Woodstock Film Festival

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WOODSTOCK
FILM FESTIVAL
September 28 - October 2 2005
Fiercely Independent
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SHORTS
THE GREAT IDEA
BINTA AND THE GREAT IDEA
(BINTA Y LA GRAN IDEA)
Directed by Javier Fesser
RIDE OF THE MERGANSERS
SPAIN, SENEGAL / 2004 / 30 minutes
In French with English subtitles
A SONG FOR DANIEL
SOUVENIR
EAST COAST PREMIERE
Binta is a seven-year old girl who lives in a
small village on the Casamance river in
southern Senegal. She goes to school. Her
cousin Soda, does not have the same good
fortune and is not allowed to learn about
the things of the world.
Meanwhile, Binta’s father (a humble
fisherman) is concerned about the development of mankind and he determined to
carry out his great idea.
A SONG FOR DANIEL
Directed by Jason DaSilva
2004 / USA / 11 minutes
2005 / IRAQ, USA / 9 minutes
The Hooded Merganser is a rare and reclusive duck found only in North America.
Every spring, in the Great Lakes region, the
wary hen lays and incubates her eggs in a
nest high in the trees. Just 24 hours after
hatching, the tiny ducklings must make
the perilous leap to the ground below to
begin life in the wild. This age-old rite is
rarely observed by humans. Ride of the
Mergansers brings this hidden drama to the
screen. Filmed entirely in northern
Minnesota, Ride of the Mergansers offers a
rare glimpse into the secret world of the
Hooded Merganser.
In English and Arabic
A Song For Daniel compares a routine day
of two nine-year-old Iraqi boys: one living
in Baghdad and the other born and raised
in New York City.
Fri. S ept. 30, 5:00PM @ Upstate 2
Sun. Oct. 2, 2:45PM @ Bearsville
SOUVENIR
Directed by Stephen Rose
EAST COAST PREMIERE
A shadowy fable unfolds from inside a souvenir snow globe, in this unique film that
was shot entirely with a toy camera.
W O O D S T O C K F I L M F E S T I VA L 2 0 0 5
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S H O RT S
Directed by Steve Furman
55 minutes
SHORTS
SCREENING
WITH…
Dave Holland
Directed by Ulli Gruber
CLOSE
DAVE HOLLAND
US PREMIERE
Dave Holland is one of the world’s leading acoustic bass players. His career
spans more than three decades. It was
Miles Davis who discovered the young
Englishman in 1967. This documentary
gives insight to the musician’s life and
approach towards his work. Dave
Holland won the Grammy Award (2002)
for Best Performing Big Band.
HOW I KNOW YOU
PARTY FOR THE PEOPLE:
ROCK AND REVOLUTION
IN REGGIO EMILIA
THE RAFTMAN’S RAZOR
THE TOURIST
THE VENTURE
Screens prior to:
Stranger:Bernie Worrell on Earth
W(IT)H
WHAT I’M LOOKING FOR
HOW I
KNOW YOU
S H O RT S
Directed by
Matthew Timms
2005 / USA /
2:30 minutes
Our
witless
hero rolodexes
through
his
brain to remember how he knows the man walking
towards him. Yoga? The video store? Stabbings can be so
awkward like that. How I Know You is a dark comedy
about familiar faces.
Screens prior to Sarah Silverman:Jesus Is Magic
CLOSE
Directed by Tom Hopkins
IRELAND / 2004 / 8:47 minutes
When Jill awakes after a serious car crash, she finds herself
floating above her own body, still lying in the wreckage of her
car below. Not finding encouragement in the bitter thoughts
she hears as she floats over the bystanders, she prepares to
leave for good, but then one last miracle happens....
Screens prior to Automatic
PARTY FOR THE PEOPLE: ROCK AND
REVOLUTION IN REGGIO EMILIA
Directed by Sascha Paladino
ITALY, USA / 2005 /
7 minutes
WORLD PREMIERE
An exploration of the connections between communism
and rockabilly music in northern Italy.
Screens prior to Instrumental
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SHORTS
SCREENING
WITH...
Directed by Keith Bearden
USA / 2005 / 7 minutes
Two teen boys spend the summer trying
to figure out the secret of their favorite
comic book hero, the Raftman, who
drifts out to sea without food, water, or
any noticeable superpowers. He just
shaves, thinks an odd philosophical
thought, and stares at the ocean. Will he be rescued? Use his straight razor on himself?
Starve to death? What does it all mean anyway? By summer’s end, they get their answer,
and it’s nothing like they ever imagined.
Screen prior to Puffy Chair
THE TOURIST
Directed by James Israel
and Jeff Israel
THE VENTURE
Directed by Ben Fleisher
WORLD PREMIERE
A businessman, rushing to an
important meeting, has a day of
delays, distractions, and obstacles.
As his frustrations reach a peak, his
anxieties are relieved by a memory
from his childhood. With a nod to
classical melodrama, and a wink to
postmodern exhibitionism, this hip
fable begs the question, “How
much is your childhood really
worth?”
Screens prior to Runaway
S H O RT S
EAST COAST
PREMIERE
Claire finds her routine
day of hiding inside her
apartment has changed
after she discovers a
mysterious box of puzzle pieces in her closet. As she assembles the
puzzle to reveal the image, she struggles to confront her loneliness
and self-imposed isolation.
Screens prior to 212
W(IT)H
Directed by Hunter Carson
Directed by Shelly Silver
The last, tricky, funny
11 minutes on the night
a hitman (Tim Roth)
revisits his old neighborhood to do a whack-job.
Screens prior to Dead
Man’s Shoes
A woman sets out to photograph
moments of intimacy. On an
Internet dating site she writes: A
woman sets out to photograph
moments of intimacy. On an
Internet dating site she writes: ‘I’m
looking for people who would like to
be photographed in public revealing something of themselves...
What I’m Looking For documents this adventure; the connections formed at this intersection between virtual and actual public space. The video is a rumination on the nature
of photography and the persistence of vision. It is a short tale of desire and control.
Screens prior to Zizek
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SHORTS
NY X 10
NYC WEIGHTS AND MEASURES
E=NYC2
Directed by Jem Cohen
HARLEM SISTAS
DOUBLE DUTCH
USA / 2005 / 5:30 minutes
A REASONABLE FACSIMILE
ROUTINE
THE SPACE INVADERS
SUPER POWER BLUES
THROUGH THE ICE
THE UNDERMINER
ZERO VISIBILITY
52 minutes
S H O RT S
*Parental Advisory: mature content
The Woodstock Film Festival is
proud to present the only
theatrical screening of
NY X 10 outside of NYC.
Encompassing every genre–
from narrative to documentary
and from animation to
experimental–NY X 10
features 10 short films created
specifically to celebrate the
tenth season of
Thirteen/WNET’s acclaimed
independent film and video
series, REEL NEW YORK.
Sun. Oct. 2, 5:15PM @ WCC
E=NYC2
Directed by Kimi Takesue
Structured in a series of observational
vignettes, this visually-driven piece captures the dynamic energy and movement
of New York City. It features New Yorkers
moving through self-contained yet interconnected worlds as they pursue dreams,
earn a living, escape into fantasy, and find
ways to enjoy the day.
Jem Cohen’s
film opens
with a parade
for astronaut
John Glenn,
then makes
its way across
boroughs and
time to
explore New York City’s many
moods–from loud and relentless to grave
and dreamy.
Directed by Edin Velez
Edin Velez’s multi-layered video combines
documentary material and narrative segments to reveal a city rife with missed connections and misunderstandings among its
inhabitants.
HARLEM SISTAS
DOUBLE DUTCH
Directed by Nicole Franklin
Courtesy of
WNET-TV
Vivian, a free-spirited diva who is thriving in Harlem’s new renaissance,
gives advice to her admiring, 27-year-old niece in Nicole Franklin’s film,
which reveals how family bonds can get in the way of a woman’s night on
the town.
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SHORTS
THROUGH THE ICE
Directed by Jennie Livingston
In this film, Jennie Livingston explores how Miguel Flores broke through the ice
of Prospect Park Lake in Brooklyn in January of 2003. The dog walkers saw it happen. What was he doing there? What were the repercussions of the events of that
day? What is it that binds us together as New Yorkers and as human beings who
all walk on the same uncertain ground?
ROUTINE
Directed by Micahel Britto
THE UNDERMINER
A visual meditation on the redundancy of
the more mundane aspects of life in New
York, Michael Britto’s short work examines
the notion of fleeting time and mortality,
and makes a case for putting a little variety
into the mix.
Directed by Todd Downing
THE SPACE INVADERS
Directed by Marina Zurkow
Black-and-white video is combined with
hand-drawn animation in Marina Zurkow’s
unsettling, post-apocalyptic (post-election)
vision of a bleak and capricious future
involving spies and a miscreant race of
alien invaders who take over New York’s
desolate streets.
S H O RT S
Based on the book
by Mike Albo and
Virginia Heffernan,
Todd
Downing’s
film reveals the
insidious tactics of
the quintessential
New York underminer, a master of
passive aggression
who throws his victim into a spiral of
self-doubt and hopelessness
every time he sees him.
ZERO
VISIBILITY
SUPER POWER BLUES
Directed by Greg Pak
Greg Pak’s film tells the story of Super
Power Go Girl, a Japanese super-heroine
who lives in New York City and deals with
endless
crises–
when all she really
wants to do is
sleep with her
boyfriend.
Directed by
Kathy High
USA / 2005 /
5:30 minutes
Using lightning
as a symbol for
both creation
and destruction, Kathy
High’s video tells the story of a seer who prophesizes
about dangerous experiments being done to New
York City. Her science fiction scenario of a possible
future and a possible past is an allegory for the current climate of fear that has gripped the city and the
nation.
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SHORTS
WOM•AN
THE BIG EMPTY
TWITCH
BREACHED
Directed by Leah
Meyerhoff
CON TODA PALABRA
2004 / USA / 10
minutes /
Tisch School of
the Arts
PATCH
TWITCH
WET
80 minutes
Sat. Oct. 1, 12:00PM @ WCC
CON TODA PALABRA
Directed by Ralph Dfouni and Brigitte Henry
2004 / CANADA / 4:33 minutes
Featuring the music of Lhasa, this is about
the poetic trinity of Love and the battle of
the elements: fire, water, and wind.
PATCH
Directed by
Christopher Romero
WET
Directed by
Hannah Beth King
USA / 2005 /
15:30 minutes
USA / 2005 /
15:40 minutes /
Columbia University
S H O RT S
NY PREMIERE
THE BIG EMPTY
Directed by
J. Lisa Chang and
Newton Thomas Sigel
A bittersweet tale of Alice (Selma Blair), her
vagina, and the infinite nature of the tundra.
A young woman
must come to
terms with the
fact that her boyfriend might only be interested in her body and that her mother’s
disability is not contagious.
A woman returns
to her hometown
shortly after her
mother’s death.
Hidden inside a recurring dream, she discovers an erased childhood memory. Late
one evening she travels down the back
roads of her youth and uncovers an ugly
secret at the roadside memorial. Featuring
Melissa Leo, Deborah Harry, and Leo
Burmester.
NY PREMIERE
On the eve of her baptism, 12 year-old Jane
is caught between her newly awakened sexuality and her family’s strict moral sensibilities. WET is her haunting journey of
sensual awakening into an adult reality she
is not yet prepared to confront. The film
features a score by Dickon Hinchlife of the
British indie band Tindersticks.
BREACHED
Directed by Laura Richard
USA / 2005 / 18:10 minutes / New York University
In Spanish and English
A Mexican woman nearing
delivery is determined to
have her baby on
American soil. In order to
take advantage of immigration policy, she waits until her cervix is dilated
enough to cross the border in active labor. To complete her journey, Maria must face the intense
physical strain of childbirth and the dangerous
complications of illegal border crossing.
WOM•AN
noun (pl. wom • en | wimin |) an adult human female.
• a female worker or employee.
