When he decided to ‘postpone’ the short film festival last year its founder didn’t believe it would come back. Now, he says, ‘We have to re-prove ourselves’
When the Tropfest founder, John Polson, was 15, a mixed bag of juvenile delinquencies saw him booted out of high school for a second time.
It could so easily have proven disastrous but Polson responded by hurriedly mapping out a plan to start a mechanic apprenticeship and learn the saxophone, hoping that would temper the anger of his jazz musician father.
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