé ) USA / 2015 / 19 minutes Julian Higgins USA / 2015 / Directed by A solitary Game Warden 28:30 minutes Marc Fouchard spends one last day with When an aging France / 2014 / his estranged daughter college professor 20:39 minutes before she moves to confronts two hunters trespassing on his property, he In a French with English subtitles Florida. When he sidetracks their day to investigate begins an escalating battle of wills that will test his A small town in northern France, Alex, a young a strange sound heard deep in the woods, he risks faith in everything he holds dear. Adapted from a short skinhead, enters Malik’s grocery store. As religious their safety and jeopardizes his deep desire to story by acclaimed author James Lee Burke. tensions build, Malik makes an offer hard for Alex reconnect. to turn down, so long as he stays for tea.

Woodstock Community Center SPANISH SPOTLIGHT  Fri Oct 2 • 2:15pm  Sat Oct 3 • 2:00pm North American Premiere New York Premiere The English Teacher Welcome San Cristobal Directed by (Bienvenidos) Directed by Alan Gonzalez Directed by Javier Fesser Omar Zuniga Hidalgo Cuba / 2015 / 15 minutes Spain / 2014 / 27:39 minutes In Spanish with English USA / 2015 / In Spanish with English 28:45 minutes subtitles subtitles Tired of her husband’s In Spanish with English subtitles An amazing innovation reaches a tiny school lost in Lucas is visiting his sister on a remote island in terminal illness, Sonia decidehs to resume giving the heart of the Peruvian Andes and revolutionizes the English classes at home. southern Chile before moving abroad. An unlikely lives of the whole community: the internet. romance grows when he meets Antonio, a struggling young fisherman.

All events are subject to change. For latest updates, 18 visit www.WoodstockFilmFestival.com WOODSTOCK FILM FESTIVAL 2015 shorts LET’S TALK quirks Woodstock Community Center SHORT WOODSTOCK Playhouse SHORT WOODSTOCK Playhouse  Sat Oct 3 • 8:45pm  Thur Oct 1 • 1:00pm  Fri Oct 2 • 11:45am  Sun Oct 4 • 2:00pm DOCS I Woodstock Community Center DOCS II W oodstock Community Center  Sat Oct 3 • 11:30am  Sun Oct 4 • 11:30am Chimes For By Any North American Premiere El Porvenir East Coast Premiere Means Autism: Directed by Alfredo A-Veilable Tyler’s Story Alcantara Merentes Directed by & Josh Chertoff Directed by Stephen Panaggio 2015 / 15 minutes Charlotte Schiøler USA / 2014 / In Spanish with English France, Denmark / 8:17 minutes subtitles 2014 / 17 minutes Tyler Doi is an 8-year old with autism with an exception- A third-generation cockfighter struggles to hold on to his family’s In French & Danish with English al talent- he can identify individual Woodstock Chimes subtitles from their sounds alone. way of life in the face of a movement to ban the sport across Mexico. A naive but driven Danish Howard’s Farm New York Premiere woman looking for an Directed by Enjoy Your apartment in Paris embarks on Ivan Cash Intermission an absurd mission fueled by her USA / 2014 / Directed by fear of getting short changed. 6:13 minutes Adam Carboni & Tansy Michaud Digits New York Premiere A gentle portrait of an 86-year old farmer USA / 2015 / Directed by 12:32 minutes Alexander Engel who is still active. An intimate look at a drive-in movie theater in USA / 2015/ Cancer, fractured vertebrae, old hips - nothing has 7:30 minutes stopped Howard from tending his farm. its last summer of projecting 35mm film. After losing the My Paralympic Dream The House is last two digits Directed by Innocent of a girl’s number, a socially Yeshy Namgyal Directed by awkward fish enthusiast tries Bhutan / 2014 / Nicholas Coles every combination to seek her 10 minutes USA / 2015 / out. In Dzongkha with English 12:15 minutes First World New York Premiere subtitles Tom and Barbara’s Problems Abandoned by his new home has a parents and struggling with a physical disability, Pema Directed by notorious past. It’s going to take more than a Hanna Maylett Tshering fights through all the odds to live the life fresh coat of paint to whitewash its macabre Finland / 2015 / he wants and achieve his dream of competing in the history. 6:34 minutes paralympic games. Lenny Bee World Premiere In Finnish with Naneek New York Premiere English subtitles Directed by Directed by John Huba After a trip to the grocery store, Neal Steeno USA / 2015 / a tired housewife loses her car USA / 2015 / 12:30 minutes in a shopping mall parking, 35 minutes People know me as which sends her whole world A documentary film tumbling down. that follows veteran Lenny Bee...but my real name is Leonardo Franscesco Busciligio! Hardbat Tim Keenan. He’s dealt with PTSD for over four decades. He’s finally ready to face his demons, and Directed by Spearhunter New York Premiere Zack Schamberg return to Vietnam. Directed by USA / 2014 / Origins Adam Roffman 13 minutes Directed by & Luke Poling New York University Will Parrinello USA / 2014 / 13:42 minutes An obsession USA / 2014 / Deep in the woods with ping-pong disrupts an 9:30 minutes of rural Alabama, otherwise pleasant evening. Wavy Gravy, Ram Dass, Jackson a spear-hunter proclaims himself the world’s Seth East Coast Premiere Browne, Larry Brilliant and others explore the ori- greatest and erects a museum dedicated to his gins of the Seva Foundation and its inspiring work own obsession. Directed by East Coast Premiere Zach Lasry in preventing blindness. We Live This USA / 2015 / To Be Daydreamers World Premiere Directed by 15 minutes James Burns For Seth, Directed by Jack Tumen USA / 2015 / impressing his USA / 2014 / 10 minutes father is his only goal. Today is 8:21 minutes The story of four the day. Twin brothers Aaron boys from the and Wyatt Mones, projects who have come together to pursue their Woodstock locals, reflect on their journey as a dreams. Most New Yorkers who ride the MTA have two-man band while keeping their sights set on the opinions about them, but what lies beneath prospects of a successful musical career. these young performers is more than what meets the eye.

