The fiercely independent Woodstock Film Festival (WFF) has a great lineup of films and programming for its 24th Anniversary. The festival runs from September 27th to October 1st, 2023, at venues throughout the bucolic Hudson Valley towns of Woodstock, Rosendale, and Saugerties, and online.
This year’s Lifetime Achievement Award will be awarded to renowned filmmaker James Ivory. Ivory was the directing partner with the legendary producer IsmailMerchant in their independent company Merchant Ivory Productions. In the forty-eight years, they worked together as a team, usually accompanied by the writer and novelist Ruth Prawer Jhabvala; they created 28 feature films, including the classics A Room With a View, Maurice, Howards End, and The Remains of the Day. Ivory also wrote the screenplay for Call Me By Your Name, for which he received an Academy Award in 2018. A tribute screening of Ivory’s film, The City of Your Final Destination, will take place on Saturday, September 30, followed by a conversation with Ivory and novelist Peter Cameron.
A long-time supporter of many of today’s most talented and promising women working in the film industry, 40% of the films included in this year’s lineup feature outstanding works directed by women filmmakers who elevate our program across the board.
The Woodstock Film Festival is proud to participate this year in a cultural collaboration with the Leiden International Film Festival in the Netherlands. The program entails a reciprocal exchange of films and filmmakers between the two festivals, enhancing cultural awareness and international exposure for both Dutch and American independent cinema.
For ticket information and full schedule , visit: www.woodstockfilmfestival.org
Image -Opening Night film: Alden Ehrenreich as Luke and Phoebe Dynevor as Emily in FAIR PLAY. Dir. Chloe Domont
Still from Closing Night film – FINESTKIND dir. Brian Helgeland
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