Past Festivals

Dates:  October 20 – 23, 2022

Screening Venues:

• Palace Theater
• Lake Placid Center for the Arts
• Other Venues – To Be Announced
  
  

Headquarters Hotel:

• High Peaks Resort
  
  

Lake Placid Film Festival Schedule

Tuesday, October 18, 2022

• Volunteer Orientation and Reception, Location TBD
  
  

Thursday, October 20th

• Master Classes – Subjects TBD
• Shorts Selections Screened, Lake Placid Center for the Arts
• Kickoff Trailer Party, High Peaks Resort, Music, Conversation, Trailers screened of Festival Feature Length Films
  
  

Friday, October 21, 2022

• Shorts Selections Screened, Lake Placid Center for the Arts
• VIP and Filmmaker Lounge Opens
• Seminars, Panels and Master Classes open
• Feature Screenings Begin, with Guest Presenters, Palace Theater, and Locations TBA
• Extreme Sports Screening with Partners
• Patron Reception – Private Reception with Tribute Recipient, High Peaks Resort
• Cocktail Reception – Tribute Dinner, High Peaks Resort
• Tribute Dinner, High Peaks Resort
• Tribute Program, High Peaks Resort
• Lake Placid Laughs – Comedy review sponsored by NY Women in Film and Television and Upstate Women in Film and Television.  Host, two stand up comedians, and trivia game show.  Location TBD
  
  

Saturday, October 22, 2022

• Breakfast, Filming in the Adirondacks, Location TBD, NY Loves Film, Adirondack Film Commission
• Shorts Selections Screened, Lake Placid Center for the Arts
• VIP and Filmmaker Lounge Open – High Peaks Resort
• Seminars, Panels and Master Classes open – Locations TBD
• Feature Screenings Continue, with Guest Presenters - Palace Theater, and Locations TBD
• Filmmaker Mixer, Shorts and Audience Choice Awards – Location TBD
  
  

Sunday, October 23, 2022

• Seminars, Panels and Master Classes open – Locations TBD
• Feature screenings Continue, with Guest Presenters - Palace Theater, and Locations TBD
• Closing film, Palace Theater
• Closing Reception – Location TBD

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