Thursday
,
Oct
20
3:00 pm
to
5:00 pm
Showtimes coming soon
Film
Films
Film Guest
Films
2022
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Various
,
120 Minutes
Venue:
Director:
Next screenings:
Guests:
Event overview:
Reception sponsored by:
Congratulations to the filmmakers of our 30 Selected short films in our 4th Annual Your Shorts Are Showing short film competition. Screenings of those 30 films will take place over 3 days in three 2-hour blocks with 10 films each block.
Session #1: Film (Director)
· If I Could Tell You (Logan Rando)
· Yangtze (Daniel Kim, Benjamin Kim)
· Excelsior (George Gecewicz)
· Death Save (Jayme Coveliers)
· As de Trèfle (Henri Kebabdjian)
· Professional Therapy (Maximillian Remmler)
· The Rickety Man (Cameron Gallagher)
· Potluck (LaLa Halsema)
· Lunch Break (Yanni Papadakos)
· MUSICAL MAYHEM (Alexander Griffin)
Thursday
,
Oct
20
8:00 pm
to
10:30 pm
Showtimes coming soon
Film
Films
Film Guest
Films
1977
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Comedy
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123 Minutes
Venue:
Director:
George Roy Hill
Next screenings:
October 22, 2022 2:30 PM
Guests:
Steve Carlson (Actor - Steve Hanson)
Event overview:
Reception sponsored by:
Steve Carlson (Steve Hanson of the Hanson Brothers) at both screenings! $10 Palace Pricing Thursday Night!
Join the Lake Placid Film Festival in celebrating the 45th Anniversary of this iconic Paul Newman film!
Facing closure at the end of the season, Pennsylvania's pathetic minor-league ice-hockey team, the Charlestown Chiefs, find themselves stuck in a long losing streak. But, under those circumstances, and refusing to throw in the towel, the experienced coach, Reggie Dunlop, enlists the help of the club's newest players, the dauntless Hanson Brothers, who specialise in foul play. Now, as the revitalised Chiefs return to winning ways, its star player, Ned Braden, insists on playing fair, refusing to goon it up. Will the Charlestown Chiefs win the decisive championship game against their feared opponents, the Syracuse Bulldogs?
—Nick Riganas
Friday
,
Oct
21
9:00 am
to
11:00 am
Showtimes coming soon
Film
Films
Film Guest
Films
2022
,
Various
,
120 Minutes
Venue:
Director:
Next screenings:
Guests:
Event overview:
Reception sponsored by:
Congratulations to the filmmakers of our 30 Selected short films in our 4th Annual Your Shorts Are Showing short film competition. Screenings of those 30 films will take place over 3 days in three 2-hour blocks with 10 films each block.
Session # 2: Film (Director)
· Breeding Heart (Michael Hendel)
· RECOIL (Dylan Meyer)
· Escuela de Corte - Last Time We Play Hooky (Richard Allen)
· Gunpoint (Bill Marsilii)
· Only Now, Journey Into the Adirondacks (Cheyne Lempe, Kevin Ulibarri)
· Psycho Killer (Matthew Vincini)
· The Darkroom (Daniel Wellings, Patrick Maciel)
· I Am Odd (Rory Russell, Benjamin Giroux)
· Curiosity (James Sunshine)
· A Distance (Remoy Philip)
· A Love Song At The End Of The Time (Miao Yike)
Friday
,
Oct
21
4:00 pm
to
5:30 pm
Showtimes coming soon
Film
Films
Film Guest
Films
1927
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Drama
,
30 Minutes
Venue:
Director:
Marion Gleason
Next screenings:
October 22, 2022 10:30 AM
Guests:
Mike Champlin (Preservationist)
Event overview:
Reception sponsored by:
Preservationist Mike Champlin will be in attendance. He will begin by presenting the film and framing the history of this remarkable piece of cinema, which is one of the first films shot on 16MM and directed by one of the first female film directors. Following the screening, Mike will be available for a Q&A.
