	WOODSTOCK FILM FESTIVAL PO Box 1406, Woodstock, NY 12498, T 845.679.4265 F 509.479.5414 E-mail: info@woodstockfilmfestival.com,www.woodstockfilmfestival.com
meira blaustein executive director laurent rejto director of development elmer bernstein honorary chair emeritus advisory board aidan quinn annie nocenti bill plympton david strathairn eamonn bowles ellen chenoweth ethan hawke fisher stevens gill holland griffin dunne ira schreck jeremiah newton john sloss judy arthur lemore syvan leon gast liev schreiber martha frankel michael lang peter saraf ron nyswaner sabine hoffman sarah plant stephen hays steve savage zachary sklar lemore syvan	FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: ADVISORY BOARD 2005 Judy Arthur - Public Relations Consultant Judy Arthur directs public relations and marketing campaigns for the entertainment industry and cultural, international, and public affairs. She has been a public relations executive at PolyGram Films, Orion Pictures, and HBO, directing campaigns for numerous Academy Award-winning films. Eamonn Bowles - President, Magnolia Pictures Eamonn Bowles is president of Magnolia Pictures (Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst, A League of Ordinary Gentlemen, Ong Bak, Capturing The Friedmans, Read My Lips, Late Marriage, and Control Room.) Prior to his position at Magnolia, Eamonn was president of Shooting Gallery Pictures (Croupier, A Time For Drunken Horses, Last Resort, The Day I Became A Woman, Eureka). He has also served as senior vice president of acquisitions and marketing with Miramax Films and as head of distribution at The Samuel Goldwyn Company. Eamonn is also a member of rock ‘n roll band, 'The Martinets' who just released their second album, "New Stories for Men." Ellen Chenoweth - Casting Director Ellen Chenoweth’s credits as a casting director speak for themselves. Select films include Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, Analyze That, Bandits, The Man Who Wasn't There, Meet The Parents, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, Arlington Road, Analyze This, Liberty Heights, The Horse Whisperer, Sphere, Affliction, Lolita, Metro, Going All the Way, The Jackal, Wag the Dog, Faithful, Sleepers, Bridges of Madison County, Nobody's Fool, Disclosure, Six Degrees of Separation, The Dark Wind, A Bronx Tale, and Terms of Endearment. Her most recent credits include Good Night and Good Luck, Mona Lisa Smile, and The Lady Killers. Griffin Dunne - Director, Producer, Actor Griffin Dunne is a director (Addicted to Love, Practical Magic, Lisa Picard is Famous); producer (Chilly Scenes of Winter, Baby It's You, Running On Empty, After Hours, Fierce People, Game 6); and actor (Marie and Bruce, American Werewolf in London, After Hours, and most recently Game 6). As a screenwriter, he co-wrote Spin (Dreamworks) and, with co-writer Adam Brooks, the Academy Award-nominated short, Duke of Groove. Martha Frankel - Entertainment Journalist Martha Frankel is an entertainment journalist who has interviewed everyone from Robert DeNiro, Sean Penn, and Elizabeth Taylor to Lee Attwater and Mike Tyson for television, newspapers, and magazines as diverse as The New Yorker, Fashions of the New York Times, Cosmopolitan, the original Details, as well as many other international magazines. She is a winner of a NYFFA Award in creative nonfiction, and was the 1997 Philip Morris Fellow at The MacDowell Colony and the 2003 Artist-in-Residence at SUNY Ulster. She is currently at work on a memoir, I See Your Point... And Raise You One. Leon Gast – Filmmaker Leon Gast is the producer, director, editor, and writer of When We Were Kings, the Academy Award-winning documentary of the 1974 heavyweight championship bout in Zaire between champion George Foreman and underdog challenger Muhammad Ali. He also directed and produced the award-winning documentary Our Latin Thing; directed, produced, and edited BB King: Live in Africa, Other film credits include Hell's Angels Forever, The Grateful Dead Movie, and Celia Cruz: Quantanamera. Ethan Hawke - Actor, Director Ethan Hawke’s film credits as an actor include Training Day (Oscar nominated for Best-Supporting Actor), Monterey Pop, Snow Falling on Cedars, Hamlet, Joe the King, Great Expectations, The Newton Boys, The Velocity of Gary, Gattaca, Search and Destroy, Before