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I NT RO D U C T I O N WELCOME TO THE 2012 WOODSTOCK FILM FESTIVAL Welcome to the 13th Woodstock Film Festival. As autumn arrives and the leaves turn from green to fiery orange, yellow, brown, red, so, too, do inspired and aspiring filmmakers turn their minds and lenses onto the ever changing political, environmental and social landscapes of our time. There are many diverse films at the festival this year, and many dedicated filmmakers have come Bingham Ray and Bob Berney to share their passion with us, some of whom have taken years of their lives to follow their dreams. Music of all genres is celebrated with films including Bad Brains: A Band in D.C. and David Bromberg Unsung Treasure; the family unit is examined and reconfigured in films such as Exit Elena, Arcadia, Dead Dad, and I am not a Hipster; and lovers discover sorrows and joy in films such as Sparrow’s Dance, Putzel and The Unlikely Girl. Here at the Woodstock Film Festival, we welcome the voices of change; those who dare to explore and challenge the norms with films like Chasing Ice, Dear Governor Cuomo, and Idle Threat, where environmental issues are tackled head on; Words of Witness and Dinner at the No-Gos, where global Ang Lee, James Schamus, Melissa Leo politics are questioned and explored; Virgin Tales, Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God, First Winter, The Mechanical Bride, and Nor’easter, where lifestyles and religion are looked at through a magnified lens; and, Apartment in Athens and Oma & Bella, where history is revisited. We celebrate them, spotlight them and invite you, the audience, to come and experience their life’s work. As the independent filmmaking community gathers at the Woodstock Film Festival, we welcome you to enjoy the fruit of their labor. Along with all the great films – features, documentaries and shorts – there are many exciting panels focusing on a variety of issues, from Film & Television to Reel to Real, and from Actors Dialogue to Music in Film. Come pull up a chair and catch up on the latest and most intriguing stories in the industry, as they all offer a crash course in their respective fields.

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And while you’re here experiencing the film festival, be sure to take in the natural beauty, art, culture, and cuisine that the Hudson Valley has to offer. Each town where the Woodstock Film Festival lives—Rhinebeck, Rosendale, Kingston, Saugerties, and Woodstock—has unique fares to be sampled and enjoyed. Visit the galleries and boutiques, rivers and trails, restaurants and cafes, and discover the Hudson Valley’s charm. The place we call home is truly one of the most treasured Meera Gandhi and Mark Ruffalo gems of New York State. We especially thank all the people who make the festival possible: staff and volunteers, sponsors and individual contributors, our board of directors and advisory board, filmmakers, industry members, and our community at large. We thank you all for your continuing support and wish you a wonderful festival. See you at the movies. Giancarlo Esposito

Meira Blaustein Co-Founder, Executive Director

BOARD OF DIRECTORS Lauri Andretta, Meira Blaustein, Eva Marie Graham, Stephen Hays, Tim Hutton, Ilene Marder, Laurent Rejto, Aida Wilder

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FESTIVAL SERVICES Meira Blaustein Laurent Rejto Nikki Goldbeck Michael Burke

Guest Relations Director Guest Relations

FESTIVAL PROGRAMMING Features & Documentaries Shorts Animation Youth Screening Screeners

Panels, Jury & Honorary Awards Additional Panels Music Coordinator

Meira Blaustein Laurent Rejto, Michael Burke Bill Plympton, Signe Baumane Michael Burke, Adam Rejto David Becker, Eddie Bennett, Michael Burke, Peter Donovan, Geri Gast, Nikki Goldbeck, Maria Marewski, Nick Kantranis, Barbara Pokras, A.C.E. Meira Blaustein Doreen Ringer-Ross (BMI), Peter Saraf Paul Green

FESTIVAL OPERATIONS Operations Director Operations Manager Volunteer Coordinator Art Department Exec Director Assistant Communication Services Print Trafficker Special Events Technical Director Technical-Projectionists Transportation Director Venue Directors Youth Initiative Coordinator Audience Award Coordinator Maverick Awards Coordinator Shorts Digital Prep Animated Trailer Interns

Michael Burke Bridget Dawson Julia Avery-Shapiro Stacey Anderson, Vincent DeBellis, Jeremiah Wenutu, Ken Herkes Chelsea McGinty Greg Carttar, Char Harner (3rd St R&D Production Services) Bridget Dawson Lauri Andretta, Donna Parisi Jeff Kantor (Canus Major Productions) Jim Dodge, Alex Donaldson, Dan Hartnett, Hunter Kelley, Rob Owens, Mojo Johnson Kevin Bell Michael Franklin, Christopher Washington David Nelsen Epstein, Onteora HS Andrew Emrich Michael Iannelli Chad Smith Joy & Noelle Vaccese (Twins Are Weird LLC) Based on poster art by Bill Miller Jett Amchin, Kim Andersen, Spencer Churchill, Alana Davis, Maisy Keller, Chandra Knotts, Joe Martindale, Heather Olin, Carolyn Rivas, Ashley Seymour, Peter Spengeman, Samantha Yellin

Registration Registration Coordinators Legal Counsel

Nikki Goldbeck Eddie Bennett, Gabrielle Kleinmann, Barbara Silver, Gail Nussbaum Tracy Cohen-Kamien, Sam Kandel Risa Kamien, Matt Kamien Richard J. Goldman, Esq.

SALES Box Office Manager Box Office Accounting Coordinator

Gideon Moor Joan Quigley, Adam Blaustein Rejto Wynn Eggleston

PUBLIC RELATIONS Press Consultant Deputy Press Director Press Assistants

David Archer (Archer Associates) Alana Davis Ashley Seymour, Samantha Yellin, Tina Gibbens-Tenneriello, Gabriel Meyers

Communications & Marketing Consultants Russell A. Howard, Gregory Brodsky Press & PR Adviser Ilene Marder Videography Gregory Bray, SUNY New Paltz Crew Photography Coordinator Casey Rosen Photographers John Mazlish, Trish Lease, David Cunnigham

Program Graphic Design Art Work Publication Editors Box Office Tech Website

Naomi Schmidt (Naomi Graphics) Bill Miller Nikki Goldbeck, Gideon Moor Diana Simonson Laurent Rejto

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Executive Director/Co-Founder Administrative Director/Co-Founder Deputy Director Office Manager

SITE MANAGEMENT Mountain View Studio Upstate Films Woodstock Utopia Studios Kleinert/James Art Center Rosendale Theatre Upstate Films Rhinebeck

Donna & Russell Parisi John Bilotti, Gerald Habib Richard Malvey, Trey Bondy Cherity Wicks, Charlene Boswell Amber Bauer Tiffany Joy Butler

ADDITIONAL SUPPORT Award Trophies

Steve Heller (Fabulous Furniture)

VOLUNTEERS (as of September 28) Barbara O’Brien Adelaide Simon Beth Weishaupt Abilgail Robin Bob Katz Alanna MacDonald Brandon Sawhill-Aja Alethea Petal Brendan Sheridan Alina Gonzalez Brett Gallio Allison Irwin Cappy Shapiro Ally Taveniere Carole Reyman Amy Reischer Catherine De Cesare Amy Silverman Chris Cutolo Amy Stevens Christine Beckles Andrew Cahill Claudia Rose Angela DeMarta Claudine Brenner Ann Byer Colette Perfit Anna Gallio Colleen Connors Anna Perkins Anne Coleman Johnson Conor Mullins Cookie Zucker Anne Gregson Corey Kelly Anthony Pambianchi Cynthia Garfunkel Apolline Bas Daniel Beaulieu Arman Zahedi Danielle Crofoot Ashlyn Gomez David Rosenberg Asia Hunt Debbie Burklund Barbara Cazakoff Deborah Adelman Barbara English

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Dena Roy Devin Caron Diane Silverberg Edie Monroy Elaine Sciolino Eleanor Minsky Elisif Brunn Eliza Kunkel Elizabeth Spencer Ellen Naney Emily Carragher Emily Waligurski Emma Hershinson Eric Sazer Erin Poll Ernst Nerstheimer Evan Ketchum Eve Bernhard Fern Revzin Frank Beresheim Frey Johnsson Gabriel Meyers Garland Berenzy Gary Harnischfeger

George Radel Julius Minsky Geri Ritchie Kalevi Ruuska Heidi Emrich Kathy Marie Ilene Cohen Katie Hayden Irene Edmond-Rosenberg Kelly Marsh Kelly Perry Jacqueline Gurgui Kevin Callahan Jamie Glass Krissy Rincon Jamie Goodrich Kristen DeHaan Jamie Tall Krysten Pollard JD Eiseman Laura Katz Jean Flood Leah-Carla Gordone Jean Hendrickson Jean-Michael Desjardins Leif Grund Leslie Yeaple Jeff Zeplowitz Lily Collins Jennifer Samuels Lisa Brennan Jeremy Schwartz Lisa McCombs John Currie Liz Menendez Jon Bodnar Liz Shapiro Jude McGrath Lois Dysard Judy Capuso Lora Ecobelli Judy Mathews Louise Luna Julie Hough Lynn Dennison Julie Nichols Maddie Smith-Spanier Julie Szabo

Maggie Bailey Maggie Green Marcia Albert Marcus Jones Margo Obourn Marijo Mallon Marina Marcello Mark DeCaro Mary Kate Mathews Matthew Barker Megan Nolan Meghan Hakim Meredith Stewart Michael Derr Michael Gaylin Michael Kennedy Mike McCabe Mokihana Pambianchi Nicole Whelan Noel Van Etten Norman Aaronson Pascal Wright Patricia Gallio Paula Silbey

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Steve Perfit Steven Gentile Stewart Smith Sue Edwards Sue Worthman Sunya Bhutta Susan Black Susan Edwards Susan Robins Tabitha Ronk Tamara Stafford Tara Ryan Tiffanie Delozier Toni Hedges Toni Helton Tony Hall Trev Stevens Tris Korol Violet Lasdun

T HA NK Y O U If we forgot to thank you, please forgive our oversight and know that your help and support is very much appreciated.

Special Thanks

Lauri Andretta Nikola Duravcevic & Dana Ben-Ari Silver Benefactor Eva Marie Graham Aida & Al Wilder David Ford Supporting Benefactor Nurith Spector-Shamis Friedrike Merck Daniel H. Schneider Esq. Robert L. Seigel Patron Benefactor Jeff and Marjory Bauml Reagan & John Bongiorno Patron Benefactor Joni Ellenson William Geary Joan Quigley Kerry Smith Friend Benefactor Fried Foundation Aviva & Charles Bachman Lorraine Bell Joyce Gelb Conan Gorenstein Lynn Holst Mark Weisdorf

Adam and Daniel Nancy & Steve Abrams John Amaroso Jay Andretta Andretta Foundation Judy Atwood Susan & Stewart Auchincloss Michael Babcock Mark Braunstein Dan Berger Ikutiel Blaustein Gail Bradney & Lowell Miller Josh Braun Greg Brodsky Gail Burbank & Kenny Cohen Crista & Delilah Burke Nancy & Pete Caigan Steve Cambron Anne & Matt Canzonetti Gary Chetkoff Joan Clancy Jay Cohen Colleen Cruikshank Claude dal Farra Diane Davis Brian S. Devine Evelyne Pouget & Mitch Ditkoff Heidi Emrich Sarah Fimm Judy Flynn

Adah Frank Lois Freeman Jacob & Monica Frydman March Gallagher Meera Gandhi Ruth Garbus Geri & Leon Gast Annemarie Gilly Mary & Ryan Giuliani Carol & David Gold David Goldbeck Harris Goldberg Dick Goldman, Esq. Karen & Rusty Goodman Lisa Gossels Michaela Graham Perry & Martin Granoff Rachelle Gura & Roger Green Jennifer Halpern Mariann Harrigfeld Bob Hausman Stephen Hays Robin Hayes County Executive Mike Hein Edwina & Marty Henderson Andrew Herwitz Gill Holland Richard & Amy Hutchings Judith Jamison

David Jarrett Doug Jones Tricia &Terry Jones Marti Ladd Matthew Leaycraft Amanda Lebow Dede Lieber Steve Lieber Erin Lowrey Cathy & Sam Magarelli Ron Mann Stuart Margolis & Vivian Hodges Doreen Marr Jim McCune Katharine Mckenna Sarah Mecklem Bill Miller Luc Moeys Bruce & Caralee Moor Chloe Moor Chris Neilson Russell Nelson Ric Orlando Marlyn Park Monique Paterel Nina Paturel Karen Pignataro Thomas Pignone Aidan Quinn Nick Rashby Leann & Neil Ratner Michele Rejto

Rhinebeck Chamber of Commerce Doreen Ringer-Ross Liz Rosen Rosendale Chamber of Commerce Billy Rothberg & Gail Miller Michael Ruger Peter Saraf Gianni Scappin Angela Schapiro Marvin Seligman YvonneSewall Ruskin Frank Spinelli Judy Steinfeld Jennifer Stott Ellen Sweeney Avis & Joe Toochin Bill Topazio Chris Wedge Shari Weingarten Erin Winters Woodstock Chamber of Commerce Bob Wyatt Laurie Ylvisaker Allen & Ellen Zerkin

Festival Passing The Torch Trailer Barbara Sicuranza BCDF Pictures (staff) Christopher Manza Claude Dal Farra Connor Kennedy Edward Crawford Greg Meola Hollis Gilstrap Jason Bowman Jason Downs Jeremy Jones Jesse Bongiorno Jordan Matthews Lisa Berger March Gallagher Mark Goldfarb Melissa Leo Patrick Neri Paul Green Russell Howard Stephen Snow Ulster County Development Corporation Yoel Eisenstadt Zach Miller

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advisory board Judy Arthur - Publicity/Consultant (Philadelphia, The Silence of the Lambs) Signe Baumane - Animator (Teat Beat of Sex, Birth, Rocks in My Pockets) Eamonn Bowles - President, Magnolia Pictures Robin Bronk - CEO of The Creative Coalition Claude Dal Farra - Producer BCDF Pictures (Higher Ground, Peace Love and Misunderstanding, Why Stop Now) Vincent D’Onofrio - Actor (Law and Order: Criminal Intent, Full Metal Jacket) Griffin Dunne - Director/Producer/Actor (After Hours, Fierce People) Martha Frankel - Entertainment Journalist/Author (Hats & Eyeglasses) Leon Gast - Filmmaker (Smash His Camera, When We Were Kings) Jonathan Gray - Senior partner at Gray Krauss Stratford Des Rochers LLP Ethan Hawke - Director/Actor (Brooklyn’s Finest, Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, Chelsea Walls, The Hottest State) Sabine Hoffman - Editor (The Dry Land, The Ballad of Jack and Rose, Brother to Brother, Personal Velocity) Gill Holland - Producer, The Group Entertainment (2nd Serve, Mariachi Gringo) Ted Hope - Producer (Adventureland, 21 Grams) Michael Lang - Producer/Promoter (1969, 1995, 1999 Woodstock Festival) Melissa Leo - Actor (The Fighter, Frozen River, Predisposed, 21 Grams) Stephen Nemeth - President of Rhino Films/ Producer (Climate Refugees, Fields of Fuel, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas) Jeremiah Newton - NYU Industry Liaison, Producer (Beautiful Darling) Annie Nocenti - Journalist/Screenwriter/Teacher, Cine Institute Ron Nyswaner - Screenwriter/Director (Prediposed, Philadelphia)

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Sarah Plant - Composer/Musician/Associative Music Director Bill Plympton - Animator (Guard Dog, Hot Dog, Summer Bummer) Aidan Quinn - Actor/Producer (Last Keepers, 32A, Dark Matter) Tom Quinn - Senior VP, Magnolia Pictures Peter Saraf - Producer, Executive Producer, Big Beach Productions (Our Idiot Brother, Little Miss Sunshine) Steve Savage - President/Co-founder, New Video and Docurama Liev Schreiber - Actor/Director (Salt, Taking Woodstock, The Painted Veil, Everything is Illuminated) Lori Singer -

Golden Globe winning star of film and TV (Footloose, Shortcuts, Fame)

Zachary Sklar - Screenwriter (JFK) John Sloss - Attorney/Producer, Sloss Law & Cinetic Media (I’m Not There, Pieces of April, Far From Heaven) Fisher Stevens - Founding Partner, Greene Street Films, Actor/Producer/Director (Awake, Pinero, The Cove) David Strathairn - Actor (Cold Souls, Good Night and Good Luck) Lemore Syvan - Producer, Elevation Filmworks (Henry’s Crime, The Ballad of Jack and Rose)

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about wff Year-Round Programming The Woodstock Film Festival (WFF) and the Hudson Valley Programmers Group (HVPG) are committed to providing the Hudson Valley with year-round programming, offering screenings and events from New York City to the Capital Region and beyond.

The Woodstock Film Festival celebrates emerging and established voices in independent film with screenings, panels and concerts throughout the MidHudson Valley.

January found WFF and HVFC at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah where they hosted a brunch for industry members in conjunction with 120dB Films and the NY Governors Office of Motion Picture and TV Development.

The festival is centered in the historic arts colony of Woodstock, New York with additional events and screenings taking place in the nearby towns of Rhinebeck, Rosendale, Boiceville, Saugerties, and Kingston.

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As a not-for-profit, 501(c)(3) organization, Woodstock Film Festival’s mission is to present an annual program and year-round schedule of film, music and art-related activities that promote artists and culture and inspire learning and diversity. The Hudson Valley Film Commission promotes sustainable economic development by attracting and supporting film, video and media production.

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Every fall, film and music lovers from around the world gather in Woodstock for an exhilarating variety of films, concerts, celebrity-led seminars, workshops, an awards ceremony, and superlative parties. Visitors find themselves in a relaxed, receptive atmosphere surrounded by some of the most beautiful landscapes in the world.

HVFC at SXSW

In March, HVFC attended the SXSW conference in Austin, Texas to spread the word about the Hudson Valley and to attend the world premiere of In Our Nature and US premiere of Francine— two films that were produced locally. In April, WFF held its annual Soho house benefit in New York City with a special screening of Peace, Love and Misunderstanding courtesy of IFC Films. Producer Claude dal Farra of BCDF pictures, writers Joseph Muszynski and Christina Mengert, and co-star Nat Wolff were in attendance. In May, the Woodstock Film Festival traveled across the pond for the Cannes Film Festival and to London to present special screenings of Coming Up Roses, directed by Lisa Albright, and Dolphin Boy, directed by Yonatan Nir and Dani Menkin. Both films were presented in conjunction with i-D magazine and Diesel UK at the Curzon at Mayfair in London.

Soho House, NYC

The range of films presented includes feature narratives, documentaries and shorts, many of which are premieres from the U.S and abroad. Filmmakers often attend and follow up screenings with Q&As. Each year the festival presents films in the categories of: Exposure, Films of the Hudson Valley, Focus on Music, World Cinema and Youth Screenings. Dolphin Boy screening in UK

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Coming Up Roses screening in UK

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Inside The Perfect Circle

In July, WFF hosted the Second Annual Spirit of Woodstock Celebration, honoring Congressman Maurice Hinchey for his 38 years of service to the Hudson Valley. The award was presented by actor Aidan Quinn and hand-crafted by local artisan Steve Heller of Fabulous Furniture. In August, the Hudson Valley Programmers Group presented Inside the Perfect Circle, a documentary featuring world-renowned composer and conductor Joe Thome. Screenings in Rosendale and Woodstock were followed by Q&A sessions with Thome. The Rosendale screening also featured a short musical performance and reception. Screenings were hosted by The Rosendale Theatre and Upstate Films Woodstock.

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In June, WFF hosted the East Coast premiere of Why Stop Now, starring Academy Award® winner Melissa Leo, Academy Award® nominee Jesse Eisenberg, and Tracy Morgan. The film, which was produced by BCDF Pictures, was written and directed by Woodstock native and one-time WFF volunteer Phil Dorling and WFF advisory board member Ron Nyswaner. The screening was presented in conjunction with the Byrdcliffe Festival of the Arts.

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In August, actor Paul Dano and director So Yong Kim were at Upstate Films Woodstock for a special WFF screening of For Ellen. The film, starring Dano, Jon Heder and Jena Malone, tells the story of a musician fighting for custody of his young daughter. It was presented courtesy of Tribeca Films.

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Programming at the Woodstock Film Festival seeks to encourage those who use film to explore social, environmental and political themes while challenging their inherent boundaries.

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The Hudson Valley and Catskills have been a hotbed of creative energy for over a century. In addition to attracting production talent from around the world, the region is home to many established and emerging filmmakers.

Focus on Music showcases films about music and musicians, while actively exploring music’s role in film. Many of the films emphasize how music can be a powerful tool for expression and conflict resolution.

As technology makes our world seem smaller and increasingly accessible, we are presented with the opportunity to expand our global consciousness.

This year’s Exposure Program represents the very core of our mission. We are proud to present a line-up of films that represent the myriad of challenges our world faces in these precarious times, the voices of our diverse planet, and the heroes who dedicate themselves to making a difference as they refuse to just accept the status quo.

Additional programming, including panels and year-round events, cover a broad range of socioeconomic and political topics. Select participants have included Mark Ruffalo, Jon Bowermaster, Woody Harrelson, Tim Robbins, Peter Gabriel, Barbara Kopple, Arlo Guthrie, Haskell Wexler, Albert Maysles, Christine Vachon, and many others.

The 2012 WFF schedule will feature many local films including the feature films First Winter, Francine and Rhymes with Banana, and the short films Blood Country, Gaga’s Boy Toy, Glory Days, The Hidden, In Our Nature, Meet Kevin, My Pain is Worse Than Your Pain, Over and Around the Clove, Persephone, Seamus, and The Symbol of Peace.

Look for the logo in the program, which indicates if a film was shot regionally.

The BMI Music Panel and concerts also play a major part of Focus on Music programming. Participants over the years have included Pine Top Perkins, Donovan, Levon Helm, Bernie Worrell, Bela Fleck and Edgar Meyer, Mike Gordon and Trey Anastasio of Phish, Kate Pierson, Arlo Guthrie, Peter Rowan, Marshall Crenshaw, Duncan Sheik, Rahat

Film remains an ideal vehicle for such expression, offering audiences the scenery, sounds, and personalities of faraway places. 2012 films will feature films and guests from many countries including Austria, Denmark, France, Germany, Iran, Italy, Mexico, Peru, Philippines, Russia, and Spain.

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, and many others. 2012 Focus on Music feature films include Bad Brains: A Band in D.C., CHarles Bradley: Soul of America, David Bromberg Unsung Treasure, Magical Mystery Tour, Mariachi Gringo, Once in a Lullaby, Strutter. 2012 music videos feature songs from Sigur Ros, Arrested Development and Norah Jones, among many others.

WFF is proud to present the World Cinema program to further our commitment to sharing experiences across continents. World Cinema feature film highlights for 2012 include Apartment in Athens, Rolan Makes Movies, The Compass is Carried by the Dead Man, The World’s Finest Chef, among others.

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Join us October 10-14, 2012, then come back to shoot your next film in the beautiful Hudson Valley/Catskills.

The Hudson Valley Film Commission (HVFC) creates JOBS and sustainable economic development by attracting, supporting and promoting local film, video and media production in the Hudson Valley/Catskills.

• The Bourne Legacy Directed by Tony Gilroy • Keep the Lights On Directed by Ira Sachs • Rhymes With Banana Directed by Joe Muszinski & Peter Hutchings • First Winter Directed by Benjamin Dickinson • In Our Nature Directed by Brian Savelson • Our Idiot Brother Directed by Jesse Peretz • Francine Directed by Brian Cassidy & Melanie Schatzky • Martha Marcy May Marlene Directed by Sean Durkin • The Last Keepers Directed by Maggie Greenwald • Peace, Love, & Misunderstanding Directed by Bruce Beresford • Higher Ground Directed by Vera Farmiga • Stakeland Directed by Jim Mickle • American Gangster Directed by Ridley Scott • Taking Woodstock Directed by Ang Lee • Michael Clayton Directed by Tony Gilroy • War of the Worlds Directed by Steven Spielberg

Conservative estimates indicate that 2012 projects will create more than

$10 million in regional revenue. Production spending includes hiring local crews, cast members, extras, lodging, car & truck rentals, locations, catering, production supplies, equipment, administrative facilities, post production offices ,and a variety of other expenditures. In addition to professional crews and exceptional actors, the Hudson Valley offers many post production facilities and 9 New York State qualified film production facilities including: •Backstage Studio Productions •Basilica Hudson •Newburgh Armory Unity Center •SPAF Studios •Tech City Properties •Umbra of Newburgh Stage.

Feature Films Deep Powder by Mo Ogrodnik Doomsdays by Edmund Mullins Dovid Meyer by Moshe Mones 3 Katie Fforde movies for ZDF German TV We Are What We Are by Jim Mickle Short films I Believe in Unicorns by Leah Meyerhoff In My Skin My Pain is Worse than Your Pain by Adam Hall Potter’s Field Promise Land for Future States The Scholarship

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M av e r ic k A wa r d /mav·er·ick / 1. Being independent in thought and action or exhibiting such independence. 2. One who refuses to abide by the dictates of a group.

