2004 Woodstock Film Festival Program

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48AMAZING GRACE:JEFF BUCKLEY

48CONVERSATIONS WITH NICKLE

49DON’T CALL IT HEIMWEH...

49DOUBLE DARE

50THE FORBIDDEN TEAM

50 THE FUTURE OF FOOD

51GUERRILLA:THE TAKING OF PATTY HEARST

52I LIKE KILLING FLIES

52IN THE REALMS OF THE UNREAL

53A LEAGUE OF ORDINARY GENTLEMEN

53MAKING GRACE

54MOJADOS:THROUGH THE NIGHT

54THE NOMI SONG

55OFF TO WAR

55 PARALLEL LINES

56POPaganda: The Art & Subversion of Ron English

56SCREAMING MEN (HUUTAJAT)

57SHOCKING & AWFUL:A GRASS ROOTS RESPONSE TO WAR IN IRAQ

57 SCHOOL BOARD BLUES

58SOLDIERS PAY

58 STILL, THE CHILDREN ARE HERE

59TROLLYWOOD

59WITCHES IN EXILE

60WORDS OF MY PERFECT TEACHER

61THE WORLD ACCORDING TO BUSH(LE MONDE SELON BUSH)

DOCUMENTARY FEATURES

“Singer songwriter Jeff Buckley is remembered in hues of gray and sepia in this biography charting his rise from obscurity to his untimely death. “Grace,” he said, “is what matters—in anything. It keeps you from reaching for the gun too quickly.” This is an intimate portrait of a true artist and avid journal keeper who translated his experiences into music.”(Barbara Pokras)

In Europe,they speak of him in holy whispers. In America, he’s a mysterious footnote. He was poised for huge commercial success, but Jeff Buckley’s untimely death kept him on the periphery of popular music. Amazing Grace: Jeff Buckley, a passionately crafted documentary, sets out to investigate the extraordinary phenomenon of Jeff Buckley, a musician of relatively modest com-

CONVERSATIONS WITH NICKLE

Direc ted by Lorette Bayle

Main Credits:

DirectorLorette Bayle

ProducerLorette Bayle

CinematographerLorette Bayle

EditorBryan Pitcher

ComposersPhil Curtis, Brian Demke

*Benefit screening for Albany ALS support Group

mercial success, with only one full-length album, who has become a veritable tour de force of inspiration for artists across the globe.

Interviews include all four of the Jeff Buckley Band members, friends, family, colleagues, critics, DJs, producers, and fans. From Sydney, New York, and London to Memphis, Montpelier, and Los Angeles, the film takes viewers on an expansive yet incredibly intimate trip through the world of Jeff Buckley, and explores how he continues to inspire his fans–from classical composers to rock ‘n roll superstars and ever yone in between.

L aurie Trombley was handpicked by Jeff Buckley to be his fan relations manager while she was attending the College

AMAZING GRACE: JEFF BUCKLEY

Directed by Nyla Adams and Laurie Trombley

USA / 2004 / 60 minutes Community Center 10/15 • 7:00pm Town Hall 10/17 • 3:30pm

Main Credits:

Directors/ Producers/ Cinematographers: Laurie Trombley,Nyla Bialek Adams

of New Rochelle in Westchester, New York. She’s spent the past nine years marketing for various companies, including A&E Television and The History Channel, FUSE, and Regal CineMedia, while moonlighting as co-producer and co -director of her first film.

Nyla Bialek Adams worked as an audio visual technican while studying at Trinity College in Hartford. After graduating, she spent several years working in documentary programming at A&E television before leaving to co -produce, co -direct, and edit Amazing Grace: Jeff Buckley.

Conversations with Nickle is a narrative documentary that takes us through profoundly surprising events in Gay Nickle Lauritzen’s life as she struggles to overcome the disabling effects of Lou Gehrig’s disease. With inspiring humor and courage, Nickle teaches us about the immense power of the human spirit.

BIO

Lorette Bayle is an award-wining documentar y and narrative filmmaker. Her narrative film Mariela’s Kitchen won a Silver Award for Best Dramatic Short at the Houston International Film Festival, was a finalist in the Next Frame Festival, screened in festivals internationally and domestically, and aired on Fine Cut for KCET (PBS, Los Angeles) in 2001. Lorette produced and directed a number of in-studio programs for KUED (PBS, Salt L ake City), winning a Silver Award for Brahms at 100 in

1997. She has traveled to three continents to produce and shoot documentaries, some of which include Haite, Land of Hope, The Enchanted Gardens of England, and A Gift to the City. She has worked for the Sundance Institute, Independent Feature Project/LA, and American Zoetrope. Currently, Lorette is a production executive at the Eastman Kodak Company. She completed an MFA in film and theater directing at the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) in 1999.

DOCUMENTARY FEATURES

The Greeks call it nostalgia–in German Heimweh. At the age of eighty-two, Margot Friedlander begins a journey to resolve a life long search for home and identity. Surviving Nazi Germany hidden by Germans while her family was murdered in Auschwitz has left her with truly conflicted feelings.

Thomas Halaczinsky was born and raised in Germany and has lived in New York City since 1991. He has produced several feature films here and abroad, among them Facing the Forest (1993), directed by Peter Lilienthal and shot on location in Israel. In the United States he produced the feature film Zoo (1999) and line-produced Cross-Eyed (1997). As a documentary filmmaker he has produced and directed numerous films shown

DOUBLE DARE

Double Dare is a double-barreled,actionpacked documentary about two Hollywood stuntwomen, Jeannie Epper and Zoe Bell. Jeannie, who refused to retire at sixty-two, doubled for Wonder Woman in the 70s, and Zoe landed the coveted job of doubling for Xena at the age of eighteen. With star-studded inter views and rollicking live-action stunt sequences, Double Dare is a candid look at two strong, dedicated women who pursue tough careers in male-dominated Tinseltown

“Six decades ago Margot Friedlander fled her native Berlin as the city succumbed to Nazi control. She narrowly escaped with her life; the rest of her family was not so fortunate. A lifetime later she returns to find a homeland she no longer recognizes, confronting bitter memories and educating German youth about hardships they can barely comprehend. A moving and unsentimental tale of one woman’s indomitable will to survive. (Jeff Economy)

on television here and abroad. Recently he completed the first segment of a compilation film about elderly women in the Unitd States, entitled I am… that premiered at the Jewish Women’s Film Festival in New York City, 2002. He produced and directed the lead segment for a television-special about Stanley Kubrick’s film 2001 - A Space Odyssey reaching the year it projected for German/French culture channel ARTE. For his participation in the Emmy winning documentar y about war crimes against women in former Yugoslavia Calling The Ghost, that debuted on HBO/Cinemax he won an ACE award in 1996 in the category international documentaries. Mr. Halaczinsky made his directorial debut as a codirector with Der

BIO

Amanda Micheli is an award-winning filmmaker with a solid background as both a director and a cinematographer. She shot, edited, and directed Just for the Ride, a documentary about the women’s pro rodeo circuit, that won an Academy Award and an International Documentary Association Award in student categories and premiered on the prestigious PBS series POV in 1996. Since then she has shot a Sundance Award-winning documentary (My Flesh and Blood, HBO) and an Emmy-nominated film set in Cambodia (The Flute Player, PBS). She was more recently the cinematographer of Witches in Exile, a film shot in Ghana, that won the Special Jury Prize at SXSW in spring 2004 and is scheduled for release later this fall.

Amanda’s second film as a director, Double Dare, won the audience award for Best

DON’T CALL IT HEIMWEH...

Directed by Thomas Halaczinsky

Main Credits:

Director,ProducerThomas Halaczinsky

CinematographerFrancisco Dominguez

EditorSabine Krayenbuehl W

Himmelsschluessel (Key to Heaven) a film about a 90-year-old woman and the impact that Catholic religion had on her life. (Directed by Karl Heinz Rehbach and produced for renowned Kleines Fernsehspiel ZDF, Germany.)

Documentar y at both the AFI FEST in Los Angeles and the San Francisco International Film Festival, and is scheduled for release in early 2005. She is currently shooting and producing an HBO documentar y directed by photographer Lauren Greenfield. Other production credits include You’re Gonna Miss Me (in post), Same River Twice (Sundance, 2003), and the ITVS series American Girls. Amanda is a graduate of Harvard University and has been a member of the top U.S. women’s rugby team for over a decade.

Directed by Amanda Micheli

/ 2003 / 81 minutes

DOCUMENTARY FEATURES

“Stunning cinematography blends sports and spirituality in this documentar y about a Tibetan refugee soccer team in India training for their first international event. Brisk editing deftly blends slow and fast motion and perfectly reveals this duality. A heartfelt exploration of themes of freedom and nationhood; a cameo by the Dalai Lama is an added treat.”(Barbara Pokras)

THE FORBIDDEN TEAM

EAST COAST PREMIERE

Directed by Arnold Krolgaard and Rasmus Dinesen

Main Credits:

DirectorsArnold Krolgaard, Rasmus Dinesen

ProducersKarim Stoumann

Jesper Holm, Joanna Din Mitchew

Malena Belafonte

EditorsMette Zeruneith Flemming Davidsen

ComposersJesper Mechienburg Supersonic

Screening with Devotion and Defiance

There’s a revolution going on in the farm fields and on the dinner tables of America–a revolution that originated behind the closed doors of corporate boardrooms and government agencies over the use of genetically modified organisms in our food. The Future of Food offers an in-depth investigation into the disturbing truth behind the unlabeled G.M.O products that have quietly filled grocery store shelves over the past decade.

From the test tube, to the farm field, to the supermarket, the film follows the personal stories of the farmers in the United States

The Forbidden Team is the story of a national football team without a nation It is a humorous documentary about a cultural clash, dreams coming true, and football–as Buddha would have played it!

The Forbidden Team follows the Tibetan National Soccer Team as they get ready for the first major game of their career. Invited to play against Greenland in Denmark, the Tibetan team enlists the ser vices of a Danish coach who struggles against the odds to get the team ready. They are described as “looking like the Flanders battlefield in World War One,” their training takes place in pea-soup fog, and their field is actually part of a thoroughfare used by people and animals during

and Canada who have been sued by large multinational corporations for continuing the time-honored tradition of saving seeds, and the scientists in the United States and Europe who have been censored for raising serious public and environmental health concerns. Finally, consumers are beginning to question why this has escaped the attention of both the media and the federal agencies in charge of keeping our food safe.

BIO

The Future of Food unravels the complex web of market and political forces that are changing the nature of what we eat. Deborah Koons Garcia fell in love with filmmaking when she first picked up a Bolex. Her educational series All About Babies, narrated by Jane Alexander, won a Cine Golden Eagle and a Gold Medal from the John Muir Medical Film Festival, among other awards. Deborah´s feature film Poco Loco “finds its groove in gentle romantic fan-

both practices and games. And dealing with the Indian government on visa matters is a whole other story!

What transpires is a beautiful film that paints an enormously touching portrait of a team for whom there is much more at stake than merely winning the game.

BIO

Rasmus Dinesen has produced and/or directed the short films Traffic Safety, The Duel, Summertime , and United Colors of Football Arnold Krøigaard directed the TV documentary Frederik to All Times and served as both the director and scriptwriter on the documentar y AIDS is Easy to Cure

THE FUTURE OF FOOD

Directed by Deborah Koons Garcia

Main Credits:

DirectorDeborah Koons Garcia

ProducersCatherine Lynn Butler

Deborah Koons Garcia

CinematographerJohn Chater

ScreenwriterDeborah Koons Garcia

EditorVivien Hillgrove

ComposerTodd Boekelheide

tasy,” according to Variety. She was the instigator and chief creative consultant for Grateful Dawg, a documentary about the musical friendship between her husband Jerr y Garcia and David Grisman. Grateful Dawg premiered at the Telluride Film Festival and went on to a lively run on the festival circuit, in theaters, and on television.

With Guerrilla ,filmmaker

Robert Stone brings into sharp focus the mood of the early 1970s, a mood that inspired the formation of the first radical domestic terrorist cell to become a media sensation in the United States, the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA). The SLA wreaked havoc on the West Coast and our national psyche for over two years, leaving behind a rich trove of paranoid recordings and scores of violent acts, including the kidnapping of heiress Patty Hearst, who would

DOCUMENTARY FEA-

GUERRILLA: THE TAKING OF PATTY HEARST

NEW YORK PREMIERE

Directed by Robert Stone

USA / 2004 / 90 minutes

subsequently join the SLA under the alias “Tania.” As much a thriller as it is a document of the times, Guerrilla brings a striking, shocking moment in the nation’s histor y back to light.

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Main Credits:

Producer Rober t Stone

Cinematographers

Howard Shack

Richard Neill

Robert Stone

EditorDon Kleszy

ComposerGary Lionelli

FeaturingMichael Bortin

Timothy Findley

Russell Little

“R obert Stone’s brilliant chronology of the SLA uses disembodied voices, first hand accounts and extensive archival footage to create a portrait of young people responding to the horrors of war and social inequality. W ith images of R obin Hood and the saga of Patty Hearst at its core, were these SLA ‘soldiers’ revolutionaries, terrorists, or true patriots?”

(Barbara Pokras)

BIO

Robert Stone was born in England in 1958 and spent his childhood in both England and America. He graduated with a degree in history from the University of Wisconsin/ Madison in 1980. Eventually settling in New York City, he began making a film about nuclear weapons testing in the Pacific. The result was the acclaimed Radio Bikini (1987), nominated for an Oscar for best feature documentar y. This was followed by the feature documentaries The Satellite Sky (1989), about the U.S. reaction to Sputnik; and Farewell Good Brothers(1992), about 1950 flying saucer cults. All three films are being rereleased in Hi-Def by IFC. Robert created a twenty-two-part permanent film and video installation for the JFK Librar y in Boston. He also served as a director of photography and associate producer on several documentaries, including the cult classic Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey(1994 Sundance Award winner). His only fictional film is World War Three (1998), a controversial fake “historical documentary” for ZDF German Television. In recent years he has shot and directed several verité films including the feature documentary American Babylon (2000), about Atlantic City. He lives in Rhinebeck, NY, with his wife and two sons.

Courtesy of Magnolia Pictures

DOCUMENTARY FEATURES

I LIKE KILLING FLIES

U.S.PREMIERE In Competition

Directed by Matt Mahurin

USA / 2003 / 80 minutes

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Main Credits:

Director ,Producer,

Cinematography,Editor Matt Mahurin

With over 900 items on the menu, all conjured up from scratch in a Rube Goldberg kitchen the size of a walk-in closet, Kenny Shopsin, a self-taught chef in his tiny familyowned New York City restaurant, spends his days feeding his neighbors. And when there is a lull in the cooking, Kenny steps out from

In the Realms of the Unreal explores outsider ar t from the inside . Eschewing expert opinion, it reflects the uniqueness of its subject, employing vivid animation and experimental elements to immerse us in Henry Darger’s world and all its strange beauty. Brought to life on film, the works reverberate with universal themes: the search for meaning, control, connection, moral direction. Through Darger’s eyes, the film reveals this odd man to be Ever yman. He lived a virtually friendless existence, but his imaginary life was as exciting and colorful as his real life was tedious. By day, he scrubbed floors, attended Mass, rummaged through garbage cans. By night, he ruled a world in which the forces of innocence and good fought a bloody

behind his Frankenstein stove and holds court, serving up morsels of wisdom and wit on life, death, sex, politics, and even food. But after thirty-two years in the same sheltered workshop, his family loses the lease and must now find a new place for Kenny to cook.

BIO

Matt Mahurin, who lives in New York City. has spent twenty years as an illustrator, photographer, film director, and teacher. His political and social illustrations have appeared in Time, Newsweek, Mother Jones, Rolling Stone, Esquire, The London Obser ver and New York Times

His photographic essays have focused on the homeless, people with AIDS, the Texas prison system, abortion clinics, mental hospi-

tals, Nicaragua, Haiti, Belfast, Mexico, Japan, and France. He has published three books of personal fine-art photographs and has photographs in the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.

Matt has directed music videos for Peter Gabriel, U2, REM, Tracy Chapman, Sting, Bonnie Raitt, Ice-T, Metallica, David Byrne, and Joni Mitchell. In 1996, he wrote and directed the feature film Mugshot, which won the Best Film Award at the 1996 Hamptons Film Festival

IN THE REALMS OF THE UNREAL

Directed by Jessica Yu

USA / 2004 / 81 minutes

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Main Credits:

battle against the forces of treachery and evil. By juxtaposing Henry Darger’s parallel but opposite universes, the film shows how he forged magic out of the bleakest of lives, leaving a legacy that has inspired other artists around the world.

BIO

Jessica Yu, a Los Angeles-based filmmaker, won the 1997 Academy Award for Best Documentary Short for Breathing Lessons: The Life And Work of Mark O’Brien, an intimate portrait of a writer who lived for four decades paralyzed by polio and confined to an iron lung.

Yu’s narrative short Better L ate was the debut film for the fXM Shorts Series. It has been featured in sixty festivals since its premiere at Sundance 1997, and won First Prize for Short Drama at the New York Festival. Her

DirectorJessica Yu

ProducersSusan West,Jessica Yu

Screenwriter/EditorJessica Yu

CinematographerTim Bieber

MusicJeff Beal (original music)

FeaturingHenry Darger

Dakota Fanning (narration) Larry Pine (narration)

other films include Men of Reenaction; Sour Death Balls , which won several awards including Best Live Action Short at the Santa Barbara Film Festival; and the documentary Home Base, the winner of several festival awards. She also directs commercials, for which she has won a New York Emmy.

DOCUMENTARY FEATURES

A LEAGUE OF ORDINARY GENTLEMEN

In Competition

Directed by Christopher Browne

Main Credits:

DirectorChristopher Browne

ProducersWilhelmus Bryan Alexander Browne

CinematographersMike Dejalaise

Dan Marachino

Ken Seng

EditorsKurt Engfehr

Dave Tung

MusicGary Meister

Four professional bowlers’lives are interrupted when their league is purchased by a trio of Microsoft programmers who hire a Nike marketing guru to turn professional bowling into the next second-tier sports franchise.

Ann Krsul and Leslie Sullivan want to be mothers together. Ann will carry the baby and Leslie will leave her job to stay at home and raise their child. Choosing the route of the anonymous sperm bank, they hope to match Leslie’s physical characteristics so that Ann can give birth to a baby with the potential to look like them both. Ann is a worrier, compulsively analyzing and judging their performance at each stage of the process. Leslie is soothing, a quiet counterpoint. Together they ride the menstrual roller coaster, until finally, one year later, Ann is pregnant. At first, both women continue to work. Free time is consumed by pre-birth activity: baby shower registration, L amaze class, and design of the baby announcement. Between events, they argue with relatives over how to explain two mommies to their nieces and nephews. Month eight, Leslie ends her job to prepare for full-

time mommyhood. Ann continues to work all hours, holding her now-huge tummy as she shuffles from job site to job site, fretting over ever ything. But Baby Grace is born on time, with bright red hair (a trait known to neither family). Gund follows the Krsul-Sullivan household during Grace’s first year. As Ann and Leslie make their way, we are with them, meeting challenges universal to all families and facing those unique to lesbians.

BIO

Catherine Gund, the founder of Aubin Pictures, is an award-winning film/videomaker, writer, and organizer. Her media work, which focuses on the radical right, race relations, art and culture, HIV/AIDS, reproductive rights, the concept of democracy, and gay and lesbian issues, has screened around the world in festivals, on public and cable television, and at

BIO

Chris Browne’s film career began in 1999 as a production assistant on laxative commercials in New York. He then moved into documentary film, working at the Checkerboard Film Foundation, where he helped produce several little-seen documentaries about local artists.

MAKING GRACE

Directed by Catherine Gund USA / 2004 / 87 minutes WCC 10/16 • 3:15m

Main Credits: Director,Producer, Cinematographer Catherine Gund EditorAljernon Tunsil ComposerPaul Armstrong

Screening with Shake the Rain

community-based organizations, universities, and museums. Her productions include On Hostile Ground, Hallelujah! Ron Athey: A Story of Deliverance, When Democracy Works, Positive: Life with HIV, Sacred Lies Civil Truths, Not Just Passing Through, Among Good Christian Peoples, and Keep Your L aws Off My Body, as well as work with the collectives DIVA TV (co-founder) and Paper Tiger Television. She was the founding director of BENT TV, the video workshop at the Hetrick-Martin Institute for gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender-youth.

DOCUMENTARY FEATURES

MOJADOS: THROUGH THE NIGHT

Directed by Tommy Davis

USA / 2004 / 64 minutes in Spanish and English Town Hall 10/16 • 1:00pm

Main Credits:

Director,Screenwriter,

Cinematographer Tommy Davis

ProducerNicole Boxer

EditorsLuis DeLeon, Tommy Davis

ComposerSin Panache

FeaturingGuapo,Oso,Tigre,Viejo, Mario Agundez

James Chism

Dave Evans

George Manzango

Ryan Massey

George Morin

Preceded by Victoria Para Chino

Looks like an alien,sings like a diva–Klaus Nomi was one of the 1980s most profoundly bizarre characters: a countertenor who sang pop music like opera and brought opera to club audiences and made them like it. A story of fame, death, friendship, betrayal, performance, and the greatest New Wave rock star that never was!

Andrew Horn’s writing and directing work has encompassed a wide range (from films on post-modern dance in

“Verite footage is the backbone of this harrowing journey of four Mexicans driven to endure hunger, thirst and danger to better the lives of their families. Night footage of the border crossing is especially haunting. Interspersed with interviews, some flashbacks and a skillfully executed photo montage this is video journalism of the highest order.” (Barbara Pokras)

Director Tommy Davis goes along with four men from a small village in Mexico as they leave their families, embark on a 120mile trek across the deserts of Texas, and attempt to evade the U.S. Border Patrol, overcome dehydration and hypothermia, and come face-to-face with death.

BIO

Tommy Davis (writer, producer, director) was born in McAllen, Texas, in 1978. He studied at the George Washington University and interned during his summers for Artisan Pictures, Jersey Films, and Miramax Films. He has written and directed several short fiction films. Mojados: Through the Night is his first documentar y

“Even in New York’s new wave scene where shock and outrage was the norm, Klaus Nomi was a true pop music anomaly, a unforgettably striking performer with androgynous extraterrestrial looks and an operatic falsetto to match. Nomi was like an apparition that seemingly could have appeared at no other time, yet seemed to exist outside of time; he hobnobbed and collaborated with figures like David Bowie and incredibly, brushed up against mainstream success before his life was tragically cut short as one of the first victims of AIDS. Music, reminiscences, and neverbefore-seen archival footage fill this loving tribute.” (Jeff Economy)

New York to one of Germany’s most popular soap operas; from film musicals to music documentaries; from Eastern Europe to the East Village. His feature films include Doomed Love and The Big Blue, as well as the documentar y feature East Side Stor y

Born in New York, Andrew Horn graduated from New York University School of the Arts, where his junior thesis film was nominated for an Academy Award. After living in New York as a filmmaker and graphic artist

THE NOMI SONG

EAST COAST PREMIERE

Directed by Andrew Hor n USA / 2004 / 96 minutes

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Main Credits:

DirectorAndrew Horn

ProducersThomas Mertens, Annette Pusacane, Andrew Horn

CinematographerMark Daniels

Editor Anne Even

(before the age of the computer!), he came to Berlin in 1989 as a guest of the DAAD Berlin Artist Exchange fellowship program, where he has remained, working as a filmmaker, writer, journalist, and film researcher. His latest film, The Nomi Song, brings all the above together. “It somehow marks the last hurrah of my youth-in time, but hopefully not in spirit.”

Courtesy of Palm Pictures

DOCUMENTARY FEATURES

Is America ready for war? Follow the Arkansas National Guard as weekend warriors are activated, trained, and finally deployed to Iraq. Observe what happens to their businesses, churches, schools, and families. This is the new millennium’s real Band of Brothers. This is history’s only film that documents a war and a group of soldiers from start to finish.

Parallel Lines is an American road trip movie with a twist. The journey takes place in the fall of 2001, as filmmaker Nina Davenport drives from California back home to New York, where her apartment once overlooked the World Trade Center. The events of September 11th quickly recede into the background of this documentary, becoming instead a portal into the inner lives of Americans. The filmmaker stops along the road to talk with strangers who end up sharing their personal stories of loss with astonishing candor: A woman tells of losing custody of her children; a veteran describes his battle with post traumatic stress disorder; a cowboy reveals that his mother murdered his father. Touching on a wide range of subjects from the meaning of love to the horror of the atomic bomb, a film that begins as the story of one New Yorker’s journey home in the aftermath of tragedy becomes a portrait of American identity and histor y.

OFF TO WAR

BIO

Brent and Craig Renaud are brothers and filmmakers who were born and raised in Little Rock, Ark.

Since 1995, they have been working with celebrated documentary filmmaker Jon Alpert on award-winning projects in places like Afghanistan, Cambodia, Bolivia, China, Pakistan and Iraq.

In addition to the Off to War series for the Discovery Times Channel, the Renaud brothers are finishing their first film for HBO called Dope Sick Love and due out this fall.

“New Yorker Nina Davenport was in San Diego at the time of the September 11 terrorist attacks. A few weeks after wards she took a six-week-long road trip back to her home town, with only her video camera and random meetings with friendly strangers for companionship. She documented their simple transient intimacies along with her own thoughtful ruminations; the result is this warm and humane essay-style documentar y that engages the viewer in the kind of dialogue possible in the days after the tragedy, a poignant memento of a fleeting vulnerable communal moment that already seems relegated to memory.”

(Jeff Economy)

BIO

Parallel Lines is Nina Davenport’s third film. Her first film, Hello Photo, completed in 1995 and funded by Harvard University’s Film Study Center, depicts her travels through India. Davenport’s second film, Always a Bridemaid, premiered in 2000 on HBO/Cinemax Reel Life and on Channel Four ’s True Stories in the United Kingdom Davenport is the recipient of an National Endowment for the Arts grant.

Directed by Brent and Craig Renaud USA / 2004 / 75 minutes Bearsville Theate 10/14 • 8:30pm

ProducerJon Alpert

Directed,Produced,

Filmed and Edited byBrent and Craig Renaud

Co-Editor(s)John Custodio

Eddie Stein

Preceded by Getting Through to the President

Meet Brent and/or Craig Renaud at the In Your face panel on Sunday, Oct. 17 at 10am.

PARALLEL LINES

IN COMPETITION

Directed by Nina Davenport USA / 2003 /98 minutes WCC 10/16 •1:30pm CMF 2 10/17 • 1:00pm

Main Credits:

Director,Producer,Cinematographer, EditorNina Davenport

MusicSheldon Mirowitz

She works as a producer and cameraperson on many television shows, including NBC’s Crime & Punishment, Bravo’s The ‘IT’ Factor and PBS’s Art Close Up. She shoots and edits all of her films, and is currently finishing her fourth film, Los Pericos, about a mariachi duo in Mexico. Davenport grew up in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, and lives in New York City.

DOCUMENTARY FEATURES

POPaganda:The Art & Subversion of Ron English is a film about the culture-jamming and billboard-liberation antics of Ron English. The modern-day Robin Hood of Madison Avenue, Ron paints, perverts, infiltrates, reinvents, and satirizes modern culture on canvas, in songs, and on hundreds of pirated billboards. Shot entirely

SCREAMING MEN (HUUTAJAT)

Directed by Mika Ronkainen

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Finland-Denmark / 2003 / 76 minutes Tinker Street 10/15 • 12:30pm Upstate 2 10/17 • 3:00pm

Main Credits:

Director,ScreenwriterMika Ronkainen

ProducerKimmo Paananen

CinematographerVesa Taipaleenmäki

EditorPernille Bech Christensen

MusicOlli Tuomainen Petri Sirviö

Meet the choir of screaming men that travels from Finland to Tokyo with the goal of getting good photographs of their Japanese audience while performing the Japanese national

guerilla style, the film chronicles the evolution of an artist who offers an alternative universe where nothing is sacred, everything is subverted, and there’s always room for a little good-natured fun.

BIO

Pedro Carvajal has made documentaries on East Village squatters, the Yanomami, and an AIDS patient (winning the Chicago International Film Festival’s Silver Plaque Award). His video series Citizen Art and Subvertising focuses on culture jamming in public spaces, particularly billboard liberation, in which an outdoor ad is altered to critique the original company or product, or to deliver a public ser vice message. Citizen Art focuses on the antics of the billboard libera-

POPaganda: The Art & Subversion of Ron English

Directed by Pedro Carvajal

USA / 2004 / 78 minutes

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Main Credits:

Director/ProducerPedro Carvajal

EditorKevin Chapados

Featuring the art of Ron English.

Also featuring art by Shepard Fairey, ArtFux,Cicada,and Anthony Ausgang

tion collectives Artfux and Cicada, with whom Pedro collaborated in Jersey City and New York. Subvertising has additional grass roots footage, as well as commentary by sociologists and media critics.

anthem. Meet the choir that screams the French national anthem at the museum of modern art in Paris even though the museum and the embassy of Finland try to prevent them…

Screaming Men is a film about power, nationalism, intransigence, and firm belief in your own art. The creative process of conductor Sirviö often leads to conflicts between the choir and the outside world - sometimes also within the choir. The film follows the choir both in Finland and on international concert trips (France, Japan, and Iceland) during a time span of five years. Similarly to the choir, the documentary walks the thin line between the dead serious and the absurd.

BIO

Mika Ronkainen is the most productive documentary filmmaker in the northern half of Finland. Screaming Men is his theatrical distribution debut. His previous work includes the prize-winning and acclaimed documentaries Before the Flood, Father ’s Day, Oulu Bur ning, and Car Bonus. Ronkainen has predominantly depicted social themes. The cultural board of the city Oulu rewarded Ronkainen with the Oulu City Culture Award of 2002 and the Art Committee of the Oulu Province named Ronkainen the young artist of 1998. Ronkainen was a member of Mieskuoro Huutajat from 1994 to 1998.

The Onteora School District includes Woodstock,plus 350 square miles of rural New York. In January 2000, the Onteora Indian was removed after fifty years as the school’s mascot. A backlash followed, which The New York Times headlined “Culture War in the Catskills.” Conservatives swept into office, restored the mascot, removed the antidiscrimination policy, and began micromanaging the district. The school board was the best show in town, and Tobe Carey, and his wife were right in the middle of it all.

DOCUMENTARY FEATURES

SCHOOL BOARD BLUES

“First God invented idiots. That was just for practice. Then, he invented School Boards.”

Mark Twain

Tobe Carey is a documentary maker with thirty years of experience. From innovative films like Giving Birth, honored at the First Global Village Video Festival in 1972, through School Board Blues, he has produced dozens of long- and short-form programs. His recent documentaries, Deep Water: Building the Catskill Water System (co -produced with Artie Traum and Robbie Dupree) and Indian PointNowhere to Run, were featured at the 2002 and 2003 Woodstock Film Festival and are in active distribution.

Shocking and awful is the way many people view the current situation in Iraq and the United States. The war continues to takes its toll on Iraqi civilians, international aid workers, journalists and U.S. troops. Here at home we are seeing how waging a “perpetual war” is affecting our own lives as well.

Selections will be screened from this thirteen part series on war and occupation, a compilation of work from around the countr y and the world. Topics include: Women and War, Art of R esistance, The Militar y (Dance of Death), The Destruction of the Libraries and Museums: Erasing History

Tobe is president of Willow Mixed Media, Inc., a not-for-profit group specializing in arts projects and documentaries about issues of social concerns. Among his productions are The Hudson River PCB Story, Woodstock Summer of 94, Cancer: Just a Word...Not a Sentence, and Always Creative with Linda M. Montano. He and his wife, Meg Carey, have worked as co -producers on several documentaries, including The Infertility Tape and School Board Blues

BIO

Deep Dish TV (as in parabolic and apple or pizza pie) is the first national satellite network, linking local access producers and programmers, independent video makers, activists, and other individuals who support the idea and reality of a progressive television network. While commercial networks present a homogenous and onedimensional view of society, Deep Dish thrives on diversity. Instead of television that encourages passivity, Deep Dish distributes creative programming that educates and activates.

DOCUMENTARY FEATURES

“I thought I could perhaps make a difference before the election, let people see the situation, how Iraqis wanted to get rid of Saddam, but also show what war does to people.” These are the words, spoken by director David O. Russell, and quoted in an August 16th article in the New York Times, that prompted Warner Brothers to drop Soldiers Pay unceremoniously from it’s roster. The film, which was graciously given back to the filmmakers to distribute on their own, is a

meditation on the current war in Iraq. David O. Russell, together with co-filmmakers Tricia Regan and Juan Carlos Zaldivar, interviewed dozens of people over a six week period, and created a chorus of voices -- including veterans of the war, Iraqis who rose up against Saddam after the last war and escaped to the US, journalists, politicians, psychologists, and even a two star general who led the Marines to victory in the first Gulf War. Soldiers Pay is not a partisan film, it listens to

SOLDIERS PAY

people from all sides, and of varying opinions. What the film strives to do is give a full picture of a morally ambiguous war, one which is exacting an enormous toll on our soldiers, on Iraq, and on America.