Sunrise, Reality Bites, Floundering, Quiz Show, Alive, Rich in Love, Waterland, White Fang, Midnight Clear, Mystery Date, Dead Poets Society, Dad, and Explorers. He most recently starred in Taking Lives, Assault on Precinct 13, and Lord of War. As a feature film director, his credits include Chelsea Walls. Stephen Hays - Founder, 120dB Films Stephen Hays is an executive producer and Managing Member of 120dB Films, a finance company specializing in gap loans to the independent film industry. He was co-founder and General Partner of Seneca Capital, a $2.3 billion, New York-based hedge fund (1996-2003), where he remains a Partner and adviser. Prior, he was a Managing Director at Furman Selz, a NY-based investment bank where his focus was proprietary risk arbitrage and event-driven investing (1987-1995). Stephen's first position on Wall Street was at Laterman and Co., an arbitrage-focused hedge fund (1985-87). He graduated from Kenyon College in 1983 and gained a Masters of Science in Accounting and Finance at the London School of Economics in 1985. Sabine Hoffman - Editor Sabine Hoffman's credits as a film editor include Rebecca Miller's The Ballad of Jack and Rose and also Personal Velocity, winner of the 2003 Grand Jury Prize at Sundance, the Award for Best Cinematography, and the John Cassavettes Award. Other credits include Morgan J. Freeman's Desert Blue and Hurricane Streets (winner of Audience, Best Director, and Best Cinematography Award at the 1997 Sundance Film Festival), Alex Sichels All Over Me (a Teddy Award Winner at the Berlin Film Festival), Katja Essons’ Ferry Tales (nominated for an Academy Award in 2004), Bill Jennings’ Harlem Aria (Audience Award winner at Urbanworld New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles) and Rodney Evans' Brother to Brother (Special Jury Prize winner at Sundance 2004 and the Showtime Award ) and Saving Face. Sabine also serves on the advisory boards of WERISE and the Fusion Film Festival. Sabine founded the Editing Award for feature and documentary narratives at the Woodstock Film Festival in 2004. Gill Holland - Producer and Partner, LaSalle Holland Gill Holland most recently produced Loggerheads (Sundance 2005, in theaters this fall). Nominated for the Spirit Award for Producer of the Year 1998, Gill produced Sundance-winning Hurricane Streets, the FOX sit-com Greg the Bunny, Spring Forward, and Emmy-nominated Dear Jesse, and has Mentor (with Rutger Hauer), Just Like The Son (with Rosie Perez), “findlove”, and SweetLand (with Alan Cumming) in post. He produced three volumes of cineBLAST!, the short film video compilations. Half Norwegian, half North Carolinian lawyer and former adjunct professor at NYU Graduate Film School, Gill worked at the French Film Office. He was on the jury for shorts at Sundance and selection committee for the Academy Awards, Student Division. His music label sonaBLAST! Records' first releases from Mark Geary both hit top 40 in Ireland. Michael Lang - Producer, Promoter As the founder of Woodstock Ventures, Michael Lang is best known as the producer and promoter of the Woodstock Music & Arts Festival (1969, 1994, and 1999). In addition to his core business of event production and music management, he is currently working on the production of a film based on the novel The Master and Margurita by Mikeal Bulgakov. Other film credits include Bottle Rocket, the debut film of director Wes Anderson and actors Luke Wilson and Owen Wilson. Jeremiah Newton - NYU Industry Liaison As film and television industry liaison for the largest film school in America, New York University’s Maurice Kanbar Institute of Film and Television, Jeremiah Newton created The Directors Series that takes place twice a week, involving the latest Hollywood, independent, documentary, and foreign feature films. Jeremiah also administrates the Mentor Program, which finds industry mentors for film and television students. His writing credits include work on I Shot Andy Warhol. Annie Nocenti - Screenwriter, Editor Annie Nocenti is a screenwriter, film journalist, and was the editor of both High Times magazine and Scenario, a screenwriting magazine. "Shamans speak of the reverential use of drugs as one way to open doors to new ways of seeing. I see ideas in the same light. Thinking is viral, and High Times could become a place