Virginia Film Festival

A timely documentary on renowned political cartoonist Patrick Oliphant, whose career spanned five decades and ten U.S. Presidents.

An Australian transplant, Oliphant became America’s most renowned and feared political cartoonist for five decades. With his biting wit and masterful drawing skills, Oliphant attacked individual and institutional corruption, collusion, greed, hypocrisy and arrogance. A Savage Art tells the story of Oliphant’s life and celebrated career through interviews with Pat, his family, friends, and colleagues, alongside a rich trove of archival footage and hundreds of his cartoons.

Followed by a conversation with director and producer Bill Banowsky.