It has been a long hiatus from blogging, but at last I am feeling the necessary amount of energy with which to write here. I have been busy with a variety of projects, including some apartment improvements, lots of processing work, and the Wisconsin Film Festival.
The last one has been the biggest consumer of my time ad energy in the past weekend, but it was worth all the long nights. This year I was a theater captain, organizing the other volunteers and generally making sure the films ran on time. I did many different tasks between Thursday and Sunday, worked a couple of nearly 15-hour days, and lived almost entirely on granola bars and Coke. The experience was draining, but also completely thrilling. I will, without hesitation, do it again next year.
I did get to see any movies in their entirety, but I did see parts of several, and many seem well worth a closer look. My biggest recommendation is Amy George, the debut film for Canadian filmmakers Yonah Lewis and Calvin Thomas. It is a comedic/dramatic story about a teenage boy, with all the hormonal and other emotional discomforts adolescence brings. It also has a fantastic musical score and looks beautiful. It deserves a big theatrical release.
I also saw parts of two great (and different) musical documentaries, Color Me Obsessed (about The Replacements), and Everyday Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone. Both got great audience audience reactions and are high on my "must-watch" list. When I'm not captaining a theater.
