ASHEVILLE, N.C. (828newsNOW) — The very first Asheville Film Festival will be held this weekend, complete with local, regional and national features, documentaries and shorts, as well as an Oscars-style awards gala, from Friday to Sunday, Aug. 15-17, at the Asheville Masonic Temple, 80 Broadway St.
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According to festival co-director Sean Soboleski, Asheville Film Festival was primarily envisioned as an event for Western North Carolina filmmakers to showcase their work.
“Asheville Film Festival is a non-profit that was started this year with the mission to create a platform to support local and regional independent filmmakers and to share their stores,” Soboleski said.
Over 30 films are on the schedule for the weekend. The movies are divided into “blocks” by theme, allowing participants to drop in and out of the festival depending on the stories they are most interested in seeing…