Celebrate the Bungalow: HYDE PARK Video Premier and Community Case at Tampa Bay History Center

TAMPA, Fla. (February 9, 2010)  --The Historic Hyde Park Neighborhood Association (HHPNA) and the Tampa Bay History Center announce the premier of Celebrate the Bungalow: Hyde Park, a documentary and the installation of a related Community Case in the History Center on February 28^th.

The movie will have its premier on 28 February 2010 beginning at 3:00 PM at the Tampa Bay History Center.  This special event at the History Center will enable participants to explore the entire museum and visit the Community Case installation focused on the bungalow before attending the initial showing in the building’s TECO Theater.

The documentary is a collaboration of the Historic Hyde Park Neighborhood Association and The International Academy of Design & Technology. Everyone will have the opportunity to interact with the students involved in the production of the movie at the History Center during the premier event.

The movie will enable the Hyde Park community to share its rich architectural heritage in a compelling way. The production of the documentary is a final term project of graduating seniors at the Academy. Significant historical information and photographs were provided by residents throughout South Tampa and beyond.

The production of the movie has been an enriching and challenging endeavor that will provide a permanent record of one of Tampa’s oldest residential neighborhoods.  “As the movie team filmed throughout Hyde Park, neighbors shared how they loved the spacious and sociable front porches, hardwood floors, creative wood detailing, and flexibility to adapt interior spaces to suit the needs of individual family’s size and budgets,” says Del Acosta, documentary producer, Architectural Historian and adjunct faculty member in the Interior Design Department at the International Academy of Design and Technology.

Residents throughout Hyde Park have been filmed as the student film team captured everyday life. Children are shown playing in Kate Jackson Park, visiting a candy store, and playing along the neighborhood sidewalks; a young couple is seen taking their first wedding portrait; and senior citizens share stories of growing up in Hyde Park. Neighbors opened up their homes – from beautifully restored ones to homes with exposed electrical wires and boarded up windows during the restoration process.

The documentary and the Community Case are components of the Eight Annual HHPNA Home Tour on March 6^th. Proceeds from the combined events of the 2010 Home Tour will benefit the improvement of Swann Pond across from Hyde Park Village, landscaping of the VFW clubhouse on Morrison Ave. and the further development of Bern’s Park on Howard Ave. For more information visit www. ehydepark.org.

Celebrate the Bungalow: Hyde Park, the documentary, and the installation of the related Community Case in the History Center is made possible in part by a grant from the Hillsborough County Board of County Commissioners, Hillsborough County Children's Board, and the Frank E. Duckworth Foundation within the Community Foundation of Tampa Bay.