Still, the Children are Here

Hall 10/16 • 2:45pm

For the Garo people of Sadolpara,growing rice is a way of life and worship. As the world changes around them and they come face-to -face with market economies, they find this is no longer enough.

This intimate portrait of a community presents us with a stor y of life and humanity that is common to us all.

By following one agricultural cycle of growing rice in the Himalayan foothills, this film allows us a glimpse into a society at the edge of change and allows us to critically examine the nature of “development.”

“Beautifully produced, shot and edited, this study of the Garo families in Saldolpara, Northern India features extraordinarily intimate footage of a people who are the guardians of ancient strains of rice. Two elderly sisters provide a running commentary on changing ways, and the legend of the Sungod is woven throughout. A richly narrative experience.”

(Barbara Pokras)

BIO

Dinaz Stafford was born in London, and grew up in Bombay. She graduated from the University of Bombay and went on to complete a master degree in Psychology in Richmond. After working as a psychologist with violent emotionally disturbed children, she met diector Mira Nair, who wanted to have a child psychologist at the workshops for street children during the making of Salaam

Bombay! . Dinaz subsequently worked with Nair on Mississippi Masala, The Perez Family and Kama Sutra. She also did local casting for the John Sayles film Sunshine State (2001).

In 1993 Dinaz Stafford made Kisses on a Train, a short film for Channel Four that won the Grand Prix at the Clermont Short Film Festival and the Audience Prize in Geneva.

Dinaz commutes between India, the U.K., and the States, and when asked where she feels most comfortable, she admits–in an airplane. Still, the Children Are Here is her first feature documentar y film.

Directed by David O. Russell, Tricia Regan, and Juan Carlos Zaldivar

USA / 2004 / TBD Bearsville Theater 10/16 • 12:45pm

Directed byDinaz Stafford India / USA / 2004 / 86 minutes

*Indigenous language of Garo people with subtitles Town

TROLLYWOOD

“The meaning of the shopping cart, or “trolly” becomes a central theme in this refreshingly clever and straightforward exploration of the many facets of homelessness in Los Angeles. Well crafted and skillfully blending humor and pathos, this often invisible population is revealed in all its’ diversity and individuality. A rich mosaic of music adds to the mix.”

Seizing on the humble shopping cart as a metaphor for the dispossessed, firsttime director Madeleine Farley goes behind the scenes to explore life on the streets with some of Los Angeles’s homeless. Trollywood presents a moving portrait, as she gives homelessness a human face, and shows that where there is great material depravation there is solidarity and hope.

BIO

(Barbara Pokras)

Madeleine Farley is a London-based photographer and filmmaker.

In December 2001 she arrived in Los Angeles for the opening of her traveling exhibition Movie Tips. By this point Madeleine had added a short animated film to the show: a pastiche of Psycho starring Q-Tips.

Appalled by the level of homelessness in L.A. and the juxtaposition of extreme wealth and severe poverty, she set about documenting the city’s homeless in a series of photographs.

“Incredible as it may sound in 2004, there are places where the term “witch hunt” is not an archaic metaphor, but a brutal reality. In contemporary Ghana, superstitions act as a kind of social control where misogyny is a way of life, and the mere fact of being a woman is enough to condemn you to death. Through interviews with some of the thousands of “Witches Homes” internment camp residents, clips from popular witch-hunting films like “End of the Wicked,” and footage from actual witch-testing and -curing ceremonies, Witches In Exileuncovers a dis turbing slice of feudal superstition still alive today.” (Jeff Economy)

A gripping stor y of women in Ghana accused of witchcraft and exiled to “safe camps.” Often charged with murder for “unexplained” deaths, these women are victims of widely held cultural beliefs.

Allison Berg field produced “A Boy’s Life”, directed by Rory Kennedy, for HB O. Berg has associate producer and research credits on projects including “Different Moms”, directed by Liz Garbus and Rory Kennedy and “Family Name”, directed by Macky Alston and winner of the 1997 Freedom of Expression Award at the Sundance Film Festival.

Directed by Madeleine Farley 2004 / UK / 80 minutes Tinker Street 10/17 • 11:00am

She soon realized that if she really wanted to capture their humor, courage, and chutzpah in a credible way, she was working in the wrong medium. Trollywood, a documentar y exposing the flip side of the American Dream and the lives and lifestyle of the spiritually rich but materially poor, was born.

Madeleine Farley is currently working on her first feature, a love story set in Londons starring Lucy Davis from the TV show The Office (UK).

WITCHES IN EXILE

by Allison

2004 / USA / 79 minutes

Town Hall 10/15 • 5:00pm

Directed

Berg

BIO

DOCUMENTARY FEATURES

Featuring charismatic Tibetan lama and filmmaker Dzongsar Khyentse Norbu, Words Of My Perfect Teacher is the warm and comedic story of three students on journey in search of wisdom — chasing a guru who doesn’t want to be found.

BIO

Lesley Ann Patten is a director/writer who began creating material for television in 1990. Her work has been broadcast internationally in Canada, the U.S. and Europe. In addition to directing, writing, and co-producing her first feature-length documentary, Words Of My Perfect Teacher, Ms. Patten is featured in the film in her first on-camera role.

Words Of My Perfect Teacher

Director/ Screenwriter:

Lesley Ann Patten USA / 2003 / 102 minutes

Tinker Street 10/16 • 10:30am

Main Credits:

ProducersKent Martin

Lesley Ann Patten

CinematographerKent Nason

Editor(s)Peter Giffen

Lesley Ann Patten

FeaturingZongsar Khyentse

Rinpoche

Bernando Bertolucci

Gesar Mukpo

Steven Seagal

Aunt Shirley

The World According to Bush is based on fully verified facts and eyewitness accounts. It offers a disturbing and striking portrait of the exercise of power at the head of the world’s leading democracy, as well as of the unacceptable alliances that have been forged and that remain painstakingly concealed.

The Bushes’ feelings of total impunity have attained their peak during the professional career and the political ascension of George W. Bush. His decision to attack Iraq and overthrow Saddam Hussein’s regime already appears as one of the most fascinating historical and political conundrums for historians to ponder over in the coming years.

No thriller or political fiction screenplay could have imagined the workings of such an intricate plot. Unfortunately, its actors are not fictional characters but, on the contrar y, a man and a team who hold the fate of the world in their hands. For the first

THE WORLD ACCORDING TO BUSH (LE MONDE SELON BUSH)

Directed by William Karel in collaboration with Eric Laurent author La guerre des Bush and Le monde secret de Bush (Editions Plon)

France / 2004 / 90 minutes

Upstate 2 10/14• 7:30pm

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Bearsville Theater 10/15 •12:00pm

project that George W. Bush identifies with completely, initiated by extremists who are part of the President’s direct entourage. Religion has taken on an all-important role since his arrival at the White House.

time in the political history of the USA, a small group of people, working together for thirty years, has more or less taken over American foreign policy and totally overhauled it, silencing all opposition. Behind the proclaimed global strategy, we find not only considerable economic interests but also a possibly more disturbing aspect, a religious

Never before in the history of the world’s democracies have one man and his team acted with such arrogance and impunity, defying international law and creating an unprecedented grouping of interests: the project blends politics and personal interests in an atmosphere of total cynicism. The latest war against Iraq, with its totally unforeseeable consequences, hides another danger, that of seeing America launch further “civilizing” operations of a similar type, imposed by force, fired by ideas that are at best naïve and at worst totally hypocritical, calculated over a dangerously short term.

Preceded by Victoria Para Chino at Upstate showing

Courtesy of Flach Pictures

ANIMATED FILMS

WThe Point

Directed by Fred Wolf

USA / 1971 / 74 minutes

Bearsville Theater 10/17 • 10:30am Special Kids Show

Main Credits:

ScreenwritersHarry Nilsson,Norm Lenzer

Music & Songs:Harry Nilsson

Cast membersRingo Starr (Narrator)

Dustin Hoffman

(Narrator)

Paul Frees

Lennie Weinrib

Bill Martin

Buddy Foster

Joan Gerber

Mike Lookinland

Alan Barzman

Alan Thicke

Once upon a time in the town of Point, ever ything — all the buildings, trees, and even the people were pointed. Except for one littleround-headed kid named Oblio.

The recent re-release on DVD by BMG Entertainment is available at Amazon.com,Barnes & Nobles and other media outlets.

The Point! is a wonderful adventure, enchanting both children and adults since 1971. Harry Nilsson’s The Point! tells the story of Oblio and his dog Arrow through narration and song. It

is narrated by Ringo Starr.

Screening With...

GUARD DOG

Produced, Animated and Directed by Bill Plympton

2004 / USA / 5 minutes

Why do dogs bark at such innocent creature as pigeons and squirrels? What are they afraid of? This film answers that eternal question.

HAIR HIGH

by Bill Plympton

USA/ 2004/78 minutes

Bearsville Theater 10/16 • 7:00pm W

ANIMATED FILMS

*Parental Advisory: Not appropriate for children 14 and under

An outrageous Gothic myth from the 1950s Hair High is the legend of Cherri and Spud, a teenage couple who are murdered on prom night and left for dead at the bottom of Echo Lake. Exactly a year later, their skeletal remains come back to life and they return to the prom for revenge and their justly deserved crowns.

Featuring the voices of Ed Begley Jr., Craig Bierko, David Carradine, Keith Carradine, Beverly D’Angelo, Hayley DuMond, Don Hertzfeldt, Eric Gilliland, Matt Groening, Peter Jason, Justin Long, Dermot Mulroney, Tom Noonan, Jay O. Sanders, Zak Orth, Martha Plimpton, Michael Showalter, and Sarah Silverman.

BILL PLYMPTON

The Tune was animator Bill Plympton’s first full-length feature. His short films have been seen widely around the countr y, highlighting many animation festivals. His oblique, off-center sense of the ridiculous in everyday life has made Plymptoons and his other shorts popular MTV offerings.

photo: Neil Colligan

All information is subject to change.

Please visit www.woodstockfilmfestival.com for the most up to date information including SCHEDULES,added screenings,and OTHER EVENTS.

67Animated Shorts

68Screening With…

69Narrative Shorts

70Death,Confusion,& Hysterics

72Love & Hate

74Documentary

76Coming of Age

77Focus on Music

78Almost Midnight

80Youth Initiative

SHORTS

ANIMATION

Programmed by Signe Baumane and Bill Plympton

ANIMALS IN LOVE

BID THEM IN

BIKINI

CHILDHOOD TRAUMA

COFFEE

CRACK OF DOOM

FROG

GET IN THE CAR

KIKO

THE MEATRIX

PINK AND PONG

PLASTICAT

POOR GOD

ROBOTS IN “FOR NO REASON AT ALL IN C”

RYAN

SEVENTEEN

THIS IS NOT AN END

*Parental Advisory

Fri.Oct.15,6:30pm @ CMF

Sat. Oct. 16,7pm @Bearsville W H

ANIMALS IN LOVE

Directed by Ben Meinhardt

Canada / 2004 / 2 minutes

Animals sing and dance and live happily in the forest until an intruder changes everything.

USA / 2004 / 2 minutes

BID THEM IN

by Neal Sopota

A young woman’s humanity is cruelly rejected as she is placed on the auction block of a small Southern town in pre-Civil War America.

CHILDHOOD TRAUMA #17

by Mike de Kraker

UK / 2004 / 2 minutes

A child has a traumatic experience as he prepares to jump from the diving board for the first time.

BIKINI

A SWEDISH ECSTASY FILM

Sweden / 2004 / 6 minutes

Bikini is an animated musical about a young man who is afraid to come out of the closet. The setting is a beach in 1960 where a couple of happy twins and their lady friend like to spend the summer.

COFFEE

by Rohitash Rao

USA / 2004 / 1:20 minutes

A man is forced to deal with his insecurities when he sees God’s face in his coffee.

CRACK OF DOOM

by Natalia Wilkoszewska

Poland/ 2002 / 2 minutes

The movie is based on the song by “The Tiger Lillies.”

FROG

by Christopher Conforti

USA / 2004 / 4 minutes

This film is about a frog who in his search for water finds himself evading panic-stricken swimmers and a vicious house cat, and eventually passes through the human digestive system before reaching his salvation in a tranquil lake.

ANIMATED SHORTS

KIKO

Directed by Ondrei Rudavskiy

USA / 3:30 minutes

“A magical odyssey of a moon spirit traveling through worlds of dreams and fantasy.” –Bruce Ashlie.

THEMEATRIX

by L ouis Fox

USA / 2003 / 4 minutes

The Meatrix is a humorous four-minute Flash animation that spoofs the Matrix films and highlights the problems of factory farming. Instead of Keanu Reeves, The Meatrix stars a young pig, Leo, who lives on a pleasant family farm ... he thinks. Leo is approached by a trenchcoat-clad cow, Moopheus, who shows him the ugly truth about agribusiness, complete with a send-up of the stop-motion camerawork immortalized by the Matrix. At the end of the movie, viewers are directed to an action page where they are encouraged to eat sustainable meat and support local family farmers.

PINK AND PONG

by Alina Bliumis

USA / 2004 / 3 minutes

A search for kindred souls in an imaginary world of a big city.

PLASTICAT

by Simon Bogojevic-Narath

Croatia / 2003 / 10 minutes

NIGHT. METROPOLIS. A POCKET FULL OF CASH.

A casual walk in the streets is about to turn somebody’s life down-side up!

POOR GOD

by Matthew Abbiss

UK / 2004 / 2 minutes

A little man goes for a chat with God.

ROBOTS IN “FOR NO REASON AT ALL IN C”

by Cathy K arol

USA / 2004 / 3 minutes

Robots walk, dance, and connect in a modern world.

SEVENTEEN

by Hisko Hulsing

The Netherlands / 2003 / 12 minutes

A shy seventeen-year-old construction worker tries to hold his own in the macho world of roofers. Animated in a Dutch painting style called ‘magical realism’.

RYAN

by Chris

Landreth

Canada / 2004 / 14 minutes

Ryan, directed by Chris Landreth, is an animated tribute to Canadian animator Ryan Larkin. Thirty years ago, at the National Film Board of Canada, Ryan produced some of the most influential animated films of his time. Today, Ryan lives on welfare and panhandles for spare change in downtown Montreal. How could such an artistic genius follow this path? Produced by Steven Hoban, Marcy Page, Mark Smith. Produced by Copper Heart Entertainment in co-production with The National Film Board Of Canada.

THIS IS NOT AN END

by Jesper Fleng

Denmark / 2004 / 4 minutes

In this music video for the Danish Band Grand Avenue, a man’s hopeless journey to bring back his girl takes him on a trip through his own mind.

SHORTS

SCREENING WITH…

OLD COUNTRY

THE43RD SPRING

DEVOTION ANDDEFIANCE

GETTINGTHROUGHTOTHE

PRESIDENT

SANGAM

SHAKETHERAIN

VICTORIA PARA CHINO

Screening with:Don’t Call It Heimweh…

OLD COUNTRY

Directed by Mark A dam and Allen Kaeja Canada / 2004 / 24 minutes

Old Country explores the dynamics of a community confronted with the imminent brutality of war. Shifting allegiances and values challenge the community members complex levels of relationship and connectedness. The ensemble cast shows how the fabric of a society can be stretched and torn in dark times.

DEVOTION AND DEFIANCE

A short film by Kunga Palmo

USA / 2004 / 35 minutes

This powerful film contains extensive footage from monasteries in Tibet and chronicles the complex struggle of monks and nuns who defy the Chinese government’s heavy-handed attempt at control. Produced by the International Campaign for Tibet.

Screening with The Forbidden Team

THE 43RD SPRING

A short film by Kirstin Steffen Germany / 2004 / 11:40 minutes

Christa, Willy, and Katharina have been neighbors in a suburb of Cologne, Germany, since February 1961.

Now in their seventies, the three look back on the formative years that have gone by and the changes that have affected their lives, and the lives of their families and neighbors.

The film examines past and present hopes, and the significance of being a “neighbor.”

SANGAM

Directed by Prashant Bhargava

USA / 2004 / 22 minutes

Raj, a recent immigrant from India, and Vivek, a disillusioned Indian-American, meet on a subway to Brooklyn. As each longs for what the other takes for granted, they must confront the currents that bind and divide them.

Screening with Cosmopolitan

GET TING THROUGH TO THE PRESIDENT

A short film by Emily and Sarah Kunstler

USA / 2004 / 7:28 minutes

From May 5-8, 2004, the Documentary Campaign commandeered a payphone

in Washington Square Park to record telephone calls made to the White House comment line by hundreds of New Yorkers.

Screening with Off to War(on 9/14)and POPaganda (on 9/16)

REX STEELE: NAZI SMASHER

Directed by Alex Woo

USA / 2004 / 10:30 miinutes

It is 1941, and the United States is at war with Nazi Germany. The U.S. Government has just been informed that Eval Schnitzler has occupied a remote location near the mysterious source of the Amazon River. Convinced that his motives are more than leisurely, the United States sends Rex Steele, Nazi smasher extraordinaire, to find and foil Eval's evil plans. Rex flies into the Amazon with his sidekick, Miss Penny Thimble, and the two embark on a journey full of action, adventure, and of course, Nazi smashing galore!

Preceding The Fittest

SCREENING WITH…

VICTORIA PARA CHINO

Directed by Cary Fukunaga

USA / 2004 / 13 minutes

In 2003 a refrigerated truck carrying more than eighty undocumented immigrants from the Mexican border drove into the heartland of Texas, where a deadly combination of heat and overcrowding led to tragedy. This is the story about that journey.

Screening with Mojados: Through The Night and TBD

SHAKE THE RAIN

Directed

by

D. Robin Hammer

USA / 2004 / 13 minutes

In a dramatic reading of powerful and courageous original writing, author Tennessee Jones speaks of gender, desire, brutality, and hope in a beautifully drawn account. Eloquent, sensitive, and keenly observed, the text then combines with the filmmaker’s art to bring about a unique expression of storytelling of a multi layered truth, and glimpses into aspects of one Appalachian childhood.

Screening with Making Grace and TBD

SHORTS: LA COMMEDIA DEATH

CONFUSION, & HYSTERICS

BELLE

CHOKE

CODED LANGUAGE

THE CRUX

JIHAD

LIGHT MY FIRE

THE LOST CAUSE

SHOCK ANDAWE

STRING

THE VIRILE MAN

WHEN THINGS GET CONFUSED (WENN DIE DINGE DURCHEINANDER GERATEN

WHO’S YOUR DADDY?

WRIGLEY

*Parental Advisory:

Not appropriate for children 14 and under

Fri.Oct 15,5:00pm @ Upstate Sun.Oct 17,11am @ Bearsville

BELLE

Directed by Ruth Sergel

USA / 2004 / 16 minutes

Belle is a subversive fable of old age and beauty. A short fiction film that explores the intersection of age, race and our expectations of others.

CHOKE

Directed by David Hyde

Canada / 2004 / 10 minutes

Andrea, Paul and Ms. Morgan are all smart enough to know what they want to do with their lives, but not talented enough to achieve it. Paul is a med school student who’s too sensitive to give sick people bad

news. Ms. Morgan is a poet who settles for a job as an English teacher. And Andrea is a figure skater capable of triple axels but saddled with a serious case of performance anxiety. Both women fall in love with Paul; one wins and the other becomes a murderer.

CODED LANGUAGE

Directed by Nick Schwartz

USA / 2004 / 8 minutes

Coded Language is the story of a college student looking for answers. He has his theories and his beliefs, but he doesn’t know how all of that should tie into the way he lives his life. When an embittered professor confronts him, he begins to doubt his own sincerity. The question then becomes, “Can you back up what you say?” Or are words just a blanket with which we cover ourselves?

THE CRUX

Directed by Jeffrey Seckendorf

USA / 2003 / 7 minutes

JIHAD

Directed by Michael Shapiro

USA / 2004 / 6 minutes

Jihad follows two terrorists on the morning of their attack. Any more information would give away the ending.

LIGHT MY FIRE

Directed by Muramatsu R yotaro

Japan / 2002 / 9 minutes

While taking a quiet stroll across a bridge in the still morning air, a man is stopped by a stranger who asks him for help, adding that it will just take a moment. The man agrees, and instantly finds himself entangled in a life and death relationship.

At a café in Tokyo, the staff watches a melancholy customer attentively. Before long a couple walks into the café and sits down at her table. Could two ex-lovers, one indecent proposal, and one indecisive new boyfriend be the start of a love triangle?

THE LOST CAUSE

Directed by Jim Taylor

USA / 2004 / 10 minutes

A soldier’s commitment to his cause takes a heavy toll on his family life.

Jim Taylor is the long-time collaborator of writer-director Alexander Payne. The two have co -authored four screenplays: Citizen Ruth, Election, About Schmidt, and the upcoming release Sideways

In addition to his continuing collaboration with Alexander Payne, Taylor is currently at work on two screenplays that he will direct. The first is an adaptation of John Steinbeck’s The Winter of Our Discontent, produced by the Steppenwolf Theater Company’s film division, and the second is an original story inspired by the documentary Tupperware!

SHOCK AND AWE

Directed by Chase Palmer

USA / 2004 / 6 minutes

An Iraqi family’s dinner is interrupted during the US’s “shock and awe” bombing of Baghdad.

SHORTS: LA COMMEDIA

STRING

Directed by Kevin Watkins

USA / 2003 / 4:22 minutes

A broken relationship, a shotgun, and a long piece of string... Could this be the perfect revenge? Inspired by Alfred Hitchcock’s Rope

THE VIRILE MAN

Directed by David Zellner

USA / 2004 / 8 minutes

A tragically closeted man enlists the help of a phone psychic to rationalize his actions.

WHO’S YOUR DADDY?

Directed by Matthew Ehlers

USA / 2003 / 3:18 minutes

A mysterious lothario invades a small town, leaving a group of angr y husbands in his wake.

WRIGLEY

Directed by Oliver R efson

USA / 2004 / 15 minutes

A spring morning. Birds chirp peacefully. In an old muscle car sit a big, brooding guy and his accomplice, staking out a house. When an elderly man emerges from the house, the guys grab him, stuff him in the car and drive off. What could this poor old man have done to deser ve this treatment? Plenty!

WHEN THINGS GET CONFUSED (WENN DIE DINGE DURCHEINANDER GERATEN)

Directed by Klaus Frevert Germany / 2004 / 6 minutes

In Japanese with subtitles

With contrasting advice from a little devil, and a little angel, a young woman contemplates suicide .

NARRATIVE SHORTS

LOVE & HATE

ALLISON

C’ERA UNA VOLTA UN RE (ONCE UPON A TIME THERE WAS A KING)

GAY BY DAWN

JAM:WHEN LIVES COLLIDE

SOMETHING FOR HENRY

TANGO OCTOGENARIO

VICTIM

YOUNG AMERICANS

*Parental Advisory:mature content

Sat.Oct.16,9:30pm @ WCC

Sun Oct.17,1:30pm @ WCC W W

C’ERA UNA VOLTA UN RE (ONCE UPONATIME THERE WAS A KING)

A short film by Massimiliano Mauceri

Italy / 2003 / 10 minutes

Anyone who’s right is wrong, and anyone who’s wrong is right.

JAM:WHEN LIVES COLLIDE

A short film by Craig Serling USA / 2004 / 15 minutes

A pregnant couple, a sweltering RV, three unlikely labor coaches, and one big traffic jam. Watch what happens when lives collide in Jam, one of five intertwined stories that take place in this feature-length script of the same name.

GAY BY DAWN

A short film by Jonathan London

USA / 2004 / 10 minutes

In the deep, dark woods, four rednecks tell ghost stories around an open fire. But when one tells a tale about the horrors that may lurk around them, fear becomes suspicion. Will they make it out in time? Or will the very woods around them turn them... Gay by Dawn?

ALLISON

A short film by Jeff Drew U.S.A / 2004 / 7 minutes

Jeff loves his wife, Allison. He has loved her since he was just a little boy, and his admiration for her hasn’t wavered even in adulthood. The problem is that Jeff is a grown man, and Allison is a ten-inch plastic doll. This short film chronicles the ups and downs of a most unusual relationship.

SOMETHING FOR HENRY

A short film by Nina Tsai USA / 2004 / 13 minutes

Thirty-six years old, still at his first job, and living with his parents, Henry is shopping for a change. He stumbles upon Anna, who gives him a gift to help set him, and herself, free.

NARRATIVE SHORTS

TANGO OCTOGENARIO

A short film by David Licata

USA / 2003 / 7 minutes

Tango Octogenario is a short narrative film about an elderly couple (Alex and Jean Turney) and their unique way of reconnecting. From its use of non actors to its old-Hollywood lighting, from its opening shot on New York City’s Lower East Side to its primary setting inside a ghostly ballroom, Tango Octogenario tells its story in a manner that treads the line between grim reality and fairy tale.

This stylization suits the exploration of the film’s themes: the hidden lives of marginalized people, the elderly as vital contributors to society, the curative powers of art, and the power of art to forge bonds. Its most salient characteristic, the portrayal of seniors as active, vibrant, and independent, is a much-needed antidote to the stereotypical representations of America’s graying population.

VICTIM

A short film by Corrie Jones

USA / 2004 / 11:30 minutes

Based on a spoken poem written by Nicole Blackman, Victim is the dark and disturbing story of a young woman’s physical and emotional struggle for escape after she awakens to find herself in the damp, suffocating blackness of a car trunk. Unaware of where she is, or even how long she has been there, she struggles to free herself from her disturbing reality, and in so doing takes herself and us on an intoxicating and emotionally moving journey of escape and peace.

YOUNG AMERICANS

A short film by Todd Smith

USA / 2004 / 14 minutes

A young man, Jesse (Lukas Haas), is hitchhiking from Texas to New York to become a rock star. Along the way he is picked up by a woman of a certain age, Dusty, who is on her way to Atlantic City to gamble away all her philandering husband’s money. Jesse offers his assistance, but when he meets Babe, a fiery young singer his own age, he must decide whether he wants to help anyone but himself

DOCUMENTARY

12 TONS OF TRASH

THE COWBELL IN THE TREE: A PORTRAIT OF JIM MORTON

THE CRITICAL PATH

LSD A GO GO

THE OLD MAN AND HEMINGWAY

SCATTERED SMOTHERED COVERED

THE TANK MAN(Tynnyrimies)

TWINS

Fri.Oct 15,5:00pm @ WCC

Sun.Oct 17,5:15pm @ WCC W W

12 Tons of Trash

Directed by Jennifer Harmon

USA / 2004 / 10 minutes

See trash through the eyes of those who really know their trash: Gloria and Hopi, two New York City sanitation workers.

THECOWBELL IN THE TREE: A PORTRAIT OF JIM MORTON

Directed by Joel Katz

USA / 2004 / 11:30 minutes

The Cowbell in the Tree is a portrait of Jim Morton, the eighty-nine-year-old caretaker of the Platte Clove Preserve, a nature conservancy just a few miles from Woodstock. An unusual American in that he has lived his entire life in the same valley in which he was born, Morton is a charming, witty, and philosophical man. On a beautiful autumn day, Morton relates stories of family history, tells local lore of Platte Clove, and chats with Susan Mayr, a painter participating in the Artists Residency Program run by the Catskill Center for Conservation and Development. Morton talks of his great-grandmother, who was a Native American plant healer from Tannersville; about the origins of the name of Codfish Point; and about the strangest incident that ever occurred in his long life.

LSD A GO GO

Directed by Scott Calonico USA / 2003 / 10 minutes

Things got a little out of hand in the 1950s after the CIA embarked upon the MK-ULTRA major drug and mind control program, and studied the effects of LSD on themselves and others.

THE CRITICAL PATH: R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Directed by Benita R aphan

USA / 2004 / 13:30 minutes

The Critical Path: R. Buckminster Fuller, is the third in a series of short documentary/diary films entitled They Were the Future. The first two films in the series were Absence Stronger than Presence: Edwin Land and 2+2: John Forbes Nash, Jr..

Life for a genius or innovator carries with it a huge responsibility. Faced with personal tragedy early in his life, R. Buckminster Fuller came within moments of committing suicide in the Michigan River. Instead he decided to come back and devoted the rest of his life to peaceful coexistence while creating low-cost and accessible shelter and considering new ways to feed mankind.

THEOLD MAN AND HEMINGWAY

Directed by Hugo Perez

USA / 2004 / 7:41 minutes

At the age of 102, Hemingway’s boat captain, Gregorio Fuentes, looks back at his friendship with Hemingway.

SCATTERED SMOTHERED COVERED

Directed by Matthew Serrins

USA / 2004 / 8 minutes

Shot in Charleston, South Carolina, Scattered Smothered Covered explores Waffle House, a Southern institution. Combining fly-on-thewall observation with interviews of employees, regulars, and passersby, this short documentar y shows the kitschy decor, greasy food, and unique mix of people that make Waffle House both an example of and a challenge to the stereotyped notions of the South, where race is always but never an issue and people’s candor starts to seep through the polite veneer

THETANK MAN (TYNNYRIMIES)

Directed by Arto Halonen

Finland / 2004 / 12 minutes

Jesus Gonzales has turned the rolling of a petrol barrel into an acrobatic art and a livelihood for himself and his family. The film follows Jesus’ trek through Havana from morning until evening. The journey begins to resemble a pilgrimage, as the compassionate and sensitive Jesus stops to meet many outcasts of his society.

TWINS

Directed by Martin Bell

USA / 2003 / 17 minutes

This film was made in the summer of 2002 when my wife, Mary Ellen Mark, was completing the photography for her new book on twins. Mary Ellen’s studio was a tent, pitched on a volleyball court, at the Twins Days Festival in Twinsburg, Ohio. When Mary Ellen had finished photographing a set of twins we’d take them behind the backdrop to a small studio, where we had positioned two cameras and a sound recorder, and there we asked each set of twins twenty questions. This film is constructed from their answers.

Jeremy & Jacob Taylor,10 years old,Jacob older by 20 seconds,2001 from the film Twins Photo by Martin Bell

SHORTS

COMING OF AGE

FLAVIO

GLASS JAW (LASILEUKA)

JUNEBUG AND HURRICANE

SAVIOR (BJARGVAETTUR)

GLASS JAW (LASILEUKA)

Directed by Zaida Bergroth

Finland / 2004 / 39 minutes

Marianne, fifteen, is a skillful shoplifter and a promising boxer. Emma, eight, follows her sister everywhere because their mother is too unpredictable for her to stay at home.

Sat.Oct 16,5:30pm @ WCC

Sun. Oct 17,3:30pm @ WCC W W

FLAVIO

Directed by Taagen Swaby and Jon Fine

USA / 2003 / 13 minutes

Flavio, an eleven-year-old boy from Salvador, Brazil, must find work to help his family. His options are grim. Flavio is a narrative film with a documentar y feel, exploring the struggles children face in Brazil.

JUNEBUG AND HURRICANE

Directed by James Ponsoldt

USA / 2004 / 9 minutes

Abbie is the center of her mother’s world; their days are full of time spent together Going to the beach, visiting the aquarium... this pair is always on the move. Always. Featuring Janeane Garofalo.

SAVIOR (BJARGVAETTUR)

Directed by Erla Skúladóttir

Iceland / 2003 / 28 minutes

Savior is about a lonely teenage girl’s quest for independence. Forced by her neglectful parents to spend the summer in a camp for much younger children, K aja runs away. What she encounters on her journey are the dangers of the exotic Icelandic wilderness and her deepest fears.

SHORTS FOCUS ON MUSIC

OBSTINATO:

MAKING MUSIC FOR TWO

Directed by Sascha Paladino

USA / 2004 / 39 minutes

Obstinato: Making Music For Two follows banjo wizard Béla Fleck and double bass virtuoso Edgar Meyer on tour, as they perform, compose, and get on each other’s nerves.

REALITY

Directed by Steven Lippman

USA / 2003 / 29 minutes

Masters of their instruments, perfectionists, and best friends, Béla and Edgar are always striving to make better music. And while they are racing against a deadline to record a live album of classical and original works, their musical and personal relationships intensify dramatically. What emerges is a rare and compelling documentar y glimpse into a highly creative collaboration.

Reality as interpreted from conversations with, and songs by, David Bowie. An abstract portrait of Bowie in which questions and answers chase themselves, and meaning is profoundly absurd. Shot in 35/Super 16/Super 8mm, the film is 99 percent without special effects, despite images not quite of this world. Songs include “Never Get Old,” The Loneliest Guy,” “Bring Me the Disco King,” and “New Killer Star.”

GROWING UP ON TOUR: A FAMILY PORTRAIT

OBSTINATO:MAKING MUSIC FOR TWO

REALITY

Fri.Oct 15,9:30pm @Bearsville

Sun.Oct 17,2pm @ Upstate R W

GROWING UP ON TOUR:A FAMILY PORTRAIT

Directed by Anna Gabriel

USA / 2003 / 39 minutes

The film follows Peter Gabriel on the Growing Up tour of 2002. With his eldest daughter filming, his second daughter singing, and his new wife and baby joining him on the road, we watch Gabriel juggle his life as a musician and family man.

ALMOST MIDNIGHT SHORTS

(4 wacky local shorts) 16W

Fri.Oct 15,11:30pm @ Woodstock Town Hall

A Potato Chip Tale

Directed by Heidi Sjursen, Clark Ov Satur n

USA / 2004 / 20 minutes

A disgruntled supermodel takes to the road where she meets a gaggle of goofballs. Will her newfound pals help her overcome her fear of potato chips?

