I haven't been back to the Austin Film Festival since that year, 2007. Used to be I'd go every year. I'd find some way for them to invite me, and I'd be there for free. Management has changed since then, however, and they are much tighter with the Producer passes. Shame. I'd like to go, but really can't afford it. It's a great festival/writer's conference, you should go for sure. Posted Wednesday, August 29, 2007
...because I am on a roll, baby!
Video production work is coming faster this year than ever before, at least since I got out of the lawyerin' vid biz. Finished a feature script of my own for the first time in a long time (which felt damned good). My short "Mars Needs Bibles" is going all over the place. Then came the Chez Bernard endowment, which is really helping me with a few other grants.
And now, today, a double-whammy.
Got a call this morning from Jesse at the Austin Film Festival. They've chosen my trailer to run before the movies there this year. Oh, my. My little one-minute short will be one of the most-watched movies there (I get the impression that there may be another trailer or two), because anyone who watches a movie will be seeing this first. They'll be transferring it to 35mm film (I can't even imagine what that'll be like). I desperately hope it'll play at the Paramount, because if I can see it on that screen, in that old-time movie house, my normally colossal head will be blotting out the screen. I pity anyone sitting behind me. I'll be bigger than Orson Welles, if only for the moment. Plus, they're sending me some passes, so I'll be at all the snazziest parties, rubbing shoulders with the movie stars. They do treat the directors well, there...
And then, after I called my pal Dar to tell her the good news, she let slip a little more -- "Mars Needs Bibles" has been selected to play at SAL, the San Antonio Local Film Festival. This is nice not just because it's the debut of the final version of the movie in the town where it was shot, but also because I know some of the competition I was up against. There's some amazing filmmaking talent in this city, and I'm delighted that my little gayer-than-a-Mormon-politician short was chosen to be shown with them. SAL is going to be fantastic. I hope everyone will be there, because some of the names I heard dropped (I've been sworn to secrecy) are enough to make me do a little Snoopy dance. I know of at least two or three that will be there I haven't seen before, and I can't wait.
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