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    iW NEWS | Woodstock To Honor Wexler

    by Indiewire on July 17, 2008

    Award-winning cinematographer Haskell Wexler is set to receive the inaugural Lifetime Achievement Award at the 9th Annual Woodstock Film Festival. "Haskell Wexler's outstanding talent as a cinematographer, his unique voice as a director, and his unwavering passion as a social activist have been an inspiration and a guiding light to the Woodstock Film Festival audience and to the film community at large," Woodstock Film Festival Co-Founder and Executive Director Meira Blaustein said in a statement. The award will be presented to Wexler at the 2008 Woodstock Film Festival Award Ceremony on Saturday, October 4, 2008, by his friends and colleague...

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    iW NEWS | Woodstock Fest Partners With STF

    by Indiewire on May 6, 2008

    The Woodstock Film Festival will co-present three screenings as part of the Stranger Than Fiction series at the IFC Center in New York. On consecutive Tuesdays in May, directors Barbara Kopple ("My Generation"), Leon Gast ("When We Were Kings") and Jonathan Demme ("The Agronomist") will present and ...

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    iW NEWS | Ang Lee to Sing to "Woodstock"

    by Indiewire on April 23, 2008

    "Taking Woodstock" is the next project for Academy Award-winning director Ang Lee, and Focus Features CEO James Schamus is writing the script, which is an adaptation of Elliot Tiber's memoir, "Taking Woodstock: A True Story of a Riot, a Concert, and a Life." Set in 1969, the true story focuses on Tiber who proved pivotal in allowing the Woodstock Music and Arts Festival to happen. As an interior designer in New York's Greenwich Village, he was also tied to his family's motel in the Catskills. As its part-time manager, he had become the local town's issuer of event permits, and he granted permission for what was originally thought would be a s...

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