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Annual membership benefits include free admission to all nine Film
Society events and to the Festival screening of All that Heaven
Allows, plus two passes to Regal Cinemas. Memberships can be
purchased at the Vinegar Hill box office before Film Society screenings
or ONLINE after September 20. Screenings presented
with the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities.
$40
Annual Membership
$30 Seniors & Students
$7 Individual Admission
(except Lewis and Clark and Lucky Bum Film Tour)
All
screenings take place on Wednesdays at 7:00pm at Vinegar Hill Theatre
except Lucky Bum Film Tour and Lewis and Clark.
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Sept.
18 FACING THE MUSIC
with Peggy Baggett (Executive Director, Va. Commission
for the Arts) and composer Judith Shatin
Australian ethnographic filmmakers Robin Connolly and
Bob Anderson observe distinguished composer and University
professor Ann Boyd becoming radicalized by the harmful
effects of state budget cuts on her students and educational
ideals. |
Oct.
9 LUCKY BUM FILM TOUR
with
Bill Daniel and Vanessa Renwick (Plan 9 on the Corner,
8pm, $3)
Portland-based filmmakers Vanessa Renwick and Bill Daniels
are touring the country with this program of "lo-fi"
films, including Daniel's The Girl on the Train in the
Moon, a video and sound installation and Renwick's Richart,
on a former mental patient turned obsessive junk sculptor. |
Nov.
13 SCOTTSBORO: AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY
with Barak Goodman
In March 1931, two white women in Alabama accused nine
young black men of gang-raping them aboard a freight.
Barely escaping the lynch mob, they were put on trial
and sentenced to the electric chair. The film brings to
life the many characters involved and the almost unbelievable
drama of real-life events. |
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Jan.
16 LEWIS AND CLARK: THE JOURNEY OF THE CORPS OF DISCOVERY
with
Ken Burns and Dayton Duncan
(Culbreth Theatre, 8pm)
In collaboration with Jefferson's West: A Lewis and Clark
Exposition, which launches the Lewis and Clark bicentennial
celebration, the Festival Film Society presents this special
evening with filmmaker Ken Burns and his co-writer on
Lewis and Clark, Dayton Duncan. One of the series' four
episodes will be screened and discussed. |
Feb.
12 HOW'S YOUR NEWS?
with
Arthur Bradford
In 1995 writer Arthur Bradford, who taught a course in
video production at a camp for the mentally and physically
disabled in Massachusetts, took five of his students on
a trip across America. "A knockout...sweetly touching
and often hilarious" (The Boston Globe). |
Mar.
19 BLACK MARIA FILM AND VIDEO FESTIVAL
with
John Columbus
It's the ninth annual visit of this wonderful touring
collection of new independent documentary, animated and
experimental short films. |
Apr.
TBA THREE FILMS FROM THE NEW ARGENTINE CINEMA
with
guest filmmakers and speakers to be announced
For the past several years, Argentina's new cinema has
been commanding world attention. See three key works and
hear from artists and critics in this special series planned
for the spring. |
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