Meet the Filmmaker: Director Josh Aronson The story of Polish-born Violinist Bronislaw Huberman’s heroic feat of organizing an orchestra comprised of exiled Jewish musicians from Europe in 1936. Initially known as the Palestine Symphony Orchestra (later the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra), it … [Read more...]
After their African village has been decimated and their parents slain, the children are kidnapped, conscripted into a rebel army, and trained to be soldiers under a warlord known as “The Great Tiger.” The story unfolds as a magical realistic fable, narrated by girl named Komona, who is 12 when … [Read more...]
Meet the Filmmakers: Directors Kristi Jacobson and Lori Silverbush will discuss their film in a conversation moderated by Liz Johnson, Food Editor for the Journal News, LoHud.com, and the award winning blog, Small Bites. Food Drive: Please bring nonperishable food to this screening for donation … [Read more...]
Meet the Filmmaker: Director Paul Lovelace will discuss his film in a conversation with Mercedes Kent, host of Ric's Place on WRCR. An elegiac chronicle of a bygone era (the 60’s) and celebration of a late-night radio host on WBAI-FM in New York, Bob Fass. Mr. Fass was an influential voice in … [Read more...]
Meet the Filmmaker: Director Katie Dellamaggiore will be present to discuss her film. The big brain-little bodied chess champions of Intermediate School 318 in Williamsburg, Brooklyn are a remarkable, funny, inspiring and sometimes devastating group. We meet a multi-cultural group of boys and girls … [Read more...]
Even with a scientific upbringing, acclaimed photographer James Balog had been a skeptic about climate change until a trip to the Arctic opened his eyes to the biggest story in human history and sparked a challenge that put his career and his very well-being at risk. Using time-lapse photography, … [Read more...]
Oscar nominee: Best Documentary. Post-film discussion: Participants include Sharonann Lynch, an HIV/AIDS policy adviser to Doctors Without Borders, and Robert Maher, Executive Director/CEO, TOUCH (Together Our Unity Can Heal). Rage, fear, determination and triumph crackle throughout this … [Read more...]
Tuesday, Nov. 12 – 7:30 at the Nanuet Public Library A SMALL ACT Presented in cooperation with Friends of the Nanuet Library and in coordination with the annual event Make A Difference Rockland! FREE A story about just how powerful a gesture of kindness and generosity can be, and that … [Read more...]
LOVE HATE LOVE Presented by Friends of the Nanuet Library, FREE Three families torn apart by terrorism (the attack of 9/11, a London bus bombing and the Sari Club bombing in Bali) struggle to pick up the pieces, build legacies of lost loved ones, and make sure love triumphs over hatred. … [Read more...]
Commemorating the 100th Birthday of Woody Guthrie Meet the Filmmakers: Directors Ken Ross and Louis Galdieri will discuss the film with special guest Nora Guthrie, daughter of Woody Guthrie and director of the Woody Guthrie Archive. Moderated by writer Daniel Wolff. OCTOBER 3, NOT OCTOBER … [Read more...]
Meet the Filmmakers: Director Alison Klayman and editor Jen Fineran will discuss their film after the screening. Purchasing tickets in advance is recommended for this screening. China's most famous international artist and most outspoken domestic critic expresses himself through large … [Read more...]
Join is for a post-screening discussion with dancer – choreographers Myrna Packer and Ze'eva Cohen, and choreographer/filmmaker Judy Lieff. A tribute to the unique art of legendary German choreographer Pina Bausch, who died in 2009. Wim Wenders’ tribute to Bausch and the dancers of the legendary … [Read more...]
Stay after the film for a discussion with Edmond Mathez, a geologist and curator at the American Museum of Natural History, co-curator of the museum's 2008 exhibit on climate change and author of the 2009 book "Climate Change: The Science of Global Warming and our Energy Future." President … [Read more...]
Meet the Filmmaker: Anne MacGregor. Comments via skype from Professor Pataricia Salkin, a nationally recognized land use and zoning expert; and a panel with RLUIPA expert Steven Silverburg, Esq. and John S. Marwell, an attorney specializing in representing clients appearing before planning and … [Read more...]
Meet the Filmmaker: Director Nancy Buirski. Panel (details coming soon) moderated by Phyllis Frank, Assistant Executive Director of VCS Inc. The story of two little-known heroes during the Civil Rights Era—Mildred and Richard Loving, whose interracial marriage was considered a crime in their … [Read more...]
Meet the Filmmakers: Producer/Director Jonathan Demme and Producer Daniel Wolff, in a discussion moderated by author James McBride. Within months of Hurricane Katrina, Jonathan Demme and Daniel Wolff began documenting New Orleans’ residents who were demanding their “right to return” to the … [Read more...]
Meet the Filmmakers: Producer/Director Barbara Kopple (two-time Oscar winner), Ellen Ratner and Ker Deng (subject of film and a participant from Sudan, respectively) and Producer Suzanne Mitchell. An inspiring portrait of journalist (Talk Radio News Service and Fox News) and philanthropist Ellen … [Read more...]
MEET THE FILMAKER: Director Cindy Meehl will be present for a post-film discussion. This “sleeper hit” documentary follows the real “Horse Whisperer”—the man who inspired Robert Redford’s popular film— from an abusive childhood to phenomenal success transforming both horses and … [Read more...]
Presented by Rivertown Film and Rockland Filmmakers. Discussion with Spencer Tunick moderated by Lynn Stein, Artistic Director at Rockland Center for the Arts America’s in for a nude awakening. Documentarian Arlene Nelson follows artist Spencer Tunick as he stages temporary, public … [Read more...]
POST-FILM DISCUSSION with Michael Balter, archeology/human evolution writer for Science, one of the world’s leading science magazines. Legendary director Werner Herzog (Fitzcarraldo, Grizzly Man, Encounters at the End of the World) takes us deep inside the Chauvet cave of southern France to the … [Read more...]
A Unique Benefit for Rivertown Film
Artwork by Astith Deyrup to benefit Rivertown Film and Historical Society of the Nyacks
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