JONATHAN DEMME

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During his 40 years of filmmaking, Jonathan Demme has had a profound impact on audiences with works so diverse it is astonishing that the same director envisioned and created them. He is known to some people for such narrative masterpieces as Silence of the Lambs, Melvin and Howard, Swing Shift, Something Wild, Swimming to Cambodia, Philadelphia, and Beloved. But he is equally recognized as a documentarian, giving voice to many unsung people and momentous issues with such films as Cousin Bobby, The Agronomist, Jimmy Carter Man from Plains, and I’m Carolyn Parker, which chronicled the life of Parker and her family as they rebuilt their lives after Hurricane Katrina devastated their community and home in the Lower Ninth Ward. His upcoming films, The House at Lovestrand and three New Orleans portrait documentaries continue Demme’s commitment to champion the unacknowledged. Anyone who follows music undoubtedly knows Demme for his phenomenal feature-length music films, including Stop Making Sense (which got people up and dancing in the aisles of theaters), Storefront Hitchcock, Neil Young: Heart of Gold, The Neil Young Trunk Show, and most recently Enzo Avitabile Music Life, which chronicles the career of the incomparable Italian saxophonist, singer-songwriter who plays a fusion of world music and jazz that is mesmerizing. This glimpse at his career, spanning four decades, clearly illuminates what makes Demme the Woodstock Film Festival 2012 choice for the Maverick Award. He courageously tackles challenging and controversial subjects; and in doing so, whether he is portraying Anthony Hopkins as the terrifying Hannibal Lecter or Tom Hanks as an early victim of AIDS, his characters emerge with unusual depth and humanity. What’s more, his stories are not only thoughtful, they are as equally absorbing and entertaining. Demme began his film career not behind the lens, but as a film critic, eventually graduating to public relations, until 1970, when he met Roger Corman, mentor to many brilliant filmmakers. Demme has previously participated in the Woodstock Film Festival as a panelist and as a filmmaker. It is our great honor this year to have him here to receive our most prestigious Maverick Award and to acknowledge a dedicated director who has demonstrated an unparalleled passion for art, music and culture, along with a commitment to social awareness and justice.

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TRIBUTE BINGHAM RAY With the arrival of the 13th annual Woodstock Film Festival, we take a moment to remember a dear friend and colleague. Bingham Ray, co-founder of October Films and former president of United Artists, was a leading force in independent films for over two decades. He was also an advisory board member and longtime friend of the Woodstock Film Festival. With great sadness, we offer this tribute to Ray, who died this winter while attending the Sundance Film Festival. He was 57. In November 2011, Ray was named executive director of the San Francisco Film Society and was about to begin a new adventure in his already adventurous life. “We lost a true warrior for independent voice with the passing of Bingham Ray,” noted Sundance founder Robert Redford. “He is responsible for mentoring countless seminal storytellers and bringing their work to the world.” Bingham (or the Bing as many called him) was a pioneer. He saw the potential in the tiny, independent, unrepresented filmmakers when no one else could. Ray claimed that he got his start from his father, who taught him to love movies while still in elementary school: His reward for finishing his homework was being allowed to watch movies on TV with his dad. A onetime manager and programmer at the Bleecker Street Cinema in New York, Ray co-founded October Films in 1991 with Jeff Lipsky in Lipsky’s garage in Sherman Oaks, CA. Six months after their first release, Mike Leigh’s Life Is Sweet, the company opened its doors in New York City. Ray served as co-president until the company’s sale in 1999. During his years with October Films, Ray distributed such films as Leigh’s Secrets & Lies, Lars von Trier’s Breaking the Waves, John Dahl’s The Last Seduction, Robert Duvall’s The Apostle, David Lynch’s Lost Highway, Robert Altman’s Cookie’s Fortune, and Jim Jarmusch’s The Year of the Horse. “He was beloved by the filmmakers he worked with and very dedicated to preserving their vision in bringing their films to the marketplace,” noted John Schmidt, one of Ray’s former partners in October Films. Soon after leaving October Films in 1999, Ray was named president of United Artists. Among the films acquired and/or produced during Ray’s tenure at UA are Michael Moore’s Bowling for Columbine, Danis Tanovic’s No Man’s Land, Nicholas Nickleby, Jeepers Creepers and its sequel, and Peter Hedges’ Pieces of April. Ray joined Sidney Kimmel Entertainment in 2007, and over the next three years presided over its distribution and creative affairs. Before being named executive director of the San Francisco Film Society in 2011, he served as programming consultant to the Film Society of Lincoln Center, executive consultant to the digital distribution company SnagFilms, and adjunct professor at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. One of his closest friends and colleagues, Richard Abramowitz, stated, “Bingham was a rare, larger-than-life character who was also a thoughtful, caring man. Those of us who called him a close friend - and there are many - miss him every day.” Here at the WFF, his loss is felt as keenly as anywhere. Bingham Ray played an active role in our program every year and supported the independent spirit of this festival in every way. Thank you, Bingham, for everything you’ve done. We will never forget you.

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awards MEERA GANDHI GIVING BACK AWARD Meera Gandhi is a humanitarian, mother, businesswoman and diplomat who was born in Mumbai, India. She created the Giving Back Foundation, whose beneficiaries are carefully selected charities and individuals around the world, with a special emphasis on women and children in need. The Foundation also exists to act as a platform for debate and discussion of philanthropy. The Meera Gandhi Giving Back Award is presented annually to a director, producer or actor who best delivers a message of social change. This partnership between the Woodstock Film Festival and The Giving Back Foundation demonstrates the commitment that both organizations have in support of humanitarian efforts through the art of film.

MAVERICK AWARD FOR BEST NARRATIVE FEATURE Sponsored by gigantic pictures The Maverick Award sponsored by Gigantic Pictures recognizes the director of the jury’s choice for best feature narrative.

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Maverick AWARD FOR BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE Sponsored by FILMS WE LIKE The Maverick Award sponsored by Films We Like recognizes the director of the jury’s choice for best documentary feature. Films We Like is a Canadian distribution company, founded in 2003 by award-winning documentary filmmaker Ron Mann. Nine years and over 162 films later, Films We Like has established itself as a boutique distributor of alternative entertainment. Current releases include Tabu by Miguel Gomes and Marina Abramovic: The Artist is Present by Matthew Akers. Awards photo: Kelly Marsh

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awards HASKELL WEXLER AWARD FOR BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY The Woodstock Film Festival HASKELL WEXLER AWARD FOR BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY, with support from Panavision, provides $15,000 worth of film camera equipment rentals to the winner of this esteemed award. Panavision is the leading designer, manufacturer and supplier of high precision camera systems, comprised of cameras, lenses and accessories for the motion picture, television series and television commercial markets in North America, Europe and the Asia Pacific region. The Haskell Wexler Award for Best Cinematography is selected by Haskell Wexler, A.S.C. (Bound for Glory, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Coming Home, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolfe, The Secret of Roan Inish). Wexler is a five-time Academy Award® nominee and the recipient of a star on Hollywood’s Walk of Fame.

TECHNICOLOR POSTWORKS NY Editing awards The TECHNICOLOR POSTWORKS NY EDITING AWARD is presented for Best Feature Narrative, Best Feature Documentary and Best Short Documentary. The narrative jury is made up of Sarah Flack, A.C.E., Sabine Hoffman, A.C.E., and Bill Pankow, A.C.E. The documentary editing jury consists of Bob Eisnhardt, A.C.E, Sabine Hoffman, A.C.E., and Michael Taylor.

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THE DIANE SELIGMAN AWARDS The Woodstock Film Festival and sponsor Lowel Light continues to reward, support and encourage the next generation of inspired filmmakers with annual cash/in-kind awards for Best Short Narrative, Best Short Doc and Best Student Short in honor of Diane Seligman, a very loving person who celebrated life in the way she lived. THE DIANE SELIGMAN AWARD is presented to films that are vibrant, life affirming, creative and passionate. Diane Seligman was a beautiful and giving person who touched and inspired all who knew her. As a teenager in the 1960’s, she was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s disease and was the lone survivor in a large experimental treatment group. Against the odds and medical advice, she gave life to and raised a son and a daughter. She passed away on February 27, 2004, from respiratory complications caused by the radiation that had originally helped to save her. Diane lived in the moment, in the flow, in harmony with the life force and source, with grace and dignity. She was grateful for every day.

THE BLUE SKY STUDIOS Animation Award THE BLUE SKY STUDIOS ANIMATION AWARD is presented for Best Animated Short. The winner receives a cash award and trophy, courtesy of Blue Sky Studios. The pioneering Blue Sky Studios has produced such animation megahits such as Ice Age, Robots and Rio.

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Lori Singer is a Golden Globe-winning star of film and television. She has starred in such films as Footloose, Short Cuts, Falcon and the Snowman, and Trouble in Mind and was one of the Lori Singer original leads of the hit television show Fame, to name a few. Singer is a Juilliard graduate and is honored to be a part of the Woodstock Film Festival. | Thelma Adams is the contributing editor Thelma Adams at Yahoo! Movies. Her debut novel Playdate, an O magazine pick, was published by St. Martin’s Press in January 2011 and came out in paperback in March 2012. Adams was the film critic at Us Weekly from Gary Springer 2000-2011, following six years at the New York Post. She has twice chaired the New York Film Critics Circle, where she has been a member since 1995. | Gary Springer is an entertainment publicist representing film, theatre and events. In film, his company, Springer Associates PR, represents independent and foreign films at festivals and for release, as well as serving as sales and distribution consultant. He is a voting member in the acting branch of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences, a member of the Television Academy of Arts & Sciences, and was a founding Board member of The Creative Coalition.

Jedd Wider Emmy Award winning producer Jedd Wider formed Wider Film Projects with his brother Todd to develop projects with social and political resonance, producing numerous critically and commercially successful feature documentaries including Oscar Barbara Kopple Rachel Grady Jedd Wider winner Taxi to the Dark Side (2007) and Semper Fi: Always Faithful (2011). They also produced Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God and the short documentary King’s Point for HBO, both screening at WFF 2012. | Barbara Kopple is the two-time Academy Award®-winning director and producer of Harlan County, USA and American Dream. Her most recent projects are Fight to Live, a documentary about the United States’ drug approval and development system, and A Force of Nature, a film about journalist and philanthropist Ellen Ratner, which screened at last year’s Woodstock Film Festival. She is currently in post production on a documentary about actress Mariel Hemingway. | Rachel Grady, along with partner Heidi Ewing, has been lauded for gaining unprecedented access into unknown worlds and taking an intimate approach to their subject matter. In 2007, Grady and Ewing were nominated for an Oscar for Jesus Camp. Their new film DETROPIA is a cinematic tapestry that looks at Detroit as America’s “canary in the coal mine.” Their 2010 film 12th & Delaware also received a Peabody Award.

All trophies are handcrafted by Steve Heller, a self-taught artist who works in wood, found metal and Cadillacs from the 1950s. He shows at his Fabulous Furniture gallery (www. fabulousfurnitureon28. com) in Boiceville, NY. Handcrafted trophies and prizes are awarded for Best Feature Narrative, Best Feature Documentary, Best Short Documentary, Best Short, and Best Student Short. Other awards are presented for best cinematography, animation and editing. In addition, audience awards for Best Feature, Narrative and Best Feature Documentary will be presented.

student shorts JURY Jonathan Gray is an advocate for directors, producers, production companies, screenwriters, investors, and distributors in film, television and other media. He is senior partner at Gray Krauss Stratford Des Rochers LLP, the former chairperson of the NY Jonathan Gray Marie Therese Guirgis Amy Gossels State Bar Association Committee on Motion Pictures, and a frequent lecturer at Columbia University, NYU and the School of Visual Arts. Gray is also an award-winning independent film producer. | Marie Therese Guirgis is a talent manager and producer in New York City representing film directors. She is a producer of Julia Loktev’s The Loneliest Planet and Ira Sachs’s Keep The Lights On and executive producer of Tarnation and Unknown White Male. She is a development, marketing and distribution consultant for MPI, and was Senior Vice President of Wellspring. | Amy Gossels has been the casting director, and often producer, for more than 70 film productions. Feature film credits include Something’s Gotta Give, Godsend, Milk & Honey, and Visitors, the latest Godfrey Reggio/Philip Glass collaboration. Gossels has also cast and produced dozens of award-winning shorts, including Academy Award® winner Zen and the Art of Landscaping. TV credits include NBC’s Celebrity Apprentice, Comedy Central’s Night of Too Many Stars starring Jon Stewart and the upcoming series American Caravan from Academy Award®-winning producer Jerome Gary.

student shorts JURY Timothy Hutton won an Academy Award®, a Golden Globe and Los Angeles Film Critic’s award for his performance in Ordinary People. He went on to star in numerous films, including Taps, Daniel, Falcon and the Snowman, The Good Shepherd, and The Ghost Writer. Timothy Hutton Matt Parker Matt Brian Devine He is currently starring on the fifth season of the TNT drama Leverage. | Matt Parker was born and raised in Nashville, Tennessee, where his love of film began with his weekly Sunday trip to the movies with his dad. He co-produced Beasts of the Southern Wild and Bachelorette, and was also selected in 2012 to attend the Producer’s Lab at the IFFR in 2012. He was a producer of Ma George (Post), Higher Ground (Sundance ‘11), and The Last Keepers (Post). | Brian Devine is a longtime producer, sometime director and founder of Gigantic Pictures, a NYC indie production bastion since 1996. Devine is also a lifelong musician, sometimes band member, founder of indie rock upstart Gigantic Music, and owner of Gigantic Studios, a state-of-the-art post production studio in NYC.

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Steve Savage launched New Video as an independent DVD distributor in 1991 with Susan Margolin. Today, the company is the largest digital content aggregator worldwide, with a library of more than 3,500 feature films and 6,000 television shows. In April 2012, Cinedigm Digital Cinema acquired New Video and appointed Savage and Margolin co-presidents of Cinedigm Entertainment Group (CEG), a distributor Steve Savage Todd Wider of award-winning independent films and alternative content. | Emmy Award-winning producer Todd Wider formed Wider Film Projects, with his brother Jedd, to develop films that have social and political resonance. They produced the Oscarwinning Taxi to the Dark Side, Kicking It, What Would Jesus Buy?, Beyond Conviction, A Dream in Doubt, Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer, Semper Fi: Always Faithful, and Mea Maxima Culpa: Isil Bagdadi Lisa Gossels Silence in the House of God for HBO, and the short documentary King’s Point for HBO. | Isil Bagdadi is co-founder/ president of distribution, CAVU Pictures. Bagdadi is an indie film producer, distributor, publicist, programmer, and marketing consultant. In 2001, she and business partner Michael Sergio started CAVU Pictures to produce and distribute cutting-edge, critically acclaimed and award-winning independent films. Bagdadi oversees all of CAVU’s distribution campaigns. | Lisa Gossels is an Emmy Award-winning social issue documentarian whose films The Children of Chabannes and My So-Called Enemy (WFF 2010) have garnered 20 awards on the festival circuit. A teacher at heart, Gossels is traveling around the country with both documentaries. Her Manhattan-based company, Good Egg Productions, also produces corporate and educational films.

Signe Baumane has produced, written, directed and designed numerous animated shorts. She is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and is Signe Baumane a Fellow in Film with NYFA. She advises for film festivals’ animation programs and curates special animation shows, which she personally presents. | Bill Plympton was nominated for an Oscar for his short Your Face. He Bill Plympton has made eight feature films, including Idiots and Angels. In 2005, he received another Oscar nomination for Guard Dog. He is the subject of a documentary that screened at WFF 2011.

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Sarah Flack, A.C.E., edited Sofia Coppola’s last four films, including Lost in Translation, for which she won a Bafta. Last year she won an Emmy and an Eddie for the HBO film Cinema Verite. She edited Steven Soderbergh’s The Limey, Schizopolis, and Full Sarah Flack Sabine Hoffman Bill Pankow Frontal, years after first working for him as a P.A. in Prague on Kafka. She graduated from Brown University with a B.A. in Political Science and Semiotics/ Film. | Sabine Hoffman, A.C.E. has edited narrative films and documentaries for 20 years. Credits include Rebecca Miller’s The Private Lives of Pippa Lee, The Ballad of Jack and Rose, and Personal Velocity, as well as Rodney Evan’s multi award-winning Brother to Brother and his upcoming The Happy Sad, Ryan Piers Williams’ The Dry Land, and William Jennings’ Harlem Aria. Documentary credits include Katja Esson’s Oscar-nominated Ferry Tales and The Party is Over. She is also an Adjunct Professor at Columbia University. | Bill Pankow, A.C.E. has edited more than 40 feature films, ten for director Brian De Palma, including The Untouchables, Carlito’s Way and Femme Fatale, and the 10 Cesar Awards-nominated Mesrine, directed by Jean Francois Richet. His work on the Emmy Award winning HBO series The Corner, directed by Charles Dutton, brought him an A.C.E. Eddie award nominaton, as well. His current projects include Greetings From Tim Buckley for director Dan Algrant, and The East for director Zal Batmanglij. He is also an adjunct professor at the NYU Kanbar Institute of Film and Television.

CINEMATOGRAPHY Two-time Academy Award®-winning cinematographer Haskell Wexler is one of the most influential cinematographers in movie history. He won his Oscars in both black and white and color for Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) and Bound for Glory (1976). In 1993, Wexler was awarded a Lifetime Achievement award by the American Society of Cinematographers. He received five Oscar nominations for his cinematography, in total, plus one Emmy Award in a career that has spanned six decades. His other films include One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, The Secret of Roan Inish and Coming Home. He has a star on Hollywood’s Walk of Fame.

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Bob Eisnhardt, A.C.E. is a three-time Emmy Award winner and Oscar nominee. Most recently he edited Wagner’s Dream, which follows the creation of the Bob Eisnhardt Metropolitan Opera’s controversial new Ring Cycle. Among other films he has edited are Valentino: The Last Emperor and Living Emergency: Stories Of Doctors Without Borders, both of which premiered at The Venice Michael Taylor Film Festival, and Dixie Chicks: Shut Up & Sing, a Gala Selection at the Toronto Film Festival that screened at WFF 2006. | Sabine Hoffman (See Editing Jury-Narrative) | Michael Taylor’s documentary editing credits include Margaret Brown’s Peabody Award-winning The Order of Myths, Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady’s segment of Freakonomics, and Mitch McCabe’s Youth Knows No Pain. His narrative credits include Julia Loktev’s The Loneliest Planet and Day Night Day Night, Rick Alverson’s The Comedy, Bryan Wizemann’s Think of Me, and Michael Walker’s Price Check.

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Directed by Tim Kirkman USA / 2012 / 89 minutes Main Credits Cast

Josh Hopkins Alexie Gilmore Cameron Monaghan Sam McMurray Dash Mihok Executive Producer Jay Thames Producer Gill Holland Screenwriter James Markert Cinematographer Gabe Mayhan Production Designer James Wise Editors Sabine Hoffmann Gabriel Wrye Sound Designer Erick Jolley Composer/Music Nyles Lannon

Owen “Game Set” Match (Josh Hopkins) is one of the best tennis pros around. He coasts through life while working at the affluent Fountain Club, until his bad decisions lead to him being fired by his boss and high school tennis nemesis Charles (Dash Mihok). Taking a job at the much less fancy public club, Derby City, Owen is reunited with his former trainer, the relentlessly intense Coach Bussey (Sam McMurray). The club’s manager, Sherry (Alexie Gilmore), is wary of her new hire, but comes around when she sees how well Owen gets along with her misfit son, Jake. Wanting to settle the score with Charles and the rest of his Fountain Club rivals, Owen enters a ragtag group of tennis pros from Derby City into the Combo Cup to decide once and for all which club is the best. –Heather Olin Tim Kirkman was born in Monroe, North Carolina. He received a bachelor’s

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University and a master’s degree in media studies from The New School in New York City. He has directed four feature films - Dear Jesse, The Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me, Loggerheads, and 2nd Serve.

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419 Main Credits Cast

Mike Ivers Scott Kerns Ned Thorne Emilea Wilson Cara Loften Ezra Mabengeza

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Stephen Hays Anthony Moody

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Ned Thorne

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Ned Thorne Stephen Hays

Cinematographer

Ned Thorne

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Ned Thorne

Sound Designer

Kevin Wilson

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Gingger Shankar Samuel Joseph Smythe

Ned Thorne’s directorial debut is a documentary-style narrative that gives a raw look at what a man will do when he feels he has nothing left to lose. A struggling American actor (Mike Ivers) invests everything he has in what turns out to be a South African-based Internet scam. Taking an untraditional route to help him come to terms with the ordeal, his two best friends decide to bring him back to Cape Town to pursue the thief. Their journey leads them into the underworld of the city, where corruption and self-preservation seem to motivate everyone’s decisions. Searching restaurants, bars, townships and Internet cafés, the trio leave no stone unturned in their quest for the truth. The bonds of their friendship are tested when those they trust fall under suspicion and their personal and professional lives start to crumble around them. 419 will keep you on the edge of your seat and have you talking long after the credits roll. – Heather Olin

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Directed by Ned Thorne USA / 2012 / 90 minutes

Ned Thorne has been making films since childhood. He currently lives and works

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Any Day Now F E A t u r es

Directed by Travis Fine USA / 2012 / 98 minutes Main Credits Cast

Alan Cumming Garret Dillahunt Isaac Leyva Frances Fisher Gregg Henry Kelli Williams Don Franklin Executive Producers Anne O’Shea Maxine Makover Wayne LaRue Smith Dan Skahen Producers Travis Fine Kristine Hostetter Fine Chip Hourihan Liam Finn Screenwriters Travis Fine George Arthur Bloom Cinematographer Rachel Morrison Production Designer Elizabeth Garner Editor Tom Cross Sound Designer Scott Gershin Composer/Music Joey Newman

Set in the 1970s, Travis Fine’s Any Day Now explores the unique struggles of a gay couple as they fight both prejudice and the law for custody of a junkie neighbor’s neglected and abandoned son. Drag performer Rudy and district attorney Paul have only just met, yet are confident in their love for one another as well as their love and ability to care for Marco, a 14-year old boy with Down Syndrome who faces a future of foster care after his mother’s arrest. Despite Marco’s happiness, the new family is ripped apart when authorities find the two gay men as unfit caretakers for the abused teen. Any Day Now follows the intimate development of not just Rudy and Paul’s relationship with one another but the development of their love for a son that is being torn from their grasp. – Chandra L. Knotts In the midst of a successful acting, writing and directing career, Travis Fine

BIO abruptly left the entertainment business in 2001. Deeply affected by the events of September 11th and seeking a more fulfilling pursuit of his artistic endeavors, he enrolled in flight school and forged a new path as a screenwriting airline pilot. While Travis was in the flight deck of a commercial airliner on autopilot at 36,000 feet, he developed the idea for his screenplay The Space Between, the story of a hardened flight attendant and an unaccompanied minor who connect amidst the chaos of September 11. Starring Academy Award-winning actress Melissa Leo, The Space Between had its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival and aired on the USA Network on the 10th anniversary of 9/11.

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East Coast P re mi e r e

Directed by Ruggero Dipaola Italy / 2011 / 95 minutes In Greek and German with subtitles

Main Credits Cast

Laura Morante Richard Sammel Gerasimos Skiadaresis

Producer

Ruggero Dipaola

Screenwriters

Heidrun Schleef Ruggero Dipaola Luca De Benedittis

Cinematographer

Vladan Radovic

Production Designer Luca Servino Costume Designer

Alessandro Lai

Editor

Roberto Missiroli

Composer/Music

Enzo Pietropaoli

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Apartment in Athens (Appartamento ad Atene) Ruggero Dipaola brings home the pain of occupation of World War II in his feature debut, Apartment in Athens, winner of the Italian Golden Globe for First Feature Film. The Helianos family’s world is turned upside down as they are given the “honor” of hosting a German officer, Captain Kalter played superbly by Richard Sammel (Inglorious Basterds), in their home. Forced to cater to each of his exacting needs or face retribution, Nikolas the patriarch of the family, quickly realizes he must do what he can to protect his family and swiftly succumbs to the officer’s whims. Family bonds are tested by their uninvited guest and the subservient role the patriarch is forced to play. As Nikolas begins to cut through Kalter’s hard exterior, a human side to the officer is briefly glimpsed, offering the Helianos family a moment of hope. Patiently crafted and wonderfully acted, Apartment in Athens, based on Glenway Wescott’s stirring 1945 novel, discovers both the horror and the humanity in war. –Michael Burke Ruggero Dipaola was born in Brescia, Italy and obtained a Law degree before

BIO studying film direction and editing at the Istituto di Scienze Cinematografiche e Audiovisive of Florence, Italy.

