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Audience Award Winners Announced for Woodstock FF

woodstockff — Fri, 20 Oct 2006 00:03:43 +0200

Wednesday, October 18----The 7th Woodstock Film Festival, which wrapped this past Sunday, has announced its Audience Award winners for this year. Two virtual ties for the 2006 Audience Awards for Best Narrative Feature and Best Documentary saw the awards go to four films instead of two this year.

Woodstock FF Announces Maverick Awards

woodstockff — Mon, 16 Oct 2006 03:47:31 +0200

Best Documentary Winner BEYOND ERUV

Sunday, October 15---The "fiercely independent" Woodstock Film Festival announced the winners of its Maverick Awards at a special ceremony on Saturday evening at the Colony Cafe. Eleven awards were given out to films in competition, as well as special tribute awards to distinguished honorees.

Professional Seminars Bring Industry Pros to Woodstock

woodstockff — Sat, 14 Oct 2006 18:16:15 +0200

Saturday, October 14----Aside from all the films, the parties, the music concerts and other special events, the Woodstock Film Festival offers local filmmakers and visiting film talents an intensive education on all aspects of the filmmaking and distribution process through an exhaustive series of professional seminars. Drawing mainly on film executives, film critics and film mavens from Manhattan (only 100 miles to the south), the Festival offers a rare opportunity to get the lowdown on the state-of-the-art in independent filmmaking, without having to go to film school.

THE MITCH SHOW mixes film and comedy

woodstockff — Sat, 14 Oct 2006 18:03:31 +0200

Saturday, October 14----One of the more unusual and highly anticipated programs of the Woodstock Film Festival will be tonight's special event, THE MITCH SHOW, a retrospective of comedic short films spanning the oeuvre of Hollywood-based filmmaker Mitchell Rose. The program includes several audience-participation segments, humorous performance pieces and short comic gems by this professional wisenheimer.

Friday Highlights At Woodstock Film Festival

woodstockff — Sat, 14 Oct 2006 02:39:59 +0200

Friday, October 13----With the fall foliage in full regalia, the town of Woodstock, nestled in the Catskill Mountains region of New York State, is in full flower (of reds, oranges and greens). The Woodstock Film Festival, which opened last evening, adds even more color as it unspools a group of provocative films.

Interview with Festival Director Meira Blaustein

woodstockff — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 18:41:08 +0200

Meira Blaustein

Thurday, October 12----As the 7th annual Woodstock Film Festival kicks into gear this evening with the avant premiere of Douglas McGrath’s INFAMOUS, Festivals Editor Sandy Mandelberger sat down with Festival Director Meira Blaustein to get her thoughts on this year’s edition.

Jonathan Sehring Of IFC Entertainment To Be Honored

woodstockff — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 21:56:35 +0200

Jonathan Sehring

Wedneday, October 11---Jonathan Sehring, the President of IFC Entertainment and a longtime supporter of the independent film movement, will be honored at the Woodstock Film Festival with this year's Trailblazer Award. Sehring will receive the award from Oscar-nominated actor Matt Dillon, the star of IFC Films' FACTOTUM, at a special Awards Ceremony on Saturday evening.

Barbara Kopple To Receive Maverick Award

woodstockff — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 21:00:12 +0200

Monday, October 9----Veteran documentary director Barbara Kopple will be honored with the Maverick Award at the Woodstock Film Festival, which opens on Thursday. She will be honored at a special Awards Ceremony on Saturday evening, with actress-turned-documentarian Rosie Perez giving Kopple her award honors. Perez co-directed her first documentary film this year, the autobiographical I'M BORICUA, JUST SO YOU KNOW!

AFTER THE WEDDING is Festival Centerpiece

woodstockff — Sun, 08 Oct 2006 03:33:08 +0200

Saturday, October 7----The Woodstock Film Festival, which opens this coming Thursday, has announced that its Centerpiece Film will be the latest work from acclaimed Danish director Susanne Bier. AFTER THE WEDDING will be screened as a US Premiere on Saturday evening, October 14 at the Tinker Street Cinema. The film will be released later this year by arthouse distributor IFC Films.

INFAMOUS to open Woodstock Film Festival

woodstockff — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 01:15:12 +0200

Friday, October 6----The Woodstock Film Festival will open next Thursday with the East Coast Premiere of the docudrama INFAMOUS, the highly ancticipated biopic of legendary writer Truman Capote.

The film, which stars British actor Toby Jones in a remarkable incarnation of the capricious Capote, was written and directed by UK director Douglas McGrath (NICHOLAS NICKLEBY, EMMA). The film, which also stars Sandra Bullock, Daniel Craig, Peter Bogdanovich, Jeff Daniels, Hope Davis, Gwyneth Paltrow, Isabella Rossellini, Juliet Stevenson and Sigourney Weaver, opens theatrically the following day.

Fiercely Independent Woodstock FF Launches 7th Edition

woodstockff — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 21:33:36 +0200

The Hippie Ethos In Woodstock, New York

Thursday, October 5---The town of Woodstock, New York, set in the majestic Catskill Mountain region of New York's Hudson Valley, is often confused with the famous rock concert that defined the 1960s. The actual Woodstock Music and Arts Festival happened 30 miles away in Bethel, NY. However, the modern Woodstock is a place where millionaires, artists, bohemians and left-over hippies rub shoulders in an eclectic atmosphere of individualism, personal expression and tolerance.

Official Web Site of the Woodstock Film Festival

woodstockff — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 22:12:25 +0200