Click Here for All Press Releases 16th Annual Virginia Film Festival Will Show You the $ | September 25, 2003 October 23-26, 2003 - Charlottesville, Virginia From low-budget to mega-budget, four days of movies on moolah...…with opening night guests Dog Day Afternoon screenwriter Frank Pierson and bankrobber "Sir Little John" S. Wojtowicz and guest directors Charles Burnett and Rob Nilsson, Aboriginal actor-dancer-musician David Gulpilil, artists Pierre Huyghe and Phil Solomon, premieres of The Barbarian Invasions, Speedo, and The Cooler, plus DePalma's Scarface, Katharine Hepburn in The Philadelphia Story, Keaton's Seven Chances with music by Anne Watts and Boister, and more! 2003 VIRGINIA FILM FESTIVAL WILL SHOW US THE MONEY | February 19, 2003 The full Virginia Film Festival program will be released, and online ticket sales will begin, on September 26. Over eighty classic and premiere screenings and nearly one hundred guest filmmakers and speakers will address the theme of “$.” Events will be held at sites throughout Charlottesville, Virginia from October 23-26, 2003. Featured guests will include indie director Rob Nilsson presenting the U.S. premiere of Noise; The Darden Producers Forum speaker Paul Junger Witt on Three Kings; Screenwriters Wayne and Donna Powers on remaking The Italian Job. Feature film premieres will include The Cooler, starring William H. Macy and Alec Baldwin; John Sayles' Case de los Babys; and David Williams' Long Art. Classics on the big screen include Citizen Kane, Buster Keaton's Seven Chances, and The Treasure of the Sierra Madre! Special events include the Opening Night Gala Party at the U.Va. Art Museum and the Fringe Festival of the arts in downtown Much more is on the way! Film Society 2003-2004 | September 17, 2003 Virginia Festival Film Society Announces 2003-2004 Season Fall Series present First-Person/Non-Fiction and Handmade Movies Spring Series explore Media Collage and C’ville Arts Society collaborations: from Cremaster to Classics Special Advance Screening of Cold Mountain | December 4, 2003 Miramax Films announces a special advance screening of Anthony Minghella’s Cold Mountain, starring Nicole Kidman, Jude Law, and Renee Zellweger, to benefit the Virginia Film Festival on Saturday, December 13 at Newcomb Hall Theatre at 6:30pm. Two guest speakers who were involved in the film’s location shooting in Virginia will introduce the film, and three eminent Civil War scholars will participate in a post-film discussion. Film Society Spring Schedule to Feature Sample This: The Art of Collage | January 12, 2004 Click here for our complete Spring Film Society Schedule. The Virginia Festival Film Society, in partnership with the U.Va. Art Museum and the American Studies Program, has coordinated an ambitious series of screenings, lectures and performances entitled SAMPLE THIS: THE ART OF COLLAGE. The programs will supplement the Museum’s exhibition, American Collage, which will include important artworks drawn from the Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C. The Museum exhibition runs from January 23 – August 22 and the Sample This programs will take place throughout February, March and April. Click Here for All Images Coal Tower | April 23, 2004 George Kuchar | April 23, 2004 Prelinger | February 11, 2004 Christian Marclay | February 3, 2004 Marina Rosenfeld- djTRIO | February 3, 2004 Videos Brett Simon's "Counterfeit Film" | September 24, 2003 A quick look at money, movies, and reproduction.  See it now online and in 35mm film at the Festival on October 25!View Quicktime Video