Adirondack Film collaborates and cross-promotes with numerous arts and cultural organizations and venues to bring quality and diverse film programming to Essex County and the Adirondacks.
Mark your calendars for the See Something that Means Something film series.
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 See Something that Means Something includes an encore presentation of the 2022 Academy Award nominated film “Hive”, screened during the 2021 Lake Placid Festival and Academy Award buzz “Drive My Car.”
Show all Days
Thursday
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Thursday
21
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Jun 18
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Reception sponsored by:
Adirondack Film, LPCA, and John Brown Lives!
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Apr 28
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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
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Jun 18
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Adirondack Film, LPCA, and John Brown Lives!
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Apr 28
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Feb 10
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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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8:30 pm
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Jun 18
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Adirondack Film, LPCA, and John Brown Lives!
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Apr 28
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Feb 10
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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
Thursday
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Feb
10
FEB
Thursday
Thursday
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Reception
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Director:
Eric Crosland
Encore:
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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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
Special thanks to our Co-Sponsors: Barkeater Trails Alliance & Adirondack Sports Council, organizing committee for the Lake Placid 2023 FISU World University GamesDirector, Eric Crosland states: “I chose to direct this film because I wanted to show people outside of the ski community how incredibly dangerous and challenging high altitude ski mountaineering is. While watching this film, I would like the viewer to experience the intense feelings, emotions, and decision-making of navigating, traveling, and skiing the highest altitude mountain ranges in the world.”
Thursday
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Thursday
Thursday
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Director:
Ryusuke Hamaguchi
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Event overview:
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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After his wife's unexpected death, Yusuke Kafuku, a renowned stage actor and director, receives an offer to direct a production of Uncle Vanya in Hiroshima. There, he begins to face the haunting mysteries his wife left behind.
Thursday
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Mar
31
MAR
Thursday
Thursday
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Director:
Jessica Kingdon
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Event overview:
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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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.
Thursday
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Apr
28
APR
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Thursday
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Director:
Paul Frederick
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Sunday, Oct 24, 2:30PM in Palace Theatre
Event overview:
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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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.
Thursday
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May
12
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Thursday
Thursday
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Director:
Doug LeClaire
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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
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May
26
MAY
Thursday
Thursday
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Director:
Blerta Basholli
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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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Triple award winner HIVE is a searing drama based on the true story of Fahrije, who, like many of the other women in her patriarchal village, has lived with fading hope and burgeoning grief since her husband went missing during the war in Kosovo. In order to provide for her struggling family, she pulls the other widows in her community together to launch a business selling a local food product. Together, they find healing and solace in considering a future without their husbands—but their will to begin living independently is met with hostility.
The men in the village condemn Fahrije’s efforts to empower herself and the women around her, starting a feud that threatens their newfound sovereignty—and the financial future of Fahrije’s family. Against the backdrop of Eastern Europe’s civil unrest and lingering misogyny, Fahrije and the women of her village join in a struggle to find hope in the face of an uncertain future.
Winner of the Audience Award, Directing Award, and World Cinema Grand Jury Prize at Sundance, HIVE is a pithy, devastating portrait of loss and our uphill journeys to freedom.
Saturday
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Jun
18
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Saturday
Saturday
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Director:
Paul Miller
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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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Sponsored by:
Adirondack Film, LPCA, and John Brown Lives!
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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.
An Evening with Raoul Peck and Jeffrey Brown
Honoring esteemed Director, Screenwriter and Producer Raoul Peck, Director of acclaimed film “I am not your Negro”, "Lumumba" and newly released HBO series, “Exterminate all the Brutes”, voted best docuseries by the AAFCA, among TV honors.
Born in Haiti, raised in the Congo, U.S., France and Germany, Peck earned an economic-engineering master’s degree at the University of Berlin and then studied film at the Academy of Cinema and Television in Berlin. He served as Haiti’s Minister of Culture from 1996 to 1997.
Raoul Peck is one of the most significant and prolific filmmakers of our time, richly rewarded for his historical, political and artistic work.
Jeffrey Brown is celebrated Senior Arts and Entertainment Correspondent for the “PBS Newshour”.
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