SUNDAY, April 10

Sunday, April 10

Student Films from the Appomattox Regional Governor's School in Petersburg
1 p.m., Plant Zero Art Center, Admission Free

Join us for a screening of works by the high school students of the Appomattox Regional Governor's School for the Arts and Technology in Petersburg, Virginia. The ARGSAT has one of the more progressive production programs in the state, incorporating the acting, literary arts, sculpture, music, dance, and design disciplines into their students' short narrative and experimental films. Introduction by ARGSAT instructor Ted Salins.

Program:

"A Public Service Announcement From ARGS"
Sara Van Gorder, Thadd Williams, Kyle McKuen, Zura Popiashvili

"Project Q"
Josie Mace, Shaylyn Delbridge, Etenesh Brown

"Joust"
Sean Bullock, Michael Entwistle, Miguel Carter-Fisher, Aaron Marcinkevich

"Christmas In April"
Sunny Velasco, Sean Bullock, Mimi Okelana

"Getting Behind"
Anya Anthony, Ashlee Barnhill, Erin Steuber

"Kinberly Southerland"
Dustin Klein, Haley Fentriss

"Romero and Juliet: Second Degree Murder"
Melissa Eart, Amy Perkinson

"Caution: Exploder On Impact"
Miguel Carter-Fisher

"Poetry"
Etenesh Brown, Travis May

"Ransom"
Ariel Lawrence

"Carol Of The Bells"
Kyle McCartt

"He's Watching You"
Emily Engelking, Leatha England

"We Are ARGS"
All ARGS film classes

Live Musicians: Shaylyn Delbridge, Josie Mace, Hal Goode

Location Scouting the Old Dominion
2:30 p.m., Plant Zero Art Center, Admission Free

Virginia Film Office Locations Manager Andrew "Andy" Edmunds takes us on a slide tour of Virginia film production locations complete with insider anecdotes. More than what's available and what isn't, setting is a key element in divulging time, place, and often character. Virginia's wide geographic range offers plenty of possibilities. Edmunds was also a 2003 JRFF participant.
Edmunds was interviewed for a recent article in Richmond's City Edition titled, Lights...Camera...Richmond: What Virginia's $174 Million Film Industry Means to our Town (see article - pdf) Reprinted with permission.

Film Reviewing for Popular Media
4 p.m., Plant Zero Art Center, Admission Free

The art of film reviewing is both a sensibility and journalistic endeavor cultivated by thousands of film experiences and the studied ability to articulate criticism and praise. Both purveyors and mediators of popular taste, critics have been relegated to a lonely but integral role in the mechanism that is commercial cinema exhibition. But what precisely is their role as movie journalists? What are the expectations of their readers? What expectations might the reviewer have? Join moderator Dr. Irby Brown, Professor Emeritus, University of Richmond, and film critics Maribeth Brewster, Channel 12 and formerly Style Weekly, Dan Neman, Richmond Times-Dispatch, and Dr. Duane Byrge, Virginia State University and The Hollywood Reporter.

The James River Film Festival
Juried Competition Finalists
7:30 p.m., Plant Zero Art Center, Admission $5

Annually the James River Film Festival hosts a national competition for original short films (30 min. or less) in any genre (documentary, experimental, animation or narrative), juried by Richmond area professionals. Join us for the festival finale—the premiere screening of our jury's selections and the announcement of the cash award winners. This is always one of the highlights of our festival and this year's package looks just as promising! The 2005 jury was comprised of Jim Collier, Robert Ellis, Sonali Gulati, Jere Kittle, Kerry Mills, Todd Raviotta, Janet Scagnelli, and Jim Stramel.

Juried competition finalists