Woodstock New York, NY 12498 | Arts | Visual and Performing Arts | Film

Woodstock Film Festival

11th Annual Woodstock Film Festival
Sept 29-Oct. 3, 2010

Main Office: 86 Mill Hill Rd.
Woodstock, NY 12498
845-679-4265
info@woodstockfilmfestival.com

The Woodstock Film Festival is an educational not-for-profit, 501 (C)(3) organization with a mission to present an annual program and year-round schedule of film, music, and art-related activities that promote artists, culture, inspired learning, and diversity. The Woodstock Film Festival has a nine-year track record of presenting exceptional programming including films, panels, workshops and concerts that foster cultural, educational and economic development. Programming has consistently created a synergy and mutually beneficial relationship between artists, audience, industry guests and community members.

SCREENINGS featuring more than 130 films from around the country and globally are the anchor the festival. PANELS cover a broad spectrum of current artistic, technical and social issues.

In just ten years, the festival has quickly become a premiere hot-spot for emerging and established filmmakers. Key festival participants have included Uma Thurman, Lucy Liu, Barbara Kopple, Rosie Perez, Matt Dillon, Mira Nair, Peter Gabriel, Woody Harrelson, Ethan Hawke, Aidan Quinn, Benjamin Bratt, Vera Farmiga, Tim Blake Nelson, Ismail Merchant, the Late Elmer Bernstein, Marcia Gay Harden, Parker Posey, Liev Schreiber, Bill Plympton, David Strathairn, Tim Robbins, Haskell Wexler, and many others.

2010 CALL FOR ENTRIES
The WOODSTOCK FILM FESTIVAL (Sept 29th – October 3th, 2010) is currently accepting submissions in all categories. Maverick Awards are presented for Best Feature ($5000 cash), Best Documentary, Best Short Documentary, Best Short Film, Best Student Film, Best Cinematography, Best Editing and Best Animation. Cash, prizes and/or services are given out in each category (see 2009 awards). Audience Awards are presented for Best Feature and Best Documentary. Award sponsors have included The Lee Marvin Estate, the late James Lyons, Lowel-Light, Apple Computers, Final Draft, Post Factory, A&E Indie Films, Docurama, Kodak, Baseline, Markertek, and others.

Upstate Films/Woodstock
Upstate Films cinema

132 Tinker St
(845) 876 4546

Film exhibition
Upstate Films, founded in 1972, is now at 132 Tinker St, Woodstock, showing international cinema serving as a community resource, and bringing guest film artists here to share their insights into the creative process that is filmmaking.