How does a decorated WWI flying ace get funding for a polar expedition? By duping his rich uncle into thinking he’s a star athlete-which he isn’t. But can he and his war buddy keep this secret from his uncle before they get their funding? You’ll have to see the screening of the digitally restored film “Fly Low Jack and the Game” to find out. Filmed in 1927 by the Rochester Community Players, this three reel comedy was written and directed by Marion Gleason, a pioneer in the amateur cinema genre.
Friday
,
Oct
21
3:30 pm
to
5:30 pm
Showtimes coming soon
Film
Films
Film Guest
Films
2021
,
Comedy
,
117 Minutes
Venue:
Director:
Stephen S. Campanelli
Next screenings:
October 22, 2022 11:30 AM
Guests:
Event overview:
Reception sponsored by:
A coming-of-age story in the John Hughes tradition. Mike Drinkwater is lost. His father, Hank, is hardly the role model Mike deserves. A young woman moves to town, and their friendship gives them the courage to overcome their challenges.
Friday
,
Oct
21
4:00 pm
to
6:00 pm
Showtimes coming soon
Film
Films
Film Guest
Films
2022
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Biography, War Drama
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116 Min
Venue:
Director:
Maggie Peren
Next screenings:
October 22, 2022 10:00 AM
Guests:
Event overview:
Reception sponsored by:
Directed and written by Maggie Peren, The Forger is based on the true story Samson “Cioma” Schönhaus, a Jewish graphic artist who forged documents to help others escape the Nazis.
21-year-old Cioma Schönhaus won't let anyone take away his zest for life, especially not the Nazis. He wants to discover life, but has the misfortune of living as a Jewish person in Berlin in the 1940s. Since the best hiding spots are in plain sight, Cioma decides to go out into the light to escape deportation. Using the identity of a marine officer he created for himself, he throws himself into the city's nightlife and even finds a fragile hope for love during the darkest moments of the war. Throughout the day he forges IDs with just a brush, some ink and a steady hand - and saves the lives of many others. His talent puts him in more and more danger, though, and at some point Cioma's only hope to survive is a last forged ID - with his own name on it.
Friday
,
Oct
21
4:00 pm
to
6:00 pm
Showtimes coming soon
Film
Films
Film Guest
Films
2022
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Documentary
,
120 minutes
Venue:
Director:
Luca Guadagnino
Next screenings:
October 23, 2022 1:30 PM
Guests:
Event overview:
Reception sponsored by:
Growing up poor in Bonito, Italy, Salvatore Ferragamo began his career as a shoemaker before he was barely a teenager. Immigrating to America in 1915 at the age of 16, his work would soon help invent the glamour of Hollywood’s silent era as he created shoes for iconic films including The Thief of Bagdad and The Ten Commandments and for stars including Gloria Swanson, Mary Pickford, and Douglas Fairbanks, many of whom became his friends. Overcoming a Depression-era setback, Ferragamo rebounded and would define mid-century elegance for performers including Audrey Hepburn, Marilyn Monroe, Bette Davis, Rita Hayworth, and Ingrid Bergman — all while embarking on a love story and warm family life with his wife, Wanda, and their six children. In SALVATORE: SHOEMAKER OF DREAMS, Academy Award©-nominated and BAFTAnominated filmmaker LUCA GUADAGNINO (Call Me by Your Name, A Bigger Splash, Bertolucci on Bertolucci) tracks Ferragamo’s life from humble beginnings to California and to a storied studio in Florence, Italy. With Emmy©-nominated actor MICHAEL STUHLBARG (Call Me by Your Name, The Shape of Water) narrating Ferragamo’s 1955 memoir; a trove of 100-year-old archival footage; an extraordinary “shoe ballet” created by stop-motion artist PES; and incisive commentary by MARTIN SCORSESE, MANOLO BLAHNIK, CHRISTIAN LOUBOUTIN, Vogue Creative Director GRACE CODDINGTON, Variety Film Critic TODD MCCARTHY, WANDA FERRAGAMO and Wanda and Salvatore’s children and grandchildren, SALVATORE: SHOEMAKER OF DREAMS is a portrait of a man whose vision, passion, and craftsmanship made him “shoemaker to the stars,” an architect of Hollywood magic, and an enduring cultural, fashion, and artistic influence.
