Expect surprises when making documentaries, filmmakers say

Expect surprises when making documentaries, filmmakers say

TAMPA — When it comes to documentaries, the story you fall in love may not always be the one the filmmaker set out to tell.

Just ask Camille Thoman and Tony Armer, who will be at the Sunscreen Film Festival running through Sunday in St. Petersburg.

"Documentaries are real life and real life cannot be planned out perfectly," Armer said. "You take what is given to you and tell that story."

Thoman will attend a screening of her documentary, "The Longest Game," 3:30 p.m. Friday at the Museum of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg.

"I was such a documentary filmmaker cliché," said Thoman, a 39-year-old resident Los Angeles. "I heard it all the time about a filmmaker who thinks the documentary will be about one thing easy to make and then years later realizes otherwise when she finally finishes it."

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