The Williamsburg Film Festival began as a small group of western movie fans meeting in 1987 to watch old cowboy movies on a big screen.
Several had attended film festivals in Charlotte, Knoxville,Memphis and Asheville over the years and realized the importance of preserving the Golden Years of Hollywood.
In 1997, the group decided to sponsor their own festival. They felt that the charm of Colonial Williamsburg and the interest in Hollywood's Golden era would make a successful combination. It was decided to trial a festival that would honor not only Hollywood's Golden era in film but also the early days of Television.
The First Festival was held at the Comfort Inn in Williamsburg in March of 1997. The facility was small but intimate and everyone felt that the first effort had provided a real foundation for the future.
The first festival was so successful that they needed larger facilities so they moved to The Holiday Inn 1776 in March of 1998 for the second year. Again, a larger than expected crowd attended. More fans and more dealers required more space.
In 1999, they moved to the Holiday Inn Patriot for the Third Festival in February. A larger facility that served a larger crowd and more dealers. In 2000, they returned to The Holiday Inn Patriot and adopted it as their permanent home.
The Holiday Inn Patriot is a great facility that provided sufficient space to house 2 theaters, a large Star Interview Room and an oversized Dealer Memorabilia Room.
The Holiday Inn Patriot is now the home of The Williamsburg Film Festival.
It is the Guest Stars that make Williamsburg Film Festival the Premier Film Festival on the East Coast.
A list of previous guest stars:
1997 Williamsburg Film Festival - Comfort Inn
Dale Berry
James Best
Peter Boone
Gene Evans
Will Hutchins
Willie Phelps
Ted & Ruth Reinhart
1998 Williamsburg Film Festival - Holiday Inn 1776
James Best
Peter Boone
Conrad Brooks
James Drury
Willie Phelps
Ted & Ruth Reinhart
Dale Robertson
Roberta Shore
Sonny Shroyer
Johnny Western
Peggy Stewart
1999 Williamsburg Film Festival - Holiday Inn Patriot
James Best
Peter Boone
Peter Breck
Ben Cooper
Jan Merlin
John Mitchum
Billie Murphy
Willie Phelps
Paul Picerni
Ted & Ruth Reinhart
2000 Williamsburg Film Festival - Holiday Inn Patriot
Rex Allen, Jr.
Dale Berry
James Best
Peter Boone
Joseph Campanella
Harry Carey, Jr.
Gary Gray
Will Hutchins
Willie Phelps
Mala Powers
Ted & Ruth Reinhart
Gale Storm
Johnny Western
2001 Williamsburg Film Festival - Holiday Inn Patriot
James Best
Peter Boone
Jim Bowman
Jerome Courtland
Beverly Garland
Will Jordan
Ruta Lee
Lucky Bill Parrish
Willie Phelps
Ted & Ruth Reinhart
Marion Shilling
William Smith
Peggy Stewart
2002 Williamsburg Film Festival - Holiday Inn Patriot
Jane Adams
Ben Cooper
The LeGarde Twins
Jimmy Lydon
Donna Martell
Jan Merlin
Ted & Ruth Reinhart
Lucky Bill Parrish
Frankie Thomas
2003 Williamsburg Film Festival - Holiday Inn Patriot
Kathryn Adams
Joseph Campanella
Dick Jones
Ed Kemmer
Jan Merlin
Ann Rutherford
Frankie Thomas
William Schallert
Johnny Western
Ted & Ruth Reinhart
Mike Culver
2004 Williamsburg Film Festival - Holiday Inn Patriot
John Alderson
John Calvert
Joe Canutt
Alex Cord
Kim Darby
Tommy Farrell
Robert Fuller
Kay Linaker
Steve Mitchell
Betsy Palmer
Ann Robinson
William Smith
Ted & Ruth Reinhart
Lucky Bill Parrish
2005 Williamsburg Film Festival - Holiday Inn Patriot
Kathy Garver
Ty Hardin
George Hamilton IV
Anne Jeffreys
Joan Leslie
Denny Miller
Don Stroud
Morgan Woodward
Ted & Ruth Reinhart
Lucky Bill Parrish
The Virginia Rounders 2006 Williamsburg Film Festival - Holiday Inn Patriot
James Best
Ben Cooper
Beverly Garland
Will Hutchins
Dick Jones
James Lydon
Jan Merlin
Lucky Bill Parrish
Mala Powers
Ted & Ruth Reinhart
William Smith
Peggy Stewart
Frankie Thomas
Johnny Western 2007 Williamsburg Film Festival - Holiday Inn Patriot
Richard Anderson
Audrey Dalton
Margia Dean
Ed Faulkner
James Hampton
David Huddleston
Heather Lowe
Andrew Prine
Neil Summers
Eli Barsi
Ed & Bobbi Beard
Sterling Riggs 2008 Williamsburg Film Festival - Holiday Inn Patriot
Lesley Aletter
Roger Davis
Richard Devon
Richard Herd
Gene Lesser
Lee Meriwether
Don Kay Reynolds
Jacqueline Scott
Gregory Walcott
The LeGarde Twins
Ed & Bobbi Beard
Blue River Bluegrass Band
2009 Williamsburg Film Festival - Holiday Inn Patriot
Ed & Bobbi Beard
Joe Canutt
George Hamilton IV
Ron Harper
Loren Janes
Dick Jones
Steve Kanaly
Larry Maurice
Steve Stevens
Peggy Stewart
Jacqueline White
Falstaff International Film Festival was created in 2009.
The best known film festival is the one in Cannes, France. There is also a Sundance Film Festival in Idaho, a Berlin Film Festival in Germany, and a Toronto Film Festival in Canada, among others
Yes she was a jury memebr in the cannes festival on May,13,2003
well his name is Robert Singleton the runningback form UGA he gose by IronE singleton now he use to be my track couch a year before the movie came out
You can watch the whole movie here for free, but after 72 minutes it will stop but just wait and you can continue it.
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If it doesnt work I'll give you a new link
The Film "Coast to Coast" made by two ultralight pilots in Africa in 2004 (edited in 2005)
is the adventure film that won most awards and recognitions. The film won 23 awards from
October 2005 to November 2008, some of those awards being Grand Prix of film festivals.
Mike Blyth (South Africa) and Olivier Aubert (Switzerland) two record distance flyers made several expeditions with their two flying scooters (trike ultralights) since 1995 and two films. Both photographers they came to movie making in 1999 with their first film South to South (1 award), then improved both techniques and equipments to make Coast to Coast entirely by themselves without any help or support from film industry or specialists. The film has been shot by Blyth and Aubert, edited by Aubert. Here is their website: www.trike-expeditions.com
Either Cannes, Toronto International Film Festival, or Sundance
The 2010 Cannes Film Festival took place in Cannes as usual. Venice has its own festival.