As the sun set Wednesday night, a line of cars snaked through the winding roads of Albemarle County, past the homes of Thomas Jefferson and James Monroe to Morven Farm where, in a rolling field by the polo barns, an inflatable screen awaited.
Several miles away, in the heart of Charlottesville, still more cars pulled into the parking lot the new Dairy Market food hall on Grady Avenue, where a towering silver screen had been set up in front of a wide brick wall.
Both auto audiences were there for the Virginia Film Festival’s first-ever drive-in movie screenings, part of the festival’s extraordinary efforts to re-write the script in a year where large in-person gatherings remain unsafe.
