FILM FESTIVAL SHENANIGANS
OK, so one of my films made it into this cool film festival in Indianapolis, and because of that I was invited to their opening gala event. All the supporters of the fest were there as well as the film makers. It was very high-brow in a way I’m not used to. I was seriously under dressed.
A great thing about this party was that they had an awesome cover band and a huge dance floor. That’s wonderful, except that NO ONE WAS DANCING.
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..and this was before I had any free booze. I love my friend Ray (on camera phone) giggling.
Heartland Film Festival was great — I got free tickets to all the films I wanted to see, met a bunch of filmmakers with actual budgets and great films, and I got to see my film on a big screen and talk about it with the audience. One awesome thing was meeting the film makers who were on my Shorts program. They made documentaries about children in Uganda and Thailand. They were very gripping and well made films. You can check them out here:
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It was kind of embarrassing to be in between these two very serious films. It was sorta like “Hey, I know childhood prostitution sucks, but let’s talk about cupcakes!” At the Q and A I felt a bit like I was wearing a clown costume standing while standing between Mother Theresa and Ghandi. But people were interested and asked questions very nicely. The project is going to be in Indianapolis (at Harrison Center for the Arts) on May 1st, so it was a nice way to let everyone know.
October 23rd, 2008 at 10:02 am
That vid was awesome! If I had gone I would have dance silly like with you, too! Oh, and this line: “Hey, I know childhood prostitution sucks, but let’s talk about cupcakes!”, made me almost spit out my coffee
It was so awesome seeing you and I can’t wait to see you again, whether you in IN or me in NY
October 27th, 2008 at 2:53 am
Heartland Film Festival was big fun…SUPERBIG FUN!
October 22nd, 2009 at 9:09 pm
Just thinking about the old days in flagstaff. I’ve always thought your voice was cool. I tell my kids I once did a gig with Stickman Jones (we opened for J Starship). they see you sing Hemingway and don’t believe me. Oh well. Miss you and Jad.