Alexandria Film Festival 2011

The Alexandria Film Festival is a tribute to cinematic art, featuring emerging and established filmmakers from all over the world. The festival includes 39 independent, short and feature length films, documentaries, animation and narrative films screened at a variety of locations in and around the City of Alexandria, Virginia. The Alexandria Film Festival exhibits both curated and juried films ranging in length from 5 minutes to 2 hours, covering a wide range of subject matter. Top films will be honored with cash awards in the following categories: The Jury Prize, The Audience Award and the Best of Fest Award.

Dates: November 3 - 6, 2011 - Details to Be Announced

Highlights of the 2011 Alexandria Film Festival

• Opening night features the debut of “Ed Hardy Tattoo the World,” an engaging film about Pop Icon Ed Hardy’s unexpected rise to cult status and his phenomenal influence on pop culture. The film will be shown on Friday November 3rd, with a kick-off party at Agua Viva, film screening at the Old Town Theater on King Street, followed by discussions with Director Emiko Omori. An opening night after party will follow at Red Rocks Restaurant.
  
  
• Two new locations will be added to this year’s festival; the Alexandria Black History Museum and the Four Mile Run Community Center. The Alexandria Black History Museum will feature Checkers Club whose members gather for camaraderie, trash talking, and competitive checkers playing. Meet The Shark, Chicago, The Stealer, Boy Wonder, The Weasel, Johnnie Cool, The Hawk and The Master of Disaster, among others. Special guests include Director Peggy Fleming and the men from The Capital Pool Checkers Club.
  
  
• The Four Mile Run Community center will feature a first time outdoor celebration with an exciting lineup of Latino films Friday, November 4th at 7 p.m.
  
  
• The festival will conclude Sunday, November 6th with a celebration of this year’s Festival Jury Prize Winner “Des Indiens Comme Nous," (Indians Like Us), a quirky and touching film about a group of French people who share an obsession for everything Native American.

Festival Venues

• George Washington Masonic Memorial - 1101 Callahan Drive, Alexandria, VA
  
  
• The Athenaeum - 201 Prince Street, Alexandria, VA
  
  
• Alexandria Black History Museum - 902 Wyth St. Alexandria, VA
  
  
• Four Mile Run Community Center - 4109 Mount Vernon Avenue, Alexandria, VA
  
  
• Old Town Theater - 815 1/2 King Street, Alexandria, VA

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Official Website: www.AlexandriaFilm.org