We're SOLD OUT

WOW! Here we are in Victoria, Canada going to opening night parties, mingling with actors, writers, producers, directors and I get a call - Delta Rising is SOLD OUT. Our movie - Sold Out in Victoria. I jump up and down and few times and can't believe it - and partially because it was right after this terrific interview my wife Buffy got me on CFAX radio in Victoria, Victoria's largest radio station.

I was expecting to be interviewed for 10-15 minutes but the host, Murray Langdon, a Victoria institution (and all around decent chap) took us to an hour and said if he had another hour we could keep going. Thanks Murray!!!

The BUZZ - it's hard to tell where the buzz is. Tonight was opening night and we saw a really great film - One Week. It was a Canadian Film and it was warm, life affirming, well acted, really well written and just a beautiful portrait of things most people must come to terms with. A bit of a road trip off the end of a really high diving board - you gotta check it out.

The after party was fun and there were a lot of people partaking in Vodka/Choclate Milk concotions that tasted a bit like a malt but got you pretty wobbly after 1 or 2.
I feel priveleged to be here, and I love Canada and especially Victoria. I am looking forward to our screening on Sunday and I get a bit nervous about it selling out and all - but what could be better, truly?

It's the journey and the journey is the ride.

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Victoria we're here!

We're here, well across the street from here. The photo is the Empress Hotel where many of the filmmakers for the Victoria Film Festival will stay and where the hospitality suite is. I was excited to get here and when we did get here there was Trudy, our driver, was waiting for us. That is one thing about getting a film accepted to and then attending a festival - the treatment you get as a filmmaker is special..so much so that I had a driver - well for a day. We were drooped off at the hotel and immediately went to the hospitality suite to pick up our credentials and it was fun to walk through the entire length of the historic Empress Hotel to find the hospitality suite empty, vacant, unattended. Well the festival actually starts tomorrow, Friday but from what we understood the suite would be going strong but why we thought that...well I'm not really sure - but it is great to be here.

Tomorrow we officially go pick up our packets, hopefully get to chat with some of the other filmmakers, I have an interview on CFAX radio in Victoria at 3pm and then the opening night film and party follow. Delta Rising screens at 9PM on Sunday.

Now its time for a glass of red wine, putting Cooper to bed and kicking back with my wife. More tomorrow.

Two Festivals in Two Weeks

I'm on the train from San Francisco back home to San Jose and I am gearing up to go to both the Victoria Film Festival in Victoria, BC and the Big Sky Festival in Montana. The last festival I attended was in the Bahamas and this will no doubt be a different setting.

I have been to Victori a couple of times and always loved it. In 2008 the festival had over 18,000 attendees and the opening night gala is already sold out. I will be interviewed on Canadian Radio at 3PM on Friday 1/30 on CFAX 1070/107.3 KOOL FM and will be working with a host of distribution folks on Saturday and Sunday of that week. I am hoping to catch a number of films and meet other filmmakers and hope that I have the same luck with the quality of folks as I did in the Bahamas.

Following that I will be heading to Missoula, MT for the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival where some of the folks I met in the Bahamas will be in attendance, strangely enough our films kind of play back to back. This will be my first trip to MT and I am truly looking forward to it.

I have heard that both festivals are terrific and I am really jazzed to be making the trek. Please check back often as I will be updating this blog daily during the festivals to let you all know what I see and hear!

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