Friday
,
Oct
21
6:00 pm
to
8:00 pm
Showtimes coming soon
Film
Films
Film Guest
Films
2022
,
Documentary
,
112 Minutes
Venue:
Director:
Lizzie Gottlieb
Next screenings:
October 22, 2022 5:30 PM
Guests:
Event overview:
Reception sponsored by:
Turn Every Page explores the remarkable fifty-year relationship between two literary legends, writer Robert Caro and his longtime editor Robert Gottlieb. Now 86, Caro is working to complete the final volume of his masterwork, The Years of Lyndon Johnson; Gottlieb, 91, waits to edit it. The task of finishing their life’s work looms before them. With humor and insight, this unique double portrait reveals the work habits, peculiarities and professional joys of these two ferocious intellects at the culmination of a journey that has consumed both their lives and impacted generations of politicians, activists, writers, and readers.
Friday
,
Oct
21
7:30 pm
to
9:00 pm
Showtimes coming soon
Film
Films
Film Guest
Films
2022
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Documentary, Sports
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50 Minutes
Venue:
Director:
Jeremy Grant
Next screenings:
October 22, 2022 2:00 PM
Guests:
Event overview:
Reception sponsored by:
Esperanto, sponsored by the Barkeater Trails Alliance (BETA), is TGR's latest action-packed mountain bike film. With a multinational roster of athletes, the film showcases the worldwide appeal of mountain biking while living up to the film’s name. "Esperanto" is a universal second language created by a Polish-Jewish doctor in 1887 intended to find a way to ultimately end war and bring people together. Translated into English Esperanto means ‘one who hopes.’
The film is a worldwide celebration pushing the limits of the sport. It explores how we share our dreams through a universal two-wheeled language no matter what our native tongue may be.
LPCA Lobby Opens at 6:30 for mingling for 10/21 screening!
Friday
,
Oct
21
7:30 pm
to
10:00 pm
Showtimes coming soon
Film
Films
Film Guest
Films
2020
,
Drama, History
,
136 Minutes (2 hr 16 min)
Venue:
Director:
FernandoTrueba
Next screenings:
October 22, 2022 12:30 PM
Guests:
Event overview:
Reception sponsored by:
Based on his son's acclaimed memoir, El Olvido Que Seremos (Memories Of My Father) dramatizes the life of Héctor Abad Gómez, a prominent doctor and human rights activist during the polarized and violent Medellín of the 1970s. A loving family man, Héctor was equally devoted to the well-being of Colombia's underprivileged children.
Friday
,
Oct
21
8:30 pm
to
10:30 pm
Showtimes coming soon
Film
Films
Film Guest
Films
2022
,
Documentary
,
92 min
Venue:
Director:
Magnus Gertten
Next screenings:
October 23, 2022 4:30 PM
Guests:
Event overview:
Reception sponsored by:
Nelly and Nadine is the unlikely love story between two women falling in love on Christmas Eve, 1944, in the Ravensbruck concentration camp. For many years their relationship was kept a secret. Over a period of one year, Magnus Gertten accompanies granddaughter Sylvie on her cautious search, following the traces of the untold stories that are found in the various sources. A moving film about a deep and loving lesbian relationship and the necessity of individual and collective remembrance.
Saturday
,
Oct
22
9:00 am
to
11:00 am
Showtimes coming soon
Film
Films
Film Guest
Films
2022
,
Various
,
120 Minutes
Venue:
Director:
Next screenings:
Guests:
Event overview:
Reception sponsored by:
Congratulations to the filmmakers of the 30 Selected short films in our 4th Annual Your Shorts Are Showing short film competition. Screenings of those 30 films will take place over 3 days in three 2-hour blocks with 10 films each block.
