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WNRN Wake-up call host Rick Moore talks with director Jody Kielbasa of the Virginia Film Festival. This year’s film festival is occurring its 22nd year and the theme is funny business. A program guide of the Virginia Film Festival will be available Tuesday to see everything that is playing. The event goes on from November 5-8.
It’s an Oscar tradition! On the February 22nd edition of the Wake-Up Call, Rick chatted with Adam Greenbaum, owner of Visulite Cinemas; Tom DuMontier, frequent reviewer on WNRN’s 91 Seconds on Film; and Ben Nuckols of Ill Informed Gadfly. The entertaining trio give their Oscar picks for tonight’s Academy Awards.
On the October 26th edition of WNRN’s Sunday Morning Wake-Up Call, Rick Moore talks with Richard Herskowitz, Artistic Director of the Virginia Film Festival, which begins this Thursday, Oct. 30. This is Herskowitz’ fifteenth and final festival, and he speaks about all the various elements that must come together to make it so successful. Also in the studio is Alexandra Woodward, director of All My Friends Are Strangers, a work-in-progress scheduled to screen on Friday.
The afternoon before the 80th annual Academy Awards, three movie experts visited the WNRN studios for the Wake-Up Call’s annual Oscars show. Ben Nuckols and Tom Dumontier (two films reviewers for WNRN), and Adam Greenbaum (the owner of an independent movie theater) discussed their predictions for winners, and delved into what types of movies tend to get nominated and win. They also talked about how the recent writers’ strike has affected the Academy Awards - will this be a laugh-out-loud night to remember, or a quickly thrown-together mess?
Give your own predictions for the winners, by commenting after the podcast!
You can watch the 80th Annual Academy Awards at 8:30PM tonight on ABC.
