Author: Sean Tubbs

Actor Paul Wilson talks with Sean McCord about how his participation in Big Stone Gap helped him and his brother Patrick Wilson reconnect with a Southwest Virginia ancestor. Big Stone Gap screens tonight at the Paramount Theater.

Writer and Director Damian Lahey speaks with Sean McCord about his film The Heroes of Arvine Place. The feature is about a recently widowed man who has to juggle many difficult things including two kids, overdrawn credit cards, a pair of dysfunctional sisters, and a chronically defective car. The film will screen Saturday, November 8, 2014 at the Downtown Regal followed by a discussion with Lahey, editor Craig Moorhead, and actress Celia Dusinberre.

Filmmaker Gordon Quinn talks with Sean McCord about the history of Kartemquin Films, the Chicago-based documentary company that has made films such as Hoop Dreams. Several pieces from Kartemquin’s history are being shown at the Virginia Film Festival, including The Interrupters.

Actor and writer Broocks Willich is covering the Virginia Film Festival for Virginia Living, but she is also participating this year as a member of the film industry. She wrote and appeared in the film D.I.G.I.T.A.L. High, which screened on Friday as part of the narrative shorts program. Willich speaks with Sean McCord about why she chose to base her career in Charlottesville and what she hopes to bring to next year’s festival.

Filmmaker Derek Young talks with Sean McCord about Midnight Matinee Psycho, which screens tonight at 11:45 pm at the Regal Downtown. Here’s the write-up from the Film Festival site.

There’s a psycho on the loose. People are dying at midnight movie screenings, apparent victims of a serial killer. Detective Holt and Metro Police have no leads – chaos and paranoia ensue. Clyde Stevens, an aspiring filmmaker, marries the beautiful Sara Young. Clyde’s son senses something is not right with his new stepmother and turns to his friend Charlie for help ridding his dad of her. Featuring cameos from Lloyd Kaufman of Troma Entertainment, Paul (Madman Marz) Ehlers, Victor Miller, Ari Lehman, Eric Morse, Michelle Shields, P.J. Soles, Sal Lizard, Mike Holman, and other horror cult favorites.

Director Nathan Clarke talks with Sean McCord about Wrestling For Jesus, a documentary that screens at 1:45 pm on Saturday at the Virginia Film Festival. Here’s the write-up from the festival.

“In rural South Carolina, Timothy Blackmon felt a calling to fill a spiritual void in himself and share it with his fellow man. His chosen method was an amateur Christian wrestling league. In the ring, Blackmon transforms into the villainous “T-Money” as he dukes it out with Christians who choose to worship through sport. While a boisterous spectacle on stage, behind closed doors, Blackmon grapples with a crumbling marriage and the suicide of his father – the man who told him to never stop wrestling. Without ever judging its subject, the film explores one man’s dichotomous spiritual struggle.”