Few college internships offer the chance to work alongside comedy and music legends, but for University of Virginia fourth-year student Kiera Chambers, it was another day at the office at the “SNL50: The Anniversary Special.”
The Shenandoah National Park Trust will host the Banff Centre Mountain Film Festival on March 7th, 8th, and 9th at the Paramount Theater. For Arts This Week, we spoke to the Trust’s Executive Director.
The Virginia Film Festival announced today that the 38th annual VAFF will take place from October 22-26, 2025. The Virginia Film Festival is a program of the University of Virginia and the Office of the Provost and Vice Provost for the Arts. “We are excited to return this year from October 22-26 following an extraordinary 2024 VAFF in which films presented during the Festival and in our year-round program received 34 Academy Award nominations across 17 categories – including Best Picture nominees Anora, Emilia Pérez, and I’m Still Here,” said VAFF Executive Director Jody Kielbasa.
Beginning this past December and continuing until June 1, the Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection is hosting Milpa — a stop-motion animation exhibit named after the Anangu people’s traditional practice of sand drawing, an artistic and storytelling medium in Australian Indigenous art.
The Filmmakers Society, or FMS, is the University’s only filmmaking-based Contracted Independent Organization.
Hala Matar was an undergraduate student at the University of Virginia in the early 2000s, studying theater and drama.
The sun has set on this year’s Virginia Film Festival.
The documentary premiered just days before the presidential election.
This year’s Virginia Film Festival, set for Oct. 30 to Nov. 3, will present more than 100 films and feature guests like “New Girl” star Lamorne Morris, “Her Smell” director Alex Ross Perry and “John Lewis: Good Trouble” director Dawn Porter.
Highlights Include Anora, Bird, Blitz, Emilia Pérez, The Fire Inside, The Last Showgirl, Memoir of a Snail, Nightbitch, Pavements, The Piano Lesson, A Real Pain, and The Room Next Door!
After he got his first taste of film production, Barbour said he became more involved in the local film and arts scene.
Earlier this month, a University of Virginia Communications photographer ran into a small film crew from Germany on Grounds, where they were working on a documentary about Edgar Allan Poe.
