As it did for many arts organizations last year, COVID-19 rewrote the script for the RiverRun International Film Festival.
The festival canceled last year but is back for 2021, offering a combination of virtual, outdoor and drive-in screenings May 6-16.
RiverRunâs executive director Rob Davis said the team at RiverRun was determined, if possible, to do some sort of festival this year, even if that meant all virtual.
âWhat we decided a few months ago was to make it a hybrid festival so that we will have a few outdoor screenings every night that can be safely done,â Davis said. âThe bulk of the festival is virtual.â
RiverRun, based in Winston-Salem, is a competitive event that annually showcases new films from both established and emerging filmmakers around the world. RiverRun screens new narrative, documentary, short, student and animated films, offering both audience and jury prizes in competition categories.
The 2021 festival will be a combination of virtual screenings, and outdoor and drive-in screenings. It will feature 134 films representing 24 countries culled from a pool of more than 1,500 films.
Venues will include Marketplace Drive-In, SECCA, the Kilpatrick Townsend campus on Fourth Street, The Winston Cup Museum, The Ramkat and Bailey Park in Winston-Salem, with one outdoor screening at RED Cinemas in Greensboro.
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Film and discussion being presented as part of the Indie Lens Pop-Up Program
WINSTON-SALEM, NC (DECEMBER 29, 2020)â RiverRun International Film Festival has announced the upcoming screening of â9to5: The Story of a Movement,â on Tuesday, January 5 at 7 p.m. This screening is being presented alongside UNC-TV PBS North Carolina and the State Library of North Carolina
. â9to5: The Story of a Movementâ is being screened as part of the Indie Lens Pop-Up program.
When Dolly Parton sang â9 to 5,â she was doing more than just shining a light on the fate of American working women. Parton was singing the true story of a movement that started with 9to5, a group of Boston secretaries in the early 1970s. Their goals were simpleâbetter pay, more advancement opportunities and an end to sexual harassmentâbut their unconventional approach attracted the press and shamed their bosses into change. Featuring interviews with 9to5âs founders, as
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