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Actor Paul Sorvino to be honored at Beaufort International Film Festival

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27 years ago, our next guest retired from the US Marine Corps at Parris Island, SC and launched a film career in the Lowcountry, including making an award-winning documentary about the Marines.  His love of films and the history of major motion picture-making in that part of our state, led to the creation of what has become over the past 13 years, one of the most successful film festivals in the south.

Mike Switzer interviews Ron Tucker, executive director of the Beaufort International Film Festival.

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After almost 20 years, Mike Switzer retired from Wells Fargo Securities in 2001 as Senior Vice President/Investment Officer and Certified Portfolio Manager. In 1999, he and his wife, Maggie, purchased and operated for eight years the Baskin Robbins ice cream store on Forest Drive in Columbia. They grew the store from a bottom-tier operation in the Baskin Robbins franchise system to one in the top 5% nationwide within three years, tripling sales along the way. While operating the ice cream store, Mike and Maggie received patents for a portable ice cream sink and fold-down sneezeguard they invented and in 2002 started Magnolia Carts, an ice cream cart manufacturing company, which they sold in 2013.