FOURTH ANNUAL SEPTEMBER 18-20 2015 BigEddyFilmFest.com TUSTEN THEATRE 210 BRIDGE STREET NARROWSBURG, NEW YORK Presented by This presentation is made possible in part with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts' Electronic Media and Film Presentation Funds grant program, administered by The ARTS Council of the Southern Finger Lakes. /bigeddyfilmfestival
THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT PRODUCER LEVEL SPONSORS Kohler Lumber & Building Materials Nancy J. Stevenson & Ken Sable OPENING NIGHT FILM TUMBLEDOWN Director: Sean Mewshaw Screenwriter: Desiree Van Til 2015, 103 min. DIRECTOR LEVEL SPONSORS Jeffrey Allison & James Lomax Dog Mountain Lodge Gail & Tom McDonnell The River Reporter Villa Roma Resort WJFF Radio Catskill FEATURED ACTOR LEVEL SPONSORS Bà & Me Beaverbrook Cottage Beaverkill Studios Bethel Woods Center for the Arts Boregaard Jeweler By Delaine Floyd and Bobo s Bakery The Heron Restaurant The Hillside Schoolhouse Homestead School The Inn at Lake Joseph Schmidt s Wholesale The Team at The Heron THANK YOU Honesdale National Bank for the popcorn machine Michael Andrews Audio Visual Services for the screen Charlie Kalinowski for technical assistance Rocky Pinciotti for general assistance And a special thank you to all Big Eddy Film Festival Volunteers Join us for an after party at The Heron Restaurant, 40 Main Street, Narrowsburg, right after the screening of Tumbledown. Otherwise Engaged Friday, September 18 8:00 pm Years after the death of her singer-songwriter husband, Hannah (Rebecca Hall) has settled into a solitary life in the mountains. But a brash New York writer (Jason Sudeikis) disrupts her quiet existence when he arrives into town to research his own book on her late husband. Skillfully balancing real life emotions with intelligent humor, it s a story of love without being sappy, and a story about death without being somber. Cinematography: Seamus Tierney Music: Damien Jurado Principal Cast: Rebecca Hall, Jason Sudeikis, Dianna Argon, Blythe Danner, Griffin Dunne, and Richard Masur. Screens with OTHERWISE ENGAGED Director: Alicia MacDonald 2015, 4 min. How do I love thee? Let me count the Likes. Megan and Dave are getting engaged. But will they let technology spoil the moment? 3
SHORT FILM PROGRAM SHORT FILM PROGRAM Balloons Me and My Moulton YOUNG AT HEART SHORTS FOR KIDS 35 min. These seven short films, from animation to live action, take viewers into the hearts and minds of children. Family friendly. Best suited for ages 6 and up. Cailleach Crooked Candy UNSEEN WORLDS 80 min. Step into lands and perspectives rarely seen in these six vastly different short documentaries that explore secret worlds. Man Under Bunny New Girl A tiny leaf goes a long way in the cleverly animated Little Favor (Yawen Zheng, USA, 1 min.). On a drab winter day, a lonely girl finds a bouquet of balloons and transforms her city into a more colorful place in Balloons (Sitora Takanaev, USA, 5 min.). Jake spends most of his time indoors playing video games until his mom brings home a surprise in The Present (Jacob Frey, Germany, 4 min.). A seven-year-old girl and her sisters ask for a simple bicycle, knowing full well that their loving yet unconventional parents will likely disappoint them in the Oscar-nominated Me and My Moulton (Torill Kove, Canada/Norway, 14 min.). A mysterious boy collects stars and sends them to every urban child in Every Star (Yawen Zheng, USA, 3 min.). This caged being s burden is to carry the moon around the earth in So It Goes (Alex Pope, USA, 1 min.). On her first day at a new school, a self-conscious young girl learns that compassion can overcome difference in Bunny New Girl (Natalie van den Dungen, Australia, 6 min.). Kinder Surprise chocolate eggs are hugely popular all around the world, except in the United States where they re considered a choking hazard and are illegal. One man has become a Kinder smuggler in Crooked Candy (Andrew Rodgers, USA, 6 min.). Low water levels in Oregon s Hyatt Lake during the drought of 2014 offer a glimpse of the petrified forest flooded by the Hyatt Dam in Lost/Forgotten (Ryan Niemi, USA, 5 min.). Step into the well-worn shoes of Morag, an 86-year-old woman who lives alongside her 12 sheep in the Scottish Island home where five generations of her family lived before her in Cailleach (Rosie Reed Hillman, Scotland, 14 min.). One of New York City s darkest secrets is discussed, as a subway operator struggles to get his life back on track after a desperate woman commits suicide by jumping in front of his train in Man Under (Paul Stone, USA, 12 min.). Max goes on a journey behind the scenes of Shrek, which he believes was stolen from his father s children s book character, to expose the dark side of Hollywood in The Big Green (Max Chaiet, USA, 32 min.). A young girl sets out to understand the concept of war by interviewing those who ve experienced it first hand in Little Questions (Virginia Abramovich, USA, 12 min.). Saturday, September 19 11:30 am Saturday, September 19 12:30 pm 5
