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Last year, the RiverRun International Film Festival marked a major milestone when it celebrated its 25th anniversary. This year, RiverRun begins its march toward the next 25 with its biggest

As it did for many arts organizations last year, COVID-19 rewrote the script for the RiverRun International Film Festival. The festival canceled last year but is back for 2021, offering a combination of virtual, outdoor and drive-in screenings May 6-16. RiverRun’s executive director Rob Davis said the team at RiverRun was determined, if possible, to do some sort of festival this year, even if that meant all virtual. “What we decided a few months ago was to make it a hybrid festival so...

RiverRun, based in Winston-Salem, is a competitive event that annually showcases new films from both established and emerging filmmakers around the world. RiverRun screens new narrative, documentary, short, student and animated films, offering both audience and jury prizes in competition categories. The 2021 festival will be a combination of virtual screenings, and outdoor and drive-in screenings. It will feature 134 films representing 24 countries culled from a pool of more than 1,500 films. V...