For #filmmakerfriday, we’re focusing on Alex Rappoport, an award-winning director of photography, editor, and producer with diverse experience in film and television production. Alex is a longtime resident of Saugerties, and has been the cinematographer of numerous DGA Award and Emmy Award-winning documentary programs for HBO. For more details about Alex, visit www.importmedia.net

WITH PETER BRADLEY, a 2023 documentary about Saugerties artist Peter Bradley, is his feature directorial debut. After a successful film festival run last year, the film will now be distributed by Icarus Films.

WITH PETER BRADLEY is a moving portrait of an artist who has accomplished his life in dedicated fashion, with wit, tenderness, and strength. 79 years old and overlooked since the 1970s, abstract painter Peter Bradley reflects on life and shares his artistic process on the cusp of his rediscovery.

The first-ever theatrical screening will be presented at Upstate Films’ Orpheum Theater in Saugerties on June 30th at 7pm in the newly renovated Mark Theater. A Q&A with Alex and executive producer Beth Levison will follow the screening.

For tickets, visit www.upstatefilms.org/with-peter-bradley-w-dir-alex-rappoport