Virginia Film Festival

Adrenaline Film Project

The 12th annual Adrenaline Film Project has arrived! The AFP is a competition where teams pitch,…

Another Way of Living: The Story of Reston, VA

Visionary American urban planner Robert Simon believed that building community is more important than creating buildings.…

Best of FAVS Program at GMU

Best of FAVS Program at GMU features a selection of top films from students in the…

Big Moccasin

Deep in the Appalachian Valley, filmmakers Chelsea and Andrew Moynehan capture the ethos of life along…

Big Significant Things

At 26, Craig Harrison is a week away from moving across the country and becoming a…

Big Stone Gap

Based on her best-selling novel of the same name, writer/director Adriana Trigiani presents the story of…

Boom and Bust: America’s Journey on the Erie Canal

A meditation on economic cycles and the American Dream, this remarkable film tells the tale of…

Christine at the Crossroads

Christine, a young married woman, already feels detached from her husband and rebuffed by her mother…

Coming Through the Rye

Preceded by the short film Incubus Inspired by the filmmaker’s own life story, the story follows 16-year-old…

Doeville

Gail Rose never imagined she’d be wrangling deer in her sixties in the Shenandoah Valley. After…

Entertainment

Preceded by the short film Usetocould Entertainment follows a broken, aging comedian (Turkington) as he tours the…

From Grain to Growler

Filmmakers Aaron Stanley and Megan Troy travel throughout the Commonwealth to beer festivals, breweries, bars, hop…

Future Dreaming

Future Dreaming is the result of a chance meeting between two people on a boat in…

Goodish

Jack and Beth have known each other for a while now, but after having a night…

H8RZ

Preceded by the short film Rogue Taxidermy (7 min.) Alex, the lone survivor of a massive…

Harry & Snowman

Preceded by the short film Mr. Balloon's Wild Ride Snowman was an old Amish plow horse…

Ithaca

Fourteen-year-old Homer Macauley is determined to be the best and fastest bicycle telegraph messenger anyone has…

Kevin Everson: Short Films

From internationally renowned filmmaker Kevin Everson comes a selection of short films that combines historical observations…

Led Zeppelin Played Here

Shrouded in a cloud of mystery, the question of an enigmatic concert by Led Zeppelin during…

Light House Studio Short Films

These 12 short films from Light House Studio students include a mixture of narratives, music videos,…

Mercy Street

This new PBS Civil War drama produced in and around Richmond, Virginia, takes viewers beyond the…

Monroe Hill

Monroe Hill offers an unprecedented overview of President James Monroe’s first farm in Albemarle County, the…

Night of the Living Deb

Preceded by the short film Soccer Moms in Peril After the endearingly awkward Deb wakes up in…

Paradise

Produced over the course of eight years beginning in 2007, Paradise is a feature-length nonfiction film…

Polyfaces

Set amid the stunning Shenandoah Valley, this joyful documentary details the innovative agricultural techniques of Polyface…

Rappahannock

This documentary was commissioned by Friends of the Rappahannock, a Fredericksburg, Virginia–based nonprofit that has been…

Return to Cuba: In the Footsteps of Walker Evans

Just weeks before the American and Cuban governments reconciled, a group of renowned photographers traveled to…

Some Beasts

Sal abandons the modern world and leaves his troubled past behind, finding solitude on an isolated…

Southeast 67

Preceded by the short film Amazing Journey (13 min.) This documentary combines raw, never-before-seen footage and…

The Winding Stream

The heart of country music can be found in the hills of Virginia, nestled in the…

Wish You Well

In the wake of the tragedy of the loss of their father, young Lou Cardinal and…