« The Voyage Out | Main | Thessaloniki 1 »

November 14, 2009

St. Louis

The above picture was taken as a lovely cold front blew into downtown, an hour or so before St. Nick won the Emerging Filmmaker prize at the St. Louis Film Festival. It was an awesome surprise. A big thanks to Gerald Peary and the rest of the jurors for the recognition and the validation that goes hand in hand with it, and also to Bobbie Lautenschlager, Chris Clark and Cliff Froelich for inviting me to the festival and showing St. Nick in the first place. The comments we received after both the screening and the award were a nice reminder that when the film works for people, it really works.

The screening itself was great, and midway through it, my sister e-mailed me the doctored comic strip below under the subject heading 'This made me cry.'

Meanwhile, James left me a message from Cucalorus, letting me know that the screening there was also great. I'll take his word for it. I wish I could bi-loctate. If I could, I'd be at every festival this month, answering simultaneous Q&As. I'd also be somewhere else in particular at this very moment, even though I'm also in Chicago, at the Swanberg manse, debating whether or not I should watch Antichrist or go to sleep. We're all on the same flight to Greece tomorrow evening. St. Nick screens in Thessaloniki for the first time on Wednesday evening. We have one more show after that, and then I plan to imbed myself in the Herzog retrospective (as well as the Safdie's new movie, Raya Martin's Indepencia and, for better or worse, Brilliante Mendoza's Kinatay).

More soon...

Posted by David Lowery at November 14, 2009 10:35 AM