Sarasota Film Festival Blog

The Sarasota Film Festival’s education department offers the leading program in the country to encourage students to learn about and participate in the art of cinema and all at no cost to the students. We proudly present the winners of this year’s youthFEST…

Now that the 2013 Sarasota Film Festival has ended, we’ve found time to reflect and remember the year that was... The festival opened with the triumphant sold-out screening of BLACKFISH at the Van Wezel Performing Arts Center. The film connected with…

LAURENCE ANYWAYS wins this year’s Sarasota Film Festival Narrative Feature prize. AFTER TILLER wins Documentary Feature. The Independent Visions Prize awarded to THE DIRTIES. The 2013 Sarasota Film Festival announced this year’s jury and audience award…

Lili Taylor remains one of our finest actresses. Since making her indelible debut in Donald Petrie’s MYSTIC PIZZA, she has given brilliant performances in Paul Weitz's BEING FLYNN opposite Robert Deniro, Andrew Wagner’s STARTING OUT IN THE EVENING, opposite…

Genre fans will no doubt recognize Griffin Dunne from his role in the classic AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON (directed by SFF Alum John Landis). But he is also an Academy-Award nominated director and the producer of elegant and extraordinary films like CHILLY…

Documentary Feature Competition Six bold people navigate the dangerous waters of Pakistan’s current crisis to discover a new tomorrow: a cricket star starts a progressive political party, a female journalist goes behind Taliban lines, an ex-mujahid seeks…

After a disappointing book publishing meeting and on the eve of an annual family reunion, Christian (Christopher Abbott)'s estranged father unexpectedly shows up at his door asking for help. Despite abandoning the family at the onset of his wife's terminal…