THE INDIE GATHERING - DAY 3 - ACTORS, AUDITIONS & ADIOS

Well, another festival is behind us. Brad and I wrapped up The Indie Gathering in Cleveland on Sunday and now I type from a hotel in West Coxsackie, New York.

The festival itself was fun and interesting. Sunday was spent attending a couple of seminars, one on Marketing and one on 4 Walling Your Film. Following that, Brad and I we're invited to be judges for the Actor's Showcase, a competition where thespians of all ages perform a 90 second monologue and we the judges rank them based on their performance, delivery and talent. Cleveland has a broad range of actors, some with great range and potential.

Following the showcase we watched our final film of the festival Saving Star Wars, which I thought was going to be a total spoof, but was interesting and quite poignant at times. We spoke with Gary Wood, the film's director a bit about some of his experiences shooting in Indianapolis. Then we made the rounds, said our good-byes and farewells, and drove off into the sunset so to speak.

All in all we had fun. Two festivals down, six awards, lots of friends, but zero distribution offers... let's see if we can increase that final category.

All for now,

Kent