Saturday and up early to get on the Bus(!) to go and help out at the PWFF in North Hollywood. Got there at 9.10am and they were already screening the 2nd film of the day. The first one must have been short! I ended up working the snack bar so I got to meet pretty much everyone in the place. Took breaks to go and watch some of the films although everything was piped out to the foyer onto a large plasma TV. Pretty good house which was a relief based on the pre-event ticket sales which were not good! The highlight of the whole day was a Q&A with Jeff Goldblum who has a lot of ties with PHW. He was candid, funny, genuine, insightful and incredible knowledgeable about the business of acting and what we all should be doing on a daily basis to give ourselves the best chance of succeeding. Met him briefly in the foyer - really nice guy.
There were some very interesting films throughout the day and one extremely funny one with the teachers doing a rip off of QEFTSG making over RC. Very funny. Saw a screening of Good Time Max (which probably won't be the final release - lots to clear up and change) and Elle Parker which was pretty Weird with a capital W. Naomi Watts was pretty fine in it as was MP who also shone in the QE skit. He was there too. Damn fine fellah.
Had some very interesting chats with some of the filmmakers and I think Yol and I are going to kick off our own project which I can't wait for.
I have some filming to do on G's project over this week and we've talked about condensing some of the stuff which I think will make it fly.
Back to the Film Fest if only to finish off and say it was a very long day and having stood at the snack bar for the best part of 10 hours straight, to see the contents of the tips jar go straight in to TS's pocket with no mention of any split, I was, to say the least, a little bummed. Yes, very bummed, folks.
And to then have to get on a bus at 10pm in NoHo, wait 20 minutes and then WALK HOME from La Cienega and Sunset (which took 45 minutes) for absolutely NO PAY and no share of the tips jar (did I mention that already?)... well, how do you think I feel.