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Consider this a reminder to submit your film to the 26th Annual James River Short Film Showcase! All submissions 20min or less will be accepted! Should your film be chosen, it will be screened at the VMFA and eligible to receive a cash prize! The deadline for submissions is 12/15/20, don’t wait!

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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