where provocative ideas, one that propose we look at the world in new ways, could ferment a revolution of thought." Ron Nyswaner - Screenwriter, Director Ron Nyswaner has written many screenplays including Soldier's Girl (Peabody Award) and Philadelphia (Academy award nomination). Currently, two of his screenplays are in production: The Painted Veil, a feature film directed by John Curran with Naomi Watts and Edward Norton, and Filthy Gorgeous, a one-hour pilot for Showtime. His first book, Blue Days, Black Nights: A Memoir, was nominated for a Lambda Literary award. Sarah Plant - Composer, Musician, Associate Music Director Sarah Plant was associate music director, arranger, and flutist for Ang Lee's Oscar-nominated Eat Drink Man Woman. Feature and documentary credits include Shoot George, Juliette of the Herbs (PBS), Entwined, Spotted Puppets (Canal+), Brothers and Others: The Impact of 9/11 on Arabs and Muslims in America (CBC, Hallmark, Swiss TV), Guillermo Gomez-Peña (PBS), and Going Organic (PBS), For Love of Julian and Bravo Profiles: Julie Taymor (Bravo). Scores include American Museum of Natural History biodiversity films, museum art installations, and a commission for Bill T. Jones Dance Company. Her work has been performed at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, BAM, Carnegie Recital Hall, and the Spoleto Festival. Bill Plympton Bill Plympton's animated films include his latest feature Hair High, which won the Gold Jury Prize at the Fant-Asia festival in Montreal; the short film Guard Dog, which was nominated for an Oscar; and a special prize at the Hiroshima Animation Festival. Past projects include Mutant Aliens, I Married a Strange Person, and The Tune. His short films have been seen widely around the country, highlighting many animation festivals, and on DVD in the Plymptoons and Mondo Plympton collections. He is currently working on a sequel to Guard Dog, called Guide Dog. Aidan Quinn - Actor, Producer Aidan Quinnˆs current film Nine Lives will screen at the 2005 Woodstock Film Festival. Since his film Cavedweller screened at the 2004 Woodstock Film Festival, he has also filmed Shadow of Fear, Return to Sender, Proud, and the television version of the acclaimed Broadway show, The Exonerated. Other projects include Song for a Raggy Boy (WFF 2003), Plainsong, and Evelyn. He has appeared in more than 35 independent and studio features including Desperately Seeking Susan, An Early Frost, Avalon, At Play in the Fields of the Lord, Benny and Joon, Legends of the Fall, and Michael Collins. Bingham Ray Bingham Ray is the former president of United Artists (Bowling for Columbine, Assassination Tango, Nicholas Nickleby, City of Ghosts). As co-founder of October Films, he distributed independent films such as Secrets & Lies, Breaking The Waves, and The Apostle. Peter Saraf - Producer Peter Saraf is the producer of Liev Schreiber's feature film directorial debut, Everything Is Illuminated. He was executive producer of Spike Jonze's critically acclaimed Adaptation, starring Nicholas Cage. As a producer, his credits include The Truth About Charlie, Mandela, Ulee's Gold, Courage and Pain, Into the Rope, and Storefront Hitchcock. He is currently producing the feature Little Miss Sunshine, which is in principal photography. Steve Savage - President, Co-Founder, New Video, Docurama Steve is president and co-founder of New Video, a New York-based DVD company. New Video has released a catalog of more than 1,500 titles under The History Channel, A&E, NBC, and IFC imprints. Since 1999, New Video has distributed a catalog of more than 100 independent and classic documentaries under their Docurama label. For preschoolers the company offers a series of classic children’s books on DVD under the Scholastic brand. Liev Schreiber - Actor, Director Liev Schreiber has quickly established himself as one of the most versatile actors of his generation through his ability to effortlessly play roles ranging from classical Shakespearean to contemporary film. Among his film credits are, most recently, The Manchurian Candidate, The Sum of All Fears, Kate & Leopold, Spring Forward, The Hurricane, and A Walk on the Moon. He recently starred in the Tony Award-winning Broadway revival of Glen Gary Glenross. He is currently promoting the upcoming release of his feature film directorial