"It was the nicest festival experience I had this year. The festival is well programmed and beautifuly run... I look forward to returning in 2008." Ted Sarandos– Chief Content Officer, Netflix Inc.
"I've covered and participated in many festivals, and Woodstock is unique in its combination of cinematic sophistication, user-friendly scale and down-home hospitality. It's arguably the closest thing the East Coast has to the Telluride Film Festival, the ne plus ultra of North American boutique festivals. Both have super-intelligent programming and draw a who-who' of independent filmmaking because of their reputations for collegial conviviality, yet both are small enough to all filmgoers and filmmakers to intermingle free throughout the weekend." Godfrey Cheshire, Moving Midway in The New York Times
"What makes Woodstock special is that it puts an emphasis squarely on celebrating films and filmmakers as opposed to the velvet-rope attitude that you find at a lot of the larger festivals. There's a great community and audience in Woodstock who are just as interested in progressive and social causes as in the craft of film. You really feel that they are receptive to hearing what your film has to say and finding out how to get involved." Hugo Perez, Neither Memory, Nor Magic
in The New York Times
"Every year the festival attracts a shockingly strong number of outstanding films, filmmakers and panelists of the highest caliber. It is so important to have these festivals as outposts of our most vital art forms. They bring the best of our cinematic culture to areas that don't always have access to these kinds of films. But above all, it is the intimacy and relationships developed between filmmakers and within the industry that makes Woodstock so special. It is a festival for people who love independent film, through and through, and the bonds one make there are unique because of that fact." Jason Kliot, Open City Films
"...celebrate and support the coolest event in the Hudson Valley, namely the Woodstock Film Festival, which is becoming known around the country as a TRUE film festival, honoring the independent, artistic spirit. It’s not like those other film festivals swarming with agents in Prada texting on Blackberrys during screenings. Here, people actually WATCH the films, and LOVE them (plus, there’s the food, the music, the town, the history, the perfect scenery)." -Ron Nyswaner, Academy-Award nominated screenwriter (The Painted Veil, Soldier's Girl, Philadelphia) and author of Blue Days. Black Nights
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