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rejected for toronto, too. Again, not that much of a surprise. Although, I suppose I did have some higher hopes for that, as they display hundreds of films rather than 30 or whatever the number is at Telluride.
Where is that fine line between self-delusion and enthusiasm? You don’t want to be like that guy on the TV commercial, the short dumpy guy that just knows if he works hard enough, he’s going to make it to the NBA. But what can you do? Plunge ahead.
What a shock! Just got my rejection from the Telluride Film Festival!
I knew it was idiotic to even enter, like flushing $50 down the toilet…but what the hell, it seems like you ought to try. But then again that’s the kind of thinking that TV evangelists use to get people to send them money: if you really care about yourself, you’ll make the investment,etc.
I guess Brangelina are going to have to see NP by buying a DVD from the website like everyone else.
I have no idea what’s happening with festivals and NP — Ive applied to dozens, and haven’t heard a thing yet, until this Telluride letter. I’ve been told that it was perhaps a mistake to show at the Red Vic, that I should reserve my Bay Area premiere until I see if Mill Valley Film Festival will pick it up… (assuming that the PFA screening could be seen as a local campus thing…) since festivals in general want to be premieres, at least local premieres.
Jack at the Red Vic had a good observation about this — he said, yeah, that kind of thing used to be true, but things are changing so much now, it’s all up in the air. With all the new ways to get your film around and make it available and seen, the rules are different.
I may be shooting myself in the foot, but I’ve always done independent distribution of my music, and don’t really expect to be able to do anything very different with this either — I’m just pursuing every possibility to get it around I can think of, in the film world and music world. As someone who by temperament is more likely to try to make sure people DONT know what I’m doing, it’s a stretch trying to get it around… but I can only do what I can do.
Had a phone interview a couple of weeks ago with Ingrid Taylar, who is doing the ‘San Francisco’ section on the site about.com
She posted a fairly detailed review of the film there last week, and the other day put up the full interview as well. I kind of sound like an idiot in the interview… I guess the task of transcribing my umms and ahhs and dead end sentence fragments was a bit of a challenge.
Well, I had a little burst of activity this week: three screenings, one at the Hillside club in berkeley on wednesday, and last night at the Red Vic in SF.
The Hillside is a beautiful place — apparently started as a women’s club back in the 1890’s, with a goal of keeping the Berkeley hills from being laid out in a big urban grid, like SF was! It worked.
Gino, Cheryl and Phillip came out and joined in on the quite lively Q&A session after the screening. I find I’m constantly surprised and gratified that the film is bringing people who know nothing about this music into curiosity and respect for it.
I’m also amazed — I don’t know why after all these years! — that there are many people for whom the terms ‘random’ and ‘improvised’ mean the same thing — that is, they assume that if it’s improvised, it’s random. There are times I wish it was true! — who can really play randomly? — but most of the time this point of view is just irritating.
Yes, if I had any sense I would have started this blog a couple of years ago, when I started working on the film. Well, better late than never. I’ll be adding in info from time to time, new and old, production notes, info about the doings of the musicians in the film, news about new screenings, festivals, and so on.