Session #3: Film (Director)
· DADDY'S EYES (Drew Rosenberg)
· pseudea (Ani Stein)
· The Story of Mama Butterfly (Yuqian Cao)
· Dear June (Adrian Pacini)
· Swimming Through (Samantha Sanders)
· "3" (Peter Ney)
· Cupid Jr. (Adam Yuster)
· Open House (Rayisa Kondracki)
· F**K (Joseph Rossi, David Magini)
Saturday
,
Oct
22
11:30 am
to
1:30 pm
Showtimes coming soon
Film
Films
Film Guest
Films
2022
,
Drama
,
112 Minutes
Venue:
Director:
Mia Hansen-Løve
Next screenings:
Guests:
Event overview:
Reception sponsored by:
Sandra (Lea Seydoux) is a widowed young mother raising her daughter on her own, while also caring for her sick father (Pascal Greggory). She’s dealing with the loss of the relationship she once had with her father, while she and her mother and sister fight to get him the care he requires. At the same time, Sandra reconnects with Clément (Melvil Poupaud), a friend she hasn’t seen in a while and, although he’s married, their friendship soon blossoms into a passionate affair.
Saturday
,
Oct
22
12:30 pm
to
2:30 pm
Showtimes coming soon
Film
Films
Film Guest
Films
2022
,
Documentary
,
70 Minutes
Venue:
Director:
Constant van Hoeven (Mr Kaleidoscope)
Next screenings:
October 23, 2022 4:00 PM
Guests:
Constant van Hoeven (Mr Kaleidoscope) (Director)
Event overview:
Reception sponsored by:
Mr. Kaleidoscope (Director) in person for Q&A following 10/22 screening!
Artist Ron English plays by his own rules, creating dynamic art across the world which demands dialog and provokes action. From humble Midwestern beginnings, processing the commercial imagery of pop culture into a darker, funnier universe he calls Delusionville, English has pranked and pummeled his way into prominence, influencing generations of artists and laying the groundwork for the explosion of Street Art. The documentary explores the impact of corporate messaging through art and its necessary antidote: noncommercial thought-provoking public art. Through the lens of Ron English, raised on consumerist iconography, whose visual language became the twisted and truthful distillation of pop detritus, the film offers an engaging roadmap to critical thinking, guided by the jolt and delight of art in the street. Welcome to Delusionville.
Saturday
,
Oct
22
2:00 pm
to
3:30 pm
Showtimes coming soon
Film
Films
Film Guest
Films
2022
,
Documentary
,
56 minutes
Venue:
Director:
Michael Hansen
Next screenings:
Guests:
Michael Hansen (Director)
Event overview:
Reception sponsored by:
Director Michael Hansen in person!
Shades Inside the Blueline is a documentary which examines attitudes about race in New York’s Adirondack region, and the historic and current cultural impact wrought by these attitudes. The Adirondack park is a sprawling, rural region populated with largely homogeneous communities that are not often forced to examine their beliefs and perspectives around race. The film shares personal stories from BIPOC interviewees explaining the racism they've experienced in the Adirondacks, and posits plans to help the region ultimately become more inclusive.
Saturday
,
Oct
22
3:00 pm
to
5:00 pm
Showtimes coming soon
Film
Films
Film Guest
Films
2022
,
Drama
,
115 Minutes
Venue:
Director:
Davy Chou
Next screenings:
October 23, 2022 12:00 PM
Guests:
Event overview:
Reception sponsored by:
Twenty-five-year-old French woman returns to Korea - the country she was born in before being adopted by a French couple - for the very first time. She decides to track down her biological parents, but her journey takes a surprising turn.
Saturday
,
Oct
22
3:30 pm
to
5:30 pm
Showtimes coming soon
Film
Films
Film Guest
Films
1983
,
Horror, Western
,
90 Minutes
Venue:
Director:
Avery Crounse
Next screenings:
Guests:
Peg Aloi (Scholar)
Event overview:
Reception sponsored by:
Special Guest in Attendance at 10/22 Screening!
