Mechanical Eye brings award-winning filmmaker Arpita Kumar to town, local kids screen their short films at Asheville Pizza and Brewing and more.
Asheville kids film festival seeks entries
The 90-Second Newbery Film Festival, a multisite national event showcasing short films based on children’s books, will be accepting films submitted from Asheville until Wednesday, Feb. 8.
The Conquest of Canaan comes home
by Frank Thompson For local film aficionados, The Conquest of Canaan, which will be screened at Grail Moviehouse on Sunday, Jan. 22, offers more than a movie. Shot on the streets of Asheville in March 1921, Conquest is a trip in a time machine, a tour of a lost city, a stroll past homes, neighborhoods, […]
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The Grail screens a film made in Asheville nearly 100 years ago, Kevin Peer leads a workshop on activist/advocacy documentary filmmaking and more.
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Grail Moviehouse and Harvest Records team up to screen a documentary on Athens’ music scene and local libraries continue various film series.
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“Moonlight” wins SEFCA’s Best Film of 2016 award and the submission deadline approaches for Twin Rivers Media Festival.
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Registration opens for Asheville School of Film’s first courses of 2017, Swannanoa Studios screens a Sigur Rós documentary and more.
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The Asheville production of the feature film “Luke and Jo” wraps after a two-week shoot, registration opens for Asheville School of Film’s Youth Winter Filmmaking sessions and more.
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The Asheville webseries When Fact Met Fiction debuts, BMCM+AC screens shorts about Black Mountain College painters and more.
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The Asheville filmed and set Little Sister has its local premiere at The Grail and the Fine Arts hosts a benefit screening of Last Men Standing, co-directed by former Citizen-Times photographer Erin Brethauer.
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An Asheville-set zombie film launches a Kickstarter campaign, the Fine Arts screens the latest from ski-film pioneer Warren Miller Entertainment and more.
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The Culture Vulture Film Festival returns, Chai Pani’s documentary makes its Asheville debut and the Grail screens a documentary on NC politics starring Zach Galifianakis.
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Reel Rock Film Tour stops at Diana Wortham Theatre, the Grail hosts a voting rights film and panel discussion and Frank Thompson’s monthlong horror seminar concludes.
Faces in the crowd: WNC crowdfunding initatives
Each week, Xpress highlights notable WNC crowdsourcing initiatives that may inspire readers to become new faces in the crowd. This week features a feature film called Luke & Jo, a new album by a Western Carolina University professor, the Beards of Asheville calendar and a couple’s homesteading video series.
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The Grail screens a pro-ERA documentary, the Fine Arts hosts benefit screening for the All Souls Cathedral arts commission and Mechanical Eye presents a doc about Spain’s housing crisis.
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Mechanical Eye presents Home Movie Day, the Grail screens a sex trafficking doc and Asheville School of Film students screen their course projects.
5Point Film Festival doubles down for second year in Asheville
For its sophomore Asheville iteration, 5Point Adventure Film Festival expands to four days of movies and outdoor events.
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Selections for the second annual Tryon International Film Festival include works from Amy and Robert Redford and Hendersonville director David Weintraub.
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Frank Thompson kicks off a monthlong seminar on horror films and Harvest Records teams with The Grail to screen a doc on Sharon Jones.
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Grail Moviehouse celebrates Art House Theater Day, the Fine Arts Theatre hosts a benefit screening for the LGBT Elder Advocates of WNC and Flat Rock Cinema screens Manhattan Short Film Festival finalists.
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Hi-Wire, Green Man and the West Asheville and Weaverville libraries are among the sites hosting free screenings this week.