This weekend I met up with my friend Derek Beck to attend a screening of a film I helped with a couple years ago. It was a short comedy type film that was shot on 16mm and was being shown at the Chicago International Reel Shorts Festival. As with any film festival there were some great films and some truly awful ones. And of course no festival would be complete without a few borderline pornographic films and some anti-George Bush pieces.
The weekend was filled with lots of rain and junk food, and culminated with a special event reserved for the film makers which they called a “booze trolley” around chicago. This was where everyone loaded on a trolley and they handed out alcohol to everyone (except the driver of course). Considering I was driving 8 hours home the next morning, I decided to opt out of the booze part of the trolley and just enjoy chatting with everyone about what format they shot their projects on and the latest trends in DV. At one point they ran out, so they got the trolley driver to pull into a Jewel store so everyone could re-load. It was pretty interesting.
Despite the rain, it was a fun weekend hanging out with some old friends and talking film production.