Summary
Founded in 1991, The Florida Film Festival is an 8-9 day competitive showcase of over 100 independent, foreign and classic feature films, documentaries and short subjects. It has moved around the calendar over the years, though typically it is an early spring event, taking place in late March through early April. Films are shown at various venues, mainly at the Enzian Theater in Maitland. It's a festival that has, over the years, paid tribute to actors such as Christopher Walken and James Caan and directors such as Oliver Stone and John Waters, where they were feted at gala events. Over 20,000 people attend festival events each year, seeing movies, attending parties and, as of 2007 onward, taking part in d...
Founded in 1991, The Florida Film Festival is an 8-9 day competitive showcase of over 100 independent, foreign and classic feature films, documentaries and short subjects. It has moved around the calendar over the years, though typically it is an early spring event, taking place in late March through early April. Films are shown at various venues, mainly at the Enzian Theater in Maitland. It's a festival that has, over the years, paid tribute to actors such as Christopher Walken and James Caan and directors such as Oliver Stone and John Waters, where they were feted at gala events. Over 20,000 people attend festival events each year, seeing movies, attending parties and, as of 2007 onward, taking part in dinners, wine-tastings and the like as the festival morphs into a "Food and Film" festival.
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Monthly competition gives Central Florida filmmakers a venue
Sentinel Movie CriticSunday afternoon at 1, Maitland's Enzian theater will fill, as it does every second Sunday of every month. But this crowd isn't just your normal alternative cinema audience. These are filmmakers, there to show off their work and be judged by both film...Tags: Movies, Cinema Industry, Miami (Miami-Dade, Florida), Downtown (Miami, Florida), Roger Moore
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Let us now praise artist's skillful eye
Special to the SentinelPhotographer and filmmaker Eric Breitenbach is virtually an institution on the local arts scene. So when the Southeast Museum of Photography in Daytona Beach mounts a midcareer retrospective, the question occurs: Hasn't Breitenbach had a whole career...Tags: Photography, Ethics, International Speedway Corp., Beach Vacations, Film Festivals
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Documentary Films at the Florida Film Festival
ANITA O'DAY: THE LIFE OF A JAZZ SINGER Friday, April 4, 6:30 p.m.–8 p.m. at Regal Saturday, April 5, 2:30 p.m.–4 p.m. at Regal Considered by many to be one of the top five female jazz singers ever, Anita O'Day lived a life that from the...Tags: Jules Feiffer, Natural Resources, Cinema Industry, Minority Groups, Wildlife
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Focus, please: Here's a film festival primer
Sentinel Movie CriticIt has been here for 17 years, offering indie films, documentaries, award-winning shorts: pretty much everything you would want to see but never will catch at your neighborhood multiplex or Blockbuster Video. But a lot of Central Floridians still haven'...Tags: Tickets, Film Festivals, Movies, Road Transportation, Jennifer Tilly
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Sad 'Hole in the Paper Sky' is also very sweet
Sentinel Movie CriticBill Purple's Hole in the Sky is 33 minutes of exquisitely observed loneliness and is easily the saddest film in this year's Florida Film Festival. It's a simple story, handsomely mounted and told with pathos by a terrific cast that includes Jessica Biel,...Tags: Movies, Garry Marshall, Roger Moore, Film Festivals
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'Man of Two Havanas' is the best documentary at this year's festival
Sentinel Movie CriticThe best documentary at this year's Florida Film Festival is also the most Florida-centric. Vivien Lesnik Weisman's Man of Two Havanas is framed as a personal essay on coming to understand her father, Max, a Cuban emigre who seemed to put politics ahead...Tags: Movies, Miami (Miami-Dade, Florida), History, Florida, Roger Moore
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Last chance for Florida Film Festival
Sentinel Movie CriticCritic Roger Moore has reviewed nearly 50 features at OrlandoSentinel.com/floridafilmfest; below you'll find a sample. Plus: The sell-out of the terrific Man of Two Havanas has inspired a second showing, Saturday at 1:30 p.m. at Enzian. 'I Served the...Tags: Ruth Gordon, Roberto Benigni, New York, Film Festivals, Movies
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