Woodstock Film Festival

By Mallory Potosky
URL: http://www.moviemaker.com/blog/item/woodstock_film_festival_20071020/
In 1969 hundreds of thousands of people gathered in Woodstock, New York for a concert that would go down in American history. Featuring artists such as Sweetwater, Janis Joplin and Jefferson Airplane, the legendary Woodstock Music Festival brought about a revolution in artistic freedom that was hard to beat. Hard to beat, that is, until the Woodstock Film Festival began eight years ago. This year the popular annual cinema retreat lived up to its hometown’s most famous event by honoring historic musician and town denizen Bob Dylan with closing night selection I’m Not There, the alternative biopic by Todd Haynes. Tickets for the highly anticipated screening sold out during the first day’s sales.