Jane Brinton: Water Bearers to Indigenous Tribes of Ecuador,
Dir. Hernán Salcedo, Ecuador, EP. Albert H. Crane, Virginia 10:00
Monument, Jeremy Drummond, 16:45, Richmond, VA
Bird Movie, Lauryn Lingenfelter, 5:30, VA
Computer Blue, Nathan Conrad Piskator, 13:38, Richmond, VA
The Kennel, Julian Banks, 11:28, Newport News, VA
Intermission
J. J., Adam Dietrich and Elliott Gilbert, 17:00, Corsicana, TX
Work From Home, Justin Lamb, 5:38, Washington, D.C.
Texas Strange, Justin Eugene Evans, 9:23, Taipei, Taiwan
As You Liked It! A Reflection on Waste Culture,
Emmy Weldon, Cat McCarthy, 13:00, Richmond, VA
Come Join US!
Friday, January 16, 6:30–9:00 PM
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Leslie Cheek Theatre
Tickets can be found: HERE
AWARDS PRESENTATION: $3,000 in prizes! Plus, the Kathryn Stephens VA Filmmaker, & People's Choice Awards TBA at the screening's conclusion.
2026 James River Showcase Judge:
Don Harrison as a journalist and critic has been covering music, art and film for over three decades. A multiple VA Press Association winner, Mr. Harrison's writ-ing has been featured in Style Weekly, Richmond Magazine, 64 Magazine, The Washington Post, Virginia Pilot among others; he also hosts a popular interview program at WRIR, “Open Source.”
2026 JAMES RIVER SHOWCASE JURORS:
Caryl Burtner is an award winning conceptual artist who saw her first movie—The Snow Queen—at age two at the behest of her mother. Thousands of films later, and despite a growing collection of ticket stubs, she still screens avidly.
Tom Campagnoli watched Moby Dick and Hitchcock with his father as a boy, and later managed and projected films at Richmond's Biograph Theatre. He also starred as Kosmo in the RVA animated epic, Futuropolis.
Raasa Leela De Montebello is an award-winning filmmaker and actress who divides her time between NYC and Ashland, VA. An NYU film grad, her film have won numerous awards in Richmond's 48 Hour Film Projects.
Kevin Downs is a screenwriter and producer/director of numerous music videos. Edu-cated at VCU and NYU, he currently teaches screenwriting at Georgetown University.
Mine Eren is Chair of Modern Languages and Director of Film Studies at R-MC, holds a PhD from Brown U., and has organized several festivals to introduce German & Turkish filmmakers to new audiences.
Ken Hopson oversees The Workshop at VCU Libraries, which collaborates with academic research and design via emerging media technologies. His own narrative is a loose adaptation of an unscripted true story..
Jere Kittle is an RVA award-winning photographer, artist and filmmaker. Her work was a finalist in the London Int'l. Super-8 Fest: Straight 8, and also the Phillips Collection“American Moments” in DC in 2015.
Jeff Roll has a BFA in graphic design/photography, has served as Volunteer Co-ordinator and Vice-President of the JRFS, and for eight years curated/hosted the James River Filmmakers Forum; in 2019 he founded Cinema Niche at Studio Two Three.
Janet Scagnelli worked in commercial animation in NYC producing spots for Sesame St. and later with Nickelodeon. In Richmond she co-produced/edited the documentary Gentle Woman of a Dangerous Kind on peace activist Marii Hasegawa.
Todd Starkweather has PhD. in English, Univ. of Illinois-Chicago, where he also studied film theory. Having taught literature, writing, and film studies at various colleges the past twenty years, he currently teaches English in middle school.
Special thanks: Don Harrison, the jurors, & VMFA. The JR Short Film Showcase is sponsored annually by the VA Film Office, and JRFS. More info @ jamesriverfilm.org
