Beacon Film Society presents…

MATCH IN A HAYSTACK

Thursday October 16, 2025
7:30p (7p doors open)

Howland Cultural Center 

477 Main Street  Beacon NY  12508

Q&A with film editor Arielle Sherman will follow the screening.

When Russia invaded, the women of Ukraine’s leading contemporary dance group struggled to find purpose in their work. A search for resistance ultimately led them back to dance.

Dance becomes an act of bravery in Match in a Haystack, a new documentary film following a dance troupe in Ukraine directed by Joe Hill and executive produced by Misty Copeland, the first African American woman to be promoted to principal dancer at the American Ballet Theatre. 

“The message of Match in a Haystack is that art is resistance, that creation in the face of destruction is an assertion of humanity, identity, culture.”

–LA Times Film Critic Katie Walsh

Arielle Sherman is an Emmy award winning NYC based film and television editor. She began her professional career working as an assistant editor, and VFX editor on many critically acclaimed and commercially successful feature films and television series before shifting into editing full time.

Arielle has always believed in the power of storytelling through visual mediums. Through editing, she is able to experiment with and expound on the boundaries of both narrative and visual aesthetics.

She is a born and raised Californian and currently lives in Brooklyn, New York.