Florida Film Festival
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The Orlando-based Florida Film Festival showcases the best American independent and foreign films. Produced by Enzian Theater, the Festival has become one of the most respected regional film events in the country.
Past guests include Oliver Stone, Gabriel Byrne, Famke Janssen, Jason Lee, Christopher Walken, Dennis Hopper, Leelee Sobieski, Steve Buscemi, Campbell Scott, and William H. Macy.
Festival seminars have included such film industry notables as Mike Medavoy, Bingham Ray, Allison Anders, Oliver Stone, Victor Nunez, Tom Prassis, Richard Shamban, Bob Berney, and Blair Witch creators Dan Myrick and Ed Sanchez; cinematographers Haskell Wexler and Bill Butler; animators Bill Plympton and Corky Quakenbush; screenwriters Shane Black and Ed Neumeier; and producers Gale Anne Hurd and Roger Corman.
The Festival includes narrative and documentary features and shorts, animation, midnight movies, and a full array of educational forums, glamorous parties, and other special events.
The Florida Film festival is considered on of the "Big 15" in the United States.
The festival has also included highly experimental new media works, most notably in 2003 the ILL Clan performed the first ever live machinima performance, 'Common Sense Cooking.'
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