Ava Duvernay‘s Origin and Matthew Heineman‘s American Symphony were among the top winners at the Virginia Film Festival, the four-day Charlottesville event that ran from Oct.
25-29. Origin, based on Isabel Wilkerson’s Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, was the festival Audience Award for narrative feature.
Heineman’s American Symphony, about musician Jon Batiste, was recognized for documentary feature. Other Audience Award winners included Dreams of Home for narrative short and Black Godfather of Scuba for documentary short.
The winners of the Programmers’ Awards were American Fiction in the narrative category and No Ordinary Campaign in the documentary category.
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