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Surrounded by Agnor-Hurt Elementary fourth graders, World Peace Game creator John Hunter shakes hands with U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta.

Gone global: Hunter and his World Peace game soar

If there were a competition for the most modest man in Charlottesville, teacher and World Peace Game creator John Hunter and local filmmaker Chris Farina would be neck-and-neck for the prize. "I'm just along for the ride," says Farina, who produced and directed the 2010 fil

Best o' the fest: What real filmmakers want to see

Salivation. That's what happens when you're a cinephile and you pick up the program for the 24th annual Virginia Film Festival and see all those unreleased new movies, and all those classics you've wanted to revisit, and all those films you really won't get to see anywhere

Teacher John Hunter and filmmaker Chris Farina stand outside the Paramount on the night of the Charlottesville "sneak peek" of the film World Peace & Other Fourth Grade Achievements.

Global exposure: 'Fourth Grade' film racks up honors

It may not yet have achieved world peace, but a locally-made film has gotten a world stage. John Hunter, the star of World Peace & Other Fourth Grade Achievements as well as the creator of the game that inspired the film, joined such luminaries as Bill Gates, retired Ar

7 festivals... and other 'Achievements' for local film

Chris Farina's film, subject of a February cover story, is screening this month at festivals as far away as Norway. HOOK COVER Seven months after it premiered at the South By Southwest fi

Peace and Parking: Local films flying high at festivals

World Peace and other 4th Grade Achievements andÃ?Â The Parking Lot Movie were the subject of the Hook's February 18, 2010 cover story. HOOK COVER IMAGE One month after two local movies

Parking Lot Movie premieres Sat

The Parking Lot Movie, one of the two Charlottesville-made films invited to the prestigious South by Southwest Festival (and subjects of the Hook's February 18 cover story), makes its Virginia debut Saturday, March 27, at the Paramount Theater. Tickets are $8.

Another 4th-Grade Achievement: sell-out

It's a small local film made on a shoe-string budget, but World Peace and Other 4th-Grade Achievements, one of the subjects of the Hook's February 18

Filmmakers post 50 photos of Corner Parking Lot

It seems that there's a movie getting made about Charlottesville's infamously funky Corner Parking Lot, haven to drunks, poets, grad students, and combinations of same.