Sarasota Young Filmmakers Charity
Monday, March 23, 2009 at 2:01PM 
The Florida Film Consortium...supported by the Sarasota Fringe!
To build on what the area and its talented residents can offer the industry as a whole, the Sarasota Film Festival recently created its year-round Florida Film Consortium. The non-profit will serve as an educational outreach to students. It will also support independent films and filmmakers with networking events, workshops and film development needs, says Tom Garrett, the festival’s director of education and special initiatives.
Garrett hopes investing time and energy in current and future filmmakers will help create more Florida-based film projects and, in turn, more jobs and revenue.
“We’re creating our own home-grown artists and filmmakers,” said Garrett, a film producer and film professor at the University of Tampa. “Right now we’re at a crossroads.
“We’re hoping that since we’ve built it, they will come.”
The Sarasota Fringe Festival Charity is the Film Consortium. Donations at the Fringe will go directly to the FFC.