Comedy-Drama/2009
Featured Filmmaker Guest of Honor, Dir. Ang Lee 120 min
Elliot Tiber, a struggling Greenwich Village interior designer, moves back upstate to help his parents manage their run-down Catskills motel. The bank is about to foreclose, but Elliot hopes for a miracle. Then he meets promoters looking to plan a huge music festival – to be called Woodstock – just down the road. They move into the motel, changing the Tiber family’s fortune – and Elliot’s life. Inspired by the memoir by Elliot Tiber.
Conversation with director Ang Lee, production designer David Gropman and moderatorJay Blotcher