Virginia Film Festival

Conversation with Kwaku Alston

This event will include a screening of Alston's short film Alone  Kwaku Alston has photographed some of…

Big Fur

World champion Canadian taxidermist Ken Walker undertakes the biggest challenge of his career in this funny…

Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment

In June 1963, director Robert Drew’s camera crew followed President John F. Kennedy and his staff…

We Believe in Dinosaurs

America houses countless viewpoints and the acceptable methods of expressing them are consistently called into question.…

We Are the Radical Monarchs

Over the course of several years, director Linda Goldstein Knowlton has followed the unexpected rise of…

The Spy Behind Home Plate

Jewish baseball player Morris “Moe” Berg appeared as an enigmatic and brilliant player in the Major…

Song Without a Name

In a Peruvian clinic, a young woman gives birth to a healthy baby girl, only to…

Queen of the Capital

Bureaucrat by day, drag queen crusader by night, Muffy Blake Stephyns has high aspirations. Muffy and…

Primary

It is April of 1960, and John F. Kennedy and Hubert H. Humphrey are gearing up…

Mickey and the Bear

Mickey is a young girl living in Anaconda, Montana, with her unstable, unemployed, and uninvolved ex-Marine…

Light House Studio Shorts

A nonprofit filmmaking center dedicated to teaching students self-expression through filmmaking, Light House Studio’s work has…

Jaddoland

Director Nadia Shihab returns to her home in Lubbock, Texas,to visit her mother, an artist from…

I’ve Got Issues

Self-loathing, loneliness, death, discrimination, injustice, oppression, and the atom bomb, I’ve Got Issues is a unique comic…

Field of Dreams

While walking through his cornfield one evening, Iowa farmer Ray Kinsella hears a voice whispering, “if…

Bacurau

Teresa returns to her village of Bacurau, located in Brazil’s semi-arid sertão, following the death of…