Well we screen tonight, and as mentioned before we are sold out which is exciting. We have seen a few film here and one I truly recommend is called "One Week" and another is "50 Dead Men Walking". One Week is an inspirational story about someone coming to terms with a life threatening issue and the woman he intends to marry while he drives his newly acquired motorcycle across Canada. 50 Dead Men is an IRA/Irish story that is compelling and fierce. Barry Pepper (Saving Private Ryan, Flags of our Fathers) is here and has been really cool to all the filmmakers and Charles Martin Smith (American Graffitti, Never Cry Wolf) s here too. The Victoria audiences are very enthusiastic film goers and more than one person told me - what else is there to do at night. Well for me, there are terrific pubs, restaurants etc. But it does get kind of chilly at night.
Festival Director Kathy Kay (pictured above) has been tremendous and I highly reccommend coming to this festival if it ever should be available to you. I have gotten to speak with distribution folks at Bravo, Foundry Films, IFC and still have a few more folks to speak with. I hope the screening goes well and am really looking forward to it. I'll let you all know how it goes tomorrow.
Michael
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