This was originally posted at a UK site of the leading jobs in music, but I thought I would cross-post it here, as I think it is a great idea for a film and would like to hear some comments from our Media Match members. I recently saw a TV commercial and realised the release date is next week, so here we go!
~Lee Jarvis

Taking Woodstock is directed by Academy Award®-winner Ang Lee (Brokeback Mountain) with a screenplay by James Schamus (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, The Ice Storm), based on the book Taking Woodstock by Elliot Tiber.

It’s 1969, and Elliot Tiber( played by Demetri Martin), a down-on-his-luck interior designer in Greenwich Village, New York, has to move back upstate to help his parents run their dilapidated Catskills motel, the El Monaco. The bank is about to foreclose; his father wants to burn the place down, but hasn’t paid the insurance; and Elliot is still figuring how to come out to his parents. When Elliot hears that a neighbouring town has pulled the permit on a hippie music festival, he calls the producers, thinking he could drum up some much needed business for the motel. Three weeks later, half a million people are on their way to his neighbour’s farm in White Lake, NY, and Elliot finds himself swept up in a generation-defining experience that would change his life, and American culture, forever.

The film stars Demetri Martin (Important Things with Demetri Martin on Comedy Central) as Elliot Tiber, Emile Hirsch (Milk, Into the Wild), Liev Schreiber (Defiance) and Imelda Staunton (Vera Drake).

http://www.filminfocus.com/focusfeatures/film/taking_woodstock

http://www.facebook.com/TakingWoodstock

Release date: 28th August 2009

(original post // Thanks to Matt @ UK Music Jobs)

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