Past Events

Director Paul Frederick, Producers Julie Canepa and Bruce Carlinwill 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...

Each year we host a live weekly series where finalists from our latest short film competition showcase their films followed by a lively moderated Q & A led by a film professional. 

Our Featured Filmmakers Series showcases some of the best films and filmmakers from an international field of short films submitted to our Your Shorts Are Showing competitions. Check out the 2021 competition Award Winners and Top Ten filmmaker’s bios and films.  

This year’s Featured Filmmakers Series’ dates will be announced soon.

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”.

Blues at Timbuctoo is a professionally recorded film of nationally renowned vocalists, instrumentalists, performers, and storytellers.

The Adirondack Film Society was proud to join last year's John Brown Lives! Performance at the fifth annual Blues at Timbuctoo with a Virtual Concert and Panel Discussion on 11/14. The event was amazing and we expect this year’s will be too.

Each winter we host a live weekly series where finalists from our latest short film competition showcase their films followed by a lively moderated Q & A led by a film professional. 

Our Featured Filmmakers Series showcases some of the best films and filmmakers from an international field of short films submitted to our Your Shorts Are Showing competitions. Check out the 2020 filmmakers’ bios and current work.

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

• Thursday, February 24: Drive My Car 
• Thursday, March 31: Ascension
• Thursday, Apr 28: Return to Auschwitz: The Survival of Vladimir Munk
• Thursday, May 26: Hive
• Saturday June 18: Searching for Timbuctoo
• Thursday, June 23: Donbass
• Asbury Shorts (moved to fall 2022)

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.”‍