The Florida History Film Festival 2008

EVERY FRIDAY IN OCTOBER AT THE LIBRARY OF FLORIDA HISTORY

435 BREVARD AVENUE, COCOA

SUGGESTED DONATION: $10.00 FOR NON-MEMBERS

FREE ADMISSION FOR FLORIDA HISTORICAL SOCIETY MEMBERS

FOOD AND DRINKS WILL BE AVAILABLE

 

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3, 2008 AT 7:00 PM

“Cross Creek” (1983)

The story of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

 

Pre-screening discussion with J.T. Glisson, author of Guardian Angel 911 and neighbor of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

 

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2008 AT 7:00 PM

“Distant Drums” (1951)

Gary Cooper and Mari Alden in a film about the Second Seminole Indian War

 

Pre-screening discussion with Dr. David Paterno, expert on Seminole Indian War forts

 

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2008 AT 7:00 PM

Cecil B. DeMille’s “The Greatest Show on Earth” (1952)

Jimmy Stewart and Charlton Heston

 

Pre-screening discussion with Maity Schrecengost, author of High Above the Hippodrome, a novel about life with the Ringling and Barnum and Bailey Circus

 

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2008 AT 7:00 PM

“Rosewood” (1997)

The story of the destruction of an African American community in 1923

 

Pre-screening discussion with Dr. Ben Brotemarkle, author of Crossing Division Street: An Oral History of the African American Community in Orlando, discussing the book Overhead the Sun by John Ashworth

 

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2008 AT 7:00 PM

“Creature From the Black Lagoon” (1954)

 

Pre-screening discussion with Dr. Phil Simpson, author of Psycho Paths: Tracking the Serial Killer through Contemporary American Film and Fiction and national president of the Popular Culture Association