Actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus and husband Brad Hall visit Washington West Film Festival to talk about working together - and how a kid heading to college inspired their short film.
In the short film Picture Paris, Julia Louis-Dreyfus plays the kind of suburban mom who might live in Reston. As Ellen, Louis-Dreyfus is an affluent woman on the brink of being an empty-nester. To get a grip on her feelings, she becomes obsessed with a trip to Paris and all things francais - French language, French cooking and the idea of French romance. Then things take a dark, surprising and hilarious turn. Louis-Dreyfus and her husband, Brad Hall - the film's director - were at Bow Tie Cinema Reston Town Center 13 Saturday for a screening and talk about Picture Paris at the Washington West Film Festival. Hall said that the inspiration for the film came from the couple's real life after their older son left for college two years ago. "…
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Second annual film fest continues through Sunday; all proceeds go to Hurricane Sandy relief.
The Washington West Film Festival has come once again to its home in Northern Virginia, playing new documentaries, shorts and feature films through Sunday. With the tag line "Story Can Change the World," WWFF is unique in all the festival circuit by donating 100 percent of all profits every year to a charity. This year they will aid in Hurricane Sandy relief. This year's showings are in Reston Town Center, Reston's Center Stage and at the Angelika Mosaic Film Center in Merrifield. Cinema Siren is on the jury to vote for the best documentary feature, so I won't say yet what I think of those I've been poring over the last few days. I can tell you the selection includes a new doc about the long-gone yet beloved club in Georgetown The …
Check out movie screenings, live events at second annual event in Reston and other Northern Virginia locations.
The Washintgon West Film Festival returns to Reston this weekend with a four-day lineup of independent movies and special events. The inaugural Washington West Film Festival was held last November, featuring the local premiere of the highly acclaimed HBO movie, The Loving Story. The festival's theme is "Story Can Change the World," and the film festival founders will donate proceeds to a charity working to change the world. Some highlights of this year's film festival: * Opening Night Film and Party, Thursday: A screening of The Keenan Kampa Story, the director's cut of a documentary of Vienna, VA, ballet dancer Keenan Kampa, who is currently a dancer with Russia's Mariinsky Ballet The film is directed by Ken Ferguson. The screening is Nov…
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Documentary about Virginia couple's fight against interracial marriage ban is opening-night film at Reston's Washington West Film Festival.
When filmmaker Nancy Buirski read Mildred Loving's 2008 obituary, it immediately struck her that she should make a movie about the accidental civil rights icon. Loving, who was black and native American, and her husband, Richard, who was white, made history in 1958 when they were arrested for violating Virginia's ban on interracial marriage. The case eventually went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, which in 1967 unanimously struck down the law in Virginia and the remaining states with anti-miscegenation laws. Buirski, meanwhile, succeeded in making a documentary about the Lovings. The Loving Story is the opening night film Thursday at the Washington West Film Festival in Reston. The showing is at Bow Tie Cinema Reston Town Center 13 …
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10:29 am on Friday, November 4, 2011
Mary Sue - This article was published at noon yesterday. We have also written several stories in the last few weeks about the film festival, with information about how to get tickets, links to the full list of movies, etc. more ›
"The Famous Firsts of Chuck Jones" set for closing night at Reston's Washington West Film Festival.
The Washington West Film Festival has added several more short and feature-length film to the lineup of events at the inagural event. The festival will take place in Reston and Herndon Nov. 3 -5. Among the additions is The Famous Firsts of Chuck Jones, which will look at the first cartoons and creative process of Academy Award-winner Chuck Jones. Jones was the creator of such Warner Bros. characters as Road Runner, Wile E. Coyote, and Pepe Le Pew & co-creator of Bugs Bunny, Porky Pig, Elmer Fudd, and Daffy Duck. He directed over 250 animated shorts while at Warner Bros; he received an Academy Award for The Dot and The Line in 1965. As part of the event ArtInsights Animation and Film Art Gallery co-owner and Patch movie reviewer Leslie …
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Event featuring 23 films, director talks, special events, opens Nov. 3.
"Story can change the world" is the theme of the first Washington West Film Festival, which will kick off in Reston on Nov. 3. The event is the brainchild of Brad Russell, a native Northern Virginian who says he has been trying to get an area film festival organized for three years. "I love a great movie," says Russell, the pastor of Dulles Community Church. "I like when a film is talked about and has some impact that goes beyond entertaining." Russell says the 23 films that will be part of the festival all have elements to inspire and educate, as well as entertain. The festival opens Thursday, Nov. 3 with a screening of The Loving Story at Bow Tie Cinema Reston Town Center 13. The Loving Story, a documentary co-produced by HBO, tells the …
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2:26 pm on Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Looks like a great time! Thank goodness someone is finally taking indie film seriously in NOVA! I'll be there-jd more ›
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