{"id":425715,"date":"2026-10-12T17:26:53","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T17:26:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/425715\/"},"modified":"2026-10-12T17:26:53","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T17:26:53","slug":"tampa-film-series-returns-for-third-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/425715\/","title":{"rendered":"Tampa Film Series Returns for Third Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tampa Film Series Returns for Third Year<\/p>\n<p data-ogsc=\"\" data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">The City of Tampa Mayor&#8217;s Asian American Pacific Islander Advisory Council will proudly present Tampa&#8217;s 3rd annual Asian American Film Series on Saturday, October 24th, 2026.<\/p>\n<p data-ogsc=\"\">The feature film Paper Flowers will play at Hillsborough College\u2019s Performing Arts Main Stage Theatre in Ybor City. The award-winning feature film is based on the true story of a young Indian American college student who transforms a life changing diagnosis into a journey of love, gratitude and purpose.<\/p>\n<p data-ogsc=\"\">Two short films, brought to the series by the South Asian International Film Festival and the Tigertail Asian Film Festival, will also be presented at the event.<\/p>\n<p data-ogsc=\"\">A red carpet, media interviews, Tour of Asia basket raffle, and Asian-inspired snacks and refreshments will be available between 5:00pm-5:45pm with all three films to follow.<\/p>\n<p data-ogsc=\"\">For media coverage or more information about the Asian American Film Series, contact Mayor\u2019s AAPI Advisory Council Member Nerissa Lamison at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tampa.gov\/news\/2026-10\/mailto:nlamison@hccfl.edu?subject=&amp;body=\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tampa.gov\/news\/2026-10\/mailto:nlamison@hccfl.edu?subject=&amp;body=\" data-linkindex=\"1\" data-ogsc=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">nlamison@hccfl.edu<\/a> or (813) 486-7446.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tampa Film Series Returns for Third Year The City of Tampa Mayor&#8217;s Asian American Pacific Islander Advisory Council&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":425716,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-425715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=425715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425715\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/425716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}