Independent film festivals have long been enjoyed for alternative, creative filmmaking and wide subject matter. WMRA’s Kara Lofton previews one regional festival – Skyline – that comes to Winchester on Thursday, Sept. 10th.
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A drawing of a face warps, a girl runs through a dark tunnel lit by a single bulb, a robot follows a man in a futuristic society – so begins the trailer for this year’s Skyline Indie Film Fest in Winchester.
BRIAN PATRICK: It’s pretty straightforward -- we find independent films that we love and that we think the community will love and we put them on in Old Town so that we can one share the films, and share Old Town.
That was festival director Brian Patrick. For him, Skyline brings together the best of new, unique and undistributed independent films with a downtown artistic environment and a critically-minded audience. Patrick says he expects about a thousand people to attend.
PATRICK: There’s no pretention here. That’s my favorite part about it. There’s no velvet ropes, there’s no VIP access or anything like that. We have receptions and parties and screenings and things like that and – if you have a ticket, you’re welcome.
The festival showcases more than 40 independent feature and short films over the course of four days from September 10-13 in the heart of downtown. Venues include the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema, Dharma Yoga Studio and Museum of the Shenandoah Valley.