The Sunscreen Film Festival's mission to enhance Tampa Bay's independent film culture continues Friday by showcasing a nightmare that became a dream that became a reality on screen.

Logan and Noah Miller are twin brothers, formerly aspiring baseball players and now co-filmmakers who grew up coping with an alcoholic, homeless father who died in jail. Three months later, the Millers cornered Academy Award nominee Ed Harris during a San Francisco festival tribute and practically begged him to read their screenplay based on the experience, and portray their father.

Nine days later, Harris called the Millers and said he wanted in. Fellow Oscar nominees Robert Forster (Jackie Brown) and Brad Dourif (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest) weren't far behind.

The result is Touching Home, a drama set for a March, 2010 release but Sunscreen is presenting it Friday at 7 p.m. at Muvico Baywalk 20 in St. Petersburg. The Millers will attend, conducting a Q&A after the movie on the movie and the book they're written about their first filmmaking experience, Either You're in... Or You're in the Way.

Tickets are $9.50 for the movie and discussion, with proceeds going to the festival's coffers. Beforehand, the Millers will present a Guerrilla Filmmaking Workshop at Baywalk at 5:15 p.m., free of charge, to exchange ideas with other filmmakers on how to get things done. Everyone is invited to the free after-show party at 9:30.

Like the old Patty Duke TV twins, the Millers look alike, they walk alike, at times they even talk alike. See for yourself in the interview posted above, in which the brothers and Harris recall the brash beginnings of Touching Home.