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...]
Meet the Filmmakers: Directors Kristi Jacobson and Lori Silverbush. Food Drive: Please bring nonperishable food to this screening for donation to a local pantry. Scroll down for information about donating food. A Place at the Table looks at the economic and cultural impact of hunger in America … [Read more...]
Meet the Filmmaker: Directors Paul Lovelace and Jessica Wolfson 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 broadcasting and a witness to the times whose ideals and follies he … [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...]
Tickets are almost sold out. Buy online before 3:00, and please arrive early. Meet the Filmmakers: Discussion with cinematographer Ben Richardson (schedule permitting), moderated by Susanna Styron. In a forgotten but defiant bayou community cut off from the rest of the world by a sprawling levee, … [Read more...]
DO TO THE RESIDUAL EFFECTS OF HURRICANE SANDY, OUR SPECIAL PREVIEW SCREENING OF GOAT HAS BEEN POSTPONED. Meet the Filmmakers: Stay for a discussion after the screening with some of the cast and crew including local filmmaker Paul Borghese from Tappan Films and Wiliam DeMeo from West Street … [Read more...]
Meet the Filmmakers: Join director Nancy Savoca and producer Richard Guay after the screening for a discussion moderated by Kristi Zea (producer, The Joneses, production designer Tower Heist). UNION SQUARE is the setting for an unexpected reunion between two estranged sisters, one of whom is on … [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...]
Meet the Filmmaker: Writer Pamela Katz will discuss her film with Susanna Styron after the screening. After escaping from a Nazi death camp, Hannah, a German Jewish woman, and Tomasz, a gentile Polish man fall in love. When they are forcibly separated, each believes the other to have died. Thirty … [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 Filmmaker: Discussion with Director John Sayles, moderated by Susanna Styron. With U.S. troops occupying his village during the Philippine-American War, the mayor comes under pressure to help the Americans in their hunt for guerrilla fighters. The mayor’s brother, the head of the local … [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...]
MEET THE FILMMAKERS: Post-film discussion with Rockland actor Bern Cohen and members of Nim’s first adoptive human family, moderated by New York Times “Science Times” editor David Corcoran. Oscar-winner James Marsh (Man on Wire) tells the story of Nim, the “subject” of a 1970’s … [Read more...]
STEEL EARTH Episode 1: “Auto Archaeology,” 10 minutes, 2009; Episode 2, “Dodge Coronet,” 17 minutes, 2010; Episode 3, “Tackamack Park,” 22 minutes, 2011; Produced & Directed by Jason Paris, made in Rockland County Tickets: $5, sold … [Read more...]
MEET THE FILMMAKER: Writer/Director Kenneth Bowser will be interviewed by Declan Baldwin after the screening. A revealing biography of a conflicted truth-seeking troubadour who, with his guitar in hand, stood up for what he believed and challenged us all to do the same. Unyielding in his political … [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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