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Event Overview

Mark your calendars for the See Something That Means Something film series. 

  • Friday, February 17: 2023 OSCAR® NOMINATED LIVE ACTION SHORT FILMS
  • Friday, March 17: Everything Everywhere All At Once
  • Friday, April 21: EO
  • Friday, May 19: Enter the Slipstream
  • Friday, June 16: Our Best Shorts Are Showing (Volunteer Appreciation Night)

Join us the third Friday of every month at 7PM at the LPCA! You’ll enjoy a unique blend of films bringing our community of film lovers together to experience something that moves you… something that gets you thinking and sharing. The 2023 season of See Something That Means Something includes 2023 Academy Award Nominated Short Films (Life Action), Best Picture Nominee The Banshees of Inisherin and Best International Feature Film Nominee EO. We're closing out this year's presentation with Our Best Shorts are Showing, a compilation of the best of our own Lake Placid Film Festival from the past few years.

Tickets are $15.

Made possible, in part, by an Essex County Arts Council Cultural Assistance Program Grant supported by the Essex County Board of Supervisors.


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In Spotlights

Searching for Timbuctoo

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Return to Auschwitz: The Survival of Vladimir Munk

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Drive My Car

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POSTPONED: The 41st Asbury Short Film Concert

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Ascension

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La Liste: Everything or Nothing

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8:30 pm

Jun 18

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18

Searching for Timbuctoo

Location:

Lake Placid Center for the Arts

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Reception sponsored by:

Adirondack Film, LPCA, and John Brown Lives!

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8:30 pm

Apr 28

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28

Return to Auschwitz: The Survival of Vladimir Munk

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Lake Placid Center for the Arts

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Reception sponsored by:

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10:00 pm

Feb 24

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Drive My Car

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Lake Placid Center for the Arts

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Reception sponsored by:

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8:30 pm

May 26

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Hive

Location:

Lake Placid Center for the Arts

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8:30 pm

May 12

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POSTPONED: The 41st Asbury Short Film Concert

Location:

Lake Placid Center for the Arts

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8:30 pm

Mar 31

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Ascension

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Lake Placid Center for the Arts

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Feb 10

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10

La Liste: Everything or Nothing

Location:

Lake Placid Center for the Arts

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Reception sponsored by:

Special thanks to our Co-Sponsors: Barkeater Trails Alliance & Adirondack Sports Council, organizing committee for the Lake Placid 2023 FISU World University Games

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Jun 18

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Searching for Timbuctoo

Location:

Lake Placid Center for the Arts

 (check on the map)

Reception sponsored by:

Adirondack Film, LPCA, and John Brown Lives!

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8:30 pm

Apr 28

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Return to Auschwitz: The Survival of Vladimir Munk

Location:

Lake Placid Center for the Arts

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Feb 24

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Drive My Car

Location:

Lake Placid Center for the Arts

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8:30 pm

May 26

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Hive

Location:

Lake Placid Center for the Arts

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8:30 pm

May 12

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12

POSTPONED: The 41st Asbury Short Film Concert

Location:

Lake Placid Center for the Arts

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Reception sponsored by:

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8:30 pm

Mar 31

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Ascension

Location:

Lake Placid Center for the Arts

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9:00 pm

Feb 10

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10

La Liste: Everything or Nothing

Location:

Lake Placid Center for the Arts

 (check on the map)

Reception sponsored by:

Special thanks to our Co-Sponsors: Barkeater Trails Alliance & Adirondack Sports Council, organizing committee for the Lake Placid 2023 FISU World University Games

From

7:00 pm

To

8:30 pm

Jun 18

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18

Searching for Timbuctoo

Location:

Lake Placid Center for the Arts

 (check on the map)

Reception sponsored by:

Adirondack Film, LPCA, and John Brown Lives!

From

7:00 pm

To

8:30 pm

Apr 28

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28

Return to Auschwitz: The Survival of Vladimir Munk

Location:

Lake Placid Center for the Arts

 (check on the map)

Reception sponsored by:

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7:00 pm

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10:00 pm

Feb 24

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24

Drive My Car

Location:

Lake Placid Center for the Arts

 (check on the map)

Reception sponsored by:

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7:00 pm

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8:30 pm

May 26

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26

Hive

Location:

Lake Placid Center for the Arts

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Reception sponsored by:

From

7:00 pm

To

8:30 pm

May 12

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12

POSTPONED: The 41st Asbury Short Film Concert

Location:

Lake Placid Center for the Arts

 (check on the map)

Reception sponsored by:

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7:00 pm

To

8:30 pm

Mar 31

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31

Ascension

Location:

Lake Placid Center for the Arts

 (check on the map)

Reception sponsored by:

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7:00 pm

To

9:00 pm

Feb 10

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10

La Liste: Everything or Nothing

Location:

Lake Placid Center for the Arts

 (check on the map)

Reception sponsored by:

Special thanks to our Co-Sponsors: Barkeater Trails Alliance & Adirondack Sports Council, organizing committee for the Lake Placid 2023 FISU World University Games

Thursday

Feb

10

FEB

Thursday

Thursday

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7:00 pm

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9:00 pm

Reception

Film Guest

Film

Other events

seminar

Where:

Lake Placid Center for the Arts

(get directions)

Director:

Eric Crosland

Encore:

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Event overview:

Adirondack Film is privileged to screen La Liste before it’s global release on 2/13/2022! Big mountain skiers, and close friends, Jérémie Heitz and Sam Anthamatten, find beauty and display grace in the dangerous world of free-skiing. Follow them as they set off around the world to find the most awe-dropping, high-altitude peaks and mountain ranges that exceed 6000 metres, and do what they do best: ski.

