August 2006 Newsletter OUT ON DVD |
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| Join us October 11-15 for the seventh annual Woodstock Film Festival! |
The Woodstock Film Festival is only two short months away! As always, the festival will offer innovative and stimulating programming with an exciting lineup of features, documentaries, shorts, and animation, as well as great concerts, parties, and panels. The festival will also host the most talented emerging and established people in the movie industry. For information about the schedule, tickets, and full festival passes, please visit woodstockfilmfestival.com. Full Festival Passes are only available by phone at (845) 679-4265. The festival schedule will be released in mid September. |
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JONATHAN SEHRING TO RECEIVE TRAILBLAZER AWARD AT /Trail-blaz-er /: an innovative leader in a field; a pioneer /Jonathan Sehring /: a trailblazing force in independent film and television; pioneer in indie media production and distribution The Seventh Annual Woodstock Film Festival (October 11-15, 2006), announced today that its honorary Trailblazer Award will be presented to Jonathan Sehring, president of IFC Entertainment. Meira Blaustein, executive director and co-founder of the Woodstock Film Festival, said, “We are thrilled to recognize Jonathan Sehring with the Woodstock Film Festival’s honorary Trailblazer Award. He embodies the essence of the Award, which is designed to honor a distinguished industry member who, through his or her pioneering approach, has carved new and uncharted territories in the film world.” To read the full story click here. |
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WOODSTOCK FILM FESTIVAL SELECTS “INFAMOUS” Writer and Director Douglas McGrath’s New Truman Capote Bio-pic Stars Steller Cast “The best movie I’ve seen this year.” – Dave Thomson, The Independent The Woodstock Film Festival announced today that “Infamous” has been selected as the opening night feature film to kick off the seventh annual “fiercely independent” film festival from October 11-15, 2006. The East Coast premier of “Infamous” will be screened at the Woodstock Film Festival on Thursday, October 12. Meira Blaustein, executive director of the Woodstock Film Festival said, “I can’t think of a better way to open the Woodstock Film Festival than with this brave and stunning film. I’m very pleased we can provide an intimate setting for an early screening of this beautiful film before it is shown nationwide.” To read the full story click here. |
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As part of the Woodstock in the City Screening Series sponsored by Indiepix.net, IFC FILMS presented SHERRYBABY at the Makor Screening Room on August 17. A Q&A with director Laurie Collyer and a reception followed the screening. |
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"Riveting from start to finish. |
No tricks of the hand or eye were necessary to enrapture the audience at a special screening of THE ILLUSIONIST on August 8, presented by the Woodstock Film Festival at the Clearview Cinemas in New York City in association with Yari Film Group Releasing and Allied Advertising. |
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Reminiscent of Hitchcockian thrillers, Patrick Stettner’s THE NIGHT LISTENER, starring Robin Williams and Toni Collette, opened August 4. In February 2005, the Hudson Valley Film Commission was contacted by Hart/Sharpe Entertainment, which had previously filmed YOU CAN COUNT ON ME in the area. Location managers Bill Stitt and Michele Baker scoured Greene, Orange, and Ulster counties to find area landmarks and sites that could stand in for rural Wisconsin where the film is set. Based on Armistead Maupin’s 2000 novel by the same name, this Miramax Films production stars Williams as a gay late-night radio host Gabriel Noone. As his personal life begins to crumble around him, Gabriel starts speaking to his biggest fan via telephone, a 13-year-old boy tortured by his biological parents and now dying of AIDS under the care of his foster mother (Collette) in a small Wisconsin town. When doubts about the boy’s true identify arise, Gabriel finds his own life thrown into chaos as he seeks out the truth. |
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Audiences across the country are cheering on the Hoover family, the fictional underdogs of LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE, which opened in select theaters on July 26. Local fans were treated to a sold-out sneak preview of the film by the Woodstock Film Festival, in association with Fox Searchlight, on July 22 at Tinker Street Cinema. A Q&A with producer Peter Saraf followed the film. |