Rated R: A preacher is accused of adultery, and he and his followers are chased out of town. They become stranded in an isolated forest, which is haunted by the spirits of long dead Native Americans.
Eyes of Fire is a 1983 American folk horror film written and directed by independent filmmaker Avery Crounse. Peg Aloi will introduce the film, discussing the roots and distinctions of the folk horror genre, and exploring how this film's story and tone create a uniquely American folk horror narrative. Eyes of Fire and Peg Aloi are co-sponsored by the Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies. There will be a Q&A following the film.
Saturday
,
Oct
22
4:00 pm
to
5:30 pm
Showtimes coming soon
Film
Films
Film Guest
Films
2022
,
Documentary
,
49 Minutes
Venue:
Director:
Cynthia Wade & Sharon Liese (The Flag Makers), Rick Goden (The Age of Humans)
Next screenings:
Guests:
Curt Stager (The Age of Humans)
Event overview:
Reception sponsored by:
The Age Of Humans subject Curt Stager in person!
The Flag Makers: In the heart of Oak Creek, Wisconsin sits the largest American flag factory in the United States, where five million flags are sewed and shipped annually. These American flags – which stand at our government buildings, courthouses, schools, veterans' cemeteries and fly in our parades – are stitched by refugees and immigrants from Iraq, Afghanistan, Burma, Congo, Serbia, Mexico, Pakistan and Mongolia. This short weaves the moving and surprising personal stories of these factory employees, whose patriotism and ties to their Midwestern community redefine what it is to be American. The latest short at National Geographic Documentary Films.
The Age of Humans
Today, we're in a new chapter of Earth's history, where humans have become so numerous, our lives so globally connected that we've become our own force of nature. We know it's real, we know it's us and we know it's here. Dr. Curt Stager presents a look at how humans are shaping life and the environment on Earth. Welcome to the Age of Humans.
Saturday
,
Oct
22
5:30 pm
to
7:30 pm
Showtimes coming soon
Film
Films
Film Guest
Films
2022
,
Sci-Fi, Mystery, Romance
,
106 Minutes
Venue:
Director:
Mali Elfman
Next screenings:
Guests:
Event overview:
Reception sponsored by:
When a research scientist makes national news proving she can track people into the afterlife, Rose sees a way out and Teddy sees his chance to finally make it. These two strangers, both harboring dark secrets, race to join the doctor’s contentious study and leave this life behind. While Rose is haunted by a ghostly presence that she can’t outrun, Teddy is forced to confront his past. As these two misfits humorously quarrel their way across the country, they meet people along the way who force them to reckon with what is really driving them.
Saturday
,
Oct
22
6:00 pm
to
8:00 pm
Showtimes coming soon
Film
Films
Film Guest
Films
2022
,
Horror
,
87 minutes
Venue:
Director:
Daniel Byers
Next screenings:
October 23, 2022 3:30 PM
Guests:
Daniel Byers (Director)
Event overview:
Reception sponsored by:
Filmed in Lake Placid! Director Daniel Byers in attendance!
When an unknown disease wipes out most of the world's population, a man with unique blood is isolated for study. Fearing for his wife's safety, he breaks his quarantine - into a world overrun by monstrous Infected and a shadowy agency hunting them down.
Saturday
,
Oct
22
8:00 pm
to
10:00 pm
Showtimes coming soon
Film
Films
Film Guest
Films
2022
,
Crime, Drama, Thriller
,
116 Minutes
Venue:
Director:
Ali Abbasi
Next screenings:
Guests:
Event overview:
Reception sponsored by:
Only one screening! Winner of the Best Actress Award (Zar Amir Ebrahimi) at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival.
Inspired by true events, a journalist descends into the dark underbelly of the Iranian holy city of Mashhad as she investigates the serial killings of sex workers by the so called “Spider Killer,” who believes he is cleansing the streets of sinners.
