Progeny Film Festival

Progeny Film Festival

Progeny is a local film festival held every spring at the Lyric Theater in downtown Blacksburg. Progeny gives students from Virginia Tech, Radford, and Hollins the opportunity to screen their work to other filmmakers and the local community. It recognizes excellence in several areas of filmmaking with awards and prizes.

Submission Deadlines

The submission deadline for the 2011 Progeny Film Festival has passed.
We appreciate your interest in Progeny and hope to hear from you next year.

Submission

The deadline for submitting to the 2011 Progeny Film Festival has passed. For information on submitting the to the 2012 Progeny Film Festival, please check back in September.

Prizes

A prize award will be granted to Best Picture and a cash award to the Audience Award winner.

Categories for awards include:

• Best Picture
• Best Cinematography
• Best Editing
• Best Performance
• Judges' Award
• Audience Award

T-Shirts

An announcement for the 2009 T-shirts will be posted once they are available for purchasing. The 2008 design is displayed below.

Judges

Mike Allen

Roanoke Times

Chris Valuzzo

Horse Archer Productions

Simone Paterson

Virginia Tech Art Professor
Associate Professor - School of Visual Arts

Robin Allnut

Virginia Tech Advanced Instructor
Department of English

John Boyer

Department of Geography

Michael Anthony Williams

Department of Theatre and Cinema