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The official 2012
WOODSTOCK FILM
FESTIVAL poster
was created by
BILL MILLER.
Eye of the World
was constructed
entirely out of
vintage linoleum
flooring pieced
together to create
an in-depth
depiction of the
Hudson Valley.
Miller has been working with vintage linoleum
for almost 20 years, using only the found surface
and adding no paint to create his images.
For more information visit www.billmillerart.com
Posters are available at WFF Box Office & online
3Introduction
5 Staff
7 Thank You
7 Advisory Board
10 About WFF
13 Hudson Valley
Film Commission
WOODSTOCK
15Sponsors
FILM FESTIVAL
18Awards
24 Awards Jury
29Features
63Documentaries
91Shorts
97Panels
103Music
109 Town Info & Venues
111 20 mile map
111 How to Get There
112 2 mile map
114 Sponsors, Advertisers
119 Ticket Information
120Schedule
September 28 - October 2 2005
Woodstock Film Festival, Inc.
PO Box 1406, Woodstock, NY 12498
email: [email protected]
website: www.woodstockfilmfestival.com
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contact Info
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Shoot your next film in the
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FIGHTING FISH
SPLINTERHEADS
THE HUMAN FOOTPRINT
MICHAEL CLAYTON
THE CAKE EATERS
STEPHANIE DALEY
(Winner of Waldo Salt Award at 2006 Sundance Film Festival)
RACING DAYLIGHT
SUPERHEROES
THE CAKE EATERS
AEMERICAN GANGSTER
THE NIGHT LISTENER
WAR OF THE WORLDS
BEFORE IT HAS A NAME
LAST DAYS
GHOST DANCE
ROCK THE PAINT
THE THING ABOUT MY FOLKS
DOWN TO THE BONE
(Winner of two awards at 2004 Sundance Film Festival)
PERSONAL VELOCITY
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Peace, Love &
Misunderstanding,
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Higher Ground,
Mother’s House,
Second Thyme Around,
Rocksteady,
Bitter Feast,
Stake Land,
Whisper Me a Lullaby,
Meskada,
Handsome Harry,
Taking Woodstock,
American Gangster,
Michael Clayton,
Splinterheads,
Against the Current,
The Human Footprint,
The Cake Eaters,
Racing Daylight,
The Night Listener,
Stephanie Dalet,
War of the Worlds,
Down to the Bone,
Personal Velocity,
and many more...
Shoot your next film in the Hudson Valley
For more information, visit
hudsonvalleyfilmcommission.org
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Ulster County IDA and Markertek
W O O D S T O C K F I L M F E S T I VA L $5.00
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2010
All information is subject to change.
For the most up-to-date info
including SCHEDULES, added
screenings and OTHER EVENTS, see
© Roy Gumpel
F es ti val
Fi lm
phone#: 845-810-0131
email: [email protected]
Tickets and up-to-date schedule info
are available online at
www.woodstockfilmfestival.com • PO Box 1406 Woodstock, NY 12498 • 845 679 4265
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(Right in the center of town across from
the Chamber of Commerce booth and next
to two municipal parking lots)
For more information, visit us online at
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Box Office Location:
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1
I NT RO D U C T I O N
WELCOME TO THE 2012 WOODSTOCK FILM FESTIVAL
Welcome to the 13th Woodstock Film Festival. As autumn arrives and the leaves turn from green to
fiery orange, yellow, brown, red, so, too, do inspired and aspiring filmmakers turn their minds and
lenses onto the ever changing political, environmental and social landscapes of our time.
There are many diverse films at the festival this year, and many dedicated filmmakers have come
Bingham Ray and Bob Berney
to share their passion with us, some of whom have taken years of their lives to follow their
dreams. Music of all genres is celebrated with films including Bad Brains: A Band in D.C. and David
Bromberg Unsung Treasure; the family unit is examined and reconfigured in films such as Exit
Elena, Arcadia, Dead Dad, and I am not a Hipster; and lovers discover sorrows and joy in films such
as Sparrow’s Dance, Putzel and The Unlikely Girl.
Here at the Woodstock Film Festival, we welcome the voices of change; those who dare to explore
and challenge the norms with films like Chasing Ice, Dear Governor Cuomo, and Idle Threat, where
environmental issues are tackled head on; Words of Witness and Dinner at the No-Gos, where global
Ang Lee, James Schamus, Melissa Leo
politics are questioned and explored; Virgin Tales, Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of
God, First Winter, The Mechanical Bride, and Nor’easter, where lifestyles and religion are looked at
through a magnified lens; and, Apartment in Athens and Oma & Bella, where history is revisited.
We celebrate them, spotlight them and invite you, the audience, to come and experience their
life’s work.
As the independent filmmaking community gathers at the Woodstock Film Festival, we welcome
you to enjoy the fruit of their labor. Along with all the great films – features, documentaries and
shorts – there are many exciting panels focusing on a variety of issues, from Film & Television
to Reel to Real, and from Actors Dialogue to Music in Film. Come pull up a chair and catch up
on the latest and most intriguing stories in the industry, as they all offer a crash course in their
respective fields.
Mustapha Khan, David Hinds and Stephen Hays
And while you’re here experiencing the film festival, be sure to take in the natural beauty, art,
culture, and cuisine that the Hudson Valley has to offer. Each town where the Woodstock Film
Festival lives—Rhinebeck, Rosendale, Kingston, Saugerties, and Woodstock—has unique fares to
be sampled and enjoyed. Visit the galleries and boutiques, rivers and trails, restaurants and cafes,
and discover the Hudson Valley’s charm. The place we call home is truly one of the most treasured
Meera Gandhi and Mark Ruffalo
gems of New York State.
We especially thank all the people who make the festival possible: staff and volunteers, sponsors
and individual contributors, our board of directors and advisory board, filmmakers, industry
members, and our community at large. We thank you all for your continuing support and wish you
a wonderful festival.
See you at the movies.
Giancarlo Esposito
Meira Blaustein
Co-Founder, Executive Director
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Lauri Andretta, Meira Blaustein, Eva Marie Graham, Stephen Hays,
Tim Hutton, Ilene Marder, Laurent Rejto, Aida Wilder
2012 W O O D S T O C K F I L M F E S T I VA L Jonathan Demme
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independent filmmakers and the
2012 Woodstock Film Festival
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ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF
FESTIVAL SERVICES
Executive Director/Co-Founder
Meira Blaustein
Administrative Director/Co-Founder Laurent Rejto
Deputy Director
Nikki Goldbeck
Office Manager
Michael Burke
Guest Relations Director
Guest Relations
Features & Documentaries
Shorts
Animation
Youth Screening
Screeners
Panels, Jury & Honorary Awards
Additional Panels
Music Coordinator
Meira Blaustein
Laurent Rejto, Michael Burke
Bill Plympton, Signe Baumane
Michael Burke, Adam Rejto
David Becker, Eddie Bennett, Michael
Burke, Peter Donovan, Geri Gast,
Nikki Goldbeck, Maria Marewski, Nick
Kantranis, Barbara Pokras, A.C.E.
Meira Blaustein
Doreen Ringer-Ross (BMI), Peter Saraf
Paul Green
FESTIVAL OPERATIONS
Operations Director
Operations Manager
Volunteer Coordinator
Art Department
Exec Director Assistant
Communication Services
Print Trafficker
Special Events
Technical Director
Technical-Projectionists
Transportation Director
Venue Directors
Youth Initiative Coordinator
Audience Award Coordinator
Maverick Awards Coordinator Shorts Digital Prep
Animated Trailer
Interns
Michael Burke
Bridget Dawson
Julia Avery-Shapiro
Stacey Anderson, Vincent DeBellis,
Jeremiah Wenutu, Ken Herkes
Chelsea McGinty
Greg Carttar, Char Harner
(3rd St R&D Production Services)
Bridget Dawson
Lauri Andretta, Donna Parisi
Jeff Kantor (Canus Major Productions)
Jim Dodge, Alex Donaldson, Dan
Hartnett, Hunter Kelley, Rob Owens,
Mojo Johnson
Kevin Bell
Michael Franklin, Christopher Washington
David Nelsen Epstein, Onteora HS
Andrew Emrich
Michael Iannelli
Chad Smith
Joy & Noelle Vaccese (Twins Are Weird LLC)
Based on poster art by Bill Miller
Jett Amchin, Kim Andersen, Spencer
Churchill, Alana Davis, Maisy Keller,
Chandra Knotts, Joe Martindale, Heather
Olin, Carolyn Rivas, Ashley Seymour,
Peter Spengeman, Samantha Yellin
SALES
Box Office Manager
Box Office
Accounting Coordinator
Gideon Moor
Joan Quigley, Adam Blaustein Rejto
Wynn Eggleston
PUBLIC RELATIONS
Press Consultant
Deputy Press Director
Press Assistants
David Archer (Archer Associates)
Alana Davis
Ashley Seymour, Samantha Yellin, Tina
Gibbens-Tenneriello, Gabriel Meyers
Communications & Marketing Consultants Russell A. Howard, Gregory Brodsky
Press & PR AdviserIlene Marder
Videography
Gregory Bray, SUNY New Paltz Crew
Photography Coordinator Casey Rosen
Photographers
John Mazlish, Trish Lease, David
Cunnigham
Program
Graphic Design
Art Work
Publication Editors Box Office Tech
Website
Naomi Schmidt (Naomi Graphics)
Bill Miller
Nikki Goldbeck, Gideon Moor
Diana Simonson
Laurent Rejto
S TA F F
FESTIVAL PROGRAMMING
Registration
Registration Coordinators
Legal Counsel
Nikki Goldbeck
Eddie Bennett, Gabrielle Kleinmann,
Barbara Silver, Gail Nussbaum
Tracy Cohen-Kamien, Sam Kandel
Risa Kamien, Matt Kamien
Richard J. Goldman, Esq.
SITE MANAGEMENT
Mountain View Studio Upstate Films Woodstock Utopia Studios Kleinert/James Art Center
Rosendale Theatre Upstate Films Rhinebeck Donna & Russell Parisi
John Bilotti, Gerald Habib
Richard Malvey, Trey Bondy
Cherity Wicks, Charlene Boswell
Amber Bauer
Tiffany Joy Butler
ADDITIONAL SUPPORT
Award Trophies
Steve Heller (Fabulous Furniture)
VOLUNTEERS (as of September 28)
Adelaide Simon
Abilgail Robin
Alanna MacDonald
Alethea Petal
Alina Gonzalez
Allison Irwin
Ally Taveniere
Amy Reischer
Amy Silverman
Amy Stevens
Andrew Cahill
Angela DeMarta
Ann Byer
Anna Gallio
Anna Perkins
Anne Coleman Johnson
Anne Gregson
Anthony Pambianchi
Apolline Bas
Arman Zahedi
Ashlyn Gomez
Asia Hunt
Barbara Cazakoff
Barbara English
2012 Barbara O’Brien
Beth Weishaupt
Bob Katz
Brandon Sawhill-Aja
Brendan Sheridan
Brett Gallio
Cappy Shapiro
Carole Reyman
Catherine De Cesare
Chris Cutolo
Christine Beckles
Claudia Rose
Claudine Brenner
Colette Perfit
Colleen Connors
Conor Mullins
Cookie Zucker
Corey Kelly
Cynthia Garfunkel
Daniel Beaulieu
Danielle Crofoot
David Rosenberg
Debbie Burklund
Deborah Adelman
Dena Roy
Devin Caron
Diane Silverberg
Edie Monroy
Elaine Sciolino
Eleanor Minsky
Elisif Brunn
Eliza Kunkel
Elizabeth Spencer
Ellen Naney
Emily Carragher
Emily Waligurski
Emma Hershinson
Eric Sazer
Erin Poll
Ernst Nerstheimer
Evan Ketchum
Eve Bernhard
Fern Revzin
Frank Beresheim
Frey Johnsson
Gabriel Meyers
Garland Berenzy
Gary Harnischfeger
George Radel
Julius Minsky
Geri Ritchie
Kalevi Ruuska
Heidi Emrich
Kathy Marie
Ilene Cohen
Katie Hayden
Irene Edmond-Rosenberg Kelly Marsh
Kelly Perry
Jacqueline Gurgui
Kevin Callahan
Jamie Glass
Krissy Rincon
Jamie Goodrich
Kristen DeHaan
Jamie Tall
Krysten Pollard
JD Eiseman
Laura Katz
Jean Flood
Leah-Carla Gordone
Jean Hendrickson
Jean-Michael Desjardins Leif Grund
Leslie Yeaple
Jeff Zeplowitz
Lily Collins
Jennifer Samuels
Lisa Brennan
Jeremy Schwartz
Lisa McCombs
John Currie
Liz Menendez
Jon Bodnar
Liz Shapiro
Jude McGrath
Lois Dysard
Judy Capuso
Lora Ecobelli
Judy Mathews
Louise Luna
Julie Hough
Lynn Dennison
Julie Nichols
Maddie Smith-Spanier
Julie Szabo
Maggie Bailey
Maggie Green
Marcia Albert
Marcus Jones
Margo Obourn
Marijo Mallon
Marina Marcello
Mark DeCaro
Mary Kate Mathews
Matthew Barker
Megan Nolan
Meghan Hakim
Meredith Stewart
Michael Derr
Michael Gaylin
Michael Kennedy
Mike McCabe
Mokihana Pambianchi
Nicole Whelan
Noel Van Etten
Norman Aaronson
Pascal Wright
Patricia Gallio
Paula Silbey
W O O D S T O C K F I L M F E S T I VA L Phyllis Serrur
Rachel Charlop-Powers
Rachel Schabot
Rebecca Fields
Rebecca Schenker
Renee Englander
Richard Haffar
Rick Feltington
Riddhi Patel
Rikki De Cesare
Rio Morales
Robert Peterpaul
Robert Selcov
Roberta Wall
Robin Hayes
Rosalie Rodriguez
Roxann Paulson
Sandi Albelli
Sharon Albright
Sharon Nichols
Shawna-Marie Brown
Sherry Tesler
Stephen Ohle
Steve Grenadir
Steve Perfit
Steven Gentile
Stewart Smith
Sue Edwards
Sue Worthman
Sunya Bhutta
Susan Black
Susan Edwards
Susan Robins
Tabitha Ronk
Tamara Stafford
Tara Ryan
Tiffanie Delozier
Toni Hedges
Toni Helton
Tony Hall
Trev Stevens
Tris Korol
Violet Lasdun
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T HA NK Y O U
If we forgot to thank you, please forgive our oversight and know that your help and support is very much appreciated.
Special Thanks
Lauri Andretta
Nikola Duravcevic & Dana
Ben-Ari
Silver Benefactor
Eva Marie Graham
Aida & Al Wilder
David Ford
Supporting Benefactor
Nurith Spector-Shamis
Friedrike Merck
Daniel H. Schneider Esq.
Robert L. Seigel
Patron Benefactor
Jeff and Marjory Bauml
Reagan & John
Bongiorno
Patron Benefactor
Joni Ellenson
William Geary
Joan Quigley
Kerry Smith
Friend Benefactor
Fried Foundation
Aviva & Charles
Bachman
Lorraine Bell
Joyce Gelb
Conan Gorenstein
Lynn Holst
Mark Weisdorf
Adam and Daniel
Nancy & Steve Abrams
John Amaroso
Jay Andretta
Andretta Foundation
Judy Atwood
Susan & Stewart
Auchincloss
Michael Babcock
Mark Braunstein
Dan Berger
Ikutiel Blaustein
Gail Bradney & Lowell
Miller
Josh Braun
Greg Brodsky
Gail Burbank & Kenny
Cohen
Crista & Delilah Burke
Nancy & Pete Caigan
Steve Cambron
Anne & Matt Canzonetti
Gary Chetkoff
Joan Clancy
Jay Cohen
Colleen Cruikshank
Claude dal Farra
Diane Davis
Brian S. Devine
Evelyne Pouget & Mitch
Ditkoff
Heidi Emrich
Sarah Fimm
Judy Flynn
Adah Frank
Lois Freeman
Jacob & Monica
Frydman
March Gallagher
Meera Gandhi
Ruth Garbus
Geri & Leon Gast
Annemarie Gilly
Mary & Ryan Giuliani
Carol & David Gold
David Goldbeck
Harris Goldberg
Dick Goldman, Esq.
Karen & Rusty Goodman
Lisa Gossels
Michaela Graham
Perry & Martin Granoff
Rachelle Gura & Roger
Green
Jennifer Halpern
Mariann Harrigfeld
Bob Hausman
Stephen Hays
Robin Hayes
County Executive Mike
Hein
Edwina & Marty
Henderson
Andrew Herwitz
Gill Holland
Richard & Amy
Hutchings
Judith Jamison
David Jarrett
Doug Jones
Tricia &Terry Jones
Marti Ladd
Matthew Leaycraft
Amanda Lebow
Dede Lieber
Steve Lieber
Erin Lowrey
Cathy & Sam Magarelli
Ron Mann
Stuart Margolis & Vivian
Hodges
Doreen Marr
Jim McCune
Katharine Mckenna
Sarah Mecklem
Bill Miller
Luc Moeys
Bruce & Caralee Moor
Chloe Moor
Chris Neilson
Russell Nelson
Ric Orlando
Marlyn Park
Monique Paterel
Nina Paturel
Karen Pignataro
Thomas Pignone
Aidan Quinn
Nick Rashby
Leann & Neil Ratner
Michele Rejto
Rhinebeck Chamber of
Commerce
Doreen Ringer-Ross
Liz Rosen
Rosendale Chamber of
Commerce
Billy Rothberg
& Gail Miller
Michael Ruger
Peter Saraf
Gianni Scappin
Angela Schapiro
Marvin Seligman
YvonneSewall Ruskin
Frank Spinelli
Judy Steinfeld
Jennifer Stott
Ellen Sweeney
Avis & Joe Toochin
Bill Topazio
Chris Wedge
Shari Weingarten
Erin Winters
Woodstock Chamber of
Commerce
Bob Wyatt
Laurie Ylvisaker
Allen & Ellen Zerkin
Festival Passing
The Torch Trailer
Barbara Sicuranza
BCDF Pictures (staff)
Christopher Manza
Claude Dal Farra
Connor Kennedy
Edward Crawford
Greg Meola
Hollis Gilstrap
Jason Bowman
Jason Downs
Jeremy Jones
Jesse Bongiorno
Jordan Matthews
Lisa Berger
March Gallagher
Mark Goldfarb
Melissa Leo
Patrick Neri
Paul Green
Russell Howard
Stephen Snow
Ulster County
Development Corporation
Yoel Eisenstadt
Zach Miller
S P E C I A L t h an k s
Capital Campaign
Support
advisory board
Judy Arthur - Publicity/Consultant (Philadelphia, The Silence of the Lambs)
Signe Baumane - Animator (Teat Beat of Sex, Birth, Rocks in My Pockets)
Eamonn Bowles - President, Magnolia Pictures
Robin Bronk - CEO of The Creative Coalition
Claude Dal Farra - Producer BCDF Pictures (Higher Ground, Peace Love and
Misunderstanding, Why Stop Now)
Vincent D’Onofrio - Actor (Law and Order: Criminal Intent, Full Metal Jacket)
Griffin Dunne - Director/Producer/Actor (After Hours, Fierce People)
Martha Frankel - Entertainment Journalist/Author (Hats & Eyeglasses)
Leon Gast - Filmmaker (Smash His Camera, When We Were Kings)
Jonathan Gray - Senior partner at Gray Krauss Stratford Des Rochers LLP
Ethan Hawke - Director/Actor (Brooklyn’s Finest, Before Sunrise, Before
Sunset, Chelsea Walls, The Hottest State)
Sabine Hoffman - Editor (The Dry Land, The Ballad of Jack and Rose, Brother
to Brother, Personal Velocity)
Gill Holland - Producer, The Group Entertainment (2nd Serve, Mariachi Gringo)
Ted Hope - Producer (Adventureland, 21 Grams)
Michael Lang - Producer/Promoter (1969, 1995, 1999 Woodstock Festival)
Melissa Leo - Actor (The Fighter, Frozen River, Predisposed, 21 Grams)
Stephen Nemeth - President of Rhino Films/ Producer (Climate Refugees,
Fields of Fuel, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas)
Jeremiah Newton - NYU Industry Liaison, Producer (Beautiful Darling)
Annie Nocenti - Journalist/Screenwriter/Teacher, Cine Institute
Ron Nyswaner - Screenwriter/Director (Prediposed, Philadelphia)
2012 Sarah Plant - Composer/Musician/Associative
Music Director
Bill Plympton - Animator (Guard Dog, Hot Dog,
Summer Bummer)
Aidan Quinn - Actor/Producer (Last Keepers, 32A,
Dark Matter)
Tom Quinn - Senior VP, Magnolia Pictures
Peter Saraf - Producer, Executive Producer, Big
Beach Productions (Our Idiot
Brother, Little Miss Sunshine)
Steve Savage - President/Co-founder, New Video
and Docurama
Liev Schreiber - Actor/Director (Salt, Taking
Woodstock, The Painted Veil,
Everything is Illuminated)
Lori Singer - Golden Globe winning star of film
and TV (Footloose, Shortcuts, Fame)
Zachary Sklar - Screenwriter (JFK)
John Sloss - Attorney/Producer, Sloss Law &
Cinetic Media (I’m Not There,
Pieces of April, Far From Heaven)
Fisher Stevens - Founding Partner, Greene Street
Films, Actor/Producer/Director
(Awake, Pinero, The Cove)
David Strathairn - Actor (Cold Souls, Good Night
and Good Luck)
Lemore Syvan - Producer, Elevation Filmworks (Henry’s Crime, The Ballad of
Jack and Rose)
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about wff
Year-Round Programming
The Woodstock Film Festival (WFF) and the Hudson Valley
Programmers Group (HVPG) are committed to providing the
Hudson Valley with year-round programming, offering screenings
and events from New York City to the Capital Region and beyond.
The Woodstock Film Festival
celebrates emerging and
established voices in independent
film with screenings, panels and
concerts throughout the MidHudson Valley.
January found WFF and HVFC at the
Sundance Film Festival in Park City,
Utah where they hosted a brunch for
industry members in conjunction with
120dB Films and the NY Governors
Office of Motion Picture and TV
Development.
The festival is centered in the
historic arts colony of Woodstock,
New York with additional events
and screenings taking place in
the nearby towns of Rhinebeck,
Rosendale, Boiceville, Saugerties,
and Kingston.
Sundance Festival
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As a not-for-profit, 501(c)(3)
organization, Woodstock Film Festival’s
mission is to present an annual program
and year-round schedule of film, music
and art-related activities that promote
artists and culture and inspire learning
and diversity. The Hudson Valley Film
Commission promotes sustainable
economic development by attracting
and supporting film, video and media
production.
Photo: Sam Falconi
Every fall, film and music lovers from
around the world gather in Woodstock for
an exhilarating variety of films, concerts,
celebrity-led seminars, workshops, an
awards ceremony, and superlative parties.
Visitors find themselves in a relaxed,
receptive atmosphere surrounded by some
of the most beautiful landscapes in the
world.
HVFC at SXSW
In March, HVFC attended the SXSW
conference in Austin, Texas to spread
the word about the Hudson Valley and
to attend the world premiere of In Our
Nature and US premiere of Francine—
two films that were produced locally.
In April, WFF held its annual Soho
house benefit in New York City with
a special screening of Peace, Love
and Misunderstanding courtesy of
IFC Films. Producer Claude dal Farra
of BCDF pictures, writers Joseph
Muszynski and Christina Mengert, and
co-star Nat Wolff were in attendance.
In May, the Woodstock Film Festival
traveled across the pond for the
Cannes Film Festival and to London to
present special screenings of Coming
Up Roses, directed by Lisa Albright,
and Dolphin Boy, directed by Yonatan
Nir and Dani Menkin. Both films were
presented in conjunction with i-D
magazine and Diesel UK at the Curzon
at Mayfair in London.
Soho House, NYC
The range of films presented includes
feature narratives, documentaries and
shorts, many of which are premieres from
the U.S and abroad. Filmmakers often
attend and follow up screenings with
Q&As. Each year the festival presents films
in the categories of: Exposure, Films of
the Hudson Valley, Focus on Music, World
Cinema and Youth Screenings.
Dolphin Boy screening in UK
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W O O D S T O C K F I L M F E S T I VA L Coming Up Roses screening in UK
2012
Inside The Perfect Circle
In July, WFF hosted the Second Annual
Spirit of Woodstock Celebration, honoring
Congressman Maurice Hinchey for his 38 years
of service to the Hudson Valley. The award
was presented by actor Aidan Quinn and
hand-crafted by local artisan Steve Heller of
Fabulous Furniture.
In August, the Hudson Valley Programmers
Group presented Inside the Perfect Circle,
a documentary featuring world-renowned
composer and conductor Joe Thome.
Screenings in Rosendale and Woodstock were
followed by Q&A sessions with Thome. The
Rosendale screening also featured a short
musical performance and reception. Screenings
were hosted by The Rosendale Theatre and
Upstate Films Woodstock.
For Ellen
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In June, WFF hosted the East Coast premiere
of Why Stop Now, starring Academy Award®
winner Melissa Leo, Academy Award® nominee
Jesse Eisenberg, and Tracy Morgan. The film,
which was produced by BCDF Pictures, was
written and directed by Woodstock native and
one-time WFF volunteer Phil Dorling and WFF
advisory board member Ron Nyswaner. The
screening was presented in conjunction with
the Byrdcliffe Festival of the Arts.
Photo: John Koar
Spirit of Woodstock
Photo: Richard Hutchings
Why Stop Now special screening
Photo: johnmazlish.com
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In August, actor Paul Dano and director So
Yong Kim were at Upstate Films Woodstock
for a special WFF screening of For Ellen. The
film, starring Dano, Jon Heder and Jena
Malone, tells the story of a musician fighting
for custody of his young daughter. It was
presented courtesy of Tribeca Films.
Join us in Woodstock and around the world
2012 W O O D S T O C K F I L M F E S T I VA L 11
about wff
Programming at the Woodstock Film
Festival seeks to encourage those who
use film to explore social, environmental
and political themes while challenging
their inherent boundaries.
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The Hudson Valley and Catskills
have been a hotbed of creative energy for
over a century. In addition to attracting
production talent from around the world,
the region is home to many established
and emerging filmmakers.
Focus on Music showcases films about
music and musicians, while actively
exploring music’s role in film. Many of
the films emphasize how music can be a
powerful tool for expression and conflict
resolution.
As technology makes our world
seem smaller and increasingly
accessible, we are presented with
the opportunity to expand our global
consciousness.
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This year’s Exposure Program
represents the very core of our
mission. We are proud to present a
line-up of films that represent the
myriad of challenges our world faces
in these precarious times, the voices
of our diverse planet, and the heroes
who dedicate themselves to making a
difference as they refuse to just accept
the status quo.
Additional programming, including panels
and year-round events, cover a broad
range of socioeconomic and political
topics. Select participants have included
Mark Ruffalo, Jon Bowermaster, Woody
Harrelson, Tim Robbins, Peter Gabriel,
Barbara Kopple, Arlo Guthrie, Haskell
Wexler, Albert Maysles, Christine Vachon,
and many others.
