“Fishing With Dynamite” will premiere Sunday at the Virginia Film Festival. Bobby Parmar hopes its message will change the way business is done in Silicon Valley, on Wall Street and beyond.

Members of the UVA-Community Working Group will serve on the new council, which will focus on four priorities: jobs and wages, affordable housing, health care and youth education.

This year’s festival will run from Wednesday through Sunday, bringing more than 150 films, plus actors, filmmakers and special guests, to Charlottesville and the University of Virginia.

NBA Commissioner Adam Silver headlined a Friday forum, discussing the current controversy in China, the NBA’s expansion worldwide and the importance of purpose-driven business.

UVA President Jim Ryan shared a letter to the future and a vision of UVA as a “great and good” university that represents the very best in higher education.

This weekend, some of UVA’s most famous alumni discussed the University’s influence on their lives, top researchers looked to the future of their fields, and Tony Bennett the crooner met Tony Bennett the champion.

Community leaders and UVA faculty members are partnering on a wide range of projects through the new Equity Center, which aims to tangibly redress racial and socioeconomic inequality in university communities.

Elizabeth “Liz” Magill is the University’s new chief academic officer, joining a leadership team focused on advancing a “great and good vision” for the University’s third century.

Early lab results show that ZB131 could reduce growth and even kill multiple types of cancer cells, including ovarian, pancreatic, lung and colorectal. The new funding will go toward manufacturing and testing the drug in human clinical trials.

UVA’s Darden School of Business released its annual employment report this week with plenty of good news to share – and several broken records.