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Special thanks to our Co-Sponsors: Barkeater Trails Alliance & Adirondack Sports Council, organizing committee for the Lake Placid 2023 FISU World University Games

Special thanks to our Co-Sponsors: Barkeater Trails Alliance & Adirondack Sports Council, organizing committee for the Lake Placid 2023 FISU World University Games

Thursday

Feb

24

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Thursday

Thursday

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10:00 pm

Reception

Film Guest

Film

Other events

seminar

Where:

Lake Placid Center for the Arts

(get directions)

Director:

Ryusuke Hamaguchi

Encore:

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Academy Award buzz over Drive My Car after winning stellar reviews and top prizes from several festivals and critics. It’s a long film, but worth your time.

Check the Variety article here.

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Thursday

Mar

31

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Thursday

Thursday

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7:00 pm

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8:30 pm

Reception

Film Guest

Film

Other events

seminar

Where:

Lake Placid Center for the Arts

(get directions)

Director:

Jessica Kingdon

Encore:

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Factory workers diligently parse fabrics and prepare plastic products—like water bottles and binoculars—in clusters and in an assembly line. Men weld metal cylinders with precision, and a networking conference devotes its attention to training a predominantly female audience how to excel in business etiquette. 

These and many other absorbing vignettes are what make up the central focus of Jessica Kingdon’s Ascension: an exploration of contemporary China’s identity as it relates to its vision of consumerism, innovation, and social standing.

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Thursday

Apr

28

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Thursday

Thursday

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7:00 pm

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8:30 pm

Reception

Film Guest

Film

Other events

seminar

Where:

Lake Placid Center for the Arts

(get directions)

Director:

Paul Frederick

Encore:

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Director Paul Frederick, Producers Julie Canepa and Bruce Carlin will be on hand for a Q&A after the show. Return to Auschwitz: The Survival of Vladimir Munk is the moving story of retired SUNY professor and Czech Holocaust survivor Vladimir Munk. The film follows Vladimir, now 95, as he returns to Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and extermination camp, the camp where he was held prisoner during World War II. This will be his last chance to honor thirty of his close relatives, including his parents, who perished there. The journey from his home in the United States will be filled with painful memories and unknown challenges but it is a journey he knows he must take.

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Thursday

May

12

MAY

Thursday

Thursday

From

7:00 pm

To

8:30 pm

Reception

Film Guest

Film

Other events

seminar

Where:

Lake Placid Center for the Arts

(get directions)

Director:

Doug LeClaire

Encore:

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Event overview:

Asbury Shorts USA is New York City's longest running short film exhibition & touring show. Since 1980 their short film "Concerts" have been presented at venues across the US, Canada, Great Britain and Germany. The mission is to screen world renowned, festival award winning short films - from all years - in cinemas, art museums, performing arts centers & cool outdoor locations..on real cinema screens...as opposed to You Tube, smart phones or computers. The program features a fast paced and highly entertaining line up of the best in short film Comedy, Drama and Animation. The two hour showcase includes Oscar Nominees, US film festival 'Best of Show' winners and international honorees from the past & present. Recommended for ages 16 and way way above. Director Doug LeClaire and guest host Sarah LaDuke will be featured at the event.

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Thursday

May

26

MAY

Thursday

Thursday

From

7:00 pm

To

8:30 pm

Reception

Film Guest

Film

Other events

seminar

Where:

Lake Placid Center for the Arts

(get directions)

Director:

Blerta Basholli

Encore:

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A Sundance triple winner and on the way to Oscar nominations, read the glowing reviews of this beautiful film: Sundance Winner 'Hive' is Kosovo's International Oscar Submission - Variety

Director Blerta Basholli tells the story about Fahrije, whose husband has been missing since the war in Kosovo. She sets up her own small business to provide for her kids, but as she fights against a patriarchal society that does not support her, she faces a crucial decision.

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Saturday

Jun

18

JUN

Saturday

Saturday

From

7:00 pm

To

8:30 pm

Reception

Film Guest

Film

Other events

seminar

Where:

Lake Placid Center for the Arts

(get directions)

Director:

Paul Miller

Encore:

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Event overview:

In honor of Juneteenth, Adirondack Film in collaboration with LPCA and John Brown Lives! Is proud to present a powerful documentary about events in our own, Lake Placid backyard. SEARCHING FOR TIMBUCTOO tells the little-known story of a Black settlement, established in the wilds of upstate New York, that brought together a group of ardent abolitionists willing to risk their fortunes, their families, and their futures to destroy slavery. Little did they know that by coming together, they would help tear the nation apart. Directly following the screening, Director Paul Miller will lead a Q&A session.

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Adirondack Film, LPCA, and John Brown Lives!

Adirondack Film, LPCA, and John Brown Lives!

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Award winners in our Your Shorts are Showing competition:

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Educational Panels

2023 Oscar Nominated Short Films
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Each week, filmmakers will be interviewed by moderators who have previously presented at the Festival. Moderators include university-level film professors, producers, directors and an on-air guest host of Turner Classic Movies.

They’ll discuss how the filmmakers have worked and found opportunities during the pandemic; other projects of the filmmakers, either in production or under consideration; and memorable moments from the making of the selected films.

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