The 2012 WFF schedule will feature
many local films including the
feature films First Winter, Francine and
Rhymes with Banana, and the short
films Blood Country, Gaga’s Boy Toy, Glory
Days, The Hidden, In Our Nature, Meet Kevin,
My Pain is Worse Than Your Pain, Over and
Around the Clove, Persephone, Seamus, and
The Symbol of Peace.
Look for the logo in
the program, which indicates if a film was
shot regionally.
The BMI Music Panel and concerts
also play a major part of Focus on
Music programming. Participants
over the years have included Pine Top
Perkins, Donovan, Levon Helm, Bernie
Worrell, Bela Fleck and Edgar Meyer, Mike
Gordon and Trey Anastasio of Phish,
Kate Pierson, Arlo Guthrie, Peter Rowan,
Marshall Crenshaw, Duncan Sheik, Rahat
Film remains an ideal vehicle for such
expression, offering audiences the
scenery, sounds, and personalities
of faraway places. 2012 films will
feature films and guests from many
countries including Austria, Denmark,
France, Germany, Iran, Italy, Mexico, Peru,
Philippines, Russia, and Spain.
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, and many others.
2012 Focus on Music feature films
include Bad Brains: A Band in D.C.,
CHarles Bradley: Soul of America, David
Bromberg Unsung Treasure, Magical Mystery
Tour, Mariachi Gringo, Once in a Lullaby,
Strutter. 2012 music videos feature songs
from Sigur Ros, Arrested Development and
Norah Jones, among many others.
WFF is proud to present the World
Cinema program to further our
commitment to sharing experiences across
continents. World Cinema feature film
highlights for 2012 include Apartment in
Athens, Rolan Makes Movies, The Compass
is Carried by the Dead Man, The World’s
Finest Chef, among others.
A B O U T HVFC
Photo: Greg Meola
Photo: Greg Meola
On location with Promised Land
On location with Dovid Meyer
Join us October 10-14, 2012,
then come back to shoot your
next film in the beautiful
Hudson Valley/Catskills.
The Hudson Valley Film Commission (HVFC) creates JOBS and sustainable
economic development by attracting, supporting and promoting local
film, video and media production in the Hudson Valley/Catskills.
• The Bourne Legacy
Directed by Tony Gilroy
• Keep the Lights On
Directed by Ira Sachs
• Rhymes With Banana
Directed by Joe Muszinski & Peter Hutchings
• First Winter
Directed by Benjamin Dickinson
• In Our Nature
Directed by Brian Savelson
• Our Idiot Brother
Directed by Jesse Peretz
• Francine
Directed by Brian Cassidy & Melanie Schatzky
• Martha Marcy May Marlene
Directed by Sean Durkin
• The Last Keepers
Directed by Maggie Greenwald
• Peace, Love, & Misunderstanding
Directed by Bruce Beresford
• Higher Ground
Directed by Vera Farmiga
• Stakeland
Directed by Jim Mickle
• American Gangster
Directed by Ridley Scott
• Taking Woodstock
Directed by Ang Lee
• Michael Clayton
Directed by Tony Gilroy
• War of the Worlds
Directed by Steven Spielberg
Conservative estimates indicate that
2012 projects will create more than
$10 million in regional revenue.
Production spending includes hiring
local crews, cast members,
extras, lodging, car & truck
rentals, locations, catering,
production supplies, equipment,
administrative facilities, post
production offices ,and a variety of
other expenditures.
In addition to professional crews and
exceptional actors, the Hudson Valley
offers many post production facilities
and 9 New York State qualified film
production facilities including:
•Backstage Studio Productions
•Basilica Hudson
•Newburgh Armory Unity Center
•SPAF Studios
•Tech City Properties
•Umbra of Newburgh Stage.
Feature Films
Deep Powder by Mo Ogrodnik
Doomsdays by Edmund Mullins
Dovid Meyer by Moshe Mones
3 Katie Fforde movies for ZDF German TV
We Are What We Are by Jim Mickle
Short films
I Believe in Unicorns by Leah Meyerhoff
In My Skin
My Pain is Worse than Your Pain by Adam Hall
Potter’s Field
Promise Land for Future States
The Scholarship
+TV shows, commercials, music
videos and photo shoots
HVFC provides services free of charge with support of
•Ulster County IDA - Whether you’re interested in relocating, expanding, starting a business or producing
your next film, you’ll find Ulster County a great place to work and live. Nestled between the Hudson River and
the Catskill Mountains, Ulster County boasts a strong and diversified economy that encourages collaboration,
innovation, and growth.
•Dutchess County IDA - The Dutchess County Industrial Development Agency is a public benefit
corporation created by state law in 1976 to promote economic development and job creation in Dutchess County.
The DCIDA induces companies to invest capital in projects that create jobs and increase the county’s tax base,
thereby improving the quality of life for Dutchess County residents.
•Orange County IDA The Orange County Industrial Development Agency has assisted numerous companies
and not-for-profit organizations with new business and capital expansions. As a direct result of the assistance
provided by the IDA, companies have become more competitive by locating or expanding their facilities within
Orange County, New York.
•Markertek - America’s Broadcast Supply House
Photo: Richard Hutchings
On location with Doomsdays
2012 film productions to date include:
F I L M C O MMI S S I O N
Select projects that have
shot in the Hudson Valley
2012 On location with We Are What We Are
On location with Persephone
W O O D S T O C K F I L M F E S T I VA L Photo: Greg Meola
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M av e r ic k A wa r d
/mav·er·ick /
1. Being independent in thought and action or exhibiting such
independence.
2. One who refuses to abide by the dictates of a group.
JONATHAN DEMME
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During his 40 years of filmmaking, Jonathan Demme has had a
profound impact on audiences with works so diverse it is astonishing
that the same director envisioned and created them. He is known
to some people for such narrative masterpieces as Silence of the
Lambs, Melvin and Howard, Swing Shift, Something Wild, Swimming to
Cambodia, Philadelphia, and Beloved. But he is equally recognized as
a documentarian, giving voice to many unsung people and momentous
issues with such films as Cousin Bobby, The Agronomist, Jimmy Carter
Man from Plains, and I’m Carolyn Parker, which chronicled the life of
Parker and her family as they rebuilt their lives after Hurricane Katrina
devastated their community and home in the Lower Ninth Ward. His
upcoming films, The House at Lovestrand and three New Orleans portrait documentaries continue Demme’s commitment
to champion the unacknowledged.
Anyone who follows music undoubtedly knows Demme for his phenomenal feature-length music films, including Stop
Making Sense (which got people up and dancing in the aisles of theaters), Storefront Hitchcock, Neil Young: Heart
of Gold, The Neil Young Trunk Show, and most recently Enzo Avitabile Music Life, which chronicles the career of the
incomparable Italian saxophonist, singer-songwriter who plays a fusion of world music and jazz that is mesmerizing.
This glimpse at his career, spanning four decades, clearly illuminates what makes Demme the Woodstock Film Festival
2012 choice for the Maverick Award. He courageously tackles challenging and controversial subjects; and in doing so,
whether he is portraying Anthony Hopkins as the terrifying Hannibal Lecter or Tom Hanks as an early victim of AIDS,
his characters emerge with unusual depth and humanity. What’s more, his stories are not only thoughtful, they are as
equally absorbing and entertaining.
Demme began his film career not behind the lens, but as a film critic, eventually graduating to public relations, until
1970, when he met Roger Corman, mentor to many brilliant filmmakers.
Demme has previously participated in the Woodstock Film Festival as a panelist and as a filmmaker. It is our great
honor this year to have him here to receive our most prestigious Maverick Award and to acknowledge a dedicated
director who has demonstrated an unparalleled passion for art, music and culture, along with a commitment to social
awareness and justice.
Join PAUL GREEN’s Band of Monkeys in celebrating
JONATHAN DEMME, honored guests
and the Woodstock Film Festival
at the 13th Annual Maverick Awards Ceremony
Saturday, October 13
Backstage Production Studios, Kingston
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7:00pm:
Cocktail party in Gallery
8:15pm:
Seating for awards begins
9:00pm:
Award Ceremony
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TRIBUTE
BINGHAM RAY
With the arrival of the 13th annual Woodstock Film Festival, we take a moment
to remember a dear friend and colleague. Bingham Ray, co-founder of
October Films and former president of United Artists, was a leading force in
independent films for over two decades. He was also an advisory board member
and longtime friend of the Woodstock Film Festival. With great sadness, we offer
this tribute to Ray, who died this winter while attending the Sundance Film
Festival. He was 57.
In November 2011, Ray was named executive director of the San Francisco Film
Society and was about to begin a new adventure in his already adventurous
life. “We lost a true warrior for independent voice with the passing of Bingham
Ray,” noted Sundance founder Robert Redford. “He is responsible for mentoring
countless seminal storytellers and bringing their work to the world.”
Bingham (or the Bing as many called him) was a pioneer. He saw the potential in the tiny, independent, unrepresented
filmmakers when no one else could.
Ray claimed that he got his start from his father, who taught him to love movies while still in elementary school:
His reward for finishing his homework was being allowed to watch movies on TV with his dad. A onetime manager
and programmer at the Bleecker Street Cinema in New York, Ray co-founded October Films in 1991 with Jeff Lipsky
in Lipsky’s garage in Sherman Oaks, CA. Six months after their first release, Mike Leigh’s Life Is Sweet, the company
opened its doors in New York City. Ray served as co-president until the company’s sale in 1999.
During his years with October Films, Ray distributed such films as Leigh’s Secrets & Lies, Lars von Trier’s Breaking the
Waves, John Dahl’s The Last Seduction, Robert Duvall’s The Apostle, David Lynch’s Lost Highway, Robert Altman’s Cookie’s
Fortune, and Jim Jarmusch’s The Year of the Horse.
“He was beloved by the filmmakers he worked with and very dedicated to preserving their vision in bringing their films
to the marketplace,” noted John Schmidt, one of Ray’s former partners in October Films.
Soon after leaving October Films in 1999, Ray was named president of United Artists. Among the films acquired and/or
produced during Ray’s tenure at UA are Michael Moore’s Bowling for Columbine, Danis Tanovic’s No Man’s Land, Nicholas
Nickleby, Jeepers Creepers and its sequel, and Peter Hedges’ Pieces of April.
Ray joined Sidney Kimmel Entertainment in 2007, and over the next three years presided over its distribution and
creative affairs. Before being named executive director of the San Francisco Film Society in 2011, he served as
programming consultant to the Film Society of Lincoln Center, executive consultant to the digital distribution company
SnagFilms, and adjunct professor at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts.
One of his closest friends and colleagues, Richard Abramowitz, stated, “Bingham was a rare, larger-than-life character
who was also a thoughtful, caring man. Those of us who called him a close friend - and there are many - miss him
every day.”
Here at the WFF, his loss is felt as keenly as anywhere. Bingham Ray played an active role in our program every year
and supported the independent spirit of this festival in every way.
Thank you, Bingham, for everything you’ve done. We will never forget you.
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MEERA GANDHI GIVING BACK AWARD
Meera Gandhi is a humanitarian, mother, businesswoman and diplomat who was born in
Mumbai, India. She created the Giving Back Foundation, whose beneficiaries are carefully
selected charities and individuals around the world, with a special emphasis on women and
children in need. The Foundation also exists to act as a platform for debate and discussion
of philanthropy.
The Meera Gandhi Giving Back Award is presented annually to a director, producer or actor who best delivers
a message of social change. This partnership between the Woodstock Film Festival and The Giving Back Foundation
demonstrates the commitment that both organizations have in support of humanitarian efforts through the art of film.
MAVERICK AWARD FOR BEST NARRATIVE FEATURE
Sponsored by gigantic pictures
The Maverick Award sponsored by Gigantic Pictures recognizes the director of the jury’s choice for best
feature narrative.
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They can take you from idea to delivery, supervising all aspects of the filmmaking process including
budgeting, scheduling, pre-production, production, and post-production.
Maverick AWARD FOR BEST DOCUMENTARY
FEATURE Sponsored by FILMS WE LIKE
The Maverick Award sponsored by Films We Like recognizes the director of the jury’s choice for best documentary
feature.
Films We Like is a Canadian distribution company, founded in 2003 by award-winning documentary filmmaker Ron
Mann. Nine years and over 162 films later, Films We Like has established itself as a boutique distributor of alternative
entertainment. Current releases include Tabu by Miguel Gomes and Marina Abramovic: The Artist is Present by Matthew
Akers.
Awards photo: Kelly Marsh
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HASKELL WEXLER
AWARD FOR BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
The Woodstock Film Festival HASKELL WEXLER AWARD FOR BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY,
with support from Panavision, provides $15,000 worth of film camera equipment rentals to the
winner of this esteemed award. Panavision is the leading designer, manufacturer and supplier
of high precision camera systems, comprised of cameras, lenses and accessories for the motion
picture, television series and television commercial markets in North America, Europe and the Asia
Pacific region.
The Haskell Wexler Award for Best Cinematography is selected by Haskell Wexler, A.S.C. (Bound for Glory, One Flew Over
the Cuckoo’s Nest, Coming Home, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolfe, The Secret of Roan Inish). Wexler is a five-time Academy
Award® nominee and the recipient of a star on Hollywood’s Walk of Fame.
TECHNICOLOR POSTWORKS NY Editing awards
The TECHNICOLOR POSTWORKS NY EDITING AWARD is presented for
Best Feature Narrative, Best Feature Documentary and Best Short Documentary. The narrative
jury is made up of Sarah Flack, A.C.E., Sabine Hoffman, A.C.E., and Bill Pankow, A.C.E. The
documentary editing jury consists of Bob Eisnhardt, A.C.E, Sabine Hoffman, A.C.E., and Michael
Taylor.
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post-production services and expertise to motion picture studios, broadcasters, television producers, and independent
filmmakers worldwide.
They operate one of the largest editorial operations in the country, providing editorial technology, editorial suites and office
space, and round-the-clock technical support for scores of film and television productions. Additionally, they build, deliver
and maintain mobile editorial systems used by productions working around the globe. They are also home to one of the
industry’s largest film and television sound facilities, with state-of-the-art recording, editing and mixing facilities and an
award-winning team of sound artists. For complete info, visit www.pwny.slatemediagroup.com
THE DIANE SELIGMAN AWARDS
The Woodstock Film Festival and sponsor Lowel Light continues to reward, support and encourage the next generation
of inspired filmmakers with annual cash/in-kind awards for Best Short Narrative, Best Short Doc and Best Student Short
in honor of Diane Seligman, a very loving person who celebrated life in the way she lived. THE DIANE SELIGMAN
AWARD is presented to films that are vibrant, life affirming, creative and passionate.
Diane Seligman was a beautiful and giving person who touched and inspired all who knew her. As a teenager in the
1960’s, she was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s disease and was the lone survivor in a large experimental treatment group.
Against the odds and medical advice, she gave life to and raised a son and a daughter. She passed away on February 27,
2004, from respiratory complications caused by the radiation that had originally helped to save her. Diane lived in the
moment, in the flow, in harmony with the life force and source, with grace and dignity. She was grateful for every day.
THE BLUE SKY STUDIOS Animation Award
THE BLUE SKY STUDIOS ANIMATION AWARD is presented for Best Animated
Short. The winner receives a cash award and trophy, courtesy of Blue Sky Studios.
The pioneering Blue Sky Studios has produced such animation megahits such as Ice Age, Robots
and Rio.
AWARD J URY
FEATURE narrative JURY
awards jury
Lori Singer is a Golden
Globe-winning star of
film and television.
She has starred in such
films as Footloose, Short
Cuts, Falcon and the
Snowman, and Trouble in
Mind and was one of the
Lori Singer
original leads of the hit
television show Fame,
to name a few. Singer is
a Juilliard graduate and
is honored to be a part
of the Woodstock Film
Festival. | Thelma
Adams is the
contributing editor
Thelma Adams
at Yahoo! Movies. Her
debut novel Playdate,
an O magazine pick,
was published by St.
Martin’s Press in January
2011 and came out in
paperback in March
2012. Adams was the film
critic at Us Weekly from
Gary Springer
2000-2011, following
six years at the New
York Post. She has twice chaired the New
York Film Critics Circle, where she has
been a member since 1995. | Gary
Springer is an entertainment publicist
representing film, theatre and events. In
film, his company, Springer Associates PR,
represents independent and foreign films at
festivals and for release, as well as serving
as sales and distribution consultant. He is a
voting member in the acting branch of the
Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences,
a member of the Television Academy of
Arts & Sciences, and was a founding Board
member of The Creative Coalition.
All trophies are
handcrafted by Steve
Heller, a self-taught
artist who works in
wood, found metal
and Cadillacs from
the 1950s. He shows
at his Fabulous
Furniture gallery (www.
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com) in Boiceville, NY.
Handcrafted trophies
and prizes are awarded
for Best Feature Narrative, Best Feature
Documentary, Best Short Documentary,
Best Short, and Best Student Short.
Other awards are presented for best
cinematography, animation and editing.
In addition, audience awards for Best
Feature, Narrative and Best Feature
Documentary will be presented.
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FEATURE Documentary JURY
Jedd Wider Emmy Award winning
producer Jedd Wider formed Wider
Film Projects with his brother
Todd to develop projects with
social and political resonance,
producing numerous critically and
commercially successful feature
documentaries including Oscar
Barbara Kopple
Rachel Grady
Jedd Wider
winner Taxi to the Dark Side (2007)
and Semper Fi: Always Faithful (2011). They also produced Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in
the House of God and the short documentary King’s Point for HBO, both screening at WFF
2012. | Barbara Kopple is the two-time Academy Award®-winning director and producer
of Harlan County, USA and American Dream. Her most recent projects are Fight to Live, a
documentary about the United States’ drug approval and development system, and A Force of
Nature, a film about journalist and philanthropist Ellen Ratner, which screened at last year’s
Woodstock Film Festival. She is currently in post production on a documentary about actress
Mariel Hemingway. | Rachel Grady, along with partner Heidi Ewing, has been lauded for
gaining unprecedented access into unknown worlds and taking an intimate approach to their
subject matter. In 2007, Grady and Ewing were nominated for an Oscar for Jesus Camp. Their
new film DETROPIA is a cinematic tapestry that looks at Detroit as America’s “canary in the
coal mine.” Their 2010 film 12th & Delaware also received a Peabody Award.
student shorts JURY
Jonathan Gray is an advocate for
directors, producers, production
companies, screenwriters,
investors, and distributors in film,
television and other media. He
is senior partner at Gray Krauss
Stratford Des Rochers LLP, the
former chairperson of the NY
Jonathan Gray
Marie Therese Guirgis
Amy Gossels
State Bar Association Committee
on Motion Pictures, and a frequent lecturer at Columbia University, NYU and the School of
Visual Arts. Gray is also an award-winning independent film producer. | Marie Therese
Guirgis is a talent manager and producer in New York City representing film directors. She
is a producer of Julia Loktev’s The Loneliest Planet and Ira Sachs’s Keep The Lights On and
executive producer of Tarnation and Unknown White Male. She is a development, marketing
and distribution consultant for MPI, and was Senior Vice President of Wellspring. | Amy
Gossels has been the casting director, and often producer, for more than 70 film productions.
Feature film credits include Something’s Gotta Give, Godsend, Milk & Honey, and Visitors, the
latest Godfrey Reggio/Philip Glass collaboration. Gossels has also cast and produced dozens
of award-winning shorts, including Academy Award® winner Zen and the Art of Landscaping.
TV credits include NBC’s Celebrity Apprentice, Comedy Central’s Night of Too Many Stars starring
Jon Stewart and the upcoming series American Caravan from Academy Award®-winning
producer Jerome Gary.
student shorts JURY
Timothy Hutton won an Academy
Award®, a Golden Globe and Los
Angeles Film Critic’s award for his
performance in Ordinary People.
He went on to star in numerous
films, including Taps, Daniel,
Falcon and the Snowman, The Good
Shepherd, and The Ghost Writer.
Timothy Hutton
Matt Parker Matt
Brian Devine
He is currently starring on the
fifth season of the TNT drama Leverage. | Matt Parker was born and raised in Nashville,
Tennessee, where his love of film began with his weekly Sunday trip to the movies with his
dad. He co-produced Beasts of the Southern Wild and Bachelorette, and was also selected
in 2012 to attend the Producer’s Lab at the IFFR in 2012. He was a producer of Ma George
(Post), Higher Ground (Sundance ‘11), and The Last Keepers (Post). | Brian Devine is a
longtime producer, sometime director and founder of Gigantic Pictures, a NYC indie production
bastion since 1996. Devine is also a lifelong musician, sometimes band member, founder
of indie rock upstart Gigantic Music, and owner of Gigantic Studios, a state-of-the-art post
production studio in NYC.
AWA RD S J URY
animation JURY
Steve Savage launched New Video as an independent
DVD distributor in 1991 with Susan Margolin. Today,
the company is the largest digital content aggregator
worldwide, with a library of more than 3,500 feature
films and 6,000 television shows. In April 2012,
Cinedigm Digital Cinema acquired New Video and
appointed Savage and Margolin co-presidents of
Cinedigm Entertainment Group (CEG), a distributor
Steve Savage
Todd Wider
of award-winning independent films and alternative
content. | Emmy Award-winning producer
Todd Wider formed Wider Film Projects, with his
brother Jedd, to develop films that have social
and political resonance. They produced the Oscarwinning Taxi to the Dark Side, Kicking It, What
Would Jesus Buy?, Beyond Conviction, A Dream in
Doubt, Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer,
Semper Fi: Always Faithful, and Mea Maxima Culpa:
Isil Bagdadi
Lisa Gossels
Silence in the House of God for HBO, and the short
documentary King’s Point for HBO. | Isil Bagdadi
is co-founder/ president of distribution, CAVU Pictures. Bagdadi is an indie film producer,
distributor, publicist, programmer, and marketing consultant. In 2001, she and business
partner Michael Sergio started CAVU Pictures to produce and distribute cutting-edge, critically
acclaimed and award-winning independent films. Bagdadi oversees all of CAVU’s distribution
campaigns. | Lisa Gossels is an Emmy Award-winning social issue documentarian whose
films The Children of Chabannes and My So-Called Enemy (WFF 2010) have garnered 20 awards
on the festival circuit. A teacher at heart, Gossels is traveling around the country with
both documentaries. Her Manhattan-based company, Good Egg Productions, also produces
corporate and educational films.
Signe Baumane has
produced, written,
directed and designed
numerous animated
shorts. She is a member
of the Academy of
Motion Picture Arts
and Sciences and is
Signe Baumane
a Fellow in Film with
NYFA. She advises for
film festivals’ animation
programs and curates
special animation shows,
which she personally
presents. | Bill
Plympton was nominated
for an Oscar for his
short Your Face. He
Bill Plympton
has made eight feature
films, including Idiots
and Angels. In 2005, he received another
Oscar nomination for Guard Dog. He is the
subject of a documentary that screened at
WFF 2011.
EDITING JURY–NARRATIVE
EDITING JURY–
Documentary
Sarah Flack, A.C.E., edited
Sofia Coppola’s last four films,
including Lost in Translation, for
which she won a Bafta. Last year
she won an Emmy and an Eddie
for the HBO film Cinema Verite.
She edited Steven Soderbergh’s
The Limey, Schizopolis, and Full
Sarah Flack
Sabine Hoffman
Bill Pankow
Frontal, years after first working
for him as a P.A. in Prague on
Kafka. She graduated from Brown University with a B.A. in Political Science and Semiotics/
Film. | Sabine Hoffman, A.C.E. has edited narrative films and documentaries for 20
years. Credits include Rebecca Miller’s The Private Lives of Pippa Lee, The Ballad of Jack and
Rose, and Personal Velocity, as well as Rodney Evan’s multi award-winning Brother to Brother
and his upcoming The Happy Sad, Ryan Piers Williams’ The Dry Land, and William Jennings’
Harlem Aria. Documentary credits include Katja Esson’s Oscar-nominated Ferry Tales and The
Party is Over. She is also an Adjunct Professor at Columbia University. | Bill Pankow,
A.C.E. has edited more than 40 feature films, ten for director Brian De Palma, including The
Untouchables, Carlito’s Way and Femme Fatale, and the 10 Cesar Awards-nominated Mesrine,
directed by Jean Francois Richet. His work on the Emmy Award winning HBO series The Corner,
directed by Charles Dutton, brought him an A.C.E. Eddie award nominaton, as well. His
current projects include Greetings From Tim Buckley for director Dan Algrant, and The East for
director Zal Batmanglij. He is also an adjunct professor at the NYU Kanbar Institute of Film
and Television.
CINEMATOGRAPHY
Two-time Academy Award®-winning cinematographer Haskell Wexler is
one of the most influential cinematographers in movie history. He won
his Oscars in both black and white and color for Who’s Afraid of Virginia
Woolf? (1966) and Bound for Glory (1976). In 1993, Wexler was awarded a
Lifetime Achievement award by the American Society of Cinematographers.
He received five Oscar nominations for his cinematography, in total, plus
one Emmy Award in a career that has spanned six decades. His other
films include One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, The Secret of Roan Inish and
Coming Home. He has a star on Hollywood’s Walk of Fame.
2012 awards jury
shorts Documentary JURY
Bob Eisnhardt, A.C.E.
is a three-time Emmy
Award winner and Oscar
nominee. Most recently
he edited Wagner’s
Dream, which follows
the creation of the
Bob Eisnhardt
Metropolitan Opera’s
controversial new Ring
Cycle. Among other
films he has edited
are Valentino: The Last
Emperor and Living
Emergency: Stories
Of Doctors Without
Borders, both of which
premiered at The Venice
Michael Taylor
Film Festival, and
Dixie Chicks: Shut Up
& Sing, a Gala Selection at the Toronto
Film Festival that screened at WFF
2006. | Sabine Hoffman (See Editing
Jury-Narrative) | Michael Taylor’s
documentary editing credits include
Margaret Brown’s Peabody Award-winning
The Order of Myths, Heidi Ewing and
Rachel Grady’s segment of Freakonomics,
and Mitch McCabe’s Youth Knows No Pain.
His narrative credits include Julia Loktev’s
The Loneliest Planet and Day Night Day
Night, Rick Alverson’s The Comedy, Bryan
Wizemann’s Think of Me, and Michael
Walker’s Price Check.