Power Farm

Directed by Chase Pierson and Tarvis Watson

USA / 2004 / 15 minutes

A spoof of biotech, fetishism, organic farming and homeland security.

16W

Directed by Gerald Slota

USA / 2004 / 30 minutes

JayWalker

Directed by David Zeines

USA / 2004 / 10 minutes

16W is a romp through the New Jersey “Rust Belt” blue collar world of alcohol, drugs, sex, and politically incorrect consciousness. Set off of the Jersey Turnpike in a Bergen County bar and bowling alley, working guys, bikers, gamblers and an array of white trash drones act out the high drama of their small lives.

An isolated and aloof JayWalker battles Boston traffic. Moved by the performance of an Anarchist Ballerina distributing antiestablishment propaganda to children, he begins to examine his own place in the world. Swept up in an Anti-Nationalism movement, our hero curiously finds himself at the forefront. The JayWalker continues his fight against urban congestion but has found a muse in the Ballerina. Within the frenetic hoofing of a ska show they find tranquility and love. Inspired to greatness, the JayWalker attempts the ultimate denial of traffic. Will he become the master or will he be mowed down by the unstoppable force of vehicular transportation?

YOUTH INITIATIVE

The Career Day and Youth Forum are part of WFF’s annual YOUTH INITIATIVE.The Woodstock Film Festival is committed to youth and education as a means to positive development,conflict resolution,and growth opportunity.

CAREER DAY

Saturday, October 16,Sat

1:30 - 3:30 pm.

This event, which was started in 2001 by Jeremiah Newton, NYU Industr y Liaison, provides students between the ages of 14 and 20 the opportunity to have a one-on-one exchange on career opportunities with top industr y members.

2004 participants will include John Sloss (Executive producer, Before Sunset, The Fog of War, Pieces of April, Far From Heaven), Jessica Sharzer (filmmaker, The Wormhole, Speak), Gill Holland (producer Hurricane, Desert Blue, Spring Forward, Snow Days, Martin & Orloff, The Fittest, Loggerheads), Sabine Hoffman (editor, Personal Velocity, Brother to Brother, Fairy Tales), Annie Nocenti (former editor, Scenario Magazine; former editor, High Times Magazine), Rachel Sheedy (franchised agent, Don Buckwald Agency with emphasis on New York independent film, building the careers of many of the indie film business.

YOUTH FORUM

The 2004 Woodstock Film Festival Youth Forum offers a first look at some up-and-coming filmmakers from a variety of regional media arts programs, including: The Parsons Pre-College Academy, a weekend and summer intensive program that brings students into New York City to learn about design; the Indie program at Onteora High School; and the Downtown Community TV Center on Lafayette Street in NYC.

Screening Series 1: Fiction and Animation

Sunday,Oct.17,10:30am @WCC

Ultra by Will Lytle of the Indie Program at Onteora High School, explores the concept of Superman.

The Gypsy Nun by Isaac Fay and Brett Palfryman. This video short, inspired by a poem by Pablo Neruda, was Brett and Isaac’s final project for their Film Appreciation class at Red Hook High School.

Making the Grade by Corey Smith, a film about academic competition, stars the actor Hugh Jackman.

Trail of Tears, is an animated odyssey by Isaac Pond of the Indie Program.

Levitation by Chris Chu, is a striking montage of cityscapes, textures and repeating and contrasting patterns that make up the city’s infrastructure. Chris is in the Parsons Pre-College Academy.

And then Everything I Saw I Liked by Ariel Jackson, a short film about young love and creative inspiration.

A Walk in the Park, a group project by Parsons Pre-College Academy students. Three friends meet in the park and talk about their new girlfriends.

Helium, is a claymation by Lucas SchwabHill, Madelyn Klercker, and Ayden Wilber of the Indie Program.

We Will Remember 9/11 by Scott and Matthew Gentile of the Brooklyn Friends School. The students created this film using a true stor y written by one of their classmates.

Screening Series 2: Nonfiction

Sunday,Oct.17,12noon @WCC

March 22,2003 Interviews in Union Square Park,is a documentary by the Parsons PreCollege Academy student production team, showing the varied reactions to war in Iraq.

The Cries of a Teenage Soul by students at DC-TV, the Downtown Community TV Center on Lafayette Street in Manhattan. Teens from the Bronx talk about their depression and determination to prevail in a world they feel marginalizes them.

Mt.Beacon, a segment of Our Town, a documentary program created by the sixth, seventh, and eighth graders at the South Avenue Magnet School in Beacon.

Money Problems, a well-constructed portrayal of the difficulties of finding work and then being a working teen, by the DC-TV students.

Kingston Cares, is a documentar y about mixed messages by twelfth graders in the New Visions program at Ulster County BOCES.

You Call This a Riot? by Becky Sellinger of the Indie program, explores the meaning of social activism.

YEARROUND YOUTHPROGRAMMING

for young people ages 13-20 presented by the Wo o dst o ck Film Festival and Homunculi Produc tions

Film Literacy: We will watch short films and clips of longer works and discuss them. Participants will have an opportunity to meet with filmmakers and discuss the films.

Weekend Workshops:A series of weekend workshops aimed at exploring various aspects of film production including acting, writing, editing, animation, and much more.

Production Workshops :Here’s your chance to write produce and distribute a short feature film. This production will be broken down into three phases. Interested individuals may participate in any or all of the phases. Some scholarships will be available based on enrollment.

Find out more about Youth Workshops online at woodstockfilmfestival.com/programs/youthinitiative.htm

Haskell Wexler

Gill Holland

USA.Film:Elizabeth

1954.USA

Legendary Magnum photographers Eve Arnold, Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Bruce Davidson, Elliott Er witt, Burt Glinn, Susan Meiselas, and others bring a new set of visual conventions to the task of document-

ing cinema. The exhibit on display at CPW, culled from over 5,000 Magnum photographs– many of them previously unpublished–reveals the remarkable encounter between a family of photographers and the cinematic universe.

Robert Capa, Magnum founder and close friend of John Huston, first began to combine the talents of great photographers with those of great directors and actors over half a century ago. These partnerships and their story lines developed around lasting, personal relationships, based on mutual trust and shared intimacy. The photographs take us behind the scenes to some of the most important movie sets of our time, including On the Waterfront, The Seven Year Itch, Superman, Suddenly, Last Summer, Notorious, and powerful picture legends such as Clint Eastwood, Marilyn Monroe, Ingrid Bergman, James Dean, and Clark Gable, among many others. A highlight within this show are the exclusive Magnum photographs that document the making of The Misfits, directed by John Huston and starring Marilyn Monroe, Clark Gable, and Montgomer y Clift. This

The Center for Photography at Woodstock and the Woodstock Film Festival present Magnum Cinema,the photo exhibit.

expansive exhibit is a must-see for anyone interested in film!

Founded in 1977 and recognized as an international resource, the Center for Photography at Woodstock is dedicated to supporting the creation, presentation, and fostering of contemporary photography and related media including film and video, through year–round exhibitions, workshops, lectures, artist residencies, publications,

New York. Marlon Brando in On the Waterfront.

Copyright Elliott Erwitt Magnum Photos

Film: Chimes at Midnight by US director Orson Welles.

Copyright Nicolas Tikhomiroff / Magnum Photos

Taylor on the set of Suddenly Last Summer

Copyright Burt Glinn / Magnum Photo

USA.Nevada. The Misfits Copyright Bruce Davidson / MagnumPhotos

Béla Fleck, banjo Edgar Meyer, bass & piano

Seven-time Grammy Award-winning banjoist Béla Fleck will team up with renowned bassist Edgar Meyer for the 5th Anniversar y Woodstock Film Festival kick off concert in an evening of acoustic music at the spectacular Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College in Annandale- on-Hudson.

The evening’s program, which will be announced from the stage, will include original works by Fleck and Meyer as well as classical selections, including pieces from the duo’s recently released, critically acclaimed album Music for Two and Fleck’s multiple Grammy Awardwinning recording Perpetual Motion The evening will offer not only the three Bs– Bach, banjo and bass–but also a bit of jazz, baroque, and bluegrass.

by the bluegrass playing of Flatt and Scruggs. He began experimenting with playing bebop on the banjo in high school. In 1982, he joined the progressive bluegrass band New Grass Revival, where he made a name for himself in the bluegrass world.

In 1989 he formed the Flecktones, and the following year they released a self-titled album. The music was dubbed “blu-bop” – a

2002 recipients of its prestigious “genius” grants.

Any world-class musician born with the names Béla (for Bartok), Anton (for Dvorak), and Leos (for Janacek) would seem destined to play classical music. Béla Fleck–already a powerfully creative force in bluegrass, jazz, pop, rock, and world beat, and a pioneering banjo virtuoso and bandleader best known as the leader of Béla Fleck & the Flecktones–first made a classical connection with the album Perpetual Motion which won two Grammys, including Best Classical Crossover Album and Best Instrumental Arrangement (which Fleck shared with Meyer).

A New York City native, Béla picked up the banjo at the age of fifteen after being awed

mix of jazz and bluegrass–and they soon became a commercially successful, critically acclaimed, award-winning band.

Béla Fleck is the only musician to be nominated for Grammys in the jazz, bluegrass, pop, country, spoken word, Christian, composition, and world music categories.

Prominently established as a unique and masterful instrumentalist, Edgar Meyer combines unparalleled technique and musicianship with a gift for composition. In recognition of his unique place in the world of music, the MacArthur Foundation named him one of the

Fruitful collaborations are the cornerstone of Meyer ’s work. The most recent example was the organization of a quartet completed by violinist Joshua Bell and legendary bluegrass musicians Sam Bush and Mike Marshall. Shortly before this collaboration, Meyer was involved in an inventive trio project with Béla Fleck on banjo and Mike Marshall on mandolin, performing original compositions marrying bluegrass, classical, and other traditional styles. Earlier in Meyer ’s career, from 1986 to 1992, he was a member of the progressive bluegrass band Strength in Numbers, whose members included Sam Bush, Jerr y Douglas, Béla Fleck, and Mark O’Connor Meyer began studying bass at the age of five under the instruction of his father, and went on to study with Stuart Sankey. In 1994 he became the only bassist to ever receive the Aver y Fisher Career Grant, and in 2000 became the only bassist to receive the Avery Fisher Prize.

Béla Fleck’s recording ‘Perpetual Motion’is available at record stores everywhere on Sony Classical Edgar Meyer records exclusively for Sony Classical. His recordings ‘Meyer Bottesini Concertos’,‘ Bach:Unaccompanied Cello Suites Performed on Double Bass’,‘ Short Trip Home’and ‘Uncommon Ritual’ are available at record stores everywhere.

Mr Fleck is managed by David Bendett ar tistsinc@aol.com and booked by Monterey Peninsula Artists

Mr.Meyer appears by arrangement with IMG Artists,825 Seventh Avenue,New York NY 10019,212-489-8300

photograph:©Peter Aaron/Esto

Mark Geary

Singer/songwriter Mark Geary came to NYC in 1995 with a one-way ticket from Dublin, $100 in his pocket, and a green card. Recognized today as one of the East Village’s favorite performers and a top 40 artist in Ireland, Geary started out playing with Jeff Buckley at the legendary Café Sin-e and has since shared stages with Elvis Costello, The Pretenders, Coldplay, and Sinead O’Connor.

Booker Kio Novina calls Geary “one of the best acts around.” Film/TV producer Gill Holland became so enamored with Mark’s music that he started sonaBLAST! Records.

Citysearch says Mark is “part unself-righteous Elliot Smith, part multi-faceted Van Morrison” and that he “touches the heart the way David Gray wishes he could.”

Time Out Magazine calls him “an engaging singer/songwriter…(who) writes delicate songs about love and defiance… recalls performers such as Richard Thompson and John Lennon.”

Duo Loco, Jazz Maniacs; Mark Dziuba & Studio Stu

This eccentric jazz duo takes the very best in classic jazz and originals, and twists and bends them into what they call ‘evocative jazz, exotic lounge’. In this ‘duo virtuosi’, nothing is sacred… improv is rampant… lyrics are changed at will… notes and chords are bent and perverted… familiar languages are obliterated… harmonies are sweet and sour perfection… tunes are put through a fun house mirror, and yet, serious, sophisticated and uncompromising in execution. The union is one in-tune, out-of-tune, offbeat outfit.

Mark Dziuba, guitar wizard and director of jazz studies at SUNY New Paltz, moves with grace through impossible chord changes and rapid fire riffs on his 1961 stratocaster, transforming these classic tunes into something more… a sort of ‘light shift’ in tone and nuance, going beyond the music’s original intent. And, as a composer, he brings a fresh, complex virtuosity to a seemingly inexhaustible genre.

Studio Stu, with his state-of-the-art washtub bass, unique Brooklyn humor, and unusual, hypnotic vocals, is a master...a one string wonder, combining a traditional folk instrument and a classic music form, to create a third thing (one we haven’t quite figured out what to call yet)… fearless in delivery and willing to navigate uncharted paths through the improvisational wilderness; he is ‘el ultimo hombre del lounge.’

While at the Woodstock Film Festival,make sure to check out the many musicians who will be performing at local venues including open mic with Jerry Mitnick,Friday and Saturday evening at the Colony Cafe.For up-to-date info about musical events,visit www.woodstockfestival.com

Laurel Massé,founding member of Grammy award-winning vocal group Manhattan Transfer, toured internationally for seven years with the group and recorded five albums. In 1979, a serious automobile accident forced her departure. After two years of convalescence, she began touring again both in the States and in Europe. She has released four solo CDs. The first two, Alone Together and Easy Living, both hit the Billboard Jazz charts; the third, Again, was a People magazine pick. Feather and Bone, her 2000 release, was picked by audiophile magazine The Absolute Sound as “a recording of extraordinary musical and sonic value.”

Equally at ease singing with a trio or with an orchestra, equally spellbinding singing an impassioned ballad, a unaccompanied Bach cello suite, or a swinging vocal improv, Ms. Massé is a singer of rare intuition and taste. Possessor of what some critics have called “the perfect voice,” she is one of the premiere jazz and cabaret artists of her generation.

Laurel Masse

SEMINARS PANELS AND WORKSHOPS

**All take place at the Colony Café in Woodstock unless otherwise indicated.

Programs and panelists are subject to change, please make sure to visit www.woodstockfilmfestival.com for the most up-to-date schedule.

Holding the Line;

A discussion about Artistic Expression in Time of Censorship. Where Media outlets have been killing stories because they undermine corporate interests; advertisers are using their financial clout to squelch negative reports; powerful businesses are using the threat of expensive lawsuits to discourage legitimate investigations we are looking for alternative ways to oppose censorship and find networks to share inquiry and information.

Origins of Film Story — Part II

Produced by Sabine Hoffman (editor, Personal Velocity,Brother to Brother).

From Mississippi Masala to “Vanity Fair:” A Lasting Collaboration

Director, and 2004 Honorary WFF Maverick Award recipient Mira Nair and producer Lydia Dean Pilcher discuss their long–standing collaboration on films such as Mississippi Masala; The Perez Family; Kama Sutra, A Tale of Love; Hysterical Blindness, and Vanity Fair

Reviving last year’s successful and popular panel, industry professionals and independent mavericks will discuss the impetus and inspiration for their screenplays. Where do film ideas come from? What makes a story right for film? Do low-budget, independent films better serve certain stories? What is the obligation of the writer/filmmaker in troubled times? Should our stories be overtly political and socially conscious — or is “entertainment” enough? How does one transform a “good idea” into the beginnings of a screenplay?

Moderated by John J.Valadez (director, Passing It On, The Divide).

Panelists include: Orlando Bagwell (director/producer Africans in America, The Great Depression, Malcolm X: Make it Plain), Ron English (ar tist, godfather of AGIT-POP), Kibra Johannes (program director, MediaRights.org), and Sonia Malfa (program director, Association of Independent Video and Filmmakers).

Sponsored by AIVF and Mediaright.org

Friday,October 15,2:30 pm

Moderator:Annie Nocenti (former editor, Scenario Magazine)

Panelists:Ron Nyswaner Philadelphia, Soldier’s Girl, Jim Taylor Election,About Schmidt, Sideways, Michael Cristofer The Witches of Eastwick, The Bonfire of the Vanities, Gia,Original Sin, Peter Riegert King of the Corner Jessica Sharzer Speak

Sponsored by Friday,October 15,12 noon

Actors Dialogue

Featuring Lily Taylor. (Casa De L os Babys, Six Feet Under, I Shot Andy Warhol, Mystic Pizza)

Get a rare up-close glimpse into the work and world of being an actor. Be right there when entertainment journalist Martha Frankel, whose articles have appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Cosmopolitan and Redbook, among others, hosts an intimate conversation with leading film actors. Past participants have included the interesting, the esteemed, and the honored such as Olympia Dukakis, Marcia Gay Harden, Parker Posey, Annabella Sciorra, Aidan Quinn, Liev Schreiber, Fisher Stevens, David Strathairn, and Stanley Tucci.

Saturday,October 16,10 am

Moderator: Thelma Adams (Film critic, US Weekly).

Saturday,October 16,12 noon

Conversation with James Schamus and Peter Bowen

Join Peter Bowen (Senior editor, Filmmaker Magazine ; Editorial director, Sundance Channel) as he talks about films and filmmaking with James Schamus, writer/producer of The Ice Storm, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, and The Hulk; Co-president, Focus Features; Associate professor, Columbia University.

“Take a look at any list of important independent films of the past decade and it’s likely that Schamus’ name will appear somewhere in the credits. - The New York Times

Saturday,October 16,2pm, at Upstate Films in Rhinebeck

Film and the Political Equation – Why Now?

In the past year, documentaries have looked inside the decision to invade Iraq and at corporate control of everything from food to media, and audiences have piled in. Earlier documentaries preached to the choir, because the choir was the only audience they reached. But with dogged investigation and satire, these new films seem to have tapped into a new public, or at least broadened the documentary audience beyond anyone’s expectations. And John Sayles’s Silver City shows that politics on the screen isn’t limited to documentaries. Is this just an election year phenomenon? Are the films filling a gap where serious journalism used to be? Or are they just good films? Will it matter in November?

Moderated:David D’Arcy (film and entertainment commentator,NPR).

Panelists:Bob Berney (president,Newmarket Films, The Passion of the Christ, Monster,Whale Rider,Donnie Darko – Director’s Cut,Stander,Real Women Have Curves; former senior vice president,IFC Films,My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Y Tu Mama Tambien Rober t Stone (Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst) Pamela Yates (Presumed guilty, Brotherhood of Hatred)

Saturday, Oc tober 16,2:30 pm

What Is Success?

Down to the Bone

New York Women In Film and TV presents a case history study of Debra Granik’s Down to the Bone, a digital film shot entirely in Woodstock and surrounding Ulster County areas. The story entails a young mother’s hidden cocaine habit, her quest to come clean and create a better life for herself and family. This feature is a rare hybrid of reality and fiction. It developed from Granik’s Sundance Award winning short, Snake Feed, which starred the real life person the story is

The Dos and Don’ts of Independent Films or How to Make a Successful Indie

Your opportunity to ask the filmmakers and the distributors who make it all happen. Moderator:David Rooney (New York film reviewer and reporter, Variety). Panelists include:Bob Berney (president, Newmarket Films,John Sloss (Executive Producer, Pizza,Before Sunrise,The Fog of War,Pieces of April,Far From Heaven), Eamonn Bowles (president,Magnolia Pictures),Mary Jane Skalski (producer, The Brothers McMullen,The Jimmy Show, The Station Agent,Chain),Fisher Stevens (actor/director/producer, Just a Kiss,Famous,Pinero,Swimfan,Uptown Girls) Fisher Stevens (actor/director/producer,Just a Kiss,Famous,Pinero, Swimfan,Uptown Girls)

Saturday,October 16,4:30 pm

INYOURFACE

This is the year to remember that politics matter. That politics is matter of life and death, riches and poverty, honor and dishonor. This is the year that Michael Moore taught us that a film could actually make a difference. Larry Beinhart and Richard Fusco of In Your Face (a bi-weekly Woodstock and Free Speech TV show) inter view Brent Renaud (Off to War), Sarah and Emily Kunstler (Getting Through to the President), and other guest with political films at this years Woodstock Film Festival.. L arr y is best known as the author of American Hero which became Wag the Dog Richard has been a radio personality and has been a pioneer in the intersection of traditional media and the Internet.

Sunday,October 17,10 am

Music for Film

Join moderator Doreen Ringer Ross, vice president of film/TV Relations at BMI, for a frank discussion about music in film and the in and outs of film scoring, music super vision and licensing.

Panelists include musician/songwriter Chris Stein (co-founder of Blondie), Paul Broucek (exec. vp music for New Line, Lord of the Rings), music supervisor Tracy McKnight (pres. Commotion Records; A Dirty Shame, End of the Century: The Ramones, Raising Victor Vargas, High Art), film composer Nathan Larson (Boys Don’t Cry, Prozac Nation, Phone Booth, The Woodsman), filmmaker Nicole Kassell (The Woodsman), producer Laurie Trombley (Amazing Grace: Jeff Buckley) Sponsored by Sunday, Oc tober 17,12:30pm

based on. Down to the Bone uses professional actors in the leading roles and non-professionals in the supporting roles. The film debuted at Sundance 2004. Debra Granik won the Dramatic Directing Award and Vera Farmiga, lead actress, won Special Jury Prize.

Panelists in attendance:Debra Granik, director/co-screenwriter; Susan Leber,executive producer, Vera Farmiga,lead actress,Richard Liekse, co-screenwriter/ life model, Corinne Stralka,life model, Michele Baker,location manager

Reading and Talk with Ron Nyswaner: Blue Days,Black Nights — OUT:A Screenwriter’s Life, The Ultimate Confession.

Screenwriter Ron Nyswaner—nominated for an Academy Award for Philadelphia, and author of the Peabody Award-winning cable film Soldier ’s Girl—will talk about his journey from an awkward, sometimes violent childhood among tobacco-chewing, deer-hunting, coal-mining relatives in Pennsylvania to his misadventures in Hollywood, sparring with studio executives and egomaniacal stars, slipping into drug addiction, and falling in love with the wrong people. Along the way, Nyswaner has turned to writing for salvation, creating plays, screenplays, and recently, a book–Blue Days, Black Nights: A Memoir Books available at courtesy of The Golden Notebook “Nyswaner...nails the memoir form...unsparing... lush in content. A”” - Entertainment Weekly Sunday,October 17,2:30pm

Sunday, Oc tober 17,11 am at Center for Photography at Woodstock

Panel Producer: Melisse Seleck

TICKET INFORMATION

BOX OFFICE LOCATION AND HOURS

Woodstock Playhouse Box Office 103 Mill Hill Road

Woodstock, NY 12498

845.679.6997

woodstockfilmfestival.com

Box Office Hours

October 10–16

Mon-Sun 9am-7pm

October 17

9am-3pm (walk-up only)

PRICES

Tickets range from $7 to $15 per screening and are $15 per panel. Concert prices var y. A shipping/handling fee of $4.25 will be added per mailing. Student and senior discounts are available with ID, but must be requested directly at the Playhouse Box Office or venue. We cannot honor senior discounts online or over the telephone.

For a complete list of prices, please visit www.woodstockfilmfestival.com.

Reserve early, as shows tend to sell out quickly.

PURCHASING TICKETS

Walk-Up Orders

Tickets for all venues will be available for purchase at the Playhouse Box Office September 23–October 17.

Beginning October 13, tickets for Hunter and Rhinebeck will be available at their respective venues as well.

Day of Event

Tickets are available at the Playhouse Box Office until four hours prior to the event.

All unsold tickets are then available only on the standby line.

Ticket holders NEEDto arrive 15 minutes prior to the screening or panel;empty seats will be sold to the standby line.

If you have tickets being held, you must go to the Woodstock Playhouse Box Office to pick them up. These tickets will NOT be sent to the venue.

NOTE: If you have tickets for Hunter or Rhinebeck that were ordered online or by phone, you must still pick them up at the Playhouse Box Office; they will not be sent to the venues. Leave yourself plenty of time to stop in before going to your venue or order early enough so we can send them to you.

When planning your festival schedule, please bear in mind that the driving distance from

For the most up-to-date information, please visit www.woodstockfilmfestival.com.

Once online,find out which screenings are sold out and read updated information about events,screenings, and panels.You can learn about who we are and what we do,including our yearround programming.Also please visit and support our sponsors.

Woodstock to both Rhinebeck and Hunter is about 30 minutes.

Ticket holders NEED to arrive 15 minutes prior to the screening or panel;empty seats will be sold to the standby line.

*Please note that all events are subject to change. You should check the website and program as the date approaches to confirm programs, venues, and times.

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Death, Confusion& Hysterics InYourFace Film&Politics Readingand Talk withRon Nyswaner [2:30] 4:15 6:15

Shorts: Love&Hate Shorts: ComingofAge

LOCAL SUPPORT

A Second Glance

781-783 Ulster Ave. Kingston,NY 12401 845-339-1433

Allure

12 Garden St. Rhinebeck,NY 12572 845-876-7774

Alternative Videos of Woodstock 948 Rte.28 Kingston,NY 12401 845-334-8105

Anatolia Tribal Rugs & Weavings

54 G Tinker St. Woodstock,NY 12498 845-679-5311

Annie’s Down Home Stitchin’ 70 Tinker St. Woodstock,NY 12498 845-679-2963

Art Forms

32 Mill Hill Rd. Woodstock,NY 12498 845-679-1100

Ashokan Architecture & Planning,PLLC 3780 Main St. Stone Ridge,NY 12484 845-687-9829

Athletica

62B Tinker St. Woodstock,NY 12498 845-679-6900

Bank of America

81 Mill Hill Rd. Woodstock,NY 12498 845-679-2466

Bard College Annandale-on-Hudson,NY 12504

845-758-7900

Basil Garden Supply 110 Tinker St. Woodstock,NY 12498 845-679-8137

Beth Alden Couture Millinery PO Box 25 Lake Katrine,NY 12449 845-336-4133

Birchtree 6 Tannery Brook Rd. Woodstock,NY 12498 845-679-7585

Blue Mountain Bistro R te.212 & Glasco Turnpike Woodstock,NY 12498

845-679-8519

CD Diplomat Bed & Breakfast 82 Walker St. Red Hook,NY 12571 845-757-4305

Cabin Fever Outfitters 99 Tinker St. Woodstock,NY 12498 845-679-4001

Cafe S Rte.212 & Rte.375 At the Woodstock Golf Course Woodstock,NY 12498 845-679-3434

Casa Blanca Real Estate 2846 B Rte.32 Saugerties,NY 12477 845-246-1001

Castaways 36 Mill Hill Rd. Woodstock,NY 12498 845-679-3459

Catskill Art & Office Supply 35 Mill Hill Rd. Woodstock,NY 12498 845-679-2251 845-331-7780 845-452-1250

Catskill Mountain Coffee 906 Rte.28 Kingston,NY 12401 845-334-8455

Catskill Mountain Pizza Company 51 Mill Hill Rd. Woodstock,NY 12498 845-679-7969

Catskill Mountain Region Guide P.O Box 924 Hunter,NY 12442 518-263-4099

Century 21-Teran Realty 74 Mill Hill Rd. Woodstock,NY 12498

845-679-3333

Chez Grand`mere 24 Tinker St. Woodstock,NY 12446 914-679-8140

Charmed Places 1314 Berme Rd. Kerhonkson,NY 12446 917 804 9874

Cilibrasi Associates 111 West 24th St. New York,NY 10011

212-682-5255

Coldwell Banker-Village

Green Realty 4 Rock City Rd. Woodstock,NY 12498 845-679-2255 845-331-5357 845-687-4355

Comfort Zone 7 Mill Hill Rd. Woodstock,NY 12498 845 679 2028

The Copperhood Inn & Spa Rte.28

Phoenicia,NY 12480 845 688 2460

Country Cupboards 6783 R te.9 Rhinebeck,NY 12572 1114 Ulster Ave. Kingston,NY 12401

845-876-7926

845-382-2888

518-731-2888

Country Roads Real Estate 48 Old Wagon Rd. Woodstock,NY 12498 845 679 2248 800 594 4843

Crafts People 262 Spillway Rd. West Hurley,NY 12491 845-331-3859

Eckerd 79 Mill Hill Rd. Woodstock,NY 12498 845-679-2222

Elena Zang Gallery 3671 R te. 212 Shady, NY 12409 845-679-5432

Elijah’s Café 54h Tinker St. Woodstock,NY 12498 845-679-9524

Emerson Place R te.28

Mount Tremper,NY 12457 845-688-5800

FreeStyle Realty 62A Tinker St. Woodstock,NY 12498 845-679-2929

Gateway to Tibet 60 Main St. Phoenicia,NY 12480 845 688 6836

Gigi Trattoria 6422 Montgomery St. Rhinebeck,NY 12572 845 876 1007

The Golden Notebook 29 Tinker St. Woodstock,NY 12498 845-679-8000

Haldora

Designer Women’s Clothing 28 East Market St. Rhinebeck,NY 12572 845-876-6250

Hammertown Pine Plains 518-398-7075 Rhinebeck 845-876-1450

Great Barrington 413-5287766

Hansen Caviar 881 Rte.28 Kingston,NY 12401 845-331-5622

Harmony House Bed & Breakfast 1659 Rte,212 Saugerties,NY 12477 845-679-1277

H.Houst & Son 4 Mill Hill Rd. Woodstock,NY 12498 845-679-2115

Hickory BBQ Smokehouse 743 R te 28 Kingston,NY 12401 845-338-2424

Homespun Tapes P.O.Box 340 Woodstock,NY 12498 800-33-TAPES

Hudson United Bank 68 Mill Hill Rd. Woodstock,NY 12498 845-679-3862 800-HUB-LINK

Hummingbird Jewelers 20 W.Market St. Rhinebeck,NY 12572 845-876-4585

In the Raw 65 Tinker St. Woodstock,NY 12498 845-679-9494

Indonesian Interiors of Woodstock R te,212 & 375 Woodstock,NY 12498 845-679-0040

Jarita’s Florist 17 Tinker St. Woodstock,NY 12498 845-679-6161

Joyce Beymer Real Estate 41 Plochmann Lane Woodstock,NY 12498 845-679-6617

J & V’s Pizza on the Green 6 Old Forge Rd. Woodstock,NY 12498 845-679-4224

Just Alan 11 Mill Hill Rd. Woodstock,NY 12498 845-679-5676

Kenco Rte.28 Kingston, NY 12401 845-338-5021

Kiddlydivy

The Children’s Boutique 4 Garden St. Rhinebeck,NY 12572 845-876-7959

La Bella Pasta Rte.28 West Kingston, NY 12401 845-331-9130

Landau Grill 17 Mill Hill Rd. Woodstock,NY 12498 845-679-8937

Lester Walker PO Box 678 Woodstock,NY 12498 845-679-4217

Maria’s Bazar 21 Mill Hill Rd. Woodstock,NY 12498 845-679-5434

Marion’s Country Kitchen at the Woodstock Lodge Woodstock,NY 12498 845-679-3213

Mary Collins Real Estate R te.213 High Falls,NY 12440 845-687-0911

Mid Hudson Valley Federal Credit Union 1099 Morton Blvd. Kingston,NY 12401 800-451-8373

Mill House Panda Gourmet

Chinese Food 19-21 West Market St. Rhinebeck,NY 12572 845-876-2399

Mother Earth Health Foods 1200 Ulster Ave. Kingston,NY 12401 845-336-5541

Mountain Side Family Style Restaurant Rte.28 & Maverick Rd. West Hurley,NY 12491 845-657-7133

The Moving Body

276 Tinker St. Woodstock,NY 12498 845-679-7715

New Spirit of Woodstock 69 Tinker St. Woodstock,NY 12498 845-679-0008

New World Home Cooking Co. 1411 R te.212 Saugerties,NY 12477 845-246-0900

Noble Tree Gallery Rte.28 Kingston,NY 12401 845 339 9977

Nola Gutmann Realty 89 Mt.Pleasant Rd. Mt.Tremper,NY 12457 845-688-2409

Not Fade Away Trading 15 Rock City Rd. Woodstock,NY 12498 845-679-8663

Northern Dutchess Pharmacy 18 East Market St. Rhinebeck,NY 12572 845-876-7004

Oblong Books & Music Montgomery Row Rhinebeck,NY 12572

845-876-0500

518-789-3797

Olde Hudson 6423 Montgomery St. Rhinebeck,NY 12572 845-876-3933 518-828-6923

Once Possessed 107 Tinker St. Woodstock,NY 12498 845-679-3243

Onteora,The Mountain House P.O.Box 356 Boiceville,NY 12412 845-657-6233

Ottley’s Saddlery 1534 R te.212 Saugerties,NY 12477 845 247 0095

Overlook Mountain Bikes 93 Tinker St. Woodstock,NY 12498 845-679-2122

Partition Street Auctions 114 Partition St. Saugerties,NY 12477 845-246-1800

Pegasus 10 Mill Hill Rd Woodstock,NY 12498 845 679 2373

Photosensualis Fine Ar t Photography 70 Rock City Rd. Woodstock, NY 12498 845-679-5333

