A post-screening discussion of El Río del Perro (River of the Dog, Venezuela, 2024) with director Carlos Gómez de la Espriella, by Zoom from Costa Rica, and producer Belén Orsini, in person, interpreted by Dr. Ernesto Silva, Kennesaw State University, in a conversation moderated by Rivertown Film board member Dr. Oscar Gonzales-Barreto, professor of Spanish and Latin American Studies at Saint Thomas Aquinas College. Wednesday October 22, 2025.
Sorry, Baby actor Louis Cancelmi (who plays Preston Decker) discusses Sorry, Baby with Nancy Savoca (Household Saints) after a screening on Wednesday, September 10, 2025, at Rivertown Film Society.
Director Jeremy Workman discusses his film, Secret Mall Apartment, with Rivertown Film board member Vera Aronow (Megamall), on July 23, 2025.
Secret Mall Apartment was one of the most successful documentaries of 2025 in theaters and on Netflix. A small part of this discussion appears in the extra features of the Blu-ray and DVD of Secret Mall Apartment.
Two excerpts from the discussion after That Kid with filmmaker Ashley Dawson, Nyack NAACP President Nicole Hines, and actors L’Tanya Watkins and Vytarie Sisco, and moderator Norris War Turtle Branham and the audience. The discussion followed a screening of That Kid at Rivertown Film on April 23, 2025.
Director Ellen Kuras discusses her film, Lee, staring and produced by Kate Winslet, at Nyack Center, on March 9, 2025, with filmmaker Susanna Styron. Ellen Kuras is the winner of three awards at the Sundance Film Festival for cinematography, the first woman cinematographer to be honored with a career achievement award by the American Society of Cinematographers, and is now a director of film and television.
Director Nancy Savoca and Producer Richard Guay discuss the recently rediscovered, restored, and rereleased Household Saints (1993), a student film, Renata (1982), and their long partnership, at Rivertown Film on January 17, 2024, with Rivertown Film director Matthew Seig.
Codirector Sam Pollard introduced Lownds County and the Road to Black Power via video at Rivertown Film on Feb. 8, 2023. After the film, local civil rights leaders had a discussion moderated by former Congressman Mondaire Jones (not included).
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Film and television director John Gray (creator of the long running series The Ghost Whisperer) and J.D. Zeik (screenwriter and SUNY play and screenwriting professor) discuss the short films presented in Shades of Gray at Rivertown Film, December 7th, 2022.
Marta Renzi discusses her films with Laura Harrison, President of the Bogliasco Foundation, in the backyard of the Edward Hopper House, on August 24, 2022.
The director of The Automat, Lisa Hurwitz, discusses her film with Chris Spezial, the director of the SUNY RCC Hospitality and Culinary Center. Recorded on Zoom, on May 25, 2022.
Zoom discussion on 2/16/22 with Diana Byer in conversation with guests who learned and danced under George Balanchine. Diana Byer is the founder, president, and artistic director of New York Theatre Ballet and its training school, New York Theatre Ballet School. Her guests include Christine Redpath, a Soloist in the New York City Ballet, and now a Ballet Master; Antonia Franceschi, an alumnus of the New York City Ballet and a Time Out Award Winner for achievement in dance; Jean-Pierre Frohlich, who danced in the role of the Prince in George Balanchine’s Nutcracker for 3 years as a child, as an adult was a Soloist and then Ballet Master, and is currently Repertory Director for the New York City Ballet; and Cameron Grant, who recently retired after 37 years as a pianist with the New York City Ballet and who won an Emmy as a soloist in the Live From Lincoln Center broadcast, Balanchine at 100.
Ira Deutchman discussed his film, Searching for Mr. Rugoff, on Zoom, Monday, January 24, 2022, at 6:00 PM, with two of the founders of Rivertown Film, Director Nancy Savoca and Producer Richard Guay.
ATOMIC COVER-UP was discussed by producer/director Greg Mitchell, co-producer Suzanne Mitchell, and discussion moderator Elliott Forrest, on January 12, 2022.
On Tuesday, April 13, 2021, local artist/writer/historian Bill Batson moderated a discussion with Sam Waymon, who appears in Ganja & Hess as Rev. Luther Williams (both minister and chauffeur to Hess) and who wrote its incredible score, along with Chiz Schultz, the producer of Ganja & Hess, and Gunn’s biographer Nicholas Forster. Learn more about the Rockland County history here: https://nyacknewsandviews.com/2021/04/weekender-recommendations-ganja-hess-and-the-story-of-bill-gunn/
Nina Lorez and Emilio Collins (daughter and son of Kathleen Collins), film score composer Michael Minard, and actress Seret Scott, discussed Kathleen Collins, LOSING GROUND, and THE CRUZ BROTHERS AND MISS MALLOY, with moderator Bill Batson. Joining in were Juliana Roth, daughter of Cruz Brothers writer Henry H. Roth, and film distributors Amy Heller and Dennis Doros of Milestone Films. Wednesday, February 24th, 2021
On Tuesday, February 23, 2021, Rivertown Film Society hosted a conversation about Pratt in the Hat with Frances Pratt, director Susan Hillary, and producer Suzanne Mitchell. The discussion moderator, Maria Luisa Whittingham, is a Nyack NAACP officer and Co-founder of Nyack Merchants United.
