Fiona’s Script is having it’s official SF Bay Area premier at the 33rd Frameline Film Festival. Prior to this it played down in LA at MethodFest (bonus for the acting team). Our screenings are on Saturday, June 20th at 6:15pm at the Roxie in SF and on Monday, June 22nd at 7pm at Rialto Cinemas Elmwood in Berkeley. There’s drinks at Lexington Club on 19th @ Valencia in SF (I’m assuming after). I have yet to see it large (although I know from past experiences that the Roxie isn’t the best quality screening environment). Looks like they’re screening digibeta so that should help.
Florencia wants to revisit the color story a little. It has a pretty bold statement in it that we had talked about from the get go. But it seems (as happens) that the story has evolved for her in the process and requires more finesse. This will indeed be made easier with our recent hardware upgrades in the editorial department. A little more horsepower to help handle the Red material in realtime.
SIDE NOTE: I had written a post on this before (while I was waiting for my Duc to be fixed up), but it has been lost to the ethers of technology not working together.
Thursday saw Mark and I (and a tiny entourage) head down to the Santa Cruz Film Festival for our screening of DIF. This has been an interesting time to feel the impressions of the environment (read economy et. al). This was the first public viewing of the final version of the film. The latest updates include the indictment for al Bashir and his repercussions. This version is also being pressed to DVD shortly by DER and is available to order on our DER Page.
Mark and I cruised over and grabbed a burger at SC haunt Jacks … an experience in itself, but certainly not the burger that I was looking for. Not that it was bad, but it’s a beach burger, a slider, and I was after the thick and juicy type. Next time …
The festival staff was quite gracious and very interested in seeing our future work. It’s nice when people genuinely engage with you on that level after seeing your film. On the festival circuit, there are so many films that it is hard to make inroads. It seems you have to first make an impression (either personally or via a PR machine) before someone will schedule you in. The response after you’re afforded such an opportunity I find a good barometer for the merits of your film. You always have to weigh that in context of the viewer and situation, but it’s certainly informative.
