LAKE PLACID screening in June
May 13th 2009 07:15
June 11-14 2009
This years Lake Placid Film Forum is gearing up for another year of premieres documentaries and retrospectives acknowledging film industries from Quebec, Marathon runners from Transylvania and social commentators from NCPR.
Of the many films screening this year, standouts include a re-screening of the 1991 period piece BLACK ROBE which follows a 17th Century Jesuit priest’s journey from New France to Quebec. This screening is part of a tribute to the Quebec Film Industry as well as a celebration of the Champlain region’s Quadra centennial and will screen the evening of June 11.
Another intriguing film is the Judd Erlich directed documentary about a group of runners from Transylvania in Romania that arrived in New York in 1970 for the first running of the New York Marathon. Erlich takes an affectionate look at the first generation Jewish immigrant Fred Lebow who organised the trip for these runners and also goes to great lengths to explain how a scrappy run around Central Park turned into a showpiece of the five boroughs and now attracts thousands of runners form all over the world.
For those acquainted with North Country Public Radio, look forward to an insightful study of the humorist and social commentator Garrison Keillor. Keillor has created a world where fact and fiction are often unable to be separated. Audiences will be able to take the journey with Keillor and Emmy award winning producer and director Peter Rosen as Garrison creates one of America’s favourite fictional places – Lake Wobegon. The film will be screening on the final day of the forum June 14, 3pm at the Lake Placid Center for the Arts and
Having their New York Premiere at this year’s forum is the feature length ensemble piece TRAILERPARK adapted from a collection of short stories by Author Laureate Russell Banks. Created shot and directed by senior and junior students at the University of Ohio this film’s success is not only in the finished product, but also in the efforts these students have gone to create the schools first ever feature length film. Normally students from the school of Media and Arts Studies would create 5 short films, selecting scripts, forming small production companies, holding casting calls and recruit crew members in the winter before production and post production in the spring. For the first feature, these students managed to raise through major fundraising efforts the US$45,000 needed to fund the film and even managed to build their own trailer park for the film. The student’s efforts alone are a definite inspiration for struggling independent filmmakers. www.trailerparkmovie.com
Another part of the growing success of the forum is the ‘Sleepless in Lake Placid’ 24 hour film making competition between local colleges from the area. At present Syracuse, Ohio, Ithaca, and Burlington have accepted the challenge to compete for the Robin Pell Emerging Filmmaker Award. Now in its third year, the competition will take place over the weekend of the forum with two more universities still to be accepted into this year’s competition.
This year’s silent film retrospective focuses on two f the silent eras greatest stars in Rudolph Valentino and Gloria Swanson. BEYOND THE ROCKS was shot in 1922 and a recently restored print has made its way to the organisers of Lake Placid and will be accompanied on the Palace Theatres antique 1926 Robert Morton Theatre Organ by the world renowned theatre organist Jeff Barker.
Advance tickets, for THE RADIO MAN WITH THE RED SHOES only, may be purchased through the Lake Placid Center for the Arts box office by phone for Sunday, June 14, 2009 at 3 P.M. For tickets audiences can call 518-523-2512
All tickets are $10 per person.
Those who would like to attend can find more about the festival on
www.lakeplacidfilmforum.com
Events Calendar '09
Note: Events schedule is subject to change.
LOCATIONS: PT
- Palace Theatre LPCA
- Lake Placid Center for the Arts WFL
- Whiteface Lodge
Thursday, June 11th
6:00PM “City Island” - Director-Writer: Raymond De Felitta - PT
8:30PM “Black Robe” - Director: Bruce Beresford - PT
Friday, June 12th
12:00PM “For Love of Movies: The History of American Film Criticism” - Director Gerald Peary: Mr. Peary will present his film. - PT
2:15PM “Crude” - Documentary by Joe Berlinger. Mr. Berlinger or a representative of the film will present the film. - PT
6:00PM “Adam Resurrected” - Director: Paul Schrader will introduce his film. - PT
8:45PM “Whatever Works” - Director: Woody Allen Lead Actress: Patricia Clarkson. - PT
Saturday, June 13th
9:45AM “Dreaming Up America — The Movie Version of America” Moderator: Russell Banks Panelists: Reisman, Shapiro, Perez, Russo - LPCA
11:30AM Authors: Banks and Russo - LPCA
12:00PM North Country Shorts and Added Attractions by Emerging Filmmakers. - LPCA
2:00PM Silent Film, “Beyond the Rocks” (1922) Director: Sam Wood - LPCA
2:15PM “Famous in 31 Days” Presented by Owen Shapiro - LPCA
2:30PM A Conversation: Filmmaker Hugo Perez talks to novelist-screenwriter Richard
Russo - WFL
TBA A Conversation: Novelist Russell Banks talks with filmmaker Courtney Hunt - WFL
4:00PM “Run For Your Life” (The story of the New York Marathon) The director . Judd Ehrlich will introduce the film. - LPCA
4:15PM “Neither Memory Nor Magic” Director Hugo Perez will introduce his film. - WFL
6:15PM “Trailerpark”, a feature by filmmaking students from Ohio University. Frederick
Lewis, Associate Professor, and Executive Producer will introduce the film. - LPCA
8:30PM SiLP - Sleepless In Lake Placid—The 24 hour student Filmmaking Competition Finals & Awards Ceremony. - LPCA
Sunday, June 14th
3:00PM “Garrison Keillor: The Man on the Radio in the Red Shoes”. A fundraiser for NCPR and the Film Forum - LPCA
Price Information:
All films are $10 each. Sorry, no advanced ticket sales except for The Man on the Radio in the Red Shoes.
