All movies before 5:00 PM only eight bucks! Hey, let’s kick things off with some SRQ Shorts. Filmmaker Datev Gallagher is not only from Sarasota, she was a youthFEST Youung Filmmakers Showcase participant and later worked as an assistant in our education department. Now she’s made a breakout film called INTO THE GROVE that is part of our SRQ/FLA SHORTS package running at 1:00 PM today. Datev will be on hand for Q&As after the screening. Also today with FILMMAKER IN ATTENDANCE: SHORTS 1: TIME WILL TELL Featuring REVERSE PATHENOGENISIS starring [...]

I didn’t watch ABC’s Lost. The word “watch” implies a detached, passive activity in which a person sits in front of a screen and interprets pretty lights and curious noises coming from a fancy box. Lost was not a television show. Over the years, I became so immersed in the world of Lost that I look back and wonder if my relationship with what I prefer to call the greatest work of fiction in Western history was emotionally healthy. I didn’t watch it right off the bat—I sat on the [...]