Challenges abound in the independent exhibition business, but local cinemas continue to provide distinct, valued services.
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The 5Point Film Festival moves to Sierra Nevada, the Asheville Jewish Film Festival concludes with a documentary about Itzhak Perlman and more.
Music Video Asheville puts local talent on the big screen
More than a decade into its celebratory chronicling of the local music scene, MVA is still evolving. One specific and ongoing goal is to make the competition as inclusive as possible.
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Alice Walker, Brian McLaren and host Gareth Higgins discuss the Movies & Meaning Experience, which takes place April 26-28 at Diana Wortham Theatre.
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New Belgium screens a documentary about disappearing snow seasons, the 90-Second Newbery Film Festival returns to Pack Library and more.
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The Asheville Jewish Film Festival begins at the Fine Arts Theatre, the Grail shows a new Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds concert film and more.
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The Cat Fly Indie Film Festival returns, Asheville Pizza & Brewing celebrates Comedy Month and more.
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Poison Free Asheville screens a documentary about mountain lion P-22 at UNCA, the Fine Arts shows a profile on Alice Walker and more.
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UNC Asheville hosts its 17th annual F-Word (Feminist) Film Festival, Michael Flanagan and other musicians live improvise a score to “House (Hausu)” at The Mothlight and more.
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Orbit DVD brings found footage video remixers Everything Is Terrible! to The Mothlight, Palestinian filmmaker and Asheville resident Yousef Natsha screens his documentary at The BLOCK off biltmore and more.
Local filmmakers discuss their behind-the-scenes work
Producers, editors and cinematographers play distinct roles in getting a film started and completed.
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Area organizations screen documentaries on healing, mass incarceration, resistance to the Dakota Access Pipeline and ending weight stigma and more.
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Two community groups hold potluck supper screenings of a documentary on civil rights movement leader Bayard Rustin, the Bywater concludes its Swayze Crazy movies series and more.
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Pack Library celebrates the Chinese New Year with Stephen Chow’s “The Mermaid,” Mars Hill University kicks off its Reel Appalachia film series with a Ralph Stanley documentary and more.
Asheville 90-Second Newbery Film Festival builds on inaugural event’s success
The soft deadline for local kids to submit a minute and a half film adaptation of a John Newbery Medal-winner or Honor book is Feb. 14. The festival itself takes place April 14.
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Revolve host the Frame + Form Screen Dance Festival, the Fine Arts Theatre screens a documentary on Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo and more.
Smart Bets: At the River
The oral history project about Southern Presbyterian ministers’ activism during the Civil Rights era premieres Jan. 28 at White Horse Black Mountain.
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White Horse Black Mountain continues its Movies and Meaning series, Casablanca Cigar Bar screens its namesake film and more.
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The NC Film Critics Association’s Ken Hanke Memorial Tar Heel Award goes to “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri,” the Grail and Planned Parenthood commemorate the 45th of Roe v. Wade and more.
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Brevard High School screens a documentary of sharecropper oral histories, the Screen Artists Co-op holds an open house and more.
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“Get Out” wins SEFCA’s Best Film of 2017 award and the Parodies for Charity traveling film festival makes multiple stops in the area over the next week.