Searchlights will light up the skies above the Charlotte Harbor Event Center in Punta Gorda for the Grand Opening & Hollywood Party, set for 7 p.m. Sept. 20. The first night includes a screening of the winner of the feature films category, followed by a rocking Hollywood Party featuring The Boogie- Men and a cash bar. Tickets are $20 per person. An all-festival pass is $50.
The rest of the festival will be held at Edison College’s Charlotte Campus on Airport Road in Punta Gorda.
The Open Shorts category will be screened at 7 p.m. Friday, Sept. 21. Tickets are $10. Last year’s Open Shorts Category winner, “The Barber of Birmingham,” was nominated for a 2012 Academy Award.
Cell Shot films, a new category for 2012, will be shown at 2 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 23. Because anyone with a cell phone can make a movie, this category is for films entirely shot using a cell phone. Tickets are $5. The festival concludes Sunday, Sept. 23 with Florida Shorts at 7 p.m. Tickets to Florida Shorts are $5 each.
The inaugural year of the Peace River Film Festival was a huge success with hundreds of people in attendance, including Michael Uslan, the executive producer of the “The Dark Knight Rises” and the other Batman films. A documentary on the 2011 festival is accessible at peaceriverfilmfestival.org.
To learn about all film festival events, updates, comments and films, visit www.peaceriverfilmfestival.org, facebook.com/peaceriverfilmfestival, blog at peaceriverfilmfestival.blogspot.com or follow the festival in 140-character chunks on Twitter by following @peaceriverfilm. Tickets are available from the Visual Arts Center or online at www.visualartcenter.org.
Festival sponsorships are also available.
For more information, call the Visual Arts Center at 639-8810. ¦
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