Published April 13, 2011
TWISler Breakdown: Sarasota Film Fest Fabulousness
The swankiest Sarasotans among us have been busily rubbing elbows with some of Hollywood’s finest actors, directors and producers at this past week’s Sarasota Film Festival events. The red carpet was rolled out in front of the Opera House last Friday for the Opening Night Party featuring a screening of “Page One: A Year Inside the New York Times,” a documentary about the slow and inevitable death of print media. In attendance along with Director Andrew Rossi was New York Times Media Desk reporters David Carr and Brian Stelter, providing living proof that professional journalists still actually roam the Earth and survive by selling stacks of dead trees filled with ink.
The opening night action continued all over the Michael’s on East complex at the After Party, where SFF joined forces with Vinyl Music Festival to present “Hollywood & Vinyl,†featuring ass-shaking sets by DJs Honorebel and Cosmo that had heads ringing well into the wee hours of the morning. (more…)Tag: Sarasota Film Festival
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TWISler Breakdown: Sarasota Film Fest Fabulousness
Published April 13, 2011
TWISler Breakdown: Sarasota Film Fest Fabulousness
The swankiest Sarasotans among us have been busily rubbing elbows with some of Hollywood’s finest actors, directors and producers at this past week’s Sarasota Film Festival events. The red carpet was rolled out in front of the Opera House last Friday for the Opening Night Party featuring a screening of “Page One: A Year Inside the New York Times,” a documentary about the slow and inevitable death of print media. In attendance along with Director Andrew Rossi was New York Times Media Desk reporters David Carr and Brian Stelter, providing living proof that professional journalists still actually roam the Earth and survive by selling stacks of dead trees filled with ink.
The opening night action continued all over the Michael’s on East complex at the After Party, where SFF joined forces with Vinyl Music Festival to present “Hollywood & Vinyl,†featuring ass-shaking sets by DJs Honorebel and Cosmo that had heads ringing well into the wee hours of the morning. (more…) -
Slash and learn: The story of locally produced horror flick Mangrove Slasher II’s murder, and how the film is now rising from the grave
Published September 15, 2010 Mangrove Slasher II Casting Call 2-5 p.m. Sat., Sept. 25, The Venue, 500 Central Ave., Sarasota, 539-0010 or mangroveslasher2.com, free. Back in late April when CL broke the story about Mangrove Slasher II, an independent horror movie being filmed around the Suncoast, the two young filmmakers involved had been working on the project for nearly seven months, and planned to wrap up shooting in May with a tentative mid-June release date. Little did co-directors Sean Haitz and Chris Potter know, that date would soon become far more tentative than they had expected. Potter, who Haitz brought on as co-director after meeting him toward the start of production, was arrested on May 13. According to various news reports Manatee High School, where Potter had worked as a television production instructor for four years, informed him that they would not be renewing his contract, and he later told a fellow teacher that he was going to bring a gun to an upcoming faculty event. This prompted the Bradenton Police Department to confront Potter in the school’s parking lot, where they found Roxycodone pills in his possession. According to the BPD, an investigation revealed Potter had been pawning equipment from the school’s audio and visual department since January to pay for his prescription drug addiction. (more…)