For the last five summers, one of my assignments has been Instructor for the Woodstock Film Festival Summer Youth Filmmaking Lab. The three-week intensive lab introduces young teens to the world of filmmaking. It challenges them to conceptualize, produce, shoot, edit, and audio-mix original short films. This year I worked with a team of five amazing students on their documentary, ‘Paperback,’ which will premiere at the Woodstock Film Festival this fall. On Wednesday August 3rd, Woodstock Film Festival hosted a ‘Friends and Family’ screening at the Rosendale Theater. A proud papa moment–Nora Bray (in the Fiercely Independent Shirt) worked with an instructor and pees to create ‘Hunger in Kingston,’ a beautiful community oriented documentary short. Her film will also premiere at the festival! Well done, everyone!