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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