List of Movies for Festival Grows

RFH 2010, Featured Articles, Arts

Wed, Jul 07, 2010

The lineups of people and movies coming to the village for the Slater Brothers Entertainment second annual International Film Festival are growing. The festival will be held Aug. 5-8 and this year includes a selection of works by Upstate New York filmmakers.

Among the films being screened are:

Crude, by Colgate graduate Joe Berlinger;
Groundhog Day, by Harold Ramis;
Wednesday, by Neeraj Panday;
Race to Nowhere, by Vicki Abeles;
Brother's Keeper, Berlinger's film about the Ward Brothers of Munnsville;
and Guru of Go, by ESPN Films and Bill Coutrie.

In addition, local filmmaker Kenny MacBain just learned his film, The Crown, has been accepted to be shown.

According to the Slaters, Ramis -- whose son attends Colgate -- will be at the festival to discuss Groundhog Day, which starred Bill Murray and Andie MacDowell.

Also attending is Ron Palillo, who portrayed Arnold Horshack, one of the Sweat Hogs in the ABC TV comedy Welcome Back Kotter, which aired from 1975 to 1979. Palillo stars in a critically acclaimed new film, The Curse of Micah Rood.

The festival also includes an awareness wak for the Hamilton Food Cupboard and a fundraisr for the HCS sports program.

Films are shown at the Hamilton Theater.

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