Thanks to AFI and VSA arts I was able to go to the 2009 SilverDocs Film festival in Silver Spring, Maryland, and let me tell you...it was pretty sweeeeeeeet. heres a quick run down of some of my exploits... saw Lebron James, befriended a Ethiopian cab driver, saw a weak marching band and a equally weak film about Lebron's life, learned that Lyndon B. Johnson started AFI, Lebron is a Cocky terd, learned to never show anything unless it is great, learned the importance of style, Ben Cohen is the man, everyone should watch Bloody Mondays and Strawberry pies By Coco Shrijber, Tom Bernard from Sony Picture Classics is a bumbling idiot lost in the past, Albert Maysles should get a nobel Prize-and he will, Al is one of the kindest people I have ever met, Al is a genius, Al is a big proponent of Dennis Kucinich, a Peaches concert is one of the greatest things in the universe, in documentaries a good editor is controlled by the character, was let down by Jennifer Baichwal's Act of God, radio is still alive and very C00l, Michael Angus is a great guy and everyone should watch his fantastic film Salt, ate truly awful Ethiopian food, Herzog was not there :(...
I saw a number of docs, participated in several conferences and met the most beautiful women I will ever know. It was a wonderful time and i encourage everyone to try it.
Also, pardon the repetition, But HOLY SHIT THE PEACHES CONCERT WAS AWESOME AND EVERYONE MUST GO TO ONE IN THIER LIFETIME.
In the end I seem to have come away with two main things, First: docs cost ALOT of money..I thought I could get away with a cheapish doc some day...but that is wrong, Second: in a documentary there will always be a struggle between the material and the director or the subject and the creator/ it is up to a good director to ellivate his material to its fullest potential- easier said than done and some thing that Kristopher Belman failed to do with More Than a Game.
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