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F E AT URES
30 2nd Serve
31419
32 Any Day Now
33 Apartment in Athens
(Appartamento ad Atene)
34Arcadia
35 Archaeology of a Woman
36 Art Machine
37 Between Us
38 California Solo
39 The Compass is Carried by
the Dead Man
(La Brujula Lleva El Muerto)
40
41
42
Dead Dad
Electrick Children
Exit Elena
PRECEDED BY Aunt Luisa
FEATURES
43 Faces in the Mirror
44 First Winter
45Francine
46Gayby
47 I Am Not a Hipster
48 In Our Nature
49 Magical Mystery Tour
showing with Magical Mystery Tour Revisited
50 Mariachi Gringo
51Nor’easter
52Putzel
53Quartet
54Refuge
55 Rhymes with Banana
56 The Sessions
57 Sparrows Dance
58Starlet
59Strutter
60 The Unlikely Girl
61Vamps
F EAT U R ES
World P re m ie r e
2nd Serve
F E A t u r es
Directed by Tim Kirkman
USA / 2012 / 89 minutes
Main Credits
Cast Josh Hopkins
Alexie Gilmore
Cameron Monaghan
Sam McMurray
Dash Mihok
Executive Producer Jay Thames
Producer Gill Holland
Screenwriter James Markert
Cinematographer Gabe Mayhan
Production Designer James Wise
Editors
Sabine Hoffmann
Gabriel Wrye
Sound Designer Erick Jolley
Composer/Music Nyles Lannon
Owen “Game Set” Match (Josh Hopkins) is one of the best tennis pros
around. He coasts through life while working at the affluent Fountain Club, until
his bad decisions lead to him being fired by his boss and high school tennis nemesis
Charles (Dash Mihok). Taking a job at the much less fancy public club, Derby City, Owen
is reunited with his former trainer, the relentlessly intense Coach Bussey (Sam McMurray). The club’s manager, Sherry (Alexie Gilmore), is wary of her new hire, but comes
around when she sees how well Owen gets along with her misfit son, Jake. Wanting to
settle the score with Charles and the rest of his Fountain Club rivals, Owen enters a
ragtag group of tennis pros from Derby City into the Combo Cup to decide once and for
all which club is the best. –Heather Olin
Tim Kirkman was born in Monroe, North Carolina. He received a bachelor’s
degree in graphic design from the College of Design North, Carolina State
University and a master’s degree in media studies from The New School in New York City.
He has directed four feature films - Dear Jesse, The Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me,
Loggerheads, and 2nd Serve.
BIO
Showing at
Utopia Studios WOODSTOCK
Sat Oct 13 • 7:30pm
Upstate Films I RHINEBECK
Sun Oct 14 • 6:30pm
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East Coast P re mi e r e
419
Main Credits
Cast Mike Ivers
Scott Kerns
Ned Thorne
Emilea Wilson
Cara Loften
Ezra Mabengeza
Producers
Stephen Hays
Anthony Moody
Screenwriter
Ned Thorne
Story
Ned Thorne
Stephen Hays
Cinematographer
Ned Thorne
Editor
Ned Thorne
Sound Designer Kevin Wilson
Composers/Music
Gingger Shankar
Samuel Joseph Smythe
Ned Thorne’s directorial debut is a documentary-style narrative that gives
a raw look at what a man will do when he feels he has nothing left to lose.
A struggling American actor (Mike Ivers) invests everything he has in what turns out to
be a South African-based Internet scam. Taking an untraditional route to help him come
to terms with the ordeal, his two best friends decide to bring him back to Cape Town
to pursue the thief. Their journey leads them into the underworld of the city, where
corruption and self-preservation seem to motivate everyone’s decisions. Searching restaurants, bars, townships and Internet cafés, the trio leave no stone unturned in their
quest for the truth. The bonds of their friendship are tested when those they trust fall
under suspicion and their personal and professional lives start to crumble around them.
419 will keep you on the edge of your seat and have you talking long after the credits
roll. – Heather Olin
Ned Thorne has been making films since childhood. He currently lives and works
in New York City.
FEATURES
Directed by Ned Thorne
BIO
Showing at
Upstate Films WOODSTOCK
Fri Oct 12 • 9:30pm
Upstate Films II RHINEBECK
Visit www.419thefilm.com
F EAT U R ES
Any Day Now
F E A t u r es
Directed by Travis Fine
Main Credits
Cast Alan Cumming
Garret Dillahunt
Isaac Leyva
Frances Fisher
Gregg Henry
Kelli Williams
Don Franklin
Executive Producers Anne O’Shea
Maxine Makover
Wayne LaRue Smith
Dan Skahen
Producers Travis Fine
Kristine Hostetter Fine
Chip Hourihan
Liam Finn
Screenwriters Travis Fine
George Arthur Bloom
Cinematographer Rachel Morrison
Production Designer Elizabeth Garner
Editor Tom Cross
Sound Designer Scott Gershin
Composer/Music Joey Newman
Set in the 1970s, Travis Fine’s Any Day Now explores the unique struggles
of a gay couple as they fight both prejudice and the law for custody of a
junkie neighbor’s neglected and abandoned son. Drag performer Rudy and district attorney Paul have only just met, yet are confident in their love for one another as
well as their love and ability to care for Marco, a 14-year old boy with Down Syndrome
who faces a future of foster care after his mother’s arrest. Despite Marco’s happiness,
the new family is ripped apart when authorities find the two gay men as unfit caretakers
for the abused teen.
Any Day Now follows the intimate development of not just Rudy and Paul’s relationship with one another but the development of their love for a son that is being torn
from their grasp. – Chandra L. Knotts
In the midst of a successful acting, writing and directing career, Travis Fine
BIO abruptly left the entertainment business in 2001. Deeply affected by the events of
September 11th and seeking a more fulfilling pursuit of his artistic endeavors, he enrolled
in flight school and forged a new path as a screenwriting airline pilot.
While Travis was in the flight deck of a commercial airliner on autopilot at 36,000
feet, he developed the idea for his screenplay The Space Between, the story of a hardened
flight attendant and an unaccompanied minor who connect amidst the chaos of September
11. Starring Academy Award-winning actress Melissa Leo, The Space Between had its world
premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival and aired on the USA Network on the 10th anniversary of 9/11.
Showing at
Visit www.anydaynowmovie.com
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F E AT URES
Directed by Ruggero Dipaola
Italy / 2011 / 95 minutes
In Greek and German with subtitles
Main Credits
Cast
Laura Morante
Richard Sammel
Gerasimos Skiadaresis
Producer
Ruggero Dipaola
Screenwriters
Heidrun Schleef
Ruggero Dipaola
Luca De Benedittis
Cinematographer
Vladan Radovic
Production Designer Luca Servino
Costume Designer
Alessandro Lai
Editor
Roberto Missiroli
Composer/Music
Enzo Pietropaoli
FEATURES
Apartment in Athens
(Appartamento ad Atene)
Ruggero Dipaola brings home the pain of occupation of World War II in
his feature debut, Apartment in Athens, winner of the Italian Golden Globe
for First Feature Film. The Helianos family’s world is turned upside down as they are
given the “honor” of hosting a German officer, Captain Kalter played superbly by Richard
Sammel (Inglorious Basterds), in their home. Forced to cater to each of his exacting
needs or face retribution, Nikolas the patriarch of the family, quickly realizes he must
do what he can to protect his family and swiftly succumbs to the officer’s whims. Family bonds are tested by their uninvited guest and the subservient role the patriarch is
forced to play. As Nikolas begins to cut through Kalter’s hard exterior, a human side to
the officer is briefly glimpsed, offering the Helianos family a moment of hope. Patiently
crafted and wonderfully acted, Apartment in Athens, based on Glenway Wescott’s stirring
1945 novel, discovers both the horror and the humanity in war. –Michael Burke
Ruggero Dipaola was born in Brescia, Italy and obtained a Law degree before
BIO studying film direction and editing at the Istituto di Scienze Cinematografiche e
Audiovisive of Florence, Italy.
Showing at
Visit www.appartamentoadatene.it
F EAT U R ES
New York P re mi e r e
Arcadia
F E A t u r es
Directed by Olivia Silver
Main Credits
Cast John Hawkes
Ryan Simpkins
Ty Simpkins
Kendall Toole
Executive Producers Jeremy Bailer
Bibi Arteaga
Producers Julien Favre
Silenn Thomas
Jai Stefan
Screenwriter Olivia Silver
Cinematographer Eric Lin
Production Designer Adriana Serrano
Editor Jennifer Lee
Sound Designer Tom Paul
Composer/Music The Low Anthem
Showing at
Rosendale Theatre
Twelve-year old Greta is less than thrilled to be traveling cross-country
with her manic father (played brilliantly by Academy Award® winner John
Hawkes), a man who hops between overly-enthusiastic ravings of California’s beauty
and enraged outbursts towards his children at the mention of negativity or, even worse,
their mother. First time director Olivia Silver takes audiences along with Greta’s family on their stressful ride through cheap motels and diners to California in a beat-up
station wagon, heading towards their father’s newest job opportunity and away from
their mother, who is said to be away visiting her sister. While her siblings seem more
interested in boys and seeing the Grand Canyon, Greta cannot keep from thinking of her
mysteriously absent mother, despite her father’s promises of a united family beneath the
California sunshine. Ryan Simpkins captivates as Greta in a story of newfound maturity
and the burdens of lost innocence. – Chandra L. Knotts
Olivia Silver grew up in Connecticut and California and is a graduate of the UCLA
BIO MFA Directing program. After earning a bachelor’s degree in English from Williams
College, she worked in book publishing and foreign policy before turning to filmmaking.
Olivia has worked for Oscar-nominated writer-directors John Sayles and Hany
Abu-Assad. Her short film Aisle 73, starring Bob Larkin and Angela Paton (Groundhog
Day), won awards and screened in festivals around the world.
Her thesis film Little Canyon premiered at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival and
screened at numerous festivals including Edinburgh, Denver, Nantucket, Sarasota, and
LACMA Young Director’s Night. Olivia is a dual U.S.-French citizen and currently lives in
Brooklyn, New York.
Visit www.arcadiathefilm.com
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Archaeology of a Woman
Main Credits
Cast
Producer
Screenwriter
Cinematographer
Editors
Sound Design
Composer/Music
Sally Kirkland
Victoria Clark
James Murtaugh
Karl Geary
Sharon Greytak
Sharon Greytak
Gus Sacks
Ulysses Guidotti
Marian Sears Hunter
Matt Gundy
Heather Schmidt
Showing at
WOODSTOCK Playhouse
Archaeology of a Woman rides the edge between reality and fiction when
a daughter returns home to care for her mother’s worsening dementia and
discovers her connection to a thirty year-old crime. Oscar nominee and Golden
Globe winner Sally Kirkland is the feisty, guilt-ridden mother who fights to protect her
freedom in spite of the dementia she can not control. As the daughter runs between
her own aspiring career and the demands of her mother, the small surveillance camera
she installed to help monitor mom at home reveals a far more private life of fear, lust
and longing. Archaeology investigates the visceral experience of age-related dementia
through the unsettled lives of two very different generations of women.
Sharon Greytak is a New York City-based independent filmmaker who has
written, produced and directed short experimental films (Czechoslovakian Woman,
Some Pleasure on the Level of the Source), documentary works (Losing It, Weirded Out
And Blown Away), and three narrative features (Archaeology of a Woman, The Love
Lesson, and Hearing Voices).
Her films have screened at the Museum of Modern Art, NY; Film Society of
Lincoln Center, NY; Village East Cinema, NY; George Eastman House; Museum of Fine
Arts, Boston; Laemmle Theatres; AFI FilmFest; American Cinematheque at the Egyptian
Theatre, LA; Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, DC; Margaret Mead Film Festival;
Chicago International Film Festival; REDCAT; Santa Barbara Film Festival; Centre Georges
Pompidou, Paris; Films de Femmes, Creteil France; Bela Balasz Studio, Budapest. She was
a participant in AFI’s Directing Workshop for Women, a Yaddo and MacDowel Fellow, and
the recipient of the 2012 CINE Golden Eagle Award for Archaeology of a Woman.
FEATURES
Directed by Sharon Greytak
BIO
Visit www.sharongreytak.com
F EAT U R ES
WO rld P re m ie r e
Art Machine
F E A t u r es
Directed by Doug Karr
Main Credits
Cast
Joseph Cross
Jessica Szohr
Joey Lauren Adams
Executive Producers Michael Gayner
Stefan Nowicki
Joey Carey
Producers
Aimee Karr
Flavio Alves
Mynette Louie
Roy Gokay Wol
Screenwriters
Doug Karr
Nuno Faustino
Cinematographer Adrian Correia
Production Designer Kaet McAnneny
Editors
Doug Karr
Nuno Faustino
Composer/Music
Mark Kondracki
Showing at
WOODSTOCK Playhouse
At age six, child prodigy painter Declan Truss was propelled into the art
world as a rare marvel, but by seventeen, the tightrope of notoriety is
catching up with him. Declan seeks inspiration as the immense pressures
of an impending coming-of-age exhibition loom. His world expands when he
stumbles on a commune of rebellious free thinkers. Declan reaches beyond painting to
wild experimentation, quickly spinning out of control. As he becomes consumed by his
mania, he begins to regard his family as part of a system that’s keeping him down, and
magnetically rallies the rebels to take part in his progressively subversive art exhibition—one that will ultimately shock and destroy.
Set against the backdrop of Brooklyn’s vibrant art and music scene, Art Machine
is a dark comedy about the tenuous relationship between art and commerce, the fine
line between creative genius and clinical mania, and the damaging effects of fame.
Doug Karr has been creating original independent films since 1997. Karr’s credits
BIO include narrative shorts Anniversary Present, The Straitjacket Lottery, and the award
winning documentaries LSD25, The June Bug Symphony, Lifecycles: A Story of AIDS in
Malawi, and The Face of AIDS. The writer of eight feature length screenplays, his recent
script, My Thermonuclear Family, won the Grand Prize at the Filmmakers International
Screenplay Competition. His films have been seen by audiences around the world and on
numerous television channels. Karr’s last short Ten For Grandpa, premiered at the 2009
Sundance Film Festival and has gone on to screen at over 50 international film festivals,
winning multiple awards.
Visit www.artmachinemovie.com
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F E AT URES
Between Us
Main Credits
Cast
Julia Stiles
Melissa George
Taye Diggs
David Harbour
Executive Producer Brent Stiefel
Producers
Mike S. Ryan
Hans Ritter
Dan Mirvish
Screenwriters
Joe Hurtura
Dan Mirivsh
Cinematographer Nancy Schreiber ASC
Production DesignerTracey Gallacher
Editor
Dean Gonzalez
Sound Designers Tobias Enhus
H. Scott Salinas
Composers/Music
Tobias Enhus
H. Scott Salinas
Some things are better kept private, even among the best of friends. This is
a lesson that couples Grace and Carlo (Julia Stiles, Taye Diggs), and Sharyl
and George (Melissa George, David Harbour) learn the hard way. Taking
place over two evenings set several years apart, the couples’ friendship becomes undone
during two nights of frank conversation about sex, money and religion. Confrontation
erupts as they realize their lives have moved in irrevocably different directions. As each
couple’s fractured relationship is revealed in front of the other, the collateral damage is
an old friendship. Based on Joe Hurtua’s award winning play, Dan Mirvish’s film features
wonderfully emotional and complicated performances from all four accomplished actors
who learn why some things should be kept just “between us.” –Michael Burke
Dan Mirvish is an active director, screenwriter, producer, and author. He was
mentored by Robert Altman on his first film, Omaha (the movie), which led him to
co-found the upstart Slamdance Film Festival that runs concurrent with Sundance. His
real estate musical film Open House led the Academy Awards to controversially rewrite
their rules on the Best Original Musical category for the Oscars. Mirvish co-wrote the
critically-acclaimed novel I Am Martin Eisenstadt: One Man’s (wildly inappropriate)
Adventures with the Last Republicans (Farrar, Straus, Giroux), based on his transmedia
project that invented a campaign advisor for John McCain.
FEATURES
Directed by Dan Mirvish
BIO
Showing at
WOODSTOCK Playhouse
Rosendale Theatre
Visit www.betweenusmovie.com
F EAT U R ES
New y o rk P re mi e r e
COMPETITION FINALIST
California Solo
F E A t u r es
Directed by Marshall Lewy
Main Credits
Cast Robert Carlyle
Alexia Rasmussen
Kathleen Wilhoite
A. Martinez
Michael Des Barres
Danny Masterson
Executive Producers Robert Carlyle
Joan Huang
Nick Morton
Rick Rosenthal
Producer Mynette Louie
Screenwriter Marshall Lewy
Cinematographer James Laxton
When you reach the top, is there anywhere to go but down? Former Britpop rock star Lachlan MacAldonich, in a sublime performance by Robert Carlyle, finds
himself at this precipice as a once-promising music career is now awash in booze and
self-loathing. Director Marshall Lewy’s sophomore effort is a moving departure from
his feature debut, the comedy Blue State, as Lachlan, now a farm manager in southern
California, faces deportation after another ill-fated night of drinking and driving. In an
effort to stave off expulsion from the U.S. he must reconnect with his ex-wife and the
daughter he barely knows and finally face the demons he has been avoiding to reclaim a
life teetering on the edge. – Michael Burke
Marshall Lewy is a graduate of Harvard University, where he studied Russian
BIO history and literature. He and his wife currently live in Los Angeles with their new
baby girl. He is co-president of the Barnsdall Art Park Foundation, a non-profit organization that supports the arts activities at Barnsdall Art Park, including Frank Lloyd
Wright’s world famous Hollyhock House.
Production Designer Eric James Archer
Editor Alex Jablonski
Composer/Music T. Griffin
Showing at
Thur Oct 11 • 8:15pm
COURTESY OF
Visit www.californiasolo.com
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F E AT URES
Directed by Arturo Pons
Mexico / 2011 / 111 minutes
In Spanish with subtitles
Main Credits
Cast Gael Sanchez
Pedro Gámez
Eligio Meléndez
Ana Ofelia Murguía
Marco Pérez
Horacio García Rojas
Hansel Ramírez
Luis Bayardo
Executive Producer Ozcar Ramírez González
Producer Ozcar Ramírez González
Screenwriter Arturo Pons
Cinematographer Luis David Sansans
Editors Arturo Pons
Paloma López
Sound Designer Eduardo Castillo
Composer/Music Edgar Barroso
FEATURES
The Compass is Carried by the Dead Man
(La Brujula Lleva El Muerto)
A young boy’s journey from Mexico to the United States turns into an
extraordinary odyssey filled with adventure, heartache and triumph. Arturo
Pons’ wonderful feature debut follows the story of Chencho, a child still holding a measure of innocence, as he embarks on a quest to be reunited with his brother in Chicago.
Along the way he encounters several fascinating strangers who form a diverse caravan of
wanderers seeking a new life. Guided onward by a mysterious benevolent force, the characters in La Brujula Lleva El Muerto reveal an intimate and inspiring portrait of Mexican
immigrants searching for opportunity.
– Joe Martindale
Arturo Pons attended the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico, where he
obtained a degree in media communication. While at university, he directed and
participated in several short films. He studied cinema at Centre de Estudis Cinematografics de Catalunya in Barcelona, where three of his short films were shown in a number of
European film festivals. In 2006, he filmed his first 35mm short, No Sents Res? He has
been working on visual compositions with musician Edgar Barroso and presenting their
work all over the world. Since 2005, Arturo has been a teacher for Cinematographic
Lenguaje. He has directed music videos for Jarabe de Palo, La Mala Rodriguez and DJoe.
BIO
Showing at
Visit www.arturopons.com
F EAT U R ES
Dead Dad
F E A t u r es
Directed by Ken J. Adachi
Main Credits
Cast Kyle Arrington
Jenni Melear
Lucas K. Peterson
Allyn Rachel
Ben Hethcoat
Brett Erlich
Fred Stoller
Executive Producers Stephen Hansen
Monte Young
Ken J. Adachi
Jason Ambler
Adam Varney
Producers Kelly Calligan
Ben Hethcoat
Screenwriters Ken J. Adachi
Kyle Arrington
Cinematographer Eric Bader
Production Designer Morgan Hall
Editor Eric Ekman
Sound Designer Kellen Voss
Composer/Music Nadeem Majdalany
Ken J. Adachi’s directorial feature debut is an emotional roller coaster
showcasing three outstanding performances. Dead Dad is a dynamic portrait of
a family in turmoil learning to find its way. Estranged siblings Russell, Jane and their
adopted brother, Alex, are reunited when they return home upon the death of their father. As they battle over what to do with his ashes, they attempt to come to grips with
what their father would have wanted while trying to heal their own fractured relationships.
Adachi weaves a spirited tale of wry humor and painful heartache as each
sibling must confront their own deep-seated wounds before they can heal the rift that
has opened between them. All the while, the father who drove them apart in life now
begins to bring them back together in death. – Michael Burke
Director and writer Ken J. Adachi’s projects have screened across the country
and his short film Picture Day won a College Television Award in 2010. While
working primarily in short formats, Adachi developed an urge to complete a feature
length film. New to Los Angeles and with limited funds, he and his collaborators
embraced a grassroots approach and worked nights and weekends to make it happen.
The result is Dead Dad, Adachi’s feature film debut.
BIO
Showing at
Utopia Studios bearsville
Visit www.deaddadmovie.com
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Electrick Children
Main Credits
Cast
Producers
Screenwriter Cinematographer Julia Garner
Rory Culkin
Liam Aiken
Bill Sage
Jessica Caldwell
Richard Neustadter
Rebecca Thomas
Mattias Troelstrup
Production Designer Beth Van Dam
Editor Jennifer Lilly
Sound Designer
Composer/Music Coll Anderson
Eric Colvin
The power of music can be a transformative force, but 15-year-old Rachel,
a young girl from a fundamentalist Mormon sect, believes it has the power
to create life. Sheltered from the outside world, Rachel discovers rock music for the
first time and is enraptured by the soulful singing emanating from the speakers. So
enraptured that, upon learning that she is pregnant three months later, she comes to
believe the music she heard is the cause of the new life growing inside of her.
Escaping the marriage arranged for her, Rachel heads out in search of the voice
on the tape that was responsible for her immaculate conception. Up-and-coming star
Julia Garner dazzles as Rachel as she takes a life-altering road trip to the city of sin
and discovers the world beyond her sheltered existence. Rebecca Thomas’ debut feature,
Electrick Children is a beautifully told tale of innocence lost. – Michael Burke
FEATURES
Directed by Rebecca Thomas
Rebecca Thomas was raised in Las Vegas, Nevada, the youngest of five
BIO children. She took a break from studying film at Brigham Young University to serve
a Mormon mission in Japan and went on to pursue her MFA at Columbia University.
Electrick Children is Rebecca’s debut feature film.
Showing at
WOODSTOCK Playhouse
Rosendale Theatre
Visit www.electrickchildren.com
F EAT U R ES
US P re m ie re
Exit Elena
F E A t u r es
Directed by Nathan Silver
Main Credits
Cast Kia Davis
Cindy Silver
Jim Chiros
Gert O’Connell
Daisy
Nathan Silver
Executive Producer Harvey L. Silver
Producer Nathan Silver
Screenwriters Nathan Silver
Kia Davis
Cinematographer David Dahlbom
Editors Nathan Silver
Kia Davis
Cody Stokes
Sound Designer Arjun G. Sheth
Composer/Music Washington Phillips
Showing at
Elena, a quiet, fresh-faced and newly christened assistant nurse, thinks
that she’s been prepared for the obstacles of being a live-in aide, but
nothing could prepare her for her employing family. Jim and Cindy hire Elena
to help with Jim’s elderly, overlooked mother, Florence. Struggling to maintain her
professionalism in the face of Cindy’s persistent requests that she become part of the
family, Elena tries to keep her composure. On top of being forced into conversations,
Zumba sessions and events she has no reason to attend, enter Nathan, Jim and Cindy’s
neurotic, rebellious son. Elena tries to work her way through the maze of family
troubles while still caring for Florence, but as circumstances change, she must decide
where to turn next. In his second feature film, director Nathan Silver takes viewers on
a captivating ride through a family in crisis and the stranger who is thrust into their
world. As Elena manages the best she can, ultimately she knows what must be done
despite Cindy’s demands to stay. Exit Elena. – Alana Davis
Nathan Silver lamented being born in the 20th century until he saw his first
Buñuel movie. If he couldn’t be a 19th century French poet, he could at least be a
21st century American filmmaker. So, Silver got his pile of French poems together and
submitted them to New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and was accepted into
the Dramatic Writing Program. He graduated with honors in 2005.
Since then, Nathan has written and directed three feature films and four short
films. His short, Anecdote, premiered at the Slamdance Film Festival in 2008. His first
feature, The Blind, premiered at the Torino Film Festival in 2009 and had its North
American premiere at Cinequest 2011. Exit Elena had its world premiere at the Edinburgh International Film Festival in 2012 and Filmmaker Magazine called it “an exquisite gem of a movie.” His third feature, Soft in the Head, is currently in post-production.
Visit www.konecfilms.com
BIO
PRECEDED BY
Aunt Luisa
Directed by Thomas Woodrow
A young man living in New York is interrupted in the middle
of his scattered, modern life by a surprise visit from his very
weird aunt. Visit www.auntlouisafilm.com
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Faces in the Mirror
Main Credits
Cast Ryan Orr
Boyd Tinsley
Jessica Mei Gershen
Rita Dove
Executive Producers Boyd Tinsley
Fenton William
Producers Ryan Gall
Boyd Tinsley
Screenwriter Nicholas Kimbrel
Story
Aaron Farrington
Nicholas Kimbrell
Ryan Orr
Boyd Tinsley
Cinematographer Johnny St. Ours
Editors
Aaron Farrington
Boyd Tinsley
Composers/Music Boyd Tinsley
Maktub
Shawn Smith
The Silent Comedy
Stefan Lessard,
Dave Matthews Sound
From musician Boyd Tinsley of Dave Matthews Band comes a film that’s
not only meant to be seen, it’s meant to be experienced. It is a film scored
to music. It dances with the music and takes you on an emotional roller-coaster ride
that never let’s you go. It’s like a dream. The story is about Ben Fisher, a young man
who returns home to bury his father. Angry that he had been neglected by his workaholic father, Ben refused to see him for years. On the day of his father’s funeral, Ben
goes on a dream-like odyssey where he’s led, portal by portal, to fantastical places with
somewhat mystifying people who all seem to be guiding him somewhere. He’s looking
to escape his pain and guilt. He’s looking for forgiveness.
Faces in the Mirror marks the filmmaking debut for acclaimed musician Boyd
Tinsley. He has been the violinist for Dave Matthews Band since 1991, when he
was asked to play on the demo song Tripping Billies, officially joining the band full time
later that year. A native of Charlottesville, Virginia, Tinsely grew up in a musical
household. As a teenager, he helped found the Charlottesville-Albemarle Youth Orchestra
and studied under the tutelage of Isador Saslav, the concert master of the Baltimore
Symphony Orchestra. In addition to DMB, Tinsley has recorded a solo album, True
Reflections, and has appeared on albums by Third Day, The Samples, Hootie & the
Blowfish, and Allgood. An avid tennis player, he composed a new score for ESPN’s
Wimbledon coverage in 2006, and established the Boyd C. Tinsley Foundation, which
provides tutoring, music lessons, and tennis lessons to Charlottesville, VA school
children.
FEATURES
Directed by Aaron Farrington
BIO
Showing at
COURTESY OF
Visit www.facesinthemirror.com
F EAT U R ES
First Winter
F E A t u r es
Main Credits
Cast Paul Manza
Lindsay Burdge
Jennifer Kim
Samantha Jacober
Matthew Chastain
Kate Lyn Sheil
Jaffe Zinn
Haruka Hashimoto
Executive Producer Jon Watts
Producers Mark De Pace
Zachary Mortensen
Lindsay Burdge
Benjamin Dickinson
Screenwriter Benjamin Dickinson
Cinematographer Adam Newport-Berra
Production Designer Katie Hickman
Editors Benjamin Dickinson
Jen Lame
Andrew Alan
Sound Designer Paul Hsu
When Winter begins, life is serene for a group of new-age Brooklynites living in a remote country farmhouse. Sex, drugs, yoga, and organic cooking absorb
their days, safely tucked away from the stresses of urban life. But when a blackout of
apocalyptic proportions strands them with no heat and no electricity during the coldest winter on record, their utopian commune is breached by anxiety as idyllic harmony
begins to lose its tune. As time wears on and the food supply dwindles, power struggles,
jealousy and desire threaten the group’s ability to work together to survive.