• a wife, girlfriend or lover: he wondered whether Billy had his
woman with him.
• [with adj.] a female person associated with a particular place, activity, or
occupation: a young American woman.
• [in sing.] female adults in general: woman is intuitive.
• a female paid to clean someone’s house and carry out general domestic duties.
• a peremptory form of address to a woman: don’t be daft, woman.
(from Oxford American Dictionaries)
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SHORTS
MAN
AND THE LANDSCAPE
WILL SEEM TO SWAY
AND THE LANDSCAPE
WILL SEEM TO SWAY
CHAIM
Directed by
Filipe Bessa and Nick Schwartz
CHOKED
USA / 2004 / 16 minutes /
Florida State University
CRICKETS
WORLD PREMIERE
A recent college graduate blindly navigates the increasingly violent world around him. He’s looking
for respect and admiration, but if he doesn’t open his eyes, he could soon be the next victim.
THE NATURAL ROUTE
RECOIL
YOUNGSTER
CRICKETS (Tsarsarim)
CHAIM
Directed by Jonathan Greenfield
Directed by Matan Guggenheim
91 minutes
ISRAEL / 2004 / 16:30 minutes /
Tel Aviv University
In Hebrew with English subtitles
After losing his parents in a terrorist attack,
Ido starts to hear crickets in his head. To
put an end to the incessant noise, he finds
an outrageous solution.
USA / 2005 / 14:30 minutes
In German, Russian, and Yiddish
with English subtitles
RECOIL
US PREMIERE
IRELAND / 2004 /
12:45 minutes
S H O RT S
Aside from his days working alongside a
small team of workers in his small Berlin
fish factory, Chaim is at home imprisoned
by a chronic childhood memory. The arrival
of a letter from America threatens Chaim’s
impressively layered psychological floodgates from being overwhelmed.
Directed by
Billy McCannon
NY PREMIERE
THE NATURAL ROUTE
(La Ruta Natural)
Directed by Alex Pastor
A paramilitary man
is confounded by a detective’s questioning.
An answer may offer redemption to both, but
threatens to condemn one to prison.
SPAIN / 2004 / 11:30 minutes
In Spanish with English subtitles
CHOKED
Directed by Brad Barnes
USA / 2005 / 11:56 minutes /
New York University
A visitor with a large case enters a school
and meets unexpected consequences.
EAST COAST PREMIERE
When Divad wakes after an accident his
home, his wife... everything is unknown to
him. Maybe the answers he needs lie in the
past.
MAN
noun (pl. men | men | )
an adult human male.
• a male worker or employee: more than 700 men were laid off | CNN’s man in India.
• a male member of a sports team: Johnson took the ball past three men and scored.
• (men) ordinary members of the armed forces as distinct from the officers: he had a platoon of forty men to prepare for battle.
• a husband, boyfriend, or lover: the two of them lived for a time as man and wife.
• [with adj.] a male person associated with a particular place, activity, or occupation: a Harvard man | I’m
a solid union man.
• a male pursued or sought by another, esp. in connection with a crime: Inspector Bull was sure they would find their man.
• dated: a manservant or valet: get me a cocktail, my man.
(from Oxford American Dictionaries)
YOUNGSTER
Directed by Will Canon
NY PREMIERE
Marcus Jenkins, Jr. is a 12-year-old kid new
to the world of drug dealing. On one of his
first deals, Marcus is approached by a pushy,
strung-out crack addict named Ronald
Williams. When he mistakenly gives Ronald
a crack rock without first getting paid,
Marcus must decide whether to trust a man
with every reason to lie, or to try and recover the money by his own means.
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SHORTS
T O G E T H E R
Antonym: Separately
FUTURE IMPERFECT
Directed by Marshall Lewy
HAPPY
FUTURE IMPERFECT
NY PREMIERE
What happens when your lost love suddenly re-appears after five years? A dark
romantic comedy about what might have
been.
LEO AND SANDRA
NO SHOULDER
RESURRECTION
TWO MEN
HAPPY
THE YOUTH IN US
Directed by Luke Stettner
81 minutes
S H O RT S
Fri. Sept. 30, 5:00PM @ WCC
Sun. Oct. 2, 10:30AM @ WCC
LEO AND SANDRA
Directed by Alessandro Celli
ITALY / 2004 / 6:35 minutes /
London Film School
Leo is a quiet child who would like to
introduce himself to his neighbor who
studies on the opposite terrace.
WORLD PREMIERE
Ben wants nothing more than to settle into his
Sunday newspaper and coffee routine but his girlfriend insists on quizzing him with a survey titled,
Are You Happy?
NO SHOULDER
Directed by
Suzi Yoonessi
USA / 2005 / 10 minutes /
Columbia University
WORLD PREMIERE
Ruth (Melissa Leo) reflects on the
life she left behind in a fervent
confrontation with a troubled
teenager (Samanthan Sloyan).
On location with No Shoulder in Woodstock
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SHORTS
RESURRECTION
Directed by Mitchell Lichtenstein
A young boy living in suburban isolation with his mother
makes a break for freedom,
but dawn brings regret.
TWO MEN
Directed by Ian Olds
S H O RT S
USA / 2004 / 16:40 minutes /
Columbia University
US PREMIERE
After being humiliated in the bathroom of the local bowling alley, a small
town loser with a gun and a penchant for paranoid fantasies spends the
rest of the night trying to reclaim his dignity. The stranger he discovers in
the back of his car has other ideas.
THE YOUTH IN US
Directed by Joshua Leonard
NY PREMIERE
Lukas Haas and Kelli Garner star as two
young lovers who find the courage to
confront the future by looking to the
past.
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SHORTS
DOCUMENTARIES
CAUGHT IN PAINT
THE JEW ON TRIAL
CAUGHT IN PAINT
Directed by Rita Blitt
USA / 2003 /
6 minutes
RUN TO JAY’S:
TOURNAMENT OF CHAMPIONS
A SONG FOR DANIEL
Caught
In
Paint
captures
painter/sculptor Rita Blitt painting on
transparent surfaces while the David Parsons
Dance Co. dance in mid-air through the painting, imitating Blitt’s paint strokes.
Photographer Lois Greenfield shoots dynamic stills during process.
THIS MORNING
60 minutes
JEW ON TRIAL
Directed by Albert Maysles
S H O RT S
2005 / USA / 7 minutes (work in progress)
In 1913, a Jew named Mendel Beilis living
outside of Kiev, Russia, was brought to trial.
He was falsely accused of murdering a 13year-old Christian boy to use his blood in
the baking of the Passover Matzos. Mendel
Beilis was not a religious man and lived
among gentiles as a dispatcher in a brick
factory. Being a Jew allowed the authorities
to twist and turn this man’s fate. This film
offers insight into what it was and apparently always will be to be Jewish. Beilis’s
descendants still live in the Bronx and
recount their harrowing tale of duplicity,
corruption and outright legalized anti-semitism. Ritual murder accusations, which
have been going on for centuries dating
back to 12th Century, Yorkshire, England,
and continuing well into this century,
claim that Jews kill Christian children and
take their blood and mix it with Matzos for
the Passover celebration. There is absolutely no basis for such a practice in any Jewish
text, beliefs or deeds. Evidence against
Beilis was brought forth from “The
Protocols Of The Elders Of Zion”, which
has served as the cornerstone for anti-semitism in this century.
Directed by Steve Furman
A SONG FOR
DANIEL
Directed by Jason
DaSilva
The Hooded Merganser is a rare and reclusive duck found only in North America.
Every spring, in the Great Lakes region, the
wary hen lays and incubates her eggs in a
nest high in the trees. Just 24 hours after
hatching, the tiny ducklings must make the
perilous leap to the ground below to begin
life in the wild. This age-old rite is rarely
observed by humans. Ride of the Mergansers
brings this hidden drama to the screen.
This short documentary is an unexpected
and heartwarming blend of natural history,
humor, and suspense. You’ll be entertained, educated, and inspired–and come
away with a newfound appreciation of the
phrase, “leap of faith.”
IRAQ, USA / 2005 /
9 minutes
In English and
Arabic
A Song For Daniel
compares a routine day of two nine-yearold Iraqi boys: one living in Baghdad and
the other born and raised in New York
City. This short is a profound examination
of culture and place seen through the eyes
of two boys on opposite sides of the world.
THIS
MORNING
Directed by Lucy
Mulloy
USA / 2005 /
10 minutes
Jay’s toy is
broken. Dafeney gets the blame. They fight.
This Morning was nominated for a
2005 Student Academy Award.
RUN TO JAY’S: TOURNAMENT OF CHAMPIONS
Directed by Brett Spackman
USA / 2004 / 16:20 minutes
Three years ago, during a TV commercial break, Brett asked Casey if he thought it was possible to sprint from their front door to Jay’s Market across the street and around the corner, buy a soda, and then return to the front door in under two minutes. Brett’s attempt
failed, but launched a competition that would span three years and involve dozens of athletes. With rules established and strategies devised, record times were being set at nearly
every race, until one athlete set a mark that many thought could never be broken.
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SHORTS
FOOD & FILM
FARMING FOR THE FUTURE
Directed by Matthew Kraus
USA / 2005 / 14:36 minutes
In the rolling hills of Southeast Ohio exists a movement of small-scale farmers who produce food without chemicals or significant mechanical input. For these visionary men
and women of the earth, pesticides are an unnecessary hazard, while one’s own sweat
and toil proves more efficient than fossil-fueled machines. Farming for the Future enters
the fields to uncover the motivations of these forward-thinking yeomen, illuminating
the subtler and oft-forgotten aspects of the vital commodity called food. Tromp through
the fields of Athens County with this outspoken group of conscientious cultivators to
witness sustainable alternatives to conventional methods, and find out what farmers
really think about the state of food production in the United States today.
FIVE FEELINGS ABOUT FOOD
PAINTER OF THE LAND
Fri. Sept. 30, 2:45PM @ WCC
Directed by Cornelia Ravenal and Mikael Sodersten
SWEDEN, USA / 2005 / 27:22 minutes
PAINTER OF THE LAND
Directed by Joel Fendelman
FRANCE / 2004 / 8:30 minutes
In French with English subtitles
NY PREMIERE
Georges Adrian works on a land that has
been passed on to him by his father, who
passed it on to him by his father, and so on.
This land lies between the two towns of
Lacoste and Bonnieux in the Southern Provence region of France. The film
is a look at Georges on his farm, on his land, in his life–about a man and
how he uses the earth as his canvas.
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S H O RT S
This isn’t a traditional documentary. But neither is the
subject. Artists Mimi Oka and Doug Fitch take a wildly
explorative approach to food. With shows and installations in the United States, Europe, and Japan, they not
only challenge our notions about eating, but our
notions about art. As the filmmakers put it: “We went
to the French village where they were working to shoot
them creating dining events. But as we witnessed their
processes and results, we realized that instead of straight
documentation, we had to create a film that expressed
the spirit of the art: dynamic, playful, provocative,
sometimes complex, yet always... easy to digest. And as
we spent more time together, we began to view their
work through the lens of five feelings...”
SHORTS
A N I M AT I O N
Programmed by Bill Plympton
and Signe Baumane
COLD WAR
Directed by Brian Garrigan
529
US PREMIERE
USA / 2004 / 3:19 minutes/
School of Visual Arts
9
NY PREMIER
THE BACKBRACE
COLD WAR
9
Directed by Shane Acker
DENTIST
DER PARK
US PREMIERE
THE FAN AND THE FLOWER
US PREMIERE
FAUNA SUTRA
GOPHER BROKE
HANDSHAKE
INSOMNIA
US PREMIERE
LEARN SELF DEFENSE
USA / 2004 / 10:40 minutes / UCLA
A mechanical beast attacks two rag doll
creatures as they scavenge the ruins of
their world. After witnessing the death of
his mentor 5, the rag doll 9 must confront
this vile creature. Only through cunning
and the use of his primitive technology can
9 hope to destroy the monster and steal
the talisman of trapped souls it carries as a
trophy.