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Sun Oct 14 • 7:30pm

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Arcadia F E A t u r es

Directed by Olivia Silver USA / 2012 / 90 minutes Main Credits Cast

John Hawkes Ryan Simpkins Ty Simpkins Kendall Toole Executive Producers Jeremy Bailer Bibi Arteaga Producers Julien Favre Silenn Thomas Jai Stefan Screenwriter Olivia Silver Cinematographer Eric Lin Production Designer Adriana Serrano Editor Jennifer Lee Sound Designer Tom Paul Composer/Music The Low Anthem

Showing at Rosendale Theatre

Sat Oct 13 • 7:30pm Upstate Films WOODSTOCK

Twelve-year old Greta is less than thrilled to be traveling cross-country with her manic father (played brilliantly by Academy Award® winner John Hawkes), a man who hops between overly-enthusiastic ravings of California’s beauty and enraged outbursts towards his children at the mention of negativity or, even worse, their mother. First time director Olivia Silver takes audiences along with Greta’s family on their stressful ride through cheap motels and diners to California in a beat-up station wagon, heading towards their father’s newest job opportunity and away from their mother, who is said to be away visiting her sister. While her siblings seem more interested in boys and seeing the Grand Canyon, Greta cannot keep from thinking of her mysteriously absent mother, despite her father’s promises of a united family beneath the California sunshine. Ryan Simpkins captivates as Greta in a story of newfound maturity and the burdens of lost innocence. – Chandra L. Knotts Olivia Silver grew up in Connecticut and California and is a graduate of the UCLA

BIO MFA Directing program. After earning a bachelor’s degree in English from Williams

College, she worked in book publishing and foreign policy before turning to filmmaking. Olivia has worked for Oscar-nominated writer-directors John Sayles and Hany Abu-Assad. Her short film Aisle 73, starring Bob Larkin and Angela Paton (Groundhog Day), won awards and screened in festivals around the world. Her thesis film Little Canyon premiered at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival and screened at numerous festivals including Edinburgh, Denver, Nantucket, Sarasota, and LACMA Young Director’s Night. Olivia is a dual U.S.-French citizen and currently lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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Archaeology of a Woman Main Credits Cast

Producer Screenwriter Cinematographer Editors Sound Design Composer/Music

Sally Kirkland Victoria Clark James Murtaugh Karl Geary Sharon Greytak Sharon Greytak Gus Sacks Ulysses Guidotti Marian Sears Hunter Matt Gundy Heather Schmidt

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Archaeology of a Woman rides the edge between reality and ﬁction when a daughter returns home to care for her mother’s worsening dementia and discovers her connection to a thirty year-old crime. Oscar nominee and Golden Globe winner Sally Kirkland is the feisty, guilt-ridden mother who ﬁghts to protect her freedom in spite of the dementia she can not control. As the daughter runs between her own aspiring career and the demands of her mother, the small surveillance camera she installed to help monitor mom at home reveals a far more private life of fear, lust and longing. Archaeology investigates the visceral experience of age-related dementia through the unsettled lives of two very different generations of women.

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Directed by Sharon Greytak USA / 2012 / 100 minutes

Sharon Greytak is a New York City-based independent filmmaker who has

BIO written, produced and directed short experimental films (Czechoslovakian Woman, Some Pleasure on the Level of the Source), documentary works (Losing It, Weirded Out And Blown Away), and three narrative features (Archaeology of a Woman, The Love Lesson, and Hearing Voices). Her films have screened at the Museum of Modern Art, NY; Film Society of Lincoln Center, NY; Village East Cinema, NY; George Eastman House; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Laemmle Theatres; AFI FilmFest; American Cinematheque at the Egyptian Theatre, LA; Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, DC; Margaret Mead Film Festival; Chicago International Film Festival; REDCAT; Santa Barbara Film Festival; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Films de Femmes, Creteil France; Bela Balasz Studio, Budapest. She was a participant in AFI’s Directing Workshop for Women, a Yaddo and MacDowel Fellow, and the recipient of the 2012 CINE Golden Eagle Award for Archaeology of a Woman.

Visit www.sharongreytak.com

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Art Machine F E A t u r es

Directed by Doug Karr USA / 2011 / 88 minutes Main Credits Cast

Joseph Cross Jessica Szohr Joey Lauren Adams Executive Producers Michael Gayner Stefan Nowicki Joey Carey Producers Aimee Karr Flavio Alves Mynette Louie Roy Gokay Wol Screenwriters Doug Karr Nuno Faustino Cinematographer Adrian Correia Production Designer Kaet McAnneny Editors Doug Karr Nuno Faustino Composer/Music Mark Kondracki

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Fri Oct 12 • 10:00pm

At age six, child prodigy painter Declan Truss was propelled into the art world as a rare marvel, but by seventeen, the tightrope of notoriety is catching up with him. Declan seeks inspiration as the immense pressures of an impending coming-of-age exhibition loom. His world expands when he stumbles on a commune of rebellious free thinkers. Declan reaches beyond painting to wild experimentation, quickly spinning out of control. As he becomes consumed by his mania, he begins to regard his family as part of a system that’s keeping him down, and magnetically rallies the rebels to take part in his progressively subversive art exhibition—one that will ultimately shock and destroy. Set against the backdrop of Brooklyn’s vibrant art and music scene, Art Machine is a dark comedy about the tenuous relationship between art and commerce, the fine line between creative genius and clinical mania, and the damaging effects of fame.

Doug Karr has been creating original independent films since 1997. Karr’s credits

BIO include narrative shorts Anniversary Present, The Straitjacket Lottery, and the award

winning documentaries LSD25, The June Bug Symphony, Lifecycles: A Story of AIDS in Malawi, and The Face of AIDS. The writer of eight feature length screenplays, his recent script, My Thermonuclear Family, won the Grand Prize at the Filmmakers International Screenplay Competition. His films have been seen by audiences around the world and on numerous television channels. Karr’s last short Ten For Grandpa, premiered at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival and has gone on to screen at over 50 international film festivals, winning multiple awards.

Visit www.artmachinemovie.com

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Between Us Main Credits Cast Julia Stiles Melissa George Taye Diggs David Harbour Executive Producer Brent Stiefel Producers Mike S. Ryan Hans Ritter Dan Mirvish Screenwriters Joe Hurtura Dan Mirivsh Cinematographer Nancy Schreiber ASC Production Designer Tracey Gallacher Editor Dean Gonzalez Sound Designers Tobias Enhus H. Scott Salinas Composers/Music Tobias Enhus H. Scott Salinas

Some things are better kept private, even among the best of friends. This is a lesson that couples Grace and Carlo (Julia Stiles, Taye Diggs), and Sharyl and George (Melissa George, David Harbour) learn the hard way. Taking place over two evenings set several years apart, the couples’ friendship becomes undone during two nights of frank conversation about sex, money and religion. Confrontation erupts as they realize their lives have moved in irrevocably different directions. As each couple’s fractured relationship is revealed in front of the other, the collateral damage is an old friendship. Based on Joe Hurtua’s award winning play, Dan Mirvish’s film features wonderfully emotional and complicated performances from all four accomplished actors who learn why some things should be kept just “between us.” –Michael Burke

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Directed by Dan Mirvish USA / 2012 / 90 minutes

Dan Mirvish is an active director, screenwriter, producer, and author. He was

BIO mentored by Robert Altman on his first film, Omaha (the movie), which led him to co-found the upstart Slamdance Film Festival that runs concurrent with Sundance. His real estate musical film Open House led the Academy Awards to controversially rewrite their rules on the Best Original Musical category for the Oscars. Mirvish co-wrote the critically-acclaimed novel I Am Martin Eisenstadt: One Man’s (wildly inappropriate) Adventures with the Last Republicans (Farrar, Straus, Giroux), based on his transmedia project that invented a campaign advisor for John McCain.

Showing at WOODSTOCK Playhouse

Sat Oct 13 • 9:30pm Rosendale Theatre

Sun Oct 14 • 8:00pm

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California Solo F E A t u r es

Directed by Marshall Lewy USA / 2012 / 93 minutes Main Credits Cast

Robert Carlyle Alexia Rasmussen Kathleen Wilhoite A. Martinez Michael Des Barres Danny Masterson

Executive Producers Robert Carlyle Joan Huang Nick Morton Rick Rosenthal Producer

Mynette Louie

Screenwriter

Marshall Lewy

Cinematographer

James Laxton

When you reach the top, is there anywhere to go but down? Former Britpop rock star Lachlan MacAldonich, in a sublime performance by Robert Carlyle, finds himself at this precipice as a once-promising music career is now awash in booze and self-loathing. Director Marshall Lewy’s sophomore effort is a moving departure from his feature debut, the comedy Blue State, as Lachlan, now a farm manager in southern California, faces deportation after another ill-fated night of drinking and driving. In an effort to stave off expulsion from the U.S. he must reconnect with his ex-wife and the daughter he barely knows and finally face the demons he has been avoiding to reclaim a life teetering on the edge. – Michael Burke Marshall Lewy is a graduate of Harvard University, where he studied Russian

BIO history and literature. He and his wife currently live in Los Angeles with their new baby girl. He is co-president of the Barnsdall Art Park Foundation, a non-profit organization that supports the arts activities at Barnsdall Art Park, including Frank Lloyd Wright’s world famous Hollyhock House.

Production Designer Eric James Archer Editor

Alex Jablonski

Composer/Music

T. Griffin

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Sat Oct 13 • 2:00pm

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East Coast P re mi e r e

Directed by Arturo Pons Mexico / 2011 / 111 minutes In Spanish with subtitles

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Gael Sanchez Pedro Gámez Eligio Meléndez Ana Ofelia Murguía Marco Pérez Horacio García Rojas Hansel Ramírez Luis Bayardo

Executive Producer Ozcar Ramírez González Producer

Ozcar Ramírez González

Screenwriter

Arturo Pons

Cinematographer

Luis David Sansans

Editors

Arturo Pons Paloma López

Sound Designer

Eduardo Castillo

Composer/Music

Edgar Barroso

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The Compass is Carried by the Dead Man (La Brujula Lleva El Muerto) A young boy’s journey from Mexico to the United States turns into an extraordinary odyssey filled with adventure, heartache and triumph. Arturo Pons’ wonderful feature debut follows the story of Chencho, a child still holding a measure of innocence, as he embarks on a quest to be reunited with his brother in Chicago. Along the way he encounters several fascinating strangers who form a diverse caravan of wanderers seeking a new life. Guided onward by a mysterious benevolent force, the characters in La Brujula Lleva El Muerto reveal an intimate and inspiring portrait of Mexican immigrants searching for opportunity. – Joe Martindale Arturo Pons attended the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico, where he

BIO obtained a degree in media communication. While at university, he directed and participated in several short films. He studied cinema at Centre de Estudis Cinematografics de Catalunya in Barcelona, where three of his short films were shown in a number of European film festivals. In 2006, he filmed his first 35mm short, No Sents Res? He has been working on visual compositions with musician Edgar Barroso and presenting their work all over the world. Since 2005, Arturo has been a teacher for Cinematographic Lenguaje. He has directed music videos for Jarabe de Palo, La Mala Rodriguez and DJoe.

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Fri Oct 12 • 8:30pm Upstate Films WOODSTOCK

Sun Oct 14 • 4:30pm

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Dead Dad F E A t u r es

Directed by Ken J. Adachi USA / 2012 / 81 minutes Main Credits Cast

Kyle Arrington Jenni Melear Lucas K. Peterson Allyn Rachel Ben Hethcoat Brett Erlich Fred Stoller Executive Producers Stephen Hansen Monte Young Ken J. Adachi Jason Ambler Adam Varney Producers Kelly Calligan Ben Hethcoat Screenwriters Ken J. Adachi Kyle Arrington Cinematographer Eric Bader Production Designer Morgan Hall Editor Eric Ekman Sound Designer Kellen Voss Composer/Music Nadeem Majdalany

Ken J. Adachi’s directorial feature debut is an emotional roller coaster showcasing three outstanding performances. Dead Dad is a dynamic portrait of a family in turmoil learning to find its way. Estranged siblings Russell, Jane and their adopted brother, Alex, are reunited when they return home upon the death of their father. As they battle over what to do with his ashes, they attempt to come to grips with what their father would have wanted while trying to heal their own fractured relationships. Adachi weaves a spirited tale of wry humor and painful heartache as each sibling must confront their own deep-seated wounds before they can heal the rift that has opened between them. All the while, the father who drove them apart in life now begins to bring them back together in death. – Michael Burke Director and writer Ken J. Adachi’s projects have screened across the country

BIO and his short film Picture Day won a College Television Award in 2010. While

working primarily in short formats, Adachi developed an urge to complete a feature length film. New to Los Angeles and with limited funds, he and his collaborators embraced a grassroots approach and worked nights and weekends to make it happen. The result is Dead Dad, Adachi’s feature film debut.

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Sat Oct 13 • 4:15pm

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Electrick Children Main Credits Cast

Producers Screenwriter Cinematographer

Julia Garner Rory Culkin Liam Aiken Bill Sage Jessica Caldwell Richard Neustadter Rebecca Thomas Mattias Troelstrup

Production Designer Beth Van Dam Editor Jennifer Lilly Sound Designer Composer/Music

Coll Anderson Eric Colvin

The power of music can be a transformative force, but 15-year-old Rachel, a young girl from a fundamentalist Mormon sect, believes it has the power to create life. Sheltered from the outside world, Rachel discovers rock music for the first time and is enraptured by the soulful singing emanating from the speakers. So enraptured that, upon learning that she is pregnant three months later, she comes to believe the music she heard is the cause of the new life growing inside of her. Escaping the marriage arranged for her, Rachel heads out in search of the voice on the tape that was responsible for her immaculate conception. Up-and-coming star Julia Garner dazzles as Rachel as she takes a life-altering road trip to the city of sin and discovers the world beyond her sheltered existence. Rebecca Thomas’ debut feature, Electrick Children is a beautifully told tale of innocence lost. – Michael Burke

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Directed by Rebecca Thomas USA / 2012 / 96 minutes

Rebecca Thomas was raised in Las Vegas, Nevada, the youngest of five

BIO children. She took a break from studying film at Brigham Young University to serve a Mormon mission in Japan and went on to pursue her MFA at Columbia University. Electrick Children is Rebecca’s debut feature film.

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Fri Oct 12 • 4:45pm Rosendale Theatre

Sat Oct 13 • 2:30pm

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Exit Elena F E A t u r es

Directed by Nathan Silver USA / 2012 / 72 minutes Main Credits Cast

Kia Davis Cindy Silver Jim Chiros Gert O’Connell Daisy Nathan Silver Executive Producer Harvey L. Silver Producer Nathan Silver Screenwriters Nathan Silver Kia Davis Cinematographer David Dahlbom Editors Nathan Silver Kia Davis Cody Stokes Sound Designer Arjun G. Sheth Composer/Music Washington Phillips

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Elena, a quiet, fresh-faced and newly christened assistant nurse, thinks that she’s been prepared for the obstacles of being a live-in aide, but nothing could prepare her for her employing family. Jim and Cindy hire Elena to help with Jim’s elderly, overlooked mother, Florence. Struggling to maintain her professionalism in the face of Cindy’s persistent requests that she become part of the family, Elena tries to keep her composure. On top of being forced into conversations, Zumba sessions and events she has no reason to attend, enter Nathan, Jim and Cindy’s neurotic, rebellious son. Elena tries to work her way through the maze of family troubles while still caring for Florence, but as circumstances change, she must decide where to turn next. In his second feature film, director Nathan Silver takes viewers on a captivating ride through a family in crisis and the stranger who is thrust into their world. As Elena manages the best she can, ultimately she knows what must be done despite Cindy’s demands to stay. Exit Elena. – Alana Davis Silver lamented being born in the 20th century until he saw his first BIO Nathan Buñuel movie. If he couldn’t be a 19th century French poet, he could at least be a 21st century American filmmaker. So, Silver got his pile of French poems together and submitted them to New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and was accepted into the Dramatic Writing Program. He graduated with honors in 2005. Since then, Nathan has written and directed three feature films and four short films. His short, Anecdote, premiered at the Slamdance Film Festival in 2008. His first feature, The Blind, premiered at the Torino Film Festival in 2009 and had its North American premiere at Cinequest 2011. Exit Elena had its world premiere at the Edinburgh International Film Festival in 2012 and Filmmaker Magazine called it “an exquisite gem of a movie.” His third feature, Soft in the Head, is currently in post-production. Visit www.konecfilms.com PRECEDED BY

Aunt Luisa Directed by Thomas Woodrow USA / 2012 / 15 minutes

A young man living in New York is interrupted in the middle of his scattered, modern life by a surprise visit from his very weird aunt. Visit www.auntlouisafilm.com

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Faces in the Mirror

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Ryan Orr Boyd Tinsley Jessica Mei Gershen Rita Dove Executive Producers Boyd Tinsley Fenton William Producers Ryan Gall Boyd Tinsley Screenwriter Nicholas Kimbrel Story Aaron Farrington Nicholas Kimbrell Ryan Orr Boyd Tinsley Cinematographer Johnny St. Ours Editors Aaron Farrington Boyd Tinsley Composers/Music Boyd Tinsley Maktub Shawn Smith The Silent Comedy Stefan Lessard, Dave Matthews Sound

From musician Boyd Tinsley of Dave Matthews Band comes a film that’s not only meant to be seen, it’s meant to be experienced. It is a film scored to music. It dances with the music and takes you on an emotional roller-coaster ride that never let’s you go. It’s like a dream. The story is about Ben Fisher, a young man who returns home to bury his father. Angry that he had been neglected by his workaholic father, Ben refused to see him for years. On the day of his father’s funeral, Ben goes on a dream-like odyssey where he’s led, portal by portal, to fantastical places with somewhat mystifying people who all seem to be guiding him somewhere. He’s looking to escape his pain and guilt. He’s looking for forgiveness.

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Directed by Aaron Farrington USA / 2012 / 78 minutes

Faces in the Mirror marks the filmmaking debut for acclaimed musician Boyd

BIO Tinsley. He has been the violinist for Dave Matthews Band since 1991, when he was asked to play on the demo song Tripping Billies, officially joining the band full time later that year. A native of Charlottesville, Virginia, Tinsely grew up in a musical household. As a teenager, he helped found the Charlottesville-Albemarle Youth Orchestra and studied under the tutelage of Isador Saslav, the concert master of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. In addition to DMB, Tinsley has recorded a solo album, True Reflections, and has appeared on albums by Third Day, The Samples, Hootie & the Blowfish, and Allgood. An avid tennis player, he composed a new score for ESPN’s Wimbledon coverage in 2006, and established the Boyd C. Tinsley Foundation, which provides tutoring, music lessons, and tennis lessons to Charlottesville, VA school children.

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First Winter F E A t u r es

Directed by Benjamin Dickinson USA / 2012 / 90 minutes Main Credits Cast

Paul Manza Lindsay Burdge Jennifer Kim Samantha Jacober Matthew Chastain Kate Lyn Sheil Jaffe Zinn Haruka Hashimoto Executive Producer Jon Watts Producers Mark De Pace Zachary Mortensen Lindsay Burdge Benjamin Dickinson Screenwriter Benjamin Dickinson Cinematographer Adam Newport-Berra Production Designer Katie Hickman Editors Benjamin Dickinson Jen Lame Andrew Alan Sound Designer Paul Hsu

When Winter begins, life is serene for a group of new-age Brooklynites living in a remote country farmhouse. Sex, drugs, yoga, and organic cooking absorb their days, safely tucked away from the stresses of urban life. But when a blackout of apocalyptic proportions strands them with no heat and no electricity during the coldest winter on record, their utopian commune is breached by anxiety as idyllic harmony begins to lose its tune. As time wears on and the food supply dwindles, power struggles, jealousy and desire threaten the group’s ability to work together to survive. In this extraordinary debut feature, filmmaker Benjamin Dickinson explores the fundamental instincts of human nature that arise when perseverance and beliefs are not only tested, but taken to their limits. Nuanced, authentic performances escalate with heightened emotion, while ethereal landscapes intimate that the poetic world of First Winter exists in an undefined time and space, perhaps not so far apart from our own. – Samantha Yellin Benjamin Dickinson studied filmmaking at New York University and started

BIO Waverly Flams in 2004 with six friends from school. He has directed music videos for Killer Mike (see music video program), Q-Tip, LCD Soundsystem, Reggie Watts, and The Rapture as well as commercial work, short films and Internet clips. His work has been featured at Cannes.

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Thur Oct 11 • 6:00pm Rosendale Theatre

Fri Oct 12 • 4:00pm

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Francine

Main Credits Cast

Melissa Leo Keith Leonard Victoria Charkut Dave Clark Dr. Mike Halstead

Executive Producer Anna Gerb Producers Joshua Blum Katie Stern Cinematographer Brian M. Cassidy Editors Brian M. Cassidy Benjamin Gray Melanie Shatzky

Academy Award® winner Melissa Leo gives a fierce and taut performance as Francine, a woman struggling to find her place in a downtrodden lakeside town after leaving behind a life in prison. Taking a series of jobs working with animals, Francine turns away others and instead seeks intimacy in the most unlikely of places. Gritty, elliptical, and voyeuristic, Francine is a portrait of a near-silent misfit and her fragile first steps in an unfamiliar world.

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Directed by Brian M. Cassidy and Melanie Shatzky USA / 2012 / 74 minutes

Brian M. Cassidy and Melanie Shatzky founded Pigeon Projects in 2005 as a

BIO means of producing their uncompromising fiction and non-fiction films. Living

comfortably at the margins of documentary and narrative cinema, works created by Pigeon Projects forgo conventional storytelling methods in order to accommodate stark imagery, elusive characters and deadpan realism. Together, Cassidy and Shatzky have shown their films at the Sundance, Berlin, Toronto, and Rotterdam film festivals. Their films have also shown at MoMA, the National Gallery of Art, Lincoln Center, and the Institute of Contemporary Art. In 2007, Filmmaker Magazine named them as one of “25 New Faces of Independent Film.” Cassidy and Shatzky recently finished their first documentary feature, The Patron Saints, a poetic and frank look at institutional life in a nursing home.

SPECIAL SCREENING Showing at DOWNING FILM CENTER • NEWBURGH

Wed Oct 10 • 7:30pm Rosendale Theatre

Thur Oct 11 • 6:30pm COURTESY OF Visit www.francinethefilm.com

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Gayby F E A t u r es

Directed by Jonathan Lisecki USA / 2012 / 90 minutes Main Credits Cast

Jenn Harris Matthew Wilkas Mike Doyle Anna Margaret Hollyman Executive Producers Zeke Farrow Laura Heberton Producers Amy Hobby Anne Hubbell Screenwriter Jonathan Lisecki Cinematographer Clay Liford Production Designer Cat Navarro Costume Designer David Tabbert Editor Ann Husaini Sound Designer Rob Daly Composer/Music Giancarlo Vulcano

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Jenn and Matt are best friends from college who are now in their 30s. Single by choice, Jenn spends her days teaching hot yoga and running errands for her boss. Matt suffers from comic-book writer’s block and can’t get over his ex-boyfriend. They decide to fulfill a youthful promise to have a child together… the old-fashioned way. Can they navigate the serious and unexpected snags they hit as they attempt to get their careers and dating lives back on track in preparation for parenthood? Gayby is an irreverent comedy about friendship, growing older, sex, loneliness, and the family you choose. Gayby is writer/director Jonathan Lisecki’s first feature film. Since premiering

BIO at the 2012 SXSW festival, the film has won the Audience Award for Best Feature and a Jury Prize for Best Acting Ensemble at the Ashland Film Festival, and a Special Jury Prize at IFFBoston. Gayby is a full-length version of the celebrated short film of the same title, which played at over 100 festivals on six continents since its premiere at Slamdance in 2010, and received multiple jury prizes and audience awards at such festivals as Philadelphia, Rhode Island, Arizona, and Palm Springs ShortFest. It’s available on the 15th edition of the Wholphin collection. Lisecki’s first short film, Woman in Burka, won various awards, including the 2008 Spirit of Slamdance Award for its debut, and was featured on the 12th edition of Wholphin. Before turning to filmmaking, Lisecki worked extensively in independent theatre. He lives in New York with his husband.

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I Am Not a Hipster Main Credits Cast

Dominic Bogart Alvaro Orlando Tammy Minoff Lauren Coleman Kandis Erickson Brad William Henke Tania Verafield Executive Producer Fred Najor Producers Ron Najor Destin Daniel Cretton Screenwriter Destin Daniel Cretton Cinematographer Brett Pawlak Editor Destin Daniel Cretton Sound Designer Onnalee Blank Composer/Music Joel P. West

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While this film’s title fits with the humorous portrayal of San Diego hipster culture, I Am Not a Hipster also serves as an engaging and thoughtful character study. Director Destin Daniel Cretton’s 2012 film tells the story of Brook Hyde, a 20-something up-and-coming musician within the San Diego indie underground. Hipster follows a week in Brook’s life as he struggles with familial reconciliation, his purpose as an artist, and the loneliness that hasn’t left him since the death of his mother. The film features engaging performances by actors Dominic Bogart as Brook and Alvaro Orlando as his peppy manager/sidekick. The film’s soundtrack, written by Joel P. West and recorded in collaboration with Bogart under the name Canines, becomes a character unto itself, with Bogart belting out tunes in several emotional live performances. Whether Brook Hyde is a hipster or not … that can be decided by the audience. – Chandra Knotts

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Directed by Destin Daniel Cretton USA / 2012 / 91 minutes

Destin Daniel Cretton’s fourth short film, Short Term 12, won the Jury Prize in

BIO Short Filmaking at Sundance in 2009. He wrote a feature screenplay of the same

title and was one of five to win a 2010 Nicholl Screenwriting Fellowship from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. I Am Not a Hipster is Cretton’s feature film directorial debut.

