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Please visit www.woodstockfilmfestival.com for the most up to date information including SCHEDULES, added screenings, and OTHER EVENTS. 48 AMAZING GRACE: JEFF BUCKLEY 48 CONVERSATIONS WITH NICKLE 49 DON’T CALL IT HEIMWEH... 49 DOUBLE DARE 50 THE FORBIDDEN TEAM 50 THE FUTURE OF FOOD 51 GUERRILLA: THE TAKING OF PATTY HEARST 52 I LIKE KILLING FLIES 52 IN THE REALMS OF THE UNREAL 53 A LEAGUE OF ORDINARY GENTLEMEN 53 MAKING GRACE 54 MOJADOS: THROUGH THE NIGHT 54 THE NOMI SONG 55 OFF TO WAR 55 PARALLEL LINES 56 POPaganda: The Art & Subversion of Ron English 56 SCREAMING MEN (HUUTAJAT) 57 SHOCKING & AWFUL: A GRASS ROOTS RESPONSE TO WAR IN IRAQ 57 SCHOOL BOARD BLUES 58 SOLDIERS PAY 58 STILL, THE CHILDREN ARE HERE 59 TROLLYWOOD 59 WITCHES IN EXILE 60 WORDS OF MY PERFECT TEACHER 61 THE WORLD ACCORDING TO BUSH(LE MONDE SELON BUSH) 47 DOCUMENTARY FEATURES “Singer songwriter Jeff Buckley is remembered in hues of gray and sepia in this biography charting his rise from obscurity to his untimely death. “Grace,” he said, “is what mat- AMAZING GRACE: ters—in anything. It keeps you from reaching for the gun too quickly.” This is an intimate JEFF BUCKLEY portrait of a true artist and avid journal keeper who translated his experiences into music.” (Barbara Pokras) Directed by Nyla Adams and Laurie Trombley USA / 2004 / 60 minutes Community Center Town Hall 10/15 • 7:00pm W 10/17 • 3:30pm mercial success, with only one full-length Main Credits: Directors/ Producers/ Cinematographers: album, who has become a veritable tour de Laurie Trombley, Nyla Bialek Adams force of inspiration for artists across the globe. Interviews include all four of the Jeff Buckley Band members, friends, family, col- of New Rochelle in Westchester, New York. leagues, critics, DJs, producers, and fans. She’s spent the past nine years marketing for From Sydney, New York, and London to various companies, including A&E Television Memphis, Montpelier, and Los Angeles, the and The History Channel, FUSE, and Regal film takes viewers on an expansive yet CineMedia, while moonlighting as co-pro- In Europe, they speak of him in holy incredibly intimate trip through the world of ducer and co-director of her first film. whispers. In America, he’s a mysterious Jeff Buckley, and explores how he continues to Nyla Bialek Adams worked as an audio footnote. He was poised for huge commer- inspire his fans–from classical composers to visual technican while studying at Trinity cial success, but Jeff Buckley’s untimely death rock ‘n roll superstars and everyone in College in Hartford. After graduating, she kept him on the periphery of popular music. between. spent several years working in documentary Amazing Grace: Jeff Buckley, a passionately programming at A&E television before leav- crafted documentary, sets out to investigate Laurie Trombley was handpicked by ing to co-produce, co-direct, and edit the extraordinary phenomenon of Jeff BIO Jeff Buckley to be his fan relations Amazing Grace: Jeff Buckley. Buckley, a musician of relatively modest com- manager while she was attending the College CONVERSATIONS WITH NICKLE EAST COAST PREMIERE Conversations with Nickle is a narrative documentary that takes us through pro- Directed by Lorette Bayle foundly surprising events in Gay Nickle USA / 2003 / 72 minutes Lauritzen’s life as she struggles to overcome Town Hall W the disabling effects of Lou Gehrig’s disease. 10/13 • 1:30pm With inspiring humor and courage, Nickle Main Credits: teaches us about the immense power of the Director Lorette Bayle human spirit. Producer Lorette Bayle Lorette Bayle is an award-wining Cinematographer Lorette Bayle BIO documentary and narrative film- 1997. She has traveled to three continents to Editor Bryan Pitcher maker. Her narrative film Mariela’s Kitchen produce and shoot documentaries, some of Composers Phil Curtis, Brian Demke won a Silver Award for Best Dramatic Short which include Haite, Land of Hope, The at the Houston International Film Festival, Enchanted Gardens of England, and A Gift to the was a finalist in the Next Frame Festival, City. She has worked for the Sundance screened in festivals internationally and Institute, Independent Feature Project/LA, *Benefit screening for domestically, and aired on Fine Cut for KCET and American Zoetrope. Currently, Lorette is Albany ALS support Group (PBS, Los Angeles) in 2001. Lorette pro- a production executive at the Eastman Kodak duced and directed a number of in-studio Company. She completed an MFA in film and programs for KUED (PBS, Salt Lake City), theater directing at the California Institute of winning a Silver Award for Brahms at 100 in the Arts (CalArts) in 1999. 