The 5th Woodstock Film Festival (October 13 - 17 in New York) will welcome Bela Fleck and Edgar Meyer on the opening night of the festival this year. Fleck and Meyer will perform an evening of acoustic music at the Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson on October 13th. Sascha Paladino's doc, "Obstinato: Making Music for Two," about the Fleck/Meyer partnership shot on the first leg of their tour, will screen in the Focus on Music section during the Festival.
In other festival news, organizers announced that they have created the Maverick Award for Excellence in Film Editing for narrative feature film and documentary work. Jurors will be Sarah Flack ("Lost in Translation"), Sabine Hoffman ("Personal Velocity"), and Doug Abel ("Metallica: Some Kind of Monster").
