Episode 86 Monsieur Lazhar exemplifies quiet control in storytelling. Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Film, Philippe Falardeau chose images rather than exposition in the first scene that stuns bother characters in the film and the audience.

Quebec director, Philippe Falardeau stunned during the screening at Sundance Film Festival, as his film, Monsieur Lazhar, was nominated for an Academy Award  (Best Foreign Film).

A Steely Dan concert from their Shuffle Diplomacy Tour Twenty Eleven seduced us in the Berkshires at Tanglewood with their sophisticated and sublime music and musicians.

Told through stories of victims in Ukraine and other Eastern European nations, Emma Thompson narrates the documentary, Fatal Promises, directed by Kat Rohrer and produced by her mother, expose journalist, Anneliese Rohrer.

Another Woodstock on the Edge with the film "2B: The Era of Flesh Is Over" as it tests the waters along with a panel that included Ray Kurzweil's take on the future in the field of artificial intelligence.

In ten years, Woodstock Film Festival was established as a maverick, being fiercely independent, providing an outpouring of films from fiercely independent filmmakers.

Acclaimed jazz violinist Yuri Turchyn gets into the heart of the matter with the connections between the artist and the aspects of music-making.

An American original coming from roots in the Jersey music scene in the 1970s into experimental permutations integrating Latin Jazz into a World Beat sound.

BeFilm The Underground Film Festival (BeTuff) showcases the best national and international films in animation, documentary, experimental, spec narrative, and stereoscopic films.

Tim and Mike Rauch are the animators behind German In The Woods, a Best in Show Winner at ASIFA East. Their illustration style has a rhythm and pace of an orchestrated composition, nuances of physical gestures with the grain.