Sarasota Film Festival tickets on sale Friday

   Tickets go on sale Friday for the 2013 edition of the Sarasota Film Festival.

   This year’s festival includes more than 220 films, including at least three world premieres, plus personal appearances by actors Mariel Hemingway, Griffin Dunne and Cheryl Hines and Oscar-winning director Barbara Kopple.

   The festival’s lineup of films opens April 5 with a screening of Gabriela Cowperthwaite’s documentary “Blackfish,” about a captive killer whale in Orlando that killed its trainer, and ends April 15 with Noah Baumbach's “Frances Ha,” an acclaimed comedy about a would-be dancer whose dreams clash with reality.

   The festival’s box office opens at 11 a.m. Friday, March 15 at the Regal Hollywood 20, 1993 Main St., Sarasota. Tickets and the complete schedule of films and events are available at  www.sarasotafilmfestival.com.

Hemingway, Bogdanovich slated for Sarasota Film Festival

   The Sarasota Film Festival has announced some of its key films for this year's festival, plus some of the celebs who will be there in the flesh.

Mariel Hemingway

   Among the big names: Mariel Hemingway, Peter Bogdanovich, Cheryl Hines, Griffin Dunne and two-time Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker Barbara Kopple. Kopple directed "Harlan County, U.S.A." and "Shut Up and Sing." Her new film, "Running From Crazy," which will be part of the festival, concerns Hemingway's struggle to deal with her famous family's history of mental illness and suicide.
  The full schedule of more than 200 films will be announced March 13.
   You can read more here:
www.bradenton.com/2013/03/05/4420485/hemingway-bogdanovich-highlight.html