Boyzell Hosey | Times
Hollywood filmmaker and St. Petersburg native Will Packer receives a standing ovation after shaking hands with Write Field junior mentor Dominic Rosado during the Poynter Institute's Write Field 4.0 graduation at Mahaffey Theater on Friday. Packer challenged the middle and high school males in the mentoring program to accept failure as a positive building block. Seven of Packer's recent films opened at No. 1 at the box office.