August, 2007
Congratulations to Patrick Gregory, who received a professional fellowship award for film-video from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.

September, 2006
James Parrish, named one of Richmond's Top Forty Under 40 by Style Weekly. A collection of forty of Richmond’s most remarkable young men and women inspiring and serving others, changing our community for the better and exuding an enthusiasm about Richmond’s present and future.

September, 2005
James Parrish, received the 2005 Theresa Pollak Prize for photography and film. The Pollak Prizes are awarded annually by Richmond Magazine to recognize local artistic accomplishments across a number of disciplines. James is an RMIC co-founder and founder of the Richmond Flicker Film Fest series.

The selection committee said "We picked James Parrish because of the incredible work he has done to promote grassroots filmmaking in Richmond.  In bringing Flicker to Richmond, he has created a space for filmmakers that did not exist before. James promotes a love of the process and displays a genuine wonder at seeing images come to life.  At Flicker, film is not some rarified academic pursuit or distant corporate affair but an art form accessible to everyone who has the chutzpah to pick up a camera and show their finished films."

May 5, 2005
Congratulations to Virginia filmmaker, Ward Howarth, who was recently awarded a professional fellowship from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.

March 14, 2005
Lights...Camera...Richmond:
What Virginia's $174 Million Film Industry Means to our Town (see article - pdf)
Reprint of an article in Richmond's City Edition that explores Richmond's attraction to filmmaking -- from home-grown film art to international blockbusters. Includes interviews with RMIC's James Parrish and Virginia Film Office location manager, Andrew Edmunds who will speak at the 2005 James River Film Festival on April 10.
Article reprinted with permission from City Edition.

February 1, 2005
Ward Howarth's "Storm in a Bottle" recently received the People's Choice Award at the Standing Rock International Short Film and Video Festival in Kent Ohio. A native of Richmond, Ward has been making films since his days as a college student at Virginia Commonwealth University. Currently a television producer in Richmond, Ward is working on his first feature-length script.
See article in The Stater Online.

December 8, 2004
Find out James Parrish's dream gift for Richmond as he and other selected Richmond creatives offer their holiday ideas. From Style, What to Give: Recommendations from Richmond creatives
by Carrie Nieman and Brandon Reynolds

December 1, 2004
Style, Richmond's weekly magazine, highlights area filmmakers working on independent feature films.
Megan Holley:
The Bigger Picture
One Richmond filmmaker’s continuing quest for Hollywood
by Daryl Grove

Jim and Renee Stramel, RMIC's own James Parrish, Justin Dray, and David Williams:
Other Local Filmmakers Worth Watching

October, 2004
RMIC moved into our new space at Plant Zero. This move brings us one step closer to our dream of establishing a media arts center with a theatre, production equipment and editing facilities, and an education program with multi-week filmmaking classes and shorter workshops.
Plant Zero is located in Richmond just south of the Mayo (14th Street) Bridge at 0 East 4th Street.

August, 2003
Richmond Magazine named RMIC's Mike Jones a recipient of it's sixth annual Theresa Pollak Prizes. According to Richmond Magazine, the prizes "recognize those who enrich us with their talents and continue the creative legacy of Theresa Pollak, founder of VCU's School of the Arts." --- Congratulations, Mike!

May 8, 2003
Congratulations to Virginia filmmaker, Walker Allen for receiving an $8,000 fellowship from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Walker was the winner of the James River Film Festival's 2002 Juried Competition Award for his short film, "The Peritoneal Surfaces are Smooth and Glistening."