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Directed by Brian Savelson USA / 2012 / 104 minutes Main Credits Cast

Producer Screenwriter Cinematographer Editors Composer/Music

Zach Gilford John Slattery Jena Malone Gabrielle Union Anish Savjani Brian Salveson Jeremy Saulnier Kate Abernathy Anette Davey Jeff Grace

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Nothing seems more likely to ruin Seth’s romantic weekend with his girlfriend, Andie, than his estranged father and young girlfriend crashing the party. Brian Savelson’s feature debut, In Our Nature is the story of a troubled relationship between a father and son. Seth (Zach Gilford) attempts to reconnect with his distant father, Gil (John Slattery), despite the presence of their respective girlfriends (Gabrielle Union and Jena Malone). Meanwhile, the women find themselves similarly trapped within the issues surfacing between their partners, creating a dynamic and dramatic setting for the film to play its course. Shot locally in Mt. Tremper, the film casts a beautiful lens on the Hudson Valley while also providing humor and drama. Outside the city and immersed in the natural surroundings of a family country house, In Our Nature is a realistic depiction of human nature when there is nothing else to turn to. – Chandra Knotts Brian Savelson is an award-winning writer, director, and producer whose work

BIO ranges from stage to screen. He began his career in the theater as associate

producer of A Raisin In The Sun on Broadway, starring Sean ‘P. Diddy’ Combs, Audra McDonald, Phylicia Rashad, and Sanaa Lathan. The production won two Tony Awards, broke box office records and was widely noted for the incredibly young and diverse audience it brought to the theater. After early success with his award-winning short film Counting Water, which screened at over 20 festivals, was broadcast on PBS and showed at LACMA, Brian made the transition to film. Since then, he has won recognition as a music video director, best known for his work with Band of Horses, which won a coveted MVPA Award and led to a video commission from David Bowie’s High Line Festival. Brian has studied writing and directing at the prestigious Samuel Beckett Centre in Dublin, attended Cornell University, and holds a B.F.A. from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts.

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Magical Mystery Tour Main Credits Cast

Producer Cinematographers

Screenwriter Editor Sound Designer Composers/Music

John Lennon Paul McCartney George Harrison Ringo Starr Ivor Cutler Victor Spinetti Denis O’Dell Aubrey Dewar Tony Busbridge Daniel Lacamore Michael Seresin Ringo Starr The Beatles Roy Benson Gordon Daniel John Lennon Paul McCartney George Harrison Ringo Starr

In September 1967, The Beatles loaded a film crew onto a bus along with friends, family and cast and headed west on the A30 out of London to make their third film, this time conceived and directed by The Beatles themselves. “Paul said, ‘Look I’ve got this idea’ and we said ‘great!’ and all he had was this circle and a little dot on the top - that’s where we started.” (Ringo) In the wake of the extraordinary impact of the Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band album and the One World satellite broadcast of All You Need Is Love, The Beatles devised, wrote and directed their third film, Magical Mystery Tour, a dreamlike story of a coach day trip to the seaside. The film features a fabulous supporting cast of character actors and performers (including Ivor Cutler, Victor Spinetti, Jessie Robins, Nat Jackley, Derek Royle, and the inimitable Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band). Apple Films has fully restored the long out-of-print, classic feature film with a remixed soundtrack.

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Directed by The Beatles UK / 1967 / 53 minutes

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Magical Mystery Tour Revisited Directed by Francis Hanly UK / 2012 / 58 minutes See documentaries for more information

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Directed by Tom Gustafson Mexico, USA / 2012 / 107 minutes Main Credits Cast

Shawn Ashmore Martha Higareda Lila Downs Kate Burton Tom Wopat Adriana Barraza Executive Producers Gill Holland Ambrose Roche Isabella Smejda Producers Alejandra Cardenas Cory Krueckeberg Tom Gustafson Rafael Cuervo Ramiro Ruiz Screenwriter Cory Krueckeberg Cinematographer Kira Kelly Production Designer Dario Carreto Editors Cory Krueckeberg Jennifer Lee Sound Designer Javier Umpierrez Composer/Music Tim Sandusky

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What happens when a born-and-raised Kansas boy turns thirty and hits his limit? He runs away to Mexico in hopes of becoming a professional Mariachi musician, of course! Director Tom Gustafson, whose feature debut Were the World Mine was a smash hit at WFF 2008, captures the beauty of Mexico and the glory of following one’s dreams despite the cost in his sophomore film Mariachi Gringo. Shawn Ashmore, who plays the lead role of Ed Hogan, delivers a moving performance in this crossover film as a man inspired by an old Mariachi musician from his local Mexican restaurant to leave his dead-end life under the watch of his conservative parents for the excitement and adventure of a new life in Guadalajara, Mexico. Gustafson’s Mariachi Gringo avoids the clichés of a runaway story and leaves audiences with an honest and emotionally moving account of what it takes to follow your heart and achieve your dreams. – Chandra L. Knotts Mariachi Gringo is Tom Gustafson’s second feature film. The film recently won

BIO Best Film & Best Actress at the Guadalajara International Film Festival. His feature directorial debut, the critically acclaimed musical fantasy Were The World Mine won 30 awards screening at over 150 festivals worldwide, including the James Lyon Award for Editing at the 2008 Woodstock Film Festival. The New York Times chose the film as Critics’ Pick, calling it Movie Musical Magic. Among Tom’s awards for his musical were the Heineken Red Star Award and the Scion First-Time Director Award. Other directing credits include the sideshow inspired short film The Need, the short musical film Fairies, and the controversial short mockumentary film Revelations. Tom has worked as location casting director on many blockbuster films, including Man of Steel, Pirates of the Caribbean II and III, The Good Shepherd, and The Dark Knight. Tom is the founder of SPEAKproductions and currently resides in Harlem, New York City.

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Nor’easter

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David Call Rachel Brosnahan Liam Aiken Richard Bekins Haviland Morris Emery Cohen Danny Burstein Producers Andrew Brotzman Veronica Nickel Screenwriter Andrew Brotzman Cinematographer Ian Bloom Production Designer Lisa Myers Editor David Lowery Sound Designer Vicki Lemar Composers/Music Saunder Jurriaans Danny Bensi

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Erik Angstrom barely appears above the age of a college student, yet he has committed to a life as a priest on the remote island of North Haven. Amidst a snow-covered and sparsely populated landscape, director Andrew Brotzman’s feature debut Nor’easter introduces audiences to a suspenseful and at times torturously mysterious community still recovering from the scandal of their church’s previous priest. A local family, the Greens, come to Angstrom about their son Josh, who has been missing for over five years, in hopes that, despite his inexperience, Angstrom will be able to help them put their torn family back together. The priest is quick to encourage the family to move past their loss until Josh suddenly returns home. Angstrom’s involvement with the Green family drives him to the brink, leading him to not only question his faith in God but the web of secrets and mysteries that he finds. – Chandra L. Knotts

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Directed by Andrew Brotzman USA / 2012 / 85 minutes

Andrew Brotzman is the director of My Mom and Dad, winner of the Global

BIO Anarchy award for Best Short in its category at Slamdance 2006, and Darjeeling, which played in Slamdance’s 2007 Anarchy competition. He is also the producer of Small Collection, an official selection of the 2009 Sundance Film Festival and winner of the Best Narrative Short award at the Crossroads Film Festival in Jackson, Mississippi. Small Collection played at the Woodstock Film Festival in 2008, as well as the Palm Springs, Raindance UK, Cleveland, Boston, and AFI Dallas film festivals, among others. Nor’easter is his first feature.

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Putzel F E A t u r es

Directed by Jason Chaet USA / 2012 / 85 minutes Main Credits Cast

Jack T. Carpenter Melanie Lynskey John Pankow Susie Essman Jarlath Conroy Stephen Park Adrian Martinez Fran Kranz

Executive Producers Mary Jane Skalski Jonathan Gray Producers

Rick Moore Jason Chaet Sheri Davani Allegra Cohen

Screenwriter

Rick Moore

Cinematographer

Ryan Samul

For some, life is an adventure filled with opportunities to excel and places to explore. For Walter Himmelstein, a young man endearingly known as Putzel, life literally doesn’t go beyond his family’s fish store and his community on the upper west side of Manhattan. In this heartwarming comedy, Walter’s aspirations of taking over his uncle’s smoked fish emporium are disrupted by the arrival of Sally, who becomes romantically involved with his about-to-retire and very-married uncle. While Walter tries to thwart their romance in order to insure his taking over the business, he finds his circumscribed life thrown off kilter, and after years of being undermined by his family and friends, he finally starts to realize his full potential. With Sally’s help, Walter confronts his fears and proves he is more than a Putzel. Jason Chaet is a Filmmaker, Theater Director and Acting Teacher based in New

BIO York City. He got his start at NYC’s Ensemble Studio Theater, working with

playwrights including David Mamet and Arthur Miller. He has scores of theater directing credits in NYC and around the country. Additionally, he has worked for HBO/USCAF and was creative consultant on the film Kissing Jessica Stein. Currently, his short film Remember is screening at festivals around the world.

Production Designer Lisa Myers Editor

Federico Rosenzvit

Composers/Music

Jonathan Benedict Rob Niederprum

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Quartet Main Credits Cast

Maggie Smith Michael Gambon Billy Connolly Pauline Collins Tom Courtenay Executive Producers Jamie Laurenson Dario Suter Christoph Daniel Marc Schmidheiny Dickon Stainer Thorsten Schumacher Xavier Marchand Dustin Hoffman Producers Screenwriter Cinematographer Editor Sound Designer Composer/Music

Finola Dwyer Stewart Mackinnon Ronald Harwood John de Borman Barney Pilling Martin Trevis Dario Marianelli

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The directorial debut of Dustin Hoffman, Quartet is a comedy starring Maggie Smith, Billy Connolly, Michael Gambon, and Pauline Collins. The film tells the story of Reggie (Courtenay), Wilf (Connolly) and Cissy (Collins) who reside in Beecham House, a home for retired opera singers. Each year they stage a concert to celebrate Verdi’s birthday, which also raises funds for the home. Reggie’s ex-wife Jean (Smith) arrives at the home and creates tension, playing the diva part but refusing to sing in the concert.

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Directed by Dustin Hoffman UK / 2012 / 95 minutes

Dustin Hoffman, two-time Academy Award winner and seven-time nominee,

BIO whose arrival in Hollywood helped usher in a new and revitalised approach to

filmmaking, makes his directorial film debut in Quartet. Hoffman first caught the world’s attention for his role as Benjamin Braddock in Mike Nichols’s now classic film, The Graduate. Since then he has been nominated for six more Academy Awards for such diverse films as Midnight Cowboy, Lenny, Tootsie (partly filmed in the Hudson Valley), and Wag The Dog. He won the Oscar in 1979 for his role in Kramer vs. Kramer, and again in 1988 for Rain Man. In 1997, he was awarded the Golden Globes’ esteemed Cecil B. DeMille Award and received the Honorary César Medal at the 2009 César Awards. Having appeared in numerous other films and with a rich career acting on screen and stage, Hoffman continues to add singular performances to a roster of characters that have obliterated the line previously dividing the archetypes of “character actor” and “leading man.” Hoffman was born in Los Angeles and attended Santa Monica Community College. He later studied at the Pasadena Playhouse, before moving to New York to study with Lee Strasberg. He serves as the chair of the Artistic Advisory Board, along with Mikhail Baryshnikov and Plácido Domingo, for the Eli and Edythe BroadStage Theater, an intimate 499-seat state-of-the-art theater that provides a much-needed performance facility for Santa Monica College and the surrounding community.

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Directed by Jessica Goldberg USA / 2012 / 84 minutes Main Credits Cast

Krysten Ritter Brian Geraghty Madeleine Martin Logan Huffman Executive Producers Chris Papavasiliou Austin Stark BenjiKohn Gary Cogill Richard Toussaint Jessica Goldberg Trainor Houghton Jack Schuster Producers Jack Heller Dallas Sonnier Screenwriter Jessica Goldberg Cinematographer Doug Emmett Editors Zach Wolf Jack Heller Composer/Music The Milk Carton Kids

“Many people, when they fall in love, look for a little haven of refuge from the world where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.” Bertrand Russell might have been describing Amy (Krysten Ritter) and Sam (Brian Geraghty)who meet in a bar and fall in love after a night of passion. However, neither may be quite ready for a commitment as Amy, still reeling from her parents’ abandonment and forced to raise two younger siblings, falls apart when Sam disappears without a word, triggering emotions of desertion. Meanwhile, when Sam learns about Amy’s past he is tempted to run. Jessica Goldberg’s directorial debut features a stunning dramatic turn by Ritter (Don’t Trust the B---- in Apartment 23) in a story of two lovers searching to find their own refuge from the world. -Michael Burke Jessica Goldberg is a graduate of NYU’s Dramatic Writing Program and Juilliard,

BIO and has written for Imagine, Peter Berg, Ellen Page, Focus Features, Kathy

Kennedy, and Denise DiNovi, among others. Her script Absent Hearts landed her on Variety’s 10 Writers to Watch List. She wrote Heart of a Soldier, with Taylor Lautner attached to star, for Universal. Her pilot The Prince of Motor City was produced for ABC in 2008. She is also writing an adaptation of the Lauren Oliver novel Delirium for Fox, as well as an adaptation of Goodbye for Now aka Deadmail, written by Laurie Frankel, for Lionsgate/Summit. She is currently working as a staff writer on NBC’s Notorious, which debuted this fall.

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Rhymes with Banana

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Zosia Mamet Jee Young Han Paul Iacono Jaleel White Producers Claude Dal Farra Brice Dal Farra Lauren Munsch Jonathan Burkhart Screenwriters Christina Mengert Joseph Muszynski Cinematographer Frederic Fasano Production Designer Jack Ryan Costume Designer Editors Sound Designer Composer/Music

Ingrid Price Jeremy Newmark Peter Saguto Eli Cohn Spencer David Hutchings

When two best friends’ dreams of becoming actors in NYC seem to be going nowhere, they decide to take things to the edge and push them right over. Z and G, two wanna-be actresses who can’t catch a break, cope with failure by escaping into an eclectic world of their own making. From emergency preparation drills to people-watching on the stoop of their Brooklyn apartment in Slankets, they march to the strum of their own ukulele. When Ted moves in next door, his sophistication and connections to celebrities lead Z and G to conclude that he must be a talent agent. Lacking other professional options, they decide to pursue the only reasonable course of action: Kidnap him, hold him hostage, and demand acting careers as ransom. Directed by Joseph Muszynski and Peter Hutchings, this satirical take on a buddy comedy defies conventional standards and takes hilarity to a new level.

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Directed by Joseph Muszynski and Peter Hutchings USA / 2012 / 99 minutes

Joseph Muszynski was a writer and executive producer on Peace, Love &

BIO Misunderstanding (2012), directed by Bruce Beresford. Rhymes with Banana is his directorial debut. The film was written by Muszynski and Christina Mengert. He is currently in development on a science fiction project with BCDF Pictures. Peter Hutchings was a writer and executive producer on The Last Keepers (2013), directed by Maggie Greenwald. He studied film and theater at Northwestern University and is finishing his PhD in Literature at Princeton University. He is currently working on a fulllength screenplay on the French Revolution of 1848. Rhymes with Banana is his directorial debut.

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The Sessions F E A t u r es

Directed by Ben Lewin USA / 2012 / 95 minutes Main Credits Cast

John Hawkes Helen Hunt William H. Macy Executive Producers Maurice Silman Julius Colman Douglas Blake Producer Judi Levine Stephen Nemeth Ben Lewin Screenwriter Ben Lewin Cinematographer Geoffrey Simpson, ACS Editor Lisa Bromwell, A.C.E. Sound Designer Steven Iba Composer/Music: Marco Beltrami

Based on the poignantly optimistic autobiographical writings of Californiabased journalist and poet Mark O’Brien, The Sessions tells the story of a man confined to an iron lung who is determined - at age 38 - to lose his virginity. With the help of his therapists and the guidance of his priest, he sets out to make his dream a reality. Ben Lewin’s career as a writer and director includes award-winning documenta-

BIO ries, feature films, TV movies, mini-series and episodic programs. Lewin was born

in Poland and immigrated to Australia when he was three. While working as a criminal barrister in Australia, Lewin was offered a scholarship to the National Film School in England. After graduating, he wrote and directed his breakthrough film The Case of Cruelty to Prawns, a comedy-drama that won the Best Television Film Award at the prestigious Melbourne Film Festival. Lewin’s feature length credits include Georgia, The Dunera Boys, Matter of Convenience, The Favor, The Watch and the Very Big Fish, and Paperback Romance. He also directed the documentary Hollywood Gold and wrote and directed the award-winning short film Plead Guilty, Get a Bond. His television work includes episodes of Ally McBeal, Touched by An Angel and the Australia drama series Sea Change.

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Sparrows Dance Main Credits Cast

Marin Ireland Paul Sparks Executive Producer Michaela Conlin Producers Samantha Housman Louise Runge Screenwriter Noah Buschel Cinematographer Ryan Samul Editor Brett Jutkiewicz Sound Designer Javier Bennassar Musical Director Aaron Judlowe

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Leaving the apartment is a hard thing to do for the lead lady of Noah Buschel’s Sparrows Dance, a delightfully tender story of an agoraphobic woman who falls in love despite not having left her apartment in over a year. Marin Ireland delivers a stunning performance as a woman confined to her small New York apartment, struggling with tasks as simple as ordering Chinese take-out and getting her plumbing repaired. Wes, played by Paul Sparks, provides a comical and compassionate backdrop as Ireland’s plumber and romantic interest, balancing the emotional struggle of Ireland’s agoraphobia. Sparrows Dance is a delicate mixture of quirks, romance and drama, utilizing the physical space of a one-bedroom apartment to create an intricate world of solitude that extends far beyond its visible limits. – handra Knotts

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Directed by Noah Buschel USA / 2011 / 80:45 minutes

Born in Philadelphia in 1978, Noah Buschel grew up in New York City’s

BIO Greenwich Village. After spending time as a contributing editor for Tricycle Magazine, he made his feature film debut with Bringing Rain, starring Adrian Grenier and Paz de la Huerta. Bringing Rain was produced by Belladonna Productions, premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2003, and was released by Plexifilm. His second feature, Neal Cassady, was produced by Jean Doumanian Productions. It starred Tate Donovan and Amy Ryan and was released by IFC Films in 2008. His third film, The Missing Person, starred Michael Shannon and premiered at Sundance. Buschel was nominated for a Gotham Award for Breakthrough Director and the film was on IFC.com’s 2009 Ten Best List.

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Directed by Sean Baker USA / 2012 / 103 minutes Main Credits Cast

Dree Hemingway Besedka Johnson Stella Maeve James Ransone Karren Karagulian Executive Producers Giancarlo Canavesio Ted Hope Saemi Kim Saerom Kim Sol Tryon Shih-Ching Tsou Producers Blake Ashman Kevin Chinoy Patrick Cunningham Chris Maybach Francesca Silvestri Screenwriters Sean Baker Chris Bergoch Cinematographer Radium Cheung Editor Sound Designers

Sean Baker J.M. Davey Zach Seivers

Composer/Music

Manual

Starlet explores the unlikely friendship between 21-year-old Jane (Dree Hemingway) and 85-year-old Sadie (Besedka Johnson), two women whose worlds collide in California’s San Fernando Valley. Jane spends her time getting high with her dysfunctional roommates, Melissa (Stella Maeve) and Mikey (James Ransone), while taking care of her Chihuahua, Starlet. Sadie, an elderly widow, passes her days alone tending to her flower garden. After a confrontation between the two women at Sadie’s yard sale, Jane uncovers a hidden stash of money inside a relic from Sadie’s past. Jane attempts to befriend the caustic older woman and secrets emerge as their relationship grows. Director Sean Baker continues in the naturalistic style of his previous films, the

BIO award-winning and Spirit Award nominees Prince of Broadway and Take Out,

capturing the rhythms of everyday life with an authenticity rarely seen in cinema. Prince of Broadway earned the Lee Marvin Award for Best narrative feature at the 2008 Woodstock Film Festival. Dree Hemingway (great-granddaughter of Ernest and daughter of Mariel) makes her debut lead performance in Starlet.

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Strutter

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Producers Screenwriters Cinematographer Editors Composer/Music:

Sara Ashley Jade Gordon Terry Graham Elyse Hollander Flannery Lunsford Allison Anders Kurt Voss Allison Anders Kurt Voss Kurt Voss Chris Figler Aaron Rottinghaus J. Mascis

An aspiring rocker loses his band and his girl but gains the friendship of his idol in this sweet and humanistic comedy that completes the trilogy about Southern California musicians by longtime collaborators Allison Anders and Kurt Voss. The first film in the trilogy Border Radio, is part of the Criterion Collection and published on DVD by Janus Films; the second, Sugar Town, was the Centerpiece Premiere at the 1999 edition of the Sundance Film Festival.

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Directed by Allison Anders and Kurt Voss USA / 2012 / 87 minutes

Since their first co-directed post-punk feature film Border Radio (1988), Allison

BIO Anders and Kurt Voss have together or separately written and directed 20

films, along with various other writing and directing gigs including TV and music videos. Between them they have directed everyone from Terrance Stamp and Salma Hayek to Ice-T and Madonna. They co-wrote the screenplay to the Peabody Award-winning film Things Behind The Sun, which Anders directed, and have been nominated for the Independent Spirit Awards for both Border Radio (Best First Feature 1989) and Sugar Town (Best Film, Best Debut Performance).

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Directed by Wei Ling Chang USA / 2012 / 95 minutes In French with subtitles and English

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Hande Kodja Shane Lynch Pierre Boulanger Raphaël Goldman Isalinde Giovangigli Nathalie Dauchez Executive Producer Benoît de Boursetty Producers Wei Ling Chang Jackie Stolfi Screenwriter Wei Ling Chang Cinematographer Rodolphe Séraphine Editor Wei Ling Chang Sound Designer Benoît de Boursetty Composer/Music Levan Iordanishvili

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“The sentence below is true. The sentence above is false.” These are the words that open The Unlikely Girl, the exceptional entrance into feature films by director, producer and writer Wei Ling Chang. Chang delivers a nuanced drama that keeps viewers guessing from titles to credits. Set in rural France, the film follows sheltered American exchange student Jamie in a love triangle with her host sister Cecile and Cecile’s childhood friend Luc. Cecile’s volatile temper and Luc’s long-held crush act as both deterrents and catalysts for the trio’s friendship. Jamie is quickly drawn into their tangled web of lies and sexual intrigue, but soon realizes that her host family is not at all what she thought them to be. In order to uncover the truth, Jamie must question everything that she believes and everyone that she knows. – Heather Olin Wei Ling Chang is a swim addict, sleep enthusiast, photographer, and film-

BIO maker. She is obsessed with astrophysics and time travel.

When she’s not pondering about wormholes, she writes, directs and produces television. Shows she has worked on include the Emmy-nominated The Port Chicago Mutiny, The Bill Clinton Biography, The First 48, and MTV’s Made and My Super Sweet Sixteen. Other filmmaking adventures include the horror short Aunt Tigress, which screened at Cannes, Sitges, Comic Con, Buenos Aires, and Beijing. Before making movies, Chang worked at Miramax Films in acquisitions and at France’s Metropolitan Films in development. She holds a BA in psychology from Cornell University.

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Vamps Main Credits Cast

Alicia Silverstone Krysten Ritter Richard Lewis Sigourney Weaver Malcom McDowell Kristen Johnson Wallace Shawn Justin Kirk Dan Stevens

Executive Producers Stanislaw Tyczynski Julie Kroll Kamal Nahas John Jencks Lisa Wilson Steve Hays Peter Graham Producers

Maria Teresa Arida Adam Brightman Stuart Cornfeld

Screenwriter

Amy Heckerling

Cinematographer

Tim Suhrstedt

Editor

Debra Chiate

Sound Designer

Frank Gaeta

Composer/Music

David Kitay

Clueless director Amy Heckerling and star Alicia Silverstone reunite in Vamps, a cheeky, fresh comedy about two-eternally young party girls navigating the dating world in the Big City. But even with lifetimes of dating experience behind them, the duo realize they still have a lot to learn about love when Stacy (Krysten Ritter) unexpectedly falls for the son of a vampire hunter, and Goody (Silverstone) runs into the man of her dreams from decades earlier. The girls must decide if their chance at love is worth giving up their uncomplicated fabulously single lives forever.

