With the Actors from my favorite short.
I couldn’t wait, to get back to Las Vegas… During the 48 Hour Film Project, you feel like you’re the only team, but you’re not, there 50 more. And we all experienced our own version of pressure and triumph, so, I was dying to feel part of this collective and not going, wasn’t an option. So, Julia, Mercer & I road tripped out to the great oasis…
The energy was great and I started to feel butterfly’s. The usual stuff, is it good, will it play, any technical problems. To take my mind off of it, I decided we needed to take a few pictures at the DIY Red Carpet, so, we commandeered a passer-by to be our paparazzi. One more martini and it was Showtime…
It was a packed theatre… what were all these people doing here? This was a real world premiere. It was so fucking COOL! The lights went down and it was awesome. The shorts ranged from skill and execution, but I was overwhelmed by the effort and fearlessness of all the teams. I really started to feel lucky that the 48 came in to my life. Sitting there in the dark watching movies all I wanted to do was shoot more, build a bigger and better reel and start dictating my own destiny. All in all, I’d say, a pretty powerful screening.
Afterwards, I got to meet the other filmmakers and we swapped stories and had some laughs. It turns out we’re all the same, we LOVE what we do and there’s nothing that will change that fact. What a blast!
A Special Thank You: To Angela, for putting on an amazing event and for loving filmmakers. To Mark for creating the 48 in the first place and to Liz and Mark for making this craziness available to ALL!