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Borscht Belt Film Festival

Ellenville’s cultural renaissance continues with the first annual Borscht Belt Film Festival at Shadowland Stages. Top billing goes to Ang Lee’s Taking Woodstock (2009), which fixes the 1969 festival in a Borsht Belt context. Lee will be in attendance for post-screening discussion. But don’t miss The Dancing Man: Peg Leg Bates (1993), David Davidson documentary about the legendary one-legged tap dancer who opened a landmark Black Catskills resort.