Highlights
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, t...
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.
Displaying items 1-12 of 64
» View OrlandoSentinel.com items only
1
2
3
4
5
6
•
Next >
-
Progressions
Boards of Directors Art Abbott, president of Abbott Printing Co., Maitland, has been elected chairman of the Printing Association of Florida board of directors. The Central Florida Roofing and Sheet Metal Contractors Association has appointed the...Tags: John DeStefano, Management Change, Metal and Mineral, Government, Dining and Drinking
-
Serious and silly take stage at Orlando Film Festival
Sentinel Movie CriticThe Orlando Film Festival returns to downtown for its third installment Wednesday through Nov. 9, opening with a world premiere, showcasing a movie partly shot in Central Florida and anchored by documentaries. There will be Q&As with filmmakers at many...Tags: Cinema Industry, Roger Moore, John Malkovich, Condoleezza Rice, Festive Event
-
Larimer to lead Downtown Arts District
Sentinel Staff WriterShanon Larimer, former executive director of Enzian Theater and the Florida Film Festival, will become executive director of the Downtown Arts District Dec. 1. "I'm excited to return to the downtown arts and cultural scene," said Larimer, 31. "There's an...Tags: Festive Event, Public Relations, Arts, Mad Cow Theater, Mall at Millenia
-
A Central Florida Film Festival Calendar
Aug. 29-31 Central Florida Film Festival Osceola Center for the Arts, Kissimmee. A weekend-long festival of documentaries, shorts and features, some with Florida connections (centralfloridafilmfestival .com). Sept. 17-21 Global Peace Film Festival,...Tags: Roger Moore, Human Rights, Culture, International Drive, Festive Event
-
'Mondo Bondo' is a revealing and funny wink at the kink
Sentinel Movie CriticTony Cane-Honeysett (The Royal Academy) explores America's still mostly underground bondage fetishists in Mondo Bondo, a revealing and funny wink at the kink, a midnight movie at this year's Florida Film Festival. Get past the notion that Cane-Honeysett,...Tags: Roger Moore, Movies, Film Festivals
-
'Rosemary's Baby' is as scary as ever
Sentinel Movie Critic"Awful things happen in every apartment house," Rosemary Woodhouse intones in Rosemary's Baby. And she should know. The film that became a cultural touchstone and the punchline to a million "spawn of Satan" jokes is a little quaint now, with its '60s...Tags: Roger Moore, Roman Polanski, Ruth Gordon, Mia Farrow, Movies
-
Opening night film 'Young @ Heart' is an ode to joy
Sentinel Movie CriticThe opening-night film of this year's Florida Film Festival is nothing less than an ode to joy. Stephen Walker's Brit TV documentary about American octogenarians singing in a chorus pushes familiar buttons, but it's still a deft blend of the sweetly...Tags: Roger Moore, James Brown, Movies, David Bowie, Music
-
Special celebrations, forums and guests
opening night THE GREEN ROOM Friday, March 28, 4:30-6 p.m., Enzian Theater, 1300 S. Orlando Avenue, Maitland 'YOUNG @ HEART' Friday, March 28, 6:30 p.m. at Enzian (Also Saturday, April 5, 6:30– 8:20 p.m. at Regal Winter Park Stadium 20, 510 N....Tags: Eastman Kodak Company, Culture, Festive Event, Maitland, Celebrity
-
Films from around the world at the Florida Film Festival
FLIGHT OF THE RED BALLOON Saturday, March 29, 1:45 p.m.–3:40 p.m. at Regal Saturday, April 5, 4:30 p.m.–6:25 p.m. at Regal Albert Lamorisse's brilliant 1956 children's classic The Red Balloon serves as inspiration. A little boy and his baby...Tags: Jim Broadbent, Festive Event, Values, Academy Awards, Colin Firth
-
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: John Waters, Mental Illness, Culture, Fiction, Spice Girls
Jan 5, 2009
|Story| Orlando Sentinel
Oct 31, 2008
|Story| Orlando Sentinel
Nov 16, 2008
|Story| Orlando Sentinel
Aug 24, 2008
|Story| Orlando Sentinel
Mar 13, 2008
|Resource Link| Orlando Sentinel
Mar 14, 2008
|Resource Link| Orlando Sentinel
Mar 11, 2008
|Story| Orlando Sentinel
Mar 11, 2008
|Story| Orlando Sentinel
Mar 11, 2008
|Story| Orlando Sentinel
Mar 14, 2008
|Story| Orlando Sentinel
Mar 14, 2008
|Story| Orlando Sentinel
Mar 14, 2008
|Story| Orlando Sentinel
Front Page