2012 sponsors
The Lake Placid Film Forum is please to announce some of our 2012 sponsors. We offer a special thanks to these incredible businesses and the people involved. Check out the great goods and services they have to offer by clicking on their logo!
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Become a 2012 Lake Placid Film Forum Sponsor!
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2012 North Country Shorts
Trailer for the North Country Shorts Showcase, part of the 2012 Lake Placid Film Forum. The Showcase is Saturday, June 16th, 4 PM at the Lake Placid Center for the Arts. Trailer cut by T J Brearton. Licensed music by Moby. Film clips from “Stations” (Michael Fisher), “The Luckiest Man Alive” (Matthew Cortez Temple), “Return to Moose Pond” (Paul Frederick), “Disappearer,” (Vanessa Harris), “Tee’d Off” (Chris Federico).
WANTED: ACTORS!
If you have ever dreamed of acting in a film, here’s your chance! The Lake Placid Film Forum is looking for 20 actors interested in performing in the films created as part of the Forum’s popular 2012 SLEEPLESS IN LAKE PLACID 24-hour filmmaking competition.
- Actors may or may not have extensive experience acting, but need to be available all day on THURSDAY, JUNE 14th, which is the principal day of shooting.
- Actors will have information and a picture posted on the Lake Placid Film Forum website and will take part in a casting call at 8:30 AM on Thursday that will determine which of the 5 teams of filmmakers they will be working with.
This is a fun opportunity to play a key role in the creation of a short film, to gain an insider’s view of how films are made, to take part in a terrific regional film festival, and to see yourself on the big screen! There is a special prize for best performance by male / female actor. For actors, this is a great portfolio piece. For people new to acting, who knows? This could be the start of your new career!
CASTING CALL: 8:30 – 10:00 THURSDAY, JUNE 14
SHOOTING: THURSDAY, JUNE 14 from 10:00 AM – ?
FESTIVAL SCREENING OF FILMS: FRIDAY JUNE 15 8:45 PM
Interested parties should contact actor coordinator Sunny Rozakis (sunnyrozakis@live.com) or SiLP competition coordinator Barry Snyder (barry.snyder1@gmail.com; 802.527-2958). Participating actors will provide the Forum with a picture and paragraph for posting on the LPFF website. For more information, to see videos of last year’s SiLP filmmaking teams in action, and to register on-line, click HERE.
actor michael gaston to attend film forum in june
Michael Gaston is an actor whose impressive credits span The Sopranos, Ally McBeal, and The West Wing, with movies like Ransom and Inception under his belt. Chances are, if it’s a hit TV show or a critically acclaimed blockbuster, you’ve seen Michael at work.
Michael will serve as a judge for the student competition, as well as present his recent film, a documentary called Tending Fires.
LPFF 2012 Screenings & Events
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lake placid film forum 2012
LINKS
We’re About to Lose 1,000 Small Theatres That Can’t Covert to Digital. Does It Matter? (Indiewire)
Goony Times: Digital Conversion, The Palace Theatre, and the Role of Film Fests (Adk Mogul)
Classic Movie Theatres: The Palace, Lake Placid, New York (Smithsonian)
the kid who could talk to deer
the loss of theatres that can’t convert to digital – an indiewire article
Michael Hurley owns the Colonial Theatre in Belfast, Maine as well as the Temple Theatre in Houlton, Maine. He runs a website for movie theater owners and is a member of the National Association of Theatre Owners. And he’s desperate.
Like many theater owners, Hurley sees a very real possibility that nearly 20% of all theaters in North America will disappear because they can’t afford digital projection — but what he doesn’t see is anyone talking about it. He wrote Indiewire recently and asked if we could help and we’re hoping that this editorial will be a start…
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(contributed by Adk MOGUL)
2012 call for submissions!
Gotta Short? Did you shoot it in the North Country (Adirondacks, St Lawrence, Burlington)? OR, are you from here but shot it elsewhere? Boy, do we want to see it. And if it is a fit with our 2012 Program, we’d like to show it, too. Click here for last year’s line up.
Interested? Awesome. Now for the paperwork. Click here for the submission forms!
