2025 Blaze Challenge

2025 Blaze Challenge
Film Screening:
  • When: Saturday, April 12, 2025  12pm-8pm (see agenda below)
  • Where: AMC Altamonte Mall 18
  • Address: 433 E Altamonte Dr, Altamonte Springs, FL 32701
Networking Party:
  • When: Saturday, April 12, 2025  8:30pm-11:30pm
  • Where: An Tobar Irish Pub at the Sheraton Hotel
  • Address: 600 N Lake Destiny Rd First Floor, Maitland, FL 32751

Blaze Challenge Event Agenda:

  • 12:00pm – Open Film block
  • 01:00pm – Q&A
  • 01:35pm – OIF Drama Block  (Check-in opens at 1:00pm)
  • 02:55pm – Q&A
  • 03:30pm – OIF Rom-Com Block
  • 04:25pm – Q&A
  • 05:00pm – OIF Sci-Fi Block
  • 06:10pm – Q&A
  • 06:45pm – Awards Ceremony
  • 08:30pm – Networking Party at the Iris Bar (Sheraton Hotel)

Film Screenings

12:00pm – Open Film Block

This is a special experimental Block.  These films/videos were not made for this Challenge.   
We are happy to have extended an opportunity to have extra time booked at the Theater to be used by members at a heavily reduced cost.  
Pending additional information, these programs are presented in an opening Block, by invitation only from the following members, AND for ALL Access and ALL Blocks Passholders: 
Britt Chase Shellee,  Lewis Leslie, Clinton Hughes, and Kylee Nicole.

1:35pm – Drama Block: (not final screening order)

  • Deals in the Dirty Waters  – by Joshua Shaffer
  • First Rites  – by Tony Taylor
  • Mind on Fire – by Sky Belluomini
  • My Lighthouse – by Michael Speigner
  • Purpose – by Kelly Weaver
  • Rose’s Thorn – by Jim McDowell
  • Snow Globe – by Tracey Jane
  • The Bone Collecta – by Shanita Brown
  • Scorched Cabin – by Michael Lamberti

3:30pm – Rom-Com Block:  (not final screening order)

  • Wanted: Gold Digger – by Larry Elavsky
  • The Line Between – by Sarah Zavala
  • Waiting – by Jacob Schwartz
  • Love At The Diner – by David Siracusa
  • Locked On Love – by Rachel Reedy
  • Love, Subscribed – by Doc Anthony Bravo

5:00pm Sci-fi Block:  (not final screening order)

  • Back Road – by Connor Hayes
  • All The Money In The World  – by Dale C Metz
  • The Nebula Gambit – by Nick and Angela
  • The Eden Trials – by Stephanie Kirves
  • Quantum Link – by Kimberly DiPersia
  • Process 35908 – by Geoff Scott
  • Dinner and Another Dimension – by Lewis Leslie
  • Mandela Dimension – by Brandon Miles

Awards & Networking

Join us for an incredible night! Come network with directors, mingle and network with filmmakers at cocktail hour or at the after-party, photos and interviews on the Red Carpet.

Awards at AMC Theater
Networking Party at the nearby An Tobar Irish Pub and Restaurant at the Sheraton North Hotel in Maitland (600 N Lake Destiny Rd, Maitland, FL 32751)

  • 6:50PM – Awards Ceremony at the AMC Altamonte Springs
  • 8:30 PM – Networking Party at An Tobar Irish Pub and Restaurant
  • First domestic Wine/Beer or 2 soft drinks included!
  • Red-Carpet Photography
  • Free Parking (Enter, then go left into venue parking lot)