CUCALORES AND ME
So Cucalorus,
Things didn't go as I planned, which is really fine in the grand scheme of things. I volunteered and was placed in transportation, which was not my first choice, but hey, get in where you can, right? By the end of the first two nights, I was just salty about the whole thing. I wasn't getting a chance to talk to anyone because I was stuck driving an empty van around downtown wilm. Saturday brought about a nice change as I was able to pick up several filmmakers from the airport and got to spend a decent amount of time with them. I was surprised at how nice the filmmakers were. Most of them barely wanted to talk about themselves and were very interested in my ambitions.
My favorite experience was definitely my conversation with Melanie Zoey, the director of Spanko. I was shuttling people from Jengo's to the downtown area and overheard a few passengers talking about an exchange between a filmmaker and some dude who was asked her, at her Q&A after the screening of her film (which was about the fetish of spanking), if the she now sympathized with Donald Trump after making her film since he allegedly has a spanking fetish. Upon hearing this I wondered what kind of numpty would come to a film festival, view a film as personal as Spanko, and then fix they mouth to say some stupid ass shit like that TO THE FUCKING FILMMAKER. The purpose of a Q&A is to ask the director questions about the film and what your president does in his free time ain't got shit at all to do with the film. I drop them off at CFCC downtown and by that time my shift was over, so I head back to Jengo's to leave. Upon arriving I am greeted by a woman who wants to go downtown. I figure, sure, why not and a tell her to jump in. We start talking and she tells me she is a filmmaker and just had the worst Q&A ever. She then tells me that She made a film about the fetish of spanking and I realize that this is the woman the previous passengers were talking about. By the time we have had this revelatory moment, we are already outside the bar I'm taking her to. We spent a few minutes talking about the exchange and how ignorant people can be and how poorly handled the Q&A was. This lovely woman then takes about thirty minutes to talk to me about my career and how its ok to be scared to live an artist's life and just really made me feel so good about getting into filmmaking. That was the first time someone made me talk about my life and where im going when it comes to filmmaking and I am grateful to her for her words of encouragement.
I did not get to attend any of the parties because my volunteer pass only got me tickets to shows, but I attended 4 screenings: El Angel, Knife + Heart, Saint Bernard Syndicate, and the Kohlrabi Shorts block. I happened to have the tickets from two of these here in my bag (I'm typing this on campus in the EQ room and can't get home before 5 to grab the other 2) and pictured here. My fave was El Angel. It was stylish in a fresh way and had a soundtrack of 1970's Argentinian rock that can only be described as bitchin'.
Things didn't go as I planned, which is really fine in the grand scheme of things. I volunteered and was placed in transportation, which was not my first choice, but hey, get in where you can, right? By the end of the first two nights, I was just salty about the whole thing. I wasn't getting a chance to talk to anyone because I was stuck driving an empty van around downtown wilm. Saturday brought about a nice change as I was able to pick up several filmmakers from the airport and got to spend a decent amount of time with them. I was surprised at how nice the filmmakers were. Most of them barely wanted to talk about themselves and were very interested in my ambitions.
My favorite experience was definitely my conversation with Melanie Zoey, the director of Spanko. I was shuttling people from Jengo's to the downtown area and overheard a few passengers talking about an exchange between a filmmaker and some dude who was asked her, at her Q&A after the screening of her film (which was about the fetish of spanking), if the she now sympathized with Donald Trump after making her film since he allegedly has a spanking fetish. Upon hearing this I wondered what kind of numpty would come to a film festival, view a film as personal as Spanko, and then fix they mouth to say some stupid ass shit like that TO THE FUCKING FILMMAKER. The purpose of a Q&A is to ask the director questions about the film and what your president does in his free time ain't got shit at all to do with the film. I drop them off at CFCC downtown and by that time my shift was over, so I head back to Jengo's to leave. Upon arriving I am greeted by a woman who wants to go downtown. I figure, sure, why not and a tell her to jump in. We start talking and she tells me she is a filmmaker and just had the worst Q&A ever. She then tells me that She made a film about the fetish of spanking and I realize that this is the woman the previous passengers were talking about. By the time we have had this revelatory moment, we are already outside the bar I'm taking her to. We spent a few minutes talking about the exchange and how ignorant people can be and how poorly handled the Q&A was. This lovely woman then takes about thirty minutes to talk to me about my career and how its ok to be scared to live an artist's life and just really made me feel so good about getting into filmmaking. That was the first time someone made me talk about my life and where im going when it comes to filmmaking and I am grateful to her for her words of encouragement.
I did not get to attend any of the parties because my volunteer pass only got me tickets to shows, but I attended 4 screenings: El Angel, Knife + Heart, Saint Bernard Syndicate, and the Kohlrabi Shorts block. I happened to have the tickets from two of these here in my bag (I'm typing this on campus in the EQ room and can't get home before 5 to grab the other 2) and pictured here. My fave was El Angel. It was stylish in a fresh way and had a soundtrack of 1970's Argentinian rock that can only be described as bitchin'.
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