Check out the trailer for NC Shorts 2011!
russell banks speaks on the committee to protect journalists
The leading American author Russell Banks set the tone on Sunday as he stood among international writers and their local colleagues in Mexico City: “A nation’s journalists and writers, like its poets and story-tellers, are the eyes, ears, and mouths of the people. When journalists cannot freely speak of what they see and hear of the reality that surrounds them, the people cannot see, hear, or speak it either.” Banks is among the leaders of a high-level PEN International delegation that is meeting with top Mexican officials to pressure them to improve law enforcement in the murders of journalists, and to change the law to bring more cases under the federal government’s jurisdiction.
2012 dates announced
The dates for the 2012 Lake Placid Film Forum are June 15th and June 16th, featuring the student filmmaking competition and the Film Forum headline program, respectively. Additional programming may be featured on Thursday the 14th, TBD.
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2011 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog.
Here’s an excerpt:
A New York City subway train holds 1,200 people. This blog was viewed about 7,300 times in 2011. If it were a NYC subway train, it would take about 6 trips to carry that many people.
the big picture
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This video was created in part to thank Essex County for its enduring support of the Lake Placid Film Forum through the years. While the guests, films, and events featured here are such a small fraction of the whole scope of this eleven-year-old film festival, they are cherished.
Thanks to Jordan Craig and Dave Bower for additional footage.
the polar express – showing december 11th – free to public
It’s that time of year! Well, no, we don’t mean THAT time of year (though it’s not far off), but it’s time for the Holiday Village Stroll in Lake Placid.
Each year, the Stroll ends with a FREE movie at the Palace Theatre. This year’s screening of “The Polar Express” is sponsored by the Lake Placid Film Forum for a beautifully realized digital presentation. Bring the family, grab some popcorn, and enjoy this wonderful animated feature from director Robert Zemeckis, adapted from Chris Van Allsburg’s celebrated children’s book.
Showtime is 11AM, Sunday December 11th at the Palace Theatre, 2430 Main Street, Lake Placid.
sex education and the power of roadkill
Filmmaker Craig Macneill seizes the epiphanic or “light bulb” moment with his arresting short films.
An LPFF alumnus, Craig’s 2004 “Late Bloomer” won the Audience Choice Award for best short film at the Lake Placid Film Forum that same year. The film illumines the journey of a young boy through the heart-pumping wilds of his first sex education class in school.
“Henley” is the director’s latest short work, and recently garnered the Grand Jury Award for best short film at the 2011 Gen Art Film Festival in July, with Ted Hope as the head of the jurors. Like it’s predecessor “Late Bloomer,” the hero of “Henley” is a young boy. Inventive and industrious, the titular young character devises how to use roadkill (yes, that’s right – “roadkill”) to divert his lugubrious, disenchanted life into something stunning.
“Henley” was co-written by Macneill and Clay McLeod Chapman.
In between the stories of sexual gestalt and unexpected industriousness, Macneill helmed “Lobos” (2009), another short tale from the perspective of a young boy – in this case a budding rebel who gets kicked out of his remote schoolhouse in the hills of central Spain and must brave the forest which lies beyond.
The departure from Macneill’s “boy’s life” subject matter comes into focus with his 2009 feature-length film, The Afterlight. Sparse and ethereal, The Afterlight walks the edge between the real and the surreal, the living and the dead. Macneill co-directed the film with Alexei Kaleina.
“Henley” has also recently won the grand jury prize for best short film at Clint Eastwood’s Carmel Film and Arts Festival. Over the past month the short film has screened at the Hamptons International Film Festival, San Diego Film Festival, and the New Orleans Film Festival.
the come up
Kirk Sullivan, Hollywood filmmaker, Film Forum alum and Saranac Lake native embarks on a fantastic film project…
Kirk is the recipient of the Robin Pell Emerging Filmmaker award, an annual award presented by the Lake Placid Film Forum for an outstanding short film. Since his win, Kirk has gone on to work on a variety of independent and mainstream films, has written and directed several of his own projects, and now prepares for his most ambitious project yet – the story of a Hollywood production assistant who stages an audacious heist…
The Place Beyond the Pines
Recently, with the support of the Lake Placid Film Commission (part of the Adirondack Film Society), a feature film starring Ryan Gosling called The Place Beyond the Pines wrapped production. Filmed primarily in Schenectady, NY, the story’s final scene called for a pastoral setting with stunning views of a mountain range. Do we have that in the Adirondacks? Yes we do.