9 was awarded the 2005 Student
Academy Award for animated shorts.
Cold War is a high tech mix
of old meets new. The
art direction and
character design are
influenced by 1930s sci-fi pulp magazines
and vintage advertising posters, and it pays
tribute to Warner Brothers and Mad
Magazine. All these influences were brought
together by two students at the School of
Visual Arts in Manhattan for their thesis film
project. Cold War seeks to veer away from
standard student films and get back to the
roots of animation, namely comedy.
Cold War was nominated for a 2005
Student Academy Award.
S H O RT S
LIFE IN TRANSITION
DER PARK
MOONRAKER
Directed by
Nicholas Mahler
PETUNIA
US PREMIERE
AUSTRIA / 2005
/ 5 minutes
RETURN I WILL
TO OLD BRAZIL
90 minutes
Fri. Sept. 30, 6:45PM @ CMF 2
Sat. Oct 1, 12:30PM @ Bearsville
529
Directed by
Maarten de With
and Niek Castricum
NETHERLANDS,
BELGIUM / 2004 /
7 minutes
This park is no bed of roses.
THE BACKBRACE
Directed by Andy and Carolyn London
FAUNA SUTRA
Directed by Johan Klungel
Puberty is never a good time for anyone.
Particularly if you’re a teenage boy diagnosed with scoliosis and forced by your
zealously well-intentioned parents to wear
a backbrace. This is the tragic and awkward
world of Carolyn and Andy London’s autobiographical animated short. The Backbrace
is a chronicle of puberty, social humiliation,
and the perils of over-parenting.
The NETHERLANDS / 2004 / 3:45 minutes
US PREMIERE
DENTIST
An office worker tries to escape the drag of
his nine to five existence with ever-increasing drastic measures.
Is the hen to blame?
Directed by Signe Baumane
The animal world is full of bizarre behavior.
Not in the least their sexual habits can take
strange forms. In Fauna Sutra we can see
what our world would look like if evolution had taken a different path and had
given us the habits of certain animals.
An enthusiastic dentist, a reluctant patient, and a strange picture on the wall...
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SHORTS
A N I M AT I O N
MOONRAKER
Directed by Fran Krause
Directed by Bill Plympton
A short about a content but lonely astronaut stranded on a haunted moon. This is
a startlingly funny and poignant film about
exploration, honing in on how humanity
affects the universe with our seemingly
harmless intrepid investigations. The moon
is watching.
An ill-fated and unconsummated
romance between a fan and a flower
magically creates a fairy tale ending. A
very atypical Bill Plympton film.
PETUNIA
Directed by Aaron Hughes
A charming love affair between a man and
his flower bounces merrily along from this
world into the next.
GOPHER BROKE
Directed by Jeff Fowler
LEARN SELF DEFENSE
Directed by Chris Harding
S H O RT S
Gopher Broke tells the tale of a cunning
rodent’s smashing encounter with a produce truck on a lonely country road.
Learn Self Defense is a basic how-to guide
for anyone interested in personal safety
and/or world domination. Watch as a cocksure narrator guides an ordinary citizen
through five strangely familiar lessons of
self-defense! Marvel as he is turned loose in
the streets to wreak bloody havoc!
HANDSHAKE
RETURN I WILL TO OLD BRAZIL
Directed by Patrick Smith
Directed by Alex Budovsky
In this animated film, an innocent greeting
between two people is quickly transformed
into a sticky, tangled struggle for survival.
INSOMNIA (BEZMIEGS)
LIFE IN TRANSITION
Directed by Vladimir Leschiov
Directed by John Dilworth
LATVIA / 2004 / 7 minutes
She comes at night as quiet as a cat, to take
his sleep away until he feeds her. All she
needs is for him to bring some milk, somewhere between sleep and reality. Her name
is Insomnia.
Life in Transition is a visual and symbolic
journey depicting the continual transformations of life from birth to death to rebirth.
This animated music film is based on the
Mickael Kamen song Brazil, performed by
Geoff Muldaur. It is a story of a Brazilian
monkey who left his motherland and wants
to return.
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SHORTS
ANIMATION FOR
KIDS OF ALL AGES
CYTOPLASMS
IN ACID
ENVIRONMENT
Directed by Irene
Iborra, David Gautier,
and Eduard Puertas
AQUARIUM
THE CLONE TROOPER ORCHESTRA
CYTOPLASMS IN ACID ENVIRONMENT
*COLD WAR
*GOPHER BROKE
SPAIN / 2004 / 4 minutes /
Zeros Animation School, Barcelona
Directed by Peter Lepeniotis
The terrible consequences of a boring class.
*PETUNIA
REVENGE OF THE BRICK
*SURLY SQUIRREL
*ZIT
*Programmed by Bill Plympton
and Signe Baumane
S H O RT S
Sponsored by
CANADA / 2005 / 10:45 minutes
NEW YORK PREMIERE
COLD WAR
Directed by Brian Garrigan
USA / 2004 / 3:19 minutes / SVA
Two planet settlers claim their stake!
GOPHER BROKE
Directed by Jeff Fowler
Sun. Oct. 2, 10:30AM @ Bearsville
SURLY SQUIRREL
Gopher Broke tells the tale of a cunning
rodent’s smashing encounter with a produce truck on a lonely country road.
A starving park squirrel and rat come
across a discarded pizza slice. The duo’s
greed disrupts the natural order of the
park. Simultaneously, across the street
from the park, a bank heist is taking place
in the human world. The two worlds collide in an uproarious escape for both
rodents and bank robbers alike. The story
culminates in a full-on car chase with
police and park animals in hot pursuit.
The pigeons save the day, restoring order
to both worlds, for now...
ZIT
Directed by Mike Blum
AQUARIUM
Directed by Nadia
Roden
USA / 2005 / 2:15
minutes
PETUNIA
Directed by Aaron Hughes
WORLD PREMIERE
An underwater ballet to the music of
Saint-Sciens’ Aquarium Busby Berkeleystyle! Sea horses playing the harp, urchins
swaying, jellyfish on the piano, octopuses
changing color, tiny fish turning into a
kaleidoscope of color and pattern.
Directed by Royce Graham
USA / 2005 / 1 minute
The Clone Trooper Orchestra features a LEGO
mini-figure of Darth Vader acting as John
Williams conducting an orchestra of clone troopers performing “The Imperial March.”
A charming love affair between a man and his
flower bounces merrily along from this world into
the next.
Directed by Royce Graham
This computer-animated mini-movie starring the
new LEGO Star Wars characters & vehicles. Inspired by Star
Wars Episode III,” it
combines the iconic
building properties of
LEGO with Star Warsstyle action for an exciting and comedic story.
Timmy, a young
boy on his way
to the big
school dance, is
forced to deal
with his first
pimple problem--and what a
problem it is! Every attempt he makes to
rid himself of the ever-growing dilemma
only succeeds in making the situation
worse. Timmy comes up with an ingenious
plan to rectify his situation, but he never
anticipated the surprising consequences of
his actions. And neither will
the audience.
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YOUTH INITIATIVE
The Career Day and Youth
Forum are part of WFF’s
annual YOUTH INITIATIVE. The
Woodstock Film Festival is
committed to youth and
education as a means to
positive development, conflict
resolution, and growth
opportunity.
Sponsored by
CAREER DAY
The Woodstock Film Festival Career Day
offers students a unique opportunity to
meet with industry professionals in
small groups to ask questions and learn
about careers in film production.
Participants in this youth event have
included the legendary composer of
more than 400 film scores, Elmer
Bernstein; award-winning cinematographer and director Haskell Wexler;
Academy Award-winning documentary
filmmaker Leon Gast, and agents,
actors, studio executives, animators, film
editors and producers.
Y O U T H I N I T I AT I V E
Fri. Sept 30th at 5pm at Woodstock Elementary
For students only (ages 14-20)
You must get a ticket (free) from box office
or talk to your school guidance
counselor or call (845) 679-4265
YOUTH FORUM
The 2005 Woodstock Film Festival Youth Forum offers a first look at some up-and-coming filmmakers from a
variety of regional media arts programs, including: the Parsons Pre-College Academy, a weekend and summer
intensive program that brings students into New York City to learn about design; the Indie program at Onteora
High School; and the Downtown Community TV (DC-TV) Center on Lafayette Street in NYC.
Fri. Sept 30, 7:30PM @ WCC
BULLETS IN THE HOOD:
A BED-STUY STORY
Directed by Terrence Fisher and Daniel Howard
USA / 2004 / 22:36 minutes /
Downtown Community Television Center (DCTV)
“Guns took eight of my friends’ lives. I could be next.” Terrence
Fisher, age 19, lives in the Louis Armstrong Housing Project in
Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. Eight of his friends have been shot in
his neighborhood. The most recent death occurred on January 24,
2004. Terrence and his best friend, Timothy Stansbury, were met by
gunfire on the rooftop of Terrence’s building. A bullet struck Timothy’s heart, sending Timothy and Terrence tumbling
down the stairs in a spray of blood. Timothy died. Terrence lost his best friend. The shooter was a policeman. Police
Commissioner Ray Kelly said the killing was unjustified, but no indictment was issued. As fate would have it, Terrence was
producing a documentary about gun violence when the killing occurred. This tape contains frightening images that could
only be captured by someone like Terrence, who has spent his entire life in the projects and experienced the tragedy of
gun violence in his everyday life.
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YOUTH INITIATIVE
CESSATION
Q&A
Directed by Bryan Schlam
Directed by Paul Perez
USA / 2005 / 3:05 minutes /
Dutchess Community College
USA / 2004 /
8:23 minutes /
Crossroads High
School,
Los Angeles, CA
When a man gets the news that his wife is
going to die of cancer, he relies on her
strength and advice to help him find a way
to tell their children.
CHANNUMASADAN
Directed by Joey Daoud
A young boy turns to
his older brother for
advice on how to ask
a girl out,. The flattered older brother proceeds to give advice based upon his experiences with girls. But is he really the right
person to turn to for advice?
RUNAWAY BALL
Directed by Dan Cayea
Stuck without a holiday to celebrate, Noah
decides to create his own holiday:
Channumasadan; a combination of
Channukah, Christmas, and Ramadan.
Joined with his girlfriend, Marie, they
spend the whole day sampling and exploring a bit of each holiday in three easy steps.
MANUAL
SIERRA LEONE / 2004 / 6 minutes /
USA Beyond Borders
USA / 2005 / 9:19 minutes /INDIE
A pet ball runs away from home.
discovers
OFF SEASON
Directed by Sam Richards
Filmed during the last week of the year, Off
Season is a visual poem with jazz accompaniment of Coney Island in the off-season.
After the Taliban took control of Kabul in
1996, Sahar Adish fled Afghanistan with
her family to find safety in the United
States. Sahar, at age 18, speaks powerfully
to the courage and aspirations of her parents, her family’s struggle for intellectual
freedom and educational rights.
Directed by iEARN Sierra Leone
USA / 2005 / 2:43 minutes /
Onteora High School, Boiceville, NY
computer
AFGHANISTAN, USA / 2004 / 5:37 minutes
USA Beyond Borders
WE DON’T WANT NO WAR
Directed by Trevor Grassi
An intelligent
creativity.
Light House (Charlottesville, VA)
Ten year-old Mohamed Sidibay is a bright,
hard working 4th grader who likes to play
soccer, work on computers and go to
school. Yet, only two years earlier he was
commanding rebel troops in the “bush” in
Western Africa.
WEEP NO MORE
Directed by Rosie Rion
USA / 2003 / 4:18 minutes /
Onteora High School, Boiceville, NY
Weep No More parallels an
argument between two sisters to a summer storm,
showing how, though time
may bring on its obstacles,
the magic of friendship
always prevails.
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Y O U T H I N I T I AT I V E
Miami Beach Senior High School
SAHAR: BEFORE THE SUN
SEMINARS • PANELS • WORKSHOPS
All events take place at the
Colony Café in Woodstock
unless otherwise indicated.
