Indie Grits 10th Year Anniversary

By Mike Switzer

Published April 6, 2016 at 6:46 AM EDT

Our state’s film festivals continue to provide outlets for South Carolina’s filmmakers and others to make headways into careers in the film industry. One of the most popular is coming to Columbia on April 14^th and because it’s their 10^th anniversary, they’ve announced that all events will be free.

Mike Switzer interviews Seth Gadsden, managing director of the Indie Grits film festival hosted by the Nickelodeon our state’s only independent art house movie theater in Columbia, SC.

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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.

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