Seattle
Dropped into Seattle for a couple days to be a short film juror at the film festival. They programmed 180 short films and I watched all of them. I used Excel to calculate the amount of time I spent watching shorts – 26 hours of short films. Phew. We awarded best drama the this Hungarian piece called “Before Dawn”. Fifteen minutes, no dialogue, all one shot. It was incredible. Also awarded a doc called “Lot 63, Grave C” about the guy who was killed at Altamont. Incredibly subtle and beautiful.
I spoke on a panel about music in film with music supervisors and record label folks. I think I pissed off the rest of the panel when I opened by telling short filmmakers to steal music when it comes to film festival rights.
Sorry.
Read anything by the brilliant Paul Hanly Furfey? You ahould. His work is brillian, timeless.
Peace, man.
Posted by: patty | February 05, 2008 at 05:13 AM