Upcoming Film Festivals at UR and in Richmond 2024-2025. Hope you’ll attend a few!
Film Studies Events
Past Festivals-Events
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Tucker Boatwright Film Festival
During the 2023-2024 academic year, The University of Richmond Tucker Boatwright Festival of Literature & Arts was successfully hosted by the Film Studies interdisciplinary program. “Reimagining Community in Cinema” explored the diverse ways in which community is historically imagined and reimagined in documentary and fiction film from the silent era to the digital age. With experts in their fields who accepted our invitations, twelve campus events including symposia, masterclasses, film screenings, conversations with filmmakers honored the contributions of historically marginalized communities.
Conversations with Film Professionals
TOBI AKINDE
Film Screenings + Q&A
Akinde is a Nigerian filmmaker, curator, and researcher currently working between Nigeria and New Orleans. He tells everyday stories of Africans and the African diaspora in a way that challenges dominant gaze and offers alternative cultural perspectives. His films combine variants of realism, direct cinema, archival practice, and mythology.
Akinde’s latest fantasy drama will be screened. Shot in New Orleans in December 2024 the film is in post-production and will be heading for this year’s film festivals in May. In the Q&A session, Akinde will draw on his experience in variety of roles, from cinematographer, writer, director, to film festival curator, and organizer of a filmmakers collective.
Indigenous Filmmakers Series
Lindsay McIntyre, Filmmaker & Multi-Media Artist
Film and/as Material Practice
Join us 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 Program 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.
Alumni Film Showcase
Caroline Keene, Screenwriter & Co-Director
Join the Film Studies Program for a film screening of Merry Good Enough and Q&A with Caroline Keene, ‘08, received an M.F.A. in screenwriting from the University of Texas at Austin. Her biopic script, My Name is Lorena Weeks, was a top finalist for the Academy Awards Nicholls Fellowship. Merry Good Enough, a dark comedy written and co-directed by Keene, and starring Mad Men’s Joel Murray and Raye Spielberg in her breakout role, debuts in the U.K. this coming holiday season. Described as “deliciously gritty” by Film Threat, the movie won the best NH Feature at The New Hampshire Film Festival. Originally from Massachusetts, Caroline now lives in Los Angeles. She currently has two features in development.
Merry Good Enough is an indie, 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.
Originally from Massachusetts, Caroline now lives in Los Angeles. 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 trailer for a sneak peek.
Film Screening: Maka
DIR. ELIA MOUTAMID, 2023, ITALY, 51 MIN.
Maka is a documentary about Geneviève Makaping, a Cameroonian-Italian anthropologist, writer and the first Black woman to be named the director of a newspaper in Italy. The film offers a detailed account of Makaping’s journey of migration from Cameroon across the desert and the ocean, her arrival in Italy in 1982 following the tragic death of her partner, her success as a journalist and television host, and her more recent relocation and current teaching job in Mantua. Maka explores how the perception of migration and race has changed since Makaping first came to Italy in the 1990s. Maka is a bold statement about what it means to be “other,” to be a woman, and particularly a Black woman, in Italy. A Q&A session with the director Elia Moutamid, moderated by UR’s Dr. Lidia Radi, followed the screening.
Presented through generous support by the UR School of Arts and Sciences; Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures; Office of International Education; and Italian Language & Culture Club.