“We don’t have a mandate to share editorial. We’re so local in our orientation, it’s never made any sense to do it that way. I think we’ve got six or seven film critics around the company now. If you put your efficiency hat on, could one film reviewer do the same job for everybody? Perhaps, [...]
Mark your calendars! Deep Carnivale:A Celebration of Words is now scheduled for Saturday, September 27, 10 a.m. — 5 p.m. Here’s a partial event description from the Deep Carnivale website: This literary festival aspires to bring Florida authors, writers and poets and related vendors together to share in a celebration of literature and writing with the Tampa [...]
Last month, local filmmaker Andy Nguyen and his brother entered the uPromise Scholarship Tuition Tales competition. This week, their video entry Dream School made it to the top ten. Tuition Tales received over 250 video entries, which “were judged on their creativity, ability to move voters and how clearly and effectively they communicated the [...]
The 12th Annual Tampa Bay Jewish Film Festival began Monday and runs through Wednesday, March 19. Here’s a brief look at the schedule, according to the festival’s website: Thursday, March 6, Tampa Theatre, 7 p.m. — Making Trouble (2007, 85 min) — “An impeccably researched documentary that explores six legendary American Jewish women comics. Produced [...]
Received From Eric Deggans: The Tampa Bay Association of Black Journalists is presenting its second annual session focused on multimedia reporting on March 8, featuring members who have done extensive work translating their newspaper or TV work into online platforms. On deck so far: Ken Knight, multimedia reporter for Media General Demorris Lee, reporter for the St. Petersburg Times, [...]
After a successful debut in 2007, the Gasparilla Film Festival has bigger and better plans for this year’s festival, which opens tonight, February 27. At a recent press conference, festival executive director John Rosser and president Eric Odum presented the film line up, announced guest appearances, and listed the panels, receptions and special events planned [...]
The tenth annual Environmental Film Festival began Saturday at Eckerd College in St. Pete. The festival ends March 1 and all programs are free and open to the general public. In addition to the films, the festival offers a one-day workshop for filmmakers on March 1 (info below schedule). Here’s the schedule according [...]
Book Review: Historic Photos of Tampa text and captions by Ralph Brower (Turner Publishing). Remember those carefully-packed time capsules your fourth-grade class buried in the school’s playground all those years ago? The book Historic Photos of Tampa is a time capsule of sorts, a peek into Tampa’s history, carefully packed with a variety of photos from [...]
There’s some fun stuff going on at the Dali Museum: The Salvador Dalí Museum in St. Petersburg presents Dalí and Film, the first exhibition examining the profound relationship between the paintings and films of Salvador Dalí (1904-1989). Premiering on February 8 and running to June 1, 2008, the exhibition reveals how Dalí combined his skills in [...]