Programs and panelists are
subject to change.
Please make sure to visit
www.woodstockfilmfestival.com
for the most up-to-date
schedule.
Film Story & Screenwriting Panel
What are the secrets of a great film plot? Where do the best stories come from? What
makes a character memorable? How much can you bend the truth when adapting a
true story to film? Is mixing fiction with documentary the cutting edge of filmmaking?
These are just some of the ideas discussed at this yearly panel devoted to art of story
narrative and screenwriting. Past participants include: Jim Taylor, Tim Robbins, Mary
Harron, Peter Riegert, Donald Westlake, Ron Nyswaner, Michael Almereyda, Tim Blake
Nelson and Zachary Sklar.
Moderator:
Annie Nocenti (screenwriter, film journalist and former editor,
Scenario Magazine)
Panelists:
James Toback (writer/director: Harvard Man, Black and White,
Love in Paris, Two Girls and a Guy, The Pick-Up Artist, Love and
Money. Writer: Bugsy)
Lewis Lapham (editor: Harper’s magazine and screenwriter:
The American Ruling Class)
Kyle Henry (writer/director: Room, American Cowboy, and
University, Inc.)
L. M. Kit Carson (writer: Perfume, Bullfighter, The Texas Chain
Massacre 2, Breathless, and Paris, Texas. )
William Greaves (writer/director: Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take
One & Take 21⁄2, Ralph Bunche: An American Odyssey)
Horror!
PA N E L S
Sponsored by the Writers Guild of America, East since 2001.
Fri. Sept. 30, 4:00PM @ Colony Cafe
Modern-Day Catharsis &
Box-Office Bonanza
From remakes of Asian originals to homegrown frighteners, horror is now on the
radar in a huge way. The genre’s timeless,
primal themes enthrall audiences and provide a modern-day catharsis, for which the
demand seems unyielding. Join us for a
dialogue about the underlying themes of
the genre, the reasons for its recent explosion, and why it represents the quintessential indie filmmaking business model.
Panelists:
Larry Fessenden (writer/ director
of the art horror films No Telling,
Habit,Wendigo and the forthcoming The Last Winter. Fessenden is
producer of low-budget Scareflix
The Roost,The Off Season, and
Death To The Automatons. He was
executive producer on Zombie
Honeymoon.)
Stuart Samuels (director,
Midnight Movies: From the Margin
to the Mainstream; producer,
Visions Of Light.)
Actors Dialogue
Please join esteemed entertainment journalist Martha Frankel for an intimate conversation with some of today’s greatest
actors. The Actor’s Dialogue has been a
sold-out event since the first Woodstock
Film Festival, and past participants have
included Aidan Quinn, David Straitharn,
Stanley Tucci, Liev Schrieber, Marcia Gay
Harden, Parker Posey, Lily Taylor, Annabella Sciorra, Olympia
Dukakis, Peter Riegert and Sam Rockwell. Always full of surprises
and laughter, The Actors Dialogue is a relaxed atmosphere where
versatile and passionate actors get to discuss their craft, tell stories
about their films, and answer questions from their fans. Martha
Frankel’s work has appeared in scores of publications, including
The Times of London, The New Yorker, Cosmopolitan, Movieline and
Details.
Panelists:
Steve Buscemi (Mystery Train, In the Soup, Barton Fink, Fargo,
The Big Lebowski, Con Air, Armageddon, Living in Oblivion,
Things To Do in Denver When You’re Dead, Kansas City, Reservoir
Dogs).
Janeane Garofalo (Duane Hopwood, Wonderland,
Steal This Movie, Dogma, The Truth About Cats and Dogs)
Stuart Samuels (rogue auteur,
Prologue, Sisters)
Fri. Sept. 30, 1:30PM @ Colony Cafe
Sat. Oct 1, 10:00AM @ Colony Cafe
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Indie Film Revival
Recent corporate divorces and consolidation have changed the playing field in the
independent and specialty film business,
leading some to claim there simply aren’t
enough quality films to sustain all these
businesses. At the same time, the demand
for thought-provoking, original work is
higher than ever, and national- and statewide tax incentives are promoting indie
film production. This panel looks at how
the independent film business has
changed in just the past few years, and
what new opportunities have emerged for
independent filmmakers to finance, produce, and sell their films.
Moderator:
Eugene Hernandez (co-founder,
senior editor, Indiewire)
Panelists:
Steven C. Beer (legal representative, producers rep, executive producer, producer: The Hebrew
Hammer, Blue Vinyl, L.I.E., My
Generation, Snow Days,
Tumbleweeds.)
Joana Vicente (executive producer, producer; Enron: The Smartest
Guys in the Room; The
Assassination of Richard Nixon;
Coffee and Cigarettes; Lovely &
Amazing; Chuck & Buck; Welcome
to the Dollhouse
Mark Urman (president,
THINKFilm: Murderball, The
Aristrocrats,The Assassination of
Richard Nixon, Mondovino,
Spellbound.)
Sat. Oct 1, 12:15PM @ Colony Cafe
Bingham Ray
Politics, Film and Real Life
Join moderator David D’Arcy, film
and entertainment journalist, as he
tries to connect the dots between
today’s filmmaking and real-life
events that affect our lives.
Panelists include:
Bob Berney (president, Picturehouse; former president,
Newmarket Fims; former vice president, IFC Films)
Bingham Ray (former president, United Artists, and co-founder,
October Films )
Mark Urman (president, THINKFilm)
Andrew Hurwitz (founding partner. Law Firm of Epstein,
Levinsohn, Bodine, Hurwitz & Weinstein, LLP)
PA N E L S
Jason Kliot (executive producer,
producer: The Assassination of
Richard Nixon, Coffee and
Cigarettes, Lovely & Amazing, Chuck
& Buck, Welcome to the Dollhouse,
and Enron: The Smartest Guys in
the Room.)
Reality Show
Post Post - Pre Distribution:
PR, Film Festival Srategy, Marketing and
Selling Your Indie Film.
Curated and moderated by
Seth Carmichael (member: Producers Guild of
America Founder and partner in Carmichael Films, an
independent Film Sales and PR company. Carmichael
has over 15 years of production, publicity, sales and
marketing experience ranging from stadium rock concerts, Internet and new technology to film and TV)
Panelists:
Liesl Copland (film sales, Cinetic Media. Formerly
industry liaison and manager for the Tribeca Film
Festival as well as the IFP/NY No Borders C-Production
market, and producer on films for Columbia Screen
Gems, Dimension Films and RKO Pictures. liesl@cineticmedia.com)
Ron Mann (As a documentary filmmaker, Ron is best
known for his films Go Further, and Grass. He is currently working on Rat Fink, about the artist Ed “Big Daddy”
Roth. Mann is also co-founder of Canadian distribution
company, Films We Like)
Jeanne R. Berney (independent marketing and public
relations consultant and an IFP Board member. She has worked for film companies and agencies in New York and Los Angeles, most recently as executive vice
president of film and digital entertainment for Rogers & Cowan where she headed up the film division for six years.)
It is with great sadness that in 2005, the world lost one of it’s
Maverick filmmakers and a beloved member of the Upstate New
York Community.
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Music for Film
From Novel to
Screen
Join moderator Doreen Ringer Ross, vice president of film/TV
Relations at BMI, for a frank discussion about music in film and the
ins and outs of film scoring, music supervision and licensing.
Panelists:
What’s the difference
between writing prose and
screenplays? How does a
story evolve as it moves
from one form to another?
Michael Bacon (composer: Loverboy, Losing Chase, The Man Who
Walked Between the Towers, Brother in Arms, The Hamptons,
Napoleon, MacArthur, Sleeping Together)
Kevin Bacon (director: Loverboy, Losing Chase.
Actor, Where the Truth Lies, Cavedweller, The
Woodsman, Mystic River, Wild Things, Apollo 13,
The River Wild, JFK, Footloose)
Nic Harcourt (music director and host of
Morning Becomes Eclectic at KCRW(89.9 FM),
and former programmer of the highly respected radio station, WDST-FM, in Woodstock, New
York. Harcourt was also the music supervisor
of The Dukes of Hazzard and Igby Goes Down)
Book signing
directly
following
panel
Tracy McKnight (music supervisor: Murderball,
Born Into Brothels, Coffee and Cigarettes, Raising
Victor Vargas, Human Nature, High Art, and cofounder, Commotion Records)
Duncan Sheik (Recording Artist, Producer, Film
and Theatre Composer)
Sponsored by BMI since 2000
PA N E L S
Sun. Oct 2, 10:00AM @ Colony Cafe
Panelists:
Kim Wozencraft
(author, Rush, which was adapted and starred Jennifer Jason
Leigh; Wanted optioned by
Warner Brothers/ Plan B for
Meryl Streep and Jennifer
Aniston)
Paul Hoffman
(author, Wings of Madness, currently in production for NOVA)
Nina Shengold
(Writers Guild Award winner for
Labor of Love, and author of the
recently published Clearcut,
which The Oregonian calls “Jules
et Jim with hoedads.”)
Joan Schweighardt
(author, Gudrun’s Tapestry, and
award-winning independent
publisher/writer of GreyCore
Press)
Amazing Women in Film
From the director’s chair to the producer’s team, amazing women are a growing presence in the film world. Join us for a panel featuring some of the top movers and shakers
in the industry today.
Moderator:
Sun. Oct 2, 3:00pM @ Colony Cafe
Thelma Adams (film critic US Weekly)
Panelists:
Terry Lawler (executive director, NYWIFT)
Melissa Leo (actor: American Gun, Patch, Runaway, The
Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, 21 Grams, The 24 Hour
Woman)
Anne Walker-McBay (producer: Have You Heard?, A
Scanner Darkly, Before Sunset, Tape, Walking Life, The
Newton Boys, SubUrbia, Before Sunrise, Dazed and
Confused)
Ariana Bocco (head of feature packaging, Gersh
Agency)
Debra Zimmerman (Executive Director: Women Make
Movies)
Michelle Byrd (executive director, IFP)
Ellen Kuras (cinematographer, The Ballad of Jack and
Rose, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Analyze That,
Personal Velocity, Blow, Summer of Sam, I Shot Andy
Warhol, He Got Game, Postcards from America)
Produced by Melisse Seleck
Congratulations
Woodstock Film Festival
Presented by New York Women in Film & Television
Sun. Oct 2, 1:00pm @ Colony Cafe
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The
Woodstock Film
Festival
wishes to thank
crobar
for hosting
this year’s
press conference
party
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MUSIC
BERNIE WORRELL & THE STR ANGERS
and special surprise guests
Wednesday, September 28, 8:00pm at the Bearsville Theater
Catch the film
MUSIC
STRANGER: BERNIE WORRELL ON EARTH
Living Parliament? Funkadelic Colour? We’re not sure what it
by Phil Di Fiore
is, but it rocks. With a backbeat provided by resident stamWoodstock Town Hall 9/29/2005, 8:30PM
pede impersonator, Will Calhoun, and a groove from Doug
and 10/1/2005, 5:30PM
Wimbish that is deeper than the needle’s made on your
Physical Graffitti vinyl, Bernie Worrell flies anywhere and
everywhere on his magic carpet woven together from waveforms of all creeds and colors. Is it possible that three people are responsible for all of these sounds? Yep, they’re guilty.
It wouldn’t be too farfetched to call Bernie Worrell the Zelig of funk. Back in the day, he was
alongside Clinton, Bootsy and everybody else who was in the deep funk of things as the musical
director of Parliament Funkadelic. Throughout the years, he’s popped up time and again—like an
ivory-tickling, versatile Waldo—in the most intriguing places: performing with musical outfits like
Bootsy’s Rubber Band and Mos Def’s rap-rock supergroup Black Jack Johnson; collaborating with
the Talking Heads and eventually ending up in their magnificent concert film Stop Making Sense;
and backing up every rapper to come out of the West Coast (in sampled form, of course). Now
that he’s on tour with his own backup crew, the Strangers featuring Will Calhoun and Doug
Wimbish of Living Color, folks can rest assured that, in these less-than-funky times, there is still
one man out there who is willing to deliver the funk—by any means necessary. (C.D.L.)
