12th Annual Nyack International Film Festival
The 12th Annual Nyack International Film Festival (NIFF) returns to Hotel Nyack. The festival opens with the world premier of David Kramer’s Jimi Hendrix, The Documentary at 8:30 on Monday, April 1. The festival runs through April 7 and features over 70 short and full length films.
Two-time Emmy Award winner David Kramer spent the last 30 years leading a small team to unearth and preserve the unexpurgated story of the life and death of Jimi Hendrix. Kramer has amassed a staggering cast of well over 400 on-camera interviews, hours of unseen footage of Jimi, and hundreds of previously-unseen photographs. This in and of itself makes the film unique, because no subject in the history of documentary film making has ever been given this level of first-person detail.
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American River
American RIver, Directed by Scott Morris will be screened by Rivertown Film at the Nyack Center on April 3, 8:00pm
Mary Bruno spent her childhood along one of the most polluted waterways in America, the Passaic River. Decades later, she wrote An American River: From Paradise to Superfund (2012) and eventually teamed with filmmaker Scott Morris and river-guide Carl Alderson to kayak the river of her youth and tell its story on film with a unique blend of personal memoir, adventure, history and science.
Discussion with filmmaker Scott Morris and river-guide Carl Alderson, moderated by filmmaker, environmental attorney, and Rivertown Film board member, Susan Shapiro.
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Interfaith Iftar for Ceasefire
The Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR) is hosting an interfaith Iftar for ceasefire on Thursday, April 4th at 6:30pm at the Nyack Senior Center at 90 Depew Avenue. Participants are invited to will gather as people of diverse faiths and spiritual traditions for shared prayers for peace and a meal: breaking the Muslim fast of Ramadan; acknowledging the seasonal transition in Christianity from Lent to Eastertide; recognizing the coming Passover observance in Judaism; and honoring the memory of the Buddha in advance of his birth date.
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