Firehouse News
James River Film Festival Events - Friday, April 17
posted on March 30, 2009
The Firehouse Theatre hosts an evening of cinematographic events during the 16th annual James River Film Festival. Showing across film venues in the city of Richmond from April 12-18, the JRFF brings the following exciting, innovative, and affordable films and events to the Firehouse:
All Firehouse events occur Friday, April 17:
4:00 p.m., FREE - Student Films from the Maggie L. Walker Governor’s School for Government & International Studies: A selection of films from the past two years by students of the Senior Seminar in Digital Filmmaking at Maggie Walker, followed by a Q&A session with the student filmmakers. Introduced by Todd Raviotta.
6:00-7:30 p.m., FREE - Virginia Film Office Reception: Join us for hors d’oeuvres courtesy of the Virginia Film Office and meet this year’s guests! Open to the public. Cash bar.
7:30 p.m., FREE - JRFF Juried Competition Finalists: 11 finalists’ short films previously selected by the jury will be viewed, and this year’s winners selected from among them to receive $2,000 in prizes. Approximately 90 minutes. Competition co-sponsored by the JRFF, the Virginia Film Office, and the Virginia Production Alliance.
10:30 p.m., $6 admission - My Winnipeg (Guy Maddin, 2008, 78 min.). Part essay, part diary, and hands down, flat-out one of the best films of 2008. Maddin’s “docu-fantasia” (his term) about his hometown is as personal as it is fanciful - tidbits from the Maddin family closet are woven seamlessly with wild yarns of Winnipeg’s frontiering, using archival and staged footage and layered with the filmmaker’s own voice-over in perhaps the most surreal documentary since Luis Buñuel’s Las Hurdes, aka Land Without Bread. My Winnipeg is a brilliant, sad, and funny film, starring the late cult actress Ann Savage (Detour) as the director’s mother.
For more information about the James River Film Festival and other events during it, please visit the Richmond Moving Image Co-op’s website.