Forums, conversations, panel discussions and silent films are FREE and open to the public!
Detailed Ticketing Information.
Of the many films screening this year, standouts include a re-screening of the 1991 period piece BLACK ROBE which follows a 17th Century Jesuit priest’s journey from New France to Quebec. This screening is part of a tribute to the Quebec Film Industry as well as a celebration of the Champlain region’s Quadra centennial and will screen the evening of June 11.
Another intriguing film is the Judd Erlich directed documentary about a group of runners from Transylvania in Romania that arrived in New York in 1970 for the first running of the New York Marathon. Erlich takes an affectionate look at the first generation Jewish immigrant Fred Lebow who organised the trip for these runners and also goes to great lengths to explain how a scrappy run around Central Park turned into a showpiece of the five boroughs and now attracts thousands of runners form all over the world.
For those acquainted with North Country Public Radio, look forward to an insightful study of the humorist and social commentator Garrison Keillor. Keillor has created a world where fact and fiction are often unable to be separated. Audiences will be able to take the journey with Keillor and Emmy award winning producer and director Peter Rosen as Garrison creates one of America’s favourite fictional places – Lake Wobegon. The film will be screening on the final day of the forum June 14, 3pm at the Lake Placid Center for the Arts and
Having their New York Premiere at this year’s forum is the feature length ensemble piece TRAILERPARK adapted from a collection of short stories by Author Laureate Russell Banks. Created shot and directed by senior and junior students at the University of Ohio this film’s success is not only in the finished product, but also in the efforts these students have gone to create the schools first ever feature length film. Normally students from the school of Media and Arts Studies would create 5 short films, selecting scripts, forming small production companies, holding casting calls and recruit crew members in the winter before production and post production in the spring. For the first feature, these students managed to raise through major fundraising efforts the US$45,000 needed to fund the film and even managed to build their own trailer park for the film. The student’s efforts alone are a definite inspiration for struggling independent filmmakers. www.trailerparkmovie.com
Another part of the growing success of the forum is the ‘Sleepless in Lake Placid’ 24 hour film making competition between local colleges from the area. At present Syracuse, Ohio, Ithaca, and Burlington have accepted the challenge to compete for the Robin Pell Emerging Filmmaker Award. Now in its third year, the competition will take place over the weekend of the forum with two more universities still to be accepted into this year’s competition.
This year’s silent film retrospective focuses on two f the silent eras greatest stars in Rudolph Valentino and Gloria Swanson. BEYOND THE ROCKS was shot in 1922 and a recently restored print has made its way to the organisers of Lake Placid and will be accompanied on the Palace Theatres antique 1926 Robert Morton Theatre Organ by the world renowned theatre organist Jeff Barker.
Advance tickets, for THE RADIO MAN WITH THE RED SHOES only, may be purchased through the Lake Placid Center for the Arts box office by phone for Sunday, June 14, 2009 at 3 P.M. For tickets audiences can call 518-523-2512
All tickets are $10 per person.
Those who would like to attend can find more about the festival on
www.lakeplacidfilmforum.com
Events Calendar '09
Note: Events schedule is subject to change.
LOCATIONS: PT
- Palace Theatre LPCA
- Lake Placid Center for the Arts WFL
- Whiteface Lodge
Thursday, June 11th
6:00PM “City Island” - Director-Writer: Raymond De Felitta - PT
8:30PM “Black Robe” - Director: Bruce Beresford - PT
Larry David and Evan Rachel Wood - Woody Allen's Whatever Works
12:00PM “For Love of Movies: The History of American Film Criticism” - Director Gerald Peary: Mr. Peary will present his film. - PT
2:15PM “Crude” - Documentary by Joe Berlinger. Mr. Berlinger or a representative of the film will present the film. - PT
6:00PM “Adam Resurrected” - Director: Paul Schrader will introduce his film. - PT
8:45PM “Whatever Works” - Director: Woody Allen Lead Actress: Patricia Clarkson. - PT
Saturday, June 13th
9:45AM “Dreaming Up America — The Movie Version of America” Moderator: Russell Banks Panelists: Reisman, Shapiro, Perez, Russo - LPCA
11:30AM Authors: Banks and Russo - LPCA
12:00PM North Country Shorts and Added Attractions by Emerging Filmmakers. - LPCA
2:15PM “Famous in 31 Days” Presented by Owen Shapiro - LPCA
2:30PM A Conversation: Filmmaker Hugo Perez talks to novelist-screenwriter Richard
Russo - WFL
TBA A Conversation: Novelist Russell Banks talks with filmmaker Courtney Hunt - WFL
4:00PM “Run For Your Life” (The story of the New York Marathon) The director . Judd Ehrlich will introduce the film. - LPCA
4:15PM “Neither Memory Nor Magic” Director Hugo Perez will introduce his film. - WFL
6:15PM “Trailerpark”, a feature by filmmaking students from Ohio University. Frederick
Lewis, Associate Professor, and Executive Producer will introduce the film. - LPCA
8:30PM SiLP - Sleepless In Lake Placid—The 24 hour student Filmmaking Competition Finals & Awards Ceremony. - LPCA
Sunday, June 14th
3:00PM “Garrison Keillor: The Man on the Radio in the Red Shoes”. A fundraiser for NCPR and the Film Forum - LPCA
Price Information:
All films are $10 each. Sorry, no advanced ticket sales except for The Man on the Radio in the Red Shoes.
Forums, conversations, panel discussions and silent films are FREE and open to the public!
Detailed Ticketing Information.
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