Pondicherry 12 Tinker St. Woodstock,NY 12498 845-679-2926

Prudential Eichhorn Realty 5 Tinker St. Woodstock,NY 12498 845-679-8022 845-679-8600

The Red Onion Restaurant & Bar 1654 Rte.212 @ Glasco Turnpike Woodstock,NY 12498 845-679-1223

Rhinebeck Pilates 2 East Market St. Suite 1 Rhinebeck,NY 12572 845-876-5686

River Rock Health Spa 62 Ricks Rd. Woodstock,NY 12498 845-679-7800

Rock City Yarn 4 Rock City Rd. Woodstock,NY 12498 845-679-9600

Ruge’s Subaru

Ruge’s Chrysler,Dodge, Jeep Rte.9

Rhinebeck,NY 12572 845-876-2087 845-876-1057

Selah/Merriweathers 6402 Montgomery St. Rhinebeck,NY 12572 845-876-3851

Steve G’s Pilates 302 Wall St. Kingston,NY 12401 845 331 2113

Steve Heller’s Fabulous Furniture R te.28,Box 444 Boiceville,NY 12412 845-657-6317

Stewart’s Shops Rte.28 & Zena Rd. Woodstock,NY 12498 845-679-2268

Sunflower Natural Foods Bradley Meadows Shopping Center 75 Mill Hill Rd. Woodstock NY 12498 845-679-5361

Tails of Woodstock 3 Mill Hill Rd Woodstock,NY 12498 845-679-4690

Timbuktu 2 Tannery Brook Rd. Woodstock,NY 12498 845-679-1169

Tobacco Outfitters 107 Partition St. Saugerties,NY 12477 845-246-8424

LOCAL SUPPORT

Ulster County Development Corporation 5 Development Ct. Kingston,NY 12401 800-7-ULSTER

Ulster County Tourism 10 Westbrook Lane Kingston,NY 12401 800-DIAL-UCO

Uptown Cigar Company 32 John St. Kingston,NY 12401 845-340-1142

Varga Gallery & Studio 130 Tinker St. Woodstock,NY 12498 845-679-4005

The Villa at Saugerties Bed & Breakfast 159 Fawn Rd. Saugerties,NY 12477 845-246-0682

Violette Restaurant & Wine Bar 85 Mill Hill Rd. Woodstock,NY 12498 845-679-5300

Washington Irving Inn Rte.23A Hunter,NY 12442 518-589-5560

WDST 100.1 118 Tinker St. Woodstock,NY 12498 845-679-7266

The WFG Gallery 31 Mill Hill Rd Woodstock,NY 12498 845-679-6003

Westwood Metes & Bounds Realty 24 Mill Hill Rd. Woodstock,NY 12498 877-677-0006 800-679-7321 845-340-1920 800-293-0232 866 489 9100

Win Morrison Realty 56 John St. Kingston,NY 12401 18 Tinker St. Woodstock,NY 12498 845 339 1144 845 679 9444 845 246 3300

Winter Sun Summer Moon 10-14 East Market St. Rhinebeck,NY 12572 845-876-3555 845-876-2223

The Woodbine Inn & Arts Center 144 Malden Ave. Palenville,NY 12463 518-678-9725

Woodstock Bead Emporium 54 Tinker St. Woodstock,NY 12498 845-679-0066 800-290-9663

Woodstock Building Supply 72 Mill Hill Rd. Woodstock,NY 12498 845-679-2516

Woodstock Candy 60 Tinker St. Woodstock,NY 12498 845-679-3750

Woodstock Design 9 Tinker St. Woodstock,NY 12498 845-679-8776

Woodstock Haircutz Day Spa 80 Mill Hill Rd. Woodstock,NY 12498 845-679-7171

Woodstock Music Shop 18 Rock City Rd. Woodstock,NY 12498 845-679-3224

Woodstock Quilt Supply 79 Tinker St. Woodstock,NY 12498 845-679-0733

Woodstock Wine & Liquors 33 Tinker St. Woodstock,NY 12498 845 679-2669

Woofstock Pet Supply 7 Elwyn Lane Woodstock,NY 12498 845-679-woof

Woodstock

120 DB FILMS (914) 533-5241 hays@120dbfilms.com www.120dbfilms.com

3RD STREET R&D PRODUCTION SERVICES

Sound,Lighting,Communications and Security Questions gregcarttar@3rd-st.co 3rd-st.com

AMERIBAG

55 Greenkill Ave Kingston NY 12401 (845) 339-8033 or (800)246-1292 www.ameribag.com

AIVF www.aivf.org

AMTRAK www.amtrak.com

BMI www.bmi.com

CANUSMAJOR PRODUCTIONS

Jeff Kantor Sirius1@canusmajor.com

CATSKILL MOUNTAIN REGION GUIDE

PO Box 924 Rte 23A / 7967 Main St Hunter,NY 12442 (518) 263-4908 www.catskillmtn.org

CHRONOGRAM www.chronogram.com

DAILY FREEMAN 79-97 Hurley Avenue Kingston,NY.12401 www.midhudsoncentral.com

DISCMAKERS www.discmakers.com

VENUES in

Woodstock

BEARSVILLE THEATER (films) Route 212,Bearsville,NY.12409 (845) 679-4406

CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHY AT WOODSTOCK 59 Tinker Street Woodstock,NY 12498 (845) 679-9957 www.cpw.org

COLONY CAFÉ (panels & music) Rock City Road Woodstock,NY 12498 (845) 679-5342 www.colonycafe.com

LEGENDS 109 Mill Hill Road Woodstock,NY 12498

DOCURAMA www.docurama.com

THE DYSON FOUNDATION www.dysonfoundation.org

EXPERIMENTAL TELEVISION CENTER www.experimentaltvcenter.org

GOOD BROTHERS www.goodbrothers.com

GREENBERG TRAURIG,LLP www.gtlaw.com

I LOVE NY www.iloveny.com

JTD Productions,Inc.

DJ & Entertainment Services

Dave Leonard - Owner Box 635 Woodstock,NY 12498 info@jtdproductions.com www.jtdproductions.com

KODAK

36 West 31st Street New York,NY.10003 www.kodak.com

LIGHT (PRESS CONFERENCE VENUE)

124 E.54th Street New York,NY 10022 (212) 583-1333 www.lightnyc.com

LOWEL–LIGHT (800) 334-3426 www.lowel.com

MARKERTEK VIDEO SUPPLY

A Division of Tower Products,Inc. (800) 522-2025 www.markertek.com

MEDIARIGHTS

Media That Matters www.mediarights.org

TINKER STREET CINEMA (films) 132 Tinker Street, Woodstock,NY 12498 (845) 679-6608

WOODSTOCK COMMUNITY CENTER (films) 56 Rock City Road Woodstock,NY 12498

WOODSTOCK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL 8 West Hurley Road (Route 375) Woodstock,NY 12498

WFF OFFICE 86 Mill Hill Road Woodstock,NY 12498 (845) 679-4265 www.woodstockfilmfestival.com

METROVISION PRODUCTION SERVICES

508 W.24th Street New York,NY10011 (212) 689-7900 www.metrovision-nyc.com

NEWCITYPROCDUCTIONS

530 Canal Street NY,NY 10013 (212) 925-5888 newcity@attglobal.net

NEW WORLD HOME COOKING 1411 Rte.212 Saugerties,NY 12477 (845) 246-0900 www.newworldhomecooking.com

NEW YORK STATE COUNCIL ON THE ARTS www.nysca.org

NEW YORK WOMEN IN FILM & TELEVISION www.nywift.org

PERCEPTION AUDIO VISUAL SERVICES

440 West 34th Street NY, NY 10001 (212) 239-8187 www.perceptionav.com

PLANET NOISE RECORDS 24 John Street Kingston,NY.12401 www.planetnoiserecords.com

REALITY CHECK www.realitycheckny.org

THE RICHARD B.FISHER CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS AT BARD COLLEGE (845) 758-7950 fishercenter@bard.edu. www.bard.edu/fishercenter

RUDER/FINN PRINTING (212) 593-6423 www.ruderfinn.com

SCHIEFFELIN & CO. 2045 Orchard Park Drive Nisk ayuna,NY 12309 (518) 395.9119 www.schieffelin.com

SHOWBIZ SOFTWARE www.showbizsoftware.com

STEVE HELLER’S FABULOUS FURNITURE Rte 28,Box 444 Boiceville,NY 12412 (845) 657-6316 www.fabulousfurnitureon28.com

ULSTER COUNTY LEGISLATURE www.co.ulster.ny.us

VIVA LA DATA diana@vivaladata.com vivaladata.com

WDST – 100.1 – FM Woodstock,NY 12498 (845) 679-7600 www.wdst.com

WKZE – 98.1 – FM Sharon,CT 06069 (860) 364-5800 www.wkze.com

WOODSTOCK CHAMBER OF COMMERCE www.woodstockchamber.com

WRITERS GUILD OF AMERICA, EAST www.wgaeast.org

YASGUR FARMS BOTTLEDH20 www.yasgurfarms.com

WOODSTOCK PLAYHOUSE (box office & hospitality) 103 Mill Hill Road Rtes 212 & 375 Woodstock,NY 12498 (845) 679-2764 info@woodstockplayhouse.org www.woodstockplayhouse.org

WOODSTOCK TOWN HALL (films) Tinker Street Woodstock,NY 12498 in Rhinebeck

UPSTATE FILMS

6415 Montgomery Street Rhinebeck,NY 12572 (845) 876-2515 www.upstatefilms.org

GIGI TRATTORIA

6422 Montgomery Street Rhinebeck,NY 12572 845.876.8686 www.phoenixrhinebeck.com

PHOENIXRISING

6423 Montgomery Street Rhinebeck,NY 12572 845.876.8686 www.phoenixrhinebeck.com

In Hunter

CATSKILL MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION THEATERS 7960 Main Street Hunter,NY 12442 (518) 263-4702 www.catskillmountain.org

Adam’s Fairacre Farms (845) 336-6300 www.adamsfarms.com

Adriano Limousine & Custom Carriage (845) 340-4227 (Ulster) (845) 227-9327 (Dutchess)

Alternative Videos of Woodstock 948 Route 28 Kingston,NY 12401 (845) 334-8105 www.alternativevideo.com

Black Bear Gourmet Deli 292 Route 375 West Hurley,NY 12491 (845) 679-7606

Bread Alone Route 28 Boiceville,NY 12412 (845) 657-3328 www.breadalone.com

Brice Discount Beverage Route 9W Sauger ties,NY 12477 (845) 246-7377 (845) 336-5585

Burt’s Electronics 549 Albany Avenue Kingston,NY 12401-2134 (845) 331-5011

HOSPITALITY SPONSORS

Catskill Mountain Organic Coffee

906 Route.28 Kingston,NY 12401 (845) 334-8455 (888) say-java info@catskillmtcoffee.com www.catskillmtcoffee.com

Cibo Specialty Foods 99 Ellis Street Staten Island,NY 10307 (718) 967.6858

Country Heritage Farms www.countryheritagefarms.com

Deising’s Bakery Midtown 584 Broadway (845) 338-1580 and 111 North Front St., Kingston,NY.12401 (845) 338-1241

Gadaleto’s Seafood 246 Main Street New Paltz,NY (845) 255-1041

Gisiano's Restaurant & Caterer 174 Main Street Glasco,NY (845).246-3035

Hickory BBQ and Smokehouse 743 Route 28 Kingston NY 12401 (845) 338-2424 hickoryrestaurant.com

Jarita’s Florist 17 Tinker Street Woodstock,NY 12498 (845) 679-6161

Lachmann’s Pastry Store and Bakery 264 Main St. Saugerties,NY 12477 (845) 246-5361

Lox of Bagels 4012 Route 9W Saugerties,NY 12477 (845) 246-0594

Melting Pot Caterers (845) 246-9667

Mother Earth Health Foods Kingston,NY.12401 (845) 336-5541

Old Chatham Sheepherding Company

Old Chatam,NY 12136 (800) SHEEP-60 www.blacksheepcheese.com

Oregon Orchard (Hazelnuts) www.hazelnut.com

Phoenix Rising 6423 Montgomery Street Rhinebeck,NY 12572 845.876.8686 www.phoenixrhinebeck.com

Price Chopper Supermarkets Route 212 Saugerties,NY

St.Claire’s Organic Sweets www.econaturalsolutions.com

Stone Pony Deli Old Kings Highway Saugerties,NY (845) 247-4700 www.stoneponydeli.com

Stonyfield Farm www.stonyfield.com

Sunfrost Farms 217 Tinker Street Woodstock 679-6690

Sunshine Market 2 Jansen Ave. Kingston,NY.12401 (845) 338-0042

Sunfrost Farms 217 Tinker Street Woodstock,NY 12498 (845) 679-6690

If we forgot to thank you, please forgive our oversight and know that your help and support is very much appreciated

Official Water of the 2004 Woodstock Film Festival

PRINT SOURCE CONTACTS

12 Tons Of Trash

Jennifer Harmon 725 Union St.#3 Brooklyn,NY 11215 (718) 623-3805 jjjharmon@yahoo.com

16W Fredrick Duignan fred16w@localnet.com

43rd Spring,The Kirstin Steffen Immanuelkirchstr.15 10405 Berlin,Germany +49 (30) 44 32 45 89 kirstin.steffen@berlin.de

Admissions

Luminous Entertainment 5820 Wilshire Boulevard,Suite 400 Los Angeles,CA 90036 (323) 931-3700 melissand@earthlink.net

Age of Innocence,The Sony Pictures Entertainment www.sonypitures.com

Allison Jeff Drew 7400 Kingfisher Ct NW Albuquerque,NM 87114 (505) 265-1556 automatedrew@aol.com

Amazing Grace:Jeff Buckley

Once & Future Production 784 Cambridge Avenue Menlo PArk, CA 94025 (650) 462-1780 nyla@oncefuture.com

And Then Everything I saw,I liked Ariel Jackson OscarDG99@aol.com

Animals In Love Vancouver Film School 2D Animation VFS 1380 Burrard St,3rd Floor Vancouver,BC V6Z 2H3 - Canada (604) 631-3002

Belle Street Pictures PO Box 861 New York,NY 10013 (917) 449-1990 rsergel@streetpictures.com

Bid Them In Neal Sopata 421 N. Pass Ave.#16 Burbank,CA 91505 neal@nealsopata.com

Bikini

Lasse Persson Palmgatan 8 21434 Malmö, Sweden +46-6116784 seflasse@hotmail.com

BlackBalled: The Bobby Dukes

Stor y The 7th Floor 19 West 21Street,706 New York,NY 10010 (212) 244-2317 general@the7thfloor.com www.bobbydukes.com

C’era Una Volta Un Re (Once Upon a Time,There Was a King)

Massimiliano Mauceri Via Menotti 31 Florence,50136 - Italy +39 (339) 747 6950 massi@quipo.it www.mauceri.it

Cavedweller SHOWTIME 1633 Broadway,17th Floor New York,NY 10019 (212) 708-1525

jennifer.weiss@showtime.net www.showtime.net

Chain

Antidote International Films 200 Varick St.,Room 515 New York,NY 10014 (646) 486-4344 ext 305 james@antidotefilms.com www.antidotefilms.com

Childhood Trauma #17

Michiel de Kraker #2 flat,Avani Court 111_113 Hampstead Road London,UK NW1 3EE - UK +44 (0) 7792818306 mdek raker@hotmail.com

Choke

Slipk not Productions 149 Markham Street Toronto,Ontario M6J 2G4 Canada (416) 571-8291 tlevine@rogers.com

Chorists (Les Choristes)

Miramax Films 375 Greenwich Street New York,NY 10013 (212) 941-3800 julie.fontaine@miramax.com www.miramax.com

Coded Language

Nick Schwartz 1814 Carol Place Tallahassee,FL 32304 (215) 913-2878 nasprod@aol.com

Coffee

Ugly Pictures

505 East 6th Street #5R New York,New York 10009 (646) 210-2726 ro.rao@nbcuni.com www.uglypictures.us

Conversations With Nickle Lorette Bayle lorette.bayle@kodak.com

Cosmopolitan Gigantic Pictures

500 Greenwich Street,Suite 501C New York,NY 10013 (212) 925-5075 info@giganticpictures.com www.giganticpictures.com

Cowbell in the Tree:A Portrait of Jim Morton,The Oniera Films LLC (845) 679-7739 jkatz@gc.org

Crack of Doom,The Natalia Wilkoszewska +44 773 195 9229 natwil2@wp.pl

Cries of a Teenage Soul,The c/o DCTV

87 Lafayette St.NY 10013 (212)966-4510-235 raina@dctvny.org www.dctvny.com

Critical Path,The Benita Raphan 101,West 12 Street Nes York,NY 10011 (212) 691-2877 braphan@aol.com www.benitaraphan.com

Crux,The Jeffrey Seckendorf 556b North Windsor Boulevard Los Angeles,CA 90004 (323) 314-6501 jeff@snaproll.com www.thecruxmovie.com

Dear Frankie Miramax Films 375 Greenwich Street New York,NY 10013 (212) 941-3800 julie.fontaine@miramax.com www.miramax.com

Definition of Insanity,The Soap Factory Productions 682 St. Marks Avenue Brooklyn,NY 11216 (718) 363-3151 frank@soapfactory.ch ramargolis@hotmail.com www.soapfactor y.ch

Devotion and Defiance Kunga Palmo (202) 785-1515 info@savetibet.org www.savetibet.org

Don’t Call It Heimweh... Thomas Halaczinsky 684 Fifth Avenue Brooklyn,NY 11215 (718) 788-5309 thomas@tudor-productions.com www.tudor-productions.com/ Heimweh.htm

Double Dare Runaway Films 1330 Rhode Island St. San Francisco,CA 94107 (415) 821 2448 info@runawayfilms.com

Down to the Bone

Down to the Bone Productions 55 East 11 Street,No.11 New York,NY 10003 (212) 420-8797 arosellini@bway.net www.downtothebonethefilm.com

Elephant Shoes

One Man Band Films

3-3501 Aylmer Street Montreal,QC H2X 2B9 Canada (514) 844-3196 christos@onemanbandfilms.com www.elephantshoesmovie.com

Fittest,the Crook Brothers Productions (212) 979-6345 angie@crookbrothers.com www.crookbrothers.com

Flavio Freed Pictures 601 West 26th Street,17th Floor New York,NY 10001 (212) 352-3007 ext.248 jon@freedpictures.com www.freedpictures.com

Forbidden Team,The Balls Productions Copenhagen,Denmark +45-3268-1038 karim.stoumann@balls.dk www.forbiddenteam.com

Frog Christopher Conforti 1641 Red Pine Trail Wellington,Florida 33414 (561) 596-0914 cecon40@aol.com

Future of Food,The Lily Films P.O.Box 895 Mill Valley,CA 94942 (415) 383-0553 info@lilyfilms.com www.thefutureoffood.com

Gay By Dawn Jonathan London 6700 Hillpark Drive,No 203 Los Angeles,CA 90068 (323) 252-1157 jonathan@jonathanlondon.com www.jonathanlondon.com

Get in the Car Flickerfest PO Box 7416 Bondi Beach,NSW 2026 Australia +61- 2 - 9365 6877 info@flickerfest.com.au www.panicproductions.com.au

Getting Through to the President Off Center Productions 625 Atlantic Avenue Suite 3303 Brook lyn, NY 11217 (718) 636 0988 emily@off-center.com www.off-center.com

Glass Jaw (Lasileuka) Finnish Film Foundation Mechelininkatu 40 Helsinki,Helsinki 250 +358 9 687 44980 anna.heisk anen@dofilms.fi info@dofilms.fi

Growing Up on Tour,A Family Por trait

PR Films

c/o Workshop 37 West 20th St.305 New York, NY 10011 (646) 245-4600 ADonado@WorkshopEntertainmen t.com

Guard Dog Bill Plympton Plymptoons@aol.com

Guerrilla:The Taking of Patty Hearst

Robert Stone Productions (845)-876-0550 info@guerrillathemovie.com www.guerrillathemovie.com

Hair High

Plymptoons / Bill Plympton Plymptoons@aol.com www.highhair.com

I Like Killing Flies

THINKFilm

155 Avenue of the Americas New York,NY 10013 (646) 293-9400 ldonatelli@thinkfilmcompany.com www.thinkfilmcompany.com

In the Realms of the Unreal Diorama Films (323) 854-2823 info@realmsoftheunreal.com www.realmsoftheunreal.com

Jailbait

Belladonna Productions

450 West 15 Street,Suite 602 New York,NY 10011 (212) 807-0108 shanachielit@aol.com

JayWalker

David Zeines dezeines_pro@yahoo.com

Jam: When Lives Collide Jam Productions 4712 Admiralty Way #516 Marina Del Ray,CA 90292 (310) 720-4412 Info@JamMovie.com www.jammovie.com

Jihad

Backbone Films,Inc. 8933 Wonderland Park Avenue Los Angeles,CA 90046 (323) 848-8887 shapmik@aol.com

Junebug and Hurricane Synesthetic Films 360 West 51st Street,Apt.3A New York,NY 10019 (917) 428-3308 jponsoldt@hotmail.com; jap2005@columbia.edu

Kiko

Ondrej Rudavsk y Namestie Martina Benku 24 Bratislava ,811 02 Slovak Republik ondrej@proracing.sk www.nicolas-mermet.com/ondrej/

King of the Corner Elevation Filmworks 145 Sixth Avenue,7th Floor New York,NY 10013 (212) 924-6464 info@elevationfilmworks.com

Kingston Cares 845.382.1281 mleopold@mhric.org

Kontroll THINKFilm 155 Avenue of the Americas New York,NY 10013 (646) 293-9400 ldonatelli@thinkfilmcompany.com

PRINT SOURCE CONTACTS

League of Ordinary Gentlemen,A DIONYSIAN FILMS

330 Lafayette Street,5th Floor New York,NY 10012 (212) 965-0815 wbryan@dionysianfilms.com www.dionysianfilms.com

Levitation Karen Nourse 212-244-0433 karen@kzfilms.com

Light My Fire Naked,Inc. #1203,3-7-23 Nishishinjyuku, Shinjyuku-ku Tokyo 160-0023 - Japan info@naked.co.jp www.nizoo.com

Lost Cause,The Jim Taylor jimtaylor@earthlink.net

LSD A Go Go Slowkid Productions PO Box 16650 Austin,TX 78761 (512) 771.1495 nathan@slowkid.com http://www.flojo.com

Machinist,The Paramount Classics 5555 Melrose Avenue Chevalier 219 Hollywood,CA 90038 (323) 956-4545 Pantea_Ghaderi@paramount.com www.machinistmovie.com

Making Grace Aubin Pictures P.O.Box 214 New York,NY 10012 (212)-274-9782 info@aubinpictures.com www.aubinpictures.com

Making the Grade Corey Smith (973) 667-5786 smithcorey@mac.com www.homepage.mac.com/smithcorey

March 22,2003:Interviews in Union Square Park Parson’s Pre-College Academy student production team Karen Nourse (212)-244-0433 karen@kzfilms.com

Meatrix,The Global Resource Action Center for the Environment (GRACE) 215 Lexington Avenue Suite 1001 New York, NY 10016 (212) 726-9161 rbray@gracelinks.org www.themeatrix.com

Mojados:Through the Night Davis Gang Films 1300 13th ST NW #407 Washington,DC.20005 (202) 489-7783 bushwhack@mac.com tdrand@mac.com www.mojadosmovie.com

Nomi Song,The Neal Block Palm Pictures 601 West 26th Street.,No.1150 New York,NY 10001 neal.block@palmpictures.com www.thenomisong.com

Obstinato:Making Music for Two The Old School,Ltd. 45 Pineapple Street Brooklyn,NY 11201 (718) 596-8186 Fandito@aol.com

Off to War Downtown Community Television Center

87 Lafayette St. New York,NY 10013 (212) 966-4510 craiglrenaud@yahoo.com brentrenaud@yahoo.com www.dctvny.org

Old Country

Kaeja d’Dance 734 Euclid Avenue Toronto,ON M6G 2V2 (416) 516-6030 k aeja@k aeja.org www.kaeja.org

Old Man and Hemingway,The M3OA Films

305 7th Street,#3R Brooklyn,NY 11215 (917)279-4846 hugo@aya.yale.edu

Ong Bak:The Thai WArrior Magnolia Pictures 115 West 27th Street.,8th Floor New York,NY 10001 (212) 924-6701 ext. 206 jreichert@magpictures.com www.magpictures.com

OUR MUSIC - NOTRE MUSIQUE Wellspring Media 212-686-6777 x164 rwerner@wellspring.com http://www.wildbunch.biz/homepage.cfm

p.s.

Newmarket Films 597 Fifth Avenue,7th floor New York, NY 10017 (212) 303.1700 www.newmarketfilms.com

Parallel Lines

Nina Davenport 56 7th Avenue,12C New York,New York (212) 924.0202 ninadavenport@earthlink.net www.parallellinesthemovie.com

Pink and pong

Alina Bliumis (917) 701 0149 alina_bliumis@yahoo.com www.ar tcast.org/alina

Pizza

InDigEnt

Emily Gardiner 135 West 26th Street,5th Fl. New York, NY 10001 (212) 929-7711 www.indigent.net

Plasticat

Simon Bogojevic-Narath lskorin@open.hr

The Point

Joanne Terrell Cohen and Cohen 740 N.La Brea Avenue Los Angles,CA.90038 (323) 938-5000

Poor God

Matthew Abbiss +44 207 590 4512 animation@rca.ac.uk matt@mabbiss.fsnet.co.uk

POPaganda

Pedro Carvajal (201) 659-7643 pedro2nd@hotmail.com www.popaganda.com

Potato Chip Tale,A Heidi Sjursen customheidi@yahoo.com

Power Pharm Adam Zaretsky Zareta@rpi.edu

Reality FLIP

54 Morton Street,Apt.1F New York,NY 10014 (212) 243-4691 steve@stevelippman.com www.stevelippman.com

Robots in “for no reason at all in C” Cathy Karol 2615 6th St apt M Santa Monica, CA 90405 (310) 396-4361 cathykarolc@aol.com

Ryan National Film Board of Canada 350 Fifth Avenue, Suite 4820 New York,NY 10118 (212)-629-8890 j.sirabella@nfb.ca

Sangam

Jiva Universal 7 West 18th Street,9th Floor New York,NY 10011 (917) 202-7727 info@sangam.tv www.sangam.tv

Savior (Bjargvaettur) Morning Moon Films (212) 749-0119 eskuladottir@nyc.rr.com,morningmoonfilms@hotmail.com

Scattered,Smothered,Covered Matthew Serrins 11 Rutledge Avenue Charleston,South Carolina 29401 (843) 853 5655 matthew_serrins@hotmail.com

School Board Blues

Willow Mixed Media,Inc PO Box 194 Glenford, New York 12433 (845) 657-2914 video@hvc.rr.com www.willowmixedmedia.org

PRINT SOURCE CONTACTS

Screaming Men (Huutajat)

Finnish Film Foundation Mechelininkatu 40 Helsinki,Helsinki 250 +358 9 687 44980 anna.heiskanen@dofilms.fi info@dofilms.fi

Secret Honor

Matthew Seig mwseig@aol.com (914) 260-9568

Seventeen

Hisko Hulsing

Balistraat 42 -3 1094 JN Amsterdam The Netherlands +(31)20-6164745 contact@hiskohulsing.com www.hiskohulsing.com

Shake the Rain Light Circle Films,Llc PMB# 101,3980 Broadway,ste 103 Boulder,CO 80304 303-449-0738 LCFilms@earthlink.net

Shock and Awe

Chase Palmer 1578 Ponus Ridge New Canaan,CT 06840 (347) 512-5980 rivalpix@ear thlink.net

Shocking And Awful:A Grass Roots Response To War In Iraq

Deep Dish Tv Po Box 89 Willow, NY, 12495 (845) 679 2756 dhalleck@ucsd.edu www.deepdishtv.org

Soldiers Pay

Philippe Diaz Cinema Libre 818-349-8822.

Something for Henry People LLC

6346 Orange ST #5 Los Angeles,CA 90048 (310) 922 1931 ninatsai@aol.com

Speak SHOWTIME 1633 Broadway,17th Floor New York,NY 10019 (212) 708-1525 (212) 708-1217 (fax) jennifer.weiss@showtime.net www.showtime.net

Still,the Children are Here Mirabai Films 5 East 16th St New York,NY 10003 (646) 486 4386 dinazstafford@yahoo.com www.mirabaifilms.com

String

Watkins World Wide,Inc. 21 Conselyea Street Brooklyn,NY 11211 (718) 609-1043 watkinsworldwide@hotmail.com

Tango Octogenario

David Licata 75 West End Avenue,P7A New York,NY 10023 (212) 582-5022 david@bloodorangefilms.com www.bloodorangefilms.com

Tank Man,The (Tynnyrimies)

Art Films production AFP Viides Linja 3 A 35 Helsinki,Helsinki FIN-00530 +358 405006602 arto@artfilms.inet.fi www.artfilmsartohalonen.fi

Things Done Changed

HBO Young Filmmakers Lab 357 Ninth Street Brooklyn,NY 11215 (718) 768-7100 ext 139 jcwilliams1965@earthlink.net www.reel-stories.com

This is Not an End Jesper Fleng JA Film mail@jafilm.dk

Trollywood Houston King houston_king@hotmail.com

Twins

Falkland Road Inc.

37 Greene Street 4th Floor New York,NY 10013 (212) 925-2770 twins@falkland.com mlue@falkland.com www.falkland.com

Undertow

David Gordon Green United Artists (212) 708-0325 sfinmann@mgm.com www.unitedartists.com Unknown Soldier Ferenc Toth CL Productions,LLC E.83 Street,Suite 4B New York,NY 10028 (646)-337-5099 movie-info@ unknownsoldierfilm.com www.unknownsoldierfilm.com

Victim

Amy Lou Taylor 32 Raglan Road PO Box 763 Mount Lawley,WA 6050 Australia (618) 92281346 amy.lou@swiftdsl.com.au

Victoria Para Chino Cary Fukunaga PO Box 208 New York,NY 10014 (310) 266-2180 cjf241@nyu.edu

Virile Man, The Fortified P.O.Box 49554 Austin,TX 78765 (512) 323-9346 info@for tHQ.com www.fortHQ.com

When Things Get Confused (Wenn Die Dinge Durcheinander Geraten)

Keen Fate Productions Steindamm 21 20099 Hamburg - Germany +49 (40) 280 56 280 frevert@gmx.de

Who’s Your Daddy?

Eggwork Productions PO Box 18174 Rochester,NY 14618 (585) 473.4156 mehlers@eggwork.com www.eggwork.com

Witches in Exile Satellite Pictures,Inc. 27 East 13th Street,#3H New York,NY 10003 (212) 691.0223 llib3h@aol.com

Woodsman,The Newmarket Films 597 Fifth Avenue,7th floor New York,NY 10017 (212) 303 -1700 www.newmarketfilms.com

The World According to Bush Flach Film 12,rue Lincoln 75008 Paris France +33 (1) 56 69 38 38 +33 (1) 56 69 38 41 flachfilm@flachfilm.com www.flachfilm.com

Words of My Perfect Teacher ZIJI FILMS & TV LTD 1657 Barrington Street,Suite 422 Halifax,Nova Scotia B3J2A1 Canada distribution @ziji.ca

Wrigley

Patricia Ibanez 71 Carrollwood Drive Tarrytown,NY 10591 (917) 843-3002 pibanez02@aol.com www.wrigleythemovie.com

You Call This A Riot?

Becky Selinger 22 Lark Drive Woodstock, NY 12498 (845) 679-0710 thatsellingergrl@aol.com

Young Americans

Todd Smith 153 Lafayette Ave.,#4 Brooklyn,NY 11283 (646) 456-4045 countimbroglio@hotmail.com www.ulsterchamber.org

HOW TO GET HERE & THERE

BY AUTO:

The Woodstock Film Festivalis now a member of the Enterprise Rent-A-Car Corporate Class Program. This program offers discounted rates to visitors of The Woodstock Film Festival. Most importantly, Enterprise Rent-A-Car has 15 local offices in Hudson Valley, and will be happy to pick you up from any location when needed!

Reservations can be made on their award winning website by clicking here.Just type in our Corporate ID#-24H6506 and you can make a reservation anywhere in the country. Your three digit pin code is “THE” or call the National Reservation number at 1-800-593-0505 and give them our Corporate ID#-24H6506.

BY BUS

To Woodstock:Take Adirondack Trailways from Port Authority to Woodstock. This drops you off at the Village Green or you can ask to be let off at the Box Office/Hospitality center. For schedule, call Adirondack Trailways at 800-858-8555. Alternative stops incude Kingston and Phoenicia.

To Rhinebeck: Take the Shortline Bus from Port Authority to Rhinebeck. For Rhinebeck schedule call 800-631-8405.

To Hunter: Take Adirondack Trailways from Port Authority to Hunter. For schedule, call Adirondack Trailways at 800-858-8555.

