Gabriel Deloach is the director of The Harvest: A Story about Giving which screened on Friday, November 2. Kirsten Docherty is the editor. They spoke with Sean McCord about their film.

Dan Mirvish is the director and writer of Between Us, a film based on an off-Broadway play. Mirvish is taking the picture around the film festival circuit, including a screening Saturday at 7:00 pm at Vinegar Hill Theater.

Actor and Charlottesville native Billy Campbell speaks with Sean McCord about his role in Fat Kid Rules the World, a film by director Matthew Lillard. The film screens Sunday at 7:00 pm at Newcomb Hall. Campbell also talks about the experience of working on AMC’s The Killing.

Director Joseph Weindl stopped by Main Street Arena to speak with Sean McCord about Antihero, his first feature film. The movie, which screens tonight at 9:00 pm Newcomb Hall, tells the story of a man who develops a superpower but doesn’t necessarily use it for good.

Zac Grigg is the director of Willie, a documentary about Willie Greenough, an autistic man and resident of Innisfree Village who makes architectural models. The film screens at Newcomb Hall at 11:00 am on Sunday.

Mystery writer and screenwriter Brian Lee Weakland is one of three winners of the 2012 Virginia Screenwriting Competition for a script called Klaus the Great about a 99-year-old retired philosophy professor whose legacy is at stake. Weakland is a first time attendee of the Virginia Film Festival.

Director Eduardo Montes-Bradley will present his film on Julian Bond on Sunday at noon in Nau Auditorium at the University of Virginia. Here he talks with Sean McCord about why he decided to do a film about the civil rights icon.

Animator Elyse Kelly talks with Sean McCord about Mira’s Night, a short film about a girl who puts the stars in the sky. The short will screen before Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs on Saturday at 10:30 am at the Paramount Theater.

Todd Fletcher plays a filmmaker in Portrait of a Zombie, a movie about a working-class Irish family that has a zombie for a son. Rather than kill him, the family decides to care for him anyway, alienating neighbors. The film screens at Regal 2 on Sunday at 9:30 pm.

 

Photographer Aaron Ferrington is the director of Faces in the Mirror, a film made with Boyd Tinsley and shot by Johnny St. Ours. The film will screen Saturday November 3 at 2:30 pm in Newcomb Theater.

Sean McCord speaks with Doug and Judy Bari, the makers of The Dog Stays in the Picture. The documentary tells the story of their beloved Boston Terrier. Caesar died after spending 13 years with their family and then a rescue dog named Sophie who came into their life. The film screens at Vinegar Hill Theater on Saturday at 11:30 am.

The independent film House Hunting makes it debut on Saturday, November 3 at 10:00 pm at the Virginia Festival of Film. Sean McCord speaks with writer-director Eric Hurt, producer Pat Cassidy and producer and casting director Erica Arvold.