Tuesday, November 13, 2012
After decades in TV news, Mike Kravinsky will premiere 'The Nextnik' this weekend at the Alexandria Film Festival.
After decades working in television news, Arlingtonian Mike Kravinsky wanted to tell a more personal story through shooting his own film. "I realized that a feature dramedy about reinvention is something that would make a great fictional story," Kravinsky said. The semi-autobiographical movie “The Nextnik” was filmed earlier this year in various restaurants in the Clarendon area, including The Silver Diner, Eventide and Boccato. “The Clarendon area was wonderful, they helped me out so much,” Kravinsky said. “The Silver Diner people were fantastic. They closed a whole section of the restaurant for us and one of their servers was an extra.” The movie was initially a six-part web series Kravinsky released in January. “I realized that there …
Monday, November 12, 2012
Festival includes more than 40 feature-length films, documentaries, animations and shorts as well as a world premiere. Many of the films' directors will be attending and available for discussion.
The Alexandria Film Festival is gracing several silver screens this week across the city with an overarching event theme of “sustainability.” “A number of the films, but not all, have a sub-theme of sustainability, which more often then not means environmental, but can also mean just about everything we do that has an impact on the environment and the economy,” said festival Chairwoman Patti North. “We often don’t consider our behavior and what nurtures sustainability.” North and her team of volunteers curate the films for the festival, which is partly funded by the city of Alexandria. The festival presents feature-length films, documentaries, animations and shorts by emerging and established filmmakers, showcasing many films to audiences …
Thursday, November 3, 2011
Four-day event runs Thursday through Sunday, and it's bigger than ever.
Thousands of film fanatics and local and international filmmakers are preparing to descend on Alexandria beginning Thursday for the Fifth Annual Alexandria Film Festival, the city’s largest to date. The festival’s 2011 schedule includes 47 short and feature-length films and documentaries representing 14 countries. Washington-area and student filmmakers are also represented. “Alexandria has this amazing crop of filmmakers right in our backyard, and because we have such an international presence here, this is a great opportunity to celebrate local, national and international films,” said festival spokesman Pete Hyde. “And we’ve got the perfect setting for it. So, we’re a little unusual in that we have literally communities from all over the …