Uncle Funk
Heating up the room with a rockin’ R&B groove is Uncle Funk whose powerhouse
lineup for this special opening night concert includes frontman Joe Beesmer along
with Pete Levin, Jesse Gress, Paul Casciaro, and Jerry Marotta.
John Barry of the Poughkeepsie Journal has this to say about Uncle Funk: “What transpires behind [Uncle Funk frontman] Beesmer is a cavalcade of modern rock history and
symphonic landscape that shakes like a fault line under pressure.” That might have to do
with the fact that the ensemble is made up of rock heavy hitters who have played with
the likes of Peter Gabriel, Miles Davis, Todd Rundgren, and Paul McCartney, to name just
a few.
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MUSIC
INSTRUMENTAL
CONCERT
The Cassettes
MUSIC
Friday, September 30, 8:00pm
at the Colony Cafe featuring
The Cassettes and
The Cassettes were originally
formed as an out-growth of
front-man Shelby Cinca’s fourtrack recordings: odd pop
Bradford Reed.
nuggets that diverged from his
previous project, Frodus.
Both Arthur Harrison of The
Drummer Saadat Awan
Cassettes and Bradford Reed
spent
periods of his childhood
are featured in Gabe Shalom’s
with
his
parents in Pakistan
documentary Instrumental.
and had recently been delving
into the centuries-old art of
tabla-playing, when he was
asked to join the band in
2002.
Having moved to
Washington D.C. from the swampy flatlands of Louisiana, Stephen Guidry
was initially recruited to add his own analogue synthesizers and Cajun-style
accordion to several demo songs.
Latest to join but certainly not least, Tom Bernath’s skills on the bass
guitar and stand-up bass are renowned throughout the Western
Hemisphere. Tom brings his valued prowess, power and perspective to bear
on the new old sounds of the group.
It was during a performance at a planetarium, featuring his theremins
and analogue sequencers that Arthur Harrison was encountered. Soon, he
became a full-fledged member of the group, recruited for the sake not only of his theremin skills, but also for his
delightful crooning. Visit www.thecassettes.com
Bradford Reed
Joining the Cassettes, this NY-based composer, performer
and producer fights and tames the idiosyncrasies of the
pencilina, an original instrument of his own design and
construction. The pencilina is an electric 10-stringed collision of the hammer dulcimer, slide guitar, koto and fretless bass with six pickups of varied types. It is struck with
sticks, plucked and bowed, giving Reed an incredibly
wide sonic palate. Bradford played in the Blue Man
Group’s original band. In addition to his solo performances he plays with NOMAH and King Missile III (and
produced four of their records). He was awarded a fellowship to the Sundance Institute’s Film Composers Lab
and a residency at the Ucross Foundation. In May,
Bradford was in Athens and Berlin playing live music in Raptus–Eve Sussman’s much anticipated new film after 89
Seconds at Alcazar, a re-stageing of Diego Velasquez’s masterpiece. In addition to writing music for a new album,
Bradford is currently working on a commission for the Julia Ritter dance company and music for a TV pilot for
Augenblick Animation Studios. Learn more at www.pencilina.com.
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MUSIC
See It Hear FirstTM
Emerging songwriter artists and
recent signings will be featured.
Acoustic Cafe from 8:00-10:00pm
featuring Capitol Record’s
recording artist Brendan James
with Mieka Pauley, Jeremy
Gregory and Adriano Sciavo.
An electric eve kicks off at
10:00pm with Duncan Sheik
and special guests Spooky
Ghost and Pamela Sue Mann.
Saturday, October 1, 8:00pm
at The Colony Cafe
sponsored by
produced by
Duncan Sheik
Recording Artist, Producer, Film and Theatre Composer
MUSIC
In 1996, Duncan Sheik traveled to France to record his debut
album for Atlantic Records. It earned him a RIAA Gold Record
award as well as a Grammy nomination. He followed up his
debut with the first single from the Great Expectations
Soundtrack, which also went gold. In 1998 he released his second full-length, Humming, on Atlantic and then, wishing to
make a different kind of record, moved to the more adventurous
Nonesuch label for his third release. The resulting record,
Phantom Moon, an all-acoustic collaboration with
playwright/lyricist Steven Sater, was on the 2001 top 10 lists of
many critics including The New York Times and The Village
Voice. Sheik returned to Atlantic for his fourth release, the more
modern Daylight, the first single from which went top 20 in the
US and was a number one hit across Asia. Soon after the release of Daylight, Sheik composed original music
for the Shakespeare in the Park Production of Twelfth Night. Last year Duncan scored his first feature film, A
Home At the End of the World for Warner Brothers Classics, and his original songs and score for the movie were
released on Milan records. As well as finishing up his fifth record, Sheik is completing work on his first fulllength musical, Spring Awakening, hich had it’s debut at Lincoln Center in February.
WACBIZ-BMI-WFF will have CD Samplers available to all registrants of the Festival....
don’t miss this very special evening!!!!
ABOUT WACBIZ
WACBIZ was conceived in Spring 2003, positively emerging out of the music industry at a time when the
future was unclear and frustrating for many, including their own. WACBIZ set its sights and goals for
artists, writers and producers to work cooperatively as a team, with a network of executives at the core,
offering their collective experience. Artists will communicate as they always do, through writing, performing, recording and touring, but now have a way through Technology that would make a difference to their
futures. Visit www.wacbiz.com for more info.
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AWARDS
mav·er·ick adj. 1. Being independent in thought and action or exhibiting such independence.
2. One who refuses to abide by the dictates of a group.
The fiercely independent Woodstock Film Festival
took the name for its award–The Maverick–from
the original Woodstock arts colony of the early
1900s, where the first of many Maverick festivals
took place each summer. These festivals celebrated
independence, social responsibility, and good
times, all in honor of the creative spirit.
Mira Nair accepts 2004 Honorary Maverick
The Honorary Maverick Award is presented to an individual whose life
and work is the very definition of the
word “maverick.” Past recipients
include Mira Nair, Woody Harrelson,
Tim Robbins, D. A. Pennebaker and
Chris Hegedus, and Les Blank.
THIS YEAR’S HONOREES
/Trail-blaz-er/: an innovative
leader in a field; a pioneer
MAVERICK AWARDS
JOHN SLOSS
The 2005 Woodstock Film Festival inaugural
Trailblazer Award will be presented to
groundbreaking entertainment attorney/
executive producer/producer John Sloss.
Mr. Sloss clearly represents the award’s purpose in honoring a distinguished industry
member who, through his pioneering
approach, has carved new and uncharted
territories in the film world. To give this award to someone on the
legal and business side of filmmaking says much about the outside-the-box, forward thinking of Mr. Sloss.
John Sloss is principal in Sloss Law Office, and the
founder of Cinetic Media, a consulting firm specializing in the
entertainment and media industries. He is also a partner in
Independent Digital Entertainment (InDigEnt), an innovative
production company dedicated to making digital features in collaboration with established filmmakers and actors.
Mr. Sloss has served as executive producer for more than
40 feature films, including Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, Waking
Life, Far from Heaven, the Academy Award®-winning The Fog of
War, Tadpole, Session 9, Lone Star, and She’s the One.
He has orchestrated several of the most notable distribution
deals in the last decade, including Napoleon Dynamite, Super Size
Me, Control Room, Capturing the Friedmans, and The Station Agent.
Films produced by Sloss in association with InDigEnt,
include Campbell Scott’s Final, Ethan Hawke’s Chelsea Walls,
Rebecca Miller’s Personal Velocity, which won the Grand Jury
Prize and the Cinematography Award at Sundance 2002, and
Pieces of April, which earned Patricia Clarkson a Golden Globe
nomination. Soon-to-be-released InDigEnt titles are Alan
Taylor’s Kill the Poor, Greg Harrison’s November, Mark
Christopher’s Pizza, and Wim Wenders’ Land of Plenty.
2005 HONORARY
MAVERICK AWARD
RECIPIENT
STEVE BUSCEMI
Steve Buscemi’s acting resume
includes Jim Jarmusch’s Mystery Train,
for which he received an IFP Spirit
Award nomination; Alexandre
Rockwell’s In the Soup; Martin
Scorcese’s New York Stories, the Coen
Brothers’ Barton Fink, the Academy
Award®-winning Fargo and The Big Lebowski: Stanley Tucci’s
The Imposters; Con Air; Armageddon; Tom DiCillo’s Living in
Oblivion; Escape From L.A., Desperado, Domestic Disturbance,
Things To Do in Denver When You’re Dead, Somebody to Love;
Robert Altman’s Kansas City and Buscemi’s IFP Spirit Awardwinning performance as Mr. Pink in
Quentin Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs.
Buscemi made his feature film
directorial debut with Trees Lounge,
in which he also performed and
wrote the screenplay. His second
directing effort, Animal Factory,
starred
Willem
Dafoe and
Edward
Furlong. In
2000, he was nominated for an
Emmy and a DGA Award for directing
the Pine Barrens episode of HBO’s
The Sopranos. His most recent film
Lonesome Jim, Liv Tyler and Casey
Affleck will be released by IFC Films.
The Maverick and Trailblazer Awards are handcrafted by Steve Heller, a self-taught artist who works in wood,
found metal, and Cadillacs from the 1950s. He shows at his gallery, Fabulous Furniture, in Boiceville, NY.
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JURY MEMBERS
Maverick Awards
Handcrafted trophies and prizes are awarded for Best Feature
Narrative, Best Feature Documentary, Best Short
Documentary, Best Short, and Best Student Film. Other
awards are presented for cinematography, animation and editing. An audience award is presented for feature narrative and
documentary.
Past recipents include Down to the Bone, Assisted Living,
Wendigo, Recoil, The Dreamcatcher, Interview With the Assassin,
(features) Double Dare, A Boy’s Life, Spellbound, Passages and Freestyle, (documentaries). In competition finalists–all first or second time feature filmmakers– are selected by a committee headed up by Ryan Werner, head of
theatrical distribution at Wellspring, and Tom Quinn, Magnolia Pictures.
FEATURES:
STUDENT SHORTS:
sponsored by Markertek
Peter Saraf
(Producer,Little Miss Sunshine,Everything
is Illuminated,The Agronomist,Adaptation,
The Truth About Charlie, Storefront
Hitchcokc,Ulee’s Gold)
Sponsored by Lowel-Light
Jeremiah Newton
(industry liaison,New York University)
Anne Walker-McBay
(Producer,Have You Heard?,A Scanner
Darkly,Before Sunset,Tape,Walking Life,
The Newton Boys,SubUrbia,Before
Sunrise,Dazed and Confused)
Fisher Stevens
(Actor,Producer,Director,Slow Burn,
Factotum,Yes,Just a Kiss,Famous,Pinero,
Swimfan,Uptown Girl,Sam the Man)
DOCUMENTARIES
sponsored by A&E Indie Films &
Docurama
Nancy Abraham
(Vic President of HBO / Cinemax
Documentary Films)
The Haskell Wexler Award
for Best Cinematography
David D’Arcy
(Film and Entertainment Journalist)
This is presented by Haskell Wexler, A.S.C. (Bound for
Glory, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Coming Home, Who’s
Afraid of Virginia Woolf, The Secret of Roan Inish). Wexler is a
five-time Academy Award nominee and a recipient of a star on Hollywood’s
Walk of Fame.
Brett Morgan
(director, The Kids Stays in the
Picture, On the Ropes)
SHORT DOCS:
sponsored by A&E Indie Films &
Docurama
Leon Gast
(Academy Award winning filmmaker, When We Were Kings, One Love,
Hells Angels Forever,The Grateful
Dead Movie, B.B. King: Live in Africa)
The WFF Maverick Award for Best
Animated Film
Michael Cristofer
(Writer/director,Fade out,Original Sin,
Gia,Mr.Jones,The Bonefire of the Vanities,
The Witches of Eastwick;Director, Original
Sin,Gia,Body Shots,Candida)
This is presented by Bill Plympton and Signe Baumane.
