For the Opening Night broadcast at the Sarasota Film Festival, our media partners WSRQ had a live broadcast set up and SRQ Backlot Editor Jacob Ogles hosted The Nilon Report. We interviewed filmmakers attached to Woodland Dance, Chub, The Lucky 6, The Great Zombini and, of course, Opening Night film Last Days in Vietnam.
You can here a replay of the podcast here. And listen to interviews conducted by SRQ and WSRQ staff each day on The Nilon Report between 4pm and 6pm each day of the festival.
‘Never work with children or animals.’ It’s a lesson repeated so often in the film world it’s cliche. Film schools reiterate it. But all the warnings just made Jeffrey Boos determined to break the rule. And when he met Alexia King, he knew he could get away with it.
Now Boos and Alexia are preparing for a screening of the short film Woodland Dance at the Sarasota Film Festival. And there’s a good bet plenty of filmmakers are going to want to work with this child in the future. Continue reading Alexia King pulls heartstrings in Jeffrey Boos’ Woodland Dance
The Sarasota Film Festival is a time to welcome established names of the film industry, but it is also a wonderful opportunity to meet relative newcomers to the field of filmmaking, and Sarasota has plenty of young talent showcased in this year’s festival, including these Ringling College film students, Andrew Halley and Jeffrey Boos. Continue reading Ringling Classmates both accepted into Film Festival program
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