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Teen FILMS Bearsville Theater Career Day: Youth Initiative  Fri Oct 2 • 5:00pm Onteora High School: Fri Oct 2 | 8:00am - 2:00pm New York Premiere Below The Surface Lifeline Directed by Directed by Rona Ahdout Alyssa Dyal USA / 2014 / 4 minutes USA / 2014 / 4 minutes Downtown Community University High School Television Center (DCTV (Irvine, CA) A year-by-year ac- A girl reflects on the precious count of Alyssa’s life. photopgraphy: David Rosenberg moments she had with her sister as . she slowly comes to terms with her Old Tricks Each year over 150 students from schools guilt and reaches her absolution. Directed by throughout the region gather at Onteora High New york premiere Theodore M. School in Boiceville for Career Day, where stu- Everyday Buckwald dents meet with A-list film industry professionals Directed by USA / 2014 / 7 minutes in small groups, ask questions and learn about Cal Etcheverry careers in film and new media. USA / 2014 / 7 minutes A naive burglar is surprised to find Episcopal School of Dallas that his seemingly In addition to A man’s endless cycle helpless, elderly target, whom he has conversations with of work takes its toll detained, is miraculously able to break leading authorities on his relationship with daughter. free from his restraints. on filmmaking, Evidence students are also Pranks treated to a film Directed by World Premiere Directed by screening, which is Jonah Martindale Jack Fessenden USA / 2015 / 1 minutes followed by a Q&A USA / 2015 / 9:45 session with the filmmakers. Woodstock Day School minutes A casual conversation A young boy tor- takes an unexpected ments his uptight turn. babysitter. SHORTS: LGBTQ Falling FOCUS Salad Music Videos ONLINE Directed by Directed by No tickets available. Maya Suchak Ethan Hoffman-Sadka USA / 2014 / 10 USA / 2015 / 13 minutes Videos are viewable online only minutes Ethical Culture Fieldston Days Gone By Youth FX (Albany, NY) School (Bronx, NY) Music by Burnell Pines Love and the choices we have to A serio-comedy about Directed by Heidi Sjursen and Jeffrey Abell make for love. a NYC boy struggling USA / 2015 / 3:41 minutes with the death of his parents. www.ido-movies.com/burnellpines.html The Girl Whose World Premiere Shadow Reflects The Silence of Nature World Premiere Fingerprints the Moon Directed by Music by Kita Klane Directed by Bushra Al Masri Directed by Nic Harcourt Walaa Al Alawi Jordan / 2015 / USA / 2015 / 3 minutes 3 minutes Jordan / 2015 / https://youtu.be/OnTmZ6c9l64 Arabic with English 5 minutes subtitles Arabic with English subtitles Good Friend An 18-year-old Syrian Music by Simi Stone A 16-year-old girl recounts her refugee recounts her life in Syria before Directed by Samuel Centore & Gene Fischer harrowing experiences from her the revolution tore her family apart. USA / 2015 / 3:36 minutes last days before escaping war torn Syria This Is New York: Gary https://youtu.be/uA-qIpO1VWM Directed by Benjamin Ades The Hunt For USA / 2014 / Killing Machine Sasquatch 5:35 minutes Music by Sarah Fimm Directed by A short portrait on Directed by Heyrick Chassé Emmet Luciano the life of a New York USA / 2015 / 3:43 minutes USA / 2015 / City cab driver. 3:56 minutes www.vimeo.com/111251212 Woodstock Day School We All Go the Same My Yellow Heart Famed naturalist goes on an expe- Directed by Music by Sandra Kolstad dition for the rarest animal of all. Morgana McKenzie Directed by Dan Huiting Canada / 2015 / USA / 2015 / 3:24 Leftovers 3:45 minutes Directed by In the timeless world www.vimeo.com/113948945 Harrison O’ Clair of fairy tales, villains Sunshine’s on the Way and Emma Pittleman and victims are visit- USA / 2015 / 1 minute Music by The Soulution ed by a vengeful fairy Directed by Justin Henny Henderson & Tony Reames Woodstock Day School who offers to shift USA / 2015 / 7 minutes Dinner for One. the balance of power. https://youtu.be/Hutoz8F4V08

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SOCIAL IMPACT IN MEDIA How do we define it? How do we measure it? Why does it matter?

