Join us MARCH 19th - 23th, 2025 with Special Guest Gary Lucas!
Renowned guitarist/composer Gary Lucas is back with a world premiere score to FREAKS (dir: Tod Browning, '32)
More info and full schedule coming soon!
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!
James River Short Film Showcase at the VMFA
This event has be rescheduled for Friday January 17th, 2024 6:30PM
All previously purchased tickets are still good for the new date!
Join us on the evening of January 10th @ 6:30 PM at Leslie Cheek Theatre for our finalist screening and awards presentation of this year's Short Film Showcase. Our guest judge Jerry Williams will award $3,000 in prizes to those winners. Tickets can be purchased for $8 in advance. $5 for VMFA Members.
Good Luck to all our finalists!
Tickets HERE
Program Here and Below
Silent Music Revival is BACK!
Richmond’s long running film series that pairs musicians w/ silent cinema they’ve never seen before the event
Holiday edition featuring the film:
Kerstmis-Herinneringen (1925)
w/ LIVE spoken word translations
w/ LIVE musical score by:
Mead The Dear
https://meadsound.bandcamp.com/
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 14th
SHOP TWO THREE
1437 Hull Street
Event: 7-9PM
7pm • Doors
7:30 • Film
Limited Seating-come on time
DONATION$ GREATLY APPRECIATED
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!
Announcing the 30th Annual James River Film Festival!
Art by Chris Hibben
Advance tickets for all paid events:
Click Here!
Want a free t-shirt and festival pass? Volunteers needed for select events!
Email: Kerri@jamesriverfilm.org
The drive-in movie experience at the Byrd!
Prize Winners, 29th James River Short Film Showcase
Thanks to everyone who came out to this year's Showcase! Your presence and support made it a truly unforgettable experience for all of us. It was terrific to see so many passionate film enthusiasts come together and share their love for cinema.
I hope you enjoyed the screening as much as we did and that it exceeded your expectations. It was an absolute pleasure to have you with us, and we look forward to welcoming you back next year.
The prize winners are listed below:
1st Place $700
Judy's Garden, Evie Metz, Nick Daly, Richmond, VA
2nd Place $500
Kill Time, Ben Rinehardt, Richmond, VA
3rd Place $300
Adieu Gaston, Victor Guilbauld, Paris, FR
Kathryn Stephens, Virginia Filmmaker Award $250
Telephone Bingo, Nate Henry, Fredericksburg, VA
People's Choice Award $250
Telephone Bingo, Nate Henry, Fredericksburg, VA
Once again, Thanks to all the filmmakers, Jurors, Judges, the VMFA, and the VFO, not just this year but EVERY year!