Chicago-based entrepreneur, actor, TV chef and hospitality maven Billy Dec explores the Philippine Islands in Food Roots, a documentary screening Thursday at the 19th Sunscreen Film...
“Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.” That quote, generally attributed to John Lennon, is a tidy summation of the independent...
Today’s Arts Alive! conversation with Pinellas County Film Commissioner Lisa Dozois covers a lot of ground. We talk about the history of movie-making in Florida, the...
In the new documentary The Green Flash, St. Pete Beach surfer dude Steve Lamb recalls watching his mother, who worked as a waitress, crying at the...
Steve Lamb, the St. Pete Beach native whose drug-smuggling exploits made him a counterculture hero – and a convicted felon – died Feb. 28 while in...
What’s so important about Beacon, the annual dance concert at the Palladium Theater? It’s important because it is the one and only regularly-occurring presentation of original,...
Officer Matthew Sanders has had many horrific experiences on the job, and working one violent crime too many has pushed his stress level into the danger...
Opening night films have been announced for the bay area’s two major movie events – the Gasparilla International Film Festival (Tampa, March 23-26) and the Sunscreen...
Premiering Saturday at the Sunscreen Film Festival, 12 Months is unlike any pre-existing romantic movie, dramatic or comedic. It’s a hyper-realistic portrait of two young people...
The closing film at this weekend’s 17th annual Sunscreen Film Festival is L’Age d’Or (The Golden Age), the debut feature from French filmmaker Jenna Suru. Set...
