Filmmaker James Shamus; party host Crandell Benefactor and President of the Ellsworth Kelly Foundation Jack Shear; Host Committee Chair and Board Member Viki Sand; and Killer Films' Co-Founders and FC23 Honorees Pam Koffler and Christine Vachon.

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FilmColumbia Co-Executive Director and Co-Artistic Director Laurence Kardish.

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Jack Shear

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Board members and Capital Campaign Chairs Nick Van Alstine and Lael Locke.

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Vachon and Koffler celebrate their long professional partnership that has netted from 150 films.

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Koffler and Vachon received locally handcrafted porcelain plates by ceramicist Mary Ann Davis of Davistudio to honor the day of Killer Films screenings and evening celebration.

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Jack Shear, FilmColumbia Director Calliope Nicholas, and Sand.

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Board Member Ian Hooper, Madeline Hooper and Shear.

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Albany's ABC affiliate News10 stopped by to film a segment for the evening news. Board President Lydia Kukoff and James Schamus were interviewed on camera.

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James Schamus on camera with News10.

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The crowd inside the tent at the home of Jack Shear.

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Chatham's Bimi's Canteen provided a delicious spread of dishes inspired by Killer Films movie titles, including this roast Kinderhook Farm pig.

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Actors Stephen Lang and Scott Cohen. Lang is a longtime supporter of the Crandell and Cohen's film will premiere at the festival this Friday. He also teaches the popular Screenwriting Panel with his wife, Anastasia Traina.

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Crandell Theatre Executive Director Annie Brody (right).

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Nichole Saland, SVP of Research Operations at Wolfe Research Securities and a Development Committee member of the Shaker Museum.

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Hilary Dunne Ferrone, director of development at the Norman Rockwell Museum, and Chris Ferrone.

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Author Joshua Jelly-Schapiro and filmmaker Mirissa Neff, curator of Crandell Kid Flicks..

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Crandell Theatre staff Ingrid Turner, Office Manager and Capital Campaign Administrator; Beth Marchant, Marketing and Communications Manager; and Dawn Steward, Acting Theater Manager and Community Relations Manager.

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The Mountains Media founder and CEO and Publisher Alan Katz and Board Member Andrew Goetz, co-founder of Malin+Goetz

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Emily McCully, Bella Meyer and DeWayne Powell, William Pitt realtor

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Bonnie Mackay, Jack Shear, film editor Bob Eisenhardt, Beth Marchant and Laurence Kardish

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Bernie Kukoff (right).

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Director Deborah Reinisch and Stephen and Tina Lang

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Emily McCully (left)

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Bridget Foley, J.D. Weinberg and Matthew Malin, co-founder of Malin+ Goetz

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Emily McCully and Roberta Bernstein

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Tina Lang and Ramiro Davaro-Comas, co-owner with Grace Lang of Super-Stories, a storytelling nonprofit in Kinderhook.

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Spencertown Academy's Madaline Sparks and Eve Zatt speaking with Lois Saland

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