happy birthday tampa film review
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This month marks the three-year anniversary of the Tampa Film Review, the monthly showcase of local independent films founded by local filmmakers Pete and Paul Guzzo. The TFR is celebrating on January 12 at 8 p.m. at the International Bazaar at 1600 E. Eighth Avenue in the Centro Ybor Complex. This event is free and open to the public.
Originally called the Coffeehouse Film Review, the Tampa Film Review underwent a name, date and location change when the Ybor City coffeehouse Studio 1515 closed a little over a year ago. Now housed at the International Bazaar the second Friday of every month, the TFR attracts over 100 film fans each month. For filmmakers, it’s an opportunity to screen their films, get feedback and observe the audience’s reaction. For film lovers, it’s a chance to watch quality local movies for free and meet the some of the actors, writers and directors afterwards.
In addition to a great lineup of movies, this Friday’s Tampa Film Review will include some major announcements regarding the future expansion of the TFR and a tribute to those individuals who have supported the event from the beginning. (I know what one of the announcements is – and it’s outstanding – but I’m sworn to secrecy.)
The January TFR’s film lineup includes:
Not Another Student Film; starring Gus Perez; produced by the Full Sail School of Film in Winter Park: This is a story about three misfits who are convinced that chemistry professor Ocale and his three students must all be terrorists as they all four have dark skin and work with chemicals.
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dumpling; by Sunken Medow Films: Great scenery! A dumpling! See all of this in an epic battle between two young warriors for possession of a dumpling that leads from a windswept lonely hilltop to the Forbidden City, from the Temple of Heaven to the Great Wall, and then back to the hill where it all began.
The Quiet Place; directed by Damien Kincannon; produced by the Tampa Film Network: A couple looks for their daughter at a runaway home, but while sitting in the waiting room they encounter a whole new world of terror.
A recreation of the Hopper/Walken scene from True Romance; by Charlie Ray: Vincenzo is a mobster looking for his son, who unknowingly stole a suitcase full of cocaine from them. Cliff realizes that he is already a dead man and begins a history lesson on the ancestry of the Sicilians and the Moors. (WARNING: STRONG LANGUAGE)
Ponas Pimpis; a Lithuanian film by Simonas Tarvydas: A man wakes up in the morning and realized that he lost his “manhood.” Shortly thereafter, he meets “him” as a person and they make a crazy bet about who will first seduce a woman.
Parents and Children; a Lithuanian film by Antanas Gluskinas: A film about a strict children’s education in an old-fashioned, intelligent family and its influence in their future sexual lives.
Visit www.thetampafilmreview.com for more info. See you there!
(cross-posted at www.tampafilmfan.com)
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January 11th, 2007 at 1:30 am
I would like to watch a couple of the films mentioned here. This event is sure going to be a huge crowd catcher. Happy birthday tampa film review.
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