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Gone global: Hunter and his World Peace game soar Published on Apr 17th, 2012 2 comments If there were a competition for the most modest man in Charlottesville, teacher and World Peace Game creator John Hunter and local filmmaker Chris Farina would be neck-and-neck for the prize. "I'm...
Best o' the fest: What real filmmakers want to see Published on Nov 2nd, 2011 0 comments Salivation. That's what happens when you're a cinephile and you pick up the program for the 24th annual Virginia Film Festival and see all those unreleased new movies, and all those classics you've...
Global exposure: 'Fourth Grade' film racks up honors Published on Apr 18th, 2011 0 comments It may not yet have achieved world peace, but a locally-made film has gotten a world stage. John Hunter, the star of World Peace & Other Fourth Grade Achievements as well as the creator of the...
7 festivals... and other 'Achievements' for local film Published on Oct 5th, 2010 0 comments Chris Farina's film, subject of a February cover story, is screening this month at festivals as far away as Norway. HOOK COVER Seven months after it premiered at the South By Southwest film festival...
Peace and Parking: Local films flying high at festivals Published on Apr 26th, 2010 5 comments World Peace and other 4th Grade Achievements and The Parking Lot Movie were the subject of the Hook's February 18, 2010 cover story. HOOK COVER IMAGE One month after two local movies premiered at...
Parking Lot Movie premieres Sat Published on Mar 27th, 2010 4 comments The Parking Lot Movie, one of the two Charlottesville-made films invited to the prestigious South by Southwest Festival (and subjects of the Hook's February 18 cover story), makes its Virginia debut...
Another 4th-Grade Achievement: sell-out Published on Feb 23rd, 2010 17 comments It's a small local film made on a shoe-string budget, but World Peace and Other 4th-Grade Achievements, one of the subjects of the Hook's February 18 cover story, made a big splash in a sell-out...
Filmmakers post 50 photos of Corner Parking Lot Published on Jan 22nd, 2010 0 comments It seems that there's a movie getting made about Charlottesville's infamously funky Corner Parking Lot, haven to drunks, poets, grad students, and combinations of same. While there's been no...