2.17.11 Director of the Virginia Film Festival Jody Kielbasa joins Coy to discuss the upcoming Oscars celebration in Charlottesville. The Paramount Theater will hold the largest hi-def screening of the Oscars in the entire state on Sunday, February 27th. In addition, the official programs will be shipped to Charlottesville, and some great local restaurants will offer a variety of food and drink samples. Admission is $45, which includes unlimited wine and food, and tickets can be purchased here.
Nov 162010
11.16.10 Festival Director Jody Kielbasa joins Coy to wrap up the Virginia Film Festival. Highlighted are Black Swan and Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark, among others. Coy and Jody talk about the experience of being a director in terms of the work that goes in, the satisfaction of pulling it off, and the community response.
On the final day of the 2010 Virginia Film Festival, an episode of the AMC program Breaking Bad was screened, and the producers of the program took questions in a panel discusison. Show creator and writer Vince Gilligan and executive producer Mark Johnson provided live commentary of the show, which changed the rules of television drama.
When high school chemistry teacher Walter White (Bryan Cranston) is diagnosed with lung cancer and told his days are numbered, he realizes his responsibility to support his family after he is gone. Desperate for money to leave behind, he puts his chemistry skills to use… cooking meth. The show explores the extremes ordinary people are capable of in desperate situations. Cranston has won the Best Actor Emmy three years in a row for his portrayal of Walter White.
Tim and Daphne Reid are long-time friends and attendees of the Virginia Film Festival, and were in town this week to present work produced a by students in the Legacy Media Institute. Tim founded the institute at New Millenium Studios as as a way to provide hands-on education about the nuts and bolts of film-making. The Reids dropped by the filmmakers’ lounge on Saturday to tell Sean McCord all about it.
Clay Tweel and Steven Klein are director and producer respectively of the documentary Make Believe, which follows several teenage magicians as they learn their craft, find their community, and compete at the World Magic Seminar in Las Vegas.
Joey Groah of DIGICO Shoot | Post | Design dropped by the filmmaker’s lounge to discuss Beardo the Movie, a documentary about the 2009 Beard and Moustache Championships. Groah also talks about how his company decided to make the film.
Erica Arvold is a casting director and the chair of the Charlottesville chapter of the Virginia Production Alliance. She spoke with Sean McCord about filmmaking in this area, and her efforts to improve the talent pool to make it a destination for professional productions.
Mark Remes is the director of the Virginia Production Alliance. He dropped by the filmmaker’s lounge at Escafe to talk about the services the organization provides to the state’s video and film production industry.
Nov 062010
Andrew Bell is the senior historian at the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics. During this year’s festival, he introduced Primary, Robert Drew’s documentary about the 1960 Democratic primary in Wisconsin. The ground-breaking film was screened as part of the festival’s Six from ’60 series.
Nov 062010
Harry Chotiner is what you might call a friend of the Virginia Film Festival. For six years now, the NYU professor of film criticism has been traveling to Charlottesville to present lectures on key films being screened at the festival. Harry stopped by the filmmaker’s lounge at Escafe on the downtown mall to talk with Sean McCord.
One of the big hits of the documentary circuit this year is the Parking Lot Movie, which was shown at this year’s Virginia Film Festival. Director Meghan Eckman dropped by the filmmaker’s lounge at Escafe on the downtown mall to talk with Sean McCord about making the film, marketing the film, and what comes next.
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