Welcome to On the Radar, where we preview up-and-coming arts events to mark your calendar for. This Thursday marks the beginning of the University of Tampa Film Society's Black Box Film Festival, a showcase of the year's best student-directed films complete with a plethora of panel discussions and workshops with film industry professionals from across the country.
Highlights include a lecture on the pitfalls of indie filmmaking (and how to avoid them) with The Reel Truth author Reed Martin; a presentation by the EXTREME stunt and driving team; and a screening of National Campus Movie Festival winner Sarah Wilson's latest flick. The fest also secured an advance screening of Touching Home, starring Ed Harris (pictured on set, center) and Robert Forester, which sees nationwide theater distribution in April 2010.
This article appears in Dec 2-8, 2000.