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Directed by Amy Heckerling USA / 2012 / minutes

Amy Heckerling was born in the Bronx, NY. While attending the High School of

BIO Art and Design, Heckerling realized that she wouldn’t make it as an artist and

should find something easier to do with her life. She chose film directing, since she had never actually seen a movie camera! At NYU’s School of the Arts, Heckerling’s short films received prizes at various festivals and secured her a place at AFI. Her AFI short got her into Universal, where she directed Fast Times at Ridgemont High, followed by Johnny Dangerously and European Vacation. Heckerling wrote and directed, Look Who’s Talking, Look Who’s Talking Too, Clueless, I Could Never Be Your Woman, and Vamp’s, and produced A Night at the Roxbury. She also executive produced, wrote and directed episodes of the TV series of ABC’s Clueless and CBS’ Fast Times and directed episodes of NBC’s The Office and The CW’s Gossip Girl.

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Bad Brains: A Band in D.C. Casting By Charles Bradley: Soul of America

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Chasing Ice David Bromberg Unsung Treasure

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“Dear Governor Cuomo...”

Followed by a performance Natalie Merchant and Special Guests

Dinner at the No-Go’s Fight to Live Idle Threat Informant Magical Mystery Tour Revisited Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God The Mechanical Bride Mondays at Racine

PRECEDED BY Kings Point

Oma & Bella Once in a Lullaby: The PS 22 Chorus Story

One Track Heart: The Story of Krishna Das

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Pretty Old Rolan Makes Movies Shepard & Dark Virgin Tales

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Welcome to the Machine Who Cares About Kelsey? Words of Witness The World’s Finest Chef (Verdens Bedste Kok)

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Bad Brains: A Band in D.C. Directed by Mandy Stein and Benjamen Logan USA / 2012 / 104 minutes Main Credits Featuring

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HR Darryl Jenifer Dr. Know Earl Hudson Sid McCray Anthony Countey Tyler Hubby Mandy Stein Ben Logan Tyler Hubby

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Considered “the Sex Pistols of American punk,” since 1977 Bad Brains has consistently pushed boundaries within the U.S. music scene with its unique combination of hardcore punk and Rastafari reggae. Directors Mandy Stein and Benjamen Logan allow their audience a personal look into the past and present of the legendary Bad Brains through footage captured behind the scenes with band members, as well as featured interviews with major music contemporaries such as Henry Rollins, Dave Grohl and the Beastie Boys. Stein and Logan portray the intense struggle the band faced over the four decades dealing with obstacles like stolen equipment, an unpredictable and eccentric vocalist, and a ban from playing in their home city of Washington, D.C. – Chandra Knotts Mandy Stein was an associate producer on 1999’s The Devil’s Playground. She

BIO produced both Slasher and Crossover for IFC Films and What Remains for HBO. She directed You See Me Laughin’, Too Tough To Die: A Tribute To Johnny Ramone, and CBGB: Burning Down the House. Bad Brains: A Band in D.C. is Benjamen Logan’s directorial debut.

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Fri Oct 12 • 7:00pm Rosendale Theatre

Sat Oct 13 • 10:00pm

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Directed by Tom Donahue USA | 2012 | 89 minutes Main Credits Featuring

Clint Eastwood Jeff Bridges Al Pacino Woody Allen Robert Redford Robert DiNero Danny Glover and many more Executive Producers John Balls Ed Durkin Steve Edwards Producers

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Kate Lacy Tom Donahue Ilan Arboleda Joanna Colbert Peter Bolte Jill Schweitzer Leigh Roberts

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Casting By How, in fact, do all those wonderful men, women and children we see on the screen actually get there? As we learn in Tom Donahue’s revealing new film, that’s the contribution of casting directors who trawl independent movies, Off-Broadway, Off-Off-Broadway, college theater, and summer stock to come up with the new faces constantly demanded by the star-making machinery of the cinema. The film traces the evolution of the casting director beginning after WWII, citing the crucial role of the late Marion Dougherty, who moved from theater to television and eventually to Hollywood and who perhaps more than anyone else professionalized the field. Interviews with major casting directors, including Juliet Taylor, Lynn Stalmaster and Dougherty herself, and many of the actors they discovered (including Jeff Bridges, Robert Duvall, Clint Eastwood, and Al Pacino), give a rich sense of the work that goes on before the cameras start rolling. Tom Donahue was born in Rhinebeck, NY, and is the co-founder of CreativeCha-

BIO os vmg. Donahue made his directorial debut in 2005 with the narrative short

Thanksgiving, starring James Urbaniak and Seymour Cassel, and written by Sean Gullette. He made his feature directing debut with the documentary Guest of Cindy Sherman (5 stars - Time Out NY), which premiered at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival and also screened at WFF 2008 to rave reviews. Donahue has also produced and edited numerous features and documentaries that have won over twenty-five awards combined at such prestigious festivals as Sundance, Cannes, Berlin, Toronto, SXSW, Venice, San Sebastian, and Tribeca.

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Charles Bradley: Soul of America Directed by Poull Brien USA / 2012 / 74 minutes Main Credits Featuring Executive Producer Producer Director Cinematographers

Charles Bradley Alexander Brough Alexander Brough Poull Brien Stuart McCardle John Taws Poull Brien Adriana Pacheco Stuart McCardle Poull Brien Charles Bradley Menahan Street Band

Editors Composers/Music Sound Designers

Ovasen Post Martin Czembor

Charles Bradley: Soul of America charts the incredible late-in-life rise of 62 year-old aspiring soul singer Charles Bradley, whose debut album rocketed him from a hard life in the projects to Rolling Stone magazines’ top 50 albums of 2011. Abandoned as a child by his mother, Bradley faced poverty, homelessness, illiteracy, violence and tragedy on his path to realizing his lifelong dream to make it in the music industry. Beginning with his 62nd birthday celebration, this film captures Charles’ unlikely transformation from struggling James Brown impersonator to international celebrity. Poull Brien is a first time feature film director. His short narratives and documen-

BIO taries have played at festivals including SXSW, Hot Docs, Silverdocs, and Tribeca,

and have been licensed by IFC and Current TV. Poull met Charles Bradley, the subject of his first feature documentary, while directing a music video for Bradley’s first single, which helped catapult the 62-year-old aspiring singer to international fame. Brien graduated from the Radio/TV/Film program at Northwestern University and currently resides in Brooklyn, where he writes, directs and edits. Visit www.charlesbradleyfilm.com

Showing at Bearsville Theater

Fri Oct 12 • 7:00pm *Tickets available only through Radio Woodstock

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Charles Bradley CONCERT at Bearsville Theater

Fri Oct 12 • 9:30pm Charles Bradley has spent most of his life dreaming of a better one. For additional information, check concert listings. *Tickets available only through Radio Woodstock

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Directed by Jeff Orlowski USA,Greenland, Iceland / 2012 / 75 minutes Main Credits Featuring Producer Cinematographer Editor Composer/Music Sound Designer

James Balog Svavar Jonatansson Adam LeWinter Paula Dupre Jeff Orlowski Davis Coombe J. Ralph Dustin Cawood

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Chasing Ice Photographer James Balog has been reshaping how we see the environment for over 30 years, shooting for top magazines like National Geographic, Audobon, and the Smithsonian Magazine. In 2007, Balog became more directly involved with environmental activism, creating the Extreme Ice Survey (EIS) after years of photographing glaciers and witnessing rapidly vanishing ice sheets across the globe. In Jeff Orlowski’s feature debut, we see in vivid detail the results of years of photographic research the EIS has compiled, dramatically depicting the effect global warming is having on the world’s biggest glaciers. The EIS team used time-lapse cameras to record the changing Arctic landscape. Beautiful cinematography of magnificent vistas, along with Balog’s photography, allow viewers to look into the previously unseen world of glacial melting, including the largest ice calving event ever captured on film. Balog’s work showcases the beauty of glacial ice and how fleeting its life span may really be. – Michael Burke Chasing Ice is directed by Jeff Orlowski, cinematographer for the Extreme Ice

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BIO Survey and an award-winning filmmaker. A graduate of Stanford University, he has been working with James Balog since 2007 and has shot over 300 hours of footage of EIS in the field. His work for EIS has screened on NBC, CNN, PBS, National Geographic, and hundreds of other venues around the world, including a multi-year installation at the Denver International Airport.

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David Bromberg Unsung Treasure Directed by Beth Toni Kruvant USA / 2012 / 74 minutes Main Credits Featuring

David Bromberg Jorma Kaukonen Sam Bush Keb Mo Dr. John Vince Gil Philip Setzer Nancy Josephson Mayor James M. Baker Executive Producer Roger Kruvant Producer Beth Toni Kruvant Screenwriter Beth Toni Kruvant Cinematographer Bill Donald Editor Anand Kamalakar Sound Designer Bill Markle

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Beth Kruvant’s documentary follows the unique and powerful history of David Bromberg’s career, tracing the roller coaster of Bromberg’s station as an American music legend of the 70s to the foremost American violin collector, appraiser, and full-time violin luthier today. David Bromberg: Unsung Treasure contrasts Bromberg’s innovative rise to musical fame with his passion for the delicate craft of violin-making, showing that, truly, few career paths are ever predictable. Bromberg has combined the musical genres of blues, jazz, big band, gospel, rock, bluegrass, and country throughout his musical career, collaborating with major names like Bob Dylan, George Harrison and Jerry Garcia. Kruvant chronicles Bromberg’s rise to fame, his struggle with a twenty-two year hiatus, current musical ventures, and his recent efforts to promote the music and arts community in his new hometown of Wilmington, Delaware. – Chandra L. Knotts Beth Kruvant graduated from Barnard College, Nova Law School and New York Film

BIO Academy. After practicing law for twenty years, she began to tell stories through

film and is now is a full-time filmmaker. This is Kruvant’s third feature documentary. Her last documentary, Heart of Stone, was recently seen on Showtime and was released theatrically in 2010. It won the Best Feature Film of the 2009 Philadelphia Film Festival, the audience award at Slamdance, and the Jury Award at Cinequest Film Festival, along with many other distinguished awards. Visit www.goodfootageproductions.com Followed by a performance

David Bromberg

He’s played with everyone, he’s toured everywhere, he can lead a raucous big band or hold an audience silent with solo acoustic blues.

Visit www.davidbromberg.net

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Directed by Jon Bowermaster USA / 2012 / 75 minutes Main Credits Featuring

Screenwriter Concert footage Directed by Produced by Musical Director Editors

Mark Ruffalo Melissa Leo Natalie Merchant Joan Osborne Sandra Steingraber Citizen Cope Medeski, Martin and Wood The Felice Brothers Jon Bowermaster Alex Gibney Blair Foster Jigsaw Productions Natalie Merchant Chris Rahm Evolving Media

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“Dear Governor Cuomo...” On a rainy night in May of 2012, a coalition of musicians, scientists and activists gathered in Albany on the governor’s front doorstep, calling for a ban on hydraulic-fracturing. With the news that Governor Andrew Cuomo might lift the moratorium on fracking in New York any day, the event was assembled in less than a month. Two rehearsals in twenty-four hours, and it was showtime. The goal of the varied participants, many of whom had never met before this night, was to explain in clear terms the threats of fracking and to motivate people to rise up against the practice using song. The cord that bound them all was, first and foremost, that they were New Yorkers: New Yorkers Against Fracking. Under the musical direction of Natalie Merchant, the event was filmed by Academy Award® winning documentarian Alex Gibney. The film features actors Mark Ruffalo and Melissa Leo, environmental biologist Sandra Steingraber, and musicians ranging from Joan Osborne and Citizen Cope to Medeski Martin and Wood and The Felice Brothers. A six-time grantee of the National Geographic Expeditions Council and award-winning writer

BIO and filmmaker, Jon Bowermaster’s ten-year-long Oceans 8 project took him and his

teams around the world by sea kayak, on expeditions ranging from the Aleutian Islands to Vietnam, French Polynesia to Chile/Argentina/Bolivia, Gabon to Croatia, and Tasmania to Antarctica. Recently named one of a dozen Ocean Heroes by the National Geographic Society, Bowermaster’s most recent documentaries are Terra Antarctica, Rediscovering the Seventh Continent, What Would Darwin Think? Man v. Nature in the Galapagos, and the prize-winning SoLa, Louisiana Water Stories. He spent January 2012 in Antarctica producing the first 3D film about the seventh continent, to be distributed through museums and science institutions around the world beginning Spring 2013. Author of a dozen books, Bowermaster lives in New York’s Hudson Valley. Followed by a performance

Visit www.nyagainstfracking.org www.jonbowermaster.com www.nataliemerchant.com

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Dinner at the No-Go’s Directed by Marco Antonio Orsini Monoco/ 2012 / 71 minutes Main Credits Featuring

Bilal Mekkaoui Marco Antonio Orsini

Executive Producer Mark Brockbank Producers

Bilal Mekkaoui Marco Antonio Orsini Louie Jones

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Michael Palmerio Vincent Cattaeno

Composer/Music

Johnny Wilson

Sound Designer

Julia Owen

Everyone knows you’re not supposed to discuss politics and religion at a dinner party. Marco Orsini’s film turns that proposition on its head! Orsini and producer Bilal Mekkaoui take us on an international tour through the State Department’s Travel Advisory list, also known as the “No-Go list,” where they film dinner parties and discuss only politics and religion. Invited to the dinners are provocative thinkers, lawyers, investors, artists, religious leaders, politicians and activists. The filmmakers engage their guests on vital issues and ideas in search of a deeper understanding of Arab Spring, the 9/11 attacks, two American wars in the Middle East and other pressing concerns. What they find is a series of fascinating conversations steeped in history and rich with emotions, fears and dreams. Along the way they visit Lebanon, Jordan and Israel, before landing at a truly fascinating dinner in Atlanta, Georgia for an all too familiar American perspective. To watch Dinner at the No-Go’s is like being a guest at a one-of-a-kind dinner party where the main course is conversation. It is a conversation that will continue long after the credits roll – it’s fair to say the future of the world depends on it. – David Becker

Showing at WOODSTOCK Playhouse

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Marco Antonio Orsini resides in the principality of Monaco. An American, born

BIO in Puerto Rico, Orsini was raised on a succession of US Military bases in Asia and

Europe before attending secondary school in Decatur, Georgia at the height of desegregation. A taste for adventure and exploration characterizes Orsini’s life, his career and his personality.

Visit www.nogosthemovie.com

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Directed by Barbara Kopple USA / 2011 / 82 minutes Main Credits Executive Producer Glenn Rigberg Producers Hilary Birmingham Barbara Kopple Carla Woods Cinematographer John Hazard Editor William Davis Sound Designer Genevieve Faust

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Fight to Live Fight To Live, a film by Academy Award® winner Barbara Kopple, explores the seemingly archaic drug approval process of the Food and Drug Administration. The FDA makes it nearly impossible for people to obtain drugs that are not approved. Fight to Live follows people suffering from different forms of debilitating, incurable diseases, and their fight to gain access to drugs that may prolong their lives–drugs that are not yet FDA approved but show evidence that the medicine is helpiful to those who take it. Kopple asks the question: Should a person who is dying have the option to take whatever medicine they want, as long as their physician agrees with the decision? Fight To Live shows that when dealing with lifethreatening illness, gaining access to the best treatments available is half the battle. – Heather Olin Kopple is the two-time Academy Award® winning director and producer BIO Barbara of Harlan County, USA and American Dream. Her most recent projects are Fight to Live, a documentary about the United States’ drug approval and development system, and A Force of Nature, a film about journalist and philanthropist Ellen Ratner that screened at last year’s Woodstock Film Festival. She is currently in post production on a documentary about actress Mariel Hemingway.

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Idle Threat Directed by George Pakenham USA / 201 / 60 minutes Main Credits Featuring

NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg Tom and Ray Magliozzi from Car Talk Ben McGrath from The New Yorker Executive Producer George Pakenham Producers George Pakenham Michael Beller Screenwriters George Pakenham Freddie Mac Cinematographers George Pakenham Freddie Mac Bill Stanton Sara Burns Editors John Freeburn Freddie Mac Sound Designer Freddie Mac Composers/Music JS Bach Giuseppe Verdi Freddie Mac Nicolas Despo Hank Woji

A self-described vigilante, George Pakenham walks the streets of New York to stop what many see as a victimless crime: needless engine idling. What drivers don’t realize is how they are contributing to the oil crisis, asthma and air pollution through their desire for convenience and climate control. In order to raise awareness, Pakenham goes door-to-door, that is, car door-to-car door, explaining to unknowing drivers that they are breaking the law when they idle for more than three minutes. Responses vary from thanks to anger, but Pakenham never wavers. He wants the dangers that idling produces to be recognized as legitimate, and lobbies for the laws that are already in place to be enforced. Directed by Pakenham himself, Idle Threat follows one man’s quest to make the world a healthier, cleaner and safer place for everyone to live, and shows that if you try hard enough, one person really can make a difference. – Heather Olin George Pakenham graduated from the University of Arizona in 1972. After

BIO that, he traveled around the world, visiting Eastern Europe, Africa and Asia. While working in advertising and finance, he produced one documentary and three short films. He hates waste and foul air, which compelled him to begin the Idle Free Campaign in New York City in 2006. Since the campaign began, he has raised awareness in New York and around the world about the dangers of idling.

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Fri Oct 12 • 1:00pm Visit www.idlethreatmovie.com

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Directed by Jamie Meltzer USA / 2012 / 81 minutes Main Credits Featuring

Brandon Darby Scott Crow Lisa Fithian Caroline Heldman Michael May David Hanners Executive Producer Adam Spielberg Producers George Rush Stephen Bannatyne Cinematographer Frazer Bradshaw Editors Jamie Meltzer John Kane Summers Henderson Composer/Music T. Griffin Sound Designers Dan Olmsted/Berkeley Sound Artists

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Informant This captivating and complex film tells the story of Brandon Darby, a charismatic grassroots activist turned vilified FBI informant. Beginning in the wreckage of post-Katrina New Orleans, where Darby and others founded a radical grassroots organization, director Jamie Meltzer brings us inside the mind of a man who sacrificed almost everything to do what he felt was right. Darby’s work with the FBI is checkered with tragic turns, including mysterious deaths and accusations of entrapment. Wrapped up in Darby’s collaboration with the FBI were two young men he met in the lead-up to the 2008 Republican National Convention in St. Paul, whose interaction with Darby led to their arrest and imprisonment. Did the FBI take advantage of a confused and paranoid man? Was it Darby’s own ideas that led to the arrest of the two young activists? Or was this man doing right by himself and his country? Meltzer’s fascinating effort takes no sides and offers no easy answers. With perspectives from both Darby and those he betrayed, Informant is a complex and heartfelt exploration of political ideologies, government priorities and human realities in a world where you never know who you can trust. –David Becker Jamie Meltzer’s feature documentary films have been broadcast nationally on

BIO PBS and have screened at numerous film festivals worldwide. They include Off the Charts: The Song-Poem Story (Independent Lens, 2003) about the shadowy world of song-poems, Welcome to Nollywood, an investigation into the wildly successful Nigerian movie industry (PBS broadcast, 2008), and La Caminata, a recent short film about a small town in Mexico that runs a simulated border crossing as a tourist attraction that screened at Silverdocs and True/False, among others. Meltzer teaches in the Documentary Film and Video M.F.A. Program at Stanford University.

Visit www.informantdoc.com

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Magical Mystery Tour Revisited Directed by Francis Hanly UK / 2012 / 58 minutes Main Credits Featuring

Paul McCartney Ringo Starr Peter Fonda Martin Scorsese Terry Gilliam Executive Producers Anthony Wall Jeff Jones Producer Jonathan Clyde Cinematographer Francis Hanly Editor Martin Cooper Composer/Music The Beatles, and misc. Sound Designer John Pritchard

Preceding Magical Mystery Tour Showing at Woodstock Playhouse

Fri Oct 12 • 7:15pm

Songs you’ll never forget, the film you’ve never seen and a story that’s never been heard. In 1967, in the wake of the extraordinary impact of Sgt. Pepper, The Beatles made a film – a dreamlike story of a coach daytrip, a magical mystery tour. It was seen by a third of Great Britain at 8:35pm on BBC1 on Boxing Day and all hell broke loose. Magical Mystery Tour was greeted with outrage and derision by middle England and the establishment media. “How dare they?” they cried; “They’re not film directors, who do they think they are?” they howled. Where were the four lovable moptops of Help! and A Hard Day’s Night? BBC TV’s multi-award winning company Arena tells this greatest of untold Beatles stories, exploring how the counter-cultural artistic landscape of 1967 created the environment for a film like Magical Mystery Tour to be made. Contributors include Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Peter Fonda, Martin Scorsese, Terry Gilliam, Paul Merton and Neil Innes. Roll up, roll up for The Mystery Tour! Francis Hanly’s most recent documentaries include a biography of the Beatles’

BIO producer Sir George Martin, and a six-part series on the History of Music with

renowned composer and broadcaster Howard Goodall. Hanly has won many awards, including the prestigious Royal Television Society prize for his film on the compositions of John Lennon and Paul McCartney. He’s also involved in a long-term collaboration with writer and broadcaster Jonathan Meades, making programs on subjects as diverse as Scottish Football Grounds, the mudflats of Essex and the madness of Victorian architects. Visit www.bbc.co.uk For press inquiries, contact jennifer.ballantyne@emicap.com COURTESY OF

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Directed by Alex Gibney USA / 2012 / 107 minutes Main Credits Featuring

Jamey Sheridan Chris Cooper Ethan Hawke John Slattery

Executive Producers Sheila Nevins (for HBO) Lori Singer Jessica Kingdom Producers

Alex Gibney Jedd Wider Todd Wider Alexandra Johnes Kristen Vaurio

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Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God In “Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God,” Oscar® winning filmmaker Alex Gibney exposes the abuse of power in the Catholic Church and a cover-up that winds its way from the row houses of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, through the bare ruined choirs of Ireland’s churches, all the way to the highest office of the Vatican. By investigating the secret crimes of a charismatic priest who abused over 200 deaf children in a school under his control, the film shows the face of evil that lurks behind the smiles and denials of authority figures and institutions who believe that because they stand for good they can do no wrong. The film documents the first known public protest against clerical sex abuse in the US, long before the crisis in Boston; a struggle of more than three decades that ultimately led to a lawsuit against the Pontiff himself. These heroes, four deaf young men, set out to expose the priest who had abused them and so many others by trying to make their voices “heard.” Their investigation helped to uncover documents from the secret Vatican Archives that show the Pope - who must operate within the mysterious rules of the roman Curia - as both responsible and helpless in the face of evil.

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Sloane Klevin

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Alex Gibney

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Lisa Rinzler

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Sloane Klevin

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Ivor Guest Robert Logan

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Allan Zaleski

Alex Gibney is the winner of the 2008 Academy Award® for Best Documentary

BIO for Taxi to the Dark Side. Before that, Gibney wrote, produced and directed the

2006 Oscar® nominated film, Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, which received the Independent Spirit Award and the WGA Award. His most recent films as director include Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer, Magic Trip, and The Last Gladiators. He is currently editing an untitled project on WikiLeaks and Julian Assange for Universal Pictures.

Showing at Rosendale Theatre

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Presented by Jigsaw Productions in association with Wider Film Projects and Below the Radar Films Visit www.jigsawprods.com/mea-maxima-culpa

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The Mechanical Bride Directed by Allison de Fren USA / 2012 / 76 minutes Main Credits Narrator Producers Cinematographer Editors Composer/Music Sound Designer

Julie Newmar C. Grant Mitchell Allison de Fren C. Grant Mitchell Andrew Syder Allison de Fren P.J. Wolff Rich Ragsdale Greg Conway

Showing at Utopia Studios WOODSTOCK

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Allison de Fren’s fascinating feature debut The Mechanical Bride provides a look into the clandestine world of artificial companionship with sexbots and astoundingly realistic female sex dolls, a world that is slowly gaining a public presence. Citing roots as early as Pygmalion, de Fren traces doll culture history through film, television and, more recently, the erotic world of robotic technology. The Mechanical Bride delves into the intimate and psychological aspects of sex doll manufacturing and ownership, examining companies like RealDoll and Orient Doll, as well as their influence on sexual culture and moral perspective. The Mechanical Bride addresses not only the sexual implications of a non-organic erotic world but also the political and personal implications that will define the future of sex and technology. – Chandra L. Knotts Allison de Fren is a media maker and scholar based in Los Angeles, who divides

BIO her time between creating, writing and teaching about media, gender and

technology. While she has always been fascinated with dolls, puppets, mannequins, and robots, her interest in men who build artificial women was sparked in her former life as an interactive digital designer working among predominantly male roboticists at a future technology “think tank” in Silicon Valley. It eventually led to her award-winning documentary short on robot fetishists, A.S.F.R. (alt.sex.fetish.robots), which in turn gave birth to The Mechanical Bride (her first feature). She holds a master’s degree from the Interactive Telecommunications Program at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and a doctorate from USC’s School of Cinematic Arts, and has been awarded fellowships from the Annenberg Foundation, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Cagney & Lacey Foundation, and the American Association of University Women. She is an Assistant Professor of Media Arts & Culture at Occidental College in Los Angeles.