BY TRAIN:

To Rhinecliff/Rhinebeck: Take the Empire Ser vice Line from Penn Station to RhinecliffKingston. Monday through Friday, the DUCK trolley transports visitors into Rhinebeck. Though on weekends, a cab is your best 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. Woodstock is a twenty minute drive from Rhinecliff

To Hunter: Take Amtrak from Penn Station to the Hudson stop, and rent a car from Enterprise Rent-A-Car, which will meet you at the train station.

For more infotoll free 800-USA-RAIL, or visit www.amtrak.com.

BY CAR to:

WOODSTOCK:

From NYC &

SOUTH

Take the NYS Thruway (Interstate 87) North to Exit 19 (Kingston). Head WEST on Rt. 28 toward Pine Hill. After 6 miles turn RIGHT at the light onto Rt. 375 and follow 3 miles into Woodstock!

From ALBANY & MASS PIKE

Take NYS Thruway (Interstate 87) South on I87 to Exit 20 (Saugerties/Woodstock). Turn LEFT onto Rt. 32, then RIGHT onto Rt. 212. Follow Rt. 212 for 9 miles into Woodstock.

The Tinker Street Cinema is located at 132 Tinker Street. The box office is located at the Woodstock Playhouse, at the corner of route 212 & 375. Other venues are located throughout the town.

RHINEBECK:

From Woodstock, Ulster County & west side of Hudson River: Take Rt. 375 towards Rt. 28. Turn LEFT onto Rt. 28. Merge onto US209 N toward Kingston-Rhinecliff Bridge. Go over the Kingston-Rhinecliff Bridge, continue straight to second traffic light. Turn right onto Route 9G. At first light turn right onto Route 9. Go straight into the center of Rhinebeck. Theater is at 6415 Montgomer y Street/Route 9 next to Foster’s Coach House Restaurant.

From South, also west side of Hudson: Go over the Mid-Hudson Bridge to Route 9 North. Go approx. 12 miles to center of Rhinebeck. Theater is north of traffic light at 6415 Montgomery Street/Route 9 next to Foster’s Coach House Restaurant, across from Rhinebeck Savings Bank.

From East (& the Taconic): Take Route 199 west. Bear left at the fork with the only traffic light. That’s Rt 308. Continue on 308 to village traffic light. Make a right onto Route 9. Theater will be on your left at 6415 Montgomery Street/Route 9, next to Foster’s Coach House Restaurant, across from Rhinebeck Savings Bank.

HUNTER:

*Bus transportation is available from 2-6 Mill Hill Rd., Woodstock to Main St. (Hunter Auto Repair), Hunter. (see “by bus” for more)

From Woodstock Toward Saugerties

Take Rt. 212 east to Rt. 32 north (stoplight intersection at Hess Service Station). Take a LEFT onto Rt. 32 north (towards NYS Thruway SOUTHBOUND entrance). Continue several miles to Rt. 32A north to Rt. 23A west, which will lead you directly onto the main street of the town of Hunter. The Catskill Mountain Foundation Theater is on the left.

From Woodstock Through Phoenicia

Take Rt. 212 west (bear right at Bearsville) to Mt. Tremper, then bear right towards Phoenicia. Pass thru Phoenicia and take a right onto Rt. 214. Continue a few miles until you come to Rt. 23A. Take a left and travel directly into Hunter as above.

From the South:

Take the NYS Thruway (Interstate 87) to Exit 20, Saugerties. Go left at the traffic light after the toll booth onto Rt. 212. After a quarter mile, turn right onto Route 32 North. After about 6 miles, bear left at the blinking yellow light ont Route 32A. After about 2 miles, at the traffic light, turn left onto Route 23A West. Go through the villages of Palenville, Haines Falls, and Tannersville to Hunter. Go almost a mile past the entrance to Hunter Mountain. Before the blinking yellow light, the movie theater is on the left and the Performing Arts Center (Red Barn) is on the right, set back from the road.

From the North:

Take Interstate 87 to Exit 21, Catskill. Get on Route 23 West and follow it toward Windham. Before entering the town of Windham, make a left on Route 296 south. At the end of 296, go left on Route 23A. After the blinking yellow light, the movie theater will be on the right and the red barn on the left, set back from the road.

All information is subject to change.

Please visit www.woodstockfilmfestival.com for the most up to date information including SCHEDULES,added screenings,and OTHER EVENTS.

48AMAZING GRACE:JEFF BUCKLEY

48CONVERSATIONS WITH NICKLE

49DON’T CALL IT HEIMWEH...

49DOUBLE DARE

50THE FORBIDDEN TEAM

50 THE FUTURE OF FOOD

51GUERRILLA:THE TAKING OF PATTY HEARST

52I LIKE KILLING FLIES

52IN THE REALMS OF THE UNREAL

53A LEAGUE OF ORDINARY GENTLEMEN

53MAKING GRACE

54MOJADOS:THROUGH THE NIGHT

54THE NOMI SONG

55OFF TO WAR

55 PARALLEL LINES

56POPaganda: The Art & Subversion of Ron English

56SCREAMING MEN (HUUTAJAT)

57SHOCKING & AWFUL:A GRASS ROOTS RESPONSE TO WAR IN IRAQ

57 SCHOOL BOARD BLUES

58SOLDIERS PAY

58 STILL, THE CHILDREN ARE HERE

59TROLLYWOOD

59WITCHES IN EXILE

60WORDS OF MY PERFECT TEACHER

61THE WORLD ACCORDING TO BUSH(LE MONDE SELON BUSH)

DOCUMENTARY FEATURES

“Singer songwriter Jeff Buckley is remembered in hues of gray and sepia in this biography charting his rise from obscurity to his untimely death. “Grace,” he said, “is what matters—in anything. It keeps you from reaching for the gun too quickly.” This is an intimate portrait of a true artist and avid journal keeper who translated his experiences into music.”(Barbara Pokras)

In Europe,they speak of him in holy whispers. In America, he’s a mysterious footnote. He was poised for huge commercial success, but Jeff Buckley’s untimely death kept him on the periphery of popular music. Amazing Grace: Jeff Buckley, a passionately crafted documentary, sets out to investigate the extraordinary phenomenon of Jeff Buckley, a musician of relatively modest com-

CONVERSATIONS WITH NICKLE

Direc ted by Lorette Bayle

Main Credits:

DirectorLorette Bayle

ProducerLorette Bayle

CinematographerLorette Bayle

EditorBryan Pitcher

ComposersPhil Curtis, Brian Demke

*Benefit screening for Albany ALS support Group

mercial success, with only one full-length album, who has become a veritable tour de force of inspiration for artists across the globe.

Interviews include all four of the Jeff Buckley Band members, friends, family, colleagues, critics, DJs, producers, and fans. From Sydney, New York, and London to Memphis, Montpelier, and Los Angeles, the film takes viewers on an expansive yet incredibly intimate trip through the world of Jeff Buckley, and explores how he continues to inspire his fans–from classical composers to rock ‘n roll superstars and ever yone in between.

L aurie Trombley was handpicked by Jeff Buckley to be his fan relations manager while she was attending the College

AMAZING GRACE: JEFF BUCKLEY

Directed by Nyla Adams and Laurie Trombley

USA / 2004 / 60 minutes Community Center 10/15 • 7:00pm Town Hall 10/17 • 3:30pm

Main Credits:

Directors/ Producers/ Cinematographers: Laurie Trombley,Nyla Bialek Adams

of New Rochelle in Westchester, New York. She’s spent the past nine years marketing for various companies, including A&E Television and The History Channel, FUSE, and Regal CineMedia, while moonlighting as co-producer and co -director of her first film.

Nyla Bialek Adams worked as an audio visual technican while studying at Trinity College in Hartford. After graduating, she spent several years working in documentary programming at A&E television before leaving to co -produce, co -direct, and edit Amazing Grace: Jeff Buckley.

Conversations with Nickle is a narrative documentary that takes us through profoundly surprising events in Gay Nickle Lauritzen’s life as she struggles to overcome the disabling effects of Lou Gehrig’s disease. With inspiring humor and courage, Nickle teaches us about the immense power of the human spirit.

BIO

Lorette Bayle is an award-wining documentar y and narrative filmmaker. Her narrative film Mariela’s Kitchen won a Silver Award for Best Dramatic Short at the Houston International Film Festival, was a finalist in the Next Frame Festival, screened in festivals internationally and domestically, and aired on Fine Cut for KCET (PBS, Los Angeles) in 2001. Lorette produced and directed a number of in-studio programs for KUED (PBS, Salt L ake City), winning a Silver Award for Brahms at 100 in

1997. She has traveled to three continents to produce and shoot documentaries, some of which include Haite, Land of Hope, The Enchanted Gardens of England, and A Gift to the City. She has worked for the Sundance Institute, Independent Feature Project/LA, and American Zoetrope. Currently, Lorette is a production executive at the Eastman Kodak Company. She completed an MFA in film and theater directing at the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) in 1999.

DOCUMENTARY FEATURES

The Greeks call it nostalgia–in German Heimweh. At the age of eighty-two, Margot Friedlander begins a journey to resolve a life long search for home and identity. Surviving Nazi Germany hidden by Germans while her family was murdered in Auschwitz has left her with truly conflicted feelings.

Thomas Halaczinsky was born and raised in Germany and has lived in New York City since 1991. He has produced several feature films here and abroad, among them Facing the Forest (1993), directed by Peter Lilienthal and shot on location in Israel. In the United States he produced the feature film Zoo (1999) and line-produced Cross-Eyed (1997). As a documentary filmmaker he has produced and directed numerous films shown

DOUBLE DARE

Double Dare is a double-barreled,actionpacked documentary about two Hollywood stuntwomen, Jeannie Epper and Zoe Bell. Jeannie, who refused to retire at sixty-two, doubled for Wonder Woman in the 70s, and Zoe landed the coveted job of doubling for Xena at the age of eighteen. With star-studded inter views and rollicking live-action stunt sequences, Double Dare is a candid look at two strong, dedicated women who pursue tough careers in male-dominated Tinseltown

“Six decades ago Margot Friedlander fled her native Berlin as the city succumbed to Nazi control. She narrowly escaped with her life; the rest of her family was not so fortunate. A lifetime later she returns to find a homeland she no longer recognizes, confronting bitter memories and educating German youth about hardships they can barely comprehend. A moving and unsentimental tale of one woman’s indomitable will to survive. (Jeff Economy)

on television here and abroad. Recently he completed the first segment of a compilation film about elderly women in the Unitd States, entitled I am… that premiered at the Jewish Women’s Film Festival in New York City, 2002. He produced and directed the lead segment for a television-special about Stanley Kubrick’s film 2001 - A Space Odyssey reaching the year it projected for German/French culture channel ARTE. For his participation in the Emmy winning documentar y about war crimes against women in former Yugoslavia Calling The Ghost, that debuted on HBO/Cinemax he won an ACE award in 1996 in the category international documentaries. Mr. Halaczinsky made his directorial debut as a codirector with Der

BIO

Amanda Micheli is an award-winning filmmaker with a solid background as both a director and a cinematographer. She shot, edited, and directed Just for the Ride, a documentary about the women’s pro rodeo circuit, that won an Academy Award and an International Documentary Association Award in student categories and premiered on the prestigious PBS series POV in 1996. Since then she has shot a Sundance Award-winning documentary (My Flesh and Blood, HBO) and an Emmy-nominated film set in Cambodia (The Flute Player, PBS). She was more recently the cinematographer of Witches in Exile, a film shot in Ghana, that won the Special Jury Prize at SXSW in spring 2004 and is scheduled for release later this fall.

Amanda’s second film as a director, Double Dare, won the audience award for Best

DON’T CALL IT HEIMWEH...

Directed by Thomas Halaczinsky

Main Credits:

Director,ProducerThomas Halaczinsky

CinematographerFrancisco Dominguez

EditorSabine Krayenbuehl W

Himmelsschluessel (Key to Heaven) a film about a 90-year-old woman and the impact that Catholic religion had on her life. (Directed by Karl Heinz Rehbach and produced for renowned Kleines Fernsehspiel ZDF, Germany.)

Documentar y at both the AFI FEST in Los Angeles and the San Francisco International Film Festival, and is scheduled for release in early 2005. She is currently shooting and producing an HBO documentar y directed by photographer Lauren Greenfield. Other production credits include You’re Gonna Miss Me (in post), Same River Twice (Sundance, 2003), and the ITVS series American Girls. Amanda is a graduate of Harvard University and has been a member of the top U.S. women’s rugby team for over a decade.

Directed by Amanda Micheli

/ 2003 / 81 minutes

DOCUMENTARY FEATURES

“Stunning cinematography blends sports and spirituality in this documentar y about a Tibetan refugee soccer team in India training for their first international event. Brisk editing deftly blends slow and fast motion and perfectly reveals this duality. A heartfelt exploration of themes of freedom and nationhood; a cameo by the Dalai Lama is an added treat.”(Barbara Pokras)

THE FORBIDDEN TEAM

EAST COAST PREMIERE

Directed by Arnold Krolgaard and Rasmus Dinesen

Main Credits:

DirectorsArnold Krolgaard, Rasmus Dinesen

ProducersKarim Stoumann

Jesper Holm, Joanna Din Mitchew

Malena Belafonte

EditorsMette Zeruneith Flemming Davidsen

ComposersJesper Mechienburg Supersonic

Screening with Devotion and Defiance

There’s a revolution going on in the farm fields and on the dinner tables of America–a revolution that originated behind the closed doors of corporate boardrooms and government agencies over the use of genetically modified organisms in our food. The Future of Food offers an in-depth investigation into the disturbing truth behind the unlabeled G.M.O products that have quietly filled grocery store shelves over the past decade.

From the test tube, to the farm field, to the supermarket, the film follows the personal stories of the farmers in the United States

The Forbidden Team is the story of a national football team without a nation It is a humorous documentary about a cultural clash, dreams coming true, and football–as Buddha would have played it!

The Forbidden Team follows the Tibetan National Soccer Team as they get ready for the first major game of their career. Invited to play against Greenland in Denmark, the Tibetan team enlists the ser vices of a Danish coach who struggles against the odds to get the team ready. They are described as “looking like the Flanders battlefield in World War One,” their training takes place in pea-soup fog, and their field is actually part of a thoroughfare used by people and animals during

and Canada who have been sued by large multinational corporations for continuing the time-honored tradition of saving seeds, and the scientists in the United States and Europe who have been censored for raising serious public and environmental health concerns. Finally, consumers are beginning to question why this has escaped the attention of both the media and the federal agencies in charge of keeping our food safe.

BIO

The Future of Food unravels the complex web of market and political forces that are changing the nature of what we eat. Deborah Koons Garcia fell in love with filmmaking when she first picked up a Bolex. Her educational series All About Babies, narrated by Jane Alexander, won a Cine Golden Eagle and a Gold Medal from the John Muir Medical Film Festival, among other awards. Deborah´s feature film Poco Loco “finds its groove in gentle romantic fan-

both practices and games. And dealing with the Indian government on visa matters is a whole other story!

What transpires is a beautiful film that paints an enormously touching portrait of a team for whom there is much more at stake than merely winning the game.

BIO

Rasmus Dinesen has produced and/or directed the short films Traffic Safety, The Duel, Summertime , and United Colors of Football Arnold Krøigaard directed the TV documentary Frederik to All Times and served as both the director and scriptwriter on the documentar y AIDS is Easy to Cure

THE FUTURE OF FOOD

Directed by Deborah Koons Garcia

Main Credits:

DirectorDeborah Koons Garcia

ProducersCatherine Lynn Butler

Deborah Koons Garcia

CinematographerJohn Chater

ScreenwriterDeborah Koons Garcia

EditorVivien Hillgrove

ComposerTodd Boekelheide

tasy,” according to Variety. She was the instigator and chief creative consultant for Grateful Dawg, a documentary about the musical friendship between her husband Jerr y Garcia and David Grisman. Grateful Dawg premiered at the Telluride Film Festival and went on to a lively run on the festival circuit, in theaters, and on television.

With Guerrilla ,filmmaker

Robert Stone brings into sharp focus the mood of the early 1970s, a mood that inspired the formation of the first radical domestic terrorist cell to become a media sensation in the United States, the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA). The SLA wreaked havoc on the West Coast and our national psyche for over two years, leaving behind a rich trove of paranoid recordings and scores of violent acts, including the kidnapping of heiress Patty Hearst, who would

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GUERRILLA: THE TAKING OF PATTY HEARST

NEW YORK PREMIERE

Directed by Robert Stone

USA / 2004 / 90 minutes

subsequently join the SLA under the alias “Tania.” As much a thriller as it is a document of the times, Guerrilla brings a striking, shocking moment in the nation’s histor y back to light.

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Main Credits:

Producer Rober t Stone

Cinematographers

Howard Shack

Richard Neill

Robert Stone

EditorDon Kleszy

ComposerGary Lionelli

FeaturingMichael Bortin

Timothy Findley

Russell Little

“R obert Stone’s brilliant chronology of the SLA uses disembodied voices, first hand accounts and extensive archival footage to create a portrait of young people responding to the horrors of war and social inequality. W ith images of R obin Hood and the saga of Patty Hearst at its core, were these SLA ‘soldiers’ revolutionaries, terrorists, or true patriots?”

(Barbara Pokras)

BIO

Robert Stone was born in England in 1958 and spent his childhood in both England and America. He graduated with a degree in history from the University of Wisconsin/ Madison in 1980. Eventually settling in New York City, he began making a film about nuclear weapons testing in the Pacific. The result was the acclaimed Radio Bikini (1987), nominated for an Oscar for best feature documentar y. This was followed by the feature documentaries The Satellite Sky (1989), about the U.S. reaction to Sputnik; and Farewell Good Brothers(1992), about 1950 flying saucer cults. All three films are being rereleased in Hi-Def by IFC. Robert created a twenty-two-part permanent film and video installation for the JFK Librar y in Boston. He also served as a director of photography and associate producer on several documentaries, including the cult classic Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey(1994 Sundance Award winner). His only fictional film is World War Three (1998), a controversial fake “historical documentary” for ZDF German Television. In recent years he has shot and directed several verité films including the feature documentary American Babylon (2000), about Atlantic City. He lives in Rhinebeck, NY, with his wife and two sons.

Courtesy of Magnolia Pictures

DOCUMENTARY FEATURES

I LIKE KILLING FLIES

U.S.PREMIERE In Competition

Directed by Matt Mahurin

USA / 2003 / 80 minutes

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Main Credits:

Director ,Producer,

Cinematography,Editor Matt Mahurin

With over 900 items on the menu, all conjured up from scratch in a Rube Goldberg kitchen the size of a walk-in closet, Kenny Shopsin, a self-taught chef in his tiny familyowned New York City restaurant, spends his days feeding his neighbors. And when there is a lull in the cooking, Kenny steps out from

In the Realms of the Unreal explores outsider ar t from the inside . Eschewing expert opinion, it reflects the uniqueness of its subject, employing vivid animation and experimental elements to immerse us in Henry Darger’s world and all its strange beauty. Brought to life on film, the works reverberate with universal themes: the search for meaning, control, connection, moral direction. Through Darger’s eyes, the film reveals this odd man to be Ever yman. He lived a virtually friendless existence, but his imaginary life was as exciting and colorful as his real life was tedious. By day, he scrubbed floors, attended Mass, rummaged through garbage cans. By night, he ruled a world in which the forces of innocence and good fought a bloody

behind his Frankenstein stove and holds court, serving up morsels of wisdom and wit on life, death, sex, politics, and even food. But after thirty-two years in the same sheltered workshop, his family loses the lease and must now find a new place for Kenny to cook.

BIO

Matt Mahurin, who lives in New York City. has spent twenty years as an illustrator, photographer, film director, and teacher. His political and social illustrations have appeared in Time, Newsweek, Mother Jones, Rolling Stone, Esquire, The London Obser ver and New York Times

His photographic essays have focused on the homeless, people with AIDS, the Texas prison system, abortion clinics, mental hospi-

tals, Nicaragua, Haiti, Belfast, Mexico, Japan, and France. He has published three books of personal fine-art photographs and has photographs in the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.

Matt has directed music videos for Peter Gabriel, U2, REM, Tracy Chapman, Sting, Bonnie Raitt, Ice-T, Metallica, David Byrne, and Joni Mitchell. In 1996, he wrote and directed the feature film Mugshot, which won the Best Film Award at the 1996 Hamptons Film Festival

IN THE REALMS OF THE UNREAL

Directed by Jessica Yu

USA / 2004 / 81 minutes

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battle against the forces of treachery and evil. By juxtaposing Henry Darger’s parallel but opposite universes, the film shows how he forged magic out of the bleakest of lives, leaving a legacy that has inspired other artists around the world.

BIO

Jessica Yu, a Los Angeles-based filmmaker, won the 1997 Academy Award for Best Documentary Short for Breathing Lessons: The Life And Work of Mark O’Brien, an intimate portrait of a writer who lived for four decades paralyzed by polio and confined to an iron lung.

Yu’s narrative short Better L ate was the debut film for the fXM Shorts Series. It has been featured in sixty festivals since its premiere at Sundance 1997, and won First Prize for Short Drama at the New York Festival. Her

DirectorJessica Yu

ProducersSusan West,Jessica Yu

Screenwriter/EditorJessica Yu

CinematographerTim Bieber

MusicJeff Beal (original music)

FeaturingHenry Darger

Dakota Fanning (narration) Larry Pine (narration)

other films include Men of Reenaction; Sour Death Balls , which won several awards including Best Live Action Short at the Santa Barbara Film Festival; and the documentary Home Base, the winner of several festival awards. She also directs commercials, for which she has won a New York Emmy.

DOCUMENTARY FEATURES

A LEAGUE OF ORDINARY GENTLEMEN

In Competition

Directed by Christopher Browne

Main Credits:

DirectorChristopher Browne

ProducersWilhelmus Bryan Alexander Browne

CinematographersMike Dejalaise

Dan Marachino

Ken Seng

EditorsKurt Engfehr

Dave Tung

MusicGary Meister

Four professional bowlers’lives are interrupted when their league is purchased by a trio of Microsoft programmers who hire a Nike marketing guru to turn professional bowling into the next second-tier sports franchise.

Ann Krsul and Leslie Sullivan want to be mothers together. Ann will carry the baby and Leslie will leave her job to stay at home and raise their child. Choosing the route of the anonymous sperm bank, they hope to match Leslie’s physical characteristics so that Ann can give birth to a baby with the potential to look like them both. Ann is a worrier, compulsively analyzing and judging their performance at each stage of the process. Leslie is soothing, a quiet counterpoint. Together they ride the menstrual roller coaster, until finally, one year later, Ann is pregnant. At first, both women continue to work. Free time is consumed by pre-birth activity: baby shower registration, L amaze class, and design of the baby announcement. Between events, they argue with relatives over how to explain two mommies to their nieces and nephews. Month eight, Leslie ends her job to prepare for full-

time mommyhood. Ann continues to work all hours, holding her now-huge tummy as she shuffles from job site to job site, fretting over ever ything. But Baby Grace is born on time, with bright red hair (a trait known to neither family). Gund follows the Krsul-Sullivan household during Grace’s first year. As Ann and Leslie make their way, we are with them, meeting challenges universal to all families and facing those unique to lesbians.

BIO

Catherine Gund, the founder of Aubin Pictures, is an award-winning film/videomaker, writer, and organizer. Her media work, which focuses on the radical right, race relations, art and culture, HIV/AIDS, reproductive rights, the concept of democracy, and gay and lesbian issues, has screened around the world in festivals, on public and cable television, and at

BIO

Chris Browne’s film career began in 1999 as a production assistant on laxative commercials in New York. He then moved into documentary film, working at the Checkerboard Film Foundation, where he helped produce several little-seen documentaries about local artists.

MAKING GRACE

Directed by Catherine Gund USA / 2004 / 87 minutes WCC 10/16 • 3:15m

Main Credits: Director,Producer, Cinematographer Catherine Gund EditorAljernon Tunsil ComposerPaul Armstrong

Screening with Shake the Rain

community-based organizations, universities, and museums. Her productions include On Hostile Ground, Hallelujah! Ron Athey: A Story of Deliverance, When Democracy Works, Positive: Life with HIV, Sacred Lies Civil Truths, Not Just Passing Through, Among Good Christian Peoples, and Keep Your L aws Off My Body, as well as work with the collectives DIVA TV (co-founder) and Paper Tiger Television. She was the founding director of BENT TV, the video workshop at the Hetrick-Martin Institute for gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender-youth.

DOCUMENTARY FEATURES

MOJADOS: THROUGH THE NIGHT

Directed by Tommy Davis

USA / 2004 / 64 minutes in Spanish and English Town Hall 10/16 • 1:00pm

Main Credits:

Director,Screenwriter,

Cinematographer Tommy Davis

ProducerNicole Boxer

EditorsLuis DeLeon, Tommy Davis

ComposerSin Panache

FeaturingGuapo,Oso,Tigre,Viejo, Mario Agundez

James Chism

Dave Evans

George Manzango

Ryan Massey

George Morin

Preceded by Victoria Para Chino

Looks like an alien,sings like a diva–Klaus Nomi was one of the 1980s most profoundly bizarre characters: a countertenor who sang pop music like opera and brought opera to club audiences and made them like it. A story of fame, death, friendship, betrayal, performance, and the greatest New Wave rock star that never was!

Andrew Horn’s writing and directing work has encompassed a wide range (from films on post-modern dance in

“Verite footage is the backbone of this harrowing journey of four Mexicans driven to endure hunger, thirst and danger to better the lives of their families. Night footage of the border crossing is especially haunting. Interspersed with interviews, some flashbacks and a skillfully executed photo montage this is video journalism of the highest order.” (Barbara Pokras)

Director Tommy Davis goes along with four men from a small village in Mexico as they leave their families, embark on a 120mile trek across the deserts of Texas, and attempt to evade the U.S. Border Patrol, overcome dehydration and hypothermia, and come face-to-face with death.

BIO

Tommy Davis (writer, producer, director) was born in McAllen, Texas, in 1978. He studied at the George Washington University and interned during his summers for Artisan Pictures, Jersey Films, and Miramax Films. He has written and directed several short fiction films. Mojados: Through the Night is his first documentar y

“Even in New York’s new wave scene where shock and outrage was the norm, Klaus Nomi was a true pop music anomaly, a unforgettably striking performer with androgynous extraterrestrial looks and an operatic falsetto to match. Nomi was like an apparition that seemingly could have appeared at no other time, yet seemed to exist outside of time; he hobnobbed and collaborated with figures like David Bowie and incredibly, brushed up against mainstream success before his life was tragically cut short as one of the first victims of AIDS. Music, reminiscences, and neverbefore-seen archival footage fill this loving tribute.” (Jeff Economy)

New York to one of Germany’s most popular soap operas; from film musicals to music documentaries; from Eastern Europe to the East Village. His feature films include Doomed Love and The Big Blue, as well as the documentar y feature East Side Stor y

Born in New York, Andrew Horn graduated from New York University School of the Arts, where his junior thesis film was nominated for an Academy Award. After living in New York as a filmmaker and graphic artist

THE NOMI SONG

EAST COAST PREMIERE

Directed by Andrew Hor n USA / 2004 / 96 minutes

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Main Credits:

DirectorAndrew Horn

ProducersThomas Mertens, Annette Pusacane, Andrew Horn

CinematographerMark Daniels

Editor Anne Even

(before the age of the computer!), he came to Berlin in 1989 as a guest of the DAAD Berlin Artist Exchange fellowship program, where he has remained, working as a filmmaker, writer, journalist, and film researcher. His latest film, The Nomi Song, brings all the above together. “It somehow marks the last hurrah of my youth-in time, but hopefully not in spirit.”

Courtesy of Palm Pictures

DOCUMENTARY FEATURES

Is America ready for war? Follow the Arkansas National Guard as weekend warriors are activated, trained, and finally deployed to Iraq. Observe what happens to their businesses, churches, schools, and families. This is the new millennium’s real Band of Brothers. This is history’s only film that documents a war and a group of soldiers from start to finish.

Parallel Lines is an American road trip movie with a twist. The journey takes place in the fall of 2001, as filmmaker Nina Davenport drives from California back home to New York, where her apartment once overlooked the World Trade Center. The events of September 11th quickly recede into the background of this documentary, becoming instead a portal into the inner lives of Americans. The filmmaker stops along the road to talk with strangers who end up sharing their personal stories of loss with astonishing candor: A woman tells of losing custody of her children; a veteran describes his battle with post traumatic stress disorder; a cowboy reveals that his mother murdered his father. Touching on a wide range of subjects from the meaning of love to the horror of the atomic bomb, a film that begins as the story of one New Yorker’s journey home in the aftermath of tragedy becomes a portrait of American identity and histor y.

OFF TO WAR

BIO

Brent and Craig Renaud are brothers and filmmakers who were born and raised in Little Rock, Ark.

Since 1995, they have been working with celebrated documentary filmmaker Jon Alpert on award-winning projects in places like Afghanistan, Cambodia, Bolivia, China, Pakistan and Iraq.

In addition to the Off to War series for the Discovery Times Channel, the Renaud brothers are finishing their first film for HBO called Dope Sick Love and due out this fall.

“New Yorker Nina Davenport was in San Diego at the time of the September 11 terrorist attacks. A few weeks after wards she took a six-week-long road trip back to her home town, with only her video camera and random meetings with friendly strangers for companionship. She documented their simple transient intimacies along with her own thoughtful ruminations; the result is this warm and humane essay-style documentar y that engages the viewer in the kind of dialogue possible in the days after the tragedy, a poignant memento of a fleeting vulnerable communal moment that already seems relegated to memory.”

(Jeff Economy)

BIO

Parallel Lines is Nina Davenport’s third film. Her first film, Hello Photo, completed in 1995 and funded by Harvard University’s Film Study Center, depicts her travels through India. Davenport’s second film, Always a Bridemaid, premiered in 2000 on HBO/Cinemax Reel Life and on Channel Four ’s True Stories in the United Kingdom Davenport is the recipient of an National Endowment for the Arts grant.

Directed by Brent and Craig Renaud USA / 2004 / 75 minutes Bearsville Theate 10/14 • 8:30pm

ProducerJon Alpert

Directed,Produced,

Filmed and Edited byBrent and Craig Renaud

Co-Editor(s)John Custodio

Eddie Stein

Preceded by Getting Through to the President

Meet Brent and/or Craig Renaud at the In Your face panel on Sunday, Oct. 17 at 10am.

PARALLEL LINES

IN COMPETITION

Directed by Nina Davenport USA / 2003 /98 minutes WCC 10/16 •1:30pm CMF 2 10/17 • 1:00pm

Main Credits:

Director,Producer,Cinematographer, EditorNina Davenport

MusicSheldon Mirowitz

She works as a producer and cameraperson on many television shows, including NBC’s Crime & Punishment, Bravo’s The ‘IT’ Factor and PBS’s Art Close Up. She shoots and edits all of her films, and is currently finishing her fourth film, Los Pericos, about a mariachi duo in Mexico. Davenport grew up in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, and lives in New York City.

DOCUMENTARY FEATURES

POPaganda:The Art & Subversion of Ron English is a film about the culture-jamming and billboard-liberation antics of Ron English. The modern-day Robin Hood of Madison Avenue, Ron paints, perverts, infiltrates, reinvents, and satirizes modern culture on canvas, in songs, and on hundreds of pirated billboards. Shot entirely

SCREAMING MEN (HUUTAJAT)

Directed by Mika Ronkainen

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Main Credits:

Director,ScreenwriterMika Ronkainen

ProducerKimmo Paananen

CinematographerVesa Taipaleenmäki

EditorPernille Bech Christensen

MusicOlli Tuomainen Petri Sirviö

Meet the choir of screaming men that travels from Finland to Tokyo with the goal of getting good photographs of their Japanese audience while performing the Japanese national

guerilla style, the film chronicles the evolution of an artist who offers an alternative universe where nothing is sacred, everything is subverted, and there’s always room for a little good-natured fun.

BIO

Pedro Carvajal has made documentaries on East Village squatters, the Yanomami, and an AIDS patient (winning the Chicago International Film Festival’s Silver Plaque Award). His video series Citizen Art and Subvertising focuses on culture jamming in public spaces, particularly billboard liberation, in which an outdoor ad is altered to critique the original company or product, or to deliver a public ser vice message. Citizen Art focuses on the antics of the billboard libera-

POPaganda: The Art & Subversion of Ron English

Directed by Pedro Carvajal

USA / 2004 / 78 minutes

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Main Credits:

Director/ProducerPedro Carvajal

EditorKevin Chapados

Featuring the art of Ron English.

Also featuring art by Shepard Fairey, ArtFux,Cicada,and Anthony Ausgang

tion collectives Artfux and Cicada, with whom Pedro collaborated in Jersey City and New York. Subvertising has additional grass roots footage, as well as commentary by sociologists and media critics.

anthem. Meet the choir that screams the French national anthem at the museum of modern art in Paris even though the museum and the embassy of Finland try to prevent them…

Screaming Men is a film about power, nationalism, intransigence, and firm belief in your own art. The creative process of conductor Sirviö often leads to conflicts between the choir and the outside world - sometimes also within the choir. The film follows the choir both in Finland and on international concert trips (France, Japan, and Iceland) during a time span of five years. Similarly to the choir, the documentary walks the thin line between the dead serious and the absurd.