Thanks to Mike Camoin, a filmmaker from Albany who helped scout locations for the Pines movie, a location was found near Vermontville which thrilled the director and producers. To read about Mike’s experience scouting for the final scene, its production, and a look at the history of filming in Upstate, NY, check out this “Scouting the Adirondacks” in the Lake Champlain Weekly.
To read about the film’s principal location, Schenectady, the toughness which inspired and pervades the film and get a few words from the director, Derek Cianfrance, check out “Mean Streets” in The Free George.
Thief of Bagdad showing October 26th at the Palace Theatre
THIEF OF BAGDAD
OCT 26TH
SILENT CLASSIC
On October 26th, the Palace Theatre screening of the Thief of Bagdad continues the Adirondack Film Society’s eleven years of silent film programming. As part of the Lake Placid Film Forum’s Fall Film Series, the Thief of Bagdad will show at 7 pm on Wednesday, October 26th, with live musical accompaniment by cinematic organist Jeff Barker on the 1926 Robert Morton Historical Theatre Organ. Adults and children alike will enjoy this 1924 silent film classic starring Douglas Fairbanks, a thief who sets off on a magical journey to find the rarest treasure in the world in order to win the hand of the woman he loves. Tickets are $7 at the Palace Theatre Box Office and go on sale approximately an hour prior to show time. For more information contact the Lake Placid Film Forum 518-523-3456 or visit lakeplacidfilmforum.wordpress.com.
THE THIEF OF BAGDAD (1924)
October 26th, 7 PM
Palace Theatre
With LIVE ORGAN ACCOMPANIMENT by Jeff Barker on the 1926 Robert Morton Theatre Organ
A thief falls in love with the Caliph of Bagdad’s daughter. The Caliph will give her hand to the suitor that brings back the rarest treasure after seven moons. The thief sets off on a magical journey while, unbeknownst to him, another suitor, the Prince of the Mongols, is not playing by the rules… (Erik Gregersen)
Tickets $7. On sale at the Palace Theatre box office on the show night.
Renew Your Membership to the Adirondack Film Society / Lake Placid Film Forum today and benefit from a variety of upcoming Member Privileges!
This Friday! Your Invitation to see BUCK at the Palace Theater, Lake Placid
A FILM BY CINDY MEEHL
Guest Speaker: MARIE POSTIGLIONE-DUPELL
The October 7th Special Opening Night Screening of BUCK is presented with thanks to Marie Postiglione-Dupell, PATH International Instructor, Founder and CEO of Medicine Horse, and Susan Waters and Homeward Bound Adirondacks “Bringing Warriors and Families All the Way Home.” Postiglione-Dupell will introduce both the 7 PM and 930 PM showings of BUCK on October 7th, and host a discussion following the 7 PM showing about equine therapy and programs. The audience will be welcome to share their own horsemanship stories.
ABOUT THE FILM:
BUCK is the winner of the U.S. DOCUMENTARY AUDIENCE AWARD at the 2011 SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL that Kenneth Turan of the Los Angeles Times calls “Irresistible.” It is 88 minutes long.
“Your horse is a mirror to your soul, and sometimes you may not like what you see. Sometimes, you will.” So says Buck Brannaman, a true American cowboy and sage on horseback who travels the country for nine grueling months a year helping horses with people problems.
READ A NEW YORK TIMES CRITIC’S PICK REVIEW
BUCK is a richly textured and visually stunning film, following Buck Brannaman from his abusive childhood to his phenomenally successful approach to horses. A real-life “horse-whisperer”, he eschews the violence of his upbringing and teaches people to communicate with their horses through leadership and sensitivity, not punishment. Buck possesses near magical abilities as he dramatically transforms horses – and people – with his understanding, compassion and respect. In this film, the animal-human relationship becomes a metaphor for facing the daily challenges of life. A truly American story about an unsung hero, BUCK is about an ordinary man who has made an extraordinary life despite tremendous odds.
