Despite the deluge, the Saturday night Sneak Preview, a George Clooney comedy, Up in the Air, was sold out, and after cineastes, including scores of visiting filmmakers, gathered at the Tracy Memorial Village Hall in Chatham to celebrate FilmColumbia Festival's tenth anniversary.
Members of the documentary Axis of Good film crew: Robert Wedge, Heidi Smith, Andrea Salisbury and Mike Calvin
Filmmaker Bob Pulcini (American Splendor, The Young and the Dead) Carolyn & Andy London; festival director Calliope Nicholas and David & Scarlet Newhoff
Chris Schiller, Eric Oakes, and Gary Arzberger; Ed Bronfield & Emmy Zuckerman
Emma Mead and Ann Raimes; Jeff Burns and Leanne & Justin Maine
Lisa LaBracio and Raquel Levin; playwright Liz Diggs and Academy Award-winning animators Carolyn Ahlfors Mouris & Frank Mouris
Chatham Film Club treasurer Mary Gail Biebel, filmmaker Courtney Hunt , and documentary filmmaker Deborah Shaffer, a member of the FilmColumbia Advisory Board; Matt Sullivan, Susan Stratton, and Elaine Khosrova, assistant director of the festival.
Chatham Film Club board members Emily Rossi-Snook, Calliope Nicholas, Sandi Knakal, Mary Gail Biebel, Courtney Hunt and Bill Barrett
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Matteline deVries-Dilling, founder of Lite Brite Neon, one of the evening's honoree of this year's Upstate Benefit adresses the gala from the Caboose's caboose.
- Karen Pearson. Courtesy Art Omi.
Olana senior vice president and landscape curatorMark Prezorski, president Sean Sawyer, The evenings honoree Kristin Gamble and New York State Assemblymember Didi Barrett.
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