Molly Smith’s ‘I Don’t Know’ wins BIFF Best Florida Youth Film award
The Bonita Springs International Film Festival on I Don’t Know as this year’s Best Florida Film in the Youth Category. The 4-minute film revolves around a boy who, in deciding where he will go in the future, reflects on his past choices through the power of spoken word poetry.
Micah has graduated from high school and does not want to become 
just another statistic like his father. He examines his past choices and issues with the law through spoken word poetry. Micah decides that even though he doesn’t have the answers to everything, he can determine his own future.
The cast features Samuel Isaiah Hunter, Sheryl Carbonell and Christian Patrick.
Molly E. Smith wrote and directed the short. Elizabeth Buzbee produced the film. From Central Florida, Smith is a screenwriter, filmmaker, singer/songwriter and actor.
March 3, 2019.
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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.