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RiverRun International Film Festival

RiverRun International Film Festival

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"Riverrun" redirects here. For the fictional stronghold from the works of George R. R. Martin, see Riverrun (A Song of Ice and Fire). For the publisher, see Quercus (publisher).

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.

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Jury Awards winners

Best Narrative Feature

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Best Documentary Feature

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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 dedicated to showcasing the best 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:

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Notes

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

References

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    "RiverRun receives another Academy Awards® distinction". RiverRun International Film Festival. 2014-11-19. Retrieved 2019-08-11.
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    "92nd ACADEMY AWARDS SHORT FILMS QUALIFYING FESTIVAL LIST" (PDF). Oscars.org.
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