48 DOCUMENTARY FEATURES “Six decades ago Margot Friedlander fled her native Berlin as the city succumbed to Nazi control. She narrowly escaped with her life; the rest of her family was not so fortunate. A lifetime later she returns to find a homeland she no longer recognizes, confronting bit- ter memories and educating German youth about hardships they can barely compre- hend. A moving and unsentimental tale of one woman’s indomitable will to survive. (Jeff Economy) DON’T CALL IT HEIMWEH... The Greeks call it nostalgia–in German on television here and abroad. Directed by Thomas Halaczinsky Heimweh. At the age of eighty-two, Margot Recently he completed the first segment of a USA / 2004 / 60 minutes Friedlander begins a journey to resolve a life compilation film about elderly women in the Community Center long search for home and identity. Surviving Unitd States, entitled I am… that premiered W 10/16 • 11:30pm Nazi Germany hidden by Germans while her at the Jewish Women’s Film Festival in New Main Credits: family was murdered in Auschwitz has left her York City, 2002. He produced and directed Director, Producer Thomas Halaczinsky with truly conflicted feelings. the lead segment for a television-special about Cinematographer Francisco Dominguez Thomas Halaczinsky was born and Stanley Kubrick’s film 2001 - A Space Odyssey Editor Sabine Krayenbuehl BIO raised in Germany and has lived in reaching the year it projected for New York City since 1991. He has produced German/French culture channel ARTE. For Preceded by several feature films here and abroad, among his participation in the Emmy winning docu- The 43rd Spring & Old Country them Facing the Forest (1993), directed by mentary about war crimes against women in Peter Lilienthal and shot on location in Israel. former Yugoslavia Calling The Ghost, that Himmelsschluessel (Key to Heaven) a film about In the United States he produced the feature debuted on HBO/Cinemax he won an ACE a 90-year-old woman and the impact that film Zoo (1999) and line-produced Cross-Eyed award in 1996 in the category international Catholic religion had on her life. (Directed by (1997). As a documentary filmmaker he has documentaries. Mr. Halaczinsky made his Karl Heinz Rehbach and produced for produced and directed numerous films shown directorial debut as a codirector with Der renowned Kleines Fernsehspiel ZDF, Germany.) DOUBLE DARE Directed by Amanda Micheli USA / 2003 / 81 minutes NEW YORK PREMIERE Amanda Micheli is an award-win- In Competition BIO ning filmmaker with a solid back- Preceded by misc shorts ground as both a director and a cinematogra- pher. She shot, edited, and directed Just for the CMF 2 Town Hall Ride, a documentary about the women’s pro H 10/16 • 4:00pm 10/17 •11:00am rodeo circuit, that won an Academy Award W and an International Documentary Association Award in student categories and Documentary at both the AFI FEST in Los Double Dare is a double-barreled, action- premiered on the prestigious PBS series POV in Angeles and the San Francisco International packed documentary about two Hollywood 1996. Since then she has shot a Sundance Film Festival, and is scheduled for release in stuntwomen, Jeannie Epper and Zoe Bell. Award-winning documentary (My Flesh and early 2005. She is currently shooting and pro- Jeannie, who refused to retire at sixty-two, Blood, HBO) and an Emmy-nominated film set ducing an HBO documentary directed by pho- doubled for Wonder Woman in the 70s, and in Cambodia (The Flute Player, PBS). She was tographer Lauren Greenfield. Other production Zoe landed the coveted job of doubling for more recently the cinematographer of Witches in credits include You’re Gonna Miss Me (in post), Xena at the age of eighteen. With star-studded Exile, a film shot in Ghana, that won the Special Same River Twice (Sundance, 2003), and the interviews and rollicking live-action stunt Jury Prize at SXSW in spring 2004 and is sched- ITVS series American Girls. Amanda is a gradu- sequences, Double Dare is a candid look at two uled for release later this fall. ate of Harvard University and has been a mem- strong, dedicated women who pursue tough Amanda’s second film as a director, ber of the top U.S. women’s rugby team for careers in male-dominated Tinseltown Double Dare, won the audience award for Best over a decade. DOCUMENTARY FEATURES “Stunning cinematography blends sports and spirituality in this documentary about a Tibetan refugee soccer team in India training for their first international event. Brisk edit- ing deftly blends slow and fast motion and perfectly reveals this duality. A heartfelt explo- ration of themes of freedom and nationhood; a cameo by the Dalai Lama is an added treat.” (Barbara Pokras) THE FORBIDDEN TEAM EAST COAST PREMIERE Directed by Arnold Krolgaard and Rasmus Dinesen The Forbidden Team is the story of a both practices and games. And dealing with Denmark / 2003 / 55 minutes national football team without a nation.