In this extraordinary debut feature, filmmaker Benjamin Dickinson explores the
fundamental instincts of human nature that arise when perseverance and beliefs are not
only tested, but taken to their limits. Nuanced, authentic performances escalate with
heightened emotion, while ethereal landscapes intimate that the poetic world of First
Winter exists in an undefined time and space, perhaps not so far apart from our own.
– Samantha Yellin
Benjamin Dickinson studied filmmaking at New York University and started
BIO Waverly Flams in 2004 with six friends from school. He has directed music videos
for Killer Mike (see music video program), Q-Tip, LCD Soundsystem, Reggie Watts, and
The Rapture as well as commercial work, short films and Internet clips. His work has
been featured at Cannes.
Showing at
Rosendale Theatre
Visit www.firstwintermovie.com
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Francine
Main Credits
Cast
Melissa Leo
Keith Leonard
Victoria Charkut
Dave Clark
Dr. Mike Halstead
Executive Producer Anna Gerb
Producers
Joshua Blum
Katie Stern
Cinematographer Brian M. Cassidy
Editors
Brian M. Cassidy
Benjamin Gray
Melanie Shatzky
Academy Award® winner Melissa Leo gives a fierce and taut performance
as Francine, a woman struggling to find her place in a downtrodden lakeside town after leaving behind a life in prison. Taking a series of jobs working
with animals, Francine turns away others and instead seeks intimacy in the most unlikely of places. Gritty, elliptical, and voyeuristic, Francine is a portrait of a near-silent
misfit and her fragile first steps in an unfamiliar world.
Brian M. Cassidy and Melanie Shatzky founded Pigeon Projects in 2005 as a
means of producing their uncompromising fiction and non-fiction films. Living
comfortably at the margins of documentary and narrative cinema, works created by
Pigeon Projects forgo conventional storytelling methods in order to accommodate stark
imagery, elusive characters and deadpan realism. Together, Cassidy and Shatzky have
shown their films at the Sundance, Berlin, Toronto, and Rotterdam film festivals. Their
films have also shown at MoMA, the National Gallery of Art, Lincoln Center, and the
Institute of Contemporary Art. In 2007, Filmmaker Magazine named them as one of “25
New Faces of Independent Film.” Cassidy and Shatzky recently finished their first
documentary feature, The Patron Saints, a poetic and frank look at institutional life in a
nursing home.
FEATURES
Directed by
Brian M. Cassidy and Melanie Shatzky
BIO
SPECIAL SCREENING
Showing at
DOWNING FILM CENTER • NEWBURGH
Wed Oct 10 • 7:30pm
Rosendale Theatre
COURTESY OF
Visit www.francinethefilm.com
F EAT U R ES
Gayby
F E A t u r es
Directed by Jonathan Lisecki
Main Credits
Cast
Jenn Harris
Matthew Wilkas
Mike Doyle
Anna Margaret Hollyman
Executive Producers Zeke Farrow
Laura Heberton
Producers
Amy Hobby
Anne Hubbell
Screenwriter
Jonathan Lisecki
Cinematographer Clay Liford
Production Designer Cat Navarro
Costume Designer David Tabbert
Editor
Ann Husaini
Sound Designer
Rob Daly
Composer/Music
Giancarlo Vulcano
Showing at
Jenn and Matt are best friends from college who are now in their 30s.
Single by choice, Jenn spends her days teaching hot yoga and running
errands for her boss. Matt suffers from comic-book writer’s block and can’t get over
his ex-boyfriend. They decide to fulfill a youthful promise to have a child together… the
old-fashioned way. Can they navigate the serious and unexpected snags they hit as they
attempt to get their careers and dating lives back on track in preparation for parenthood? Gayby is an irreverent comedy about friendship, growing older, sex, loneliness,
and the family you choose.
Gayby is writer/director Jonathan Lisecki’s first feature film. Since premiering
at the 2012 SXSW festival, the film has won the Audience Award for Best Feature
and a Jury Prize for Best Acting Ensemble at the Ashland Film Festival, and a Special
Jury Prize at IFFBoston. Gayby is a full-length version of the celebrated short film of the
same title, which played at over 100 festivals on six continents since its premiere at
Slamdance in 2010, and received multiple jury prizes and audience awards at such
festivals as Philadelphia, Rhode Island, Arizona, and Palm Springs ShortFest. It’s
available on the 15th edition of the Wholphin collection. Lisecki’s first short film,
Woman in Burka, won various awards, including the 2008 Spirit of Slamdance Award for
its debut, and was featured on the 12th edition of Wholphin. Before turning to
filmmaking, Lisecki worked extensively in independent theatre. He lives in New York
with his husband.
BIO
COURTESY OF
Visit www.gaybyfilm.com
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I Am Not a Hipster
Main Credits
Cast Dominic Bogart
Alvaro Orlando
Tammy Minoff
Lauren Coleman
Kandis Erickson
Brad William Henke
Tania Verafield
Executive Producer Fred Najor
Producers Ron Najor
Destin Daniel Cretton
Screenwriter Destin Daniel Cretton
Cinematographer Brett Pawlak
Editor Destin Daniel Cretton
Sound Designer Onnalee Blank
Composer/Music Joel P. West
Showing at
While this film’s title fits with the humorous portrayal of San Diego hipster culture, I Am Not a Hipster also serves as an engaging and thoughtful
character study. Director Destin Daniel Cretton’s 2012 film tells the story of Brook
Hyde, a 20-something up-and-coming musician within the San Diego indie underground.
Hipster follows a week in Brook’s life as he struggles with familial reconciliation, his
purpose as an artist, and the loneliness that hasn’t left him since the death of his
mother.
The film features engaging performances by actors Dominic Bogart as Brook and
Alvaro Orlando as his peppy manager/sidekick. The film’s soundtrack, written by Joel
P. West and recorded in collaboration with Bogart under the name Canines, becomes a
character unto itself, with Bogart belting out tunes in several emotional live performances. Whether Brook Hyde is a hipster or not … that can be decided by the audience.
– Chandra Knotts
Destin Daniel Cretton’s fourth short film, Short Term 12, won the Jury Prize in
Short Filmaking at Sundance in 2009. He wrote a feature screenplay of the same
title and was one of five to win a 2010 Nicholl Screenwriting Fellowship from the
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. I Am Not a Hipster is Cretton’s feature film
directorial debut.
FEATURES
Directed by Destin Daniel Cretton
BIO
Visit www.iamnotahipster.com
F EAT U R ES
In Our Nature
F E A t u r es
Directed by Brian Savelson
Main Credits
Cast
Producer Screenwriter Cinematographer Editors Composer/Music
Zach Gilford
John Slattery
Jena Malone
Gabrielle Union
Anish Savjani
Brian Salveson
Jeremy Saulnier
Kate Abernathy
Anette Davey
Jeff Grace
Showing at
Nothing seems more likely to ruin Seth’s romantic weekend with his
girlfriend, Andie, than his estranged father and young girlfriend crashing the party. Brian Savelson’s feature debut, In Our Nature is the story of a troubled
relationship between a father and son. Seth (Zach Gilford) attempts to reconnect with
his distant father, Gil (John Slattery), despite the presence of their respective girlfriends
(Gabrielle Union and Jena Malone). Meanwhile, the women find themselves similarly
trapped within the issues surfacing between their partners, creating a dynamic and dramatic setting for the film to play its course. Shot locally in Mt. Tremper, the film casts a
beautiful lens on the Hudson Valley while also providing humor and drama. Outside the
city and immersed in the natural surroundings of a family country house, In Our Nature
is a realistic depiction of human nature when there is nothing else to turn to. – Chandra
Knotts
Brian Savelson is an award-winning writer, director, and producer whose work
ranges from stage to screen. He began his career in the theater as associate
producer of A Raisin In The Sun on Broadway, starring Sean ‘P. Diddy’ Combs, Audra
McDonald, Phylicia Rashad, and Sanaa Lathan. The production won two Tony Awards,
broke box office records and was widely noted for the incredibly young and diverse
audience it brought to the theater. After early success with his award-winning short film
Counting Water, which screened at over 20 festivals, was broadcast on PBS and showed
at LACMA, Brian made the transition to film. Since then, he has won recognition as a
music video director, best known for his work with Band of Horses, which won a coveted
MVPA Award and led to a video commission from David Bowie’s High Line Festival.
Brian has studied writing and directing at the prestigious Samuel Beckett Centre in Dublin,
attended Cornell University, and holds a B.F.A. from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts.
BIO
COURTESY OF
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Magical Mystery Tour
Main Credits
Cast
Producer
Cinematographers
Screenwriter
Editor
Sound Designer
Composers/Music
John Lennon
Paul McCartney
George Harrison
Ringo Starr
Ivor Cutler
Victor Spinetti
Denis O’Dell
Aubrey Dewar
Tony Busbridge
Daniel Lacamore
Michael Seresin
Ringo Starr
The Beatles
Roy Benson
Gordon Daniel
John Lennon
Paul McCartney
George Harrison
Ringo Starr
In September 1967, The Beatles loaded a film crew onto a bus along with
friends, family and cast and headed west on the A30 out of London to
make their third film, this time conceived and directed by The Beatles themselves.
“Paul said, ‘Look I’ve got this idea’ and we said ‘great!’ and all he had was this circle
and a little dot on the top - that’s where we started.” (Ringo)
In the wake of the extraordinary impact of the Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club
Band album and the One World satellite broadcast of All You Need Is Love, The Beatles
devised, wrote and directed their third film, Magical Mystery Tour, a dreamlike story of a
coach day trip to the seaside.
The film features a fabulous supporting cast of character actors and performers
(including Ivor Cutler, Victor Spinetti, Jessie Robins, Nat Jackley, Derek Royle, and the
inimitable Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band).
Apple Films has fully restored the long out-of-print, classic feature film with a
remixed soundtrack.
showing with
FEATURES
Directed by The Beatles
UK / 1967 / 53 minutes
Magical Mystery Tour Revisited
Directed by Francis Hanly
See documentaries for more information
Showing at
WOODSTOCK Playhouse
COURTESY OF
Visit www.thebeatles.com
F EAT U R ES
Mariachi Gringo
F E A t u r es
Directed by Tom Gustafson
Mexico, USA / 2012 / 107 minutes
Main Credits
Cast Shawn Ashmore
Martha Higareda
Lila Downs
Kate Burton
Tom Wopat
Adriana Barraza
Executive Producers Gill Holland
Ambrose Roche
Isabella Smejda
Producers Alejandra Cardenas
Cory Krueckeberg
Tom Gustafson
Rafael Cuervo
Ramiro Ruiz
Screenwriter Cory Krueckeberg
Cinematographer Kira Kelly
Production Designer Dario Carreto
Editors Cory Krueckeberg
Jennifer Lee
Sound Designer Javier Umpierrez
Composer/Music Tim Sandusky
Showing at
What happens when a born-and-raised Kansas boy turns thirty and hits
his limit? He runs away to Mexico in hopes of becoming a professional Mariachi musician, of course! Director Tom Gustafson, whose feature debut Were the World Mine was a
smash hit at WFF 2008, captures the beauty of Mexico and the glory of following one’s
dreams despite the cost in his sophomore film Mariachi Gringo. Shawn Ashmore, who
plays the lead role of Ed Hogan, delivers a moving performance in this crossover film as
a man inspired by an old Mariachi musician from his local Mexican restaurant to leave
his dead-end life under the watch of his conservative parents for the excitement and
adventure of a new life in Guadalajara, Mexico. Gustafson’s Mariachi Gringo avoids the
clichés of a runaway story and leaves audiences with an honest and emotionally moving
account of what it takes to follow your heart and achieve your dreams.
– Chandra L. Knotts
Mariachi Gringo is Tom Gustafson’s second feature film. The film recently won
Best Film & Best Actress at the Guadalajara International Film Festival. His feature
directorial debut, the critically acclaimed musical fantasy Were The World Mine won 30
awards screening at over 150 festivals worldwide, including the James Lyon Award for
Editing at the 2008 Woodstock Film Festival. The New York Times chose the film as
Critics’ Pick, calling it Movie Musical Magic. Among Tom’s awards for his musical were
the Heineken Red Star Award and the Scion First-Time Director Award. Other directing
credits include the sideshow inspired short film The Need, the short musical film Fairies,
and the controversial short mockumentary film Revelations. Tom has worked as location
casting director on many blockbuster films, including Man of Steel, Pirates of the
Caribbean II and III, The Good Shepherd, and The Dark Knight. Tom is the founder of
SPEAKproductions and currently resides in Harlem, New York City.
BIO
Rosendale Theatre
Visit www.mariachigringo.com
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Nor’easter
Main Credits
Cast David Call
Rachel Brosnahan
Liam Aiken
Richard Bekins
Haviland Morris
Emery Cohen
Danny Burstein
Producers Andrew Brotzman
Veronica Nickel
Screenwriter Andrew Brotzman
Cinematographer Ian Bloom
Production Designer Lisa Myers
Editor David Lowery
Sound Designer Vicki Lemar
Composers/Music Saunder Jurriaans
Danny Bensi
Showing at
Erik Angstrom barely appears above the age of a college student, yet he
has committed to a life as a priest on the remote island of North Haven.
Amidst a snow-covered and sparsely populated landscape, director Andrew Brotzman’s
feature debut Nor’easter introduces audiences to a suspenseful and at times torturously
mysterious community still recovering from the scandal of their church’s previous priest.
A local family, the Greens, come to Angstrom about their son Josh, who has been missing for over five years, in hopes that, despite his inexperience, Angstrom will be able
to help them put their torn family back together. The priest is quick to encourage the
family to move past their loss until Josh suddenly returns home. Angstrom’s involvement
with the Green family drives him to the brink, leading him to not only question his faith
in God but the web of secrets and mysteries that he finds. – Chandra L. Knotts
Andrew Brotzman is the director of My Mom and Dad, winner of the Global
Anarchy award for Best Short in its category at Slamdance 2006, and Darjeeling,
which played in Slamdance’s 2007 Anarchy competition.
He is also the producer of Small Collection, an official selection of the 2009 Sundance Film Festival and winner of the Best Narrative Short award at the Crossroads Film
Festival in Jackson, Mississippi. Small Collection played at the Woodstock Film Festival
in 2008, as well as the Palm Springs, Raindance UK, Cleveland, Boston, and AFI Dallas
film festivals, among others.
Nor’easter is his first feature.
FEATURES
Directed by Andrew Brotzman
BIO
Visit www.noreasterfilm.com
F EAT U R ES
World P re m ie r e
Putzel
F E A t u r es
Directed by Jason Chaet
Main Credits
Cast
Jack T. Carpenter
Melanie Lynskey
John Pankow
Susie Essman
Jarlath Conroy
Stephen Park
Adrian Martinez
Fran Kranz
Executive Producers Mary Jane Skalski
Jonathan Gray
Producers Rick Moore
Jason Chaet
Sheri Davani
Allegra Cohen
Screenwriter Rick Moore
Cinematographer
Ryan Samul
For some, life is an adventure filled with opportunities to excel and places
to explore. For Walter Himmelstein, a young man endearingly known as Putzel, life
literally doesn’t go beyond his family’s fish store and his community on the upper west
side of Manhattan. In this heartwarming comedy, Walter’s aspirations of taking over
his uncle’s smoked fish emporium are disrupted by the arrival of Sally, who becomes
romantically involved with his about-to-retire and very-married uncle. While Walter tries
to thwart their romance in order to insure his taking over the business, he finds his circumscribed life thrown off kilter, and after years of being undermined by his family and
friends, he finally starts to realize his full potential. With Sally’s help, Walter confronts
his fears and proves he is more than a Putzel.
Jason Chaet is a Filmmaker, Theater Director and Acting Teacher based in New
York City. He got his start at NYC’s Ensemble Studio Theater, working with
playwrights including David Mamet and Arthur Miller. He has scores of theater directing
credits in NYC and around the country. Additionally, he has worked for HBO/USCAF and
was creative consultant on the film Kissing Jessica Stein. Currently, his short film
Remember is screening at festivals around the world.
BIO
Production Designer Lisa Myers
Editor
Federico Rosenzvit
Composers/Music
Jonathan Benedict
Rob Niederprum
Showing at
WOODSTOCK Playhouse
Rosendale Theatre
Visit www.putzelmovie.com
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OPEN IN G N IGH T F I L M
Directed by Dustin Hoffman
Main Credits
Cast
Maggie Smith
Michael Gambon
Billy Connolly
Pauline Collins
Tom Courtenay
Executive Producers Jamie Laurenson
Dario Suter
Christoph Daniel
Marc Schmidheiny
Dickon Stainer
Thorsten Schumacher
Xavier Marchand
Dustin Hoffman
Producers
Screenwriter
Cinematographer
Editor
Sound Designer
Composer/Music
Finola Dwyer
Stewart Mackinnon
Ronald Harwood
John de Borman
Barney Pilling
Martin Trevis
Dario Marianelli
Showing at
WOODSTOCK Playhouse
Rosendale Theatre
COURTESY OF
The directorial debut of Dustin Hoffman, Quartet is a comedy starring
Maggie Smith, Billy Connolly, Michael Gambon, and Pauline Collins. The
film tells the story of Reggie (Courtenay), Wilf (Connolly) and Cissy (Collins) who reside
in Beecham House, a home for retired opera singers. Each year they stage a concert to
celebrate Verdi’s birthday, which also raises funds for the home. Reggie’s ex-wife Jean
(Smith) arrives at the home and creates tension, playing the diva part but refusing to
sing in the concert.
Dustin Hoffman, two-time Academy Award winner and seven-time nominee,
whose arrival in Hollywood helped usher in a new and revitalised approach to
filmmaking, makes his directorial film debut in Quartet.
Hoffman first caught the world’s attention for his role as Benjamin Braddock in
Mike Nichols’s now classic film, The Graduate. Since then he has been nominated for six
more Academy Awards for such diverse films as Midnight Cowboy, Lenny, Tootsie (partly
filmed in the Hudson Valley), and Wag The Dog. He won the Oscar in 1979 for his role in
Kramer vs. Kramer, and again in 1988 for Rain Man. In 1997, he was awarded the Golden
Globes’ esteemed Cecil B. DeMille Award and received the Honorary César Medal at the
2009 César Awards.
Having appeared in numerous other films and with a rich career acting on screen
and stage, Hoffman continues to add singular performances to a roster of characters that
have obliterated the line previously dividing the archetypes of “character actor” and “leading man.”
Hoffman was born in Los Angeles and attended Santa Monica Community College.
He later studied at the Pasadena Playhouse, before moving to New York to study with
Lee Strasberg. He serves as the chair of the Artistic Advisory Board, along with Mikhail
Baryshnikov and Plácido Domingo, for the Eli and Edythe BroadStage Theater, an intimate
499-seat state-of-the-art theater that provides a much-needed performance facility for
Santa Monica College and the surrounding community.
BIO
Visit www.weinsteinco.com
FEATURES
Quartet
F EAT U R ES
Refuge
F E A t u r es
Directed by Jessica Goldberg
Main Credits
Cast
Krysten Ritter
Brian Geraghty
Madeleine Martin
Logan Huffman
Executive Producers Chris Papavasiliou
Austin Stark
BenjiKohn
Gary Cogill
Richard Toussaint
Jessica Goldberg
Trainor Houghton
Jack Schuster
Producers
Jack Heller
Dallas Sonnier
Screenwriter
Jessica Goldberg
Cinematographer Doug Emmett
Editors
Zach Wolf
Jack Heller
Composer/Music
The Milk Carton Kids
“Many people, when they fall in love, look for a little haven of refuge from
the world where they can be sure of being admired when they are not
admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.” Bertrand Russell
might have been describing Amy (Krysten Ritter) and Sam (Brian Geraghty)who meet in
a bar and fall in love after a night of passion. However, neither may be quite ready for a
commitment as Amy, still reeling from her parents’ abandonment and forced to raise two
younger siblings, falls apart when Sam disappears without a word, triggering emotions
of desertion. Meanwhile, when Sam learns about Amy’s past he is tempted to run. Jessica Goldberg’s directorial debut features a stunning dramatic turn by Ritter (Don’t Trust
the B---- in Apartment 23) in a story of two lovers searching to find their own refuge
from the world. -Michael Burke
Jessica Goldberg is a graduate of NYU’s Dramatic Writing Program and Juilliard,
and has written for Imagine, Peter Berg, Ellen Page, Focus Features, Kathy
Kennedy, and Denise DiNovi, among others. Her script Absent Hearts landed her on
Variety’s 10 Writers to Watch List. She wrote Heart of a Soldier, with Taylor Lautner
attached to star, for Universal. Her pilot The Prince of Motor City was produced for ABC
in 2008. She is also writing an adaptation of the Lauren Oliver novel Delirium for Fox, as
well as an adaptation of Goodbye for Now aka Deadmail, written by Laurie Frankel, for
Lionsgate/Summit. She is currently working as a staff writer on NBC’s Notorious, which
debuted this fall.
BIO
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Rhymes with Banana
Main Credits
Cast Zosia Mamet
Jee Young Han
Paul Iacono
Jaleel White
Producers Claude Dal Farra
Brice Dal Farra
Lauren Munsch
Jonathan Burkhart
Screenwriters Christina Mengert
Joseph Muszynski
Cinematographer Frederic Fasano
Production Designer Jack Ryan
Costume Designer
Editors Sound Designer Composer/Music Ingrid Price
Jeremy Newmark
Peter Saguto
Eli Cohn
Spencer David Hutchings
When two best friends’ dreams of becoming actors in NYC seem to be going nowhere, they decide to take things to the edge and push them right
over. Z and G, two wanna-be actresses who can’t catch a break, cope with failure by
escaping into an eclectic world of their own making. From emergency preparation drills
to people-watching on the stoop of their Brooklyn apartment in Slankets, they march
to the strum of their own ukulele. When Ted moves in next door, his sophistication and
connections to celebrities lead Z and G to conclude that he must be a talent agent.
Lacking other professional options, they decide to pursue the only reasonable course of
action: Kidnap him, hold him hostage, and demand acting careers as ransom.
Directed by Joseph Muszynski and Peter Hutchings, this satirical take on a buddy
comedy defies conventional standards and takes hilarity to a new level.
Joseph Muszynski was a writer and executive producer on Peace, Love &
Misunderstanding (2012), directed by Bruce Beresford. Rhymes with Banana is his
directorial debut. The film was written by Muszynski and Christina Mengert. He is currently
in development on a science fiction project with BCDF Pictures.
Peter Hutchings was a writer and executive producer on The Last Keepers (2013),
directed by Maggie Greenwald. He studied film and theater at Northwestern University and
is finishing his PhD in Literature at Princeton University. He is currently working on a fulllength screenplay on the French Revolution of 1848. Rhymes with Banana is his directorial
debut.
FEATURES
Directed by
Joseph Muszynski and Peter Hutchings
BIO
Showing at
Sat Oct 13 • 11:30am
Rosendale Theatre
Visit www.bcdfpictures.com
F EAT U R ES
The Sessions
F E A t u r es
Directed by Ben Lewin
Main Credits
Cast John Hawkes
Helen Hunt
William H. Macy
Executive Producers Maurice Silman
Julius Colman
Douglas Blake
Producer
Judi Levine
Stephen Nemeth
Ben Lewin
Screenwriter
Ben Lewin
Cinematographer Geoffrey Simpson, ACS
Editor
Lisa Bromwell, A.C.E.
Sound Designer
Steven Iba
Composer/Music: Marco Beltrami
Based on the poignantly optimistic autobiographical writings of Californiabased journalist and poet Mark O’Brien, The Sessions tells the story of a man confined to an iron lung who is determined - at age 38 - to lose his virginity. With the help
of his therapists and the guidance of his priest, he sets out to make his dream a reality.
Ben Lewin’s career as a writer and director includes award-winning documentaries, feature films, TV movies, mini-series and episodic programs. Lewin was born
in Poland and immigrated to Australia when he was three. While working as a criminal
barrister in Australia, Lewin was offered a scholarship to the National Film School in
England. After graduating, he wrote and directed his breakthrough film The Case of
Cruelty to Prawns, a comedy-drama that won the Best Television Film Award at the
prestigious Melbourne Film Festival.
Lewin’s feature length credits include Georgia, The Dunera Boys, Matter of Convenience, The Favor, The Watch and the Very Big Fish, and Paperback Romance. He also
directed the documentary Hollywood Gold and wrote and directed the award-winning
short film Plead Guilty, Get a Bond. His television work includes episodes of Ally McBeal,
Touched by An Angel and the Australia drama series Sea Change.
BIO
Showing at
Rosendale Theatre
Upstate WOODSTOCK
COURTESY OF
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Sparrows Dance
Main Credits
Cast Marin Ireland
Paul Sparks
Executive Producer Michaela Conlin
Producers Samantha Housman
Louise Runge
Screenwriter Noah Buschel
Cinematographer Ryan Samul
Editor Brett Jutkiewicz
Sound Designer Javier Bennassar
Musical Director Aaron Judlowe
Showing at
Rosendale Theatre
Leaving the apartment is a hard thing to do for the lead lady of Noah
Buschel’s Sparrows Dance, a delightfully tender story of an agoraphobic
woman who falls in love despite not having left her apartment in over a
year. Marin Ireland delivers a stunning performance as a woman confined to her small
New York apartment, struggling with tasks as simple as ordering Chinese take-out and
getting her plumbing repaired. Wes, played by Paul Sparks, provides a comical and
compassionate backdrop as Ireland’s plumber and romantic interest, balancing the emotional struggle of Ireland’s agoraphobia. Sparrows Dance is a delicate mixture of quirks,
romance and drama, utilizing the physical space of a one-bedroom apartment to create
an intricate world of solitude that extends far beyond its visible limits. – handra Knotts
Born in Philadelphia in 1978, Noah Buschel grew up in New York City’s
Greenwich Village. After spending time as a contributing editor for Tricycle
Magazine, he made his feature film debut with Bringing Rain, starring Adrian Grenier and
Paz de la Huerta. Bringing Rain was produced by Belladonna Productions, premiered at
the Tribeca Film Festival in 2003, and was released by Plexifilm. His second feature, Neal
Cassady, was produced by Jean Doumanian Productions. It starred Tate Donovan and
Amy Ryan and was released by IFC Films in 2008. His third film, The Missing Person,
starred Michael Shannon and premiered at Sundance. Buschel was nominated for a
Gotham Award for Breakthrough Director and the film was on IFC.com’s 2009 Ten Best
List.
FEATURES
Directed by Noah Buschel
USA / 2011 / 80:45 minutes
BIO
Visit www.onezerofilms.com
F EAT U R ES
Starlet
F E A t u r es
Directed by Sean Baker
Main Credits
Cast Dree Hemingway
Besedka Johnson
Stella Maeve
James Ransone
Karren Karagulian
Executive Producers Giancarlo Canavesio
Ted Hope
Saemi Kim
Saerom Kim
Sol Tryon
Shih-Ching Tsou
Producers Blake Ashman
Kevin Chinoy
Patrick Cunningham
Chris Maybach
Francesca Silvestri
Screenwriters Sean Baker
Chris Bergoch
Cinematographer Radium Cheung
Editor Sound Designers
Sean Baker
J.M. Davey
Zach Seivers
Composer/Music Manual
Starlet explores the unlikely friendship between 21-year-old Jane (Dree
Hemingway) and 85-year-old Sadie (Besedka Johnson), two women whose
worlds collide in California’s San Fernando Valley. Jane spends her time getting high with her dysfunctional roommates, Melissa (Stella Maeve) and Mikey (James
Ransone), while taking care of her Chihuahua, Starlet. Sadie, an elderly widow, passes
her days alone tending to her flower garden.
