Dominoes and TV Shows (3 Weeks on the Road)
Wow! I don't know what to say about the last 3 weeks. It was fun, productive, exhausting, exciting, encouraging, important and a million other things. Greta and I hit the road together to show the film in 4 different cities, and we were joined by the one and only Kent Osborne at two of the stops. Get ready for a lot of pictures!
First up was the Sarasota Film Festival. Greta and Ry (who was screening her film ORPHANS) were on a panel together about women in film. It was Greta's first panel, and it was a doozy. It seemed like there were about 45 women on stage, and I'm pretty sure Greta fell asleep at a few points during the marathon session.
Craig Zobel's film, GREAT WORLD OF SOUND, was showing at all the same Festivals as HANNAH, and we celebrated this fact with matching eye make-up.
David Lowery thought we looked like super heroes, so he threw together the first issue of our comic. Then he changed his mind and thought it looked more like a cereal box. You decide!
We had the absolute pleasure of seeing of Montreal perform at one of the parties. I have been obsessed with the new album, Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer? since I first heard it, and I've had a major crush on their album Cherry Peel for years, so getting the chance to see them play many of my favorite songs was incredible.
After the show, Greta and I took part in a dance party, one of our favorite things to do.
We all piled into a really weird bus/trolly type vehicle to get back to the hotel, where the party continued in Michael Tully's room until the hotel eventually shut us down. It was either this night or the next night that I stayed up until 7AM talking with Craig Zobel and Barlow Jacobs about movies and life and whatever else popped into our heads. When the sun came up, we decided it was time to go to sleep.
We had our photos taken on the beach by Getty Images the next day. It was fun to do a photo shoot with a photographer and lights and a beautiful sunset behind us.
Here's one of the pictures from the shoot. You can see the other ones here.
I didn't get to spend nearly enough time with AJ Schnack, but it was great to see him again. AJ has been a huge supporter of my work since the very beginning. He was the first outside person to see footage from KISSING ON THE MOUTH and he's been keeping up with me and encouraging me ever since. It was a real thrill for me to be showing at another Festival with his film, KURT COBAIN ABOUT A SON. Notice David Lowery in the background looking scary as hell!
Aaron Katz was in town with QUIET CITY, and we both enjoyed the delicious options available from the "Night of 1,000 Stars" party. That's a slice of cheesecake dipped in chocolate. There were also hundreds of shot glasses filled with pudding and other mouth watering treats.
On the left is Holly Herrick, one of the Sarasota Film Festival programmers. She is joined by the lovely Jessica Wolfson, who produced CRAZY SEXY CANCER. Spending more time with these two awesome people was one of the highlights of the Festival for me.
One of the nightly rituals at the Festival was walking across the street from the hotel to the beach and swimming in the Gulf. It was really scary to swim in such a huge body of water really late at night, but totally thrilling. Also, there were phosphorescense in the water, so you could see little glowing trails when you moved your arms. This picture of Greta and I, which I'm stealing from David Lowery's blog, is the only photographic proof I've seen of these adventures. Check out David's Sarasota post for more pics of his experience.
Greta, Ry, Michael Tully and I all piled into a limo early one morning and headed for the airport. Our destination was the NASHVILLE FILM FESTIVAL, where all of our movies were playing. Now is a good time to mention that Tully, Greta and I spent the entire 3 weeks together. We took the same flights, stayed at the same hotels, screened in the same venues, hung out at the same parties and really got to know each other a lot better. I got so used to having Tully around that I'm kind of expecting him to just show up at my apartment tonight to hang out.
Greta and I started editing our new film, NIGHTS AND WEEKENDS, while we were in Sarasota, but we really got down to work in Nashville. We were there for 3 days, and all I really remember from the experience is looking at footage, ordering Domino's pizza and watching Conan O'Brien. We occasially left the hotel/editing room to attend screenings of HANNAH and do interviews, but otherwise we were totally focused on the new project.
And now on to the INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL OF BOSTON!
First up was the Sarasota Film Festival. Greta and Ry (who was screening her film ORPHANS) were on a panel together about women in film. It was Greta's first panel, and it was a doozy. It seemed like there were about 45 women on stage, and I'm pretty sure Greta fell asleep at a few points during the marathon session.
Craig Zobel's film, GREAT WORLD OF SOUND, was showing at all the same Festivals as HANNAH, and we celebrated this fact with matching eye make-up.
David Lowery thought we looked like super heroes, so he threw together the first issue of our comic. Then he changed his mind and thought it looked more like a cereal box. You decide!
We had the absolute pleasure of seeing of Montreal perform at one of the parties. I have been obsessed with the new album, Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer? since I first heard it, and I've had a major crush on their album Cherry Peel for years, so getting the chance to see them play many of my favorite songs was incredible.
After the show, Greta and I took part in a dance party, one of our favorite things to do.
We all piled into a really weird bus/trolly type vehicle to get back to the hotel, where the party continued in Michael Tully's room until the hotel eventually shut us down. It was either this night or the next night that I stayed up until 7AM talking with Craig Zobel and Barlow Jacobs about movies and life and whatever else popped into our heads. When the sun came up, we decided it was time to go to sleep.
We had our photos taken on the beach by Getty Images the next day. It was fun to do a photo shoot with a photographer and lights and a beautiful sunset behind us.
Here's one of the pictures from the shoot. You can see the other ones here.
I didn't get to spend nearly enough time with AJ Schnack, but it was great to see him again. AJ has been a huge supporter of my work since the very beginning. He was the first outside person to see footage from KISSING ON THE MOUTH and he's been keeping up with me and encouraging me ever since. It was a real thrill for me to be showing at another Festival with his film, KURT COBAIN ABOUT A SON. Notice David Lowery in the background looking scary as hell!
Aaron Katz was in town with QUIET CITY, and we both enjoyed the delicious options available from the "Night of 1,000 Stars" party. That's a slice of cheesecake dipped in chocolate. There were also hundreds of shot glasses filled with pudding and other mouth watering treats.
On the left is Holly Herrick, one of the Sarasota Film Festival programmers. She is joined by the lovely Jessica Wolfson, who produced CRAZY SEXY CANCER. Spending more time with these two awesome people was one of the highlights of the Festival for me.
One of the nightly rituals at the Festival was walking across the street from the hotel to the beach and swimming in the Gulf. It was really scary to swim in such a huge body of water really late at night, but totally thrilling. Also, there were phosphorescense in the water, so you could see little glowing trails when you moved your arms. This picture of Greta and I, which I'm stealing from David Lowery's blog, is the only photographic proof I've seen of these adventures. Check out David's Sarasota post for more pics of his experience.
Greta, Ry, Michael Tully and I all piled into a limo early one morning and headed for the airport. Our destination was the NASHVILLE FILM FESTIVAL, where all of our movies were playing. Now is a good time to mention that Tully, Greta and I spent the entire 3 weeks together. We took the same flights, stayed at the same hotels, screened in the same venues, hung out at the same parties and really got to know each other a lot better. I got so used to having Tully around that I'm kind of expecting him to just show up at my apartment tonight to hang out.
Greta and I started editing our new film, NIGHTS AND WEEKENDS, while we were in Sarasota, but we really got down to work in Nashville. We were there for 3 days, and all I really remember from the experience is looking at footage, ordering Domino's pizza and watching Conan O'Brien. We occasially left the hotel/editing room to attend screenings of HANNAH and do interviews, but otherwise we were totally focused on the new project.
And now on to the INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL OF BOSTON!