Film

2012 Summer Festival

Schedule

Friday, August 3rd

7pm, The Auction Ring: Short Film Program: The Chair, A Brief History of John Baldessari, Fishing Without Nets, and The Vacuum Kid
Seating is limited! Reserve you seat here

Midnight, the Luther Barn Stage at MIDNIGHT: Superstar by Todd Haynes

Saturday, August 4th

1pm, The Auction Ring: Short Film Program: The Chair, A Brief History of John Baldessari, Fishing Without Nets, and The Vacuum Kid

3:30pm, The Auction Ring: Sleepwalk with Me followed by a Q&A with writer and director Mike Birbiglia
Tickets for this event have sold out, but you can still arrive at the door at 3:00pm to wait in the stand-by ticketing line. Thank you for your interest and we’ll see you at Wassaic!

7pm, The Auction Ring: Short Film Program: The Chair, A Brief History of John Baldessari, Fishing Without Nets, and The Vacuum Kid

Midnight, the Luther Barn Stage: Klown

Feature Films

Sleepwalk with Me by Mike Birbiglia

The screening of “Sleepwalk with Me” requires tickets. Tickets for this event have sold out, but you can still arrive at the door at 3:00pm to wait in the stand-by ticketing line.

KLOWN by Mikkel Nogaard

A Danish madcap comedy in which a man ‘kidnaps’ his pregnant girlfriend’s 12-year-old nephew in order to prove his fatherhood potential.

2012 Short Film Program

THE CHAIR by Grainger David

THE CHAIR – TRAILER from Grainger David on Vimeo.

GRAINGER DAVID is a director and screenwriter from Wadmalaw Island, South Carolina. He is a graduate of Princeton University, and recently completed his MFA from the Graduate Film Program at NYU, where he was the WTC Johnson Fellow. His NYU thesis short THE CHAIR recently won the Short Film Jury Award in the Narrative Shorts competition at the 2012 South by Southwest Film Festival. Grainger is currently in post-production on a new short film, THE EDGE OF THE WOODS, starring Kiernan Shipka (MAD MEN), Maria Dizzia (MARTHA MARCY MAY MARLENE), and Sean Bridgers (DEADWOOD), and funded by the South Carolina Film Commission. He was recently awarded a Spring 2012 filmmaker residency at the MacDowell Colony, the oldest artists colony in the United States.

Fishing without Nets by Cutter Hodierne

FISHING WITHOUT NETS – TEASER from mynameisCutter.com on Vimeo.

Just before CUTTER HODIERNE was born, his parents sold everything they owned, quit their jobs, and bought a 32-foot cutter-rigged sailboat, for which he is named. Accordingly, Hodierne spent the first three years of his life sailing in the South Pacific Ocean. At age 22, he toured the world with U2 on the biggest rock tour in music history, serving as their ‘filmmaker on the road’, shooting online content, and directing pieces for ‘U2: 360°at the Rose Bowl’. Recently, Cutter traveled to East Africa to direct ‘Fishing Without Nets’. A short film about Somali pirates, told from the perspective of the pirates. It was awarded the Grand Jury Prize in Short Filmmaking at the2012 Sundance Film Festival. Hodierne is now making this into a feature film.

A Brief History of John Baldessari by HENRY JOOST & ARIEL SCHULMAN

HENRY JOOST & ARIEL SCHULMAN met in high school. They have been filmmaking partners since 2006 and founded the New York City production company Supermarché.

Their first feature documentary, CATFISH, was the most talked about film of the 2010 Sundance Film and went on to critical acclaim and a nationwide release in Fall 2010. In March 2010, NY EXPORT: OPUS JAZZ, a 35mm film adaptation of a 1958 Jerome Robbins ballet, co-directed by Henry and Production Designed by Ariel, premiered on PBS and won the audience award at SXSW. Their first narrative feature, PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 3, released by Paramount Pictures in October 2011, opened to rave reviews and became the highest grossing film of the franchise .

They are currently directing Paranormal Activity 4 for Paramount, and writing an adaptation of The Monkey Wrench Gang for producers Ed Pressman and Gary Burden, which they are attached to direct.

Henry and Rel have also made Emmy Award winning commercials and short films for some of the world’s most influential companies and institutions, including Google, Nike, American Express and The National Scrabble Association. Their most recent short film A BRIEF HISTORY OF JOHN BALDESSARI, narrated by Tom Waits, premiered at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in November 2011.

The Vacuum Kid by KATI MAHALIC

The Vacuum Kid Trailer 3-Large web movie from Kati Mahalic on Vimeo.

KATI MAHALIC is from beautiful and sunny Flint, Michigan. She graduated from Columbia College Chicago with a Masters in Film and Video. Her last three award winning short films have screened both nationally and internationally. Currently, Kati teaches at the Art Institute of Illinois, Chicago, and is in post-production on a feature length documentary called “The Burnt River Bulls”, which is a story that follows seven exchange students who play American football while living in rural Oregon. Along with making films and teaching, Kati works closely with an orphanage in Guatemala, and is currently establishing a small film program that allows the kids at the orphanage to write, direct and act in their own short films.