CROZET

A SMALL TOWN IN AMERICA

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SYNOPSIS

 

"Crozet" is a documentary film project portraying the history (past-present and future) of Crozet, VA, a paradisiacal American small town nested in the foothills on the Blue Ridge Mountains.

 

The film follows Crozet’s rise from a rural area to an urban center for Western Albemarle, the subsequent decline in the 1980s, and the current revitalization of the town. Narrated by local historian Phil James and using interviews with current and former residents, Montes-Bradley shows the changing face of the small American town.

 

 

PHIL JAMES

 

Is the James H. Bostwick Professor of English (emeritus) at the University of Richmond. Since his first encounter with Lankes’ woodcuts, while writing his doctoral dissertation on Sherwood Anderson, Taylor has championed Lankes’ art through pioneering

scholarly publications and exhibits, including The Woodcut Art of J. J.

Lankes (1999), a new edition of Lankes’ A Woodcut Manual (2006), and Julius J. Lankes: Survey of an American Artist exhibit and catalog

(University of Richmond, 2013).

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HERITAGE FILM PROJECT presents 

a documentary by Eduardo MONTES-BRADLEY

narrated by Phil JAMES with projected testimonies from Rita MAE BROWN 

produced by Soledad LIENDO associate producer Anne SPILLERS

with the support of the UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA directed by EDUARDO MONTES-BRADLEY 

 

 

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