Even when you’re in a local band with fans that include Wesley Schultz of the Lumineers and Conor Oberst, getting signed to a major record label and receiving an advance on sales can be revelatory. That was just one realization in “Lunatic Dreamers,” a new film on the Felice Brothers, a band with Palenville roots, […]
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A Film 18 Years in the Making Found Its Footing in a Hudson Valley WhatsApp Group
Matthew Dougherty moved to Bearsville in 2017 with enough savings to spend a year making a movie. Nearly a decade into his first documentary, he needed time to work without the expense and demands of New York City. “To work full time to pay your rent, you can’t make a movie like that, because the […]
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Shandaken
From Bali to Big Indian, a Journey Told Through iPhone Videos
A Big Indian resident who spent three months traveling across Asia will present a film about his trip Friday, assembled from videos he shot on his iPhone. Stephen LaMarca’s “Trekkin’ the Ring of Fire: A Three Month Journey Exploring the Culture, Volcanoes and Sacred Sites of Southeast Asia” will screen at the Ulster Performing Arts […]
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Woodstock
Woodstock Film Festival Lineup Brings Catskills Stories to the Big Screen
Volunteer firefighters in the Catskills, a Woodstock painter, and a chance conversation with a stranger in town will reach the screen next month at the 27th Woodstock Film Festival. The festival, running Oct. 14–18 at venues in Woodstock, Rosendale, Kingston, and Saugerties, released its short-film program Sept. 17: 110 selections across narrative, documentary, and animation, […]
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Robb Moss on Filming Friendship, Time, and the River That Keeps Moving
At the Woodstock Playhouse on Thursday morning, filmmaker Robb Moss screened his new documentary “The Bend in the River,” the final installment in a trilogy that has quietly traced five friends over nearly fifty years. The film premiered at Telluride last month and made its East Coast debut at the 26th annual Woodstock Film Festival […]
