Lake Placid Film Festival
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The Lake Placid Film Festival is an annual Film Festival
held in Lake Placid, New York
. The Festival, previously known as the Lake Placid Film Forum, has played host to famous film personalities such as directors Paul Schrader and Martin Scorsese
. Guest lists have also included actors Parker Posey, Lucie Laurier and Steve Buscemi along with writer Richard Russo and film critic Gerald Peary.
In 2009, MovieMaker magazine named The Lake Placid Film Forum to their list of 25 Coolest Film Festivals.
Film festival
A film festival is an organised, extended presentation of films in one or more movie theaters or screening venues, usually in a single locality. More and more often film festivals show part of their films to the public by adding outdoor movie screenings...
held in Lake Placid, New York
Lake Placid, New York
Lake Placid is a village in the Adirondack Mountains in Essex County, New York, United States. As of the 2000 census, the village had a population of 2,638....
. The Festival, previously known as the Lake Placid Film Forum, has played host to famous film personalities such as directors Paul Schrader and Martin Scorsese
Martin Scorsese
Martin Charles Scorsese is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, actor, and film historian. In 1990 he founded The Film Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to film preservation, and in 2007 he founded the World Cinema Foundation...
. Guest lists have also included actors Parker Posey, Lucie Laurier and Steve Buscemi along with writer Richard Russo and film critic Gerald Peary.
In 2009, MovieMaker magazine named The Lake Placid Film Forum to their list of 25 Coolest Film Festivals.