"For over one-hundred years, Woodstock has been a place of dreams and ideas for art, political philosophy and alternative lifestyles." To honor and build on these traditions, the Woodstock Film Festival presents EXPOSURE–a program that features panels and thought-provoking international films that emphasize social, political and environmental concerns.

By hosting EXPOSURE in a setting that has a longstanding tradition for social consciousness, the Woodstock Film Festival creates a natural progression by which programming can focus on matters that affect our lives and our world while seeking to heighten awareness and to stimulate dialogue and positive resolution.

Recent films include:
GARBAGE DREAMS... "A moving story of young men searching for ways to eke out a living for their families and facing tough choices as they try to do the right thing for the planet." -Al Gore
REDLIGHT... a powerful feature documentary about child sexploitation, an epidemic happening in every country around the world.
SHOOTING BEAUTY... Alternately poignant and uplifting, George Kachadorian's SHOOTING BEAUTY celebrates love, humor, frustration and intelligence.
BLIND SPOT... Adolfo Doring's meticulous chronology of the global impact surrounding the coming depletion of fossil fuel,
AT THE EDGE OF THE WORLD... Forty-six volunteers, seven cameramen, two ships and one dedicated Canadian activist set out for Antarctica with one mission in mind: to save whales from Japanese hunters posing as researchers.
THE BETRAYAL... Twenty-three years in the making, famed cinematographer-turned-director Ellen Kuras, along with co-director and narrator Thavisouk Phrasavath, document this extraordinary saga of a family torn apart by the nasty "secret war" financed by the CIA in Laos during the Vietnam era
KASSIM THE DREAM... At six, Kassim was abducted and turned into a child soldier, forced to experience and perpetrate violent atrocities. Finally fleeing Uganda and training as a boxer in the U.S., he has become the Junior Middleweight Champion of the World.

Other films focused on other topics including domestic and global politics
THE BOYS OF BARAKA... A stunning coming-of-age story that follows a group of extraordinary 12 year-old boys from the inner city of Baltimore who leave home to attend an experimental boarding school in East Africa.
THE DEVIL's MINER... the story of 14-year-old Basilio Vargas and his 12-year-old brother Bernardino, as they work in the Bolivian silver mines of Cerro Rico.
ANYTOWN USA... Political tempers heat up as fierce opposition, passionate support, and old-fashioned mudslinging characterize the race for mayor between three candidates in a two-party system, where two of the three politicans are legally blind.
OUR BRAND IS CRISIS follows James Carville, Jeremy Rosner and others from the Greenberg Carville Shrum firm as they travel to South America to help Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada (Goni) become President of Bolivia.
STATE OF FEAR dramatizes the human and societal costs a democracy faces when it embarks on a war against terror, potentially without end, all too easily exploited by unscrupulous leaders seeking personal political gain.

Select films over the years have focused on WAR (OFF TO WAR, SOLDIER'S PAY, Tim Blake Nelson’s The Grey Zone, Chico, Routine) HEALTH RELATED ISSUES (CONVERATIONS WITH NICKLE, Live Free or Die, Undetectable; The New Face of Aids) ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERNS (Go Further, Garbage, Gangsters and Greed) DISABILITIES (How’s Your News, Our House) GLOBAL POLITICS (THE FORBIDDEN TEAM, The Agronomist, The Revolution will not be Televised, Five Days in March, Amandla) and more. YOUTH AT RISK (THIS BOY'S LIFE, MANIC, GIRLHOOD...)

FILMMAKING IN RISKY TIMES  Panelists Martin Garbus, Bingham Ray, Katie Roumel  and Liz  Garbus address filmmaker responsibility, and the question of censorship. Film has always been considered an extraordinarily persuasive medium of communication, and in times of war or when national security seems threatened, movies come under increasing scrutiny and criticism. Do filmmakers, distributors, and exhibitors have a responsibility to respond to changes in the cultural and political climate? Are there forces working to censor or refine the messages audiences receive during politically risky times? THE ART OF DISSENT  featuring a concert with Arlo Guthrie & friends and a conversation with Nora Guthrie from the Woody Guthrie Foundation, Haskell Wexler (Medium Cool, No Nukes...) and Harold Leventhal (Bound for Glory, Alice’s Restaurant).

GARBAGE GANGSTERS, AND GREED, which featured high school filmmakers and U.S. House representative Maurice D. Hinchey focused on landfill abuses, government responsibilities and the role of education as a means to conflict resolution. In September 2001, just two weeks after the 9/11 attacks, every panel and Q&A at the Woodstock Film Festival turned into an introspective discussion of the role and responsibility of art in society.