SHORTS:
Bill Plympton is recognized as one of America’s foremost
illustrators, cartoonists, and animators. His highly successful short films have won countless prizes and have
appeared with frenzied frequency at film festivals, on
television, and online. His 2004 short film Guard Dog
was nominated for an Academy Award.
Sponsored by Lowel-Light
Gill Holland
(Producer,Shooting Vegeterians,Sweet
Land, Loggerheads,Bluegrass Journey,
Pagans,The Fittest,Greg the Bunny, Martin
&Orloff,Revolution # 9.Snow Days, Spring
Forward,Hurricane Streets)
Signe Baumane is an independent animator origi-
Morgan J. Freeman
(Director,Just Like the Son,Dawson’s
Creek,Desert Blue,Hurricane Streets)
nally from Latvia, now living in and working in
NYC. Her films include Dentist, Woman, Natasha,
and Love Story.
Debra Granik
(Director,Down tothe Bone,Snake Feed)
Amy Devra Gossels
(Casting Director / Producer,Solidarity,The
Picture of Dorian Gray,Wrigley,Young
Americnas,Mile and Honey,Broken,Rising
Low,Mercury in Retrograde,Zen and the
Art of Landscaping)
James Rasin,
(filmmaker, screenwriter)
ANIMATION:
Bill Plympton (see bio)
Signe Baumane (see bio)
CINEMATOGRAPHY:
sponsored by Kodak
Haskell Wexler (see bio)
EDITING:
Sabine Hoffman
(Editor,Twelve Disciples of Nelson Mandela,
The Ballad of Jack and Rose, Saving Face,
Brother toBrother,Ferry Tales,Personal
Velocity,The Last Party,Sam the Man,
DesertBlue,Hurricane Streets)
James Lyons
(Editor, Imaginary Heroes, Ghostlight,
Far From Heaven, Prozac Nation,The
Virgin Suicides,Velvet Goldmine,
Strawberry Fields, Poison)
Sabine Krayenbuhl
(Editor, Mad Hot Ballroom, My
Architect: A Son’s Journey, Heartbreak
Hospital, 15 Months in May)
Other Award Sponsors:
Jungle Software
Showbiz Software
New Award
The Woodstock Film Festival and grantmaker Lowel-Light will support, promote
and reward the next generation of inspired
filmmakers with an annual cash/in-kind
awards valued at $10,000.
In memory of Diane Seligman, a
beautiful person who celebrated life in the
way she lived, and for all those who knew
Diane and in whom she still lives, the
DIANE SELIGMAN AWARD is presented
to the “Best Short Narrative” and “Best
Student Short” to honor films that are
vibrant, life-affirming and created by filmmakers filled with energy, creativity and
passion. Three other in-kind awards will
be presented for “Best Feature,” “Best
Documentary,” and “Best short doc.”
Diane Seligman: Diane was a loving, and giving person who touched and
inspired all who knew her. As a teenager in
the 1960s, she was diagnosed with
Hodgkin’s disease and was the lone sur-
vivor 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 Feb
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 & source, with grace and dignity.
She was grateful for every day.
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AWA R D S
The 2004 Award was presented to Xavi Gimenez for The Machinist. Peter
Robertson received the award in 2005 for Song For a Raggy Boy.
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(510) 215-2785
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THE JEW ON TRIAL
www.mayslesfilms.com
Steve Furman
www.rideofthemergansers.com
PRINT SOURCE CONTACTS
RUN TO JAY’S
Brett Spackman
www.runtojays.com
Edin Velez
www.edinvelez.com
Steve Furman
www.rideofthemergansers.com
A SONG FOR DANIEL
Jason DaSilva
(212) 222-2113
infacefilms@yahoo.com
ROUTINE
Michael Britto
www.brittofied.com
A SONG FOR DANIEL
Jason DaSilva
(212) 222-2113
infacefilms@yahoo.com
THIS MORNING
Luce Mulloy
lucykmulloy@hotmail.com
SHORTS: FOOD & FILM
Kraus Films
mk296603@ohio.edu
Wilderness Films
wildernessfilms@aol.com
PAINTER OF THE LAND
Joel Fendelman
joel@joelfendelman.com
THE SPACE INVADERS
Marina Zurkow
marina@o-matic.com
SOUVENIR
Stephen Rose
bunchastuf@aol.com
FUTURE IMPERFECT
Marshall Lewy
lewy427@yahoo.com
MANUAL
INDIE WORKS
taimas@jucms.org
UNDERMINER, THE
Todd Downing:
brokenhipfilms@mac.com
HAPPY
Jason Feurerstein
(917) 660-4802 (Cell)
jason@myronthemovie.com
OFF SEASON
Sam Richards
richards.sam@gmail.com
ZERO VISIBILITY
Kathy High
www.high@rpi.edu
LEO AND SANDRA
Alessandro Celli
alessandrocelli@hotmail.com
SHORTS: SCREENING WITH
NO SHOULDER
Sanguine Film
www.sanguinefilm.com
THROUGH THE ICE
Jennie Livingston
jenliv@aol.com
CHAIM
Jonathan Greenfield
jonathan_greenfield@yahoo.com
DAVE HOLLAND
Ulli Gruber
(917) 929-3407
CHOKED
Seven Scars
www.7scars.com
HOW I KNOW YOU
Matthew Timms
mtimms7@hotmail.com
CRICKETS (TSARSARIM)
Matan Guggenheim
matangu@yahoo.com
PARTY FOR THE PEOPLE: ROCK
AND REVOLUTION IN REGGIO
EMILIA
Sascha Paladino
fandito@aol.com
SHORTS: REEL NYx10
REEL NY x 10
Garrison Botts
garrison.botts@verizon.net org
E=NYC2
Kimi Takesue
kimikat.productions@earthlink.net
HARLEM SISTAS DOUBLE DUTCH
Nicole Franklin
Nicoleedits@msn.com
Jem Cohen:
www.jemcohenfilms.com
Brad Buckwalter
(917) 250-1951
brad@barcarfilms.com
THE TOURIST
Jeff Israel
www.backandforthfilms.com
THE VENTURE
Ben Fleisher
bfleisher@hotmail.com
W(IT)H
mainpix2@netzero.net
House Productions
Shelly Silver
silvernyc@earthlink.net
SHORTS: THE GREAT IDEA
Javier Fesser
www.enelmundoacadarato.info/
portada_binta.htm
RESURRECTION
Resurrection Short, LLC
resurrectiontheshort@verizon.ne
TWO MEN
Ian Olds
iano100@yahoo.com
THE YOUTH IN US
Joshua Leonard
perceive8@aol.com
Q&A
Paul Perez
Cabbyproductions@comcast.net
RUNAWAY BALL
Dan Cayea
deadpool2021@yahoo.com
SAHAR: BEFORE THE SUN
PBS - Beyond Borders
www.listenup.org
PRINT SOURCE
CLOSE
One Productions Limited
tom@oneproductions.com
YOUNGSTER
Will Canon
www.threefolks.com
CESSATION
Bryan Schlam
bryanWFS@aol.com
SHORTS: TOGETHER
AND THE LANDSCAPE WILL SEEM
TO SWAY
Florida State Universtiy Film School
kbarber@film.fsu.edu
RECOIL
Zanzibar Films
info@zanzibarfilms.net
BULLETS IN THE HOOD: A BEDSTUY STORY
DCTV
www.dctvny.org
CHANNUMASADAN
Joey Daoud
airogos@gmail.com
SUPER POWER BLUES
Greg Pak
www.gregpak.co
SHORTS: MAN
THE NATURAL ROUTE
Alex Pastor
alexpastor80@hotmail.com
SHORTS: YOUTH FORUM
WE DON’T WANT NO WAR
PBS - Beyond Borders
www.listenup.org
WEEP NO MORE
Rosie Rion
rosiecello@hvc.rr.com
THE BIG EMPTY
J. Lisa Chang
changstah@charter.net
SHORTS: WOMAN
BREACHED
Laura Richard
(347) 351-1218 (Cell)
lauraerichard@hotmail.com
CON TODA PALABRA
Blue Sponge
brigitte@waterproof9.com
fady@bluesponge.com
PATCH
Christopher Romero
www.oscillation.com
TWITCH
Implode Films
www.leahmeyerhoff.com
WET
Hannah Beth King
(917) 657-8479
hannahbethking@mac.com
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Thanks to
Hipbone Records
and
Levon Helm Studios
recording artist Alexis P. Suter,
with Ray Grappone (drums),
Peter Bennett (Bass),
David Weiss (Guitar),
Debbie Hawkins (piano),
Deep Singh (Tabla)
and
Vicki Bell (Bkgd.Vocals).
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LISTINGS
SPONSORS & CONTRIBUTORS
100.1 WDST
RADIO WOODSTOCK
www.wdst.com
120 DB FILMS
www.120dbfilms.com
3RD STREET R&D PRO. SERVICES
www.3rd-st.com
A&E INDIE FILMS
www.aetv.com/indiefilms
ALAN CAREY,photographer
COOL 92.9
GOOD TIMES & GREAT OLDIES
www.cool929fm.com
DAILY FREEMAN
79-97 Hurley Avenue
Kingston, NY. 12401
www.midhudsoncentral.com
DIAGEO
www.diageo.com
DISCMAKERS
www.discmakers.com
acarey@netstep.net
AMERIBAG
55 Greenkill Ave
Kingston NY 12401
(845) 339-8033 or (800)246-1292
www.ameribag.com
www.docurama.com
www.newvideo.com
www.emersonplace.com
FILMMAKER MAGAZINE
BMI
THE GOOD BROTHERS
www.goodbrothers.com
CANUS MAJOR PRODUCTIONS
sirius1@canusmajor.com
CATSKILL MOUNTAIN REGION
GUIDE
(518) 263-4908
www.catskillmtn.org
CHRONOGRAM
LUMINARY PUBLISHING
www.chronogram.com
DION OGUST,photographer
www.dionphoto.com
DOCURAMA
www.docurama.com
www.newvideo.com
DUGANWORKS
www.duganworks.com
THE CITIZEN
(518) 537-3305
www.thectzn.org
COLONY LIQUOR
RFK ARTISTSAND EVENTS
LOWEL–LIGHT
RONDOUT SAVINGS BANK
YOUR HOMETOWN SAVINGS BANK
(800) 334-3426
www.lowel.com
MARKERTEK VIDEO SUPPLY
A Division of Tower Products, Inc.
