Last Day
The 24th annual Vancouver International Film Festival closes tonight. It's been a whirlwind of great film, good people, meetings and screenings, and it hardly feels like two whole weeks ago that Esther and I were wandering the jazzy, under-the-sea atmosphere of the Vancouver Aquarium at the Opening Night Gala, sipping wine and shmoozing.
I managed to catch a number of great films (of the several hundred offered) including a mostly BC shorts program called 'Little Things,' 'Favela Rising,' a fantastic documentary and 'Lucid,' the second feature offering from Winnipeg filmmaker, Sean Garrity. There is an almost ravenous appetite for film in this city, and every film I went to was well attended.
Our sold-out screening at the band new Vancity Theatre in the Vancouver International Film Centre was stellar. The projectionist was fantastic, seguing from one film to another without a single glitch, which is not an easy thing to do given the varied formats of the nine short films in the program. 'On a Sunday' never looked, or sounded, better. I would have liked to shake the projectionist's hand, but alas, they work in complete anonymity. Too often the opposite is true, like at the LA Shorts Fest when our film, 'Flickering Blue,' was projected with the wrong aspect ratio and appeared blurry and dark.
The winner of the Bravo!FACT award will be announced at tonight's closing gala, and while 'On a Sunday' is on the short list, I did manage to take in some our competitor films and... well, I'll keep my fingers crossed anyhow. You just never know. At any rate, it's an honour to be in such good company.
I managed to catch a number of great films (of the several hundred offered) including a mostly BC shorts program called 'Little Things,' 'Favela Rising,' a fantastic documentary and 'Lucid,' the second feature offering from Winnipeg filmmaker, Sean Garrity. There is an almost ravenous appetite for film in this city, and every film I went to was well attended.
Our sold-out screening at the band new Vancity Theatre in the Vancouver International Film Centre was stellar. The projectionist was fantastic, seguing from one film to another without a single glitch, which is not an easy thing to do given the varied formats of the nine short films in the program. 'On a Sunday' never looked, or sounded, better. I would have liked to shake the projectionist's hand, but alas, they work in complete anonymity. Too often the opposite is true, like at the LA Shorts Fest when our film, 'Flickering Blue,' was projected with the wrong aspect ratio and appeared blurry and dark.
The winner of the Bravo!FACT award will be announced at tonight's closing gala, and while 'On a Sunday' is on the short list, I did manage to take in some our competitor films and... well, I'll keep my fingers crossed anyhow. You just never know. At any rate, it's an honour to be in such good company.
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