debut, Everything Is Illuminated. Ira Schrek - Entertainment Attorney Ira Schrek is a principal in the law firm Schrek, Rose and Depello. He has overseen the legal aspects of many feature films, including The Muse, A Walk on the Moon, Ripe, Canadian Bacon, In the Name of the Father, and My Own Private Idaho. Fisher Stevens - Actor, Producer, Director Fisher Stevens is an accomplished actor, director, and producer. In addition to performing both on the stage and in numerous television series, Fisher has starred in a wide range of feature films, such as Reversal of Fortune, The Flamingo Kid, Short Circuit, Only You, Undisputed, and most recently On The Couch and Undiscovered. In 1996, Fisher co-founded GreeneStreet Films, a New York-based independent production company, with John Penotti. Since then, the company has produced and financed a number of critically acclaimed films, such as In the Bedroom, Pinero, Swimfan, The Chateau, and Lisa Picard Is Famous. Fisher made his feature film directorial debut with GreeneStreet's Just a Kiss. John Sloss - Attorney, Producer, Cinetic Media John Sloss has acted as executive producer for more than 30 feature films including, most recently, Before Sunset, Pizza, Land of Plenty, A Home at the End of the World, November, and Far From Heaven (Woodstock Film Festival 2002). Other credit include John Sayles' City of Hope, Passion Fish, The Secret of Roan Inish, Lone Star, and Men With Guns; Maggie Greenwald's The Ballad of Little Jo; Richard Linklater's Before Sunrise, SubUrbia, The Newton Boys, and Waking Life; Michael Corrente and David Mamet's American Buffalo; Edward Burns' She's the One and No Looking Back; Victor Nunez's Ulee's Gold and his upcoming Coastlines; Whit Stillman's The Last Days of Disco; Errol Morris' Mr. Death; Brad Anderson's Happy Accidents and Session 9; and Kimberly Pierce's Boys Don't Cry. As an attorney, John represents clients in all aspects of motion picture financing, production, and distribution, including motion picture producers, directors, writers, and broadcast networks, as well as professional sports teams. Zachary Sklar - Screenwriter Zachary Sklar is a screenwriter, journalist, author, and editor. His most recent feature is The Feast of the Goat, based of the novel of the same name by Mario Vargas-Llosa. The film is directed by Luis Llosa and stars Isabella Rossellini. Zach is best known as co-author (with Oliver Stone) of the Academy Award-nominated screenplay for the film JFK. Zach recently completed a second feature screenplay for Stone's Illusion Entertainment. He has served as a creative adviser for screenwriting labs at Sundance (Utah), Sundance International (Mexico), and Equinoxe (France). David Strathairn - Actor David Strathairn is an accomplished film and stage actor. He has appeared in many independent and studio films including the upcoming films The Notorious Bettie Page, Heavens Fall, Good Night and Good Luck, and Missing In America. He has also starred in Map of the World, LA Confidential, Simon Birch, Dolores Claiborne, The River Wild, Silkwood, and many more films. He is best known for his work with director John Sayles, which includes Limbo, Passion Fish, Eight Men Out, Matewan, Brother From Another Planet, and Return of the Secaucus Seven. Lemore Syvan, Producer, Elevation Filmworks Lemore Syvan founded Elevation Filmworks. Recent works include The Ballad of Jack and Rose, Duane Hopwood, Some Kind of Heaven, and King of the Corner. Lemore recently finished filming the psychological thriller First Born. Throughout her career, she has worked with many distinguished filmmakers in the independent film community, including John Sayles (Casa de Los Babys) and Rebecca Miller’s Personal Velocity, which took home the Grand Jury Prize and Cinematography Award at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival, as well as the John Cassavetes Award for Outstanding Achievement at the 2003 Independent Spirit Awards. Other award-winning films from Lemore include Mexican director Alejandro Springall’s Santitos, which won the Latin America Cinema Award at the 1999 Sundance Film Festival, and Rebecca Miller’s Angela, which took home both the Filmmakers Trophy and Cinematography Award at the 1995 Sundance Film Festival. Projects currently in development include The Woody and Human Capitol.