After a confrontation between the two women at Sadie’s yard sale, Jane uncovers
a hidden stash of money inside a relic from Sadie’s past. Jane attempts to befriend the
caustic older woman and secrets emerge as their relationship grows.
Director Sean Baker continues in the naturalistic style of his previous films, the
BIO award-winning and Spirit Award nominees Prince of Broadway and Take Out,
capturing the rhythms of everyday life with an authenticity rarely seen in cinema. Prince
of Broadway earned the Lee Marvin Award for Best narrative feature at the 2008
Woodstock Film Festival.
Dree Hemingway (great-granddaughter of Ernest and daughter of Mariel) makes
her debut lead performance in Starlet.
Showing at
WOODSTOCK Playhouse
Visit www.starletfilm.com
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Strutter
Main Credits
Cast Producers
Screenwriters Cinematographer
Editors
Composer/Music: Sara Ashley
Jade Gordon
Terry Graham
Elyse Hollander
Flannery Lunsford
Allison Anders
Kurt Voss
Allison Anders
Kurt Voss
Kurt Voss
Chris Figler
Aaron Rottinghaus
J. Mascis
An aspiring rocker loses his band and his girl but gains the friendship of
his idol in this sweet and humanistic comedy that completes the trilogy
about Southern California musicians by longtime collaborators Allison
Anders and Kurt Voss. The first film in the trilogy Border Radio, is part of the Criterion Collection and published on DVD by Janus Films; the second, Sugar Town, was the
Centerpiece Premiere at the 1999 edition of the Sundance Film Festival.
FEATURES
Directed by
Allison Anders and Kurt Voss
Since their first co-directed post-punk feature film Border Radio (1988), Allison
BIO Anders and Kurt Voss have together or separately written and directed 20
films, along with various other writing and directing gigs including TV and music videos.
Between them they have directed everyone from Terrance Stamp and Salma Hayek to
Ice-T and Madonna. They co-wrote the screenplay to the Peabody Award-winning film
Things Behind The Sun, which Anders directed, and have been nominated for the
Independent Spirit Awards for both Border Radio (Best First Feature 1989) and Sugar
Town (Best Film, Best Debut Performance).
Showing at
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US P re m ie re
The Unlikely Girl
F E A t u r es
Directed by Wei Ling Chang
In French with subtitles and English
Main Credits
Cast Hande Kodja
Shane Lynch
Pierre Boulanger
Raphaël Goldman
Isalinde Giovangigli
Nathalie Dauchez
Executive Producer Benoît de Boursetty
Producers Wei Ling Chang
Jackie Stolfi
Screenwriter Wei Ling Chang
Cinematographer Rodolphe Séraphine
Editor Wei Ling Chang
Sound Designer Benoît de Boursetty
Composer/Music Levan Iordanishvili
Showing at
“The sentence below is true. The sentence above is false.” These are the words
that open The Unlikely Girl, the exceptional entrance into feature films by director,
producer and writer Wei Ling Chang. Chang delivers a nuanced drama that keeps viewers
guessing from titles to credits. Set in rural France, the film follows sheltered American
exchange student Jamie in a love triangle with her host sister Cecile and Cecile’s childhood friend Luc. Cecile’s volatile temper and Luc’s long-held crush act as both deterrents and catalysts for the trio’s friendship. Jamie is quickly drawn into their tangled
web of lies and sexual intrigue, but soon realizes that her host family is not at all what
she thought them to be. In order to uncover the truth, Jamie must question everything
that she believes and everyone that she knows. – Heather Olin
Wei Ling Chang is a swim addict, sleep enthusiast, photographer, and filmmaker. She is obsessed with astrophysics and time travel.
When she’s not pondering about wormholes, she writes, directs and produces
television. Shows she has worked on include the Emmy-nominated The Port Chicago
Mutiny, The Bill Clinton Biography, The First 48, and MTV’s Made and My Super Sweet
Sixteen.
Other filmmaking adventures include the horror short Aunt Tigress, which
screened at Cannes, Sitges, Comic Con, Buenos Aires, and Beijing.
Before making movies, Chang worked at Miramax Films in acquisitions and at
France’s Metropolitan Films in development. She holds a BA in psychology from Cornell
University.
BIO
Sat Oct 13 • 11 :30am
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east coast P re mi e r e
Vamps
Main Credits
Cast Alicia Silverstone
Krysten Ritter
Richard Lewis
Sigourney Weaver
Malcom McDowell
Kristen Johnson
Wallace Shawn
Justin Kirk
Dan Stevens
Executive Producers Stanislaw Tyczynski
Julie Kroll
Kamal Nahas
John Jencks
Lisa Wilson
Steve Hays
Peter Graham
Producers
Maria Teresa Arida
Adam Brightman
Stuart Cornfeld
Screenwriter
Amy Heckerling
Cinematographer
Tim Suhrstedt
Editor
Debra Chiate
Sound Designer Frank Gaeta
Composer/Music
David Kitay
Clueless director Amy Heckerling and star Alicia Silverstone reunite in
Vamps, a cheeky, fresh comedy about two-eternally young party girls
navigating the dating world in the Big City. But even with lifetimes of dating
experience behind them, the duo realize they still have a lot to learn about love when
Stacy (Krysten Ritter) unexpectedly falls for the son of a vampire hunter, and Goody
(Silverstone) runs into the man of her dreams from decades earlier. The girls must
decide if their chance at love is worth giving up their uncomplicated fabulously single
lives forever.
Amy Heckerling was born in the Bronx, NY. While attending the High School of
Art and Design, Heckerling realized that she wouldn’t make it as an artist and
should find something easier to do with her life. She chose film directing, since she had
never actually seen a movie camera!
At NYU’s School of the Arts, Heckerling’s short films received prizes at various
festivals and secured her a place at AFI. Her AFI short got her into Universal, where she
directed Fast Times at Ridgemont High, followed by Johnny Dangerously and European
Vacation.
Heckerling wrote and directed, Look Who’s Talking, Look Who’s Talking Too, Clueless, I Could Never Be Your Woman, and Vamp’s, and produced A Night at the Roxbury.
She also executive produced, wrote and directed episodes of the TV series of ABC’s Clueless and CBS’ Fast Times and directed episodes of NBC’s The Office and The CW’s Gossip
Girl.
FEATURES
Directed by Amy Heckerling
USA / 2012 / minutes
BIO
COURTESY OF
Showing at
WOODSTOCK Playhouse
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Bad Brains: A Band in D.C.
Casting By
Charles Bradley:
Soul of America
Followed by a performance
Charles Bradley
Chasing Ice
David Bromberg
Unsung Treasure
David Bromberg
“Dear Governor Cuomo...”
Natalie Merchant and Special Guests
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PRECEDED BY Practice Change: The Africa Yoga
Pretty Old
Rolan Makes Movies
Shepard & Dark
Virgin Tales
PRECEDED BY History of Virginity
Welcome to the Machine
Who Cares About Kelsey?
Words of Witness
The World’s Finest
Chef (Verdens Bedste Kok)
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Bad Brains: A Band in D.C.
Directed by
Mandy Stein and Benjamen Logan
Main Credits
Featuring
Producers Cinematographer Editor HR
Darryl Jenifer
Dr. Know
Earl Hudson
Sid McCray
Anthony Countey
Tyler Hubby
Mandy Stein
Ben Logan
Tyler Hubby
Showing at
Considered “the Sex Pistols of American punk,” since 1977 Bad Brains
has consistently pushed boundaries within the U.S. music scene with its
unique combination of hardcore punk and Rastafari reggae. Directors Mandy
Stein and Benjamen Logan allow their audience a personal look into the past and present of the legendary Bad Brains through footage captured behind the scenes with band
members, as well as featured interviews with major music contemporaries such as Henry
Rollins, Dave Grohl and the Beastie Boys. Stein and Logan portray the intense struggle
the band faced over the four decades dealing with obstacles like stolen equipment, an
unpredictable and eccentric vocalist, and a ban from playing in their home city of Washington, D.C. – Chandra Knotts
Mandy Stein was an associate producer on 1999’s The Devil’s Playground. She
produced both Slasher and Crossover for IFC Films and What Remains for HBO. She
directed You See Me Laughin’, Too Tough To Die: A Tribute To Johnny Ramone, and CBGB:
Burning Down the House.
Bad Brains: A Band in D.C. is Benjamen Logan’s directorial debut.
BIO
Rosendale Theatre
Sat Oct 13 •10:00pm
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New Yo rk P re mi e r e
Directed by Tom Donahue
USA | 2012 | 89 minutes
Main Credits
Featuring
Clint Eastwood
Jeff Bridges
Al Pacino
Woody Allen
Robert Redford
Robert DiNero
Danny Glover
and many more
Executive Producers John Balls
Ed Durkin
Steve Edwards
Producers Cinematographer Editor Composer
Kate Lacy
Tom Donahue
Ilan Arboleda
Joanna Colbert
Peter Bolte
Jill Schweitzer
Leigh Roberts
Showing at
WOODSTOCK Playhouse
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Casting By
How, in fact, do all those wonderful men, women and children we see on
the screen actually get there? As we learn in Tom Donahue’s revealing new film,
that’s the contribution of casting directors who trawl independent movies, Off-Broadway, Off-Off-Broadway, college theater, and summer stock to come up with the new
faces constantly demanded by the star-making machinery of the cinema. The film traces
the evolution of the casting director beginning after WWII, citing the crucial role of
the late Marion Dougherty, who moved from theater to television and eventually to Hollywood and who perhaps more than anyone else professionalized the field. Interviews
with major casting directors, including Juliet Taylor, Lynn Stalmaster and Dougherty
herself, and many of the actors they discovered (including Jeff Bridges, Robert Duvall,
Clint Eastwood, and Al Pacino), give a rich sense of the work that goes on before the
cameras start rolling.
Tom Donahue was born in Rhinebeck, NY, and is the co-founder of CreativeCha-
BIO os vmg. Donahue made his directorial debut in 2005 with the narrative short
Thanksgiving, starring James Urbaniak and Seymour Cassel, and written by Sean
Gullette. He made his feature directing debut with the documentary Guest of Cindy
Sherman (5 stars - Time Out NY), which premiered at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival and
also screened at WFF 2008 to rave reviews. Donahue has also produced and edited
numerous features and documentaries that have won over twenty-five awards combined
at such prestigious festivals as Sundance, Cannes, Berlin, Toronto, SXSW, Venice, San
Sebastian, and Tribeca.
Sun Oct 14 •6:45pm
Visit www.facebook.com/castingbymovie
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Charles Bradley: Soul of America
Directed by Poull Brien
Main Credits
Featuring
Executive Producer
Producer
Director
Cinematographers
Charles Bradley
Alexander Brough
Alexander Brough
Poull Brien
Stuart McCardle
John Taws
Poull Brien
Adriana Pacheco
Stuart McCardle
Poull Brien
Charles Bradley
Menahan Street Band
Editors
Composers/Music
Sound Designers
Ovasen Post
Martin Czembor
Charles Bradley: Soul of America charts the incredible late-in-life rise of 62
year-old aspiring soul singer Charles Bradley, whose debut album rocketed him from a hard life in the projects to Rolling Stone magazines’ top
50 albums of 2011.
Abandoned as a child by his mother, Bradley faced poverty, homelessness, illiteracy, violence and tragedy on his path to realizing his lifelong dream to make it in the
music industry. Beginning with his 62nd birthday celebration, this film captures Charles’
unlikely transformation from struggling James Brown impersonator to international
celebrity.
Poull Brien is a first time feature film director. His short narratives and documen-
BIO taries have played at festivals including SXSW, Hot Docs, Silverdocs, and Tribeca,
and have been licensed by IFC and Current TV. Poull met Charles Bradley, the subject of
his first feature documentary, while directing a music video for Bradley’s first single, which
helped catapult the 62-year-old aspiring singer to international fame. Brien graduated
from the Radio/TV/Film program at Northwestern University and currently resides in
Brooklyn, where he writes, directs and edits.
Visit www.charlesbradleyfilm.com
Showing at
Bearsville Theater
Fri Oct 12• 7:00pm
*Tickets available only through Radio Woodstock
Charles Bradley
CONCERT at
Bearsville Theater
Charles Bradley has spent most of his life
dreaming of a better one.
For additional information, check concert listings.
*Tickets available only through Radio Woodstock
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Directed by Jeff Orlowski
USA,Greenland, Iceland /
2012 / 75 minutes
Main Credits
Featuring
Producer
Cinematographer Editor Composer/Music Sound Designer James Balog
Svavar Jonatansson
Adam LeWinter
Paula Dupre
Jeff Orlowski
Davis Coombe
J. Ralph
Dustin Cawood
Showing at
WOODSTOCK Playhouse
Sun Oct 14 •1:30pm
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Chasing Ice
Photographer James Balog has been reshaping how we see the environment for over 30 years, shooting for top magazines like National Geographic,
Audobon, and the Smithsonian Magazine. In 2007, Balog became more directly involved
with environmental activism, creating the Extreme Ice Survey (EIS) after years of
photographing glaciers and witnessing rapidly vanishing ice sheets across the globe. In
Jeff Orlowski’s feature debut, we see in vivid detail the results of years of photographic
research the EIS has compiled, dramatically depicting the effect global warming is having on the world’s biggest glaciers. The EIS team used time-lapse cameras to record the
changing Arctic landscape. Beautiful cinematography of magnificent vistas, along with
Balog’s photography, allow viewers to look into the previously unseen world of glacial
melting, including the largest ice calving event ever captured on film. Balog’s work
showcases the beauty of glacial ice and how fleeting its life span may really be.
– Michael Burke
Chasing Ice is directed by Jeff Orlowski, cinematographer for the Extreme Ice
Survey and an award-winning filmmaker. A graduate of Stanford University, he has
been working with James Balog since 2007 and has shot over 300 hours of footage of
EIS in the field. His work for EIS has screened on NBC, CNN, PBS, National Geographic,
and hundreds of other venues around the world, including a multi-year installation at
the Denver International Airport.
BIO
Visit www.chasingice.com
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David Bromberg Unsung Treasure
Directed by Beth Toni Kruvant
Main Credits
Featuring David Bromberg
Jorma Kaukonen
Sam Bush
Keb Mo
Dr. John
Vince Gil
Philip Setzer
Nancy Josephson
Mayor James M. Baker
Executive Producer Roger Kruvant
Producer Beth Toni Kruvant
Screenwriter
Beth Toni Kruvant
Cinematographer Bill Donald
Editor Anand Kamalakar
Sound Designer Bill Markle
Showing at
WOODSTOCK Playhouse
WedOct 10 •7:30pm
Beth Kruvant’s documentary follows the unique and powerful history of
David Bromberg’s career, tracing the roller coaster of Bromberg’s station as an
American music legend of the 70s to the foremost American violin collector, appraiser,
and full-time violin luthier today. David Bromberg: Unsung Treasure contrasts Bromberg’s
innovative rise to musical fame with his passion for the delicate craft of violin-making,
showing that, truly, few career paths are ever predictable. Bromberg has combined the
musical genres of blues, jazz, big band, gospel, rock, bluegrass, and country throughout
his musical career, collaborating with major names like Bob Dylan, George Harrison and
Jerry Garcia. Kruvant chronicles Bromberg’s rise to fame, his struggle with a twenty-two
year hiatus, current musical ventures, and his recent efforts to promote the music and
arts community in his new hometown of Wilmington, Delaware.
Beth Kruvant graduated from Barnard College, Nova Law School and New York Film
Academy. After practicing law for twenty years, she began to tell stories through
film and is now is a full-time filmmaker.
This is Kruvant’s third feature documentary. Her last documentary, Heart of Stone,
was recently seen on Showtime and was released theatrically in 2010. It won the Best
Feature Film of the 2009 Philadelphia Film Festival, the audience award at Slamdance,
and the Jury Award at Cinequest Film Festival, along with many other distinguished
awards.
Visit www.goodfootageproductions.com
BIO
David Bromberg
He’s played with everyone, he’s toured
everywhere, he can lead a raucous big band
or hold an audience silent with solo acoustic
blues.
Visit www.davidbromberg.net
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Directed by Jon Bowermaster
Main Credits
Featuring Screenwriter Concert footage
Directed by Produced by
Musical Director Editors
Mark Ruffalo
Melissa Leo
Natalie Merchant
Joan Osborne
Sandra Steingraber
Citizen Cope
Medeski, Martin and Wood
The Felice Brothers
Jon Bowermaster
Alex Gibney
Blair Foster
Jigsaw Productions
Natalie Merchant
Chris Rahm
Evolving Media
Showing at
WOODSTOCK Playhouse
Thurs Oct 11 • 6:30pm
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“Dear Governor Cuomo...”
On a rainy night in May of 2012, a coalition of musicians, scientists and
activists gathered in Albany on the governor’s front doorstep, calling for a
ban on hydraulic-fracturing. With the news that Governor Andrew Cuomo might lift
the moratorium on fracking in New York any day, the event was assembled in less than a
month. Two rehearsals in twenty-four hours, and it was showtime.
The goal of the varied participants, many of whom had never met before this
night, was to explain in clear terms the threats of fracking and to motivate people to
rise up against the practice using song. The cord that bound them all was, first and
foremost, that they were New Yorkers: New Yorkers Against Fracking.
Under the musical direction of Natalie Merchant, the event was filmed by Academy Award® winning documentarian Alex Gibney. The film features actors Mark Ruffalo
and Melissa Leo, environmental biologist Sandra Steingraber, and musicians ranging from
Joan Osborne and Citizen Cope to Medeski Martin and Wood and The Felice Brothers.
A six-time grantee of the National Geographic Expeditions Council and award-winning writer
and filmmaker, Jon Bowermaster’s ten-year-long Oceans 8 project took him and his
teams around the world by sea kayak, on expeditions ranging from the Aleutian Islands to
Vietnam, French Polynesia to Chile/Argentina/Bolivia, Gabon to Croatia, and Tasmania to
Antarctica.
Recently named one of a dozen Ocean Heroes by the National Geographic Society, Bowermaster’s most recent documentaries are Terra Antarctica, Rediscovering the Seventh Continent, What
Would Darwin Think? Man v. Nature in the Galapagos, and the prize-winning SoLa, Louisiana Water
Stories. He spent January 2012 in Antarctica producing the first 3D film about the seventh continent, to be distributed through museums and science institutions around the world beginning
Spring 2013. Author of a dozen books, Bowermaster lives in New York’s Hudson Valley.
BIO
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www.nyagainstfracking.org
www.jonbowermaster.com
www.nataliemerchant.com
2012 Natalie Merchant and Special Guests
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World P re m ie r e
Dinner at the No-Go’s
Directed by Marco Antonio Orsini
Monoco/ 2012 / 71 minutes
Main Credits
Featuring Bilal Mekkaoui
Marco Antonio Orsini
Executive Producer Mark Brockbank
Producers
Bilal Mekkaoui
Marco Antonio Orsini
Louie Jones
Editors
Michael Palmerio
Vincent Cattaeno
Composer/Music
Johnny Wilson
Sound Designer
Julia Owen
Everyone knows you’re not supposed to discuss politics and religion at
a dinner party. Marco Orsini’s film turns that proposition on its head! Orsini and
producer Bilal Mekkaoui take us on an international tour through the State Department’s
Travel Advisory list, also known as the “No-Go list,” where they film dinner parties
and discuss only politics and religion. Invited to the dinners are provocative thinkers,
lawyers, investors, artists, religious leaders, politicians and activists. The filmmakers
engage their guests on vital issues and ideas in search of a deeper understanding of
Arab Spring, the 9/11 attacks, two American wars in the Middle East and other pressing
concerns. What they find is a series of fascinating conversations steeped in history and
rich with emotions, fears and dreams. Along the way they visit Lebanon, Jordan and
Israel, before landing at a truly fascinating dinner in Atlanta, Georgia for an all too
familiar American perspective. To watch Dinner at the No-Go’s is like being a guest at a
one-of-a-kind dinner party where the main course is conversation. It is a conversation
that will continue long after the credits roll – it’s fair to say the future of the world
depends on it. – David Becker
Showing at
WOODSTOCK Playhouse
Marco Antonio Orsini resides in the principality of Monaco. An American, born
BIO in Puerto Rico, Orsini was raised on a succession of US Military bases in Asia and
Europe before attending secondary school in Decatur, Georgia at the height of desegregation.
A taste for adventure and exploration characterizes Orsini’s life, his career and
his personality.
Visit www.nogosthemovie.com
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World P re m ie r e
Directed by Barbara Kopple
Main Credits
Executive Producer Glenn Rigberg
Producers Hilary Birmingham
Barbara Kopple
Carla Woods
Cinematographer John Hazard
Editor William Davis
Sound Designer Genevieve Faust
Showing at
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Fight to Live
Fight To Live, a film by Academy Award® winner Barbara Kopple, explores
the seemingly archaic drug approval process of the Food and Drug Administration. The FDA makes it nearly impossible for people to obtain drugs that are not approved.
Fight to Live follows people suffering from different forms of debilitating, incurable diseases,
and their fight to gain access to drugs that may prolong their lives–drugs that are not yet FDA
approved but show evidence that the medicine is helpiful to those who take it. Kopple asks the
question: Should a person who is dying have the option to take whatever medicine they want, as
long as their physician agrees with the decision? Fight To Live shows that when dealing with lifethreatening illness, gaining access to the best treatments available is half the battle.– Heather
Olin
Barbara Kopple is the two-time Academy Award® winning director and producer
of Harlan County, USA and American Dream. Her most recent projects are Fight to
Live, a documentary about the United States’ drug approval and development system,
and A Force of Nature, a film about journalist and philanthropist Ellen Ratner that
screened at last year’s Woodstock Film Festival. She is currently in post production on a
documentary about actress Mariel Hemingway.
BIO
Visit www.cabincreekfilms.com
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Idle Threat
Directed by George Pakenham
Main Credits
Featuring NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg
Tom and Ray Magliozzi from
Car Talk
Ben McGrath from The New
Yorker
Executive Producer George Pakenham
Producers George Pakenham
Michael Beller
Screenwriters George Pakenham
Freddie Mac
Cinematographers George Pakenham
Freddie Mac
Bill Stanton
Sara Burns
Editors John Freeburn
Freddie Mac
Sound Designer Freddie Mac
Composers/Music JS Bach
Giuseppe Verdi
Freddie Mac
Nicolas Despo
Hank Woji
A self-described vigilante, George Pakenham walks the streets of New York
to stop what many see as a victimless crime: needless engine idling. What
drivers don’t realize is how they are contributing to the oil crisis, asthma and air pollution through their desire for convenience and climate control. In order to raise awareness, Pakenham goes door-to-door, that is, car door-to-car door, explaining to unknowing drivers that they are breaking the law when they idle for more than three minutes.
Responses vary from thanks to anger, but Pakenham never wavers. He wants the dangers
that idling produces to be recognized as legitimate, and lobbies for the laws that are
already in place to be enforced. Directed by Pakenham himself, Idle Threat follows one
man’s quest to make the world a healthier, cleaner and safer place for everyone to live,
and shows that if you try hard enough, one person really can make a difference. – Heather Olin
George Pakenham graduated from the University of Arizona in 1972. After
that, he traveled around the world, visiting Eastern Europe, Africa and Asia. While
working in advertising and finance, he produced one documentary and three short films.
He hates waste and foul air, which compelled him to begin the Idle Free Campaign in
New York City in 2006. Since the campaign began, he has raised awareness in New York
and around the world about the dangers of idling.
BIO
Showing at
Thurs Oct 11 • 2:15pm
Visit www.idlethreatmovie.com
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W O O D S T O C K F I L M F E S T I VA L Illustration courtesy of The New Yorker
and illustrator Tom Bachtell
2012
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COMPETITION Finalist
Directed by Jamie Meltzer
Main Credits
Featuring
Brandon Darby
Scott Crow
Lisa Fithian
Caroline Heldman
Michael May
David Hanners
Executive Producer Adam Spielberg
Producers
George Rush
Stephen Bannatyne
Cinematographer Frazer Bradshaw
Editors Jamie Meltzer
John Kane
Summers Henderson
Composer/Music T. Griffin
Sound Designers Dan Olmsted/Berkeley
Sound Artists
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Informant
This captivating and complex film tells the story of Brandon Darby, a
charismatic grassroots activist turned vilified FBI informant. Beginning in
the wreckage of post-Katrina New Orleans, where Darby and others founded a radical
grassroots organization, director Jamie Meltzer brings us inside the mind of a man who
sacrificed almost everything to do what he felt was right.
Darby’s work with the FBI is checkered with tragic turns, including mysterious
deaths and accusations of entrapment. Wrapped up in Darby’s collaboration with the FBI
were two young men he met in the lead-up to the 2008 Republican National Convention
in St. Paul, whose interaction with Darby led to their arrest and imprisonment. Did the
FBI take advantage of a confused and paranoid man? Was it Darby’s own ideas that led
to the arrest of the two young activists? Or was this man doing right by himself and his
country? Meltzer’s fascinating effort takes no sides and offers no easy answers. With perspectives from both Darby and those he betrayed, Informant is a complex and heartfelt
exploration of political ideologies, government priorities and human realities in a world
where you never know who you can trust. –David Becker
Jamie Meltzer’s feature documentary films have been broadcast nationally on
PBS and have screened at numerous film festivals worldwide. They include Off the
Charts: The Song-Poem Story (Independent Lens, 2003) about the shadowy world of
song-poems, Welcome to Nollywood, an investigation into the wildly successful Nigerian
movie industry (PBS broadcast, 2008), and La Caminata, a recent short film about a
small town in Mexico that runs a simulated border crossing as a tourist attraction that
screened at Silverdocs and True/False, among others. Meltzer teaches in the Documentary Film and Video M.F.A. Program at Stanford University.
BIO
Visit www.informantdoc.com
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Magical Mystery Tour Revisited
Directed by Francis Hanly
Main Credits
Featuring Paul McCartney
Ringo Starr
Peter Fonda
Martin Scorsese
Terry Gilliam
Executive Producers Anthony Wall
Jeff Jones
Producer
Jonathan Clyde
Cinematographer Francis Hanly
Editor
Martin Cooper
Composer/Music The Beatles, and misc.
Sound Designer
John Pritchard
Preceding Magical Mystery Tour
Showing at
Woodstock Playhouse
Songs you’ll never forget, the film you’ve never seen and a story that’s
never been heard. In 1967, in the wake of the extraordinary impact of Sgt. Pepper,
The Beatles made a film – a dreamlike story of a coach daytrip, a magical mystery tour.
It was seen by a third of Great Britain at 8:35pm on BBC1 on Boxing Day and all hell
broke loose.
Magical Mystery Tour was greeted with outrage and derision by middle England
and the establishment media. “How dare they?” they cried; “They’re not film directors,
who do they think they are?” they howled. Where were the four lovable moptops of
Help! and A Hard Day’s Night?
