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Docs About Ray Romano’s Twins, Wrestler Mildred Burke and Bob Mackie Highlight Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival
The 39th Fort Lauderdale Intl. Film Festival will highlight docus about pro wrestler Mildred Burke and Bob Mackie, and from Ray Romano's twin sons.
This year’s festival opens with a gala at the guitar-shaped Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino and a screening of director Ash Avildsen’s “Queen of the Ring,” the story of pro wrestler Mildred Burke (played by Emily Bett Rickards), the first-ever, million-dollar earning female athlete. Among the standouts cited by programmers: the father-daughter comedy “Butterflies,” from Finland’s Jenni Toivoniemi, “Robot T-0,” from French writer/director Giulio Callegari and Argentina’s “The Fishing Club,” director Gascón Horacio Revol Molina’s feature helming debut. Savor Cinema (inside a fully retrofitted and repurposed historic church) comes with the added bonuses of a large stage for post-screening Q&As, canopied courtyard and three bars.
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