Kleinert/James Center Sat Oct 3 • 10:00am “Social Impact” is a term and a goal that many filmmakers strive to achieve. Yet it can seem over- whelming in the face of the many challenges, from getting any project funded, made and out there, to achieving and showing the results of the “impact.” Our panelists, for whom impact is a vital part, will lead us through personal case studies to explore and define what has worked for them. Here are some common questions they will try to answer:  What’s behind all the buzz about impact measurement? Cynthia Kane Dan Cogan Andrew Catauro  How do we measure impact when it’s not always clearly definable?  Is it fair to expect to require filmmakers to be held accountable for this type of work?  What are some best practices from the field?  Is the impact producer an essential hire for any project today?  When, how and why some films can be a tool for real change? Moderator Cynthia Kane serves as Senior Commissioning Producer for documentaries at Al Paco de Onís Mike Webber Todd Wider Jazeera America. Prior: ITVS (Independent Television Service), managing the Paco de Onís grew up in several Latin American countries during a time of International Initiative for Funding, Sundance Channel, where she co-created dictatorships. He is the executive director and executive producer of Skylight, a DocDay. human rights media organization dedicated to creating documentary films and Panelists: innovative media tools for long-term strategies to advance social and economic Dan Cogan is the executive director and co-founder of Impact Partners, a fund and justice. One of these long-term strategies is Skylight Labs, a program developed advisory service for investors and philanthropists who seek to promote social change to disseminate Skylight’s model for developing human rights media ecosystems through film. Since its inception in 2007, Impact Partners has been involved in the in conjunction with committed media makers, technologists and movement financing of more than 60 films, including The Cove, which won the 2010 Academy organizations. The Labs have a regional focus, but with the ultimate goal of creating Award® for Documentary Feature and How to Survive A Plague, which was nominated a global network of practitioners. for the Academy Award® for Documentary Feature in 2013. Cogan co-founded Todd Wider (with his brother, Jedd), has produced numerous critically and Gamechanger Films, which launched in September 2013. Gamechanger Films is the commercially successful documentary films, including Academy Award®-nominated first for-profit film fund dedicated exclusively to financing narrative features directed King’s Point, multiple primetime Emmy Award and Peabody Award-winning Mea by women. Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God, Emmy Award-nominated Semper Fi: Andrew Catauro is the manager of JustFilms, the Ford Foundation’s social justice Always Faithful, multiple Emmy Award-nominated Client 9: The Rise and Fall of documentary and digital storytelling initiative. JustFilms provides support to Eliot Spitzer, and Academy Award® and multiple Emmy Award-winning Taxi to the filmmakers, artists and organizations who seek to drive social change by using Dark Side. He was nominated by the Producers Guild of America for Outstanding creative visual approaches to highlight issues of justice, rights and equity. JustFilms Producer of Documentary Theatrical Motion Pictures. works to expand networks and resources for this community of independent Mike Webber is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and producer/co-director filmmakers around the world, to elevate their artistry, and to maximize filmmakers’ of The Student Body. His career began with fiction films, producing numerous impact of their stories. Prior to joining the Foundation in 2013, Andrew was theatrical films for studios such as 20th Century Fox and Lionsgate. Applying his coordinating producer of the primetime PBS documentary showcase POV, supervising storytelling skills to non-fiction filmmaking, Webber went on to direct his “passion programming and production workflows for the series. project,” the critically-acclaimed hit The Elephant in the Living Room.

MUSIC IN FILM sponsored by Kleinert/James Center Sat Oct 3 • 12:00pm Moderator: One Giant Leap 2: What About Me? explores complexities of human nature, spirit and the Doreen Ringer-Ross is Vice universal language of music. The filmmakers traveled around the world for years collecting President of Film and TV Relations spoken word wisdom and musical “jewels.” They started with pre-composed backing tracks at BMI. She has worked in the music industry in a laptop and added layers of music, mixing international stars like Michael Stipe, KD Lang for over two decades and currently specializes in and Stewart Copeland with a diverse array of world music artists that included Bedouin musi- outreach to the film and music communities. cians, Chinese rappers, Gabonese Pygmies, Tuvan throat singers, Egyptian folk musicians, and Japanese Taiko drummers. Join BMI’s Doreen Ringer Ross as she chats with composer/musi- cian Stewart Copeland (drummer for The Police), spiritual musician Krishna Das and filmmak- er/recording artist Duncan Bridgewater about their dynamic collaboration on this project. Panelists: acclaimed film composer and documentary filmmaker, Layering traditional Hindu kirtan with instantly while concurrently moving between the disparate accessible melodies and modern instrumentation, worlds of opera, ballet, world and chamber music. As the polyrhythmic drumming founder of The Police, Krishna Das has been called yoga’s “rock star.” Krishna Das Stewart Copeland Duncan Bridgeman With a remarkably soulful voice that touches the Stewart introduced Sting and Andy Summers to the deepest chord in even the most casual listener, worlds of reggae and punk music, and with Sting’s the Grammy nominated cult hit 1 Giant Leap. In Krishna Das – known to friends, family and fans songs and Summers’ complex guitar harmonies, the 2004, Simon Fuller produced the second 1 Giant Leap as simply KD – has taken the call-and-response band became an iconic force in rock music from the project What About Me? Bridgeman followed with chanting out of yoga centers and into concert halls, ‘80s through the present day. Stewart spent twenty the award-winning film Hecho en Mexico (2012). He becoming a worldwide icon and the best-selling years as a successful film and TV composer, working most recently directed Mystical Journey (2013) for chant artist of all time. His album Live Ananda for Francis Ford Coppola on Rumblefish , Oliver Stone The Smithsonian Institution, about the Hindu festival (released January 2012) was nominated for a on Wall Street and on TV shows like the Equalizer. Kumbh Mela, with Dominic West (The Wire, 300, The Grammy in the Best New Age album category. Duncan Bridgeman has composed and produced music Affair) as presenter. Bridgeman is currently in produc- Stewart Copeland has spent more than three decades for 30 years. His first break into filmmaking came tion with The Magic Plant, a documentary about the in the forefront of contemporary music as rock star, from Palm Pictures owner Chris Blackwell, making religion Bwiti in Gabon. All events are subject to change. For latest updates, 2015 WOODSTOCK FILM FESTIVAL visit www.WoodstockFilmFestival.com 21 WOMEN IN FILM AND MEDIA Enough, Already! Changing the Status of Women in Film and Television presented by

