TODAY IS THE DAY!

It is finally time, 2009 Florida Film Festival starts today! I just stopped by the Enzian Theater to pick up my staff badge and everyone is bustling with excitement, setting up the ticket tents, and preparing all the delish food for the Food & Wine Weekend (27-29). I am completely jazzed about this Festival, its my first film festival and to be a part of it is AWESOME! So what do we have lined up for tonight? Well, we have our first Original Cinema & Forbidden Fruit film, Management @6:30pm starring Jennifer Aniston and Steve Zahn and then the Opening Night Party @ 8:30pm! Tons of fabulous people will be there including Iron Chef Cat Cora and renowned director Ken Russell. Can't wait for tonight! Check out the main Web site www.floridafilmfestival.com and a preview of the FFF below!

I will be posting throughout the festival, March 27-April 5, 2009!

Masha
PR Intern

Oscar Screening at Eden Bar!

(Pictures from Oscar Screening: top to bottom. Patrons enjoying some drinks, bar shot, Sig & friend)

Happy Monday everyone!

Last night Hollywood's biggest night was celebrated at Eden Bar at Enzian Theater. It was an awesome turn out with our very own Sig joining the festivities. Staying at the bar to watch the Oscar showdown on a much larger screen than most of us have at home was a wonderful experience and on top of that, there was delish food! So, whoever missed out on the Oscar screening I'm reporting to you it was a great time and definitely made the long process that is the Oscars seem a lot more entertaining at Enzian.

As I am sure you guys have noticed that Rachael did a fantastic job at summarizing the Oscars but I have an urge to share some opinions. First of all, Hugh Jackman was a great host -- about time to have a foxy host that can sing, dance, and be funny! The presenters ranging from Sophia Loren, Natalie Portman, Ben Stiller a.k.a. Joaquin Phoenix for that night, Robert Deniro etc.. really made it worth watching. And the montage with James Franco and Seth Rogan was hilarious.

But as always the Academy completely overlooks some actors and movies. I personally do not understand what happened to recognizing Frank Langella as Nixon in Frost/Nixon, not to say that Sean Penn was not fabulous in Milk.. Also the sweep of Slumdog feels bittersweet to me. Its amazing to see a movie that was about to go nowhere turn into an Oscar winning (8 Oscars) picture but it would have been nice to see the Academy recognize other films for their incredible achievements like, Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Dark Knight, and Waltz with Bashir.

All in all the Oscars were good this year from the musical performances, montages, and speakers before each major actor award. And apparently the American public enjoyed the Oscars since its' ratings went up 10% from last year!

Until next post

--Masha (PR Intern)