WOODSTOCK FILM FESTIVAL
PO Box 1406, Woodstock, NY 12498, T 845.679.4265 F 509.479.5414
E-mail: info@woodstockfilmfestival.com,www.woodstockfilmfestival.com

meira blaustein
executive director

laurent rejto
director of development

elmer bernstein
honorary chair emeritus

advisory board
aidan quinn
annie nocenti
bill plympton
david strathairn
eamonn bowles
ellen chenoweth
ethan hawke
fisher stevens
gill holland
griffin dunne
ira schreck
jeremiah newton
john sloss
judy arthur
lemore syvan
leon gast
liev schreiber
martha frankel
michael lang
peter saraf
ron nyswaner
sabine hoffman
sarah plant
stephen hays
steve savage
zachary sklar
lemore syvan

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

ADVISORY BOARD 2005

Judy Arthur - Public Relations Consultant
Judy Arthur directs public relations and marketing campaigns for the entertainment industry and cultural, international, and public affairs. She has been a public relations executive at PolyGram Films, Orion Pictures, and HBO, directing campaigns for numerous Academy Award-winning films.

Eamonn Bowles - President, Magnolia Pictures
Eamonn Bowles is president of Magnolia Pictures (Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst, A League of Ordinary Gentlemen, Ong Bak, Capturing The Friedmans, Read My Lips, Late Marriage, and Control Room.) Prior to his position at Magnolia, Eamonn was president of Shooting Gallery Pictures (Croupier, A Time For Drunken Horses, Last Resort, The Day I Became A Woman, Eureka). He has also served as senior vice president of acquisitions and marketing with Miramax Films and as head of distribution at The Samuel Goldwyn Company. Eamonn is also a member of rock ‘n roll band, 'The Martinets' who just released their second album, "New Stories for Men."

Ellen Chenoweth - Casting Director
Ellen Chenoweth’s credits as a casting director speak for themselves. Select films include Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, Analyze That, Bandits, The Man Who Wasn't There, Meet The Parents, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, Arlington Road, Analyze This, Liberty Heights, The Horse Whisperer, Sphere, Affliction, Lolita, Metro, Going All the Way, The Jackal, Wag the Dog, Faithful, Sleepers, Bridges of Madison County, Nobody's Fool, Disclosure, Six Degrees of Separation, The Dark Wind, A Bronx Tale, and Terms of Endearment. Her most recent credits include Good Night and Good Luck, Mona Lisa Smile, and The Lady Killers.

Griffin Dunne - Director, Producer, Actor
Griffin Dunne is a director (Addicted to Love, Practical Magic, Lisa Picard is Famous); producer (Chilly Scenes of Winter, Baby It's You, Running On Empty, After Hours, Fierce People, Game 6); and actor (Marie and Bruce, American Werewolf in London, After Hours, and most recently Game 6). As a screenwriter, he co-wrote Spin (Dreamworks) and, with co-writer Adam Brooks, the Academy Award-nominated short, Duke of Groove.

Martha Frankel - Entertainment Journalist
Martha Frankel is an entertainment journalist who has interviewed everyone from Robert DeNiro, Sean Penn, and Elizabeth Taylor to Lee Attwater and Mike Tyson for television, newspapers, and magazines as diverse as The New Yorker, Fashions of the New York Times, Cosmopolitan, the original Details, as well as many other international magazines. She is a winner of a NYFFA Award in creative nonfiction, and was the 1997 Philip Morris Fellow at The MacDowell Colony and the 2003 Artist-in-Residence at SUNY Ulster. She is currently at work on a memoir, I See Your Point... And Raise You One.

Leon Gast – Filmmaker
Leon Gast is the producer, director, editor, and writer of When We Were Kings, the Academy Award-winning documentary of the 1974 heavyweight championship bout in Zaire between champion George Foreman and underdog challenger Muhammad Ali. He also directed and produced the award-winning documentary Our Latin Thing; directed, produced, and edited BB King: Live in Africa, Other film credits include Hell's Angels Forever, The Grateful Dead Movie, and Celia Cruz: Quantanamera.

Ethan Hawke - Actor, Director
Ethan Hawke’s film credits as an actor include Training Day (Oscar nominated for Best-Supporting Actor), Monterey Pop, Snow Falling on Cedars, Hamlet, Joe the King, Great Expectations, The Newton Boys, The Velocity of Gary, Gattaca, Search and Destroy, Before Sunrise, Reality Bites, Floundering, Quiz Show, Alive, Rich in Love, Waterland, White Fang, Midnight Clear, Mystery Date, Dead Poets Society, Dad, and Explorers. He most recently starred in Taking Lives, Assault on Precinct 13, and Lord of War. As a feature film director, his credits include Chelsea Walls.

