YOUR DAILY GUIDE TO THE 2011 TACOMA FILM FESTIVAL >>>
Tonight The Grand Cinema folks will sweep the popcorn, scrap the gum off the seats and flick the lights off on another Tacoma Film Festival. Finishing out its sixth year, The Grand decided to go out with a Pacific Northwest bang. The closing film will be Seattle filmmaker Megan Griffiths's The Off Hours, the story of a 20-something waitress unsure of what she wants out of life but increasingly certain that the answer will not come from the lonesome derelicts that populate her small joyless world.
Before Griffiths's flick, another Pacific Northwest filmmaker Kristi L. Simkins will screen her three-minute Something Special about a young war veteran exploring the wilds of New Zealand to fulfill the last wish of a close friend who died in combat.
Both filmmakers will be in the house tonight.
Thursday, Oct. 13, 6:30 p.m., $15-$18
The Grand Cinema, 606 S. Fawcett Ave., Tacoma
252.593.4474
For a complete list of today's films, click here.
LINK: 2011 TFF award winners
LINK: Opening Night Gala photos
LINK: Three stories behind the stories
LINK: Big stars at the Tacoma Film Festival 2011
LINK: Our Tacoma Film Festival preview
LINK: TFF Director Emily Alm's picks
LINK: TFF on twitter
LINK: TFF website