Short Film Showcase Prize Winners!

Millstone - Peter Hoffman Kimball

1st Place - $1,000

Return to Sender - Lee Vander Boegh

2nd Place - $750

Ana Morphose - Jao Rodrigues

3rd Place - $500

Happy Life - Sara Caldwell

Honorable Mention - $250

Tiger Lilly Mountain Pass - Nate King

Kathryn Stephens Virginia Filmmaker Award - $250

L' Hypermnesique (The Hypermnestic) - Julien Mouquet

People’s Choice - $250

Thank you so much to everyone who helped make this year’s showcase another fantastic one for the books! A special thanks to our Jurors and our guest judge Jerry Williams. To all our filmmakers, we appreciate you sharing your work with us, and hope you’ll consider us for all future projects!



CinemaNiche Presents: Eno

Visionary musician and artist Brian Eno, known for producing David Bowie, U2, Coldplay, and Talking Heads, among many others; pioneering the genre of ambient music; and releasing over 40 solo and collaboration albums-reveals his creative processes in this groundbreaking generative documentary: a film that's different every time it's shown, with 52 quintillion possible combinations.

Presented by CinemaNiche at Studio Two Three, Plan 9 and The James River Film Society. 

$13 admission. 

Cash bar / free popcorn 

Doors 7PM / film at 8PM

Advance tickets available here

30th Annual James River Short Film Showcase

Have a film you’d like to show off? Submit it to this year’s film showcase! For 30 years we’ve been running our annual film competition, and while formats have changed, the heart of the competition remains unchanged. $3,000 in prizes are up for grabs and a chance to have your film shown on the big screen! More details can be found on our FilmFreeway page, right here!

29th Annual James River Short Film Showcase Finalists

Sponsored by the Virginia Film Office and The James River Film Society.

Thank you very much to all those who submitted films this year; we've had a hard time doing so, but we've narrowed the finalists to those below:  

PROGRAM:

Kill Time, Ben Rinehardt, Richmond, VA - 7:52

Richmond Animation Archive, Kiara Danielle Brown, Richmond, VA - 14:35

Telephone Bingo, Nate Henry, Fredericksburg, VA - 3:48

Sweet Press, Laura Iancu, Blacksburg, VA - 7:00

Help Is...on the Way?, Jason A. White, Los Angeles, CA - 8:16

INTERMISSION

Adieu Gaston, Victor Guilbauld, Paris, FR - 15:00

A Little Sun, Daniel Caporaletti, Richmond, VA - 18:00

Judy's Garden, Evie Metz, Nick Daly, Richmond, VA - 7:00

You Can Breathe Now, Anthony Faust, Fairfax, VA - 9:26

Mix-Cycled Memories, Luke Mancari, Richmond, VA - 8:15

Full Program Here

Due to a change of venue this year and seating limitations, our program will be held on two nights. The identical program will be held on both nights with the exception of the prizes. Those will be handed out on the second night by our guest Judge

James Parrish Jr. (co-founder JRFF and “Flicker” curator 1999-2008)

The program this year will be held:

Thursday, January 11th from 6:30-9 PM at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Reynolds Lecture Hall, Richmond, Virginia, USA

Friday, January 12th from 6:30-9 PM at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Leslie Cheek Theater, Richmond, Virginia, USA

Tickets will be available at the door, and a limited number of advance tickets can be purchased using the link below:

TICKETS HERE

Thank you to all our Judges, Jurors, Staff, and, most importantly, our film submitters this year! We invite all submitters to consider us next year for any projects they might be working on! 

This year’s Jurors: Ashley, Caryl, Ken, Kevin, Tom, Todd, Jere, Raasa Leela, Coleman, and Shane