Festival Gala Parties

TNT AND DirecTV PRESENT THE OPENING NIGHT CELEBRATION AT THE BAYLY ART MUSEUM

October 30, 5:30 - 7:15PM BAYLY ART MUSEUM ADMISSION: $35

Come and mingle with Festival guest stars at the opening party that launches the Festival each year. Savor the delicious hors d'oeuvres and experience the Caged art displays (including A Holy Experiment by media installation artist Beth B, who will be present), before plunging into four days of endless moviegoing.

SPRINT PRESENTS THE SATURDAY NIGHT GALA PARTY AT GLENMORE: A NEW DECADE, A NEW MILLENNIUM

NOVEMBER 1, 9:00PM - MIDNIGHT ADMISSION: $50

Celebrate the beginning of the Festival's second decade and the opening of New Millennium Studio with Tim and Daphne Reid and other guest stars as the Festival brings back the elegance of its legendary closing parties. Enjoy live music, delicious food, and some special surprises at this year's festivities.

SPECIAL RECEPTIONS

 FRIDAY, OCT. 31

POUSSE CAFE

8PM REGAL DOWNTOWN MALL ADMISSION: $10

Bravo and Adelphia are hosting a reception for the cast and crew of Pousse Café following its premiere at Regal Theater. A cash bar serving classic cocktails will satisfy your thirst will after watching the film's two leading characters mix many delicious libations .

SATURDAY, NOV. 1

WINDHORSE

6PM BAYLY MUSEUM AND CULBRETH THEATRE ADMISSION: $25

The cast and crew of Paul Wagner's Windhorse invite you to join them for delicious wine, food and art at the Bayly Museum prior to the 7:30pm special preview screening of this important new movie. This event is a special benefit for the Tibetan Nuns Project.

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 29

FILMWATCHERS PRESENTS TITICUT FOLLIES

4:30, 7, 9PM 402 WILSON HALL ADMISSION: $3.00

U.Va.'s weekly Filmwatchers series, programmed by Professor Walter Korte, presents Frederick Wiseman's classic film about a mental institution. Questioning the sanity of the hospital's authorities and the insanity of its inmates, the film was extremely controversial on its release in 1967 and was banned for many years in the State of Massachusetts.

WOMEN MAKE MOVIES: THE 25TH ANNIVERSARY

For the 25 ^th anniversary of the leading distributor of women-produced independent films and videos, the Festival is bringing Women Make Movies director Debra Zimmerman and filmmaker Su Friedrich to present the area premiere of Friedrich's Hide and Seek . The screening will be followed by a reception for Women Make Movies and the Festival's invited women filmmakers at the Omni Hotel. Zimmerman will also lead a discussion of Calling the Ghosts , on the use of rape as a terrorist weapon in Bosnia, with Bruni Burres of Human Rights Watch. These programs are cosponsored by the Women's Center and the Women's Studies Program.

HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH FILM FESTIVAL

Time Out New York called it the Film Festival " that constructs art out of hidden lives and avoids the films that make politics out of easy sentiments." The Human Rights Watch Film Festival in New York City sparked, not unusually, much debate and controversy this year with Waco: The Rules of Engagement . Festival Director Bruni Burres will be here to present this film along with Calling the Ghosts and Black Kites , shown at the 1996 Festival and distributed by Women Make Movies.