Film festival board member Jill Zinzi with actor/teacher Roger Hendricks Simon, who stars in Georgiana Nestor's film The Sublet; Barbara Fisher, the president of the National Vaccine Information Center, with New Milford director Judy Apicella who features Fisher in her documentary What Are We Doing To Our Children and Our Planet?
Kent residents Paulette and Roberto Pizzo, who own the landmark Doc's Trattoria & Pizzeria on Lake Waramaug and will be opening a Doc's in downtown Kent next month; Jewelry designer Jill Scholsohn with her husband Dan Greenbaum and Laura Brande
Doughboys actor/director Louis Lombardi with his associate producer Miranda Allgood
Film Festival founders Patrice & Frank Galterio; Kent resident Dennis Cavalliero with his son-in-law Kareem Blue.
Volunteers Dawn and Scott Stone; Carolyn & John Casey who lent one of their Kent Green buildings to the festival for its headquarters.
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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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