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The Cinema Travellers
The Cinema Travellers Join us at the Underground Cinema by WVIFF for July’s feature film:...
Our Mission
The WVIFF’s mission is to encourage, support, and promote the Film Arts; to plan, organize, and present an annual Fall Film Festival of critically acclaimed and culturally diverse domestic and foreign language feature films unlikely to be exhibited theatrically in West Virginia; to plan, organize, and present an annual Spring Film Festival of critically acclaimed and culturally diverse domestic and foreign language feature films and documentaries, West Virginia-produced/related films, and educational programming; to conduct these activities for entertainment, educational, and audience-development purposes; to encourage local and statewide film and video production; and to carry on any business connected therewith.
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POV continues to show important documentaries. Be sure to catch this at home.
In March 2011, radio host Obaidah Zytoon and her group of friends joined the Arab Spring protests against Bashar al-Assad's regime. Knowing their country would be changed forever, they began filming their lives and the events around them. As Syria spirals into a civil war, their hope for a better future is shattered by violence, imprisonment and death. Hailed as "essential" by Variety, THE WAR SHOW premieres Monday, July 3 on PBS (check local listings).
Looking for something different to do on a rainy, Friday evening? Come on down to the Underground Cinema by WVIFF!
David Lynch The Art Life (Final Screenings)
June 16, 2017, 7:30pm - June 30, 2017, 9:00pm
YOUR FINAL 5 TIMES TO SEE "DAVID LYNCH THE ART LIFE!" June 16th,17th, 23rd, 24th, and 30th! Join us at the Underground Cinema by WVIFF for June's feature film: David Lynch: The Art Life! About the film: The film follows director David Lynch's upbringing in Montana and Idaho, his initial move to Philadelphia to pursue a career as a painter, to the beginning of the production of Eraserhead. Synopsis: David Lynch takes us on an intimate journey through the formative years of his life. From his idyllic upbringing in small town America to the dark streets of Philadelphia, we follow Lynch as he traces the events that have helped to shape one of cinema's most enigmatic directors. David Lynch the Art Life infuses Lynch's own art, music and early films, shining a light into the dark corners of his unique world, giving audiences a better understanding of the man and the artist. As Lynch states "I think every time you do something, like a painting or whatever, you go with ideas and sometimes the past can conjure those ideas and color them, even if they're new ideas, the past colors them."