Progeny Film Festival
Progeny is a local film festival held every spring at the Lyric Theater in downtown Blacksburg. Since 2003, Progeny Film Festival has provided a forum for students and local filmmakers to share their work with each other and the community. It recognizes excellence in several areas of filmmaking with awards and prizes.
The Progeny Film Festival is a forum for the sharing and recognition of local student and professional films. In this, it promotes filmmaking as an invaluable form of creative expression and cultural and social enrichment to the local community and beyond.
Submit your film now! Progeny 2010 will be on April 17. See the submission page for details.
King Video Production - Producer, Director.
Gabrielle Amos Minnich gained valuable experience as a crewmember on independent films and television productions in Boston, and received a master's degree in broadcasting from Boston University. After moving to Virginia she worked in television and public relations. As an employee of Virginia Tech's Office of University Relations, she produces promotional videos for the university.
Stephen Prince has taught film history, criticism and theory at Virginia Tech for 18 years. His research and publications focus on violence in motion pictures, on Japanese director Akira Kurosawa and Japanese cinema, on the American film industry, on American film during the 1980s, and onpolitical cinema. The author of numerous essays and book chapters, his work has appeared in Film Quarterly, Cinema Journal, Quarterly Review of Film and Video, and The Chronicle of Higher Education. He currently is the Past President of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, the world's largest organization of film scholars, academics, students and professionals.
Progeny Film Festival
April 17, 2010
1 p.m. - 4 p.m.
The Lyric Theatre
Downtown Blacksburg
- Submit
- Submit Your Film Now!
- Prizes
- What's in it for the filmmakers?
- Judges
- Check out who decides the winners of the festival.