Virginia Film Festival announces the appointment of Ilya Tovbis as Senior Programmer. Tovbis comes to VAFF after a decade as Artistic and Managing Director of JxJ: the Washington Jewish Film and Music Festival; acclaimed industry veteran’s experience also includes Mill Valley Film Festival, The picture House, and more.
Dr. A.D. Carson believes Will Smith's reputation should ultimately remain intact.
Graham Barbour and Phineas Alexander took home the ultimate prize in the “Can Film Festival:” $50,000 and the honor of having their video aired as Bush's new commercial.
Today, the Virginia Film Festival announced that the 35th annual VAFF will take place from November 2-6, 2022. The Virginia Film Festival is a program of the University of Virginia and the Office of the Provost and Vice Provost for the Arts.
Read about the success of UVA's 2022 French Film Festival!
Check out the current and upcoming exhibitions at The Fralin Museum of Art through July 2022.
Nothing was going to stop UVA alumnus Brennan Gilmore from capturing the photo of a lifetime.
Alex Scheinman, a member of UVA’s 2013 NCAA championship men’s tennis team and an avid poet during his time on Grounds, is debuting a film at the Virginia Film Festival this week.
After a hybrid (but mostly online) approach in 2020, the 2021 festival welcomed guests back to the big screen with opportunities to see the films in theaters around Charlottesville!
When something you have done since you were a kid, something you thought was your calling, something you thought would be your career, comes to an abrupt end, what do you do next? For former University of Virginia football player Canaan Severin, the answer came while riding a train.
"There is something truly special about a film festival environment, and about our festival, in particular, that goes beyond the films we show. It is about the community that is created through the sharing and celebration of this remarkable art form, and the chance to come together and experience such a diverse array of films on a wide variety of topics that run the gamut of our emotions and our experiences in the world today.”
Niya Bates, a University of Virginia alumna who has worked at Monticello for several years, appeared on the recent Netflix series, “High on the Hog: How African American Cuisine Transformed America,” to tell a story in episode three.
