Wednesday, March 28, 2007
It's Almost Time...
There are only two more weeks until Full Frame. I am about to wet myself with excitement.
I love being a member of the press. This year I've been kept on the press mailing list, so I've been receiving updates of what's going on with the festival. I've also been able to receive advanced press screeners of some of the films in the mail. I haven't had a chance to watch any yet, but I've got around eight sitting right in front of me. This is awesome. It means I'll be able to watch some of the films before the festival, which will in turn allow me to see other docs during the festival. I think last time I saw fifteen to twenty of the films. I'm definitely going to try and beat that this year.
Also: this is Full Frame's tenth anniversary, so they're doing a lot of cool stuff. To mark the occassion, they have invited ten people that have been really helpful in supporting Full Frame to come back and present one of their favorite documentaries, along with an essay on why it's important. Here's the list of who's coming:
Martin Scorsese
Mira Nair
St. Clair Bourne
Julia Reichert
D.A. Pennebaker
Ariel Dorfman
Walter Mosley
Charles Burnett
Cara Mertes
Michael Moore
I am about to go insane with glee. From what I've read, one event will have all of these people in the same room together. I'm going to die from being star struck. Yes, you read those names correctly. MARTIN SCORSESE WILL BE THERE. I must see if I can somehow arrange an interview. Same goes for Michael Moore, Mira Nair (director of "Monsoon Wedding" and "The Namesake"), Julia Reichert (director of "A Lion in the House" which is probably the best documentary I've ever seen), and Ariel Dorfman (I remember reading "Death and the Maiden" in high school).
Oh, and there will be a documentary about First Amendment defender and famed pornographer Larry Flynt, and Flynt himself is supposed to show up to present it. I don't know a whole lot about him (I guess I should check out that Woody Harrelson movie), but he seems like a very interesting and controversial figure.
Oh Full Frame, you cannot come soon enough!
Quote of Da Moment:
“Now more than ever we need to talk to each other, to listen to each other and understand how we see the world, and cinema is the best medium for doing this.”
--Martin Scorsese
I love being a member of the press. This year I've been kept on the press mailing list, so I've been receiving updates of what's going on with the festival. I've also been able to receive advanced press screeners of some of the films in the mail. I haven't had a chance to watch any yet, but I've got around eight sitting right in front of me. This is awesome. It means I'll be able to watch some of the films before the festival, which will in turn allow me to see other docs during the festival. I think last time I saw fifteen to twenty of the films. I'm definitely going to try and beat that this year.
Also: this is Full Frame's tenth anniversary, so they're doing a lot of cool stuff. To mark the occassion, they have invited ten people that have been really helpful in supporting Full Frame to come back and present one of their favorite documentaries, along with an essay on why it's important. Here's the list of who's coming:
Martin Scorsese
Mira Nair
St. Clair Bourne
Julia Reichert
D.A. Pennebaker
Ariel Dorfman
Walter Mosley
Charles Burnett
Cara Mertes
Michael Moore
I am about to go insane with glee. From what I've read, one event will have all of these people in the same room together. I'm going to die from being star struck. Yes, you read those names correctly. MARTIN SCORSESE WILL BE THERE. I must see if I can somehow arrange an interview. Same goes for Michael Moore, Mira Nair (director of "Monsoon Wedding" and "The Namesake"), Julia Reichert (director of "A Lion in the House" which is probably the best documentary I've ever seen), and Ariel Dorfman (I remember reading "Death and the Maiden" in high school).
Oh, and there will be a documentary about First Amendment defender and famed pornographer Larry Flynt, and Flynt himself is supposed to show up to present it. I don't know a whole lot about him (I guess I should check out that Woody Harrelson movie), but he seems like a very interesting and controversial figure.
Oh Full Frame, you cannot come soon enough!
Quote of Da Moment:
“Now more than ever we need to talk to each other, to listen to each other and understand how we see the world, and cinema is the best medium for doing this.”
--Martin Scorsese
# posted by Andrew Johnson : 3/28/2007 03:13:00 PM 
