9th ANNUAL JAMES RIVER FILM FESTIVAL APRIL 1-7, 2002 Virginia’s Festival for the Independent-Minded

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Festival Program:
	MONDAY, April 1
	TUESDAY, April 2
	WEDNESDAY, April 3
	THURSDAY, April 4
	FRIDAY, April 5
	SATURDAY, April 6
	SUNDAY, April 7
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ABOUT THE GUESTS

Charlene Gilbert Educated at Yale and Temple, Ms. Gilbert currently resides in Washington, D.C. and teaches communications at American University. She has received an NEA Fellowship, a Mid-Atlantic Media Arts Fellowship and a Kellogg National Leadership Fellowship. Her previous films include Ina Mae Best, This is My House, and The Kitchen Blues; she also co-produced W.E.B. Du Bois: A Biography in Four Voices. Visit Ms. Gilbert's Homecoming website.

Jonas Mekas Born in Lithuania, Jonas Mekas spent time in a forced labor camp in Nazi Germany before coming to the United States with his brother, Adolfas, in 1949. Mr. Mekas is a published poet, filmmaker, critic (he was the first film critic for The Village Voice, 1959-76), activist and founder of the Film-Makers’ Co-op and Anthology Film Archives in New York City. He has won numerous awards including a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Lithuanian National Award, and grants from the Rockefeller Foundation and National Endowment for the Arts. He is considered the father of American avant-garde cinema.

Joanna Priestley Educated at Rhode Island School of Design and UC Berkeley, animator Joanna Priestley is one of the most prolific producers of independent work in the U. S. Over 14 of her films have won awards in festivals internationally, including the Big Muddy (Best of Festival), the Canadian International Animation (Special Merit Award) and perennial entries in the ASIFA packages. Ms. Priestley, who currently resides in Portland, Oregon, has received fellowships from the NEA, American Film Institute, held retrospectives of her work at the Museum of Modern Art and the Stuttgart International Animation Festival, and produced animated sequences for the videos of Joni Mitchell and Tears for Fears.

Ed Sanders Poet, editor, cultural spokesman and Fugs co-founder, Ed Sanders claims the same hometown as Harry Truman – Kansas City, Missouri. Upon graduation from NYU in '64 with a degree in classic literature, he founded Peace Eye Bookstore and the legendary folk-rock band The Fugs, who have to date issued 11 albums. Since the '60s, Mr. Sanders has settled in Woodstock, NY, is active in consumer and environmental issues and edits The Woodstock Journal. His writing output includes a definitive book on the Manson clan, The Family; The Poetry and Life of Allen Ginsberg; America, A History in Verse, Vols. I-III); and Tales of Beatnik Glory, to be adapted for the screen. He was a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in poetry in 1983, an NEA Fellowship in 1987, and won an American Book Award for Thirsting for in a Raging Century, Selected Poems 1961-1985.