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Sarasota News Leader March 29, 2013 Page 71 premiere of the film, which was made to raise try, as well as a DVD release and distribution awareness about sexual assault on college through certain online streaming platforms. campuses; it follows the life of a young man The SFF also engages with the community in named Jake Peterson. ways not directly related to film screenings. "His feeling is that you can just get a little For example, all of the proceeds from the boost in life, whether it be in the gym or with "Through Women's Eyes" program at the SFF the ladies, either through steroids or maybe will go to support the work of the U.S. Naslipping something into a girl's drink," Curran tional Committee for UN Women. UN Women, explained. "He has the idea that there are no which will be holding a reception on Saturday, consequences for his actions." April 6, at Art Center Sarasota, is an organization established by the United Nations in Curran –– who is also the director of Source 1976 that works to support gender equality Productions, a live theater company associatthroughout the world, at all hierarchical leved with Planned Parenthood of Southwest and els. Central Florida –– went on to explain what she would like to see audiences take away Additionally, the SFF encourages young peofrom the film. "First of all, we hope that they'll ple to be filmmakers with its SFF Education be compelled by this story and also how real program, which connects with more than this is, how prevalent this is," she said. "Some 5,000 students of various ages through 12 free statistics say one in eight young women on filmmaking, film review, screenwriting and American college campuses are sexually as- movie screening programs. The festival also saulted and so we really wanted to look at one includes screenings of films made by young particular story and how that's affected both people from across Florida between the ages by the male and the female and the repercus- of 10 and 18 and a reading of screenplays writsions of that." ten by high school students in the area. COMPETITIONS AND EVENTS Of course, the SFF will feature a number of parties as well –– including the signature "Cinema Tropicale" event at the Sarasota Yacht Club –– along with ceremonies for and lectures by filmmakers, actors and actresses. Among the members of the filmmaking community who will be present to receive awards or give lectures will be Mariel Hemingway, Lili Taylor, Griffin Dune, Barbara Kopple, Suzanne Clément and Peter Bogdanovich. In addition to film screenings, the SFF will hold its usual Narrative Feature, Documentary Feature and Independent Visions film competitions, though this year the number of films competing in each category has increased from seven to eight because of the large volume of submissions. The prize for the popular Independent Visions competition this year is a coveted distribution deal through a company called Factory 25, which includes theatrical Ticket prices for films and events, schedules releases in New York City, Los Angeles, Chi- and additional information about the SFF can cago and other major cities around the coun- be found at www.sarasotafilmfestival.com. %