19th Virginia Film Festival Finds God at the Movies & Record-Breaking Success
| November 1, 2006
The Virginia Film Festival set out this year to examine the process of finding God at the movies and ended up finding unprecedented success as well. The four-day cultural extravaganza lit up screens and ignited imaginations across Charlottesville with its unique combination of screenings, discussions and musical events, boasting a record 32 sold out events and drawing a record 14,699 attendees. The figure represents a 12 percent jump from last year’s event, which attracted 13,139.
|
Virginia Film Society Offers Final Screening in Fall Lineup
| November 8, 2006
A massive stretch of water opens up on the surface of icy North Long Lake in Brainerd, Minn. Determined to unravel this mystery for a television pilot called “Provincial Puzzlers,” an aspiring director is slowly engulfed in a maniacal search that leads to his own unraveling. Matt Zoller Seitz of the New York Press writes of “The Hole Story”: “It was one of my favorite unreleased films of last year and one of the saddest and funniest debuts I’ve ever seen.”
|
 19th Virginia Film Festival Offers Hints of “Revelations” to Come
| September 6, 2006
Charlottesville, VA – September 6 – The hour of “Revelations” is still weeks away, but the Virginia Film Festival is so full of divine inspiration that it is sharing hints of what audiences can expect when the 19th annual event arrives from October 26th-29th.
Festival Director and Guru Richard Herskowitz, is hard at work putting the finishing touches on Revelations: Finding God at the Movies, which will feature over one hundred films and speakers around the theme of spirituality and film. The entire Festival schedule, along with other special announcements, will be released on September 29.
|
 VA Film Festival to Present Special FREE Preview of “Little Miss Sunshine”
| July 25, 2006
The Virginia Film Festival will present a free preview screening of the Sundance sensation, “LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE,” on Thursday, Aug. 10, at 7 p.m. in Regal Downtown Mall Cinema. “LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE” stars an award-winning ensemble cast led by Greg Kinnear, Toni Collette, Steve Carell and Paul Dano with Abigail Breslin and Alan Arkin.
|
 "Eye/ Machine Compilation" in Summer Film Series at New Art Acress the Bridge
| June 20, 2006
The Summer Film Series at New Art Across The Bridge continues with Harun Farocki's THE EYE / MACHINE COMPILATION on Friday, July 21. The videos in this three-part series "are unembellished to the point of austerity, but in their stripped-down, virtual verité style, these films become hypnotic." (Frances Richard, Artforum)
|
|
is proud to contribute to the Va Film Festival by creating their website & online ticket
ordering system
Paul Wagner in Church
The Paramount
Freeman, Duvall, Schreiber at Actors Forum
William Moseley Q&A
Schreiber & Freeman at Actors Forum