Five-day Festival Features Film Premieres, Filmmaker Talks

COOPERSTOWN—Glimmerglass Film Days, now in its 13th season, will present 31 film screenings and 12 related events over five days, November 13-17, including several premieres. The films reflect the theme “revolutions” and were selected by Film Days Artistic Director Peggy Parsons, founder of the film program at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., and Xander Moffat, an independent film producer who serves as technical director and programming coordinator.

“We are really looking forward to this year’s Film Days,” said Ellen Pope, executive director of Otsego 2000. “Peggy and Xander have put together a wonderful slate of films, and with the filmmakers coming, parties and food tie-ins, the art exhibit, guided walks, trivia, free films and more, we are glad to offer Cooperstown and the region a dynamic and full five-day festival.” Film Days is a program of Otsego 2000.

Film Premieres

“Grains of Sand” will make its North American festival premiere at Glimmerglass Film Days. Filmed over eight years, “Grains of Sand” accompanies the filmmaker’s mother and mother-in-law, artists and close friends, as they enter their ninth decade. Through conversation, memories, and artwork, along with reflections by the filmmaker herself, they create together a positive, different kind of “coming-of-age” story that turns common perceptions of aging upside down.

Director/Producer Sarah Gross, who will participate in a Q&A after the film, said “Grains of Sand is a testament to the power of art and friendship and a personal exploration of what it means to age and continue becoming oneself. In the true sense of the phrase, it is a story of two women’s coming-of-age at 80.”