Virginia Film Festival: Director Connor Hurley defines Skook
Connor Hurley is the director of Skook, a film about a woman whose boyfriend leaves her to join the Occupy Wall Street movement. When she returns to spend the holidays…[...]
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Virginia Film Festival: Director Jeff Preiss on his film Low Down
Jeff Preiss is the director of Low Down, a feature about the life of a 1970's era jazz pianist who puts his heroin addiction and music ahead of his daughter.…[...]
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Virginia Film Festival: Christopher Rogers on Halt and Catch Fire
Virginia native Christopher C. Rogers is the co-creator of Halt and Catch Fire, a television show that captures the rise of the PC era in the early 1980's. Rogers talks…[...]
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Virginia Film Festival: Out in the Night
[caption id="attachment_8043" align="alignleft" width="300"] Director Blair Dorosh-Walther and producer Giovanna Chesler.[/caption] In 2006, four young African-American lesbians in a gay-friendly neighborhood of New York City are violently and sexually threatened…[...]
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Virginia Film Festival: Beth Harrington and the legacy of Johnny Cash and the Carter Family
Documentary filmmaker and musician Beth Harrington talks about her film "The Winding Stream", a look at the original Carter Family and how they transformed to the Carter Sisters and Mother…[...]
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Virginia Film Festival: Song of the Cicadas
Documentary filmmaker Richard Robinson speaks with Sean McCord on his film Song of the Cicadas. Based on an idea from David Rothenberg's Bug Music, Song of the Cicadas explores the…[...]
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Virginia Film Festival: Documentary filmmaker Eduardo Montes Bradley
Documentary filmmaker Eduardo Montes Bradley speaks with Sean McCord on his films on poet Rita Dove and civil rights pioneer Julian Bond. Montes Bradley's documentaries on the pair "confronts the…[...]
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Virginia Film Festival: Alex Rafala on his short film Farewell Old Stringy
University of Virginia fourth year student Alex Rafala talks with Sean McCord about his film Farewell Old Stringy, a short film made in Charlottesville that tells the story of a…[...]
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Virginia Film Festival: Paul Wilson on the role he plays in Big Stone Gap
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…[...]
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Virginia Film Festival: Damian Lahey and The Heroes of Arvine Place
[caption id="attachment_8056" align="alignleft" width="300"] Damian Lahey[/caption]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…[...]
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Wake-Up Call: 2014 Virginia Film Festival
On the November 2nd Wake-Up Call, host Rick Moore talks to Festival Director Jody Kielbasa, Programmer Wesley Harris, and Podcaster Sean McCord about the 2014 Virginia Film Festival. During the…[...]
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Wake-Up Call: Intuitive Analyst, Lee Channing
Rick talks with Intuitive Analyst, Lee Channing, discussing work, life and well being. Lee delves into color; black is for protection, green for emotion, yellow intuitive. Conversation about major decisions,…[...]
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