Gasparilla International Film Festival

Name: Gasparilla International Film Festival
Start: 2027-03-02
End: 2027-03-07
Location: Multiple downtown venues, historically Tampa Theatre, 711 N Franklin St

Tampa, FL · Arts & Culture

When: March 2–7, 2027
Where: Multiple downtown venues, historically Tampa Theatre, 711 N Franklin St · Tampa · FL
Cost: Not confirmed
Status: Approximate: based on past editions, not announced yet

Tampa Bay's largest independent film festival, showcasing features, documentaries, shorts, and Florida made films at venues around downtown Tampa. Run by the nonprofit Tampa Film Institute, it has been held annually since 2007.

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Gasparilla International Film Festivalsame spot
Tampa Bay's largest independent film festival, showcasing features, documentaries, shorts, and Florida made films at venues around downtown Tampa.
Tampa Theatre0.1 mi
John Eberson's original atmospheric theatre design, a courtyard under a plaster sky with drifting projected clouds, gargoyles and stolen-looking statuary.
Gasparilla and its invented pirate0.1 mi
A pirate invasion staged annually by a private krewe, complete with a fully rigged ship sailing into the channel to demand the key to the city.
Winter Village at Curtis Hixon Park0.1 mi
A holiday pop up on Tampa's downtown riverfront at Curtis Hixon Park, presented by the Tampa Bay Lightning, with an outdoor ice rink and holiday market stalls from local businesses.
Plane crashes into the Bank of America building0.1 mi
On January 5, 2002, four months after September 11, a 15-year-old flight student named Charles Bishop took a Cessna 172 from the St.