Kleinert/James Center Sat Oct 3 • 2:00pm Moderator: Followed by a reception sponsored Alexis Alexanian, president of production at Locomotive, is an by NYWIFT, Tangerine Entertainment & UPWIFT independent producer with over 20 years experience in the motion A panel of industry veterans will discuss the lack of opportunities for picture industry. Her credits include Richard Linklater’s Tape, Ethan women directors in film and television and some of the steps that are Hawke’s Chelsea Walls, Rebecca Miller’s Independent Spirit Award- being taken to address this situation, including the ACLU’s recent letter winner Personal Velocity, Gary Winick’s Tadpole, Peter Hedges’ Pieces of April, and Ethan Hawke’s The Hottest State. Alexis also produced to the Federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and other the international television series Long Way Round (BRAVO, SKY), agencies demanding an investigation of the entertainment industry for starring Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman. She is currently in its systematic discrimination against women directors. Other projects and production on the new feature film Look Away, starring Aidan Turner, ideas for interventions will be discussed. Chloe Sevigny and Matthew Broderick.

Leah Meyerhoff is an award-winning filmmaker Guild of America. She is also Kodak’s North American whose debut narrative feature I Believe in Account Manager for Motion Picture Film. As a Unicorns was released theatrically in 2015, after freelance producer and consultant, Hubbell worked on premiering at SXSW, winning the Grand Jury film and TV productions and not-for-profit media and Prize at the Atlanta Film Festival and additional arts events. This year via Tangerine Entertainment, awards from Woodstock Film Festival and more. which she co-founded along with Amy Hobby, Hubbell Leah Meyerhoff Anne Hubbell Rose McGowan Meyerhoff’s previous work has screened in over produced three features to be released in 2016. 200 film festivals and aired on IFC, PBS, LOGO, After many years in front of the camera acting for and MTV. Meyerhoff is also the founder of Film the likes of Brian DePalma, Quentin Tarantino, Wes Panelists: Fatales, a female filmmaker collective based in New Craven, Robert Rodriquez, among many others, A representative from the ACLU who will discuss York with over a dozen local chapters around the Rose McGowan has turned her eye to directing. She their letters to two federal and one state agency world. premiered her directorial debut, the short film Dawn, demanding an investigation of the film industry Anne Hubbell is a 20-year industry veteran and at the Sundance Film Festival. It garnered not only for their systematic discrimination against women currently serves on the boards of New York Women in critical praise, but a Grand Jury Prize nomination and directors Film & Television, the New York Production Alliance, qualified for the Academy Awards®. McGowan is now and Rooftop Films, and is a member of the Producer’s preparing for her feature length debut.

ACTOR-DIRECTORS TALK Kleinert/James Center Sun Oct 4 • 10:00am Moderator: Just because you are an accomplished actor, does it mean you will be a good di- Martha Frankel is the author of the memoir Hats & rector? Does working as an actor help prepare you for the complicated task of di- Eyeglasses: A Family Love Affair with Gambling, the recting a film? Are actors more sensitive to other actors’ needs and wants in a film executive director of the Woodstock Writers Festival production? And setting out first as a director, what skills are gained that might and the host of the weekly show, Woodstock Writers make you a good actor? Many illustrious actors and directors have tried their hand Radio on Radio Woodstock 100.1. Find out more at at both roles. Some have had remarkable success in the two careers; some find woodstockwriters.com they are far better at one, then the other. For the Actors and Directors panel, we have assembled a stellar ensemble of working actor/directors, who will discuss the intersection between the two disciplines and explore how sometimes having worked on both sides of the fence is a plus, while other times not so much.

PANELIST: Michael Ross Griffin Mary Stuart Cristofer’s Partridge is the Dunne is an Masterson’s screenplays writer, director accomplished Four-decade film, include Falling and lead actor actor, director TV and theater in Love, with in the feature and producer. career includes Meryl Streep and film Lamb. Ross Dunne’s feature roles in At Close Robert DeNiro, co-produced the film credits Range, Some Kind The Witches of Duplass Bros’ include Dallas of Wonderful, Eastwick, with The Do-Deca- Buyers Club, Fried Green Tomatoes, Benny and Joon, and Jack Nicholson, Pentathlon starring Matthew the Broadway musical, Nine. Mary Stuart and The Bonfire of the Vanities, directed by and was also a producer of the HBO McConaughey and Jared Leto, Last Night, directed the award-winning The Cake Brian De Palma. His directing credits include documentary, Uncle Frank. He directed starring Sam Worthington and Keira Eaters starring Kristen Stewart, released in Gia, starring Angelina Jolie. As a stage actor the feature film Interstate 84, starring Knightley, and Allen Hughes’ Broken City, 2009. Mary Stuart produced the micro- he appeared in Body of Water with Christine Kevin Dillon and Clifton James, and most starring Mark Wahlberg and Russell Crowe. At budget feature, Tickling Leo, written and Lahti, and A View from the Bridge with Liev recently directed the critically acclaimed the 2015 Woodstock Film Festival, he can be directed by her husband, Jeremy Davidson. Schreiber and Scarlett Johansson. Film web-series Wedlock, with Mark Duplass, seen in Touched By Fire with Katie Holmes. After a long hiatus to begin her family, roles include The Other Woman, with Natalie Rob Corddry and Jennifer Lafleur. As an Dunne’s feature film directorial debut Mary Stuart is currently developing her Portman, and Chronic, with Tim Roth. He actor, he has appeared on numerous TV was 1997’s Addicted to Love, starring Meg next directing project Stupid Fast, to be is currently appearing in the TV series Mr. shows and independent films such as The Ryan and Matthew Broderick. He followed up shot in the Hudson Valley. Robot as the head of Evil Corp. Midnight Swim, The Off Hours, The Freebie, with Practical Magic, starring Sandra Bullock and Baghead. and Nicole Kidman.

