Woodstock Film Festival, New York
Woodstock Film Festival
Woodstock Film Festival, an American film festival launched in 1999, is an annual event for music and film enthusiasts worldwide. The event features a wide range of innovative films, documentaries and concerts, workshops, panels conducted by celebrities and fantastic parties, all crowned by the Maverick Awards Ceremony.
The festival generates a warm and friendly atmosphere that encourages networking, creativity and fun for a thousands of people associated with the film and music industry 
such as TV anchors and cable and network executives. Other attendees include newspaper and magazine editors, writers, models, painters, critics, publishers, entertainment lawyers, producers and record label executives.
Some of the famous people who have participated in this event include the likes of Bob Berney, Bejamin Bratt, Peter Riegret, Fisher Stevens, Lili Taylor, Haskell Wexler and Bingham Ray. Top publications such as The New York Post, Time Out, Playboy, Variety, Moviemaker Magazine, Associated Press and others have publicised the Woodstock Film Festival.
The highlight of the festival is the conferring of the Maverick Awards, which include the Lee Marvin Award for the best feature narrative; the Diane Seligman Awards for the best short documentary, short film and student film. Other awards like the Haskell Wexler Award for the best cinematography, the James Lyons Award for the best editing, Audience awards for the best feature narrative and feature documentary, the Honorary Maverick Award and the Honorary Trailblazer Award are also given out here.
More information on the Woodstock Film Festival from the official website.
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