Sixth Annual St. Augustine Film Festival takes place at Flagler College and The Corazón Café and Cinema
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Published by Sareth Ney on Feb. 1, 2016 at 10:26 p.m.
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Photo Credit: Sareth Ney
ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. – The sixth annual St. Augustine Film Festival took place at parts of Flagler College and The Corazón Café and Cinema, from Jan. 28 through Jan. 31. 36 films were screened, 22 countries were represented, 10 student short films were shown and the films were filmed on six continents. Lewis Auditorium, Gamache-Koger Theatre, Corazón #1, Corazón #2 and Corazón #3 displayed the film selections.
Films screened at St. Augustine Film Festival included: “3 Days In Havana”, “3rd Street Blackout”, “American Graffiti”, “The Anthropologist”, “Apples From The Desert”, “Back In Time”, “A Ballerina’s Tale”, “Battle For The Barriers”, “Boccaccerías Habaneras”, “Cásese Quien Pueda”, “Cassanova Was A Woman”, “Chau, Beyond The Lines”, “Chosen”, “Haemoo”, “Le Père Noël”, “The Liberators: Why We Fought”, “Look Again”, “Look Below The Surface, “Lost & Found”, “The Morning After”, “Never The Same: The Prisoner of War Experience”, “Nos Femmes”, “The Penguin Counters Who Knewl”, “The Race”, “Requiem For A Man Who Wanted Too Much”, “Snarky Puppy”, “Silver Skies”, “The Secret of Italia”, “Theeb”, “Time Simply Passes”, “Tokyo Fiancèe”, “Treblinka’s Last Witness’”, “A Tree Without Roots”, “Unmappable”, “When Voices Meet” and “The Wonders”.
Student films by Flagler College students screened were: “Drain”, “Emily”, “Just Married”, “Lost”, “Nobody Fights Alone”, “Satisfaction at Echospring”, “Who Drank All the Wine”, “St. Augustine's Michael Jordan”, “Success is the Best Revenge” and “Wild Woman”.
When the student films by Flagler College students wrapped up at the Gamache-Koger Theatre, five students provided a question and answer (Q & A) session for the film. After the screening of “3 Days of Havana”—writer, director and co-star, Gil Bellows, provided a Q & A portion for the film. Prior to the display of “American Graffiti”—actress, Candy Clark, received a lifetime achievement award. She also conducted a Q & A hearing with the audience. Loretta Swit received a lifetime achievement award, at the screening of “Never The Same”. The “To Be Announced” film mentioned in the St. Augustine Film Festival program was “Lost & Found”.
Throughout the festival, special events took place. They included: St. Augustine Film Society’s Golden Way Project Event at the Gamache-Koger Theatre, wine and hors d’oeuvres were served at Lightner Museum, opening night party took place at Lightner Museum and Datil Duo Band kicked off the festivities with music, the Saturday night party was hosted at Centro Restaurant and Piano Bar and the wrap party took place at The Solarium.
Films screened at St. Augustine Film Festival included: “3 Days In Havana”, “3rd Street Blackout”, “American Graffiti”, “The Anthropologist”, “Apples From The Desert”, “Back In Time”, “A Ballerina’s Tale”, “Battle For The Barriers”, “Boccaccerías Habaneras”, “Cásese Quien Pueda”, “Cassanova Was A Woman”, “Chau, Beyond The Lines”, “Chosen”, “Haemoo”, “Le Père Noël”, “The Liberators: Why We Fought”, “Look Again”, “Look Below The Surface, “Lost & Found”, “The Morning After”, “Never The Same: The Prisoner of War Experience”, “Nos Femmes”, “The Penguin Counters Who Knewl”, “The Race”, “Requiem For A Man Who Wanted Too Much”, “Snarky Puppy”, “Silver Skies”, “The Secret of Italia”, “Theeb”, “Time Simply Passes”, “Tokyo Fiancèe”, “Treblinka’s Last Witness’”, “A Tree Without Roots”, “Unmappable”, “When Voices Meet” and “The Wonders”.
Student films by Flagler College students screened were: “Drain”, “Emily”, “Just Married”, “Lost”, “Nobody Fights Alone”, “Satisfaction at Echospring”, “Who Drank All the Wine”, “St. Augustine's Michael Jordan”, “Success is the Best Revenge” and “Wild Woman”.
When the student films by Flagler College students wrapped up at the Gamache-Koger Theatre, five students provided a question and answer (Q & A) session for the film. After the screening of “3 Days of Havana”—writer, director and co-star, Gil Bellows, provided a Q & A portion for the film. Prior to the display of “American Graffiti”—actress, Candy Clark, received a lifetime achievement award. She also conducted a Q & A hearing with the audience. Loretta Swit received a lifetime achievement award, at the screening of “Never The Same”. The “To Be Announced” film mentioned in the St. Augustine Film Festival program was “Lost & Found”.
Throughout the festival, special events took place. They included: St. Augustine Film Society’s Golden Way Project Event at the Gamache-Koger Theatre, wine and hors d’oeuvres were served at Lightner Museum, opening night party took place at Lightner Museum and Datil Duo Band kicked off the festivities with music, the Saturday night party was hosted at Centro Restaurant and Piano Bar and the wrap party took place at The Solarium.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Sareth Ney is the entertainment journalist for A Quarter and Dream Pictures. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mass Communications and Center for New Media from Colorado State University-Pueblo. He is a former apprentice to master of horror, Clive Barker. He is known as the journalist/superhero, Wu-Man Chu, after meeting some members of Wu-Tang Clan. He is an award-winning short filmmaker; his goal is to write 150 articles in select time zones, inducts artists into his hall of fame, founder and co-host of Pueblo's Independent Multimedia Podcast and is the festival director at Sareth-Fest Music and Comedy Festival.
