THE INDIE GATHERING - DAY 2 - AWARDS, SCREENING, ETC.
I can honestly say that I've never been to a festival quite like The Indie Gathering... Interesting people, interesting films, interesting people... did I say, "interesting people?"
There's the young, black filmmaker who made a family film about a 12 year-old white Jewish chess player. Then there's the older Jewish man from Brooklyn who's preparing to make a film about young, black Kung Fu artists. Then tonight we had the pleasure of meeting a guy who acted in one of J.P. Nickel's films (we met J.P. last April at Bare Bones)... it's a small world.
The festival events started for us at 11:00AM with the Awards Ceremony. It was another good day for Paladin Pictures and When Love Walks In. We won two awards... Best Dramatic Feature and the Festival Director's Award for Savannah Grace's performance. Festival Director Ray Szuch said that all the judges commented about how fabulous her performance was. That was a great compliment due to Savannah, but also to Brad and the crew for their skill and patience working with a three year-old actress.
Our screening was at 11:30AM... not the ideal time, but hey, we don't get to choose these things. It was good to see the film again, but not nearly as fun as watching it at the Roxy in Muskogee. One viewer mentioned how much they liked the music from the film. It's amazing the difference great music makes for a movie. Congrats again to Stephan and all the musicians who contributed work to our "award-winning" soundtrack.
Later in the day we met a film rep who's taking a look at When Love Walks In for consideration. We'll see what happens there.
More later... Kent
There's the young, black filmmaker who made a family film about a 12 year-old white Jewish chess player. Then there's the older Jewish man from Brooklyn who's preparing to make a film about young, black Kung Fu artists. Then tonight we had the pleasure of meeting a guy who acted in one of J.P. Nickel's films (we met J.P. last April at Bare Bones)... it's a small world.
The festival events started for us at 11:00AM with the Awards Ceremony. It was another good day for Paladin Pictures and When Love Walks In. We won two awards... Best Dramatic Feature and the Festival Director's Award for Savannah Grace's performance. Festival Director Ray Szuch said that all the judges commented about how fabulous her performance was. That was a great compliment due to Savannah, but also to Brad and the crew for their skill and patience working with a three year-old actress.
Our screening was at 11:30AM... not the ideal time, but hey, we don't get to choose these things. It was good to see the film again, but not nearly as fun as watching it at the Roxy in Muskogee. One viewer mentioned how much they liked the music from the film. It's amazing the difference great music makes for a movie. Congrats again to Stephan and all the musicians who contributed work to our "award-winning" soundtrack.
Later in the day we met a film rep who's taking a look at When Love Walks In for consideration. We'll see what happens there.
More later... Kent
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Oh... I nearly forgot a couple of "interesting people" stories from DAY 2...
A big part of The Indie Gathering is the Filmmaker Expo, Lectures, and Panel Discussions, where companies and experts from around the country gather to sell their goods and services and to discuss all aspects of Filmmaking.
One of the panels was about choreography for fight scenes. Brad and I were wandering around the conference center, came around a corner and walked into a hallway full of meditating black belts, whirling nunchucks, and knife-weilding ninja-types. All hard-core serious artists, dedicated to their arts. It was fascinating and bizarre all rolled into one. (FYI - I'm learning that those two adjectives describe a lot of film people we meet on the festival circuit!)
Next, in the "interesting people" sightings, the expo has a couple of booths that specialize in effect make-up for film and television. There was this one guy who was made-up to look like a character from Friday the 13th. His hands and face were cut, his coat was sliced and torn, one of his eyes was dangling from its socket, etc., but the funny thing was that he ventured away from the Expo and down the hall where a wedding reception was taking place. Brad and I found him posing for pictures, arm in arm with the Philipino bride and groom! We nearly died laughing. I wish I would've had my camera with me to capture an absolutely priceless moment.
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