The 11th Annual Regal Entertainment Group SARASOTA FILM FESTIVAL will get underway on Friday evening March 27, 2009 and run through Sunday, April 5, 2009. The Festival will be presented at Sarasota’s Hollywood 20 Cinemas with Opening Night at the Van Wezel Performing Arts Center, Closing Night Tribute at the Sarasota Opera House, screenings and conversations at the Historic Asolo, and other area venues. This year’s Festival will present over 160 narrative, documentary and short films from t...

The 32nd Portland International Film Festival’s Audience Awards The 31,000 audience members at this year’s 32nd Portland International Film Festival have selected their favorite films from among the 78 feature and 36 shorts screened February 6-22. Tying for first place for Best Feature Award are Toa Frazer’s DEAN SPANLEY (New Zealand) and Dorie Dörrie’s CHERRY BLOSSOMS (Germany). Two films also tied for the Best Documentary Award—Festival guest Jennifer Grausman’s film PRESSURE COO...

Heading into the home stretch, we at SDFF 31 are really picking up speed--and you, our loyal audience members, are doing a fantastic job of hanging on and spurring us onward! On Thursday alone, seven screenings sold out completely: Fire Under the Snow, Witch Hunt, Love and Other Crimes, The Lost Coast, The Great Buck Howard, a double feature of La Americana and The Border Wall, and last but not least Black Sea--whose director, Federico Bondi, was fêted during a private reception hosted by the A...