Join us Thursday, November 21 for rich conversation and view film excerpts with Lindsay McIntyre, an Indigenous filmmaker and multi-media artist. McIntrye is of Inuit and settler descent in Richmond as a featured presenter at the Pocahontas Reframed Film Festival. The UR Film faculty hopes many will appreciate learning about McIntyre’s analogue practices in the midst of the current industry digital film standard.
Having made over 40 short films over the past 20 years, McIntrye is Associate Film & Screen Arts Professor at Emily Carr University of Art + Design in Canada. Her recent short, NIGIQTUQ/The South Wind (2023) won Best Short Live Action at imagineNATIVE, a 2025 Academy Awards submission, the Whistler Film Festival EDA Award for Best Short Film Directed by Woman, and the FAVA FEST Outstanding Short Narrative Film.
In her portfolio, too, is her first feature, The Words We Can’t Speak, which won the 2021 WIDC Feature Film Award.
Merry Good Enough is a feature film created by UR 2008 Policial Science Alumni, Caroline Keene. Keene’s film is an independent dark(ish) comedy about a dysfunctional family whose mom disappears on Christmas Eve, and the lengths one daughter must go to bring her family back together again. Keene says it offers a “reverse Home Alone” plot. Merry Good Enough, stars Mad Men’s Joel Murray and Raye Spielberg in her breakout role. Described as “deliciously gritty” by Film Threat, the movie won the coveted Best Narrative Feature at the New Hampshire Film Festival.
Originally from Massachusetts, Caroline now lives in Los Angeles. She received her MFA in Screenwriting from UT Austin in 2016. Her biopic script My Name is Lorena Weeks was a top finalist for the Academy Awards Nicholls Fellowship. She currently has two more features in development. A conversation with Keene about her career path will be enjoyed after the screening. Watch the Merry Good Enough one minute trailer for a sneak peek: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUzr7J9ZNc4
Film production students creations are featured in this short video compilation. "I've often noticed that we are not able to look at what we have in front of us, unless it's inside a frame." --Abbas Kiarostami
UR Film students enjoy festivals and screenings with faculty on campus as well as throughout the Central Virginia area. "Being at a film festival reminds me of the power of film. The power that we have in our hands. Telling specific stories about personal matters can start the debate that is needed today, and that connect you with realities that you had no idea were connected." Diego Luna
Sonja Bertucci, assistant professor of languages, literatures, and cultures (film studies), was awarded the Special Jury Award for Inspirational Filmmaking for the film The Diamond Couple at the 2024 Arizona International Film Festival.
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Françoise Ravaux-Kirkpatrick, professor of French and film studies, has been awarded the rank of Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters by the French Minister of Culture for her contributions in the artistic and literary field. Learn more.
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Dr. Jessica Chan has published Chinese Revolutionary Cinema: Propaganda, Aesthetics, and Internationalism, 1949–1966 (London: I.B.Tauris, 2019) and has a forthcoming article “Literature of the Oppressed: Lu Xun and Nikolai Gogol,” in Frontiers of Literary Studies in China. .
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Pocahontas Reframed Film Festival
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Mailing address:
Film Studies Program
217 Carole Weinstein International Center
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University of Richmond, VA 23173
Phone: (804) 662 3008
Fax: (804) 289-8313
Film Production Lab: 420 Weinstein Hall
Program Coordinator: Monika Siebert
Academic Administrative Coordinator: Lynn Hardwicke