Join us September 2nd at 6:30pm at Greenville Drive-In Outdoor Cinema for a special pre-release screening of Michael Almereyda's TESLA, starring Ethan Hawke, Eve Hewson, Jim Gaffigan, Hannah Gross & Kyle MacLachlan. The film screened at this year's Sundance Film Festival where it received the Alfred P. Sloan Award.
If you're planning on attending the event in a Tesla, please notify us ahead of time by emailing info@woodstockfilmfestival.org.
Courtesy of IFC Films.
Doors open at 6:30pm. Movie starts at 8:00pm. Come early and enjoy socially distanced dinner and cocktails outdoors from the menu of food and beverages available for purchase.
ABOUT THE FILM:
Brilliant, visionary Nikola Tesla (Ethan Hawke) fights an uphill battle to bring his revolutionary electrical system to fruition, then faces thornier challenges with his new system for worldwide wireless energy. The film tracks Tesla’s uneasy interactions with his fellow inventor Thomas Edison (Kyle MacLachlan) and his patron George Westinghouse (Jim Gaffigan). Another thread traces Tesla’s sidewinding courtship of financial titan J.P. Morgan (Donnie Keshawarz), whose daughter Anne (Eve Hewson) takes a more than casual interest in the inventor. Anne analyzes and presents the story as it unfolds, offering a distinctly modern voice to this scientific period drama which, like its subject, defies convention.
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR:
Michael Almereyda is a multiple award-winning filmmaker whose work premiered at some of the world’s most prestigious films festivals including Venice and Sundance. His films MARJORIE PRIME and TESLA were both awarded the Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize. His film EXPERIMENTER premiered at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival. TESLA marks the third time Almereyda has worked with Ethan Hawke, the other two being his 2014 Shakespeare adaptation CYMBELINE, and his 2000 modern adaptation of HAMLET.