Senator Elijah Reichlin Melnick sponsored a New York State Senate Resolution recognizing Frances Pratt for her years of service to her community, including 41 years as President of the Nyack NAACP, which he announced during the discussion. Senator Elijah Reichlin Melnick is introduced at the 05:00 mark.
Director Rick Korn, Tom Chapin, & ArtsRocks’ Elliott Forrest discuss “Harry Chapin: When in Doubt, Do Something,” in a discussion on Zoom, on October 27th, 2020.
Filmmakers discuss their films with author Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah during Rockland in Motion Part Two.
We hope that Rockland in Motion will remind you that a wide range of filmmakers live and work in our communities, that they contribute to local culture and commerce, and that making and understanding visual media is an important part of a good education. In our Zoom discussions, filmmakers generously shared their approaches to the art form, the ways they’ve creatively adapted to our new virtual world, and how community plays a part in their development as artists, including perspectives from veteran filmmakers alongside first time and early career filmmakers.
Rockland in Motion Part One Filmmakers discuss their films with musician Travis Stever of Coheed & Cambria on September 23, 2020. The filmmakers include Frank Vitale, Marta Renzi, Charles Caster-Dudzick, Norvin and Darian Van Dunk, Myles Aronowitz, Paul Schwartz, Brooklyn Demme, Veronica Murphy, and Max Cea.
Filmmaker Sara Driver discusses BOOM FOR REAL: THE LATE TEENAGE YEARS OF JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT with artist and Basquiat friend Brett De Palma and artist and moderator Bill Batson. February 27, 2019.
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“A film that could have settled for being a masterclass in technique, but instead goes deeper, exploring questions of artistry, authorship, legacy.” NPR
“Had The Christophers just been a cross-generational punch-up, the sort of flinty showdown designed to throw off pleasurable sparks, you’d still walk away content. It remains a conduit for two of the best performances you’ll see all year.” – David Fear, Rolling Stone
“The Christophers is largely a comedy, but it’s also about all that we gain and lose with age, and about how we sometimes need young people to bring us back to ourselves.” – Stephanie Zacharek, TIME
“Having lost the inspiration that guided him to greatness, Julian is an artist who can no longer paint, and Lori is an artist who has lost all confidence in there being a place for her work in the larger world. For all the undercurrents about fame, commodification, and reputation that flow through The Christophers, at its core is a more plaintive lament about what it feels like to love something that doesn’t love you back.” – Alison Willmore, Vulture
“Go see The Christophers. Show up, and support a tiny, talky experiment that has no relationship to IP or sequels or box-office projection. It’s not a perfect movie, but it’s also never, as Lori grudgingly notes about Julian’s work, uninteresting. And in this cultural moment, that’s an authentic win.” – Elizabeth Weitzman, Time Out
“The Christophers is a work of criticism that deftly distinguishes different approaches to criticism.” – Justin Chang, The New Yorker
“Brims with hilarious dialogue, lightly satirical observations of a culture that treats art as a commodity, and satisfying payoffs to a number of story elements planted early on.” – Seth Katz, Slant Magazine
“In the end, this film about artists becomes a work of art in its own right. The more you look at it, the more its many components reveal themselves to you.” – Chase Hutchinson, The Wrap
“Ian McKellen plays Julian Sklar, a sardonic art legend who meets his intellectual match in frank preservationist Lori Butler (Michaela Coel). In a test of wits and wills held mostly in a single-setting, Soderbergh pushes both characters to return to their former passions through philosophical conversations that reflect his own career.” – Robert Daniels, Screen International
“It bats about ideas pertaining to art, commerce, ownership and legacy with dexterous aplomb and boasts two equally superb leads who make the material crackle.” – David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter
“The Christophers is a talky, at times incredibly funny, comedy drama with plot reversals that make it feel like it’s on the verge of a thriller. It doesn’t end up there, at least not strictly, but it’s unpredictable enough to never make us entirely sure just where it’s heading.” – Benjamin Lee, Guardian
“There’s no room for anything shy of genius in The Christophers, a crackling original drama about artistic legacy in all its facets, directed by Steven Soderbergh , from a script by Ed Solomon (No Sudden Move) and starring two top-notch English actors of wildly different backgrounds and styles, Ian McKellen and Michaela Coel, at the top of their respective games.” – Peter Debruge, Variety
“With Ian McKellen in superbly crotchety form and Michaela Coel exuding chilly cunning, it’s further proof that Soderbergh remains one of American Cinema’s most inimitable, and adventurous, auteurs. – Nick Schager, The Daily Beast
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