‘CREATING WOODSTOCK’

For Immediate Release

¡®CREATING WOODSTOCK¡¯

As the future of Woodstock 50 remains uncertain, a new documentary shows how

festival founders made the unimaginable possible in 1969.

Los Angeles, CA (June 11, 2019) ¨C With the future of the highly anticipated Woodstock 50 music festival

unclear, a younger generation may not know that the original ¡°Three Days of Peace and Music¡± were

also plagued by uncertainty, last-minute venue changes, a lack of headliners and permits¡­ and in fact it

almost didn¡¯t happen! With more than 70 hours of interviews with Woodstock producers, planners, and

performers ¨C director Mick Richards, who attended the 1969 festival as a teenager, has created the most

comprehensive and deeply researched look back at how the event came to be in CREATING

WOODSTOCK.

Three decades in the making, CREATING WOODSTOCK resurrects the original site blueprints, features

interviews with the founders of Woodstock Ventures ¨C John Roberts, Joel Rosenman, Michael Lang, and

Artie Kornfield ¨C and takes viewers from the initial idea of the ¡°happening¡± to the moments when the

last festival goer stumbled off Max Yasgur¡¯s once pastural alfalfa field. Cinema Libre Studio has acquired

the feature length documentary for a late July release.

¡°The producers, and everybody working on the original festival 50 years ago, somehow made it happen,¡±

says Mick Richards, director of CREATING WOODSTOCK. ¡°They were the finest production talent of their

time and through professionalism, strength of will and sheer tenacity the festival happened, with a few

minor glitches. So just like in ¡®69, I¡¯m confident that if there is a way to bring Woodstock 50 to fruition,

the producers will find it.¡±

The documentary features never-before-seen private film and rare archival video footage, original

interviews with key figures, and uncovered photographs that show just how much went in to pulling off

the impossible. First-hand accounts of little known stories are woven throughout the film, such as when

Jimi Hendrix was stranded at the airport and hitched a ride to the site, or when a bank manager was

awoken in the middle of the night to get money to pay The Who, which then needed to be helicoptered

to them before they would go on stage ¨C much like the personal supply of strawberries that Janis Joplin

required.

Synopsis: For three days in August 1969, nearly a half-million young people descended upon Max

Yasgur's farm in upstate New York for the rock ¡®n¡¯ roll event that defined a generation. Mythologized for

50 years, the filmmakers set the record straight with "Creating Woodstock,¡± the most comprehensive

examination of how the festival came to be using original interviews with key figures, rare archival

footage and unearthed photographs.

The founders of Woodstock Ventures ¨C John Roberts, Joel Rosenman, Michael Lang, and Artie Kornfeld ¨C

along with the best production talent on either coast, including John Morris, Bill Belmont, Mel Lawrence,

and Chip Monck recall moments from the initial idea for the festival, to the search for a suitable site and

then the race to build a venue, promote the event and, most importantly, book the bands.

Find out why the Grateful Dead wanted a ¡°do over" and Crosby, Stills & Nash weren¡¯t going to show up,

why The Who refused to play and Jimi Hendrix almost didn¡¯t make it, and how it turned into a free

concert. Richie Havens, Arlo Guthrie, and Leslie West recount their experiences, including performing on

a stage that nearly collapsed, and learn how a 15-year-old girl may have saved the festival from being

shut down entirely!

RELEASE DATE: July 30, 2019

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Director: Mick Richards | Producer: Mick Richards & Eric Morris | Exec. Producer: Paul H. Barry, Ike

Diogu & Kristin Nobles | A Virtue Films International and Elm Entertainment Production

ABOUT CINEMA LIBRE: Cinema Libre Studio is a full-service mini-studio known for producing and

distributing high quality feature films and social impact documentaries. Headquartered in the Los

Angeles area, the team has released over 200 films.

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