‘Touch’ is 2016 Fort Myers Film Festival’s Best Short Film
Touch by Harper Lee Rogers received Best Short honors at the Sixth Annual Fort Myers Film Festival. The film is about a curious photographer who lives through her camera and views the world through her lens but, in so doing, loses touch with humanity and the art of interpersonal communication and connection.
Rogers conceived, wrote and directed the film while she was finishing her college degree. “I only had a couple of hundred dollars to finance the project,” Rogers told those who attended a Film Festival Q&A on FMff’s first day. She used classmates and friends for the actors. There is no dialogue in the film. And as she lacked the money for insurance or to pay for locations, she had to shoot the film guerrilla style. “It was a passion project, for sure. It was really, really low budget. But I’m really proud of it.” [Please click here for more about the making of this film.]
Although the filmmaker was not in attendance at the champagne dessert and awards ceremony, she made the most of her time in Fort Myers, viewing as many films and networking with as many filmmakers as possible before leaving town to resume work on her current project.
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Tom Hall is both an amateur artist and aspiring novelist who writes art quest thrillers. He is in the final stages of completing his debut novel titled "Art Detective," a story that fictionalizes the discovery of the fabled billion-dollar Impressionist collection of Parisian art dealer Josse Bernheim-Jeune, thought by many to have perished during World War II when the collection's hiding place, Castle de Rastignac in southern France, was destroyed by the Wehrmacht in reprisal for attacks made by members of the Resistance operating in the area. A former tax attorney, Tom holds a bachelor's degree as well as both a juris doctorate and masters of laws in taxation from the University of Florida. Tom lives in Estero, Florida with his fiancee, Connie, and their four cats.