Overall, a great festival, lots of filmmaker only events, tours and activities.  Some of the screenings were held at this phenomenal theater called the Canal Place Theater where you could order food and drink from your seat while watching a movie.  The seats where wide leather – New York has to do this! 

Kat and I also attended a wonderful filmmaker’s brunch at Second Line Stages, a really swank new Hollywood quality sound stage in the heart of the city.  They recently wrapped up filming The Green Lantern there.  

I attended my screening on Saturday followed by a short Q&A, mostly I talked about my inspiration for The Lift.  Kat and I realized that we needed a motivation for a character early on, which is why we went for a moral tale.  Living in New York elevators are a big part of life, so is the etiquette around elevators.  We decided on an old and young woman because it would reflect a theme related to respecting elders, a common Chinese tradition.  I wanted to use a young woman simply because I wanted to animate that.  After that you throw the ideas together and see what sticks.

Overall a really wonderful time at a truly top notch fest!

Additionally I just returned from a wonderful weekend at the 19th Woods Hold Film Festival. Kathy, my co-writer also attended. I was lucky enough to have my film screened two times, once at the main screening then a second time at the 20 in 2 hours screening. At the main screening I did a short Q&A with the other filmmakers who were attending.

The festival also did this wonderful filmmaker’s brunch at a house out on Penzance Point which overlooked Buzzard’s Bay. The nightly after parties also made it progressively harder and harder to get up in the morning. We stayed in Falmouth which is just a hop-skip-and-jump away, in fact most days we just biked into Woods Hole for the daytime festivities.

Overall the Woods Hole festival was a class A experience, I had so much fun and all the people who were a part of the festival were just wonderful. There is one thing that you begin to appreciate about well run festivals, communication. Woods Hole never failed to keep me in the loop. I can’t wait to try and submit my next film in 2 years.

Thanks to all my friends and colleagues who came, you really made it a special night for me!

Check out some of the pics from the night, unfortunately my camera was near dead but we got a few memorable shots in.

Check out the Art section, I just added a bunch of screen caps. Also I finally got around to posting a Trailer.

Once again I have to thank Kathy Lien for all that she has done and without her help this site would sound like a 15 year-old high school drop out wrote it; I kid of course but she did help craft some wonderful one liners and descriptions.