Hi all. Well I’m home – back in Vermont after an insanely busy week at IFW. I’m slow in wrapping up my thoughts, but here they are. A few highlights, in no particular order:
Meeting Bob Villa of This Old House and telling him I just bought an old house and was fixing it up and having him smile politely and then head to the other side of the room. That was neat.
At the
Chicken & Egg Pictures party getting to share 7 minutes of
Cartoon College with an audience and hearing them laugh in the right places and then cheer at the end.
At the IFW screening having Simon Kilmurry - head dude at P.O.V. - come up to me after to share how excited he is about the film.
An unexpected opportunity came out of a meeting with truTV. Josh and I pitched an idea for a show about law and order in rural Vermont (you wouldn't believe the amount of crime perpetrated against cows up here). We're going to shoot a pilot of sorts and see what happens. I'm a total sucker for
Cops, so this is right up my alley.
Seeing some really cool works in progress:
DeAf Jam,
Brock Enright: Good Times Will Never Be the Same,
Casting by: revolution in hollywood, etc.
Trying to distract
Cartoon College producer
Alan Oxman with profane text messages while he was on the HBO Documentary panel about war docs. Yes, I am twelve (and his phone was shut off anyway).
Meeting up with David Redmon and Ashley Sabin from
Carnivalesque Films to talk about the upcoming DVD release of
Manhattan, Kansas (available in stores and on
Netflix Nov. 18).
Ego crushing lowlight that was actually a highlight because it made me rethink my pitch: Meeting with a festival programmer in a speed dating session and having her say: “Honey, just what is your film about? What is the Big Beautiful Question? Because you’re boring me with the details.”
My only regret was not being able to attend every event and party and screening and panel.
That's it for me. Thanks for reading.
Goodnight.
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posted by Tara Wray @ 9/24/2008 09:51:00 PM
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