Stephen Hays - Founder, 120dB Films
Stephen Hays is an executive producer and Managing Member of 120dB Films, a finance company specializing in gap loans to the independent film industry. He was co-founder and General Partner of Seneca Capital, a $2.3 billion, New York-based hedge fund (1996-2003), where he remains a Partner and adviser. Prior, he was a Managing Director at Furman Selz, a NY-based investment bank where his focus was proprietary risk arbitrage and event-driven investing (1987-1995). Stephen's first position on Wall Street was at Laterman and Co., an arbitrage-focused hedge fund (1985-87). He graduated from Kenyon College in 1983 and gained a Masters of Science in Accounting and Finance at the London School of Economics in 1985.

Sabine Hoffman - Editor
Sabine Hoffman's credits as a film editor include Rebecca Miller's The Ballad of Jack and Rose and also Personal Velocity, winner of the 2003 Grand Jury Prize at Sundance, the Award for Best Cinematography, and the John Cassavettes Award. Other credits include Morgan J. Freeman's Desert Blue and Hurricane Streets (winner of Audience, Best Director, and Best Cinematography Award at the 1997 Sundance Film Festival), Alex Sichels All Over Me (a Teddy Award Winner at the Berlin Film Festival), Katja Essons’ Ferry Tales (nominated for an Academy Award in 2004), Bill Jennings’ Harlem Aria (Audience Award winner at Urbanworld New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles) and Rodney Evans' Brother to Brother (Special Jury Prize winner at Sundance 2004 and the Showtime Award ) and Saving Face. Sabine also serves on the advisory boards of WERISE and the Fusion Film Festival. Sabine founded the Editing Award for feature and documentary narratives at the Woodstock Film Festival in 2004.

Gill Holland - Producer and Partner, LaSalle Holland
Gill Holland most recently produced Loggerheads (Sundance 2005, in theaters this fall). Nominated for the Spirit Award for Producer of the Year 1998, Gill produced Sundance-winning Hurricane Streets, the FOX sit-com Greg the Bunny, Spring Forward, and Emmy-nominated Dear Jesse, and has Mentor (with Rutger Hauer), Just Like The Son (with Rosie Perez), “findlove”, and SweetLand (with Alan Cumming) in post. He produced three volumes of cineBLAST!, the short film video compilations. Half Norwegian, half North Carolinian lawyer and former adjunct professor at NYU Graduate Film School, Gill worked at the French Film Office. He was on the jury for shorts at Sundance and selection committee for the Academy Awards, Student Division. His music label sonaBLAST! Records' first releases from Mark Geary both hit top 40 in Ireland.

Michael Lang - Producer, Promoter
As the founder of Woodstock Ventures, Michael Lang is best known as the producer and promoter of the Woodstock Music & Arts Festival (1969, 1994, and 1999). In addition to his core business of event production and music management, he is currently working on the production of a film based on the novel The Master and Margurita by Mikeal Bulgakov. Other film credits include Bottle Rocket, the debut film of director Wes Anderson and actors Luke Wilson and Owen Wilson.

Jeremiah Newton - NYU Industry Liaison
As film and television industry liaison for the largest film school in America, New York University’s Maurice Kanbar Institute of Film and Television, Jeremiah Newton created The Directors Series that takes place twice a week, involving the latest Hollywood, independent, documentary, and foreign feature films. Jeremiah also administrates the Mentor Program, which finds industry mentors for film and television students. His writing credits include work on I Shot Andy Warhol.

Annie Nocenti - Screenwriter, Editor
Annie Nocenti is a screenwriter, film journalist, and was the editor of both High Times magazine and Scenario, a screenwriting magazine. "Shamans speak of the reverential use of drugs as one way to open doors to new ways of seeing. I see ideas in the same light. Thinking is viral, and High Times could become a place where provocative ideas, one that propose we look at the world in new ways, could ferment a revolution of thought."