BBC TV’s multi-award winning company Arena tells this greatest of untold
Beatles stories, exploring how the counter-cultural artistic landscape of 1967 created
the environment for a film like Magical Mystery Tour to be made. Contributors include
Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Peter Fonda, Martin Scorsese, Terry Gilliam, Paul Merton and
Neil Innes.
Roll up, roll up for The Mystery Tour!
Francis Hanly’s most recent documentaries include a biography of the Beatles’
producer Sir George Martin, and a six-part series on the History of Music with
renowned composer and broadcaster Howard Goodall. Hanly has won many awards,
including the prestigious Royal Television Society prize for his film on the compositions of
John Lennon and Paul McCartney. He’s also involved in a long-term collaboration with
writer and broadcaster Jonathan Meades, making programs on subjects as diverse as
Scottish Football Grounds, the mudflats of Essex and the madness of Victorian architects.
BIO
Visit www.bbc.co.uk
For press inquiries, contact [email protected]
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Directed by Alex Gibney
Main Credits
Featuring Jamey Sheridan
Chris Cooper
Ethan Hawke
John Slattery
Executive Producers Sheila Nevins (for HBO)
Lori Singer
Jessica Kingdom
Producers Alex Gibney
Jedd Wider
Todd Wider
Alexandra Johnes
Kristen Vaurio
Supervising Producer Sara Bernstein (for HBO)
Co-Producer
Sloane Klevin
Screenwriter Alex Gibney
Cinematographer
Lisa Rinzler
Editor
Sloane Klevin
Composers/Music
Ivor Guest
Robert Logan
Sound Designer Allan Zaleski
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Mea Maxima Culpa:
Silence in the House of God
In “Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God,” Oscar® winning filmmaker Alex Gibney exposes the abuse of power in the Catholic Church and
a cover-up that winds its way from the row houses of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, through
the bare ruined choirs of Ireland’s churches, all the way to the highest office of the
Vatican. By investigating the secret crimes of a charismatic priest who abused over 200
deaf children in a school under his control, the film shows the face of evil that lurks
behind the smiles and denials of authority figures and institutions who believe that
because they stand for good they can do no wrong.
The film documents the first known public protest against clerical sex abuse in
the US, long before the crisis in Boston; a struggle of more than three decades that
ultimately led to a lawsuit against the Pontiff himself. These heroes, four deaf young
men, set out to expose the priest who had abused them and so many others by trying
to make their voices “heard.” Their investigation helped to uncover documents from the
secret Vatican Archives that show the Pope - who must operate within the mysterious
rules of the roman Curia - as both responsible and helpless in the face of evil.
Alex Gibney is the winner of the 2008 Academy Award® for Best Documentary
for Taxi to the Dark Side. Before that, Gibney wrote, produced and directed the
2006 Oscar® nominated film, Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, which received the
Independent Spirit Award and the WGA Award. His most recent films as director include
Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer, Magic Trip, and The Last Gladiators. He is
currently editing an untitled project on WikiLeaks and Julian Assange for Universal
Pictures.
BIO
Showing at
Rosendale Theatre
WOODSTOCK Playhouse
2012 Presented by Jigsaw Productions in association with Wider Film Projects and Below the Radar Films
Visit www.jigsawprods.com/mea-maxima-culpa
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COMPETITION Finalist
The Mechanical Bride
Directed by Allison de Fren
Main Credits
Narrator
Producers Cinematographer
Editors Composer/Music
Sound Designer Julie Newmar
C. Grant Mitchell
Allison de Fren
C. Grant Mitchell
Andrew Syder
Allison de Fren
P.J. Wolff
Rich Ragsdale
Greg Conway
Showing at
Allison de Fren’s fascinating feature debut The Mechanical Bride provides
a look into the clandestine world of artificial companionship with sexbots
and astoundingly realistic female sex dolls, a world that is slowly gaining
a public presence. Citing roots as early as Pygmalion, de Fren traces doll culture history through film, television and, more recently, the erotic world of robotic technology.
The Mechanical Bride delves into the intimate and psychological aspects of sex doll manufacturing and ownership, examining companies like RealDoll and Orient Doll, as well as
their influence on sexual culture and moral perspective. The Mechanical Bride addresses
not only the sexual implications of a non-organic erotic world but also the political and
personal implications that will define the future of sex and technology.
Allison de Fren is a media maker and scholar based in Los Angeles, who divides
her time between creating, writing and teaching about media, gender and
technology. While she has always been fascinated with dolls, puppets, mannequins, and
robots, her interest in men who build artificial women was sparked in her former life as
an interactive digital designer working among predominantly male roboticists at a
future technology “think tank” in Silicon Valley. It eventually led to her award-winning
documentary short on robot fetishists, A.S.F.R. (alt.sex.fetish.robots), which in turn
gave birth to The Mechanical Bride (her first feature). She holds a master’s degree from
the Interactive Telecommunications Program at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and a
doctorate from USC’s School of Cinematic Arts, and has been awarded fellowships from
the Annenberg Foundation, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Cagney & Lacey Foundation,
and the American Association of University Women. She is an Assistant Professor of
Media Arts & Culture at Occidental College in Los Angeles.
BIO
Visit www.mechanicalbridemovie.com
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Directed by Cynthia Wade
Main Credits
Featuring Rachel Delmolfetto
Cynthia Sansone
Linda Hart
Cambria Russell
Producers Cynthia Wade
Robin Honan
Cinematographers Cynthia Wade
David Teague
Editor David Teague
Composer/Music Max Avery Lichtenstein
Sound Designer Alex Noyes
Showing at
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Mondays at Racine
Mondays at Racine, directed by Cynthia Wade, tells the story of two sisters
who open their salon once a month to women diagnosed with cancer. As
daughters themselves of a cancer victim, salon owners Rachel and Cynthia provide their
community with haircuts, manicures and pedicures, as well as a safe haven for growth,
healing and discovery of inner strength. Wade not only focuses on the health and family
struggles that cancer brings to its victims, but the symbolic strength and importance of
a woman’s felt beauty that can be both lost and found. Mondays at Racine is an inspiration to those who are victims of cancer, as well as those who are not, a beautifully told
story of compassion and the will to overcome. –Chandra L. Knotts
Cynthia Wade , who was born and raised in the Hudson Valley, won the Academy
Award® in 2008 for her short documentary Freeheld. Besides the Oscar®, Wade
garnered 16 film awards worldwide, including Special Jury Prize at the Sundance Film
Festival. Wade’s 2010 short documentary Born Sweet won 17 festival awards from
festivals including Sundance, Palm Springs, Aspen, and Newport. She has directed
documentary films for HBO, Cinemax, PBS, IFC, and the Sundance Channel. Her film
Shelter Dogs won five festival awards and was broadcast in seven countries. Mondays at
Racine is Wade’s fourth WFF film, following Born Sweet (2010), Freeheld (2007,) and
Shelter Dogs (2003).
Wade holds an MA in documentary filmmaking from Stanford University. She is
currently producing a fiction feature based on her documentary Freeheld, starring Ellen
Page, with a screenplay by Ron Nyswaner. Her latest documentary, set in Indonesia, is in
production.
Visit www.mondaysatracine.com
PRECEDED BY
BIO
Kings Point
Directed by Sari Gilman
In an aging Florida community, paradise has begun to exact a high price.
Visit www.sarigilman.com
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COMPETITION finalist
Oma & Bella
Directed by Alexa Karolinski
USA, Germany / 2012 / 76 minutes
In German with subtitles
Main Credits
Featuring
Regina Karolinski
Bella Katz
Executive Producers Stephan Fruth
Dari Marder
Producer Alexa Karolinski
Maro Chermanyeff
Jeff Dupre
Cinematographers Alexa Karolinski
Günther Berghaus
Editor
Alexa Karolinski
Composer/Music
Annette Focks
Sound Designer
Michael Müller
Showing at
Alexa Karolinski’s film is a loving portrait of its two leading ladies as they
embrace life in all its extremes, finding joy in subtle moments and discovering hidden histories in unexpected places. Karolinski introduces us to Oma,
her grandmother, and Bella, her grandmother’s friend, who live in Berlin, Germany.
We first meet them in the kitchen, where they prepare meals they learned to cook as
children. The filmmaker weaves an unforgettable journey with these women through the
stories they tell and the memories they share.
In a series of conversations with Karolinski and with each other, we learn details
of their past. What emerges is a first person history of some of humanity’s darkest
hours. Oma and Bella, both survivors of German concentration camps, give voice to
their families’ experiences during the Holocaust and reveal that their deep friendship
was forged in those unimaginable years.
Karolinski’s insightful and inspiring portrait captures the way these remarkable
women carry the past gracefully into the present, one meal at a time. –David Becker
Alexa Karolinski is a half-German, half-Canadian filmmaker who grew up in
Berlin with weekly lunch visits to her grandmother’s. After studying art history in
London, she moved back to Berlin to work for Vice Magazine and then became a director
at Arte. She recently graduated from New York’s School of Visual Arts with an MFA in
Documentary Filmmaking. Karolinski currently lives and works in New York, where she
directs fashion videos, freelances for Arte, works for the filmmaker John Walter, and if
she has time, cooks feasts for her friends. Oma & Bella is her first feature length film
but she is already at work on her next movie.
BIO
Visit www.omabella.com
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Directed by Jonathan Kalafer
Main Credits
Producers
Editor
Jonathan Kalafer
Steve Kalafar
Bao Nguyen
Davon Pickering
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Once in a Lullaby: The PS 22 Chorus Story
More than a feel good movie about kids and school, Once in a Lullaby: The
PS 22 Chorus Story, goes to the heart of the purpose of education.
The core story focuses on the fifth-grade children’s chorus at PS 22 in Staten
Island, New York, as they prepare to perform on television at one of the most watched
events of the year – the 83rd Annual Academy Awards. While this in itself is engaging
enough for a documentary, director Jonathan Kalafer delves deeper into the lives of the
students and their inspired and inspiring music teacher, bringing their humanity to the
forefront.
As one reviewer notes, “It is a moving testament to the value of investing in
children, and the crucial lessons the arts provide.”
Woodstock Playhouse
Fri Oct 12 • 11:30am
Jonathan Kalafer is an award-winning director/producer and an innovative
BIO educator serving at Dickinson High School in Jersey City, New Jersey, for over ten
years. His teaching has been acknowledged by the George Lucas Educational Foundation
and he procured a VH1 Save the Music grant for Jersey City Public Schools. His students
serve as both inspiration and collaborators for his professional documentary filmmaking,
and he often includes them in the decision-making process.
Past films include We Love You, which premiered at the L.A. International Short
Film Festival where it won the Best Documentary award. It also won Best Short Documentary at the New Jersey Film Festival and was a finalist in the U.S.A. Film Festival.
Diary of Immaculee made the official shortlist for an Academy Award® nomination
and was part of the One X One program at The Toronto International Film Festival. It
was also selected as a part of the I.D.A.s DocuWeeks program.
Visit www.newjerseypictures.net
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One Track Heart: The Story of Krishna Das
Directed by Jeremy Frindel
USA, Insi / 2012 / 72 minutes
Main Credits
Featuring
Krishna Das
Ram Dass
Rick Rubin
Dan Goleman
Sharon Salzberg
Larry Brilliant
Executive Producer Andrew Jones
Producers
Jeremy Frindel
Mike Harrop
Cinematographer Jeremy Frindel
Editor
Jeremy Frindel
Composers/Music J. Mascis
Devadas
Sound Designer
Tom Ryan
One Track Heart: The story of Krishna Das captures his journey to India to
discover legendary spiritual teacher Neem Karoli Baba, as well as his personal
journey through drug addiction and depression. The film chronicles his eventual emergence as a world-famous kirtan singer who the New York Times calls “the chant master
of American Yoga.”
Jeremy Frindel has been dreaming about movies and music for most of his life.
He earned a BA in film scoring from the Berklee College of Music in 2001, and has
been immersed in filmmaking ever since. He has worked as an editor and sound editor
on such films as Junebug, Some Kind of Monster and Bernard & Doris.
One Track Heart: The Story of Krishna Das is his first feature film. Jeremy lives
in Brooklyn with his wife, where he spends his time mastering ping-pong and drinking
green juice (when he’s not traveling around the world with a camera in hand).
BIO
Visit www.onetrackheartmovie.com
Showing at
Woodstock Playhouse
PRECEDED BY
Practice Change:
The Africa Yoga
New York P re m ie r e
Directed by Dina Rudick
Kenya / 2011 / 16 minutes
Practice Change is the story of how
one woman’s idea to bring yoga to
some of the biggest slums in the
world caught on like wildfire and is
transforming lives, communities and
possibly countries.
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W O O D S T O C K F I L M F E S T I VA L Visit www.facebook.com/practicechange
2012
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New Yo rk P re mi e r e
Directed by
Jason Tippet and Elizabeth Mims
Main Credits
Producer Cinematographer Editors Composer/Music Sound Designers
Derek Waters
Jason Tippet
Elizabeth Mims
Jason Tippet
Nick Thorburn
Patrick Janssen
Bill Meadows
Showing at
Sun Oct 14 • 11:45am
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Only the Young
Amidst the socioeconomic downturn plaguing the California Santa Clarita
Valley, three teenagers are paving their dirt road to adulthood. Garrison
Saenz, Kevin Conway and Skye Elmore are high school students from the Canyon Country
suburbs who must face serious issues that come with their newfound maturity while
also grappling with typical coming-of-age obstacles. This documentary follows these
Californian Christian skate-punks through the suburban ruin of foreclosure and graffiti, meanwhile navigating their struggles in relationships, religion and their unsure
futures. Jason Tippet and Elizabeth Mims’ feature debut is filmed with the poetics and
cinematography of a narrative coupled with the startling fullness and reality of the most
compelling documentary.
Jason Tippet attended CalArts for his undergraduate degree where he directed
his first short documentary, Thompson, which screened at Sundance 2010 and won
the Jury Award at SXSW 2009.
Elizabeth Mims grew up in Austin, Texas, and graduated from CalArts in 2010.
While there, she produced Thompson. Not to brag, but she was also freshman homecoming princess at Austin High School.
BIO
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Pretty Old
Directed by Walter Matteson
Main Credits
Executive Producer Sarah Jessica Parker
Joe Berlinger
Alison Benson
Producers
Josh Alexander
Daniel Chalfen
Walter Matteson
Screenwriters
Josh Alexander
Matthew Prinzing
Walter Matteson
Cinematographer Trish Govoni
Editor
Matthew Prinzing
Composer/Music
Kris Kaczor
Sound Designer
John Bosch
Showing at
WOODSTOCK Playhouse
There is a common misconception that beauty is something reserved
specifically for the young. However, the ladies of the 30th annual Ms. Senior
Sweetheart Pageant defy convention. Pretty Old is an inspiring story of women who
refuse to subscribe to contemporary society’s views of beauty. Each year they travel to
Massachusetts for the chance to demonstrate their talents and beauty in a pageant that
exclusively showcases women in their golden years. Walter Matteson’s directorial debut
follows these remarkable women who challenge the odds and show off the one thing
they won’t be denied … their spirit. As these women bond, they must come to terms
with the fact that there can be only one Ms. Senior Sweetheart.
This documentary of ordinary women in an extraordinary situation offers a rare
combination of humor, triumph and heartache.
– Joe Martindale
After graduating from UC Berkeley with a degree in rhetoric, Walter Matteson
began directing and producing documentaries while working as a bellhop at the
Hotel Rex in San Francisco. After completing Figures and Loops, a feature documentary
exploring his childhood in juxtaposition to the obscure world of competitive artistic
roller-skating, he moved to New York City and began working at the Tribeca Film
Festival. Matteson then went freelance and began working at @radical.media where he
gained in-depth and worldwide documentary production experience. He is currently
traveling the world, constantly searching for characters, universal symbols and stories
to be shared with the rest of humanity.
BIO
Visit www.prettyoldthemovie.com
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Rolan Makes Movies
Directed by Anton Verstakov
Russian Federation / 2012 / 50 minutes
Russian with subtitles
Main Credits
Producer Cinematographer Editor Composer/Music Daniil Zotov
Anton Verstakov
Anton Verstakov
Albert Kuvezin
Showing at
A film about the love of making movies, this fun and heartfelt documentary tells the story of Rolan, his video camera and his dream of becoming
a filmmaker. Never mind the fact that he’s 10,000 kilometers from Hollywood in the
heart of Siberia. That’s the least of his worries. Any filmmaker or movie-lover can relate
to Rolan and the die-hard group of friends who follow his vision no matter how much
(fake) blood will be spilled. Rolan’s rules of filmmaking include keeping his budget at
nothing, unleashing the creative potential of his friends, and keeping his profit ratio
right around 100-150 percent.
Director Anton Verstakov’s funny and loving portrait brings out the best in its
charming subject while paying homage to the art of filmmaking. Saturated with Hollywood action sequences, Hong Kong fight scenes and slapstick humor, Rolan does what
it takes to make his movies right, even if most of the time his actors only get one take.
Always present are Rolan’s infectious smile and his seemingly bottomless well of determination – two attributes that filmmakers considerably closer to Hollywood often share. –David Becker
Anton Verstakov is a Russian independent filmmaker. He was born in Moscow in
1981, studied TV journalism at Moscow State University and film production at
NYFA (Moscow). After working for seven years for Russian TV, he decided to go independent and established his own production company, AVProductions.TV.
He works as a “one man band” journalist throughout all Russia and post-Soviet
Union Republics. Rolan Makes Movies is Anton’s first feature documentary.
BIO
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Shepard & Dark
Directed by Treva Wurmfeld
Main Credits
Featuring
Sam Shepard
Johnny Dark
Executive Producers Emily Wachtel
Treva Wurmfeld
Producer
Amy Hobby
Editor
Sandra Adair, A.C.E.
Composer/Music
Graham Reynolds
Showing at
Rosendale Theatre
Treva Wurmfeld’s feature documentary premiere Shepard & Dark is the
compelling story of playwright, director and actor Sam Shepard and his
long-time best friend Johnny Dark. Since 1963, the two have been inseparable
and they have nearly half a century of letters, photos and videos to prove it. While
trying to compile their many decades of correspondence into a book, the friends are
reminded of all that they have gone through over the years. Together, they have experienced birth, death, marriage, divorce, love, and loss. Now in their late 60s, neither
man’s life is in the place he thought he would be when their friendship began. The
letters force them to look into the past and confront the choices that they have made,
both good and bad. Through all of the instability and chaos that life has thrown their
way, the two men have always had one constant – each other’s unwavering friendship. – Heather Olin
Born in New York City, and raised in lower Manhattan, Treva Wurmfeld is the
daughter of two abstract painters. Wurmfeld attended Hunter College in New York,
where she studied Fine Art, Art History, Philosophy, and Anthropology and received an
MFA in Video Art. While in graduate school, Wurmfeld began filming her first featurelength documentary, Texas Heart (currently in production) about two Texas doctors
racing to develop the first continuous-flow total artificial heart.
Wurmfeld wrote and directed the short film Oyster (2008) that played at numerous festivals, including screening at the Brooklyn Museum. In 2009, Wurmfeld relocated
to Los Angeles and began production on Shepard & Dark (2012), which is making its
international premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival. Wurmfeld currently
splits her time between Los Angeles and Austin, Texas.
BIO
Visit www.ShepardandDark.com
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Directed by Mirjam von Arx
Switzerland / 2012 / 87 minutes
Main Credits
Producer
Screenwriters
Cinematographers
Editor
Sound Designer
Composer/Music
Mirjam von Arx
Michèle Wannaz
Mirjam von Arx
Kirsten Johnson
Claudia Raschke
Sabine Krayenbuehl
Christian Beusch
Adrian Frutiger
ddocumentaries
oc u m enta r i es
Virgin Tales
“You’re Khrystian, you’re beautiful, your name means free spirit, lover of
God,” opens Virgin Tales, a documentary that takes a fascinating look at a
growing counterculture trend affecting one in eight girls in America. The
film follows the evangelical Wilson family of Colorado Springs, Colorado, as they adhere
to a life of “pure waiting,” in which the children vow to remain completely unsoiled until
their marriage – even so far as saving their first kiss for the altar. Cameras follow the family through church services, conventions, purity balls, and their home life, complemented
all the while by a video diary kept by Jordyn, the oldest unmarried sister who patiently
waits for her turn. Director Mirjam von Arx brings us this unexpected, two-year long
glimpse into the real life of the Wilsons and those around them, set against the backdrop
of the political tension of the past four years and the war in Afghanistan. Mirjam von Arx was born 1966 in Switzerland. After studying journalism, von
BIO Arx worked for 18 years as an editor and freelancer for a number of German
Showing at
language magazines. In 1991, she moved to New York, produced the road movie
Bluesiana and executed two documentaries for SRF and Sat1. In 2001, she moved to
London and began filming the documentary Building the Gherkin. In 2002, she founded
the production company ican films gmbh.
In 2006/7 von Arx produced the documentary Seven Dumpsters and a Corpse for
Thomas Haemmerli. The film was awarded the Zurich Film Prize 2007 and nominated for
the Swiss Film Prize 2008. Her documentary Seed Warriors was theatrically released in
2010 and won a nomination for the International Green Film Award 2011 at the Cinema
for Peace Gala in Berlin.
Visit www.virgintales.com/en
PRECEDED BY
History of Virginity
Directed by Sophie Haller
Sophie Haller’s animated short film tells the
History of Virginity.
documentaries
Welcome to the Machine
Directed by Avi Zev Weider
Main Credits
Featuring Producer
Cinematographer
Editors
Composer/Music
Ray Kurzweil
Jaron Lanier
Kevin Kelly
Rodney Brooks
Sherry Turkle
David Skrbina
David Gelernter
Erik Davis
Avi Weider
Derek Wiesehahn
Avi Weider
Ann Husaini
Michael Montes
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Upon becoming the father to triplets, filmmaker Avi Zev Weider explores
the nature of technology. Woven together with expert interviews and portraits
of people who have intimate relationships with technology, Welcome To The Machine
takes the conversation away from the business of technology or the latest gadgets and
leads the audience to ultimately consider questions of life and death, revealing that all
discussions about technology are really about what it means to be human.
Avi Zev Weider’s award-winning short film I Remember premiered at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival. With his company Loop Filmworks, Weider produced over 50
spots for clients like HBO and Bravo. He is also the producer of the documentary, Danland
and was the associate producer on the films Scott Walker: 30th Century Man and Cinemania.
Additionally, Weider is the award-winning writer/director of the Sloan Foundation and
Sundance Institute-supported project Zeroes and Ones, is the recipient of a 2008 New York
Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) fellowship in screenwriting, as well as a 2009 New York
State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) individual artist grant. He was also selected as a 2011
Emerging Artist by The Film Society of Lincoln Center and the Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP) as part of their their Emerging Visions program.
BIO
Visit www.welcometothemachinemovie.com
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documentaries
world p re m ie r e
Directed by Dan Habib
Main Credits
Featuring
Producer
Cinematographer Editors
Sound Designer Composer/Music Kelsey Carroll
Jonathon Drake
JoAnne Malloy
Kathy Francoeur
Sharon Lampros
Susan Carroll
Chris Carroll
Tracey Smith
Shawn Burby
Dan Habib
Dan Habib
Rose Rosenblatt
Diego Siragna
Rikk Desgres
Rick Baitz
ddocumentaries
oc u m enta r i es
Who Cares About Kelsey?
Kelsey Carroll has one goal—to graduate from high school—and plenty of
reasons why she shouldn’t. She attends a school with one of the highest dropout
rates in New Hampshire and has dealt with homelessness, sexual abuse and ADHD. She
failed her freshman year and was suspended for dealing drugs. Who Cares About Kelsey?
is the story of Kelsey’s transformation from a defiant and disruptive “problem student‚“
to a motivated and self-confident young woman. Along the way, she is helped by a
group of educators determined to empower this emotionally disabled teen to take control of her destiny and find the desire to graduate.
Dan Habib, director of the Emmy-nominated documentary Including Samuel, got
his degree in political science from the University of Michigan in 1987. Named
New Hampshire Photographer of the year six times, Habib has gone on to judge the
Pulitzer Prizes, the Pictures of the Year, Best of Photojournalism, and the White House
News Photographers Association. He is currently Filmmaker in Residence at the Institute
on Disability at the University of New Hampshire, after almost thirteen years serving as
photography editor for the Concord Monitor, a position he left in order to pursue
freelance documentaries. Who Cares about Kelsey? is his second film.
BIO
Showing at
Visit www. www.whocaresaboutkelsey.com
documentaries
Words of Witness
Directed by Mai Iskander
USA, Egypt / 2012 / 71 minutes
In Arabic with subtitles
Main Credits
Featuring Heba Afify
Executive Producers Tiffany Schauer
Steve Cohen
Wynne Comer
Producer Mai Iskander
Cinematographer Mai Iskander
Editor Shannon Kennedy
Sound Designers Dow McKeever
Marsha Moore
Composer/Music Barbara Cohen
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Every time 22-year-old Heba Afify heads out to cover the historical events
shaping her country’s future, her mother is compelled to remind her, “I
know you are a journalist, but you’re still a girl!” Defying cultural norms and
family expectations, Heba takes to the streets to report on an Egypt in turmoil, using
tweets, texts and Facebook posts. Her coming-of-age, political awakening and the disillusionment that follows mirror that of a nation seeking the freedom to shape its own
destiny, dignity and democracy.
Heba’s words bear witness to the heady optimism of a country on a path to selfdetermination, the toppling of a dictator, the difficult transition toward democracy, the
courageous challenge to the ruling military who cracks down on the opposition, and the
celebration of a cultural shift where a younger generation inspired a country to “lead
themselves.”
Mai Iskander’s directorial debut Garbage Dreams was nominated for the 2010
Best Documentary Award by the Directors Guild of America and has won 26
international awards, including the Al Gore Reel Current Award and IDA Humanitas
Award. Filmed over the course of four years, Garbage Dreams follows three teenage boys
growing up in Egypt’s largest garbage village. Garbage Dreams aired on PBS/Independent Lens for the occasion of Earth Day 2010 and has been screened in over a hundred
international film festivals. As a cinematographer, Mai has worked on TV shows for A&E,
PBS, and LOGO. She has filmed numerous narratives, commercials and documentaries,
including Watchers of the Sky by Academy Award® Nominee Edet Belzberg.
BIO
Visit www.wordsofwitness.com
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documentaries
World P re m ie r e
Directed by Rasmus Dinesen
Denmark / 2011 / 45 minutes
In Danish with subtitles and English
Main Credits
Featuring Rasmus Kofoed
Frederik Rudkjøbing
Executive Producer Signe Byrge Sorensen
Producers Monica Helstrom
Rasmus Dinesen
Cinematographers Aske Foss
Niels Thastum
Rune Backs
Rasmus Dinesen
Editors Per. K Kirkegaard
Frederik Strunk Hjorth
Nielsen
Klaus Heinecke
Sound Designer Bobby Hess
Composers/Music Rune Funch
Jakob Dinesen
ddocumentaries
oc u m enta r i es
The World’s Finest Chef
(Verdens Bedste Kok)
Back at the Woodstock Film Festival with his third feature documentary,
director Rasmus Dinesen takes us on an exhilarating ride into the world of
competitive haute cuisine in The World’s Finest Chef (Verdens Beste Kok),
where culinary competition is experienced on par with professional sports.
