RiverRun International Film Festival

The RiverRun International Film Festival is an annual Oscar-qualifying film festival held each spring in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. The festival is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization and presents a variety of feature-length and short films from all genres, and also presents special events, regional premieres of significant films, celebrity tributes, family events and classic retrospectives as well as panel discussions and parties.

"Riverrun" redirects here. For the fictional stronghold from the works of George R. R. Martin, see Riverrun (A Song of Ice and Fire). For the publisher, see Quercus (publisher).

RiverRun official logo

Jury Awards winners

Best Narrative Feature

Year	Film	Country	Director
2019[1]	Alice	Australia/France	Josephine Mackerras
2018	Angels Wear White	China	Vivian Qu
2017	After Love[2]	France / Belgium	Joachim Lafosse
2016	The Fits[2]	United States	Anna Rose Holmer
2015	Memories on Stone[2]	Iraq / Germany	Shawkat Amin Korki
2014	Ida[2]	Poland	Paweł Pawlikowski
2013	In the House[2]	France	François Ozon
2012	Found Memories[3]	Argentina / Brazil	Júlia Murat
2011	Bal (Honey)	Turkey / Germany	Semih Kaplanoglu
2010	Katalin Varga	Romania / United Kingdom	Peter Strickland
2009	Three Monkeys	Turkey / France / Germany	Nuri Bilge Ceylan
2008	The Edge of Heaven	Germany / Turkey	Fatih Akin
2007	For the Living and the Dead	Finland	Kari Paljakka
2006	A Wonderful Night in Split	Croatia	Arsen Anton Ostojić
2005	Innocent Voices	Mexico	Luis Mandoki
2004	Dandelion	United States	Mark Milgard
2003	The Truth... Yathharth	India	Rajesh Sheth
2001	Morning ( >$500k budget )	United States	Ami Canaan Mann
2001	Dischord ( <$500k budget )	United States	Mark Wilkinson
2000	The Magic of Marciano ( >$500k budget )	United States	Tony Barbieri
2000	Jacks or Better ( <$500k budget )	United States	Robert Sidney Mellette
1999	Crashing Eden	United States	Dean Alioto
1998	The Legend of Cryin' Ryan	United States	Deanna Shapiro & Julie Smith (St.Claire)

Best Documentary Feature

Year	Film	Country	Director
2019	American Factory	United States	Steven Bognar & Julia Reichert
2018	Minding the Gap	United States	Bing Liu
2017	Quest[2]	United States	Jonathan Olshefski
2016	Salero[2]	Bolivia / United States	Mike Plunkett
2015	The Chinese Mayor[2]	China	Hao Zhou
2014	The Case Against 8[2]	United States	Ben Cotner & Ryan White
2013	I Am Breathing[2]	Denmark / United Kingdom[4]	Emma Davie & Morgan McKinnon
2012	The Boy Who Was a King	Bulgaria/Germany	Andrey Paounov
2011	Armadillo	Denmark	Janus Metz
2010	Last Train Home	Canada / China / UK	Lixin Fan
2009	Unmistaken Child	Israel	Nati Baratz
2008	Up the Yangtze	Canada	Yung Chang
2007	The Rape of Europa	USA	Richard Berge, Bonni Cohen, and Nicole Newnham
2006	Taimagura Grandma	Japan	Yohihiko Sumikawa
2005	Parallel Lines	United States	Nina Davenport
2004	Long Gone	United States	Jack Cahill & David Eberhardt
2003	The Boys of Second Street Park	United States	Ron Berger & Dan Klores
2001	Company Jasmine	Israel	Yael Katzir & Dan Katzir

History

A sign about the closure and cancellation of various events

Founded in 1998 by Gennaro and Beth D'Onofrio, the RiverRun International Film Festival got its name from the French Broad River near Brevard, North Carolina, where the festival was originally held. In 2003, Dale Pollock, a former film producer and then-Dean of the School of Filmmaking at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, moved RiverRun to Winston-Salem, where it resides today as an independent arts organization dedicated to showcasing the best new films from independent, international and student filmmakers.[5]

Since 2014, the festival has been an Oscar-qualifying festival in the Animated short film category.[6][7][8]

Festival Dates/Locations:

Number	Year	Dates	Location
1st	1998	Sept. 25-27	Brevard, NC
2nd	1999	Sept.	Brevard, NC
3rd	2000	Sept. 1-4	Brevard, NC
4th	2001	Aug. 29 - Sept. 3	Brevard, NC
	2002	skipped
5th	2003	April 24–27	Winston-Salem, NC
6th	2004	April 22–25	Winston-Salem, NC
7th	2005	April 21–24	Winston-Salem, NC
8th	2006	March 16–19	Winston-Salem, NC
9th	2007	April 18–23	Winston-Salem, NC
10th	2008	April 23–28	Winston-Salem, NC
11th	2009	April 22–29	Winston-Salem, NC
12th	2010	April 15–25	Winston-Salem, NC
13th	2011	April 8–17	Winston-Salem, NC
14th	2012	April 13–22	Winston-Salem, NC
17th	2015	April 16–26	Winston-Salem, NC[9]
20th	2018	April 19–29[10]	Winston-Salem, NC
21st	2019	April 4–14[11]	Winston-Salem, NC
22nd	2020	March 26-April 5[lower-alpha 1][13]	Winston-Salem, NC

Notes

1. Original dates for the festival before it was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[12]

References

1. "2019 film awards announced!". RiverRun International Film Festival. 2019-04-16. Retrieved 2019-04-17.
2. "Awards". RiverRun Film Festival. Retrieved 2018-01-21.
3. "The Awards are in!". RiverRun Film. Archived from the original on 2012-05-14. Retrieved 2012-04-21.
4. "I Am Breathing (2013)". Retrieved 2018-01-21.
5. "RiverRun International Film Festival - History". RiverRun International Film Festival. Retrieved 2019-04-17.
6. "Academy Award-Qualifying Festivals". FilmFreeway. Retrieved 2019-08-11.
7. "RiverRun receives another Academy Awards® distinction". RiverRun International Film Festival. 2014-11-19. Retrieved 2019-08-11.
8. "92nd ACADEMY AWARDS SHORT FILMS QUALIFYING FESTIVAL LIST" (PDF). Oscars.org.
9. "Riverrun 2015 Film Announcement". ScreenAnarchy. March 17, 2015.
10. "Home". RiverRun Film Festival. Retrieved 2018-01-21.
11. "Important Dates for the 2019 RiverRun International Film Festival". RiverRun International Film Festival. 15 February 2019. Retrieved 22 March 2020.
12. "UPDATE: COVID-19 and RiverRun". RiverRun International Film Festival. 13 March 2020. Retrieved 22 March 2020.
13. "RiverRun International Film Festival - Home". RiverRun International Film Festival. Retrieved 22 March 2020.

External links

• Official website