Digger and I had an opportunity to attend the Virginia Indie Film Festival over the weekend, presented by the Virginia Film Office. We hope to have some more content available in the coming days as we conduct interviews with the filmmakers and review the offerings at the two day shindig. In the meantime, here are some of the productions we saw:
Shorts
Relax
Docs
Beardo the Movie
The story of the 2009 World Beard & Moustache Championships and the men behind the beards
Local Life: Camera Truck
Shaun Irving had an idea to turn a delivery van into a giant camera. A few years later, he bought an old truck off eBay, drilled a hole in the side, got some military surplus lenses, bought light-sensitive photographic paper and set off to document Richmond.
A Gift For The Village
A documentary about a cultural bridge built between the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia and the severe Himalayas of western Nepal.
Features
Quick Feet, Soft Hand
A struggling minor league baseball player and his fiancé try to make it to the big leagues.
Tracks
Martin, a self destructive amputee, reflects on his troubled youth while drifting through the harsh streets of Baltimore, reliving the events of the day that changed his life forever.
Danger. Zombies. Run
Real zombies attack a crew filming a low-budget zombie movie.
Descriptions from the Virginia Indie Film Festival