All events are subject to change. For latest updates, 22 visit www.WoodstockFilmFestival.com WOODSTOCK FILM FESTIVAL 2015 FILM AS MEMOIR Kleinert/James Center Sun Oct 4 • 12:00pm Moderator We read so many memoirs in print, but what about Simon Kilmurry is the executive director of the International Documentary Association (IDA), memoirs in film format? What is it that differ- where he oversees all IDA programs and operations, including filmmaker services, educational entiates a film as a memoir, and what is it in its programs, the IDA Awards, and advocacy. Prior to IDA, he served for nine years as executive producer of POV, the PBS documentary series where he received 13 Emmy Awards, more than craftsmanship, thought process and production 60 Emmy nominations, five Peabody Awards, and four Du Pont Columbia Awards. He also served that turns it into a unique work of art? The Film as chief executive of American Documentary (AmDoc), POV’s non-profit parent organization. as Memoir panel is comprised of some of the most Prior, to becoming executive producer and CEO, he was AmDoc’s chief operating officer from influential and talented filmmakers who specialize in 1999-2006. films in the first person and have taken the concept to its highest level. Find out what motivates them, what it takes to make an impactful and successful memoir film, and how their cohorts feel about being on screen and exposed. Panelists: Alan Berliner’s uncanny ability Doug Block is an internationally Gayle Kirschenbaum to combine experimental cinema, acclaimed documentary director, is an Emmy-winning artistic purpose and popular appeal producer and cameraman. His filmmaker/TV producer/ in compelling film essays has made credits as director/producer include: blogger and personality. him one of America’s most acclaimed 112 Weddings, The Kids Grow Up, 51 Called “the Nora Ephron independent filmmakers. The New Birch Street, Home Page, and The of documentaries,” Gayle York Times has described Berliner’s Alan Berliner Heck With Hollywood! Producing Doug Block has turned the camera Gayle Kirschenbaum work as “powerful, compelling and credits include Silverlake Life, on herself in her recent bittersweet... full of juicy conflict and contradiction, Jupiter’s Wife, Paternal Instinct, A Walk Into the feature documentary, Look At Us Now, Mother! is innovative in their cinematic technique, unpredictable in Sea, The Edge of Dreaming, and Resurrect Dead: The about the transformation of a highly charged mother/ their structures… Berliner illustrates the power of fine Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles. Block is also the founder daughter relationship from Mommie Dearest to Dear art to transform life.” Berliner’s films are part of the core and co-host of The D-Word (www.d-word.com), the Mom. This is the “larger version” of her short film, curriculum for documentary filmmaking and film history leading online community and discussion forum for My Nose, in which we follow her mother’s relentless classes and are in the permanent collections of many documentary professionals worldwide. campaign to get her to have a nose job. Prior, colleges and museums. Kirschenbaum made A Dog’s Life: A Dogamentary, about the human/canine bond. ANIMATION: WHAT MAKES ANIMATION SO … ANIMATED? Kleinert/James Center Sun Oct 4 • 2:00pm What is it about an animated story that can make us laugh, or shiver with fear, or well up with tears in a uniquely profound way? From hand drawn animation by independent filmmaker, Academy Award-nominee Bill Plympton, to computer animation and studio production by two-time Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Mark Osborne, this panel will delve into the thought process behind the artistry and the intense labor that goes into creating the final pieces. The audience will be treated to special clips from the panelists’ works, including clips from The Little Prince, Osborne’s upcoming, highly anticipated animated film.

Moderator: Signe Baumane Signe Baumane was born in Latvia and received a Two-time Academy Award®-nominated director Linda BA degree in philosophy at Moscow University. After Beck is a producer and development scout with a graduating she delved into several projects including passion for connecting artists and executives. She animation, film, and illustration. Then in 1995 she has produced content for children (Nickelodeon, decided to come to New York where she continued Disney) and grown ups (History Channel, A&E, PBS) in the film industry and has since produced several and is equally at home in both animation boutiques animated shorts, which have been accepted into and major networks. Linda is Co-President of ASIFA- numerous film festivals including but not limited to East, the east coast chapter of the International Sundance, Berlin, Annecy, Venice and Tribeca. She Animated Film Association. If you are an up-and- recently released her first feature film Rocks in My coming animator, Linda is your biggest cheerleader. If Pocket. you are looking for an up-and-coming animator, Linda has someone for you. Linda also illustrates, sews, Panelists: builds props, makes art, writes, directs, animates, and is a SAG-AFTRA voiceover artist. Bill Plympton is considered the King of Indie Animation, and is the first person to hand draw an entire animated feature film. Bill began his career Mark Osborne has been telling stories with creating cartoons for publications such as New animation for more than twenty-five years. In York Times and National Lampoon. In 1987, he was addition to directing the first animated feature film nominated for an Oscar® for his animated short adaptation of the classic French novella released Your Face. In 2005, Bill received another Oscar® in 2015 worldwide, he was one of the directors of nomination, for his short Guard Dog. After producing the critically acclaimed animated summer 2008 many shorts, Bill turned his talent to feature films, blockbuster . This film broke box office records making ten feature films. Seven of them, including worldwide and was nominated for an Academy Award The Tune, Hair High, and Cheatin’, are animated. for Best Animated Feature. Osborne teaches and lectures on the subject of animation worldwide and all over the US.