812 Kings Highway
(800) 522-2025
www.markertek.com
METROVISION
508 W. 24th Street
New York, NY. 10011
(212) 689-7900
www.metrovision-nyc.com
THE EMERSON AT WOODSTOCK
BEN CASWELL PHOTOGRAPHY
bencaswell@hotmail.com
www.bmi.com
LISTINGS
DOCURAMA
LEVON HELM STUDIOS
www.levonhelm.com
www.filmmakermagazine.com
GORILLA SOFTWARE
wwww.junglesoftware.com
GREGOR TRIESTE, Photographer
www.homepage.mac.com/handprintphoto
HERZOG’S TRUE VALUE HOME
CENTER
Kingston Plaza
Kingston, NY 12401
(845) 338-6300
www.herzogstruevalue.com
HIPBONE RECORDS
www.hipdbonerecords.com
JEFFREY MILSTEIN,photographer
www.jeffreymilstein.com
IAN ELLERBY, Video
www.irefilms.com
KODAK
36 West 31st Street
New York, NY. 10003
www.kodak.com
(845) 338-2740
NEVESSA
One Artist Road
(845) 679-8848
www.nevessa.com
NEW CITY PRODUCTIONS
530 Canal Street
New York, NY. 10013
(212) 925-5888
newcity@attglobal.net
NEW WORLD HOME COOKING
1411 Rte. 212
(845) 246-0900
www.newworldhomecooking.com
NEW YORK STATE COUNCIL ON
THE ARTS
www.nysca.org
NEW YORK WOMEN IN FILM &
TELEVISION
www.nywift.org
PERCEPTION AUDIO
VISUAL SERVICES
440 West 34th Street, Suite 1b
New York, NY 10001
(212) 239-8187
REALITY CHECK
www.realitycheckny.org
RFK ARTISTS & EVENTS
203.667.0270
www.bobkennedy.net
(845) 331-0073
www.rondout.com
RUDER/FINN PRINTING
(212) 593-6423
www.ruderfinn.com
TALK TO THE HAND STUDIO
(212) 253-7793
www.talktothehandstudio.com
SHOWBIZ SOFTWARE
www.Showbizsoftware.com
SKYTOP STEAKHOUSE & BREWERY
237 Forest Hill Dr.
Kingston, NY 12401
(845) 340-4277
STEVE HELLER’S FABULOUS
FURNITURE
Rte 28, Box 444
(845) 657-6317
www.fabulousfurnitureon28.com
TERRY GOLD, Photographer
www.goldphoto.com
VIOLET MAGAZINE
(323) 848-4900
www.violetmagazine.com
VIVA LA DATA
diana@vivaladata.com
www.vivaladata.com
WESTWOOD METES &
BOUNDS
(845) 687-0232
www.westwoodrealty.com
WKZE – 98.1 – FM
Sharon, CT 06069
(860) 364-5800
www.wkze.com
WRITERS GUILD OF
AMERICA, EAST
www.wgaeast.org
BECOME A DONOR
In addition to presenting an annual fall showcase, the Woodstock Film Festival has become a year-round organization with
year round screenings Upstate and in New York City, special events, workshops, educational forums, concerts, and Woodstock
Film Commission work.
Please consider becoming a WFF DONOR, and become part of the family by helping to support art-related activities that promote artists, culture, inspired learning, and diversity. In return, we’ll do our part by offering you discounts, special invitations,
and advanced access to film festival events including new independent and international cinema.
To contribute, please send checks (made payable to Woodstock FIlm Festival) to PO Box 1406, Woodstock, NY 12498 or visit
www.woodstockfilmfestival.com/fundraising/contributors.php, or call (845) 679-4265. Donation are tax-deductible.
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LISTINGS
Adam’s Fairacre Farms
(845) 336-6300
www.adamsfarms.com
Adriano Limousine
Rte 9W & Ulster Ave
Kingston, NY 12401
(845) 227-9327
Anette’s Chocolate Factory
(Brent’s Peanut Brittle)
info@anettes.com
www.anettes.com
Bread Alone
Route 28
(845) 657-3328
www.breadalone.com
Brice Discount Beverages
1099 Ulstewr Avenue
Kingston, NY 12401
(845) 336-5585
Burt’s Electronics
549 Albany Avenue
Kingston, NY 12401-2134
(845) 331-5011
Catskill Mountain Coffee
Lox of Bagels
99 Ellis Street
Staten Island, NY 10307
(718) 967.6858
Country Heritage Farms
South Burlington, VT
www.magichat.net
Curious Cookie
Jarita’s Florist
17 Tinker Street
Woodstock, NY 12498
(845) 679-6161
Sunshine Market
2 Jansen Ave.
Kingston, NY. 12401
(845) 338-0042
Mother Earth Health Foods
Kingston, NY. 12401
(845) 336-5541
Wal-Mart
N-Star Import and Export, LLC
Box 7187
Hackettstown, New Jersey 07840
(908) 747-4486
www.n-star.org
www.walmart.com
Waste Management
(845) 338-1507
(845) 888-2517
(845) 338-8011
Old Chatham Sheepherding Co.
Old Chatam, NY 12136
(800) SHEEP-60
www.blacksheepcheese.com
Organic Nectars
www.organicnectars.com
Lachmann’s Pastry Store & Bakery
264 Main St.
(845) 246-5361
www.stonyfield.com
(845) 246-9667
The Jelly Belly Candy Company
www.jellybelly.com
Stonyfield Farm
Melting Pot Caterers
Deising’s Bakery Midtown
584 Broadway
(845) 338-1580
and 111 North Front St.
Kingston, NY. 12401
(845) 338-1241
Hannaford Supermarkets
100 Plaza Road & 1261 Ulster Ave
Kingsotn, NY 12401
Old Kings Highway
(845) 247-4700
www.stoneponydeli.com
www.organicnectars.com
Magic Hat Brewing Co.
www.countryheritagefarms.com
www.curiouscookie.com
Stone Pony Deli
4012 Route 9W
(845) 246-0594
Price Chopper Supermarkets
HOSPITALITY SPONSORS
906 Route. 28
Kingston, NY 12401
(845) 334-8455 or (888) say-java
www.catskillmtcoffee.com
Cibo Specialty Foods
Route 212
VENUES
Woodstock
WOODSTOCK
COMMUNITY CENTER (films)
56 Rock City Road
Woodstock, NY 12498
BEARSVILLE THEATER (films)
Route 212, Bearsville, NY. 12409
(845) 679-4406
WOODSTOCK PLAYHOUSE
(box office & hospitality)
103 Mill Hill Road
Rtes 212 & 375
Woodstock, NY 12498
(845) 679-2764
info@woodstockplayhouse.org
www.woodstockplayhouse.org
COLONY CAFÉ (panels & music)
Rock City Road
Woodstock, NY 12498
(845) 679-5342
www.colonycafe.com
TINKER STREET CINEMA (films)
132 Tinker Street,
Woodstock, NY 12498
(845) 679-6608
WOODSTOCK TOWN HALL (films)
Tinker Street
Woodstock, NY 12498
Rhinebeck
UPSTATE FILMS
6415 Montgomery Street
Rhinebeck, NY 12572
www.upstatefilms.org
Hunter
CATSKILL MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION THEATER
7960 Main Street
Hunter, NY 12442
www.catskillmountain.org
Rosendale
ROSENDALE THEATER
Main Street
Rosendale, NY 12472
(845) 658-8989
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549 Albany Ave, Kingston,
NY 12401
845 331-5011
We Love
The Woodstock Film Festival
Yvonne & Tony Conza
(And Pomo)
L’chaim
Joan and Stuart
WOODSTOCK, HUNTER, RHINEBECK & ROSENDALE
WOODSTOCK
Just 90 minutes from New York City, Woodstock is a center for the arts, culture, alter-
native 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.
HUNTER
Only 21 miles from Woodstock, Hunter is steeped in American history and folklore.
TOWNS
Today, Hunter is home to a world-class ski area, Hunter Mountain, and the nonprofit Catskill Mountain Foundation (CMF). CMF offers programs year-round, including
music, theater, and dance; gallery exhibits of fine arts and crafts; movie theater; bookstore, the annual Mountain Culture Festival; Elderhostel programs; studio arts education
programs; working natural agriculture farm and educational facility; and a farm market
featuring regional produce and specialty foods. Its Sugar Maples Center for Arts and
Education offers an extensive fine arts and crafts curriculum.
RHINEBECK
Rhinebeck, in Dutchess County, is easily reachable by car or public transportation, and
offers relaxed yet sophisticated country living with its myriad of shops, antique 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 open to visitors.
Located 18 miles across the Hudson River from Woodstock, Rhinebeck’s location
enables visitors to easily visit both areas during a short stay.
ROSENDALE
“Rosendale Cement,” was most notably used in the foundations of both the Brooklyn Bridge
and the Statue of Liberty. Only 18 miles south of Woodstock, this now-defunct mining community has resurrected as a picturesque village, with its majestic railroad trestle and Main
Street that winds along the Roundout Creek.
From the venerable “Uncle Willy,” the unofficial town mayor in his long purple cape, to
the annual two-day Rosendale Street Festival with its 60 bands, to Bill’s garden store that doubles as a barber shop, it’s a tolerant town with a lot of spirit. And from the Blue Wolf to The
Alamo, Rosendale boasts many new cafes and resturants, plus vintage clothing and furniture
stores, a cheese shop and a grand old movie theater, one of the few single-screen theaters in
the county.
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souvenirs
Souvenirs are available for purchase online at www.woodstockfilmfestival.com,
and will also be available at the box office and venues throughout the festival.
HOW TO GET HERE & THERE
For additional directions visit www.woodstockfilmfestival.com
SHUTTLE SERVICE
BY CAR:
RHINEBECK
Shuttle service is available during the festival
to film venues in Woodstock. A shuttle runs
continuously throughout the day on Friday,
Saturday and Sunday from 9:15 am until
11:15pm, leaving the Woodstock Playhouse
approximately every ten minutes and making
stops at each venue in Woodstock. Filmgoers
in Woodstock are encouraged to use the
shuttle as parking is limited.
WOODSTOCK
From Woodstock, Ulster County & west
side of Hudson River: Take Rt. 375 towards
Rt. 28. Turn LEFT onto Rt. 28. Merge onto
US-209 N toward Kingston-Rhinecliff Bridge.
Go over the Kingston-Rhinecliff Bridge, continue straight to second traffic light. Turn
right onto Route 9G. At first light turn right
onto Route 9. Go straight into the center of
Rhinebeck. Theater is at 6415 Montgomery
Street/Route 9 next to Foster’s Coach House
Restaurant.
AUTO RENTAL
The Woodstock Film Festival is a member of
the Enterprise Rent-A-Car Corporate Class
Program, which offers discounted rates to visitors. Most importantly, Enterprise Rent-ACar has 15 local offices in Hudson Valley, and
will be happy to pick you up from any location when needed!
Reservations can be made on their website.
Just type in our Corporate ID#-24H6506 to
make a reservation. Your three digit pin code
is “WOO” or call the National Reservation
number at 800-593-0505 with the ID#.
DIRECTIONS
BY BUS
To Woodstock: Take Adirondack Trailways
from Port Authority to Woodstock.
This drops you off at the Village Green or you
can ask to be let off at the Woodstock
Playhouse Box Office. For schedule, call
Adirondack Trailways at 800-858-8555.
Alternative stops incude Kingston and
Phoenicia.
To Rhinebeck: Take the Shortline Bus from
Port Authority to Rhinebeck. For schedule
call 800-631-8405.
To Hunter: Take Adirondack Trailways from
Port Authority to Hunter. For schedule, call
800-858-8555.
To Rosendale: Take Adirondack Trailways
from Port Authority to Rosendale. For schedule,
call Adirondack Trailways at 800-858-8555.
BY TRAIN:
To Rhinecliff/Rhinebeck: Take the Empire
Service Line from Penn Station to RhinecliffKingston. Monday through Friday, the DUCK
trolley transports visitors into Rhinebeck. On
weekends, a cab is your best bet, and
Rhinebeck Taxi is conveniently located at the
train station or rent a car from Enterprise-Renta-Car, which will meet you at the train station.
To Hunter: Take Amtrak from Penn Station
to the Hudson stop, and rent a car from
Enterprise Rent-A-Car, which will meet you at
the train station. Woodstock is a 21-mile
drive (36 minute) drive from Rhinecliff.
For more info call 800-USA-RAIL or visit
www.amtrak.com.
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From NYC & SOUTH: Take the NYS
Thruway (Interstate 87) North to Exit 19
(Kingston). Head WEST on Rt. 28 toward
Pine Hill. After six miles turn RIGHT at the
light onto Rt. 375 and follow three miles into
Woodstock!
From ALBANY & MASS PIKE: Take NYS
Thruway (Interstate 87) South on I-87 to Exit
20 (Saugerties/Woodstock). Turn LEFT onto
Rt. 32, then RIGHT onto Rt. 212. Follow Rt.
212 for nine miles into Woodstock. The
Tinker Street Cinema is located at 132 Tinker
Street. The box office is located at the
Woodstock Playhouse, at the corner of route
212 & 375. Other venues are located
throughout the town.
