RiverRun International Film Festival

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The RiverRun International Film Festival is an annual Oscar-qualifying film festival held each spring in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States. The festival is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization and presents a variety of feature-length and short films from all genres, and also presents special events, regional premieres of significant films, celebrity tributes, family events and classic retrospectives as well as panel discussions and parties.

Jury Awards winners

Best Narrative Feature

Best Documentary Feature

History

A sign about the closure and cancellation of various events

Founded in 1998 by Gennaro and Beth D'Onofrio, the RiverRun International Film Festival got its name from the French Broad River near Brevard, North Carolina, where the festival was originally held. In 2003, Dale Pollock, a former film producer and then-Dean of the School of Filmmaking at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, moved RiverRun to Winston-Salem, where it resides today as an independent arts organization showing new films from independent, international and student filmmakers.^[8]

Since 2014, the festival has been an Oscar-qualifying festival in the Animated short film category.^[9][10][11]

Festival Dates/Locations:

Notes

1. Original dates for the festival before it was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.^[15]

References

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7. "I Am Breathing (2013)". IMDb. Retrieved 2018-01-21.
8. "RiverRun International Film Festival - History". RiverRun International Film Festival. Retrieved 2019-04-17.
9. "Academy Award-Qualifying Festivals". FilmFreeway. Retrieved 2019-08-11.
10. "RiverRun receives another Academy Awards® distinction". RiverRun International Film Festival. 2014-11-19. Retrieved 2019-08-11.
11. "92nd ACADEMY AWARDS SHORT FILMS QUALIFYING FESTIVAL LIST" (PDF). Oscars.org.
12. "Riverrun 2015 Film Announcement". ScreenAnarchy. March 17, 2015.
13. "Home". RiverRun Film Festival. Retrieved 2018-01-21.
14. "Important Dates for the 2019 RiverRun International Film Festival". RiverRun International Film Festival. 15 February 2019. Retrieved 22 March 2020.
15. "UPDATE: COVID-19 and RiverRun". RiverRun International Film Festival. 13 March 2020. Retrieved 22 March 2020.
16. "RiverRun International Film Festival - Home". RiverRun International Film Festival. Retrieved 22 March 2020.