Ron Nyswaner - Screenwriter, Director
Ron Nyswaner has written many screenplays including Soldier's Girl (Peabody Award) and Philadelphia (Academy award nomination). Currently, two of his screenplays are in production: The Painted Veil, a feature film directed by John Curran with Naomi Watts and Edward Norton, and Filthy Gorgeous, a one-hour pilot for Showtime. His first book, Blue Days, Black Nights: A Memoir, was nominated for a Lambda Literary award.

Sarah Plant - Composer, Musician, Associate Music Director
Sarah Plant was associate music director, arranger, and flutist for Ang Lee's Oscar-nominated Eat Drink Man Woman. Feature and documentary credits include Shoot George, Juliette of the Herbs (PBS), Entwined, Spotted Puppets (Canal+), Brothers and Others: The Impact of 9/11 on Arabs and Muslims in America (CBC, Hallmark, Swiss TV), Guillermo Gomez-Peña (PBS), and Going Organic (PBS), For Love of Julian and Bravo Profiles: Julie Taymor (Bravo). Scores include American Museum of Natural History biodiversity films, museum art installations, and a commission for Bill T. Jones Dance Company. Her work has been performed at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, BAM, Carnegie Recital Hall, and the Spoleto Festival.

Bill Plympton
Bill Plympton's animated films include his latest feature Hair High, which won the Gold Jury Prize at the Fant-Asia festival in Montreal; the short film Guard Dog, which was nominated for an Oscar; and a special prize at the Hiroshima Animation Festival. Past projects include Mutant Aliens, I Married a Strange Person, and The Tune. His short films have been seen widely around the country, highlighting many animation festivals, and on DVD in the Plymptoons and Mondo Plympton collections. He is currently working on a sequel to Guard Dog, called Guide Dog.

Aidan Quinn - Actor, Producer
Aidan Quinnˆs current film Nine Lives will screen at the 2005 Woodstock Film Festival. Since his film Cavedweller screened at the 2004 Woodstock Film Festival, he has also filmed Shadow of Fear, Return to Sender, Proud, and the television version of the acclaimed Broadway show, The Exonerated. Other projects include Song for a Raggy Boy (WFF 2003), Plainsong, and Evelyn. He has appeared in more than 35 independent and studio features including Desperately Seeking Susan, An Early Frost, Avalon, At Play in the Fields of the Lord, Benny and Joon, Legends of the Fall, and Michael Collins.

Bingham Ray
Bingham Ray is the former president of United Artists (Bowling for Columbine, Assassination Tango, Nicholas Nickleby, City of Ghosts). As co-founder of October Films, he distributed independent films such as Secrets & Lies, Breaking The Waves, and The Apostle.

Peter Saraf - Producer
Peter Saraf is the producer of Liev Schreiber's feature film directorial debut, Everything Is Illuminated. He was executive producer of Spike Jonze's critically acclaimed Adaptation, starring Nicholas Cage. As a producer, his credits include The Truth About Charlie, Mandela, Ulee's Gold, Courage and Pain, Into the Rope, and Storefront Hitchcock. He is currently producing the feature Little Miss Sunshine, which is in principal photography.

Steve Savage - President, Co-Founder, New Video, Docurama
Steve is president and co-founder of New Video, a New York-based DVD company. New Video has released a catalog of more than 1,500 titles under The History Channel, A&E, NBC, and IFC imprints. Since 1999, New Video has distributed a catalog of more than 100 independent and classic documentaries under their Docurama label. For preschoolers the company offers a series of classic children’s books on DVD under the Scholastic brand.

Liev Schreiber - Actor, Director
Liev Schreiber has quickly established himself as one of the most versatile actors of his generation through his ability to effortlessly play roles ranging from classical Shakespearean to contemporary film. Among his film credits are, most recently, The Manchurian Candidate, The Sum of All Fears, Kate & Leopold, Spring Forward, The Hurricane, and A Walk on the Moon. He recently starred in the Tony Award-winning Broadway revival of Glen Gary Glenross. He is currently promoting the upcoming release of his feature film directorial debut, Everything Is Illuminated.

Ira Schrek - Entertainment Attorney
Ira Schrek is a principal in the law firm Schrek, Rose and Depello. He has overseen the legal aspects of many feature films, including The Muse, A Walk on the Moon, Ripe, Canadian Bacon, In the Name of the Father, and My Own Private Idaho.

