I've been taking the last few days off from film; It's our annual "back to reality week" here at the ol' BRM. I've been catching on up on e-mails and planning for the 10th Annual Sarasota Film Festival, which takes place April 4-13, 2008. Last year, we had over 200 films and 150 filmmakers, producers and industry guests attending the festival and this year's 10th Anniversary edition should be the biggest and best yet.

We've recently opened our Call For Entries, and I hope that you'll consider our festival as a terrific place to showcase your film.

Holly and I really pride ourselves on programming challenging, diverse work at the festival and we hope that our commitment to excellence in cinema, from shorts to fiction to documentary, provide a platform for artists of all stripes to share their work and garner some much-deserved regional and national attention. If you're interested, a complete list of last year's films can be found here; We're looking forward to seeing what you've made!