HUNTER
*Bus transportation is available from 2-6 Mill
Hill Rd., Woodstock to Main St. (Hunter
Auto Repair), Hunter. (See “by bus” for more.)
From Woodstock Toward Saugerties:
Take Rt. 212 east to Rt. 32 north (stoplight
intersection at Hess Service Station). Take a
LEFT onto Rt. 32 north (towards NYS Thruway
SOUTHBOUND entrance). Continue several
miles to Rt. 32A north to Rt. 23A west, which
will lead you directly onto the main street of
the town of Hunter. The Catskill Mountain
Foundation Theater is on the left.
From Woodstock Through Phoenicia:
Take Rt. 212 west (bear right at Bearsville) to
Mt. Tremper, then bear right towards
Phoenicia. Pass thru Phoenicia and take a
right onto Rt. 214. Continue a few miles until
you come to Rt. 23A. Take a left and travel
directly into Hunter as above.
From the South: Take the NYS Thruway
(Interstate 87) to Exit 20, Saugerties. Go left
at the traffic light after the toll booth onto Rt.
212. After a quarter mile, turn right onto
Route 32 North. After about six miles, bear
left at the blinking yellow light onto Route
32A. Continue several miles to Rt. 23A West,
which will lead you directly onto the main
street of the town of Hunter.
From the North: Take Interstate 87 to Exit
21, Catskill. Get on Route 23 West and follow it toward Windham. Before entering the
town of Windham, make a left on Route 296
South. At the end of 296, go left on Route
23A. Travel directly into Hunter as above.
From South, also west side of Hudson:
Go over the Mid-Hudson Bridge to Route 9
North. Go approx. 12 miles to center of
Rhinebeck. Theater is north of traffic light at
6415 Montgomery Street/Route 9 next to
Foster’s Coach House Restaurant, across
from Rhinebeck Savings Bank.
From East: Take Route 199 west. Bear left at
the fork with the only traffic light. Take Route
308 to village traffic light. Make a right onto
Route 9. Upstate Films Theater will be on
your left at 6415 Montgomery Street/Route
9, next to Foster’s Coach House Restaurant,
across from Rhinebeck Savings Bank.
ROSENDALE
From New Paltz area: Take Route 32 North
toward Kingston. Turn left after bridge (at
traffic light) onto Route 213 (Main Street,
Rosendale). Theater is up on right.
From Ellenville area: Take Route 209
North toward Kingston. Turn right onto
Route 213 in Stone Ridge. Follow Route 213
(thru traffic light, over bridge and thru High
Falls) into Rosendale.Theater is on left.
Woodstock: Take Route 375 towards Route
28. Turn LEFT onto Route 28. **Merge
ontoUS-209 South towards Ellenville. Turn
right onto County Route 29A/Wynkoop Rd.
Turn right onto Main Street/CR-29. Turnright
onto CR-28/MilbrookAve/CR-94. Turn leftonto CR-28/Fortner St/CR-94. Continue to follow CR-28/CR-94. Turn right onto Lucas
Avenue Ext/CR-1. Continue to follow CR-1.
Turn slight left onto BinnewaterRoad/CR-7.
Stay straight to go onto NY-213/Main Street.
From NYC:
Take the NYS Thruway (Interstate 87) to
Exit 19 (Kingston). Take the second exit
(Washington Avenue). Follow above directions**.
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TICKET INFORMATION
PRICES
Telephone Orders
Tickets range from $7 to $15 per screening
and are $15 per panel. Concert prices vary. A
shipping/handling fee of $4.25 will be added
per mailing. Student and senior discounts are
available with ID, but must be requested
directly at the Playhouse Box Office or venue.
We cannot honor senior discounts online or
over the telephone.
The Playhouse Box Office is manned by dedicated volunteers who will do their best to
help you with your ticket selection over the
telephone. Please bear in mind that volunteers are simultaneously filling out
Internet orders, walk-up orders, and other
telephone orders. In other words, the
phones can get very chaotic and they
tend to be busy. Please be patient.
For a complete list of prices, please visit
www.woodstockfilmfestival.com.
Reserve early, as shows tend to sell out quickly.
The last day for telephone orders is
September 24.
Starting Septemeber 25, all online orders
must be picked up at the Playhouse Box
Office.
PURCHASING TICKETS
Internet Orders
The best way to order tickets and to see
updated schedules, film descriptions, and
other festival information is online.
Advance orders will be sent by USPS mail
through September 24.
Tickets for all venues will be available for purchase at the Playhouse Box Office September
1–October 1.
Beginning September 28, tickets for Hunter ,
Rhinebeck, and Rosendale will be available at
their respective venues as well.
Day of Event
Tickets are available at the Playhouse Box
Office until four hours prior to the event.
All unsold tickets are then available only on
the standby line at the venue where the
screening is taking place.
Ticket holders MUST arrive 15 minutes
prior to the screening or panel; empty
seats will be sold to the standby line.
If you have tickets being held, you must go to
the Woodstock Playhouse Box Office to pick
them up. These tickets will NOT be sent to
the venue.
NOTE: If you have tickets for Hunter,
For the most up-to-date information,
please visit
www.woodstockfilmfestival.com
Once online, find out which screenings
are sold out and read updated
information about events, screenings,
and panels. You can learn about who we
are and what we do, including our yearround programming. Also please visit
and support our sponsors.
Rhinebeck, or Rosendale that were ordered
online or by phone, you must go to the the
Playhouse Box Office to pick them up. These
tickets will not be sent to the venues. Leave
yourself plenty of time to stop in before going
to your venue or order early enough so we
can send them to you.
When planning your festival schedule, please
bear in mind that the driving distance from
Woodstock to Hunter, Rhinebeck and
Rosendale is about 30 minutes.
Box Office Hours
Sept 2-25
Wednesday-Friday 11am-3pm
Saturdays & Sundays 12noon-4pm
Closed Monday & Tuesdays
September 5th
Labor Day 12noon-4pm
Sept 26-Oct 1
9am-7pm
Oct 2
9am-2pm
FULL FESTIVAL PASSES
The best way to take advantage of everything
the festival has to offer is by purchasing a Full
Festival Pass. A limited number of these
passes are available.
Each pass includes Admission for one to
all screenings and panels–with priority
seating up until 15 minutes prior to the
event; all parties; and souvenirs, including a
T-shirt, and cap.
Full Festival Passes are $550 and can be purchased online at www.woodstockfilmfestival
or by phone (845) 679-6997. Full Festival
Passes are nontransferable and include a picture ID. Passes must be picked up at Festival
Registration at the Woodstock Playhouse anytime after 9am on September 28.
Pass holders MUST arrive 15 minutes
prior to the screening or panel; empty
seats will be sold to the standby line .
*Please note that all events are subject to
change. You should check the website and
program as the date approaches to confirm programs, venues, and times.
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D O C U M E N TA R I E S
From September 1-24, advance single-admission
tickets can be purchased through our secure
website at www.woodstockfilmfestival.com.
Walk-Up Orders
BOX OFFICE LOCATION
AND HOURS
Woodstock Playhouse Box Office
103 Mill Hill Road
Woodstock, NY 12498
845.679.6997
woodstockfilmfestival.com
SCHEDULE
8:00
Bernie Worrell &
the Strangers
featuring Will Calhoun &
Doug Wimbish
THU - 9/29
Bearsville Theater
6:30 Troop 1500
8:15 My Tiny Universe
Tinker Street Cinema
4:45 Nine Lives
7:30 Winter Passing
9:30 Winter Passing
Town Hall
SCHEDULE
1:30
4:15
6:30
8:00
Memories in the Mist
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Cavite
Stranger: Bernie
Worrell on Earth
Upstate Films 1
7:00 Dead Man’s Shoes
FRI- 9/30
2:00
4:30
7:30
9:30
Ushpizin
Mutual Appreciation
Somersault
Unknown White Male
Town Hall
12:00
2:30
4:30
6:30
8:30
11:00
The Devil’s Miner
Police Beat
Instrumental
Favela Rising
Automatic
The Roost
Upstate Films I
4:30 State of Fear
7:00 Boys of Baraka
9:30 Midnight Movies
Upstate Films 2
5:00
7:15
Shorts: The Great Idea
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm:
Take 21⁄2
10:00 Sarah Silverman:
Jesus is Magic
Upstate Films 2
Rosendale Theatre
7:30 The Outsider
6:45 Duane Hopwood
9:00 Transamerica
FRI- 9/30
Bearsville Theater
12:00 The American
Ruling Class
2:45 Bruce & Me
4:30 Our Brand is Crisis
6:45 New York Doll
10:00 Concert for Bangladesh
Colony Café (panels)
1:30 Horror: Modern Day
Catharsis & Box
Office Bonanza
4:00 WGAE Screenwriting
Panel
8:00 Concert: The Cassettes
& Bradford Reed
Community Center
2:45
5:00
7:30
9:30
Shorts: Food & Film
Shorts: Together
Shorts: Youth Forum
Anytown USA
CMF 1 in Hunter
7:00 Rebel Without A Cause
CMF 2 in Hunter
6:45 Animated Shorts
9:00 Learning to Swallow
Sat- 10/01
Bearsville Theater
12:30
3:00
5:00
7:45
10:00
Animated Shorts
Press On
Boys of Baraka
The Outsider
Midnight Movies
Colony Café (panels)
10:00
12:15
2:00
4:00
Actors Panel
Panel: Indie Film Revival
Panel: Reality Show
Panel: Pre Distribution
Marketing
8:30 Concert: See It Hear First
Sun- 10/02
Community Center
Bearsville Theater
12:00
2:30
4:45
7:00
9:30
10:30
12:30
2:45
4:30
Shorts: Woman
Shorts: Man
Shorts: Docs
Learning to Swallow
TV Party
1:30 Symbiopsychotaxiplasm:
Take 21⁄2
4:15 Room
6:30 Duane Hopwood
9:00 Fateless
Town Hall
12:30 Zizek
3:00 212
5:30 Stranger: Bernie
Worrell on Earth
7:30 Sarah Silverman:
Jesus Is Magic
9:30 The Puffy Chair
Upstate Films 1
12:30
3:15
6:30
9:00
Memories in the Mist
Cavite
Somersault
Nine Lives
Upstate Films 2
12:30 Instrumental
2:15 The Devil’s Miner
4:30 Shakespeare Behind Bars
7:00 The American Ruling Class
9:30 Our Brand is Crisis
Rosendale Theatre
All Events Are Subject To Change
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Sat- 10/01
CONT’D
Bearsville Theater
CONT’D
WED - 9/28
6:30 Mutual Appreciation
9:15 Unknown White Male
CMF 1 in Hunter
Shorts: Animation for Kids
State of Fear
Shorts: The Great Idea
Lonesome Jim
Colony Café
10:00 BMI Music for Film
1:00 Amazing Women in Film
3:00 From Novel to Screen
Community Center
10:30
1:00
3:00
5:15
Shorts: Together
Shorts: Man
Shorts: Woman
Shorts: NYx10
11:00
1:15
3:30
6:00
8:30
Tennis Anyone?
Dead Man’s Shoes
Transamerica
Where the Truth Lies
Where the Truth Lies
Town Hall
1:00 Shakespeare Behind Bars
3:15 Runaway
5:30 Be Here to Love Me
Upstate Films 1
12:30 The Puffy Chair
3:15 Favela Rising
5:15 Fateless
Upstate Films 2
1:00 Zizek
3:15 Automatic
5:30 Anytown USA
CMF 1 in Hunter
3:30 Room
9:00 Ushpizin
CMF 2 in Hunter
2:30
4:00
6:30
8:30
10:15
Troop 1500
Tennis Anyone?
Runaway
Bruce & Me
The Roost
CMF 2 in Hunter
1:00 Police Beat
3:00 Press On
For information about year-round events including
monthly screenings, screenwriting & other film related workshops,
visit us online or call (845) 679-6997

Woodstock Film Festival

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