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From Top: Screenwriters Panel, Featuring Kevin Hershberger, Frank Pierson, Steven Peros, Godfrey Cheshire, Gregory Allen Howard, and Drina Kay; Stan Winston; Ray Carney.  


"Each year, festival director Richard Herskowitz chooses a theme and, in principle at least, all the film selections and accoutrements (musical events, art exhibitions, lectures at the University of Virginia, the festival's chief sponsor) are based on it. What is most impressive about this [four]-day festival, and perhaps unique, is that the topics, far from acting as an inhibiting straightjacket, actually allow audiences to think through an idea in all its various permutations. Yet while the intelligent, cine-literate audiences that populate screenings are never condescended to, neither are they overwhelmed by academic gobbledgook, and the overall effect is of an intellectually stimulating weekend that doesn't seem too much like work."
-Peter Brunette, Indiewire.com

"The Virginia Film Festival is always a classy and well-organized affair, with imaginative entries and top notch guests like last year's Anthony Hopkins appearance and Ms. Rowlands this year."
-Carl Larsen, The News Leader


"The biggest hit of all, though, was the supremely voluble Sydney Pollack, who, counting his appearances before and after several of his movies and his director's workshop at the university, must have spent more than ten hours talking to audiences...Pollack regaled the audience with behind the scenes stories of the making of many of his films, and in the director's workshop, he closely analyzed scenes from They Shoot Horses and Tootsie. This fascinating mini-course in direction should have been worth three credits for every film student in the room."
-Peter Brunette, Indiewire.com


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