Festival veteran Richard Herskowitz is taking over as director of programming for the Ashland Independent Film Festival. He served as director for the Virginia Film Festival from 1994-2008 and has been Artistic Director at the Houston Cinema Arts Festival since 2009.
Herskowitz will continue to program the Houston festival every fall as he lives part-time in Ashland in the winter and early spring, when the festival runs every April.
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