For eight years, master chef Rasmus Kofoed has been obsessed with a dream of
winning the Bocuse d’Or, the individual world championship for chefs in fine gourmet
cooking. The film follows the 36-year-old master chef over the six months leading up to
the championship, offering a rare glimpse into the rarified world of high stakes competitive haute cuisine where it takes extraordinary time, passion and self-confidence to
compete with the best in the world.
Dinesen opens a window into the mindset of a single competitor, illuminating
the drive, focus and commitment needed for excellence. Verdens Beste Kok celebrates the
sheer pleasure of the pursuit of excellence. – Maria Marewski
Rasmus Dinesen graduated from Denmark’s European Film College in 1998. He
has directed commercials, short narratives, music videos, and a TV documentary
series. In 2008, Dinesen attended the Woodstock Film Festival with his documentary
Diplomacy - The Responsibility to Protect, and in 2004 with The Forbidden Team, the story
of the Tibetan national team fighting for their right to call themselves a national team.
BIO
Visit www.rasmusdinesen.com
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2012 Free Expression
Directed by
Martin Lombard and Facundo Lombard
The story of two dancers, twin brothers, who have lost their “artistic”
identities while searching for selfexpression.
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shorts
Animated Shorts with Bill & Signe
The 1st Time Cee Cee Did Acid
Directed by Joy Vaccese and Noelle Melody
USA / 2011 / 0:49 minutes
Visit www.twinsareweird.com
Directed by Lev Polyakov
From School of Visual Arts
A hamster in love with an elementary
school teacher dreams about rescuing
her from evil demons.
A little girl tries to dig to the
moon!
Visit www.weirdhat.com
(notes on) biology
Nothing like an avenging robot elephant to start off the weekend.
A young girl must track a
mysterious fox through a
foreboding wilderness.
Visit www.vimeo.com/ornana
Person Pinball
Directed by Aaron Hughes
shorts
Visit www.tylerkupferer.com
Directed by Noam Sussman
Passing pedestrians become
pinball play.
Sheridan College
Visit www.vimeo.com/user2071430
Side effects of this film may
include heart palpitations, pregnancy and fits of uncontrollable
laughter.
Rocks in My Pockets
Directed by Signe Baumane
Visit www.noamfolio.tumblr.com
Història d’Este
(Story of Him)
A funny film about depression.
Summer Bummer
Directed by Pascual Pérez
Visit www.rocksinmypocketsmovie.com
Directed by Bill Plympton
Spain / 2011 / 7:13 minutes
An animated tale about alcoholism.
Visit www.historiadeeste.mifilm.net
A man about to go swimming imagines
what horrors could be lurking deep in in
the waters of his backyard pool.
Directed by Hisko Hulsing
Denmark / 2012 / 18 minutes
Turning a Corner
A man confronting death
remembers a friendship from
his youth.
Visit www.plymptoons.com
Directed by David Levy
Visit www.hiskohulsing.com
A poor kid from Brooklyn fights the
fates for a chance to change his life.
Tuurngait
Directed by Alan Foreman
Visit www.animondays.blogspot.com
Directed by Paul-Emile Boucher,
Remy Dupont, Benjamin Flouw,
Mickael Riciotti, Alexandre Toufaili
New York is a thousand miles of
wire away...
Visit www.hiskohulsing.com
2012 Visit www.levpolyakov.com
Directed by Danny Madden
Directed by Tyler J. Kupferer
The Light That Died
in My Arms
Visit www.londonsquared.net
Junkyard
Directed by Andy London
My Heart Belongs to You
New York University
Gum
Made You Cringe
Learn how to shave with Danny!
Directed by Jacob Kafka
The Girl and the Fox
The 1st time Cee Cee did acid,
there was a road runner, a
volcano and a flappy fish.
Based on a True Story
Kleinert/James Art Center
France / 2011 / 6 minutes
A young boy is enchanted by a
magical snow goose.
W O O D S T O C K F I L M F E S T I VA L Visit www.tuurngait-movie.com
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shorts
A Winter
Passing
And Winter Slow
Curfew
Directed by Brian Lannin
Directed by
Shawn Christensen
New York University MFA
USA / 2011 / 16:29 minutes
A woman goes to extremes to
free herself from having to care
for her ailing husband.
Richie has hit rock bottom. Will
his nine-year-old niece Sophia
snap him out of his malaise?
Hatch
Directed by Christoph Kuschnig STUDENT ACADEMY AWARD® FINALIST
Columbia University MFA
Visit www.facebook.com/curfewfilm
The Glowing Hours
Directed by Paul Young
Austria, USA / 2012 /
18:46 minutes
A sweet and magical story about
transcending loss and finding
hope in the darkest of places.
In German and Serbian
A newborn is caught in the
middle as two couples from different walks of life come to grips
with a life far from their grasp.
Eyes of
a Child
Visit www.theglowinghours.com
Visit www.seehatch.com
Lunch Date
New York Premiere
Directed by Sasha Collington
Julia
WORLD PREMIERE
Directed by Danielle Krudy
s h o r ts
It’s Christmas Eve in the San
Fernando Valley and a white
Christmas it is not....
Visit www.lunchdatethefilm.com
Photo caption for URL
Under
Directed by Mark Raso
Columbia University MFA
The Maiden and the
Princess
East Coast Premiere
Directed by Ali Scher
STUDENT ACADEMY AWARD® WINNER
Canada / 2011 / 20 minutes
Sydney, a city girl with an
addiction problem, journeys with
her fiancé through the wilderness of his youth, with the hope
that they can start life together
with a clean slate.
Getting dumped always hurts.
Even more so when your boyfriend sends his fourteen-yearold brother to break the news.
University of
Southern California MFA
A young girl searches for her
identity in a musical fairy tale.
Visit www.maidenandprincess.com
Visit www.fideliofilms.com
Showing with...
Aunt Louisa
Directed by Thomas
Woodrow
USA / 2012 /
15 minutes
Screens prior to Exit Elena
Kings Point
Directed by Sari
Gilman
USA / 2012 /
31 minutes
Screens prior to
Mondays at Racine
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Practice
Change: The
Africa Yoga
Project
Directed by
Dina Rudick
Free
Expression
New York Premiere
KENYA / 2011 / 16 minutes
In Swahili with subtitles, and English
Screens prior to One Track Heart:
The Story of Krishna Das
Directed by Martin
Lombard and
Facundo Lombard
Screens prior to World’s Finest Chef
History of
Virginity
Directed by
Sophie Haller
Screens prior to Virgin Tales
shorts
Foreign
Affairs
Hiccups
BFF
Directed by Neil LaBute
Two best friends meet to discuss
love and loss over a cup of tea.
Things do not go as planned.
A Chjàna (The Plain)
Directed by Jonas Carpignano
Happy Hour
USA, Italy / 2011 / 20 minutes
In French, Italian and Wolof
Directed by Brian Devine
An African migrant worker seeks
to reunite with his best friend
in the wake of a race riot.
Visit www.achjana.com
North American Premiere
Directed by
Pouria Heidary Oureh
The Hiccup
New York Premiere
USA / 2012 / 10:05 minutes
A homeless vagabond becomes
obsessed with a pair of shoes.
Two friends desperately trying to
skip town find that an overheated radiator is the least of their
problems.
Detras Del Espejo
(Behind The Mirrors)
Laundry Day
Directed by Julio O. Ramos
Directed by Thayer Radic
Peru / 2011 / 12 minutes /
Canada / 2012 / 4:48 minutes
In Spanish
Visit www.behindthemirrorsfilm.com
Manila Running
East Coast Premiere
Directed by Anuj Gulati
Two strangers exchange kind
words in a local laundromat,
leading to an unfortunate
misunderstanding.
Past Due
Directed by Denise Plumb
New York University Tisch
School of the Arts, Asia
EAST COAST Premiere
American Film Institute
Singapore / 2012 /
14:40 minutes / In Filipino
A comedy about a foreigner’s
paranoia in the hustle and
bustle of Manila.
Visit www.giganticpictures.com
Directed by Matt Smukler
Iran / 2012 / 15 minutes
To make ends meet, a worker in
a fleabag motel resorts to questionable actions.
Unemployed and recently
dumped, Jack is forced to crash
with his slovenly buddy Max.
Threatened with eviction, they
need to raise cash fast or be
put out on the street.
shorts
An Sooy e Bonbast
(Beyond Dead-end)
USA / 2011 / 19:10 minutes
Visit www.vimeopro.com/user11973241/
9amfilmsuser11973241/9amfilms
Drowning in debt and harassed
by a collection agent, Evelyn
finds a payment plan she can
afford.
Visit www.pastduethemovie.com
Spaghetti für Zwei
(Spaghetti for Two)
Directed by
Matthias Rosenberger
and Betina Dubler
Germany / 2011 /
18:31 minutes
Visit www.spaghetti-film.com
A routine stroll turns into an
imaginary odyssey full of unscrupulous
characters and Spaghetti for Two.
shorts
Hudson
Valley
Shorts
Woodstock Playhouse
Blood Country
Directed by Jason Fournet
New York University
WORLD Premiere
USA / 2012 / 11:15 minutes
s h o r ts
Visit www.theheartlands.blogspot.com
WORLD PREMIERE
USA / 2012 / 16:30 minutes
The self-proclaimed last traveling salesman in America, Stue
Larkin, is anything but your
average salesman.
Visit www.peywilson.com
Directed by Sandy Patch
Ecuador, USA / 2011 /
14:10 minutes / In Spanish
For fifty-three years, Baltazar
Ushca has harvested glacial ice
from the tallest mountain in
Ecuador. He is the last of his kind.
Meet Kevin
Visit www.adam-hall.net
WORLD PREMIERE
Directed by Laurent Rejto
Two parents cope to control
their most beloved daughter,
but she has aspirations and
dreams of her own.
Visit www.amonggiantsfilm.com
El Último Hielero
(The Last Ice
Merchant)
Directed by Adam Hall
Persephone
Chapman University
USA / 2011 / 13:40 minutes
Risking injury and incarceration, an environmental activist
disrupts the clear-cutting of an
ancient redwood grove.
USA / 2012 / 11:23 minutes
A small rural community of
full-timers who fight boredom,
isolation, injury, fate, and
bad luck, all in an attempt to
destroy the pain. Based on the
short story by TC Boyle.
Directed by Chris Cresci,
Ben Mullinkosson &
Sam Price-Waldman
Directed by Peyton Wilson
Directed by Benjamin Rutkowski
My Pain is Worse
Than Your Pain
Fri Oct 12 • 11:15am
The Bronzer
A determined twelve-year-old
boy seeks his grandfather’s
respect as a hunter.
Jack, a recovering alcoholic and
divorced father of two, gets the
chance to spend some quality
time with his children.
Among Giants
The following films were all shot in
New York’s
Hudson Valley.
Glory Days
Short
Docs
Directed by
Maciek Godlewski
Visit www.thelasticemerchant.com
World Premiere
Over coffee, artist Kevin Paulsen
leads the viewer through an
intimate look at his reflections
and reveals the essence of his
storytelling.
Randy Parsons:
American Luthier
New york Premiere
Directed by David Aldrich
Visit www.persephonethemovie.com
A film about someone who gave
up his passion for playing guitar
and discovered a passion for
making guitars.
Seamus
Visit www.americanluthier.blogspot.com
World Premiere
Directed by John Huba
Random bursts of creativity
define the engaging world of
teenager Seamus Riley.
Visit www.johnhubastudio.com
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shorts
Music Videos
Utopia Studios
A House a Home
Living
Directed by Daniel Fickle
Directed by Tony Reams
A love, a death, another death
are reconciled in a subterranean
world.
A cornucopia of thoughts that have
plagued Speech for the last two
decades.
Alialujah Choir
Visit www.alialujah.com
Directed by Philip Andelman
Directed by Chel White
A song about a pal who did wrong.
A meditation on the enigmatic
nature of love.
Visit www.skysociety.com
(Erasing the Border)
East Coast Premiere
Trummors
Visit www.anateresafernandez.com
A mysterious disappearance and
seance to bring back a lost band
member.
Visit www.floatingfilms.org
Dan Mangan
Directed by Ellis Bahl
Directed by Kevin Eastwood
Canada / 2012 / 3:45 minutes
Please don’t go, I love you so!
Visit www.ellisbahl.com
An homage to the 1964 Stanley
Kubrick classic, Dr. Strangelove.
Directed by Alma Har’el
There’s Another Sky Jeremy Bernstein
Directed by Antoine Wagner
A man and a woman are locked in
a never ending cycle of addiction
and desire.
USA / 2012 / 3:51
Sigur Rós
Visit www.almaharel.com
Gaga’s Boy Toy
A day in the life of psychedelic
mountain serenity.
Visit www.danmanganmusic.com
Visit jeremybernsteinmusic.com
Untitled
Tommy Be
Killer Mike (featuring Scar)
Directed by Tommy Be
A futuristic cyborg musician has
an unexpected humanoid fantasy.
Visit www.tommybe.blogspot.com
Le Soleil Chante
(The Sun Sings) Ignatus
Directed by Delphine Burrus
A video of Chiaroscuros based on
various paintings from the Italian
Visit www.bendickinson.tv
Renaissance: Carravagio, Titian and
Genteleschi, in particular, depicting biblical Renaissance themes
mixed with figures from black history.
Zoe
France / 2012 / 3 minutes
2012 World Premiere
Post-War Blues
∆ (alt-j)
Ignatus tricycles around in a
landscape suggestive of a woman’s body while singing “the sun
sings, the birds shine, the grass
smiles and life is green...”
Visit www.philipandelman.com
Breezeblocks
Fjögur Píanó
Over and Around
The Clove
Directed by
Randy Bell & Justin Rice
Directed by Ana Teresa Fernandez
Artist Ana Teresa Fernandez
erases the Tijuana/San Diego
border.
Miriam
Norah Jones
Chrysta Bell & David Lynch
Borrando la Frontera
Visit www.ArrestedDevelopmentMusic.com
shorts
Bird of Flames
Arrested Development
Directed by Michael Vincent
Visit www.ignatub.com
A relationship that began in Woodstock and tragically ended when a
beautiful girl passed away.
shorts
Teen Films
Bookstore
The Hidden
Directed by Alexander Haney
Harvard-Westlake, Studio City, CA
Directed by Lucas
Handwerker
Woodstock Day School
A teenager is thrust into managing her school bookstore for
one day...chaos ensues.
How much can you remember in
11 minutes?
USA / 2012 / 16:24 minutes
Visit www.hw.com
Code Red
My License
Directed by Zach Prengler
Directed by Elizabeth Herrick
Richardson High School,
Dallas, TX
Four nerds are preparing for
their best purchase ever: Code
Red, the hottest game of the
year.
American Heritage School,
Plantation, FL
Visit www.richardson.k12.tx.us
A young girl receives her new
license, much to her father’s
dismay.
Getting Through
The Symbol of
Peace
Directed by Simon Usdan
Directed by Zev Vel
The Ethical Culture Fieldston
School, New York, NY
USA / 2012 / 12:10 minutes
s h o r ts
Visit www.ecfs.org
Hatred to Your Home
The Symbol of Peace shares the
inspiring stories and dreams of
the people who love the peace
sign.
Visit www.woodstockdayschool.org
Tyler
Directed by Derek Horton
Directed by Darian Henry
Downtown Community Television
Center, New York, NY
YouthFX, Albany, NY
Derek struggles with growing up
in East NY, faced with muggings,
Visit www.dctvny.org
violence and people trying to bring
him down. He’s scared that his neighborhood might
try to hold him back, but he won’t let it.
Tyler Rhodes of Albany, NY, was
stabbed to death in 2011. This
is his story as told by his family
and friends.
Film Career Day: Youth Initiative
Onteora High School • Fri Oct 12 • 8:00am - 2:00pm
Since 2002, the WFF Youth Initiative
has inspired students by providing a
forum for one-on-one exchanges with
filmmakers and top film industry members who hold a variety of positions,
including screenwriter, actor, director, producer, cinematographer, editor, composer,
attorney, animator, casting director, make-up artist, documentary filmmaker, and
film critic. Several Academy Award® winners have been a part of the Youth Initiative over the years including the legendary composer Elmer Bernstein, who was
nominated for 15 Oscars®, filmmakers Barbara Kopple, Ron Nyswaner and Leon Gast,
screenwriter Zachary Sklar, and cinematographer Haskell Wexler, who is the only
cinematographer with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
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Visit www.ahschool.com
Woodstock Day School
A young girl copes with the loss
of her father on 9/11 through
her music.
Visit www.woodstockdayschool.org
Visit www.youthfx.org
Each year, over 150 students
from schools throughout the
region gather at Onteora High
School in Boiceville for Film
Career Day, where students
meet with A-list film industry
professionals in small groups,
ask questions and learn about
careers in film and new media.
In addition to conversations
with leading authorities on
filmmaking, students are also
treated to a film screening,
which is followed by a Q&A session with the filmmakers.
W O O D S T O C K F I L M F E S T I VA L photos: Dion Ogust
2012
panels
Panels take place at Mountain View Studio in Woodstock.
Programs and panelists are subject to change.
Please make sure to visit www.woodstockfilmfestival.com for the most up-to-date info.
FACEBOOK FOR
FILMMAKERS AND ARTISTS
Almost every filmmaker uses Facebook fan pages to promote their films, but
almost none of them use them effectively. Few know how to build a fan base;
even fewer know how to get their fans to react to or even see their posts.
Success with Facebook requires creating a certain kind of “content,” and
filmmakers and artists have the skills to create content better than others—but
only if they understand what they are trying to achieve. This talk teaches how
the Facebook computer algorithm works and provides strategies and techniques
to make it work for you.
Film marketer Reid Rosefelt has worked
on hundreds of films, including Stranger
Than Paradise, Desperately Seeking Susan,
High Art, All About My Mother, Crouching
Tiger, Hidden Dragon, and The Island President. His personal clients have included
Errol Morris, Ally Sheedy, Harvey Keitel,
IFC, and the Sundance Institute.
FROM REEL TO REAL:
Mountain View Studio
Saturday Oct 13 • 10:00am
How Independent Film Impacts Our World
As more and more independent filmmakers travel the world and delve into global and personal
issues that affect our lives, the question is: Can their passion and hard work bring real change?
From environmental issues to political, humanitarian and social ones, filmmakers take on the world
hoping to explore, expose and improve. Do they succeed, and how would that success be measured?
We have gathered accomplished independent filmmakers who will share their experience, views and
visions, and will explore how and what it takes to deliver change via film.
Jon Bowermaster
Mai Iskander
Meera T.Gandhi
Todd Wider
Heidi Ewing
Moderator
Robin Bronk is CEO
of The Creative Coalition—the leading
national, nonprofit,
nonpartisan public
advocacy organization of the entertainment industry.
Bronk is an author and public speaker
and most recently produced Showtime’s
Poliwood, directed by Academy Awardwinner Barry Levinson. She also pens a
weekly column for The Hill newspaper.
She is often featured in The New York
Times, Wall Street Journal, International
Herald Tribune, The Huffington Post, and
more.
PANELS
With Reid Rosefelt
Friday Oct 12 • 3:00pm
Panelists:
Jon Bowermaster, writer/filmmaker/adventure, is a a six-time grantee of the National Geographic Expeditions Council. His most recent documentaries are Terra Antarctica, Rediscovering the Seventh Continent, What Would Darwin Think? Man v. Nature in the Galapagos, and the prize-winning
SoLa, Louisiana Water Stories. His first 3D film – Wild Antarctica – is due in Spring 2013 and the anti-fracking doc Dear Governor Cuomo ... will
have its premiere at WFF 2012. | Mai Iskander’s directorial debut, Garbage Dreams, was nominated for the 2010 Best Documentary by the Director’s Guild of America and has won 26 international awards. As a cinematographer, Iskander’s has worked on TV shows for A&E, PBS and LOGO.
She has filmed numerous narratives, commercials and documentaries, including Watchers of the Sky by Academy Award Nominee Edet Belzberg.
Iskander’s film Words of Witness is screening at the 2012 Woodstock Film Festival | Meera Gandhi is a humanitarian, mother, businesswoman,
and diplomat who was born in Mumbai, India. She created the Giving Back Foundation, whose beneficiaries are carefully selected charities and individuals around the world with a special emphasis on women and children in need. The Foundation also exists to act as a platform for debate and discussion
of philanthropy. | Todd Wider with Jedd Wider formed Wider Film Projects several years ago as a film company devoted to developing projects that
have social and political resonance. They have produced numerous critically and commercially successful documentary films, including the 2008 Academy
Award winner for Best Documentary, Taxi To The Dark Side (2007) directed by Alex Gibney and the upcoming Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House
of God, screening at the 2012 WFF. | Heidi Ewing, along with partner Rachel Grady, has been lauded for gaining unprecedented access into
unknown worlds and taking an intimate approach to her subject matter. She is the co-director (with Rachel Grady) of Jesus Camp, a provocative
documentary on the evangelical right that was nominated for the 2007 Academy Award. Ewing also directed 12th & Delaware, Detropia (currently
in theatrical release) and a film for MTV on Saudi Arabian teens. She is part of a consortium of filmmakers that adapted the bestselling book
Freakonomics for the big screen.
panels
FILM & TELEVISION
Mountain View Studio ,
Saturday Oct 13 • 12pm
The new crossover paradigm between
the silver and the small screen
As a growing number of television shows offer new freedom of creative
expression and unchartered boundaries as well as higher income and financial
stability, more and more actors and filmmakers cross over between film and
television, while the creative content on the web seems to explode even
further. How far would these trends go and what does that all mean to the
future of the moving image? We have assembled a cross section of in-front
and behind-the-camera talents who will explore the ins and outs, pros and
cons of these disappearing borders and what it will all mean to the future of
film.
Moderator:
Thelma Adams is the contributing editor at
Yahoo! Movies. Her debut novel PLAYDATE,
an O magazine pick, was published by St.
Martin’s Press in January 2011 and came out
in paperback in March 2012. She was the
film critic at Us Weekly from 2000 - 2011,
following six years at the New York Post.
She has twice chaired the New York Film Critics Circle, where
she has been a member since 1995.
PA N E L S
Timothy Hutton
Amy Heckerling
MUSIC IN FILM
Alexie Gilmore
Blair Breard
Saturday Oct 13 • 2:00pm
Join us for BMI’s annual frank and lively discussion about
the creative and business aspects of music in film, the
composer/director relationship, and the unique concerns of
music in audio visual mediums. This year BMI will present
a case study of the music from the WFF official selection
Vamps with director Amy Heckerling, producer Lauren Versel, composer David Kitay and songwriter, recording artist,
and actress from Vamps Mollie Israel. sponsor
Moderator:
Doreen Ringer-Ross is Vice President of
Film and TV Relations at BMI. She has
worked in the music industry for over two
decades and currently specializes in outreach to the film and music communities.
Amy Heckerling directed Fast Times at Ridgemont High, and has written and directed a
dozen other films, including, Look Who’s Talking, Clueless, and Vamps. She also directed episodes for the television series of Fast Times, Clueless, The Office and Gossip Girl. | David
Kitay is Film composer of Look Who’s Talking, Clueless, Can’t Hardly Wait, Scary Movie, Harold
And Kumar Go To White Castle and Dude, Where Is My Car? as well as Ghost World, Bad Santa,
Art School Confidential and The Darwin Awards. | Lauren Versel is a founding member of
Lucky Monkey Pictures and has over twenty- five years of experience in film, television, and
theater as a writer, director, editor, producer and financier. In addition to Vamps she produced Arbitrage and City Island and the upcoming Married and Cheating starring Sarah Jessica Parker, Brendan Frasier and Marisa Tomei. | Mollie Israel is the lead singer of NYC’s
The Lost Patrol and their music has been featured in Gossip Girl, Chronicle, and the upcoming
Amy Heckerling film Vamps. Israel is also active as a videographer, a writer, and is currently
developing her own sitcom style puppet show, The Underwhelming Misadventures of Ratso.
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Timothy Hutton won an Academy Award®, a Golden Globe and Los Angeles Film Critic’s award for his
performance in Ordinary People. He went on to star in numerous films, including Taps, Daniel, Falcon
and the Snowman, The Good Shepherd, and The Ghost Writer. He is currently starring on the fifth season of the TNT drama Leverage. | Blair Breard is the executive producer of the comedy series,
Louie. Notable films include John Sayles’ Passion Fish, Mary Harron’s I Shot Andy Warhol, Louis CK’s
Pootie Tang, Kenneth Lonergan’s, Margaret, and Noah Baumbach’s Margot at the Wedding. | Alexie
Gilmore starred as a series regular on the Fox drama New Amsterdam, directed by Lasse Hallestrom
(Cider House Rules). Other TV credits include Rescue Me, Law and Order Criminal Intent, Nurse Jackie,
a cross over role on Private Practice, and Grey’s Anatomy, House M.D. | Amy Heckerling directed
Fast Times at Ridgemont High, and has written and directed a dozen other films, including, Look
Who’s Talking, Clueless, and Vamps. She also directed episodes for the television series of Fast Times,
Clueless, The Office and Gossip Girl. Amy Silver
Panelists:
W O O D S T O C K F I L M F E S T I VA L Amy Heckerling
David Kitay
Lauren Versel
Mollie Israel
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DISTRIBUTION PARADIGMS
Panelists:
Moderator
Scott MaCaulay is the editor of Filmmaker
Magazine and a producer with his partner,
Robin O’Hara, in the New York-based
production company Forensic Films. He
is also the co-editor of Focus Features’
FilmInFocus website. Among his producing
credits are Raising Victor Vargas, Gummo,
Julien Donkey-Boy, the Sundance GrandPrize winning What Happened Was..., Idlewild, Saving Face,
and Off the Black.
Danielle DiGiacomo is the manager of video distribution at The Orchard, a pioneering, 15-yearold independent music and video distribution company operating in more than 20 global markets.
She is also an independent film producer and consultant. Previously, she worked as the community
manager at IFP, and head of documentary acquisitions for IndiePix Films. | David Laub is copresident of the NY-based Oscilloscope Pictures, where he oversees acquisitions, marketing, and distribution. Oscilloscope is a film production and distribution entity launched in 2008 by Adam Yauch;
recent releases have included Samsara, Shut Up and Play The Hits, We Need To Talk About Kevin, The
Messenger, Meek’s Cutoff, and Wendy and Lucy. Prior to Oscilloscope, David did acquisitions for the
NY-based distributor THINKFilm. | Ron Mann makes award-winning feature documentaries that
focus on alternative and dissident culture. WFF has been showing Mann’s films since Go Further, a
musical-eco-road movie about activism and sustainable living. His other films include Know Your
Mushrooms, Grass, and most recently, In the Wake of the Flood. In 2002, Ron also founded Films We
Like, a boutique distributor of documentary, independent and international films in Canada. Beginning with Sam Green and Bill Siegel’s The Weather Underground (2002), Films We Like has released
over 160 films including, most recently, Miguel Gomes award-winning Tabu (2012). | Richard
Abramowitz is at the forefront of innovation in the world of distribution and marketing of independent films. His company Abramorama is an industry leader in the personalized, focused form of
film marketing/distribution that bypasses traditional film studios and their methodology, providing
invaluable distribution alternatives to current content makers and owners.
