It’s a holiday tradition! Santa Claus joins Rick in the studio and brings his elfin helper, Twinkle. Rick Moore reads How The Grinch Stole Christmas, then fields calls for Santa to talk to all good girls and boys.
Dave Norris and PACEM
On the November 9th edition of WNRN’s Sunday Morning Wake-Up Call, Rick Moore talks with Charlottesville Mayor Dave Norris in his capacity as Executive Director of People and Congregations Engaged in Ministry (PACEM), an interfaith collaboration of congregations and community partners in Charlottesville dedicated to help the homeless find shelter at night, especially during the cold winter months. Dave talks about what PACEM and other area groups are doing to address the homeless problem, and he and Rick look forward to a new policies from the Obama administration.
“Lake City” post-screening discussion
From the VA Film Festival website:
Filmed in the Richmond area and featuring local luminaries Sissy Spacek and Dave Matthews, Lake City captures a slice of small-town Virginia life with underlying layers of Southern gothic tragedy. Perry Moore and Mark Johnson, who met at the Virginia Film Festival when Moore was a U.Va. student, and who have been producing partners on the Chronicles of Narnia films, collaborated on this very Virginia movie. Moore co-wrote and co-directed the film with his partner, Hunter Hill, and brought on board a third U.Va. alumnus, leading independent film and talent publicist Weiman Seid, as executive producer.
After the Opening Night screening, Festival Artistic Director Richard Herskowitz joined cast and crew for a discussion. Present were actors Sissy Spacek and Troy Garrity; directors and writers Hunter Hill and Perry Moore; and executive producers Weiman Seid and Mark Johnson.
“Bad Day at Black Rock” discussion
On October 31, the second day of the 2008 Virginia Film Festival, Bad Day at Black Rock was screened in Culbreth Theater. Sean McCord, lead writer for the VFF, introduced the film. After the screening, Sean discussed the film with Michael Sturges, Charlottesville resident and son of the film’s director, John Sturges.
Present in the audience were 200 high school students from Charlottesville High and other area schools. CHS drama students had studied both this film and The Great Escape, another classic John Sturges film, and Michael and Sean had visited the high school the day before to meet with the students and talk about the film.
After the film, Sean McCord and Michael Sturges discuss classic Hollywood filmmaking, and what it was like to grow up the son of a famous director.