(Audio) On the second day of the Virginia Film Festival, podcaster Sean McCord talked with Brian Wimer and Billy Hunt, both directors of CLAW, a look at the Collective of Lady Arm Wrestlers.
Twenty-four students and four teachers are participating in the Youth Ambassadors program, through the University of Virginia Center for Politics. They are learning leadership skills, as well as some of our cultural differences.
(Audio) At the 2013 Virginia Film Festival, podcaster Sean McCord chats with screenwriter Brian Weakland, a second-time winner of the Virginia Screenwriting Competition. Brian talked about being the rewards and work of being an award-winning screenwriter living in Virginia.
A legendary Alfred Hitchcock film and one of its stars headlined the second day of the Virginia Film Festival in Charlottesville. Hundreds turned out for a showing of "The Birds" Friday night at the Paramount Theater. Actress Tippi Hedren attended the screening as well.
The University of Virginia recently kicked off its latest in a series of interdisciplinary programs with the official opening of the Institute of World Languages. The institute brings together foreign language programs across Grounds to look at best practices in teaching and to take on collaborative research projects with other departments.
If history played a starring role in the first half-hour or so of the argument, theology took over the second half, when University of Virginia law professor Douglas Laycock (an expert on the intersection of law and religion) argued on behalf of Susan Galloway and Linda Stephens, the town residents who object to the prayers.
Last year, Kori Freener filmed her first full-length documentary and attempted to hike the 2,200-mile length of the Appalachian Trail at the same time. A Charlottesville audience saw the result Friday evening at the world premiere of her film, “Hard Way Home,” at the Virginia Film Festival.
Rubio is "playing it safe," said Larry Sabato, a political scientist at the University of Virginia. "My sense of Rubio is that he is trying to be acceptable to all factions."
(Audio) At the 2013 Virginia Film Festival, podcaster Sean McCord spoke with Sean Gaston, director of Misa’s Fugue, a look at the tragic youth and artistic life of Holocaust survivor Frank (Misa) Grunwald, and how his story interweaves with the teenage artists who helped commit his story to film.
(Audio) On the second day of the 2013 Virginia Film Festival, podcaster Sean McCord spoke with director Christopher Englese about Political Bodies, his documentary look at the laws that emerged from the 2012 Virginia legislative session that attempted to control reproductive choices and the response of the women who were literally willing to lay their bodies on the line to protect those rights.
A Hollywood legend lit up the Virginia Film Festival. Tippi Hedren attended the festival Friday night.
A former University of Virginia baseball player is bringing awareness to a disease his mother has been battling for years. Washington Nationals player Ryan Zimmerman hosted a fundraiser for multiple sclerosis Friday night.
A first of its kind conference at the University of Virginia is shining light on slavery's legacy at Virginia's colleges.
University of Virginia political analyst Larry Sabato’s Crystal Ball newsletter Thursday said that about 70 percent of Virginia’s votes in any statewide election are cast in Northern Virginia, Richmond and Hampton Roads.
Members of the University of Virginia men's lacrosse team held a flag football tournament to honor the life of a former teammate. Teams from several universities along the east coast played in the fifth annual Will Barrow Memorial Flag Football Tournament Saturday at Lambeth Field. The friendly games raised funds for the UVA help line - an anonymous and confidential telephone service. Organizers say it's a positive way to remember their teammate - who took his own life in 2008.
A giant bug stomped through a field of toddlers. Kangaroos and kookaburras threatened to leap out of computer screens. Bassoons and oboes shrieked like wild animals. It sounds like a chaotic scene from a movie. But the cacophony of children’s voices on the University of Virginia’s Arts Grounds on Saturday morning was anything but scripted. It was the sound of learning, discovery and creativity -- the sound of Family Day at the 26th annual Virginia Film Festival.
At first glance, it's a strange double feature for my second day at the Virginia Film Festival: Chris Marker's Le Joli Mai ("The Lovely Month of May") and Jia Zhangke's A Touch of Sin. One is a 1963 documentary—reedited and restored in 2009—which provides a portrait of Parisians in 1962, after the Algerian War. The other is a fictionalized portrait of modern-day China that weaves together four stylistically violent, ripped-from-the-headlines stories which intimate the brutality of unrestrained capitalism.
(Audio) On day two of the Virginia Film Festival, podcaster Sean McCord spoke with Ben Nabors, director of William and the Windmill, his documentary about Willliam Kamkwamba, who as a 14 year old boy on his Malawi village, built a windmill to generate electricity for his family. Five years later, following a talk he gave at an African TED conference, William has become a media star and has to deal with the very modern problems of fame, isolation, and stress.
(By Larry J. Sabato, editor in chief, Kyle Kondik, managing editor and Geoffrey Skelley, associate editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball, an online political newsletter and website emanating from the University of Virginia Center for Politics) A year ago, almost everyone who followed Virginia politics thought that Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, Republican, had the inside track to winning the governorship. After all, it was in the 1880s when Virginia last gave a party just four consecutive years in the Governor’s Mansion. And Cuccinelli held one of the two positions that have served as ...
Saundra Shorter was born to be a teacher. Everything else, she picked up along the way. Shorter, who died on Oct. 24 at the age of 71, had the skill and charisma to be anything, from a preacher to an actress to game show host, but her heart remained in education. She excelled as a student, earning an education degree from Virginia State University. From there, she became one of the first black women to receive a master's degree from the University of Virginia. She earned a doctorate in education from Virginia Tech.