BIO

Mika Ronkainen is the most productive documentary filmmaker in the northern half of Finland. Screaming Men is his theatrical distribution debut. His previous work includes the prize-winning and acclaimed documentaries Before the Flood, Father ’s Day, Oulu Bur ning, and Car Bonus. Ronkainen has predominantly depicted social themes. The cultural board of the city Oulu rewarded Ronkainen with the Oulu City Culture Award of 2002 and the Art Committee of the Oulu Province named Ronkainen the young artist of 1998. Ronkainen was a member of Mieskuoro Huutajat from 1994 to 1998.

The Onteora School District includes Woodstock,plus 350 square miles of rural New York. In January 2000, the Onteora Indian was removed after fifty years as the school’s mascot. A backlash followed, which The New York Times headlined “Culture War in the Catskills.” Conservatives swept into office, restored the mascot, removed the antidiscrimination policy, and began micromanaging the district. The school board was the best show in town, and Tobe Carey, and his wife were right in the middle of it all.

DOCUMENTARY FEATURES

SCHOOL BOARD BLUES

“First God invented idiots. That was just for practice. Then, he invented School Boards.”

Mark Twain

Tobe Carey is a documentary maker with thirty years of experience. From innovative films like Giving Birth, honored at the First Global Village Video Festival in 1972, through School Board Blues, he has produced dozens of long- and short-form programs. His recent documentaries, Deep Water: Building the Catskill Water System (co -produced with Artie Traum and Robbie Dupree) and Indian PointNowhere to Run, were featured at the 2002 and 2003 Woodstock Film Festival and are in active distribution.

Shocking and awful is the way many people view the current situation in Iraq and the United States. The war continues to takes its toll on Iraqi civilians, international aid workers, journalists and U.S. troops. Here at home we are seeing how waging a “perpetual war” is affecting our own lives as well.

Selections will be screened from this thirteen part series on war and occupation, a compilation of work from around the countr y and the world. Topics include: Women and War, Art of R esistance, The Militar y (Dance of Death), The Destruction of the Libraries and Museums: Erasing History

Tobe is president of Willow Mixed Media, Inc., a not-for-profit group specializing in arts projects and documentaries about issues of social concerns. Among his productions are The Hudson River PCB Story, Woodstock Summer of 94, Cancer: Just a Word...Not a Sentence, and Always Creative with Linda M. Montano. He and his wife, Meg Carey, have worked as co -producers on several documentaries, including The Infertility Tape and School Board Blues

BIO

Deep Dish TV (as in parabolic and apple or pizza pie) is the first national satellite network, linking local access producers and programmers, independent video makers, activists, and other individuals who support the idea and reality of a progressive television network. While commercial networks present a homogenous and onedimensional view of society, Deep Dish thrives on diversity. Instead of television that encourages passivity, Deep Dish distributes creative programming that educates and activates.

DOCUMENTARY FEATURES

“I thought I could perhaps make a difference before the election, let people see the situation, how Iraqis wanted to get rid of Saddam, but also show what war does to people.” These are the words, spoken by director David O. Russell, and quoted in an August 16th article in the New York Times, that prompted Warner Brothers to drop Soldiers Pay unceremoniously from it’s roster. The film, which was graciously given back to the filmmakers to distribute on their own, is a

meditation on the current war in Iraq. David O. Russell, together with co-filmmakers Tricia Regan and Juan Carlos Zaldivar, interviewed dozens of people over a six week period, and created a chorus of voices -- including veterans of the war, Iraqis who rose up against Saddam after the last war and escaped to the US, journalists, politicians, psychologists, and even a two star general who led the Marines to victory in the first Gulf War. Soldiers Pay is not a partisan film, it listens to

SOLDIERS PAY

people from all sides, and of varying opinions. What the film strives to do is give a full picture of a morally ambiguous war, one which is exacting an enormous toll on our soldiers, on Iraq, and on America.

Still, the Children are Here

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For the Garo people of Sadolpara,growing rice is a way of life and worship. As the world changes around them and they come face-to -face with market economies, they find this is no longer enough.

This intimate portrait of a community presents us with a stor y of life and humanity that is common to us all.

By following one agricultural cycle of growing rice in the Himalayan foothills, this film allows us a glimpse into a society at the edge of change and allows us to critically examine the nature of “development.”

“Beautifully produced, shot and edited, this study of the Garo families in Saldolpara, Northern India features extraordinarily intimate footage of a people who are the guardians of ancient strains of rice. Two elderly sisters provide a running commentary on changing ways, and the legend of the Sungod is woven throughout. A richly narrative experience.”

(Barbara Pokras)

BIO

Dinaz Stafford was born in London, and grew up in Bombay. She graduated from the University of Bombay and went on to complete a master degree in Psychology in Richmond. After working as a psychologist with violent emotionally disturbed children, she met diector Mira Nair, who wanted to have a child psychologist at the workshops for street children during the making of Salaam

Bombay! . Dinaz subsequently worked with Nair on Mississippi Masala, The Perez Family and Kama Sutra. She also did local casting for the John Sayles film Sunshine State (2001).

In 1993 Dinaz Stafford made Kisses on a Train, a short film for Channel Four that won the Grand Prix at the Clermont Short Film Festival and the Audience Prize in Geneva.

Dinaz commutes between India, the U.K., and the States, and when asked where she feels most comfortable, she admits–in an airplane. Still, the Children Are Here is her first feature documentar y film.

Directed by David O. Russell, Tricia Regan, and Juan Carlos Zaldivar

USA / 2004 / TBD Bearsville Theater 10/16 • 12:45pm

Directed byDinaz Stafford India / USA / 2004 / 86 minutes

*Indigenous language of Garo people with subtitles Town

TROLLYWOOD

“The meaning of the shopping cart, or “trolly” becomes a central theme in this refreshingly clever and straightforward exploration of the many facets of homelessness in Los Angeles. Well crafted and skillfully blending humor and pathos, this often invisible population is revealed in all its’ diversity and individuality. A rich mosaic of music adds to the mix.”

Seizing on the humble shopping cart as a metaphor for the dispossessed, firsttime director Madeleine Farley goes behind the scenes to explore life on the streets with some of Los Angeles’s homeless. Trollywood presents a moving portrait, as she gives homelessness a human face, and shows that where there is great material depravation there is solidarity and hope.

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(Barbara Pokras)

Madeleine Farley is a London-based photographer and filmmaker.

In December 2001 she arrived in Los Angeles for the opening of her traveling exhibition Movie Tips. By this point Madeleine had added a short animated film to the show: a pastiche of Psycho starring Q-Tips.

Appalled by the level of homelessness in L.A. and the juxtaposition of extreme wealth and severe poverty, she set about documenting the city’s homeless in a series of photographs.

“Incredible as it may sound in 2004, there are places where the term “witch hunt” is not an archaic metaphor, but a brutal reality. In contemporary Ghana, superstitions act as a kind of social control where misogyny is a way of life, and the mere fact of being a woman is enough to condemn you to death. Through interviews with some of the thousands of “Witches Homes” internment camp residents, clips from popular witch-hunting films like “End of the Wicked,” and footage from actual witch-testing and -curing ceremonies, Witches In Exileuncovers a dis turbing slice of feudal superstition still alive today.” (Jeff Economy)

A gripping stor y of women in Ghana accused of witchcraft and exiled to “safe camps.” Often charged with murder for “unexplained” deaths, these women are victims of widely held cultural beliefs.

Allison Berg field produced “A Boy’s Life”, directed by Rory Kennedy, for HB O. Berg has associate producer and research credits on projects including “Different Moms”, directed by Liz Garbus and Rory Kennedy and “Family Name”, directed by Macky Alston and winner of the 1997 Freedom of Expression Award at the Sundance Film Festival.

Directed by Madeleine Farley 2004 / UK / 80 minutes Tinker Street 10/17 • 11:00am

She soon realized that if she really wanted to capture their humor, courage, and chutzpah in a credible way, she was working in the wrong medium. Trollywood, a documentar y exposing the flip side of the American Dream and the lives and lifestyle of the spiritually rich but materially poor, was born.

Madeleine Farley is currently working on her first feature, a love story set in Londons starring Lucy Davis from the TV show The Office (UK).

WITCHES IN EXILE

by Allison

2004 / USA / 79 minutes

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Directed

Berg

BIO

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Featuring charismatic Tibetan lama and filmmaker Dzongsar Khyentse Norbu, Words Of My Perfect Teacher is the warm and comedic story of three students on journey in search of wisdom — chasing a guru who doesn’t want to be found.

BIO

Lesley Ann Patten is a director/writer who began creating material for television in 1990. Her work has been broadcast internationally in Canada, the U.S. and Europe. In addition to directing, writing, and co-producing her first feature-length documentary, Words Of My Perfect Teacher, Ms. Patten is featured in the film in her first on-camera role.

Words Of My Perfect Teacher

Director/ Screenwriter:

Lesley Ann Patten USA / 2003 / 102 minutes

Tinker Street 10/16 • 10:30am

Main Credits:

ProducersKent Martin

Lesley Ann Patten

CinematographerKent Nason

Editor(s)Peter Giffen

Lesley Ann Patten

FeaturingZongsar Khyentse

Rinpoche

Bernando Bertolucci

Gesar Mukpo

Steven Seagal

Aunt Shirley

The World According to Bush is based on fully verified facts and eyewitness accounts. It offers a disturbing and striking portrait of the exercise of power at the head of the world’s leading democracy, as well as of the unacceptable alliances that have been forged and that remain painstakingly concealed.

The Bushes’ feelings of total impunity have attained their peak during the professional career and the political ascension of George W. Bush. His decision to attack Iraq and overthrow Saddam Hussein’s regime already appears as one of the most fascinating historical and political conundrums for historians to ponder over in the coming years.

No thriller or political fiction screenplay could have imagined the workings of such an intricate plot. Unfortunately, its actors are not fictional characters but, on the contrar y, a man and a team who hold the fate of the world in their hands. For the first

THE WORLD ACCORDING TO BUSH (LE MONDE SELON BUSH)

Directed by William Karel in collaboration with Eric Laurent author La guerre des Bush and Le monde secret de Bush (Editions Plon)

France / 2004 / 90 minutes

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project that George W. Bush identifies with completely, initiated by extremists who are part of the President’s direct entourage. Religion has taken on an all-important role since his arrival at the White House.

time in the political history of the USA, a small group of people, working together for thirty years, has more or less taken over American foreign policy and totally overhauled it, silencing all opposition. Behind the proclaimed global strategy, we find not only considerable economic interests but also a possibly more disturbing aspect, a religious

Never before in the history of the world’s democracies have one man and his team acted with such arrogance and impunity, defying international law and creating an unprecedented grouping of interests: the project blends politics and personal interests in an atmosphere of total cynicism. The latest war against Iraq, with its totally unforeseeable consequences, hides another danger, that of seeing America launch further “civilizing” operations of a similar type, imposed by force, fired by ideas that are at best naïve and at worst totally hypocritical, calculated over a dangerously short term.

Preceded by Victoria Para Chino at Upstate showing

Courtesy of Flach Pictures

ANIMATED FILMS

WThe Point

Directed by Fred Wolf

USA / 1971 / 74 minutes

Bearsville Theater 10/17 • 10:30am Special Kids Show

Main Credits:

ScreenwritersHarry Nilsson,Norm Lenzer

Music & Songs:Harry Nilsson

Cast membersRingo Starr (Narrator)

Dustin Hoffman

(Narrator)

Paul Frees

Lennie Weinrib

Bill Martin

Buddy Foster

Joan Gerber

Mike Lookinland

Alan Barzman

Alan Thicke

Once upon a time in the town of Point, ever ything — all the buildings, trees, and even the people were pointed. Except for one littleround-headed kid named Oblio.

The recent re-release on DVD by BMG Entertainment is available at Amazon.com,Barnes & Nobles and other media outlets.

The Point! is a wonderful adventure, enchanting both children and adults since 1971. Harry Nilsson’s The Point! tells the story of Oblio and his dog Arrow through narration and song. It

is narrated by Ringo Starr.

Screening With...

GUARD DOG

Produced, Animated and Directed by Bill Plympton

2004 / USA / 5 minutes

Why do dogs bark at such innocent creature as pigeons and squirrels? What are they afraid of? This film answers that eternal question.

HAIR HIGH

by Bill Plympton

USA/ 2004/78 minutes

Bearsville Theater 10/16 • 7:00pm W

ANIMATED FILMS

*Parental Advisory: Not appropriate for children 14 and under

An outrageous Gothic myth from the 1950s Hair High is the legend of Cherri and Spud, a teenage couple who are murdered on prom night and left for dead at the bottom of Echo Lake. Exactly a year later, their skeletal remains come back to life and they return to the prom for revenge and their justly deserved crowns.

Featuring the voices of Ed Begley Jr., Craig Bierko, David Carradine, Keith Carradine, Beverly D’Angelo, Hayley DuMond, Don Hertzfeldt, Eric Gilliland, Matt Groening, Peter Jason, Justin Long, Dermot Mulroney, Tom Noonan, Jay O. Sanders, Zak Orth, Martha Plimpton, Michael Showalter, and Sarah Silverman.

BILL PLYMPTON

The Tune was animator Bill Plympton’s first full-length feature. His short films have been seen widely around the countr y, highlighting many animation festivals. His oblique, off-center sense of the ridiculous in everyday life has made Plymptoons and his other shorts popular MTV offerings.

photo: Neil Colligan

All information is subject to change.

Please visit www.woodstockfilmfestival.com for the most up to date information including SCHEDULES,added screenings,and OTHER EVENTS.

67Animated Shorts

68Screening With…

69Narrative Shorts

70Death,Confusion,& Hysterics

72Love & Hate

74Documentary

76Coming of Age

77Focus on Music

78Almost Midnight

80Youth Initiative

SHORTS

ANIMATION

Programmed by Signe Baumane and Bill Plympton

ANIMALS IN LOVE

BID THEM IN

BIKINI

CHILDHOOD TRAUMA

COFFEE

CRACK OF DOOM

FROG

GET IN THE CAR

KIKO

THE MEATRIX

PINK AND PONG

PLASTICAT

POOR GOD

ROBOTS IN “FOR NO REASON AT ALL IN C”

RYAN

SEVENTEEN

THIS IS NOT AN END

*Parental Advisory

Fri.Oct.15,6:30pm @ CMF

Sat. Oct. 16,7pm @Bearsville W H

ANIMALS IN LOVE

Directed by Ben Meinhardt

Canada / 2004 / 2 minutes

Animals sing and dance and live happily in the forest until an intruder changes everything.

USA / 2004 / 2 minutes

BID THEM IN

by Neal Sopota

A young woman’s humanity is cruelly rejected as she is placed on the auction block of a small Southern town in pre-Civil War America.

CHILDHOOD TRAUMA #17

by Mike de Kraker

UK / 2004 / 2 minutes

A child has a traumatic experience as he prepares to jump from the diving board for the first time.

BIKINI

A SWEDISH ECSTASY FILM

Sweden / 2004 / 6 minutes

Bikini is an animated musical about a young man who is afraid to come out of the closet. The setting is a beach in 1960 where a couple of happy twins and their lady friend like to spend the summer.

COFFEE

by Rohitash Rao

USA / 2004 / 1:20 minutes

A man is forced to deal with his insecurities when he sees God’s face in his coffee.

CRACK OF DOOM

by Natalia Wilkoszewska

Poland/ 2002 / 2 minutes

The movie is based on the song by “The Tiger Lillies.”

FROG

by Christopher Conforti

USA / 2004 / 4 minutes

This film is about a frog who in his search for water finds himself evading panic-stricken swimmers and a vicious house cat, and eventually passes through the human digestive system before reaching his salvation in a tranquil lake.

ANIMATED SHORTS

KIKO

Directed by Ondrei Rudavskiy

USA / 3:30 minutes

“A magical odyssey of a moon spirit traveling through worlds of dreams and fantasy.” –Bruce Ashlie.

THEMEATRIX

by L ouis Fox

USA / 2003 / 4 minutes

The Meatrix is a humorous four-minute Flash animation that spoofs the Matrix films and highlights the problems of factory farming. Instead of Keanu Reeves, The Meatrix stars a young pig, Leo, who lives on a pleasant family farm ... he thinks. Leo is approached by a trenchcoat-clad cow, Moopheus, who shows him the ugly truth about agribusiness, complete with a send-up of the stop-motion camerawork immortalized by the Matrix. At the end of the movie, viewers are directed to an action page where they are encouraged to eat sustainable meat and support local family farmers.

PINK AND PONG

by Alina Bliumis

USA / 2004 / 3 minutes

A search for kindred souls in an imaginary world of a big city.

PLASTICAT

by Simon Bogojevic-Narath

Croatia / 2003 / 10 minutes

NIGHT. METROPOLIS. A POCKET FULL OF CASH.

A casual walk in the streets is about to turn somebody’s life down-side up!

POOR GOD

by Matthew Abbiss

UK / 2004 / 2 minutes

A little man goes for a chat with God.

ROBOTS IN “FOR NO REASON AT ALL IN C”

by Cathy K arol

USA / 2004 / 3 minutes

Robots walk, dance, and connect in a modern world.

SEVENTEEN

by Hisko Hulsing

The Netherlands / 2003 / 12 minutes

A shy seventeen-year-old construction worker tries to hold his own in the macho world of roofers. Animated in a Dutch painting style called ‘magical realism’.

RYAN

by Chris

Landreth

Canada / 2004 / 14 minutes

Ryan, directed by Chris Landreth, is an animated tribute to Canadian animator Ryan Larkin. Thirty years ago, at the National Film Board of Canada, Ryan produced some of the most influential animated films of his time. Today, Ryan lives on welfare and panhandles for spare change in downtown Montreal. How could such an artistic genius follow this path? Produced by Steven Hoban, Marcy Page, Mark Smith. Produced by Copper Heart Entertainment in co-production with The National Film Board Of Canada.

THIS IS NOT AN END

by Jesper Fleng

Denmark / 2004 / 4 minutes

In this music video for the Danish Band Grand Avenue, a man’s hopeless journey to bring back his girl takes him on a trip through his own mind.

SHORTS

SCREENING WITH…

OLD COUNTRY

THE43RD SPRING

DEVOTION ANDDEFIANCE

GETTINGTHROUGHTOTHE

PRESIDENT

SANGAM

SHAKETHERAIN

VICTORIA PARA CHINO

Screening with:Don’t Call It Heimweh…

OLD COUNTRY

Directed by Mark A dam and Allen Kaeja Canada / 2004 / 24 minutes

Old Country explores the dynamics of a community confronted with the imminent brutality of war. Shifting allegiances and values challenge the community members complex levels of relationship and connectedness. The ensemble cast shows how the fabric of a society can be stretched and torn in dark times.

DEVOTION AND DEFIANCE

A short film by Kunga Palmo

USA / 2004 / 35 minutes

This powerful film contains extensive footage from monasteries in Tibet and chronicles the complex struggle of monks and nuns who defy the Chinese government’s heavy-handed attempt at control. Produced by the International Campaign for Tibet.

Screening with The Forbidden Team

THE 43RD SPRING

A short film by Kirstin Steffen Germany / 2004 / 11:40 minutes

Christa, Willy, and Katharina have been neighbors in a suburb of Cologne, Germany, since February 1961.

Now in their seventies, the three look back on the formative years that have gone by and the changes that have affected their lives, and the lives of their families and neighbors.

The film examines past and present hopes, and the significance of being a “neighbor.”

SANGAM

Directed by Prashant Bhargava

USA / 2004 / 22 minutes

Raj, a recent immigrant from India, and Vivek, a disillusioned Indian-American, meet on a subway to Brooklyn. As each longs for what the other takes for granted, they must confront the currents that bind and divide them.

Screening with Cosmopolitan

GET TING THROUGH TO THE PRESIDENT

A short film by Emily and Sarah Kunstler

USA / 2004 / 7:28 minutes

From May 5-8, 2004, the Documentary Campaign commandeered a payphone

in Washington Square Park to record telephone calls made to the White House comment line by hundreds of New Yorkers.

Screening with Off to War(on 9/14)and POPaganda (on 9/16)

REX STEELE: NAZI SMASHER

Directed by Alex Woo

USA / 2004 / 10:30 miinutes

It is 1941, and the United States is at war with Nazi Germany. The U.S. Government has just been informed that Eval Schnitzler has occupied a remote location near the mysterious source of the Amazon River. Convinced that his motives are more than leisurely, the United States sends Rex Steele, Nazi smasher extraordinaire, to find and foil Eval's evil plans. Rex flies into the Amazon with his sidekick, Miss Penny Thimble, and the two embark on a journey full of action, adventure, and of course, Nazi smashing galore!

Preceding The Fittest

SCREENING WITH…

VICTORIA PARA CHINO

Directed by Cary Fukunaga

USA / 2004 / 13 minutes

In 2003 a refrigerated truck carrying more than eighty undocumented immigrants from the Mexican border drove into the heartland of Texas, where a deadly combination of heat and overcrowding led to tragedy. This is the story about that journey.

Screening with Mojados: Through The Night and TBD

SHAKE THE RAIN

Directed

by

D. Robin Hammer

USA / 2004 / 13 minutes

In a dramatic reading of powerful and courageous original writing, author Tennessee Jones speaks of gender, desire, brutality, and hope in a beautifully drawn account. Eloquent, sensitive, and keenly observed, the text then combines with the filmmaker’s art to bring about a unique expression of storytelling of a multi layered truth, and glimpses into aspects of one Appalachian childhood.

Screening with Making Grace and TBD

SHORTS: LA COMMEDIA DEATH

CONFUSION, & HYSTERICS

BELLE

CHOKE

CODED LANGUAGE

THE CRUX

JIHAD

LIGHT MY FIRE

THE LOST CAUSE

SHOCK ANDAWE

STRING

THE VIRILE MAN

WHEN THINGS GET CONFUSED (WENN DIE DINGE DURCHEINANDER GERATEN

WHO’S YOUR DADDY?

WRIGLEY

*Parental Advisory:

Not appropriate for children 14 and under

Fri.Oct 15,5:00pm @ Upstate Sun.Oct 17,11am @ Bearsville

BELLE

Directed by Ruth Sergel

USA / 2004 / 16 minutes

Belle is a subversive fable of old age and beauty. A short fiction film that explores the intersection of age, race and our expectations of others.

CHOKE

Directed by David Hyde

Canada / 2004 / 10 minutes

Andrea, Paul and Ms. Morgan are all smart enough to know what they want to do with their lives, but not talented enough to achieve it. Paul is a med school student who’s too sensitive to give sick people bad

news. Ms. Morgan is a poet who settles for a job as an English teacher. And Andrea is a figure skater capable of triple axels but saddled with a serious case of performance anxiety. Both women fall in love with Paul; one wins and the other becomes a murderer.

CODED LANGUAGE

Directed by Nick Schwartz

USA / 2004 / 8 minutes

Coded Language is the story of a college student looking for answers. He has his theories and his beliefs, but he doesn’t know how all of that should tie into the way he lives his life. When an embittered professor confronts him, he begins to doubt his own sincerity. The question then becomes, “Can you back up what you say?” Or are words just a blanket with which we cover ourselves?

THE CRUX

Directed by Jeffrey Seckendorf

USA / 2003 / 7 minutes

JIHAD

Directed by Michael Shapiro

USA / 2004 / 6 minutes

Jihad follows two terrorists on the morning of their attack. Any more information would give away the ending.

LIGHT MY FIRE

Directed by Muramatsu R yotaro

Japan / 2002 / 9 minutes

While taking a quiet stroll across a bridge in the still morning air, a man is stopped by a stranger who asks him for help, adding that it will just take a moment. The man agrees, and instantly finds himself entangled in a life and death relationship.

At a café in Tokyo, the staff watches a melancholy customer attentively. Before long a couple walks into the café and sits down at her table. Could two ex-lovers, one indecent proposal, and one indecisive new boyfriend be the start of a love triangle?

THE LOST CAUSE

Directed by Jim Taylor

USA / 2004 / 10 minutes

A soldier’s commitment to his cause takes a heavy toll on his family life.

Jim Taylor is the long-time collaborator of writer-director Alexander Payne. The two have co -authored four screenplays: Citizen Ruth, Election, About Schmidt, and the upcoming release Sideways

In addition to his continuing collaboration with Alexander Payne, Taylor is currently at work on two screenplays that he will direct. The first is an adaptation of John Steinbeck’s The Winter of Our Discontent, produced by the Steppenwolf Theater Company’s film division, and the second is an original story inspired by the documentary Tupperware!

SHOCK AND AWE

Directed by Chase Palmer

USA / 2004 / 6 minutes

An Iraqi family’s dinner is interrupted during the US’s “shock and awe” bombing of Baghdad.

SHORTS: LA COMMEDIA

STRING

Directed by Kevin Watkins

USA / 2003 / 4:22 minutes

A broken relationship, a shotgun, and a long piece of string... Could this be the perfect revenge? Inspired by Alfred Hitchcock’s Rope

THE VIRILE MAN

Directed by David Zellner

USA / 2004 / 8 minutes

A tragically closeted man enlists the help of a phone psychic to rationalize his actions.

WHO’S YOUR DADDY?

Directed by Matthew Ehlers

USA / 2003 / 3:18 minutes

A mysterious lothario invades a small town, leaving a group of angr y husbands in his wake.

WRIGLEY

Directed by Oliver R efson

USA / 2004 / 15 minutes

A spring morning. Birds chirp peacefully. In an old muscle car sit a big, brooding guy and his accomplice, staking out a house. When an elderly man emerges from the house, the guys grab him, stuff him in the car and drive off. What could this poor old man have done to deser ve this treatment? Plenty!

WHEN THINGS GET CONFUSED (WENN DIE DINGE DURCHEINANDER GERATEN)

Directed by Klaus Frevert Germany / 2004 / 6 minutes

In Japanese with subtitles

With contrasting advice from a little devil, and a little angel, a young woman contemplates suicide .

NARRATIVE SHORTS

LOVE & HATE

ALLISON

C’ERA UNA VOLTA UN RE (ONCE UPON A TIME THERE WAS A KING)

GAY BY DAWN

JAM:WHEN LIVES COLLIDE

SOMETHING FOR HENRY

TANGO OCTOGENARIO

VICTIM

YOUNG AMERICANS

*Parental Advisory:mature content

Sat.Oct.16,9:30pm @ WCC

Sun Oct.17,1:30pm @ WCC W W

C’ERA UNA VOLTA UN RE (ONCE UPONATIME THERE WAS A KING)

A short film by Massimiliano Mauceri

Italy / 2003 / 10 minutes

Anyone who’s right is wrong, and anyone who’s wrong is right.

JAM:WHEN LIVES COLLIDE

A short film by Craig Serling USA / 2004 / 15 minutes

A pregnant couple, a sweltering RV, three unlikely labor coaches, and one big traffic jam. Watch what happens when lives collide in Jam, one of five intertwined stories that take place in this feature-length script of the same name.

GAY BY DAWN

A short film by Jonathan London

USA / 2004 / 10 minutes

In the deep, dark woods, four rednecks tell ghost stories around an open fire. But when one tells a tale about the horrors that may lurk around them, fear becomes suspicion. Will they make it out in time? Or will the very woods around them turn them... Gay by Dawn?

ALLISON

A short film by Jeff Drew U.S.A / 2004 / 7 minutes

Jeff loves his wife, Allison. He has loved her since he was just a little boy, and his admiration for her hasn’t wavered even in adulthood. The problem is that Jeff is a grown man, and Allison is a ten-inch plastic doll. This short film chronicles the ups and downs of a most unusual relationship.

SOMETHING FOR HENRY

A short film by Nina Tsai USA / 2004 / 13 minutes

Thirty-six years old, still at his first job, and living with his parents, Henry is shopping for a change. He stumbles upon Anna, who gives him a gift to help set him, and herself, free.

NARRATIVE SHORTS

TANGO OCTOGENARIO

A short film by David Licata

USA / 2003 / 7 minutes

Tango Octogenario is a short narrative film about an elderly couple (Alex and Jean Turney) and their unique way of reconnecting. From its use of non actors to its old-Hollywood lighting, from its opening shot on New York City’s Lower East Side to its primary setting inside a ghostly ballroom, Tango Octogenario tells its story in a manner that treads the line between grim reality and fairy tale.

This stylization suits the exploration of the film’s themes: the hidden lives of marginalized people, the elderly as vital contributors to society, the curative powers of art, and the power of art to forge bonds. Its most salient characteristic, the portrayal of seniors as active, vibrant, and independent, is a much-needed antidote to the stereotypical representations of America’s graying population.

VICTIM

A short film by Corrie Jones

USA / 2004 / 11:30 minutes

Based on a spoken poem written by Nicole Blackman, Victim is the dark and disturbing story of a young woman’s physical and emotional struggle for escape after she awakens to find herself in the damp, suffocating blackness of a car trunk. Unaware of where she is, or even how long she has been there, she struggles to free herself from her disturbing reality, and in so doing takes herself and us on an intoxicating and emotionally moving journey of escape and peace.

YOUNG AMERICANS

A short film by Todd Smith

USA / 2004 / 14 minutes

A young man, Jesse (Lukas Haas), is hitchhiking from Texas to New York to become a rock star. Along the way he is picked up by a woman of a certain age, Dusty, who is on her way to Atlantic City to gamble away all her philandering husband’s money. Jesse offers his assistance, but when he meets Babe, a fiery young singer his own age, he must decide whether he wants to help anyone but himself

DOCUMENTARY

12 TONS OF TRASH

THE COWBELL IN THE TREE: A PORTRAIT OF JIM MORTON

THE CRITICAL PATH

LSD A GO GO

THE OLD MAN AND HEMINGWAY

SCATTERED SMOTHERED COVERED

THE TANK MAN(Tynnyrimies)

TWINS

Fri.Oct 15,5:00pm @ WCC

Sun.Oct 17,5:15pm @ WCC W W

12 Tons of Trash

Directed by Jennifer Harmon

USA / 2004 / 10 minutes

See trash through the eyes of those who really know their trash: Gloria and Hopi, two New York City sanitation workers.

THECOWBELL IN THE TREE: A PORTRAIT OF JIM MORTON

Directed by Joel Katz

USA / 2004 / 11:30 minutes

The Cowbell in the Tree is a portrait of Jim Morton, the eighty-nine-year-old caretaker of the Platte Clove Preserve, a nature conservancy just a few miles from Woodstock. An unusual American in that he has lived his entire life in the same valley in which he was born, Morton is a charming, witty, and philosophical man. On a beautiful autumn day, Morton relates stories of family history, tells local lore of Platte Clove, and chats with Susan Mayr, a painter participating in the Artists Residency Program run by the Catskill Center for Conservation and Development. Morton talks of his great-grandmother, who was a Native American plant healer from Tannersville; about the origins of the name of Codfish Point; and about the strangest incident that ever occurred in his long life.

LSD A GO GO

Directed by Scott Calonico USA / 2003 / 10 minutes

Things got a little out of hand in the 1950s after the CIA embarked upon the MK-ULTRA major drug and mind control program, and studied the effects of LSD on themselves and others.

THE CRITICAL PATH: R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Directed by Benita R aphan

USA / 2004 / 13:30 minutes

The Critical Path: R. Buckminster Fuller, is the third in a series of short documentary/diary films entitled They Were the Future. The first two films in the series were Absence Stronger than Presence: Edwin Land and 2+2: John Forbes Nash, Jr..

Life for a genius or innovator carries with it a huge responsibility. Faced with personal tragedy early in his life, R. Buckminster Fuller came within moments of committing suicide in the Michigan River. Instead he decided to come back and devoted the rest of his life to peaceful coexistence while creating low-cost and accessible shelter and considering new ways to feed mankind.

THEOLD MAN AND HEMINGWAY

Directed by Hugo Perez

USA / 2004 / 7:41 minutes

At the age of 102, Hemingway’s boat captain, Gregorio Fuentes, looks back at his friendship with Hemingway.

SCATTERED SMOTHERED COVERED

Directed by Matthew Serrins

USA / 2004 / 8 minutes

Shot in Charleston, South Carolina, Scattered Smothered Covered explores Waffle House, a Southern institution. Combining fly-on-thewall observation with interviews of employees, regulars, and passersby, this short documentar y shows the kitschy decor, greasy food, and unique mix of people that make Waffle House both an example of and a challenge to the stereotyped notions of the South, where race is always but never an issue and people’s candor starts to seep through the polite veneer

THETANK MAN (TYNNYRIMIES)

Directed by Arto Halonen

Finland / 2004 / 12 minutes

Jesus Gonzales has turned the rolling of a petrol barrel into an acrobatic art and a livelihood for himself and his family. The film follows Jesus’ trek through Havana from morning until evening. The journey begins to resemble a pilgrimage, as the compassionate and sensitive Jesus stops to meet many outcasts of his society.

TWINS

Directed by Martin Bell

USA / 2003 / 17 minutes

This film was made in the summer of 2002 when my wife, Mary Ellen Mark, was completing the photography for her new book on twins. Mary Ellen’s studio was a tent, pitched on a volleyball court, at the Twins Days Festival in Twinsburg, Ohio. When Mary Ellen had finished photographing a set of twins we’d take them behind the backdrop to a small studio, where we had positioned two cameras and a sound recorder, and there we asked each set of twins twenty questions. This film is constructed from their answers.

