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The 34TH

WOODS HOLE Saturday
July 26 -
Saturday
FILM FESTIVAL August 2,

2025

8 days of In-Person Screenings, FESTIVAL
HEADQUARTERS
Workshops, Panel Discussions, AND STORE

Filmmaker Q&A’s and more... 89 Water Street, Second Floor
Woods Hole, MA 02543.
Open daily 11 am – 6 pm.
How to Festival 2025
The 34th Festival will include over 100 live screenings and events over the 8 day
Festival. This year, all film screenings and events will be held in-person only, at Special GuEst
Festival venues in Woods Hole and Falmouth.
Screening and event venues in Woods Hole: Amy
Redfield Auditorium (WHOI), Clapp Auditorium (MBL), Meigs Room, Swope Brenneman
Center (MBL), Woods Hole, Woods Hole Community Hall, Old Woods Hole
Fire Station and Falmouth Academy. Amy Brenneman dedicates her time
equally to acting, producing, and
Tickets packages and passes available now online at woodsholefilmfestival.org. activism. She graduated from Harvard
Individual tickets available starting July 1. Festival box office at Fire Station open with a degree in Comparative Religion, specializing in
daily starting July 7th. Indo-Tibetan traditions and studying sacred dance in
Kathmandu. As a founding member of Cornerstone
For more information about the films and events, including workshop, panel and Theater Company, she helped create community-driven,
event descriptions and film trailers check woodsholefilmfestival.org. site-specific productions focused on social justice. Amy
co-created and starred in “Mouth Wide Open” and
“Overcome,” and was the driving force behind “Judg-
ing Amy,” inspired by her mother, Judge Frederica
Brenneman. Her extensive television career includes
roles in “NYPD Blue,” “Frasier,” “Private Practice,” “The
SPECIAL EVENT SCREENING Leftovers,” “Tell Me Your Secrets,” and “The Old Man.” In
film, she has collaborated with Rodrigo Garcia and ap-
Friday, July 25th 7:30 pm, Redfield Auditorium peared in “Heat,” “Casper,” “Fear,” “The Jane Austen Book
Club,” and “Words and Pictures.” She directed the docu-
mentary “The Way the World Should Be,” highlighting
Overcome inclusive education, and hosts the podcast “The Chal-
lengers.” A dedicated educator, she has taught drama at
Harvard and UCLA and directed theater at Sierra Canyon
Feature Documentary Written and Produced School and CHIME Charter School. She lives between
by Amy Brenneman and Sabrina Peck Los Angeles and West Tisbury, MA, with her husband,
USA • 2024 • 60 min. writer/director Brad Silberling, and their two children.
Q&A following the film.
In this autobiographical journey infused
with music and movement, celebrated Saturday, July 26
actress Amy Brenneman (Judging Amy,
Private Practice, The Leftovers, Goliath, 10:00pm • Captain Kidd
Heat, The Old Man) takes us along as
she learns how to become a true ally to Sarah Burrill Band
her daughter Charlotte, born with a rare
chromosomal abnormality. Years of test- This Band is about fun. With
ing and assessment yield frustratingly few a song list that spans mul-
results, leading Brenneman to surrender tiple genres, it’s not unusual
to a new path forward. Funny, poignant,
and powerful, “Overcome” takes a bold to hear, blues, country, R&B,
look at preconceptions of disability, what classic rock, soul, alternative,
we consider “normal,” and the promise/ pop, and reggae in the same
challenge of a truly inclusive society. set. It becomes clear that
the band is here for a good
This is a recording of a performance presented at the Cotuit Center for the Arts, time and brings the audi-
March 2024. ence along for the ride!

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