A Benefit for Rivertown Film
Saturday, May 3, 8:00pm, at The Nyack Center
Sponsored By
Elena Schloss / Julia B Fee, Sotheby’s International Realty
SOLD OUT! People who create are inspirations to us all. But what inspires them? Find out at Rivertown Film’s Inspired! on Saturday, May 3. Support our future by attending our signature fundraising event.
Wednesday, April 9, 8:00pm, at The Nyack Center
SOLD OUT! For half a decade (2019-2023), Basel Yadra, a young Palestinian activist, unflinchingly chronicled destruction of homes, playgrounds, chicken coops and schools by the Israeli military in twenty West Bank villages together known as Masafer Yatta, resulting in a documentary that is both urgent and personal.
Thursday, April 3, 7:00pm, at the Regal Nanuet Cinema
Rivertown Film is pleased be a Community Partner for the JCC Rockland Jewish Community Center presentation of Ain’t No Back to a Merry-Go-Round. When five Black students rode a segregated carousel in 1960, they ignited one of the earliest organized interracial civil rights protests in US history. Ain’t No Back to a Merry-Go-Round is the untold story of the Jews they marched with, Nazis they provoked, Congressmen they inspired, and Civil Rights leaders they became.
Showing: Friday, March 28, 8:00pm, at The Nyack Center
ArtsRock and Rivertown Film Society present 40 film clips with live commentary by Grammy Award-winning conductor LEONARD SLATKIN and WQXR radio host ELLIOTT FORREST.
March 9
SOLD OUT! Lee, the directorial feature debut from award-winning Rockland County based Cinematographer Ellen Kuras, portrays a pivotal decade in the life of American war correspondent and photographer, Lee Miller (Kate Winslet). Miller’s singular talent and unbridled tenacity resulted in some of the 20th century’s most indelible images of war, including an iconic photo of Miller herself, posing defiantly in Hitler’s private bathtub.
February 26
Based on the best-selling memoir by Amy Liptrot, THE OUTRUN is set in the otherworldly Orkney islands of Scotland. It’s a brutally honest drama about addiction and recovery, strength and survival, mental health and the ability of the sea, the land and of people to restore life and renew hope. After a decade away in London, 29-year-old Rona returns home to the Orkney Islands. Sober but lonely, she tries to suppress her memory of the events which set her on a journey of recovery. Slowly the mystical land enters her inner world and – one day at a time – Rona finds hope and strength in herself among the heavy gales and the bracingly cold sea.
February 12
This new film from Raoul Peck (Lumumba, I Am Not Your Negro) chronicles the life and work of Ernest Cole, one of the first Black free-lance news photographers in South Africa, whose early pictures, shocking at the time of their first publication, revealed to the world Black life under apartheid. Cole fled South Africa in 1966 and lived in exile in the U.S., where he photographed extensively in New York City, as well as the American South, fascinated by the ways this country could be at times so vastly different, and at others eerily similar, to his homeland. During this period, he published his landmark book of photographs denouncing the apartheid, House of Bondage which, while banned in South Africa, cemented Cole’s place as one of the great photographers of his time at the age of 27.
January 8
Ruth Reichl—trailblazing NY Times food critic, groundbreaking Gourmet Magazine editor, best-selling memoirist, and for decades one of the most influential figures shaping American food culture—grows concerned about the fate of small farmers, ranchers, and chefs as they wrestle with both immediate and systemic challenges as the pandemic took hold. Reichl reaches across political and social divides to discover innovators who are risking it all to survive on the front lines.
