A celebration of Woody Guthrie and America’s 250^th Birthday with film clips, discussion, and live music.

Film director Greg Mitchell will present over thirty minutes of excerpts from this timely film for the first time to a public audience and will take part in a discussion with Woody’s granddaughter Anna Canoni, president of Woody Guthrie Publications, and Daniel Wolff, author of “Grown-Up Anger: The Connected Mysteries of Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie, and …  Read more

Directed by Steven Soderbergh
With Ian McKellen, Michaela Cole, Jessica Gunning
2025, UK/USA, 100 min., rated R for language

Wednesday, June 10, 8:00 pm
At The Nyack Center

Community Partner: Rockland Center for the Arts
Discussion after the film with Daly Flanagan, Executive Director of Rockland Center for the Arts

A mainstay of the London art scene since his breakout in the creative explosion of the 1960’s, Julian Sklar (Ian McKellen) has drifted into a cluttered, self-imposed seclusion. … Read more

Directed by Toby Perl Freilich
2025, USA, 95 minutes

Wednesday, May 20
8:00 pm, at The Nyack Center

25th Year Special Event

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Meet the Filmmaker: the director, Toby Perl Freilich, will discuss her film with Nyack Public Arts Advisory Committee Chair Kris Burns.

Community Partners: Village of Nyack, Nyack Public Arts Advisory Committee, Edward Hopper House Museum and Study Center

“After the Revolution, who’s going to pick up the garbage on Monday morning?” challenged Mierle Laderman Ukeles. Crashing the boundary between art and action, in 1977 she became the first artist-in-residence at NYC’s Department of Sanitation, … Read more

A 25TH ANNIVERSARY:
Rivertown Film
Garner Arts Festival

Saturday and Sunday
May 16 & 17
11:00 am to 6:00 pm

Produced and Directed by Chuck Smith
Co-Produced by Ed Sanders and Myles Aronowitz
With Ed Sanders, Tuli Kupferberg, Ken Weaver, Penny Arcade, Jeffrey Lewis, Lenny Kaye, Aline and R. Crumb
2025, USA, 84 minutes

Wednesday, April 22, 8:00 pm
At The Nyack Center

Community Partner: Main Street Beat

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Meet the Filmmaker: The director, Chuck Smith, and co-producer, Myles Aronowitz, will discuss the film with moderator Kristi Zea.

A film by Frank LoBuono
2013, USA, 57 minutes

Thursday, April 16, 6:30 pm
At The Nyack Library

Rivertown Film is proud to be a Community Partner for this screening of Nat Fein: A Talent for Living.

Meet the Filmmaker: Frank Lobuono will speak after the film.

Directed by Richard Linklatter
With Ethan Hawke, Bobby Cannavale, Andew Scott, Margaret Qualley
2025, USA, 100 minutes

Wednesday, April 8, 8:00 pm
At The Nyack Center

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Meet the Filmmaker: The screenwriter, Robert Kaplow, who was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for Blue Moon, will discuss his work and the film with author Lynn Lauber.

Directed by Mary Bronstein
With Rose Byrne, Conan O’Brien
2025, USA, 113 minutes

Wednesday, March 25, 8:00 pm
At The Nyack Center

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Discussion after the film.

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Directed by Kathleen Collins
1982, USA, 84 minutes

25th Year Special Event

Wednesday, January 25, 8:00 pm
At The Nyack Center

Community Partners: Historical Society of the Nyacks, Piermont Historical Society, CEJJES Institute, African American Historical Society of Rockland County, NAACP Nyack and Spring Valley Branches.

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Losing Ground was one of the first feature films made by a Black woman. Her name is Kathleen Collins (1942 – 1988), and she lived in Piermont and in Nyack, where she raised her children until her life was cut short way too soon.

This screening will include a discussion with Nina and Emilio Collins, the daughter and son of Kathleen Collins, moderated by filmmaker Liani Greaves.

Directed by Raoul Peck
2025, USA/France, 119 minutes

Wednesday, February 11, 8:00 pm
At The Nyack Center

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