The Expanded Festival


Storming The Media:
A Forum For Future Filmmakers

The Virginia Film Festival and the Virginia Film Office are launching this exciting new program directed towards aspiring filmmakers and all others interested in how films get made. All events will take place in Newcomb Hall Auditorium, which is conveniently located on the UVA campus alongside the Emmet Street Parking Garage. Cosponsored with the Film and Media Society at U.Va.

 

FRIDAY, OCT. 31

1PM THE CREATIVE USE OF CONFINED LOCATIONS
with Beth B and Susan Winter

4PM PRESENTING NEW MILLENNIUM STUDIOS
with Daphne Reid and Rita McClenny

SATURDAY, NOV. 1

1PM PRODUCERS PANEL
with Mark Johnson, Marshall Persinger, and others

4PM SCREENWRITERS PANEL
featuring the film Chekhov's Gun with Frank Pierson, Richard Tuggle, Vince Gilligan, and Donna Powers.

SUNDAY, NOV. 2

10AM DOCUMENTARY TO FICTION: THE MAKING OF WINDHORSE
with Paul Wagner

12PM ACTING FOR FILMS with Camille Cooper

2PM STUDENT FILM SHOWCASE
Part One: Fallen Angels
Part Two (2:30): New Films from U.Va., VCU, Regent and other campuses

 


Exhibits

AT THE BAYLY:

BETH B'S A HOLY EXPERIMENT

The Bayly Art Museum presents Beth B's video/sculpture installation, a reconstruction of an actual prison cell in Philadelphia's Eastern State Penitentiary, through November 2. The installation explores the experience of confinement and questions the effectiveness of the isolation model in the redemption of criminals. Beth B, a featured filmmaker at the Virginia Film Festival, will present her films Two Small Bodies and Black Box on Thursday night, and a lecture and a selection of her videos on Saturday afternoon at Campbell Hall.

(UN)CHAINED: VISIONS OF FREEDOM AND UNFREEDOM IN PRINTS AND PHOTOGRAPHS

Inspired by the Festival theme, this exhibition at the Bayly presents works that either embody the West's most longed-for ideal or express its most feared possibility: freedom or its absence. A broad array of prints and photographs range from Rembrandt to WeeGee.

AT THE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY

INTERACTIVE MEDIA EXHIBIT AND DEMONSTRATION

For the second year, the Digital Media and Music Center of the University Library is presenting an interactive media display and demonstration in Alderman Library during the Film Festival. This year's special guest is Jayne Loader, whose Public Shelter CD-ROM elaborates on the mundane details of life under the atomic threat first explored in Loader's classic documentary Atomic Cafe . Loader will discuss her new media work, including her award-winning Web site WWWench at Clemons Library on Friday, Oct. 31 at 4:00pm.

AT GALLERY NEO

DEEP DISH TV

Deep Dish TV co-producer DeeDee Halleck and curator Vangie Griego collaborate on this second floor installation at Gallery Neo. Featuring samples of Pano Arte, Latino prisoners' handkerchief art, on the walls, the exhibition will also include a monitor exhibiting Deep Dish TV's new series Bars and Stripes , playing continuously from 10-5 on Thursday and Friday and from 12-5 on Saturday and Sunday.

AT MCGUFFEY ART CENTER

CAGED/UNCAGED: A GROUP SHOW

In conjunction with the Virginia Film Festival, the McGuffey Art Center presents Caged/Uncaged , an exploration of the themes of constraint and freedom. The show runs from Thursday, October 30 through Sunday, November 2, and includes painting, photography, sculpture, and mixed media. McGuffey's hours are Tuesday through Saturday 10-5 and Sunday 1-5. 201 Second Street.


Forums

CURRY SCHOOL FORUM ON MEDIA LITERACY

MEDIA COVERAGE OF VIOLENT YOUTH: FEAR-MONGERING OR FACT?

Dr. George Gerbner, the noted researcher on television violence and Dean Emeritus of the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania, has demonstrated that a primary impact of media violence is to exaggerate viewers' fear of crime and desire for stricter law and order. Dr. Gerbner will apply his "mean world hypothesis" to the recent surge in juvenile crime coverage as the keynote presenter at this second annual Curry School Forum. Respondents will include the alternative media journalist Michael Moore ( TV Nation, Roger and Me ) and Professors Peter Sherak and Dewey Cornell of the Curry School's Virginia Youth Violence Project. This free event takes place on Sunday, November 2 at 1pm at Regal's Downtown Mall Theater.

GHETTOES AND GATED COMMUNITIES

The Architecture School is cosponsoring this fascinating program examining writer Mike Davis' contention that our society is increasingly walling off both sides of the social spectrum, while eliminating the public spaces in which social classes might combine. Filmmaker Abigail Child is the special guest presenting her new experimental documentary on the "Dinkinsville" homeless community in New York, B/Side . The two-part program will take place on November 1 in Campbell Hall 153, and is complemented by Friday's premiere screening of Frederick Wiseman's Public Housing .

9AM PROGRAM ONE

SOUTH CENTRAL LOS ANGELES: INSIDE VOICES (Maxi Cohen)

TAYLOR'S CAMPAIGN (Richard Cohen)

VISIBLE COMMUNITIES (Babette Mangolte)

12:15PM PROGRAM TWO

IN THE STREET (Helen Levitt)

RHAPSODY IN ORANGE (Nina Hasin)

STANDING ON THE EDGE OF THE WORLD (C. Melinda Levin)

BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY (Paul Garrin)

B-SIDE (Abigail Child)

The Architecture School is cosponsoring this fascinating program examining writer Mike Davis' contention that

our society is increasingly walling off both sides of the social spectrum, while eliminating the public spaces in

which social classes might combine. Filmmaker Abigail Child is the special guest presenting her new

experimental documentary on the "Dinkinsville" homeless community in New York, B/Side . The two-part

program will take place on November 1 in Campbell Hall 153, and is complemented by Friday's premiere

screening of Frederick Wiseman's Public Housing . Followed by a discussion with filmmakers Abigail Child, DeeDee Halleck and others.



THE VIRGINIA CASES CONFERENCE: FLYNT VS. FALWELL

A one day conference offering a "behind-the-scenes" look at this bizarre but profoundly important free speech court case. Participants in the conference will include the attorneys involved in the case, and Jerry Falwell and Larry Flynt -- together on the same stage! Sponsored by the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression, the conference will be held in the law school's Caplin Auditorium. The public is invited but reservations are required. For more information, contact the Thomas Jefferson Center at 804-295-4784. The People vs. Larry Flynt will screen in the Festival on Saturday afternoon.



MENTAL HEALTH AND THE LAW: A 25 YEAR RETROSPECTIVE

This 20 th anniversary conference of the Institute of Law, Psychiatry and Public Policy will take place on October 30-31. The conference will close with a Festival-cosponsored screening and discussion of The Lady With the White Hat , a film on one woman's resistance to Soviet mental health malpractice, on Friday at 4:30pm in Caplin Auditorium. Free. For more information on the conference, call 804-924-5435.