Fisher Stevens - Actor, Producer, Director
Fisher Stevens is an accomplished actor, director, and producer. In addition to performing both on the stage and in numerous television series, Fisher has starred in a wide range of feature films, such as Reversal of Fortune, The Flamingo Kid, Short Circuit, Only You, Undisputed, and most recently On The Couch and Undiscovered. In 1996, Fisher co-founded GreeneStreet Films, a New York-based independent production company, with John Penotti. Since then, the company has produced and financed a number of critically acclaimed films, such as In the Bedroom, Pinero, Swimfan, The Chateau, and Lisa Picard Is Famous. Fisher made his feature film directorial debut with GreeneStreet's Just a Kiss.

John Sloss - Attorney, Producer, Cinetic Media
John Sloss has acted as executive producer for more than 30 feature films including, most recently, Before Sunset, Pizza, Land of Plenty, A Home at the End of the World, November, and Far From Heaven (Woodstock Film Festival 2002). Other credit include John Sayles' City of Hope, Passion Fish, The Secret of Roan Inish, Lone Star, and Men With Guns; Maggie Greenwald's The Ballad of Little Jo; Richard Linklater's Before Sunrise, SubUrbia, The Newton Boys, and Waking Life; Michael Corrente and David Mamet's American Buffalo; Edward Burns' She's the One and No Looking Back; Victor Nunez's Ulee's Gold and his upcoming Coastlines; Whit Stillman's The Last Days of Disco; Errol Morris' Mr. Death; Brad Anderson's Happy Accidents and Session 9; and Kimberly Pierce's Boys Don't Cry. As an attorney, John represents clients in all aspects of motion picture financing, production, and distribution, including motion picture producers, directors, writers, and broadcast networks, as well as professional sports teams.

Zachary Sklar - Screenwriter
Zachary Sklar is a screenwriter, journalist, author, and editor. His most recent feature is The Feast of the Goat, based of the novel of the same name by Mario Vargas-Llosa. The film is directed by Luis Llosa and stars Isabella Rossellini. Zach is best known as co-author (with Oliver Stone) of the Academy Award-nominated screenplay for the film JFK. Zach recently completed a second feature screenplay for Stone's Illusion Entertainment. He has served as a creative adviser for screenwriting labs at Sundance (Utah), Sundance International (Mexico), and Equinoxe (France).

David Strathairn - Actor
David Strathairn is an accomplished film and stage actor. He has appeared in many independent and studio films including the upcoming films The Notorious Bettie Page, Heavens Fall, Good Night and Good Luck, and Missing In America. He has also starred in Map of the World, LA Confidential, Simon Birch, Dolores Claiborne, The River Wild, Silkwood, and many more films. He is best known for his work with director John Sayles, which includes Limbo, Passion Fish, Eight Men Out, Matewan, Brother From Another Planet, and Return of the Secaucus Seven.

Lemore Syvan, Producer, Elevation Filmworks
Lemore Syvan founded Elevation Filmworks. Recent works include The Ballad of Jack and Rose, Duane Hopwood, Some Kind of Heaven, and King of the Corner. Lemore recently finished filming the psychological thriller First Born. Throughout her career, she has worked with many distinguished filmmakers in the independent film community, including John Sayles (Casa de Los Babys) and Rebecca Miller’s Personal Velocity, which took home the Grand Jury Prize and Cinematography Award at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival, as well as the John Cassavetes Award for Outstanding Achievement at the 2003 Independent Spirit Awards. Other award-winning films from Lemore include Mexican director Alejandro Springall’s Santitos, which won the Latin America Cinema Award at the 1999 Sundance Film Festival, and Rebecca Miller’s Angela, which took home both the Filmmakers Trophy and Cinematography Award at the 1995 Sundance Film Festival. Projects currently in development include The Woody and Human Capitol.

WOODSTOCK FILM FESTIVAL PO Box 1406, Woodstock, NY 12498, T 845.679.4265 F 509.479.5414 E-mail: info@woodstockfilmfestival.com,www.woodstockfilmfestival.com

WOODSTOCK FILM FESTIVAL
PO Box 1406, Woodstock, NY 12498, T 845.679.4265 F 509.479.5414
E-mail: info@woodstockfilmfestival.com,www.woodstockfilmfestival.com