Holy heck.
Seriously.
Holy heck.
We're one for one.
One festival, one award.
Best Feature at the Mississauga Independent Film festival.
Holy heck.
I'll write with more depth later when I'm a little less shocked.
Showing posts with label mississauga independent film festival. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mississauga independent film festival. Show all posts
11 July, 2010
10 July, 2010
Mississauga Missives from the Front
I wouldn't believe this if it didn't happen to me - so I don't expect anyone else to believe this.
I got carded! I am back in my hotel room, rather than partying after the premiere because I GOT CARDED! This is not a boast. I do not look like someone who should be denied entry into a bar for being under age.
SEE...
Not one week ago I thought to myself "there's something that will never happen to me again" - BZZZZtttT! - wrong.
Just some doorman deciding that everyone had to have valid ID I guess - regardless of how clearly over legal drinking age they might be. Prick.
Oh well. It's not really the end of the world. In the past 36 or so hours I have managed to sleep three times. Sadly its not a matter of quantity. And the quality and the duration have been terrible. I even walked out of the second film tonight because I was concerned about snoring in it - which would have happened if I was watching Jurassic Park or Aliens too so should not be taken as a measure of the film's quality. I was not being rude by leaving. I was leaving to avoid being rude. Warm, dark space with less than 3 hours sleep in the past day and a half... it's a miracle I didn't fall asleep during my own film!
So Beast screened to it's first impartial audience tonight....
The Mississauga Independent Film Festival is small and friendly. There is only one theatre and it may hold 250 people at most. I'd say we had a 1/3 audience - which appears to be par for the course.
I would have to say that if we can get the reaction we got from this audience from every small audience we can be proud of what we've done. They laughed as much as could be expected, and consistently throughout. You could hear people "getting" the tricks in the movie at the points where they needed to be "got."
I don't think I've mentioned this anywhere else before, but at the cast and crew screening, Mike, Craig and I (Mike mentioned it first to give credit where credit is due) noted that there was one scene that due to some additional cuts could now be lifted out wholesale without harming anything else. Tonight we screened the version without that scene - possibly the last cut we'll ever make. I didn't miss it at all, and it helps speed things along more in the last quarter of the film. Yay!
Anyhow... not meaning to dis the MIFF, but I expect a much better turn out in the Okanagan in ten days. And so it should be. The Okanagan is at heart the REAL premiere of the film.
Okay... I must sleep now. I can't believe I'm still awake. I should thank that bouncer for carding me... I'd be a mess if I were still out.
I got carded! I am back in my hotel room, rather than partying after the premiere because I GOT CARDED! This is not a boast. I do not look like someone who should be denied entry into a bar for being under age.
SEE...
As if to accentuate the point I have a frikkin' beer in my hand!
Not one week ago I thought to myself "there's something that will never happen to me again" - BZZZZtttT! - wrong.
Just some doorman deciding that everyone had to have valid ID I guess - regardless of how clearly over legal drinking age they might be. Prick.
Oh well. It's not really the end of the world. In the past 36 or so hours I have managed to sleep three times. Sadly its not a matter of quantity. And the quality and the duration have been terrible. I even walked out of the second film tonight because I was concerned about snoring in it - which would have happened if I was watching Jurassic Park or Aliens too so should not be taken as a measure of the film's quality. I was not being rude by leaving. I was leaving to avoid being rude. Warm, dark space with less than 3 hours sleep in the past day and a half... it's a miracle I didn't fall asleep during my own film!
So Beast screened to it's first impartial audience tonight....
The Mississauga Independent Film Festival is small and friendly. There is only one theatre and it may hold 250 people at most. I'd say we had a 1/3 audience - which appears to be par for the course.
I would have to say that if we can get the reaction we got from this audience from every small audience we can be proud of what we've done. They laughed as much as could be expected, and consistently throughout. You could hear people "getting" the tricks in the movie at the points where they needed to be "got."
I don't think I've mentioned this anywhere else before, but at the cast and crew screening, Mike, Craig and I (Mike mentioned it first to give credit where credit is due) noted that there was one scene that due to some additional cuts could now be lifted out wholesale without harming anything else. Tonight we screened the version without that scene - possibly the last cut we'll ever make. I didn't miss it at all, and it helps speed things along more in the last quarter of the film. Yay!
Anyhow... not meaning to dis the MIFF, but I expect a much better turn out in the Okanagan in ten days. And so it should be. The Okanagan is at heart the REAL premiere of the film.
Okay... I must sleep now. I can't believe I'm still awake. I should thank that bouncer for carding me... I'd be a mess if I were still out.
08 July, 2010
Countdown: 52 Hours...
The Mississauga Independent Film Festival began yesterday.
Craig was there for the opening gala, walking the red carpet.
I'm catching a red-eye tomorrow night, arriving early Saturday morning.
I will be talking at Cafe Skeptique about the film, cryptozoology and the Ogopogo at 2pm at The Bean. (388 College St. in Toronto.)
[On a related note, there is a slight irony hidden in all of this. For months I've been bemoaning the fact that I couldn't attend TAM8 this year. Last year I went to TAM7 and did a test screening of the film. But just last week - a week ago today in fact - I returned from a trip to Europe to a wedding where I was best man. It was simply going to be too much money and too little time or me to do both the trip to Europe and to Vegas for TAM. But then we were selected for MIFF - on short notice I might add, just before we left for Europe. I stuck to my guns. MIFF was the same weekend as TAM and would cost a comparable amount... not to mention that in the time since we committed to going to London for the wedding, my girlfiend and I found out we are expecting a baby. Jodie, my girlfriend called me an idiot (about not going to MIFF, not the baby) and booked me a ticket to Ontario. So, now I'm going away on that weekend anyhow - AND I am participating (however briefly) a critical thinking event, all in service of the film. I hope folk are having a great time at TAM8, I plan to have a wild rumpus at MIFF.]
Then I'm high-tailing it out to Missisauga to the theatre for the (ulp!) World Premiere.
I keep getting asked if I'm nervous. The short answer is 'no.'
The long answer is - I suspect I will be, though honestly I feel pretty confident about the film by this point. I guess there is a fine lin between nrvous ad excited.
Craig was there for the opening gala, walking the red carpet.
I'm catching a red-eye tomorrow night, arriving early Saturday morning.
I will be talking at Cafe Skeptique about the film, cryptozoology and the Ogopogo at 2pm at The Bean. (388 College St. in Toronto.)
[On a related note, there is a slight irony hidden in all of this. For months I've been bemoaning the fact that I couldn't attend TAM8 this year. Last year I went to TAM7 and did a test screening of the film. But just last week - a week ago today in fact - I returned from a trip to Europe to a wedding where I was best man. It was simply going to be too much money and too little time or me to do both the trip to Europe and to Vegas for TAM. But then we were selected for MIFF - on short notice I might add, just before we left for Europe. I stuck to my guns. MIFF was the same weekend as TAM and would cost a comparable amount... not to mention that in the time since we committed to going to London for the wedding, my girlfiend and I found out we are expecting a baby. Jodie, my girlfriend called me an idiot (about not going to MIFF, not the baby) and booked me a ticket to Ontario. So, now I'm going away on that weekend anyhow - AND I am participating (however briefly) a critical thinking event, all in service of the film. I hope folk are having a great time at TAM8, I plan to have a wild rumpus at MIFF.]
Then I'm high-tailing it out to Missisauga to the theatre for the (ulp!) World Premiere.
I keep getting asked if I'm nervous. The short answer is 'no.'
The long answer is - I suspect I will be, though honestly I feel pretty confident about the film by this point. I guess there is a fine lin between nrvous ad excited.
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