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The Virginia Festival Film Society extends the Festival atmosphere throughout the year. The Film Society hosts screenings featuring independent filmmakers who engage our audiences in lively discussions. During the past year, we presented six films, in addition to the annual Black Maria Traveling Experimental Film and Video Festival. The series was co-sponsored by the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities.

January: Always a Bridesmaid with Nina Davenport
Davenport explored love and marriage in her autobiographical film

February: The McCollege Tour with Kyle Henry
The Film Society presented University Inc., Kyle Henry's biting investigation into the closing of the Union Film Program at UT-Austin, along with The Subtext of a Yale Education.

March: Black Maria Film and Video Festival with John Columbus
This festival of short films made its eighth local visit.

April: Tax Day with Laura Colella
Tax Day explored the pleasures of a leisurely walk to the post office for two friends who encounter an eclectic mix of townspeople along the way.

October: Stranger with a Camera with Elizabeth Barret
This haunting and provocative film from Appalshop filmmaker Elizabeth Barret explored the shocking murder of a Northern filmmaker shooting in the coal-mining heart of Appalachia's "poverty belt."

November: The Wilgus Stories with Andrew Garrison and Frank Hoyt Taylor
This trilogy of captivating and authentic rural short story adaptations based on Gurney Norman's "Kinfolk Stories" starred Ned Beatty and Frank Hoyt Taylor.

December: Quartier Mozart with Jean-Pierre Bekolo
This 1992 film by Cameroonian director Bekolo introduced a stylistic exuberance never before witnessed in African Cinema. The film explored the relationship between economic poverty and forms of cultural violence, including male chauvinism.

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