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Keynote Speech Josh Fox Filmmaking, Human Rights and the Climate Kleinert/James Center Sept 30 • 4:00pm Activist writer/director Josh Fox opens the 2015 Woodstock Film Festival with a dialogue about the intersec- tion between human rights and climate change, and how film can illustrate and transform our approach to this complex political problem. His two Gasland films had a symbiotic relationship to the worldwide an- ti-fracking movement. What can we learn from the way these films and the movement helped spur each other on? How can we better connect narrative, emotion, art, and reporting to the environmental and climate movement? What do we have to do next as a movement? Josh Fox is best known as the writer/director of Gasland Parts I and II. He is internationally recognized as a spokesperson and leader on the issue of fracking and extreme energy development. He is currently working on a new documentary about climate change. Gasland premiered at the Sundance film festival 2010, where it was awarded the Special Jury Prize for Documentary. The film premiered on HBO, was nominated for the 2011 Acad- emy Award for best documentary, and Josh won the 2011 Emmy for best non-fiction director. Gasland Part II premiered on HBO in 2013. It was nominated for a News and Documentary Emmy, won the 2013 Environmental Media Association award for Best Documentary, the Best Film at the Wild & Scenic Film Festival, and was given the Hell Yeah Prize from Cinema Eye Honors. Josh is the recipient of the 2011 Ono/Lennon Grant for Peace.

A CONVERSATION WITH MAVERICK AWARD RECIPIENT ATOM EGOYAN and Fiercely Independent Award recipient Guy Maddin Kleinert/James Center Oct 3 • 4:00pm With fifteen feature films and related projects,A tom Egoyan has won numerous prizes at international film festivals, including the Grand Prix and International Critics Awards from the Cannes Film Festival, two Academy Award® nominations, and numerous other honors. His body of work – which includes theatre, music, and art installations – delves into issues of memory, displacement, and the impact of technology and media in modern life. Among his films are the groundbreaking Exotica, the multi award-winning The Sweet Hereafter, Felicia’s Journey (starring Bob Hoskins), Where the Truth Lies (with Kevin Bacon and Colin Firth), Devil’s Knot (with Reese Witherspoon and Colin Firth), and the forthcoming Remember (starring Christopher Plummer), which makes its U.S Premiere as the Opening Night Film at the 2015 Woodstock Film Festival. Guy Maddin is one of Canada’s most celebrated filmmakers. He has directed numerous shorts and eleven feature- length movies, including The Saddest Music in the World (2003), My Winnipeg (2007), and recently, The Forbidden Room (2015), which will be the Closing Night Film at the 2015 Woodstock Film Festival. (see page 23) His most distinctive quality is his penchant for recreating the look and style of silent or early-sound-era films. Maddin drew inspiration from the films of John Paizs, experimental shorts by Stephen Snyder, Luis Buñuel’s L’Age d’or, and David Lynch’s Eraserhead. He has stated in numerous interviews that these were movies that were primitive in many respects. They were low budget, they used nonactors or nonstars, they used atmospheres and ideas, and were unbelievably honest, frank, and, therefore, exciting to me. They made moviemaking seem possible to me.’ He has held to these ideals ever since.

PARADISE IS THERE - SCREENING AND TALK Natalie Merchant & Jon Bowermaster

Woodstock Playhouse Thur Oct 1 • 9:15pm See page 12 for details

SCREENING AND TALK WITH THE SHOWRUNNER OF THE AMERICANS JOE WEISBERG hosted by indiewire’s eric kohn Upstate Films Woodstock Sat Oct 3 • 2:15pm See page 2 for details

HOT TYPE - SCREENING AND TALK with director Barbara Koppleand The Nation’s Editor and Publisher Katrina vanden Heuvel Hosted by Robin Bronk Bearsville Theater Woodstock Sat Oct 3 • 2:30pm See page10 for details

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A live performance with

CARLOS VARELA AND BAND with special guest Jackson Browne follows the screening of THE POET OF HAVANA WEDNESDAY September 30  7:30pm The Ulster Performing Arts Center Kingston

CARLOS VARELA

Cuban singer/songwriter Jackson Browne is one Carlos Varela started of Carlos Varela's biggest playing music literally champions. "He's from a ‘in the dark.’ Growing up generation that's really in Havana, whenever a impatient, that wants power failure killed the something to happen, lights, Varela and friends something to change. would play rock music He's the voice of Cuban blowing across the sea via youth.” Browne has a homemade radio antenna. In 1977, at a concert of Silvio Rodríguez written and performed some of the most literate and moving and Pablo Milanés -- standard-bearers for Nueva Trova, homegrown songs in popular music and has defined a genre of songwriting folk music that reflected the unrest of many Cubans — Varela realized charged with honesty, emotion and personal politics. He was music could be more than just a fun way to pass the time. honored with induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Although he insists poetics took precedence over politics, in 2004, and the Songwriter's Hall of Fame in 2007. His debut Varela has struggled with the restrictions of censorship. But album came out on David Geffen's Asylum Records in 1972. while other artists might have sought refuge elsewhere, Cuba is Since then, he has released fourteen studio albums and four his inspiration and has always been home. He has recorded eight collections of live performances. His most recent album is albums and performs worldwide. Standing in the Breach.

