April 4, 2005
I'm back home now, with a two week respite until what is for now the last festival in this current slew of screenings. Hopefully some of the fests that recently asked for screeners will like the film enough to give us more reasons to travel throughout the rest of the year. But if not, hey, it was a good run - and hey, we won the Best Narrative Feature award in the Director's Choice category at the Texas Film Festival this weekend, which was pretty surprising/pleasing. A huge thanks to the directors in question is in order, for recognizing what the film for what it is (or almost is) and inflating our egos throughout the closing night party (which we were late to because we got caught up watching Hellboy in the hotel room).
A few more words about the festival: one of my favorite things about it, aside from the awesome people who ran it, was the proliferation of international films they screened, especially in the shorts category. There were some really oustanding efforts from around the world; they should call it the Texas International Film Festival. Also, on the last day, I saw one really amazing short film from Texas called Termination, directed by Paul Alvarado Dykstra, which was a prizewinner at SXSW last month - and very deservedly so. It was just about perfect, and in that perfection I found it quite inspiring. Paul had some very good things to say on the war stories panel, too - while I, on the other hand, managed to ramble aimlessly, as per usual.
So yes, a two week respite now - that will be filled with all manner of me trying to meet deadlines. I spent the day before I left frantically touching up the last act of Henry Lee, after having finished that Drift rewrite, and I'll be continuing on that today, along with trying to finish up those two short film scripts that are both only five pages long so far.
I'm also in the process of downloading Matt's new short. Also of interest (and great relief) are the contents of his post dated Sunday, April 03.
POSTSCRIPT: it was at the closing night party that we heard about the Pope's death. Although I'm not a practicing Catholic, it certainly struck me as a momentous, palpable passing; just as seeing him greet the crowds at Saint Peter's in Rome a few years ago was notably impressive in a larger-than-life sense. It'll be interesting to see what happens to the Church in his wake.
Posted by David Lowery at April 4, 2005 11:38 AM
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Congratulations on the award, boys! My, my, my. That's really excellent.
I'll be sure to write something about the film on my blog before the weekend.
Posted by: Matt at April 5, 2005 1:07 AM