Inside The Festival News

Broke Sky Screening with Director Thomas Calloway October 8th at 8PM with a coctail hour starting at 7PM at Channelside Theaters. It will also screen October 10th at 7PM at the University of Tampa. A Q&A with the director will follow the film. October 9th from 2-4PM Thomas Calloway will be holding a special Directing & Cinematography workshop at the University of Tampa's Reeve's Theater in the Vaughn Center.

Broke Sky
97 minutes
Directed by Thomas Callaway
Best friends Bucky and Earl live just outside Moody Texas, working for the County Animal Control Department, Carcass Removal Division. The daily drudgery of their job is shattered after they discover the corpse of a young hitchhiker that they had picked up a few days earlier. Afraid of being implicated in the crime, Earl convinces Bucky they would be better off disposing of the body in the Dead Pit with the other rotting road kill. When Bucky decides to find the killer on his own, what he finds is more than he bargained for.

The screenings are complimentary and seating will be done on a first-come basis. The Reeves Theater is located at is in the Vaughn center (2nd Floor)located at The University of Tampa 401 W. Kennedy Blvd. Tampa, Florida 33606-1490.

NOTE: Circumstances beyond our control have resulted in a change to our Bollywood schedule. The film Cheeni Kum will play on Sunday, October 12 at 3 PM.

'Cheeni Kum' is a romantic comedy with less sugar. Means less mush. It is a sarcastic love story of a 64 year old arrogant, acidic chef of London's top Indian Restaurant and a simple 34 year old unmarried woman, visiting London. It's a story of how they meet, how they fight, how they make up, how their relationship evolves into romance. It's a story of their funny struggle to break the news to the woman's father and the chaos they go through convincing him and making him accept them as a couple.

The 4th Annual Sunscreen Film festival will take place April 22-26, 2009.
Downtown St. Petersburg will be festival central for movies, parties and more.
COMING SOON! Exciting news about our year round film programs at the University of Tampa, the Muvico 20 at Baywalk and other venues around the area.
COMING SOON! Celebrity announcements and an all new website!

Adrian Belic, director of 2008 entry, Beyond the Call, writes,

"BEYOND THE CALL continues to screen around the world winning its 38 award so far.

"The DVD will be coming out this August and we would greatly appreciate it if you could mention the release then to your audience.

"We received numerous wonderful emails from your audience that saw BEYOND THE CALL.

"Trailer, upcoming screenings and more info at www.beyondthecallthemovie.com."

Out of Our Minds Studios Adminstrative Director Loraine Cernak writes,

"Sunscreen included two of our short films, “Dear, Sweet Emma” and “Flyaway” [2006]. Since March 2005, we have been busy working on our first animated feature film. We completed “The Magistical” earlier this year--but after a much needed break from working on one big project, we decided to go back in to re-edit and “tweak”. In the meantime, we finally had time to update our corporate and entertainment demos, as well as our studio website. We have also begun working on a 4th short film."

In 2007 Chris Hansen's The Proper Care and Feeding of an American Messiah appeared at Sunscreen.

His new short, Clean Freak, is playing at fests now and he started production on his new feature, a drama called Endings, on June 5th.

Chris Hansen Department of Communication Studies (Film & Digital Media Division) One Bear Place #97368 Waco, TX 76798

Alan Powell brought Across the Hall (El otro lado del pasillo) to Sunscreen in 2008. He's been busy ever since.

"I’ll be directing some TV episodes of Urban Legends for Cineflix out of Toronto as well as finishing up writing the final episodes of Z-Squad for Nelvana Ltd. Just directed an untitled Dating Violence video that I also wrote and executive Produced for the School Board in London, Ontario Canada."

Alan also directed a stage play for the Toronto Fringe Festival July 5-July 11.

Michael Worth brought Duel to Sunscreen in 2006. He writes,

"Since DUAL, I wrote and directed the film God's Ears with John Saxon and Mitzi Kapture-Donahue. The film is about a boxer with autism who falls in love with a dancer he meets. The film premiered at Methodfest this year and won John a Best Supporting Actor award. I have rarely been more proud of a film than I am of this one.

Next up, a true-story drama set stateside during World War 2 which should go in front of the cameras in August.

I hope your festival is doing well and it was a real blast to have DUAL there!

Regards, Michael Worth

WWW.GRIZZLYPEAKFILMS.COM"

The Sunscreen Film Festival presents a special screening of the film The Grind. Starring C. Thomas Howell and Tom Sizemore this film recently premiered at Cannes and has not yet been seen in the United States.

The screening will take place 7PM Monday July 21st, 2008 at the University of Tampa's Reeves Theater. Producer Robert Enriquez will do a Q&A after the film.

Reeves Theater is in the Vaughn Center located at The University of Tampa 401 W. Kennedy Blvd. Tampa, Florida 33606-1490. We look forward to seeing you there.

The Garage (662 Central Ave. St. Petersburg) presents their first Movie Night in conjunction with the Sunscreen Film Festival.

Join us on Wednesday, July 16 starting at 8pm. Hang with your friends and enjoy The Breakfast Club and Weird Science. Don't forget to don your best 80s duds and you could win $100!