A live performance with Thursday October 1  8:00pm

JOHNNY STEELE and WILL DURST Bearsville Theater  Woodstock follows the screening of 3 Still Standing

JOHNNY STEELE began performing comedy in 1984 after quitting graduate school in a move his parents named, Operation $40K Down The Drain. But Johnny quickly got the hang of the craft and was soon perform- ing, and drinking for free, at the nation's top clubs. Over the next decade he went on to perform at comedy festivals, win comedy competitions, log over 20 national TV appearances, and did we mention drink for free? Johnny is currently performing comedy as well as working on a number of web, radio and TV projects, one of which The New York Times calls him ‘possibly the best political comic is bound to take off due to, if nothing else, pure dumb luck. He in the country.’ He is a five-time Emmy nominee; has been fired is also working on a humorous solo show about his journey to by PBS three times; told jokes in 14 countries; racked up seven find peace in a WalMart America gone mad with mindless con- nominations for Stand-Up of the Year; and his 800+ television sumption, endless sprawl and bone-jarring stupidity. And really, appearances include Letterman, HBO, Showtime, CNN, ABC, CBS, aren’t we all? NBC, Fox News, the BBC, and many more. Will's hobbies range from pinball to the never-ending quest WILL DURST is acknowledged by peers and press alike as one for the perfect cheeseburger. His heroes remain the same as when he of the premier political satirists in the country, Will Durst’s was 12: Thomas Jefferson and Bugs Bunny. Not necessarily in that stand-up comedy is a hilarious blast of outrageous common order. Durst’s performances are made possible by the 1st Amendment sense. His abiding motto is: ‘You can’t make stuff up like this.’ to the Constitution of the United States of America.

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All events are subject to change. For latest updates, 26 visit www.WoodstockFilmFestival.com WOODSTOCK FILM FESTIVAL 2015 2 15 Annual WOODSTOCK FILM FESTIVAL Maverick Awards Ceremony OCTOBER 4 BACKSTAGE PRODUCTIONS, KINGSTON, NY

7:00pm: Cocktail party in Gallery  8:15pm: Seating for awards begins  9:00pm: Awards Ceremony Maverick Award awards presented ATOM EGOYAN Gigantic Pictures With fifteen feature films and FEATURE NARRATIVE AWARD related projects, Atom Egoyan has won numerous prizes at Films We Like international film festivals, FEATURE DOCUMENTARY AWARD including the Grand Prix and International Critics Awards from the ULTRA INDIE AWARD Sponsored by Gray Krauss Stratford Sandler Des Rochers LLP Cannes Film Festival, two Academy & Black Magic Design Award® nominations, and numerous other honors. world cinema AWARD The Markertek BEST SHORT Narrative Fiercely Independent Award The Markertek GUY MADDIN BEST SHORT documentary Guy Maddin is one of Canada’s most The Markertek celebrated filmmakers. He has directed BEST STUDENT SHORT numerous shorts and eleven feature- length movies, including The Saddest BEST ANIMATED SHORT Music in the World (2003), My Winnipeg presented by Signe Baumane (2007), and recently, The Forbidden Haskell Wexler Award for Room (2015), which will be the Closing BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY Night Film at the 2015 Woodstock Film sponsored by Panavision Festival. Tangerine Entertainment Juice Award for BEST FEMALE FEATURE DIRECTOR The James Lyons Editing Award for doc FEATURE Paul Green and sponsored by Technicolor Postworks NY The Internet Trolls Maverick Awards Ceremony Band The James Lyons Editing Award for NARRATIVE FEATURE The legendary Paul Green and The sponsored by Technicolor Postworks NY Internet Trolls (Michael Bernier, Jason Bowman, David Jarrett) will be playing The Carpe Diem Andretta Award music from the greatest movies ever made (and some mediocre ones too.) Wed 9/30 Fri 10/2 Sat 10/3 Sun 10/4

Kleinert James Art Center bearsville Theater bearsville Theater bearsville Theater S che du le at a Gl nce

