This virtual event is a part of the 2020 Virginia Film Festival. For more information about the virtual discussion (available beginning at 9:00 AM on October 25), visit the Film Festival website here.
Join us, the Virginia Film Festival, the Virginia Festival of the Book, and the UVA Bookstore for a virtual discussion of the Showtime series The Good Lord Bird.
Actor, writer, director, and four-time Academy Award nominee Ethan Hawke will be joined by award-winning author James McBride for a conversation around The Good Lord Bird, the new Showtime series based on McBride’s book, in which Hawke portrays abolitionist John Brown. The conversation will also include Joshua Caleb Johnson, who co-stars in the series; executive producer and showrunner Mark Richard; and costume designer Amy Andrews Harrell. The conversation will be moderated by UVA media studies professor William Little and will be introduced by VAFF Advisory Board member Andy Edmunds. For more information, visit virginiafilmfestival.org.
