The WFF Story(Continued)

"You couldn't ask for a warmer sendoff for any picture heading out
into the world."
Brad Silberling, 10 Items or Less

Filmmaker Kohl Glass (Der Ostwind) greeting two fans at MoCA

Artists and moviegoers alike praised Season Nine, which included many feature premieres - world (Anamorph), East Coast (Stay Away... a little closer), New England (Dark Matter, Purple Violets, Day Zero, Anita O'Day: The Life of a Jazz Singer), and Berkshire (The Good Night, Running Funny, Teeth), not to mention off-season screenings of Rocket Science and God Grew Tired of Us.

Featuring a superb central performance by John Cusack, Grace Is Gone wowed the audience at WFF's first-ever Benefit, with the film preceded by a sold-out dinner at Cafe Latino. The Clark Art Institute was packed for the haunting Dark Matter and an in-depth Q-&-A with director Chen Shi-Zheng. The Festival teamed up with MASS MoCA, this year on the vampire classic Nosferatu with live original score by the Alloy Orchestra. WFF also hosted provocative seminars with the cast, writers, and director of Running Funny, and with Tribeca Film Festival co-founder Craig Hatkoff. With the prize of an original artwork by Board member Stephen Hannock, the Reeve Award went to the short film Validation. Kurt Kuenne's droll musical romance narrowly edged Paco Farias' Fool Me Once and Kohl Glass' Der Ostwind in the audience balloting.

"My time there was sheer bliss. I felt the audiences and I were one body, film lovers all."
Louis Zorich, Running Funny

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