And the nominees are...: Nine people we'd like to see run the Virginia Film Festival

And the nominees are...: Nine people we'd like to see run the Virginia Film Festival

With Virginia Film Festival director Richard Herskowitz ending his 14-year tenure and riding off into the Oregon sunset at the conclusion of this year's festival, all of Charlottesville's cinemaphiles wait with bated breath to find out who will lead the venerable institution into the future. As it turns out, this town has connections to some of the best and brightest in the movie-making business, any one of whom would make a great successor to Herskowitz. 

 So, to the Virginia Film Festival board, we humbly submit the following slate of nine nominees to fill the director's chair and keep our annual flick fest hopping with lights, cameras, and action.

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