The Ft. Lauderdale Film Festival is throwing us an Auteur party! I will be arriving with one of the stars of the movie, Ms. Denise Chanterelle Dubois, and we will be likely hanging out with what I like to picture as a combination of High-Society Floridians and hardcore porn nerds. More on that when it happens...
The last time I was in Florida was with Film Geek at the Sarasota Film Festival, and my producer Byrd McDonald and I were at a party with Katherine Harris! And then we met her again the next day! Hopefully something that scary will happen around Halloween, when Denise and I fly from Florida to....
Chicago Underground FF!
This will be something of a homecoming for me, as I took my 2nd feature BLOODY MARY there way back in 1996. It was a super atmosphere-- the programmer Bryan Wendorf let me stay at his house, the screening was packed and people were laughing, and-- seriously, now-- Roger Ebert wrote about the movie. In a positive way.
It was like summer camp, this place, this CUFF-- and I met some awesome film people: Tommy Pallotta, Marne Lucas, Dante Harper, Sarah Jacobson (RIP), and many others.
This year we have a prime Thursday night (9pm) screening, and Matt Dentler-- who heads up Cinetic Rights Management (which is repping THE AUTEUR), will be there for the IFP Filmmaker's Summit (all day long on Nov. 1st) talking about the ins and outs of digital distribution. Matt mentioned the festival (and us) the other day on his blog.
In other news, the IFC featurette that came out during our run at Tribeca (and went seriously viral) continues to be very popular and now has over 7 million views. Check it out here.
If anyone knows how to turn those kind of numbers directly into cold hard cash, please let us know...
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