Jeremy & Jacob Taylor,10 years old,Jacob older by 20 seconds,2001 from the film Twins Photo by Martin Bell

SHORTS

COMING OF AGE

FLAVIO

GLASS JAW (LASILEUKA)

JUNEBUG AND HURRICANE

SAVIOR (BJARGVAETTUR)

GLASS JAW (LASILEUKA)

Directed by Zaida Bergroth

Finland / 2004 / 39 minutes

Marianne, fifteen, is a skillful shoplifter and a promising boxer. Emma, eight, follows her sister everywhere because their mother is too unpredictable for her to stay at home.

Sat.Oct 16,5:30pm @ WCC

Sun. Oct 17,3:30pm @ WCC W W

FLAVIO

Directed by Taagen Swaby and Jon Fine

USA / 2003 / 13 minutes

Flavio, an eleven-year-old boy from Salvador, Brazil, must find work to help his family. His options are grim. Flavio is a narrative film with a documentar y feel, exploring the struggles children face in Brazil.

JUNEBUG AND HURRICANE

Directed by James Ponsoldt

USA / 2004 / 9 minutes

Abbie is the center of her mother’s world; their days are full of time spent together Going to the beach, visiting the aquarium... this pair is always on the move. Always. Featuring Janeane Garofalo.

SAVIOR (BJARGVAETTUR)

Directed by Erla Skúladóttir

Iceland / 2003 / 28 minutes

Savior is about a lonely teenage girl’s quest for independence. Forced by her neglectful parents to spend the summer in a camp for much younger children, K aja runs away. What she encounters on her journey are the dangers of the exotic Icelandic wilderness and her deepest fears.

SHORTS FOCUS ON MUSIC

OBSTINATO:

MAKING MUSIC FOR TWO

Directed by Sascha Paladino

USA / 2004 / 39 minutes

Obstinato: Making Music For Two follows banjo wizard Béla Fleck and double bass virtuoso Edgar Meyer on tour, as they perform, compose, and get on each other’s nerves.

REALITY

Directed by Steven Lippman

USA / 2003 / 29 minutes

Masters of their instruments, perfectionists, and best friends, Béla and Edgar are always striving to make better music. And while they are racing against a deadline to record a live album of classical and original works, their musical and personal relationships intensify dramatically. What emerges is a rare and compelling documentar y glimpse into a highly creative collaboration.

Reality as interpreted from conversations with, and songs by, David Bowie. An abstract portrait of Bowie in which questions and answers chase themselves, and meaning is profoundly absurd. Shot in 35/Super 16/Super 8mm, the film is 99 percent without special effects, despite images not quite of this world. Songs include “Never Get Old,” The Loneliest Guy,” “Bring Me the Disco King,” and “New Killer Star.”

GROWING UP ON TOUR: A FAMILY PORTRAIT

OBSTINATO:MAKING MUSIC FOR TWO

REALITY

Fri.Oct 15,9:30pm @Bearsville

Sun.Oct 17,2pm @ Upstate R W

GROWING UP ON TOUR:A FAMILY PORTRAIT

Directed by Anna Gabriel

USA / 2003 / 39 minutes

The film follows Peter Gabriel on the Growing Up tour of 2002. With his eldest daughter filming, his second daughter singing, and his new wife and baby joining him on the road, we watch Gabriel juggle his life as a musician and family man.

ALMOST MIDNIGHT SHORTS

(4 wacky local shorts) 16W

Fri.Oct 15,11:30pm @ Woodstock Town Hall

A Potato Chip Tale

Directed by Heidi Sjursen, Clark Ov Satur n

USA / 2004 / 20 minutes

A disgruntled supermodel takes to the road where she meets a gaggle of goofballs. Will her newfound pals help her overcome her fear of potato chips?

Power Farm

Directed by Chase Pierson and Tarvis Watson

USA / 2004 / 15 minutes

A spoof of biotech, fetishism, organic farming and homeland security.

16W

Directed by Gerald Slota

USA / 2004 / 30 minutes

JayWalker

Directed by David Zeines

USA / 2004 / 10 minutes

16W is a romp through the New Jersey “Rust Belt” blue collar world of alcohol, drugs, sex, and politically incorrect consciousness. Set off of the Jersey Turnpike in a Bergen County bar and bowling alley, working guys, bikers, gamblers and an array of white trash drones act out the high drama of their small lives.

An isolated and aloof JayWalker battles Boston traffic. Moved by the performance of an Anarchist Ballerina distributing antiestablishment propaganda to children, he begins to examine his own place in the world. Swept up in an Anti-Nationalism movement, our hero curiously finds himself at the forefront. The JayWalker continues his fight against urban congestion but has found a muse in the Ballerina. Within the frenetic hoofing of a ska show they find tranquility and love. Inspired to greatness, the JayWalker attempts the ultimate denial of traffic. Will he become the master or will he be mowed down by the unstoppable force of vehicular transportation?

YOUTH INITIATIVE

The Career Day and Youth Forum are part of WFF’s annual YOUTH INITIATIVE.The Woodstock Film Festival is committed to youth and education as a means to positive development,conflict resolution,and growth opportunity.

CAREER DAY

Saturday, October 16,Sat

1:30 - 3:30 pm.

This event, which was started in 2001 by Jeremiah Newton, NYU Industr y Liaison, provides students between the ages of 14 and 20 the opportunity to have a one-on-one exchange on career opportunities with top industr y members.

2004 participants will include John Sloss (Executive producer, Before Sunset, The Fog of War, Pieces of April, Far From Heaven), Jessica Sharzer (filmmaker, The Wormhole, Speak), Gill Holland (producer Hurricane, Desert Blue, Spring Forward, Snow Days, Martin & Orloff, The Fittest, Loggerheads), Sabine Hoffman (editor, Personal Velocity, Brother to Brother, Fairy Tales), Annie Nocenti (former editor, Scenario Magazine; former editor, High Times Magazine), Rachel Sheedy (franchised agent, Don Buckwald Agency with emphasis on New York independent film, building the careers of many of the indie film business.

YOUTH FORUM

The 2004 Woodstock Film Festival Youth Forum offers a first look at some up-and-coming filmmakers from a variety of regional media arts programs, including: The Parsons Pre-College Academy, a weekend and summer intensive program that brings students into New York City to learn about design; the Indie program at Onteora High School; and the Downtown Community TV Center on Lafayette Street in NYC.

Screening Series 1: Fiction and Animation

Sunday,Oct.17,10:30am @WCC

Ultra by Will Lytle of the Indie Program at Onteora High School, explores the concept of Superman.

The Gypsy Nun by Isaac Fay and Brett Palfryman. This video short, inspired by a poem by Pablo Neruda, was Brett and Isaac’s final project for their Film Appreciation class at Red Hook High School.

Making the Grade by Corey Smith, a film about academic competition, stars the actor Hugh Jackman.

Trail of Tears, is an animated odyssey by Isaac Pond of the Indie Program.

Levitation by Chris Chu, is a striking montage of cityscapes, textures and repeating and contrasting patterns that make up the city’s infrastructure. Chris is in the Parsons Pre-College Academy.

And then Everything I Saw I Liked by Ariel Jackson, a short film about young love and creative inspiration.

A Walk in the Park, a group project by Parsons Pre-College Academy students. Three friends meet in the park and talk about their new girlfriends.

Helium, is a claymation by Lucas SchwabHill, Madelyn Klercker, and Ayden Wilber of the Indie Program.

We Will Remember 9/11 by Scott and Matthew Gentile of the Brooklyn Friends School. The students created this film using a true stor y written by one of their classmates.

Screening Series 2: Nonfiction

Sunday,Oct.17,12noon @WCC

March 22,2003 Interviews in Union Square Park,is a documentary by the Parsons PreCollege Academy student production team, showing the varied reactions to war in Iraq.

The Cries of a Teenage Soul by students at DC-TV, the Downtown Community TV Center on Lafayette Street in Manhattan. Teens from the Bronx talk about their depression and determination to prevail in a world they feel marginalizes them.

Mt.Beacon, a segment of Our Town, a documentary program created by the sixth, seventh, and eighth graders at the South Avenue Magnet School in Beacon.

Money Problems, a well-constructed portrayal of the difficulties of finding work and then being a working teen, by the DC-TV students.

Kingston Cares, is a documentar y about mixed messages by twelfth graders in the New Visions program at Ulster County BOCES.

You Call This a Riot? by Becky Sellinger of the Indie program, explores the meaning of social activism.

YEARROUND YOUTHPROGRAMMING

for young people ages 13-20 presented by the Wo o dst o ck Film Festival and Homunculi Produc tions

Film Literacy: We will watch short films and clips of longer works and discuss them. Participants will have an opportunity to meet with filmmakers and discuss the films.

Weekend Workshops:A series of weekend workshops aimed at exploring various aspects of film production including acting, writing, editing, animation, and much more.

Production Workshops :Here’s your chance to write produce and distribute a short feature film. This production will be broken down into three phases. Interested individuals may participate in any or all of the phases. Some scholarships will be available based on enrollment.

Find out more about Youth Workshops online at woodstockfilmfestival.com/programs/youthinitiative.htm

Haskell Wexler

Gill Holland

USA.Film:Elizabeth

1954.USA

Legendary Magnum photographers Eve Arnold, Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Bruce Davidson, Elliott Er witt, Burt Glinn, Susan Meiselas, and others bring a new set of visual conventions to the task of document-

ing cinema. The exhibit on display at CPW, culled from over 5,000 Magnum photographs– many of them previously unpublished–reveals the remarkable encounter between a family of photographers and the cinematic universe.

Robert Capa, Magnum founder and close friend of John Huston, first began to combine the talents of great photographers with those of great directors and actors over half a century ago. These partnerships and their story lines developed around lasting, personal relationships, based on mutual trust and shared intimacy. The photographs take us behind the scenes to some of the most important movie sets of our time, including On the Waterfront, The Seven Year Itch, Superman, Suddenly, Last Summer, Notorious, and powerful picture legends such as Clint Eastwood, Marilyn Monroe, Ingrid Bergman, James Dean, and Clark Gable, among many others. A highlight within this show are the exclusive Magnum photographs that document the making of The Misfits, directed by John Huston and starring Marilyn Monroe, Clark Gable, and Montgomer y Clift. This

The Center for Photography at Woodstock and the Woodstock Film Festival present Magnum Cinema,the photo exhibit.

expansive exhibit is a must-see for anyone interested in film!

Founded in 1977 and recognized as an international resource, the Center for Photography at Woodstock is dedicated to supporting the creation, presentation, and fostering of contemporary photography and related media including film and video, through year–round exhibitions, workshops, lectures, artist residencies, publications,

New York. Marlon Brando in On the Waterfront.

Copyright Elliott Erwitt Magnum Photos

Film: Chimes at Midnight by US director Orson Welles.

Copyright Nicolas Tikhomiroff / Magnum Photos

Taylor on the set of Suddenly Last Summer

Copyright Burt Glinn / Magnum Photo

USA.Nevada. The Misfits Copyright Bruce Davidson / MagnumPhotos

Béla Fleck, banjo Edgar Meyer, bass & piano

Seven-time Grammy Award-winning banjoist Béla Fleck will team up with renowned bassist Edgar Meyer for the 5th Anniversar y Woodstock Film Festival kick off concert in an evening of acoustic music at the spectacular Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College in Annandale- on-Hudson.

The evening’s program, which will be announced from the stage, will include original works by Fleck and Meyer as well as classical selections, including pieces from the duo’s recently released, critically acclaimed album Music for Two and Fleck’s multiple Grammy Awardwinning recording Perpetual Motion The evening will offer not only the three Bs– Bach, banjo and bass–but also a bit of jazz, baroque, and bluegrass.

by the bluegrass playing of Flatt and Scruggs. He began experimenting with playing bebop on the banjo in high school. In 1982, he joined the progressive bluegrass band New Grass Revival, where he made a name for himself in the bluegrass world.

In 1989 he formed the Flecktones, and the following year they released a self-titled album. The music was dubbed “blu-bop” – a

2002 recipients of its prestigious “genius” grants.

Any world-class musician born with the names Béla (for Bartok), Anton (for Dvorak), and Leos (for Janacek) would seem destined to play classical music. Béla Fleck–already a powerfully creative force in bluegrass, jazz, pop, rock, and world beat, and a pioneering banjo virtuoso and bandleader best known as the leader of Béla Fleck & the Flecktones–first made a classical connection with the album Perpetual Motion which won two Grammys, including Best Classical Crossover Album and Best Instrumental Arrangement (which Fleck shared with Meyer).

A New York City native, Béla picked up the banjo at the age of fifteen after being awed

mix of jazz and bluegrass–and they soon became a commercially successful, critically acclaimed, award-winning band.

Béla Fleck is the only musician to be nominated for Grammys in the jazz, bluegrass, pop, country, spoken word, Christian, composition, and world music categories.

Prominently established as a unique and masterful instrumentalist, Edgar Meyer combines unparalleled technique and musicianship with a gift for composition. In recognition of his unique place in the world of music, the MacArthur Foundation named him one of the

Fruitful collaborations are the cornerstone of Meyer ’s work. The most recent example was the organization of a quartet completed by violinist Joshua Bell and legendary bluegrass musicians Sam Bush and Mike Marshall. Shortly before this collaboration, Meyer was involved in an inventive trio project with Béla Fleck on banjo and Mike Marshall on mandolin, performing original compositions marrying bluegrass, classical, and other traditional styles. Earlier in Meyer ’s career, from 1986 to 1992, he was a member of the progressive bluegrass band Strength in Numbers, whose members included Sam Bush, Jerr y Douglas, Béla Fleck, and Mark O’Connor Meyer began studying bass at the age of five under the instruction of his father, and went on to study with Stuart Sankey. In 1994 he became the only bassist to ever receive the Aver y Fisher Career Grant, and in 2000 became the only bassist to receive the Avery Fisher Prize.

Béla Fleck’s recording ‘Perpetual Motion’is available at record stores everywhere on Sony Classical Edgar Meyer records exclusively for Sony Classical. His recordings ‘Meyer Bottesini Concertos’,‘ Bach:Unaccompanied Cello Suites Performed on Double Bass’,‘ Short Trip Home’and ‘Uncommon Ritual’ are available at record stores everywhere.

Mr Fleck is managed by David Bendett ar tistsinc@aol.com and booked by Monterey Peninsula Artists

Mr.Meyer appears by arrangement with IMG Artists,825 Seventh Avenue,New York NY 10019,212-489-8300

photograph:©Peter Aaron/Esto

Mark Geary

Singer/songwriter Mark Geary came to NYC in 1995 with a one-way ticket from Dublin, $100 in his pocket, and a green card. Recognized today as one of the East Village’s favorite performers and a top 40 artist in Ireland, Geary started out playing with Jeff Buckley at the legendary Café Sin-e and has since shared stages with Elvis Costello, The Pretenders, Coldplay, and Sinead O’Connor.

Booker Kio Novina calls Geary “one of the best acts around.” Film/TV producer Gill Holland became so enamored with Mark’s music that he started sonaBLAST! Records.

Citysearch says Mark is “part unself-righteous Elliot Smith, part multi-faceted Van Morrison” and that he “touches the heart the way David Gray wishes he could.”

Time Out Magazine calls him “an engaging singer/songwriter…(who) writes delicate songs about love and defiance… recalls performers such as Richard Thompson and John Lennon.”

Duo Loco, Jazz Maniacs; Mark Dziuba & Studio Stu

This eccentric jazz duo takes the very best in classic jazz and originals, and twists and bends them into what they call ‘evocative jazz, exotic lounge’. In this ‘duo virtuosi’, nothing is sacred… improv is rampant… lyrics are changed at will… notes and chords are bent and perverted… familiar languages are obliterated… harmonies are sweet and sour perfection… tunes are put through a fun house mirror, and yet, serious, sophisticated and uncompromising in execution. The union is one in-tune, out-of-tune, offbeat outfit.

Mark Dziuba, guitar wizard and director of jazz studies at SUNY New Paltz, moves with grace through impossible chord changes and rapid fire riffs on his 1961 stratocaster, transforming these classic tunes into something more… a sort of ‘light shift’ in tone and nuance, going beyond the music’s original intent. And, as a composer, he brings a fresh, complex virtuosity to a seemingly inexhaustible genre.

Studio Stu, with his state-of-the-art washtub bass, unique Brooklyn humor, and unusual, hypnotic vocals, is a master...a one string wonder, combining a traditional folk instrument and a classic music form, to create a third thing (one we haven’t quite figured out what to call yet)… fearless in delivery and willing to navigate uncharted paths through the improvisational wilderness; he is ‘el ultimo hombre del lounge.’

While at the Woodstock Film Festival,make sure to check out the many musicians who will be performing at local venues including open mic with Jerry Mitnick,Friday and Saturday evening at the Colony Cafe.For up-to-date info about musical events,visit www.woodstockfestival.com

Laurel Massé,founding member of Grammy award-winning vocal group Manhattan Transfer, toured internationally for seven years with the group and recorded five albums. In 1979, a serious automobile accident forced her departure. After two years of convalescence, she began touring again both in the States and in Europe. She has released four solo CDs. The first two, Alone Together and Easy Living, both hit the Billboard Jazz charts; the third, Again, was a People magazine pick. Feather and Bone, her 2000 release, was picked by audiophile magazine The Absolute Sound as “a recording of extraordinary musical and sonic value.”

Equally at ease singing with a trio or with an orchestra, equally spellbinding singing an impassioned ballad, a unaccompanied Bach cello suite, or a swinging vocal improv, Ms. Massé is a singer of rare intuition and taste. Possessor of what some critics have called “the perfect voice,” she is one of the premiere jazz and cabaret artists of her generation.

Laurel Masse

SEMINARS PANELS AND WORKSHOPS

**All take place at the Colony Café in Woodstock unless otherwise indicated.

Programs and panelists are subject to change, please make sure to visit www.woodstockfilmfestival.com for the most up-to-date schedule.

Holding the Line;

A discussion about Artistic Expression in Time of Censorship. Where Media outlets have been killing stories because they undermine corporate interests; advertisers are using their financial clout to squelch negative reports; powerful businesses are using the threat of expensive lawsuits to discourage legitimate investigations we are looking for alternative ways to oppose censorship and find networks to share inquiry and information.

Origins of Film Story — Part II

Produced by Sabine Hoffman (editor, Personal Velocity,Brother to Brother).

From Mississippi Masala to “Vanity Fair:” A Lasting Collaboration

Director, and 2004 Honorary WFF Maverick Award recipient Mira Nair and producer Lydia Dean Pilcher discuss their long–standing collaboration on films such as Mississippi Masala; The Perez Family; Kama Sutra, A Tale of Love; Hysterical Blindness, and Vanity Fair

Reviving last year’s successful and popular panel, industry professionals and independent mavericks will discuss the impetus and inspiration for their screenplays. Where do film ideas come from? What makes a story right for film? Do low-budget, independent films better serve certain stories? What is the obligation of the writer/filmmaker in troubled times? Should our stories be overtly political and socially conscious — or is “entertainment” enough? How does one transform a “good idea” into the beginnings of a screenplay?

Moderated by John J.Valadez (director, Passing It On, The Divide).

Panelists include: Orlando Bagwell (director/producer Africans in America, The Great Depression, Malcolm X: Make it Plain), Ron English (ar tist, godfather of AGIT-POP), Kibra Johannes (program director, MediaRights.org), and Sonia Malfa (program director, Association of Independent Video and Filmmakers).

Sponsored by AIVF and Mediaright.org

Friday,October 15,2:30 pm

Moderator:Annie Nocenti (former editor, Scenario Magazine)

Panelists:Ron Nyswaner Philadelphia, Soldier’s Girl, Jim Taylor Election,About Schmidt, Sideways, Michael Cristofer The Witches of Eastwick, The Bonfire of the Vanities, Gia,Original Sin, Peter Riegert King of the Corner Jessica Sharzer Speak

Sponsored by Friday,October 15,12 noon

Actors Dialogue

Featuring Lily Taylor. (Casa De L os Babys, Six Feet Under, I Shot Andy Warhol, Mystic Pizza)

Get a rare up-close glimpse into the work and world of being an actor. Be right there when entertainment journalist Martha Frankel, whose articles have appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Cosmopolitan and Redbook, among others, hosts an intimate conversation with leading film actors. Past participants have included the interesting, the esteemed, and the honored such as Olympia Dukakis, Marcia Gay Harden, Parker Posey, Annabella Sciorra, Aidan Quinn, Liev Schreiber, Fisher Stevens, David Strathairn, and Stanley Tucci.

Saturday,October 16,10 am

Moderator: Thelma Adams (Film critic, US Weekly).

Saturday,October 16,12 noon

Conversation with James Schamus and Peter Bowen

Join Peter Bowen (Senior editor, Filmmaker Magazine ; Editorial director, Sundance Channel) as he talks about films and filmmaking with James Schamus, writer/producer of The Ice Storm, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, and The Hulk; Co-president, Focus Features; Associate professor, Columbia University.

“Take a look at any list of important independent films of the past decade and it’s likely that Schamus’ name will appear somewhere in the credits. - The New York Times

Saturday,October 16,2pm, at Upstate Films in Rhinebeck

Film and the Political Equation – Why Now?

In the past year, documentaries have looked inside the decision to invade Iraq and at corporate control of everything from food to media, and audiences have piled in. Earlier documentaries preached to the choir, because the choir was the only audience they reached. But with dogged investigation and satire, these new films seem to have tapped into a new public, or at least broadened the documentary audience beyond anyone’s expectations. And John Sayles’s Silver City shows that politics on the screen isn’t limited to documentaries. Is this just an election year phenomenon? Are the films filling a gap where serious journalism used to be? Or are they just good films? Will it matter in November?

Moderated:David D’Arcy (film and entertainment commentator,NPR).

Panelists:Bob Berney (president,Newmarket Films, The Passion of the Christ, Monster,Whale Rider,Donnie Darko – Director’s Cut,Stander,Real Women Have Curves; former senior vice president,IFC Films,My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Y Tu Mama Tambien Rober t Stone (Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst) Pamela Yates (Presumed guilty, Brotherhood of Hatred)

Saturday, Oc tober 16,2:30 pm

What Is Success?

Down to the Bone

New York Women In Film and TV presents a case history study of Debra Granik’s Down to the Bone, a digital film shot entirely in Woodstock and surrounding Ulster County areas. The story entails a young mother’s hidden cocaine habit, her quest to come clean and create a better life for herself and family. This feature is a rare hybrid of reality and fiction. It developed from Granik’s Sundance Award winning short, Snake Feed, which starred the real life person the story is

The Dos and Don’ts of Independent Films or How to Make a Successful Indie

Your opportunity to ask the filmmakers and the distributors who make it all happen. Moderator:David Rooney (New York film reviewer and reporter, Variety). Panelists include:Bob Berney (president, Newmarket Films,John Sloss (Executive Producer, Pizza,Before Sunrise,The Fog of War,Pieces of April,Far From Heaven), Eamonn Bowles (president,Magnolia Pictures),Mary Jane Skalski (producer, The Brothers McMullen,The Jimmy Show, The Station Agent,Chain),Fisher Stevens (actor/director/producer, Just a Kiss,Famous,Pinero,Swimfan,Uptown Girls) Fisher Stevens (actor/director/producer,Just a Kiss,Famous,Pinero, Swimfan,Uptown Girls)

Saturday,October 16,4:30 pm

INYOURFACE

This is the year to remember that politics matter. That politics is matter of life and death, riches and poverty, honor and dishonor. This is the year that Michael Moore taught us that a film could actually make a difference. Larry Beinhart and Richard Fusco of In Your Face (a bi-weekly Woodstock and Free Speech TV show) inter view Brent Renaud (Off to War), Sarah and Emily Kunstler (Getting Through to the President), and other guest with political films at this years Woodstock Film Festival.. L arr y is best known as the author of American Hero which became Wag the Dog Richard has been a radio personality and has been a pioneer in the intersection of traditional media and the Internet.

Sunday,October 17,10 am

Music for Film

Join moderator Doreen Ringer Ross, vice president of film/TV Relations at BMI, for a frank discussion about music in film and the in and outs of film scoring, music super vision and licensing.

Panelists include musician/songwriter Chris Stein (co-founder of Blondie), Paul Broucek (exec. vp music for New Line, Lord of the Rings), music supervisor Tracy McKnight (pres. Commotion Records; A Dirty Shame, End of the Century: The Ramones, Raising Victor Vargas, High Art), film composer Nathan Larson (Boys Don’t Cry, Prozac Nation, Phone Booth, The Woodsman), filmmaker Nicole Kassell (The Woodsman), producer Laurie Trombley (Amazing Grace: Jeff Buckley) Sponsored by Sunday, Oc tober 17,12:30pm

based on. Down to the Bone uses professional actors in the leading roles and non-professionals in the supporting roles. The film debuted at Sundance 2004. Debra Granik won the Dramatic Directing Award and Vera Farmiga, lead actress, won Special Jury Prize.

Panelists in attendance:Debra Granik, director/co-screenwriter; Susan Leber,executive producer, Vera Farmiga,lead actress,Richard Liekse, co-screenwriter/ life model, Corinne Stralka,life model, Michele Baker,location manager

Reading and Talk with Ron Nyswaner: Blue Days,Black Nights — OUT:A Screenwriter’s Life, The Ultimate Confession.

Screenwriter Ron Nyswaner—nominated for an Academy Award for Philadelphia, and author of the Peabody Award-winning cable film Soldier ’s Girl—will talk about his journey from an awkward, sometimes violent childhood among tobacco-chewing, deer-hunting, coal-mining relatives in Pennsylvania to his misadventures in Hollywood, sparring with studio executives and egomaniacal stars, slipping into drug addiction, and falling in love with the wrong people. Along the way, Nyswaner has turned to writing for salvation, creating plays, screenplays, and recently, a book–Blue Days, Black Nights: A Memoir Books available at courtesy of The Golden Notebook “Nyswaner...nails the memoir form...unsparing... lush in content. A”” - Entertainment Weekly Sunday,October 17,2:30pm

Sunday, Oc tober 17,11 am at Center for Photography at Woodstock

Panel Producer: Melisse Seleck

TICKET INFORMATION

BOX OFFICE LOCATION AND HOURS

Woodstock Playhouse Box Office 103 Mill Hill Road

Woodstock, NY 12498

845.679.6997

woodstockfilmfestival.com

Box Office Hours

October 10–16

Mon-Sun 9am-7pm

October 17

9am-3pm (walk-up only)

PRICES

Tickets range from $7 to $15 per screening and are $15 per panel. Concert prices var y. A shipping/handling fee of $4.25 will be added per mailing. Student and senior discounts are available with ID, but must be requested directly at the Playhouse Box Office or venue. We cannot honor senior discounts online or over the telephone.

For a complete list of prices, please visit www.woodstockfilmfestival.com.

Reserve early, as shows tend to sell out quickly.

PURCHASING TICKETS

Walk-Up Orders

Tickets for all venues will be available for purchase at the Playhouse Box Office September 23–October 17.

Beginning October 13, tickets for Hunter and Rhinebeck will be available at their respective venues as well.

Day of Event

Tickets are available at the Playhouse Box Office until four hours prior to the event.

All unsold tickets are then available only on the standby line.

Ticket holders NEEDto arrive 15 minutes prior to the screening or panel;empty seats will be sold to the standby line.

If you have tickets being held, you must go to the Woodstock Playhouse Box Office to pick them up. These tickets will NOT be sent to the venue.

NOTE: If you have tickets for Hunter or Rhinebeck that were ordered online or by phone, you must still pick them up at the Playhouse Box Office; they will not be sent to the venues. Leave yourself plenty of time to stop in before going to your venue or order early enough so we can send them to you.

When planning your festival schedule, please bear in mind that the driving distance from

For the most up-to-date information, please visit www.woodstockfilmfestival.com.

Once online,find out which screenings are sold out and read updated information about events,screenings, and panels.You can learn about who we are and what we do,including our yearround programming.Also please visit and support our sponsors.

Woodstock to both Rhinebeck and Hunter is about 30 minutes.

Ticket holders NEED to arrive 15 minutes prior to the screening or panel;empty seats will be sold to the standby line.

*Please note that all events are subject to change. You should check the website and program as the date approaches to confirm programs, venues, and times.

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TheTaking ofPatty Hearst

Death, Confusion& Hysterics InYourFace Film&Politics Readingand Talk withRon Nyswaner [2:30] 4:15 6:15

Shorts: Love&Hate Shorts: ComingofAge

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Olde Hudson 6423 Montgomery St. Rhinebeck,NY 12572 845-876-3933 518-828-6923

Once Possessed 107 Tinker St. Woodstock,NY 12498 845-679-3243

Onteora,The Mountain House P.O.Box 356 Boiceville,NY 12412 845-657-6233

Ottley’s Saddlery 1534 R te.212 Saugerties,NY 12477 845 247 0095

Overlook Mountain Bikes 93 Tinker St. Woodstock,NY 12498 845-679-2122

Partition Street Auctions 114 Partition St. Saugerties,NY 12477 845-246-1800

Pegasus 10 Mill Hill Rd Woodstock,NY 12498 845 679 2373

Photosensualis Fine Ar t Photography 70 Rock City Rd. Woodstock, NY 12498 845-679-5333

Pondicherry 12 Tinker St. Woodstock,NY 12498 845-679-2926

Prudential Eichhorn Realty 5 Tinker St. Woodstock,NY 12498 845-679-8022 845-679-8600

The Red Onion Restaurant & Bar 1654 Rte.212 @ Glasco Turnpike Woodstock,NY 12498 845-679-1223

Rhinebeck Pilates 2 East Market St. Suite 1 Rhinebeck,NY 12572 845-876-5686

River Rock Health Spa 62 Ricks Rd. Woodstock,NY 12498 845-679-7800

Rock City Yarn 4 Rock City Rd. Woodstock,NY 12498 845-679-9600

Ruge’s Subaru

Ruge’s Chrysler,Dodge, Jeep Rte.9

Rhinebeck,NY 12572 845-876-2087 845-876-1057

Selah/Merriweathers 6402 Montgomery St. Rhinebeck,NY 12572 845-876-3851

Steve G’s Pilates 302 Wall St. Kingston,NY 12401 845 331 2113

Steve Heller’s Fabulous Furniture R te.28,Box 444 Boiceville,NY 12412 845-657-6317

Stewart’s Shops Rte.28 & Zena Rd. Woodstock,NY 12498 845-679-2268

Sunflower Natural Foods Bradley Meadows Shopping Center 75 Mill Hill Rd. Woodstock NY 12498 845-679-5361

Tails of Woodstock 3 Mill Hill Rd Woodstock,NY 12498 845-679-4690

Timbuktu 2 Tannery Brook Rd. Woodstock,NY 12498 845-679-1169

Tobacco Outfitters 107 Partition St. Saugerties,NY 12477 845-246-8424

LOCAL SUPPORT

Ulster County Development Corporation 5 Development Ct. Kingston,NY 12401 800-7-ULSTER

Ulster County Tourism 10 Westbrook Lane Kingston,NY 12401 800-DIAL-UCO

Uptown Cigar Company 32 John St. Kingston,NY 12401 845-340-1142

Varga Gallery & Studio 130 Tinker St. Woodstock,NY 12498 845-679-4005

The Villa at Saugerties Bed & Breakfast 159 Fawn Rd. Saugerties,NY 12477 845-246-0682

Violette Restaurant & Wine Bar 85 Mill Hill Rd. Woodstock,NY 12498 845-679-5300

Washington Irving Inn Rte.23A Hunter,NY 12442 518-589-5560

WDST 100.1 118 Tinker St. Woodstock,NY 12498 845-679-7266

The WFG Gallery 31 Mill Hill Rd Woodstock,NY 12498 845-679-6003

Westwood Metes & Bounds Realty 24 Mill Hill Rd. Woodstock,NY 12498 877-677-0006 800-679-7321 845-340-1920 800-293-0232 866 489 9100

Win Morrison Realty 56 John St. Kingston,NY 12401 18 Tinker St. Woodstock,NY 12498 845 339 1144 845 679 9444 845 246 3300

Winter Sun Summer Moon 10-14 East Market St. Rhinebeck,NY 12572 845-876-3555 845-876-2223

The Woodbine Inn & Arts Center 144 Malden Ave. Palenville,NY 12463 518-678-9725

Woodstock Bead Emporium 54 Tinker St. Woodstock,NY 12498 845-679-0066 800-290-9663

Woodstock Building Supply 72 Mill Hill Rd. Woodstock,NY 12498 845-679-2516

Woodstock Candy 60 Tinker St. Woodstock,NY 12498 845-679-3750

Woodstock Design 9 Tinker St. Woodstock,NY 12498 845-679-8776

Woodstock Haircutz Day Spa 80 Mill Hill Rd. Woodstock,NY 12498 845-679-7171

Woodstock Music Shop 18 Rock City Rd. Woodstock,NY 12498 845-679-3224

Woodstock Quilt Supply 79 Tinker St. Woodstock,NY 12498 845-679-0733

Woodstock Wine & Liquors 33 Tinker St. Woodstock,NY 12498 845 679-2669

Woofstock Pet Supply 7 Elwyn Lane Woodstock,NY 12498 845-679-woof

Woodstock

120 DB FILMS (914) 533-5241 hays@120dbfilms.com www.120dbfilms.com

3RD STREET R&D PRODUCTION SERVICES

Sound,Lighting,Communications and Security Questions gregcarttar@3rd-st.co 3rd-st.com

AMERIBAG

55 Greenkill Ave Kingston NY 12401 (845) 339-8033 or (800)246-1292 www.ameribag.com

AIVF www.aivf.org

AMTRAK www.amtrak.com

BMI www.bmi.com

CANUSMAJOR PRODUCTIONS

Jeff Kantor Sirius1@canusmajor.com

CATSKILL MOUNTAIN REGION GUIDE

PO Box 924 Rte 23A / 7967 Main St Hunter,NY 12442 (518) 263-4908 www.catskillmtn.org

CHRONOGRAM www.chronogram.com

DAILY FREEMAN 79-97 Hurley Avenue Kingston,NY.12401 www.midhudsoncentral.com

DISCMAKERS www.discmakers.com

VENUES in

Woodstock

BEARSVILLE THEATER (films) Route 212,Bearsville,NY.12409 (845) 679-4406

CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHY AT WOODSTOCK 59 Tinker Street Woodstock,NY 12498 (845) 679-9957 www.cpw.org

COLONY CAFÉ (panels & music) Rock City Road Woodstock,NY 12498 (845) 679-5342 www.colonycafe.com

LEGENDS 109 Mill Hill Road Woodstock,NY 12498

DOCURAMA www.docurama.com

THE DYSON FOUNDATION www.dysonfoundation.org

EXPERIMENTAL TELEVISION CENTER www.experimentaltvcenter.org

GOOD BROTHERS www.goodbrothers.com

GREENBERG TRAURIG,LLP www.gtlaw.com

I LOVE NY www.iloveny.com

JTD Productions,Inc.

