![]() ![]() Bill Tilly said he signed his 88-year-old father up after hearing about the Honor Flight Network from a friend. "We chased it down, and they gave us a chance (to screen it)."īill Tilly, who lives in upstate New York, went to the premiere to watch the film with his father, Don Tilly, a World War II Army veteran who lives in Naples. "It was one of those things where we were tracking films, and it piqued our interest," Franklin said. In August, "Honor Flight" set a Guinness World Record for largest attendance at a film screening when it premiered in Milwaukee, Wis., to a crowd of more than 28,000. Shannon Franklin, the festival's executive director, said organizers try to feature a film about veterans each year. "That's the first thing I can remember in Naples," he said. In his first year in Florida, he received 37 handwritten letters from eighth-graders thanking him for his service. ![]() The evening included a red carpet arrival where photographers shot bow-tied men and women in spangled dresses before they sauntered into the lobby for cocktails.ĭuma, who retired to Southwest Florida from Pennsylvania, said locals have always been welcoming to veterans. The film was shown at the festival's opening night at the Philharmonic Center for the Arts to a crowd of about 1,000. The Dumas came to the film festival to see the east coast premiere of "Honor Flight," a documentary about a national group that is flying Steve Duma and other World War II veterans to war memorials in D.C. "It was the highlight of his 2012 year," Catherine Duma said. A scrapbook sticker pressed on a photo of the World War II Army medic said what he didn't have to: Age can't slow me down. Inside the album were pictures of 90-year-old Duma on a September trip to see war memorials in Washington, D.C. Minutes before doors opened at the fourth-annual Naples International Film Festival on Thursday evening, Steve Duma sat outside flipping through a photo album with his wife, Catherine. ![]()
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