Day Three: Storms, Panels and Oatmeal Cookies
Will it every stop raining?
What a night? Torrential rain, thunder with forked lightening. Many filmmakers didn't make it into town but I did run into a weary Margaret Brown (The Order of Myths) at a restaurant last night who had just arrived after spending 6 hours in La Guardia airport on her way down to Durham – ugh.
I was up bright and early and went to the YMCA across the street to work-out, I can't believe I did that, then at 1:00 p.m. I went over to the venue at the Durham Arts Council for the panel. Unfortunately, David Laud from THINKFilm was stuck in Florida and couldn't make it due to the weather but there were so many people on the panel anyway it was fine and we didn't have enough time – the venue was sold-out. I put a positive spin on the kick off questions and had people talking about success, how audience's are looking at films, alternative distribution models and is the STATE OF THE DOC really all gloom or doom or is it just people have unrealistic expectations. I believe it's the latter.
At the end we were swarmed by enthusiastic filmmakers and then I wandered back to the hotel where I bumped into AJ Schnack (Kurt Cobain About a Son) and Gary Hustwit (Helvetica) eating a very large yet tasty oatmeal cookie (see pic). Now I'm heading to a screening of Boogie Man about Lee Atwater. I hear most of the politicians who are in the film will be in attendance so I can't wait for the Q&A. I hope it will be a heated one.
Following that I will head over to the Nasher Museum of Art to the A&E Indie Films Saturday night party.
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