DJ & Entertainment Services

Dave Leonard - Owner Box 635 Woodstock,NY 12498 info@jtdproductions.com www.jtdproductions.com

KODAK

36 West 31st Street New York,NY.10003 www.kodak.com

LIGHT (PRESS CONFERENCE VENUE)

124 E.54th Street New York,NY 10022 (212) 583-1333 www.lightnyc.com

LOWEL–LIGHT (800) 334-3426 www.lowel.com

MARKERTEK VIDEO SUPPLY

A Division of Tower Products,Inc. (800) 522-2025 www.markertek.com

MEDIARIGHTS

Media That Matters www.mediarights.org

TINKER STREET CINEMA (films) 132 Tinker Street, Woodstock,NY 12498 (845) 679-6608

WOODSTOCK COMMUNITY CENTER (films) 56 Rock City Road Woodstock,NY 12498

WOODSTOCK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL 8 West Hurley Road (Route 375) Woodstock,NY 12498

WFF OFFICE 86 Mill Hill Road Woodstock,NY 12498 (845) 679-4265 www.woodstockfilmfestival.com

METROVISION PRODUCTION SERVICES

508 W.24th Street New York,NY10011 (212) 689-7900 www.metrovision-nyc.com

NEWCITYPROCDUCTIONS

530 Canal Street NY,NY 10013 (212) 925-5888 newcity@attglobal.net

NEW WORLD HOME COOKING 1411 Rte.212 Saugerties,NY 12477 (845) 246-0900 www.newworldhomecooking.com

NEW YORK STATE COUNCIL ON THE ARTS www.nysca.org

NEW YORK WOMEN IN FILM & TELEVISION www.nywift.org

PERCEPTION AUDIO VISUAL SERVICES

440 West 34th Street NY, NY 10001 (212) 239-8187 www.perceptionav.com

PLANET NOISE RECORDS 24 John Street Kingston,NY.12401 www.planetnoiserecords.com

REALITY CHECK www.realitycheckny.org

THE RICHARD B.FISHER CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS AT BARD COLLEGE (845) 758-7950 fishercenter@bard.edu. www.bard.edu/fishercenter

RUDER/FINN PRINTING (212) 593-6423 www.ruderfinn.com

SCHIEFFELIN & CO. 2045 Orchard Park Drive Nisk ayuna,NY 12309 (518) 395.9119 www.schieffelin.com

SHOWBIZ SOFTWARE www.showbizsoftware.com

STEVE HELLER’S FABULOUS FURNITURE Rte 28,Box 444 Boiceville,NY 12412 (845) 657-6316 www.fabulousfurnitureon28.com

ULSTER COUNTY LEGISLATURE www.co.ulster.ny.us

VIVA LA DATA diana@vivaladata.com vivaladata.com

WDST – 100.1 – FM Woodstock,NY 12498 (845) 679-7600 www.wdst.com

WKZE – 98.1 – FM Sharon,CT 06069 (860) 364-5800 www.wkze.com

WOODSTOCK CHAMBER OF COMMERCE www.woodstockchamber.com

WRITERS GUILD OF AMERICA, EAST www.wgaeast.org

YASGUR FARMS BOTTLEDH20 www.yasgurfarms.com

WOODSTOCK PLAYHOUSE (box office & hospitality) 103 Mill Hill Road Rtes 212 & 375 Woodstock,NY 12498 (845) 679-2764 info@woodstockplayhouse.org www.woodstockplayhouse.org

WOODSTOCK TOWN HALL (films) Tinker Street Woodstock,NY 12498 in Rhinebeck

UPSTATE FILMS

6415 Montgomery Street Rhinebeck,NY 12572 (845) 876-2515 www.upstatefilms.org

GIGI TRATTORIA

6422 Montgomery Street Rhinebeck,NY 12572 845.876.8686 www.phoenixrhinebeck.com

PHOENIXRISING

6423 Montgomery Street Rhinebeck,NY 12572 845.876.8686 www.phoenixrhinebeck.com

In Hunter

CATSKILL MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION THEATERS 7960 Main Street Hunter,NY 12442 (518) 263-4702 www.catskillmountain.org

Adam’s Fairacre Farms (845) 336-6300 www.adamsfarms.com

Adriano Limousine & Custom Carriage (845) 340-4227 (Ulster) (845) 227-9327 (Dutchess)

Alternative Videos of Woodstock 948 Route 28 Kingston,NY 12401 (845) 334-8105 www.alternativevideo.com

Black Bear Gourmet Deli 292 Route 375 West Hurley,NY 12491 (845) 679-7606

Bread Alone Route 28 Boiceville,NY 12412 (845) 657-3328 www.breadalone.com

Brice Discount Beverage Route 9W Sauger ties,NY 12477 (845) 246-7377 (845) 336-5585

Burt’s Electronics 549 Albany Avenue Kingston,NY 12401-2134 (845) 331-5011

HOSPITALITY SPONSORS

Catskill Mountain Organic Coffee

906 Route.28 Kingston,NY 12401 (845) 334-8455 (888) say-java info@catskillmtcoffee.com www.catskillmtcoffee.com

Cibo Specialty Foods 99 Ellis Street Staten Island,NY 10307 (718) 967.6858

Country Heritage Farms www.countryheritagefarms.com

Deising’s Bakery Midtown 584 Broadway (845) 338-1580 and 111 North Front St., Kingston,NY.12401 (845) 338-1241

Gadaleto’s Seafood 246 Main Street New Paltz,NY (845) 255-1041

Gisiano's Restaurant & Caterer 174 Main Street Glasco,NY (845).246-3035

Hickory BBQ and Smokehouse 743 Route 28 Kingston NY 12401 (845) 338-2424 hickoryrestaurant.com

Jarita’s Florist 17 Tinker Street Woodstock,NY 12498 (845) 679-6161

Lachmann’s Pastry Store and Bakery 264 Main St. Saugerties,NY 12477 (845) 246-5361

Lox of Bagels 4012 Route 9W Saugerties,NY 12477 (845) 246-0594

Melting Pot Caterers (845) 246-9667

Mother Earth Health Foods Kingston,NY.12401 (845) 336-5541

Old Chatham Sheepherding Company

Old Chatam,NY 12136 (800) SHEEP-60 www.blacksheepcheese.com

Oregon Orchard (Hazelnuts) www.hazelnut.com

Phoenix Rising 6423 Montgomery Street Rhinebeck,NY 12572 845.876.8686 www.phoenixrhinebeck.com

Price Chopper Supermarkets Route 212 Saugerties,NY

St.Claire’s Organic Sweets www.econaturalsolutions.com

Stone Pony Deli Old Kings Highway Saugerties,NY (845) 247-4700 www.stoneponydeli.com

Stonyfield Farm www.stonyfield.com

Sunfrost Farms 217 Tinker Street Woodstock 679-6690

Sunshine Market 2 Jansen Ave. Kingston,NY.12401 (845) 338-0042

Sunfrost Farms 217 Tinker Street Woodstock,NY 12498 (845) 679-6690

If we forgot to thank you, please forgive our oversight and know that your help and support is very much appreciated

Official Water of the 2004 Woodstock Film Festival

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12 Tons Of Trash

Jennifer Harmon 725 Union St.#3 Brooklyn,NY 11215 (718) 623-3805 jjjharmon@yahoo.com

16W Fredrick Duignan fred16w@localnet.com

43rd Spring,The Kirstin Steffen Immanuelkirchstr.15 10405 Berlin,Germany +49 (30) 44 32 45 89 kirstin.steffen@berlin.de

Admissions

Luminous Entertainment 5820 Wilshire Boulevard,Suite 400 Los Angeles,CA 90036 (323) 931-3700 melissand@earthlink.net

Age of Innocence,The Sony Pictures Entertainment www.sonypitures.com

Allison Jeff Drew 7400 Kingfisher Ct NW Albuquerque,NM 87114 (505) 265-1556 automatedrew@aol.com

Amazing Grace:Jeff Buckley

Once & Future Production 784 Cambridge Avenue Menlo PArk, CA 94025 (650) 462-1780 nyla@oncefuture.com

And Then Everything I saw,I liked Ariel Jackson OscarDG99@aol.com

Animals In Love Vancouver Film School 2D Animation VFS 1380 Burrard St,3rd Floor Vancouver,BC V6Z 2H3 - Canada (604) 631-3002

Belle Street Pictures PO Box 861 New York,NY 10013 (917) 449-1990 rsergel@streetpictures.com

Bid Them In Neal Sopata 421 N. Pass Ave.#16 Burbank,CA 91505 neal@nealsopata.com

Bikini

Lasse Persson Palmgatan 8 21434 Malmö, Sweden +46-6116784 seflasse@hotmail.com

BlackBalled: The Bobby Dukes

Stor y The 7th Floor 19 West 21Street,706 New York,NY 10010 (212) 244-2317 general@the7thfloor.com www.bobbydukes.com

C’era Una Volta Un Re (Once Upon a Time,There Was a King)

Massimiliano Mauceri Via Menotti 31 Florence,50136 - Italy +39 (339) 747 6950 massi@quipo.it www.mauceri.it

Cavedweller SHOWTIME 1633 Broadway,17th Floor New York,NY 10019 (212) 708-1525

jennifer.weiss@showtime.net www.showtime.net

Chain

Antidote International Films 200 Varick St.,Room 515 New York,NY 10014 (646) 486-4344 ext 305 james@antidotefilms.com www.antidotefilms.com

Childhood Trauma #17

Michiel de Kraker #2 flat,Avani Court 111_113 Hampstead Road London,UK NW1 3EE - UK +44 (0) 7792818306 mdek raker@hotmail.com

Choke

Slipk not Productions 149 Markham Street Toronto,Ontario M6J 2G4 Canada (416) 571-8291 tlevine@rogers.com

Chorists (Les Choristes)

Miramax Films 375 Greenwich Street New York,NY 10013 (212) 941-3800 julie.fontaine@miramax.com www.miramax.com

Coded Language

Nick Schwartz 1814 Carol Place Tallahassee,FL 32304 (215) 913-2878 nasprod@aol.com

Coffee

Ugly Pictures

505 East 6th Street #5R New York,New York 10009 (646) 210-2726 ro.rao@nbcuni.com www.uglypictures.us

Conversations With Nickle Lorette Bayle lorette.bayle@kodak.com

Cosmopolitan Gigantic Pictures

500 Greenwich Street,Suite 501C New York,NY 10013 (212) 925-5075 info@giganticpictures.com www.giganticpictures.com

Cowbell in the Tree:A Portrait of Jim Morton,The Oniera Films LLC (845) 679-7739 jkatz@gc.org

Crack of Doom,The Natalia Wilkoszewska +44 773 195 9229 natwil2@wp.pl

Cries of a Teenage Soul,The c/o DCTV

87 Lafayette St.NY 10013 (212)966-4510-235 raina@dctvny.org www.dctvny.com

Critical Path,The Benita Raphan 101,West 12 Street Nes York,NY 10011 (212) 691-2877 braphan@aol.com www.benitaraphan.com

Crux,The Jeffrey Seckendorf 556b North Windsor Boulevard Los Angeles,CA 90004 (323) 314-6501 jeff@snaproll.com www.thecruxmovie.com

Dear Frankie Miramax Films 375 Greenwich Street New York,NY 10013 (212) 941-3800 julie.fontaine@miramax.com www.miramax.com

Definition of Insanity,The Soap Factory Productions 682 St. Marks Avenue Brooklyn,NY 11216 (718) 363-3151 frank@soapfactory.ch ramargolis@hotmail.com www.soapfactor y.ch

Devotion and Defiance Kunga Palmo (202) 785-1515 info@savetibet.org www.savetibet.org

Don’t Call It Heimweh... Thomas Halaczinsky 684 Fifth Avenue Brooklyn,NY 11215 (718) 788-5309 thomas@tudor-productions.com www.tudor-productions.com/ Heimweh.htm

Double Dare Runaway Films 1330 Rhode Island St. San Francisco,CA 94107 (415) 821 2448 info@runawayfilms.com

Down to the Bone

Down to the Bone Productions 55 East 11 Street,No.11 New York,NY 10003 (212) 420-8797 arosellini@bway.net www.downtothebonethefilm.com

Elephant Shoes

One Man Band Films

3-3501 Aylmer Street Montreal,QC H2X 2B9 Canada (514) 844-3196 christos@onemanbandfilms.com www.elephantshoesmovie.com

Fittest,the Crook Brothers Productions (212) 979-6345 angie@crookbrothers.com www.crookbrothers.com

Flavio Freed Pictures 601 West 26th Street,17th Floor New York,NY 10001 (212) 352-3007 ext.248 jon@freedpictures.com www.freedpictures.com

Forbidden Team,The Balls Productions Copenhagen,Denmark +45-3268-1038 karim.stoumann@balls.dk www.forbiddenteam.com

Frog Christopher Conforti 1641 Red Pine Trail Wellington,Florida 33414 (561) 596-0914 cecon40@aol.com

Future of Food,The Lily Films P.O.Box 895 Mill Valley,CA 94942 (415) 383-0553 info@lilyfilms.com www.thefutureoffood.com

Gay By Dawn Jonathan London 6700 Hillpark Drive,No 203 Los Angeles,CA 90068 (323) 252-1157 jonathan@jonathanlondon.com www.jonathanlondon.com

Get in the Car Flickerfest PO Box 7416 Bondi Beach,NSW 2026 Australia +61- 2 - 9365 6877 info@flickerfest.com.au www.panicproductions.com.au

Getting Through to the President Off Center Productions 625 Atlantic Avenue Suite 3303 Brook lyn, NY 11217 (718) 636 0988 emily@off-center.com www.off-center.com

Glass Jaw (Lasileuka) Finnish Film Foundation Mechelininkatu 40 Helsinki,Helsinki 250 +358 9 687 44980 anna.heisk anen@dofilms.fi info@dofilms.fi

Growing Up on Tour,A Family Por trait

PR Films

c/o Workshop 37 West 20th St.305 New York, NY 10011 (646) 245-4600 ADonado@WorkshopEntertainmen t.com

Guard Dog Bill Plympton Plymptoons@aol.com

Guerrilla:The Taking of Patty Hearst

Robert Stone Productions (845)-876-0550 info@guerrillathemovie.com www.guerrillathemovie.com

Hair High

Plymptoons / Bill Plympton Plymptoons@aol.com www.highhair.com

I Like Killing Flies

THINKFilm

155 Avenue of the Americas New York,NY 10013 (646) 293-9400 ldonatelli@thinkfilmcompany.com www.thinkfilmcompany.com

In the Realms of the Unreal Diorama Films (323) 854-2823 info@realmsoftheunreal.com www.realmsoftheunreal.com

Jailbait

Belladonna Productions

450 West 15 Street,Suite 602 New York,NY 10011 (212) 807-0108 shanachielit@aol.com

JayWalker

David Zeines dezeines_pro@yahoo.com

Jam: When Lives Collide Jam Productions 4712 Admiralty Way #516 Marina Del Ray,CA 90292 (310) 720-4412 Info@JamMovie.com www.jammovie.com

Jihad

Backbone Films,Inc. 8933 Wonderland Park Avenue Los Angeles,CA 90046 (323) 848-8887 shapmik@aol.com

Junebug and Hurricane Synesthetic Films 360 West 51st Street,Apt.3A New York,NY 10019 (917) 428-3308 jponsoldt@hotmail.com; jap2005@columbia.edu

Kiko

Ondrej Rudavsk y Namestie Martina Benku 24 Bratislava ,811 02 Slovak Republik ondrej@proracing.sk www.nicolas-mermet.com/ondrej/

King of the Corner Elevation Filmworks 145 Sixth Avenue,7th Floor New York,NY 10013 (212) 924-6464 info@elevationfilmworks.com

Kingston Cares 845.382.1281 mleopold@mhric.org

Kontroll THINKFilm 155 Avenue of the Americas New York,NY 10013 (646) 293-9400 ldonatelli@thinkfilmcompany.com

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League of Ordinary Gentlemen,A DIONYSIAN FILMS

330 Lafayette Street,5th Floor New York,NY 10012 (212) 965-0815 wbryan@dionysianfilms.com www.dionysianfilms.com

Levitation Karen Nourse 212-244-0433 karen@kzfilms.com

Light My Fire Naked,Inc. #1203,3-7-23 Nishishinjyuku, Shinjyuku-ku Tokyo 160-0023 - Japan info@naked.co.jp www.nizoo.com

Lost Cause,The Jim Taylor jimtaylor@earthlink.net

LSD A Go Go Slowkid Productions PO Box 16650 Austin,TX 78761 (512) 771.1495 nathan@slowkid.com http://www.flojo.com

Machinist,The Paramount Classics 5555 Melrose Avenue Chevalier 219 Hollywood,CA 90038 (323) 956-4545 Pantea_Ghaderi@paramount.com www.machinistmovie.com

Making Grace Aubin Pictures P.O.Box 214 New York,NY 10012 (212)-274-9782 info@aubinpictures.com www.aubinpictures.com

Making the Grade Corey Smith (973) 667-5786 smithcorey@mac.com www.homepage.mac.com/smithcorey

March 22,2003:Interviews in Union Square Park Parson’s Pre-College Academy student production team Karen Nourse (212)-244-0433 karen@kzfilms.com

Meatrix,The Global Resource Action Center for the Environment (GRACE) 215 Lexington Avenue Suite 1001 New York, NY 10016 (212) 726-9161 rbray@gracelinks.org www.themeatrix.com

Mojados:Through the Night Davis Gang Films 1300 13th ST NW #407 Washington,DC.20005 (202) 489-7783 bushwhack@mac.com tdrand@mac.com www.mojadosmovie.com

Nomi Song,The Neal Block Palm Pictures 601 West 26th Street.,No.1150 New York,NY 10001 neal.block@palmpictures.com www.thenomisong.com

Obstinato:Making Music for Two The Old School,Ltd. 45 Pineapple Street Brooklyn,NY 11201 (718) 596-8186 Fandito@aol.com

Off to War Downtown Community Television Center

87 Lafayette St. New York,NY 10013 (212) 966-4510 craiglrenaud@yahoo.com brentrenaud@yahoo.com www.dctvny.org

Old Country

Kaeja d’Dance 734 Euclid Avenue Toronto,ON M6G 2V2 (416) 516-6030 k aeja@k aeja.org www.kaeja.org

Old Man and Hemingway,The M3OA Films

305 7th Street,#3R Brooklyn,NY 11215 (917)279-4846 hugo@aya.yale.edu

Ong Bak:The Thai WArrior Magnolia Pictures 115 West 27th Street.,8th Floor New York,NY 10001 (212) 924-6701 ext. 206 jreichert@magpictures.com www.magpictures.com

OUR MUSIC - NOTRE MUSIQUE Wellspring Media 212-686-6777 x164 rwerner@wellspring.com http://www.wildbunch.biz/homepage.cfm

p.s.

Newmarket Films 597 Fifth Avenue,7th floor New York, NY 10017 (212) 303.1700 www.newmarketfilms.com

Parallel Lines

Nina Davenport 56 7th Avenue,12C New York,New York (212) 924.0202 ninadavenport@earthlink.net www.parallellinesthemovie.com

Pink and pong

Alina Bliumis (917) 701 0149 alina_bliumis@yahoo.com www.ar tcast.org/alina

Pizza

InDigEnt

Emily Gardiner 135 West 26th Street,5th Fl. New York, NY 10001 (212) 929-7711 www.indigent.net

Plasticat

Simon Bogojevic-Narath lskorin@open.hr

The Point

Joanne Terrell Cohen and Cohen 740 N.La Brea Avenue Los Angles,CA.90038 (323) 938-5000

Poor God

Matthew Abbiss +44 207 590 4512 animation@rca.ac.uk matt@mabbiss.fsnet.co.uk

POPaganda

Pedro Carvajal (201) 659-7643 pedro2nd@hotmail.com www.popaganda.com

Potato Chip Tale,A Heidi Sjursen customheidi@yahoo.com

Power Pharm Adam Zaretsky Zareta@rpi.edu

Reality FLIP

54 Morton Street,Apt.1F New York,NY 10014 (212) 243-4691 steve@stevelippman.com www.stevelippman.com

Robots in “for no reason at all in C” Cathy Karol 2615 6th St apt M Santa Monica, CA 90405 (310) 396-4361 cathykarolc@aol.com

Ryan National Film Board of Canada 350 Fifth Avenue, Suite 4820 New York,NY 10118 (212)-629-8890 j.sirabella@nfb.ca

Sangam

Jiva Universal 7 West 18th Street,9th Floor New York,NY 10011 (917) 202-7727 info@sangam.tv www.sangam.tv

Savior (Bjargvaettur) Morning Moon Films (212) 749-0119 eskuladottir@nyc.rr.com,morningmoonfilms@hotmail.com

Scattered,Smothered,Covered Matthew Serrins 11 Rutledge Avenue Charleston,South Carolina 29401 (843) 853 5655 matthew_serrins@hotmail.com

School Board Blues

Willow Mixed Media,Inc PO Box 194 Glenford, New York 12433 (845) 657-2914 video@hvc.rr.com www.willowmixedmedia.org

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Screaming Men (Huutajat)

Finnish Film Foundation Mechelininkatu 40 Helsinki,Helsinki 250 +358 9 687 44980 anna.heiskanen@dofilms.fi info@dofilms.fi

Secret Honor

Matthew Seig mwseig@aol.com (914) 260-9568

Seventeen

Hisko Hulsing

Balistraat 42 -3 1094 JN Amsterdam The Netherlands +(31)20-6164745 contact@hiskohulsing.com www.hiskohulsing.com

Shake the Rain Light Circle Films,Llc PMB# 101,3980 Broadway,ste 103 Boulder,CO 80304 303-449-0738 LCFilms@earthlink.net

Shock and Awe

Chase Palmer 1578 Ponus Ridge New Canaan,CT 06840 (347) 512-5980 rivalpix@ear thlink.net

Shocking And Awful:A Grass Roots Response To War In Iraq

Deep Dish Tv Po Box 89 Willow, NY, 12495 (845) 679 2756 dhalleck@ucsd.edu www.deepdishtv.org

Soldiers Pay

Philippe Diaz Cinema Libre 818-349-8822.

Something for Henry People LLC

6346 Orange ST #5 Los Angeles,CA 90048 (310) 922 1931 ninatsai@aol.com

Speak SHOWTIME 1633 Broadway,17th Floor New York,NY 10019 (212) 708-1525 (212) 708-1217 (fax) jennifer.weiss@showtime.net www.showtime.net

Still,the Children are Here Mirabai Films 5 East 16th St New York,NY 10003 (646) 486 4386 dinazstafford@yahoo.com www.mirabaifilms.com

String

Watkins World Wide,Inc. 21 Conselyea Street Brooklyn,NY 11211 (718) 609-1043 watkinsworldwide@hotmail.com

Tango Octogenario

David Licata 75 West End Avenue,P7A New York,NY 10023 (212) 582-5022 david@bloodorangefilms.com www.bloodorangefilms.com

Tank Man,The (Tynnyrimies)

Art Films production AFP Viides Linja 3 A 35 Helsinki,Helsinki FIN-00530 +358 405006602 arto@artfilms.inet.fi www.artfilmsartohalonen.fi

Things Done Changed

HBO Young Filmmakers Lab 357 Ninth Street Brooklyn,NY 11215 (718) 768-7100 ext 139 jcwilliams1965@earthlink.net www.reel-stories.com

This is Not an End Jesper Fleng JA Film mail@jafilm.dk

Trollywood Houston King houston_king@hotmail.com

Twins

Falkland Road Inc.

37 Greene Street 4th Floor New York,NY 10013 (212) 925-2770 twins@falkland.com mlue@falkland.com www.falkland.com

Undertow

David Gordon Green United Artists (212) 708-0325 sfinmann@mgm.com www.unitedartists.com Unknown Soldier Ferenc Toth CL Productions,LLC E.83 Street,Suite 4B New York,NY 10028 (646)-337-5099 movie-info@ unknownsoldierfilm.com www.unknownsoldierfilm.com

Victim

Amy Lou Taylor 32 Raglan Road PO Box 763 Mount Lawley,WA 6050 Australia (618) 92281346 amy.lou@swiftdsl.com.au

Victoria Para Chino Cary Fukunaga PO Box 208 New York,NY 10014 (310) 266-2180 cjf241@nyu.edu

Virile Man, The Fortified P.O.Box 49554 Austin,TX 78765 (512) 323-9346 info@for tHQ.com www.fortHQ.com

When Things Get Confused (Wenn Die Dinge Durcheinander Geraten)

Keen Fate Productions Steindamm 21 20099 Hamburg - Germany +49 (40) 280 56 280 frevert@gmx.de

Who’s Your Daddy?

Eggwork Productions PO Box 18174 Rochester,NY 14618 (585) 473.4156 mehlers@eggwork.com www.eggwork.com

Witches in Exile Satellite Pictures,Inc. 27 East 13th Street,#3H New York,NY 10003 (212) 691.0223 llib3h@aol.com

Woodsman,The Newmarket Films 597 Fifth Avenue,7th floor New York,NY 10017 (212) 303 -1700 www.newmarketfilms.com

The World According to Bush Flach Film 12,rue Lincoln 75008 Paris France +33 (1) 56 69 38 38 +33 (1) 56 69 38 41 flachfilm@flachfilm.com www.flachfilm.com

Words of My Perfect Teacher ZIJI FILMS & TV LTD 1657 Barrington Street,Suite 422 Halifax,Nova Scotia B3J2A1 Canada distribution @ziji.ca

Wrigley

Patricia Ibanez 71 Carrollwood Drive Tarrytown,NY 10591 (917) 843-3002 pibanez02@aol.com www.wrigleythemovie.com

You Call This A Riot?

Becky Selinger 22 Lark Drive Woodstock, NY 12498 (845) 679-0710 thatsellingergrl@aol.com

Young Americans

Todd Smith 153 Lafayette Ave.,#4 Brooklyn,NY 11283 (646) 456-4045 countimbroglio@hotmail.com www.ulsterchamber.org

HOW TO GET HERE & THERE

BY AUTO:

The Woodstock Film Festivalis now a member of the Enterprise Rent-A-Car Corporate Class Program. This program offers discounted rates to visitors of The Woodstock Film Festival. Most importantly, Enterprise Rent-A-Car has 15 local offices in Hudson Valley, and will be happy to pick you up from any location when needed!

Reservations can be made on their award winning website by clicking here.Just type in our Corporate ID#-24H6506 and you can make a reservation anywhere in the country. Your three digit pin code is “THE” or call the National Reservation number at 1-800-593-0505 and give them our Corporate ID#-24H6506.

BY BUS

To Woodstock:Take Adirondack Trailways from Port Authority to Woodstock. This drops you off at the Village Green or you can ask to be let off at the Box Office/Hospitality center. For schedule, call Adirondack Trailways at 800-858-8555. Alternative stops incude Kingston and Phoenicia.

To Rhinebeck: Take the Shortline Bus from Port Authority to Rhinebeck. For Rhinebeck schedule call 800-631-8405.

To Hunter: Take Adirondack Trailways from Port Authority to Hunter. For schedule, call Adirondack Trailways at 800-858-8555.

BY TRAIN:

To Rhinecliff/Rhinebeck: Take the Empire Ser vice Line from Penn Station to RhinecliffKingston. Monday through Friday, the DUCK trolley transports visitors into Rhinebeck. Though on weekends, a cab is your best 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. Woodstock is a twenty minute drive from Rhinecliff

To Hunter: Take Amtrak from Penn Station to the Hudson stop, and rent a car from Enterprise Rent-A-Car, which will meet you at the train station.

For more infotoll free 800-USA-RAIL, or visit www.amtrak.com.

BY CAR to:

WOODSTOCK:

From NYC &

SOUTH

Take the NYS Thruway (Interstate 87) North to Exit 19 (Kingston). Head WEST on Rt. 28 toward Pine Hill. After 6 miles turn RIGHT at the light onto Rt. 375 and follow 3 miles into Woodstock!

From ALBANY & MASS PIKE

Take NYS Thruway (Interstate 87) South on I87 to Exit 20 (Saugerties/Woodstock). Turn LEFT onto Rt. 32, then RIGHT onto Rt. 212. Follow Rt. 212 for 9 miles into Woodstock.

The Tinker Street Cinema is located at 132 Tinker Street. The box office is located at the Woodstock Playhouse, at the corner of route 212 & 375. Other venues are located throughout the town.

RHINEBECK:

From Woodstock, Ulster County & west side of Hudson River: Take Rt. 375 towards Rt. 28. Turn LEFT onto Rt. 28. Merge onto US209 N toward Kingston-Rhinecliff Bridge. Go over the Kingston-Rhinecliff Bridge, continue straight to second traffic light. Turn right onto Route 9G. At first light turn right onto Route 9. Go straight into the center of Rhinebeck. Theater is at 6415 Montgomer y Street/Route 9 next to Foster’s Coach House Restaurant.

From South, also west side of Hudson: Go over the Mid-Hudson Bridge to Route 9 North. Go approx. 12 miles to center of Rhinebeck. Theater is north of traffic light at 6415 Montgomery Street/Route 9 next to Foster’s Coach House Restaurant, across from Rhinebeck Savings Bank.

From East (& the Taconic): Take Route 199 west. Bear left at the fork with the only traffic light. That’s Rt 308. Continue on 308 to village traffic light. Make a right onto Route 9. Theater will be on your left at 6415 Montgomery Street/Route 9, next to Foster’s Coach House Restaurant, across from Rhinebeck Savings Bank.

HUNTER:

*Bus transportation is available from 2-6 Mill Hill Rd., Woodstock to Main St. (Hunter Auto Repair), Hunter. (see “by bus” for more)

From Woodstock Toward Saugerties

Take Rt. 212 east to Rt. 32 north (stoplight intersection at Hess Service Station). Take a LEFT onto Rt. 32 north (towards NYS Thruway SOUTHBOUND entrance). Continue several miles to Rt. 32A north to Rt. 23A west, which will lead you directly onto the main street of the town of Hunter. The Catskill Mountain Foundation Theater is on the left.

From Woodstock Through Phoenicia

Take Rt. 212 west (bear right at Bearsville) to Mt. Tremper, then bear right towards Phoenicia. Pass thru Phoenicia and take a right onto Rt. 214. Continue a few miles until you come to Rt. 23A. Take a left and travel directly into Hunter as above.

From the South:

Take the NYS Thruway (Interstate 87) to Exit 20, Saugerties. Go left at the traffic light after the toll booth onto Rt. 212. After a quarter mile, turn right onto Route 32 North. After about 6 miles, bear left at the blinking yellow light ont Route 32A. After about 2 miles, at the traffic light, turn left onto Route 23A West. Go through the villages of Palenville, Haines Falls, and Tannersville to Hunter. Go almost a mile past the entrance to Hunter Mountain. Before the blinking yellow light, the movie theater is on the left and the Performing Arts Center (Red Barn) is on the right, set back from the road.

From the North:

Take Interstate 87 to Exit 21, Catskill. Get on Route 23 West and follow it toward Windham. Before entering the town of Windham, make a left on Route 296 south. At the end of 296, go left on Route 23A. After the blinking yellow light, the movie theater will be on the right and the red barn on the left, set back from the road.