ACTORS DIALOGUE
David Laub
Ron Mann
Danielle DiGiacomo
Richard Abramowitz
PANELS
To DYI or not to DYI; to release first on the digital platforms (and
if so which?) or to hold on until the right theatrical distributor
comes along; these are some of the questions our panel of experts
will tackle as film distribution options continue to ebb and flow in
today’s ever changing landscape.
Saturday Oct 13 • 4:00pm
Sunday Oct 14 • 10:00am
Join some of today’s most engaging actors as they
chat about their work and their lives.
Actors:
Brian Geraghty is a versatile actor best known
for his roles in The
Hurt Locker, Jarhead,
and We Are Marshall.
His recent films include
Paramount’s upcoming
Robert Zemekis film
Flight, the reunion
dramedy Ten Years, and
the independent feature
Kilimanjaro.
Moderator:
Whether she’s one-on-one
in an intimate talk, or
leading a discussion among
a variety of actors, Martha
Frankel’s entertaining
panels are one of the
festival’s highlights.
photos: Dion Agust
Sally Kirkland, veteran
of over 130 films, is best
known for her film Anna,
for which she was nominated for an Oscar for Best
Actress and won the Golden
Globe and the Independent
Spirit Award. Highlights
of her career include The
Sting, The Way We Were, Revenge, Edtv, Best of The Best, JFK, Bruce Almighty,
and The Haunted. She stars in the film Archaeology of a Woman, screening at WFF 2012.
panels
RAISING FUNDS
Sunday Oct 14 • 12pm
Whether you are about to make your first film or your fifth; whether it’s low budget or big
budget; any way you look at it, if you want to make a film you need to raise money for it.
How do you start? Where do you go? Should you look into foreign sales and, if so, at what
point? Should you start a crowdsourcing campaign? Apply for grants? Work on getting talent
attached and package it before taking it to potential investors? There are many ways to raise
funds these days, and none are easy. Our panel of experts will sift through the diverse options and shed light on which route could work for which project.
Panelists:
Elisabeth Holm As Kickstarter’s film program director, Holm oversees film curation, editorial, events,
outreach, and education. She recently served as a producer on Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky’s
Oscar-nominated Paradise Lost 3 and Keith Miller’s Slamdance, and Seattle International and Atlanta
Grand Jury Prize-winning Welcome to Pine Hill. She’s currently producing Gillian Robespierre’s Obvious
Child, starring Jenny Slate. | Stephen Hays is an executive producer and managing member of 120dB
Films, a finance company specializing in gap and related loans to the independent film industry. Recent
projects include Battle in Seattle, Sixty Six, Motherhood,The Dream of the Romans, Knife Edge, Hey Hey
It’s Esther Blueburger, Good, Savage Grace, and the TNT series Leverage. He was co-founder and general
partner of Seneca Capital, a $3.5 billion, New York-based hedge fund, where he remains a partner and
adviser. | Robert L. Seigel is a NYC entertainment attorney with over twenty years’ experience, who
specializes in the representation of clients in film and television, as well as in theatre, publishing, new
media, and intellectual property matters on a transactional basis. | Claude Dal Farra is the president
of BCDF and the producer of Bachelorette, Liberal Arts, Peace Love & Misunderstanding, Why Stop Now,
Higher Ground, The Last Keepers, and Rhymes with Banana.
PA N E L S
PRODUCING IN A
MULTI-SCREEN WORLD
Elisabeth Holm
Steve Hays
Claude Dal Farra
Robert Seigel
Sunday Oct 14 • 2:00pm
co-presented by the Producers Guild of America East
Producers from the worlds of film, games and new media share common
approaches to challenges and opportunities creating content for all the ways
people watch stories in today’s world. Now, like never before, you can realize
your idea in the perfect media platform. Profit from insights of Producers
Guild of America (PGA) pros who share the secrets of selecting and producing
the right platform for your project. Each producer will discuss a similarly
sized project in different mediums, including TV, mobile, film, gaming, viral
video, and alternate reality games. You will walk away knowing the budgets,
tools, metrics, marketing, audience, and business structure of each project.
A look into future platform trends will also be shared. Gain an understanding
of how formats, new and old, individually or mashed up, are creating new
opportunities for content creators. This session will be accessible to all
audiences, and entertaining in its candor.
Moderator:
Caitlin Burns, transmedia producer with
Starlight Runner Entertainment, creates
and influences fictional universes that are
familiar to millions worldwide. Building
Caitlin Burns
on a background of theatrical and event
production, she has worked on Pirates of the Caribbean and
Tron Legacy for Disney, James Cameron’s Avatar, Halo for
Microsoft, The Happiness Factory for Coca-Cola, Men in Black
for Sony Pictures, and Transformers for Hasbro. She has also
worked with Showtime, Nickelodeon, Scholastic, Nelvana, and
Wieden+Kennedy. She is on the board of the Producer’s Guild
of America’s New Media Council and the advisory board of the
Tribeca New Media Fund. She is currently working on a slate
that includes major motion pictures, documentary feature
films, and television shows in the United States, Italy,
Mexico, Canada, and Brazil.
Panelists:
Peter Saraf’s producing credits include Safety Not Guaranteed, Our Idiot Brother,
Jack Goes Boating, Sunshine Cleaning, Away We Go, Is Anybody There?, Little Miss
Sunshine, Everything Is Illuminated, The Truth About Charlie, Adaptation, Ulee’s Gold
and the feature documentaries, Mandela and The Agronomist. He has been nominated for Academy and Golden Globe Awards and has won multiple awards, including
the Spirit, Gotham and PGA Awards. He is the co-founder of Big Beach, a New York
based independent film production and financing company. Peter is vice president
Peter Saraf
Blaine Graboyes
James Percelay
of the Producers Guild of America and chair of the PGA East. | Blaine Graboyes
is an award-winning executive producer and game designer with nearly twenty years’ experience developing digital and multiplatform entertainment. He has founded multiple successful startups, including ZUMA Digital (the first DVD company in NYC), Worldwide Biggies, Hope Arcade,
Sano Agency, Silver Platter, and Mister Goldbanks. Graboyes is a member-at-large of the executive committee of the New Media Council of The
Producers Guild Of America. His most recent project is SneakyTown, a competitive hide-and-seek game currently in stealth Beta on Facebook and
iPad. | James Percelay is co-founder of Thinkmodo, recognized as one the top viral video creative agencies in the world. Thinkmodo’s outrageous videos for major motion pictures, TV networks, and magazines consistently top the viral video charts. Percelay is a best-selling humor book
author, former film producer of the commercial parodies on Saturday Night Live, and a pioneer of content driven social media.
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Film starts at 7:30pm
Performance to Follow
Wednesday October 10
WOODSTOCK Playhouse
He’s played with everyone, he’s
toured everywhere, he can lead a
raucous big band or hold an audience silent with solo acoustic blues.
and panels, the
Festival has presented
Natalie Merchant and Special Guests
Perform following “Dear Governor Cuomo…”
Performance to Follow
Thursday October 11
WOODSTOCK Playhouse
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music-related films
Woodstock Film
David Bromberg’s sensitive and versatile approach to guitar playing earned him jobs playing on hundreds of records by artists including
Bob Dylan (New Morning, Self Portrait, Dylan),
Link Wray, The Eagles, Ringo Starr, Willie Nelson,
and Carly Simon.
His eponymous 1971 debut not only
visit: www.davidbromberg.net
included the mock-anguished Suffer to Sing the
Blues, a Bromberg original that became an FM radio staple, n also played slide guitar on the track.
Bromberg also met the Grateful Dead and wound up with four of their members, including Jerry Garcia,
playing on his two subsequent albums.
After taking an extended break from the music recording business and taking time out to become the foremost violin luthier today, Bromberg is back and recording. He will perform several songs
after the documentary David Bromberg Unsung Treasure. Come see the legend in person.
visit: www. jonbowermaster.com
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Adrian Grenier, Pinetop
Perkins and the Perfect
Age of Rock’n’Roll Blues
Band, Bela Fleck, Edgar
Meyer, Bernie Worrell,
The Felice Brothers,
Duncan Sheik, Mike
Gordon & Trey Anastasio
of Phish, Gov’t Mule,
Kate Pierson, Arlo
Guthrie, Peter Rowan,
Rahat Nusrat Fateh Ali
Kahn, Britta Phillips &
Dean Wareham of Luna,
Graham Parker, Levon
Helm, Marshall Crenshaw,
and many more.
deliver the anti-fracking message in a single voice. More than 30 musicians, most of
whom had never met nor played together before, joined that night under the musical direction of
Hudson Valley resident Natalie Merchant. Following the screening of the film, Natalie – and special
guests – will pick up where they left off in Albany.
CONCERTS
David Bromberg
CONC E RTS
Simi Stone
Doors open at 9pm • Thursday October 11
Colony Cafe, WOODSTOCK
Simi Stone, a native Woodstocker and multi-instrumentalist, returns to
play the Woodstock Film Festival this year.
This summer, Simi has been touring with Simone Felice and working with artists Natalie
Merchant, Tracy Bonham and others. Recently she has been writing and recording with musical partner David Baron and getting ready to lay down her very own
solo record. Simi brings her sweet mountain soul pop music to you on
October 11th with a full band.
With very special guest
Cleveland Jones
Cleveland Jones writes songs that portray the world through the eyes
of a man finding himself through life experiences. With a distinct voice that
resonates from his soul, Jones draws from classic songwriters like Tom Petty,
Peter Gabriel and Paul Simon, putting his own modern twist on a classic
sound.
Filmmakers’ Party
sponsored by
Doors open at 10pm • Friday October 12
SPAF, Saugerties
CONCERTS
The Brandy Knights first set fire to the streets of Santa Barbara, bringing a raunchy LA
mean streak, which blasted through the watered-down reggae and bland hip hop and dance of
its pot-smoking youth culture. The power chords of the Rolling Stones and the riffs of the Velvet
Underground can be heard through the songs of the
Brandy Knights, founded by LA native Flannery Lunsford
and a group of retro-minded, forward thinking musicians from San Francisco and Los Angeles. There was
an edge in their tunes that the audiences could relate
to. Lunsford as front man is the radioactive hybrid
offspring of Jagger, Bowie, Iggy, and Andre 3000. The
Brandy Knights performed three songs in the new rock
n’ roll film Strutter (screening at WFF 2012), starring
Lunsford and directed by Allison Anders and Kurt Voss,
which also features a soundtrack by J. Mascis. They
are currently working on a new record in Los AngeWine Teeth
les. www.thebrandyknights.com | Wine Teeth
Singer/song-writer fronted indie-folk band with violin,
and guitar combining rockabilly, folk, Appalachian,
and Americana with original vocals - Buddy Holly
meets Elliott Smith. Wine Teeth was created by Justin
Theodore Young, a singer-songwriter from the South
The Brandy Knights
who combines roots, rockabilly and honkytonk rhythms
with an indie folk storytelling sensibility. After three
years of playing in Portland and Seattle, he relocated
to Brooklyn where he teamed up with talented violinist
Andrew Williams. They are currently playing gigs in and
around NYC. www.facebook.com/Wineteethmusic | Lindsey Webster At just twenty-three years,
Lindsey Webster has shared the stage with Grammyaward winning musicians and artists. She is singing
on a grammy-nominated CD for 2012(with the Jimmy
Sturr Orchestra) and has recorded with multiple music
legends. Webster has traveled across the country, playing in famed venues such as Carnegie Hall, Musikfest,
Ford Crull
Summerfest, and many more. www.lindseywebstermusic.
com | Special art performance by Ford Crull with
music by Sylvie Degiez and Wayne Lopes. In 2010 before a live audience, Crull created
a large painting 10 by 18 feet for the opening of Bund1919, a new art area in Shanghai. The work
was completely improvised and featured two different musicians exemplifying the theme of “East,
West.” Now, for the Woodstock Film Festival, Crull will again create a new live improvised work for
Lindsey Webster
the filmmakers’ party, featuring the music of Diegiez and Lopes.
www.facebook.com/ford.crull • www.cosmiclegends.com
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Charles Bradley
performance after
Charles Bradley:
Soul of America
Performance to Follow at 9:30pm
Saturday October12
Bearsville Theater, Woodstock
Charles Bradley has spent most of his life dreaming of a
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better one. The now 63-year-old “Screaming Eagle of Soul” grew
up living on the streets of Brooklyn, NY. Inspired by a childhood
trip to The Apollo to see James Brown, Bradley felt an urgent
need to get off the streets and make something of himself. After working as a chef
at a mental hospital and a handyman, at age 51 Bradley found an audience as a
visit: www.thecharlesbradley.com
James Brown impersonator. Later discovered by Gabriel Roth of Daptone Records,
Bradley released his debut record, No Time For Dreaming, in 2011 at age 62, which found itself listed in Rolling Stone magazine’s list of
50 Best Albums of 2011! Now, there is no more time for dreaming, just time for singing, dancing and loving.
Aaron Freeman
AKA Geen Ween
2 shows door open at 7:30 and 10:00 • Saturday October 13
Colony Cafe, WOODSTOCK
discovered and fallen in love with the music of Rod McKuen. With producer Ben Vaughn
(who fans may remember from the classic Ween album “12 Golden Country Greats”) he’s
recorded an unforgettable set of McKuen covers that’s heartfelt and unpredictable.
CONCERTS
For the past twenty years, Aaron Freeman has been creating music
as the lead singer of the band Ween. He has since moved on and
is venturing into new pastures as of this summer. Currently, he has
visit: www.ween.net
Paul Green’s Band of Monkeys
house band at the 2012 Maverick Awards Gala
Doors open at 7pm • Awards begin at 9pm • Saturday October 13
Backstage Studio Productions, KINGSTON
The legendary Paul Green, founder of The School of Rock, subject of the documentary Rock School and inspiration for Jack
Black in Richard Linklater’s hilarious film School of Rock, along
with a number of his former students from School of Rock,
will be playing music from the greatest movies ever made (and
some mediocre ones, too.)
Jeremy Bernstein and Friends
Doors open at 8pm • Show starts at 9pm • Sunday October 14
Bearsville Theater, Woodstock
Jeremy Bernstein is
currently finishing a new
record with producer David
Baron. The show will consist of all new songs with
the musicians who recorded
with him.
2012 The band will include :
David Baron, keys
Sarah Lee, bass
Adam Widoff, guitar
Simi Stone, violin and vocals
Tim Bright, guitar and banjo
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its writers, musicians, artists, filmmakers, and other creative folk—first gained notoriety
in the early 1900s when residents were greeted by the arrival of freethinking bohemians
and city dwellers.
The Byrdcliffe Arts Colony, founded at the turn of the century by artisan philosophers to
create a Utopian society based on arts and crafts, continues as an active artists’ colony
with a year-round presence.
Music has always been a popular part of the town’s mystique, and in the late 1960s,
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34 Tinker Street
Woodstock, NY 12498
UTOPIA STUDIO
293 Tinker Street
Woodstock, NY 12498
845.679.7600
www.utopiasoundstage.com
20 Mountain View Avenue
Woodstock, NY 12498
www.mtnviewstudio.com
BEARSVILLE THEATER
261 Tinker Street
Woodstock, NY 12498
845.679.4406
COLONY CAFE
22 Rock City Road
Woodstock, NY 12498
845.679.5342
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4166 Route 28
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Rhinebeck, in Dutchess County, is easily reachable by car and public
transportation and offers relaxed yet sophisticated country living with its myriad of
shops, antiques stores, restaurants, and cultural venues—including Upstate Films.
The Hudson River National Historic Landmark District, in which Rhinebeck is located,
has been home to scions of business and industry, presidents and statesmen who built
their mansions along the Hudson River, many now UPSTATE FILMS
open to visitors.
6415 Montgomery Street
Located 18 miles from Woodstock, across the
Rhinebeck, NY 12572
866.FILM.NUT
Hudson River, Rhinebeck’s location enables visitors
www.upstatefilms.org
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Rosendale
Rosendale cement was used for the foundations of both the Brooklyn Bridge and
Statue of Liberty. Filled with vibrant characters and activists, it’s a tolerant town
with a homey feel and a young edge. Bill’s Garden Store doubles as a barber shop.
The Rosendale Street Fest hosts over sixty bands annually. At its heart is a grand old
theater, one of the few single-screen theaters in the Hudson Valley. The Rosendale
Theatre Collective is dedicated to preserving the
Rosendale Theatre
historic theater and enhancing the cultural life and
408 Main Street
Rosendale, NY 12472
economic vitality of Rosendale and Ulster County
845.658.8989
through film, the performing arts and educational
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bet, and Rhinebeck Taxi is conveniently
located at the train station or rent a car
from Enterprise-Rent-a-Car, which will meet
you at the train station.
Auto REntal
The Woodstock Film Festival is a member
of the Enterprise Rent-A-Car Corporate Class
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visitors. Most importantly, Enterprise RentA-Car has 15 local offices in the Hudson
Valley, and will be happy to pick you up from
any location when needed! Reservations
can be made on their website. Just type
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reservation. Your three digit pin code is
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number at 800.593.0505 with the ID#.
BY BUS
To Woodstock: Take Trailways from Port
Authority to Woodstock. This drops you
off at the Village Green. For schedule, call
800.776.7548 or visit www.trailways.com.
Alternative stops incude Kingston and
Phoenicia.
To Rhinebeck: Take the Shortline Bus
from Port Authority to Rhinebeck. For
schedule call 800.776.7548.
To Rosendale: Take Trailways from Port
Authority to Rosendale. For schedule, call
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BY CAR: RHINEBECK
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From East: Take Route 199 west. Bear left
at the fork with the only traffic light. Take
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right onto Route 9. Upstate Films Theater
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BY CAR: ROSENDALE
From New Paltz area: Take Route 32
North toward Kingston. Turn left after bridge
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Street, Rosendale). Theater is up on right.
From Ellenville area: Take Route 209
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From Woodstock: Take Route 375 to
Route 28 East. Go 5 miles to Roundabout.
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34
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845-338-4552
Kingston,
NY 12401
34
North Front
Street
845-338-4552
Kingston, NY 12401
845-338-4552
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ticket information
prices
 Tickets range in price from $5-$75.
PLEASE NOTE: Online and phone orders will
be charged a $7.95 shipping & handling
fee.
Walk-Up Orders
 Student and senior discounts are available
with ID at the Box Office.
 The Rosendale Theatre may have a select
number of tickets available for pre-sale.
Please contact them directly.
 The best way to order tickets and to see
updated schedules, film descriptions and
other festival information is online at
www.woodstockfilmfestival.com.
 PLEASE NOTE: Tickets ordered online between September 20 and October 6, WILL
BE SHIPPED by USPS mail to the mailing
address provided when ordering.
 All online orders placed after October 6
must be picked up at the BOX OFFICE at 13
Rock City Road in Woodstock.
PURCHASING
& PICKING UP TICKETS
Telephone Orders
Internet Orders
 The BOX OFFICE is manned by dedicated
VOLUNTEERS who are simultaneously filling
out Internet and walkup sales. The phones
can get very chaotic and they tend to be
busy. If you are calling for tickets, please
leave a message on our machine and someone will get back to you.
Box Office Location
13 Rock City Road
Woodstock, NY 12498
(Across from the
Chamber of Commerce booth)
phone 845.810.0131
 The last day for telephone orders is
October 7.
Day of Event
 Tickets are available at the BOX OFFICE until four hours prior to the event. All unsold
tickets are then available on the STANDBY
line at the screening venue on a CASH ONLY
basis.
Box Office Hours
September 20 to October 7
Wednesday-Sunday 12-6pm
Closed Mondays and Tuesdays
October 8 to 13
9am-7pm
October 14
9am-noon
full festival PASSES
 Full Festival Passes offer the ultimate
Woodstock Film Festival experience. A
limited number of these passes are offered.
 Full Festival Passes include guaranteed
admission for the passholder to all screenings and panels, with priority seating up
until 15 minutes prior to the event, entry
to all parties, plus souvenirs including a
commemorative T-shirt, cap and poster.
 Full Festival Passes entitle entry to the
Filmmakers’ Lounge.
 Full Festival Passes are $750 and can be
purchased online or at the BOX OFFICE.
 Full Festival Passes are nontransferable and
include a picture ID.
 Passes must be picked up at Festival Registration at the Colony Cafe. Badge pick-up
instructions will be sent after purchase.
Please note that all events
are subject to change.
Check the website to:
 Confirm venues and times
 Find out what is SOLD OUT
 Read updated information about
screenings, events and panels
For the most up-to-date
information, please visit
important details
 Ticket holders MUST arrive 15 minutes
prior to screenings or panels to guarantee seating. Empty seats will be sold to
those in the standby queue.
 NOTE: Tickets ordered online or by phone
after October 6 must be picked up at
the BOX OFFICE at 13 Rock City Road in
Woodstock. These tickets will NOT be
sent to the venue.
2012  A STANDBY line will form for all shows
that have tickets available. Five minutes
prior to show time, available tickets will
be sold on a CASH ONLY basis. Standby
queues form no earlier than one hour
prior to any event.
W O O D S T O C K F I L M F E S T I VA L  PLEASE leave plenty of time to pick up
pre-ordered tickets at the BOX OFFICE or
order online by October 6 to receive your
tickets by mail.
 When planning your festival schedule,
please bear in mind that the driving
distances from Woodstock to Rhinebeck
and Woodstock to Rosendale are about
30 minutes.
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TICKET INFO
 There are NO REFUNDS or EXCHANGES on
tickets without exception.
 Tickets for all venues will be available for
purchase at the BOX OFFICE a few days
prior to online sales.
schedule at a glance
Wed 10/10
Sat 10/13
Sun 10/14
Woodstock Playhouse
Fri continued 10/12
Colony Cafe Woodstock
Bearsville Theater Woodstock
7:30 David Bromberg
Unsung Treasure
3:00 PANEL: Facebook for
Filmmakers and Artists
7:00 CONCERT: Aaron Freeman from Ween
10:00 CONCERT: Aaron Freeman from Ween
9:00 CONCERT: Jeremy Bernstein and
Friends
Downing Film Center Newburgh
Upstate Films Woodstock
Kleinert/James Arts Center
7:30 Francine
12:45 SHORTS: Docs
3:00 SHORTS: Hiccups
5:00 SHORTS: Eyes of a Child
7:30 SHORTS: Foreign Affairs
10:00 SHORTS: Music Videos
10:00 PANEL: Actor’s Dialogue
12:00 PANEL: Raising Funds
2:00 PANEL: Producing in a MultiScreen World
9:00 CONCERT: Simi Stone
12:00 World’s Finest Chef
2:00 Nor’easter
4:45 Sparrows Dance
7:00 Any Day Now
9:30 419
Woodstock Playhouse
Thur 10/11
Colony Cafe Woodstock
2:15 Idle Threat
4:15 Mariachi Gringo
7:00 Gayby
9:30 In Our Nature
Utopia Studios Woodstock
1:00 3:30 6:00 8:30 Dead Dad
Shepard & Dark
First Winter
The Mechanical Bride
Woodstock Playhouse
sc h e d u le
3:00 One Track Heart:
The Story of Krishna Das
preceded by Practice Change
6:30 Dear Governor Cuomo...
9:30 Quartet
11:30 Once in a Lullaby
2:00 Starlet
4:45 Electrick Children
7:15 Magical Mystery Tour Revisited & Magical Mystery Tour
10:00 Art Machine
12:15 Mondays at Racine
& Kings Point
2:15 Informant
4:30 Who Cares About Kelsey
7:00 Bad Brains: A Band in D.C.
9:45 SHORTS: Music Videos
Upstate Films I Rhinebeck
7:30 Refuge
2:15 Chasing Ice
4:30 Strutter
7:00 I Am Not a Hipster
9:30 The Mechanical Bride
Upstate II Rhinebeck
Upstate Films II Rhinebeck
8:15 California Solo
1:00 3:30 6:00 8:30 Upstate I Rhinebeck
Rosendale Theatre
6:30 Francine
Fri 10/12
Bearsville Theater Woodstock
7:00 Charles Bradley: Soul of America
9:30 Charles Bradley Concert
11:15 SHORTS: Docs
1:30 SHORTS: A Winter Passing
3:45 SHORTS: Hiccups
5:45 SHORTS: Teen Films
8:00 SHORTS: Hudson Valley Shorts
10:00 SHORTS: Animated Shorts
Idle Threat
Words of Witness
The Unlikely Girl
The Compass is Carried by the
Dead Man
Rosendale Theatre
1:30 Quartet
4:00 First Winter
6:30 Mea Maxima Culpa
9:30 The Sessions
10:00
12:00
2:00 4:00 PANEL: From Reel to Real
PANEL: Film & Television
PANEL: Music in Film with BMI
PANEL: Distribution Paradigms
11:30
2:00 4:30 7:00 9:30 11:15 SHORTS: Eyes of a Child
1:30 SHORTS: Animated Shorts
3:45 SHORTS: A Winter Passing
6:00 SHORTS: Foreign Affairs
12:00 Words of Witness
2:00 Arcadia
4:30 The Compass is Carried by
the Dead Man
7:30 Apartment in Athens
Rhymes with Banana
California Solo
I Am Not a Hipster
Refuge
The Sessions
11:30 The Unlikely Girl
2:00 Exit Elena preceded by Aunt Louisa
4:45 Virgin Tales
7:30 2nd Serve
10:00 Welcome to the Machine
12:15 Oma & Bella
2:30 Fight to Live
5:00 Rolan Makes Movies
6:45 Strutter
Woodstock Playhouse
11:15 SHORTS: Hudson Valley Shorts
1:30 Chasing Ice
3:45 Mea Maxima Culpa
6:45 Casting By
9:15 Vamps
11:30 Pretty Old
1:45 Dinner at the No-Go’s
4:30 Archaeology of a Woman
7:00 Putzel
9:30 Between Us
11:45 Mondays at Racine
& Kings Point
2:00 Apartment in Athens
4:15 Dead Dad
6:30 Once in a Lullaby
9:00 Faces in the Mirror
12:30 Oma & Bella
2:45 Rolan Makes Movies
10:00 Filmmakers’ Party
Music by Flannery Lunsford from the 4:30 Nor’easter
film Strutter, The Brandy Knights,
7:00 Any Day Now
Wine Teeth, Lindsey Webster, and
9:30 419
Ford Crull live art and music
SPAF
Rosendale Theatre
12:00 Shepard & Dark
2:30 Electrick Children
5:00 Sparrows Dance
7:30 Arcadia
10:00 Bad Brains: A Band in D.C.
2012 Awards Gala
Backstage Studio Productions in Kingston
Saturday Oct 13, 2012
Cocktail party starts at 7pm • Awards start at 9pm
For up-to-date info, visit woodstockfilmfestival.com
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W O O D S T O C K F I L M F E S T I VA L Woodstock Playhouse
11:45 Only the Young
1:45 World’s Finest Chef
3:45 Starlet
6:30 2nd Serve
8:45 In Our Nature
12:00 Pretty Old
2:15 Exit Elena preceded by Aunt Louisa
4:45 Informant
7:00 Virgin Tales
Rosendale Theatre
12:15 Putzel
2:45 Rhymes with Banana
5:15 Mariachi Gringo
8:00 Between Us
Please. note that all events are
subject to change. Check
woodstockfilmfestival.com
to confirm venues and times
2012
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of the 13th Annual
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