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BLACKBALLED: THE BOBBY DUKES STORY The biggest, baddest improvised paintball comedy BLACKBALLED: THE BOBBY DUKES STORY is available everywhere now on DVD. Shot in the Hudson Valley and shown at the 2004 Woodstock Film Festival, BLACKBALLED stars Rob Corddry (The Daily Show, Blades of Glory) as Bobby Dukes, paintball’s first superstar. Caught cheating and banned for ten years, Bobby is back to prove himself on the field that made him famous, but his dreams of recapturing his original glory are abruptly impaired when he finds that no one will join his team. Undeterred, Bobby assembles his own team of misfits and paintball outcasts, determined to win back his title…and his soul. The DVD special features include cast commentary, filmmaker commentary, outtakes, deleted scenes, and Bobby Dukes’ video diary. Pre-order BLACKBALLED now at www.blackballedthemovie.com and get a copy of the movie poster. The first 500 orders receive a limited edition copy, autographed by Bobby Dukes himself, Rob Corddry. |
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ACTS OF WORSHIP, which was featured at the 2002 Woodstock Film Festival, is now available for download at Google Video. Written and directed by Rosemary Rodriguez, the film weaves a tale of addiction, friendship, loss, contradiction, and redemption that revolves around the relationship between Alix, a homeless teenaged addict, and Digna, a successful photographer on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. The film is available for download purchase at http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=Acts+of+Worship&hl=en |
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NEW YORK FILM ACADEMY WORKSHOPS & CONTEST
The Woodstock Film Festival is thrilled to announce that, through a new sponsorship provided by the New York Film Academy, it will introduce a two-day workshop on filmmaking and acting for students in grades 9-12. The workshop will take place on October 14-15. In addition, on October 13 the festival’s Youth Initiative will hold Career Day, at which area youth will sit with established and emerging film professionals and also attend youth film screenings. Acceptance to the workshop is limited and will be awarded based on a 250-word essay on one of the following topics: Filmmaking to me is__________ or Acting to me is__________ One of the students who submits an essay will be chosen to win a week-long scholarship to the New York Film Academy (at either their NYC school or the Los Angeles school on the Universal Studios lot). Send essays to: NYFA Workshop, c/o Woodstock Film Festival, PO Box 1406, Woodstock, NY 12498. |
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Woodstock Film Festival veteran staffer Jeff Economy is currently stationed in Atlanta, where he is a producer and videographer on the A&E network’s reality television series FLIP THIS HOUSE. The hour-long “docu-soap” follows the trials and tribulations of two real-estate developers in the housing markets of San Antonio and Atlanta. |
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THE REAL CARTOON NETWORK The DVD, GARY GUITAR, was a work-in-progress by Bill Plympton, a pioneering auteur of darkly comic animated films who has received two Oscar nominations. Mr. Plympton, who, with his messily parted blond hair, looks a little like a jaded, middle-aged Dennis the Menace, sat in front of the television with a dozen fellow animators, sending them into fits of laughter as he intoned the guitar’s goofy lines in his own matter-of-fact voice. Over the last few years, this apartment on West 129th Street has become New York’s answer—sort of—to the animation boardrooms of DreamWorks and Pixar, the behemoth studios on the West Coast. Home to a boyish 32-year-old whose name is Adam Pesapane but who more often goes by PES, the apartment is the place independent New York animators gather every few months to assess one another’s work and to puzzle over problems like how to avoid an excess of pink when your main character is a pig. Think of a literary salon, but with animated socks, not to mention scatological humor. At this meeting, for example, Andy London, a balding former teacher of English as a second language, screened a work with an unprintable title about a Parisian street toilet with a faulty latch. It was the first episode in a series of shorts made for the small, small screen: the cellphone. Before the screenings, Mr. London stood in the kitchen with a glass of merlot in his hand, lauding cellphone technology as a “new frontier” for independent animators. “I’m actually getting paid to make movies about poop,” he marveled. The evening took a brief turn toward the melancholy with the screening of a sketch by Signe Baumane, a tall, strong-featured woman from Latvia whom Mr. Plympton once described as the diva of New York animation. Using spare and lyrical imagery, her cartoon centers on the imaginative flights of a teenage girl who discovers she is pregnant. “This is tragic,” remarked an admiring Mr. Plympton. Ms. Baumane looked as if she had just been slapped. “No, it’s not!” she exclaimed. “It’s going to be funny at the end!” |
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