DOCUMENTARY PEGGY GUGGENHEIM - ART ADDICT Director: Lisa Immordino Vreeland 2015, 97 min. The black sheep of the Guggenheim family, notorious art collector Peggy Guggenheim gets her due in this documentary about the complex bohemian life and storied loves of a fascinating woman who championed her era s most important artists, and assembled the premier collection of 20th century modern art. Screens with J. MORGAN PUETT: A PRACTICE OF BE(E)ING Director: Roderick Angle 2015, 10 min. J. Morgan Puett the founder of the ground-breaking artists haven, Mildred s Lane in Beach Lake, PA is known locally and internationally for her facilitation of the arts as a rigorous re-thinking of the everyday. DOCUMENTARY ALMOST THERE Directors: Dan Rybicky and Aaron Wickenden 2015, 93 min. Living in a collapsing home in Indiana, elderly outsider artist Peter Anton has obsessively chronicled his life story in a massive, illustrated autobiography titled Almost There. Anton s world changes when two Chicago filmmakers discover his work and storied past. Shot over eight years, the film documents Anton s first major exhibition and how the controversy it generates forces him to leave the collapsing home where he s lived in isolation for decades. The filmmaking duo explores questions of the limits of altruism, mental illness, and the ways in which we understand artists who exist in worlds purely their own. Saturday, September 19 2:30 pm Saturday, September 19 6:30 p.m. 7
RETROSPECTIVE SPOTLIGHT DOCUMENTARY THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER WELCOME TO KUTSHER S Join us for an after party at The Heron Restaurant, 40 Main Street, Narrowsburg, right after the screening of The Night of the Hunter. Director: Charles Laughton 1955, 93 min. Join BEFF in celebrating the 60th anniversary of this classic American film. Released in 1955, it is truly a stand-alone masterwork. A horror movie with qualities of a Grimm s fairy tale, it stars a sublimely sinister Robert Mitchum as a traveling preacher named Harry Powell (he of the tattooed knuckles), whose nefarious motives for marrying a fragile widow, played by Shelley Winters, are uncovered by her terrified young children. Graced by images of eerie beauty and a sneaky sense of humor, this is cinema s most eccentric rendering of the battle between good and evil. Writers: Davis Grubb, James Agee Cinematographer: Stanley Cortez Principal Cast: Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish, Sally Jane Bruce, Billy Chapin Join us for a Q&A with filmmakers Ian Rosenberg and Caroline Laskow following the screening of Welcome to Kutsher s. Directors: Ian Rosenberg, Caroline Laskow 2015, 72 min. One of the legendary Borscht Belt hotels during its heyday, Kutsher s Country Club was family owned and operated for over 100 years. This film provides unprecedented eye-witness documentation of Kutsher s from its 100th anniversary season through the next seven years, until the hotel was sold and demolished in 2014 to make way for a health and wellness resort. The story of Kutsher s is uniquely American, unexpectedly moving and a vital chapter previously unexplored of the modern Jewish experience. This award-winning film captures a last glimpse of a lost world as it disappears before our eyes. Saturday, September 19 9:00 pm Sunday, September 20 11:00 am 9
Family friendly Sunday, September 20 1:00 pm SHORT FILM PROGRAM ICEHOUSE ARTS KID FLIX Looking ahead to the next generation of filmmakers, these videos were created this summer by local youth in workshops led by video artist Ron Littke. A Pop Star Rescue, Eldred, NY with Cailey Fullone, Mikayla Fullone, Chloe Hatton, Alex Fullone, Michael Fullone, Jolie Schiavo, and Lilly Schiavo. Dr. Calimari and the Orphans of Narrowsburg, Narrowsburg, NY with Soren Schachter, Ava Schachter, Thomas South, Sid South, Sky Gray, Karl Swanson, Ian Podniesinski, Grace Podniesinski, Marcy Hill, Noah Loof, Anna Loof, Alden Moss, Ruby Farmer, and Wiliam Farmer. Shock, Livingston Manor, NY with Erik Uerkwitz, Samuel Quick, and Jacques Le Conte. untitled, Honesdale, PA with Marcy Hill, Emily Eccles, Avery Kimble, Nicolas Arnold. Rohan Hertzog, Robert Hertzog, Josh Nichols, and Orion Nichols. Join us on Saturday, September 19 from 5-6:30 PM to celebrate the Big Eddy Fest Filmmakers, with cocktails, wine, beer, plus great food and music. This special event is hosted by Narrowsburg Fine Wines & Spirits, Narrowsburg, NY. Program Director Tina Spangler Organizing Committee Jeffrey Allison Elaine Giguere Hester Greene Elizabeth Kubenik Nancy Stevenson Programming Committee Katie Halper Amy Nicholson John Reggero Ken Sable Poster Design Darryl Brasseale, ArtMode YOU ARE INVITED: MEET THE FILMMAKERS COCKTAIL PARTY FESTIVAL STAFF AND VOLUNTEERS Website Chris Andreola, ADC Studio Program Design Tina Spangler Tech Manager Charlie Kalinowski Projectionists Gregory Castro Nancy Stevenson Volunteer Coordinator Randy O Neill After Parties The Heron Restaurant Catering Gerard s River Grill Complimentary admission for those with All-Access Passes. All others: $30. Delaware Arts Center 37 Main Street Narrowsburg, NY For reservations, call 845-252-7576. Filmmaker Party Sponsors Elaine Giguere Narrowsburg Fine Wines & Spirits Film Sponsors Hester & Peter Greene Elizabeth & Henry Kubenik Nancy Stevenson & Ken Sable Advisory Board Tibor Feldman Actor, Producer Marla Puccetti Television Producer Basil Tsiokos Nantucket Film Festival The Big Eddy Film Festival s mission is to present feature films, documentaries, and shorts that advance the traditional art of storytelling and take audiences to unexpected places. Produced by Delaware Valley Arts Alliance, the Arts Council for Sullivan County. Visit DelawareValleyArtsAlliance.org.