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Steal This Story, Please

Directed by Carl Deal, Tia Lessen
USA, 2025, 98 minutes

Wednesday, July 22
8:00 pm, at The Nyack Center

Amy Goodman will join the producer of the film, Karen Ranucci, for a discussion with Suzanne Barclay of the League of Woman Voters of Rockland County, moderated by independent editor and publisher Tina Traster.

Community Partners: League of Woman Voters of Rockland County

Undeterred by armed soldiers, evasive politicians, and riot police, journalist Amy Goodman has reported some of the most consequential stories of our time. Steal This Story, Please! is a gripping portrait of … Read more

A 25th YEAR SPECIAL EVENT

Men With Guns

Directed by John Sayles
With Federico Luppi, Damian Delgado, Dan Rivera Gonzalez
1997, USA/Mexico, 127 minutes. In Spanish, Italian, English, Nahuati, Maya, Tzotzil, Kuna, rated R for language and some violent images.

Presented with Missing Movies

Wednesday, July 8, 7:50 pm
At The Nyack Center

John Sayles will discuss Men With Guns and how it became a “missing movie,” with Missing Movies founder Rich Guay.

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Community Partner: Missing Movies

After a life in a city where he has been indifferent to the world around him, a wealthy physician in an unnamed Latin American Country … Read more

Your Roots Are Showing

Directed by Ilise Harris, Max Freiman
2025, USA, 57 minutes

Yonkers YoFi Film Festival, Audience Choice Award

Wednesday, June 24, 8:00 pm
At The Nyack Center

Meet the Filmmaker: Discussion with the director, Ilise Harris, after the film.

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Community Partner:
Creative Aging in Nyack

Women all over the world are ditching the dye and celebrating their gray hair. International makeup and hair artist Ilise Harris explores this moment in fashion and beauty history … Read more

A Benefit for Rivertown Film’s First Cash Reserve Fund
Featuring a Preview and Special Program

Woody Guthrie and the Ghost of Tom Joad Today

Directed by Greg Mitchell
Narrated by Rosanne Cash
2026, USA

Monday, June 15, 8:00 pm
At The Nyack Center

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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

The Christophers

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

Maintenance Artist

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

The Garner Arts Festival Rivertown Short Film Festival

A 25TH ANNIVERSARY:
Rivertown Film
Garner Arts Festival

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

Tickets provide access to all exhibits for the whole day. Group sales are available. Processing fees apply. … Read more

FUGS FILM!

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.

Formed in New York’s bohemian Lower East Side in 1964, the Fugs were poet musicians who didn’t just reflect their time, they nurtured it. Using musical satire to explore boundaries of free speech and antagonize the establishment … Read more

Nat Fein: A Talent For Living

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.

Pulitzer Prize-Winning photographer Nat Fein gets recognition in the county where he lived, in a documentary made by broadcast journalist Frank LoBuono, also a Rockland County resident. … Read more

Blue Moon

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.

Composer Richard Rogers and lyracist Lorenz Hart worked together on 28 musicals and more than 500 songs, many of which are legendary classics of the Great American Songbook. … Read more

If I Had Legs I’d Kick You

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.

With her life (and ceiling) crashing down around her, Linda (Rose Byrne) attempts to navigate her child’s mysterious illness, her absent husband, a missing person, and an increasingly hostile relationship with her therapist. … Read more

You Got Gold: A Celebration of John Prine

A Film by Fiona Phelan Prine
Directed by Michael John Warren
2025, USA, 90 minutes

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

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After the film, join us for our own celebration of John Prine, with singer and guitarist John Malino.

You Got Gold: A Celebration of John Prine, captures a star-studded tribute to the legendary songwriter, filmed in October 2022 at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium. The event brought together acclaimed artists, friends, and family to share stories and perform classic songs, honoring Prine’s legacy. … Read more

Losing Ground

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.

In 2015, Kathleen Collins’s daughter finished restoring her writings, plays, and films. … Read more

Orwell: 2+2=5

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

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

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There will be a discussion after the film with its producer, Alex Gibney, moderated by writer and director Susanna Styron.

George Orwell was one of the most radical and visionary authors of the 20th Century, whose 1940s novels, such as 1984 and Animal Farm, foretold a chilling, all-to-believable authoritarian future. … Read more

No One Cares About Crazy People

Directed by Gail Freedman
2025, USA, 96 minutes

Wednesday, January 28, 8:00 pm
At The Nyack Center

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Community Partners: Greater Mental Health of New York, NAMI Rockland

Stay for a discussion with producer/director Gail Freedman, editor Dina Potocki, and Alyssa Schmidt, Vice President of Mobile Support Services at Greater Mental Health of New York, in Valley Cottage.

No One Cares About Crazy People is a powerful and deeply human documentary that confronts one of the most urgent yet overlooked crises of our time: the reality of living with severe mental illness in America. Director Gail Freedman delivers a film that is both intimate and expansive, weaving together personal experience, expert insight, and systemic critique to create a gripping and emotionally resonant cinematic journey. … Read more

It Was Just An Accident

Directed by Jafar Panahi
2025, Iran, 103 minutes, in Farsi with English Subtitles

Wednesday, January 14, 8:00 pm
At The Nyack Center

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Sadly, the discussion after the film will not include the cinematographer, Amin Jafari. He was to Zoom with us from Iran, but Internet and phone service has been cut off in Iran and we have lost contact with him.

Winner of the Palm d’Or at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival, and the first film by Jafar Panahi since his most recent imprisonment in Iran, It Was Just An Accident is a moral dilemma of a man who has a random encounter with someone he suspects was his torturer while in prison. … Read more

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