Woodstock Museum 14th Annual Film Festival 2013

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Woodstock Museum’s 14^th Annual FREE Film Festival

takes place Labor Day weekend. Fri., Aug. 30 to Mon., Sept. 2 at Woodstock

Museum, 13 Charles Bach Rd., West Saugerties, NY. This year’s theme is “Life”.

The festival begins with highlights from the past month’s

historic journey down the Hudson River to the UN, led by the Iroquois

Confederacy of Six Nations and joined along the way on horseback by the Dakota

Sioux Unity Riders from Manitoba, Canada. The festival will also feature

highlights from museum founders Shelli Lipton and Nathan Koenig’s recent trip

to China, Vietnam and Nimbin, Australia, Woodstock’s sister city where the 40^th anniversary of their Aquarius Festival took place in May.

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FRIDAY AUGUST 30

8PM  “Two Row Wampum Renewal Campaign (1613-2013)” features short clips with Onondaga Faithkeeper Oren Lyons and folk singer Pete

Seeger, the Dakota Unity Riders, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand in Woodstock and our native friends being welcomed by the U.N. Secretary

General at the end of their arduous journey down the Hudson River.

9PM  “Not Quite Square: owner built houses in

Northern Rivers”  showcases homes built to reflect

alternative lifestyles of the back to the land movement after Nimbin

Australia’s 1973 Aquarius Festival. Sharon Shostak.

10PM  “Nimbin, AU. 2013 Highlights.” From next

generation Permaculture to the Aquarius Masquerade Ball and Mardi Grass

Festival, this hippie culture doesn’t wallow in the sixties; it grows. Q&A

with Nathan Koenig

SATURDAY AUGUST 31

8PM “Iroquois Power for

the 21^st Century” introduces the Haudenasaunee Great Law of

Peace with Oren Lyons and other wise, native elders from the Six Nation’s

Confederacy. Q&A with filmmaker Nathan Koenig

8:45  “Halloween is for the Birds”, “Clowns

on the Left” and “Human Zoo”, Animated films by Mick

Cusimano. Q&A

9:30  “Racing Daylight” Critically acclaimed re-incarnation ghost story, murder

mystery and supernatural love story transcending time. Q&A with producer

Nicole Quinn

SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 1

8PM  “The Art of Being” A family’s spiritual

journey in search of the teachings of Indigenous peoples and spiritual masters

of the world, revealing answers to the universal questions of life.

8:05  “Bodhi’s Life” A eight year old boy

living in the Australian Rainforest near the town of Nimbin, Australia won

Nimbin Youth film festival Best Documentary 2013 by Bodhi Dharma.

8:15  “Happy Dance” focuses on the filmmaker’s

9 year old autistic son, immersed in a world of fantasy fascinations, possibly

hyper-awareness. Q&A with filmmaker Crisanta de Guzman

8:45  “The Mirror” A woman finds a magic mirror

containing famous women facing identity and immortality from Emily Dickinson to

Marilyn Monroe. Q&A with filmmaker Crisanta de Guzman 

9PM  “The David Laflamme Story: Outside the Golden Cage” the life and

times of legendary composer/violinist, leader of the iconic 60’s San Francisco

rock band IT’S A BEAUTIFUL DAY.

MONDAY SEPTEMBER 2

2PM  “Conversation with producers Dennis

Watlington & Nina Rosenblum”.  Author, actor, television and

film producer/writer Dennis Watlington moved through poverty,

addiction and racial barriers onward to the highest achievements in media

including an Emmy Award. He is joined by Academy Award nominated

producer/director Nina Rosenblum They will speak about their work together on

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 WEST, TBS, and on many other films that they made together

during their twenty year collaboration.

3:15  “The Black West” A history of

African-Americans who participated in the development of the Western frontier

in the United States in such categories as the explorers, fur traders, early

settlers, slaves, cowboys and soldiers. Q&As with Dennis

Watlington & Caroline Phipps.

4:30 Snacks, food at

Woodstock Museum Café.

5:25  “Manahatta”, the Indian name for the isle of Manhattan, land of many hills. Animation by Jack Feldstein.

5:

30  “Hanoi Hilton” propaganda film shown at the notorious Hanoi prison and

caught on a pocket camera by Nathan Koenig.

6:15 “Kumbha

Mela” captures many amazing aspects of the great pilgrimage in India

that attracts many gurus, yogis and followers every 12 years. Australian

filmmaker Geoffrey Cantor.

7:15  “Yangshuo Liu Sanjie Lightshow on the Li River”.  This famous staged-show on water has 600

performers on the largest natural stage in the world. The Liu Sanjie (The Three

Liu Sisters) was created and choreographed by legendary Chinese director, Zhang

Yimou, who also created and directed the opening ceremony of the 2008 Olympics.