Feature Films
- Autism: The Musical
- Battle for Haditha, The
- Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead
- Brand Upon the Brain
- Daratt/Dry Season
- Daughter of Keltoum
- Dirty Dancing
- Diving Bell and the Butterfly
- Family Album, The
- Family Name
- For the Bible Tells Me So
- Ghosts
- Grey Gardens
- Hard Road Home
- Honeydripper
- Hoop Reality
- Joe Strummer: The Future is Unwritten
- Kid, The
- Killer of Sheep
- Killer Within, The
- Last Jews of Libya, The
- Leona’s Sister Gerri
- Mac
- Mildred Pierce
- Miss Universe 1929
- Mommie Dearest
- Moving Midway
- My Brother’s Wedding
- Nobody’s Business
- Persepolis
- Peter Pan
- Randy and the Mob
- Rebel Without a Cause
- Rocco and His Brothers
- Romance and Cigarettes
- Sandra
- Savages, The
- Shadow of a Doubt
- Shotgun Stories
- Sink or Swim
- Slums of Beverly Hills
- Starting Out in the Evening
- Strange Culture
- Tick Tock Lullaby
- Ties that Bind, The
- Tillamook Treasure, The
- Today the Hawk Takes One Chick
- Walk Into the Sea, A
- Wide Awake
Short Films
- Bering Sea Eskimos
- Binta and the Great Idea
- Brooklyn Giglio
- Carlin
- City Edition
- Civilization on Trial in South Africa
- Crocodile Dreaming
- Czech Invasion
- Esperanza Means Hope
- Everywhere at Once
- For the Oysters
- Francis
- Girl Stars
- Hadacol Christmas
- Happenstance
- I Used to Be a Filmmaker
- John W.S. and Arthur D. Foster’s World Travel Films
- Love Blues
- Natural History
- Paulina Hollers
- Reverend J.C. Glessner’s Footage of Iraq
- Son’s Sacrifice, A
- Think of Me First as a Person
- Tube With a Hat, The
- Volvo Adrenaline Film Project
- Where is There Room
- Yellow Fella
Special Screenings
UVA Art Museum Video Gallery
Panels & DiscussionsA Room with a View: What began as a cubicle constructed for a video piece in last year’s “Complicit!” show, the New Media Gallery at the University of Virginia came into its own during 2007. Curated by Virginia Film Festival and Film Society czar Richard Herskowitz, the small venue has evolved into an always-interesting showcase of video and film, ranging from Sandra Gibson and Luis Recorder’s experimental work to Peter Whitehead’s rarely seen 1960s documentaries to Alan Berliner’s acclaimed short films.
—Laura Parsons, The Hook, 12/20/07
- Light Works
by Luis Recoder & Sandra Gibson
February 20-March 19 - Q’Eros: The Shape of Survival
by John Cohen
March 20-April 9 - Selections from the Black Maria Film Festival
April 10-April 30 - Bad Girls: Videos
by Miranda July, Sadie Benning and Cheryl Dunye
May 1-June 5 - Contacts
by William Klein
June 6-July 2 - Films of Peter Whitehead
(Wholly Communion, Benefit of the Doubt, Tonite Let’s All Make Love in London, and Charlie is My Darling)
July 3-September 30 - Within Our Gates
by Oscar Micheaux
October 3-November 2 - The Short Films of Alan Berliner
November 3-December 23
Joshua
Temple Fennell, co-president of Charlottesville-based ATO Pictures (and vice chair of the Festival Advisory Board), brought the feature film Joshua to Newcomb Theater as a benefit for the Virginia Film Festival on July 6. The benefit happened on the same day Fox Searchlight opened the film in New York and LA. A reception followed at the Music Resource Center.
