SAUGERTIES, N.Y. The Woodstock Film Festival honored longtime filmmaker James Ivory with a standing room during an emotional Maverick Awards ceremony at the Saugerties Performing Arts Factory on Saturday night. The 95-year-old Columbia County resident was presented the festival’s Lifetime Achievement Award by actor Matthew Modine (Dr. Brenner in “Stranger Things”) to a standing […]
Madeleine Gavin’s Sundance award-winning documentary “Beyond Utopia” has garnered the best documentary and best doc editing honors at the 24th annual Woodstock Film Festival. The documentary, which was recently acquired by Roadside Attractions, is vying for Academy Award attention. Using hidden camera footage, the doc follows the high-stakes journey that a handful of desperate families …