The Western North Carolina Alliance is hosting the traveling 2013 Wild & Scenic Film Festival, stopping in Asheville and Cullowhee in April.
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Get off the couch with local art
ZaPow! gallery will celebrate cult holiday movies with its new exhibit. An opening reception on Saturday, Nov. 24 will feature surf rock and free beer.
Carl Sandburg remembered
Bonesteel Films donates footage and transcripts from its documentary The Day Carl Sandburg Died to the Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site in Flat Rock.
Asheville + Iceland + music + film
Local filmmaker Melika Bass was recently commissioned by the Icelandic band Sigur Ros to create a video for the group’s new album, “Valtari.” Bass’ film for the song “Varðeldur” was released online yesterday.
Boy meets tree in Sick-Amour
“I have fallen in love with a beautiful tree stuck in the middle of a giant parking lot in front of the Rose Bowl.” So writes Joel Tauber of his documentary Sick-Amour, showing at the Asheville Art Museum on Sunday, July 15.
“A combination of aesthetics and logistics”
Local musician/actor/filmmaker Ben Lovett talks about the process, people and places in his short film, “Ghost of Old Highways,” and its forthcoming behind-the-scenes companion film, “The Making Of.”
UPDATED: “The Making Of” is now available online. Click through for the link.
“Ghost of Old Highways” premiers on IFC.com
The award-winning short film by Asheville-based musician Ben Lovett also recently received a Best Soundtrack nod at the Madrid International Film Festival.
The Twin Rivers Multimedia Festival returns
Two weekends of films kicks off next weekend at the Courtyard Gallery. Photo from “Meherjaan,” a film from Bangladesh that was banned in its home country.
Gorilla With a Mustache goes long
If you want to help Matt Shepard, Kipper Schauer and the rest of the local production company make their first feature-length film, you have about a day left to do it.
The Hunger Games red carpet, WNC-style
Editor’s note: Xpress sent local young-adult author Stephanie Perkins to cover the very hush-hush red carpet preview of The Hunger Games on Wednesday. Perkins was the perfect corespondent because, not only does she get young adult fiction, she was also chosen as an extra in the Hunger Games movie, filmed in Western N.C. Unfortunately, due to her busy writing schedule, Perkins had to back out of filming; luckily for us, she was available to catch the early viewing. Photo from the Asheville Citizen-Times website.
Behind the scenes of the Hunger Games
If you’re into the Hunger Games, you’ve come to the right place. In this 2-minute video, Explore Asheville takes us on a journey to some of the local spots where the movie, the Hunger Games was filmed. SPOILER ALERT: There are some spoilers in this video regarding the plot of the movie.
Conscious Party: Adventures in film
Whether you’re an avid outdoors person or just interested in the natural world, experiencing adventure on the big screen sounds pretty good this time of year.
Film seeks climate change solutions
Find like-minded people and learn about climate change at Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Asheville’s screening of Carbon Nation
Local filmmakers begin work on new documentary
614 Films is setting out to chronicle more of the Tarahumara, the indigenous people who live in Mexico’s Copper Canyons.
MTV offers sneak peak of ‘The Hunger Games’
The MTV Video Music Awards offered the first look at The Hunger Games, a big budget Hollywood movie being filmed in the Asheville area this summer. Here’s the trailer that first aired last night, Aug. 28, during the awards show.
LGBTQ film fest trailer: Be a part of history and don’t be a heathen
With Asheville’s first LGBTQ film festival set to take place Sept. 29-Oct 2, it was only natural that its promoters would make a film trailer to tease its potential audience.
July 16 in Asheville: So much to do, so little time
You know how there are some days in Asheville where everything seems to happen at once, and even if you gave it your very best college try, you couldn’t possibly cram it all in to one 24-hour period of time? Well Saturday, July 16 is one of those days. Here, to make your time management next to impossible, are five events worth shoe-horning into your schedule (including The Black Rabbits, seen here, who’ll play Westville Pub).
Bill Cunningham New York comes to Asheville
The warmly-received documentary about New York Times fashion photographer and Streetstyle blog innovator Bill Cunningham opens at Fine Arts Theatre this Friday.
Hooray for Hanke
When I moved back home to Asheville after a lengthy sojourn in the [Research ] Triangle, I was thrilled to find that Asheville had its own film critic and that he actually reviewed real movies that played in real movie theaters that real people went to see. You see, in the Triangle at that time, […]
Camera! Action! on Wall Street
Local filmmaking company Blind Lyle Films shoots a scene from upcoming short film Cleaning House outside the Miles Building on Wall Street this morning.
Asheville International Children’s Film Festival kicks off tomorrow
The fest kicks off on Thursday, Nov. 4, with film screenings at venues in Asheville, Black Mountain and Transylvania County. The two-week extravaganza continues through Sunday, Nov. 14.