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Virus Closed Venues, But RiverRun Offers Some NC Flicks Online

The 2020 RiverRun International Film Festival was scheduled to begin March 26 but was cancelled due to the coronavirus outbreak.

The COVID-19 outbreak temporarily shuttered Winston-Salem's RiverRun International Film Festival this spring. But starting Friday there's still a chance to see some of their movies with local connections online.

For the next two weeks, RiverRun is presenting almost 20 short films made in North Carolina. It's in honor of the 40th anniversary of the North Carolina Film Office.

They'll be offered in two blocks. The first group consists of documentaries on topics such as North Carolina A&T's marching band and an outdoorsman who climbs frozen waterfalls.

The second block has narrative and animated works. This includes stories about a man who walks into a barbershop for one last haircut, and a short film from the animators at Winston-Salem's Out of Our Minds Studios.

The works will be available for free until May 8. During the run, some of the filmmakers will also comment on their work on RiverRun's social media pages.

The films can be found on the festival's website

For the most up-to-date information on coronavirus in North Carolina, visit our Live Updates blog here. WFDD wants to hear your stories — connect with us and let us know what you're experiencing.

Paul Garber is a Winston-Salem native and an award-winning reporter who began his journalism career with an internship at The High Point Enterprise in 1993. He has previously worked at The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The News and Record of Greensboro and the Winston-Salem Journal, where he was the newspaper's first full-time multimedia reporter. He won the statewide Media and the Law award in 2000 and has also been recognized for his business, investigative and multimedia reporting. Paul earned a BA from Wake Forest University and has a Master's of Liberal Arts degree from Johns Hopkins University and a Master's of Journalism and Mass Communication from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He lives in Lewisville.

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