WOODSTOCK 11:45am Deep Run 11:45am Al Jazeera Presents: 12:00 The Three Hikers 4:00 Keynote Speech (Preceded by All About Amy) Sporting Dreams and Shelter 2:30 The Student Body with Josh Fox 2:00 I Will Not Be Silenced 2:30 Hot Type: 5:15 Buried Above Ground 5:00 Shorts: Teen Films 150 Years of The Nation 7:45 Love & Taxes 7:15 Rendez-vous 5:00 The Grace of Jake uPAC KINGSTON 10:00 Scout 7:30 The Missing Girl Kleinert James Art center 7:30 Poet of Havana 10:00 Summer WOODSTOCK  PANELS Followed by a performance of Levon Helm Studios 10:00am PANEL: Actor-Director’s Talk CARLOS VARELA with special WOODO ST CK Kleinert James Art center 12:00 PANEL: Film as Memoir guest Jackson Browne 9:30 Mavis! WOODSTOCK  PANELS 2:00 PANEL: Animation 10:00am PANEL: Social Impact upstate Films WOODSTOCK upstate Films WOODSTOCK Thur 10/1 12:00 The Babushkas of Chernobyl 12:00 PANEL: Music in Film 2:00 PANEL: Women in Film & 11:30am Bob and The Trees 2:30 Family Matters 2:15 A Woman Like Me bearsville Theater Media 4:30 There Should Be Rules 4:45 Homeless 12:30 Reconquest of the Useless 4:00 PANEL: Conversation with 7:00 Band of Robbers Atom Egoyan & Guy Maddin 7:15 Lamb 3:00 Look At Us Now, Mother! 9:30 Blunt Force Trauma 5:30 Left on Purpose WOODSTOCK WOODSTOCK WOODSTOCK C ommunity Center C ommunity Center 8:00 3 Still Standing C ommunity Center 11:30am Short Docs I 11:30am Short Docs II Upstate Films WOODSTOCK 12:00 Shorts: Growing Up 2:00 Shorts: Spanish Spotlight 2:00 Shorts: Quirks 1:30 Drawing The Tiger 2:15 Shorts: Spanish Spotlight 4:15 Shorts: No Trespassing 4:00 Shorts: Fever Dream 4:00 Meet Me in Venice 4:30 Shorts: Let’s Talk 6:30 Shorts: Growing Up 6:00 Shorts: Based On 6:30 It Had To Be You 6:30 Shorts: Fever Dream 8:45 Shorts: Quirks 9:00 The Automatic Hate 8:30 Shorts: Based On WOODSTOCK Playhouse WOODSTOCK Playhouse 12:30 Waffle Street WOODSTOCK Playhouse WOODSTOCK Playhouse 11:00am Moscow Never Sleeps 3:00 After the Spill 1:00 Short Docs I 11:45am Short Docs II 1:30 Touched With Fire 5:00 Outliving Emily 3:30 I Dream Too Much 2:00 Good Ol’ Boy 4:00 Silver Skies 7:30 The Forbidden Room 5:00 1 Giant Leap II: CLOSING NIGHT FILM 6:30 Remember What About Me? 6:30 The Walk OPENING NIGHT FILM 9:00 7:30 Oliver’s Deal Monty Python: Orpheum Theater 9:15 Paradise Is There, A Memoir The Meaning of Live SAUGERTIES by Natalie Merchant 10:00 The Adderall Diaries upstate Films WOODSTOCK 12:30 Blunt Force Trauma ROSENDALE Theatre Orpheum Theater 12:00 Shorts: Animation 3:00 Moscow Never Sleeps SAUGERTIES 7:30 Oliver’s Deal 2:15 The Americans 5:30 Shorts: No Trespassing 6:00 I Dream Too Much 5:15 Incorruptible Upstate Films RHINEBECK I 8:30 Lee’s 88 Keys ROSENDALE Theatre 7:45 She’s The Best Thing In It 7:00 Touched With Fire 12:00 Monty Python: ROSENDALE Theatre 10:00 How He Fell In Love The Meaning of Live Upstate Films RHINEBECK II 1:00 3 Still Standing Orpheum Theater 2:30 Good Ol’ Boy 7:30 Family Matters 3:30 Bob and The Trees SAUGERTIES 5:00 Summer 6:30 Waffle Street 12:00 There Should Be Rules 9:00 Missing Girl upstate Films RHINEBECK I 2:30 Drawing The Tiger 12:30 The Grace of Jake upstate Films RHINEBECK I 5:00 The Adderall Diaries 3:00 She’s The Best Thing In It 3:00 Homeless 7:30 The Automatic Hate 5:30 Incorruptible 6:00 How He Fell In Love 10:00 The Poet of Havana 9:00 It Had To Be You upstate Films RHINEBECK II ROSENDALE Theatre 1:00 Rendez-vous upstate Films RHINEBECK II 12:00 The Babushkas of Chernobyl 3:30 I Will Not Be Silenced 1:00 Buried Above Ground 2:15 Band of Robbers 6:00 Deep Run 3:30 Love & Taxes 5:00 1 Giant Leap II: (Preceded by All About Amy) 6:30 Meet Me in Venice What About Me? 9:30 Lamb 8:00 Reconquest of the Useless upstate Films RHINEBECK I 12:30 Outliving Emily 3:00 The Three Hikers Cuba’s Carlos VarelA 6:00 Left on Purpose 8:30 Shorts: Let’s Talk with special guest 16th Annual Jackson Browne upstate Films RHINEBECK II Wednesday September 30 Maverick Awards Ceremony 1:00 The Student Body at UPAC Kingston 3:30 Scout Following 7:30pm screening of Poet of Havana saturday October 3 6:30 A Woman Like Me at Backstage 9:00 Look At Us Now, Mother! Studio Productions bsP KINGSTON Please note that all events are a Rare Live Performance in KINGSTON 7:00 Maverick Awards Cocktail Party JOHNNY STEELE and subject to change. Check 7:00pm: cocktail party 9:00 Maverick Awards Will Durst in Gallery www.woodstockfilmfestival.com Thursday October 1 online to find out what’s SOLD OUT 8:15pm: seating for awards at Bearsville Theater WOODSTOCK and tp read updated information Following 8:00pm screening of begins about events, screenings & panels. 3 Still Standing 9:00pm: award Ceremony All events are subject to change. For latest updates, 28 visit www.WoodstockFilmFestival.com WOODSTOCK FILM FESTIVAL 2015 GOLD SPONSORS S che du le at a Gl nce

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3rd St. R&R Production Services Viva La Data Canus Major Production Naomi Graphics Joy + Noelle Woodstock Multimedia Technicolor Postworks NY INSTIGATING PROGRESS DAILY

EVENT SUPPORT

BACKSTAGE STUDIO PRODUCTIONS

Food & Beverage SUPPORT FOUNDATION SUPPORT Blue Mountain Bistro To Go Savonna’s Trattoria Charmer Sunbelt Group Deisings Bakery Smoky Mountain BBQ Highrocks Foundation Joshua’s Café Terrapin Restaurant The Klock Foundation Lox of Bagels Perry & Martin Granoff Family Foundation

STATE AND COUNTY SUPPORT The Woodstock Film Festival is This project is made possible in made possible in part with public part through support from the funds from the New York State County of Ulster’s Ulster County Council on the Arts, a State Agency Cultural Services & Promotion Fund administered by ARTS MID-HUDSON. WOODSTOCK FILM FESTIVAL 2015