The 11th annual Sarasota Film Festival opened Friday with a screening of Oren Moverman's "The Messenger" and the traditional opening night gala. Here are some highlights of today's schedule. ...more

March 28, 2009

Jorge Roque endured life in the Kuwaiti desert as his Marine Corps unit waited for the signal that the war in Iraq had begun. He survived as friends died fighting their way into Baghdad. He witnessed the famous toppling of the city's statue of Saddam Hussein. ...more

July 4, 2008

Film producer Christine Vachon is cool. Or hot. Whatever. Let's put it this way: Take the current popular term for producing artistic material that runs contrary to, perhaps even challenges, the mainstream, and that's what she is. ...more

October 25, 2007