Goodbye Solo, a film by Winston-Salem filmmaker Ramin Bahrani, is one of three movies announced yesterday as part of the RiverRun International Film Festival. All three films have ties to the Triad.
Goodbye Solo was filmed in and around Winston-Salem. It won a major jury prize at the Venice Film Festival. It tells the story of a taxi driver who is hired to drive a man to a secluded mountain peak.
The two other movies are documentaries: With These Hands, by Matt Barr, a professor of filmmaking at UNC Greensboro; and Herb and Dorothy, about a couple who collect contemporary art. Some of their art has been donated to the Weatherspoon Art Museum at UNC Greensboro.
The rest of the schedule will be announced March 25.
Festival officials also announced that All-Access Passes are now available for a reduced price of $300 until March 25, when the price will go up to $350 and individual tickets will also go on sale. For more information, go to the Stevens Center box office, visit www.riverrunfilm.com or call 336-721-1945.
The 11th Annual RiverRun International Film Festival will run from April 22 to 29.
Two stations' switch to digital went smoothly, manager says
Yesterday's switch to digital-only broadcasts went smoothly at WXLV and WMYV, according to Ron Inman, the general manager of both TV stations.
"We got probably 50 to 70 calls," he said last night. That was about half as many calls as he had expected. Most of the calls were from people asking how to hook up their converter boxes. Others came from people who needed help setting up their antennas and from people who needed to reprogram their digital TV sets to pick up the digital channels. Five engineers at the station were on hand to help customers.
The stations opened their phone lines at 7 a.m. yesterday after switching off the analog broadcast signal Tuesday night. They are the only stations in the Triad to have gone to an all-digital format, with the other stations waiting until June 12.
Police investigating death of woman who ran off U.S. 52
Winston-Salem police are investigating the death of a woman whose vehicle ran off U.S. 52 on Tuesday.
Dana Pressley Jordon, 40, of Lexington was traveling south on U.S. 52 near Hanes Mill Road just before 9 p.m. when she went off the highway, went over an embankment and hit a fire hydrant on Mercantile Drive, which runs parallel to U.S. 52.
She was taken to Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center, where she was pronounced dead.
Investigators said they are not sure if Jordan died as a result of the wreck or some other condition. Her death is the fourth traffic fatality in the city this year.
Man, 21, pleads not guilty in shooting death of father
HILLSBOROUGH -- A North Carolina man has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity in the shooting death of his father and opening fire at his former high school.
Alvaro Castillo, 21, entered the plea yesterday morning in Hillsborough after Superior Court Judge Allen Baddour ruled that Castillo was competent to stand trial for the August 2006 shootings.
Castillo is charged with shooting and killing his 65-year-old father and then driving to Orange County High School, where he fired at the school with a rifle and a shotgun.
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