SARASOTA -The Sarasota Film Festival is back, after last year’s physical festival was put on hold due to the pandemic.
This year, the 23rd annual film festival will feature a combination of both virtual and in-person events.
Kicking off opening night with the film, “Rita Moreno: Just a Girl who decided to go for it,” a documentary about the Oscar-winning “West Side Story” actress.
Throughout the week, the festival will show a total of 150 films, online and 20 percent in theaters.
The festival will also have some Suncoast ties with their ‘Hollywood nights’ on beginning on Wednesday
“We have Hollywood nights one at 6PM and Hollywood nights two at 7:30 and those are films, the first one are elementary kids from this region who have made films within their schools or individually while home schooling, and at 7:30 its everyone, high schoolers, everybody, so it’s very exciting, it’s been a success every year that we do it,” said President and Chairman of the Sarasota Film Festival, Mark Famiglio.
The festival will take place April 30th through May 9th. For more information you can visit the Sarasota Film Festival website here.