Visit www.mechanicalbridemovie.com

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Directed by Cynthia Wade USA / 2012 / 39 minutes Main Credits Featuring

Producers Cinematographers Editor Composer/Music Sound Designer

Rachel Delmolfetto Cynthia Sansone Linda Hart Cambria Russell Cynthia Wade Robin Honan Cynthia Wade David Teague David Teague Max Avery Lichtenstein Alex Noyes

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Mondays at Racine Mondays at Racine, directed by Cynthia Wade, tells the story of two sisters who open their salon once a month to women diagnosed with cancer. As daughters themselves of a cancer victim, salon owners Rachel and Cynthia provide their community with haircuts, manicures and pedicures, as well as a safe haven for growth, healing and discovery of inner strength. Wade not only focuses on the health and family struggles that cancer brings to its victims, but the symbolic strength and importance of a woman’s felt beauty that can be both lost and found. Mondays at Racine is an inspiration to those who are victims of cancer, as well as those who are not, a beautifully told story of compassion and the will to overcome. –Chandra L. Knotts Cynthia Wade , who was born and raised in the Hudson Valley, won the Academy

BIO Award® in 2008 for her short documentary Freeheld. Besides the Oscar®, Wade

garnered 16 film awards worldwide, including Special Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival. Wade’s 2010 short documentary Born Sweet won 17 festival awards from festivals including Sundance, Palm Springs, Aspen, and Newport. She has directed documentary films for HBO, Cinemax, PBS, IFC, and the Sundance Channel. Her film Shelter Dogs won five festival awards and was broadcast in seven countries. Mondays at Racine is Wade’s fourth WFF film, following Born Sweet (2010), Freeheld (2007,) and Shelter Dogs (2003). Wade holds an MA in documentary filmmaking from Stanford University. She is currently producing a fiction feature based on her documentary Freeheld, starring Ellen Page, with a screenplay by Ron Nyswaner. Her latest documentary, set in Indonesia, is in production. Visit www.mondaysatracine.com PRECEDED BY

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Directed by Sari Gilman USA / 2012 / 31 minutes In an aging Florida community, paradise has begun to exact a high price. Visit www.sarigilman.com

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Oma & Bella Directed by Alexa Karolinski USA, Germany / 2012 / 76 minutes In German with subtitles

Main Credits Featuring

Regina Karolinski Bella Katz

Executive Producers Stephan Fruth Dari Marder Producer

Alexa Karolinski Maro Chermanyeff Jeff Dupre

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Alexa Karolinski Günther Berghaus

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Alexa Karolinski

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Annette Focks

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Michael Müller

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Alexa Karolinski’s film is a loving portrait of its two leading ladies as they embrace life in all its extremes, finding joy in subtle moments and discovering hidden histories in unexpected places. Karolinski introduces us to Oma, her grandmother, and Bella, her grandmother’s friend, who live in Berlin, Germany. We first meet them in the kitchen, where they prepare meals they learned to cook as children. The filmmaker weaves an unforgettable journey with these women through the stories they tell and the memories they share. In a series of conversations with Karolinski and with each other, we learn details of their past. What emerges is a first person history of some of humanity’s darkest hours. Oma and Bella, both survivors of German concentration camps, give voice to their families’ experiences during the Holocaust and reveal that their deep friendship was forged in those unimaginable years. Karolinski’s insightful and inspiring portrait captures the way these remarkable women carry the past gracefully into the present, one meal at a time. –David Becker Alexa Karolinski is a half-German, half-Canadian filmmaker who grew up in

BIO Berlin with weekly lunch visits to her grandmother’s. After studying art history in London, she moved back to Berlin to work for Vice Magazine and then became a director at Arte. She recently graduated from New York’s School of Visual Arts with an MFA in Documentary Filmmaking. Karolinski currently lives and works in New York, where she directs fashion videos, freelances for Arte, works for the filmmaker John Walter, and if she has time, cooks feasts for her friends. Oma & Bella is her first feature length film but she is already at work on her next movie.

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Directed by Jonathan Kalafer USA / 2012 / 86 minutes Main Credits Producers Editor

Jonathan Kalafer Steve Kalafar Bao Nguyen Davon Pickering

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Once in a Lullaby: The PS 22 Chorus Story More than a feel good movie about kids and school, Once in a Lullaby: The PS 22 Chorus Story, goes to the heart of the purpose of education. The core story focuses on the fifth-grade children’s chorus at PS 22 in Staten Island, New York, as they prepare to perform on television at one of the most watched events of the year – the 83rd Annual Academy Awards. While this in itself is engaging enough for a documentary, director Jonathan Kalafer delves deeper into the lives of the students and their inspired and inspiring music teacher, bringing their humanity to the forefront. As one reviewer notes, “It is a moving testament to the value of investing in children, and the crucial lessons the arts provide.”

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Jonathan Kalafer is an award-winning director/producer and an innovative

BIO educator serving at Dickinson High School in Jersey City, New Jersey, for over ten years. His teaching has been acknowledged by the George Lucas Educational Foundation and he procured a VH1 Save the Music grant for Jersey City Public Schools. His students serve as both inspiration and collaborators for his professional documentary filmmaking, and he often includes them in the decision-making process. Past films include We Love You, which premiered at the L.A. International Short Film Festival where it won the Best Documentary award. It also won Best Short Documentary at the New Jersey Film Festival and was a finalist in the U.S.A. Film Festival. Diary of Immaculee made the official shortlist for an Academy Award® nomination and was part of the One X One program at The Toronto International Film Festival. It was also selected as a part of the I.D.A.s DocuWeeks program.

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One Track Heart: The Story of Krishna Das Directed by Jeremy Frindel USA, Insi / 2012 / 72 minutes Main Credits Featuring

Krishna Das Ram Dass Rick Rubin Dan Goleman Sharon Salzberg Larry Brilliant Executive Producer Andrew Jones Producers Jeremy Frindel Mike Harrop Cinematographer Jeremy Frindel Editor Jeremy Frindel Composers/Music J. Mascis Devadas Sound Designer Tom Ryan

One Track Heart: The story of Krishna Das captures his journey to India to discover legendary spiritual teacher Neem Karoli Baba, as well as his personal journey through drug addiction and depression. The film chronicles his eventual emergence as a world-famous kirtan singer who the New York Times calls “the chant master of American Yoga.” Jeremy Frindel has been dreaming about movies and music for most of his life.

BIO He earned a BA in film scoring from the Berklee College of Music in 2001, and has been immersed in filmmaking ever since. He has worked as an editor and sound editor on such films as Junebug, Some Kind of Monster and Bernard & Doris. One Track Heart: The Story of Krishna Das is his first feature film. Jeremy lives in Brooklyn with his wife, where he spends his time mastering ping-pong and drinking green juice (when he’s not traveling around the world with a camera in hand). Visit www.onetrackheartmovie.com

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Practice Change: The Africa Yoga

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Directed by Dina Rudick Kenya / 2011 / 16 minutes

Practice Change is the story of how one woman’s idea to bring yoga to some of the biggest slums in the world caught on like wildfire and is transforming lives, communities and possibly countries.

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Directed by Jason Tippet and Elizabeth Mims USA / 2012 / 68 minutes Main Credits Producer Cinematographer Editors Composer/Music Sound Designers

Derek Waters Jason Tippet Elizabeth Mims Jason Tippet Nick Thorburn Patrick Janssen Bill Meadows

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Only the Young Amidst the socioeconomic downturn plaguing the California Santa Clarita Valley, three teenagers are paving their dirt road to adulthood. Garrison Saenz, Kevin Conway and Skye Elmore are high school students from the Canyon Country suburbs who must face serious issues that come with their newfound maturity while also grappling with typical coming-of-age obstacles. This documentary follows these Californian Christian skate-punks through the suburban ruin of foreclosure and graffiti, meanwhile navigating their struggles in relationships, religion and their unsure futures. Jason Tippet and Elizabeth Mims’ feature debut is filmed with the poetics and cinematography of a narrative coupled with the startling fullness and reality of the most compelling documentary. – Chandra L. Knotts Jason Tippet attended CalArts for his undergraduate degree where he directed

BIO his first short documentary, Thompson, which screened at Sundance 2010 and won the Jury Award at SXSW 2009. Elizabeth Mims grew up in Austin, Texas, and graduated from CalArts in 2010. While there, she produced Thompson. Not to brag, but she was also freshman homecoming princess at Austin High School.

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Pretty Old Directed by Walter Matteson USA / 2012 / 85 minutes Main Credits Executive Producer Sarah Jessica Parker Joe Berlinger Alison Benson Producers Josh Alexander Daniel Chalfen Walter Matteson Screenwriters Josh Alexander Matthew Prinzing Walter Matteson Cinematographer Trish Govoni Editor Matthew Prinzing Composer/Music Kris Kaczor Sound Designer John Bosch

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There is a common misconception that beauty is something reserved specifically for the young. However, the ladies of the 30th annual Ms. Senior Sweetheart Pageant defy convention. Pretty Old is an inspiring story of women who refuse to subscribe to contemporary society’s views of beauty. Each year they travel to Massachusetts for the chance to demonstrate their talents and beauty in a pageant that exclusively showcases women in their golden years. Walter Matteson’s directorial debut follows these remarkable women who challenge the odds and show off the one thing they won’t be denied … their spirit. As these women bond, they must come to terms with the fact that there can be only one Ms. Senior Sweetheart. This documentary of ordinary women in an extraordinary situation offers a rare combination of humor, triumph and heartache. – Joe Martindale After graduating from UC Berkeley with a degree in rhetoric, Walter Matteson

BIO began directing and producing documentaries while working as a bellhop at the

Hotel Rex in San Francisco. After completing Figures and Loops, a feature documentary exploring his childhood in juxtaposition to the obscure world of competitive artistic roller-skating, he moved to New York City and began working at the Tribeca Film Festival. Matteson then went freelance and began working at @radical.media where he gained in-depth and worldwide documentary production experience. He is currently traveling the world, constantly searching for characters, universal symbols and stories to be shared with the rest of humanity.

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Directed by Anton Verstakov Russian Federation / 2012 / 50 minutes Russian with subtitles

Main Credits Producer Cinematographer Editor Composer/Music

Daniil Zotov Anton Verstakov Anton Verstakov Albert Kuvezin

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Rolan Makes Movies A film about the love of making movies, this fun and heartfelt documentary tells the story of Rolan, his video camera and his dream of becoming a filmmaker. Never mind the fact that he’s 10,000 kilometers from Hollywood in the heart of Siberia. That’s the least of his worries. Any filmmaker or movie-lover can relate to Rolan and the die-hard group of friends who follow his vision no matter how much (fake) blood will be spilled. Rolan’s rules of filmmaking include keeping his budget at nothing, unleashing the creative potential of his friends, and keeping his profit ratio right around 100-150 percent. Director Anton Verstakov’s funny and loving portrait brings out the best in its charming subject while paying homage to the art of filmmaking. Saturated with Hollywood action sequences, Hong Kong fight scenes and slapstick humor, Rolan does what it takes to make his movies right, even if most of the time his actors only get one take. Always present are Rolan’s infectious smile and his seemingly bottomless well of determination – two attributes that filmmakers considerably closer to Hollywood often share. –David Becker Anton Verstakov is a Russian independent filmmaker. He was born in Moscow in

BIO 1981, studied TV journalism at Moscow State University and film production at

NYFA (Moscow). After working for seven years for Russian TV, he decided to go independent and established his own production company, AVProductions.TV. He works as a “one man band” journalist throughout all Russia and post-Soviet Union Republics. Rolan Makes Movies is Anton’s first feature documentary.

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Shepard & Dark Directed by Treva Wurmfeld USA / 2012 / 92 minutes Main Credits Featuring

Sam Shepard Johnny Dark Executive Producers Emily Wachtel Treva Wurmfeld Producer Amy Hobby Editor Sandra Adair, A.C.E. Composer/Music Graham Reynolds

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Treva Wurmfeld’s feature documentary premiere Shepard & Dark is the compelling story of playwright, director and actor Sam Shepard and his long-time best friend Johnny Dark. Since 1963, the two have been inseparable and they have nearly half a century of letters, photos and videos to prove it. While trying to compile their many decades of correspondence into a book, the friends are reminded of all that they have gone through over the years. Together, they have experienced birth, death, marriage, divorce, love, and loss. Now in their late 60s, neither man’s life is in the place he thought he would be when their friendship began. The letters force them to look into the past and confront the choices that they have made, both good and bad. Through all of the instability and chaos that life has thrown their way, the two men have always had one constant – each other’s unwavering friendship. – Heather Olin Born in New York City, and raised in lower Manhattan, Treva Wurmfeld is the

BIO daughter of two abstract painters. Wurmfeld attended Hunter College in New York, where she studied Fine Art, Art History, Philosophy, and Anthropology and received an MFA in Video Art. While in graduate school, Wurmfeld began filming her first featurelength documentary, Texas Heart (currently in production) about two Texas doctors racing to develop the first continuous-flow total artificial heart. Wurmfeld wrote and directed the short film Oyster (2008) that played at numerous festivals, including screening at the Brooklyn Museum. In 2009, Wurmfeld relocated to Los Angeles and began production on Shepard & Dark (2012), which is making its international premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival. Wurmfeld currently splits her time between Los Angeles and Austin, Texas.

Visit www.ShepardandDark.com

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Directed by Mirjam von Arx Switzerland / 2012 / 87 minutes Main Credits Producer Screenwriters Cinematographers Editor Sound Designer Composer/Music

Mirjam von Arx Michèle Wannaz Mirjam von Arx Kirsten Johnson Claudia Raschke Sabine Krayenbuehl Christian Beusch Adrian Frutiger

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Virgin Tales “You’re Khrystian, you’re beautiful, your name means free spirit, lover of God,” opens Virgin Tales, a documentary that takes a fascinating look at a growing counterculture trend affecting one in eight girls in America. The film follows the evangelical Wilson family of Colorado Springs, Colorado, as they adhere to a life of “pure waiting,” in which the children vow to remain completely unsoiled until their marriage – even so far as saving their first kiss for the altar. Cameras follow the family through church services, conventions, purity balls, and their home life, complemented all the while by a video diary kept by Jordyn, the oldest unmarried sister who patiently waits for her turn. Director Mirjam von Arx brings us this unexpected, two-year long glimpse into the real life of the Wilsons and those around them, set against the backdrop of the political tension of the past four years and the war in Afghanistan. Mirjam von Arx was born 1966 in Switzerland. After studying journalism, von

BIO Arx worked for 18 years as an editor and freelancer for a number of German Showing at Utopia Studios WOODSTOCK

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language magazines. In 1991, she moved to New York, produced the road movie Bluesiana and executed two documentaries for SRF and Sat1. In 2001, she moved to London and began filming the documentary Building the Gherkin. In 2002, she founded the production company ican films gmbh. In 2006/7 von Arx produced the documentary Seven Dumpsters and a Corpse for Thomas Haemmerli. The film was awarded the Zurich Film Prize 2007 and nominated for the Swiss Film Prize 2008. Her documentary Seed Warriors was theatrically released in 2010 and won a nomination for the International Green Film Award 2011 at the Cinema for Peace Gala in Berlin. Visit www.virgintales.com/en PRECEDED BY

History of Virginity Directed by Sophie Haller USA / 2012 / 6 minutes Sophie Haller’s animated short film tells the History of Virginity.

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Welcome to the Machine Directed by Avi Zev Weider USA / 2012 / 85 minutes Main Credits Featuring

Producer Cinematographer Editors Composer/Music

Ray Kurzweil Jaron Lanier Kevin Kelly Rodney Brooks Sherry Turkle David Skrbina David Gelernter Erik Davis Avi Weider Derek Wiesehahn Avi Weider Ann Husaini Michael Montes

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Upon becoming the father to triplets, filmmaker Avi Zev Weider explores the nature of technology. Woven together with expert interviews and portraits of people who have intimate relationships with technology, Welcome To The Machine takes the conversation away from the business of technology or the latest gadgets and leads the audience to ultimately consider questions of life and death, revealing that all discussions about technology are really about what it means to be human. Avi Zev Weider’s award-winning short film I Remember premiered at the 1998 Sun-

BIO dance Film Festival. With his company Loop Filmworks, Weider produced over 50

spots for clients like HBO and Bravo. He is also the producer of the documentary, Danland and was the associate producer on the films Scott Walker: 30th Century Man and Cinemania. Additionally, Weider is the award-winning writer/director of the Sloan Foundation and Sundance Institute-supported project Zeroes and Ones, is the recipient of a 2008 New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) fellowship in screenwriting, as well as a 2009 New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) individual artist grant. He was also selected as a 2011 Emerging Artist by The Film Society of Lincoln Center and the Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP) as part of their their Emerging Visions program.

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Directed by Dan Habib USA / 2012 / 76 minutes Main Credits Featuring

Producer Cinematographer Editors Sound Designer Composer/Music

Kelsey Carroll Jonathon Drake JoAnne Malloy Kathy Francoeur Sharon Lampros Susan Carroll Chris Carroll Tracey Smith Shawn Burby Dan Habib Dan Habib Rose Rosenblatt Diego Siragna Rikk Desgres Rick Baitz

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Who Cares About Kelsey? Kelsey Carroll has one goal—to graduate from high school—and plenty of reasons why she shouldn’t. She attends a school with one of the highest dropout rates in New Hampshire and has dealt with homelessness, sexual abuse and ADHD. She failed her freshman year and was suspended for dealing drugs. Who Cares About Kelsey? is the story of Kelsey’s transformation from a defiant and disruptive “problem student‚“ to a motivated and self-confident young woman. Along the way, she is helped by a group of educators determined to empower this emotionally disabled teen to take control of her destiny and find the desire to graduate. Dan Habib, director of the Emmy-nominated documentary Including Samuel, got

BIO his degree in political science from the University of Michigan in 1987. Named

New Hampshire Photographer of the year six times, Habib has gone on to judge the Pulitzer Prizes, the Pictures of the Year, Best of Photojournalism, and the White House News Photographers Association. He is currently Filmmaker in Residence at the Institute on Disability at the University of New Hampshire, after almost thirteen years serving as photography editor for the Concord Monitor, a position he left in order to pursue freelance documentaries. Who Cares about Kelsey? is his second film.

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Words of Witness Directed by Mai Iskander USA, Egypt / 2012 / 71 minutes In Arabic with subtitles

Main Credits Featuring Heba Afify Executive Producers Tiffany Schauer Steve Cohen Wynne Comer Producer Mai Iskander Cinematographer Mai Iskander Editor Shannon Kennedy Sound Designers Dow McKeever Marsha Moore Composer/Music Barbara Cohen

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Every time 22-year-old Heba Afify heads out to cover the historical events shaping her country’s future, her mother is compelled to remind her, “I know you are a journalist, but you’re still a girl!” Defying cultural norms and family expectations, Heba takes to the streets to report on an Egypt in turmoil, using tweets, texts and Facebook posts. Her coming-of-age, political awakening and the disillusionment that follows mirror that of a nation seeking the freedom to shape its own destiny, dignity and democracy. Heba’s words bear witness to the heady optimism of a country on a path to selfdetermination, the toppling of a dictator, the difficult transition toward democracy, the courageous challenge to the ruling military who cracks down on the opposition, and the celebration of a cultural shift where a younger generation inspired a country to “lead themselves.” Mai Iskander’s directorial debut Garbage Dreams was nominated for the 2010

BIO Best Documentary Award by the Directors Guild of America and has won 26

international awards, including the Al Gore Reel Current Award and IDA Humanitas Award. Filmed over the course of four years, Garbage Dreams follows three teenage boys growing up in Egypt’s largest garbage village. Garbage Dreams aired on PBS/Independent Lens for the occasion of Earth Day 2010 and has been screened in over a hundred international film festivals. As a cinematographer, Mai has worked on TV shows for A&E, PBS, and LOGO. She has filmed numerous narratives, commercials and documentaries, including Watchers of the Sky by Academy Award® Nominee Edet Belzberg.

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Directed by Rasmus Dinesen Denmark / 2011 / 45 minutes In Danish with subtitles and English

Main Credits Featuring

Rasmus Kofoed Frederik Rudkjøbing Executive Producer Signe Byrge Sorensen Producers Monica Helstrom Rasmus Dinesen Cinematographers Aske Foss Niels Thastum Rune Backs Rasmus Dinesen Editors Per. K Kirkegaard Frederik Strunk Hjorth Nielsen Klaus Heinecke Sound Designer Bobby Hess Composers/Music Rune Funch Jakob Dinesen

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The World’s Finest Chef (Verdens Bedste Kok) Back at the Woodstock Film Festival with his third feature documentary, director Rasmus Dinesen takes us on an exhilarating ride into the world of competitive haute cuisine in The World’s Finest Chef (Verdens Beste Kok), where culinary competition is experienced on par with professional sports. For eight years, master chef Rasmus Kofoed has been obsessed with a dream of winning the Bocuse d’Or, the individual world championship for chefs in fine gourmet cooking. The film follows the 36-year-old master chef over the six months leading up to the championship, offering a rare glimpse into the rarified world of high stakes competitive haute cuisine where it takes extraordinary time, passion and self-confidence to compete with the best in the world. Dinesen opens a window into the mindset of a single competitor, illuminating the drive, focus and commitment needed for excellence. Verdens Beste Kok celebrates the sheer pleasure of the pursuit of excellence. – Maria Marewski Rasmus Dinesen graduated from Denmark’s European Film College in 1998. He

BIO has directed commercials, short narratives, music videos, and a TV documentary

series. In 2008, Dinesen attended the Woodstock Film Festival with his documentary Diplomacy - The Responsibility to Protect, and in 2004 with The Forbidden Team, the story of the Tibetan national team fighting for their right to call themselves a national team. Visit www.rasmusdinesen.com PRECEDED BY

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Free Expression Directed by Martin Lombard and Facundo Lombard USA / 2011 / 15 minutes The story of two dancers, twin brothers, who have lost their “artistic” identities while searching for selfexpression.

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Animated Shorts with Bill & Signe The 1st Time Cee Cee Did Acid Directed by Joy Vaccese and Noelle Melody

USA / 2011 / 0:49 minutes

Visit www.twinsareweird.com

Directed by Lev Polyakov From School of Visual Arts A hamster in love with an elementary school teacher dreams about rescuing her from evil demons.

A little girl tries to dig to the moon! Visit www.weirdhat.com

(notes on) biology USA / 2011 / 6 minutes

USA / 2011 / 5:30 minutes

Nothing like an avenging robot elephant to start off the weekend.

A young girl must track a mysterious fox through a foreboding wilderness.

Visit www.vimeo.com/ornana

Person Pinball Directed by Aaron Hughes

shorts

Visit www.tylerkupferer.com

Directed by Noam Sussman

USA / 2011 / 2 minutes Passing pedestrians become pinball play.

Sheridan College

USA / 2011 / 2 minutes

Visit www.vimeo.com/user2071430

Side effects of this film may include heart palpitations, pregnancy and fits of uncontrollable laughter.

Rocks in My Pockets Directed by Signe Baumane Visit www.noamfolio.tumblr.com

Història d’Este (Story of Him)

USA / 2011 / 5 minutes A funny film about depression.

Summer Bummer

Directed by Pascual Pérez

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Directed by Bill Plympton

Spain / 2011 / 7:13 minutes

USA / 2012 / 3 minutes

An animated tale about alcoholism. Visit www.historiadeeste.mifilm.net

A man about to go swimming imagines what horrors could be lurking deep in in the waters of his backyard pool.

Directed by Hisko Hulsing

Denmark / 2012 / 18 minutes

Turning a Corner

A man confronting death remembers a friendship from his youth.

Visit www.plymptoons.com

Directed by David Levy

USA / 2011 / 5 minutes Visit www.hiskohulsing.com

A poor kid from Brooklyn fights the fates for a chance to change his life.

Tuurngait

Directed by Alan Foreman

Visit www.animondays.blogspot.com

Directed by Paul-Emile Boucher, Remy Dupont, Benjamin Flouw, Mickael Riciotti, Alexandre Toufaili

USA / 2012 / 2:15 minutes New York is a thousand miles of wire away... Visit www.hiskohulsing.com

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Directed by Danny Madden

Directed by Tyler J. Kupferer

The Light That Died in My Arms

Visit www.londonsquared.net

USA / 2012 / 3:30 minutes

USA / 2012 / 6 minutes

Junkyard

Directed by Andy London

My Heart Belongs to You

New York University

Gum

Made You Cringe Learn how to shave with Danny!

Directed by Jacob Kafka

The Girl and the Fox

Fri Oct 12 • 10:00pm Sun Oct 14 • 1:30pm

USA / 2011 / 3 minutes

The 1st time Cee Cee did acid, there was a road runner, a volcano and a flappy fish.

Based on a True Story

Kleinert/James Art Center

France / 2011 / 6 minutes A young boy is enchanted by a magical snow goose.