Come see BUCK at the Palace Theatre for its Special Opening Night. Tickets are $7 and on sale in advance by visiting brownpapertickets.com. BUCK will continue to show until October 13th, with tickets available at the Palace Theatre box office. (MAP TO PALACE THEATRE)
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SPECIAL THANKS:
The LAKE PLACID FILM FORUM would like to thank:
PATH International (Professional Association of Therapeutic Horsemanship), a world-wide organization ensuring excellence and changing lives through equine-assisted activities and therapies. http://www.pathintl.org/
Susan Waters and HOMEWARD BOUND ADIRONDACKS
Bringing Warriors and Families All the Way Home
http://patriothillssaranaclake.org/
small farm rising – world premiere
Experience a full growing season through the eyes of first-generation
farmers as they enrich and enliven their rural environments.
October 1st, 2011
Cocktails and hors d’oeuvres 4:00pm
Film Screening 5:00pm
Golden Arrow Resort
2559 Mirror Lake Drive, Lake Placid (map)
There is no cost to attend.
RSVP online by September 23rd.
fall film series
SMALL FARMS RISE, A HORSE WHISPERER changes the way we understand animals, and SILENT FILMS remind us where we’ve been. While many things change, some things last forever.
The world of movies is changing. Filmmaking has been democratized through technology and new films are emerging at an incredible rate. These new films are able to tap into the exciting social, economic, and environmental changes which surround us.
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In “Small Farm Rising,” we’re shown how, right now, in our back yards, a new generation of farmers are redefining agriculture in America by going back to the land to create pesticide free, sustainable gardens.
With “Buck,” we learn an equine language; we come to know a horse on its own terms, and witness the healing powers of horsemanship. And we come to know one man’s heart-rending journey out of suffering and into redemption.
The Lake Placid Film Forum is embarking on its own journey towards year-round programming, bringing you the rich, poignant films which carry us towards the new horizons of the industry, and the future of the world around us.
Let’s begin.
SMALL FARM RISING
OCT 1ST
WORLD PREMIERE
SMALL FARM RISING (2011)
World Premiere October 1st
4PM Golden Arrow Resort
IN PERSON: Director Ben Stechschulte
Co-Presented with Mountain Lake PBS
Small, modern, sustainable and rooted in the community, local farms are in the forefront of a movement growing across the nation.
In this 50 Minute documentary from Adirondack filmmaker Ben Stechschulte, a family owned and operated farm produces award-winning goat milk cheeses; a horse-powered farm provides members with a full diet year-round; and two youthful entrepreneurs run an organic vegetable farm.
The event starts at 4pm for cocktails, the screening begins at 5pm. While there is no cost to attend this event, please RSVP using the link provided below. Thank you!
http://mountainlake.org/farm.html
WATCH A TRAILER OF SMALL FARM RISING
BUCK
OCT 7TH-13TH
ADIRONDACK EXCLUSIVE 
BUCK (2011)
October 7th-13th
Palace Theatre
“Your horse is a mirror to your soul, and sometimes you may not like what you see. Sometimes, you will.” So says Buck Brannaman, a true American cowboy and sage on horseback who travels the country for nine grueling months a year helping horses with people problems.
A real-life “horse-whisperer” Buck Brannaman eschews the violence of his upbringing and teaches people to communicate with their horses through leadership and sensitivity, not punishment. Buck possesses near magical abilities as he dramatically transforms horses – and people – with his understanding, compassion and respect.
Tickets will be available at the Palace Theatre box office. Advanced tickets and a list of screen times will be live within two weeks!
OFFICIAL IFC “BUCK” WEBSITE AND TRAILER
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THIEF OF BAGDAD
OCT 26TH
SILENT CLASSIC
THE THIEF OF BAGDAD (1924)
October 26th
Palace Theatre
With LIVE ORGAN ACCOMPANIMENT by Jeff Barker on the 1926 Robert Morton Theatre Organ
A thief falls in love with the Caliph of Bagdad’s daughter. The Caliph will give her hand to the suitor that brings back the rarest treasure after seven moons. The thief sets off on a magical journey while, unbeknownst to him, another suitor, the Prince of the Mongols, is not playing by the rules… (Erik Gregersen)
Tickets $7. On sale at the Palace Theatre box office on the show night.
Renew Your Membership to the Adirondack Film Society / Lake Placid Film Forum today and benefit from a variety of upcoming Member Privileges!
sleepless in lake placid 2012
2012 PARTICIPATING SCHOOLS / STUDENT TEAMS
earthquake!
This silly short film about an earthquake was originally shown as part of The Asbury Shorts at the 2003 Lake Placid Film Forum. Prepare to laugh your head off. James Brett directs.
