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The VCU French Film Festival, an annual festival created by Drs. Peter S. Kirkpatrick and Françoise...

The VCU French Film Festival, an annual festival created by Drs. Peter S. Kirkpatrick and Françoise Ravaux-Kirkpatrick at Virginia Commonwealth University in 1993, is the largest festival of French film in the United States. Since 1993, it has welcomed a delegation totaling 160 directors, producers, actors, film scholars, critics, and French government officials. The festival usually takes place the last weekend of March, during which the entire city of Richmond, Virginia is filled with French speakers and aficionados of French cinema. The French cinema has a certain aura that attracts admirers from across Virginia, Washington, D.C., Maryland, the Carolinas, Pennsylvania, and New York State to attend the festival. The Festival’s founders and directors, Drs. Peter and Françoise Ravaux-Kirkpatrick, were decorated at the 2004 Festival as “Chevaliers de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres,” a high honor in the arts in France. The festival is host to a wide variety of French films produced in the previous year. The festival features both short films and feature-length ones. The festival is often the international debut for many of the feature-length French films. Most of all, the VCU French