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A Winter Passing

Kleinert/James Art Center Fri Oct 12 • 1:30pm Sun Oct 14 • 3:45pm

And Winter Slow

Kleinert/James Art Center Sat Oct 13 • 5:00pm Sun Oct 14 • 11:15am

Curfew

Directed by Brian Lannin

Directed by Shawn Christensen

New York University MFA

USA / 2011 / 16:29 minutes

USA / 2011 / 19 minutes

A woman goes to extremes to free herself from having to care for her ailing husband.

Richie has hit rock bottom. Will his nine-year-old niece Sophia snap him out of his malaise?

Hatch Directed by Christoph Kuschnig STUDENT ACADEMY AWARD® FINALIST Columbia University MFA

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The Glowing Hours Directed by Paul Young

UK / 2012 / 22 minutes

Austria, USA / 2012 / 18:46 minutes

A sweet and magical story about transcending loss and finding hope in the darkest of places.

In German and Serbian

A newborn is caught in the middle as two couples from different walks of life come to grips with a life far from their grasp.

Eyes of a Child

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Lunch Date

New York Premiere

Directed by Sasha Collington

UK / 2011 / 11 minutes

Julia

WORLD PREMIERE

Directed by Danielle Krudy

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USA / 2012 / 10 minutes It’s Christmas Eve in the San Fernando Valley and a white Christmas it is not....

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Under Directed by Mark Raso Columbia University MFA

The Maiden and the Princess

East Coast Premiere

Directed by Ali Scher STUDENT ACADEMY AWARD® WINNER

Canada / 2011 / 20 minutes Sydney, a city girl with an addiction problem, journeys with her fiancé through the wilderness of his youth, with the hope that they can start life together with a clean slate.

Getting dumped always hurts. Even more so when your boyfriend sends his fourteen-yearold brother to break the news.

University of Southern California MFA

USA / 2011 / 18 minutes A young girl searches for her identity in a musical fairy tale.

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Showing with... Aunt Louisa Directed by Thomas Woodrow USA / 2012 / 15 minutes Screens prior to Exit Elena

Kings Point Directed by Sari Gilman USA / 2012 / 31 minutes Screens prior to Mondays at Racine

Practice Change: The Africa Yoga Project Directed by Dina Rudick

Free Expression New York Premiere

KENYA / 2011 / 16 minutes

In Swahili with subtitles, and English

Screens prior to One Track Heart: The Story of Krishna Das

Directed by Martin Lombard and Facundo Lombard

USA / 2011 / 15 minutes Screens prior to World’s Finest Chef

History of Virginity Directed by Sophie Haller

USA / 2012 / 6 minutes Screens prior to Virgin Tales

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Foreign Affairs

Kleinert/James Art Center Sat Oct 13 • 7:30pm Sun Oct 14 • 6:00pm

Hiccups

Kleinert/James Art Center Fri Oct 12 • 3:45pm Sat Oct 13 • 3:00pm

BFF Directed by Neil LaBute

USA / 2012 / 8 minutes Two best friends meet to discuss love and loss over a cup of tea. Things do not go as planned.

A Chjàna (The Plain) Directed by Jonas Carpignano New York University MFA

Happy Hour

USA, Italy / 2011 / 20 minutes In French, Italian and Wolof

Directed by Brian Devine

An African migrant worker seeks to reunite with his best friend in the wake of a race riot.

Visit www.achjana.com

North American Premiere

Directed by Pouria Heidary Oureh

The Hiccup

New York Premiere

USA / 2012 / 10:05 minutes

A homeless vagabond becomes obsessed with a pair of shoes.

Two friends desperately trying to skip town find that an overheated radiator is the least of their problems.

Detras Del Espejo (Behind The Mirrors)

Laundry Day

Directed by Julio O. Ramos

Directed by Thayer Radic

Peru / 2011 / 12 minutes /

Canada / 2012 / 4:48 minutes

In Spanish Visit www.behindthemirrorsfilm.com

Manila Running

East Coast Premiere

Directed by Anuj Gulati

Two strangers exchange kind words in a local laundromat, leading to an unfortunate misunderstanding.

Past Due

Directed by Denise Plumb

New York University Tisch School of the Arts, Asia

EAST COAST Premiere

American Film Institute USA / 2011 / 20 minutes

Singapore / 2012 / 14:40 minutes / In Filipino A comedy about a foreigner’s paranoia in the hustle and bustle of Manila.

Visit www.giganticpictures.com

Directed by Matt Smukler

Iran / 2012 / 15 minutes

To make ends meet, a worker in a fleabag motel resorts to questionable actions.

Unemployed and recently dumped, Jack is forced to crash with his slovenly buddy Max. Threatened with eviction, they need to raise cash fast or be put out on the street.

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An Sooy e Bonbast (Beyond Dead-end)

North American Premiere

USA / 2011 / 19:10 minutes

Visit www.vimeopro.com/user11973241/ 9amfilmsuser11973241/9amfilms

Drowning in debt and harassed by a collection agent, Evelyn finds a payment plan she can afford.

Visit www.pastduethemovie.com

Spaghetti für Zwei (Spaghetti for Two) Directed by Matthias Rosenberger and Betina Dubler

Germany / 2011 / 18:31 minutes

Visit www.spaghetti-film.com

A routine stroll turns into an imaginary odyssey full of unscrupulous characters and Spaghetti for Two.

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Hudson Valley Shorts

Kleinert/James Art Center Fri Oct 12 • 8:00pm

Woodstock Playhouse Sun Oct 14 • 11:15am

Blood Country Directed by Jason Fournet New York University

USA / 2012 / 15 minutes

WORLD Premiere

USA / 2012 / 11:15 minutes

s h o r ts

Visit www.theheartlands.blogspot.com

WORLD PREMIERE

USA / 2012 / 16:30 minutes

The self-proclaimed last traveling salesman in America, Stue Larkin, is anything but your average salesman.

Visit www.peywilson.com

Directed by Sandy Patch

Ecuador, USA / 2011 / 14:10 minutes / In Spanish For fifty-three years, Baltazar Ushca has harvested glacial ice from the tallest mountain in Ecuador. He is the last of his kind.

Meet Kevin Visit www.adam-hall.net

WORLD PREMIERE

Directed by Laurent Rejto

USA / 2012 / 21 minutes Two parents cope to control their most beloved daughter, but she has aspirations and dreams of her own.

Visit www.amonggiantsfilm.com

El Último Hielero (The Last Ice Merchant)

Directed by Adam Hall

Persephone

Chapman University USA / 2011 / 13:40 minutes Risking injury and incarceration, an environmental activist disrupts the clear-cutting of an ancient redwood grove.

USA / 2012 / 11:23 minutes

New York University MFA

A small rural community of full-timers who fight boredom, isolation, injury, fate, and bad luck, all in an attempt to destroy the pain. Based on the short story by TC Boyle.

Directed by Chris Cresci, Ben Mullinkosson & Sam Price-Waldman

Directed by Peyton Wilson

Directed by Benjamin Rutkowski

My Pain is Worse Than Your Pain

Fri Oct 12 • 11:15am Sat Oct 13 • 12:45pm

The Bronzer

A determined twelve-year-old boy seeks his grandfather’s respect as a hunter.

Jack, a recovering alcoholic and divorced father of two, gets the chance to spend some quality time with his children.

Kleinert/James Art Center

Among Giants The following films were all shot in New York’s Hudson Valley.

Glory Days

Short Docs

Directed by Maciek Godlewski

Visit www.thelasticemerchant.com

World Premiere

USA / 2011 / 17 minutes Over coffee, artist Kevin Paulsen leads the viewer through an intimate look at his reflections and reveals the essence of his storytelling.

Randy Parsons: American Luthier

New york Premiere

Directed by David Aldrich Visit www.persephonethemovie.com

USA / 2011 / 8:16 minutes A film about someone who gave up his passion for playing guitar and discovered a passion for making guitars.

Seamus

Visit www.americanluthier.blogspot.com

World Premiere

Directed by John Huba

USA / 2012 / 7:30 minutes Random bursts of creativity define the engaging world of teenager Seamus Riley. Visit www.johnhubastudio.com

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Utopia Studios Fri Oct 12 • 9:45pm

Kleinert/James Art Center Sat Oct 13 • 10:00pm

A House a Home

Living

Directed by Daniel Fickle

Directed by Tony Reams

USA / 2012 / 6:51 minutes

USA / 2012 / 4:43 minutes

A love, a death, another death are reconciled in a subterranean world.

A cornucopia of thoughts that have plagued Speech for the last two Visit www.ArrestedDevelopmentMusic.com decades.

Alialujah Choir

Visit www.alialujah.com

North American Premiere

Directed by Philip Andelman

Directed by Chel White

USA / 2012 / 4 minutes

USA / 2012 / 5:25 minutes

A song about a pal who did wrong.

A meditation on the enigmatic nature of love. Visit www.skysociety.com

Borrando la Frontera (Erasing the Border)

East Coast Premiere

USA / 2011 / 2 minutes

Trummors

Visit www.anateresafernandez.com

A mysterious disappearance and seance to bring back a lost band member.

Visit www.floatingfilms.org

Dan Mangan

Directed by Ellis Bahl

Directed by Kevin Eastwood

USA / 2012 / 3:47 minutes

Canada / 2012 / 3:45 minutes

Please don’t go, I love you so! Visit www.ellisbahl.com

An homage to the 1964 Stanley Kubrick classic, Dr. Strangelove.

Directed by Alma Har’el

There’s Another Sky Jeremy Bernstein

USA / 2012 / 8:33 minutes

Directed by Antoine Wagner

A man and a woman are locked in a never ending cycle of addiction and desire.

USA / 2012 / 3:51

Sigur Rós

Visit www.almaharel.com

Gaga’s Boy Toy

A day in the life of psychedelic mountain serenity.

Visit www.danmanganmusic.com

Visit jeremybernsteinmusic.com

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Tommy Be

Killer Mike (featuring Scar)

Directed by Tommy Be

Directed by Benjamin Dickinson

USA / 2012 / 2:57 minutes

USA / 2012 / 3:12 minutes

A futuristic cyborg musician has an unexpected humanoid fantasy. Visit www.tommybe.blogspot.com

Le Soleil Chante

(The Sun Sings) Ignatus Directed by Delphine Burrus

A video of Chiaroscuros based on various paintings from the Italian Visit www.bendickinson.tv Renaissance: Carravagio, Titian and Genteleschi, in particular, depicting biblical Renaissance themes mixed with figures from black history.

Zoe

France / 2012 / 3 minutes

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World Premiere

Post-War Blues

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Ignatus tricycles around in a landscape suggestive of a woman’s body while singing “the sun sings, the birds shine, the grass smiles and life is green...”

Visit www.philipandelman.com

USA / 2012 / 2:44 minutes

Breezeblocks

Fjögur Píanó

Over and Around The Clove Directed by Randy Bell & Justin Rice

Directed by Ana Teresa Fernandez Artist Ana Teresa Fernandez erases the Tijuana/San Diego border.

Miriam

Norah Jones

Chrysta Bell & David Lynch

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Bird of Flames

Arrested Development

Directed by Michael Vincent

USA / 2012 / 4:18 minutes Visit www.ignatub.com

A relationship that began in Woodstock and tragically ended when a beautiful girl passed away.

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Teen Films

Kleinert/James Art Center Fri Oct 12 • 5:45pm

Bookstore

The Hidden

Directed by Alexander Haney Harvard-Westlake, Studio City, CA

Directed by Lucas Handwerker

USA / 2012 / 10 minutes

Woodstock Day School

A teenager is thrust into managing her school bookstore for one day...chaos ensues.

How much can you remember in 11 minutes?

USA / 2012 / 16:24 minutes Visit www.hw.com

Code Red

My License

Directed by Zach Prengler

Directed by Elizabeth Herrick

Richardson High School, Dallas, TX USA / 2011 / 5:16 minutes Four nerds are preparing for their best purchase ever: Code Red, the hottest game of the year.

American Heritage School, Plantation, FL

USA / 2011 / 1:28 minutes Visit www.richardson.k12.tx.us

A young girl receives her new license, much to her father’s dismay.

Getting Through

The Symbol of Peace

Directed by Simon Usdan

Directed by Zev Vel

The Ethical Culture Fieldston School, New York, NY

USA / 2012 / 12:10 minutes

s h o r ts

Visit www.ecfs.org

Hatred to Your Home

The Symbol of Peace shares the inspiring stories and dreams of the people who love the peace sign.

Visit www.woodstockdayschool.org

Tyler

Directed by Derek Horton

Directed by Darian Henry

Downtown Community Television Center, New York, NY

YouthFX, Albany, NY

USA / 2012 / 10 minutes

USA / 2011 / 5 minutes Derek struggles with growing up in East NY, faced with muggings, Visit www.dctvny.org violence and people trying to bring him down. He’s scared that his neighborhood might try to hold him back, but he won’t let it.

Tyler Rhodes of Albany, NY, was stabbed to death in 2011. This is his story as told by his family and friends.

Film Career Day: Youth Initiative Onteora High School • Fri Oct 12 • 8:00am - 2:00pm

Since 2002, the WFF Youth Initiative has inspired students by providing a forum for one-on-one exchanges with filmmakers and top film industry members who hold a variety of positions, including screenwriter, actor, director, producer, cinematographer, editor, composer, attorney, animator, casting director, make-up artist, documentary filmmaker, and film critic. Several Academy Award® winners have been a part of the Youth Initiative over the years including the legendary composer Elmer Bernstein, who was nominated for 15 Oscars®, filmmakers Barbara Kopple, Ron Nyswaner and Leon Gast, screenwriter Zachary Sklar, and cinematographer Haskell Wexler, who is the only cinematographer with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Visit www.ahschool.com

Woodstock Day School

USA / 2012 / 6:13 minutes A young girl copes with the loss of her father on 9/11 through her music.

Visit www.woodstockdayschool.org

Visit www.youthfx.org

Each year, over 150 students from schools throughout the region gather at Onteora High School in Boiceville for Film Career Day, where students meet with A-list film industry professionals in small groups, ask questions and learn about careers in film and new media. In addition to conversations with leading authorities on filmmaking, students are also treated to a film screening, which is followed by a Q&A session with the filmmakers.

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panels Panels take place at Mountain View Studio in Woodstock. Programs and panelists are subject to change. Please make sure to visit www.woodstockfilmfestival.com for the most up-to-date info.

FACEBOOK FOR FILMMAKERS AND ARTISTS Almost every filmmaker uses Facebook fan pages to promote their films, but almost none of them use them effectively. Few know how to build a fan base; even fewer know how to get their fans to react to or even see their posts. Success with Facebook requires creating a certain kind of “content,” and filmmakers and artists have the skills to create content better than others—but only if they understand what they are trying to achieve. This talk teaches how the Facebook computer algorithm works and provides strategies and techniques to make it work for you.

Film marketer Reid Rosefelt has worked on hundreds of films, including Stranger Than Paradise, Desperately Seeking Susan, High Art, All About My Mother, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, and The Island President. His personal clients have included Errol Morris, Ally Sheedy, Harvey Keitel, IFC, and the Sundance Institute.

FROM REEL TO REAL:

Mountain View Studio Saturday Oct 13 • 10:00am

How Independent Film Impacts Our World As more and more independent filmmakers travel the world and delve into global and personal issues that affect our lives, the question is: Can their passion and hard work bring real change? From environmental issues to political, humanitarian and social ones, filmmakers take on the world hoping to explore, expose and improve. Do they succeed, and how would that success be measured? We have gathered accomplished independent filmmakers who will share their experience, views and visions, and will explore how and what it takes to deliver change via film.

Jon Bowermaster

Mai Iskander

Meera T.Gandhi

Todd Wider

Heidi Ewing

Moderator Robin Bronk is CEO of The Creative Coalition—the leading national, nonprofit, nonpartisan public advocacy organization of the entertainment industry. Bronk is an author and public speaker and most recently produced Showtime’s Poliwood, directed by Academy Awardwinner Barry Levinson. She also pens a weekly column for The Hill newspaper. She is often featured in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, International Herald Tribune, The Huffington Post, and more.

PANELS

With Reid Rosefelt

Mountain View Studio Friday Oct 12 • 3:00pm

Panelists: Jon Bowermaster, writer/filmmaker/adventure, is a a six-time grantee of the National Geographic Expeditions Council. His most recent documentaries are Terra Antarctica, Rediscovering the Seventh Continent, What Would Darwin Think? Man v. Nature in the Galapagos, and the prize-winning SoLa, Louisiana Water Stories. His first 3D film – Wild Antarctica – is due in Spring 2013 and the anti-fracking doc Dear Governor Cuomo ... will have its premiere at WFF 2012. | Mai Iskander’s directorial debut, Garbage Dreams, was nominated for the 2010 Best Documentary by the Director’s Guild of America and has won 26 international awards. As a cinematographer, Iskander’s has worked on TV shows for A&E, PBS and LOGO. She has filmed numerous narratives, commercials and documentaries, including Watchers of the Sky by Academy Award Nominee Edet Belzberg. Iskander’s film Words of Witness is screening at the 2012 Woodstock Film Festival | Meera Gandhi is a humanitarian, mother, businesswoman, and diplomat who was born in Mumbai, India. She created the Giving Back Foundation, whose beneficiaries are carefully selected charities and individuals around the world with a special emphasis on women and children in need. The Foundation also exists to act as a platform for debate and discussion of philanthropy. | Todd Wider with Jedd Wider formed Wider Film Projects several years ago as a film company devoted to developing projects that have social and political resonance. They have produced numerous critically and commercially successful documentary films, including the 2008 Academy Award winner for Best Documentary, Taxi To The Dark Side (2007) directed by Alex Gibney and the upcoming Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God, screening at the 2012 WFF. | Heidi Ewing, along with partner Rachel Grady, has been lauded for gaining unprecedented access into unknown worlds and taking an intimate approach to her subject matter. She is the co-director (with Rachel Grady) of Jesus Camp, a provocative documentary on the evangelical right that was nominated for the 2007 Academy Award. Ewing also directed 12th & Delaware, Detropia (currently in theatrical release) and a film for MTV on Saudi Arabian teens. She is part of a consortium of filmmakers that adapted the bestselling book Freakonomics for the big screen.

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FILM & TELEVISION

Mountain View Studio , Saturday Oct 13 • 12pm

The new crossover paradigm between the silver and the small screen As a growing number of television shows offer new freedom of creative expression and unchartered boundaries as well as higher income and financial stability, more and more actors and filmmakers cross over between film and television, while the creative content on the web seems to explode even further. How far would these trends go and what does that all mean to the future of the moving image? We have assembled a cross section of in-front and behind-the-camera talents who will explore the ins and outs, pros and cons of these disappearing borders and what it will all mean to the future of film.

Moderator: Thelma Adams is the contributing editor at Yahoo! Movies. Her debut novel PLAYDATE, an O magazine pick, was published by St. Martin’s Press in January 2011 and came out in paperback in March 2012. She was the film critic at Us Weekly from 2000 - 2011, following six years at the New York Post. She has twice chaired the New York Film Critics Circle, where she has been a member since 1995.

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Timothy Hutton

Amy Heckerling

MUSIC IN FILM

Alexie Gilmore

Blair Breard

Mountain View Studio Saturday Oct 13 • 2:00pm

Join us for BMI’s annual frank and lively discussion about the creative and business aspects of music in film, the composer/director relationship, and the unique concerns of music in audio visual mediums. This year BMI will present a case study of the music from the WFF official selection Vamps with director Amy Heckerling, producer Lauren Versel, composer David Kitay and songwriter, recording artist, and actress from Vamps Mollie Israel.

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Moderator: Doreen Ringer-Ross is Vice President of Film and TV Relations at BMI. She has worked in the music industry for over two decades and currently specializes in outreach to the film and music communities.

Amy Heckerling directed Fast Times at Ridgemont High, and has written and directed a dozen other films, including, Look Who’s Talking, Clueless, and Vamps. She also directed episodes for the television series of Fast Times, Clueless, The Office and Gossip Girl. | David Kitay is Film composer of Look Who’s Talking, Clueless, Can’t Hardly Wait, Scary Movie, Harold And Kumar Go To White Castle and Dude, Where Is My Car? as well as Ghost World, Bad Santa, Art School Confidential and The Darwin Awards. | Lauren Versel is a founding member of Lucky Monkey Pictures and has over twenty- five years of experience in film, television, and theater as a writer, director, editor, producer and financier. In addition to Vamps she produced Arbitrage and City Island and the upcoming Married and Cheating starring Sarah Jessica Parker, Brendan Frasier and Marisa Tomei. | Mollie Israel is the lead singer of NYC’s The Lost Patrol and their music has been featured in Gossip Girl, Chronicle, and the upcoming Amy Heckerling film Vamps. Israel is also active as a videographer, a writer, and is currently developing her own sitcom style puppet show, The Underwhelming Misadventures of Ratso.

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Timothy Hutton won an Academy Award®, a Golden Globe and Los Angeles Film Critic’s award for his performance in Ordinary People. He went on to star in numerous films, including Taps, Daniel, Falcon and the Snowman, The Good Shepherd, and The Ghost Writer. He is currently starring on the fifth season of the TNT drama Leverage. | Blair Breard is the executive producer of the comedy series, Louie. Notable films include John Sayles’ Passion Fish, Mary Harron’s I Shot Andy Warhol, Louis CK’s Pootie Tang, Kenneth Lonergan’s, Margaret, and Noah Baumbach’s Margot at the Wedding. | Alexie Gilmore starred as a series regular on the Fox drama New Amsterdam, directed by Lasse Hallestrom (Cider House Rules). Other TV credits include Rescue Me, Law and Order Criminal Intent, Nurse Jackie, a cross over role on Private Practice, and Grey’s Anatomy, House M.D. | Amy Heckerling directed Fast Times at Ridgemont High, and has written and directed a dozen other films, including, Look Who’s Talking, Clueless, and Vamps. She also directed episodes for the television series of Fast Times, Clueless, The Office and Gossip Girl.

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David Kitay

Lauren Versel

Mollie Israel

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DISTRIBUTION PARADIGMS

Panelists:

Moderator Scott MaCaulay is the editor of Filmmaker Magazine and a producer with his partner, Robin O’Hara, in the New York-based production company Forensic Films. He is also the co-editor of Focus Features’ FilmInFocus website. Among his producing credits are Raising Victor Vargas, Gummo, Julien Donkey-Boy, the Sundance GrandPrize winning What Happened Was..., Idlewild, Saving Face, and Off the Black.

Danielle DiGiacomo is the manager of video distribution at The Orchard, a pioneering, 15-yearold independent music and video distribution company operating in more than 20 global markets. She is also an independent film producer and consultant. Previously, she worked as the community manager at IFP, and head of documentary acquisitions for IndiePix Films. | David Laub is copresident of the NY-based Oscilloscope Pictures, where he oversees acquisitions, marketing, and distribution. Oscilloscope is a film production and distribution entity launched in 2008 by Adam Yauch; recent releases have included Samsara, Shut Up and Play The Hits, We Need To Talk About Kevin, The Messenger, Meek’s Cutoff, and Wendy and Lucy. Prior to Oscilloscope, David did acquisitions for the NY-based distributor THINKFilm. | Ron Mann makes award-winning feature documentaries that focus on alternative and dissident culture. WFF has been showing Mann’s films since Go Further, a musical-eco-road movie about activism and sustainable living. His other films include Know Your Mushrooms, Grass, and most recently, In the Wake of the Flood. In 2002, Ron also founded Films We Like, a boutique distributor of documentary, independent and international films in Canada. Beginning with Sam Green and Bill Siegel’s The Weather Underground (2002), Films We Like has released over 160 films including, most recently, Miguel Gomes award-winning Tabu (2012). | Richard Abramowitz is at the forefront of innovation in the world of distribution and marketing of independent films. His company Abramorama is an industry leader in the personalized, focused form of film marketing/distribution that bypasses traditional film studios and their methodology, providing invaluable distribution alternatives to current content makers and owners.

ACTORS DIALOGUE

David Laub

Ron Mann

Danielle DiGiacomo

Richard Abramowitz

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To DYI or not to DYI; to release first on the digital platforms (and if so which?) or to hold on until the right theatrical distributor comes along; these are some of the questions our panel of experts will tackle as film distribution options continue to ebb and flow in today’s ever changing landscape.

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Mountain View Studio Sunday Oct 14 • 10:00am

Join some of today’s most engaging actors as they chat about their work and their lives.

Actors: Brian Geraghty is a versatile actor best known for his roles in The Hurt Locker, Jarhead, and We Are Marshall. His recent films include Paramount’s upcoming Robert Zemekis film Flight, the reunion dramedy Ten Years, and the independent feature Kilimanjaro.

Moderator: Whether she’s one-on-one in an intimate talk, or leading a discussion among a variety of actors, Martha Frankel’s entertaining panels are one of the festival’s highlights.

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Sally Kirkland, veteran of over 130 films, is best known for her film Anna, for which she was nominated for an Oscar for Best Actress and won the Golden Globe and the Independent Spirit Award. Highlights of her career include The Sting, The Way We Were, Revenge, Edtv, Best of The Best, JFK, Bruce Almighty, and The Haunted. She stars in the film Archaeology of a Woman, screening at WFF 2012.

