Greetings from the new Festival Director

Director's Blog | Posted on May 26th, 2009 | Categorized as Director

Dear Friends of the Virginia Film Festival and the Virginia Film Society,

I feel honored and privileged to take the helm here at the Virginia Film Festival. I am excited with the great potential and plan to build upon the firm foundation that has already been established to help turn VFF into a top, destination film festival. I hope to program a film festival that engages the faculty, students, and the entire community of Charlottesville while reaching outward to create an ever evolving dialogue on film and the fascinating topics that it can cover. VFF is unique among film festivals because it’s unique partnership with the University of Virginia enables it to offer extraordinary resources that other festivals simply don’t have. I believe that a festival should reflect the community which it serves and I am looking forward to moving to Charlottesville with my family to become a part of that very special community.

Sincerely,

Jody Kielbasa

  1. Darlene Ferguson says:
    June 4th, 2009 at 2:57 pm

    WELCOME WELCOME Jody—Can you tell me about plans for U VA’s film efforts. I am here at Yale involved in film prgrams virtually every day and as teacher am most excited about films as an important means of teaching, motivating the difficult and gifted students alike if you will!!! The fact is I have included films with my disabled as well as gifted students over the long terms with much success.

    I look forward to hearing from you and please place me on the mailing list to be infomed of happenings!!

    Darlene Ferguson 6/4/09

    ps-will you be offering classes as such during the 2009 summer session at U VA???

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