A New York State of Mind at Woodstock FF

A New York State of Mind at Woodstock FF

A Motley Crew at Woodstock

Director Russell Costanzo, Producer Melissa B. Miller, Nathan Corbett "Curtis", and Armando Riesco "Julian Varone"

"The Tested strikes gold"

Review from the Woodstock Film Festival

2:53 p.m. Friday: Big hopes for ‘The Tested’

2:53 p.m. Friday: Big hopes for ‘The Tested’

Documentaries, Backyards, and Deep Breaths

Yesterday we saw Client 9 which was a powerful documentary about Eliot Spitzer and his down fall. Couldn't stay for the Q and A but would love to know the trade off the filmmaker had to make to get Spitzer to cooperate and sit for interviews. What I also found interesting is how many enemies Spitzer had made and how that was a huge reason he went down so hard, no one wanted to lay down a pillow for him. Well, maybe some of his mistresses, but you know what I mean.

Then we saw Eric Mendelson's 3 Backyards, which was a unique tale of three families seemingly not having anything in common. Edie Falco can act more with her face than any actress i've ever seen. There are layers of emotions in her without ever breathing a word. If you decide to see it, I'd love to talk about it over coffee.

Still raining here at Woodstock. Getting ready for our premiere tonight. Many people coming to support us.

deep breaths

Something in the Air

Maybe it was Woodstock, maybe it was the converted barn we were watching the screening in, and most likely it was the amazing film that was Lennonnyc, and maybe the culmination of all the work we'd done to get to this point, but I lost it. cried and cried and became a nuisance to the people next to me. This film was so touching, such an intimate portrayal of a complicated love relationship. Of course they talked about "The Lost Weekend" in LA, and his death, but most of this film was about a man in love and what happened when he lost her. And what happened when he fell into the joys of fatherhood. Looking around the theater and seeing many 50 - 60 somethings (the woman in front of me was playing with the back of her husbands hair, it just struck a cord with me, and how no matter what else is going on in your life, career, success, failure, it sort of means nothing if you don't have someone to share it with.

It was so moving and the director was down to earth and led a great q and a. if this film is any indication of how the rest of the woodstock film festival is gonna go, then i might just have an emotional meltdown.

Hopefully i can hold it together until the end of my screening on Friday.

Houses for Sale?

Getting a little too comfortable in the chalet, and know why people say "hell, let's move to Woodstock". typing at my computer, staring out into the woods, yeah i could get used to this.

Tomorrow the festival starts and things will get hectic. Many films and panels and parties to attend.

Anticipating the screening and excited to see a lot of the cast members. i think there will be some wild cards in the audience as well.

Thanks again to the great sponsors from Manhattan Beer Distributors and Nuvo for helping us out with our party.

Ashewood: How I learned to live in the woods

Arrived at Ashewood, our house in Woodstock last night as the rain and acorns pounded our car, and the dirt road threatened to end us all together.

It's still raining but to be honest, it just makes the experience that much spookier, i mean better.

Currently sitting in the sun room staring out into endless woods and greatly anticipating the festival. We got to check out the Bearsville Theater, and we couldn't be happier with our venue. It's at once modern and cozy at the same time, and is equipped with a bar, if audiences want to loosen up before the screening.

It's time to get your tickets and stop wondering whether you can make it here. You can make it.

get tickets online at or just show up, surprise us, and get 'em when you get here.

Fri 10/1 @ 7:15pm - Bearsville Theater - 291 Tinker St., Woodstock, NY 12498 (premiere)

Sun 10/3 @ 5:30pm - Rosendale Theater - 401 Main St., Rosendale, NY 12401

ONE WEEK OUT: “THE TESTED” GOES TO WOODSTOCK | The Filmmaker Magazine Blog

ONE WEEK OUT: “THE TESTED” GOES TO WOODSTOCK | The Filmmaker Magazine Blog

We On a World Tour

Russell and I will be doing two radio interviews in the next coming weeks leading up to Woodstock, you can listen live by going to their websites and clicking the "listen now" button:
WKZE on thursday, sept. 23rd at 1:30pm http://wkze.com
WDST on Tuesday, sept 27th at 11:30am http://wdst.com