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RAISING FUNDS

Mountain View Studio Sunday Oct 14 • 12pm

Whether you are about to make your first film or your fifth; whether it’s low budget or big budget; any way you look at it, if you want to make a film you need to raise money for it. How do you start? Where do you go? Should you look into foreign sales and, if so, at what point? Should you start a crowdsourcing campaign? Apply for grants? Work on getting talent attached and package it before taking it to potential investors? There are many ways to raise funds these days, and none are easy. Our panel of experts will sift through the diverse options and shed light on which route could work for which project. Panelists: Elisabeth Holm As Kickstarter’s film program director, Holm oversees film curation, editorial, events, outreach, and education. She recently served as a producer on Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky’s Oscar-nominated Paradise Lost 3 and Keith Miller’s Slamdance, and Seattle International and Atlanta Grand Jury Prize-winning Welcome to Pine Hill. She’s currently producing Gillian Robespierre’s Obvious Child, starring Jenny Slate. | Stephen Hays is an executive producer and managing member of 120dB Films, a finance company specializing in gap and related loans to the independent film industry. Recent projects include Battle in Seattle, Sixty Six, Motherhood,The Dream of the Romans, Knife Edge, Hey Hey It’s Esther Blueburger, Good, Savage Grace, and the TNT series Leverage. He was co-founder and general partner of Seneca Capital, a $3.5 billion, New York-based hedge fund, where he remains a partner and adviser. | Robert L. Seigel is a NYC entertainment attorney with over twenty years’ experience, who specializes in the representation of clients in film and television, as well as in theatre, publishing, new media, and intellectual property matters on a transactional basis. | Claude Dal Farra is the president of BCDF and the producer of Bachelorette, Liberal Arts, Peace Love & Misunderstanding, Why Stop Now, Higher Ground, The Last Keepers, and Rhymes with Banana.

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PRODUCING IN A MULTI-SCREEN WORLD

Elisabeth Holm

Steve Hays

Claude Dal Farra

Robert Seigel

Mountain View Studio Sunday Oct 14 • 2:00pm

co-presented by the Producers Guild of America East Producers from the worlds of film, games and new media share common approaches to challenges and opportunities creating content for all the ways people watch stories in today’s world. Now, like never before, you can realize your idea in the perfect media platform. Profit from insights of Producers Guild of America (PGA) pros who share the secrets of selecting and producing the right platform for your project. Each producer will discuss a similarly sized project in different mediums, including TV, mobile, film, gaming, viral video, and alternate reality games. You will walk away knowing the budgets, tools, metrics, marketing, audience, and business structure of each project. A look into future platform trends will also be shared. Gain an understanding of how formats, new and old, individually or mashed up, are creating new opportunities for content creators. This session will be accessible to all audiences, and entertaining in its candor.

Moderator: Caitlin Burns, transmedia producer with Starlight Runner Entertainment, creates and influences fictional universes that are familiar to millions worldwide. Building Caitlin Burns on a background of theatrical and event production, she has worked on Pirates of the Caribbean and Tron Legacy for Disney, James Cameron’s Avatar, Halo for Microsoft, The Happiness Factory for Coca-Cola, Men in Black for Sony Pictures, and Transformers for Hasbro. She has also worked with Showtime, Nickelodeon, Scholastic, Nelvana, and Wieden+Kennedy. She is on the board of the Producer’s Guild of America’s New Media Council and the advisory board of the Tribeca New Media Fund. She is currently working on a slate that includes major motion pictures, documentary feature films, and television shows in the United States, Italy, Mexico, Canada, and Brazil.

Panelists: Peter Saraf’s producing credits include Safety Not Guaranteed, Our Idiot Brother, Jack Goes Boating, Sunshine Cleaning, Away We Go, Is Anybody There?, Little Miss Sunshine, Everything Is Illuminated, The Truth About Charlie, Adaptation, Ulee’s Gold and the feature documentaries, Mandela and The Agronomist. He has been nominated for Academy and Golden Globe Awards and has won multiple awards, including the Spirit, Gotham and PGA Awards. He is the co-founder of Big Beach, a New York based independent film production and financing company. Peter is vice president Peter Saraf Blaine Graboyes James Percelay of the Producers Guild of America and chair of the PGA East. | Blaine Graboyes is an award-winning executive producer and game designer with nearly twenty years’ experience developing digital and multiplatform entertainment. He has founded multiple successful startups, including ZUMA Digital (the first DVD company in NYC), Worldwide Biggies, Hope Arcade, Sano Agency, Silver Platter, and Mister Goldbanks. Graboyes is a member-at-large of the executive committee of the New Media Council of The Producers Guild Of America. His most recent project is SneakyTown, a competitive hide-and-seek game currently in stealth Beta on Facebook and iPad. | James Percelay is co-founder of Thinkmodo, recognized as one the top viral video creative agencies in the world. Thinkmodo’s outrageous videos for major motion pictures, TV networks, and magazines consistently top the viral video charts. Percelay is a best-selling humor book author, former film producer of the commercial parodies on Saturday Night Live, and a pioneer of content driven social media.

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Film starts at 6:30pm Performance to Follow Thursday October 11 WOODSTOCK Playhouse

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David Bromberg’s sensitive and versatile approach to guitar playing earned him jobs playing on hundreds of records by artists including Bob Dylan (New Morning, Self Portrait, Dylan), Link Wray, The Eagles, Ringo Starr, Willie Nelson, and Carly Simon. His eponymous 1971 debut not only visit: www.davidbromberg.net included the mock-anguished Suffer to Sing the Blues, a Bromberg original that became an FM radio staple, n also played slide guitar on the track. Bromberg also met the Grateful Dead and wound up with four of their members, including Jerry Garcia, playing on his two subsequent albums. After taking an extended break from the music recording business and taking time out to become the foremost violin luthier today, Bromberg is back and recording. He will perform several songs after the documentary David Bromberg Unsung Treasure. Come see the legend in person.

visit: www. jonbowermaster.com

In addition to great

The new documentary Dear Governor Cuomo ... recounts the unique blend of music, science and activism that took place onstage in Albany on May 15, 2012, in an effort to

many OUTSTANDING LIVE CONCERTS and SHOWCASES over the past decade. Past Woodstock Film Festival musical participants include The Good Listeners with Adrian Grenier, Pinetop Perkins and the Perfect Age of Rock’n’Roll Blues Band, Bela Fleck, Edgar Meyer, Bernie Worrell, The Felice Brothers, Duncan Sheik, Mike Gordon & Trey Anastasio of Phish, Gov’t Mule, Kate Pierson, Arlo Guthrie, Peter Rowan, Rahat Nusrat Fateh Ali Kahn, Britta Phillips & Dean Wareham of Luna, Graham Parker, Levon Helm, Marshall Crenshaw, and many more.

deliver the anti-fracking message in a single voice. More than 30 musicians, most of whom had never met nor played together before, joined that night under the musical direction of Hudson Valley resident Natalie Merchant. Following the screening of the film, Natalie – and special guests – will pick up where they left off in Albany.

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David Bromberg

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Simi Stone

Doors open at 9pm • Thursday October 11 Colony Cafe, WOODSTOCK

Simi Stone, a native Woodstocker and multi-instrumentalist, returns to play the Woodstock Film Festival this year. This summer, Simi has been touring with Simone Felice and working with artists Natalie Merchant, Tracy Bonham and others. Recently she has been writing and recording with musical partner David Baron and getting ready to lay down her very own solo record. Simi brings her sweet mountain soul pop music to you on October 11th with a full band.

With very special guest

Cleveland Jones Cleveland Jones writes songs that portray the world through the eyes of a man finding himself through life experiences. With a distinct voice that resonates from his soul, Jones draws from classic songwriters like Tom Petty, Peter Gabriel and Paul Simon, putting his own modern twist on a classic sound.

Filmmakers’ Party sponsored by

Doors open at 10pm • Friday October 12 SPAF, Saugerties

Saugerties Performing Arts Factory CONCERTS

The Brandy Knights first set fire to the streets of Santa Barbara, bringing a raunchy LA mean streak, which blasted through the watered-down reggae and bland hip hop and dance of its pot-smoking youth culture. The power chords of the Rolling Stones and the riffs of the Velvet Underground can be heard through the songs of the Brandy Knights, founded by LA native Flannery Lunsford and a group of retro-minded, forward thinking musicians from San Francisco and Los Angeles. There was an edge in their tunes that the audiences could relate to. Lunsford as front man is the radioactive hybrid offspring of Jagger, Bowie, Iggy, and Andre 3000. The Brandy Knights performed three songs in the new rock n’ roll film Strutter (screening at WFF 2012), starring Lunsford and directed by Allison Anders and Kurt Voss, which also features a soundtrack by J. Mascis. They are currently working on a new record in Los AngeWine Teeth les. www.thebrandyknights.com | Wine Teeth Singer/song-writer fronted indie-folk band with violin, and guitar combining rockabilly, folk, Appalachian, and Americana with original vocals - Buddy Holly meets Elliott Smith. Wine Teeth was created by Justin Theodore Young, a singer-songwriter from the South The Brandy Knights who combines roots, rockabilly and honkytonk rhythms with an indie folk storytelling sensibility. After three years of playing in Portland and Seattle, he relocated to Brooklyn where he teamed up with talented violinist Andrew Williams. They are currently playing gigs in and around NYC. www.facebook.com/Wineteethmusic | Lindsey Webster At just twenty-three years, Lindsey Webster has shared the stage with Grammyaward winning musicians and artists. She is singing on a grammy-nominated CD for 2012(with the Jimmy Sturr Orchestra) and has recorded with multiple music legends. Webster has traveled across the country, playing in famed venues such as Carnegie Hall, Musikfest, Ford Crull Summerfest, and many more. www.lindseywebstermusic. com | Special art performance by Ford Crull with music by Sylvie Degiez and Wayne Lopes. In 2010 before a live audience, Crull created a large painting 10 by 18 feet for the opening of Bund1919, a new art area in Shanghai. The work was completely improvised and featured two different musicians exemplifying the theme of “East, West.” Now, for the Woodstock Film Festival, Crull will again create a new live improvised work for Lindsey Webster the filmmakers’ party, featuring the music of Diegiez and Lopes. www.facebook.com/ford.crull • www.cosmiclegends.com

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Charles Bradley performance after

Charles Bradley: Soul of America

Film starts at 7:00pm Performance to Follow at 9:30pm Saturday October12 Bearsville Theater, Woodstock

Charles Bradley has spent most of his life dreaming of a

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better one. The now 63-year-old “Screaming Eagle of Soul” grew up living on the streets of Brooklyn, NY. Inspired by a childhood trip to The Apollo to see James Brown, Bradley felt an urgent need to get off the streets and make something of himself. After working as a chef at a mental hospital and a handyman, at age 51 Bradley found an audience as a visit: www.thecharlesbradley.com James Brown impersonator. Later discovered by Gabriel Roth of Daptone Records, Bradley released his debut record, No Time For Dreaming, in 2011 at age 62, which found itself listed in Rolling Stone magazine’s list of 50 Best Albums of 2011! Now, there is no more time for dreaming, just time for singing, dancing and loving.

Aaron Freeman AKA Geen Ween 2 shows door open at 7:30 and 10:00 • Saturday October 13 Colony Cafe, WOODSTOCK

discovered and fallen in love with the music of Rod McKuen. With producer Ben Vaughn (who fans may remember from the classic Ween album “12 Golden Country Greats”) he’s recorded an unforgettable set of McKuen covers that’s heartfelt and unpredictable.

CONCERTS

For the past twenty years, Aaron Freeman has been creating music as the lead singer of the band Ween. He has since moved on and is venturing into new pastures as of this summer. Currently, he has

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Paul Green’s Band of Monkeys house band at the 2012 Maverick Awards Gala Doors open at 7pm • Awards begin at 9pm • Saturday October 13 Backstage Studio Productions, KINGSTON The legendary Paul Green, founder of The School of Rock, subject of the documentary Rock School and inspiration for Jack Black in Richard Linklater’s hilarious film School of Rock, along with a number of his former students from School of Rock, will be playing music from the greatest movies ever made (and some mediocre ones, too.)

Jeremy Bernstein and Friends

Doors open at 8pm • Show starts at 9pm • Sunday October 14 Bearsville Theater, Woodstock Jeremy Bernstein is currently finishing a new record with producer David Baron. The show will consist of all new songs with the musicians who recorded with him.

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The band will include : David Baron, keys Sarah Lee, bass Adam Widoff, guitar Simi Stone, violin and vocals Tim Bright, guitar and banjo Robert “Chicken” Burke, drums Zach Alford, drums + horn section & more special guests

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HO ST TOWNS Woodstock AREA Just 90 miles from New York City, Woodstock is a center for the arts, culture and alternative lifestyles, with eclectic shopping and great restaurants. The town—known for its writers, musicians, artists, filmmakers, and other creative folk—first gained notoriety in the early 1900s when residents were greeted by the arrival of freethinking bohemians and city dwellers. The Byrdcliffe Arts Colony, founded at the turn of the century by artisan philosophers to create a Utopian society based on arts and crafts, continues as an active artists’ colony with a year-round presence. Music has always been a popular part of the town’s mystique, and in the late 1960s, resident musicians such as Bob Dylan, The Band and Jimi Hendrix placed Woodstock on the rock ‘n’ roll map. The legendary 1969 Woodstock Music and Arts Festival defined a generation and Woodstock’s counter-cultural nature.

105 Mill Hill Road Woodstock, NY 12498 845.679.6900 www.woodstockplayhouse.org

UPSTATE FILMS WOODSTOCK 132 Tinker Street Woodstock, NY 12498 845.679.6608 www.upstatefilms.org

KLEINERT/JAMES ART CENTER 34 Tinker Street Woodstock, NY 12498

UTOPIA STUDIO 293 Tinker Street Woodstock, NY 12498 845.679.7600 www.utopiasoundstage.com

Mountain View Studio 20 Mountain View Avenue Woodstock, NY 12498 www.mtnviewstudio.com

BEARSVILLE THEATER 261 Tinker Street Woodstock, NY 12498 845.679.4406

COLONY CAFE 22 Rock City Road Woodstock, NY 12498 845.679.5342 www.colonycafe.com

ONTEORA HIGH SCHOOL 4166 Route 28 Boiceville, NY 12412

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RHINEBECK Rhinebeck, in Dutchess County, is easily reachable by car and public transportation and offers relaxed yet sophisticated country living with its myriad of shops, antiques stores, restaurants, and cultural venues—including Upstate Films. The Hudson River National Historic Landmark District, in which Rhinebeck is located, has been home to scions of business and industry, presidents and statesmen who built their mansions along the Hudson River, many now UPSTATE FILMS open to visitors. 6415 Montgomery Street Located 18 miles from Woodstock, across the Rhinebeck, NY 12572 866.FILM.NUT Hudson River, Rhinebeck’s location enables visitors www.upstatefilms.org to easily visit both areas during a short stay.

Rosendale Rosendale cement was used for the foundations of both the Brooklyn Bridge and Statue of Liberty. Filled with vibrant characters and activists, it’s a tolerant town with a homey feel and a young edge. Bill’s Garden Store doubles as a barber shop. The Rosendale Street Fest hosts over sixty bands annually. At its heart is a grand old theater, one of the few single-screen theaters in the Hudson Valley. The Rosendale Theatre Collective is dedicated to preserving the Rosendale Theatre historic theater and enhancing the cultural life and 408 Main Street Rosendale, NY 12472 economic vitality of Rosendale and Ulster County 845.658.8989 through film, the performing arts and educational www.rosendaletheatre.org programming.

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WFF MUGS $10

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ticket information prices  Tickets range in price from $5-$75. PLEASE NOTE: Online and phone orders will be charged a $7.95 shipping & handling fee.

Walk-Up Orders

 Student and senior discounts are available with ID at the Box Office.

 The Rosendale Theatre may have a select number of tickets available for pre-sale. Please contact them directly.

 The best way to order tickets and to see updated schedules, film descriptions and other festival information is online at www.woodstockfilmfestival.com.  PLEASE NOTE: Tickets ordered online between September 20 and October 6, WILL BE SHIPPED by USPS mail to the mailing address provided when ordering.  All online orders placed after October 6 must be picked up at the BOX OFFICE at 13 Rock City Road in Woodstock.

PURCHASING & PICKING UP TICKETS

Telephone Orders

Internet Orders www.woodstockfilmfestival.com

 The BOX OFFICE is manned by dedicated VOLUNTEERS who are simultaneously filling out Internet and walkup sales. The phones can get very chaotic and they tend to be busy. If you are calling for tickets, please leave a message on our machine and someone will get back to you.

Box Office Location 13 Rock City Road Woodstock, NY 12498 (Across from the Chamber of Commerce booth) phone 845.810.0131

 The last day for telephone orders is October 7.

Box Office Hours September 20 to October 7

Day of Event  Tickets are available at the BOX OFFICE until four hours prior to the event. All unsold tickets are then available on the STANDBY line at the screening venue on a CASH ONLY basis.

Wednesday-Sunday 12-6pm Closed Mondays and Tuesdays

October 8 to 13 9am-7pm

October 14 9am-noon

full festival PASSES  Full Festival Passes offer the ultimate Woodstock Film Festival experience. A limited number of these passes are offered.  Full Festival Passes include guaranteed admission for the passholder to all screenings and panels, with priority seating up until 15 minutes prior to the event, entry to all parties, plus souvenirs including a commemorative T-shirt, cap and poster.

 Full Festival Passes entitle entry to the Filmmakers’ Lounge.  Full Festival Passes are $750 and can be purchased online or at the BOX OFFICE.  Full Festival Passes are nontransferable and include a picture ID.  Passes must be picked up at Festival Registration at the Colony Cafe. Badge pick-up instructions will be sent after purchase.

Please note that all events are subject to change. Check the website to:  Confirm venues and times  Find out what is SOLD OUT  Read updated information about screenings, events and panels For the most up-to-date information, please visit www.woodstockfilmfestival.com

important details  Ticket holders MUST arrive 15 minutes prior to screenings or panels to guarantee seating. Empty seats will be sold to those in the standby queue.  NOTE: Tickets ordered online or by phone after October 6 must be picked up at the BOX OFFICE at 13 Rock City Road in Woodstock. These tickets will NOT be sent to the venue.

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 A STANDBY line will form for all shows that have tickets available. Five minutes prior to show time, available tickets will be sold on a CASH ONLY basis. Standby queues form no earlier than one hour prior to any event.

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 PLEASE leave plenty of time to pick up pre-ordered tickets at the BOX OFFICE or order online by October 6 to receive your tickets by mail.  When planning your festival schedule, please bear in mind that the driving distances from Woodstock to Rhinebeck and Woodstock to Rosendale are about 30 minutes.

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 There are NO REFUNDS or EXCHANGES on tickets without exception.

 Tickets for all venues will be available for purchase at the BOX OFFICE a few days prior to online sales.

schedule at a glance Wed 10/10 Woodstock Playhouse

Fri continued 10/12 Mountain View Studio

7:30

3:00

David Bromberg Unsung Treasure

PANEL: Facebook for Filmmakers and Artists

Sat 10/13

Sun 10/14

Colony Cafe Woodstock

Bearsville Theater Woodstock

7:00 CONCERT: Aaron Freeman from Ween 10:00 CONCERT: Aaron Freeman from Ween

9:00

CONCERT: Jeremy Bernstein and Friends

Downing Film Center Newburgh

Upstate Films Woodstock

Kleinert/James Arts Center

Mountain View Studio

7:30

12:00 World’s Finest Chef 2:00 Nor’easter 4:45 Sparrows Dance 7:00 Any Day Now 9:30 419

12:45 SHORTS: Docs 3:00 SHORTS: Hiccups 5:00 SHORTS: Eyes of a Child 7:30 SHORTS: Foreign Affairs 10:00 SHORTS: Music Videos

10:00 PANEL: Actor’s Dialogue 12:00 PANEL: Raising Funds 2:00 PANEL: Producing in a MultiScreen World

Francine

Thur 10/11 Colony Cafe Woodstock 9:00

CONCERT: Simi Stone

Upstate Films Woodstock 2:15 4:15 7:00 9:30

Idle Threat Mariachi Gringo Gayby In Our Nature

Utopia Studios Woodstock 1:00 3:30 6:00 8:30

Dead Dad Shepard & Dark First Winter The Mechanical Bride

Woodstock Playhouse

sc h e d u le

3:00

One Track Heart: The Story of Krishna Das

6:30 9:30

Dear Governor Cuomo... Quartet

preceded by Practice Change

Upstate I Rhinebeck 7:30

Refuge

Woodstock Playhouse 11:30 Once in a Lullaby 2:00 Starlet 4:45 Electrick Children 7:15 Magical Mystery Tour Revisited & Magical Mystery Tour 10:00 Art Machine

Utopia Studios Woodstock 12:15 Mondays at Racine & Kings Point 2:15 Informant 4:30 Who Cares About Kelsey 7:00 Bad Brains: A Band in D.C. 9:45 SHORTS: Music Videos

Upstate Films I Rhinebeck 2:15 4:30 7:00 9:30

Chasing Ice Strutter I Am Not a Hipster The Mechanical Bride

Upstate II Rhinebeck

Upstate Films II Rhinebeck

8:15

1:00 3:30 6:00 8:30

California Solo

Rosendale Theatre 6:30

Francine

Fri 10/12 Bearsville Theater Woodstock 7:00 9:30

Charles Bradley: Soul of America Charles Bradley Concert

Kleinert/James Arts Center 11:15 SHORTS: Docs 1:30 SHORTS: A Winter Passing 3:45 SHORTS: Hiccups 5:45 SHORTS: Teen Films 8:00 SHORTS: Hudson Valley Shorts 10:00 SHORTS: Animated Shorts

Idle Threat Words of Witness The Unlikely Girl The Compass is Carried by the Dead Man

Rosendale Theatre 1:30 4:00 6:30 9:30

Quartet First Winter Mea Maxima Culpa The Sessions

10:00 PANEL: From Reel to Real 12:00 PANEL: Film & Television 2:00 PANEL: Music in Film with BMI 4:00 PANEL: Distribution Paradigms

Upstate Films Woodstock

11:15 SHORTS: Eyes of a Child 1:30 SHORTS: Animated Shorts 3:45 SHORTS: A Winter Passing 6:00 SHORTS: Foreign Affairs

Upstate Films Woodstock 12:00 Words of Witness 2:00 Arcadia 4:30 The Compass is Carried by the Dead Man 7:30 Apartment in Athens

11:30 Rhymes with Banana 2:00 California Solo 4:30 I Am Not a Hipster 7:00 Refuge 9:30 The Sessions

Utopia Studios Woodstock

Utopia Studios Woodstock 11:30 The Unlikely Girl 2:00 Exit Elena preceded by Aunt Louisa 4:45 Virgin Tales 7:30 2nd Serve 10:00 Welcome to the Machine

12:15 Oma & Bella 2:30 Fight to Live 5:00 Rolan Makes Movies 6:45 Strutter

Woodstock Playhouse

11:15 SHORTS: Hudson Valley Shorts 1:30 Chasing Ice 3:45 Mea Maxima Culpa 6:45 Casting By 9:15 Vamps

11:30 Pretty Old 1:45 Dinner at the No-Go’s 4:30 Archaeology of a Woman 7:00 Putzel 9:30 Between Us

Upstate Films I Rhinebeck 11:45 Mondays at Racine & Kings Point 2:00 Apartment in Athens 4:15 Dead Dad 6:30 Once in a Lullaby 9:00 Faces in the Mirror

Upstate Films II Rhinebeck

12:30 Oma & Bella 2:45 Rolan Makes Movies 10:00 Filmmakers’ Party Music by Flannery Lunsford from the 4:30 Nor’easter film Strutter, The Brandy Knights, 7:00 Any Day Now Wine Teeth, Lindsey Webster, and 9:30 419 Ford Crull live art and music

SPAF

Rosendale Theatre 12:00 2:30 5:00 7:30 10:00

Shepard & Dark Electrick Children Sparrows Dance Arcadia Bad Brains: A Band in D.C.

2012 Awards Gala Backstage Studio Productions in Kingston Saturday Oct 13, 2012 Cocktail party starts at 7pm • Awards start at 9pm For up-to-date info, visit woodstockfilmfestival.com

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Mountain View Studio

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Woodstock Playhouse

Upstate Films I Rhinebeck 11:45 Only the Young 1:45 World’s Finest Chef 3:45 Starlet 6:30 2nd Serve 8:45 In Our Nature

Upstate Films II Rhinebeck 12:00 Pretty Old 2:15 Exit Elena preceded by Aunt Louisa 4:45 Informant 7:00 Virgin Tales

Rosendale Theatre 12:15 Putzel 2:45 Rhymes with Banana 5:15 Mariachi Gringo 8:00 Between Us

Please. note that all events are subject to change. Check woodstockfilmfestival.com to confirm venues and times

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