Saturday
,
Oct
22
8:00 pm
to
10:00 pm
Showtimes coming soon
Film
Films
Film Guest
Films
2021
,
Documentary
,
79 Minutes
Venue:
Director:
Lisa Hurwitz
Next screenings:
October 23, 2022 1:30 PM
Guests:
Paul Hardart (Self)
Event overview:
Reception sponsored by:
Paul Hardart in person at 10/22 screening!
THE AUTOMAT tells the 100-year story of the iconic restaurant chain Horn & Hardart, the inspiration for Starbucks, where generations of Americans ate and drank coffee together at communal tables. From the perspective of former customers entertainer Mel Brooks, Starbucks founder Howard Schultz, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Secretary of State Colin Powell, the Horns, the Hardarts, and key employees – we watch a business climb to its peak success and then grapple with fast food in a forever changed America.
Sunday
,
Oct
23
1:00 pm
to
3:00 pm
Showtimes coming soon
Film
Films
Film Guest
Films
1982
,
Sci-Fi
,
115 Minutes
Venue:
Director:
Steven Spielberg
Next screenings:
Guests:
Event overview:
Reception sponsored by:
Free Family Screening!
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (or simply E.T.) is a science fiction classic produced and directed by Steven Spielberg and written by Melissa Mathison. It tells the story of Elliott, a boy who befriends an extraterrestrial dubbed E.T., who is left behind on Earth. Along with his friends and family, Elliott must find a way to help E.T. find his way home. The film stars Dee Wallace, Henry Thomas, Peter Coyote, Robert MacNaughton, Drew Barrymore and Erika Eleniak.
The film's concept was based on an imaginary friend that Spielberg created after his parents' divorce. E.T. premiered as the closing film of the Cannes Film Festival on May 26, 1982, and was released in the United States on June 11, 1982. The film was an immediate blockbuster, surpassing Star Wars to become the highest-grossing film of all time, a record it held for eleven years until Spielberg's own Jurassic Park surpassed it in 1993.
Sunday
,
Oct
23
2:30 pm
to
4:00 pm
Showtimes coming soon
Film
Films
Film Guest
Films
2021
,
Documentary
,
45 Minutes
Venue:
Director:
Next screenings:
Guests:
Maury Thompson (Co-Producer)
Event overview:
Reception sponsored by:
"My Native Air'' chronicles the life and career of Charles Evans Hughes and his many connections to the Adirondacks. Hughes, a Glens Falls native, was New York governor, U.S. Secretary of State and Chief Justice of the United States. The documentary features original music composed by Adirondack singer/songwriter Ray Agnew.
Co-producer Maury Thompson has been researching and writing about Hughes for about 15 years. He was a reporter for The Post-Star for 21 years before retiring in 2021, and now is a freelance writer who regularly contributes to several regional publications.
Co-producer Caitlyn Stedman of Snarky Aardvark Films is an award-winning filmmaker from Queensbury.
Sunday
,
Oct
23
4:00 pm
to
6:00 pm
Showtimes coming soon
Film
Films
Film Guest
Films
1994
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Documentary
,
105 Minutes
Venue:
Director:
Connie Field and Marilyn Mulford
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Guests:
Event overview:
Reception sponsored by:
Nominated as Best Feature Documentary in 1994, Lake Placid Film Festival is honored to offer this screening for local students. Freedom on My Mind combines personal interviews, rare archival film and television footage, authentic Mississippi Delta blues, and Movement gospel songs. It emphasizes the strategic brilliance of Mississippi's young, black organizers. Barred from political participation, they created their own integrated party the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. They recruited a thousand mostly white students from around the country to come to Mississippi, bringing the eyes and conscience of the nation with them. The students and the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party organizers put together a delegation of sharecroppers, maids, and day-laborers that challenged the all-white delegates in the 1964 Democratic National Convention. The film describes how their effort to replace the state's delegation was not accepted by the Democratic Party leadership, embittering the activists.