Gente de Franklin County: Vanessa Query
The Montague Reporter, 9/22/22
“Vanessa es escritora, directora, interprete y organizadora de eventos relacionados con el séptimo arte. Ha dirigido y escritos cortos y obras de teatro en diferentes formatos, especialmente obras cortas y cómicas, espectáculos circenses y de multimedia. Y poca gente sabe que ha intervenido en un episodio de ‘Uprights Citizens Brigade’ en Comedy Central en el que interpretaba a una niña en coma.”
LAVA Center seeks entries for second annual film festival
Greenfield Recorder, 5/19/22
“It’s very possible that we won’t be as competitive as festivals can be because we want to highlight young filmmakers as well as more polished professionals. I love the idea of having a range.”
The LAVA Center Fosters Performing & Literary Arts
NEPM’s Connecting Point, 9/3/21
“[T]here isn’t anything else quite like it. We kind of fill this, this niche where it’s the community arts, where anyone can come and do something artistic, whether it’s performing or displaying their visual art or hosting meetings and classes…. It’s just watching all just these different types — people from all walks of life who just have this shared interest in art or community.”
LAVA Center hosting Sunday online film series
Greenfield Recorder, 7/15/21
“I want (audience members) to know there are people who are making movies locally; it’s not just Hollywood,” Query said. “Hollywood isn’t the only game in town. … We have such a rich local art scene and movies are a part of that.”
New LAVA Center to complement arts scene on Greenfield’s Main Street
Greenfield Recorder, 1/7/20
“We’ll have a calendar letting people know what’s going on,” Query added. “We are also here to help small organizations write grants. … We want it to be a real resource to the community.”
Alienation and the Greenfield Movie Club with Vanessa Query
Mornings with Monte, WRSI the River, April 2019
“Vanessa Query and her 8-year old son, Desmond, got the neighborhood kids together to make a movie and it has its premier at The Rendezvous Thursday night, April 11th 2019.”
Local parents, kids produce short films through new Greenfield Movie Club
Greenfield Recorder, April 2019
“Vanessa Query sought a creative, open-minded place to raise her son, and found what she was looking for when she moved to Franklin County. She had grown familiar with the region visiting friends, and was taken by its progressive culture and strong network of artists.”
The Long & Short of It: Celebrating short form at the Yellow Springs Short Film Fest
Dayton City Paper, February 2011
“Short films, like short stories, have the ability to capture that same ‘possibility of life;’ those crystallized moments that encapsulate a lifetime of experience and shorts are the first tentative expressions in the realization of the voice of a budding filmmaker. When collected as a series of portraits, short films grant audiences the opportunity to see and hear these transmissions across a broader spectrum than possible through the somewhat sprawling drone of feature films. Vanessa Query, director of the second annual Yellow Springs Short Film Festival, keys in on this notion and its practical implications in terms of the impetus for their upcoming event.”
Short films debut at Little Art
Yellow Springs News, January 2010
“Filmmaker and villager Vanessa Query has organized a festival of original short films that will be shown at the Little Art Theatre.”
Dreams of a YS Film Collective
“Guide to Yellow Springs” 2009–2010
“Query has just finished her first film, a short film called ‘Love Conquers All.’ Starring Lee Johnson and Olivia Byrnes, the film chronicles a young man’s (Johnson) increasingly obsessive interest in a young woman.”
Open Stage Variety Show opens
Antioch Record, October 2005
“The Open Stage Variety Show, brainchild of student Vanessa the Curator, opened for its first show Friday night. Essentially a talent show in which any form of written, visual, or performance art is free to take the stage, the Open Stage Variety Show was created to include more kinds of art than similar events at Antioch.”