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),
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,
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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