27th Annual James River Film Fest Cancelled

Due to current and unprecedented circumstances we regret having to cancel our programs for the 27th James River Film Festival, March 18-22.

Cinema should pull people together and that's been our aim since '94, but maybe not this year. We plan to revive some of the events in the coming months at various venues so stay tuned.

stay healthy and thanks for your support.

We hope to see you soon,

JRFF Committee

Announcing the 2020 James River Film Festival

The 27th James River Film Festival RVA runs March 18-22, 2020 with events screening at the VA Museum of Fine Arts, Byrd Theatre, VCU's Grace St. Theater, Gallery 5 and Richmond's Main Public Library.


special guests include:

RON MANN, one of Canada's foremost documentarians, from a country with a strong documentary heritage; we'll be screening Comic Book Confidential ('89) and his latest, Carmine St. Guitars (2019),

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KEVIN WILLMOTT, screenwriter/director/actor shared a 2018 Academy Award for Best Screenplay with Spike Lee for BlacKkKlansman, which will be screened along with his mockumentary film, Confederate States of America (2004).  He also co-scripted Lee's Chi-Raq and the up-coming series Da 5 Bloods,

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Premiere Screenings:

Other Music (dir: Hatch-Miller, Basu, 2019),  a fond look at one of NY's beloved indie record stores,

One Man Dies A Million Times (dir: Oreck, 2019), a true story, set in the future,

How Andy Invented a Superstar/ How Andy Met Lou Reed, the Velvet Underground and Nico (dir: Shoor, Nagle, 2019), tales from Warhol's Factory by those who lived them,

Other Screenings:

Neil Young's/Bernard Shaky's  Human Highway;  Rockers, a forgotten reggae gem;

The NY hip cult classic, Liquid Sky; Jean Cocteau's Beauty and the Beast; Silent/Music Revival screens Cocteau's Blood of a Poet w/ The Photosynthesizers


More guests/programs/details to come:  jamesriverfilm.org

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See you this Fall!

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Congratulations to this year’s finalists!

Good Conversation   Jenn Gomez  (14:02, MA)

Petrichor  Mireille Heidbreder  (6:08, VA)

The Guide  Shayne Hatfield  (11:05, VA)

UNCLE'S CAR  C. E. Dye  (7:11, NM)

Here Lies Beatrice  Katarina Docalovich  (12:23, NY)

Story of the Dreaming Water, Chap. Two  Brittany Gravely  (3:00, MA)

By Any Other Name  Peter Kimball  (12:38, Wash., DC)

Tous Les Jours  Nicholas Mullins  (13:35, GA)

The Usual Route  Cory Warner  (11:00, CA)

The Bartender  Travis Newsad  (10:00, MA)

Stuck in Between  Burcu Halacoglu  (6:00, Turkey)

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